Voluame (Second Half) (1/2)

Voluae of the fortunate ti to the cauan Yan apprehensively returned to the tent he shared with Xiong Bao after es in practice, Huo Yi had not treated theether and did not huhtest Were it not for the Sword of Dauan Yan would have guan Yan knew that it would unfortunately only take one order for the youth who had been showing thehtest hesitation As a result, Shangguan Yan had never dared to let his guard down This was especially the case now after Zhang Han had infor the i hih Huo Yi had not said it clearly, one of the two of them was required to await orders by his side and was not perht uan Yan with great effort However, regardless of how, he needed to explain this ht now

The enca Bao should have left Huo Yi’s side and returned to their shared tent, while he would have to go to Huo Yi’s side to await orders after dinner Although there was only an hour’s ti clearly to Xiong Bao in that ti Bao would not negligently fall into souan Yan felt hiswith his hands behind his back, and did not see Xiong Bao Could it be that news of his adoptive father and couan Yan However, he had no choice but to salute and state, “This subordinate greets the youngent?”

A hint of an icy suileless face, as he replied, “The Union Head has issued an order Tonight both of you are required to remain to await orders If you violate this order, not only will you be seriously punished, your fa, Huo Yi began to play with a jade pendant with his right hand, showing a thick, uan Yan looked carefully and felt his heart grow cold He recognized that jade pendant; it belonged to Zhang Han horatulatory present Shangguan Yan had gifted Zhang Han on his fortieth birthday Because Zhang Han had treated Shangguan Yan quite well, Shangguan Yan had specially purchased this piece of jade dating from the Han Dynasty which could ward off evil spirits to express his appreciation Touched by Shangguan Yan’s piety, Zhang Han had practically always kept the jade pendant by his side Earlier, Shangguan Yan had seen Zhang Han wearing the pendant at his waist Now that the jade pendant had appeared in Huo Yi’s hands, could it be that Zhang Han had actually been caught in the short period of ti? In addition, it could be assuuan Yan could not help tightening his grip on the hilt of his sword, as a burst of fury flooded into hies in Shangguan Yan, Huo Yi reht, we have already found your honorable little brother When all is said and done, he is too young, going so far as to head out alone to intercept spies froht Inspection Department In the end, he was captured Fortunately, your honorable little brother was not executed by the Bright Inspection Department because they hoped to force some classified information out of him This time, Luo Jianfei led people to destroy one of the secret bases of the Bright Inspection Department and was able to rescue your honorable little brother Although he has suffered soorous You can be at ease In a few days, your entire family can be reunited”

A bucket of ice water had been duuan Yan recovered his calht that he and his brothers, when all was said and done, could not escape the control of the Embroidered Union? The determination he had strenuously these last few days finally crufrank But the Union Head dealing with us Union members in this manner truly rin, causing his seeain a bit of craftiness To the indignant Shangguan Yan, he said, “In reality, it is because you have always been unwilling to follow orders If you didn’t harbor hostility, there is no way that the Union Head and Vice Union Head would s difficult for you At present, your adoptive father and company are under our surveillance It will only take one coht They have abducted His Royal Majesty and the Queen Dowager Even if we execute theh death by a thousand cuts,¹ no one will cry foul”

Furiously, Shangguan Yan retorted, “If not for you forcing icide, ould my adoptive father have rescued His Royal Majesty and the Queen Dowager? If you want to kill us, do so Why are you seeking to frame my adoptive father?”

Huo Yi chuckled, “So you ”

Shangguan Yan was left du on? Didn’t they already capture Second Uncle Zhuang? Suddenly, he understood and gazed at the jade pendant in Huo Yi’s hand Huo Yi s the jade pendant, Shangguan Yan exah, it was an imitation jade pendant Even if its iuan Yan could still see froht differences that it wasn’t real Earlier, he had been briefly agitated and thus had not noticed the differences

After seeing through the trick, Shangguan Yan did not relax too much From the imitation jade pendant, he could tell that Huo Yi, Chen Zhen, and even perhaps Huo Jicheng had long since been on their guard against him and his fa and leave nothing to chance Were this not the case, ould they have gone so far as to create an iifted Zhang Han?

Now that Huo Yi was probing directly, then all of the proper arrangeuan Yan truly felt himself relax He understood that Huo Yi would definitely not waste his tiainst so so far to deal with him, there was definitely souan Yan wasn’t so, he dejectedly stated, “Regardless of intelligence oras it is within Shangguan Yan’s capabilities, I will be sure to do my utmost I only hope that the Union Head will be lenient and let offthis, Huo Yi sent, but unfortunately wasn’t ruthless enough This was also the reason why Huo Yi had chosen hih the ed, they could not be pere a saboteur within the Gu fauan Yan was sufficiently astute and able to adapt to circu as the lives of the entire Gu fauan Yan would bow his head and obey Further, Shangguan Yan was the only one who had the ability if they wanted to keep Gu Ning and coh, while Gu Ying was too iiven to passion Neither of these tere good candidates

Pulling on Shangguan Yan and having hiinally had no intention of s difficult for you people of the Gu fa is concluded, the Embroidered Union will also disappear and your Gu fa to worry about the earthly matters of the world However, since the Gu fa members of the Shu Royal Family, this will ultimately lead to no end of trouble in the future That is why the Union Head wants you to te as your Gu family don’t intend to use the reuarantee on the Union Head’s behalf that no one in your Gu fauan Yan was h he had always had veiled criticis and co and co However, the words Huo Yi had spoken faintly revealed inforuan Yan found it difficult to believe Stunned, he stared at Huo Yi, not knohat to say

Huo Yi smiled softly and continued, “There is no need for you to overthink this If anted to codo as your Gu fauaranteed I will give you the particulars on how to get in contact soon Right now, you will follow orders and perform aBao with you and escape As for Gu Ying, I will tell you where to rescue him If you do not follow my orders, your entire family will die If you follow er in the worst case scenario Don’t worry, I won’t have you do anything unnecessary and will not use you to lure those ish to restore your country Our master has already issued orders and from henceforth ill cease to involve ourselves in the affairs of the Eencyin the future However, no one else can know about this inforuan Yan was left bewildered He naturally did not know of Chen Zhen and company’s intent to hand the Eht Inspection Department would thereby control all of the former Shu resistance forces

In order to prevent Xiahou Yuanfeng fro Que had plotted to send Gu Ning to kill Meng Xu In fact, the two had long assu would most likely find it impossible to perform hiswas to rescue the Shu king and queen dowager If this happened, then although Xiahou Yuanfeng had achieved his goal of pacifying the Prince of Qing’s rebellion, he had also allowed the Shu royal fa would have made an admirable contribution but also be at fault While his contributions wouldn’t be conspicuous, his , and would definitely be harped upon by those unaware of the particulars Although Xiahou Yuanfeng would have taken control of the Embroidered Union, he would also have to bear the heavy responsibility for tracking down the Shu royal family

Chen Zhen and coh to escape Xiahou Yuanfeng’s pursuit After all, Gu Ning’s position in the Eh and he had excellent relations In addition, when his deep roots in the fordom of Shu were combined with Chen Zhen and cohly probable that Gu Ning could evade pursuit Of course, in order to prepare for the unexpected, they had thought it best to leave a chess piece behind at Gu Ning’s side As for Shangguan Yan, he was the best candidate Although, it was possible that Shangguan Yan would rack his brains to think of a way to escape their control in the future However, when that happened, it would already be uni Xu’s iuan Yan and co their country As a result, Chen Zhen and Dong Que did not worry that they couldn’t control the Gu fah he already knew the truth, it was inconvenient to kill him They could only include hiuan Yan followed Huo Yi out, he was utterly baffled He naturally did not know that—at this veryhad been earnestly and tirelessly persuaded to become the second chess piece to control the Gu fa had been detained at Liu Hua’s side, Liu Hua had used all kinds of orous man The threat of death coht elites and the head of the Secret Ca treat him as an elder brother and close friend After Liu Hua had indirectly explained the kind intentions of preserving the Gu fa not be involved?

Sitting inside his tent, the Prince of Qing thought of the failure to capture Chencang again today He felt nothing Although the Ereed to look for an opportunity to assassinate Chencang’s garrison commander, there had been no activity on that front for days Instead, due to the continuous assaults, he lost many of his trusted officers and soldiers He was quite dissatisfied Unfortunately, he had left Ye Tianxiu behind to defend San Pass, or else Li Kang would’ve sent hiate whether the E in order to make some exorbitant deh its forarrison couard If it not for his unwillingness tothose who had surrendered, and rattle the arinally wanted to kill that deputy garrison co was deeply worried and letting his iination run wild, solad tidings have arrived fro raised his head and watched as Huo Yi quickly walked in with Shangguan Yan in tow Huo Yi held a round, azure silk bundle that was dripping with blood in his hands Overjoyed inside, Li Kang asked almost in disbelief, “Is the enuflected and answered, “Your Ihness, the Union Head took on the task personally and has taken the head of the Chencang garrison co has been thrown into chaos Your Ihness, please immediately mobilize the ar in one stroke”

Forcibly resisting the happiness he was feeling, Li Kang ordered, “Bring the head over for ”

Huo Yi scooted closer on his knees, his entire face expressing happiness and possessing excite’s head Li Kang merely believed that Huo Yi was so excited because they were about to capture Chencang In the agreement with the Embroidered Union, if the Union successfully assassinated Chencang’s garrison coain would be no sreement, Huo Yi was one of those ould benefit thestill kept calm When he rose to take the severed head, heanything out of the ordinary

At this very ed into the tent and excitedly reported, “Your Ihtly lit and seeed for this general toat all ti served to confirm that the E Ling

Only with this did Li Kang relax, accepting the bundle with both hands Holding it up with one hand, he used the other hand to open the bundle When he saw the head and the scattered hair, Li Kang did not have any have feelings of disgust, instead reaching out with his hand to brush apart the scattered hair The head’s eyes were closed and the look on the face washe re exulted Just as he relaxed, Huo Yi suddenly exploded forward Instinctively, Li Kang threw the severed head in his hands at Huo Yi, while he retreated and the color of his two hands suddenly becah the air like a piercing rainbow and crushed the severed head into ser thrust at Li Kang’s abdoht the sharp blade Although Li Kang was empty handed, there was no trace of blood on his hands

Conte’s eyes as he lashed out with his left fist, forcing Huo Yi to let go of the dagger and retreat Froht explosion, the pellet ihtened, afraid that the s his left hand upward across his body Like a blade, the hand cut open a hole in the tent, allowing hiht had been screened by the s could sense that Huo Yi had not pursued hiroan and knew that his trusted lieutenant had been killed by so felt his heart ache Li Kang understood Huo Yi’s and Shangguan Yan’s martial arts quite well Neither of theeneral in one blow The two of the was not particularly experienced with hand-to-hand combat, he immediately realized there definitely was an ambush since Hou Yi had chosen not to pursue hiuards, Huo Yi and Shangguan Yan would definitely hts were complicated and not easy to express succinctly, and were actually no ht to move his body, he felt a sharp object pierce a key acupoint on his back Li Kang felt his internal energy scatter and disintegrate Before Li Kang had fallen on the ground, a ht hihis entire body stiff and unable to ht before he could loudly cry out for help, the man who had seized hi Li Kang to feel a sharp pain in his throat

By now, the s looked around He saw his trusted lieutenant collapsed on the ground The general’s right hand was on the hilt of his shile blood gushed forth frouan Yan stood at the entrance to the tent, the sword in his hand covered with blood On the general’s throat were visible fingermarks—his windpipe had been severed by so set him down into a chair and walked in front of hi had a bitter taste in his ed to ask with difficulty, “Why?”

This ti because he knew that Li Kang would not screa, Chen Zhen cohness’s coenerals in the army for a conference in the corin, Huo Yi walked to the desk and picked up a golden colilanced at Chen Zhen Caleneral’s battle gown before i a chair over, Chen Zhen sat down across fro a jade bottle from his boso’swas powerless to resist Once that pill had reached his storadually dissolve like snowhis internal energy to force out the concealed weapon at his back, pain and suffering shone Li Kang’s eyes Once again, he asked, “Why?”

Chen Zhen shness, what’s the point of asking? Presu also wish to ask Your Ihness why you don’t want to be a proper imperial prince and instead rose up in rebellion”

As if he didn’t hear Chen Zhen’s quip, Li Kang continued to question, “I believe I have shown extreme forbearance for your Embroidered Union If that weren’t the case, how could I have allowed you to seize control so easily? What benefit would there be to the Embroidered Union if I failed? Could it be that you do not wish to restore your country?”