Chapter 668 Xiao Yuanshan's End
Jiang Nuanzhi tightened her cloak. The night was deep, and the chill penetrated her clothes, leaving her feeling no warmth at all. She lowered her head and took out the black jade token that Li Rong had left her from her bosom. Raising her eyes, her fair hand showed no hesitation. With a flick of her sleeve, she tossed the token in another direction: "This is the military power of Wudu that you wanted. I'm giving it to you as well."
With a bang, the surrounding air fell silent once again.
It seemed that only the two of them remained, silently gazing at each other. Neither of them moved an inch.
Xiao Yuanshan's lips were pale. After a long while, he parted his lips slightly and spoke with difficulty:
"Why? He has nothing to do with you."
"There's no reason why, he just deserves it."
Jiang Nuanzhi looked at the small, thin boy who was being restrained by Xiao Yuanshan.
Her Ping'er.
He's grown up quite a bit now.
But she still remembers the way he held the butcher knife, his eyes red and his little hands covered in chilblains, trying to kill Big Black to fill the stomachs of his younger siblings.
For a fleeting moment, her heart skipped a beat.
Actually, there were many more times.
When his small shoulders were weighed down by a large burlap sack.
He knelt down and kowtowed to Zhao Xiuyuan.
He quietly picked up chicken droppings.
With her little face flushed, she ate the roasted sweet potato like a little squirrel, as if it were a precious treasure.
And then there's the little kid, sitting so seriously by the candlelight making clothes for himself, and they fit him perfectly.
Also, it was incredibly cute to see little kids carrying big schoolbags to school in the dead of winter.
Actually, she didn't know when it started, but she no longer felt that Ping'er was the big villain in the book, and even gradually forgot that she was in a book.
"It's worth it. It's worth it."
Xiao Yuanshan chewed on those two words repeatedly, then staggered a step. In a daze, he let out a silly laugh.
"Hehe. It's just worth it. Haha."
His prolonged, maniacal laughter had distorted his face; he had been laughing for so long that it was impossible to tell whether he was crying or laughing.
"Xiao Yuanshan, oh Xiao Yuanshan, how laughable! The thing you sought your whole life but could not obtain, she discarded like worn-out shoes. How pathetic and laughable!"
On the ground, the tokens that people flocked to were not even glanced at by anyone.
Before Xiao Yuanshan stood a woman with a repulsive face, standing there in the cold wind.
But what gives them the right?
Why should one be able to love so readily, and to not love so readily?
How can they be so nonchalant after betraying someone?
What makes Jiang Nuanzhi so special?
What did Li Sheng rely on back then?
After speaking, his gaze fell on Ping'er's eyes, which were almost identical to Li Sheng's, with a hint of something that was hard for others to detect.
"Alright, I won't kill him." Xiao Yuanshan smirked, and the next second, his fingers flew across the screen, drawing blood from Ping'er's right hand as a Gu worm crawled inside in the blink of an eye.
"Alright, now, he and I will live and die together." Xiao Yuanshan's smile became even more sinister: "It's up to you to choose between killing me, this traitorous official, and his life."
"Jiang Nuanzhi, do you think it was worth it this time?"
Xiao Yuanshan's words were enough to change the expressions of the people in front of him.
"Dr. Jiang!"
"lady!"
"Warm-hearted sister!"
"Young Master!"
Just then, the surrounding crowd arrived.
"Xiao Yuanshan, you are now at your wit's end, why don't you surrender!"
Chi Heng said coldly.
Xiao Yuanshan looked around and found himself surrounded on all sides—people he had once considered insignificant ants. He now watched with amusement as Jiang Nuanzhi and Xuan Ting's ugly faces met. It was quite a sight.
"Today, everything is really complete."
He smirked, and the next second, he smashed the porcelain bottle in his arms to pieces. Black mist dispersed.
Jiang Nuanzhi's pupils suddenly contracted: "Be careful, it's a Gu poison!"
Jiang Nuanzhi had witnessed the power of his Gu poison; he wanted everyone present today to die for him!
"stop!"
"Quickly, use fire!"
Looking at the chaotic scene before him, with some people bleeding from all seven orifices, Xiao Yuanshan's lips curled into a pleased smile.
"Let's go together, so we can have company on the road to the underworld."
"well"
As everyone was busy avoiding the overwhelming poison, a sigh slowly rang out.
With a bang, a porcelain bottle exploded around Xiao Yuanshan, scattering medicinal powder everywhere. The previously densely packed Gu worms all seemed powerless and stopped moving.
In the shadow of the towering palace walls, an old man in hemp clothing appeared out of nowhere.
He was slender and thin, seemingly blending into the wind and snow, with only his eyes, as deep as the starry sky.
At this moment, he watched the heated battle unfolding on the sidelines with indifference.
"Xiao Yuanshan, it's time to put an end to your twenty-year-long affliction and sins."
As the dust settled, he arrived, his footsteps echoing through the snow. Those around him quickly parted to make way for him.
Upon seeing the newcomer, Xiao Yuanshan's handsome face contorted for a moment, his eyes swirling with complex and unreadable emotions: "Jing Wanning! The Imperial Advisor doesn't participate in court intrigues. Are you now going to help them?"
The old man stood with his hands behind his back, looking at Xiao Yuanshan before him, his eyes gradually deepening: "Xiao Yuanshan, how are you any different now from the monstrous demon of the Southern Frontier that you annihilated back then?"
It's hard to imagine that twenty years ago, that handsome young man with a shy smile who followed Xiao Lisheng around every day would look like this now.
Don't look at me like that.
Xiao Yuanshan glanced at the dead Gu worms on the ground, his face full of sarcasm: "When they attacked me back then, didn't you stand by and watch? What, now that it's Jiang Nuanzhi's turn, you're suddenly stepping in to punish them? Jing Wanning, you're so biased!"
The underlings picked up the Qilin pendant and presented it to the old man with both hands.
He took it, glanced at it, wiped the snow water off it, and then, under the watchful eyes of everyone, handed the Qilin pendant back to Jiang Nuanzhi.
"The Qilin Pei has changed hands today, and she is now the young master of our National Preceptor's Mansion."
“I know you are unwilling, but I chose her because she still cares about the common people. She can take things on and let them go, she can stay true to herself and restrain her desire for power. Unlike you, who have been overwhelmed by hatred and resentment and have lost your reason.”
Xiao Yuanshan's eyes were red as he stared intently at the old man in front of him.
"Hahaha, I was the one betrayed and abandoned. Now that I hate, is it my fault?"
The old imperial advisor sighed again: "The ways of Heaven are clear and have their own balance. When an emperor loses virtue, he damages the foundation and fortune of the nation."
And you, driven by selfish desires and a thirst for power, didn't hesitate to massacre the imperial city; your crimes deserve death. Xiao Yuanshan, the sins you committed, your current predicament is not unjust."
"Kill me? Hahaha!" Xiao Yuanshan laughed wildly, the last shred of reason in his eyes completely devoured: "You old fool who's about to die? Li Rong, that distant water? Or her half-baked young master? Or you bunch of ants?"
He narrowed his eyes sharply, his voice as shrill as an owl's cry: "Imperial Guards, listen to my command! Kill! Leave no one alive! Within the Imperial City, slaughter every living thing!"
However, there was only deathly silence.
The thunderous roar of "Your Majesty the Regent!" did not sound.
Xiao Yuanshan was stunned for a moment, then looked at the old man's calm face.
"You said my Gu poison was incurable!"
"Yes, it's cured." The old man lowered his eyes. "Recently, it seems that Anuan's medicine has been effective, which has reminded me of many things."
"The Imperial Preceptor's Mansion has been silent for too long, so long that people forget many things."
Before he finished speaking, he pointed with his withered finger.
Xiao Yuanshan felt as if he had been struck in the chest by an invisible giant hammer. He was thrown backward and crashed heavily into the thick palace wall, shattering the bricks and stones!
In the blink of an eye, Ping'er had been carried back to Jiang Nuanzhi's side.
(End of this chapter)
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