Volume 1: Red Moon Rising Chapter 18: Battle of the Eight Kings
The matter is not complicated, it is just a struggle for the throne. He is the eldest son of Emperor Xiahou Ren of Tiandu Kingdom: Xiahou Yan.
The position of prince should belong to him, but Xiahou Ning was very prolific. He gave birth to twelve sons and more than twenty daughters in a few decades.
Eight of the twelve sons are now adults, the youngest is four months old.
Each of the eight sons has outstanding abilities and talents, but none of them is mediocre.
This is Xia Hounen's happiness and his misfortune. There are too many outstanding sons, and he really doesn't know which son is best to leave Tiandu Kingdom in the hands of?
The position of the crown prince has been unresolved, so the eight sons spontaneously started what is known as the "Battle of the Eight Kings" throughout the world.
This is a war without gunpowder, but its process is extremely dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will be catastrophic.
Xia Houyan was originally the strongest and had the greatest hope. But because of a woman, he lost everything. That woman's name was Jingjing.
Jingjing was a young woman he met in a brothel. She was naturally beautiful and outstanding in beauty. He loved this woman so much that he was reluctant to give him a hairpin.
concubine.
Things went against expectations and the matter was discovered by the third prince. During the struggle for the crown prince, it was a morally bad thing to accept prostitutes in a brothel, not to mention that Xia Houyan wanted to make Jingjing his concubine.
Xia Hounen was furious. He wanted his son to remember: That kind of woman is nothing but a sexual tool.
That night, Xia Hounen asked him to kneel in front of the palace. The third prince caught Jingjing before she could run out of Tiandu and sent him into Xia Hounen's room. The door was not closed, and the situation inside could be seen at a glance.
Jingjing was tortured all night without a word of begging for mercy. At dawn, she was bruised all over her body. She walked up to Xia Houyan, looked at him blankly, and slammed into the stone pillar.
After Jingjing's death, Xia Houyan was disheartened and no longer wanted to fight for the crown prince. After the third prince won, he had no intention of letting him go.
The prince harmed him several times, and Xia Houyan launched his only successful counterattack: sneaking into the prince's room and stealing the prince's favorite jade pendant.
Xia Houyan rummaged around for a while, took out a jade pendant and shook it at Dharma Yuan, saying proudly: "This is it. I didn't expect that taking this jade pendant would make him feel more uncomfortable than killing his own mother."
"This is just an ordinary jade pendant, but he actually used his guards to surround and kill me. All my personal guards and friends died in that battle."
Xia Houyan roared: "I want revenge, I want to kill him, I want to die with him!"
Fa Yuan sneered: "Coward!"
Xia Houyan jumped up, pointed at Fa Yuan and said: "I am not a coward.
, I am not afraid of death, I have the courage to die with him. Two days ago, I hid in their logistics transport team and have been looking for opportunities to kill him."
The Qi of Dharma Yuan suddenly expanded and contracted, and the overwhelming pressure made Xia Houyan sit down on the ground.
He said solemnly: "You are a man, but you just watch the woman you love the most being humiliated, and you don't even dare to say a word. When she absolutely dies in front of you, how can you still live with dignity?"
"You have a death wish, so why did you run away and hide in Tibet and come to Longteng Kingdom? Don't you want to die with him? He is in the tent over there, only one person. Now, you can pretend to be a warrior and go in."
As a prince, Xia Houyan was pampered and privileged. In court battles, others always gave him advice. The warriors personally accompanied him to fight for him.
When he was away from these people, he became panic-stricken, like a frightened bird. He was in panic all day long. Apart from shouting for revenge a few times, he was really cowardly and incompetent.
He was the only one who was chased and fled to Longteng Kingdom, and finally hid here, which was a saving grace. The most dangerous place is often the safest place. It seems that he knows the truth about darkness under the lamp quite accurately.
Fa Yuan's words were so loud that they made Xia Houyan's face turn blue and white. After a while, he tentatively asked: "Master's martial arts is so good, can you help me kill him? Help me kill him, help me."
Once you ascend the throne, I will make you the mage of the country in the future."
Fayuan looked at him with disdain and kept looking at him without blinking. Such a cowardly and fickle man is really rare.
Xia Houyan finally couldn't stand it any longer, hung his head and said, "I can't beat him! I'm only in the middle stage of acquired martial arts, but he has already acquired the ultimate level of acquired martial arts, and may advance to the innate level at any time."
As if he was hissing from the bottom of his lungs, he jumped up and shouted: "What else can I do? What else can I do? I can't beat him, and no one can help me. Didn't you just say that you had to eat my roasted meat?
Do you want to help me? Monks don’t gossip, can you help me kill him?"
"I won't help you do what you should do. Killing him and taking revenge are all your own business. I can help you leave here, and I can help you avoid his pursuit. But, only this time."
Xia Houyan was silent for a while and said: "Okay, then please ask the master to take me out of here. I haven't asked the master for his name yet."
"I, a native of Longteng country, my dharma name is: Dharma Yuan."
"Oh! I was originally the master of Dharma Yuan. Your name is like thunder. I have admired you for a long time."
Fa Yuan said strangely: "Do you know me?"
Xia Houyan said with admiration on his face: "Master Fayuan, he has noble moral character. He is famous in Longteng Kingdom, has profound Buddhist knowledge, and is the best in martial arts in the world. He has great righteousness, eliminates the strong and helps the weak, is kind-hearted, is willing to do good, respects the old and loves the young...
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Fa Yuan shouted in a low voice: "Shut up!" He pointed at his mute point with a finger, then grabbed his belt, blew out the small oil lamp and walked outside the tent. If you continue to listen, you will lose all the bacon and sausages you just ate.
Spit it out.
As soon as I got out of the tent, I saw twelve bright armored warriors walking towards me from a distance. I sensed them slightly with Fayuan Qi, and found that they were all innate.
When Fa Yuan was in a dilemma, he suddenly felt Xia Houyan pulling on his clothes and winking in the direction of the tent. Fa Yuan returned to the tent and untied Xia Houyan's mute point.
Xia Houyan said: "Get in the box quickly, I will handle it."
Fayuan said: "I don't have the habit of entering the box." After saying this, he lifted up his figure and crawled on the roof of the tent like a gecko, blending into the tent into a dark mass.
Xia Houyan coughed lightly, swaggered out of the tent, and then stood up straight at the door.
The team of bright armor warriors passed by Xia Houyan, and one of the warriors asked: "Who are you? Are you still here on guard so late?"
Xia Houyan replied in a low voice: "I am Zhao Laoqi from the Ministry of Transportation. Thank you for your hard work, generals, coming back so late."
The man did not answer. A low-level soldier on duty was not worthy of another word from him.
The twelve people walked to the door of the prince's tent and waited for a while. The tent door was opened and the twelve people filed in.
Xia Houyan felt that his legs were weak and he could no longer stand there. When he turned around and returned to the tent, the cold sweat on his back had wet his leather armor.
He said to Fayuan: "The Twelve Imperial Guards are back. In a short while, they will come to get wine and meat. We have to leave as soon as possible. Fill the three empty wine bottles with water and restore them, so that the Imperial Guards cannot find them."
Fayuan jumped down and said: "Why should we restore wine? We should eat meat and drink alcohol every day, right?"
Xia Houyan was pouring the water from the water bag into the wine bottle, and replied: "Tiandu Chun is the best wine in our Tiandu Kingdom. The prince has brought this box with him for a certain amount. One less bottle will arouse suspicion.
Unless he rewards you, no one dares to drink his wine."
"We have to clean this place without leaving any traces. You probably don't want to be chased by twelve innate masters while you are taking me with you. It's tragic, there is no water. These two bottles are only half bottles.
How to do it?"
Fayuan said: "It's easy to handle, give it to me."
He took the two wine bottles and searched for them in the dark for a while. Then he handed the bottles to Xia Houyan and said, "Okay, pack them up quickly, we'll set off right away."
Xia Houyan took the bottle and felt it was warm. He paid no attention to him at this time, put the things away, fumbled again to make sure there was nothing wrong, and walked out of the tent with Fa Yuan.