The secret passage is very narrow and can only accommodate one person walking alone. However, after walking down for dozens of steps, the view suddenly becomes clear.
Under the secret passage sealed with a golden coffin, there turned out to be a large-scale underground palace!
Following Yuan Tiangang's footsteps, the bronze lamps on the walls around the underground palace were lit up one by one. Although the light was not yet bright, it was enough for people who came down here to see things.
The structure of this underground palace is not complicated, and there are no mechanisms blocking the way. Everyone followed Yuan Tiangang and moved forward slowly, and finally stopped in front of a huge, wide and thick stone door.
On both sides of the stone gate stand two equally tall stone sculptures, one civil and one military, resembling door gods.
Perhaps Xizong, who built this place, also expected that people like Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde would appear again in the future to protect Li Tang, right?
"Your Highness, please!"
This is the third time Yuan Tiangang has repeated the same words today.
He raised his hand and shook it slightly, then pushed the stone door open, then bowed slightly to Li Xingyun.
Knowing that he could not refuse, Li Xingyun silently carried the fake Li who had fallen into a coma due to serious injuries. In fact, no one in his heart knew what kind of feelings he had for this unknown brother.
The other party has really done evil things that hurt him and his friends, and even harmed their families, but this person's true identity, his subsequent collapse and hysterical performance, and his final abandonment by Yuan Tiangang
The tragic situation of Lu was especially sympathetic to Li Xingyun.
In Yuan Tiangang's eyes, that man was a real chess piece. Now that he has completed his mission, he is an abandoned piece that is unnecessary to even look at.
What about yourself?
Although Yuan Tiangang has always been respectful to him, calling him "Your Highness, Your Highness" all day long, and never hesitates to salute, but no matter his behavior or anything else, he has never really respected his choice?
In his eyes, is he just a tool used to restore the Tang Dynasty? Once he agrees to become the emperor, Yuan Tiangang can justifiably attack other princes in the name of justice, and then... abandon himself as nothing.
shoe?
The more he thought about it, the more intense the sadness in his heart became for the death of the rabbit and the fox, and he could only move forward in a daze.
However, an arm stretched in front of him.
"Your Highness."
Yuan Tiangang gestured to the fake Li on Li Xingyun's back with his eyes, implying that this was not a place where the other party could enter.
But Li Xingyun was empathizing with his unknown brother at the moment and was not willing to let him go, so he said, "He is also a member of my Li family, and he is qualified to advance and retreat with me."
Unfortunately, Yuan Tiangang didn't buy it, and once again took the opportunity to force Li Xingyun: "Whether he is qualified or not, His Highness has not said yet."
Li Xingyun was helpless. Sometimes he didn't think of yelling directly at Yuan Tiangang, "I have agreed to be the emperor, why don't you, an old boy, kneel down for me?!"
But this quick thought was quickly discarded by him. Li Xingyun silently put the person behind him on the ground, gritted his molar teeth and said: "Okay, today you and I will make an end here!
"
Having said that, he didn't care what happened to Yuan Tiangang and walked towards the stone gate alone.
Yuan Tiangang turned around and glanced at the many princes and masters standing there honestly below, especially spending the longest time on the faces of Li Maozhen and Chi Yao.
In fact, Yuan Tiangang did nothing in the process of training Li Xingyun. While he was teaching Li Xingyun his skills, he was also clearing the way for him to revive the Tang Dynasty in the future.
For example, Zhu Wen and his son Liang Guo, who were the greatest threat, had been eliminated one by one when Li Xingyun first came out of the world.
In addition, on his death list, great princes such as Li Maozhen, Yang Bo, Meng Zhixiang, etc. were also listed. Once Li Xingyun figured out the plan to restore the Tang Dynasty, he would immediately have people take action.
But now...
Just as he was thinking about it, Li Xingyun in front of him had already urged him: "Are you leaving?!"
"Yes, sir..."
Yuan Tiangang turned around and was about to confess, but was interrupted by Li Xingyun coldly: "You are who you are, Chen, and you are not yet!"
These words pierced Yuan Tiangang's chest like a sharp sword. He tried his best to support the Tang Dynasty for more than three hundred years, but in the end he was not recognized as a Tang official by the descendants of the Li family...
"Hahaha!"
Yuan Tiangang raised his head, covering up his sadness with laughter, and then ignored the things outside and followed Li Xingyun's footsteps behind the stone gate.
boom!
At the last moment when the stone door slammed shut, a dark shadow flashed on the ground and jumped in.
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Behind the stone gate is a long corridor, with dragon pillars standing on both sides. At the end of the corridor, a golden dragon chair is placed at the highest point. And in the shadow further away, is
A bunch of withered bones half kneeling on the ground.
Li Xingyun was shocked when he saw this and asked: "They...are the bad people responsible for building this place?"
"It's nothing more than dry bones, nothing worth mentioning."
Yuan Tiangang didn't want to talk more about this, but his performance made Li Xingyun feel more and more that he was ruthless, cold-blooded and cruel.
So in the ensuing conversation, almost everyone was blaming Yuan Tiangang both inside and outside the words.
Perhaps because he had made a decision, Yuan Tiangang became less cold and was willing to sit down and have a good chat with Li Xingyun.
But it's a pity that Chi Yao could hear clearly in the shadows that Yuan Tiangang seemed to be making his last effort, but Li Xingyun still couldn't understand it, so in the end, Yuan Tiangang could only continue to choose the method of provocation.
Just like before, the concubine prince was used to force Li Xingyun to move forward, but this time, it was him himself.
He first threatened that if Li Xingyun was still unwilling to be emperor, then he would become the emperor himself.
This made Li Xingyun deeply uneasy.
Then he gave Li Xingyun a copy of the twenty-four secret techniques of the Longquan Sword Jue, saying that it was left by Li Chunfeng. He asked Li Xingyun to learn it first and then be killed by him, so as to end his three hundred years of trying to defeat Li Chunfeng.
wish.
After this combination of punches, Li Xingyun's eyes suddenly turned red.
After reading the sword manual, he picked up the Longquan sword and rushed forward.
What followed was a beating, but during the beating, his swordsmanship became more and more mellow, and his strength gradually increased.
While Yuan Tiangang was beating him, he kept making taunts. Not only did he mock Li Xingyun, but he also mocked his unknown brother, including his father Zhaozong, uncle Xi Zong, etc., which made Li Xingyun almost crazy.
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Finally, under Li Xingyun's fatal sword blow that swayed all his internal strength, Yuan Tiangang suddenly gave up all resistance and allowed the broad sword to pierce his chest fiercely.
Li Xingyun, who had already been blinded by anger, was stunned on the spot by the cliff-hanging move. Then, as if he had thought of something, his eyes began to become frightened.