The BMW provided by Ruolan really traveled a thousand miles at a time. Li Mu and the other two people worked hard and took only half a day to arrive at a medium-sized inn more than 400 miles away from Huiyue City.
The horses were handed over to the guys at the inn to feed them some feed, while Li Mu and the others sat in the teahouse at the inn and ordered a pot of tea, preparing to wait for their horses to regain their strength before continuing on their way.
"Have you heard that the royal family has issued the highest level of pursuit order for Qinglan Sword Immortal Li Yubai. Anyone who provides clues about Li Yubai will be directly rewarded with three million Cangyun coins."
A cup of herbal tea relieved Li Mu's anxiety, but the chatter from the table next to him made him frown again. It was a typical adventure team, with four men wearing soft armor, and there were
Four stainless steel long knives.
"Tsk tsk, three million is nothing. I have a brother who lives in the Imperial Capital. I heard from him that the entire Imperial Capital has now completely implemented a curfew. Anyone who can catch Li Yubai will not only be rewarded with 30 million Cangyun coins by the royal family, but also
Give you the opportunity to enter the royal treasury and select any treasure."
One of the men with a goatee was obviously the leader of the team. As soon as he finished saying that he had obtained the gossip, the other three companions stared in shock.
"Boss, is it true or false? It's a royal treasure trove. This is Cangyun Empire's accumulation over thousands of years. With this opportunity to choose a treasure at will, I'm afraid even a monk who has perfected the Infinite Realm will not be able to resist this temptation."
"Yes, yes, compared with treasures, 30 million Cangyun coins are nothing. I heard that the royal treasury contains earth-level magic weapons."
While a group of people were sighing in admiration, Li Mu's face was as gloomy as water. In the mouths of these monks, his father seemed to have become synonymous with money and treasures, and these people had never paid attention to the so-called truth, nor did they want to pay attention to it.
"But do you think Li Yubai is mentally ill? He ignored the good Lord of Qinglan City and went to assassinate Prime Minister Zhuge. Don't you know the reputation of this Prime Minister in the hearts of the people of the empire? Isn't this making him a street rat?
Everyone shouted that he was beaten."
"Isn't it? There are also those students of Prime Minister Zhuge. It's scary to think about it. Three of the five marshals of the imperial military are on good terms with Prime Minister Zhuge. If it weren't for the Liu family, the military god family, to mediate among them, I feel that the imperial army has already
Send troops to Qinglan City."
"This is not the most difficult thing. You must know that the Yunlan Sect has been supporting the peace negotiations between the empire and the Penglai Immortal Kingdom in recent years. The new sect leader Yun Li'er also highly recognized Prime Minister Zhuge, so he instructed the royal family to take charge of the negotiations. Now Li Yubai is in charge of the negotiations.
If he killed Prime Minister Zhuge for no reason, wouldn't he openly call him Ban Yunlan Sect? Yunlan Sect is the number one sect in the empire. To anger them, not to mention that Li Yubaike had just broken through to the Infinite Realm. Even if he crossed over to the Tribulation Realm, he would only be killed by Fu.
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Words and words kept pricking into Li Mu's heart. In fact, he also knew the pressure his father was facing now, and he also understood that his trip to the imperial capital was full of dangers. However, he did not expect that even the casual cultivators he met had already concluded that his father was
Murderer.
The veins on his neck popped out. If Lin Qingzhu's hand hadn't been holding him tightly, Li Mu would have taken action to teach these casual cultivators a lesson.
"Huh, let's go. The horses should have been fed. If we go to the Imperial Capital and meet Brother Liu as soon as possible, we can find out the truth earlier. The current situation is very unfavorable to us. We can only race against time."
After finally calming down, Li Mu drank all the tea in the cup, then picked up the Jueying Sword, got up and walked towards the stable next to the teahouse, while Lin Qingzhu and Fang Yan followed closely behind him.
Everyone can feel the pressure Li Mu is under now, but all he can do now is to speed up and rush to the imperial capital like Li Mu said.
Every time you wait for a while, the clues will become more difficult to find, and it will become more difficult to clear Li Yubai's charges.
After mounting their horses, the three of them galloped all the way again. In the evening, they had already covered half of the journey. Lin Qingzhu took out the map and looked at it carefully, then raised his head and said to Li Mu, "Brother Mu, we will drive all night tonight. If everything goes well,
If so, we can arrive at the Imperial Capital tomorrow night."
Li Mu nodded. They didn't plan to find a place to rest tonight. Even if they did, they wouldn't be able to sleep. They might as well travel under the stars and night to rush to the imperial capital as soon as possible.
"There is a small team ahead. They should be responsible for patrolling the pipeline. They seem to be checking along the road."
Fang Yan, who was walking at the front, shouted a reminder. Only then did Li Mu and Lin Qingzhu see a large number of caravans and vehicles blocked by the army a hundred steps away. A small group of soldiers wearing official armor were using their hands to
With blazing torches in the middle, each traveler was checked with great difficulty.
"Brother Mu, this place is still a thousand miles away from the imperial capital. Unexpectedly, there is already an interrogation. Do we want to go around?" Lin Qingzhu approached Li Mu and asked in a low voice.
Li Mu's answer was unusually calm, "No, what should we do? They have no way of knowing our identities. Even if they knew, they wouldn't be able to arrest us just because I am Li Yubai's son."
"Come on, next one, tell me where you are coming from, where you are going, and what you are going to do."
The interrogation was slow, and they waited for a long time before it was Li Mu's turn. A soldier waved Li Mu and the others forward, and then asked in a cold voice.
"The three of us are monks who came out to practice together. We are from Qinglan City. This time we want to go to the imperial capital to join our relatives."
Li Mu's answer was very calm, and the content was almost factual. The soldier raised his eyes several times to look at Li Mu and the man and woman behind him, but he couldn't see any flaws. This business road connected Qinglan City and the Imperial Capital.
Every day, countless caravans unload their goods from the Qinglan City port and transport them to the imperial capital, so the whereabouts of Li Mu and the others did not arouse the suspicion of the soldiers.
"Recently, the imperial capital has implemented a curfew. Outsiders are not allowed to enter after the Youchu hour. You should pay attention to the time when you go there. During the curfew period, no one is allowed to appear within five miles of the imperial capital. Violators will be arrested directly."
When I saw Li Mu and the others, they didn't show any salutes. Their attire was indeed consistent with their status as monks. Immortal cultivators have a high status in the Cangyun Empire. And seeing that Li Mu and the others had already embarked on the path of immortality at a young age, they must have a family behind them.
With the support of other forces, after thinking about this, the soldiers did not deliberately embarrass themselves. As usual, they told the imperial capital the curfew rules and waved their hands to let them go.
"Brother Mu, the interrogation of these soldiers is so perfunctory. You can get through just by saying that you are a monk. It seems that the arrest warrant from the royal family is not enough." Lin Qingzhu, who remounted his horse, was a little surprised by the superficial interrogation of the army and said to himself
said the two companions.
"Normally, although all the evidence points to my father's assassination of Zhuge Jin, there is no so-called ironclad evidence. All the forces are actually still in the game. The five backbone forces of the imperial military have their own ideas, but regardless of
Anyway, the military god Liu family cannot be ignored, so the inability of the army to work along the way must be due to instructions from above."
Li Mu's explanation made Lin Qingzhu enlightened. Under the current situation, except for the royal family and the forces who have good relations with Zhuge Jin, most of the forces are still waiting and watching. The political consequences are too deep.
It was far beyond what a young person like her, who had only been a staff member of the city lord's palace for a few days, could figure out.
The BMW was speeding, raising a cloud of dust. The three of them were getting closer and closer to the center of the whirlpool. The bright moon in the sky slowly rose, as bright as ever.