Chapter 417

Just at this moment, Qin Mu's voice rang out faintly.

"Jieli, has everything been well with you lately?"

"In reply to Your Majesty, this sinful slave is doing well!"

Upon hearing Qin Mu's voice, Jieli felt as if under a curse; he kowtowed incessantly, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.

"Mm! That's good!" Qin Mu stood up, walked slowly to stand before Jieli, and said, "Little Jie, you've been a guest in Great Qin for quite a long time now. Do you miss home?" Hearing this,

Li Er and Fang Xuanling could not help but twitch the corners of their mouths.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. This sinful slave does not miss home; Great Qin is this sinful slave's home!"

Jieli answered with words that contradicted his heart, though in his mind, he had already greeted Qin Mu eighteen times over!

You call this being a guest, you bastard?

Does anyone invite a guest to stay inside a prison cell?

And what was with that 'Prince of Qin Breaks the Battle Formation' dance!

Three whole days and three whole nights!

My legs were about to break from all that dancing!

And you tell me I'm here as a guest in your Great Qin?

"Is that so? That is truly a pity. I had intended to give you a chance to go home; after all, you have been a guest in Great Qin for so long, and I truly cannot bear to see you suffer."

"But since you are unwilling, then let it be."

Qin Mu's expression was quite regretful.

What!?

Letting me go home!?

Jieli suddenly perked up, his whole body jolting: "Your Majesty! If Your Majesty can let this sinful slave return to the grasslands, from this day forward, the Turks are willing to recognize Great Qin as the suzerain state, to serve Your Majesty for generations to come, and to repay Your Majesty's vast and boundless grace!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

After finishing, Jieli kowtowed for his life, making the floor tiles ring with every strike.

Standing to the side, Li Er's face grew increasingly ugly.

This is bad!

If Jieli is released back to the grasslands, wouldn't that be the same as letting a tiger return to the mountains?

How can Qin Mu be so muddled?

Does he not know how terrifying Jieli is?

Li Er was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, his forehead covered in sweat.

Yet he could not speak!

Jieli had, after all, met him before.

It was just that he didn't recognize him for the moment.

If he were to speak up now, he might be recognized by this old thief.

That would be even more troublesome!

"Alright, go down and rest for a while first, and replenish your strength. In a few days," Qin Mu said with extreme kindness.

"Thank you for your immense grace, Your Majesty! Thank you for your immense grace, Your Majesty!"

"I will have someone send you back to the Turks."

"Wuwuwu!"

Jieli was overwhelmed with gratitude; even though his forehead was bleeding from kowtowing, he continued to thank him incessantly.

Yet in his heart, he hated Qin Mu to the extreme.

Just you wait!

Once I return to the grasslands, the end of your Great Qin will be at hand!

Hahahaha!

Subsequently.

Wei Zhongxian took Jieli away.

As soon as Jieli left the great hall, Li Er could no longer hold back and hurriedly stepped out.

"Your Majesty! Jieli is a vicious tiger in a cage; he cannot be released! Once the tiger returns to the mountains, it will be a massive disaster. By then, the strength of the Turks will be even greater, and for our Great Qin, it will be..."

"A hundred harms and not a single benefit!"

"Old Li is right!" Fang Xuanling also stepped out, cupping his hands and saying: "The more respectful Jieli appears, the more dangerous the disaster."

Fang Xuanling truly could not understand.

With Qin Mu's methods and strategies, how could he come up with such a foolish move?

Especially at a juncture where Great Qin and the Turks were about to go to war!

Isn't this purely delivering warmth to the enemy?

I don't understand!

I truly don't understand!

But Qin Mu's next sentence shocked everyone present, including Li Er and Fang Xuanling.

"Yet the more vicious he is inside! Your Majesty, letting the tiger return to the mountains this time will surely cause endless..."

"Letting the tiger return to the mountains? I don't think so. I am merely sending him to the gates of hell!"

What!?

Sending Jieli to the gates of hell?

Has this kid Qin Mu been driven out of his mind by Li Xueyan?

Sigh!

How does the old saying go?

A beautiful woman is a source of disaster!

"Your Majesty, you clearly just said you were sending Jieli back to the Turks, how could it be sending him to the gates of hell?" Fang Xuanling couldn't help but continue to ask.

If he didn't get a clear answer, he wouldn't be able to eat or sleep in peace!

For every citizen of the Great Tang, Jieli was a nightmare-like existence.

He was too terrifying!

Think back to the beginning.

Jieli used all sorts of cruel methods to slaughter the people of the Great Tang.

Nine out of ten houses in the northern borders of the Great Tang were empty, and the cities were filled with mourning.

Wherever he went, bones piled up like mountains.

His various evil deeds were too numerous to record.

And precisely because of this.

In the heart of every Great Tang citizen, including Fang Xuanling, Jieli was synonymous with the devil.

There's really no way around it!

The Great Tang had truly been beaten into fear!

Releasing the tiger back to the mountains this time, who knows what even more terrifying things Jieli will do to take revenge on Great Qin.

Revenge on Great Qin would be one thing.

But what if that old thief Jieli goes insane and decides to finish off the Great Tang as well?

Wouldn't that be getting hit while just lying there?

The Great Tang truly cannot withstand any more turmoil!

"You all are still too young." Qin Mu smiled faintly and continued: "The current Jieli is not a great joy for the Turks, but a great trouble! Ashina He Lu has finally managed to unify the entire Eastern Turkic Khanate; do you think he will willingly hand over the position of Great Khan to Jieli? When that time comes, what will be Jieli's fate? And what will be Ashina He Lu's fate?"

Hiss!

Li Er and Fang Xuanling both gasped, instantly calming down.