The night wind passed through quietly, carrying the smell of blood, causing the lights of the torches outside the house to sway slightly.
In the courtyard, the slightly thin young man stood in front of the house. Under the light of the moonlight, it could be seen that there was blood everywhere on his body, and there was a lot of blood on his face.
From this angle, only Baili Fengzhi and Vice General Chu could see what was going on in the courtyard.
With this light, ordinary people may not be able to see anything clearly, but the two of them could see clearly. Naturally, they recognized the young man at a glance. It was Xia Lie who had disappeared for three months!
Xia Lie walked to the courtyard gate with a slightly shaky figure, raised one hand, waved feebly towards Baili Fengzhi, and said: "Commander Baili, come to the courtyard gate."
"Sir?" Vice General Chu couldn't help but look at Baili Fengzhi.
No matter how you look at this matter, there is something strange about it, and it is not yet confirmed that this person must be Xia Lie.
At least as a martial artist, he couldn't tell whether it was true or false just by looking at his heartbeat, Qi pulse, etc.
"The breath of life is indeed Xia Lie."
Baili Fengzhi said softly and walked towards the courtyard entrance without hesitation.
Each person's breath of life is unique.
Although the aura will become stronger and stronger as the level of cultivation increases, its essence remains unchanged. This is the most unique existence of each person.
Of course, she also knew that it was possible to fake the vitality.
But those are either some strange magical powers or some extremely precious treasures.
So, she needed to take another look to be sure.
"Yes, I'll be there right away."
The dark red cloak fluttered in the night wind, and the silver armor plates collided with each other softly. Baili Fengzhi was seen walking with slender legs, but her steps were extremely elegant, and she walked to the courtyard gate in just a few steps.
The two of them were only a few feet apart, just separated by the threshold of a courtyard gate.
Baili Fengzhi looked at Xia Lie for a moment, then knelt down on one knee and said respectfully: "Please forgive me, Your Highness. Your Majesty asked me to take care of you, but the general failed to fulfill his duty, so I only found you today." Whereabouts, please punish me!"
"Um?"
Xia Lie frowned and looked at Baili Fengzhi, and couldn't help but said: "Baili Fengzhi, what nonsense are you talking about? Have you lost your mind and gone crazy? What prince and prince?"
Then, as if he had just come to his senses, his face turned cold: "Are you testing me? You don't believe me?"
Baili Fengzhi was slightly relieved when he heard this.
Apart from her, Xia Lie was the only one in the world who knew that he was the prince.
And the other people present at this time, even if they saw the strange scene of the bloodline awakening just now, they couldn't be sure in a short time whether they were the prince or the prince's heirs, or even lower.
The first generation of Xia Hong's bloodline is naturally His Majesty the God Emperor.
His son, the prince, is the second generation, and when he awakens, it can cause strange phenomena in the world throughout Dayong.
As for the prince's heirs, as the third generation, the abnormal phenomena caused by the awakening of the bloodline are also extremely huge, and can also cause the abnormal phenomena of heaven and earth in a state.
Even the strange phenomena of heaven and earth caused by the awakening of the fourth generation are enough to affect a whole county. Although the power is smaller, it is probably difficult for ordinary people who have never seen it to distinguish it.
That's why she was so testing.
If the other party was pretending to be Xia Lie and didn't know the secret that Xia Lie was the prince, and he knelt down so respectfully when he saw her coming up, he might have believed it.
Moreover, this look and tone...are indeed the same as Xialie's.
"Feel sorry."
Baili Fengzhi immediately lowered his head slightly and said: "The general is just worried that the thief will impersonate you, so he is testing like this. Please don't blame me."
Xia Lie looked at her with a gloomy face and said, "Impersonate me? Commander Baili, are you still planning to test me?"
After saying that, he suddenly took long strides angrily, walked quickly to Baili Fengzhi, and grabbed her by the collar of her shirt.
I just heard him sneer and say: "Come on, don't you want to check the authenticity? I will let you check it at will now. How about you strip me naked and hang me up so that you can check it bit by bit? Huh?"
Seeing this, the many personal guards around could not help but change their expressions slightly.
The general they were loyal to was actually being grabbed by the collar and yelled at loudly. Although the other party was the noble Xia Hong royal family, it was still hard for them to accept as they shared weal and woe.
But Baili Fengzhi was not angry, he just lowered his head and said solemnly: "The general will realize his mistake, and please forgive me."
"Excuse me?"
Xia Lie suddenly slapped Baili Fengzhi on the face, and a "pop" sound echoed in the quiet night.
The eyes of the surrounding Guards officers suddenly changed.
But Baili Fengzhi's eyes under the silver mask did not change at all. He just looked up at Xia Lie and said softly: "Master, please be careful with your hands."
Xia Lie immediately let go of her collar, but the hand that slapped her began to tremble, and his face was distorted in pain.
Baili Fengzhi was wearing a mask, so this slap naturally hit her hard mask.
"good very good."
Xia Lie pointed at her face, his chest heaving with anger: "Do you know how I spent this time? It took you so long to find me? You still dare to treat me like this now?"
The soldiers around him were as silent as a cicada. Even if they were unhappy, they dared not speak out.
Baili Fengzhi said slowly: "The general will finally realize his crime, please punish him."
Xia Lie stared at her with a gloomy face and snorted coldly: "I know that if I ask you to take off your mask and slap you, you will definitely not agree."
Baili Fengzhi glanced at Xia Lie and said, "Thank you for your understanding."
Xia Lie once asked her to take off her mask and wanted to see her true face, but she naturally refused. Only she and Xia Lie knew about it.
And Xia Lie's behavior at this time was indeed the same as before. He would explode at the slightest stimulation, and he was even more sensitive and irritable than before. Perhaps it was because of his experiences in the past few months?
Moreover, she could also sense it from the Qi pulse. At this time, Xialie's palm was indeed a little blocked because of the slap, and it was obviously a mortal body.
Even the prince of the Xia Hong family, before breaking through the Heavenly Barrier, would still have a mortal body even if he awakened.
It's just that he will awaken his innate supernatural powers and his body will become much better.
This made her believe it again.
However, Baili Fengzhi still has a lot of doubts.
However, after all, the other party is the son of the God Emperor, the most noble bloodline in the world. She would never dare to question him openly, or check the prisoner so casually.
"Okay, I'll give you a chance to atone for your sins."
Xia Lie looked at Baili Fengzhi coldly and suddenly said: "You first set up a soundproof barrier or something like that. Don't tell me you don't know how. Even that untouchable in the room can do it. If you do it, If you don’t get it, don’t talk about making atonement for your sins.”
When Baili Fengzhi heard the words, he understood something in his heart, and immediately said: "The last general is a martial artist. Although he doesn't know magic, he does have a sound insulation note on his body."
She immediately took out a talisman paper with silver seal characters and gently tore it into pieces.
Immediately, an invisible soundproof barrier formed, covering her and Xia Lie inside.
"What do you want to say?" Baili Fengzhi asked.
Although she still doubted whether Xia Lie was true or not, she also knew that Xia Lie had a sensitive and excitable temperament, so she planned to obey while looking for opportunities to test him.
If she wasn't really suspicious, she would never dare to test him.
If she accidentally angered Xia Lie, her lifelong wish might be ruined.
"I've been thinking a lot these days."
Xia Lie looked at Baili Fengzhi and said with a low expression: "Next, if you cooperate with me in a play, I will consider it as your atonement."
acting?
There was a trace of doubt in Baili Fengzhi's eyes, but she still asked: "What do you mean..."
"I will tell you the detailed plan later."
Xia Lie's eyes were a little gloomy, "I can only tell you now that I need a layer of identity protection. I can't just go to Dihong City as Prince Xia Lie. My Highness doesn't want to die."
"What?" Baili Fengzhi was slightly startled and said, "Your Highness, as a prince, how could you have such a noble body..."
"Noble? Noble ass!"
Xia Lie suddenly cursed with some excitement, and then said in a low voice: "Anyway, I don't want to fall into this desperate situation anymore, otherwise what a bullshit prince, won't he still have to die?"
He said coldly: "I want you to help me forge a new identity so that others will think that I am not the prince. The real prince is someone else."
"Let others think you are not a prince?" Baili Fengzhi frowned slightly.
"Before it's truly safe, I don't want to stand on the cusp of being such a bullshit prince."
Xia Lie said in a low voice: "There are very few people who know my identity as the prince anyway. As long as someone comes to replace me, once everyone thinks that person is the prince, it will naturally be safer for me to hide."
"I understand what you mean."
Baili Fengzhi frowned and looked at Xia Lie, and then said: "But now there are many people in Qingdu, and I am afraid they will suspect that you are a member of the Xia Hong clan who has awakened this time. It will be difficult to reverse it, right?"
"The general is stupid! Don't you know how to use your brain at all?" Xialie snorted coldly.
"What Your Highness said is that I am stupid. I would like to ask Your Highness to tell me. I am willing to hear the details."
Baili Fengzhi handed over her hands with a dull look, but she wasn't angry at all. She knew that Xia Lie had this kind of temperament.
Moreover, she suffered far more humiliation in the years after she was born than at this time.
This prince is her only hope, so she naturally won't care.
"Then I'll have a nice talk with you."
Xia Lie said coldly: "For this period of time, because of your incompetence, His Highness has been imprisoned by that pariah Lin Yue. In that dark underground secret room, although I don't know how long it has been, I have thought about it a lot, except I was also thinking about Lin Yuexu and Wei Snake...
"If I survive, what should I do if something like this happens again in the future?
"Especially with such a flamboyant identity as the prince, with so many people watching, does it mean that no one really dares to offend him?
"People's hearts are unpredictable. Even untouchables like Lin Yue have tricks that cannot be underestimated. How many more terrifying crises will they encounter when facing a wider world in the future?
"And the best way is to avoid it happening again!"
He gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "So my Highness thought that if I pass on the identity of the prince to others, I will naturally be safe."
"So His Highness is imprisoned in a secret room underground?" Baili Fengzhi took the opportunity to test it out: "But I sent someone to check Lin Yue's house, but no secret room was found."
"That means the people you sent are a bunch of losers!"
Xia Lie glanced at her expressionlessly before saying: "Then Lin Yue used a dungeon talisman and a treasure like a lotus lantern to set up a barrier underground. The people you sent didn't notice it. Didn't you Won’t you come here in person?”
Baili Fengzhi cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, the general has also come to check, but found nothing. Please forgive me. The barrier is indeed of a very high level, and the general has never noticed it at this level."
She actually believed it in her heart.
Because she had clearly felt the barrier in the house at this time. With her state, she could not detect even the slightest movement.
If you really use dungeon talismans to create an underground secret room and then set up this kind of barrier, it will really be difficult to detect.
"waste."
Xia Lie snorted coldly and added: "However, this time I can get a lot of benefits from Lin Yue, a pariah. It can be regarded as a blessing in disguise for my highness."
benefit? Baili Fengzhi glanced at him, but didn't go into details. He just said: "His Highness plans to find someone to pretend to be a prince and take this risk. The general can understand it, but I'm afraid this will be difficult to achieve. There are indeed many people in Qingdu. I suspect that you are the person from the Xia Hong clan who has awakened this time..."
"It's very simple, just take advantage of this and use it to your advantage."
Xia Lie said coldly: "I was quite famous in Qingdu three months ago, but that day I accidentally got poisoned by a strange medicine that Lin Yue, a pariah, got from nowhere. The guard you sent was He killed me, and I almost died. Fortunately, he wanted to torture me, so I had a chance to make peace with him..."
Baili Fengzhi immediately took the opportunity to test: "Strange medicine? Your Highness, what kind of strange medicine is it?"
"You ask me? How do I know?"
Xialie snorted, "The medicine is colorless and odorless, just like water. Every time I take a sip, I will fall asleep for an unknown period of time. The untouchable also fed me a strange medicine that made me weak. I couldn't resist, so I could only lie to him and stall for time. It was only now that my bloodline was awakened that I finally found a chance to counter him."
"Could it be the Soul-Trapped Water?" Baili Fengzhi had a guess in his mind, "The other one might be medicine like Ruanjin Powder, Bone Transformation Powder..."
After comparing the details, it was indeed clear and reasonable, and she believed it again.
"Don't interrupt."
Xia Lie frowned and said coldly: "I am telling you this to let you use this matter to pretend that my disappearance for the past three months is a trap set by you."
"A trap set by me?" Baili Fengzhi suddenly understood what he meant.
Xia Lie glanced at her and said quietly:
"What I mean is that after a while, you will find an opportunity to declare to the outside world——
"This time, I, Xia Lie, disappeared quietly for three months. It was not really a disappearance, but you deliberately made it look like I was missing.
"Including this time you mobilized troops to come to Qingdu to look for me and made such a big fuss. All these actions are just a trap you set up to lead others to regard me as the prince, so as to hide and protect the real prince."
Xia Lie said in a low voice: "In this way, as long as a suitable person is introduced, I can transfer the identity of the prince, and the world will think that he is the real prince, and I will naturally be safe."
Baili Fengzhi nodded thoughtfully and said, "This is indeed feasible."
Although she still had doubts in her heart, she thought about it carefully and found that this method was indeed feasible.
Although she, the commander, came to Qingdu with great fanfare this time, because she knew that Xia Lie was not dead yet and that his bloodline would be awakened when he came of age, she was not worried and acted less hastily.
This has confused many people.
Exactly three months ago, Xia Lie's disappearance was extremely strange, and he was imprisoned by Lin Yue, an ordinary man. This matter was bizarre and unbelievable.
If in the future it is announced to the outside world: "Actually, Xia Lie is not the real prince, he just set up a trap to make you mistakenly think that he is. This is to protect the real prince."
In this way, it sounds more believable.
It's actually a plan within a plan.
"Your Highness is worthy of being a prince, and he is indeed smart."
After Baili Fengzhi figured it out, he couldn't help but praise softly.
She knew that although Xialie had a twisted temper, he was indeed a smart person.
At the beginning, Xia Lie was clearly not well-received in the Xia Mansion. He had never attended a private school, and no one taught him martial arts. However, he only relied on secretly learning martial arts on his own and eavesdropping on private lessons when the young master of the Xia Mansion was studying. He had good martial arts skills. , and also knows how to read and hyphenate characters, which shows his intelligence.
"Then, Your Highness, who do you plan to replace you as the prince?" Baili Fengzhi asked.
"Don't even think about it?"
Xia Lie glanced at her and said expressionlessly: "The best choice is of course Lin Yue. He happens to be an orphan and a weakling, making it easier to forge."
"Oh? I am stupid, please elaborate, Your Highness." Baili Fengzhi seemed to really understand.
Xia Lie said coldly: "Just now, after I awakened my bloodline in the house, I used my magical power to restore my strength and killed Lin Yue on the spot. Everyone present also saw it."
He said in a low voice: "As long as Lin Yue appears again and it is impossible for the dead to be resurrected, the world will naturally believe...Lin Yue is the key to this situation. In order to hide him, he will be allowed to fake death. By then, naturally I will also believe that he is the prince who has awakened this time."
Baili Fengzhi couldn't help but wonder: "Your Highness killed Lin Yue, how could he show up again?"
After she finished speaking, she saw the corners of Xialie's mouth slowly rising.
"Of course I'm here to pretend to be Lin Yue. Only with the Xia Hong family bloodline as proof can I confirm Lin Yue's identity as the prince."
Xia Lie raised his chin slightly, "The innate magical power that came with the awakening of my bloodline just now. As long as I swallow his blood and soul, I can perfectly disguise myself as someone else. I can naturally do this."
Having said this, he continued: "By the way, don't you doubt whether His Highness is true or false? Later, when I transform into Lin Yue, I will bring him out for you to see."
"Innate magical power?" Baili Fengzhi suddenly realized.
Even though Xia Lie said so, she still had some doubts in her heart.
"Your Highness."
Baili Fengzhi said meaningfully: "It won't be long before there will be a 'patrol angel' sent by the royal family to pick you up and take you to Dihong City. At that time, the patrol angel will also test the authenticity of your bloodline. In the end, You will be able to claim that Xia Lie is just a fake prince in disguise, and it will be easier for people to believe it after you become Lin Yue and let the patrol angel confirm your bloodline."
Her words, in addition to offering advice, were also testing Xia Lie.
If it is a false identity, it will definitely be exposed once the patrol angels come. How can we not panic at this time?
"I see."
Xia Lie nodded lightly, but glanced at her and asked, "Are you testing me again?"
Baili Fengzhi said without changing his expression: "The general is just offering his advice."
Naturally, she dared not admit that she was still questioning Xia Lie.
"hehe……"
Xia Lie sneered, but suddenly said in a cold voice: "The most important thing now is that if I want to transform my innate magical power into someone else, I need some blood essence. If you hand over half of the blood essence to me immediately, your highness will treat you as yours." The merits have atoned for the sins.”
"What?" Baili Fengzhi's expression changed.
