Ning Que pulled out a thorn in front of him and walked out of the flowerbed. Standing on the smooth stone ground in the courtyard, he looked at Gu Xi in the chair and asked, "I don't seem to have offended you. Why do you want to kill me?"
Gu Xi slowly stood up from the chair, looked at him and said with a smile, "There are many things in this world that need a reason. Killing is no exception. However, people like us killing people is different from the imperial court beheading prisoners. You don't necessarily want to offend me. The reason why I want to kill you is that you deserve to die."
Ning Que slowly and seriously began to roll up his sleeves. Looking at Gu Xi not far away, he calmly asked, "I really don't know why I should die. Please enlighten me, military counselor."
The expression on Gu Xi's face was a little strange. His smile was mixed with some wonderful gloominess. Several strands of his short beard slightly trembled in the cold wind. He looked at Ning Que and laughed, "Censor Zhang Yiqi and those people were killed by Mr. Thirteen, right?"
Ning Que's fingers that were rolling up his sleeves paused slightly. He shook his head and said, "I have never heard of this person."
Gu Xi laughed forward and backward. He gave a thumbs up and sincerely praised, "Mr. Thirteen kills people without leaving any traces. Even if you lie, you don't change your expression. You really shouldn't go to cultivation but stand in the imperial court, but …"
As the word "but" came out, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared. He was extremely cold, "Although Lin Ling and I didn't find any evidence, I know that you were in the House of Red Sleeves that day. Especially when I know that Mr. Thirteen seemed to want to kill my general. That's enough. You already have a reason to die."
"Killing a person not only needs a reason, but also needs benefits." Ning Que began to roll up the sleeve on his right arm. He lowered his head and said, "I can't think of any benefits. As General Xiahou's most trusted subordinate, killing me, a core disciple of the Headmaster of Academy in Tuyang City, can bring you or General Xiahou any benefits."
After leaving Chang 'an City and entering the Wilderness, Ning Que often described himself as a core disciple of the Headmaster of Academy in conversation with others. He often used this identity to bully others. But today's situation was different.
He really couldn't understand why Gu Xi was determined to kill him. Wasn't he worried that the anger of the Academy and the empire would directly burn him and General Xiahou, whom he had sworn loyalty to, to ashes?
Gu Xi gently stroked his beard and said slowly, "Killing a student of the Second floor of the Academy is naturally a great risk, but it will also bring you great benefits. The biggest benefit is that you will no longer threaten the General."
Ning Que rolled up the sleeves of his right arm and placed his fists on the sides of his legs, feeling the chill of the winter wind.
He looked at Gu Xi and shook his head, saying, "This benefit is far from enough."
Gu Xi suddenly squinted his eyes and sighed with emotion, "I've been following the Grand General for half of my life. It's so that the General can stand on the peak of the human world. However, the Academy has two people, and the Grand General will be forced to retire … Then won't I also have to retire? Do you think I can bear this? "
He looked at Ning Que's face, his eyes cold and filled with a hint of inexplicable madness. He said faintly, "The general wants to retire, but I really don't want him to. It's a pity that I don't have the right to overturn the agreement between him and Mr. First. If I want to ruin this, what other way is there besides killing you, Mr. Thirteen? Haotian is always so merciful. As the weakest World Wayfarer in the history of the Academy, it seems that the most suitable ending for you is to die. "
It was only then that Ning Que realized that this military counselor turned out to be a lunatic. He slowly frowned and shook his head, saying, "But have you ever thought that killing me, Xia Hou, will not end well? Everyone in the world knows that you are his most loyal dog. Who would believe that you made your own decision?"
Gu Xi gently put his palms together and sighed with some excitement. He said, "So this is the best time. Mr. Thirteen, you are so weak, and everyone knows that Mr. First has never killed anyone in his life. So if I can still live after killing you, then I will continue to live, even if I have to live like a dog. I will live until I reach Chang 'an, the imperial court, and even the Headmaster of the Academy to take the blame for the General."
Hearing that Eldest Brother had never killed anyone in his life, Ning Que was slightly startled. Then he immediately thought of his Eldest Brother's usual gentle demeanor and thought that it was probably true. When he heard the latter half of Gu Xi's words, he could not help but laugh slightly and said, "Although I don't want to boast, it is really wishful thinking for you to take the blame for killing me based on your identity."
Gu Xi shook his head and said with emotion, "As long as I am alive, I will tell the world that I killed Mr. Thirteen of the Academy and it has nothing to do with the General. I even have a way to make the world believe that I am from the West-Hill Divine Palace. The reason why I want to kill you is to frame General Xia Hou, so that the Academy and the imperial military will break off!"
Ning Que looked at the satisfied expression on his face and shook his head. He said, "It seems that you are indeed crazy. Although this plan sounds plausible, who would believe that you are from the West-Hill Divine Palace?"
A strange smile appeared on Gu Xi's face again and he said, "People like Mr. Thirteen probably won't believe it, but His Majesty the Emperor will believe it, Her Majesty the Empress will believe it, and the most important thing is that the Headmaster of Academy will believe it."
Speaking of this, Gu Xi, the military counselor who was used to taking care of everything for the general at night, looked up at the gray winter sky. A clear smile appeared on his face and he said with emotion, "Because I am really from the West-Hill Divine Palace."
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Ning Que did not know what to say. He had struggled to survive between life and death since he was a child. He thought that he had seen through the darkness and complexity of the world. However, at this time, when he heard Gu Xi confess his original true identity and now burst out of madness for Xia Hou, he realized that he still did not understand the complexity of the world enough.
He tightened the belt around his waist to make sure that it would not have the slightest impact on the later battle. Then he looked up at Gu Xi and asked, "But how can you be sure that you can kill me?"
Gu Xi looked at him with a playful look and said, "Because you are the weakest person on the Second floor of the Academy."
Ning Que sighed helplessly and thought that this title would probably be with him for many years.
He asked, "But my Eldest Brother is now in Tuyang City."
Gu Xi replied, "Since you appeared in my mansion, Mr. First naturally thought that you came to kill me. How could he care about it?"
Ning Que said, "By the same logic, does it mean that General Xiahou will not care about this matter?"
Gu Xi smiled and said, "That's right. So today is the best opportunity to kill you. In fact, I have been hesitating about whether to kill you or not. It just so happens that you are here, so I have to kill you."
Ning Que said, "For me, this is also the best opportunity to kill you. In fact, I have been hesitating about whether to enter the mansion to kill you. But since you happen to want to kill me, then I have to kill you."
Gu Xi looked at him with great interest and asked, "Now you know why I want to kill you, but I still can't be sure why you must kill me. Can you enlighten me, Mr. Thirteen?"
Ning Que looked at his face and thought of the oiled note.
The guy who wrote the oiled note had long been dead, and the oiled note had been destroyed by him. But he remembered the names on the oiled note clearly. Among them, Gu Xi was in the very first position.
Many years ago, the military counselor Gu Xi had been the most loyal and insidious dog of General Xiahou. According to the information found by Darkie and some files of the Imperial Center Administration that Ning Que had secretly seen through his master, it was clear that this military counselor was the liaison between Xiahou and the West-Hill Divine Palace.
It was this military counselor Gu Xi who had made the plan for Xiahou to destroy the entire Xuanwei General's Mansion for treason. And it was also this military counselor who had come up with the idea for Xiahou to slaughter the villages in the Yan territory.
With these reasons, it was enough for Ning Que to kill him thousands of times.
But at this time, in the face of Gu Xi's question, he did not make any explanation.
His sleeves had been rolled up to his elbows, and his forearms were bare in the cold wind. His steady right hand reached behind his back to hold the hilt, and then he pulled out a slender podao. The blade shone with frosty light in the cold wind.
Ning Que stepped across the courtyard at a steady pace and walked to Gu Xi in front of the pine chair.
Gu Xi slowly narrowed his eyes, and his hands behind his back in the sleeves trembled slightly. Obviously, it was not because of fear, but no one knew what these fingers were doing.
The bright blade cut through the quiet courtyard, cut the cold wind blowing outside the wall, and cut between Gu Xi's squinted eyes!
Gu Xi's eyes narrowed even more, and his eyes suddenly fell on Ning Que's left hand like lightning.
Ning Que's left hand was holding a brocade bag.
There was a strong talisman intent in the brocade bag.
It was the Divine Talisman left by Master Yan Se. In order to fight against Ye Hongyu in front of the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine, he used one. Today, in the face of Xiahou's powerful military counselor Gu Xi, he did not hesitate to use the second one.
However, the Divine Talisman in the brocade bag … could not be activated!
Gu Xi's eyes narrowed into two slits, and there was a threatening light in his eyes.
Numerous talisman intents with different auras gushed out from his sleeves, instantly stirring the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the courtyard. Numerous extremely fine primordial Qi tore the turbulence and lay between the two of them.
General Xiahou's military counselor Gu Xi, who was famous for his insidious stratagems … turned out to be a rare and powerful Talisman Master in the world!
Those milky white space turbulence were like black holes on the ground, and the Qi of Heaven and Earth was like running water, flowing away very quickly. The connection between Ning Que's Psyche Power and the brocade bag was disrupted and could not be maintained for a moment!
The bright and slender podao in his hand seemed to be stuck in a swamp in the seemingly transparent space, and it was difficult to move. Although it was not far from Gu Xi's face, it seemed that it could never get close to him.
As if sensing the incredibly chaotic talisman intent and turbulence of the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the courtyard, the air above the mansion became heavy and oppressive. No one knew which cloud's moisture was crushed into snow and slowly drifted to the ground.
A snowflake drifted through Ning Que's eyelashes and fell on the back of his slightly trembling hand holding the hilt, and instantly melted.
The situation was extremely tense, and Ning Que was in an extremely dangerous situation. However, when the snowflake fell, his eyelashes did not even blink, and his eyes were still calm and focused.
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