Xixia, the imperial capital.
royal palace.
Li Xianyu brought Xixia Emperor Li Liangzuo to a group of stone houses.
Most of the houses here are made of simple gray mountain stones. Compared with other palace houses in the palace, the stone houses here are all low houses.
In front of the door of a big stone house, Li Qinglu suddenly became happy when she caught a glimpse of Li Xianyu and her father Li Liangzuo.
When he saw that his father's left arm was empty and his body was covered in blood, his face instantly turned pale.
"Quick, get in."
Li Xianyu came to Li Qinglu and shouted hurriedly.
"oh oh."
Li Qinglu suppressed the panic and worry in her heart, quickly opened the stone door, and the three of them entered the stone house together.
The temperature inside the stone house is much lower than outside the stone house.
Li Qinglu was in front, leading Li Xianyu forward. After passing three stone doors in succession, the dark stone house was filled with ice cubes.
"Do you want to go down?" Li Qinglu asked.
The real ice cellar is built underground and has three floors.
"Go to the bottom."
Li Xianyu said.
"oh."
Li Qinglu said obediently and looked around. She could vaguely see the stone steps through a large ice block about a person's height. She felt happy and quickly reached out to push the ice block.
She only knew that the ice cellar had three floors, but she had never been here before.
After a while.
The three of them arrived at the bottom of the ice cellar.
Li Xianyu seemed to be unable to hold on any longer, a mouthful of blood spurted out, his body was crumbling, his face was pale and sluggish.
Li Qinglu's heart suddenly tightened, and she immediately helped Li Xianyu out.
Plop.
Li Liangzuo, whom Li Xianyu was holding, fell to the ground.
For a while.
Li Qinglu's heart tightened again. She glanced at Li Xianyu who was supporting him, and then at her father Li Liangzuo who was lying on the ground. She was at a loss for a moment.
"First help me sit aside." Li Xianyu said weakly.
"oh oh."
Li Qinglu immediately helped Li Xianyu sit on the ground.
Then he quickly turned around to check on his father Li Liangzuo.
"He is not in danger for the time being. On the way here, I sealed his acupuncture points."
Li Xianyu said while practicing Qigong to heal his injuries, his voice was indescribably weak.
Hearing this, Li Qinglu breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Li Xianyu, and couldn't help but asked worriedly: "You...are you okay?"
Li Xianyu said softly: "I was injured, seriously injured. I need you to take care of me for the next half month."
"Don't worry, as long as I'm still alive, I won't let you get hurt again." Li Qinglu looked determined.
Li Xianyu didn't say anything more, feeling a little guilty in his heart... This girl is so good. She was thinking of protecting him to the death, but he just wanted to raise this girl to be a fish in his own pond.
"No matter what, I saved her father."
Li Xianyu comforted himself.
He thought that if he hadn't followed him on this trip, he didn't know how the old woman Wu Xingyun would have tortured the father and daughter.
Sitting in silence for a while, bored.
Li Xianyu opened his eyes and let out a breath of turbid air.
Pretending to be injured is quite boring.
Especially when Yu'er needs to take care of other people and can't be with him all the time.
I saw Li Qinglu bandaging the wound on Li Liangzuo’s broken arm.
Li Xianyu flew a little higher, and struck out with a finger force, opening Li Liangzuo's acupuncture point.
Li Qinglu looked back at Li Xianyu and saw Li Xianyu opening his eyes. She was surprised and said, "Are you... okay?"
Li Xianyu shook his head and said weakly: "Let's take a look at your father's situation first. I just remembered that Tianshan Child Elder is proficient in a method of torturing people, which seems to be called the Talisman of Life and Death."
"The Talisman of Life and Death..."
Li Qinglu was startled, and then she heard Li Liangzuo's painful groan.
"Father."
Li Qinglu shouted nervously.
Li Liangzuo's face was pale, his whole body ached and itched unbearably, and he felt worse than death.
When he saw Li Qinglu, he immediately gritted his teeth and growled: "Qinglu, kill me quickly, I can't stand it anymore."
"Father, what are you talking about?" Li Qinglu's voice trembled.
"I order you to take action quickly and kill me."
Li Liangzuo growled.
Li Qinglu turned pale and looked at Li Liangzuo in disbelief.
at this time…
A pair of kind hands pressed on Li Qinglu's shoulders.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Li Xianyu said something warmly, and then squatted in front of Li Liangzuo's head.
He held a small green dagger in his left hand and cut open the palm of his right hand.
Blood dripped on Li Liangzuo's lips.
"I once drank spiritual spring water. The blood contains an extraordinary medicinal effect that can relieve pain..."
Li Xianyu said softly.
As he spoke, true energy secretly surged out, helping Li Liangzuo temporarily seal the dozens of life and death talismans in his body.
Li Qinglu's heart skipped a beat and she looked longingly at her father lying on the ground.
Li Liangzuo opened his mouth, and a strong desire flashed in his eyes.
Li Xianyu's blood poured in, and he felt as if he had taken some kind of tonic. Heat gradually filled his body, and the pain and itching in his body disappeared in an instant.
moment.
Li Xianyu withdrew his hand, looked at Li Liangzuo and asked, "Your Majesty, how do you feel?"
Li Liangzuo felt it silently and found that the wound on his left arm no longer hurt at all.
He sat up immediately, fear flashing in his eyes.
"Father, how do you feel?" Li Qinglu looked at Li Liangzuo helplessly.
Li Liangzuo came back to his senses, suppressed the shock in his heart, looked at Li Xianyu, and asked belatedly: "I still don't know... who are you?"
"My surname is also Li." Li Xianyu said with a smile, but his voice still sounded a bit weak.
"His surname is also Li?" Li Qinglu secretly asked, her pretty face turning red inexplicably.
"It turns out to be Li Shaoxia." Li Liangzuo said politely.
Li Xianyu didn't want to pay attention to this man, glanced at Li Qinglu, and said warmly: "Come and tell your father that my injury is very serious and I need to rest."
After saying that, he returned to the position where he had just sat cross-legged and continued to pretend to practice.
"The bait has been set. I don't believe you, the emperor, won't take the bait."
Li Xianyu secretly thought, feeling that he was really becoming more and more sinister.
…
Nakahara, Shaolin Temple.
Xuanci finally made up his mind to send Ye Erniang out of the Shaolin Temple.
"I do not go."
Ye Erniang looked reluctant. She thought it would be good to stay in the Shaolin Temple.
I can see my son during the day and stay with Xuanci at night.
If she left Shaolin and her husband and son were both monks, she didn't know how long it would take for her to see them again.
"Amitabha, I have made a big mistake for too long and cannot continue."
Xuanci said the Buddha's name with a look of compassion on his face.
Ye Erniang curled her lips and hummed: "I won't leave anyway, unless you kill me. Otherwise, even if I leave this time, I will still come back secretly in the future."
“……”
Xuanci looked at Ye Erniang steadily for a long time, nodded slowly, and said, "Then I won't leave."
Ye Erniang was overjoyed and said with a smile: "I knew you were reluctant to let me go."
Xuanci said no more.
In the afternoon, he came to the Discipline Academy alone.
The first Xuanjie of the Discipline Academy was flattered and came out to greet him immediately.
In a quiet Zen room, Xuanci told the junior brother all the crimes.
Xuan Jie's eyes gradually widened as he listened, and he was beyond shocked.
"Brother Abbot, you...you..."
Xuan Jie looked distressed and didn't know what to say.
"Amitabha."
Xuanci said the Buddha's name and said slowly, "I know that my sins are serious, so I have decided to hold a disciplinary meeting early tomorrow morning. Junior Brother, I will confess all my crimes in front of all the monks in the temple.
When the time comes, I hope that my junior brother can enforce the law impartially so that I can feel at ease for once. "
"this……"
Xuan Jie frowned, not knowing how to respond.
Xuanci didn't say anything more, stood up and left.
He believed that this junior brother who was in charge would enforce the law impartially.
That night, the Xuanjie, the first building of the Discipline Academy, was attacked. He was struck by the powerful Vajra Palm and died.
