It has been more than a month since Fang Jie left Chang'an City. From time to time, criminals involved in Prince Yi's case will be executed in Caishikou. Although the number is not large, there has been no interruption in killings since Prince Yi was captured. The common people have become accustomed to seeing this kind of scene, and it can even be said that they are numb.
More than 34,000 heads have been chopped off, and it seems that there are no signs of ending yet. The case will not be over until the first offender, Prince Yi Yang Yin, is brought to justice.
The secret prison of Ouchi Guards Office
Luo Weiran walked to the deepest part of the third floor, pressed against the iron door window and looked inside. Prince Yi Yang Yin was lying on the stone bed. He looked like a dead person, and he had been dead for a long time. At first, Yang Yin went on a hunger strike to ask to see the emperor, but the emperor simply ignored him.
By the fifth day of the hunger strike, he was already in a groggy state. Luo Weiran naturally wouldn't let him starve to death like this, so he sent someone in to force-feed Yang Yin two bowls of gruel. Later, Yang Yin began to become confused. He didn't resist when Feiyu Pao came in to feed him, but he also wouldn't ask for food. It has been less than three months since he was imprisoned, and he seems to have lost his human form.
"Even more desolate than him is Xiao Yijiu in the prison opposite. Unlike Yang Yin, Xiao Yijiu's mental state is even worse. He is crazy and often says nonsense. No one understands what he is saying. Because of his madness, the jailer did not dare to open the cell door when delivering food. Instead, he threw food such as steamed buns and steamed buns in through the small window. If he was so hungry, he would squat down and pick it up himself.
It seems that the once respected leader of the Dao Sect is now in such a miserable state that he is worse than a beggar. Because he was too dangerous, even though the air pockets were sealed and the bones of the limbs were locked with iron hooks, no one dared to get too close. So the prison was extremely dirty, with urine and feces everywhere and no one cleaning up. From far away, you can smell an extremely disgusting smell.
Luo Weiran felt as if his heart was being cut by a knife when he saw his former glorious senior brother become like this. But even he didn't dare to open the iron prison door easily again. Ever since that day when he and Xiao Yijiu said that an inch of the ground is the sky, Xiao Yijiu's mind became more and more confused. He would go crazy every day, and even with Luo Weiran's cultivation level, he would not be able to rely on it in the future. Although the golden needle sealed Xiao Yijiu's air points, it seemed that its suppression force on Xiao Yijiu was getting weaker and weaker.
When Xiao Yijiu went crazy for the first time, Luo Weiran was able to control him when he went in. The second time he went crazy, when Luo Weiran had someone open the iron door and was about to go in, Xiao Yijiu suddenly opened his mouth and spat at him. Luo Weiran dodged to avoid it, but half of the flying fish robe behind him was shattered by the mouthful of thick phlegm.
Although Luo Weiran restrained Xiao Yijiu again this time, it took a lot of trouble. He clearly felt that the energy in Xiao Yijiu's body was getting stronger and stronger. The golden needles that could seal more than 90% of the true energy in his body seemed to be gradually losing their effect. Although his limbs were sealed by iron hooks and unable to move in a wide range, if his inner strength was restored, even if he remained motionless, it would be just as terrifying. When he went crazy for the third time, Luo Weiran's heart sank to the bottom.
Because that time, he tried his best, and a well-hidden master from the Ouchi Guards Department worked together to restrain Xiao Yijiu. Then Luo Weiran personally took action and used a gold hairpin to insert Xiao Yijiu into his body. All the energy veins were pierced. Once his Qi pulse leaked, Xiao Yijiu couldn't gather his inner strength no matter how powerful he was.
In this way, the crazy Xiao Yijiu was forced to calm down.
However, just one month later, Xiao Yijiu went crazy again. The jailer who went in to deliver food to him was suddenly shattered into pieces on the ground after just one look from him. The flesh, bones, and internal organs were all turned into pieces. Not only that, the room was full of sharp energy that circled back and forth, cutting into pieces the few flying fish robes that came in later.
There are countless deep marks left on the wall.
That time he went crazy was the day before Fang Xie left the southwest. Almost all the masters from the Ouchi Guards came out, and they worked together to suppress Xiao Yijiu. Even Zhuo Buyi tried his best to draw the ground as a prison, but he couldn't calm down Xiao Yijiu. Luo Weiran had no choice but to use heavy techniques to shatter most of Xiao Yijiu's Qi sea, which he had finally controlled, leaving only a wisp of incomplete Qi.
He was extremely careful when he started, because once Xiao Yijiu's Qi sea was shattered, he was afraid that Xiao Yijiu would die on the spot.
And until the emperor¡¯s decree comes down, Xiao Yijiu cannot die. Luo Weiran couldn't bear to let his senior brother die, and then he ordered no one to open the iron door. But no one expected that even so, on the twentieth day after Fang Jie left Chang'an City, Xiao Yijiu would go crazy again.
This time, all the masters of the Ouchi Guards who entered the iron gate were killed except Luo Weiran. If it weren't for Luo Weiran's reactionIf he quickly retreated, he would probably turn into pieces of meat on the ground. You must know that the three masters who took action to subdue Xiao Yijiu were all worshiped by the Ouchi Guards. They were all very strong in cultivation, but they turned into pieces of meat without even reacting as soon as they entered.
Luo Weiran asked people to close the iron door tightly. From then on, no one dared to approach this secret room.
During this period, Luo Weiran went to the palace several times to ask for instructions from the emperor, but he only saw the emperor once. When Su Buwei entered the palace four or five times, he always turned him away on the grounds that His Majesty was busy with court affairs. Only once did the emperor see him when he entered the palace. He mentioned Xiao Yijiu's situation, but the emperor didn't say anything. He just ordered the Ministry of Punishment to close the case as soon as possible.
But the officials of the Ministry of Punishment did not dare to enter the secret cell where Xiao Yijiu was, and they did not get any confession at all.
Of these two felons, one is so crazy that it makes people frightened, and the other is so weak that he only has half his life left.
But His Majesty did not issue an order for a while, so Luo Weiran could only carefully let them live.
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Luo Weiran looked at the skinny figure lying on the stone bed in the secret cell and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
"open the door"
He waved his hand and ordered.
Feiyupao, who was on duty, opened the iron door where Prince Yi was imprisoned, and Luo Weiran stepped in. Holding a bowl of rice porridge in his hand, he walked to the chair next to the stone bed and sat down.
Yang Yin, who was lying with his back to the iron gate, turned around and smiled hard when he saw Luo Weiran. It had only been a few months, and his original appearance was almost invisible. The cheeks have sunken in, so the cheekbones appear high. The eye sockets were sunken deeper than the cheeks, and the once bright eyes now protruded outward, so turbid that it was almost impossible to distinguish black from white.
The way he looks now is as if there is no flesh on his skull but a layer of skin directly on it. There are bones under the skin, and the skin is full of wrinkles.
"Why are you here in person today?"
Yang Yin tried to sit up, but his two arms as dry as sticks had lost most of their strength. Luo Weiran helped him sit up, then pointed to the bowl of porridge and said: "Eat something. Although the outcome has been determined for a long time, why bother with your own body? It's better to eat well and drink well than to be stabbed when the time comes. It¡¯s much better to torture yourself like this.¡±
Yang Yin smiled: "You are really not a persuasive person I am not torturing myself I really wanted to go on a hunger strike at the beginning. It would be best if Your Majesty sees me because of this. If you don't see me, I will starve to death." It¡¯s a good choice to avoid being humiliated in front of others. But you just didn¡¯t let me die. I don¡¯t know why, but I became disgusted when I saw the food.¡±
"You are too hungry."
Luo Weiran picked up the dinner and handed it to him: "Eat some."
Yang Yin did not refuse, he took it and took a sip with a frown, but immediately spat it out again.
He smiled bitterly: "The first few bites you take, you always spit them out."
Luo Weiran wanted to say that if he had known what he was doing, why would he have done it in the first place, but he swallowed the words again. What's the point of saying this to Yang Yin now?
Yang Yin slowly drank the second sip, and after being silent for a while, he smiled: "Today was not bad. This porridge took a long time to cook. It is not like what others brought before. The rice is still a bit stiff Yes. Oh, Xiao Yijiuwhat's wrong?"
"crazy"
Luo Weiran shook his head and answered.
"Really crazy?"
Yang Yin asked again. In this sentence, his character was completely exposed. He is not a person who trusts others, and he always looks at everything in a dark way.
"real"
Luo Weiran nodded.
"Did I hurt him?"
Yang Yin was startled for a moment, and then sighed: "The time I went to Qingfeng to see him, he was still so high-spirited when I chatted with him. I asked him who was taller between him and Dean Zhou. He He said he didn¡¯t know how tall Dean Zhou was, but he knew he was already very tall.¡±
"Senior brother is indeed very tall."
Luo Weiran sighed: "If the master hadn't still been in Chang'an, no one would have been able to control him that day."
"Master?"
Yang Yin's expression suddenly stiffened, and his face was full of disbelief: "You said that the old man who blocked the warship in my house that day was Xiao Yijiu's master? Wait you just said that senior brother you Are you and Xiao Yijiu actually brothers? "
"That's right"
Luo Weiran nodded: "That's why I said, you think you know this city of Chang'an, but there are too many things you don't know The scary thing in the Yanwu Academy is not Dean Zhou, but the Master. The Master has already I lived in seclusion in the martial arts academy for a long time.It's been so long, so long that even he himself has forgotten how many years it is. "
"When we first learned martial arts, we were on the mountain behind the Tai Chi Palace. At that time, we didn't know that Master lived in seclusion in the Yanwu Academy, nor did we know that there was a secret passage behind the Yanwu Academy that led directly to the Tai Chi Palace. By the way there's something You probably wouldn¡¯t have guessed that Prince Zhong is my senior brother.¡±
When he heard this, Yang Yin's ugly face immediately turned as white as paper.
"No wonderno wonder the fourth brother has always been so indifferent. With such a strong backing, what is he afraid of? I have been planning for so many years, it is not as good as the old man blocking the power of my big ship with one hand."
"who is he?"
Yang Yin couldn't help but ask.
"It's okay to tell you, because soon, His Majesty plans to make the master's identity public. The master's name is Wan Xingchen, and he was already the number one person in the world many years ago."
"it turns out¡¡"
Yang Yin's hand shook violently, and a lot of porridge in the bowl spilled out: "It turned out to be him"
At this moment, a roar suddenly came from the prison opposite.
"Wan Xingchen? Who is mentioning this name?!"
That was Xiao Yijiu's voice, which was full of anger and fear. Immediately afterwards, a burst of chaotic sounds came over, and a burst of smoke poured out from the bars of the prison opposite.
That was the pink dust that was shaken up by Xiao Yijiu's wildly evaporating inner energy. There were many deep marks on the ground and walls immediately.
In the prison cell, Xiao Yijiu¡¯s dirty long hair started to dance wildly. He raised his head, and a hint of sparkle slowly emerged in his cloudy eyes.
"Wan Xingchen! I'm not afraid of youI'm not afraid of you!"
The lunatic roared loudly: "Don't think that your Ten Thousand Swords Guiyuan means you are invincible. I will defeat you sooner or later I will defeat you! I will defeat you! I am the one standing at the highest point, I am the one who stands at the top." yes¡¡"