Clear Turbulence Sword

After Murong Yuan and Ling Ling left the palace, they headed towards the hut leading to the secret road in the bamboo forest.Now that Liu Jin has been put to death, the burden on the two of them has been lifted.Ling Ling was thinking about Ling Wanhai in his heart, and Murong Yuan also wanted to travel in the mountains and rivers, so the two decided to head south after a little recuperation, and also to experience the pleasant life of the spring water clear in the sky, painting boats and listening to the rain.

The two had just entered the bamboo forest when a group of officers and soldiers chased them up from behind.Murong Yuan took a closer look and saw that it was Li Xing's men.As soon as Li Xing waved his hand, the officers and soldiers holding guns blocked the retreat of the two of them.The officers and soldiers stationed outside were completely different from the Jin Yiwei in the East Factory. The Jin Yiwei had a sinister and cunning air, but this group of officers and soldiers had a murderous air.The actions of officers and soldiers also follow certain rules, which shows that the generals who lead the troops are usually well-trained.

Li Xing came over, Murong Yuan was on guard and held his sword tightly, "What does General Li mean?"

Li Xing clasped his fists and said, "I'm sorry, young man, because you two trespassed into the forbidden palace and offended the emperor, I am ordered to arrest you two and go back for trial."

"We just saved him, we didn't expect him to turn his face so quickly!" Ling Ling said angrily.

Li Xing is a reasonable person, he knows that Murong Yuan and Ling Ling have contributed to the rebellion.However, the emperor was seriously suspicious, and as a courtier, he had to obey the emperor's orders, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Li admires the martial arts of Murong Shaoxia and Ling Nvxia, but the emperor's order cannot be violated, so I have to offend the two of you." .”

After speaking, the officers and soldiers stepped forward to do it.

"Wait a minute!" Murong Yuan shouted.He didn't want to fight with these officers and soldiers and regenerate right and wrong.He suddenly thought that the evil thing was on him, so he took it out and said to Li Xing, "General Li, do you recognize this thing?"

Li Xing looked at it and recognized that it was the purple stone taken out from Liu Jin's body. The emperor seemed to be particularly afraid of this object, and he once told him not to let this object cause harm to the world.So he said, "I've seen this thing before, but I don't know how powerful it is."

Murong Yuan said, "General, have you ever heard rumors that there are ogre monsters appearing?"

"That's right." Li Xing had also heard about this, and the officers and soldiers spread the matter even more mysteriously.

Murong Yuan continued, "This thing can stimulate people's animal nature and turn people into cannibals."

Li Xing and the officers and soldiers saw the object emitting a faint purple light, and after hearing Murong Yuan's words, they felt a little scared, and couldn't help but take a few steps back.Murong Yuan accidentally found a green bamboo leaf hanging on the bamboo branch beside him.The whole body of this snake was green, and it was about twenty inches long. It was a little frightened to see so many people, so it hung there silently.

Murong Yuan had an idea, and thought to give him a try no matter what.So he threw the evil thing up, poured his own internal force into it, and made it hang in the air, only one foot away from the bamboo leaf green.The evil thing was originally driven by Murong Lie, but Murong Yuan's martial arts were in the same line as his father's, this evil thing actually had a reaction to Murong Yuan, and under the catalysis of Murong Yuan's internal force, the purple light became dazzling.Murong Yuan saw that the method worked, and remembered the tune that his father played when driving the ogre.There was no flute to play right now, so Murong Yuan whistled, imitating his father's flute.

Under the effect of the whistle, a piece of purple light broke away from the evil thing, and was sucked into the mouth by the bamboo leaf green as if it had melted.Zhuyeqing began to become restless, the joints on her body creaked, and a hissing sound came out of her mouth.Not only Zhuyeqing, but also Li Xing and the officers and soldiers beside him were affected by this evil thing. They felt that there was a fire burning in their bodies, as if it couldn't be extinguished without turning everything into ashes.

That Zhuyeqing suddenly became extremely irritable, almost flattened his whole body, opened the mouth with two fangs wide, and spit out a blood-red snake letter.Before the officers and soldiers could react, Zhuyeqing had already jumped down from the tree, stood her body upright, and opened her posture for a duel.Fortunately, the officers and soldiers held guns in their hands, and the point of the gun was pressed against Zhuyeqing's neck to prevent it from approaching.Zhuyeqing moved back and forth, looking for opportunities.

What Li Xing used was a steel knife, Zhuyeqing saw that there was nothing covering Li Xing, so he jumped over.Li Xing originally felt uncomfortable, but suddenly saw that Zhuyeqing biting towards him, and hurriedly swung the steel knife.Raising the knife in his hand, he cut the green bamboo leaf into two pieces.With blood on the knife, Li Xing suddenly felt much better.However, Zhuyeqing did not die, and the two separate sections are still moving independently.The section with the head still tried to attack the nearby officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers jumped to avoid it.Fortunately, there was a good marksman who nailed the snake's head to the ground with one shot, so the snake didn't move.In the other section, only the tail was left, and it was still swinging desperately. Because there was no head, I didn't know where to go, and was trampled to pieces by a few angry officers and soldiers.

"Does the general still want to continue to embarrass me?" Murong Yuan asked.

Li Xing thought of his abnormal situation just now, and still felt a little scared. The purple stone was indeed extremely evil. If Murong Yuan really exerted the power of that stone to the extreme, everyone present would probably turn into walking dead.

"Xie Shaoxia is merciful." Li Xing bowed down.

Murong Yuan sighed, "I know the general doesn't intend to embarrass me, and I don't want to use this evil thing to harm people anymore. The soldiers around the general must have followed the general for many years, and I don't think the general wants to see them become cannibals." Monster. Also please make way for the general to retreat, let's stop each other and give each other a way out."

Li Xing didn't hesitate any longer, and waved his hands to let the officers and soldiers make way for them to come out. Murong Yuan and Ling Ling clasped their fists to signal Li Xing, then turned and walked out.Li Xing knew that he had no ability to catch Murong Yuan, so he had to go back empty-handed and report to the emperor.He lowered his head to look at the head of the snake that had been pinned to the ground, and the two snake's eyes turned purple, making his hair stand on end.

Ling Ling remained silent all the way, seeing what happened just now, thinking that Murong Yuan was hiding it from her, she was very upset.

Murong Yuan saw that she was a little depressed, so he asked, "Sister Ling, what's wrong with you?"

Ling Ling stopped, looked into Murong Yuan's eyes and asked, "Do you know how to activate this evil thing, just like your father?"

Only then did Murong Yuan understand her thoughts, so he said, "This evil thing needs a kung fu to activate it, but no one except my father knows how to do it, and I am no exception. It's just that my kung fu is so similar to my father's." I can feel that this evil thing has a reaction to my martial arts. As for the tune, I imitated my father's flute and played it just to try my luck and scare the officers and soldiers. It worked. It seems that God still cares for us and doesn't want us to be harmed by that dog emperor."

"So that's how it is." Ling Ling persuaded, "Brother Yuan, you should stop using this thing in the future, and quickly find a place to throw it away."

Murong Yuan said, "I also have the same intention. It's just that Li Xing didn't catch us, the dog emperor will definitely not give up. Once the dog emperor finds out that I don't have this magic weapon, I'm afraid he will get worse and send people to chase us down. So , I intend to use it one last time."

When Li Xing returned to the palace, Zhu Houzhao was waiting for him in the study.Li Xing kowtowed and said, "The last general is incompetent, failed to catch Murong Yuan, and was almost affected by that evil thing, lost his mind, please punish him."

Zhu Hou ordered Li Xing to tell the story, and when Li Xing said that the snake's eyes had also turned purple, he couldn't help shivering.If Murong Yuan is not removed, Zhu Houzhao has trouble sleeping and eating.He first ordered Li Xing to go back to the garrison, and then mobilized the Jinyiwei of the East Factory to look around for Murong Yuan's whereabouts.Zhu Houzhao made up his mind to make Murong Yuan disappear from the world even if he expends all the power of the whole country, so that he can sleep peacefully.

Murong Yuan expected that Zhu Houzhao would send more people to deal with him, but fortunately he held the evil object in his hand, no one dared to approach him.It's just that after carrying this evil thing with me for a long time, I also noticed that my character began to become irritable, and there was always a murderous aura accumulating in my body.Thinking that he might turn into another person after a long delay, Murong Yuan and Ling Ling did the opposite, not only did not go to other places to avoid hunting, but returned to the Forbidden City.

"Have you thought about it?" Ling Ling asked.

Murong Yuan said affirmatively, "There is no other way, but this is the worst plan."

In the middle of the night, the two sneaked into the emperor's bedroom again, and saw that there were twice as many guards as usual around them.Ling Ling hid under a stone bridge, intentionally making some noise.The guards noticed that they sent out half of the people to investigate, leaving more than half to continue guarding the palace.Seeing seven or eight guards approaching, Ling Ling deliberately showed up and led the guards to chase after him.The guards were really fooled and chased Ling Ling to a rockery.Relying on the rockery, Ling Ling's figure shuttled back and forth, appearing and disappearing from time to time.After the guards were dispersed, they smashed them one by one, and tapped the acupoints one by one.An outsider broke into the palace, alarming the patrolling guards, and they all chased after him.Ling Ling intentionally left clues to make the guards think that he had gone to the queen's bedroom, but he made a detour and returned to the roof of the emperor's bedroom.

Murong Yuan took advantage of half of the guards to chase after Ling Ling, then set off and tapped the acupuncture points of the remaining dozen guards.These guards stood outside the bedroom as usual, but they couldn't move or speak for the time being. Others couldn't see the clues, so they thought nothing happened.Murong Yuan graciously pushed open the door of the emperor's bedroom, and walked towards Zhu Houzhao's bed.

Seeing Murong Yuan, the two maids serving at the bedside were so frightened that they wanted to run away, so Murong Yuan also touched their acupoints.At this time Zhu Houzhao had already fallen asleep, and Murong Yuan stood at the head of his bed with his arms folded, staring at him like a torch.Zhu Houzhao has been unable to sleep well since his bedroom was broken into. He felt someone standing by his bed in a daze, so he opened his eyes.Murong Yuan looked directly at him, and his vigor remained undiminished.

Zhu Houzhao was taken aback, and involuntarily shrank his body to the corner of the bed, and said in a panic, "You...you...what do you want...how..."

Murong Yuan didn't answer, but just took out the evil object from his waist, and with a light hand, he pushed the evil object to Zhu Houzhao's eyes.Murong Yuan urged the evil thing with his internal force, and Zhu Houzhao's eyes were full of purple light, and he couldn't see anything clearly because of the dazzling light.He rubbed his eyes, but his eyes were still blurry.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao heard Murong Yuan say, "You will be your emperor, and I will be my swordsman. Well water does not interfere with river water. If you want to put me to death, then I will strike first. No matter how many guards you have, it will not help." .I have no intention of taking care of your country, let alone taking your life. If you still have a conscience, just be a decent emperor."

Zhu Houzhao rubbed his eyes vigorously after listening, and found that Murong Yuan had disappeared.He saw the two maids who served him to bed came over, but their appearances changed, becoming hideous and terrifying.As the maids got closer and closer, their faces had no flesh and blood, only dry bones remained.The maid stretched out her hands, which were also bloodless, and strangled directly towards his neck.Zhu Houzhao yelled, his eyes darkened and he passed out.

In the early morning of the next day, the imperial physicians surrounded Zhu Houzhao's bedroom, and everyone was trying to make Zhu Houzhao wake up, but they all failed in the end.At noon, Zhu Houzhao suddenly woke up automatically. He struggled to get up, and seeing the two maids standing aside, he trembled and broke out in cold sweat.The two maids did not turn into skeletons as usual, but Zhu Houzhao still couldn't let go of what he saw last night, so he sent the two maids to a concubine.He still couldn't tell whether last night was a dream or what he saw in real life, but he can be sure that Murong Yuan really came, and he also remembers what he said clearly.

Zhu Houzhao hastily ordered all Jin Yiwei to return to the palace and not to harass Murong Yuan again.Zhu Houzhao had a surly temper, but after being frightened by this, he consciously restrained himself a lot, and he was more attentive to the government than before.On the day of Liu Jin's rebellion, many disciples of the beggar gang came to help. Zhu Houzhao never forgot the generosity of the beggars, so he ordered officials from all provinces to open warehouses to release food to the poor.

Murong Yuan and Ling Ling came to a deep mountain, found a remote place, and buried the evil thing deep in the ground.If there is no accident, no one will be able to pick up this thing again, let alone use it to harm others.Thinking of Zhu Houzhao being frightened out of his wits last night, Ling Ling couldn't bear it. She could see clearly from the roof, and she was also very worried about Murong Yuan.

"Finally we can get rid of this thing." Ling Ling sighed.

"Yeah, although this thing is evil, it can be regarded as a good deed. At least we can protect ourselves, and Zhu Houzhao can restrain his violent temper. This thing itself is so evil, whether it is good or evil depends on the person who uses it .”

"Brother Yuan taught Zhu Houzhao a lesson last night, so I felt refreshed," Ling Ling asked.

Murong Yuan shook his head, "Actually, I'm still blaming myself a bit. If I hadn't had to, I wouldn't want to use this evil thing to scare people. But at least I didn't kill Emperor Dog, so it's evened."

After listening to Murong Yuan's words, Ling Ling was relieved, he was still the original Murong Yuan, and his mind had not been changed by that evil thing.If a person can feel happy by hurting another person, then this person must be crazy.From Murong Yuan's words, she felt that he still loved compassion in his heart, but he never showed it.

"There shouldn't be any trouble now," Murong Yuan said with a wry smile.

Ling Ling also smiled and said, "This time it should be clean, but if there is anything else in the world in the future, I'm afraid you won't be idle."

Murong Yuan said, "There are only two of us, how can we control so many things in the world. This world belongs to the people of the world, it is mine, and it is not mine. If you want the world to be peaceful, you have to rely on every person in the world." Own."

Ling Ling smiled and said, "I'm almost dizzy by you, what is your world and mine."

Murong Yuan said, "For example, this emperor, I can decide everything by myself, and I don't need this emperor to teach me how to do it. But people in the world need this emperor, without this emperor, the morality of people in the world will be meaningless. They also don’t know how to live and work, it’s planted in their bones, and no one can get rid of it.”

Ling Ling looked around, only landscapes and trees, clear and white clouds.The two stood on the top of the hill and looked far into the distance, as if they were looking at the peaceful life in the future.Murong Yuan recalled all the troubles he had experienced, every trouble was not caused by him, but was found on him by himself.Originally, he had no intention of participating in disputes between the rivers and lakes and the court turmoil, but for various reasons, he couldn't get away from the relationship, so he could only resolve it passively.

The only good thing that came to her was Ling Ling. In order to help her, she did not hesitate to put herself in danger, and saved herself many times in times of crisis.Thinking of this, Murong Yuan held Ling Ling's hand tightly, Ling Ling leaned his head on Murong Yuan's shoulder, and the two stood side by side, wishing that they would never be separated in this life.

After Zhu Houzhao executed Liu Jin, he began to cleanse Liu Jin's accomplices in the court. All those who were in collusion with Liu Jin were ransacked and beheaded, and most of the ministers in the court and China were implicated.And those upright officials who were unwilling to join forces with Liu Jin were reused, and finally there was a lot of clarity in the court.Lu Zi'an made meritorious redress, and Zhu Houzhao ordered him to inherit his father Lu Hantian's official position, and was responsible for handling disputes between the imperial court and Jianghu.

However, man is not as good as heaven. Although Qiu Dachu and Han Shuo were both killed, Lu Zian's misdeeds of killing seven or eight righteous men were still spread by the jailers who were present at the time.People in the Jianghu turned their backs one after another and no longer trusted Lu Zian. From then on, Lu Zian no longer stepped into the Jianghu, and only devoted himself to being an official in the court.The Lu family lost their status in the world, and because Cheng Xiaodie became Lu Zian's wife, she also cut off contact with people in the world.

Among the four great families in the martial arts world, the Qiu family disappeared after Qiu Dachu's death. The Lu family and the Cheng family have been expelled from the world, leaving only the Murong family still feared by the martial arts world.Murong Lie drives man-eating beasts to massacre people in Jianghu, and Murong Yuan is notorious for this. However, he assists in the killing of Liu Jin and eliminates harm for the martial arts, so his reputation is mixed.However, Murong Yuan didn't care about people's comments, he still went his own way, just traveling around the world with Ling Ling.

From then on, few people in the Jianghu have seen them, and the two of them have never been involved in any affairs in the martial arts.In order to restore the order of the martial arts, everyone elected a new leader, Wu Ke, the leader of Shangshantang.This Shang Shan Tang was originally a pharmacy, and Wu Ke was the manager of the pharmacy.He has mediocre martial arts but superb medical skills, and he likes to be in trouble.It stands to reason that apart from the four great families, Wudang Shaolin and other sects are the most powerful. However, Wudang Shaolin are all outsiders and will never compete to be the leader of the martial arts.The martial arts people really couldn't find a decent person to preside over the overall situation, so they had to recommend a kind person like Wu Ke.

During the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty, due to official corruption and land annexation, the court's ills were hard to recover, and the people's life became increasingly poor.During the Zhengde period, there were two brothers named Liu Chong and Liu Chen in the North Zhili area. They were the sixth and seventh brothers in their family, so they were also called Liu Liu and Liu Qi.The two were originally dutiful farmers, but their land was taken over by landlords, and they were in danger of starving to death, so they became thieves.

During this period, peasant uprisings continued to occur across the country. Liu Liu and Liu Qi also took advantage of the situation to form a team, which outsiders called "thieves".Thieves and robbers rose up in Bazhou, and local farmers responded one after another, with thousands of people.The thieves moved to Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Huguang and other places in the north and south successively, winning the hearts of the people.Using the slogan of robbing the rich and helping the poor, they have attracted many poor people.Thieves rule the army strictly and never kill people at will, so they are deeply loved.

But with the growth of the team, some places began to kill innocent people indiscriminately.Many rich people and people with well-to-do families were unlucky. Not only were their property robbed, but their family members were also implicated and victimized.In fact, some wealthy people are not rich and unkind. Their family fortunes are all achieved through hard work with both hands, and they have never done anything evil in their lives.But those rogues who are red-eyed don't care about this. Whenever they see the rich, they want to eat their skin and eat their flesh, as if all the rich have offended them.

Later, there were rumors in Shandong Province that a group of thieves who did all kinds of crimes stole the property of a rich man surnamed Liu, but were beaten to pieces by two masters, a man and a woman, and fled in all directions.Someone recognized that the man and woman were none other than Murong Yuan and Ling Ling.Because the rich man surnamed Liu has always liked to help the poor and has a good reputation, and it happened that the two of them were traveling in Shandong, so they gave him a helping hand.However, it was later confirmed that there was no rich man surnamed Liu at all, and the two of them did not show up.

Not only in the rivers and lakes, but also in the imperial court, there were rumors about the two of them, saying that a county in Henan was raided by thieves, and the county government was about to lose its hold.At this time, Murong Yuan and Ling Ling rushed to the horse and drove back the robbers with their own efforts, helping the local officials to guard the county government.But it was later confirmed that this is a non-existent thing.

Both the imperial court and the thieves want to say that Murong Yuan and Ling Ling are their own people, because they all know that Murong Yuan has an extremely powerful magic weapon in his hand, and with this magic weapon, he will be invincible.Therefore, in order to win people's hearts and boost morale, both sides publicized how the two helped them repel the enemy.

When thieves and bandits were rampant, Ling Wanhai was traveling around Guangdong and Guangxi.He also heard many rumors about Murong Yuan and Ling Ling, but he laughed them off.Under the leadership of Ling Wanhai, the disciples of the Beggar Clan still beg for food for a living, and never take part in the struggle between thieves and the court.Thieves and thieves were originally poor people, not much different from disciples of the beggar gang.Many people in the Jianghu have criticized Ling Wanhai, saying that the beggar gang is the largest gang in the world, and if they can rise up like thieves, they will definitely destroy the Ming Dynasty and create a new dynasty.

However, Ling Wanhai never defended himself. In his opinion, many leaders of the rebel army not only rebelled because they didn't have enough to eat, but also had the ambition of an emperor in their hearts, while he himself took pleasure in being plain and safe.Ling Wanhai didn't reject the thieves' act of resistance, but in his opinion, it didn't matter who was the emperor.Even if the Ming Dynasty is overthrown and there is a good emperor, who can guarantee that the emperor's heirs will still be good emperors, and in the end they will be the ones who will dominate and enjoy the glory, and the people in the world will depend on themselves to live or die.He didn't want to sacrifice his brothers in the gang for his own selfish desires, and he just teased his grandchildren every day, letting those restless people fight on their own.

A few years later, Liu Liu, the leader of the thieves and bandits, entered the river in a boat and was buried in the belly of a fish; Liu Qi was outnumbered and died in battle.The thieves' uprising failed, and other peasant uprisings in various places were also suppressed, and the Ming Dynasty regime was stabilized again.In order to prevent another peasant uprising, the imperial court dismissed a group of corrupt officials and returned part of the land to the peasants.After Liu Liu and Liu Qi died, Ling Wanhai paid homage to their graves. Because of their resistance, the common people finally got some food out of the mouths of those in power.

Liu Liu and Liu Qi think about the present, but Ling Wanhai thinks about the past and the future.Now the world is still surnamed Zhu, who knows what will be surnamed thousands of years later? , the world returned to the Yuan; when Zhu Yuanzhang led an army to destroy the Yuan in the Ming Dynasty, the country returned to the Ming.

However, no matter what the name of the country is or what the name of the world is, the operation of all institutions, the adjustment of power, and the food and grass for people, horses, and grass are all taken from the people.Even if the peasant uprising is successful, it is nothing more than the leader enjoying the benefits, and the exploited becomes the exploiter of others.Therefore, looking at ancient and modern times, what is the difference between the rulers of the past dynasties, and what is the purpose of the people's uprising? Ling Wanhai does not want the disciples of the beggar gang to risk their lives to follow this cycle of power.

Murong Yuan and Ling Wanhai also often sit and discuss Taoism, but Murong Yuan pays more attention to personal cultivation and doesn't care about the current political situation.Mr. Ling Wanhai said, if everyone in the world can be like you, then the wish of Xiansheng Laozi can be fulfilled.It's just that the people all over the world are like lambs waiting to be fed. Although they will take the initiative to forage, they ultimately depend on the grazing of the state officials.If there comes a day in the future when the emperor is fatuous, all officials are corrupt, and the common people can unite as one and refuse to pay food and taxes, then the power of the royal family will be useless.So far, this world is the world of the common people.Maybe that day will come soon, maybe it never will.After all, it is not difficult for one person to awaken, but it is difficult for all people to awaken.However, since ancient times, those who know the truth are a drop in the bucket, which is really regrettable.

A few years later, an old man in Beizhili was picking medicine in the mountains, and accidentally found two "immortals", both of whom were dressed in fluttering white, dancing swords lightly on the clear water.The old man hurriedly knelt down and begged the gods to bless him, hoping for good weather and a good harvest of rice.However, when he raised his head, the two "fairies" were nowhere to be seen. He only saw four large characters on the water: I am my master.