Listen to the king's order

Jiang Qichen embraced Lu Ming, crossed the vast desert where yellow sand and snowflakes intersected, and galloped all the way under the howling winter gale.

"How many troops does Prince Mu's Mansion have?" Jiang Qichen suddenly asked in a deep voice.

Lu Ming was taken aback for a moment, and said calmly, "Five thousand."

Jiang Qichen's face was sombre, he couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry.Shen Chuan Mu's Mansion has low power in the Northern Territory, but it has always been able to stand tall.After much deliberation, the only explanation he could come up with was that the Mu Palace had deliberately created the illusion of being weak, in order to maintain their trump card - to train soldiers for Jinlian.

"After I first met you in the Wishing Pavilion, I asked Jing Zhi to investigate the details of the Mu Mansion. You did everything very clean, and there was no trace of the Golden Lotus Sect. But since you are there, their identities are not difficult to guess It is." Jiang Qichen said: "The two elders of the Golden Lotus Sect, one is in the dark and the other is in the light. One is Sha Sang, and the other is Mu Yao."

Jiang Qichen paused, and looked at Lu Ming calmly: "You and Mu Yao have a very good relationship."

His sentence was not a question, but an extremely firm one.In the previous meeting with Mu Yao in Mu's Mansion, Mu Yao's concern and love for Lu Ming was genuine to him, and it was not a lie.At that time, he felt displeased, but he never had a chance to get angry. Now that he happened to mention it, he had to ask about it by the way.

Lu Ming's eyes were open and frank, and he nodded to Jiang Qichen's seemingly indifferent gaze: "Mu Yao treated me very well, he is indeed the little prince of Mufu in Shenchuan, and one of the elders of the Golden Lotus Sect. I can walk Afterwards, Xuanfeng asked Mu Yao to forge an identity for me, and I spent most of these years with him."

Jiang Qichen unconsciously tightened his arms around Lu Ming's waist, making Lu Ming uncomfortable.

"Are you saying this on purpose to offend me?"

Lu Ming sighed inaudibly, and said softly: "You know, my family was destroyed when I was young, and I still can't piece together the only memories left. My concept of 'family' is very vague. Pei Tianxiao, but in my perception, I always felt that I was avenging you. Although you took me back to Jiang's house and taught me how to read and learn martial arts, I had my thoughts on you and never regarded you as a Darling, Mu Yao can be said to have made me experience different emotions. So, I called him 'Big Brother' from the bottom of my heart. Are you satisfied with this answer?"

"Not satisfied." Jiang Qichen changed his posture and hugged Lu Ming horizontally: "Now that you have chosen to stand by me, you are going to be his enemy. I don't know him, but I know you will definitely not be able to do so." Go away, if the sword is facing each other, you..."

Lu Ming hooked Jiang Qichen's neck, reached the corner of his mouth and interrupted him with a small peck: "I can't lift a knife now."

An understatement of a sentence, the speaker did not feel any pity yet, but the obedient person felt a pain in his heart.Jiang Qichen slowed down his expression, and whispered: "I'm just worried about you. After all, a sword has no eyes. Just because you have a steelyard in your heart doesn't mean everyone has it."

"I know." Lu Ming leaned on Jiang Qichen's shoulder and closed his eyes: "That day, when you were taken away by Xuanfeng, Mu Yao advised me to make a clean break with you, and he told me that you and I are incompatible with good and evil. Actually He also knows in his heart what good and evil are. Mu Yao has not practiced yin and evil skills, and he has never done those things that are harmful to nature and reason. He is the little prince of the Shenchuan Mufu, the emperor's grandson, and his life is undeserved. Broken at the hands of the Golden Lotus Sect."

"In front of my face, do you really think that I won't be angry when you talk about other men like that?"

Hearing Jiang Qichen's teasing words, Lu Ming couldn't help laughing out loud, his arms around Jiang Qichen's neck tightened a bit, and he rubbed against his neck affectionately: "You're so angry, just let it go, I'll run away as well." Out of your palm."

The forced indifference finally collapsed, Jiang Qichen had a smile in his eyes, but he still pursed the corners of his lips without revealing it.

He couldn't help speeding up his pace, and after a while, he said softly: "When we go home, I will cook for you every day, okay? I think you are thinner than before."

Lu Ming remembered the big meal he had at the Wishing Pavilion that day, and said with a pun: "Okay, eat your tofu."

Jiang Qichen frowned: "Well, eat it and wipe it off."

The country of Chen is no colder than the Northern Territory. Even though it is deep winter, the wind that blows is strong but much softer than the Northern Territory.

The wind and snow are raging on Mount Fujia, but the Tianyan Sect on the top of the mountain is still the same as before, regardless of the seasons, day and night.

Beneath the surface tranquility, there are undercurrents surging.

Hua Wudao paced back and forth in Xuanyu's practice room, and finally couldn't help but burst out at Lan Xi: "Where did you say Master went? The Golden Lotus Sect at the bottom of the mountain is about to be turned upside down, why is he still here?" not coming back!"

Lan Xi's face was as delicate and handsome as it was five years ago, and he said calmly, "Senior brother, the life-pleading talisman has appeared, and Kunlun, Luosheng, Kongshan, and Fusang are like fish on the chopping board, and they have no power to fight back. For many years, the current situation is turbulent, and the master's whereabouts are unknown, and I hope that the senior brother will make a decision soon!"

"Decisive ass!" Hua Wudao flicked his fiery red sleeves, his face gloomy: "You know I don't like restraint, and you are the one who decides whether the school is suitable or not. If... if the master never comes back, then You can act as suzerain."

"Brother!" Lan Xi knelt down on the ground with a "plop": "You must not!"

"What time is this, you're still talking nonsense!" Hua Wudao was impatient all the time, he grabbed Lan Xi's collar and lifted him up: "I'm a senior brother, you have to listen to me!"

"..."

Lan Xi's usually calm face finally loosened a bit, he thought bitterly, you still know that you are a senior brother, so shouldn't you be the suzerain...

"Where did Jiang Qichen go again?" Hua Wudao sat down on the chair, picked up the teapot on the table and drank it to his mouth, but still felt that the urgency in his heart hadn't subsided a bit: "When you don't want to see him , swaying in front of my eyes every now and then, and now something happened, and I can't find anyone."

"Brother, now..."

"The blood oath contract of the pleading talisman was set by the master himself, and no one can break it. If we go down the mountain now, once Xuanfeng shows the pleading talisman, we will obey him." Hua Wudao analyzed the current situation with a calm face. Situation: "For two days in a row, the four sects at the foot of the mountain have been controlled by the Golden Lotus Sect, but why hasn't he taken action against the Sky Eye Sect..."

Hua Wudao narrowed his eyes, and rubbed his chin with his fingertips: "When I entered the branch of the Golden Lotus Sect by mistake, their elder Sha Sang also said 'not to be an enemy of the Sky Eye Sect'. Could it be that they wanted to Leave us till the end?"

"Senior Brother, the purpose of the Golden Lotus Sect is unknown, but I'm afraid they will soon attack the Four Great Sects. For the present plan, we'd better arrange the disciples first, and wait for the first battle."

"Well," Hua Wudao nodded, "I'll leave this matter to you. I'll write a letter to the votive pavilion. If I can't find Master, I have to find Jiang Qichen."

When Jiang Qichen and Lu Ming stepped down on the wind, a group of disciples wearing moon-white Taoist robes and holding long swords had already gathered in the Tianyan Sect.

The breeze blew past the top of the mountain, and the disciples of the Tianyan Sect, who were all ready to go, felt as if a white line flashed across their heads, and then they saw their Shao'an layman holding a man wrapped in fox fur and descending from the sky.

Half of the man's face was covered by the fluffy fox fur, and he could only see his eyes closed, as if he was taking a nap.Feeling the ground, the man's eyelashes trembled slightly, and a pair of starry eyes slowly opened.

"Are you there?" Lu Ming poked his face out of the fox fur, looked through the gap between Jiang Qichen's shoulders, and saw the stunned disciple of the Sky Eye Sect.

Isn't this... Lu Ming, the famous shadow killer back then?

Although they didn't experience the battle at the Pei family's ancestral altar back then, they didn't witness it with their own eyes, but the miraculous rumors spread even to the top of Mount Voga.

Everyone said that the evil spirit in Lu Ming's body, the shadow killer, went berserk, Jiang Qichen personally disqualified him from martial arts, broke his veins, and then disappeared.The world thought he was dead, but now this person who appeared in front of them alive... Lu Ming wandered around the Sky Eye Sect five years ago, and was familiar with the disciples of the Sky Eye Sect. This is indeed Lu Ming. Wrong!

Lu Ming frowned slightly, and pushed Jiang Qichen's shoulder: "Put me down."

Five years ago, Lu Ming had never set foot in Chen Country, except when he passed through Fujia Town a month ago to search for the Bone Bead for Xuanfeng, and stopped for a while to bring two altars of wine.

What happened back then really left a terrible wound in his heart, and it was extremely difficult for Lu Ming to set foot on this inch of land.But time has passed, and he came back in this way, and he felt indescribably weird...

Jiang Qichen put Lu Ming down as he said, and just as he landed on the ground, he heard an exclamation from behind him.

"Shao'an? You're back! Brother just said he wanted to find you."

Lan Xi appeared out of nowhere, and only caught a glimpse of Jiang Qichen's back from a distance. Before he had time to be happy, he saw Lu Ming standing beside him, and his footsteps stopped suddenly.

Lan Xi's calm face no matter what happened, cracks appeared for the second time today, and the cracks were more thorough than the previous one.He looked at Lu Ming in amazement, and blinked his eyes desperately to make sure that he was not mistaken. He had heard about what happened five years ago, and even Hua Wudao was depressed for a long time.

A person whose muscles and veins have been severed can still stand here... It's simply a fantasy...

"Master Lu?" Lan Xi called out uncertainly.

Lu Ming nodded to Lan Xi, and he suddenly had a premonition that this "shocked pale" expression would be received many times in the future...

"Brother Lan Xi, now is not the time to surprise you." Jiang Qichen said quietly, "Where is Hua Wudao?"

It's strange to say that Jiang Qichen is very polite to everyone in the Tianyan Sect. When he sees someone older than him, he will talk about senior brother and keep silent about senior brother. He is also very kind to his disciples.Only Hua Wudao, unless it is necessary to protect the face of Tianyanzong in front of outsiders, he will kindly call him "Brother Wudao", and most of the time, he will call him by his first name.

However, everyone in the Tianyan sect has long been familiar with this.Who doesn't know that Layman Fulai and Layman Shao'an will fight if they can't speak three sentences when they meet...

After all, Lan Xi is a very well-mannered disciple of everyone. He quickly suppressed the surprise on his face, and his demeanor was just right and thoughtful. He made a "please" gesture to Jiang Qichen and Lu Ming, and said softly: "Brother is in the practice room, come with me."