“Li Zhen, how could you do this?” Shuoyan Yu'er covered her mouth, tears welling in her eyes.
He did not even ask whether she was willing! And then he...
The questioned Li Zhen leaned halfway against the felt rug and looked at Shuoyan Yu'er teasingly. “I came in with you, so what is wrong with giving you a kiss? As the saying goes, one may die beneath the peony and still die a romantic death!
You want to kill me? Am I not allowed to kiss you? There is no such logic in this world!”
Shuoyan Yu'er was stunned by Li Zhen's words.
“I... I do not want to kill you. I just...”
Before she could finish, a burly man in purple robes beside her interrupted.
“Master, since he has come here, kill him and avenge the old master!”
“What? We cannot kill him!”
Shuoyan Yu'er said anxiously.
That was not what they had been discussing.
The others also looked hesitantly at the burly man in purple robes.
“Hey, wait. I have something to say!” Hearing their argument, Li Zhen picked up the mare's milk wine from the table and took a sip.
It seemed that this tribe was not united after all!
“Wait until you are dead, then say it!”
The burly man was just about to strike when Shuoyan Yu'er stopped him.
“Wait. Let him speak!”
Burly man: “??????”
Why let him speak?
What right did he have to speak?
He had just personally witnessed Shuoyan Yu'er and the other man...
No, Shuoyan Yu'er was his woman!
He absolutely could not allow a Central Plains man to lay a finger on her!
“Shuoyan Yu'er, may I ask whether I was the one who killed your father?”
Li Zhen asked with a beaming smile.
Shuoyan Yu'er shook her head. “No!”
“Then was it I who gave the order?”
“Nor that!”
Li Zhen rose to his feet, standing with his hands behind his back as he looked at Shuoyan Yu'er. “Then let me ask you this: I did not kill your father, nor did I order anyone to kill your father. Your enemy is the Xunfeng Tribe.
You leave your enemy alive and bring me here instead? What kind of logic is that? Am I supposed to die simply because I hold office in Great Yu?
Your enemy is enjoying freedom over there, and you come to kill me instead?
Is that not bullying me?”
As Li Zhen spoke, he advanced step by step. By the time the final word fell, he had already arrived before Shuoyan Yu'er.
“I... I...” Shuoyan Yu'er was speechless for a moment. It seemed there was not a single flaw in what Li Zhen had said.
She had only wanted to frighten him a little, then have him pressure the Xunfeng Tribe.
This was not only Shuoyan Yu'er’s thought; the other people of the shuoyan tribe had thought the same.
After all, Li Zhen had been entirely unrelated to the matter from beginning to end, and besides, he was merely an official who had been dismissed from office.
It was not as though he were still an official of Great Yu...
They had only wanted to force Li Zhen to punish the Xunfeng Tribe a little.
After a moment of silence,
Li Zhen glanced at Shuoyan Yu'er, stretched his body, and spread his limbs!
“If you still intend to kill me, then do it. At worst, the world will gain one more innocent soul!”
“Leave!” Shuoyan Yu'er gathered her courage and finally unclenched her hands. Only now did she realize how naive her idea had been.
It was completely unrealistic!
Li zhen himself had already resigned from office.
There was no telling whether the Xunfeng Tribe would even listen to him!
Yet the burly man beside them merely furrowed his brows. Raising his saber, he shouted, “master, you have all been bewitched by him.
He is spreading demonic nonsense and confusing the masses. You are a demon!”
As he spoke, the long saber in the burly man's hand came cleaving down toward Li Zhen's forehead.
Shuoyan Yu'er's pupils widened.
“No—”
Li Zhen shook his head slightly. “You actually struck when I told you to?”
As his words fell, an overwhelmingly powerful aura erupted from Li Zhen's body. Like a hurricane, it tore the entire tent's roof away.
The sixteen men of the Shuoyan Tribe inside were sent flying by the force, scattering and landing outside the tent.
Unfortunately, the burly man in purple robes was overturned onto a bed of spikes.
Impaled through the gut!
When Shuoyan Yu'er could no longer withstand the force, Li Zhen reached out and pulled her to him.
The smoke and dust dispersed.
Li Zhen held a sword in his left hand and wrapped his right arm around Shuoyan Yu'er as he came outside the tent. The moment the two of them stepped out,
the tent collapsed with a thunderous crash!
Many people of the shuoyan tribe drew their sabers and rushed over, surrounding the area so tightly that not even water could pass through!
“Little beauty, your people do not seem very obedient to you! Be careful, or you may get stabbed in the back!”
Li Zhen held her slender, supple waist and pulled her closer, speaking in a low voice with great interest.
Yet he failed to notice that the other man was already thoroughly dead!
“Li Zhen, you know martial arts? You...”
Shuoyan Yu'er could no longer spare thought for where his hand was. She stared at Li Zhen in shock. Everyone under Heaven knew that Li Zhen was merely a scholar!
But that aura emanating from him just now...
“Enough. I have had enough fun today, so I will stop playing with you. Perhaps we will have a chance another day!” Just as Li Zhen finished speaking, his gaze suddenly sharpened.
A cloud of dust was rushing over from the distance.
A large character for Yu was written on the flag whipping in the wind! Accompanying it was an aura of slaughter!
“Great Yu Black Cavalry!”
“The Great Yu Black Cavalry is here!”
“Master, we...”
The men of the Shuoyan Tribe were all filled with fear. Then everyone simultaneously turned their eyes toward Li Zhen.
Shuoyan Yu'er panicked as well.
“Li Zhen! You...”
Before she could finish speaking, Li Zhen wrapped an arm around her, pushed off with his toes, and stirred his True Qi. His body suddenly rose into the air, and he then borrowed momentum from several tents to leap onward.
Shuoyan Yu'er instinctively wrapped her arms around Li Zhen's body.
So this was martial arts from the Central Plains!
Within a few breaths, Li Zhen had already brought Shuoyan Yu'er to the entrance of the tribe.
“Do not worry. With me here, nothing will go wrong!” Li Zhen looked down at the woman in his arms with a beaming smile.
The Great Yu Black Cavalry and the Great Qi Blood Cavalry.
These two cavalry units were death gods to Dan Prefecture!
Soon, the cavalry charged right up to them.
Li Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly.
He did not know whether the Great Yu cavalry had appeared here because of him or because of the Shuoyan Tribe!
The billowing dust was blocked by True Qi one meter away from Li Zhen. His robe today had cost him quite a lot.
The leading cavalry commander wore a mask, his eyes continuously sweeping over Li Zhen.
It seemed he was confirming whether Li Zhen was his target.
“Greetings, chancellor!”
After hesitating for a moment, the cavalry commander cupped his hands.
Li Zhen shook his head slightly.
“General, I have already been dismissed from office. I am no chancellor. However, general, what brings you here...”
Li Zhen raised his head and looked at him calmly.
“Chancellor, Your Inferior General has received His Majesty's imperial command and the great general's military order to escort you back to Great Yu! Please, chancellor...”
Before the cavalry commander's words were finished, Li Zhen interrupted him. “Please return and report that I have grown weary of the imperial court's scheming and deceit!
You may also tell His Majesty that I will not join another nation! He can rest assured!”
After saying this, Li Zhen prepared to pull Shuoyan Yu'er back.
“Chancellor, I am afraid that... this is not up to you!”
“Hm?”
Li Zhen raised an eyebrow!
“Are you planning to take me by force?”
“I would not dare! However, if the chancellor refuses, the Great Yu iron cavalry will massacre the entire Shuoyan Tribe!
Wherever the chancellor goes from now on, the Great Yu iron cavalry will kill its way there until the chancellor agrees to return with Your Inferior General!”
The black cavalry commander's voice was cold and utterly devoid of emotion!
As he spoke, the hundred Iron Cavalrymen behind him drew the long spears strapped across their horses' flanks!
Just as Li Zhen was about to speak, Shuoyan Yu'er suddenly stepped in front of him!
“Men of the Shuoyan Tribe, prepare for battle!”
Seeing her act this way, Li Zhen was stunned.
What kind of tactic was this?
“I dragged you into this. I will get you out!”
The moment Shuoyan Yu'er finished speaking, Li Zhen raised his hand and flicked her forehead.
What a foolish woman.
They had come to take him away. Whether they killed the tribe or not apparently did not matter to them!
“I am not so useless that I need a woman to stand up for me!”
Shuoyan Yu'er still commanded respect. Although many people in the tribe wore fearful expressions, they nevertheless tightened their grips on their weapons.
At first, everyone had merely wanted Li Zhen to step forward and seek justice for the Shuoyan Tribe.
No one had expected this situation to arise.
The black cavalry commander snorted. “Shuoyan Yu'er, are you planning to gather a mob and rebel? To oppose the Black Cavalry?”
“Li Zhen was brought to the tribe by me, so I must take responsibility. Lord of the Black Cavalry, you...”
The instant she finished speaking,
Li Zhen grabbed her and pulled her behind him.
She had not even called him lord!
And she was calling that man lord?
Did he even deserve it?
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