7. Seeing off the returning guests, the cold mountain bell will ring

Pei Nianyu didn't expect to succeed with one move. When he saw Shao Yan slowly collapsed due to the anesthetic, his heart was still beating wildly, and he still couldn't recover from the extreme tension just now.

In fact, he didn't think about anything at that moment.

He didn't think about whether he could defeat such a master, nor did he think about how much he remembered the three-legged cat martial arts he had learned.He has only one thought - he wants to save Ye Feng.

Still in shock, Pei Nianyu turned his head and looked at Lou Yefeng first:

"Ye Feng, how are you hurt?"

Lou Yefeng didn't expect his master to actually find him and save himself from the sword.However, after thinking about it, he ran out secretly... Afraid that the master would be worried, he hurriedly said:

"I suffered some internal injuries, and my internal strength was exhausted. It's okay."

At that time, after Shao Yan fell to the ground, he could see clearly the face of the person behind the attack:

"You...Pei Nianyu..."

Pei Nianyu saw that he knew his identity, and even after looking at the things in the jade box, he still only called him by his own name, so he knew that he would never admit his identity.He also put on a posture, waved his sleeves and said:

"Yes, it is the king."

Shao Yan's wound was in the back, but the blade in Pei Nianyu's folding fan mechanism was short and thin after all, and the wound was not too big.He fell to the ground, feeling the blood and temperature in his body slowly leaving him.

"You will... come to save you... Shadow Guard...! With your little martial arts... why are you not afraid...I..."

Pei Nianyu stepped forward, condescending, and looked at Shao Yan who fell on the ground.This middle-aged warrior with a broken arm had simple clothes, a few strands of gray hair mixed in, and a weathered complexion.

He seems confused.

He didn't seem to understand why Pei Nianyu, as a prince, would risk his life to fight him for a shadow guard—even though the shadow guard was his bed partner.

But... it wasn't worth it...

Pei Nianyu understood the meaning in his eyes, and said softly:

"—Because I want to save him, I love his life as my own."

"—I didn't want to hurt your life, but you just wanted to kill him, so I will kill you."

Shao Yan's face became extremely distorted in an instant, and an astonishing hatred burst out from his eyes:

"You! How could you... against the Shadow Guard...!"

Pei Nianyu looked at this dying man who was bleeding faster because of his emotions, and suddenly felt that he was very pitiful, and suddenly realized how much what he said just now was too much for him——

As a shadow guard, all the tenderness, care, attention, and... love from his master are things he never had.

Pei Nianyu avoided his gaze and sighed:

"Since he treated you badly, you have already escaped from his clutches, why did you come back after so many years?"

Shao Yan was so angry that he tried to roar loudly, but the voice was already extremely weak to Pei Nianyu:

"How dare you make unreasonable remarks... the first emperor... the master treated me...not bad! It was I... who disobeyed the master and broke the master's heart... I will be his most trusted shadow guard until death! Otherwise the master would notWill... entrust such a heavy responsibility to my hands..."

Pei Nianyu shook his head, puncturing his delusion:

"But this is simply an impossible task for you."

"Pei Niancheng's foundation has been stabilized, and I don't want to wear a dragon robe, so what if you get the will to inherit the throne?"

Shao Yan laughed "hehe" twice, his hoarse voice was extremely unpleasant:

"I saw the relationship between the abolished crown prince and you...I knew you didn't want to sit on the throne. Sure enough...the two of you brothers...were working together...I'm afraid the imperial decree for Pei Niancheng's succession to the throne was also..."

Pei Nianyu nodded:

"That's right, I wrote it. The will that your master gave me has already been burned, but I didn't expect that he didn't believe me and left a second copy."

Shao Yan shook his head with difficulty:

"Master...doesn't believe you, he doesn't believe Pei Niancheng...for fear that Pei Niancheng... usurps your position...heh..."

Pei Nianyu thought in his heart, he is such a cheap father that he might not trust him wholeheartedly. In his later years, all the three princes in front were circled to death and one was exiled.Did he really like Pei Nianyu when he passed the throne to Pei Nianyu?

Because there is no way, there is no other choice.

The first emperor just didn't expect that there would be people in this world who would not even sit on the throne given to them.

"Pei Niancheng...! This bad breed... the Emperor Xian was irritable in his later years... he lost both energy and blood... He persuaded the Emperor to accept the Taoist "elixir"..."

Pei Nianyu's face turned extremely cold.

No matter how difficult the battles the two of them were involved in back then in the palace, Pei Niancheng would never have used such low-handed means to do anything to the late emperor.It is even said that Pei Niancheng holds the system in his hand, so there is no need for him to do such a thing that would lead to disaster if he left traces and was found out.

He angrily kicked the man on the ground:

"You said he did it, where is the evidence?"

"..."

Shao Yan was at a loss for words and couldn't answer.

Lou Yefeng answered the call at the right time:

"Master, you have searched the Imperial Dining Room and the Imperial Medicine Court in the palace for so long, why do you still refuse to believe that the elixir is what your master wants to take?"

Shao Yan pretended not to hear Lou Yefeng's question as if he had never heard of it:

"I thought...if you and the deposed prince are unwilling to cooperate...at least I have to make the edict public, so that Pei Niancheng's seat on the throne will be unstable, and he will be attacked by the public opinion of scholars...Forget about the late emperorThe last... entrustment..."

Hearing what he said, Pei Nianyu felt a layer of cold sweat soaking through his heavy clothes.

He was right.

It is impossible for Shao Yan to change the throne on his own, but it is not difficult to just publicize the content of the will to everyone - after all, there is a sect behind him supporting him.

But it is such a thing with extremely small cost and huge destructive power, which can be called to harm others without benefiting oneself.If he was really allowed to do this, Pei Niancheng might have to burn his head for a while to deal with this meaningless trouble.

Of course his younger brother would not lose his seat on the throne just because of a rumor, but if this kind of thing is really left unattended, it may be used by someone with intentions and cause even bigger troubles.In the event of a sword disaster, don't know how many soldiers will die in this land - just because of an imperial decree from the first emperor.

Pei Nianyu was immediately grateful that Lou Yefeng chased him immediately.If this kind of person lets go for one more day, the price to make up for is huge.

"However, I fell short... Fortunately, before I left, I went to Pei Niancheng as a right-hand man, so that he could also taste... the feeling of losing the shadow... Hahaha!"

Pei Nianyu didn't know what he did to Li Han yet, so he was shocked when he heard this, but Lou Yefeng shook his head, signaling him to explain later with his eyes.

Pei Nianyu had no choice but to suppress the doubts in his heart.

It turned out that Pei Nianyu felt quite distressed for Shao Yan after hearing about Shao Yan's past.However, so far, there is no sympathy for this person:

"You only want to fulfill your master's last order, have you not thought about how many innocent people in this country will die if you succeed!"

Shao Yan was on the verge of death at this time, his eyes gradually lost, and he murmured:

"This is Pei Niancheng's country... not my master's... country..."

Pei Nianyu had nothing to say, he was so angry that his eyes were cold:

"Very well, is there anything else you want to say?"

Shao Yan turned his eyes slowly, and those old black eyes had lost their focus.

"King Yu...please...put my name...add, add back...on the late emperor's...shadow guard roster..."

Pei Nianyu's mood was extremely complicated for a moment.

"...Okay, I promise you."

A hint of gratitude finally appeared in Shao Yan's eyes.

"Give me... have fun..."

The fan blade popped out between Pei Nianyu's fingers.

Lou Yefeng stood up with difficulty from the side, holding the Shadowless Sword in his hand:

"Master, let me come."

Pei Nianyu stopped him with one hand, and the other hand holding the fan raised the blade and dropped it.

The shadow head of the late emperor finally closed his eyes forever.

………………

Lou Yefeng looked at his master in surprise, the precious fan was really stained with blood for the first time.

"...Master, why?"

Pei Nianyu turned around and looked at him, with thousands of lights in his eyes.

"Because you said that he has the kindness of a mentor to you."

"Master, I..."

Lou Yefeng's eyes suddenly turned red.

His master, who had never done such a thing, actually chose to do it for him, out of fear that he would bear the guilt of killing his teacher.

Pei Nianyu came over and held his hand.His hands were much hotter than Lou Yefeng's cold hands due to internal injuries.

"It's nothing. In the past so many years, you did this for me. If there are sins, let's share them together now-we will go to hell together when we die in the future."

Lou Yefeng used all his willpower to keep the tears from flowing.

In fact, Pei Nianyu wouldn't talk like this on weekdays, but today he saw with his own eyes that Lou Yefeng, who he thought was invincible in the world, almost died. Such an accident inevitably made Pei Nianyu feel the pain of losing.

He embraced Lou Yefeng, and slowly channeled his inner strength over.The internal energy of the two came from the same source, and they even came from Lou Yefeng's own body, which would be better for healing.

Lou Yefeng borrowed his master's internal strength to temporarily suppress the injury, and at the same time recounted what happened in the palace.

"The subordinate chased after him after he ran away, so I didn't see what happened later. But I guess, Li Han didn't really have the intention of rebelling, and he didn't dare to resist His Majesty. I'm afraid most of them were..."

"It's locked up for the time being. After I go back and deal with these matters, I'll go ask Xiaosheng what's going on."

Lou Yefeng briefly dealt with the internal injury and stood up.Pei Nianyu took the jade box and notes from Shao Yan, and said:

"It's freezing cold, let's go back home first, let the shadow guards handle it here."

After that, he took out a signal firework from his arms, used enough internal energy to lift him into the sky, and then exploded a cloud of green symbols.

Green, representing safety, means meeting here.

He was holding Lou Yefeng's arm, and just about to go down the mountain with him, when he heard someone running lightly from a distance, it sounded like there were about a dozen of them.

Pei Nianyu thought it was his shadow guard, but he didn't take it seriously, but he didn't realize that these people were Xiao Sheng's shadow guard, he didn't know them.

Headed one step forward:

"My subordinates refer to His Royal Highness King Yu, and ask His Highness to point out the location of the traitor Shao Yan."

"Shao Yan intended to rebel and overthrow the throne, and was killed by this king on the spot."

The shadow guard froze for a moment—their master's order was to "catch alive" when they came, and Gein wanted to interrogate him about Li Han.Unexpectedly, he was killed by King Yu. If there is no evidence for Li Han's death...

He thought for a while, then said:

"Then ask the prince to hand over the jade box that Shao Yan stole."

Pei Nianyu shook his head:

"It's important, I can't give it to you."

He thought to himself that if Li Han was here, of course he could hand it over to Li Han, but this person, no.He can't believe it.

Who would have thought that the shadow guard's tone was three points tougher:

"The master ordered his subordinates to quickly escort the important items back to the palace, and I hope His Highness will not embarrass the subordinates!"

Pei Nianyu looked at this seemingly respectful Yuyingwei, his eyes froze instantly, and he sneered:

"How long has it been since your commander's accident happened, and you started to grab credit?"