Chapter 47: Committing Danger Alone
Linghu Xian even wanted to give up their lives for righteousness, but also advised them to make early plans to prepare to lift the whole city's strength to escape to the south. General Wei Kong's heart does not taste; this girl with their daughter's age is not similar, but many times for the safety of the people desperate. This is a trap to let her drill, but she is still willing to try to save the city's people. And he was thinking, is it possible to take his men to abandon the town like this, leaving them in the dust! This old face of his, Mr. Wei, was truly disgraced! Shame, gratitude, sadness, grief, and how many emotions mixed and intertwined together, Wei Kongji tears. It is said that a man's tears are not light, not to mention that Wei Kongji, who has been on the battlefield for more than twenty years, seldom shed a tear, and this time, he was so hard to tighten up.
His trembling lips looked at Linghu Xian and said, "Little girl, ah! If you go this time, I'm afraid it will be terrible. Even if you escape alone now, I won't blame you. In this battle, there are us big men to fight. You, a little girl family, run for your life!"
Linghu Xian looked solemn and gave the great general a bow. "Hu Cangcang is not that greedy and fearful of death. Even if there is a one-in-a-million chance, it is still worth trying. Moreover, this is a battle for you, the generals, and me! Have you forgotten? I was once an engaged officer appointed by you. I also must protect the weak and serve the country."
Wei Kongji rushed to help Linghu Xian, kneeling on the ground, not knowing what to say. Xuan Mo stepped forward and slightly saluted, saying, "Great General, Hu Cang Cang is going. Xuan Mo will go along to protect him. As long as I'm around, I won't let that demonic woman Yu Sun harm Cang Cang. We will take the opportunity to eliminate Tuoba Cheng and Yu Sun and slow down their large army."
After Wei Kongji had discussed the battle plan with them in general, Linghu Xian and Xuan Mo quickly organized their travel clothes and set off together to go to Tuoba Cheng's vanguard camp. This time, there had to be a conclusion with them. Yu Sun, this demon, Xuan Mo, must subdue him.
Linghu Xian rode Red Flame, which was Ouyang Zhong's horse, a witness to the many past events between the two of them, but also a mutual good friend. Linghu Xian could not bear to let Red Flame follow him to the enemy camp and risk his life. Shortly after leaving Beiwang City, he stopped, gently stroked Red Flame, and said, "Actually, I know you understand me; you are not a mortal horse, just like I am not a mortal; this time, it will be hazardous, don't follow me. Find Ouyang Zhong for me! I'm afraid we'll never see each other again this time. Tell him that I've figured it out. I have him in my heart in this life. However, loving someone doesn't necessarily mean possessing them; I choose to fulfill it."
Linghu Xian rolled over and dismounted from her horse, quietly embracing Red Flame. Red Flame opened her mouth with tears and said, "You are my best friend in this world. Ouyang Zhong asked me to protect you when he left. Let me go with you!"
Linghu Xian shook her head and laughed, "So that's how you sound when you talk, huh? Thank you, my friend. I'll be fine with Xuan Mo with me; it's him, I'm afraid, who needs care and protection. You can act as a messenger for me. My letter is in your backpack. Pass it on to him for me, okay? Take care on your journey!"
Red Flame and the other horse were let go. Xuan Mo changed back to his black wolf form, and he let Linghu Xian climb on top of him. Linghu Xian carried a bow and arrow on his back, and the short sword of the Heavenly Clan, which was used to cut down demons and eliminate devils, was slung around his waist, so he quickly jumped onto the black wolf's back. The black wolf incarnated by Xuan Mo instantly leaped into the air, but in a matter of moments, they arrived at the quarters where Tuoba Cheng was.
They scared the Dingling Clan's generals and livestock as soon as they arrived. The black wolf's deterrent power was too strong, whether a sheep or a horse. Seeing the giant wolf, they were scared to flee everywhere, and even a few horses immediately fell to the ground and foamed at the mouth. In a short while, they were frightened to death.
Outside the camp gate, the black wolf on the back of the Linghu Xian reported his name: "I am Linghu Xian. Tuoba Cheng! Yu Sun! I'm coming!"
The guards quickly ran outside the Grand Prince's tent to inform him, and when Tuoba Cheng and Feathersun found out, they looked at each other, revealing open and beady smiles. Yu Sun said, "Great, she's finally here!"
Tuoba Cheng did not hide the ecstasy in his heart as he said to Yu Sun, "Please also remember, Master, that Linghu Xian is mine. And that black wolf will bother Master to deal with it personally."
Yu Sun laughed coldly; Spider Canyon was all her disciples and grandchildren because Linghu Xian and this so-called black wolf were exterminated as much as possible. There was also the leg she had chopped off by Linghu Xian on the last battlefield. This new grudge and old grudge could all be settled today. Only this black wolf, in the end, identity Yu Sun does not know. She also has a killer move she did not make use of; today, she will use this black wolf as an experiment. Yu Sun immediately turned into a puff of black smoke and disappeared. At the same time, inside the land, there was a perceptible sense of surging permeating the entire camp area, and this scalp-numbing force was rapidly gathering towards the direction of the camp gate.
However, a moment later, Tuoba Cheng walked out of the tent, his eyes full of sin and cruelty and emitting a cold light. He stared dead at the young girl sitting on the back of the giant wolf. He had captured her many times in his dreams, pressed her under his body, and humiliated her, but after waking up from the dream, he realized that he had never possessed her, which made him angry and made him manic. Tuoba Cheng walked slowly, step by step; his greedy eyes never left Linghu Xian for a moment. He had waited for this day so long that his patience was almost exhausted.
Linghu Xian felt this unkind gaze; she was made uncomfortable by the look and even felt a little insulted. She then took down the bow and arrow on her back, struck the arrow, drew the bow, and was about to shoot towards Tuoba Cheng. Unexpectedly, Tuoba Cheng not only had no intention of hiding but continued to walk toward her provocatively.
Tuoba Cheng finally spoke, "Linghu Xian, do you know how long I've been waiting for you? I thought you were just an ordinary spy when I first saw you. It's a shame I didn't see it initially, but you are a fox demon. You know what? My favorite thing to wear is clothes made of fox skin. And my favorite woman is a little demon with a fox-like charm. And you, just right, can satisfy me in all of them."
Linghu Xian heard goosebumps all over her body, and her stomach fluttered with nausea. She slightly calmed her mind and said, "Tuoba Cheng, you cut the crap. Is what you said in the letter count? As long as I come, you will release all the generals and people of Beiwang City without harming their lives?"
Tuoba Cheng laughed wildly. He stared at Linghu Xian's eyes and said, "Good, righteous Linghu Xian, you are willing to come to me for the sake of those pariahs. Good! As long as you follow me into the tent now and serve me well, I will think about it and give them a whole body."
Linghu Xian became enraged and was just about to shoot the arrow out. However, he was stopped by Xuan Mo, who conversed with Linghu Xian in his mind: "Cang Cang, don't fall for his provocation. I sense that Yu Sun is nearby. We still need to be careful. Yu Sun was the most important enemy on our trip. Don't let a few words from him disturb your mind!"
Tuoba Cheng continued to tell Linghu Xian, "Come on! You shoot it! As long as you shoot this arrow and kill me with one arrow, you can win without a fight and save your entire city's army and people. However, you will never be a human again; you are destined to be a demon."
What did he mean by this? Linghu Xian felt very surprised. She had killed people, she had hacked a villain to death with an axe when she was six years old to save her mother, and then she had never touched human blood again. Could it be that she would turn back into a fox spirit not just because of Yu Sun's demonic poison?
Just as Linghu Xian was hesitating for a gap, Tuoba Cheng ordered his men to bring up a dozen villagers captured from the nearby villages. These people were scattered in tens of miles around Beiwang City. The Dingling Vanguard Battalion had just arrived here, and Tuoba Cheng ordered his men to capture people everywhere. On the one hand, they were captured to be used as enslaved people for hard labor, and on the other hand, they were here to make food for Yu Sun, providing him with fresh human flesh to enjoy every day. After their death, the body oil was refined. Then, it was refined into a life-extension and beauty "elixir" by Yu Sun with demonic techniques, which was specially for the nobles of the royal family of the Middle Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty to take.
Among these were people from the Zhongming Kingdom, other tribal peoples, and even the Dingling people. They are just some old, weak women and children; they did not do anything wrong; the only mistake is not expected that they are just good at home grazing, planting, and weaving to earn a living, which surprisingly can also be Dingling powerful to capture to do brutal labor slavery.
"Yu Sun once told me something about your demon race, but all demons, once they kill a human, will be punished by the heavens and become a demon for eternity, whereas if they suck the skin, flesh, and blood of a human-like my Master Yu Sun, they will increase their magical power greatly. Hahahahahaha! This is an amusing paradox. Linghu Xian, you are a demon, yet you want to be a human. It would be better to think like Yu Sun and be a good demon, submit to me, and help me accomplish my thousand-year cause, and I will provide you with Everything you want."
Linghu Xian sneered, "Everything I want? All I want is for you, Dingling Clan, to return to where you came from! Never encroach on the land and people of my Zhongming Kingdom again!"
"Linghu Xian, you are so childishly cute. You let us Dingling Clan leave. Could it be that you will still do the same thing the next time the Xiongnu, Rouran, Tuyuhun, and other clans come? Today, you are facing my Dingling army; tomorrow, you will face more enemies.
I, Tuoba Cheng, will be the ruler of the entire Four Seas and Nine States, and I will be the king of all of you! Those who stand in my way must be eradicated for this grand endeavor! Those who defy me must die!"
With a gesture of his hand, several enslaved people kneeling on the ground were instantly beheaded, without any precursor, without any offense. They were so quickly deprived of their lives.
Tuoba Cheng continued, "Linghu Xian, you don't dare to kill me, and you can't kill me either. You want to be a human being, but as soon as you kill me, you can no longer be a human being. Whether to be a human or a demon, you choose! Whether to continue to be foolishly loyal to your dim-witted and weak Zhongming Kingdom or to be wiser and choose to defect under my tent and follow me to open up new territories, you choose yourself, too!"
Linghu Xian looked shocked in his heart. Although Tuoba Cheng was a human, what was the difference between his heart and that of a demon? He was more demonic than a demon!
Tuoba Cheng carried a freshly chopped-off head and said to Linghu Xian, "I'll make a deal with you. You have to submit to me and be my sorcerer and concubine, then I'll let go of these so-called innocent people you call innocent, and I'll try to plead with my father and king to spare your Bei Wang Cheng from dying, or don't die too painfully. Hahahahahaha~"
Linghu Xian had never been a kind girl; no matter when she was a little fox or Hu Cangcang, she always tried to maintain essential good thoughts. When he saw how easily Tuoba Cheng took the lives of others just like that, and those were all of the same kind as him, she was hammered hard inside. She really couldn't understand that for his so-called great cause of a thousand years, the so-called opening up of territories, he had to step on the corpses, bones, and flesh of others, and even if he got those one day, what was the point of that?
Linghu Xian is just a pure nature of the ordinary life and does not understand what family feels, the country's righteousness, and does not want to do the so-called heroes and heroes, sages of the generation praying for immortality. She knows that she came to this world to experience robbery and cultivation. Still, she did not realize that she wanted to cultivate the skin, flesh, ligaments, and bones and her Seven orifices' exquisite heart.
Linghu Xian understood that Tuoba Cheng wouldn't have the heart to spare the hundreds of thousands of generals and people of Beiwang City. By doing so, he recognized that she would not easily give up the lives of the civilians. Linghu Xian knew that she would not defect no matter what, so Ouyang Zhong learned the words "loyalty and righteousness," loyalty to the country, and righteousness to the people. Although the country is not good to her, she grew up as a slave girl who suffers, but since she chose to be a person, she should always have a person's moral integrity and pride, and this shameless person can not use her.
Xuan Mo used the voice transmission technique to say to Linghu Xian: "Cang Cang, don't be confused by this person, don't be distracted; the surrounding movement is not right; surprisingly, I can only smell Fei Sun's demonic aura, but I can't feel that demonic spirit's trace. She is the focus of what we have to deal with."
Linghu Xian replied in his heart, "Teacher, I understand. I won't fall for this guy's tricks. But what should we do if he continues to kill people in front of us next?"
Xuan Mo said, "I cannot use spells in front of so many mortals, but you and I can use direct force. In a moment, on my command, you will directly rush over to fight him, and I will run to their barracks and do a fire attack. You and I will make a big mess of the enemy camp together!"
"Good! Just what I want!"
"Cang Cang, be more careful; don't get attached to the battle; we'll still rendezvous here after an incense burns."
Xuan Mo silently recited, "Three, two ... one."
"One," Yu Sun at this moment and Xuan Mo coincidentally conducted a countdown and jointly read down the last number.
A great battle began just like this.
Ouyang Zhong from the vertical city north took a few hundred soldiers divided into several groups, all the way to run, all the way to inform, all the way through the officials, and the people were horrified, shocked, quickly packed their bags, and hastily fled to the south. But there are a lot of widows and orphans who can't go to the sick. They kindly support each other, but they also have to stay here to listen to the fate of the sky.
Ouyang Zhong fast horsewhipped to the north. He was worried that he would be late. Linghuxian and all people in Beiwang City should be killed. He did not dare to imagine. He only knew as much as he could to find her. He must go to find her. On the way, Red Flame was waiting for Ouyang Zhong on the main road, and they met again. Ouyang Zhong was startled. How come Red Flame was here? What about Linghu Xian? Where is she?
Red Flame quietly walked towards him and finally spoke, "Master, please follow me. I will take you to her."
Only then did Ouyang Zhong realize that the ones around him were not mortal creatures, and Red Flame was not a mortal horse. He used to think that meeting Linghu Xian was by chance, and Linghu Xian being a demon reincarnated was also by chance, but now he could feel more and more that Everything might be the result of destiny in the underworld.
Ouyang Zhong dismounted and walked to Red Flame's side. Red Flame hung his head and rubbed his head against Ouyang Zhong's hand, then said: ''In the backpack on my back, there is a letter that Linghu Xian left for you. Come up here. I will take you to look for her. She has now gone to a dangerous place. If you do not go to find her, I am afraid. '
When Ouyang Zhong heard this, he hurriedly jumped onto Red Flame's horse's back. He found the letter, along the way he clutched the letter tightly, he didn't dare to look at it, but when he rested in the middle of the journey, he opened the letter a little shakily:
Dear Brother Zhong:
See the letter as it is written.
The brother sent the sister's letter many days ago; all received and have read it. I knew that my brother's and General Wei's families were no longer by the Princess of the Stream, and harassment was brutal again, and my sister was quite pleased. And now that the body of Lord Ouyang Ming has been healed well, I am more than happy; after all, because of my injury, I am still more or less a little bit too much; please, once again, ask for the crime of asking for peace. The letter kneeled to thank.
Since my brother left Northwatch, my sister got teacher XuanMo care; the body has been perfect. I received your letter, but it has not been replied to; I hope your brother does not complain about grudges. Although there is a reason that the sister's body is ill and has no spirit, it is not the most important thing. Sister has been thinking about the advent of this world, my identity, and my responsibility. Why? You and I have a destiny in the past life and this life to continue. Is it good karma or bad fruit? What's more, is the love between you and me a friendship or kinship, or is it the love between a man and a woman? I have never had an answer to these questions, and, at this time, amid the war, the mind is more or less heavy, does not dare to think, and can not overthink children's personal feelings.
Today, I got the latest news: the Dingling tribe army presses that there are less than ten days of soldiers under the city. Moreover, Tuoba Cheng and Yu Sun declared that as long as I went to the enemy camp, I could exchange the lives of all the people in the city. I know this is a conspiracy, but I will try it as long as there is a one-in-a-million chance. I'm afraid you're the only one who understands my temperament for doing things.
As I am about to leave, I am writing this letter to you hastily as a farewell. I grew up as a woman from a humble background, unlike you, a member of a prestigious family, and have been taught poetry and etiquette since I was a child. I don't even count myself as knowing what is meant by the righteousness of the country and the feelings of the family. I want to protect the person I swore to protect, the person I hold in my heart, the person I am attached to in this life. I once said that the safety of your life is the most important thing to me.
I thought that when I was poisoned at that time, and you wanted to kill me, I would resolve to return my own life to you, and perhaps I would be able to let go of this friendship and oath. But now, I still firmly want to protect all the city's people, as well as you, who are far away from Zongcheng City.
I have you in my heart, and there is no need to distinguish between friendship and love; it is always one you. All I can do for you is offer my life. I will do my best to protect the most critical person in my heart, a human or a demon. This intention remains unchanged.
Zhong, live well. You, me, even Xuan Mo, General Wei, Red Flame... no matter what we were before or what we are now, we come to this world for a time and have to face our respective destinies openly.
I wish you a bright career path, success, and a safe life.
Yours Xian
Ouyang Zhong read Linghu Xian's suicide note. His heart had mixed feelings; he immediately turned on the horse and let the red Flame gallop down the road. He must find her!
Suddenly, a few piercing and sharp whistles sounded in Ouyang Zhong's ears, causing him dizziness. He hurriedly covered his ears to calm his mind. It was Linghu Xian's peach kernel whistle!
"Red Flame, quick! I know where she is!"