Li Xiaozong looked at the row of people standing in front of him, and couldn't help but rubbed the half of his face that was getting more and more swollen. Although he looked at the person in front of him, he kept thinking about the fight with that perverted woman in Yunji's dog meat shop. After he came out of the Martial Arts Academy, he had never been beaten so happily.
One must know that even in the Academy of Martial Arts, there were no more than three students who could beat him up in that batch of students. And these three people are all geniuses among the geniuses recognized by Da Sui. He was beaten because he happened to be in the genius category. In fact, looking at the entire Sui Dynasty, there are only a handful of people who have advanced to the seventh-rank realm at the age of twenty-six. Even if he thinks about it carefully, he can still be ranked in the top ten. Of course, there may be many unborn geniuses hiding somewhere.
But it was such a proud and conceited Li Xiaozong who was beaten into a pig's head by that domineering woman in the dog meat shop.
He thought about it carefully, he should have punched first, he intended to shatter the cabinet in Yun Ji's shop with one punch, and let the woman know what was going on. But it was because he broke Yun Ji's furniture that he provoked the woman to beat him like a storm.
There was no room for fighting back.
He shook his head with a wry smile, thinking that if it was reported back to the imperial capital, wouldn't he be laughed to death by those three people
"General Li, why are you here?"
Seeing Li Xiaozong shaking his head and smiling wryly, Wu Peisheng couldn't help but turn cold: "Just now the horn sounded, and our family also saw the soldiers in the camp gather and then split half of them out. Why did our family only walk halfway? The soldiers all went back again? Just now our family received the news that Fang Xie, the master of the Mongolian Yuan Empire, was going to escape from the west gate. Why are you standing here if you don’t go to intercept him?”
Li Xiaozong shook his head and said: "Fang Jie is an outstanding soldier in the Fangu Frontier Army of the Great Sui Dynasty. Anyone with more than 20 times, no matter their age or background, can take the Yanwu Academy exam. I have already prepared a certificate to recommend Fang Xie to go to Chang'an to take this year's Yanwu Academy admissions exam."
"What did you say?!"
Wu Peisheng's face became extremely ugly, and he pointed at Li Xiaozong's face and said angrily, "How did the spies of the Mengyuan Empire become meritorious men again?!"
"Half an hour ago, he was indeed a spy sent by the Mongolian Yuan Empire into our Fangu City, and everyone got to punish him. But half an hour later, he was a meritorious man of our Great Sui Frontier Army."
"Give our family a reason!"
Wu Peisheng said with a cold face, but suppressed his anger.
"The reason is very simple."
Li Xiaozong pointed to his face without shame, and said very seriously: "Not long ago, a friend of Fang Jie beat me severely. Then she went to save Fang Jie, I guess you sent The people who went there have already been cleaned up. Fang Xie is fine, and I can't beat his friends, so he can't be a spy, he can only be a hero."
"Musan!"
Wu Peisheng ordered coldly: "Take someone to go to Ximen to have a look. Our family would like to see how many gods are hidden in this small Fangu city!"
"There are no gods in Fan Gu City."
Li Xiaozong smiled and said: "This place is very small, no more than three and a half miles long and no more than three miles wide. There are eight hundred soldiers in the frontier army, and two thousand and two hundred and sixty-one people. There is no fairy hiding here, they are all human beings...but not Deny, the more inconspicuous the place you think, the more some extraterrestrial experts like to live in seclusion here."
Wu Peisheng snorted and ignored Li Xiaozong: "Mu San, you go. There is nothing wrong here. What our family disbelieves the most is that General Li dared to do anything to our family. It doesn't matter whether we arrest the spies of the Meng Yuan Empire or not now." The important thing is that Mu Da and Mu Er may be here. Your Dali Temple can afford to lose this person, and our family can't afford to lose this person either."
"Here!"
Mu San responded, and rushed towards the west gate with a dozen officials from Dali Temple. Li Xiaozong didn't intend to stop him at all, instead he gave way with a smile on his face. When she smiled, her swollen face hurt.
"Our family only now realizes that the spies sent by the Mongolian Yuan Empire were not that little frontier soldier named Fang Xie, but you, a general from the fifth rank of the Great Sui Dynasty. To do this today, Li Xiaozong ...Even if our family wants to help you evade it, we can't evade it, let the thieves kill the officials of the Sui court, even if you are favored in front of Your Majesty, you will still die."
Li Xiaozong sighed and explained: "If I don't change my mind, I will die before His Majesty kills me. Even if I have to die, it's good to die a few days later, isn't it?"
Wu Peisheng sneered and said: "You just think that you can kill our family? Don't say you don't think so, since you plan to release Fang Jie and watch Mu Da Mu Er being killed, then you We will definitely not let our family go."
"Since you know it, why did your father-in-law let Mu San go to Ximen?"
Li Xiaozong asked.
"Because you can't kill our family, and our family will kill anyone who plots rebellion tonight."
"No wonder..."
Li Xiaozong sighed and said: "You are the talisman master who has been broken for many years, right? You hide it really well... No wonder His Majesty reuses you. An eunuch is actually a talisman master of the sixth rank. I am afraid that few people will tell about it. Believe me. I have known for a long time that the imperial capital hides dragons and crouching tigers, but now I know that there are also a group of dickless tigers and leopards hidden among the eunuchs."
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Wu Peisheng slowly untied the cloak on his shoulders, and threw it on the snow: "Li Xiaozong, you should know that you have no chance of winning in a fight with a talisman master."
Li Xiaozong nodded: "Even ordinary people know that when fighting at the same level, warriors are definitely not opponents of talisman masters... But, you and I don't seem to be at the same level. You are on the sixth rank, not even the seventh rank. Even so, I have a chance of winning." It’s still not big, but at least there is a chance of winning.”
"you are wrong… "
Wu Peisheng smiled complacently and said: "Sixth grade...you are talking about our family three years ago, not our current family. Our family has read the records of the Ministry of War and knows that when you were in the Academy of Martial Arts He is already a master of the sixth rank. In the past three years of honing in the border town, he has broken through the sixth rank and entered the seventh rank. Unfortunately... our family broke through to the seventh rank three years ago because His Majesty gave you a velvet vest. Taste."
Li Xiaozong's expression changed, and he took a step back subconsciously.
"You want to retire now? It's too late."
Wu Peisheng smiled negatively, and slowly raised his right hand to point at Li Xiaozong. His hands were beautiful, slender and clean. If one looked at these hands without looking at their appearance, they would probably be mistaken for women's hands. Even among women, these hands are considered delicate and beautiful.
The nails are trimmed extremely short, and there is no dirt in the crevices of the nails. His fingers are slender and his palms are slightly thick. It can be seen that he takes great care of these hands on weekdays and takes good care of them.
The moment his hand was raised, Li Xiaozong immediately did one thing.
escape.
He kicked his feet a little bit, and in the next second he appeared more than ten meters away. His movements are already extremely fast, and his reactions are even faster. This made Wu Peisheng have to look at him with admiration: "There are still people in the imperial capital who say that your future future is unpredictable. Dean Zhou even said that if you don't die at the age of thirty, you may become the last emperor of the Great Sui Empire since its founding." A young governor. A second-rank official in frontiers, with boundless glory."
"Unfortunately... Dean Zhou is right, you won't live to be thirty years old."
Li Xiaozong didn't answer, but fled towards the distance again. When his figure flickered, he had already gone more than ten meters away, and his movements were so fast that his eyes couldn't keep up. But Wu Peisheng didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. With his hand stretched in midair, he bent back his four fingers, leaving only his index finger, and slowly drew a spell in midair.
At this time, Li Xiaozong was already more than thirty meters away.
Just when Li Xiaozong was about to retreat for the fourth time, he suddenly sensed the crisis behind him. Just at the very moment, he threw himself forward and lay down on the snow. Three sharp ice picks, although not big, suddenly appeared behind him. If he hadn't dodged in time, these three ice picks would have pierced into his body fiercely. One back of the head, one neck, one back of the heart.
This is the way the Talisman Master fights, and it is impossible to guard against.
"You can't escape. Our family is best at writing water talismans. It's freezing cold, and the water freezes, so the power of water talismans is much stronger. No matter how fast you move, you can still pass Is this covered with snow from Fangu City?"
Wu Peisheng smiled triumphantly, and the speed of drawing symbols with his fingers became faster and faster. With the movement of his fingers, more and more chopstick-sized ice picks appeared around Li Xiaozong's body. No matter how he dodges, those ice picks are always with him. A seventh-rank expert is rare in the military. Just as Li Xiaozong himself expected, as long as he returns to the court, he will be promoted to a fourth-rank Yingyanglang general in a short time, with a bright future. But now this future upstart in the great Sui army with great prospects is forced to be helpless by the same seventh-rank talisman master.
With a chirping sound, an ice pick finally pierced Li Xiaozong. The seemingly fragile ice pick easily scratched the padded jacket on his body. A strand of blood slowly seeped out from the padded jacket, but Li Xiaozong didn't have time to check the injury at all. The moment he paused, at least thirty ice cones surrounded him.
"Is it very aggrieved?"
Wu Peisheng smiled and said: "A seventh-rank master is actually powerless to fight back. If it were our family, our family must feel very aggrieved."
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Li Xiaozong was panting heavily, kneeling on the ground on one knee, and he didn't have much strength left. There were wounds all over his body, and an ice pick pierced deeply on his shoulder, which was slowly melted by the warmth of his blood. The cotton robe on his body had been cut to pieces, and there were faint bloodstains in many cuts.
Wu Peisheng waved his fingers slowly, and at least twenty ice picks floated up again and aimed at Li Xiaozong: "From the moment you wanted to kill our family, you made a mistake. You are a warrior, and you have nothing but close quarters." You may have killed our family. But you didn't seize the opportunity, do you know why?"
He said proudly: "Because our family began to suspect you when we saw the frontier soldiers retreating. Since we suspect you, how can we not be wary of you?"
He snorted coldly: "The genius of Yanwuyuan... just crawled in front of our family like a dog and gasped for breath. You should be nostalgic for the smell of the air in this world, because the smell in hell is probably not so fresh. Li Xiaozong... our family After returning to the capital, I will tell His Majesty that you died in a fierce battle while arresting spies. This will be good for you, our family, and your Longyou Li family."
"Thank you."
Li Xiaozong solemnly said two words.
"Haha! You can still say thank you. Is it thanks to our family for helping you save face?"
Li Xiaozong shook his head, and slowly stood up straight: "Thank you for being so proud, that's why you have exposed so many flaws."
Wu Peisheng was startled, just as his fingers were about to move, his head suddenly felt a pain. Immediately afterwards, an ice pick pierced his forehead, revealing a few inches. Wu Peisheng looked at Li Xiaozong incredulously, before he could say a word, he fell down softly. As he fell to the ground, all the icicles floating around Li Xiaozong fell to the ground.
Li Xiaozong let out a long sigh of relief, walked slowly to Wu Peisheng and squatted down, looked at the ice pick and then smiled with satisfaction.
"Since you know that I am a genius at the Academy of Martial Arts, you should know that geniuses always want to learn more. I was suppressed by those three guys at the Academy of Martial Arts for three years. If I don't practice some skills, how will I be suppressed when I go back? But after all, I have only practiced talisman for three years, and I can't be as fluent as you, so I always need to prepare in the world. If you are not happy, how can I deceive you? How can I kill you? You may not I know why I invited Fan Gu here back then, because this place is too remote, no one knows that I can practice talisman... After going back, wouldn't those three guys be surprised?"
"Oh... no."
Li Xiaozong smiled and said: "Actually, I just want to test whether my talisman works or not. Even if the talisman is not effective, you can't kill me. As for my injuries... I have to accumulate some experience for the future. What should I do when I meet a more powerful talisman master, right? There are too few talisman masters, and it is hard to meet one, so I will naturally play more."
He threw a short and light crossbow from his cuff, and then patted Wu Peisheng's unrepentant face: "Anyone who doesn't make at least two preparations is an idiot."
Just at this moment, there was a sound of footsteps behind him.
Li Xiaozong got up to look back, and saw the woman in the extremely rustic floral blue padded jacket, walking towards him slowly with one hand clutching Mu San's ankle, the cold Mu San turned into a cold The corpse was dragged by the woman like a dead dog, leaving a trail on the snow.