The arrow flashed with a cold light and aimed at King Yu Ze on the carriage. Both sides exclaimed at the same time, and stopped all actions at the same time. Like Yu Zeyu, they looked at Mu Ke in disbelief.
There was no sound around except the sound of the wind and the crackling of burning torches.
Even the horses stopped neighing.
"Mu Ke, what are you doing?" Xie Nanjia asked in surprise, "Are you going to kill your father?"
Mu Ke had been fighting for several hours, his body and face were covered in blood. He grinned and gave Xie Nanjia a sinister smile. The blood on his face made him look like a ghost who had just crawled out of hell, which was chilling.
"Father!" Mu Ke did not answer Xie Nanjia, but looked at King Yuze with burning eyes, "Father once said that the children of the grassland would rather die than lose their dignity. I know that unifying the world is your greatest wish in this life. Don't worry, I will definitely fulfill this wish for you!"
King Yuze's eyes were bloodshot. Fear and anger made him unable to speak, and desperate sobs came from his throat.
This was his most obedient, sensible and least-worrying son. He never knew that this son had such a ruthless side.
"Father, I am doing this for your own good." Mu Ke added, "You and Song Jingxing have joined forces to fight against the Great Zhou. The Emperor of the Great Zhou will not let you go anyway. Even if I surrender now to save your life, it will only be temporary. Rather than being taken thousands of miles away from home and beheaded, I would rather let you die quickly on the land of Yuze. I can avenge you in the future."
"Mad man, mad man..." King Yuze finally spoke and cursed at Mu Ke, "Rebellious son, you are worse than pigs and dogs, you killed your own father, you will go to the eighteenth level of hell..."
"Hell?" Mu Ke laughed wildly. "Father, open your eyes and look. What is the difference between the grassland today and hell? So many of us have died, and the corpses are piled up like a mountain. This hell was created by you, father. If I surrender to save your life, wouldn't millions of soldiers have died in vain? So, even for the sake of the dead soldiers, I will never surrender today. Father, you can go with peace of mind. When I conquer the world, I will go to your grave and tell you!"
His eyes became resolute and cold. He pulled the longbow in his hand to its full length and aimed at King Yuze again.
Everyone held their breath; even the night wind stopped flowing and the air froze.
At this time, the Yu Ze army suddenly split into two in the middle and retreated silently to both sides, making way for a passage. Then the sound of hurried horse hooves was heard, and a man and a horse came galloping like black lightning.
"The eldest prince, it's the eldest prince, the eldest prince is here..."
Accompanied by the continuous shouts of the Yu Ze army, Mu Yuan rode his horse over.
"Yuan'er, please save your father quickly! Your brother wants to kill me!" Upon hearing that Mu Yuan was coming, King Yu Ze's desperate eyes instantly lit up with a light of survival, and he shouted with all his might to call his eldest son.
Mu Ke's heart skipped a beat and he let go of his hand without hesitation, and the feather arrow whizzed towards King Yuze.
"Mu Ke!"
"Wei Jun!"
Mu Yuan and Xie Nanjia shouted at the same time.
At the same time, Mu Yuan shot an arrow through Mu Ke's chest, and Wei Jun swung his sword to chop at the arrow shot by Mu Ke, and cut the arrow into two pieces just before the tip of the arrow touched King Yuze's forehead.
As the broken arrow fell into the grass, Mu Ke fell off his horse and hit the ground heavily, without a sound.
King Yuze was so frightened that his soul flew away. He sat there stupidly with his pants wet.
The king of the grassland, who had spent half his life in military service, was scared to death by his own son.
Mu Yuan seemed to have not yet woken up from his extreme shock. He stared blankly at the bow and arrow in his hand. After a long time, he looked up to the sky and let out a roar.
"Father!" He called out to King Yuze in grief, "My son killed his own brother..."
"Well done!" King Yuze was filled with shame and indignation, and said in a trembling voice, "Such a rebellious son who is worse than an animal should not be alive in this world!"
"What about you?" A girl's clear voice came from afar.
People came back to their senses from the shock and turned to look for the source of the sound.
A white horse carrying a woman in white came into people's sight. Xie Nanjia recognized her and waved to her.
Mu Yuan also immediately recognized that this girl was General He Yun’s daughter, Yun Shu.
Yun Shu responded to Xie Nanjia, rode his horse to the front of King Yuze, and asked in a questioning tone: "Your son wants to kill you, which is worse than an animal. You killed your father, aren't you also worse than an animal?"
King Yuze was shocked, staring at the girl who suddenly appeared with wide eyes, wondering, "Who are you and why are you framing me?"
"Whether it's a false accusation or not, you know it in your heart." Yun Shu said, "In order to fight for the throne, you poisoned the old king and forced him to pass the throne to you in exchange for the antidote. However, after the old king passed the throne to you, you did not give him the antidote and watched him die of the poison. But you told others that he died of a sudden illness. Am I right?"
The Yu Ze army who were nearby heard Yun Shu's words, and were shocked and frightened, and talked about it a lot.
Mu Yuan was also shocked. He couldn't believe his ears, and he couldn't believe that his father would poison his grandfather.
King Yuze's face was already pale due to the shock just now, and now it was even paler than the moonlight.
"Nonsense!" He glared at Yun Shu and shouted, "Who are you? Who are you?"
"I am the daughter of General He Yun." Yun Shu said, "My father told me that the Seventh Princess was not driven away by the old king. The old king knew that she was poisoned by you, so he let the Seventh Princess take the Red Clothes Order and leave her hometown in anonymity, in order to prevent the Red Clothes Army from falling into your hands. Because you are too ambitious and overestimate your own abilities, you always want to unify the world. The old king is worried that sooner or later, Yuze Country will be destroyed in your hands..."
"You're talking nonsense. How could I possibly destroy Yuze? Everything I've done is to make Yuze stronger. I want to expand Yuze's territory, let Yuze's people spread all over the world, and let Yuze be the king of this world forever!" Yuze King shouted excitedly, "You don't understand at all. Father is just an old stubborn man. He has guarded this grassland all his life, and he wants his people to live a life of herding horses and sheep all their lives, but I don't want to, I don't want to..."
"You don't want to, so your people can't even herd their sheep now!" Xie Nanjia also became excited, jumped off his horse, stood opposite King Yuze, and shouted at him, pointing at the soldiers in front and the grassland in the distance, "Because they are all dead, died on the grassland that raised them for generations, and their bodies are piled up into a mountain, just to satisfy your unrealistic desires.
You simply don't understand that this world is not yours, nor does it belong to anyone else. It belongs to everyone in the world. The world is so big, who can completely possess it? Why do you have to prove such a simple truth with corpses everywhere and lives lost? Why, why?"
I don't know when the surroundings became quiet. It was silent and only Xie Nanjia's angry roar echoed.
Everyone's heart trembled because of her words, everyone's blood boiled because of her words, at this moment, everyone wanted to raise their arms and shout with her: "Why? Why?"
King Yuze was completely shocked. He stared at Xie Nanjia in astonishment and was speechless.
Mu Yuan sat on his horse, staring at the girl who was speaking passionately in the firelight, and suddenly realized how far away he was from her.
What separated them was not Zhao Jingyu, not the Great Zhou, but the world.
He wanted to dominate the world, but she wanted the world.
The world in his eyes and the world in her eyes are not the same world.
Just when everyone was excited by Xie Nanjia's words, a red figure suddenly appeared in the distance, riding a horse and rushing towards Xie Nanjia at lightning speed.
No one had time to react, except Wei Jun Huangfu, who was guarding Xie Nanjia. He quickly drew his sword and stepped forward to protect Xie Nanjia. But then he was startled and put away his sword and retreated.
"It's the second young master!" Huangfu said to Xie Nanjia excitedly.
Xie Nanjia laughed.
Of course she knew it was the second young master. She recognized him the moment Zhao Jingyu appeared in her sight.
Zhao Jingyu rushed straight to Xie Nanjia and then suddenly pulled the reins. The horse neighed, raised its front hooves, and dropped them heavily. The horse's head was only a fist away from Xie Nanjia.
Xie Nanjia was not panicked at all, as if she was fully confident in Zhao Jingyu's riding skills and was sure that he would not let the horse hurt herself.
"Xiu'er!" Zhao Jingyu called out with his head down. At this moment, everything around him automatically disappeared from his sight. Between heaven and earth, only Xie Nanjia was left, reflected in his eyes and imprinted in his heart.
"Xiu'er!" he called again, suddenly leaned over, grabbed Xie Nanjia's arm, lifted her up with force, lifted her onto the horse's back, placed her in front of him, and hugged her tightly from behind.
Xie Nanjia would never have thought that he would do such a thing in front of so many people, and her face immediately blushed with shame. Fortunately, it was night and no one noticed her embarrassment.
"How can you be like this? Don't you know what kind of occasion it is? Let me go." She whispered, her tone full of resentment and helplessness.
"I won't!" Zhao Jingyu said, "From now on, I won't let you leave my side for even a moment!"
Xie Nanjia: “…”
"Wife, I heard everything you said just now. You said it very well." Zhao Jingyu whispered in her ear, "I am proud of you, and I am also proud of myself for finding such a good wife."
Xie Nanjia: “…”
"Why are you here when you're not fighting in the front?"
"What war? Didn't you notice that the fighting has stopped?" Zhao Jingyu said.
Xie Nanjia was stunned. If Zhao Jingyu hadn't told her, she really wouldn't have noticed that the shouting and screaming in front had stopped, and the Yuze Army had also quieted down.
"What's going on?" she asked in surprise.
"When the old king was alive, he was deeply loved by his people. The news that King Yuze poisoned the old king spread among the Yuze army, and no one was willing to work for him anymore." Zhao Jingyu said.
When King Yuze heard this, his heart sank completely.
"Yu'er!" He called Zhao Jingyu in a trembling voice, "I am your uncle!"
(End of this chapter)