Chapter 382 Princess: I am willing to be loyal to you (5,000 words)
Meet again...
Zhao Duan was lying in the shape of "big", lying on his back in the barren mountains in winter, Underneath him were piles of dead branches and leaves, and in his field of vision giant trees pierced the gray sky.
The cold wind blows, and scattered leaves swirl down from the branches.
He smiled and stared at Princess Lu, who was pointing the sword at him, with extremely strange eyes.
When he caught a glimpse of the silver mask, he understood where the indescribable "familiarity" came from when the two met that day.
It’s about temperament.
Princess Lu has a unique temperament that he has only seen in Pei Niannu. It is difficult to describe, but it is real.
Recalling a little bit, when I met the shadow guard named "Hongye" on Linfeng Road in the past, there were vague similarities, but not as close as Lu Yan'er and Pei Niannu.
Prince Jing’s concubine is a powerful sorcerer? Not too surprising.
But he was actually surprised that he was Pei Niannu's successor.
“I’m asking you to answer, not to listen to your nonsense.”
The gentle princess wearing a cyan dress and a silver faceplate had a cold voice, and the tip of the sword in her hand dropped an inch:
"How do you recognize me? If you don't answer, I don't mind letting you taste Lingchi before you die."
What a cruel woman... Pei Niannu hit me Skull, you want to bully me again, it turns out that we are of the same origin... Zhao Duan cursed, and the smile spread on his lips:
"When I first met the princess, she felt like a familiar old friend of mine, so I had a deeper impression. I asked the princess if she was practicing Buddhism that day, and she really lied to me."
Princess Lu looked angry and felt that she Being teased:
"I'm about to die, but I still have the thought to tease him, so I really deserve to be killed."
As soon as I said that, I had to raise my sword and kill the Zhao thief.
"Pei Niannu... Princess, what you practice must be the inheritance of this lineage." Zhao Duan said calmly.
The long sword stopped again!
Behind Princess Lu's visor, a sharp light suddenly flashed in her eyes: "How do you know?"
Zhao Duan smiled and said:
"I have been in contact with you before There is a shadow guard of the imperial court, who is also wearing a mask like you. Do you know her? "
Shadow guard? Lu Yan'er was stunned for a moment, a little confused.
Six hundred years have passed, and the former Pei family has long since spread out. I don’t know how many blood lines have been branched out, let alone the inherited method. Anyone with a strong foundation can practice it.
Therefore, it is not surprising if you think about it carefully, there are also people who practice the same method in the imperial court.
Lu Yaner is not even sure whether the other party is a relative of her. Even if he is a relative, he is probably already on the fifth server.
“It seems that we are not familiar with each other,” Zhao Duan sighed regretfully, “Princess, can you clarify my doubts, where did your mask inheritance come from? How did you get involved with Prince Jing? ?”
Princess Lu pressed her sword down again, directly touching Zhao Duan’s chest, and said coldly:
"Are you interrogating me? Tell me everything you know about Pei Niannu. If you say another random word, I will remove one of your arms!"
Zhao Duan felt helpless and lightly He sighed softly, thinking that it is really difficult to communicate with a cold-tempered woman.
He closed his eyes, visualized the "Six Chapters Sutra" in his mind, and whispered softly:
"Senior, please come down."
In an instant, deep in the sea of consciousness , in a looming ruined ancient temple, the married sorceress sitting boredly on the roof raised her head, her sight seemed to penetrate the boundary between the picture and reality.
Zhao Duan clearly felt that a majestic, feminine power suddenly descended on his sea of consciousness and quickly spread to his body.
In the realm of divine chapters, you can summon the gods you have cultivated to come to the world.
At this moment, Pei Niannu was possessed by a ghost, wrapped in surging mana and becoming one with Zhao Duan.
In the woods.
Princess Lu suddenly felt a strong sense of uneasiness. Without any hesitation, she pressed the hilt of the sword with her white and tender palm and stabbed downward fiercely!
However, Zhao Duan's right hand, covered with a faint red light, quietly grasped the tip of the sword.
Calmly...
Hold on.
Hold on?
Princess Lu was stunned, her expression suddenly changed, and she looked at Zhao Duan's face.
He suddenly opened his eyes, with plasma-like redness surging in his pupils. He seemed to have lost all human emotions, like an angry god.
"You've offended me." Zhao Duan uttered these words and stood up straight.
Princess Lu was shocked and saw in horror that the long sword in her hand was dissolved by the hot crimson breath and turned into drops of iron juice.
In her haste, she only had time to put on three layers of magic armor around her body, and then she saw Zhao Duan punch him.
“Bang!”
Surging mana surged out with the power of the fist. In an instant, the three layers of armor were torn apart like paper, and Princess Lu's figure flew backwards like a cannonball.
The violent magic power stirred up strong winds, and countless fallen leaves in the entire forest were lifted up like tiles and scattered into the air.
The silver armor on the face of Princess Lu, who was just now powerful and in control of everything, flickered and flickered, almost cracking.
A mouthful of blood spurted out from the corner of his mouth, rolling like a sandbag and hitting the rocks in the distance. The bones in his body were almost broken, but his eyes were full of indescribable horror!
In her perception, Zhao Duan's magic power was not much stronger than hers, and it was still at the "worldly" level.
It stands to reason that a confrontation between magic powers at the same level would definitely not leave her powerless to fight back.
But unexpectedly, when Zhao Duan took action, Princess Lu was horrified to find that her entire body seemed to be suppressed by some force that was close to blood.
Just like a mortal encountering a tiger in the mountains, the two forces are fighting and it is difficult to move.
At this moment, she saw Zhao Duan fearing a tiger.
I couldn't perform even 10% of my cultivation. I was completely restrained and weakened to an almost mortal level.
"How could...you..."
Before Princess Lu could recover, she saw Zhao Duan standing up in the distance, raising his right hand and grabbing at her.
Princess Lu’s expression changed drastically and she was about to run away.
Soon, the fallen leaves flying in the sky suddenly condensed into two long "chains", tied her up, and dragged her along the way back to Zhao Duan's feet!
There is no way to fight back!
Lu Yaner felt strong fear and confusion in her heart. She wanted to say something, but Zhao Duan raised his hand and grasped her fair neck.
Her feet were kicking in the air, and her hands were trying to break open the iron hand that restrained her neck. Her face turned pale, like a weak woman in the world.
"No..."
"No..."
Princess Lu tried her best to widen her eyes. She had realized something, and a burst of magic power rushed into her eyes. Open the Eye of Heaven.
As the "Sky Eye" opened, Lu Yan'er saw a scene that horrified her.
I saw that behind Zhao Duan, illusory red lines formed by condensed mana extended towards the sky.
One end of the red threads was connected to Zhao Duan's body, like a puppet on strings, and the other end was all wrapped up in the slender white hands of an illusory figure in mid-air.
It was a woman in ancient costume, wearing a simple red wedding dress, with a dark golden mysterious mask covering her face, only half of her delicate white chin was exposed.
Holding the thin red thread with one hand, he gave the magic power to Zhao Duan.
The other hand held a strange scale beam wrapped in gold and red.
At this moment, she was suspended in mid-air, as majestic as a god.
Six hundred years ago, Pei Niannu, the best sorceress in the world, came to the world!
The moment the two people's eyes met, Lu Yan'er, who was struggling fiercely, felt as if she was struck by lightning. She widened her eyes and stared at the dark golden mask and the appearance of the married sorceress. There was a trace of light in her eyes. Bright light, mixed with endless shock and surprise.
At the same time, Pei Niannu frowned and suddenly retracted half of the red lines after seeing the almost cracked silver visor on the opponent's face.
The plasma-like red color in Zhao Duan's eyes suddenly faded away, and he felt his body suddenly become empty. His magic power was drained away. Unable to restrain the opponent with his right hand, he threw the Tsing Yi Princess to the ground.
"Cough! Cough cough cough!"
Lu Yan'er knelt on the ground. As soon as she was freed, she held her throat and gasped for breath, coughing.
Extremely embarrassed.
Zhao Duan, who had lost the blessing of the red buff, sensed the energy that was constantly being consumed in the air sea. He turned to look at Pei Niannu and raised his eyebrows.
Conveying a thought: "Senior, this is..."
Pei Niannu ignored him and frowned.
But the princess on the ground quickly raised her head at this moment, opened her eyes, looked at the sorceress standing in the sky with excitement and disbelief, and asked tentatively: "Ancestor...?!"
Ancestor?
Zhao Duan’s eyes became even weirder.
"For me...ask her...identity..." Pei Niannu's voice came to her ears.
The way she came to the world is almost like a god. She cannot talk directly to outsiders. She must use Zhao Duan, a "believer" as a medium.
Zhao Duan looked down at the kneeling princess, half smiling:
"Senior Pei asked me to interrogate you, princess, can you tell me now? What is your origin?"< br>
Lu Yan'er was still immersed in huge shock. She came to her senses only after being questioned. She also realized that she could not talk directly to her ancestors, and her mind was in chaos. She couldn't understand at all why the ancestor whose family had been searching for hundreds of years to no avail would end up in Zhao Duan, a pretty boy.
The first thought was doubt, but it was dismissed in an instant. The rest can be disguised, but the real suppression power based on inheritance from Pei Niannu cannot be faked.
That is a characteristic that only this lineage has. Gold armor is the most respected, followed by silver armor, and bronze armor is at the bottom.
Clear levels.
At the next level, not only can you suppress them completely, but you can also punish your subordinates from thousands of miles away.
As for the dark gold face armor, according to historical records, only Pei Niannu completed it.
"Yes...yes..." Lu Yan'er replied subconsciously.
As expected, he is indeed a descendant of the Pei Niannu family. Because Pei Niannu offended too many people back then, after his death, the entire Pei family spread out incognito to avoid being hunted down.
Lu Yan'er's branch was changed to "Lu". She was very talented in spiritual practice since she was a child. Later, she lost her relatives due to a feud in the Jianghu and became the only remaining bloodline of this branch.
Whether it is to inherit the family mission, to find the inheritance of the ancestors, to complete the promotion, or to go one step further.
In short, Lu Yan'er has been searching for Pei Niannu's traces for many years. Later, because the clues pointed to the royal family, and she was obviously unable to enter the palace to investigate, she unexpectedly got a promise from Prince Jing to work for him.
The whole process is not complicated.
After hearing this, Zhao Duan also felt that his fate was strange. Who would have thought that there was such a coincidence...
Moreover, why did the rules of suppression by this mask sound so evil? The evil one... doesn't look like the righteous way, but a bit like an evil sorcerer.
Is it possible that the god Pei Niannu cultivated is considered an evil god? Hiss...
"Ancestor!"
Kneeling on the ground, her green clothes stained with blood, Lu Yan'er looked excited:
"We have been searching for you for hundreds of years. The elders in the family have always said that you are not dead. We can see you today. I implore the ancestors to return to gather the clansmen who were scattered in the past..."
Pei Niannu listened quietly, and even though he was separated by a mask, he still showed a look of vicissitudes and loneliness.
She looked at Zhao Duan and said calmly:
"Tell...her...I'm...dead, no need to obsess..."
After saying that, without waiting for Zhao Duan to respond, he took the initiative to tear off all the red threads of mana, disappeared from the world, and returned to Chapter 6 through.
Hang up... Zhao Duan's eyelids twitched and he called "Senior" a few more times in his heart, but Pei Niannu seemed to be touched by something sad and didn't respond to him at all.
"Ancestor? Ancestor?!"
Lu Yan'er saw the wedding sorceress turn around and disappear. She looked around blankly and let out a shrill call.
Zhao Duan smacked his lips, feeling that the remaining energy in his body was consumed in order to maintain Pei Niannu's arrival, and he took the initiative to cut off the visualization. In this way, Pei Niannu could no longer feel what was happening outside.
He looked down at Princess Lu and said in a mocking voice: "Stop shouting, Princess, Senior Pei has gone back."
Lu Yan'er looked at him blankly, expecting an explanation.
Zhao Duan said without changing his expression:
"Senior Pei said that she is very disappointed in you. She only wants to participate in secular court disputes, but she is willing to serve rebels like Prince Jing. , becoming a lackey of the mortal powerful has humiliated her and even more humiliated this inheritance. How can future generations still have the dignity to invite her back?”
Lu Yan'er's face turned pale as if struck by lightning. She slumped on the ground and murmured:
"I...I..."
As she spoke, her silver armor loomed faintly. Tears rolled down my face, and I felt ashamed and embarrassed.
Yes.
How graceful were our ancestors six hundred years ago? That person was on par with Emperor Taizu of Dayu and ranked among the strongest people in the world.
Using secret techniques, he almost became a god and could live for six hundred years, which was unheard of.
How proud should such ancestors be?
What about yourself?
So, when our ancestors attacked him just now, he was probably angry at himself for not fighting, so he punished him angrily, right?
Zhao Duan saw her in despair and her faith collapsed, so he changed the subject:
"But...Senior Pei also said that he wants me to tell you that one day you will truly be worthy of her status as a descendant before you come to her again."
Lu Yaner's already ashen eyes lit up again. , she got up, looked at Zhao Duan impatiently, and said with excitement:
"What should I do? Will the ancestors be willing to see me again?"
Zhao Duan looked at him with a look He looked like an idiot and said:
"You still can't understand? Of course, you have abandoned the dark and turned to the light. Senior Pei is standing with me, but you are with rebels like Prince Jing and are my enemy. , is to be an enemy of your ancestors.”
Lu Yan'er suddenly woke up as if she had been slapped. She looked happy at first, but then realized something was wrong:
"But you just said that my ancestors resented me for being a lackey for the powerful, but you don't do the same..."
Zhao Duan had no expression on his face and scolded:
"Did you know that I studied under Emperor Taizu? I cultivated the path of the God of War? Can I be the same as you?
If I put aside the mortal emperors, generals and ministers , based on the inheritance of monks, I am from the same sect as the current empress, and I am from the same sect as Haishi.
People from the same sect are essentially one body. Do you know why Senior Pei was summoned by me? That's why Senior Pei also joined Emperor Taizu's sect. Don't you understand? ”
Lu Yaner suddenly realized.
Yes, she ignored this level. The world of monks is different from the ordinary world. What matters is the inheritance of masters.
At this moment, she understood Immediately said:
"I am willing to abandon the dark side and join the lineage of the Martial Gods. I just ask Mr. Zhao to help me explain to my ancestors..."
Zhao Duan shook his head with a teasing smile:
"Princess Lu, you are still assassinating me with your front foot, and you still have the identity of a princess. Can you teach me how to trust you?"
Lu Yaner stood Standing up, behind the cracked visor, his eyes were cold:
"I will go back to Huting right now and kill Prince Jing and his son. How about making a pledge of surrender?"
The appearance of Pei Niannu , causing her to change her stance on the spot. Compared to Prince Jing's empty promise, Zhao Duan's side seemed more trustworthy.
"...Wait a minute!"
Zhao Duan was startled, but stopped the other party and started thinking.
Kill Prince Jing directly? He must admit that this was an extremely tempting offer, and he was indeed tempted.
But Zhao Duan thought about it again and felt it was inappropriate.
First, killing King Jing will inevitably lead to unpredictable changes in the political structure of the entire Yu Dynasty.
The current situation, which is still relatively stable, will be broken in an instant, which may not be a good thing from an overall perspective.
After all, there are seven of the eight kings. Apart from King Jing, King Mu of Yunfu also has the potential to be a dragon chair. The existence of the eight kings can check and balance each other. If they are broken, will it be good or bad? , it is impossible to judge clearly.
Secondly, as an inspector, he cannot make such a big decision.
He is just a minister, and has not reported it to the empress. He does not have the authority to do such a big thing privately.
In the officialdom, doing things beyond the authority is dangerous even in wartime, let alone non-wartime?
Third, and most importantly, Zhao Duan suspected that Prince Jing was not that easy to kill.
Otherwise, why didn’t the empress, who possesses the combat power of the Heavenly Realm, just go down to the south of the Yangtze River alone and kill all the eight kings?
Whether it is because he is worried about his eternal infamy, or because the pattern cannot be easily broken, or because Prince Jing, an old yin, must have hidden ways to save his life.
In short, there must be a reason why the empress didn’t do this, and Zhao Duan couldn’t do it either.
"Are you sure you killed him? He had no means to save his life?" Zhao Duan asked calmly.
Lu Yan'er was silent for a moment, shook her head and said:
"I can't be sure. Xu Wen... is a very scheming person, and the guards around him are definitely not the same as me. Moreover, when he asked me to join, I tried to show my murderous thoughts. Feeling There is something in him that makes me afraid. "
This is reasonable... If you have the courage to fight against the empress, how can you not have the foundation? Zhao Duan asked:
“Do you know what trump cards he has?”
Lu Yaner shook her head and said:
"I know very little. Although I work as a guard for him, I don't participate in his affairs. He is also very wary of me. Not only me, but also his son Xu Jinglong only knows a less important part.
I only know that Prince Jing has some secret connections with Emperor Wu’s city. He is also secretly training troops in Jiancheng Road and hollowing out a mountain to build a firearms factory.”
Then, it seems to be going on. To show her true feelings, she told all the information she knew in one breath.
Zhao Duan gained a lot, but there were indeed very few core things.
It’s not surprising that Prince Jing was crazy and would confess to the princess who said betrayal without any hesitation.
"Let's do this." Zhao Duan thought for a moment and said with his hands behind his back:
"I need you to continue to lurk in Prince Jing's Mansion. When you go back today, you will say that I have a trump card and summon the gods to injure you. , don’t say anything else.
Don’t intentionally collect any information in the future. Just continue as usual and wait for my orders.
Don’t worry, as long as you turn your back on me and do things for me, Senior Pei. , I will speak for you. Of course, the choice is always in your hands, you can trust me or King Jing."
Lu Yaner did not hesitate, and suddenly knelt down on one knee, like a subordinate in the army. Generally speaking, seriously:
"I obey my orders."
She knew very well what attitude and method to use when dealing with officials.
Since she could serve Prince Jing in pursuit of her ancestors, it would be natural for her to serve Zhao Duan instead.
Zhao Duan raised the corners of his mouth slightly and waved: "Go."
"Yes!"
Lu Yan'er picked up the only half of the long sword left on the ground, with injuries all over her body, and the formation slowly appeared under her feet and disappeared.
Large leaves fell one after another, and only Zhao Duan was left. He looked at the direction where she disappeared with his hands behind his hands, and the corners of his mouth twitched:
"Wait, you haven't told me yet. , how to go back?”
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Typos should be corrected first
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