He is a great master, his mental and physical strength are far beyond comparison with others, and he can always maintain his peak condition.
But now he looked haggard.
Fakongheshi: "Your Majesty."
Chu Xiang was sitting at the stone table in a daze. When he heard Fakong's voice, he turned his head and looked over blankly, and then he regained consciousness.
"Master..." He smiled bitterly.
Fakong raised his eyebrows.
Chu Xiang said: "Master, does he know which big shot we are escorting back?"
Fakong looked at him.
He couldn't clearly see the identity of the woman. She was protected by a strange treasure, and neither the clairvoyance nor the inner eye could see through this woman.
But looking at Chu Xiang's expression, he must be no ordinary person. He smiled and said, "Isn't it a princess? I should have recognized her, but I didn't recognize her when I met her."
She was so covered and covered with strange treasures that it was not surprising that Chu Xiang failed to recognize her.
Judging from the look on Chu Xiang's face, he must be someone he never expected.
Of all the people in the world, there were not many that he never expected. It was probably the princess or someone close to him?
Chu Xiang shook his head: "Not a princess."
Fakong raised his eyebrows: "Is that what the prince has seen before?"
"No." Chu Xiang said.
Fakong said slowly: "Isn't it a person from Dayun?"
"No." Chu Xiang shook his head.
Fa Kong was thoughtful.
Chu Xiang shook his head with a wry smile and sighed: "Master, you can't guess it, no matter how hard you guess, you can't guess it."
Fa Kong's eyes flashed and he said slowly: "Could he be the leader of the Tianhai Sword Sect?"
"Alas!" Chu Xiang smiled bitterly: "He is not the head now, he should be the former head."
"Leng Feiqiong?" Fakong frowned: "The person you are escorting is actually Leng Feiqiong, the leader of the Tianhai Sword Sect?"
"It's her!" Chu Xiang gritted his teeth and nodded slowly.
Fakong looked at him in surprise.
Chu Xiang smiled bitterly and said, "Master, you can't think of it, right?"
Fakong stood up and walked around with his hands behind his back, his mind was like lightning, connecting all the causes and consequences together.
Chu Xiang's eyes followed him closely.
Fakong's expression changed, and he finally sat back at the stone table.
Xu Qingluo came lightly and offered tea.
Fakong glanced at him and frowned.
Xu Qingluo said: "Master, I am not absent from work, I have been replaced by someone else. Now I am on duty in the evening."
Fakong said: "How did you expect to be on duty at night?"
"Night is the most tiring and the most likely to cause problems." Xu Qingluo said: "An assassin almost succeeded last night. The guard on duty was seriously injured and a new one was replaced. I feel that I am more familiar with it, so it is better for me to take charge.
I’ll be on duty at night.”
Fa Kong was noncommittal and waved his hand.
He knew that Xu Qingluo changed to the evening shift partly because of the reasons just now, and partly because she was tired of the daytime shift and wanted to change it for something new and exciting.
Xu Qingluo retreated behind him gently, holding the tray without saying a word, as if she was not here.
Fakong looked at Chu Xiang: "It seems that the Tianhai Sword Sect and the imperial court can no longer fight. The former leader...Leng Feiqiong has passed the throne to someone else?"
"Yes." Chu Xiang nodded: "It was passed on to her eldest brother, also his senior brother Leng Feimang, who is also a ruthless person."
"Is she asking for forgiveness?" Fakong frowned.
Chu Xiang sighed: "I don't know. In short, he was responsible for escorting her to a house in Shenjing."
He shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This Leng Feiqiong has already bought a house in Shenjing. It is a very big house, Leng Mansion. Hey, this Leng Mansion is a crouching tiger, hidden dragon. She looks really extraordinary when she returns home!"
He couldn't help but think of Leng Feiqiong's return home.
The main door of Leng Mansion opened, and nearly a hundred masters came out to greet them. They stood in line quickly and quietly without making any sound, and saluted at the same time.
One hundred and twenty masters saluted at the same time, the momentum was really amazing.
Although these one hundred and twenty masters are not great masters, none of them are inferior to the great masters.
Obviously, they have amazing swordsmanship and are not afraid at all even when facing great masters. They are regarded as martial arts wizards.
Fakong nodded: "It seems that Leng Feiqiong had already made arrangements and planned everything, but he didn't expect to return to Shenjing. Is this a hidden dragon entering the abyss, or is he willing to be a prisoner?"
"I don't think he looks like a prisoner." Chu Xiang snorted: "If he really is a prisoner, why would my father order us to escort him?"
Fakong sipped tea.
Xu Qingluo said softly: "Master, is Leng Feiqiong passing the position of head to his brother an act of apology? Or has it been planned in advance?"
Chu Xiang sneered and said: "Apologise? The Tianhai Sword Sect has committed such a big crime, can you be absolved by resigning as the leader?"
"But the emperor didn't blame it, right?" Xu Qingluo said: "Master, why do I feel that the emperor and the Tianhai Sword Sect are acting? They have deceived all of us, right? They even cheated Dayun?"
"Impossible!" Chu Xiang categorically rejected.
Fakong glanced at Xu Qingluo approvingly.
Xu Qingluo said: "My lord, look at it, did the emperor raise the board high against the Tianhai Sword Sect and lower it gently, or even didn't knock it down at all?"
Chu Xiang frowned and said nothing.
Xu Qingluo said: "Furthermore, the Tianhai Sword Sect never really took action against the imperial court, nor did it even fight against the other two major sects. It only dealt with Diaoyue Dao and the Six Paths of Demon Sect."
"But they let in Dayun's master!" Chu Xiang said coldly: "This is to lure the wolf into the house!"
These Dayun masters got into Daqian, and they did not know how many people in Daqian were harmed and how many innocent people died.
These masters of Dayun did not regard the common people as human beings at all, and robbed, killed and looted at every turn. It is hard to tell how many evils they had committed.
Otherwise, the Southern Supervision Department would not have dispatched all of them, leaving Shenjing almost empty.
Xu Qingluo said: "But these Dayun masters have almost been wiped out. In addition to the Dayun masters that the Guangming Holy Sect had previously destroyed, the strength of Dayun Wulin is now far from what it used to be, right?"
Chu Xiang frowned and thought.
What Xu Qingluo said is indeed correct.
Not to mention the great victory of the Holy Sect of Light, Shenjing is said to have wiped out many Dayun masters. I am afraid that the Dayun masters scattered in Daqian were also hunted down by various sects and could not escape their lives.
But this has indeed harmed many people.
Everyone usually defends the enemy from outside, but this time they lured the enemy inside. The results were not small, but the losses were also not small.
Xu Qingluo said: "Your Majesty, exchanging ordinary people for the lives of Master Dayun is a good deal in the eyes of the court."
Chu Xiang's face became extremely ugly.
Xu Qingluo's words were cold and ruthless, but Chu Xiang couldn't refute it. The more he listened, the more chilled he felt, and the more he listened, the more reasonable he felt.
"Okay." Fakong waved his hand.
"Yes, Master." Xu Qingluo stuck out her tongue, shrank her neck, and stopped talking.
Chu Xiang's face was gloomy and he looked in the direction of the Forbidden Palace.
Fakong said: "This is just Qingluo's wild guess. It has nothing to do with the facts. Don't take it too seriously."
"Fakong, do you think Qingluo's inferences are not outrageous?"
"Yes, but it's just a possibility." Fakong said: "My lord, you have been working hard all the way, so you'd better go back and take a rest and see the princess early. The princess must be anxious that you won't come back."
"...Forget it." Chu Xiang smiled bitterly: "What can I say? All I can do now is wash up, rest, and go back to sleep."
With a sad look on his face, he stood up and walked out.
Fakong glanced at Xu Qingluo.
Xu Qingluo stuck out her tongue. She didn't expect Chu Xiang to be so emotional and react so strongly. As the admiral of the Nine Sects, he should be used to this kind of thing.
As an admiral of the Nine Sects, do you still maintain pure integrity and kindness?
Fakong sent Chu Xiang to the gate of the courtyard and watched him walk through the Moon Gate with a heavy heart and disappear without a trace.
What he saw in his mind was that Chu Xiang walked out absently and heavily. When he passed the release pond, he did not say hello to Fu Qinghe and Lin Feiyang.
Fu Qinghe and Lin Feiyang were playing chess. They gathered around the stone table and fought wildly, unaware of the changes outside.
There was a muffled "bang" sound when Chu Xiang hit the corner of the release pool. Lin Feiyang and Fu Qinghe looked up and found that Chu Xiang's face looked wrong.
Lin Feiyang stepped forward to look at his face, but Chu Xiang's eyes were blurred and he didn't look at him, as if he didn't feel him.
Lin Feiyang didn't speak and followed him until he walked out the door.
There were four guards waiting outside the door to protect Chu Xiang.
Only then did Chu Xiang wake up completely.
He saw Lin Feiyang standing at the door looking at him worriedly, waving his hands, turning around and striding away.
He regained his usual bravery and determination, which was completely different from the previous state of despair.
Lin Feiyang breathed a sigh of relief.
"Isn't the prince's reaction too much?" Xu Qingluo said with a smile: "Master, does this inference have such a big impact on the prince?"
"Yeah." Fakong nodded.
Xu Qingluo said: "Master, do you think my inference is ridiculous?"
Fakong shook his head.
Xu Qingluo smiled and said: "Master, don't you think my inference is too bold? Too whimsical?"
Fakong sighed: "I don't even think it's bold enough."
"Not bold enough?" Xu Qingluo said in surprise: "Is there anything more bold? Master, let's hear it."
Fakong said: "What are Leng Feiqiong doing in Beijing?"
"Being a hostage, right?" Xu Qingluo said: "Just like Prince Ming, showing that the Tianhai Sword party has no different intentions towards the court?"
"How can the emperor rest assured just by having her as a hostage?" Fakong said.
Xu Qingluo frowned: "Then what should we do so that the emperor will feel relieved?"
Fakong looked at her without speaking.
"If I think about it..." Xu Qingluo knew that Fakong meant to let her figure it out on her own.
Fakong picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
After Xu Qingluo thought hard for a moment, she whispered: "Master, how old is Leng Feiqiong?"
"She should be around thirty years old," Fakong said.
In fact, he didn't know Leng Feiqiong's specific age, and he had never met Leng Feiqiong. He could only infer it from some information about her.
Xu Qingluo thought for a while: "Will Leng Feiqiong enter the Forbidden Palace and make an offering? It means that the Tianhai Sword Sect still obeys the orders of the imperial court and is loyal to the imperial court?"
Fakong said: "It's still not bold enough."
"You want to be more bold?" Xu Qingluo said in surprise: "Master, this is already the most daring, right?"
Fakong laughed: "If Leng Feiqiong makes an offering, can he guarantee the loyalty of the Tianhai Sword Sect?"
Xu Qingluo hummed: "Then what else?"
"Leng Feiqiong is very likely to marry into the royal family." Fakong said slowly.