I use my daughter's body to cut down the rivers and lakes

Chapter 317 Zhurong Pearl

Liu Qi calmly examined the wooden sword in his hand, with no emotion on his face. He didn't seem surprised that the legendary killing sword was a crudely made wooden sword.

His thumb gently rubbed the scribbled words on the handle of the knife until there was a "bang" sound, then Liu Qi moved his eyes to look in the direction where the sound came from.

"Ah ah ah..."

I saw the old man sharpening the knife curled up on the ground, seemingly in great pain. His body was shaking constantly and he was sobbing hysterically.

In Liu Qi's eyes, countless gray-white auras gushed out from the old man sharpening the knife. Then she felt the wooden sword in her hand tremble slightly, so her eyes moved slightly, and a stream of true energy was silently injected into the wooden sword.

hum-

The grayish-white aura emanating from the old man sharpening the knife suddenly trembled, and then seemed to sense something, turning into streams of light and rushing towards Liu Qi's direction.

Just as the first gray-white mist hit the wooden sword, everything in front of Liu Qi's eyes suddenly began to spin and flash wildly like a revolving lantern.

Liu Qi, who felt something was wrong, suddenly focused his eyes, and then a pale breath spread out from under his feet. The scene in front of him froze instantly and returned to the appearance of a dim room.

But as the gray-white murderous intent on the wooden sword condensed more and more, a huge light curtain appeared in front of Liu Qi's eyes.

Mountains, rivers, battlefields littered with corpses, deserted cities, small villages with only a few chimneys...

Various images on the light curtain flashed by one after another at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye, until they finally stopped in front of a dilapidated thatched hut.

"Heng'er, after dad leaves, you must act like a man and protect your mother and your brothers and sisters." A man in simple armor was handing a wooden sword to a boy in front of him who was not even as tall as his waist.

Just as Liu Qi focused his eyes slightly, trying to see the two people's appearance clearly, the picture was suddenly swallowed by darkness, and a blood moon rose high in the darkness.

"Kill!"

"mother!"

"Please, they are still children..."

Amidst the noise and chaos, the image on the light screen instantly shattered into pieces.

Liu Qi looked carefully and saw various scenes appearing in the palm-sized fragments.

Although the scenes presented in most of the fragments are different, the figure of the thin man holding a wooden sword seems to be indispensable in every scene.

At this moment, all the fragments condensed again and turned into a complete light curtain!

On the vast wasteland, two figures stood facing each other.

"Xiao Lang, I can't turn back." One of the gray-haired men said loudly, and then his right hand behind his back slowly moved out, holding the wooden sword!

Wow…

A familiar voice echoed in Liu Qi's ears. The scene of raging waves seemed to reappear in front of her eyes. Her heart moved slightly, and as her true energy circulated wildly in her body, everything in front of her disappeared in an instant!
Zheng——

Liu Qi clenched his five fingers tightly, and the killing knife in his hand trembled violently, and then made a sharp humming sound!
Liu Qi's eyes shone: "Every wrong has its perpetrator, and I didn't kill your family. I've been dead for hundreds of years, why are you still angry with me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a pale mist instantly emerged from behind Liu Qi, and then flowed towards Liu Qi's right arm. The grayish-white aura lingering on the Killing Knife seemed to sense the danger and also flowed along the handle towards Liu Qi's five fingers.

But in the end, Liu Qi's pale aura was more powerful. The grayish-white aura collapsed at the first touch, and then the pale murderous intent instantly engulfed the killing knife.

A white light seemed to flash across Liu Qi's eyes. As his eyes slightly opened, the pale aura that was originally hovering over the Killing Knife instantly overflowed...

"Not good!" In a room across the street, the man in red let out a sharp explosion, and then a red aura appeared in front of him.

buzzing...

At the moment when the pale murderous intent and the scarlet aura collided, an eardrum-bursting clanging sound instantly filled the entire river bank.

At this moment, Liu Qi also turned his head abruptly. As his eyes suddenly focused, the pale aura in front of him instantly condensed and turned into a blade of light in an instant.

boom! boom! boom!
Across the street, a figure wrapped in flames broke through the window and then swept away into the distance like lightning.

But just as he stepped onto a roof, he looked back at the warehouse a hundred steps away and saw still no movement. So he felt relieved and was about to turn back and continue to escape, but suddenly his eyes trembled violently, and then his forehead was instantly covered with sweat stains the size of beans.

His trembling eyes drooped slightly, and he suddenly saw that the roof under his feet had turned into a frosty white.

hum-

Then his ears moved and he turned back suddenly. The approaching sword light was reflected in his dilated pupils.

Liu Qi in the room on the second floor of the warehouse suddenly frowned, her deep eyes trembled slightly, and then the pale aura extending from under her feet quickly converged.

Just after the last trace of pale air completely disappeared from under his feet, Liu Qi suddenly loosened the five fingers of his right hand, and the wooden sword fell to the ground with a slight "clang" sound.

As Liu Qi lowered his right hand to his side, he glanced at the killing knife that fell at his feet with a frown, then turned his head to look at the old man who was curled up in a ball sharpening the knife.

The knife-sharpening old man's body had stopped trembling and lay motionless as if dead, but Liu Qi could still feel a faint breath from him.

So she immediately asked in a cold voice: "Is the man in the next building the King of Black Prison?"

The old man sharpening the knife didn't make any movement.

Seeing that the old man sharpening the knife ignored him, Liu Qi raised his hand and shot a finger of energy at Liu Er, whose life or death was unknown, sitting on the armchair. The moment the energy landed on his shoulder, Liu Er jumped up from the chair with a "gulp".

After looking around in a daze, Liu Er finally saw Liu Qi in front of him. Just as he was puzzled and ready to speak, Liu Qi said "keep an eye on him" and flashed out from the window behind him.

Liu Er scratched his head in confusion, then turned around and saw the old man sharpening a knife curled up on the ground. He was stunned for a moment, then the corners of his mouth slowly curled up, revealing a sinister smile.

Liu Qi now came to the rooftop a hundred steps away, exactly where the man in red had just stayed. She looked around slowly, then lowered her head and saw the cracked tiles on the roof.

Liu Qi's eyes moved slightly, and then she jumped down from the roof and landed in the alley under the eaves. Right at her feet, there lay a broken arm.

The broken arm should have been cut off at shoulder level. Liu Qi kicked the broken arm with his toes, and the broken arm rolled around, revealing the broken wound covered with white frost.

Seeing this, Liu Qi's eyes darkened slightly, then he shook his head silently, turned around and left.

This time, Liu Qi returned to the second floor of the warehouse via the stairs. When she pushed open the door, she saw Liu Er dragging the knife sharpener onto the armchair where he had just sat.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Liu Er looked sideways warily. When he saw that it was Liu Qi, he breathed a sigh of relief and then grinned, "I knew they couldn't hurt you!" Liu Qi couldn't help but think of the scene of Liu Er being stabbed in the chest by him, so he collected his thoughts and asked in a deep voice, "What are you doing in Jiangnan?"

"Hmph!" Liu Er pushed the knife sharpener onto a chair, then snorted twice, "Do you think I wanted to come to this place of trouble? It was the Black Prison King who forced me to come here!"

After saying that, the knife sharpening old man, who was slumped in the armchair, closed his eyes tightly and pretended to be dead. Liu Er immediately grinned and bared his teeth: "These old bastards finally fell into my hands!"

Suddenly Liu Er frowned, turned to look at Liu Qi and asked, "Where is the Black Prison King, the old pervert in red clothes, did you kill him?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Qi immediately shook his head, then looked back at the killing knife on the ground. After pondering for a moment, he slowly walked forward, bent down and picked up the killing knife again.

"The old man never dreamed that the killing knife would be a wooden sword that could hardly kill even a chicken." Liu Qi turned the killing knife in his hand and then said in a deep voice.

"You...how do you know?" The knife-sharpening old man finally stopped pretending to be dead. He slumped in the armchair like a puddle of mud. His cloudy eyes revealed a look of madness as he stared straight at Liu Qi.

"Guessed." Liu Qi responded.

The old man sharpening the knife was obviously stunned when he heard this.

Liu Qi stared at the two characters "Fang Heng" scrawled on the hilt and said slowly, "Fang Hen didn't leave many records, but we can still get a glimpse of it from some clues."

"The country was in turmoil back then, and Fang Hen's father died on the battlefield. Later, bandits plundered Fang Hen's hometown, leading to the deaths of his mother and his younger brothers and sisters."

"There is no hatred without reason in this world." Liu Qi put down the killing knife, then stared at the old man sharpening the knife and said, "If Fang Hei just wanted to vent his hatred, there is no need to fight for supremacy in the world."

"So I guess everything he did back then was just to end the chaos in this world and bring peace to the world."

"To stop war by killing, this is the true meaning of the Mad Blade."

Liu Qi lowered his head in silence and muttered in a low voice: "He is indeed crazy enough."

Before this, Liu Qi had also thought about what kind of person Fang Hen would be.

She had also guessed that the reason why Fang Hen came up with the intention to kill was purely because there were so many wars in the troubled times, and he killed too many people on the battlefield and thus created the Mad Blade.

Now it seems that Liu Qi was still too naive.

Fang Hen's tactic of stopping war by killing is considered an absolutely inhumane act by a madman in the eyes of anyone.

It is worthy of him that he can comprehend the mad knife which is equally inhumane and hurts others and himself.

Simply put, Fang Hen attributed the chaos in the world to the behavior of specific people.

It was the army that directly triggered the war, so he massacred all the armies he saw. Even in the era when the last three emperors were vying for supremacy in the Central Plains, Fang Hen did not have any organized army under his command.

It was the local tyrants who exploited the people at all levels, causing the people to live in misery, so wherever he went, he would slaughter all the local wealthy officials without asking why.

Not to mention those who are already guilty of crimes.

From petty thefts to robbers, Fang Han wanted to kill as many people as possible!
In Liu Qi's opinion, if it weren't for what Fang Hen said during the final battle with Xiao Lang, just based on his actions, he would be nothing more than a machine born for killing.

Of course, this simple and crude method does not seem to be completely ineffective.

At least under Fang Hen's rule back then, most ordinary people lived a life full of fear but with enough food and clothing and peace.

To a certain extent, all the people under Fang Hen's rule were his slaves. However, Fang Hen, the slave owner, not only did not exploit them, but only wanted to see them live a life of full food and drink every day.

Fang Hen used killing as a means to create a paradise on earth that could not be seen closely.

It is no wonder that after the establishment of the Great Qi Dynasty, all records related to Fang Hen were deliberately erased.

"Puff!" After hearing what Liu Qi said, the old man sharpening the knife raised his head and spat out a mouthful of blood mist, then his head dropped and he died on the spot!

Liu Qi remained calm and composed throughout the whole process, but Liu Er became really anxious after seeing the knife sharpener die. He was originally planning to give the knife sharpener a good beating!

Now that the person is dead, who can he vent his anger to?

Liu Qi was about to turn around and leave when she suddenly felt a hot and pure breath emanating from the corner of the room. She immediately looked back and found a pile of debris in the corner. It was the pile of unknown material that had just been wrapped around the Killing Knife.

Liu Qi's eyes flickered slightly, and then he raised his hand and pointed his five fingers towards the corner. Suddenly, a pile of debris was blown away by the strong wind, and then a hint of red light appeared.

Whoosh!
The red light was attracted to Liu Qi's palm.

Feeling the burning heat coming from the palm of his hand, Liu Qi raised his eyebrows slightly, and at the same time a light green aura emerged from his hand.

"What is this?" Liu Er was also attracted by the movement here and turned his head to look over. When his eyes fell on the round object with red light in Liu Qi's palm, he was immediately surprised and asked.

Liu Qi was also looking at the object in his hand, then slowly shook his head.

In her fair palm, there lay a ball the size of an egg, emitting a dazzling red light all over, and Liu Qi could feel that the ball contained amazing energy.

……

"Zhurong Pearl!" Zhou Mi, who always looked at the world with a calm and composed smile, saw for the first time that Liu Qi behaved so out of control. She almost jumped up from her chair, and then stared straight at the ball-like object with red light in Liu Qi's hand!

When Liu Qi came back, he thought of the old antique Zhou Mi at home, so he took out the ball-shaped object to see if she knew its origin.

Turns out she actually knew him!

"Back then, the treasure of Zhurong Palace fell into Xiao Lang's hands after the death of 'Red Emperor' Tuoba Xiong. I remember that Xiao Lang buried this pearl together with Fang Hen's body..."

Zhou Mi was halfway through her words when she suddenly realized that Liu Qi was beside her, so she quickly covered her mouth!
Liu Qi looked at Zhou Mi with a gloomy gaze, and then said in a cold voice: "Empress Dowager, how many things are you hiding from me?"

Zhou Mi slowly turned his head to the other side. Finally, perhaps because he felt that Liu Qi's gaze was too cold and piercing, he turned back and looked at Liu Qi, pretending to be calm and smiled: "I didn't hide it from you on purpose. After all, you didn't ask me!"

Liu Qi just looked at her quietly.

Zhou Mi felt a little scared when Liu Qi looked at him, and finally he could only sigh helplessly: "Okay, I'll tell you everything. When Fang Hen died, his murderous intent had penetrated deep into his bones and was out of control. Even if he was buried deep underground, it would cause the extinction of all living things within a few miles. So Xiao Lang wanted to bury the Zhurong Pearl with him, and use the Zhurong Pearl to suppress the murderous intent in his bones..."

"Hey!" Zhou Mi was halfway through her words when she saw the killing knife that Liu Qi took out, and her eyes instantly widened.

"The Killing Knife! You dug out Fang Hen!"

(End of this chapter)