It has been more than a month since Fang Jie left Chang'an City. From time to time, criminals involved in Prince Yi's case will be executed at Caishikou. Although the number of criminals is not large, they have not stopped killing people since Prince Yi was arrested. The common people have become accustomed to seeing this kind of scene, and they can even be said to be numb.
More than 34,000 heads have been chopped off, and it seems that there is no sign of the end. If the first offender, Prince Yi Yang Yin, did not subdue the law for a day, the case would not be considered closed.
The Ouchi guards are in a tight prison.
Luo Weiran walked to the deepest part of the third floor, stuck to the window of the iron door and looked inside. Prince Yi Yang Yin was lying on the stone bed, looking like a dead person, and he had been dead for a long time. At first Yang Yin asked to see the emperor by way of hunger strike, but the emperor simply ignored him.
By the fifth day of the hunger strike, he was already in a groggy state. Naturally, Luo Weiran would not let him just starve to death, so he sent someone in to forcefully feed Yang Yin two bowls of gruel. Later, Yang Yin's whole body began to become muddled, and Fei Yupao went in to feed him and he didn't resist, but he didn't ask for food either. It has been less than three months since he was imprisoned, and he seems to have lost his human form.
Even more desolate than him was Xiao Yijiu in the prison opposite. Unlike Yang Yin, Xiao Yijiu's mental state was even worse, he was crazy, and he often said some irrelevant words, and no one understood what he was talking about. Because of his insanity, the jailer didn't even dare to open the cell door to deliver food. Instead, he threw steamed buns and other food through the small window. If he was so hungry, he would squat down and eat it himself.
It seems that the once respected leader of the Taoist sect is now in such a mess that he is not even as good as a beggar. Because he was too dangerous, even if the air pocket was sealed and the bones of his limbs were locked with iron hooks, no one dared to get too close. So this prison is terribly dirty, with defecation everywhere and no one to clean it up. A very disgusting smell could be smelled from far away.
When Luo Weiran saw that senior brother Fengfeng in the past had become what he is now, his heart hurt like a knife. But even he didn't dare to open the iron prison door easily. Ever since he said to Xiao Yijiu that an inch above the ground is the sky, Xiao Yijiu's sanity has become more and more muddled. Going crazy every day, even with Luo Weiran's cultivation, he can't rely on it later. Although the golden needle sealed Xiao Yijiu's air pocket, it seemed that the pressure on Xiao Yijiu was getting weaker and weaker.
When Xiao Yijiu went crazy for the first time, Luo Weiran could still restrain him when he went in. The second time he went crazy, when Luo Weiran asked someone to open the iron door and was about to go in, Xiao Yijiu suddenly opened his mouth and spat thick phlegm at him. Luo Weiran dodged to dodge, but the flying fish robe behind him had half of his head smashed by the mouthful of thick phlegm.
Although Luo Weiran restrained Xiao Yijiu again this time, it took a lot of trouble. He clearly felt that the energy in Xiao Yijiu's body was getting stronger and stronger, and the golden needle that could seal more than 90% of the true energy in his body before seemed to have gradually lost its effect. Although his limbs were sealed by iron hooks and he couldn't move in a wide range, but if his internal strength recovered, even if he remained still, it would be terrifying. When she went crazy for the third time, Luo Weiran's heart sank to the bottom.
Because that time, he tried his best, and together with a master who couldn't hide from Ouchi's bodyguard, he restrained Xiao Yijiu. Then Luo Weiran personally used the golden hairpin to put Xiao Yijiu in his body. All the Qi meridians were pierced. No matter how powerful Xiao Yijiu's internal energy was, he couldn't gather his Qi veins.
Only in this way did Xiao Yijiu, who had gone mad, calm down.
However, only one month later, Xiao Yijiu went crazy again. The jailer who went in to bring him food was only glanced at by him, and suddenly he shattered into pieces of meat all over the place. Meat, bones, and internal organs were all turned into pieces. Not only that, the sharp energy that filled the room circled back and forth, and chopped up the few flying fish robes that came in later.
Countless deep marks were left on the wall.
That madness was the day before Fang Jie left the Southwest. The masters in Ouchi's bodyguard almost came out in full force, and they worked together to suppress Xiao Yijiu. Even Zhuo Buyi's all-out effort to paint the ground as a prison could not calm Xiao Yijiu down. Luo Weiran had no choice but to use heavy methods to shatter most of Xiao Yijiu's sea of energy, which was finally contained, leaving only a ray of incomplete breath.
He was extremely careful when he struck, because once Xiao Yijiu's sea of energy was completely shattered, he was afraid that Xiao Yijiu would die on the spot.
Before the emperor's decree came down, Xiao Yijiu could not die. Luo Weiran couldn't bear to let his brother die, and then he ordered no one to open the iron gate. But no one thought that even so, Xiao Yijiu went crazy again on the 20th day after Fang Jie left Chang'an City.
This time, all the masters of Ouchi's guard who entered the iron gate were killed except Luo Weiran. If it wasn't for Luo Weiran's quick reaction to back out, I'm afraid it would have turned into pieces of meat. You must know that the three masters who shot to subdue Xiao Yijiu were all enshrined by Ouchi's bodyguards, and their cultivation bases were very strong, but they turned into pieces of meat without even responding when they entered.
Luo Weiran asked people to close the iron door tightly, and no one dared to approach this secret room since then.
During this period, Luo Weiran went to the palace several times to ask the emperor for instructions, but he only saw the emperor once. Entering the palace four or five times, Su Buwei always refused him on the grounds that His Majesty was busy with court affairs. There was only one time when the emperor saw him when he entered the palace, and he mentioned Xiao Yijiu's situation, but the emperor didn't say anything, he just ordered the criminal department to close the case as soon as possible.
However, the officials of the Ministry of Punishment did not dare to enter the prison where Xiao Yijiu was at, and they did not get any confession at all.
Of the two felons, one was frighteningly insane, and the other was so weak that he had only half his life left.
But His Majesty didn't make an order for a while, Luo Weiran could only keep them alive cautiously.
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Looking at the thin figure lying on the stone bed in the prison, Luo Weiran couldn't help but sighed a long time.
"open the door."
He waved his hand and ordered.
The Feiyupao on duty opened the iron gate where Prince Yi was imprisoned, and Luo Weiran walked in. Holding a bowl of rice porridge in his hand, he walked to the chair beside the stone bed and sat down.
Yang Yin, who was lying with his back to the iron gate, turned around, seeing that it was Luo Weiran, he smiled with difficulty. It's only been a few short months, and it's almost impossible to see his original appearance. The cheeks had sunk in, so that the cheekbones appeared high. The eye sockets were deeper than the sunken cheeks, and the once radiant pupils were now protruding outwards, so cloudy that it was almost impossible to distinguish black and white eyeballs.
His current appearance was as if there was no flesh on his skull at all, but a layer of face was directly applied to it. There are bones under the skin, and the skin is full of wrinkles.
"Why are you here in person today?"
Yang Yin tried to sit up, but those two withered arms had already lost most of their strength. Luo Weiran helped him to sit down, then pointed to the bowl of porridge and said, "Eat something, although the ending has already been doomed, why bother with your own body? Eating and drinking is better than being stabbed when the time comes." It’s much better to torture yourself like this.”
Yang Yin smiled: "You are really not a persuasive person... I am torturing myself... At first I really wanted to go on a hunger strike. It would be best if His Majesty saw me because of this. It is also a good choice to be humiliated in front of others. But you don't want me to die, and I don't know why, but after seeing food, I feel disgusted and disgusted."
"You are too hungry."
Luo Weiran picked up the dinner and handed it to him: "Eat something."
Yang Yin did not refuse, took it with a frown and took a sip, but immediately spit it out again.
He smiled bitterly: "The first few mouthfuls I ate, I always spit it out."
Luo Weiran wanted to say that he knew why today, but he swallowed the words again. What's the point of saying such things to Yang Yin at this time
Yang Yin took the second sip slowly, and after a long silence, he smiled: "Today is not bad, this porridge has been boiled for a long time, it is not like the ones sent by others in the past, the rice is still a bit stiff... by the way , Xiao Yijiu... what's wrong?"
"crazy."
Luo Weiran shook his head and answered.
"Crazy?"
Yang Yin asked another question. This sentence completely exposed his character. He was not a person who would trust others, and he looked at everything in the dark.
"real."
Luo Weiran nodded.
"I killed him?"
Yang Yin was stunned for a moment, and then sighed: "The time I went to see him in Qingfeng, he was still so high-spirited when I chatted with him. I asked him, who is taller between him and Dean Zhou? He said he didn't know how tall Dean Zhou was, but he knew he was already tall."
"Brother...it is indeed very high."
Luo Weiran sighed: "If the master is not still in Chang'an, no one can stop him that day."
"Master?"
Yang Yin's expression froze for a moment, his face full of disbelief: "You said that the old man who blocked the warship in my mansion that day was Xiao Yijiu's master? Wait... You just said senior brother... you and Xiao Yijiu Yijiu is actually a senior brother?"
"That's right."
Luo Weiran nodded: "That's why I said, you think you know this city of Chang'an, but you don't know too many things... The scary thing in the Martial Arts Academy is not Dean Zhou, but the master. The master is already here He has lived in seclusion in the Martial Arts Academy for a long time, so long that even he himself has forgotten how many years."
"Back when we were learning arts, we were on the mountain behind the Taiji Palace. At that time, we didn't know that the master lived in seclusion in the Yanwu Academy, and we didn't know that there was a secret road behind the Yanwu Academy leading directly to the Taiji Palace. By the way... there is something for you You probably wouldn't have guessed that Prince Zhong is my senior brother."
When hearing this, Yang Yin's already ugly face turned as white as paper.
"No wonder... No wonder the fourth brother has been so indifferent. With such a strong backing, what is he afraid of? I have planned for so many years, it is worse than that old man blocking the power of my big ship with one hand."
"who is he?"
Yang Yin couldn't help asking.
"It's okay to tell you, because soon after, His Majesty plans to disclose the identity of the master. The master's name is Wan Xingchen, and he has been the number one person in the world many years ago."
"it turns out… "
Yang Yin's hand shook violently, and a lot of porridge spilled out of the bowl: "It turned out to be him..."
At this moment, a roar suddenly came from the opposite prison.
"Wan Xingchen? Who is mentioning this name?!"
That was Xiao Yijiu's voice, full of anger and fear. Immediately afterwards, a messy sound came, and a burst of smoke and dust gushed out from the iron window of the opposite prison.
It was the powder ash shaken by Xiao Yijiu's wildly volatile internal energy, and there were many deep marks on the ground and walls immediately.
In the prison, Xiao Yijiu's long dirty hair danced wildly. He raised his head, and a trace of spirit slowly emerged from his cloudy eyes.
"Wan Xingchen! I'm not afraid of you... I'm not afraid of you!"
The lunatic roared loudly: "Don't think that your Wan Jian Gui Yuan is invincible in the world, I will defeat you sooner or later... I will defeat you! I will defeat you! I am the one who stands on the top, I am …”