"But that's loyalty to you, not to me."
Bingmei listened but shook her head, "They are indeed only loyal to me, but the problem is that I am also loyal to you, so doesn't this mean that you indirectly control them?"
"Indirect control? When it comes to controlling people, I don't like indirect control. I like direct control, just like I can control your life and death now."
Zhao Zhen shook his head.
"Then you can use the same methods you used on me on them."
"That's the problem." Zhao Zhen spread his hands, "The methods I used on you are not unlimited. To be honest, I just spent a lot of money."
"So you rejected me?"
Bingmei's eyes turned cold.
"Yes, again, they are your people, not mine. I can trust you because I can control your life and death, but I cannot control their life and death."
Zhao Zhen said simply.
This made Bingmei's eyes even colder, but she remained silent.
Zhao Zhen also said nothing, but looked at Bingmei calmly, with no waves in his eyes.
This is not because he is cruel, nor is he cold, but after experiencing many things such as being framed by his family and the destruction of his sect, he realized a truth.
This truth is that trust is the most luxurious thing in the world.
If he trusts the right person, it is undoubtedly a good thing, just like he trusts his father, mother, and many of his brothers.
They have experienced many lives and deaths together, so Zhao Zhen knows that these people will never betray him and will face danger with him when it comes.
But it's not a good thing if you trust the wrong person.
Just like when he first trusted his family's fifth brother, Zhao Zheng.
During those years in the family, because he could not practice cultivation, he had been careful in his behavior and tried not to have contact with others. However, he could not stand Zhao Zheng's sincere words, so he believed him once and went to the back mountain.
But the result was that he was framed and imprisoned in an ice prison.
If he hadn't awakened the Ten Thousand Swords Spiritual Root in a desperate situation, then he would have been dead.
Just this incident made him understand that even his family members could betray him at any time for the sake of profit, let alone such a group of people from the enemy Hanxue Dynasty?
Therefore, Zhao Zhen will not trust them unless he can directly control the life and death of these people.
"It seems that you have once again forced me into a situation where I have no choice."
Looking at Zhao Zhen's calm eyes, Bingmei finally lowered her head and said something.
"Don't be so pitiful, you always have a choice." Zhao Zhen shook his head and said lightly, "I still say the same thing, you can choose to leave now. As long as you want to leave, I can take back my stay. The sword intent in your body is restricted, or you can choose to give up on them and just follow me to protect yourself."
"But I don't want to give up on them."
Bingmei said seriously, "Because they are my only relatives now."
"Then it's not that I gave you no choice, it was you who gave you no choice."
Zhao Zhen said again, "You who have experienced so much should know that this world is cruel, but at the same time it is also fair. Cruelty is cruel when the weak prey on the strong. There is no right or wrong. Fairness is fair. Only when you pay will you get rewards. There are no tricks. place."
Bingmei fell silent again.
She understood what Zhao Zhen meant. She and Zhao Zhen made it clear that it was just an exchange of equal value.
She exchanged her freedom for Zhao Zhen's protection.
She is like this, so her classmates can only be like this.
After a long silence, suddenly, a cruel look flashed in Bingmei's eyes.
Poof!
There was a sound of penetration, but Bingmei's right hand moved suddenly and suddenly penetrated the left side of her chest!
Xia He suddenly exclaimed, with a look of horror in his eyes.
Zhao Zhen raised his eyebrows. He didn't know what Bingmei was doing.
Bingmei didn't say anything, she just used her right hand to turn over the flesh and blood of her left breast!
Blood flowed out loudly. Although Bingmei's face was expressionless, the trembling of her body betrayed her pain at the moment.
But she still didn't stop, she just continued to turn over. After a moment, Bingmei's palm suddenly froze, and the next moment she suddenly pulled out her right hand!
Wow!
Blood spurted out, which made Bingmei pale, but she did not fall down, but spread her blood-covered hands towards Zhao Zhen.
A piece of pure white round jade appeared on it.
"What's this?"
Zhao Zhen looked at the white jade and frowned.
"This... this is the Ice Flame Spirit Jade. It is the symbol of our Ice Flame Sect Master. It is also a heaven-level formation stone with ice attributes."
Bingmei said tremblingly, which made Zhao Zhen's eyes flash. Of course he knew about the formation stones.
The formation stone is a high-strength spiritual stone that depicts the formation. It can also be said to be a kind of proof for a heaven-level formation master.
Although formation masters below the heaven-level formation masters can set up formations, it takes a lot of time to fight against others. They can only wait and lure others into their own formations to deal with them.
There is no doubt that this method of fighting does not have any active offensive effect and is very passive. Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary warriors, formation masters below the heaven level are not much of a threat at all. As long as they avoid the formation range of the formation master, they can defeat them. Very easy to defeat.
But the formation master who has reached the heaven level is completely different.
Once you become a heaven-level formation master, you can miniaturize the formation and engrave the complex formation into a small spiritual stone.
In this way, you can use the formation to fight against the enemy at any time. If you want to take action, you only need to throw out a spiritual stone with the formation engraved on it, and you can use the power of the formation to obliterate the enemy.
Therefore, heaven-level formation masters are the most feared beings. Although swordsmen are said to be the most lethal, once they encounter a well-prepared formation master, they will throw out more than a dozen large formation stones as soon as they fight. , that even a sword cultivator can’t bear it.
Fortunately, formation masters are very rare, even rarer than sword cultivators, and they generally don't care about worldly affairs and only study formation methods, so they haven't caused any big troubles.
But now, Zhao Zhen saw such a formation stone that only existed in legends, and naturally he was also surprised.
"What formation is carved in here?"
"The heaven-level spirit-prisoning formation is also a great formation for controlling the spiritual roots of my Ice Flame Sect disciples."
Bingmei said with a pale face, "We, the Ice Flame Sect disciples, who have reached the martial spirit realm, will be required to drip blood on the Ice Flame Spirit Jade and inject their own spiritual energy. After they do this, The inner strength of their spiritual roots will be controlled by the power of the formation."
"I see."
Zhao Zhen's eyes suddenly lit up, "In other words, if I master this Ice Flame Spirit Jade, then I will control the lives of the Ice Flame Sect disciples who are loyal to you."
"good."
Bingmei said coldly.
"Well, no wonder you were able to hide your power under the test of Wanbaoxuan people before. After all, what Wanbaoxuan left on you was only a low-level earth-level prisoner spirit array. They didn't even know that you still had such a piece of heaven engraved with it. The formation stone of the Super Prisoner Spirit Formation.”
Zhao Zhen said again, "And because you have long understood the power laws of the heaven-level spirit prisoner array, the earth-level spirit prisoner array will naturally not be difficult for you. This allows you to successfully hide your true power."
"good."
Bingmei nodded again.
"Understood."
Zhao Zhen was stunned, but then he looked at Bingmei seriously, "This can be said to be your last trump card, or your last hope. Are you sure you want to hand it over to me?"
"I want revenge, but the premise of revenge is that I have to live and they all have to live."
Without answering Zhao Zhen's question, Bingmei just said indifferently.
Hearing this, Zhao Zhen said no more and suddenly grasped Bingmei's blood-covered right hand with his palm.
"make a deal."
"In three days, I will go rescue people."
Hearing this, Bingmei's body trembled, and the next moment her eyes turned white and she fainted.
Xia He looked shocked, and Zhao Zhen also had serious eyes.
He knew that he was right. This Bingmei was indeed ruthless.
He actually buried such a formation stone directly next to his heart. Unless he had great hatred in his heart, he would never do such a crazy thing.
"What a ruthless character, yes, but I think we will work together happily."
Talking to himself, Zhao Zhen said in the next moment, "Junior sister Xia He, you should stop taking care of me. You should stay here to take care of her. She needs at least two days to recover from her injury."
With that said, Zhao Zhen took out six spiritual power pills from his arms and put them in Xia He's hand.
"One pill each in the morning, noon and night, feed it for two days."
Xia He nodded blankly, but Zhao Zhen did not stay in this room, but went directly to another room and started sitting cross-legged.
After finally seeing this legendary formation stone, Zhao Zhen naturally had to study it carefully.
And the two days passed quickly.
During these two days, the atmosphere in Longjing City was extremely solemn.
Teams of soldiers from the city guard kept going in and out of various buildings day and night, including private houses, restaurants, inns, and even brothels. There were people who kept crying and being taken away by them.
This naturally caused people in Longjing City to panic, because until now, they still don't know what happened.
It wasn't until the evening of the next day that a piece of news was delivered, and when they heard the news, countless people were shocked!
It turned out that Wang Ming, the son of Wang Dao, the grand master of the dynasty, was killed in Guanren Lane!
This sparked discussions among countless people on the spot.
Official Alley, this is where dignitaries from the dynasty gathered. It can be said to be the most majestic place in Longjing outside the center of the imperial city!
But a murder occurred here!
And the person who died was the son of the current first-grade Grand Master!
This naturally made everyone understand.
No wonder the whole city is under martial law. Anyone who does something wrong will be arrested.
After all, this incident is too bad. If the court does not handle it strictly, how can it show the law?
But it is a pity that in the past two days, although the guardsmen of the Guard City arrested many criminals, they did not catch the real culprit at all.
The real murderer is still at large!
This of course made the people in Longjing City even more horrified.
They were all wondering who dared to kill someone like this.
And how strong is this person? How could he remain invisible under such a strict search?
