Chapter 898 Long Yi Makes His Move (First Update)
Marquis Xuanping had no idea he would run into Long Yi here. Long Yi was wearing the mask that he had almost never taken off since entering the princess's residence.
—It may have been replaced, but it's always the same model.
Strange, didn't Long Yi go to the Northeast with Aheng to negotiate peace with the Chen Kingdom?
When he left Quyang City to search for medicine, Xiao Heng had not yet arrived at the Northwest border, so naturally he did not know that Long Yi had already separated from Xiao Heng.
He subconsciously looked behind Long Yi.
Endless wind and snow, not a second person in sight.
This is even stranger. How come Long Yi is here all by himself?
Also, Long Yi seemed to have a different feel to him.
Marquis Xuanping's mind was already frozen and dazed; this was the limit of what he could think of.
He quickly remembered his business.
He spoke in a hoarse, almost indistinguishable voice, only to find that all his voice was drowned out by the howling wind and snow.
He wasn't sure if Long Yi had recognized him. After all, he had been drenched in the blizzard for many days and looked so disheveled that he was unrecognizable to himself.
Long Yi stood on a piece of intact ice and did not come over immediately.
The direwolf beside him seemed to also want to stop Long Yi, standing on the edge of the ice and sniffing at the faint cracks.
We can't go there.
Not even one step.
Boom!
Marquis Xuanping also heard the sound of the ice beneath him cracking. The ice was about to give way to the weight of the glacier, and it wouldn't be long before he and the glacier sank into the cold water.
His lower back and abdomen had long been numb from the pressure of the glacier. He tilted his head back and gasped for breath, trying to regain some strength.
He stopped struggling and tried to keep the glacier and the ice beneath him stable.
"Long Yi," he finally managed to call out, "Why are you here? Are you alone?"
"Hmm," Long Yi responded, which was considered his answer to the second question.
He was nearby when he heard the voice of Marquis Xuanping, so he came over to check.
Marquis Xuanping gave a weak "oh," and after a moment, his eyes flickered.
Wait, did Long Yifang just... say something?
Did he speak?
Marquis Xuanping had met Empress Dowager Zhuang and Gu Jiao, and learned some things about Long Yi from them, knowing that he was not actually the Dragon Shadow Guard left to Qin Fengwan by the late emperor.
He was an amnesiac who wandered in.
But he saw himself as a Dragon Shadow Guard and became unable to speak.
Long Yi's gaze fell on the Xuanping Marquis and the glacier, as if he were thinking about how to save the Xuanping Marquis.
He removed the leather glove from his right hand, and his well-defined knuckles pressed against the sword at his waist.
Marquis Xuanping understood what he was going to do. He planned to split the glacier with his sword and use his lightness skill to rescue him.
With Long Yi's abilities, he could certainly do it.
However, the force of this blow was too great, causing a rapid surge of water, and countless ice fragments would rush into the water, completely washing away the small box.
He didn't have time to make another trip to Dark Night Island.
"Long Yi... don't worry about me... go find that little box..."
Long Yi's gaze swept around.
He saw a small box slowly floating beneath the ice, its surface coated with red paraffin wax, making it quite eye-catching.
To capture the small box, the ice layer must be broken, but the ice in this area is already in grave danger. Once broken, Marquis Xuanping will be submerged underwater by the glacier, and even Long Yi will be unable to retrieve him.
There was no hesitation or fear in Marquis Xuanping's eyes. He smiled and said, "Give the little box... to Jiaojiao... she knows what to do..."
He is neither Long Yi's master nor Long Yi's partner.
Long Yi can refuse to listen to him.
“Long Yi.” He looked at Long Yi.
Proud as he was, he never begged anyone in his life.
But his tone was by no means commanding.
He suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly: "Anyway, your master doesn't like me either, so it doesn't matter whether I live or die. The medicine in the box is for her son. If her son is gone... your master will be sad."
...
In November, Quyang City was covered in a blanket of white snow.
Several days have passed since Xiao Heng and Shangguan Qing set off.
"It's already mid-month," Gu Jiao said.
Marquis Xuanping set off on the morning of October 16th. It's been almost a month. I wonder if he has obtained the purple herb yet.
Although Shangguan Qing gave up waiting for the antidote, she did not give up; she was calculating the final deadline in her mind.
Looking at the route map she had drawn in her hand, she sighed, "If we don't get the antidote tonight, we really won't be able to catch up."
Marquis Xuanping did not return tonight.
Early in the morning, Gu Jiao got up as usual, intending to feed the Black Wind King and then check on the wounded soldiers in the ward. As soon as she got out of bed, her right foot kicked something.
She looked down and saw a small box covered with red paraffin wax.
There is a thin layer of fine ice on the paraffin.
"Who put this here? I definitely didn't see this box last night. Did anyone come in during the night?"
A series of question marks flashed through Gu Jiao's mind.
Gu Jiao picked up the small box and was surprised to see a familiar charcoal pencil underneath.
"Long Yi..."
Long Yi was here!
He put the box here!
Gu Jiao carried the small box out of the tent and bumped into Master Hu, who had come to bring her hot water.
"Ouch!"
Master Hu hurriedly retreated, but unfortunately, he couldn't retreat any further.
Just as they were about to collide, Gu Jiao nimbly dodged to the side, and Master Hu staggered a few steps, managing to regain his balance.
He turned to look at Gu Jiao, who had suddenly rushed out of the tent, and asked with lingering fear, "Sir, is there something urgent?"
Have you seen anyone?
"There are people everywhere here..."
“So tall,” Gu Jiao gestured, “wearing a mask and a long sword at his waist.”
Master Hu shook his head: "No, are you talking about assassins?"
With a mask, a sword, and such a tall stature, just thinking about it makes one feel intimidated.
"Never mind, he didn't even wake me up, so he probably didn't want to disturb anyone." Gu Jiao lowered her eyes, hugged the small box, and turned back to her tent.
Master Hu scratched his head: "Why do I feel that the master is a little down?"
Gu Jiao knelt down by the small table and placed the small box and the charcoal pencil on the carpet on the table. Only then did she notice that a piece of paper was frozen in the ice on the top of the small box.
She broke the ice, carefully took out the paper, and slowly spread it out on the table.
This is a drawing made with charcoal.
From the moment Xiao Heng decided to help Long Yi recall his memories, he began teaching Long Yi to speak and read. However, according to Xiao Heng, Long Yi preferred drawing.
The painting depicts a man trapped under a glacier during a blizzard. The ice beneath him is cracked, and a small red box floats in the distance beneath the ice.
Near the ice field is a continuous mountain range.
That was Beiling Pass of the Great Yan Dynasty.
Seeing this, Gu Jiao understood everything.
The man trapped under the glacier was Marquis Xuanping. He had trekked across the harsh glacial plains and encountered a glacier break just before reaching the border of the Yan Kingdom.
He probably didn't even realize that he had reached the vicinity of the border.
It was only a mile to get ashore.
He was the first person to cross the ice field in the extreme weather of winter, creating an unimaginable miracle.
Unfortunately, he gave all the miracles to his son, leaving himself no chance of survival.
Long Yi must have just happened to be passing by, and Marquis Xuanping gave up his life.
In the dead of winter, bodies buried underwater by glaciers will be impossible to retrieve.
The small box on the table suddenly felt incredibly heavy.
Will Ah Heng be very sad when he hears this news?
Last time it was a mudslide, this time it's a glacier. Why did I dream about it last time, but not this time?
Gu Jiao couldn't understand it, but no matter what, she couldn't let herself be consumed by the emotions brought about by the incident. This was something that Marquis Xuanping had brought back with his life, and she couldn't let Marquis Xuanping's sacrifice be in vain.
Gu Jiao peeled off the outer paraffin wax, opened the small box, and found that inside, in addition to whole pieces of purple gromwell, there was a box of purple flowers and a box of white fruits, each about the size of a marble.
A letter was attached to a compartment at the top of the box.
It was a letter written in Xuanping Marquis's own handwriting, recording the information he learned about the purple herb from Dark Night Island.
The rhizome of gromwell is highly poisonous, and the flowers are also poisonous, though less so than the rhizome. The fruit of gromwell can be used as an antidote for gromwell poisoning.
However, it is unknown whether the fruit of the purple gromwell is also effective against other poisons.
In addition, the fruit of the purple gromwell is completely non-toxic and has no side effects, unlike the purple gromwell which is extremely dangerous.
Gu Jiao said, "It would be best if we could cure Shangguan Qing's poison. If not, we still need to take purple gromwell."
We must not let any opportunity slip by.
Gu Jiao hurriedly went to the alchemy room, grabbed a handful of purple herbs, extracted the venom from their roots and stems, and boiled it into pills in a furnace.
She sealed the pills and called Wenren Chong over: "I need to go out for a bit."
Wenren Chong, smelling the faint medicinal fragrance on her, roughly understood what was going on: "Are you going to chase after His Highness the Crown Prince? I'm afraid you won't be able to catch up. This morning, the Shadow Division sent a message by carrier pigeon that the waterway His Highness the Crown Prince and his group took had frozen over last night."
(End of this chapter)
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