Chapter 184 [Alien Species] The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind
Ye Hean felt sorry for him, sorry for the Queen Mother's cultivation, and even more sorry for the people of the world.
And he would be forced to be a heartless man, betraying the heart of his beloved. Sangsang was only that young...
All this happened because of him. If he died...
But he couldn't even die now.
Mu Xiuwen slowly opened his eyes, and the blood in his eyes gradually subsided, like a burnt-out charcoal fire, leaving only a bit of dark scarlet.
Outside the palace gate, Ye Hean placed his hand on the door handle, holding it tightly.
"Your Majesty, I have brought the person to you." The man in black and Zhu Yingyan appeared behind Ye Hean at some point.
"Good, very good," Ye Hean turned around and looked at Zhu Jianye, "This time, let's wait until tomorrow to put the person into the Heart-Illuminating Array. It should be foolproof, right?"
"The Marquis of Zhenbei returned home yesterday and is now participating in the autumn hunt. Have you seen him?"
"Him? Didn't he escape? Ha, I thought he wouldn't come back." Suddenly, Ye Hean's face darkened. "You were recommended by the Imperial Master, but I'm curious, aren't you in cahoots with that guy? Do you want something from me?"
"Your Majesty is worthy of being the king of a country. You are right, but you cannot give me what I want," the man in black said as he took off his cloak.
"He must have come here to ruin my plan. Go and kill him."
Hua Jin rolled his eyes at Ye Hean and walked away without looking back. Wanting him to kill Mu Chi was simply a dream. He was lucky that he didn't kill Ye Hean.
However, today he wanted to use Zhu Yingyan to exchange for the mirror that Song Cisheng mentioned. Unfortunately, Ye Hean failed to take it out and he couldn't alert the enemy.
It’s better to go find Master first and discuss it from a long-term perspective.
Hua Jin found Mu Chi in a corner, and there was another person beside him - Ye Ying'er.
"They've already set up a formation. Didn't your disciple tell you? They're going to surround the hunting grounds. No one here today will survive." Ye Ying'er looked directly at Mu Chi. "Are you in cahoots with him? Have you been turned against him?"
"He is my disciple. If he makes a mistake, I will not cover up for him. However, the punishment will have to wait for the three judges from each sect to decide. Besides, I don't believe he would do that."
"Are you blind or stupid? The facts are right in front of us. While ordinary people might not be able to see the things stationed around the hunting grounds, you and I are not. Go and see. I can't figure it out, and neither can you. It must be your apprentice's doing!"
"You saw it with your own eyes?"
"I saw it with my own eyes," she said. Fearing that Mu Chi wouldn't believe her, she added, "If you lie, you'll die a miserable death."
Mu Chi pondered for a moment and said:
"If it's really as you say, I will kill him myself."
This sentence was like a thunderbolt, striking Hua Jin's heart. He covered his chest, his heart pounding, unable to stop. He didn't know whether it was indignation or something else in his heart, but he clenched his fist slightly, and then unclenched it.
He grew up in Yinyou Valley and received his education from Yinyou Valley and Mu Chi. He knew the consequences of his actions, but he still did not turn back. As he said, he would not let anyone who hurt Mu Chi go, not even himself.
He was about to leave when someone suddenly said:
"Who are you, sneaking around like that?!" Zheng Hao came over from nowhere.
His voice attracted Mu Chi and Ye Ying'er.
"Xiao Jin?"
"Master Hua Jin?" Zheng Hao was also a little surprised. He had just clearly seen a cloud of black mist, but how come it disappeared when he got closer? "What are you doing here?"
Mu Chi walked up and looked at him, just as Zheng Hao asked.
"I won't interfere with your apprentice. It doesn't matter to me if anyone dies here. But if it involves Changning Palace, I will take revenge even if I have to go through fire and water." After saying that, Ye Ying'er left.
Hua Jin lowered his head and said nothing, and Mu Chi also didn't say anything.
The atmosphere became strange. The master and disciple now looked like a jailer and a criminal respectively.
"Did you hear what I just said?" Mu Chi finally broke the deadlock. Seeing that Hua Jin didn't answer again, he asked, "Do you have anything to say?"
"No, I did it, and I did it. You can kill me or cut me up, or have a trial by the three judges. I have no complaints."
Mu Chi was so angry that he laughed. He asked himself how he had treated Hua Jin over the years. The other party must have sensed it, but now he just wanted to know what had happened. The other party had concealed something, so how could he not be angry.
"You have no complaints, everything I taught you will be in vain by then."
Hua Jin didn't say anything again.
"From now on, you can return to the valley. You don't have to interfere in the affairs of Yandu!"
"yes."
Hua Jin turned around and left without saying a word.
Only a fool would leave. The critical moment is about to come, how can he leave easily?
…
The night was as dark as a jar of spilled ink.
On the outskirts of the hunting ground, thirty-six flags had sunk three inches into the ground, with only a section of dark red flag legs showing.
When the wind blew, the flag fluttered without any wind, making a rustling sound like a baby crying, which was creepy.
No one could rest that night except Mu Chi, who was in the tent and had been cast into a sleeping spell at some point.
When everyone was awakened by the crying, Hua Jin found Zheng Hao. He held Mu Chi and handed him to Zheng Hao.
"Take him with you now, leave immediately, as far as you can!"
The Illuminating Heart Formation has been moved here. According to what he heard from Zuo Qianqian, activating the Illuminating Heart Formation would require the lives of hundreds of people, and would affect an area within a radius of ten miles.
"What about the prince?"
"What?" Hua Jin didn't understand what it meant.
"Where's Prince Mu Xiuwen? Where's my Prince? I came to the autumn hunt just to find my Prince!"
"You don't need to look for him anymore. He's dead. There's no such person as Mu Xiuwen anymore."
This news was like a bolt from the blue. Zheng Hao had been with Mu Xiuwen for more than twenty years. He knew very well what kind of person Mu Xiuwen was. He was his confidant and his only master.
"Say it again!" His body shook violently and his voice was hoarse, as if someone was strangling him.
Hua Jin didn't repeat herself, but just looked up at him, her eyes as deep as the frozen lake on a winter night.
In order to make Zheng Hao give up and leave, he lied, "He was pushed into the Heart-Illuminating Array by Ye Hean himself. He sacrificed his blood to open the array, and his body was completely destroyed."
Just eight words, but Zheng Hao felt as if thousands of arrows were piercing his heart.
He staggered a step, stuffed Mu Chi into Hua Jin's arms, turned around and rushed into the depths of the hunting ground.
"Are you crazy?" Hua Jin grabbed his wrist, his fingers almost digging into his bones. "If we go back now, even if you fill in the gaps between us, those thirty-six flags won't be enough!"
"Then the prince died in vain?!" Zheng Hao roared with his eyes bloodshot, "I promised the Marquis that I would bring the prince back even if I die!" After saying that, Zheng Hao turned around and left.
Hua Jin stood there, looking at Mu Chi in his arms sadly. He kissed Mu Chi on the forehead.
We still had to get Mu Chi out as soon as possible. After tonight, the formation would be complete. The thirty-six flags corresponded to the thirty-six gates of the underworld Zuo Qianqian mentioned. Open the Nether Gate and summon Dongfang Liu, the Nether King. Each of the thirty-six gates contained thirty-six evil spirits. Once the formation was activated, they would crawl out of the abyss and kill everyone within.
But he couldn't think of anyone else who could take Mu Chi away except Zheng Hao, and he absolutely could not leave. Once everyone in the formation died, the formation would be completed and would spread outward.
It shouldn't have been like this. It was completely different from what Zuo Qianqian and Song Cisheng said. If he hadn't discovered it early, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
He treated Zuo Qianqian as a friend, and Zuo Qianqian also promised him that she would help him get revenge, but he didn't expect that she would lie to him. Or maybe he didn't know that he was deceived by the old man Song Cisheng.
Hua Jin carried Mu Chi out of the tent.
"Where are you taking him?"
Ye Ying'er swung the whip from her waist and pointed at Hua Jin and asked.
"Take him away," Hua Jin said as he stuffed the man into Ye Ying'er's hands without saying anything. "You should leave too. Anywhere is fine, but not here."
"What do you mean? Didn't you make those banners?" Ye Ying'er saw Hua Jin was about to leave, so she carried Mu Chi and chased after him. "I still have something to ask you!"
"There is still time. If you want to save the empress dowager, hurry up. If the sun comes out tomorrow, there will be no time." After saying that, Hua Jin left without looking back.
Ye Ying'er looked at Mu Chi, then at Hua Jin's back. She carried the person on her back, mounted her horse, and galloped towards the palace.
Hua Jin came to the platform, and the guards saw that it was him and did not stop him.
"You're here," Ye Hean looked at the mirror in his hand, with the soul-stirring Zhu Yingyan standing beside him. "I said I wanted that person to die. Did you do it?"
"When I went looking for him, he had already disappeared. He must have discovered something. It's best to activate the formation now. If he finds something, he will definitely have a way to break it." Hua Jin stared at the heart mirror and said, "Your Majesty, activate the formation."
Ye Hean had waited so long, he was afraid something might happen again. He turned sideways, looked at Zhu Yingyan in the mirror, and was sucked in. He leaned back, waiting for the formation to open.
At this moment, the red moon was hanging in the sky, and the whole sky turned crimson, which looked particularly ominous, as if it were purgatory.
Hua Jin stepped forward sideways, rubbed against Ye Hean while he was not paying attention, and snatched the mirror.
"What are you doing!" Ye Hean stood up suddenly.
"Your Majesty, you've mistrusted the Imperial Master. There's no such thing as an immortality or undying formation." Hua Jin said, "You've been deceived."
"Someone come!"
Ye Hean roared angrily, and the guards outside the platform heard the noise and rushed inside.
"Catch him!"
Hua Jin's mouth curled up slightly, and a talisman paper suddenly appeared at the tips of his two fingers. Just as the guard was about to touch the corner of his clothes, he disappeared on the spot.
Deep in the hunting grounds, thirty-six flags had been raised to mid-air. The flags swelled like the lungs of a giant beast, and every flap of the flags spewed out a thick blood mist.
The blood mist surged like an upside-down rainstorm, pouring down from the banner and landing on the grass, making a "hissing" corrosive sound.
Dark red veins extended from the base of the thirty-six flags, piercing into the earth like the blood vessels of a living thing, sewing the entire hunting ground into a giant cocoon.
At the heart of the cocoon, the Gate of the Underworld has taken shape - a huge door condensed from black fog, with nine still-beating, human-like and animal-like hearts nailed to the lintel. With every beat, the gap in the door opens a fingertip.
"Have you got the things?" Song Cisheng looked up at the sky, feeling very good.
"I got it."
"Hand it over." He stretched out his hand to Hua Jin.
"I think you're quite clever, but I've been observing you for half a month, I wouldn't be completely unaware of this," Hua Jin put the mirror away. "Zuo Qianqian, you're relying on your thousand-year-old life to treat me like a three-year-old kid?"
Song Cisheng was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter and turned back to his original appearance.
"The real Song Cisheng died three days ago, right? That's why you recommended me to the emperor. When I saw you, Master, you pretended not to notice. Do you think you have everything under control?"
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