Chapter 110

After Li Miao finished speaking, he stood up immediately, took Yongjie, and was about to set off for Shaolin.

"My lord!"

Hearing a soft call from behind, Li Miao turned to look, and it was Yin Minjun who walked over.

"Let me go with you."

Li Miao looked her up and down and smiled: "The matter of the Miao people, doesn't Elder Yin need to watch over it?"

Yin Minjun shook her head: "I have already explained clearly to my fellow disciples; with many major sects taking action together on the Miao side, they don't lack me."

"Moreover, my Hengshan sect is already a subordinate of yours, and if I watch you go to Shaolin alone, it would be a dereliction of duty."

"My martial arts are not good, but at least I can handle some miscellaneous matters for you."

Yin Minjun was, after all, the number two figure of the Hengshan sect, used to welcoming and sending off people, so she said this in a high-sounding way, without revealing her intention of just wanting to follow Li Miao.

Li Miao nodded: "Very well, then let's go together."

After saying this, he took Yin Minjun and Yongjie, led the horses, and set off.

The three of them were all experts with accomplished internal power, and without stopping, they arrived at Shaolin in just a few days.

Before the three of them approached the Shaolin Temple mountain gate, they heard a greeting from afar: "Battalion Commander!"

Li Miao looked over and saw a person wearing the official uniform of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, galloping over with light-body technique. It was the Battalion Commander surnamed Zhang who came with the eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen in Taian City that day, and was also Li Miao's subordinate.

That day, he followed Cheng Yuanzhen to the Taishan sect and ended up running into Yun Zelin. His martial arts were also quite good, so he escaped with his life.

Li Miao greeted him, looked him up and down, and asked: "Who came from home?"

After the matter in Taian City, the imperial court was already preparing to deal with the Ming Cult, and Bu Lei of the Northern Suppressing Division had already appeared in the Huguang region. It was reasonable for the Embroidered Uniform Guard to send people over for such a big thing as the Ming Cult breaking the Shaolin mountain gate.

Battalion Commander Zhang glanced at Yongjie and Yin Minjun beside him.

Li Miao waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to care about these two and could just speak directly.

"Commander Bu sent back news, and the Commander-in-Chief came personally. Battalion Commander, you came at the right time; we also just arrived, but the Shaolin mountain gate is tightly closed, and the Commander-in-Chief is afraid that there is an ambush by the Ming Cult thieves inside, so he hasn't gone in yet."

Li Miao nodded: "Take me to see the Commander-in-Chief."

Battalion Commander Zhang took the order and led Li Miao toward the Shaolin mountain gate.

At this moment, outside the mountain gate, it was already densely packed with people, who were currently preparing, and there were even some firearms and cannons.

Li Miao scanned over, and almost all the Battalion Commanders of the Northern Suppressing Division were present, so he knew that the imperial court had already made up its mind to destroy the Ming Cult.

From afar, Li Miao saw Zhu Zai standing with his hands behind his back, talking to Bu Lei, who should be deploying manpower and preparing to storm the Shaolin mountain gate.

Li Miao wanted to walk over.

Zhu Zai looked up and saw him, but raised his hand to make a stopping gesture, his eyes clearly signaling Li Miao not to come over.

Li Miao stopped his steps and looked at Zhu Zai with a frown.

The two had a friendship of more than ten years; Zhu Zai knew what Li Miao was thinking with a blink of an eye, and Li Miao knew which bowl Zhu Zai was going to throw with a glare.

Without needing to talk, Li Miao could understand the emotions contained in that look from Zhu Zai.

"Old man, is he... worried about me?"

"Why?"

The matter in Taian City had already been told to Zhu Zai by Wang Hai, and Zhu Zai already knew what level Li Miao's martial arts had reached.

What could be in this Shaolin Temple that could threaten Li Miao?

Moreover, at this moment, outside the mountain gate were the Embroidered Uniform Guard's men, all his own people; why would Zhu Zai worry about Li Miao and not let him come over?

Li Miao was strange in his heart, but he knew very well that Zhu Zai was not a person who would shoot without a target. If he did this, there must be a sufficiently full reason.

Li Miao turned back to give Yin Minjun and Yongjie a few instructions, telling them to find a place to hide first.

After the two left, Li Miao gave Battalion Commander Zhang a few instructions, telling him not to reveal the news that he had arrived.

Afterward, Li Miao flashed into a dense forest, tapped his feet lightly, climbed onto a treetop, stepped on a branch the thickness of a finger, and observed the situation outside the mountain gate from afar.

Seeing Li Miao understand and hide, Zhu Zai seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and turned to say a few words to Bu Lei.

Bu Lei took the order and left, and Zhu Zai turned to face the mountain gate, standing with his hands behind his back.

Li Miao clearly saw Zhu Zai gesturing a "three" behind his back.

"Third watch."

This meant for Li Miao to wait until the third watch of the night to sneak in and see him.

Li Miao waited for a while longer and saw a wooden carved colorful sedan chair slowly arrive at Zhu Zai's side.

This sedan chair was lacquered in vermilion and gilded with gold, lined with embroidery, pearls, tassels, and paintings, incomparably luxurious. It could be said that this sedan chair alone was worth thousands of taels of silver.

It should be known that the founding emperor of the Great Shuo had issued an edict to restrict the riding of sedan chairs; generally, only officials of the third rank or above, or the elderly and disabled, could ride them. Although this rule was gradually abolished later, ordinary people would not decorate their sedan chairs too much to avoid overstepping.

Looking at the four sedan chair bearers, they were actually all second-rate experts!

The sedan chair stopped at Zhu Zai's side, and a person following on the side hurriedly stepped forward, actually plopping down directly in front of the sedan door. Obviously, he was going to be a "human sedan stool," letting the person inside step on him to get down.

Li Miao looked closely; the person lying on the ground was actually the eunuch in charge of the Directorate of Ceremonial who led people to snatch credit at Mount Tai that day, Cheng Yuanzhen!

Who was sitting in this sedan chair that made a pinnacle fourth-rank eunuch act as a human sedan stool?

He saw the sedan curtain slowly lifted, and an old, withered arm stretched out from inside.

A sedan bearer stepped forward to support that arm and helped the person down.

He saw that the person was senile, with temples like frost, sparse hair and loose teeth, a face covered in wrinkles, and walking tremblingly, as if he were an old man in the twilight of his years.

Looking at his clothing, he wore a narrow-sleeved Yesa, with python patterns embroidered on his chest. He was actually wearing the bestowed clothing of the same rank as Zhu Zai.

This person stepped on Cheng Yuanzhen to get off the sedan, was supported tremblingly, and walked to Zhu Zai's side.

Zhu Zai turned and bowed to him: "Big Brother."

"Hmm." That person accepted this bow calmly, without any intention of returning the bow, and said as if it were a matter of course.

"Don't wait, fire a few cannons first to see. If that thief Ji Tianrui is still there, it's just right to capture him."

"Yes." Zhu Zai turned to order the Embroidered Uniform Guard, actually about to directly bombard this thousand-year-old ancient temple.

Li Miao was far away and couldn't hear the conversation between the two. But with his eyesight, he had already seen everything.

He smiled: "Sure enough."

"If there were no such figures in the imperial court, it would be impossible to sit firmly on this country."

That person looked senile, but he wasn't really that old. Judging by his bones, this person was likely only in his fifties.

Li Miao was very familiar with his appearance. He had just seen it on the Taishan sect a month ago.

"Five Decays of Heaven and Man."

This person was actually also an expert who possessed more than two paths of "Above Pinnacle"!