The door closed softly.
This shows that Li Tianlan did not feel angry or unwilling when he left.
Come simply, go simply.
Li Tianlan put forward conditions.
Li Kuangtu rejected his conditions.
The future of the Li family, countless people, countless related families, the pattern of the dark world, unimaginable interests, the future path of the Li family, and the future situation.
This all seems like the most ordinary transaction.
They couldn't agree on a price, so they broke up.
It was straightforward, without regret or anger.
There may be regrets, but they are far from enough to make people look back.
Li Kuangtu sat on the ground without any image, leaning against the wall and being silent for a long time. Then he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pants pocket and lit one silently.
Through the swirling smoke, Li Huacheng's figure seemed a little blurry in his sight.
Li Kuangtu suddenly smiled and said lightly: "Am I free now?"
"You are not truly free until you truly leave the East Palace."
Li Huacheng sat down on the sofa and said with a smile: "Sit down too, I have always wanted to chat with you, but never had the chance. Although the time is not right today, the occasion is suitable, safe, and with Tianlan's temperament, They won’t eavesdrop on what we say.”
Li Kuangtu thought for a while, stood up and sat across from Li Huacheng, puffing away his breath and remaining silent.
"I'm curious."
Li Huacheng said slowly: "Why don't you agree to Tianlan? To be honest, the conditions he proposed are beyond my imagination. The autonomy of Tiandu Purgatory, the first deputy palace master of the East Palace, the future heir of the Li family, you Is there anything else you’re not satisfied with?”
Proud, paranoid, unwilling
These can be said to be reasons, but they are not decisive reasons.
The person who proposed this condition, the person who heard this condition, and the person who witnessed this condition all knew exactly what this condition meant.
Once Li Kuangtu accepts it, although he, the first deputy palace master of the East Palace, is under Li Tianlan, Tiandu Purgatory still maintains quite good autonomy. Even if Li Tianlan takes away part of the core of Tiandu Purgatory, At least the normal structure of Tiandu Purgatory must be ensured.
In other words, the framework of Tiandu Purgatory will not change. At least the three top masters of Dawn, Dawn, and Phoenix will stay, and the elite forces of Immortal, Immortal, and Senluo Three Palaces will also stay, and they will be part of Tiandu Purgatory. Industry and intelligence agencies will also stay.
Although Li Kuangtu has become the deputy palace master, he can still fully lead Tiandu Purgatory. Although Li Tianlan is the palace master and can control Tiandu Purgatory to a certain extent, he cannot interfere in everything. With the first deputy Due to the position of the Palace Master and the identities of the other deputy palace masters, Li Kuangtu can not only control Tiandu Purgatory, but also the East Palace to a certain extent.
Such things as settling accounts after the fall, being ignored, killing the donkey, crossing the river and burning the bridge are simply impossible to happen in the current situation of the East Palace.
Every word of the condition proposed by Li Tianlan was full of sincerity. The two parties had exchanged resources above the bottom line. When Li Tianlan could control Tiandu Purgatory to a certain extent, Li Kuangtu You can also control the Eastern Palace to a certain extent.
This is a true win-win, a true mutual integration, and the Li family is reunited as one. This is the best situation.
And if this merger is successful, both Tiandu Purgatory and Donghuang Palace will greatly increase their strength, which will also be beneficial to both of them.
In this state, as long as Li Kuangtu gives up his current thoughts and does not target Li Tianlan, it will be impossible for Li Tianlan to target him again.
Even if Li Kuangtu doesn't like Li Tianlan, just wait. The next generation leader of the Li family is the daughter of Li Tianlan and Dongcheng Rushi, and is the grandson of Li Kuangtu. It is unlikely that Li Tianlan and Dongcheng Rushi's names will change. Next, when the child was born, Li Kuangtu was not called grandpa, but probably grandpa. Since he sincerely joined the East Palace, Li Tianlan could accept him. Even if he didn't call him father, he would be treated as an elder.
In this way, when this child comes to power, the grievances between Li Tianlan and Li Kuangtu will naturally disappear. Similarly, as the child comes to power, the entanglement between Tiandu Purgatory and Donghuang Palace will be meaningless, and Li Huawu's lineage can naturally be integrated into Li Kuangtu's family. Family, no longer distinguish between each other.
As long as Li Kuangtu doesn't regard himself as an outsider.
Then no one in the Eastern Palace would treat him as an outsider.
What's wrong with this result
But Li Kuangtu actually refused.
Li Tianlan is not a very aggressive person, but Li Huacheng still didn't expect that he would give Li Kuangtu such excellent conditions. This is completely impossible in Li Huacheng's mind. After all, everyone can see the facts. Donghuang Palace The current strength has far surpassed Tiandu Purgatory, and the conditions mentioned by Li Tianlan can only be proposed when the strength of both parties is equal, but now, it is no longer necessary.
Now that Li Tianlan insists on swallowing up the East Palace, he is hard-hearted and allows more people to die on both sides, and giving Li Kuangtu a guest minister position with little real power seems to be a very good choice.
But Li Tianlan didn't make any detours. He gave Li Kuangtu this condition when he had completely gained the upper hand and even controlled the life and death of Tiandu Purgatory.
What made Li Huacheng even more confused was that Li Kuangtu actually refused.
Li is paranoid
Is this kind of paranoia just a fool
Li Huacheng watched Li Kuangtu smoke another cigarette, but had no intention of giving him one. He shook his head and took out his cigarette case and lit one: "You should know very well that he can't have anything better." It is impossible for him to give up his position as the master of the East Palace to you. He can't give it to you, but what he gives you is the best. You can't help but feel this kind of sincerity. So, why? "
Why
An extremely complicated light flashed in Kuangtu Li's eyes.
There are too many reasons to tell why Li Huacheng is.
He took a deep breath from the cigarette, and the mist slowly sprayed out from his nostrils and mouth. Li Kuangtu smiled: "So, he is still too young. He brought you here to talk to me. There are obviously three people here." , but if you don’t say anything, he will treat this negotiation as a matter between two people.”
Li Kuangtu narrowed his eyes and looked at Li Huacheng: "I believe that Li Tianlan is not so scheming yet. There are some things that he can't figure out for the time being. After all, he is still not mature enough, but you don't understand, right?"
Li Huacheng was silent.
"Qin Weibai?"
Li Kuangtu suddenly asked.
"I have no idea."
Li Huacheng shook his head.
Li Kuangtu sneered, his voice a little cold: "It's a disaster for the country and the people, that witch deserves to die!"
Li Huacheng laughed dumbly: "The demon? Everything she did was just for Tianlan. Don't say a little bit of infamy, even if it was more, as long as it was beneficial to Tianlan, she would do it without hesitation. You hate her to the core. , doesn’t she hate you to the core? You have tried to kill her man many times, do you still want to
Do you hope she will give you a good ending? Meeting such a woman is luck, blessing, and destiny. If there was such a woman around you back then, how could you be here today? "
Li Huacheng remained silent.
At this moment he thought of Li Xi.
The woman who was truly willing to let him give up a lot of things to protect her.
In the border battle that year, the Li family collapsed and the king became a king but the bandits were defeated.
But looking back now, if Li Xi had tried her best to help him instead of stabbing him at the most critical moment, what would have been the result
Li Kuangtu took a deep breath, said nothing, and looked gloomy.
"If I don't come with Tianlan, will you agree to his conditions?"
Li Huacheng looked at Li Kuangtu and asked.
There seemed to be a lot hidden in his eyes at this moment.
Li Kuangtu sneered: "If I agree to his conditions, will you let me and Tiandu Purgatory live?"
Li Huacheng said nothing.
He sat quietly, as calm as a vast ocean.
"The answer is obvious, right?"
Li Kuangtu's tone was full of mockery: "President, you and I can be considered contemporaries. When I was most proud of myself, you were just starting out. When you were rising to the top, I was knocked down from the clouds and fell into the dust. But for me, Zhongzhou, I know far more about you than Li Tianlan."
"Most of Zhongzhou's evaluations of you are that you have a gentle and steady style. This evaluation is indeed correct, but it is only one side. Your former opponents know how ruthless you are at the critical moment, and so do those who have really paid attention to you. very clear."
"After I join the East Palace, Tiandu Purgatory and the East Palace merge into one, the power in my hands and that of Li Tianlan will not just be doubled? Li Tianlan is one, I am half, Lin Fengting is half, Li Xi, Cang Yue, Saint, dawn, military advisor, dawn, phoenix, breeze, flowing clouds, Yun Qinxi, Li Baitian, Bai Youming..."
"After all the hidden dangers of Li's family have been eliminated, what kind of strength does this lineup have?"
"Don't talk about this era, even in the peak period of the Beihai Wang family, I'm talking about the period when the Beihai Wang family had the Li family. With a lineup like ours, can Beihai stop it?"
"The combination of this lineup means that the Eastern Imperial Palace and Tiandu Purgatory will no longer have any rivals in the dark world. It means that Li Tianlan and I will truly stick to our word in the Central Continent's special operations system. It means that we can unify the sky in an instant. South means that we can directly recapture the East Island, which means that we can directly conquer the North Sea."
"Can you sleep well with such a lineup in front of you? What's the point of wooing Jiang Shangyu and keeping Gu Xingyun in front of such a lineup?"
"Pointless."
Li Huacheng said with a solemn expression.
“Without meaning, it cannot exist.”
Li Kuangtu said calmly: "It's not Jiang Shangyu and Gu Xingyun who can't exist, but me, and even Donghuang Palace. In the final analysis, it's the Li family."
"With the temperament of the current little clan leader in Beihai, stability should be the main focus in the next few years. And with all due respect, you and Chen Fangqing have tormented them a lot in the past two years. After Chen Fangqing died, the resentment is natural They will focus on you, and the little clan leader doesn’t have a good impression of you. They may have conflicts with the Eastern Palace in the future, but they are definitely not from the standpoint of Zhongzhou, so you can’t win over the Beihai Wang family.”
"And if Tiandu Purgatory merges with the Eastern Palace, you won't be able to find a force that can check and balance us in the entire Central Continent, or even the entire Dark World, let alone a force that has the guts to stand up to us openly."
"The combination of Jiang Shangyu and Gu Xingyun is no longer weak. At most, you are just trying to win over Wang Xiaoyao."
"If I recover from my injuries, I can defeat Jiang Shangyu. Although Gu Xingyun is troublesome, Li Xi can also check and balance him. If Wang Xiaoyao takes action, Wang Yuexiange will not sit idly by. Morad has a special status, even if you dare to let him be fair. By joining Zhongzhou, other invincible masters in the Eastern Palace can also kill him. In this way, Li Tianlan will have no opponent. Even Jiang Shangyu cannot bear this kind of pressure."
"Once such a phenomenon occurs, it proves that the Li family has lost control after the merger of Tiandu Purgatory and the Eastern Palace, and has completely escaped the control of Zhongzhou. President, I know you very well, and you will not allow this scene to occur."
Li Kuangtu smiled: "If I really agree, you will stop it. If you can't stop it, the next step will probably be for the entire strength of Zhongzhou to attack the Li family in all directions. The Eastern Palace will suffer heavy losses, and the Tiandu Purgatory will also suffer losses. It’s tragic, but in the end, it’s the Li family that is weakened overall, right?”
"After all, that silly boy is too young and not mature enough. He also loves and trusts that witch Qin Weibai too much, so his bottom line should have been told to Qin Weibai a long time ago. Qin Weibai certainly did not let him down. That trust, but after all, she is not from the Li family, and she doesn't want to understand the Li family. The witch only has Li Tianlan in her eyes, and she doesn't care about anything else. This mentality will also make her care about anything about Li Tianlan. Going to extremes, all she wants is Li Tianlan's infallibility, and she doesn't care about anything else."
"The conditions proposed by Li Tianlan are very good. I have the possibility of agreeing. Once I agree, I will first face the suppression from you and Zhongzhou. If nothing else, this alone is a risk in Qin Weibai's eyes. So she doesn’t want to see this. And I have tried to kill her man many times, so naturally she can’t tolerate me, so that’s why you and that stupid boy came here to talk to me today.”
"He is now at the height of his power, so naturally he won't think so much. Tsk, that's why he is immature. He is young and frivolous, and anyone dares to challenge him. The merger of our two parties will cause fear in Zhongzhou. He may not have thought of it, but he is too lazy to care. , look, this is Donghuang’s confidence.”
"Qin Weibai is a very smart woman. The smartest thing about her is that while she protects Li Tianlan to the maximum extent, she can also prevent Li Tianlan from feeling disgusted with her like I am doing this for you. So in this matter, she Instead of trying to persuade Li Tianlan, I asked you to come with him."
"There are some things that Li Tianlan doesn't care about or is too lazy to see clearly, but Qin Weibai knows that I understand. Facing Zhongzhou's all-round suppression, oh, how can we fight? Those who can't fight are really torn. Li Tianlan and I can barely survive, Zhongzhou Maybe my vitality will be severely damaged, but the Li family is gone after all. That is my Li family. I am extreme, paranoid, but also timid. Li Tianlan is not afraid of anything he dares to do, and I can see the consequences clearly, so I don’t I dare not do it, but I dare not agree to his conditions.”
"Qin Weibai can see this, so when you walked into this room with him, the witch already knew the outcome. If I reject Li Tianlan, she will also become someone who wants to kill me and plot against me in the future. No scruples."
Li Kuangtu's voice was slow, but extremely stable and clear.
Li Huacheng listened silently. During the whole process, he smoked two cigarettes in a row.
He waited until Li Kuangtu's voice disappeared before sighing and laughing: "So by rejecting Li Tianlan, you are protecting him to some extent?"
"I'm protecting Ms. Li."
Li Kuangtu's voice was cold.
In some aspects, he and Li Tianlan have always had a tacit understanding.
For example, he could use external forces to deal with Li Tianlan, and even joined forces with Jiang Shangyu Gu Xingyun, but he never touched the East Palace in the slightest.
Li Tianlan could be merciless to him, but from beginning to end, at least before today, he had never targeted anyone else in Tiandu Purgatory.
In each other's hearts, the other's property is their future property, so both parties are protecting it tacitly. Although Li Tianlan killed several people in Tiandu Purgatory today, none of those people were from the Li family. , that’s just the top level of Tiandu Purgatory.
He could fight to the death with Li Tianlan, but in the overall situation, no one else could be allowed to scheme against the Li family.
"I suddenly thought of the chaos in Snow Country."
Li Huacheng smiled and said: "If you had known this day, would you have lent the sword to Li Tianlan back in Snow Country?"
Chaos in the Snow Country·Judgment Day.
It was precisely because of the sword that Li Kuangtu lent to Li Tianlan that Li Tianlan used his perfect sword power to control Li Kuangtu's sword energy and break out of the desperate situation, bringing the day of judgment to a complete end.
"meeting."
Li Kuangtu said lightly: "At that time, he could be said to have completely disgraced the Li family. After all, it was too ugly."
Paranoid.
Li Huacheng seemed to completely understand the meaning of this word in Li's family.
He nodded slowly: "Is this the reason why you rejected Li Tianlan?"
"That's a reason you can accept."
Li Huacheng said calmly.
reason
He could say a lot if he wanted to.
From the beginning, he was dissatisfied with Li Honghe's approach of putting all his chips on Li Tianlan.
In Li Honghe's plan, everything in Tiandu Purgatory was prepared for Li Tianlan, and as Li Honghe's biological son, Li Kuangtu was just a transitional figure!
How to be convinced
Lin'an Qingyun Temple, the dragon vein guarded by Master Xuan Xuanzi brought him back from death. If the dragon vein that condensed the luck of Central Continent was given to him, then in the decisive battle of Tiandu, his first shot Enough to sweep away Wang Tianzong and Beihai Wang clan.
But the dragon vein was finally given to Li Tianlan by that old bald donkey.
How to be willing
A young boy, an outsider of the Li family.
Why should he? !
This is jealousy.
Li Kuangtu never denied this. He was just jealous of everything Li Tianlan had from childhood to adulthood, which should have been his.
So he clung to Tiandu Purgatory in his hand, trying to seize the opportunity to make the boy who took over everything in him disappear completely.
Li Tianlan entered the world.
The chaos in East Island began.
Before he could do anything, the Reincarnation Palace was already blocking the gate of Tiandu Purgatory.
So the decisive battle in Tiandu changed from killing Li Tianlan to cooperating with the Reincarnation Palace to let Tiandu Purgatory enter the world smoothly.
And all this was because of the Palace of Reincarnation, and because of a woman who was extremely stunning even when he saw her, a woman who was known as a goddess in the dark world.
At that time, Li Kuangtu understood that even if he clung to Tiandu Purgatory, the young boy he had always been jealous of but despised would stand up again in another direction with the power of a woman, and then become him The biggest opponent who controls Li's family.
Li Kuangtu's failure was because of women.
Li Tianlan's success is also because of women.
The contrast was so obvious, how could Kuangtu Li not be jealous
And the first son he had high hopes for and had already raised.
Hua Wu died in Ninghu.
Some clues have almost pointed to the Palace of Reincarnation. Although there is no evidence, what evidence does a person like Li Kuangtu need
the most important is.
Join the Eastern Palace.
Li Kuangtu didn't want to.
If you don’t want to, just don’t want to.
All reasons.
Each is a reason.
When Li Kuangtu joined Donghuang Palace, he couldn't think of any excuse that could persuade him to ignore these reasons.
"never mind."
Li Huacheng smiled: "At least this reason is true, and I can indeed accept it."
"So? I'm free?"
Li Kuangtu's voice was a little dull.
"I'll try my best."
Li Huacheng said in a calm voice: "I am 99% sure about fighting for your freedom. I can take you out of Tiandu Purgatory today."
His voice paused.
Li Huacheng looked at him and said nothing.
"The premise is, what can you do for me and Zhongzhou?"
"Are you very optimistic about Li Tianlan?"
Li Kuangtu suddenly asked.
"To be precise, it is the mature Tianlan that I am optimistic about."
Li Huacheng's expression was serious.
"It's very strange and contradictory. So, the reason you saved me today was actually for Li Tianlan. Am I understanding it correctly?"
Li Kuangtu suddenly laughed.
Li Huacheng narrowed his eyes and acquiesced.
Li Kuangtu is a smart man and mature enough. There is no need to hide some things because they cannot be hidden at all.
"understood."
Li Kuangtu nodded: "If I join the East Palace, the Li family will lose control and be completely out of control. This is not what you want. Then the opposite must be what you want, so you want me to continue to be an enemy of the East Palace. No, to be precise, you want me to continue to join forces with Jiang Shangyu and Gu Xingyun, so that the three of us can form a force strong enough to check and balance the Eastern Palace."
He stared into Li Huacheng's eyes: "You saved me just so that Li Tianlan could kill me in the future. Do you want me to be a stumbling block on Li Tianlan's path to help him grow up quickly? Or should I say, a whetstone?"
"Is this a test for Li Tianlan?"
Li Kuangtu's smile was a little twisted.
"You are a smart man."
Li Huacheng said slowly: "Agree or reject?"
"I don't want to be a puppet."
Li Kuangtu sneered: "If I leave the East Palace, I will integrate all the power in my hands, try my best to kill Li Tianlan at any cost, and take back the power of the Li family. In this matter, I will not have any Show mercy. If he falls in my hands, what will you do, kill me?"
Li Huacheng looked at him expressionlessly and said indifferently: "You can kill Tian Lan, which naturally proves that you are more valuable than Tian Lan. Why should I kill you? In my heart, you are his whetstone, but It may not be a knife.”
Li Kuangtu looked into his eyes.
Facing his gaze, Li Huacheng did not give in at all.
I don't know how long it took before Li Kuangtu took a deep breath and nodded slowly.
Li Huacheng turned and walked towards the door.
Same crispness.
He said: "Wait for my news."