Sealing Sword

Ruan Feiyu's letter was actually very simple.

There are only four pages of letter paper, the first two pages are about King Li's collusion with Burial Soul Palace in an attempt to rebel and frame the remnants of the old case and King Duan, and the third page is about the hidden piles of Sanmai Academy and the list of available people that Ruan Feiyu has observed over the years , there is only a short sentence on the last page - the affairs of the world, the affairs of the world.

King Li's calculation failed this time, instead he exposed himself and formed an enmity with King Duan. Now Chu Ziyu and Chu Yu have reached a consensus. The new monarch will be more beneficial to the emperor than Ruan Feiyu.

Naturally, King Li would not sit still, so all he had to do was jump over the wall in a hurry.

He sits in the northern border and secretly colludes with the barbarians outside the pass, which is tantamount to a chokehold for Da Chu. Now that the situation is forcing, I am afraid that he will soon rebel.

Although King Duan hadn't been in charge of the army for a long time, he was the first among the late emperor's sons to gain military power. He had an invincible friendship with the Northern Xia Qin Hebai back then, and he is quite famous even in the court today.

King Duan assisted him in the military affairs of the imperial court, but the Palace of Burying Souls entrenched in the rivers and lakes was still like a poisonous snake in a swamp, dormant and waiting.

Even though Chu Ziyu is the emperor, the rivers and lakes have been separated from the imperial court for a long time, and even Lve Yingwei has limited involvement in martial arts, so he is naturally out of reach.Under such circumstances, he can only delegate power to the Jianghu, and use the power of martial arts to eradicate the Palace of Buried Souls.

Since ancient times, "Confucianism uses literature to disrupt the law, and chivalry uses martial arts to violate the prohibition." He is not perfect, and the laws are not strict, so he and Ruan Feiyu started the reform after he came to power.

Up to now, the people's livelihood imperial examinations and the selection of officials by Chengjue have achieved initial results, but the mixed world of dragons and snakes still makes it difficult for him to start.Even if Chu Ziyu didn't care about it and used the power of the court to overthrow the Buried Soul Palace, but if there is one, there will be two, and he can't do it every time.

That being the case, it can only be like what Ruan Feiyu said - the affairs of the Jianghu, the Jianghu.

"The Buried Soul Palace family is now the only one, not because there are no incompetent people in the Central Plains martial arts, but because the dragons have no leader, and they are all scattered." Chu Ziyu looked coldly, "If a group of people with different ideas are to be twisted into one rope, unless there is a common interests, or a common enemy.”

What he said was not cryptic, Chu Xiwei quickly understood, and sneered immediately: "You want to be the hand that twists the rope, grasp the power of the martial arts to correct the situation in the world, restore order to strengthen the power of the law, so that the The throne is more secure."

As a king, he was not allowed to have too many things beyond his control, especially if this matter threatened his position, it was even more intolerable.

Even if you can't control everything, you have to be the hand that intervenes in mediation.

Thinking of this, Chu Xiwei's eyes became more ironic: "What a big appetite."

"They're all brothers of the same clan, each other." Chu Ziyu smiled, "Xiwei, if you didn't want to take life and death, you wouldn't have climbed to where you are today."

Hearing this, Chu Xiwei's eyes slowly turned cold, and he was silent for a while before saying, "As expected...it's you."

After the palace change ten years ago, he changed from a unparalleled little grandson to nothing. At that time, Chu Ziyu sent someone to entrust him to a wealthy businessman who had no children. day, so as not to fall into the rivers and lakes later.

But he is not willing. Once the nobleman of the Tian family who was lazy and hardworking has been reduced to nothing, he has so much resentment and unwillingness in his heart, why is he willing to be an idler in the market?

As soon as his health improved, he left the family alone, because he knew that he was weak, not to mention revenge, and he didn't even have the capital to settle down, so he gritted his teeth and threw himself into the rivers and lakes, wandering through the wind and rain.

But he was only 11 years old at that time, young, with low martial arts skills, not to mention any experience in the world. In less than a month, he suffered several disasters and almost died in an unknown street.

However, every time death is imminent, it will seem like a coincidence to come back from desperation.

He has never thought that human life is harder than a rock, and there are many coincidences, which are deliberate arrangements, especially after he contracted the disease. Although he was physically weak, his consciousness was still clear, and he pretended to be able to feel the pain around him when he was half awake. Unusual people were mixed in among the refugees, and they stabilized his condition along the way so that he would not get better or die just like that.

Later, he went to Huadeng Town and was bought into the Hundred Ghosts Gate by Sun Mifeng.

"Back then I wanted to kill you more than once. After all, weeds can't be rooted out. I'm afraid they will grow again when the spring breeze blows." Chu Ziyu slightly raised the corners of his lips, "If you stay in that family, I will send someone to secretly monitor your every move. Let you die of illness within three years, although it is easy for Master to catch clues, but in order to eliminate future troubles, I don't care too much."

Chu Xiwei didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.

Chu Ziyu raised his eyes: "However, you are more daring than I expected, and even put your safety in your place, and went to the rivers and lakes to make a living. You don't need me to do anything, you can ruin your own life. "

Chu Xiwei said coldly, "Then why did you change your mind?"

"Three reasons." Chu Ziyu smiled and held up three fingers, "First, if you die, Master will be in great pain when he finds out the truth. My throne was unstable at the time, and the loss outweighs the gain without the help of Lve Ying. Two, at that time I already had the power in my hands, and you had nothing, if I didn't even have the guts to tolerate you, how would I face wolves, tigers and leopards in the future?"

After a pause, Chu Ziyu changed his tone: "As for the third place, you won it yourself."

Chu Xiwei frowned, and heard Chu Ziyu say, "The reason for helping you enter the Hundred Ghosts Sect is because it is a rare neutral sect in the Jianghu. Going in is like a mud cow entering the sea, even if your father and king still have remnants of the party, it is expected that you will not be found, and I just need to ensure that you will not die."

Chu Xi narrowed her eyes slightly.

At that time, the Hundred Ghosts Sect was in chaos, and life and death were commonplace. To keep a young disciple who just entered the sect from death was nothing more than finding a reliable support for him.

What is the identity of the wife of the head of the Hundred Ghosts Sect, even if she wants to see a doctor, she doesn't have to go to Sun Mifeng's medicine house in person, let alone met him so "coincidentally" and brought him back to Liufengju, taking good care of her.

However, Qin Liurong is just a woman with no real power after all, if there is no Shen Wuyuan's instruction behind this, no ghost will believe it.

After thinking for a moment, he asked, "What conditions did you use to make the adoptive father promise to save my life?"

"I don't give him much, but for him it's a timely gift." Chu Ziyu tapped his finger on the table, "Although I didn't know Qin Liurong's identity back then, I had heard about his loving wife like his life. I found out that the wife of the head of the Hundred Ghosts Sect was seriously ill, and that Sun Min Fengkong had medical skills but lacked good medicine, so I sent the thousand-year-old ginseng hidden in the palace... Although Shen Wuduan didn't want to have anything to do with the court, he wanted to let his wife spend more time. I still agreed to live for a few years, as a deal, I promise to protect your life in the Hundred Ghosts Sect for ten years without any worries."

I see.

Chu Xiwei has never been stupid, he just doesn't want to use too much utilitarian thinking to speculate on people who are benevolent to him, especially Shen Wuduan and Qin Liurong have treated him indifferently over the years, saying that they treat him as if they were his own. However, otherwise he would not have willingly worshiped his adoptive parents.

Since the favor is true, it is enough for Chu Xiwei.

"You have a ten-year agreement with Master, so I vowed to keep you alive for ten years, but I didn't expect you to fight for the position of sect master instead of letting go of a happy life." The corner of Chu Ziyu's mouth twitched, "We The members of the Chu family probably have a restless nature in their bones... I pursue status and power, while you want to control the ability to live and kill independently, in the final analysis, we are all the same people."

If Chu Xiwei really spent ten years in peace and contentment, he must be living a different kind of life now, so that his body would not be covered in bruises, and he would definitely not be able to turn the clouds upside down.

Because he was dissatisfied with the status quo, he stepped on the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood to climb up step by step. Only when he climbed to the position of sect master and possessed strong power, could he be qualified to change all his dissatisfaction.

Chu Xiwei twitched the corner of her mouth: "In the past ten years, you really have been paying attention to me."

"I can only know a general idea, after all, after you came to power, Shen Wudu simply delegated power, and you made a drastic move to wipe out dissidents, turning the Hundred Ghosts Gate from a hell where evil spirits live into a secret place where ghosts and ghosts haunt me. It’s also very difficult to wed in the stake.” Chu Ziyu said again after changing the subject, “That’s when I completely changed my mind.”

His eyes were burning, and Chu Xiwei had a thought, thinking of Ruan Feiyu's letter, she understood the meaning.

"You want to use me to fight for the position of the leader of the martial arts world, and use the Hundred Ghosts as your puppet to control the rivers and lakes." Chu Xiwei frowned, "Since ancient times, rabbits and dogs have been cooked together, not to mention that the relationship between you and me is like fire and water, so you don't have to be afraid." I bite you back?"

"Of course I'm afraid, anyone in the world may betray me, except for one person..." Chu Ziyu smiled slightly, "How do you get along with Master?"

As soon as these words came out, Chu Xiwei's murderous aura suddenly dissipated, and she retracted it after a while.

His eyes were cold: "I haven't settled this account with you yet!"

Although the outcome of that battle was tragic, Xie Wuyi died for Ye Fusheng under the arrows, making him a fish that slipped through the net, but this could fool the barbarians, but it could not hide it from Lve Yingwei.

The only theory is that Chu Ziyu clearly knew that the person who died was not Ye Fusheng, and ordered Lve Yingwei to conceal the truth, and then lied to him.

"Settling accounts? Ah Yao, you should thank me." Chu Ziyu played with the wine glass, "If I don't lie to you once, and don't let you experience the life and death for yourself, then the so-called ten-year agreement will end in blood. .Wouldn't it be nice to have both of you here now?"

After a pause, he slowed down his breath: "Now I am under the enemy's back. There are not many people who can be trusted, and even fewer people who are close to me... There are too many things involved in the past, and I can't tell who is right and who is wrong. You have reason to resent, but I don't want to lose any of you because of these old things."

Chu Xiwei was momentarily at a loss for words.

"I let Master go and let him leave Lve Ying in the dark and go back to all corners of the world. It is not only because of the 13-year master-student relationship, but also because of my gratitude to him for saving me countless times in danger, and also..." Chu Xiwei twitched her eyebrows, "Jiaolong If you don't enter the water, how can you overturn the river?"

Anyone in the world can betray the emperor, only Lve Yingwei can't.

They are the blade of the Son of Heaven, and also the half body of the Son of Heaven, like arms and fingers, they follow like a shadow.

Regardless of one's background and intentions, once one enters Lve Ying, one's family, life, past and future affairs are tied to the boat of the emperor until death.

Lve Ying is the epitome of the rivers and lakes blending into the temple, and it is also a backbone that carries the family and the country.

Sincere to the king, loyal to the country.

No matter how annoyed Chu Xiwei was, he had to admit that although Ye Fusheng had returned to the rivers and lakes, as long as Chu Ziyu did not practice tyranny for a day, then he would issue a letter in the name of the great Chu country, the country, and the country, and Ye Fusheng I will definitely return to the imperial court and continue to live the days when people are neither humans nor ghosts.

"I let him go back to the martial arts to leave a pawn for the reorganization of the martial arts." Chu Ziyu smiled softly, and his tone gradually deepened, "Master is good at everything, wise and capable, and has all the experience. ambition."

Chu Xiwei didn't speak, Chu Ziyu raised his hand and poured him a glass of wine: "However, such ambition, Ah Yao...you don't have it either?"

A Yao, you have the ambition to strike the sky with an eagle in your chest, you are not satisfied with the status quo, nor will you surrender to threats.

Even if it is me, I am also shocked by the ups and downs of your ten years of vicissitudes.

But you are different from me after all.

Being an emperor is the most ruthless, I can let go of love and hatred, and use whatever means for the purpose, but it is useful, and I can't give up everything.

And although you have ambitions, you can't be cruel.

You shoulder kindness and care, just like a falcon is tied with chains, it can soar upwards, but it cannot soar to the sky.

That being the case, why don't I dare to use you?

Chu Xiwei didn't say a word, and Chu Ziyu waited patiently, with a smile on his lips, confident.