In the blink of an eye, the sky becomes dusk, time takes away the gray clouds and dust, and the last ray of sunset illuminates half of the sky.
Tonight is the twilight of the moon, an unprecedented moonless night, but in the gap between light and darkness, in Yancheng, a city with the most massacres and deaths in history, the firewood in the tall buildings has been lit in advance, and the top of the city The location is an altar sculpted with strange patterns, where red light is emitted from a hollow position on the ground at all times.
At this time, the ground shook slightly, and there was still a little scarlet in the sky in the western suburbs. A stream of yellow dust rose into the sky, and scorched earth was rolling in the suburbs for a mile.
Sensing the sound of running behind him, Qi Li did not look back: "Huyanqu was defeated?"
The crescent flag on the city wall was shaking loudly. The Xiongnu warriors were all well-equipped and stood quietly in the shadows of the street houses with crescent knives on their backs. They extended into the distance and turned into slender light spots, cutting vertically and horizontally. The shadows of tall buildings opened.
"Yes." The cold sweat kept rolling down the forehead of the mute reporter. His clothes were soaked with sweat and clung to his trembling body.
The wizard Jialan, who is still alive but not dead, is also there.
"The tigers have already fought each other, and now each other is injured. And the Central Plains region will also fall into full-scale civil strife." Jialan said quietly, his voice was erratic and unpredictable.
"Soon, the new rules of war will be rewritten. And you, Your Highness, will be the changer who controls the soul of Turin. In this exciting era, your hands... will change everything." The wizard's voice said because Trembling with uncontrollable excitement.
"Huyanqu."
"Huyanqu, Mengtian, Mengyi, Liusha, and other schools of thought, all of them will be buried together with the army of this empire! They will become sacrifices to usher in a new era." Qili frowned, raised his head, His eyes flew over the flames, as if he had seen the door opening to the end of the world, and what poured out from there was nothing but the purest and most horrifying power.
A gust of wind came, like the killing air suddenly coming here from the battlefield. It was so cold that one couldn't help but shiver. The flames were flying, and the wizard's black robe was also billowing with the wind, outlining his sheltered figure. His handcuffs The hands in his sleeves were clasped together, and he stood tall with his back straight, his bright red eyes fixed on Qi Li, and he didn't say a word for a long time.
The tombkeeper on the side did not speak, his face was expressionless, neither disappointed nor happy, as if everything had nothing to do with him. He was silent for a long time, took a long breath, and then, he still squeezed out a few Character.
"Congratulations, my lord, you got what you wanted." After saying this, Yao Yan quietly glanced at Qi Li beside the fire. His face still had a half-smile expression. However, when Qi Li turned around and put his hand on his When it was on his shoulder, his body froze for a moment.
Qi Li said: "Yao Yan, why don't you? Now that you have fulfilled the last condition and helped me build this empty formation, it's time for me to fulfill my promise."
Yao Yan's face changed slightly and he bent down slightly.
"I will let you go find your sister and return to your homeland, but there is one thing I have concerns about. If yin and yang go retrograde, if we still meet one day, will you become my enemy?"
Under the thick ink-like sky, Yao Yan's face was suddenly pale. For a moment, he felt that death was coming from the devil-like man on the opposite side.
Yao Yan suddenly clenched his heart, his body was so tortured by pain that he had no strength to even smile. His old illness recurred again. He stared at the east and said in a low voice: "You know better than anyone else that such a day will never happen again."
"You and I have been together for many years, both as teachers and as friends, and we have relieved each other of a lot of loneliness. Now that you are leaving, I still feel a little bit reluctant to leave."
"Reluctant to give up!?" Yaoyan laughed helplessly, "The prince was joking."
How could he not know how ruthless and ruthless this man was and how vicious his iron fist was? The scene when he first became his disciple was still fresh in his memory.
…
The house slave grabbed his hair fiercely and said sarcastically: "Idiot, why don't you fight back...coward...waste..."
Yao Yan remained silent, letting him pull his scalp tighter and tighter. Suddenly, the slave raised his knee and knocked him to the ground.
The house slave stepped on his cheek, bent down, and threatened him in a vicious tone: "You should fight back, idiot. The princes are all waiting to see the show. If you remain indifferent, how will this show progress?
Otherwise, you will honestly tell me who is the mastermind behind your scenes?" As he said that, he timidly glanced at the Hun princes above the high hall, and saw that His Highness the Hun Prince had frowned and drank the cup displeasedly.
Medium wine.
The slave quickly raised his leg and kicked Yao Yan several times. He was suffering from an old disease and would be severely beaten, and he no longer had the strength to fight back.
Yao Yan's face was pressed against the cold ground, and his messy hair almost covered his entire head. In the hair, he remained motionless, only his eyes slowly turned.
In the distance, Qi Li's gaze fell here, a cold, emotionless gaze.
Yao Yan was in a daze, everything was obviously done according to his wishes. He knew that Qi Li ordered him to assassinate the eldest prince just to test his loyalty. He also knew that Qi Li had no intention of taking the eldest prince's life. He only wanted to see himself.
How would he complete this task? But when he deliberately exposed his whereabouts and tried every means to escape, he was caught by the troops Qi Li arranged in advance and sent back to the prince's mansion. He was given three hundred imperial rods and tortured in every possible way to extract a confession.
He couldn't pry his mouth open. On that day, the eldest prince ostensibly invited the princes to come to the show. In fact, he was just trying to set an example and show his power as the heir apparent. He felt that he had completely become a useless and ridiculous chess piece, but he didn't care.
No ability to struggle.
Especially, in front of that arrogant and indifferent master.
His last self-esteem was trampled away one by one.
Later, all kinds of cruel insults and tortures, watching his flesh being cut off to reveal numerous bones, being cut into pieces with thousands of knives, and being excruciatingly painful were all just a test of his loyalty to him.
After he was released as Teacher Qi Li, he crawled back to Qi Li's mansion with his whole body covered with a long trail of blood. After waiting outside the courtyard like a lost dog all night, the door finally opened the next day.
"Does it hurt?"
Qi Li's voice was always a little low, but you could clearly hear the hypocrisy in it.
He lingered over the wound as he felt the gentle movements of the beauty applying the ointment, but even if such a stunning beauty treated him personally, it could not alleviate the pain in his body at all. When Qi Li's painless greetings reached his ears, Yao Yan suddenly said:
She opened her eyes and glared at him fiercely. After that, the same fake smile appeared in her dark eyes: "The beauty's fingertips are soft, I enjoy it very much."
"Huh, really?" Qi Li didn't look at him from beginning to end. He just looked at the moon in the sky, with a cold look in the corner of his eyes. Later, he added with a smile: "You are very good."
Yao Yan laughed along with him. Under the moonlight, he felt like the best brother in the world: "Really?"
Qi Li squinted his eyes and watched as Yao Yan gritted his teeth and endured a burst of pain before finishing his sentence, "It's time to pretend."
Pain! The pain is indescribable. It seems like something is trying to dig out under the skin, and something is gnawing wantonly in the limbs and bones.
Yao Yan subconsciously grabbed the beauty's wrist with his backhand, his eyes as hot as coals.
poison?
The ointment used to treat wounds contains strange poison!
It was obvious that he had been tortured and was extremely weak, but his thin hands exuded frightening strength.
The beauty bit her lip and did not dare to scream. The cold wind blew hard across her face. The tears quickly disappeared in the wind and dropped to the corners of her mouth like two traces of ice.
He leaned close to the man sitting at the window. The noble prince suddenly said what he just said. It was really frightening, but the strange thing was that his face clearly showed a worried and gloomy look.
Is this also a show?
Regardless of whether it was acting or not, Qi Li was imprisoned in Tianque later. He had no parents, no brothers, and no partners. In the harsh environment, only Yao Yan's persistence remained. They depended on each other in the hopeless years, and they were obviously in despair. He is a prince, but he does not change his tone as a king and a servant. He feels the warmth and friendship that he has never experienced from his brothers, but he feels it from one of his own chess pieces, but he has never treated himself kindly, just like that time scene.
Yao Yan turned to look at the kneeling beauty, with compassion in his eyes, and gently wiped away the tears on her face, "I'm sorry, Princess, please continue."
Qi Li said calmly: "Yao Yan, with the noblest blood flowing in your body, you can never be tamed and work for one person wholeheartedly, right?"
"It turns out that you never believed me!" The cool ointment was applied to his body to offset some of the pain, and Yao Yan breathed a long sigh of relief, "Oh, forget it, if you say it's a disguise, then it's just a disguise! "
The arrogant third prince has never been willing to be stepped on by his brother and ignored by the king. After all, such an arrogant person cannot stay in a corner where others can't see him forever. It doesn't matter, since he doesn't believe in himself, Then they will always use each other as a way to maintain the special relationship between them.
"After everything is over, I hope you will fulfill a promise." Yaoyan's tone was always calm, and only the sweat he continued to shed revealed the pain he suffered, "I still have an unfulfilled wish."
"..."
"I want to find my sister and take her back to my hometown."
"What a delusion, Yao Yan, can you survive until everything is over?"
Having gone through the darkest times and seen too many ugly hearts, this Hun prince is truly ruthless.
He firmly promised: "For her, I will live until that time."
"Really? Since Yancheng caught you, I thought you were just a lonely person without any friends. So let's talk about your sister."
The cool breeze gently ruffled my hair.
The beauty dipped the medicine box and then applied the medicine.
"My sister!" The sad laughter echoed in the house. Yao Yan looked at the dark roof, laughing with tears in his eyes: "Except for having a weird temper, everything else is good. Let's set foot on this land together, and then Fate has tricked people. She was already alone, but she still couldn't depend on her. She was still a child with an uneasy mind. Now I don't know whether she is living well, how much suffering she has suffered, how many grievances she has suffered, and whether she has grown up. Big."
"You live so long, how can you grow up so easily? By the way, you have been wandering in this world for many years. Besides me, you must have been looking for other candidates, right?"
"There was once a kind-hearted noble son in Korea in the past." Yao Yan sighed earnestly: "Later, he was burned to death."
"Troubled times will never end well for a kind person, let alone a child of a noble family."
"This is a sin in the world! No one can live freely, and many people are so miserable that they still have a breath left. All I can do is rely on you." There was a trace of resignation in his eyes.
The painful light in a person's chest suddenly disappeared under the black sleep like a swimming fish.
"Yao Yan, you are still the same as you were ten years ago. You always talk about what wizards only know, which is to find and help people who change the world. No one knows what is going on in your mind. However,
I know one thing very well. If you hadn't been injured when I surrounded you in Yancheng, I would never have been able to easily succeed. After that, you became my disciple. Over the years, you have always stayed with me like a loyal dog.
By staying by your side and not leaving, you must be sure that I am the person you are looking for. Now why don’t you open your heart and tell me why you are doing all this? It shouldn’t be to follow the will of the gods, right?”
Just this faint smile, like ice meeting fire, all the cold tone just melted into the laughter.
"Hahaha! God? If it really exists, then he has already abandoned us... Ten years ago, I made it very clear that I am just a person who follows the world. If I really want to follow anything, it is also following the will of the devil.
"If the devil chooses you, I will be loyal to you. If the devil chooses someone else, I can also be a dog under his feet, no matter how he drives me."
Qi Li chuckled: "
What a huge irony. In fact, you are the one who is least qualified to be sad and helpless. It is precisely because people like you come into the world that you can push the world to the edge of destruction every time. There is no difference between you and the devil.
"
"If you want to become a sinner in hell, then I alone will be enough... As for my sister, I just hope she lives well... We have been apart for many years, when can I see her again?"
The warmth dissipated instantly, and Qi Li's eyes turned cruel gray, "Yaoyan, if I don't fulfill my promise, how can you see her?"
"..."
;;The word "you" in Yao Yan's mouth was swallowed back abruptly. It was like swallowing a razor blade, which scratched the entire chest.
…
After reviewing the prospect, Yao Yan straightened his body and was no longer humble. He was like a traveling passer-by, hanging as heavy as a mountain. He left with light steps. At this moment, from a long distance, he listened to
Until Yao Yan's serious and firm explanation: "Qili, as far as I am concerned, thank you for taking off my heavy burden. Everything in the past is regarded as a long journey. In the short time to come, I will not
To threaten you, all I need is Yao'er."
In the dim light of the fire, Qi Li looked at his face, which was so weak that it was almost transparent and could easily break like thin ice. After a while, he laughed silently: "Then, goodbye forever."
;The wind blows and the clouds move. The black clouds in the sky are blown by the long wind and roll in all directions like waves, presenting a deep night sky. The stars shine on the vast sea of clouds, giving a layer of desolation.
phantom.
After Yao Yan disappeared, Jialan mentioned to Qi Li: "Prince, if you don't kill this person, I'm afraid there will be heresy in the future."
Qi Li raised the corner of his mouth in vain, his eyes blurred: "He doesn't have much time left. Only I know why he was injured, how many injuries he suffered, and why he can't recover. He has been able to survive until now and has come to the end."