12dz Chapter 423: Old Age
Chapter 423: Old Age
Taking advantage of his injury, Lu Xuan immediately broke free from his limp right arm.
Jiang Xing stepped on the trees in the forest and ran all the way from a distance. At this moment, he just landed from a tree.
He walked up to Jiang Yuanfeng and roughly pulled out the long sword that was stuck in his right shoulder.
"You're really thinking of that. You're still thinking about killing people at this time. Are you at your wit's end?"
He was busy wiping the bloody blade, with the sneer and contempt on his lips undisguised. However, Jiang Yuanfeng stared at him at this moment and forgot to retort for a moment.
What Lu Xuan said was actually true!
Such a dense purple aura, could it be that the dazzling imperial star I just saw in the sky on the Purple Star Terrace wasn't the Crown Prince, but Jiang Xing?!
But, why had he never seen it on him before?!
Lu Xuan knew the reason for his surprise, so he just smiled and said, "Master Jiang, do you see clearly now? The purple aura on the prince is thicker than that on the fake emperor you created?"
As soon as these words came out, Jiang Yuanfeng barely recovered from the thick purple aura on Jiang Xing's body and immediately looked at her, "Sure enough, you really did move Ji Xiangli's body!"
"Why can't we move? He's a living dead who has committed countless evil deeds. The main purpose of the prince and my eldest brother going to court that day was to get his body."
boom!
It was like a firecracker exploded in my head.
Many of the things that I hadn't figured out before seemed to become clear at this moment.
His last thought was correct!
But in the end, I realized it too late.
"So, you, you guys made up your mind from the beginning to investigate everything behind that?"
Jiang Xing looked disdainful. "I didn't expect Lord Jiang would be slow to react. Is he getting old?"
Jiang Yuanfeng looked drained of energy due to the severe injury on his arm. He stared at Lu Xuan in a daze, muttering, "When did you learn the truth behind this? Why did you want Ji Xiangli's body?"
Lu Xuan smiled. "That's too early. The most recent time was near your Jiang residence, in the courtyard where the woman was with her child. I heard your conversation with Niu San'er in the secret passage at the bottom of the well."
Niu Saner...
They even knew about Niu Saner's affairs? !
He actually went to that secret passage?!
Seeing him stunned, Jiang Xing shook his head and sighed, "So, Lord Jiang, are you still not going to confess everything you've done?"
"If you bring a secret into the underworld, the King of Hell will see your past and send you to the eighteen levels of hell."
He ignored Jiang Xing's words, but looked up at the spiritual cage around him, thinking quickly in his mind how to save the current situation.
He had no way of opening this soul-imprisoning formation.
But he had another idea. Maybe he could try to move the soul-imprisoning formation.
That is to use his life-changing talisman as collateral and use all his life's profound power to break through the obstacles in the mountain.
Then there is still a chance to win one last victory.
But at the same time, he also found that he was panicking and his heart was no longer calm.
Without meditation, there is no way to come up with the most perfect plan...
He was still thinking to himself, but the young woman in front of him seemed to know what he was thinking. She took something out of her arms and handed it to the handsome man beside her.
Jiang Xing waved the object in his hand in front of his eyes. The silver moonlight flashed in front of him. He looked closely and saw a crescent moon passing by. In the dressing mirror in front of him, an old face with gray hair and wrinkles all over it suddenly appeared in his sight.
"Bang" sound.
It was a moment of cardiac arrest.
It was like something was quietly shattering in my heart.
His heart seemed to be hit hard by something, and a big hole was instantly created.
He grabbed the mirror in disbelief, first scratching his strange and old face in a frenzy, then frantically lifted up his robe to see the age spots that had appeared at some unknown time under his chicken skin and gray hair, on the back of his dry hands.
He actually...he actually turned into this horrible appearance? ! ! !
"No! Why so fast!"
“Why are you getting old so fast?!”
In an instant, he looked up in horror, his face showing unprecedented fear and collapse.
Hearing his horrified growl, Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow, "What else? Lord Jiang, from the moment you used the longevity talisman, you must have known your fate, right?"
"You look like you're in your sixties and eighties now. If you use it again, maybe I won't have to do anything and you'll be gone. That's good too, it saves a lot of trouble!"
Lu Xuan nodded to herself, her graceful figure standing freely in the moonlight, quiet and moving.
Jiang Yuanfeng's previous calmness, darkness, and dormancy were like a mask, shattered in an instant on this frightened face, and disappeared without a trace.
He was unsteady on his feet and staggered back a few steps. His mouth was wide open in horror and his eyes were empty and dull.
Surprisingly, he actually has no way out...
He thought he still had plenty of time, and could create opportunities as long as he wanted...
Is it fate, or...he lost?
He felt a sudden pain in his throat, as if someone had strangled him.
He looked up at the sky. The stars that were vaguely visible before were now even dimmer. The thick fog in the early morning hid them, leaving only a few scattered dim lights.
Is it God's will?
Moisture suddenly rose in his eyes, which were covered with a layer of white film. In an instant, a feeling of extreme defeat rose from the soles of his feet, like the cold fog in the middle of the night, tightly enveloping and engulfing him.
He suddenly remembered the night when he was eight years old. It was also a crescent moon and such a collapse, but it changed his life.
At that time, he was still living in Dingwang Villa in Baoding Prefecture.
The servant who was assigned to serve him took the silver allocated to him by Prince Ding's Mansion and enjoyed the wealth and glory he brought them, but he only let him eat their leftovers and made him compete with pigs and dogs for food.
In that farmhouse, he wore the worn-out clothes of the servants' sons, while the elegant and fine clothes that belonged to him were worn by another child of the same age.
That child was the son of his servant.
On that day, a strange father and daughter came to Zhuangzi, and they brought seven or eight impressive disciples with them.
That little girl is so pretty, the way she walks, talks, everything is good.
However, when he saw the little girl in the cherry-colored pleated flowered gauze skirt helping him to get back his most treasured wolf hair brush which had been snatched away by the servant's son, he suddenly felt resentful of the poor life he had endured for so many days.
Yes, a little girl dared to resist, but as a man, was he willing to be so cowardly?
It was at this moment of despair that he angrily approached the couple, told them his dissatisfaction, and yelled at them to return his things.
Unexpectedly, the man got very angry and beat him up severely.
He was young at that time and only remembered that there was a huge disparity in strength between him and the man, and he was beaten with scars all over his body.
That night, he lay on the firewood pile and secretly vowed to become the most powerful person in the world and to trample under his feet all those who looked down on him and disdained him.
The first lesson he forced himself to do was to kill the servant.
He poisoned his food.
There was no other way, he figured it out then.
Only by killing the other party can you become the absolute king in a game.
If you want to become stronger, you must not leave any hidden dangers, nor give yourself any way out.
So over the years, he has become accustomed to manipulating others and being the hand behind the scenes.
Over the years, it seemed that his goal had been achieved.
He indeed became the most capable person, and even the emperor had to listen to him.
He even taught that idiot step by step how to be an emperor.
Yet, that familiar confidence and sense of control has returned to square one today. Decades of hard work have vanished in an instant.
Not only could he not kill the other person, but if he took another step, he might even kill himself!
This person is the daughter of that girl...
He looked up to the sky.
When he reaches the end of the road, having come to this world once and walked between heaven and earth, what does he have left?
Absolute power? An easily overthrown empire?
Or has he been hiding behind the scenes all along, secretly teasing everyone about their struggle for power?
Isn’t it a secret pleasure to watch them chasing each other and never being able to escape from his chessboard?
He was the hand that stirred up the political situation in the court, and he was also the pious and naive disciple of the Shenji Sect who had vowed to save and enlighten the people in the mist of the mountains.
But it seems that now, neither of them is very similar.
He was already used to pretending, and already used to appearing to have no desires.
Even the concubines in the courtyard were just playthings used to comfort him.
Only at this moment did he realize that his heart was so empty.
It seems like in this life, I have never received any warmth, nor have I left any trace of thoughts in the hearts of others.
So... do you still want to escape?
Even if you survive, what good will it do?
As a result, he collapsed to the ground along with his injured and drooping arm.
After a while, he looked at Lu Xuan calmly and said hesitantly, "Go ahead."