People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1085 Never change until death

Huashan Mountain is at the top, the cold wind is biting,

It wasn't until the sky became dark that Li Xuan and Zhao Gong led more than 20 Qianniu Guards and more than 20 Secret Guards to Beifeng Zhenwu Hall.

Two bloody corpses were dragged away from the side of the palace door, and more Qianniu Guards and Secret Guards had already rushed in with their heads down.

Standing in front of the hall, listening to the faint sounds of killing coming from inside, Li Xuan looked calm.

"Li Jingye" had already brought most of them down the mountain. Only a dozen guards were left on the mountain, and they were scattered. They couldn't stop Li Xuan, who was bent on a surprise attack.

Zhao Gong looked at the plaque above the Zhenwu Hall and said amidst the sounds of killing: "It is said that during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yu Wenyong heard that Taoist Jiao Daoguang lived alone on Yuntai Peak, eating clouds and drinking dew, and avoiding valleys without grains. There were always three people around him. Qingniao, after reporting the future events to him, went to the mountain court in person to ask, and built a Zhenwu Palace here for him to live in. Later, a strange thing happened."

Zhao Gong looked sideways at Li Xuan and asked, "Da Lang, do you know what is going on?"

"When Yu Wenyong was building the palace, there was no soil on the peak and lacked lamp oil. Jiao Daoguang prayed silently, and soil gushed out from under the cliff in an endless stream; the oil in the oil tank was also full overnight and was inexhaustible." Li Xuan looked calm, Not caring at all.

"So Da Lang, is it true?" Zhao Gong looked at Li Xuan curiously.

"The Five Ghosts Moving Technique, but this kind of magic is more here than there." After a slight pause, Li Xuan calmly shook her head and said: "Many times, these 'Five Ghosts' are not necessarily If it’s a real ghost, it’s very likely that it’s a human being.”

"So you're saying that only people carry the soil and lamp oil?" Zhao Gong understood.

"Taoist practice has always been well-founded. Whatever comes, goes, revolving back and forth, just like the cause and effect of reincarnation." Li Xuan listened to the sound of killing in the hall and then stepped inside. In the main hall, he then said: "Send the order, all Taoist priests in the hall are not allowed to go out."

"Here!" Zhou Qian immediately handed over his hand and quickly made arrangements.

Zhao Gong then looked at Li Xuan and asked, "Da Lang, what are you going to do next?"

Li Jingye is probably hiding in this palace, or he may be hiding in other places. It is not easy to find him.

But first you need to start here.

"Uncle, do you want to use complicated means or simple means?" Li Xuan asked casually.

Zhao Gong rolled his eyes at Li Xuan angrily: "Forget about complicated methods, use simple methods to solve the problem quickly and directly."

"Li Jingye is hiding in the Zhenwu Palace. Either he is pretending to be someone else, or he is hiding in an unknown corner." Li Xuan looked at the entire hall and said softly: "Just put out the smoke and hide everyone. They were all fascinated, and then they were all taken out one by one, and my nephew took his pulse. Just by taking the pulse, he could immediately tell who this person was."

"Yes, the Taoist method and Li Jingye's practice are not the same thing." Zhao Gong understood immediately, and then he looked at Li Xuan in surprise: "If Li Jingye is hiding in a corner of this temple, once he sees When the smoke starts, he might jump out immediately... He's afraid of being burned to death."

Li Xuan nodded lightly and said, "Go to Zhenwu Hall and offer incense to Emperor Zhenwu first."

"Okay." Zhao Gong followed immediately and called everyone together.

After Li Xuan respectfully offered incense, he began to use smoke to diffuse the entire hall.

The smoke they used was all Li Xuan's own.

Even people with strong cultivation will be fascinated once they inhale it.

Of course, if he covered his mouth and nose to hold his breath in advance and didn't inhale a little, that would be another matter, but it wouldn't last long.

……

Li Xuan stood in front of the palace door and said softly: "When you lift someone, use the back of a knife to make a cut on the neck. Be careful, the person may not faint."

Zhao Gong was outside the palace and looked up at Li Xuan in surprise. Li Xuan's vigilance surprised him.

"Here!" More than twenty Qianniu Guards who had taken the antidote and wore hoods rushed into each room and began to carry people one by one.

Li Xuan lowered her eyes and held the hilt of the sword. The more than 20 secret guards behind him did the same.

"Be careful..." A muffled groan, followed by the crackling sound of fighting, sounded in the deepest part of the palace.

A somewhat immature voice shouted angrily: "Who are you?"

There was a sneer at the corner of Li Xuan's mouth, and the long sword was unsheathed in an instant. In the blink of an eye, he had already led people to the deepest part of the palace.

……

In the innermost room, the sound of swords clashing kept ringing.

Zhou Qian, and two other Qianniu Guards were fighting fiercely with a young man who looked to be in his early twenties.

Although he is very young, his various moves are terrifyingly sophisticated.

"Everyone, get out." Li Xuan's calm voice sounded outside the stone room.

The next moment, Zhou Qian and the other two Qianniu Guards slashed forward desperately, as if they were fighting for their lives with Li Jingye with one strike.

Even though Li Jingye knew that they were going to retreat, he had no choice but to retreat.

Qianniuwei's method is definitely not a false shot, but a real desperate effort.

If not for anything else, it’s because these Qianniu Guards use the same tactics passed down by Duke Wei.

As for Wei Gong's Art of War, Li Jing also personally handed it over to Li Ji.

But over the years, they have become more sophisticated in details, and even Li Jingye cannot beat them all at once.

……

Standing in the room, Li Jingye raised his head, his cold eyes fell on Li Xuan, and asked without covering up: "How did you find me?"

"I didn't find you here. It's just that since I went up the mountain, I have been searching every place and no one. I can always find you." Li Xuan calmly waved her hand and said behind him, More Qianniuwei have arrived.

The swordsmen, archers, and spearmen all formed a formation behind Li Xuan. "You thought from the beginning that I was not dead. Is there something wrong with me? Is it because the 'I' outside didn't act like me enough?" Li Jingye stared at Li Xuan deeply.

Li Jingye has been hiding here for a while. He thought that everything was done carefully, but he didn't expect that Li Xuan immediately controlled everyone as soon as he arrived.

Then, without any hesitation at all, he released smoke to kill people.

"I didn't talk to him, so I don't know if he acted like you." Li Xuan glanced across the room and said at the same time: "There are three reasons why I am sure he is not you."

"Three flaws? That many?" Li Jingye gently rotated the sword in his hand, his face full of suspicion.

"First, compared to yours, his skin is still a little rough." Li Xuan shook his head slightly.

Although the fake Li Jingye below looks very similar, and the distortion after death is even more difficult to doubt, the skin on his body is still very different from Li Jingye. This is a huge flaw.

"Is there such a big difference? He has been preparing for a long time to be my substitute, and it is normal for my skin to be almost normal when I am wandering around outside." Li Jingye looked up at Li Xuan, his eyes full of disbelief.

Li Xuan shook his head and said: "The skin on the outside of the clothes can be explained, but on the inside of the clothes, he and you are very different in origin."

Although Li Jingye was not spoiled since childhood, he was still very different from ordinary people.

It can even be said to be heaven and earth.

"Second, there is still magnanimity." Li Xuan suddenly smiled and gritted his teeth and said: "His death was too ordinary and without magnanimity. If it was really you, Li Jingye, who died, then even if you died, you would still stare. Looking at the world with squinted eyes, looking at the world with a vicious look, instead of looking relieved."

Li Jingye fell silent.

Indeed, although the person who played him was very similar, and he had even considered the changes caused by the distortion of his face after death, he did not expect that in the other person's heart, after he died, the other person actually looked relieved, and This happened to be a flaw that Li Xuan saw.

This is beyond his control.

"Third, you should not kill Master Xuanxuan." Li Xuan's face turned cold. He looked at Li Jingye and said, "Master Xuanxuan died so peacefully, so calm that it was almost weird. He used his calmness to , told me that there was something wrong with your death."

"Ha!" Li Jingye was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but laugh, shook his head, and said: "Yes, I know that this kind of Taoist master is not so easy to kill. If I have a chance, I will let him see through me. The secret, and I didn’t expect that he actually knew that ‘I’ was not me.”

"What about his apprentice?" Li Xuan glanced at the door and sighed.

This kind of place is where the core character in the movie is. Taking into account the age of the person played by Li Jingye, there is no need to say the identity of this person.

"He died, and his body was thrown down the mountain." Li Jingye said casually, as if it was not a human life at all, but a cat or a dog.

Li Xuan's breathing became heavy. He squinted his eyes, looked at Li Jingye, and said: "I'm afraid it's not that simple for you to set up this trap today. Use the identity of Xuanxuan's disciple to re-enter Chang'an, or even enter the The palace…”

The relationship between Taoism and the Li family is extremely close, and there are more Taoist priests in the palace than people think.

There are people walking in Louguan, Maoshan, Longhu Mountain, Qingcheng Mountain, Qingyang Palace, and Taiqing Palace.

If Li Jingye used his identity as Xuanxuan's disciple to get involved with a certain master of Louguan Taoism, and at the same time he could stay in the palace...

"It turns out that you have already prepared everything." Li Xuan gave Li Jingye a deep look.

Undoubtedly, it was too late to make preparations now. Li Jingye must have made preparations at Louguandao before that.

"Go back and check. I want to see what you can find out." Li Jingye looked at Li Xuan with cold eyes.

Li Xuan was speechless.

He knew that Li Jingye was betting that Li Xuan would never put much effort into the real people in the palace.

Really check, you are a fool.

After gathering her thoughts, Li Xuan looked at Li Jingye and said seriously: "Are you going to bring your last words to His Majesty and the Queen?"

Li Jingye suddenly fell silent. He saw behind Li Xuan. At this time, the sword and shield hand had retreated further back, and a dozen crossbowmen had already stood behind Li Xuan.

As long as Li Xuan gives the order, these archers will fire.

"If I give up now, is it still too late?" Li Jingye looked at Li Xuan deeply.

Li Xuan shook her head calmly.

"Okay, then please tell your Majesty: Too..." As soon as Li Jingye spoke, Li Xuan shouted coldly: "Fire the arrow!"

Countless crossbow arrows hit Li Jingye like a rain of bees.

In an instant, the long sword in Li Jingye's hand kept spinning like a spiral, and a sword curtain instantly appeared in front of Li Jingye's eyes.

He blocked the crossbow arrow and wanted to say something else. At this time, he suddenly saw the calmness in Li Xuan's eyes.

calm.

It doesn't matter.

He understood immediately.

The next moment, Li Jingye stepped on his foot and rushed directly towards Li Xuan.

A round of arrow rain just fell, and the next moment, a brilliant sword light flew up.

A line of blood has appeared on Li Jingye's throat.

(End of this chapter)