Chapter 698 Leaving
"Junwu. Your father is back."
Sitting on the city gate tower, Xu Yuan hugged Li Junwu's already cold body, looking calmly at the distant skyline, and said the first words of her death to her in his arms.
The physical body of a body-melting cultivator can remain incorruptible for decades. She still looks as good as before, but she will never reply.
At dawn, the rising sun and the line drawn on the earth divided the world into two. It came from the east and swept to the west, half of it was light and half of it was shadow.
A piece of smoke and dust appeared on the skyline that was still shrouded in darkness, a vast but belated arrival of smoke and dust.
The earth trembled, and thousands of horses and armored horses were faintly visible under the rising sand and dust.
The Desert Wolf Demon Rider has arrived.
Arriving at Fucheng at dawn on the fourth day.
In the yellow sand flying all over the sky, immersed in death, Zhenxi Fucheng ushered in the first glimmer of life from the outside world. The soldiers in the city opened the damaged city gate and welcomed their brother troops into the city.
However, there was no chaotic sound of soldiers entering the city below, and it was even eerily quiet.
Except for the snorting and the tapping of the hooves of the demon horses under their crotches, there was no sound in the huge procession of desert wolf demon knights entering the city. They silently stared at the huge city in front of them that had become familiar and yet unfamiliar.
Most of the Zhenxi Army who experienced the Tartar-Chao Revolution are old. In this generation, the Zhenxi Army grew up in the prosperity of Great Yan and had never experienced the years of being plundered, burned and killed.
Therefore,
When the soldiers of the Desert Wolf Demon Cavalry saw through the gaps in their visors that the once majestic and solid city wall was full of cracks, and the once row upon row of streets were reduced to ruins, there was confusion, shock, and anger in their eyes, but only There is no sound.
Every one of them started joining the army in this huge city named after Zhenxi Army. They trained here, practiced here, and formed the bond of first acquaintance with their colleagues here.
They guard this giant city with their youth and lives.
But at this moment, this huge city called Zhenxi was turned into a torch when they went out to conquer the aliens.
In the silence of the procession,
All the emotions turned into something called hatred.
Military morale is available.
Xu Yuan thought with indifferent eyes as he watched the troops entering the city and felt the sense of killing coming from the military formation below.
The sect should have planned to direct the hatred of the Zhenxi Army to the court after the war. The winner would write the truth, while the loser could only be covered up in the ruins of history.
But now,
The victory of the war and the morale in the name of Junwu will be used by the prime minister's government and become a sharp blade in his hand to stab the sect.
Thinking of this,
A strand of white hair drifted past Xu Yuan's eyes in the breeze, making him stunned.
Staring blankly at the pale face of the woman in his arms, Xu Yuan grabbed his hair hard, then bit his trembling lips and looked away.
She died because of him,
But he used her passing as a bargaining chip.
Xu Yuan didn't know why he was in this state.
Hatred?
Maybe, maybe not.
At the moment when Li Junwu died, Xu Yuan was almost swallowed up by endless hatred and self-blame, but as time passed, he could feel himself quickly becoming numb.
When I suddenly came back to my senses, I realized that I was actually analyzing the causes of these emotions, and subconsciously trying to block the roots of these emotions to maintain my rationality.
The wind gradually picked up, blowing her waist-length white hair, caressing his face like delicate fingers, as if comforting him for his anger that had nowhere to vent.
I don’t know how long,
Suddenly there was a faint sound of landing on the top of the city gate.
Very light.
Xu Yuan, who was so close that he was lost in thought, did not notice the arrival of the other party at all until the person came slowly and stood in his peripheral vision.
Xu Yuan looked back.
But he saw an old man in military uniform staring blankly at Li Junwu, who was sleeping peacefully in his arms.
Zhenxihou.
This is the first time Xu Yuan has met Li Junwu's father.
His uniform was glowing with cold light in the dawn, and his small eyes stared blankly at the woman in his arms whose youth had passed away.
And the moment he saw him, Xu Yuan understood why this good-breasted brother kept calling him old man.
Marquis Zhenxi looks really old, dark, skinny and short, with wrinkles all over his face.
Compared with the name of the Marquis of Zhenxi who made Tarchao's children stop crying, the Marquis of Zhenxi looks more like the peasants who can be seen everywhere in the fields of Dayan.
There was silence for a long time,
Xu Yuan slowly lowered his eyes and whispered:
".sorry."
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The words fell and the illusion was shattered.
Marquis Zhenxi's straight back became stooped, and his calloused hands kept rubbing a cut mark on his waist armor. He cautiously raised his hand towards his children several times, but then retracted it in fear.
Xu Yuan looked at her face and murmured softly:
"Jun Wu wanted me to tell you before she died that she defended the city for Zhenxi Mansion and made people all over the city chant the name of Qing Le, and that she really misses you and her mother."
After speaking, there is no sound.
A breeze passed by, and the half-saint with the blessing of the military formation became unsteady, half-kneeling on the top of the sloping city gate while trembling.
The thin old man knelt on the ground, gasping for air. His small eyes kept blinking, tears flashed, and his fingers weakly left a deep finger mark on the hard stone top.
The armor scatters the coldness of the sun,
The Marquis of Zhenxi looked at his daughter whose bones were already cold. He opened his mouth several times, but nothing came out. Only a few inaudible mute sounds came out of his throat.
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Xu Yuan lowered his eyes and did not look at the old man beside him.
At this moment, the person beside him was not the powerful Zhenxihou, but a father who had just lost his daughter.
His embarrassment should not be seen by outsiders.
"Junwu, I'm leaving."
After sitting quietly for a few breaths, Xu Yuan whispered in the ear of the woman in his arms, then gently laid her flat in front of the old man, and then slowly stood up.
But at this time,
Zhenxi Houyin suddenly stopped him, suppressing his trembling voice:
"Come back and sit down."
"." Xu Yuan paused and sat back.
"Stay away from Junwu." Zhenxihou.
"." Xu Yuan moved half a foot in silence.
The little old man named Zhenxihou sat next to Li Junwu and asked in a low voice:
".Jun Wu is dead, don't you have anything to say to me?"
Xu Yuan looked at the yellow sand dunes outside the city and replied numbly:
"Jun Wu's death started because of me and ended because of me."
Marquis Zhenxi suppressed his emotions and interrupted:
"Don't I want to hear your confession and make you pay with your life? Can Junwu survive?"
"." Xu Yuan was silent.
Marquis Zhenxi’s voice was tired:
"I'm not an old fool yet. If I want to kill him, I will kill the murderer of Jun Wu, not you, the wanton man who deceived Jun Wu."
"."Xu Yuan.
Marquis Zhenxi stood up and sat next to his daughter. He held his armor tightly and said slowly:
"But I am not qualified to tell you. I have known Junwu's reasons for joining the army from the beginning. But the death of this girl was not the sin I made and the disaster I planted back then."
The old man in military uniform lowered his eyes and whispered:
"Young and frivolous, arrogant. He thinks he can plan the world and control everything. He treats the world's heroes as nothing. He even thinks he can plan against the current emperor and your father. Haha, what a stupid thing."
Xu Yuan subconsciously glanced at the old man beside him and said nothing.
Marquis Zhenxi is not as unbearable as he said. He has the capital to support his arrogance.
Born as an Orion, he broke into the frontier army alone. In the twenty-fifth year, he had led tens of thousands of troops to end the Tartar-Chao Rebellion, tearing apart the soil and creating feudal lords.
It is also rare in the history of the imperial dynasty, but it is a pity that he ran into that glorious era when monsters were rampant.
"I planned the future of joining the military and government, and named my daughter Junwu, hoping that she would inherit everything I had laid down. But it was during that time that I discovered that the Zhenxi Mansion under my command had become bloated and issued a Many orders cannot be implemented and there are constraints everywhere.”
Speaking of which,
The Marquis of Zhenxi looked at the yellow sand ravine outside the city and said quietly: "I tried to solve the problem, tried to regain power by various means, and wanted to use violence to scrape the bones and gouge out the cancer. As a result, the poison had already spread to the whole body. There is nothing we can do about this.
"It wasn't until then that I realized how big the gap was between me and the two people in the court. I couldn't handle the affairs of one continent well, and I actually wanted to scheme against them, so I took the initiative to send the young Jun Wu away. The Emperor was in peace and asked the Holy One to give him the title Qingle.
"It makes people laugh when they are strong in the front and respectful in the back."
When the words fell, there was only the roar of the wind.
For a long time,
Marquis Zhenxi looked back at Xu Yuan:
"Xu Changtian, to avenge Jun Wu, I will give you Zhenxi Mansion as a gift."
Xu Yuan replied slowly: "If you don't tell me, I will do it."
The Marquis of Zhenxi turned sideways, stretched out his wrinkled palms, and touched his daughter's face that had lost all warmth as if he were a child. His eyes were full of death:
"Within one month, I will kill all those traitors. By then, the structure of Zhenxi Mansion will collapse. How much can be eaten is up to you, the Prime Minister."
After all,
The old man in military uniform hunched over and gently picked up Li Junwu, overlooking the ruins of the city:
"I am a failure. Throughout my life as a soldier, I have defended the Tartar people and the country, but I cannot protect my daughter.
"in the end,
"I'm not even qualified to avenge her with my own hands."
Marquis Zhenxi left with Li Junwu, and Xu Yuan was still sitting on the city gate in a daze, overlooking everything in the city.
With his current cultivation level, he can easily see every corner of this huge city.
He could see that Si Zijing, who was originally half-dead, was now able to get out of bed and handle official duties. Although his severed limbs were not reattached, it did not hinder his desire to make progress as a strong man who had transformed from ordinary life.
Zhou Chen was also standing beside him.
Xu Yuan didn't pay attention to this guy during the battle. He didn't know whether he was pretending to be dead or dealing with the insect tide.
In addition to these two progressive Black Scale Guard senior officials, he saw the female head catcher Xu Mengxi in a courtyard not far away.
She knelt beside Huang Shiwei's body and murmured something. Her eyes were red and she seemed to have cried.
Jia Yina, the desert goddess, was placed under house arrest by the senior officials of the Zhenxi Army. She had been crying in her room for four days, her green eyes filled with bloodshot eyes.
Xu Yuan hesitated whether to meet the goddess, but finally gave up.
Looking at this woman, he always thinks of that idiot.
He is so tired. The rest of the things in Ximo can be left to the people sent by his father.
Looking up at the vast expanse of blue sky above, Xu Yuan jumped lightly and entered the ruined city.
Walking casually, no one noticed him.
After the joy of his own survival passed, the atmosphere of separation between life and death permeated every corner of Zhenxifu City.
Halfway through, Xu Yuan suddenly stopped and stared quietly at a two-story inn on the side of the road.
That was the inn where Li Junwu and Jia Yi hid when they first came to Zhenxi Fucheng.
Not destroyed, but the door was closed.
Perhaps subconsciously, he wandered here.
He wanted to sneak in, but Xu Yuan changed his mind and stopped this impulse.
The passing of an old friend is always noticed inadvertently in life, bits and pieces of memories appear in front of the eyes, and strands of emotions spread unconsciously in the heart.
In her previous life, she had always believed that friendship between handsome men and beautiful women was impossible.
Li Junwu proved that this was indeed the case, but his facts also proved that the opposite could also be true.
He has never liked Li Junwu.
In other words,
This guy hides it so well.
After finally being unable to hide here, she left before he, a rotten, sentimental person, fell in love with her.
Women are indeed born actors.
A mere idiot can actually act most of his life up to this point.
After standing there for a long time, Xu Yuan casually cast a spell to send a message to Si Zijing, asking him to buy this block and keep all the furnishings inside the inn, then Xu Yuan turned around and left.
Perhaps he was missing people after seeing things. Walking on the streets of Zhenxi Fucheng, Xu Yuan felt empty in his heart.
He suddenly felt that he should have talked to her more before Zhenxihou took her away, instead of holding her in his arms and remaining silent.
But I also feel that it would be too pitiful and sad to wait until people can no longer hear before speaking out.
She was pitiful, and he was pitiful.
While wandering aimlessly, Xu Yuan walked far, far away.
He went to the high-end restaurant where the two of them had dinner.
He went to the Junshu Hall of Zhenxifu Yamen.
But both boundaries have been destroyed.
After completely covering the two people's footprints in Zhenxi Mansion Yamen, Xu Yuan suddenly chuckled softly as he walked out of the gate of Zhenxi Mansion Yamen. He played with the Tao Yun of Life and Death on his fingertips and smiled bitterly.
That woman seemed to have really completely disappeared from him.
final,
Xu Yuan returned to the city gate tower, only to find someone waiting for him there.
Dressed in white, blowing in the wind.
Xu Yuan called softly:
"Uncle."
Feng Jiuxuan casually threw a black box to him:
"Your grandpa gave you a gift, and I got it back for you."
After the war, Feng Jiu Prepare to leave and find someone.
But before leaving, Xu Yuan suddenly handed him some things belonging to his father and asked him to help him pick them up.
Taking the black box containing dozens of Sumeru Rings, Xu Yuan nodded lightly and asked:
"How soon do we leave for Beijing?"
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Feng Jiuxuan glanced at the expressionless nephew and said:
"Don't worry, I'll meet a few people on the way back, you may know them."
After saying that, Feng Jiuxuan disappeared.
While he was wondering, Xu Yuan saw a woman in black wearing a dark bamboo hat leaping from the city wall to the top of the city gate.
Qingli's eyes stared straight at him through the curtain.
Looking at each other for a moment,
Xu Yuan bent his eyes and chuckled as usual:
"Ran Qingmo, you are actually with me"
But the words have not yet fallen,
The black bamboo hat is flying high, and the fragrant wind is already hitting my nostrils.
The girl in black clothes stood on tiptoes and hugged him, stroking his long hair with her soft palms:
"Xu Yuan, please don't be sad, okay."
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In an instant, Xu Yuan felt that it was difficult to breathe. The hands on his sides wanted to hug the girl in front of him, but he was hanging in the air and was afraid to reach out.
But then Xu Yuan felt the girl's cold hands hugging his waist, and then continued to touch his head with her hands.
Feeling the girl's warm body, Xu Yuan's eyes flickered for a few breaths, he lowered his eyes and squinted his head on her shoulder, his lips and teeth trembling slightly:
".Thank you, sorry"
Ran Qingmo was held by him, standing on tiptoes and raising his head. His beautiful eyes blinked a few times. After thinking about it seriously, he said in a clear voice:
"Xu Yuan, the words thank you and sorry are the most worthless things in the world, so don't be sad."
Xu Yuan was startled, his hand holding the girl's delicate body became harder and harder, and he smiled with a trembling voice:
"you.
"Why do you all like to imitate my speech so much?"
(End of chapter)