"how?"
Xia Lie looked at Baili Fengzhi with a hint of mockery in his eyes, "Don't you understand? Don't you want to atone for your sins? Your Highness will give you a chance. As long as you hand over half of your essence and blood, I will forget the blame. You are lenient enough. Benevolence?"
Baili Fengzhi took a deep breath and said slowly: "Your Highness, didn't you just say that as long as the general cooperates with you to forge a new identity, the general will be considered as atonement for his sins?"
True.
There are some innate supernatural powers in this world that indeed require various conditions to be activated, but it doesn't mean that she, a strong martial artist who broke through the Four Symbols Heavenly Barrier, would need half of her essence and blood, right?
She could finally see that there was some resentment in Xia Lie's behavior of asking for half of her essence and blood.
After all, he had been imprisoned for three months and would still be questioned after he was released. With Xia Li's sensitive and inferior heart, it was normal to have such resentment.
"Yeah?"
Xia Lie sneered, "My Highness just now said that you failed to find my fault for three full months, and now you are testing me many times to question His Highness's crime... What? Commander Baili, do you have any questions?" "
Then, he said expressionlessly: "Of course, Commander Baili can also refuse. My Highness will not force me. You happen to be questioning me, so just pretend it's fake."
Baili Fengzhi took a deep breath again, knelt down on one knee, slowly lowered his head, and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, I have no intention of questioning. I am just worried about your safety. Please be clear."
In fact, she had already believed most of it at this time.
But even if she really confirmed that Xia Lie was the real Xia Lie, she would not be willing to donate half of her blood essence.
For cultivation, the essence of heaven and earth is refined into one's own body, the spiritual veins move with the Qi pulse, and the essence and essence are dissolved in the blood. Especially for martial arts cultivators, the essence and blood are even more important!
She also knew that Xia Lie was irritating her.
But this attitude seems to really not care whether she stays loyal?
She thought she was well disguised, and outsiders could not see her determination to follow Xia Lie. After all, this was related to her biggest secret. In order to prevent Xia Lie from being manipulated at will, she naturally did not reveal even half of it.
From this point of view, Xia Lie's attitude may mean that he really doesn't care about her staying?
Yes, after all, he is the noble prince of the Xia Hong clan...
"Worried about my safety?"
Lin Yue laughed mockingly and asked: "What kind of safety is it? I am right in front of you and you can't see it? Does it make sense to say such unrealistic words? Questioning is just questioning, and you still make so many excuses?"
He glanced at Baili Fengzhi, who was kneeling on one knee, and suddenly snorted coldly: "Take your insulation note and come with me."
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the door of the house.
Baili Fengzhi frowned slightly, but still took the remaining half of the insulation note, stood up and followed.
At this time, one of the two door panels had fallen to the ground, and the other door seemed loose and might fall down at any time.
I saw Xia Lie quickly coming to the door of the house, and immediately grabbed the door panel that was still hanging on the door frame, and pulled the door panel off with a strong force with both arms.
"Snapped."
He threw the door panel aside and made way for the space.
Revealing that there was only an empty door left.
Then, he made an invitation gesture to Baili Fengzhi and said expressionlessly: "Come on, Commander Baili, please come in. The real Xia Lie is in the room. Don't you just suspect that I am pretending to be the prince?" Really? Come in quickly and find your true prince."
Baili Fengzhi slowly clenched her silver teeth.
She could tell.
His Highness Xia Honglie, who is sensitive and has low self-esteem, is probably really angry.
Although she still had doubts in her heart, her legs felt as heavy as lead and she couldn't even take a step forward.
"Your Highness..."
Baili Fengzhi looked at the house in front of him. Through the wide open door, he could even see nearly half of the space inside the house.
Although it was dark, she could still see a lot of blood on the ground, just because the room was almost completely enveloped by the barrier, and she could not feel the movement and breath inside at all.
Baili Fengzhi took a deep breath and slowly raised her feet in the direction of the house.
Xia Lie seemed not to notice this, his dark and deep eyes almost completely merged with the night, and there was no trace of wavering or strange color.
"Your Highness."
After Baili Fengzhi raised her feet slightly, she immediately knelt down on one knee.
She slowly lowered her head and said in a deep voice: "I will admit my guilt and ask for your forgiveness, but I can swear that I will never harm you."
Xia Lie secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said calmly: "I don't like verbal apologies."
Baili Fengzhi naturally understood what he meant.
She gritted her teeth and took out a leather pouch from her waist. After quickly pouring out the wine, she took out a dagger and slashed the palm of her right hand. At the same time, there was a faint stream of light under her skin, wisps of it. The flowing light was like glowing blood, flowing slowly in her body. While gathering from all parts of her body, it also gradually flowed towards the wound on her right hand.
Soon, drops of bright red blood began to flow continuously from the wound on her palm and dripped into the skin bag in her hand.
Charlie looked carefully.
This blood seems to be no different from ordinary blood, but every drop of blood is surrounded by a seemingly invisible blazing white light, and the blood is even more golden.
But he felt that the blood seemed a bit familiar, and after a moment of recollection, he remembered where he had seen this kind of blood.
Xia Lie couldn't help but look at Baili Fengzhi who was kneeling in front of him, thinking deeply in his heart.
After a while.
"Your Highness."
Baili Fengzhi finally stopped.
At this time, the red phoenix eyes under her mask had become much duller. They were no longer as bright as before, and her face was extremely pale. When she stopped, her delicate body even swayed, and she seemed to almost fall to the ground. .
The whole person looked like an ordinary person who had lost too much blood and stayed up for three days and three nights. He looked extremely weak and exhausted.
Baili Fengzhi could only take a deep breath and cheer up.
Immediately, she handed the shimmering water bag to Xia Lie and said tiredly: "This is half of the general's blood essence. Please forgive me, Your Highness."
"Really half?" Xia Lie didn't answer, just asked expressionlessly.
In fact, he specifically checked the classics on blood essence yesterday, and naturally knew that she did pay half of the blood essence.
Essence and blood, that is, the light flowing like blood in her body just now, is used to refine the essence of heaven and earth, remove the waste and save the essence, and then dissolve it in the blood, so that a small amount of essence and blood can be condensed. There is already a lot in this water bag, which is definitely more than half.
But he still had to ask, to avoid appearing casually trusting.
"Your Highness."
Baili Fengzhi took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "The general can swear on his life."
"In this case, my highness will believe you once."
Xia Lie accepted it, then showed a smile and said with concern: "Commander Baili, go and rest nearby. You are my favorite general. Don't be tired. I will come out after my highness succeeds. In the meantime , please ask Commander Baili to protect the law for me, remember not to let anyone disturb His Highness."
Baili Fengzhi knew that Xia Lie had such a sensitive and changeable temper, so she didn't say anything. She just cupped her hands, stood up and walked to the courtyard gate.
However, she did not sit down to rest. Even though her face was pale, she still stood upright at the entrance of the courtyard.
Xia Lie smiled slightly, then turned and walked into the dark and deep room.
Baili Fengzhi looked at the door of the house silently, with complicated thoughts in her heart.
In fact, she still didn't completely believe in His Highness Xialie, and still had some doubts, but this matter was related to her future, and she no longer dared to gamble.
but……
She then thought about it, if Xia Lie was really killed, as a prince's death, it would resonate with the whole world in Dayong, and there was no way to escape it.
Moreover, the Dayong royal family will soon send patrol angels here. If they dare to pretend to be a prince, wouldn't they be asking for death?
…
In the dark room, in the shadows of the night where the stars cannot reach.
Xia Lie walked slowly to the bed and lifted off the bloody quilt on the bed. Through the candlelight of the blood lotus lamp, he could see a young man lying on the bed.
Young and thin, with a slightly ordinary face and a scar on his forehead, he looked exactly like him.
Surprisingly, it’s also Xia Lie!
And this Xialie's hands and feet were tied to the bed at this time, with a ball of black ma powder in his mouth, unable to speak, and there was still a lot of bone powder left on his lips.
"hehe……"
Standing in front of the bed, Xia Lie looked at Xia Lie on the bed and suddenly let out a mocking laugh.
"Your Highness Xia Honglie, it was really scary just now. She was only a few steps away from you. If she dared to come in, I would have no choice but to survive."
He sat down with a low smile, cut his fingertips with a knife, and smeared it on his eyebrows.
After a long while, a translucent human face was slowly peeled off by him, revealing a young and handsome familiar face.
——He is naturally Lin Yue.
Xia Lie stared at Lin Yue angrily and desperately, trying to struggle, but could not move at all.
"Stop moving, doesn't it hurt?"
Lin Yue looked at Xia Lie and said calmly: "Your innate magical power is really good. I fed you so much bone powder, but it didn't have much effect. Fortunately, I removed a lot of your bones in advance and stuffed them in again." Get rid of a lot of wooden sticks, otherwise you might really get killed."
No matter how fast the recovery speed is, it must be able to recover.
Even if Xia Lie relies on his innate supernatural powers, his recovery speed from injuries is hundreds of times faster than that of ordinary people, and it is difficult for his bones to recover quickly.
As long as its bones are removed and other things are inserted, it will naturally prevent its recovery.
"How was it? Was my acting good just now?"
Lin Yue casually pressed the creature onto Xia Honglie's blood-stained face. With a thought, Xia Honglie's eyes were full of fear, and he whimpered in horror, but soon became confused.
As Xia Honglie's body changed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, he completely transformed into Lin Yue's appearance in a short time.
Lin Yue, who initially struggled to crawl out of the house, was transformed into Xia Honglie by using the appearance of all living beings.
As for "Charlie! You went back on your word!" and other decent screams, he also 'dubbed' them himself after just sticking his head out of the barrier.
After dragging the blood-covered 'Lin Yue' back into the barrier inside the house, he removed the living being form from his body and quickly transformed himself into Xia Lie, and that's what happened next.
Although Baili Fengzhi was indeed cautious, always had suspicions, and kept testing him, it was considered a near miss and the plan was finally achieved.
"Your Highness, are you happy to make you as handsome as me again?"
Lin Yue looked at his other self lying on the bed and suddenly sneered, then ignored it and picked up the All Souls Blood Refining Jade placed on the table.
Immediately, he placed the All Souls Blood Refining Jade in the clean ocean bowl prepared nearby, and then slowly poured the essence and blood of Baili Fengzhi in the water bag into the ocean bowl, pouring it on the nearly flawless jade pendant. superior.
His eyes were full of expectation.
The half of Baili Fengzhi's essence and blood that had just been brought was naturally for the blood sacrifice of this All Souls Blood Refining Jade.
Baili Fengzhi is a real strong man who can break the Four Symbols Heavenly Gate. If she can't do it, then she can only find a way to get the essence and blood of those ten thousand captains in the Northwest Xiongguan.
Fortunately, the moment Baili Fengzhi's essence and blood came into contact with the All Souls Blood Refining Jade, Lin Yue discovered that this originally pure, white and spotless jade pendant began to swallow Baili Fengzhi's blood at an alarming speed. Essence and blood.
This jade pendant absorbs as much essence and blood as he pours into it.
As more and more essence and blood were poured into it, the jade pendant began to appear with bright red blood-like spots from its original white and flawless appearance.
There are more and more blood-red spots, covering the jade pendant.
When the jade pendant completely turned into pure and bright blood red, more than 95% of Baili Fengzhi's essence and blood in the water bag had been consumed, leaving only a little bit.
The blood sacrifice is completed.
"Very good, Baili Fengzhi still keeps his promise."
The corners of Lin Yue's mouth raised slightly, he immediately put the water bag aside and picked up the completely different jade pendant.
Bright red, extremely charming.
It was like a piece of blood jade completely soaked in blood.
The shape of the ocean carved on the jade pendant seemed to come alive at this time. The wave pattern was like an illusion in his eyes, and it slowly rippled, as if it would turn into a real sea of blood at any time, setting off heavy scarlet waves. .
With such evil and demonic nature, one can tell at a glance that it is a demonic treasure used to refine blood and steal souls.
Lin Yue rubbed the scarlet jade pendant with his fingertips, and his eyes had a different color than before.
At this moment, he felt a little strange.
The world of cultivation that I originally longed for in my heart was a world of pleasure, grudges, and immortality.
But the fact is so contrary...
"In this world, there is really only one way to fight evil with evil."
Lin Yue turned to look at Xia Honglie on the bed and said softly: "Your Highness Xia Honglie, when we were in the cave before, you said... There are many more noble people than me in this world. In the eyes of some people, I They are just livestock that can be slaughtered at will, right?”
He tapped the bright red jade pendant in his hand with his fingertips, and as he thought, the vortex in the center of the sea of blood on the jade pendant actually began to rotate slowly.
As the vortex on the jade pendant rotated faster and faster, it seemed that an invisible vortex really appeared in the room at this moment, and the bottom end of the vortex was the jade pendant on his fingertips.
"My answer is...then let me be the most distinguished person."
Lin Yue slowly narrowed his eyes and tried to put the activated blood-refining jade of all spirits against Xia Honglie's chest.
The next moment, Xia Honglie's eyes suddenly became horrified, but he could not struggle at all. He could only feel an invisible suction force, which was continuously pulling something away from his body.
It's not just blood, there's something vital deeper...
"It seems like it won't be over for a while."
Lin Yue allowed the jade pendant to absorb Xia Honglie's blood and said casually: "Fortunately, even if Baili Fengzhi doesn't completely believe me at this time, she doesn't dare to step into this house. Do you believe it?"
He didn't care whether Xia Honglie answered or not. Anyway, there was a barrier of blood lotus lanterns, and even Baili Fengzhi couldn't spy on what was going on inside the barrier.
"Actually, I wanted to use you to threaten Baili Fengzhi, but she, a strong martial artist who broke the Four Symbols Heavenly Barrier, is too scary. As an ordinary person, I, even if I put a knife on your neck, it would take enough time to kill you. She killed me ten times.”
Lin Yue talked to himself.
Xia Honglie only felt that he was getting weaker and weaker, and more and more blood was being drained from his body, making him feel a little dazed before his eyes.
But he understood that Lin Yue hated him to the core, just to avoid exposing his flaws, and never took revenge on him. Telling him these things now was just to make him more desperate and torture his spirit.
"As for me, I never wanted to be a master. I just wanted to live a normal life."
Lin Yue seemed to be saying to Xia Lie, and also to himself: "Su Ziqiu thinks so too, but the world seems to be unwilling to let us go. Even old drunkards will eventually be unable to change... "
Xia Lie listened in confusion, his eyes gradually falling into a trance.
“But you don’t have to worry about it from now on.
Lin Yue looked at Xia Honglie and said softly: "Let me take over your identity as the prince... But it's not the prince Xia Honglie, but me. I don't want to live with your disgusting and hateful face. For a lifetime, understand?”
He still had a real reason in mind, but he was too lazy to tell Xia Honglie.
——The most important thing is that he has no absolute confidence in the hidden ability of all living beings.
There must be practitioners in the world who can see through the appearances of all living beings, otherwise it would not be a five-ring-level secret.
If he disguises himself as the prince Xia Honglie and is found by the royal family, the powerful practitioners of the royal family may discover that he is not Xia Honglie, but Lin Yue.
He is not Xia Honglie, but he has the blood of the royal family. It goes without saying how he will end up.
But as long as Baili Fengzhi set up the trap as a reason, the world will think that Xia Lie is just a fake prince, just to protect Lin Yue from disaster. The meaning of existence is just to protect Lin Yue and hide the real Lin Yue. Prince.
And the mortal's past can be said to be forged to cover up. He happened to be an orphan and didn't even know who his father was.
Then, in the eyes of the world, he, Lin Yue, would be a real prince.
There is no need to use sentient beings to hide.
This is what Lin Yue thought about for a long time. It is the only way to solve the dilemma in the long term.
Even though there are still some flaws, it's still generally fine.
Time passed by minute by minute.
Xia Honglie, who was lying on the bed and had transformed into Lin Yue, was becoming thinner and thinner, and his skin had lost its luster and became a little shriveled.
Xia Honglie was seen in a daze, looking at Lin Yue somewhat confusedly, his eyes getting darker and darker.
And in his mind, it was like a revolving lantern, gradually recalling various past experiences.
Face after face, disillusionment kept rising in my mind.
In the end, what he remembered was not the mother who had abandoned him and left Dayong early, nor was it the false so-called family members of Xia Mansion...
But the little maid who once secretly brought him food.
The half of the cold sesame pancake given to him was the most delicious thing he had ever eaten in his life.
For a moment, sweet, sour, bitter... all kinds of tastes came to my heart.
"I just want a little ordinary happiness... What's so good about being a prince? As long as she stays with me, I would rather be a commoner for the rest of my life..."
Xia Lie thought silently, the corners of his eyes were completely wet, and finally he slowly closed his increasingly heavy eyelids.
The next moment, the last source of blood in his body was completely drawn out by the All Souls Blood Refining Jade.
——Together with his soul.
he died.
The prince of the Xia Hong family, Xia Honglie, disappeared from the world quietly.
Like a little star before dawn, it has disappeared without a trace before it shines in the world.
And the murderers are just ordinary people.
…
At this moment, the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Refining Jade in Lin Yue's hand snapped and completely turned into nothingness, leaving only a drop of blood as crystal clear as a tear.
In an instant, this drop of blood sank directly into his eyebrows.
Warmth, like the power of a newborn baby, enveloped him, flowing out endlessly, fading away from his old life.
It's like a new life.
