"Your Majesty, Duke Cheng Yaojin of the State of Lu is asking for an audience outside the palace. He seems very anxious. You see..."
Daming Palace, Zichen Hall.
This is the main dormitory hall in the palace. There are Bath Hall Hall and Greenhouse Hall in the east, and Yanying Hall and Hanxiang Hall in the west. The east and west are juxtaposed. It is also the main activity place of Emperor Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty for so many days.
Months passed in a flash, and Li Zhi rarely stepped out of the palace gate. He was like a normal mortal emperor, going to court, summoning ministers, and reviewing memorials. In addition to liking to stay on the "Three Islands of Liquid Pond", he would Occasionally I go to the "Lizheng Palace" for a walk.
Li Zhi felt that his "Daluo Jinxian" thunder disaster was coming, but he felt a little uneasy in his heart?
It was the last thunder tribulation in his practice. According to his past "routine", there should be a lot of violence, but after waiting for more than four months, there was no movement at all.
"Cheng Yaojin? What is he doing here at this time?"
He looked at the old eunuch Zhang Anan who was bowing and saluting, and then looked at the sky outside the palace.
Well, it's almost the second watch now. If a normal mortal emperor were in power, the palace door would have been locked by now.
It is a pity that Li Zhi is not an ordinary mortal, and he is different from the thinking of this era. He does not abide by these ancient rules. As long as the ministers have important matters to report, they can come to the palace to find him at any time.
Of course, when his cultivation reaches his level, sleeping is just a way of cultivation.
"Please come in, Duke Lu, and send someone to inform the Queen that I may not be able to go there tonight."
Li Zhi naturally would not turn Cheng Yaojin away, and even asked Zhang Anan to say "please". After all, he followed his father to conquer the country, and his two sons are still working for him. The Tang Dynasty guarded the vast northern border.
"I came into the palace late at night. Didn't you disturb His Majesty?——"
It was not long before Zhang Anan returned to the imperial study room of the "Purple Chen Palace" again. Who else could be following him but Cheng Yaojin?
"Uncle Cheng is not at home to receive blessings. It is so late and it has just snowed heavily. Why are you here?"
Now that the first month of the lunar month is over, the land in Guanzhong is inevitably a bit cold, and it has snowed heavily for three consecutive days. Even a man as cultivated as Cheng Yaojin has habitually worn cotton clothes.
Of course, Li Zhi's "Purple Chen Palace" has been set up with a formation to maintain a constant temperature all year round. Even ordinary courtiers will not feel cold or hot.
"Your Majesty, the reason why I came to you so late is actually to ask you to rescue me. Master Sun is not in Chang'an City now. If you don't come to rescue me now, I'm afraid the child will really die——"
Cheng Yaojin couldn't care less about the wind and cold along the way. His hair, blown by the night wind, looked even more messy under the light of the palace lanterns in the "Purple Chen Palace".
"Child? I wonder who got a bad disease and actually worked for Uncle Cheng?"
In private, Li Zhi always treated the veterans of the army who were left behind by Li Shimin as uncles. In this way, not only did the veterans feel warm in their hearts, but Li Zhi himself also felt much more comfortable.
"Hey, it's hard to explain in words. Your Majesty, you should go take a look with me first. If you go late, maybe..."
Seeing Cheng Yaojin being so eager, he even lost the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers.
"Okay, I'll just go with you—"
Li Zhi waved his hand to stop the old eunuch Zhang Anan from accompanying him, and followed Cheng Yaojin out of the Daming Palace.
It had been just a year since Li Zhi took the throne. Although he had experienced the chaos of the demon clan, after a period of recuperation, Chang'an City had returned to its prosperous appearance.
Moreover, since Li Zhi ascended the throne, the curfew system has been completely abolished in Chang'an City. Even after the second watch, you can still meet people on the street traveling in twos and threes or returning at night.
In the dim night sky, there were scattered snowflakes again.
The two of them did not use their physical skills, and walked slowly as a carriage. They left the palace city and the imperial city. They passed the Suzaku Gate and turned right. After passing through the Western Market, they came to a place.
Huaiyuanfang, Xue Zhai.
"Uncle Cheng, who is this Xue Zhai?"
See Cheng Yao
Jin was about to come forward and knock on the door, and Li Zhi understood what was going on.
"Your Majesty, this is the residence of the newly appointed Zuowuwei General Xue Rengui. The person whom I asked you to treat is Xue Rengui's only son who is only thirteen years old."
As Cheng Yaojin spoke, he reached out and patted the knocker on the door of Xue's house.
"Pah pah pah——"
In the middle of the night, the sound came far away.
"coming--"
Cheng Yaojin had just slapped twice when someone inside responded, and Li Zhi sounded familiar.
"Squeaky-"
The door of Xue's house was opened from inside, and a burly middle-aged man came out.
"Father, you are back. Your Majesty... Your Majesty? General Xue Rengui thanks Your Majesty——"
The person who opened the door turned out to be Xue Rengui?
From his tone, it seemed that Xue Rengui knew about Cheng Yaojin's visit to the palace.
"General Xue, there is no need to be polite. This is not above the imperial court. Besides, I am now a guest in your house, so some red tape can be avoided."
Li Zhi had naturally met Xue Rengui. He was originally just a right-leading Zhonglang general guarding the Xuanwu Gate. However, because of his outstanding performance in the Battle of the Demons, Li Zhi was promoted to the current General Zuowuwei by Li Zhi. .
What Li Zhi didn't understand was that the originally heroic white-robed general Xue Rengui, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, turned into this dazed person in front of him?
After all, Xue Rengui also has the cultivation level of the "Xuanxian" peak. Why does he look more haggard than a mortal now?
Although Li Zhi was still a little suspicious, he still smiled and wanted to help Xue Rengui up. You must know that it is still the Tang Dynasty. Unless there is a large-scale celebration or there is a serious criminal involved, under normal circumstances, courtiers do not need to kneel when they see the emperor.
Unfortunately, Xue Rengui seemed to accept death, broke away from Li Zhi's hand, and bowed again.
"Your Majesty, I really have no other choice, so I begged Mr. Lu to go to the palace to invite you. Otherwise, Quanzi... I'd like your Majesty to lend a helping hand, and I will break my body to pieces in repayment with all my heart——"
Counting Cheng Yaojin's previous remarks, this is the second time Li Zhi has heard the purpose of tonight's trip. To save Xue Rengui's son?
"General Xue, please get up and lead the way. No matter what happens to your young master, I will definitely rescue him."
Faced with this situation, Li Zhi didn't say anything, he just took care of things.
It's no wonder that Li Zhi boasted that his cultivation had reached his level and he had many treasures. Let alone saving a dying person, even if he was really dead, as long as he, Li Zhi, wanted to save him, it would be a big deal. Just go to the underworld once.
"Haha, Rengui, what I said is right, isn't it? When your majesty comes, that boy of yours will definitely be saved. Even if the king of hell comes, he won't be able to snatch him away——"
Cheng Yaojin was on the side to smooth things over, and even pulled Xue Rengui up from the ground with a pair of big hands, with tears in his eyes.
Lao Cheng is a warm-hearted person. Many years ago, when Xue Rengui first defected to Tangying, Cheng Yaojin noticed him.
Even Cheng Yaojin, who had been on the battlefield for many years, secretly praised the young man for his great spirit, good martial arts skills, and superb martial arts.
Since ancient times, heroes have suffered many hardships. Xue Rengui devoted himself to the Tang Dynasty, but was repeatedly ostracized in the army, and was even sent to join the Huotou Army.
Gold shines wherever it goes, and strength always speaks for itself on the battlefield. In the end, Xue Rengui still couldn't stop him from standing out, and he even had a fierce fight with a group of veterans from Tangying.
It was at that time that Xue Rengui was "forcibly" adopted as an adopted son by Cheng Yaojin, and this was how the adopted father-son relationship between the old man and the young man came into being for so many years.
...
As soon as Li Zhi and others walked into an ordinary bedroom, they smelled the strong smell of herbs and the sound of a woman sobbing.
"Yinhuan, Your Majesty is here, please don't lose your etiquette..."
The furnishings in the bedroom are very simple. On the table next to it, a candle as thick as an arm is lit, lighting up the room.
The light shines brightly.
Li Zhi raised his eyes and saw a woman in her thirties or forties with red and swollen eyes who had obviously just cried. She was holding a little girl of three or four years old in her arms with two braids.
Unfortunately, the little girl had already fallen asleep at this time. Maybe the woman was too sad and didn't notice it, and she kept holding her in her arms like that.
"My wife, Mrs. Xue Liu, has met Your Majesty. Her child is in danger. I hope Your Majesty will forgive you for being disrespectful——"
This was a plainly dressed woman. If she hadn't appeared here and Xue Rengui hadn't introduced her personally, Li Zhi wouldn't have believed that she was the wife of the dignified General Zuo Wuwei. Read the book
“Mrs.
After listening to Xue Rengui's greeting just now, Li Zhi knew that the person in front of him was Xue Rengui's hair extension wife Liu Yinhuan. This person was originally a young lady from a wealthy family, but she just fell in love with Xue Rengui, who was impoverished back then.
"Mom, is my brother awake?"
After all this trouble, the little daughter in Liu Yinhuan's arms also woke up, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and looked at the bed first.
An ordinary wooden low bed was placed on the easternmost side of the bedroom, but the curtains were lifted. Looking through the candlelight, there was a person lying upright on the bed.
"An arrow through the heart? Who has such hatred for this young man, and is so cruel to do such a cruel thing?"
Li Zhi divided the crowd and walked at the front. He saw the young man lying on the bed, who was about thirteen or fourteen years old. His face was a little pale and he was very angry.
Even in a coma, he could not hide his handsome appearance. The young man's lower body was covered with a thick quilt, but his upper body was only wearing a cotton suit, and on his left chest, there was a carved feather arrow.
"Your Majesty, it's the general... The general accidentally shot my son with an arrow..."
With a "plop", Xue Rengui knelt down again. This seven-foot-tall man, invincible on the battlefield, seemed like a regretful sinner.
"Uncle, don't blame dad. Dad didn't mean it. A big bear came out to scare Lian'er, so dad shot an arrow. Unexpectedly, my brother was hit by the arrow and fell asleep."
Li Zhi looked at Xue Rengui who was kneeling on the ground suspiciously, and suddenly remembered the story of Xue Rengui and his son "falling in love and killing each other" in "The Romance". It seems that all this happened for real?
The little girl who was in Liu Yinhuan's arms just now broke away from her mother's arms and walked unsteadily in front of Xue Rengui, as if she was worried that "uncle" Li Zhi would hurt her father.
"I won't ask you the details of what happened. Let's rescue your son first and then talk about it."
Li Zhi shook his head slightly, not knowing whether he wanted to get rid of those old "gossip" stories in his mind, or whether the smell of herbs in the room was too overpowering.
Li Zhi was seen counting his fingers in the air, sealing the heart of the young man in front of him. He gently reached out his right hand to grab the half-section of the carved feather arrow, and he felt Xue Rengui, who was kneeling on the ground, tremble suddenly.
Xue Rengui also has decades of experience in the military. If he hadn't used magic to hang his son's life from an arrow wound like this from the beginning, and even used a lot of elixirs after returning home, I'm afraid this boy would have died long ago.
Even so, Xue Rengui did not dare to pull out the arrow. It had already penetrated deeply into his heart. It was a miracle that he could still hang on like this.
"Is it really General Xue's arrow?"
Li Zhi looked at the word "Xue" on the arrow and threw it aside.
The strange thing is that the broken arrow stuck in the heart has been pulled out, but there is no blood spurting?
Li Zhi hurriedly made a seal with his hands, creating a white lotus shadow, and a total of nine white lotuses sank into the young man's body.
"Well, this kid actually also has a body that leaks from the sky. Could it be that he was destined to do so?"
At this time, Li Zhi discovered something unusual. The young man lying on the bed was actually the same as himself.
"The body of leakage from the sky", there is no one in ten thousand, but if it is like this
With their physiques, they are usually poor at writing and difficult to practice martial arts. At most, they can only practice the "body training technique" in the army.
Looking at the slightly thin body of the young man in front of me, I thought that even if he practiced the "body training technique", the results would probably be ordinary.
"Your Majesty, the child was born prematurely, and his body bones are inherently weak. Even at the age of thirteen, he is incapable of doing anything in the arts or military."
How long has it been? Xue Rengui could feel that his son's breath gradually returned to calmness, and his face even turned rosy. It seemed...it seemed that the crisis had been turned around?
Li Zhi ignored Xue Rengui's words, stood up and walked around the room for a few steps. After thinking for a while, he returned to the bed and saw Li Zhi picking up the magic formula again.
The boy who was originally lying on the bed was actually floating in mid-air at this moment, with his eyes closed but he was sitting cross-legged on his own.
Li Zhi waved his hand again, and the boy's upper body was no longer naked, and his lower body was only left with a pair of light-colored trousers.
"General, Your Majesty, what is this?..."
Seeing the scene in front of her, Liu Yinhuan unconsciously grabbed her husband beside her with both hands, wanting him to go up and see her son, but was stopped by Xue Rengui.
"Yinhuan, you have to believe His Majesty——"
Why isn't Xue Rengui worried about his son? That is his only son. The old Xue family has only been passed down for several generations, and he only has one son and one daughter.
However, Tang Emperor Li Zhi's status in the Tang Dynasty has long surpassed that of Li Shimin back then, especially people like Xue Rengui, who had witnessed Li Zhi's combat power with his own eyes.
That was someone who could defeat even the Great Luo Jinxian, and he used various astonishing methods one after another. Xue Rengui was only at the peak level of "Xuanxian", so he was naturally full of awe for Li Zhi.
Ignoring the whispers of the couple, the young man suspended in the air at this time had a fiery red color all over his body, and there was actually a curl of white smoke rising above his head, which looked extremely weird.
It turned out that Li Zhi was slowly pulling the "True Sun Fire" in his body, twining threads and threads towards the young man in mid-air. He just used the threads pulled out by the "True Sun Fire" to wrap up the boy?
"The energy is divided into yin and yang, inside and outside; taking fire is yang, taking water is yin; yin and yang complement each other, and they grow together and form the same body..."
Li Zhi muttered words, and after the silk thread of "True Sun Fire" completely wrapped the young man in mid-air, he suddenly flicked his fingers together, and white lotuses were transformed into the spiritual water in the sea of consciousness.
If the "True Sun Fire" just now tempered all the muscles, bones and skin of that young man, this person's inexhaustible white lotus that keeps bursting nourishes the young man in all aspects. body of.
White lotuses sank into the young man's body. It was silent at first, but after a while, a slight hum could be heard from the young man's mouth.
"Ne'er——"
Liu Yinhuan whispered again, but covered his mouth with his hands in time, for fear of affecting the two people present.
Liu Yinhuan is just an ordinary mortal woman. She only looks younger than others after taking the rare medicinal materials found by Xue Rengui. In fact, she is almost fifty years old this year.
Whether it was the young man in mid-air or the little daughter held in his arms just now, for the age of the couple, they were considered old enough to have children.
When they were young, Xue Rengui's family was not well off, and it was difficult to even have enough to eat. The two of them missed the best of more than ten years.
Later, Xue Rengui joined the army and lived in the army all year round. After years of military service accumulation and promotion to Chang'an, the couple could stay together day and night.
Xue Rengui said nothing, but held his wife tightly with one arm, his eyes shining with surprise.
Xue Rengui knew in his heart that at this time, Emperor Tang was no longer simply healing his son's injuries, but wanted to completely change his physique!
"Is this... is this over? Why do I feel like Ne'er has become a different person?"
About half an hour later, Li Zhi finally finished what he was doing, and the young man in mid-air also opened his eyes, still naked from the waist up, and fell to the ground.
"Xue Nabai
Thank you, Mr., for your life-saving grace——"
The thirteen-year-old boy stood up with a sharper head than his mother Liu Yinhuan.
Even though he was silent for half an hour, in fact, his consciousness had already fully awakened when Li Zhi injected nine white lotus shadows into his body.
Naturally, this young man saw Li Zhi for the first time, but he also knew that he was saved by the person in front of him, so he kept his feet on the ground and fell in front of Li Zhi without even bothering to see his parents.
"Ne'er, this is your Majesty. It was His Majesty who personally saved your life. Why don't you give me a big thank you——"
Xue Rengui was afraid that his son would be reckless and neglectful of Li Zhi, so he hurriedly came to his son's side, and the father and son were about to kowtow to Li Zhi again.
"General Xue, please get up. As for this kid, let him kowtow to me nine times—"
Kowtow nine times?
Such a grand gift is not common. The legendary three kneels and nine kowtows are rarely given to living people. Even Li Zhigui, the lord of the Tang Dynasty, only enjoyed such treatment on the day he ascended the throne.
Xue Rengui really wanted to bow down, but was stopped by Li Zhi's support. After hearing this, the young man lay down on the ground and kowtowed nine times.
"Hahaha, get up. Your name is Xue Ne, right? The name is good, but it doesn't suit you. How about this, I will give you another word today, and call it Dingshan?"
Li Zhi stretched out his hands to help the young man kneeling on the ground, and with a wave of his hand, he transformed a set of clothes for the young man to wear.
"Ne'er... no, Dingshan, why don't you thank your majesty for your grace——"
His son was able to come back to life, and it seemed that he had been tempered by his majesty. For such kindness, let alone the emperor, even if he was just a stranger, he should kowtow a few times.
"Hahaha, Rengui, how come you are so smart all your life and so stupid all your life? Didn't you hear what His Majesty said? 'As a teacher, Your Majesty is going to accept your son, my god-grandson, as his apprentice-"
Before Xue Rengui's family could react, Cheng Yaojin on the side listened carefully to the details of Li Zhi's words. The old man's face was red and his brows were beaming, and he seemed to be more happy than his own grandson to become a disciple.
"Disciple Xue Dingshan pays homage to Master——"
The young man had actually heard the word "become a teacher", but his father had just introduced him to him. The person in front of him was His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. How could he accept him as his disciple?
Li Zhi's "great achievements" have long been spread to every corner of the Tang Dynasty by interested people. How could this young man in Chang'an City not have heard of it?
Every young man has a dream of becoming a great hero deep in his heart, and Xue Rengui's son is no exception.
As for Li Zhi's "turn out of the blue", he was not only respected as a monarch by the subjects of the Tang Dynasty, but also worshiped as a role model and idol by countless young people.
Therefore, even if the young man understood what Li Zhi said, he could not believe his ears.
It wasn't until Cheng Yaojin loudly reminded Li Zhi and saw Li Zhi's encouraging and affirmative eyes that the young man believed everything in front of him and stepped forward to give Li Zhi a real gift.
"Haha, it's getting late, so let's do this for today. Uncle Cheng, it's rare for me to come out and go to your house to ask for a bowl of wine, right?"
While everyone was stunned, Li Zhi stepped out of the bedroom filled with the smell of herbs. The snow in the night sky fell even harder.
...
"Impossible, can your heavenly eye really break through my law of charm?"
On the battlefield outside Nantian Gate, Yang Jian had already fought with Xiu La for a hundred and ten rounds.
In the beginning, Xiura relied on his "Quasi-Saint" cultivation and really didn't take Yang Jian to heart. There was even a hint of playing with the thoughts of the first god of war in the world in front of the demons and heavenly soldiers and generals. .
"Brother Yang" is too long, but "Brother Yang" is too short.
Pause, Xiula's movements did not relax at all. She even imagined that she could capture Yang Jian alive and humiliate him.
However, after the two fought against each other for dozens of rounds, Seura found that everything in front of her was not what she had imagined.
Later, Seurat even secretly increased the strength of his attack, but still could not achieve satisfactory results. And his invincible "Law of Charm" actually failed against the three eyes in front of him?
"Huh, witch, I said from the beginning that your magic law is useless to me."
A hundred rounds have passed, and Yang Jian seems to be getting more and more courageous as he fights. The "three-pointed two-edged sword" in his hand appears and disappears, and his moves never leave Seura's vitals. He wants to kill the witch woman alive with one strike.
In fact, Yang Jian seemed to be able to do it with ease, but in fact he had used almost all his energy. After all, he was facing a big boss in the realm of "quasi-sage".
The slightest carelessness may lead to the danger of catastrophe. Unfortunately, Yang Jian has no possibility of retreating.
Originally, he came here to rescue these "God-given guards", but now even the four Kui Mulang who came out with him were nowhere to be seen. Even if Yang Jian still had the strength to escape, how could he escape before the battle?
"Bah, my aunt really doesn't believe it. I can't deal with you, the three-eyed abomination?"
Seeing that his "Law of Charm" was ineffective, Xiura simply put it away. He relied solely on his "Quasi-Saint" cultivation and the endless demonic powers to launch attacks on Yang Jian frequently.
"Great Heavenly Lord, Erlang Zhenjun's combat power seems to have improved a lot. With the realm of the late Daluo Jinxian, the quasi-sage who can defeat the opponent and kill a corpse can actually fight for more than a hundred rounds without losing. In fact, It’s rare.”
In the flower hall of "Taoyang Palace", everyone was watching the fight outside the Nantian Gate in front of the "Haotian Mirror". Taibai Jinxian also explained something to everyone from time to time.
Especially the battle between Yang Jian and "quasi-sage" Shura was the most eye-catching. Even the Supreme Treasure, who was originally indifferent, couldn't help but secretly clenched his fists.
"Brother Yang, be careful..."
