Chapter 173: Destiny 19: Take my golden elixir to prolong your life
When Li Yanze came, he was wearing gorgeous clothes, but now he was leaving, he was only wearing simple plain clothes. He sat beside the bed and looked at Qi Youwei's pale face. He wanted to paint a big clown on him while he was sleeping, but in the end he just sighed.
Killing someone to get the elixir, how is that possible? Li Yanze only felt that Qi Youwei had been deceiving him, but he never believed that Qi Youwei wanted his elixir.
Before in Taoxi Village, Qi Youwei had so many opportunities but he never took action against himself.
Without delaying any longer, Li Yanze stood up and pushed the door open to go out. The palaces in the palace were intricately arranged, and the roads and paths between the buildings were intersecting, just like a precision-running machine.
Fortunately, he had looked at the route in advance, so he didn't get confused.
Li Yanze leaped onto the roof of the palace, carrying his bag and flying between buildings. The further he walked, the more unfamiliar the scene in front of him became.
He jumped off the beam and passed through two palace gates in the dark. Looking up, he found that he had been walking for half an hour and had not yet left the inner hall.
Li Yanze avoided the guards and stopped searching for a way between the rooftops. However, the familiar road on the ground seemed more and more wrong.
Another half an hour passed, he calculated the direction as he walked, and as if he was trapped in a wall of ghosts, he walked back to the familiar palace gate.
But he had clearly surveyed the route in advance, so it was impossible for him to go further and further away. Even if he didn't know the road, he shouldn't have walked a circle and returned to the starting point.
Standing on the roof, he frowned and looked around, finally realizing that this was a formation, covering the entire palace.
Li Yanze thought of the formation in the forest of Taoxi Village, and felt a chill down his spine.
Qi Youwei said that it was his third brother who teamed up with a group of monks to set up a formation to harm him while he was recuperating outside...
Li Yanze couldn't help but sneer. His third brother's mother was Aunt Yue. Since Concubine De supported Qi Youwei, how could she allow the third prince to harm him?
These two highly similar mazes can only be the work of Qi Youwei.
Li Yanze's sleeping spell only lasts for two hours, and he has already wasted half of it.
He didn't have time to stay here for long. Since using spiritual power would blur his perception, there was no need to do so.
Li Yanze wanted to leave the palace more and more eagerly. The night wind blew his hair as he walked towards the palace wall without stopping.
It turned out that just calculating the direction was effective. He followed the palace wall all the way to the palace gate, but this took too much time.
Li Yanze stood one step away from the palace wall. Just as he was about to quietly roll down, bursts of golden light flashed in the night, just like the fireworks he saw in the carriage on the day he entered the palace.
This time he felt a powerful fluctuation of spiritual power. The golden light rising into the sky illuminated the entire palace for a moment. Li Yanze was stunned for a moment, and immediately summoned his spiritual power to break the formation. At the moment of breaking the formation, he realized something.
Li Yanze immediately stopped and quickly hid his body and evacuated from here.
The activation of such a large formation not only made him feel trapped, but also wanted to seal his spiritual power. However, the spiritual power fluctuations in breaking the formation were huge, which was undoubtedly like walking into a trap.
Qi Youwei had set up an unsolvable trap early on, leaving him with nowhere to go.
Li Yanze could feel his spiritual power being constantly consumed by the formation. This familiar feeling finally made him recall the reasons why he had lost his spiritual power twice.
Li Yanze's heart sank further. The talisman that concealed his body also required spiritual power to maintain. If he continued like this, he would be found soon.
He found a corner and leaned against the wall. He heard the entire palace city sound like a giant beast that had been awakened. As the magic circle was activated, palace servants and guards began to patrol the walls of the palace.
Especially the palace gate in front of him, where waves of guards and secret guards came quietly to guard it.
What he said was that he was free, that everything was up to him, that he could come and go as he pleased, turned out to be a lie.
He had a plan the day he tricked him into the palace. If soft tactics didn't work, he would be caught in a trap like this.
Li Yanze couldn't help but sighed and leaned against the wall to support his forehead. What else was true about Qi Youwei? Was there any truth in what he said?
Could it be that what he said about liking her was another complete scam?
As long as he chooses to believe in someone, he will continue to believe in him. But how can he continue to believe in Qi Youwei at this moment?
Li Yanze's eyes were red and he was silent for a moment. Then a long sword with a snow-white blade appeared in his hand.
The golden elixir was in motion, and golden light was flowing in a pair of light-colored pupils. The cinnabar red mole between the eyebrows was bright red, and the golden light that was rising into the sky could no longer be hidden.
Li Yanze crumpled the invisibility talisman he was wearing and walked towards the palace gate step by step with his sword in hand.
"Yanze, are you leaving?"
Qi Youwei's voice sounded from behind. Li Yanze's long hair was blown by the wind. He stopped and looked at the monk from the Imperial Observatory who was preparing to form a formation in front of him.
He didn't turn around to look at Qi Youwei, but answered in the same calm tone as Qi Youwei.
"Yeah, don't you want to?"
Qi Youwei was silent for a long time, and then suddenly he laughed softly as if relieved.
"How is that possible, Yanze."
Li Yanze finally turned his head and looked at him. In the flames of the blazing torches, he had red eyes, long hair draped over his shoulders, and a purple robe weighing down his shoulders. He stared at him and laughed.
"How could I let you go?"
Li Yanze was no longer surprised. He closed his eyes and when he opened them again, he made a sword flower with his hand and turned around, pointing the sword straight at him.
"Then you can try it."
Qi Youwei covered his chest and coughed twice. There was no trace of blood on his face. He raised his phoenix eyes hidden in his eye sockets. The silver ring on his wrist shone brightly and turned into a silver chain that rushed straight towards Li Yanze.
Li Yanze swung his sword to block. The cultivators from all directions formed a formation. He maneuvered around with his sword and moved towards the city gate step by step.
The national teacher never showed up. Li Yanze's sword slashed across their arms, knocking them unconscious. Qi You coughed slightly, waved away the people around him, took out a talisman from his sleeve, and with a flip of his fingers, the talisman ignited.
Familiar formation patterns lit up on the palace wall, and Li Yanze immediately felt something suddenly pressing on his shoulders. The spiritual power in his meridians was quickly absorbed by the formation. Li Yanze still forced his spiritual power to circulate, waving his sword to repel the silver chain that wanted to tie him up.
He slammed backwards into the city gate, choking and coughing up blood. Qi Youwei immediately waved his hand to tell them to stop, walked up to him step by step, squatted down to hold his face, and gently wiped the blood from the corner of his lips with his fingers.
Li Yanze coughed twice, and blood foam splashed on Qi Youwei's pale face. They looked at each other, and Li Yanze's eyes were full of burning anger.
Qi Youwei, however, remained calm, his dark pupils reflecting the firelight not far away.
"I'm almost dying. Can't you stay with me during this last period of time?" His tone was full of pleading, and his breathing was intermittent.
Li Yanze lowered his eyes and didn't look at him. He suddenly grabbed his throat tightly and chuckled: "Really?"
Li Yanze made a fatal move, but Qi Youwei remained calm and did not struggle at all. Li Yanze watched as veins bulged on his forehead and his face turned a sickly red.
"You don't even know which of your words are true and which are false."
After Li Yanze finished speaking, he held Qi Youwei hostage and glanced coldly at the person blocking the door: "Open the door."
Qi Youwei suddenly reached out and grabbed his hand that was pinching his neck. He didn't try to break free, but laughed softly and intermittently, feeling an indescribable excitement.
"Who dares!" Qi Youwei looked at Li Yanze's stunned expression and gave orders loudly.
"My life is in your hands now. I'm going to die anyway, so dying in your hands wouldn't be bad."
Qi Youwei's hands were very cold, and his breath ruffled his hair as he spoke, just like when they were intimately entangled in bed, Qi Youwei completely relaxed and held him tightly, speaking softly.
"If you kill me, they will open the gate for you, and the formation in the palace will stop. You will be free."
Qi Youwei pinched his wrist and whispered, "Don't lose your energy."
Li Yanze's breathing was rapid, and his usually clear eyes were full of hatred. Qi Youwei was determined to push them all to the edge of the cliff step by step.
"Kill people and split the pills." Li Yanze asked him hoarsely, his fingers gradually closed, and he continued to ask him word by word: "Taoxi Mountain, you set up a trap to trap me in the mountain and I was finally rescued by you, becoming my savior."
"You have been planning to kill me from the beginning and take my golden elixir to prolong your life, right?"
How could Li Yanze still not understand? Qi Youwei remained silent and did not answer. The calmness in his eyes was finally broken, and a hint of pleading appeared, as if begging him not to continue asking.
"I want to hear the truth, Qi Youwei." Li Yanze stared at him. He forced a smile, but a tear fell from his red eyes. "Of course, you can continue to lie."
Qi Youwei grabbed his wrists with both hands, not as if he was trying to struggle, but rather as if he was afraid that he would let go.
"Is it? Give me an answer."
Li Yanze stared at him. Qi Youwei really wanted to say that this was not the case. If he was given another chance to explain, he could make everything clear.
But Li Yanze kept his lips tightly pursed. He himself didn't know that his face was full of panic. He didn't know whether he was afraid that he would say yes or no.
Qi Youwei seemed to be exhausted, and uttered a syllable in a trembling voice: "Yes."
"The heart meridian is damaged. It would be best to find a cultivator who has a golden elixir in his lifetime, cut open his golden elixir and transfer it into the heart meridian. This will ensure safety for a hundred years."
Li Yanze finished speaking with a smile. His senior brother had clearly mentioned it to him at that time, but he didn't take it seriously at that time. He just listened in one ear and let it out in the other, and didn't care at all.
"That's great. His Royal Highness is really a smart man." Li Yanze stopped crying. "He fooled me around."
"Pretending to be miserable and acting good is a good trick."
Li Yanze suddenly tightened his fingers and then suddenly loosened them without warning, and pushed Qi Youwei away.
"These are not to keep me, but to keep my golden elixir, right?"
Qi You was slightly panicked. He ignored the horrible pinch marks on his neck, stumbled to his feet and quickly retorted: "No! That's not the case. I haven't thought about it like that for even a second."
Li Yanze smiled sarcastically, raised his eyebrows, and let out a long breath.
"Really? You're lying again."
Qi Youwei pushed away the person who came to support him, his heart beating wildly out of control, as if foreshadowing that something he could not predict was about to happen.
"No, I'm not lying. It's true. It's the truth."
Qi Youwei staggered towards him, but Li Yanze just looked at him coldly, indifferent to all the truth he said at the moment.
"I'm so stupid." Li Yanze stretched out his hand and turned the sword in his hand into a short blade, and laughed at himself. "You don't have to do it, I can do it myself."
Li Yanze looked at him mockingly and stabbed his knife into his heart. The flowing golden elixir light condensed and shone brightly.
Qi Youwei's pupils shrank, and his throat seemed to be blocked and he couldn't make a sound. He ran towards him eagerly, almost kneeling in front of him, but his face was splashed with blood.
Li Yanze's face was pale, his hands were covered in blood, he looked at him with a sneer, and forced out his golden elixir.
Li Yanze's green clothes were stained with blood. Qi Youwei hugged him and forcibly pulled his clenched hand to ask him to return the golden elixir.
Li Yanze weakly placed his head on his shoulder, blood staining his purple clothes red. He stretched out his other hand to place it on Qi Youwei's back and violently injected the golden elixir into his heart meridian.
By the time Qi Youwei realized it, it was already too late. Although his heart meridian had been protected, he seemed to be completely unable to breathe. He hurriedly covered his wound with trembling hands.
"No... No, this is not what I want... I am telling the truth..."
Li Yanze laughed and pushed him away with his last bit of strength.
"I don't believe it... I don't believe it anymore."
On the second floor of the inn in the imperial capital, Gu Fengze, who was meditating, suddenly opened his eyes. The panel in front of him suddenly appeared. He was already used to seeing the values displayed in the mirror.
[Strategy progress: 100%, Darkness value: 100%... Correction: 99%]
The value on the panel jumped back and forth between 100% and 99%. Gu Fengze sighed helplessly. He could not interfere with the story line that had already been determined by the main system.
Gu Fengze had just closed the data face when a communication talisman suddenly appeared in front of him. The familiar spiritual power fluctuations made him stunned for a moment.
"If I don't send you another message before dawn, please come to the palace and take me back to Qingluan Mountain as soon as you see me, regardless of whether I am awake or not."
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