by Zhi Bai
During the battle, he didn't notice that the Sky Harmony Palace was gone. At this moment, only the East Warm Pavilion was left standing there alone, while Swallow King Mu Changyan stood there alone.
For the first time he doubted his choice, and for the first time his faith. If the Swallow King was really the future of the great swallow, and if he really was the incarnation of god, why would there be such a predicament? He looked around at the assassins who were still attacking him like a tide, and his heart started to turn cold. Very soon, this cold spread throughout his body, and he could no longer feel any pain from the wounds on his back.
Then he turned around and quickly rushed out of Tiantong Palace.
I want to live!
This was Duan Ren's last belief. At this moment, he had forgotten about loyalty and bravery. He only wanted to live.
It was true, but in this social environment, one would think he was wrong. Duan Ren didn't think about what would happen if he ran away now. He didn't have time to think about that.
He did not see the sword attack that Mu Changyan had drawn. If he had seen it, he might have chosen to watch it for a while longer.
Mu Changyan, on the other hand, experienced the biggest change in his state of mind in a second... The power of that sword strike was beyond his imagination. He knew that his current cultivation level was not strong, and was far from what it was when he was in Mount Cang Man. As a result, in this state, he was already pleasantly surprised that he had been able to kill the last two assassins in one fell swoop. However, that light sound had forcefully suppressed his pleasant surprise.
The wine flag split open.
Gao Yuanhu looked at the two bodies that fell to the ground, his face ashen.
The Gao Family was finished.
His legs went soft, and he couldn't help but kneel down.
No one knew better than him that the Gao Family had used all of their power. Because no one knew better than him that all the people who came to the Tiantong Palace to assassinate the Swallow King were all abandoned sons of the Gao Family. Gao Yuanhu knew that he had been abandoned. While they were crazily attacking the Eastern Warm Pavilion in the Tiantong Palace, the old lady from the Gao Family had already brought the core of the Gao Family and left the Fanggu with them. Although the Gao Clan's final counterattack seemed to be a pretense, it was actually still a pretense. If they could kill Mu Changyan, it would be for the best. But if they couldn't kill Mu Changyan, it would also cover up the fact that the Gao Family had retreated.
Since no one else appeared, Mu Changyan's mood unconsciously lightened. He had finally survived … If someone else were to attack now, then it was possible that he would end the history of the Mu Family's great swallow.
When he turned around, he did not see An Chengli. An Chengli said that he would definitely stand together with his, but he wasn't there right now. However, Mu Changyan didn't blame An Chengli, because he knew how difficult it was to make a choice to die in front of a life and death situation.
Fortunately, it was all over. The Gao Clan's counterattack had already reached its limit. It wouldn't be long before the Imperial Court had no choice but to step in.
But right at this moment, two people dressed in black and covered in black walked over. Even if one could not see their faces, Mu Changyan could still see the pride in their eyes.
When the black clothed man walked past Gao Yuanhu who was kneeling on the ground, he turned his head and looked at him with eyes full of contempt: "You gave up already? Looks like you aren't as strong as I've heard you say. "Even though you have frightened me with your cultivation base, your mentality isn't as strong as I expected."
Gao Yuanhu blankly looked at the two of them, his heart filled with suspicion. He knew very well that these two people were definitely not from the Gao Family. They were only pretending to be from the Gao Family … Then he woke with a start. These two fellows were from the Empress Dowager's side. Then, he immediately regained his sense of judgement. From the tone and voice, he was able to tell that it was Zhao Ziya.
The empress dowager sent someone over, and sure enough, she couldn't keep her cool.
Lu Tianhui, Zhao Zishan. These two were the empress dowager's favorite martial artists. They had done a lot of things in secret for the Empress Dowager over the years, and the Gao family had once sent people to investigate the two of them. Logically speaking, it was impossible for two people with such strength to be unknown in the State of Yan. Later on, the Gao Family found out that the reason the two of them had no past was because they were not from the State of Yan, but rather the State of Zhao.
Zhao Ziyan walked past Gao Yuanhu with a dagger in her hand, "I'll give this great thing that was reputed in history to your Gao Family for free. No need to thank me, no need to thank me."
He walked out of the East Warm Pavilion and looked at the cracked wine banner and the pale-faced Mu Changyan: "This wine banner really scared me. The King actually has such a treasure. Although I personally do not have any hatred towards you, I also feel that you are rather pitiful and do not deserve to die. But I still have an impulse in my heart... Killing a king, even if it was a puppet with no real name, it was still a king. "Think about it, it's exciting to see a king of a country die in my hands."
He turned around and looked at Lu Tianhui, "Can you not fight with me over this, please?"
Lu Tianhui shrugged, "I'm not interested in living people."
Zhao Zishan laughed, "You're still as disgusting as before, but you have to remember that you can just play around. After this person dies, he has to leave behind a decent corpse for others to see. At the very least, they have to be able to recognize that he is the King of great swallow. "
Lu Tianhui said, "I'm not interested in a man's corpse either."
Zhao Zishan laughed out loud, "Then I won't be polite."
He seemed very excited, and even his eyes couldn't hide the excitement in them.
Behind the two of them, there were at least six to seven hundred assassins from the Gao Family. They didn't know that Zhao Ziyan and Lu Tianhui were not from the Gao Family. They just felt that they were about to succeed. The royal guards had all been killed, they would soon be able to leave this damned place.
Zhao Ziya turned his head to glance at the assassins, who were covering their faces. He extended his left hand, and the powerful Cultivation Power bound Mu Changyan. Mu Changyan felt that he was really pitiful. At the last moment, he actually couldn't even commit suicide.
The strength of the sword sheath had already been unleashed to its limit, it was impossible for it to be used for a short period of time. The flag of wine had already been torn apart, and the sword intent within it had already been vented even though there were still some remnants.
The only dignity he had was to commit suicide.
However, it was clear that Zhao Zishan did not plan to give him such an opportunity. After a moment of silence, Zhao Ziyan suddenly pulled the black cloth off his face. He shook his neck and said, "It's so f * cking comfortable killing a king. It's so f * cking painful not to show his face when killing him. My King of great swallow, please see my face clearly, please remember my face before you die. I beg you, after you die, you must come and find me, if not, I'm afraid that I will forget that I once killed a king of a country. "
He pointed at the dazed assassins, "They are destined to be mere cannon fodder in history. Even if they participated in the assassination, they would only be able to mention them in the future and no one would leave their name behind. I'm not the same. I'm going to be a very heavy line in history. "
His dagger had pierced through Mu Changyan's clothes, pierced through his skin, and slowly went in. The surroundings were so quiet that the sound of a knife slicing through flesh could be heard.
In less than a centimeter, the dagger would be able to cut open the heart.
Then, Zhao Ziyan realized that something was wrong with his hand. There were some black spots on the back of his hand. He had
been staring at his right hand with extreme concentration, wanting to engrave this moment into his mind. Thus, he had discovered this change on the back of his hand in time.
Then he noticed that the black spots on the back of his hand were beginning to change, moving back and forth as if they were alive.
Zhao Ziya was stunned. He looked carefully.
The black spots were indeed moving back and forth, but she felt nothing. If he hadn't seen it, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.
Then one of the dots suddenly stopped, and the dot caved in, and a small black hole appeared on the back of his hand. That was not an illusion. A hole had truly appeared. Under his somewhat terrified gaze, a sapling suddenly emerged from the black hole! It was very small, just like bean sprouts. However, the bean sprout was red in color and had the same feeling as a rubber band.
When the first bean sprout emerged from the black hole, the events that followed couldn't be stopped anymore. More and more black spots became small holes, and bean sprouts emerged from the holes one by one, twisting and growing up.
Zhao Zishan wanted to kill Mu Changyan, but the moment the black dot appeared, he lost control of his body. His clothes fell off his body like rotten leaves, and soon fell to the ground. Then his eyes suddenly opened wide, and his pupils violently contracted.
There were small holes all over his body, and there was something like a bean sprout wriggling out of each of them. It was densely packed, giving off the feeling that countless flesh-worms were squirming about.
It was his blood vessel.
Countless holes appeared on his body, and his blood vessels bulged out of the holes like bean sprouts. In just a short moment, Zhao Zishan had turned into a man covered in bean sprouts. He subconsciously turned his head to ask Lu Tianhui to save him, but when he turned around, he saw that Lu Tianhui was already lying on the ground and twisting. However, that was not because Lu Tianhui was twisting. Lu Tianhui's clothes had also rotated, and his body was twitching because of the blood vessels that were still boring out of his body.
Zhao Zishan was so scared that his heart almost burst. He opened his mouth to scream. However, when he opened his mouth, a large amount of blood vessels that looked like bean sprouts surged out. His mouth was very big, and it looked as if there was a strange flower growing out of it.
An old man dressed in embroidered clothes walked over with a haggard expression, he walked to Mu Changyan's side and bowed: "This subject came late, I'm old, so I didn't leave too quickly."
Mu Changyan looked at the old man, but he had not awoken from his shock yet. He was not afraid of the fact that he had almost died, but he was afraid of what he had seen. Now that Lu Tianhui and Zhao Zishan had turned into that kind of ghastly appearance, it might be the shadow of his entire life.
"Many …" "Thank you very much."
Mu Changyan subconsciously said those words, then did not know what to say anymore.
The old man straightened his body and looked outside the Tiantong Palace: "It's almost dawn."
He turned his back to Mu Changyan and looked outside Tiantong Palace, "Next, this subject, Zhuge Chouyun, will accompany the King and wait for the sun to rise."
Chapter 220 - Missed
What happened in the Tiantong Palace would change the structure of the future of the great swallow's imperial government.
The Gao Family's casino would change the entire structure of the great swallow's martial arts world.
When Du Shoushou was at the east gate with his men, An Zheng's attack at the west gate also sounded the horn. Compared to Du Shoushou and Lang Jing bringing hundreds of strong men to take their territory, which was as easy as pulling out dried weeds and rotten weeds, An Zheng's area of battle was a bit smaller, but it was a bit more dangerous. But when An Zheng took down the fourth casino, he realized that the Gao Family members did not really resist.
So An Zheng was able to discern the intentions of the Gao Family with his keen senses, so he increased the amount of noise he was making with his subordinates and left alone in the direction of the Tiantong Palace.
At the same time.
In the Embroidery Palace, Empress Dowager Su looked at the strong man who was standing in front of him and his face flushed.
"Is this person really useful?"
she asked the man standing beside her.
The new Chief Eunuch of Embroidery Palace, Zhen Dao, smiled obsequiously. "Empress Dowager, this person is a disciple groomed by the dojo with all his might. It is said that he has a cultivation potential of nine stars. Moreover, according to the Martial Arts Academy's insider report, the Martial Arts Academy sent this person to the third floor of the tower a few days ago to get hold of that Purple-Rank cultivation technique manual. If it really is a fight, Feng Xiuyang is not his match. "
Empress Dowager Su looked at the young man standing beside the muscular man, a look of helplessness in his eyes.
"How unfortunate."
Empress Dowager Su looked at the two young men, her fingers sweeping across Nie Qing's majestic chest: "A person like this, would be very useful if he stayed by his side."
Of course, Zhen Xiao knew the Empress Dowager Su's intention, he lowered his head and said: "But if used in other places, it might be more useful … Based on the Gao Clan's old mistress' thoughts, she didn't expect anything to happen to the Tiantong Palace. Even if the empress dowager sent Lu Tianhui and Zhao Zishan over, there might not be any results. But these two people … "There's always a chance."
Zhen Xiao held a cloth bag in his hand. Inside the cloth bag, there were many thin silver needles. At this time, there were at least dozens of silver needles inserted into their bodies.
Empress Dowager Su asked: This method works?
Zhen Xiao Dao laughed, "Empress Dowager, don't worry. This is a secret method passed down in this servant's family. When great swallow was established, there was a troop under his command that dared to seek death. No pain, no fear, just a rush forward. If not for that army, the great swallow might have been a few years too late. Back then, this servant's ancestor was one of the people who helped the Swallow King create the death army. "Moreover, it's precisely because of this silver needle technique of this servant's home that those soldiers are so powerful that they make people fear them."
Empress Dowager Su nodded his head, "Since you're so confident, then it's up to you. But you know very well what happens to you if you screw up my business. "
Zhen Xiao hurriedly replied, "Empress Dowager, don't worry. Even if this servant had ten thousand guts, I wouldn't dare lie to you." Only the servants' family members knew how to cast this secret technique. As long as the secret technique succeeded, these people would be controlled by the servants even until their death. When a servant places a needle in their body, the needle will remain in the acupuncture point. At the same time, they use the Gu to control their thoughts. As a result, they become true puppets. "
Empress Dowager Su sighed: "If I had promoted you earlier, there wouldn't have been so much trouble."
Zhen Dao replied, "Actually, this servant had already told Li Changlu before. It's just that if I wanted to, Li Changlu would definitely not tell the empress dowager. For if the Empress Mother had given back her servant, he would have lost his favor. However, this servant has no way of meeting Esteemed Empress Dowager, so I can only send Li Changlu to report to you. This is why I have been able to serve you until now. If it had been earlier, when he had given the King the needle, there wouldn't have been so much trouble. "Fortunately, it's still not too late …"
Empress Dowager Su looked at Nie Qing with reluctance: "Such a great man, it would truly be a pity if he died. However, this matter still had to be of the utmost importance … Right now, he could basically move almost all of Mu Changyan's people away. Fang Daozhi and the previously unknown Wang Kaitai, along with the army and cavalry were surrounding and annihilating the Gao Family members. On the other hand, the Gao Family members were trying to kill Mu Changyan in the Tiantong
Palace. I think that the only one left beside Mu Changyan is that old man Zhuge Chouyun, so this is the best chance. "
Zhen Dao replied, "This servant will arrange it."
Empress Dowager Su waved her hand, "No... I'll go myself. "
She put on her clothes, "Let everyone go and kill all those traitorous bandits of the Gao family who dare to assassinate the King. If you let Feng Xiuyang go back to the Tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tao, those bullies would not suspect him. Feng Xiuyang's mission was to steal all of the Tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tao's secret so that he could control them in the future. To have Nie Qing go to the Tiantong Palace right now and kill a few people, Mu Changyan did not suspect anything. So as long as Nie Qing gets close to Mu Changyan, the following matters will be much easier to handle. "
Zhen Xiao nodded his head, "Your servant obeys."
He opened a jade bottle and poured out two identical bugs. They looked like they were ants that had grown several cups, but they had eight legs. He placed a bug next to Nie Qing's nose, and the bug immediately crawled through Nie Qing's nose. After a moment, Nie Qing began to tremble violently.
Empress Dowager Su watched on from the side, her face pale. Women have always had a conflict with bugs, no matter how beautiful they were.
"Hurry up, Nie Qing and Feng Xiuyang have already been gone for a while, you can't make those powerful bulls of the Tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tai-tao suspect you."
Zhen Xiao bowed his head. "This servant will be fine now."
He placed the other bug in his palm, and after a moment of silence, he frowned and swallowed it. Then, he began to twist like Nie Qing, looking especially painful. A few minutes later, Zhen Dao's expression calmed down. He lowered his head to look at the insect repellent and was relieved when he was sure it was beside him.
"Empress Dowager, this servant cannot leave the Embroidery Palace. I have to control them here. There was a very special connection between the two Gu. I could see and hear everything Nie Qing and Feng Xiuyang heard, and then, I would be able to control these two people to do things. Controlling two Gu is already the limit of this humble servant, so I must not be disturbed. "