"You are the follower around Li Ling back then, right?"
After hearing Chu Zhaoyuan's words, the old man slowly turned his head over and looked at Chu Zhaoyuan without any emotion in his pair of somewhat cloudy eyes.
This Zhu Huai is at least nine feet long, with gray hair and a snow-white beard on his chin that reaches to his chest, like the tip of a pen that has not yet been dipped in ink.
Although his face was thin and his skin was loose, his frame alone still gave him a breathtaking power.
"I didn't expect that General Zhu would still remember me."
Chu Zhaoyuan looked honored when he heard this.
In fact, except for meeting once in prison when they were young, Chu Zhaoyuan and the old man had never seen each other again.
This is the second meeting between the two.
"Of course I remember."
"You clamored to ask your father and Li Ling to let me go and ask me to be your general of Chu. Later, they often sent people to bring me food and wine for sixty years. He is an interesting little guy."
The old man was talking to himself while looking Chu Zhaoyuan up and down.
"I didn't expect that the young master back then would be older than the last time Li Ling saw me."
Zhu Huai was very emotional.
King Zhao grinned when he heard this.
At this moment, his smile does not look like that of a father or a monarch, but more like that of an energetic young man.
"Not too old either."
After seeing this smile, Zhu Huai nodded indifferently.
"boom!"
At this moment, the Blood Demon Ancestor, the first Zhenwu and Zhenye all launched their killing moves at Zhu Huai, who had his back turned to them.
The turbulent aura fluctuations in an instant seemed to tear the whole world apart.
However, King Zhao, Chu Die, and Master Chongyang, who were blocked by Zhu Huai, were not affected at all. They only felt that this area was like a peaceful harbor in the storm.
Zhu Huai never looked back from the beginning to the end.
Just when the blow was about to hit, his arms suddenly stretched back as if he were moving his muscles.
"boom!……"
What everyone didn't expect was that after a simple chest expansion action, Zhu Huai's originally dry skin suddenly expanded in an instant. On his back, which was as broad as a bear demon, a picture outlined by muscle lines suddenly appeared. , like a demonic face.
At the same time, a wave of breath caused by the power of pure energy and blood suddenly exploded.
"boom!"
At this time, the three-headed monsters struck Zhu Huai hard on the back with a joint attack.
But the result was that it only shattered Zhu Huai's prison uniform, completely revealing the grimace-like muscle lines on his back. Other than that, it didn't even damage his flesh.
On the contrary, the three-headed monsters flew backward several feet due to the huge force of the shock.
Seeing this scene, Monk Chongyang of Prajna Temple froze with his face as if turned to stone.
"What an amazing physique is this?"
After a while, he murmured.
As a warrior monk, he also pays attention to physical training. He knows very well how much effort it takes to build a physical body like that of Old General Zhu Huai, and what kind of inhuman hardship it takes.
After seeing this, Princess Chu Die, who was being supported by King Zhao, finally understood why her father wanted to gamble with her own life and the fate of the country on the person in front of her.
However, after Zhu Huai blocked the blow, his expression remained as calm as before, as if he had just swatted away a fly.
He still did not turn around to look at the Blood Demon Ancestor and the two leaders of the Fire Cloud Temple. Instead, while relaxing his muscles and bones, he curiously asked King Zhao:
"What makes you think that I will take action for you, the King of Chu?"
King Zhao shook his head when he heard this, then smiled and said:
"From the first time I met you, General Zhu, I knew that you, Mr. Zhu, would not be used by my great Chu."
Zhu Huai frowned slightly when he heard this, and then said coldly:
"Now that you know it, why do you dare to set up this trap?"
King Zhao looked at Zhu Huai calmly and said:
"Because I know that the war god Zhu Huai, who once voluntarily imprisoned himself in the Wangchuan Prison for thirty thousand defeated soldiers, will never abandon the people of this former land of Great Xia."
"And you also know very well that if I die today, there will be great chaos in Chu State, and thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of people will be displaced and die tragically in other places."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Huai asked with a cold face:
"So, you are threatening me with the lives of these people?"
Upon hearing this, King Zhao nodded without any excuse and said:
"yes."
King Zhao's magnanimity made the anger on Zhu Huai's face lessen.
"I can take action once, but I won't be the Martial God of Chu State, let alone fight for your Chu State royal family."
As Zhu Huai spoke, he turned around and faced the Blood Demon Ancestor and the two demon monks who were attacking him again.
And just when he was about to take action, he heard King Zhao behind him suddenly say:
"Mr. Zhu, look down."
Hearing this, Zhu Huai raised his eyes and looked below the star-catching platform.
Under the dim sky, one could vaguely see the lights of various houses in the capital, as well as the rising smoke.
After hundreds of years, Zhu Huai saw the lights of thousands of families again.
His cloudy and dull eyes suddenly became alive again at this moment.
In my mind, I once again recalled the promise I made to my father when I took over the Nanmingli Musket: "Father, I swear to God, the Nanmingli Musket in my hand is not for the powerful, the princes, or the princes. Fight for the royal power and only for the people of Daxia!"
At this time, King Zhao’s voice sounded again:
"Mr. Zhu, I'm not asking you to come out to force you to be the God of War of Chu, let alone to make you loyal to the royal family of Chu Kingdom. I want to ask you to be the God of War of all the people in this land, and for these ten thousand people. Fight for the lights of the house, fight to end the war in Youyun Tian for thousands of years, fight to expel the monsters from the Nine Abyss!"
Hearing this, Zhu Huai's almost numb heartstrings were finally touched.
He raised his arms, opened his palms, and said without looking back:
"Give me the Lihuo Order!"
King Zhao was overjoyed and immediately handed the prepared token from his sleeve to Zhu Huai's hand.
This Lihuo Order is not only a token to control the Lihuo Formation, but also a token to unlock the seal of the Lihuo Gun.
Zhu Huai's willingness to accept this gift is tantamount to acceptance. How could King Zhao not be happy?
At this moment, Jingkong, the abbot of Huoyun Temple who was fighting with Taoist Huang Lao outside the imperial city not far away, suddenly shouted: "Zhenwu, Zhenye, go on!"
"Whoosh!"
Almost at the same time as the clear voice sounded, two black lights flashing with blood flew down from the clouds and hit Zhen Wu and Zhen Ye straightly.
After feeling the power contained in the two black lights, Zhenwu and Zhenye both showed expressions of ecstasy.
Then, I heard the abbot Jingkong say again:
"Ancestor Blood Demon, this Zhu Huai has been trapped in the Wangchuan Prison for hundreds of years. His energy and blood have dried up, and his muscles and bones have become old. You and I, two disciples, can definitely kill him with one strike!"
"After the event is completed, Huoyun Temple can share your Chu Kingdom's luck for a hundred years!"
Hearing this, the blood demon ancestor perked up. It had already been somewhat defeated, and once again used all the mana in its body to prepare for a fatal blow to Zhu Huai.
After Zhu Huai heard this, he laughed wildly and said:
"Jingkong Bald Donkey, are you saying that my energy and blood have dried up and my muscles and bones have become old? Even if I am old and only breathe my last breath, you and other demons will never think of causing trouble in my hometown of Daxia!"
After saying this, he suddenly smashed the Lihuo Token in his hand with one hand, raised it high with the other hand, and shouted angrily:
"Here comes the gun!!!"
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I can only write three chapters today. I had something to do tonight, so I owe you one chapter and five chapters tomorrow.
