Chapter 840 Beheading with one sword
However, even if the national power of Chu has declined, it is still one of the five hegemons that once dominated for a while. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
How easy is it to kill the king of such a country?
But if he wants to return to reality, Li Yi has to take on any difficult task.
So, after recovering from his injury, Li Yi began to make preparations.
If you want to complete such a difficult task, you naturally have to rely on plug-ins, that is, gunpowder.
Gunpowder already existed in this era, but it had not yet spread from the hands of the alchemists who made alchemy.
Li Yi remembered the formula of black gunpowder, and after a year of studying the proportions, he finally succeeded in formulating it.
Subsequently, he sneaked into Chu State again, intending to wait for an opportunity to assassinate the King of Chu.
But the King of Chu enjoyed himself in the palace all day long, and even if he went out of the palace occasionally, he would bring a large group of guards with him.
Furthermore, because he was used as a hostage twice when he was young, he was suspicious by nature. Every time he traveled, he would prepare ten identical carriages and randomly ride in one of them, which greatly increased the difficulty of being assassinated.
More importantly, in order to ensure accurate timing and kill the King of Chu, Li Yi could not stay too far away to prevent the King of Chu from being injured and escaping.
But he couldn't get too close, otherwise he wouldn't be able to confirm the location of the King of Chu and confirm the life or death of the King of Chu.
Li Yi waited for more than a year but failed to find a suitable opportunity.
Finally, at the end of the second year, he waited for a perfect opportunity.
The king of Chu went out for a hunting trip and returned to the palace. He would return to the city through the north gate.
Because there were so many prey, the King of Chu changed his mind and took the initiative to mount a hunting horse and return to the palace in a high profile.
Li Yi had already buried black powder under the official road, so he lurked among the crowd, waiting for an opportunity to light the fuse.
However, just when he lit the gunpowder fuse, he found a figure walking past the kneeling people and walking towards the King of Chu's honor guard.
Li Yi recognized him after seeing his face.
He is Meijianchi, Xu Qing's cousin.
He was carrying a long stick wrapped in linen on his back, with the tip of the sword exposed.
His eyes were fixed on the King of Chu who was sitting on the hunting horse, his face flushed.
Seeing that he was about to rush towards King Chu, Li Yi was about to step forward to stop him, but a thin-faced young man next to him grabbed him and started fighting with him.
Li Yi had no time to pay attention to him and just stared at King Chu's team.
However, he waited for a long time, but there was no sound of gunpowder exploding.
For some unknown reason, the gunpowder did not explode.
The King of Chu's team has passed through the north gate and returned to the palace.
Meijianchi was still fighting with the thin-faced boy, but it was the boy who was blackmailing Meijianchi, and a group of people nearby were watching the fun.
Missing a good opportunity again, Li Yi felt angry, so he quickly stepped forward, grabbed the young man's neck, pulled him away, and stared at him coldly.
Seeing Li Yi's fierceness, the young man and the two companions behind him were frightened and turned around and ran away.
Mei Jian Chi broke away, but just looked at the direction where King Chu was leaving, with a disappointed look on his face.
In order to act more conveniently, Li Yi put on makeup, and Meijianchi didn't recognize him at all.
After thanking him in a low voice, Mei Jian Chi left.
Without paying attention to him anymore, Li Yi waited for the crowd to disperse and went to check the fuse, only to find that water had been poured into one place, soaking the fuse, and the fuse was extinguished when it burned.
Li Yi was disappointed, but he could only look for another chance.
By the time he finished gathering information again, it was already evening and the city gate was about to close.
But at this moment, he discovered that a palace guard had posted a notice under the city wall. It was a wanted document to capture a young assassin with eyebrows as wide as feet.
Needless to say, this must be the eyebrow ruler.
In any case, he called Li Yi his cousin, and Li Yi planned to send him home.
After searching for a while in the city, Li Yi couldn't find him, so he hurried to the outside of the city before the city gate closed.
After searching around the outside of the city, he finally found the eyebrow ruler at nightfall.
Looking at him with a stupid look on his face, but shouting that he wanted to avenge his father, Li Yi felt helpless.
So, Li Yi said that he didn't need to worry about revenge, and he would help him solve it.
Meijian Chi was overjoyed when he heard this. He jumped up and rushed to Li Yi to confirm again whether Li Yi would really help him take revenge.
After Li Yi expressed his confirmation, he suddenly pulled out the sword from behind.
It was a sharp iron sword, which was placed on his shoulder.
He told Li Yi: "My benefactor is willing to avenge Meijianzhi. Meijianzhi has no way of repaying me, but I can only give him my life as a gift."
After saying this, he immediately committed suicide.
He used so much force that he almost broke the bones.
Li Yi was caught off guard and wanted to treat him, but he was unable to do so.
He never expected that Mei Jian Chi would actually do this.
He couldn't understand, was this something a child with Down syndrome would do?
Or is it that Moye has been cultivating him like this with revenge as his only goal since he was a child?
But looking at the Mei Jian Chi who committed suicide in front of him, Li Yi was finally touched.
He stepped forward and picked up the Ganjiang Sword in Meijianchi's hand. It was at this moment that he found that he could return to reality.
It turns out that the condition for returning to reality is not to avenge the general, but to obtain the sword of the general.
However, Li Yi did not choose to return, but buried Mei Jian Chi under the tree.
Then, he pinched a head with his dead face, carved it into the shape of a ruler between his eyebrows, and put makeup on the head.
This is the skill of dough sculpting. Under his hands, the dead dough suddenly turned into the head of Meijianchi, which is lifelike.
After placing the dead-faced head in a ventilated place to dry, he boiled a pot of isinglass until it was very thick, and then applied it on the eyebrow ruler's head.
After drying the isinglass again, Li Yi put the dead-faced head in a wooden box and came to the palace to meet the King of Chu.
The King of Chu was very happy when he saw the head.
He remembered Mei Jian Chi's special face very clearly, and he recognized it at a glance. This was the assassin who appeared that day.
He immediately ordered the palace servants to cook a rice kettle and turn the head of Meijian Chi into a wine bowl for drinking.
The palace man put the head into the rice cauldron and cooked it for a whole day, but the head was not cooked to pieces.
When the King of Chu heard about these strange things, he became curious, so he stepped down from the throne and came to the rice cauldron to watch.
His throne was surrounded by guards, but when he stepped down, the surrounding area was empty.
Li Yi seized the opportunity, pulled out the Ganjiang Sword, and chopped off the head of the King of Chu with one sword stroke.
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In the space of the Eight-Sided Monument, these memories were rapidly becoming distant, and Li Yi's still rumbling heartbeat gradually slowed down.
Gradually, these memories were filtered out, like turning into a vague dream.
After the memory alienation ended, Li Yi let out a long sigh of relief.
Fortunately, he could isolate the memory, otherwise he would have had nightmares for who knows how long before he could recover.
Although he had no problem killing cattle and sheep, the memory of killing people was indeed too heavy, and even he found it difficult to accept it.
Recalling everything that happened in the dream space, he was thoughtful.
Is everything that happened in that space a dream or the real reality?
Most of the iron monument in front of me has been repaired, leaving only a little rust in the center.
He has another chance to enter.
But looking at the monument, Li Yi had a thought and woke up from reality.
Feeling the warmth of the hot kang under his body and the tenderness of Liu Yifei beside him, Li Yi took a deep breath and felt like he was waking up from his dream.
Finally home.
This time it was so miserable!
(End of this chapter)