Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 634: End of Volume - Feng Qingyang and Concubine Dong Shuni
"This..." Li Yuan looked at the four dishes on the table with hesitation.

"Your Majesty, this is not only for the eldest and third sons, it is also for us."

"You...you know?"

Dong Shu Ni nodded, her tone changed, and she looked determined: "If Your Majesty agrees to Shu Ni's wish, Shu Ni is willing to serve Your Majesty for the rest of her life. If Your Majesty disagrees, please give Shu Ni a foot of white silk and let me go with the eldest master, so that I will not betray the oath I made with him until old age."

Li Yuan's heart was struggling, his eyes were wandering, and his expression kept changing.

Thinking about Shang Xiufang's words, and then looking at the peerless beauty in front of him whom he had been thinking about day and night and was eager to take into his harem, he finally made up his mind.

"Okay, for you... no, for us, I will kill Li Shimin, the shameless and rebellious son who killed his brother."

Dong Shu Ni raised her wine glass and pretended to sigh to the sky: "My Lord, have you seen this in the spirit of heaven? Shu Ni and His Majesty... are about to help you and Yuan Ji get revenge. After that, I will take care of His Majesty, and you can rest in peace."

After saying this, he tilted the wine glass and poured it around the food table.

……

Half an hour later.

Li Yuan left Yuhan Garden accompanied by the eunuchs. After seeing them off, Dong Shu Ni returned to her room and first ordered the palace maids to clean up the leftovers. Then she turned and went into the bedroom next door and sat in front of the bed to take a rest. Just as she was about to turn off the lights, a gust of wind blew by and two more people appeared at the door.

"Sister Jiao..."

She was not surprised to see Ling Longjiao, because Ling Longjiao had instructed her to do what happened today, and the other person...

"It's you?!"

"Are you surprised?"

Chu Pingsheng flicked his fingers back, and Rong Jiaojiao took up her sword and left, going outside to get some fresh air.

"What are you here for?"

Dong Shu Ni hated the Li family and Shuanglong, but that didn't mean she would be friendly to Xiao Chu Zhennan King who had a close relationship with the Dugu family. After all, in Dong Shu Ni's understanding, Wang Shichong died at the hands of You Chuhong, and after this year's Spring Festival, if nothing unexpected happened, he would be the son-in-law of the Dugu family.

"After all, we almost became husband and wife. This attitude is not good."

"Humph."

Dong Shu Ni looked indignant.

Chu Pingsheng said, "If you had listened to Wang Shichong and married me obediently, you wouldn't have gotten into so much trouble. The Wang family wouldn't have been executed, and I wouldn't have spent so much time and effort and taken so many risks to get the Chai family to its current status."

"I will redeem myself for the mistakes I made. You don't need to pretend to be nice to me."

"Hypocritical? Do I need to be hypocritical to you? Jiaojiao just asked me to help you."

"How can you help me?"

"Now Li Yuan has agreed to help you kill Li Shimin. Your goal of inciting brothers to kill each other and father and son to become enemies will soon be achieved. But have you ever thought about this? If Li Yuan wins this fight, you will have to sleep with this old man for the rest of your life. If Li Shimin wins, he will definitely kill you with his cold blood. Only a few people in the Li family will die, and their descendants will still have a way to live. It's not like the Wang family, which will be completely uprooted."

Dong Shu Ni pursed her lips and gritted her teeth and said, "It's come to this, I can't care so much."

"So your sister Jiao feels sorry for you and doesn't want to see you go to a dead end, so she begged me to help you, but... you know, I'm a businessman." Chu Pingsheng walked to her side: "Do you want to make a deal?"

"What deal?"

He leaned over and whispered a few words.

Dong Shu Ni's expression kept changing and she was very hesitant.

"You are not afraid of death in order to avenge the Li family. What is this sacrifice? I will give you three days to think about it. If you are late, I will not wait any longer."

Chu Pingsheng waved and walked outside.

"Okay, I'll make this deal!"

He had only taken two steps when she responded with a stern look on her face.

"happy."

Chu Pingsheng didn't look back, and quickly left the room. With the slight sound of clothes, he and Rong Jiaojiao left.

……

The next day and night.

Thirty miles east of Chang'an City, inside the camp of the Changlin Army.

Li Shimin took off his heavy armor and combat boots, walked to the couch and sat down, picked up the documents on the table and looked through the secret report submitted by Changsun Wuji.

At this moment, a gust of wind came in from somewhere and blew out the lamp on the table.

Li Shimin quickly took out a fire starter, opened the lid and blew it, waiting for the flame to rise and ignite the candle on the table. But just as he was about to sit down, he suddenly noticed a figure in front of the rack where the armor was hung.

"Come……"

He had just started to shout when the man pointed his finger. With his martial arts skills, he had no power to resist and was hit in the mute point, unable to make a sound.

Only then did Li Shimin see the man's appearance clearly. He was wearing a long gown with sleeves full of fresh air. He had a long sword on his back, a thunder-struck wooden hairpin on his head, and a long beard like a halberd. He looked otherworldly and otherworldly, a true hermit.

"I'm going to untie your acupuncture points. Don't call for help. Do you understand?"

Li Shimin nodded slightly.

He knew very well that with the Taoist's martial arts skills, it would be easy to kill him. Since the other party only pressed his mute point, he must have something to say to him.

call out.

The old Taoist gave another tap, and the acupoints became unblocked, and Li Shimin was able to speak.

"Dare you ask me your senior's name?"

"Feng Qingyang."

"Feng Qingyang?" Li Shimin's face changed drastically. The last time he heard this name was when Xiao Meiniang returned to Luoyang from Jiangdu. Since then, the Sword Saint Feng Qingyang disappeared.

"I wonder why Senior Feng came to Chang'an this time?"

Li Shimin responded with great alertness. After all, Feng Qingyang was Empress Xiao's backer and was his enemy rather than friend.

"You should have heard that during the Lingnan Campaign, Xiao Meiniang used the Heavenly Demon Force Field of the Yin Gui Sect to face the attack of Heavenly Blade Song Que on the battlefield."

"Yes, no one would have thought that the Empress Dowager would have such power." "What do you think about this?"

"..."

"There was also the incident after the Battle of Funiushan that a fire broke out in the courtyard of Emperor Huangtai of Xingyang City in the middle of the night, causing his death."

Li Shimin linked these two things together and sorted them out. Suddenly his face changed: "Senior Feng means..."

"That's right. The real Empress Xiao has been held hostage by the Chai family. The Grand Empress Dowager who appeared in front of everyone during the Lingnan battle was actually Empress Yin Zhu Yuyan in disguise."

"!!!!!!"

That would make sense.

If Xiao Meiniang had a high level of martial arts skills, how could she have sat idly by and watched the Yuwen family kill her own descendants in Jiangdu two years ago?

It is well known that Chai Shao and Zhu Yuyan opened a husband-and-wife shop in the Demon Sect.

Given the strength of these two people and the sects behind them, are they willing to submit to Xiao Meiniang?

Only the setting that Zhu Yuyan disguised herself as Xiao Meiniang and secretly sat on the throne of the Empress of Xiao Chu can be explained, as well as the illogical things like Jiangnan King Lin Shihong and Xiangyang Qian Duguan, who were from the Yingui School, quickly surrendered; they had no aunt-nephew relationship and showed no mercy to those who killed Xiao Xing; Emperor Huangtai Yang Tong died mysteriously after the battle of Funiu Mountain during the Mid-Autumn Festival; and the Empress Dowager was able to use the demon force field during the expedition to Lingnan.

Zhu Yuyan and Chai Shao opened a husband-and-wife shop in the Demon Sect?
too naive.

These two people even turned their husband-and-wife business into a political institution, and they were completely involved in both the black and white businesses.

The more Li Shimin thought about it, the more he felt that this was the truth. How could Chai Shao, a guy who would not do anything without profit, be a slave to Xiao Meiniang for nothing? Only this kind of treacherous character could fit the political logic of the changes that had taken place in the past two years.

He asked tentatively: "Senior, are you looking for me because... the enemy of my enemy is my friend?"

Feng Qingyang said, "That's right. I made a promise with Emperor Ming that I would protect his daughter for the rest of her life."

"How is your martial arts, senior? Are you sure you can handle Chai Shao?"

"Above Ning Daoqi, but... judging from the result of the battle at Funiushan Mountain, I am no match for him."

Li Shimin frowned and said, "What should we do? Even seniors are no match for him. Even if juniors want to help, it will be difficult to accomplish."

Feng Qingyang snorted: "Have you heard of Shattering the Void? I am no match for him, but I am enough to force him to ascend."

Li Shimin recalled the scene at the Battle of Boniu Mountain where Chai Shao killed Bi Xuan and Xu Kaishan in succession and then ascended to heaven.

"Feng Qingyang" continued: "You should have heard about what happened in the Turkic tent, right?"

"Yes."

"Given Chai Shao's character, why didn't he massacre all the Turks in the city, but only killed the leaders of each tribe and their followers?"

"Senior, what you mean is... he is worried about ascending again and doesn't dare to make a big noise?"

"Ruzi can be taught."

Li Shimin's eyes suddenly brightened.

For more than two months, he had been living a more tormented life than Li Yuan, fearing that one day Chai Shao would swoop down from the sky and take his life. Two days ago, when he learned what had happened in the Turkic yamen, he was even more terrified and woke up several times in the middle of the night.

Now that Feng Qingyang has arrived, after this analysis, he actually has a feeling that the clouds have finally cleared and the moon has appeared. As long as Senior Feng stands on his side, he won't have to be afraid of Chai Shao anymore.

"Senior, Shimin is willing to stand with you to kill Chai Shao and rescue the Empress Dowager."

"Then do you know why I want to cooperate with you?"

"why?"

"It's very simple. It's the prophecy of the Heshi Bi! You are destined to ascend the throne and become the emperor. Only you are capable of taking on the great responsibility and fighting against Xiao Chu who is controlled by the Yingui Sect."

Ever since he escaped from Mount Funiushan, Li Shimin began to waver in his belief in the prophecy of the Heshi Bi and questioned its authenticity. Given the current situation, could he sit on the throne of the emperor? It was hard to say whether he could keep his life.

It was not until Feng Qingyang came to him and told him about Chai Shao's situation that his confidence returned and his ambition to unify the world took hold again.

Yun Shuai of Western Turkic Khanate died at the hands of Zhu Yuyan. DTZ and the Chai family had an irreconcilable feud. Gao Kaidao, Xue Ju, Li Gui, Liang Shidu, Liu Wuzhou and other Jiangbei heroes died directly or indirectly at the hands of Chai Shao.

As long as Feng Qingyang can force Chai Shao to ascend to heaven, he will be able to unite the northern forces to defeat Li Mi and Dou Jiande and unify Jiangbei.

"Don't worry, senior. As long as you can deal with Chai Shao, I will take care of the rest."

"But I'm not worried."

"senior?"

Li Shimin was confused. If the old sword master was worried, why did he come to him?
"Feng Qingyang" said: "Are the rumors outside true or false?"

"Rumors? Which one are you referring to, Senior?"

"What do you say?"

"!!!!!!"

Li Shimin's expression changed drastically.

Feng Qingyang added: "It is also a prophecy of the Heshi Bi. If the current event does not happen, then the events that follow may just be illusions. So I came here this time to see if you have the guts to turn the prophecy into reality."

"..."

Li Shimin looked thoughtful, put his hands behind his back, and paced back and forth in the tent. Finally, he walked to the table and patted the secret report sent by Zhangsun Wuji.

Yesterday, the spy he had planted in the Taiji Palace sent back a message saying that his father had met a masked woman of suspicious origin, so he asked Zhangsun Wuji to check it out and found out that this mysterious woman was none other than Shang Xiufang, who had been slept with by Chai Shao - Li Yuan's illegitimate daughter, his sister who could not be seen in public.

At this critical moment when rumors were spreading and DTZ tribal leaders such as Tuli were all killed by Chai Shao, it was very intriguing that Shang Xiufang went to Chang'an to meet Li Yuan?
What did the two sides discuss? Did they reach a consensus?

Seeing that he remained silent for a long time, Feng Qingyang did not urge him: "Since you can't make up your mind, let's forget about it."

"and many more……"

Just as Feng Qingyang was about to walk out of the tent, he stopped him.

"Please give me some time, senior. This matter requires long-term consideration."

"One month, how about that?"

Li Shimin thought about it and said: "Okay!"

(End of this chapter)