Chapter 52: The Death of the Human Emperor

General Guan Huchen Huchen had followed Marquis Lieyang for almost half a year.

At the beginning of the year, Marquis Lieyang led his army to cross the Liusha River to the west and arrived at Tianmen Town; General Guan Huchen Huchen expressed his surrender immediately. Afterward, in the decisive battle with the Thirty-Six Kingdoms Allied Forces, and in the conquest of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms one by one, General Guan Huchen Huchen was the cavalry commander under him.

Because he was familiar with Marquis Lieyang, meeting him again today, General Guan Huchen Huchen was neither as nervous as when he first saw the noble Marquis of the Central Plains, nor as curious as the Western Shu commoners outside.

He only had one feeling: relaxed and comfortable.

Regardless of whether Daoist Qingsong bluffed him or not, as long as he rendezvoused with Marquis Lieyang, no one could come to assassinate him in front of Marquis Lieyang and the Fire Crow Army.

"Marquis, the soldiers of the front and rear armies have all entered the camp, and the Cloud Coming Inn will also prepare meals and send them to the door; does the Marquis want to have a meal immediately?"

Before Marquis Lieyang arrived, he had the highest position, so he arranged the camp patrols and sentries.

Now that Marquis Lieyang had arrived, he had no right to intervene in the security affairs within the camp, only logistics matters could be reported.

"Can."

Marquis Lieyang was leaning on a soft couch reading a book; at this time, he just nodded casually, his gaze still falling on the book page, and he waved his hand lightly, intending to let General Guan Huchen Huchen go out.

General Guan Huchen Huchen also got up from the ground, stood straight, and prepared to turn and leave.

"General Guan Huchen, please wait a moment. Marquis, the end general has important matters to report to you."

Just then, "Wind-Blown Ears" lifted the curtain, walked in with big strides, first looked at General Guan Huchen Huchen meaningfully, and then walked straight to the Marquis, bending down to whisper a few words in the Marquis's ear.

Finally, he handed over a small booklet the size of a palm.

General Guan Huchen Huchen recognized this "Wind-Blown Ears."

It was Gao Xianjue, the commander of the Fire Crow Army scout camp.

During the period he followed Marquis Lieyang, this Commander Gao was very characteristic of an intelligence chief—low-key and unobtrusive.

His presence in the Fire Crow Army had never been strong, and the two hadn't even met a few times.

Most of the time, Commander Gao had been leading the scout camp to inquire about military intelligence outside.

But with General Guan Huchen Huchen, a person with Heavenly Eyes, Marquis Lieyang almost never specifically summoned the "Scout Camp Commander" when discussing military intelligence.

At least when General Guan Huchen Huchen was in the Fire Crow Army, Marquis Lieyang would summon him directly when he wanted to know the enemy situation.

With Heavenly Eyes present, Marquis Lieyang didn't need Commander Gao's scout camp at all.

Now General Guan Huchen Huchen suddenly became nervous.

Because he saw Marquis Lieyang's expression change suddenly after whispering a few words, and he also looked at himself with sharp eyes.

"Marquis..." General Guan Huchen Huchen was terrified and at a loss.

Marquis Lieyang only looked at him coldly, then lowered his head to open the booklet.

Even if General Guan Huchen Huchen didn't activate the Heavenly Eye divine ability, his vision was far beyond ordinary people.

He couldn't see the front of the booklet, but the paper was very thin, and there was a skylight on the tent above Marquis Lieyang, and the sunlight fell on the paper, so he could vaguely see dense small characters from the back.

Before he could blink his eyes to identify the shadows and characters, Marquis Lieyang raised his right hand, flames lingering in his palm, and slapped it hard on the desk in front of him.

"Boom!"

The sturdy and wide fragrant peach wood desk shattered into pieces, and the flying fragments even ignited sparks of fire.

"Guan General Guan Huchen Huchen, you have great guts!"

The fire light flickering in Marquis Lieyang's eyes almost tore General Guan Huchen Huchen's soul apart.

His liver and gallbladder were split, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, "Marquis, the end general—"

"Clang~~ Clang~~~"

A high-pitched phoenix cry came from above his head, interrupting General Guan Huchen Huchen's words and temporarily attracting Marquis Lieyang's burning angry eyes.

"Cyan Luan Messenger?"

"Marquis Lieyang, this is the Three-Turn Bone-Changing Pill refined by Pill Master Ge; please help transfer it to Daoist Qingsong, or wait for Daoist Qingsong to come and get it himself."

The Cyan Luan actually spoke human words, its voice crisp, like an eight or nine-year-old human child.

It lowered its head and pecked at the root of its left wing with its beak.

A cyan light flashed at the wing root, and a small white porcelain bottle fell down; the Cyan Luan raised its claw to catch it and placed it under Marquis Lieyang's soft couch.

"In addition, Li Cheng Si learned that the little bird was about to go west, so he wrote a secret talisman and asked the little bird to transfer it to the Marquis."

After putting down the porcelain bottle, the Cyan Luan pecked at the wing root again with its beak.

A white wax ball the size of a small kumquat fell down.

This time, without waiting for it to use its claws to catch it, Marquis Lieyang reached out and summoned it, and the wax ball automatically flew into his palm.

"Has there been any major event in Xianyang City recently?"

When crushing the wax ball, Marquis Lieyang also asked casually.

This was originally a very ordinary question, and Marquis Lieyang himself didn't expect any useful information.

But the Cyan Luan hesitated, "There is a major event, a disaster that collapses heaven and earth, the Human Emperor... sigh, Marquis, look for yourself, Li Cheng must have written it on the secret talisman."

Its cry was a bit sharp.

Afterward, it lowered its bird head, and its slender, beautiful neck covered with seven-colored feathers also shrank.

"What happened to His Majesty?"

Marquis Lieyang's expression changed slightly, and he accelerated his hand movements, spreading out the silk on the wax ball.

There were no characters on the silk, but a string of symbols of varying lengths.

It was like intercepting a secret letter from a messenger in a costume TV series, opening it and reading it directly, which would never happen in the real world.

The ancients were just not technologically advanced, but their brains were not stupid at all.

As early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the army began to use secret talismans to transmit confidential information.

"No, impossible!" Marquis Lieyang was an old soldier and cracked the secret talisman information in an instant.

He glanced at the silk, and his face turned pale instantly.

Seeing General Guan Huchen Huchen stretching his neck and staring with "thievish" eyes, he was even angrier, raised his right hand, and struck a "Burning Heaven Dragon Roar."

"Ang~ Aowu~~~" The true qi in his dantian surged, turning into a bright red flaming dragon pillar.

The fire pillar was as thick as an adult's washbasin, crushing General Guan Huchen Huchen out of the camp.

"Hoo, hoo, hoo~~"

Having killed someone and vented his anger, Marquis Lieyang slightly recovered his reason, his cold eyes that could kill people staring at the Cyan Luan, his voice hoarse, "Cyan Luan Messenger, did Li Si lie to this Marquis?"

"If it is the news that His Majesty died five days ago in the bedroom of Concubine Rou, then Li Cheng didn't lie to the Marquis, and there is no need to lie, because this matter is known to everyone in Xianyang City at this time, and Empress Dowager Zhao is temporarily presiding over the government." The Cyan Luan said.

"His Majesty is the Human Emperor, having taken the Longevity Pill; now his lifespan hasn't exceeded three hundred, and it's still more than two hundred years away from the 'five hundred small limit,' how could he... and he died suddenly from an overdose of pills while favoring a concubine?! This is too absurd, I don't believe it." Marquis Lieyang clenched his fists and roared in a low voice.

"The little bird doesn't know, the little bird is just a messenger. If the Marquis has no letter to send back to Xianyang, the little bird will leave now."

"Ah, Old Master~~~~" Guan Zhong's wailing came from afar.

"Foster Father~~~" There was also a slightly weaker girl's voice mixed in.

"Gao Xianjue, extinguish the fire and repair this Marquis's commander's tent."

"Obey!"

Gao Xianjue had the heart to kill Guan General Guan Huchen Huchen, but seeing the Marquis's unprecedented loss of composure and hearing the life-threatening major news, he was also terrified, already prostrating on the ground, his body shrinking in the corner, deeply afraid that he would become the target of the Marquis's venting.

In other times, he wouldn't be so cautious.

After all, Marquis Lieyang had always been clear about rewards and punishments and never attacked his soldiers without reason.

But hearing of General Guan Huchen Huchen's death, it was related to him, and he specifically chose this time to submit the "General Guan Huchen Huchen Crime Report"; if the Marquis investigated deeply...

Now hearing Marquis Lieyang's order, he felt like he had survived a disaster, his body suddenly relaxed, and he retreated a few steps before standing up and leaving the tent extremely quickly to call people to extinguish the fire.

Marquis Lieyang ignored the chaos and wailing outside the camp.

He walked to the desk, took a pen, and drew symbols of varying lengths on another blank silk.

"So General Guan Huchen's disaster was supposed to be on Marquis Lieyang, no wonder, no wonder..."

Looking at General Guan Huchen Huchen's twisted and deformed corpse, Daoist Qingsong only showed a hint of astonishment, then clapped his hands and laughed, nodding repeatedly, "This makes sense; offending Marquis Lieyang without knowing it, he was definitely going to die!"

Xiao Yu turned around, pulled his sleeve, and called out: "Please use immortal magic, Guan Laozu, be merciful and save the suffering!"

Hearing her call, Guan Zhong, whose face was twisted with wailing, seemed to have grasped the last straw, and also turned his head, kowtowing repeatedly to Qingsong, "Daoist, be merciful, please save the Old Master."

Daoist Qingsong lightly pulled back his sleeve and said indifferently: "The dead cannot be resurrected; you should restrain your grief."

"Guan Laozu~~~" Xiao Yu dragged out her voice, shouting exceptionally miserably.

Daoist Qingsong remained unmoved, took a step, and walked toward the camp gate.

Xiao Yu followed behind him, and Guan Zhong followed behind her.

The soldiers in the camp who recognized Qingsong immediately opened the camp gate for him, and Xiao Yu took the opportunity to drill in and rushed toward General Guan Huchen Huchen's remains.

"Hey, who are you, don't break in..."

A giant man of one zhang five raised his long spear to block, but was stopped by Qingsong, who said: "Guan General Guan Huchen Huchen is her foster father; for the sake of her filial piety, let her collect the body for General Guan Huchen."

The Fire Crow Army soldiers then stopped blocking.

"Foster Father, eh..."

Xiao Yu gathered the sad memories of her two lives in her mind, finally squeezed out two bean-sized tears, and shouted half of her wailing, but suddenly found something wrong.

Guan General Guan Huchen Huchen looked charred all over, but only part of his body was burned.

At this time, he was still wrapped in raging flames, but looking closely, his fire-rat robe cloak blocked most of the flames.

And his "Snake Flame Whip."

At this time, it seemed to have come to life, turning back into a fire snake, drilling in and out of his armor, swallowing the scarlet flame true qi.

Well, Guan General Guan Huchen Huchen was not ignited by ordinary fire; what ignited him was the "Fire Dragon Pillar," and the "Fire Dragon Pillar" was the flaming true qi hit by Marquis Lieyang using Fire Crow Strength.

Now the Snake Flame Whip was actively helping General Guan Huchen Huchen clear the alien true qi in his body.

"Uncle Zhong, Foster Father can still be saved," Xiao Yu pulled Guan Zhong's arm and shouted excitedly.

"What, Old Master is not dead yet, and can still be saved?" Guan Zhong was also excited.

"Don't be so loud."

Although Xiao Yu shouted excitedly, she lowered her voice, but Guan Zhong opened his throat.

This wasn't it; many soldiers in the camp looked over.

Xiao Yu stood up, looked left and right, found the position of the Shu Iron Cavalry Camp, waved her hand and said: "Luye Guard Iron Cavalry Camp, all of you, come over immediately to clean up General Guan Huchen's remains!"

More than two hundred iron-clad knights looked at each other, hesitating.

"Wei Wu, you come over!" Guan Zhong roared.

Military doctor Wei Wu felt his scalp go numb, lowered his head, and said dryly: "Let's go, at least collect the body for General Guan Huchen."

There was a saying that the law doesn't punish the masses, but at this moment he had already been named by Guan Zhong.

If he had no reaction, regardless of whether Old Man Guan was ultimately dead or alive, he would become the vent for the Guan family. ===== CHAPTER 53 =====