Chapter 95: Seeking Escape

Li Xuanling had been a coolie in the stockade for more than ten days. The other slaves were all complaining of exhaustion, but he was at the second level of Embryonic Breath, so he was relaxed, just pretending to be tired.

These slaves ate and lived in a place like a sheep pen surrounded by the Shanyue, with piles of feces and urine, smelling unbearable. There were more than a dozen soldiers watching around. Li Xuanling wanted to kick off the shackles on his feet and sneak away on the first night, but he was still waiting for Li Jingtian's news, so he had to stay for more than ten days.

This group of Shanyue seemed to be preparing to build a large stockade here to monitor and resist the Li family. Li Xuanling looked carefully and found that it was most convenient to escape when he went out of the stockade to transport wood. He was far away from the experts in the stockade, and he only needed to kill a few soldiers to escape, without worrying about being caught by the experts in the stockade.

"It's easy for me to leave, but it's difficult for Eldest Sister to escape."

Li Jingtian had been frequently entering and leaving the military tent these days, which made Li Xuanling terrified. She was always wandering around, looking for an opportunity to bring Li Jingtian out to escape.

Carrying wood and walking in the stockade, Li Xuanling quietly observed the layout around him, but heard two Shanyue tribal shamans muttering:

"Will we set off to return to Daqueting tomorrow?"

"Who said it's not... I heard the Great King wants to build a large stone platform in Daqueting, saying it is to sacrifice to the shamans and verify the achievement of unifying the northern foothills..."

Li Xuanling was shocked and secretly thought:

"No matter what, I have to take action. If I enter the big city of the Shanyue tomorrow, I will really have no way to heaven and no way to earth!"

Putting down the wood in his hand, Li Xuanling wiped the magic mirror in his arms, and immediately found Li Jingtian's location, rushing to find the way in a hurry.

Lu Jiangxian in the mirror, however, had a strange expression. As Li Xuanling kept moving west, a breath that seemed to be connected by blood and flesh slowly emerged in the distance.

"How is it possible?"

Lu Jiangxian's mind was full of confusion, feeling the powerful aura like a torch in the dark night in the distant mountains, shocked.

"Talisman energy?!"

The aura of talisman energy that Lu Jiangxian was familiar with was in the deep mountains in the distance. The deep sense of intimacy made him immediately understand that this was a talisman energy bestowed by the magic mirror.

It was not the gray talisman on Li Xiangping, but a yellow talisman shining with light.

Talisman energy corresponded to gray, white, cyan, yellow... corresponding to Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Zifu, Golden Core... This yellow talisman could only be condensed by the magic mirror after receiving sacrifices and incense from the Golden Core stage.

As Li Xuanling moved slowly, Lu Jiangxian had already established a connection with that talisman energy, but he remained silent in doubt.

"This..."

A name slowly emerged in Lu Jiangxian's mind.

"Immortal Mansion successor Li Jiangqun!"

Then this thought was quickly dismissed. More doubts emerged in Lu Jiangxian's mind.

"Li Jiangqun looks like a Zifu cultivator. When he besieged and killed back then, he only used some Zifu cultivators from the three sects and seven gates. How could he bestow a yellow talisman? This bestowing matter is not just a corpse of the Golden Core stage, it requires living sacrifices of monsters, and the incense required is massive."

Lu Jiangxian thought about it and couldn't understand it, but only vaguely smelled a dangerous aura, and mused to himself:

"In any case, I must not easily go to this Daqueting. It's likely that some demons and ghosts are lurking there! Li Jiangqun's matter is a lesson from the past! It is definitely not the three sects and seven gates targeting the magic mirror, there should be a bigger force behind it."

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Li Xuanling tossed and turned outside the tent for a long time, and finally waited for Li Jingtian. He exchanged tasks with the slave who delivered water, slowly carried the water to the large vat, and bumped into Li Jingtian's group at the right time.

Li Jingtian wore animal skins and jade stones, glanced lightly at Li Xuanling, who was carrying water clumsily, and suddenly said:

"Wait."

The few Shanyue tribal subordinates beside her smiled fawningly, listening to Li Jingtian say softly:

"Count him in."

Immediately, two Shanyue subordinates stepped forward and tied Li Xuanling up. Li Xuanling lowered his head and walked for a while, listening to the two smile:

"You living child are lucky. The Great Commander promised to give ten slaves to this little girl, you are the first."

Li Xuanling immediately understood that Li Jingtian had also found a way to communicate with him, so he followed them obediently.

After a simple wash, Li Xuanling was stuffed into Li Jingtian's tent. The Shanyue didn't care about etiquette. Li Xuanling was still wet and stepped on the mat, looking around, only to see Li Jingtian alone, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Jingtian put down the things in her hand, hurriedly stepped forward, and whispered in his ear:

"I found news about the Patriarch!"

It turned out that in these ten days, Li Xiangping had actually resisted many pursuit troops and reached the Shanyue hinterland to the west, appearing in various Shanyue villages, causing chaos in that area with the Shanyue refugees who had nowhere to go under his command.

Li Xuanling was stunned, raised his head in disbelief, and muttered:

"What is the Patriarch doing..."

He hurriedly shook his head and came back to his senses, and said in a low voice:

"Let's not worry about that for now! When the crescent moon is in the middle of the sky in the evening, I will go far away from the stockade to cut wood and find an opportunity to escape. When I return to the forest in the east, you will pretend to go to the toilet out of the tent, and I will kill the Shanyue attendants beside you and take you away."

Li Jingtian was stunned and answered in a low voice:

"Can it work? Be careful of the patrolling Shanyue."

"Don't worry!"

Li Xuanling nodded and said in a deep voice:

Li Jingtian thought for a few breaths, nodded hard, and asked in a low voice:

"What if a large number of soldiers are alarmed..."

Li Xuanling hesitated for a moment and stammered:

"Then I will put you down and go east, and I will go to lure them away."

Li Jingtian shook her head and said softly:

"If I am caught back, Mu Jiaoman won't do anything, but you have a spiritual aperture, which is much more important. You must not have anything happen."

Looking at Li Xuanling who lowered his head and said nothing, Li Jingtian opened her mouth and asked somewhat hesitantly:

"If that Mu Jiaoman comes to chase personally..."

"What if that Qi Refining general comes to chase?!"

Li Xuanling touched the magic mirror in his arms. He was not sure about the strength of Mu Jiaoman after eating a Taiyin Profound Light, and said in a deep voice:

"The Shanyue are my family's enemies, with loose hair and tattoos, wild and rude. If you and I fall into their hands, there will definitely be no good results! It's said that they will be molested and used to threaten the family."

Looking deeply at Li Jingtian, Li Xuanling gritted his teeth and said fiercely:

"If it really comes to that! I will kill you first and then commit suicide!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 96 =====