Zuo Bei glanced at the pothole at his feet. The opponent could not only block the arrows he shot with his ivory bow with his bare hands, but he could also inflict such power in turn. He was a master.
"Master, are you okay?"
The soldiers behind him caught up and asked nervously.
Just looking at the blow just now, they could feel the powerful momentum.
Zuo Bei said in a deep voice: "They are heading towards the cage, let's chase them quickly."
Zhao Guangxiu was riding a horse and shouted in panic: "What should we do? Someone come quickly!"
There was a cliff in front of him, but he didn't know how to stop the horse at all. In panic, he shouted to the horse: "Stop, this is the king's order, stop quickly!"
Just now he was disgusted with the horse, but now he asked the horse to stop. The sitting horse ignored him completely and continued to rush forward.
Fortunately, Bai Xiuping arrived in time and shouted: "Cheer up, don't be afraid."
Hearing his voice, Zhao Guangxiu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Are you back? What did you do just now?"
Bai Xiuping had no time to answer Zhao Guangxiu's question. There was a cliff in front of him. If he was alone, he could easily cross it, but now he was taking this guy with him.
Before he could stop the horse in time, Bai Xiuping suddenly thought hard and gave it a try. He tightened his grip on the reins and shook it hard. The prince was even more panicked when he saw this. Why did he speed up the horse and get faster and faster?
The horse leaped directly over the cliff. Zhao Guangxiu was so frightened that he lost his mind and cried: "It turns out that you are the assassin who wants to kill me."
"Stop talking nonsense."
Bai Xiuping quickly used the Demon Step to get under the horse. When the horse stepped on the edge of the cliff and was about to fall, Bai Xiuping lifted Zhao Guangxiu up with his strength, including the man and the horse.
But he fell backward.
Zhao Guangxiu shouted in confusion: "No, don't!"
"How is it possible? Why do you do this? Just to sacrifice yourself for me, the incompetent prince who was abandoned and imprisoned by the barbarians."
He walked to the edge of the cliff, slumped on the ground, and said with tears in his eyes: "Why do I live my whole life? I can't change the situation of the court, I can't stop my father's decision, and I can let the eunuchs do their arrogant and evil deeds."
"In the end, we can only rely on the sacrifices of the people to survive. Such a prince is no different from a useless person. I should stay in a cage forever."
As the current prince, what a failure he was.
Until the end, Zhao Guangxiu still relied on the sacrifices of others to survive. Zhao Guangxiu shouted to the sky: "I swear that I will never let this happen again. I will not let your sacrifice be in vain. I survived!"
His lengthy self-condemnation made Bai Xiuping speechless, who was hanging on the edge of the cliff. While the prince was still mumbling that he would not let down Bai Xiuping's heroic sacrifice, Bai Xiuping slowly climbed up from the edge of the cliff.
Zhao Guangxiu, who was crying with snot and tears, was suddenly frightened and shouted quickly: "Ah! What on earth is going on? Didn't you fall off the cliff and die?"
"It's difficult, are you a dead soul?"
Bai Xiuping was too lazy to pay attention to him. He walked to the horse and stroked it gently: "Thank you, you can go on your own way."
Next, we have to walk along the river. The cliffs are too steep and the pursuers have already escaped, so it is not suitable for riding on horseback.
Then with a gentle pat, the horse left on its own.
Bai Xiuping then turned to Zhao Guangxiu and said, "It's so noisy. Come here quickly. There is a cage over there, right?"
"Are you really still alive? How is this possible? You have obviously fallen down?"
Zhao Guangxiu stepped forward in disbelief, crying and laughing at the same time: "That's great. It's great that you are okay."
The dignified prince of a country cried like an ordinary child. Bai Xiuping scratched his head helplessly, unable to understand this guy at all.
I originally thought that he was an arrogant and domineering guy who felt that he was inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. However, sometimes he was as simple as a fool.
If his current words and deeds are what he would have done at this childish age, then was his previous appearance just an act?
Bai Xiuping glanced at Zhao Guangxiu, who was still crying.
If he really becomes the emperor of Daxia, I wonder if it will be a good thing for the world.
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"You really disappointed me. Why did you let the horse go? You didn't take me seriously at all!"
"I didn't see the mud and water splashing on my body. How dare you let me, the noble prince, walk on such a dirty mountain road."
Zhao Guangxiu kept nagging.
Bai Xiuping decided to take back what he just said. This guy is a crying dude. He turned around and said, "Can you shut up?"
Zhao Guangxiu snorted coldly and said, "If you hadn't let the horse go, it wouldn't be like this."
"For the sake of a lowly animal, I have been reduced to such a fate, and how dare I speak so rudely and recklessly!"
Bai Xiuping couldn't stand him anymore, so he pointed at Zhao Guangxiu and said, "If it weren't for that horse, you would have died at the hands of the Turkic soldiers. And your riding skills are all you need on this mountain road. Who do you want to kill?"
Zhao Guangxiu turned his head and curled his lips and said: "It's just a barbarian horse."
Bai Xiuping retorted: "That horse just met the wrong owner. Even if it is the same sword, whether it becomes a sword to save people or a sword to kill, saving people and killing people are just..."
He did not continue.
"Why did you stop talking in the middle of the sentence?"
Zhao Guangxiu said with a puzzled look.
Only now did Bai Xiuping realize that he may have always had a deep rejection and resistance to the Ming Cult. In his heart, the Ming Cult was the Demon Cult, no different from the barbarians.
As the son of the leader of the martial arts alliance, Captain Lingyun, he has been instilled in him since he was a child the concept that people from the Demon Sect must be killed. But does it mean that just because they are members of the Ming Sect, they must be heinous people?
Do the people of Mingjiao have to be expelled and exterminated?
When I really lived in the Mingjiao and watched the believers in Shuifeng Market working and trading like ordinary people, these were completely different from the Mingjiao I had heard about and my own understanding.
They are just people living in this hundred thousand mountains.
The so-called magic skills are just martial arts that are different from the Central Plains martial arts moves. It does not mean that they are some evil taboo martial arts.
The Ming Cult also has regulations on martial arts, and martial arts that captivate the mind, such as the Enchanting Mind Technique, are also listed as taboos.
Practicing what the world calls demonic arts does not mean that they are evil people. Even if they oppose the imperial court, it does not mean that they are against moral principles.
Mingjiao never existed to rebel against the world, but only so that the people could be free.
Although the structure of the Seven Secret Palaces is somewhat similar to the official system of the three provinces and six ministries of the imperial court, they will not directly interfere with the lives of believers. Just like the Jianghu sects, they will also live for the Mingjiao and are willing to die for the Mingjiao.
As for ordinary believers, there is no difference between them and civilians.
All things have the same origin, originate from the same origin, and are separated by thousands of mountains. But just because of different habits, can they really not coexist with each other?
Bai Xiuping stared blankly at the water, reflecting the former son of the martial arts alliance.
"If you don't want to say it, forget it. Anyway, I don't want to hear these big principles from you. That's fine. I want to take a rest here."
Zhao Guangxiu interrupted Bai Xiuping's thoughts, pointed to the waterfall and spring water on the side and said: "I am also thirsty. Go and try the water over there first."
"Why?"
“What if the water is poisonous?”
Bai Xiuping sneered. If this guy wasn't the prince, he would have been thrown into the river by now.
"Have you always lived like this?"
Zhao Guangxiu asked in confusion: "What are you referring to?"
Bai Xiuping sighed and said: "You can't do anything alone. You don't know the most basic riding skills. You have to be so careful even when drinking water. You have to be so careful about everything."
"What's so strange about this?"
Zhao Guangxiu frowned slightly and said, "It's you, what kind of life do you lead that makes you so shallow and vulgar?"
Bai Xiuping took a sip of water, wiped his mouth, and retorted: "How vulgar, I am a model code of martial arts."
The son of the majestic martial arts alliance, the white-robed martial lord, the most chic and cultured being in the martial arts world, was actually called vulgar?
When he heard the word Wulin, Zhao Guangxiu's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "Are you from the Wulin? I have always been curious about Jianghu, what kind of place is it?"
