"You, you...how did you avoid my sword?"
The attack failed, and the ghost general was shocked. When he realized that the sword in his hand was already stained by the rust of time, he froze on the spot: "No, how did you tell me that this sword won't obey my orders?"
Li Lan did not respond to the Ghost General's words, but she knew in her heart that she had made the right bet - although the Ghost General and the sword had obsessions, their vengeful harm to others was only shown on the surface.
But after all, the sword was unwilling to cause serious harm to Li Lan because of his love for his family and country. Li Lan understood that no matter what the ghost general said or did, what was hidden deep in his heart was the same belief that had not changed during his lifetime.
"Impossible. Someone can escape from my sword. How did you do it?" Even at this time, the ghost general did not go crazy. Instead, he was in awe of the person who could make him lose. .
"General, it doesn't have to be like this..."
Li Lan had never experienced being betrayed by the person he protected, but he could still lament the ghost general's experience in his heart. As long as there was even the slightest possibility, Li Lan didn't want the ghost general to lose his soul and disappear from the world.
"I don't have to do anything? In these years, you are the first one who can defeat me. If you lose, you lose. If you want to kill or behead, it's up to you!" There is no intention of begging for mercy, even if the general has been betrayed , and never lost that character.
"You have never really hated your country because of those people, so why would you hide it from your heart and do these evil things?" Li Lan didn't understand. Even with the instigation of Evian Guan, the ghost general wouldn't do it. It should be so.
After hearing this, the ghost general visibly swayed, and there must have been a lot of emotional fluctuations.
After a long silence, until the shivering little demon standing nearby was about to kneel down and beg for mercy, the ghost general finally snorted and said, "Kill or behead, it's up to you. Why do you need to tell me this?"
The man who defended his family and country ended up like this. Li Lan was not a loyal general who had not seen the dismal endings in history. It is impossible for the ghost general to say that he has no resentment in his heart.
But it is obviously impossible to say that the ghost general will completely let go of his family and country in his heart, as well as the brothers who once stood together and fought bloody battles for their country and country.
Thinking of this, Li Lan decided to give it one last try: "General, is it because of those soldiers?"
"Or if you feel that you are going to die, you can ask me to let these ignorant little monsters go?" If the false belief that the ghost general has constructed for himself can be defeated, the ghost general's practice on the wrong path for so many years can also be defeated. It collapsed.
The ghost general on the opposite side did not respond, but Li Lan knew that it was not far away from the time when the ghost general could reconcile with the insistence deep in his heart...
"Even though they betrayed the general, the country held on. I think the general has never regretted it!"
Facing Li Lan's words, the ghost general remained silent, as if he didn't hear anything at all. He was immersed in his own world, painfully and helplessly repeating the news he heard before his death.
"General, our retreat has been cut off!"
"What? How could it be?" The ghost general at that time was only in his thirties, with a tall head and a shining silver sword. Even though his face was covered with blood, he still had no change in his awe-inspiring heroic spirit.
"Where are the reinforcements? Where are the reinforcements? Where are the reinforcements promised by the court? Didn't the coach say they would arrive soon?"
Before he could respond, the soldier who came to report the news was shot through by the enemy. From the despair and sadness when the former fell, the general knew that the reinforcements would not come, and the court had given up on them.
Just when the general was stunned for a moment, the enemy's long sword had arrived. He heard the deputy general next to him yell "general", followed by the sound of the knife piercing his body. The deputy general fell in front of his horse, bleeding. Splattered all over his armor.
"General, run quickly, there are falling rocks!"
"No, it's a fire attack!" Following what the soldiers beside him said, the general looked up and saw the flickering fire on the mountain. "Quick, all the soldiers will follow me and fight a bloody path together!"
Even so, there were pursuers in front and interceptors in the back. Whether it was the general himself or the soldiers following him, no one knew what they were going to face next. In the eyes of those on the mountain, the people running for their lives were nothing more than a last ditch effort.
The enemy will not show any mercy. It is too late to be happy that this elite team has avenged their repeated defeats. They are afraid that if one person among them is missing, they will be able to turn the tables against the wind and catch them off guard.
"Set fire!" The enemy general's order came down from the mountain, which made the general a little stunned - this was the voice of the eldest prince. How could the eldest prince be from the enemy?
But the general has no time to care so much. His family is still waiting for him at home, and the country needs to be defended by himself and his soldiers. This is the last line of defense in the city. If he and the others cannot defend it, the enemy army will be able to march straight in and rush straight to the city. Go to the capital.
"kill!"
"Kill!"
"Charge!" In the final charge, both the general and the soldiers were all furious. The sword cuts my arm, and I don't even care about the pain...
Brutal chops and charge regardless of life and death, no one intends to leave alive, all they want is to leave more enemy soldiers alive in this valley - even if it is an unresolved fight, they will rush down the mountain. It was worth it if they were burned to death together with the fireball.
"General, my subordinates take the first step!"
"Old Zhang, I can't take your things back to my brother and sister-in-law. I'll tell you if I see you later!"
One after another, the general felt that his heart no longer hurt. The sword in his hand seemed to have grown eyes, and he could cut off the enemy's head without the general's command.
What's more terrifying than numbness is that you can't even tell whether you are still in the world. In this way, the general and other soldiers fought their way out of the tight siege. When there was no more sound of swords around, the general reined in his horse and looked around...
no one! All the soldiers died on the way to break out.
Looking back to the front, the general with a dull look in his eyes felt that he should be dead, otherwise, why would he be unable to raise his hand or wield the sword when facing the enemy on the opposite side?
"Why?"
"Why? Why is it like this?" I don't know why this question is directed at the person in the middle of the enemy's army, or maybe it is just asked from within oneself - why, why is it that you are dedicated to your family and country, but in the end you are just a weapon used by your family and country? piece?
Thinking of the promises made in the past, the poems sent to the north on the Mid-Autumn Night, and the red rope under the marriage tree, the general didn't know what he was doing in this life. In the end, I misjudged the person, which harmed myself and my country.
"Come on, if there is a next life, I will never..."
The woman opposite seemed to be trying to vent her hatred of being under the general for so many years. She didn't even wait for the general to finish his words, and fired three deadly arrows in a row, leaving no chance for the general to survive.
When he fell from his beloved horse, the general actually saw the bright yellow coming out of the enemy camp - it turned out that not only was his wife who had been with him for more than ten years a lie, but the court never thought of letting him live.
A general with great achievements, born in a family that has been inherited for decades, falls in love with a girl with a mysterious life experience. It seems that every step is a crime that the general must die...
"That's what you said." The murderous aura surrounding the ghost general obviously weakened. Even if you replay the past experiences in your memory, you still can't change the unchanging family and country hidden deep in your heart.
The hatred I had fabricated for myself over the years had been feeding the ghost general's practice. Now that everything has been exposed, the ghost general has no support. Thinking about it, even if Li Lan doesn't do anything, it won't be long before he returns to where he belongs.
"But what's the use? Now I've become like this..."
"Aren't you slaying demons and defending the Tao? Why don't you kill me now." When the emotions deep in his heart took over his thoughts again, the ghost general wanted to die, "I am here, I am sorry for those brothers who died."
"I beg you, Princess Ping'an, just kill me!"
"I deserve to have no next life for those who killed the people in this valley." Recalling the words he said to his wife who had never loved him before he died, the Ghost General did not expect that his words would come true.
"Why hasn't the general left this valley all these years?" Li Lan couldn't figure out how to deal with this ghost general in front of him. The general devoted his life to his family and country, but his actions after his death were led to the wrong path by Evian Temple.
"If I leave here, I'm afraid I won't just be a passerby if I can use it for practice?"
The ghost general obviously did not expect that Li Lan did not respond to his request for death. Instead, he mentioned that he had good intentions and was not evil enough to die: "I can't get out. I think it was those three arrows that imprisoned me. this."
Li Lan didn't know what General Ghost had experienced. Everything was just his own memories. As for the mention of these three arrows now, General Ghost has no explanation.
"If it were an ordinary person's three arrows, it would never be possible to have such power." There were no formations in the surrounding valley, nor was it a Feng Shui situation like the Bagua Village at the foot of Yiqingguan Mountain. Li Lan could only make a bold guess that the problem was with ghosts. On the general, these three arrows may be the key to breaking the situation!
"General, can you remember where the three arrows are? The general stayed here...perhaps for some other reason."
After being a general for twenty years, now a fairy-like girl in front of him can actually break his own swordsmanship. The ghost general, who has dissipated the fierce aura, is willing to listen to Li Lan and naturally responds without objection. Li Lan's question.
Martial arts practitioners all have some medical skills. The ghost general reported the acupoints where the three arrows hit: "Yintang, Tanzhong, Guanyuan."
When Li Lan heard this, he said, "Okay!" Who hits the opponent's acupuncture points in order to kill him? These three happened to be the positions of the upper, middle and lower dantian. If the person who made the move did not do it deliberately, Li Lan would definitely not believe it. No wonder the ghost general himself was suspicious of this!
This Evian Temple lineage obviously only emerged in the past hundred years, and this ghost general does not seem to be from the Dali Dynasty. If we calculate the years, it seems that Evian Temple did not have such a large layout at that time. ability.
Moreover, if this ghost general had been cultivating for hundreds of years, I am afraid that even if I relied on the obsession hidden in the other party's heart, I would not have been able to survive under the opponent's hands - this ghost general's cultivation was only a hundred years old.
In this way, Li Lan cast doubt on the ghost general's memory. If this general's memory is modified by the Evian Guan lineage in the years to come, everything seems to make sense...
"General, are you sure those are his memories?"
As soon as Li Lan finished speaking, he felt that the ghost general wanted to deny it, so he immediately said: "General, except for that moment, do you still remember the whole thing?"
"I……"
"Those enemy troops will attack us, attack us..."
"How did we enter this valley? Reinforcements from the imperial court...reinforcements?"
Recalling stories from hundreds of years ago, the Ghost General was in a daze for a while, with two very different memories fighting in his mind. In one part, they were fighting alone because they couldn't wait for reinforcements, and in the other part, they were reinforcements. When they arrived, what they saw was a pile of charred bones.
Seeing the ghost general's hesitation, Li Lan knew that he might have guessed correctly. The ghost general's memory might not have been deliberately modified by someone from the Evian lineage.
Imagine a soldier who serves his family and his country, but his heroic spirit remains because he failed to protect his family and country. But he has a memory of being betrayed by his family and country, which makes anyone go crazy.
"General, those three arrows are not true, right?" By now, Li Lan, who has read a lot of Internet articles, has already guessed the development process of the matter, and even how the evil god deceived the general who was dedicated to his family and country in front of him, "It should be It was made by a so-called immortal."
"That's not my memory!"
"So why have I been so proud of myself all these years..."
For a person who hides his true heart and weaves a knot of hatred for himself, the truth is a very scary thing.
"I finally found my heart to hate myself. Is this all a deception by others?"
"She was kidnapped. She asked me to kill her with an arrow."
"We are the reinforcements. When we arrived, the eldest prince, the eldest prince had already died on the battlefield. That bright yellow mark was that the eldest prince, as the prince, was out of place in the pool of blood."
"I remembered it all! I remembered it all!" When the real memory in his mind overshadowed the memory woven by the evil god, the ghost general really didn't know where to go.
It was I who betrayed my beliefs, and it was I who harmed innocent people over the past hundred years. He has become the devil in his own eyes who has no regard for the common people...
"It turns out it's all my fault." The ghost general remembered what the god who appeared in front of him said, and he felt even more resentful towards his ignorance in his heart, "Why would I believe those unrealistic things!"
At this moment, he seemed to notice Li Lan again. The ghost general told Li Lan the words he said when he first met the god, just like pouring beans through a bamboo tube. As expected by Li Lan, the evil god wanted to change through the ghost general. The long-cherished wish of the original war situation made Gui trust him wholeheartedly, so he successfully used the ghost general.
"These little monsters under my command are all just words, but in fact they have never done any evil."
The ghost general suddenly said this, and Li Lan felt something was wrong. Before he could do anything to stop him, the ghost general completely disappeared from the world, leaving only one sentence: "I hope the immortal will lead them to correct their evil ways and return to the right path, which will benefit all people!"
Even Li Lan was hesitant. Even if he entered the underworld, he might not end up in ashes. The only thing that could not spare him was the general's own heart after all.
(End of chapter)
