The sharp edge of a knife is difficult to cross;

Therefore, it is difficult for a wise man to speak the way to salvation.

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On this chaotic night, under the reflection of the fire, Li Xiuning and I looked at each other. Because we were going to see Shi Zhixuan tonight, we did not wear a mask, so we recognized it by her, but now is not the time to reminisce about the past.

"It's too dangerous here, come with me." I greeted Wan Jing.

At present, the integration work between the Yingui Sect and the Dongming Sect is still in the empty talk stage. Those from the Yingui Sect cannot recognize Wanjing. In case of conflict, it doesn’t matter if the Yingui Sect’s death or injury is done. What if Wanjing has any good or bad?

"Jingjing, I can't keep it here anymore, so let's follow him." Li Xiuning persuaded.

Wanjing glanced at me and nodded slightly, so I led the way in front, and behind him were Li Xiuning and her followers. Wanwan walked at the end. I was surprised that Miss Wanwan would do this. Shouldn’t she go to trouble Song Que?

After eighteen years of change, Duzun Castle has undergone great changes, but the overall framework is still there. In the few days when the two children disappeared eighteen years ago, I pretended to help and searched Duzun Castle with the servants of the Jie family, so I knew there were some secret paths here.

Under my leadership, we came to a cave entrance, which was the drain inside Duzun Castle. After that, it was called a sewer. It is connected to the Fort Guard River outside Duzun Castle, and it can be connected to the outside of Duzun Castle from here. Some people suspected that the two children were taken away from here.

The cave was dark and humid, with a small space, not as wide as the urban sewer of later generations. It was even darker in the night. We went down into the cave and groped forward. Before we could walk far forward, Wanwan stopped us and listened. Sure enough, a faint sound came out from the depths of the cave.

There are actually other people here.

We walked in gently. After turning a few turns, a fire came out, and the sound gradually became clear, which was a quarrel between a man and a woman.

"Do you let it go?" the man said ruthlessly, "I have tens of thousands of people outside the city. As long as I go and report the message, I can break the siege in the fort. I want to tear the evil men of the Sichuan Gang Ba League to pieces."

"You don't understand yet, it's too late." The woman whispered, "Uncle Lu is already in charge outside the city. All your Jie family's direct descendants have been captured. You are just in vain now."

"You're talking nonsense!" the man said angrily, "I just came back from outside the city this morning..."

"Are you going to the camp outside the city to prepare to deal with my dad at night?" the woman sighed.

"How do you know?" the man said in horror.

"Who do you think you can hide all this? Your father and Xi Ying were defeated in duel, so that my father would go out to Lingnan and Xi Ying to duel. Do you dare to say that you don't know that the people from the Sichuan Gang and the Ba League will come in tonight?" the woman asked, "Not only do you not stop it, you also hope that they will enter Duzun Castle, so that you can take advantage of the chaos to deal with my father and then blame the people from the Sichuan Gang and the Ba League, and then regain control of everything in Bashu under the banner of avenging my father. There is no arrangement for duty in the castle tonight. This is why the Sichuan Gang and the Ba League can attack so quickly."

"I understand. It turns out that you also want to take this opportunity to remove my Jie family. It seems that the camp outside the city has really been taken over by you. Now the Duzun Castle is over, and your purpose has been achieved. Tomorrow you can enter Bashu under the banner of avenging the Jie family. You no longer need the Jie family's chess piece." The man said sadly and angrily, "You Song family are so cruel!"

"This can only be blamed on your father. The Song and Jie families had a good cooperation, but your father was determined to favor Li Tang. This is something that the Song family could never allow. The position of Bashu is too important. Once Li Tang masters Bashu, he can directly threaten Lingnan." The woman analyzed, "It was your father who forced us to do this."

"Our Jie family just doesn't want to be merciless by you anymore. No family wants to be a puppet forever. It's a puppet that has been ruined by you for so many years." The man accused, "Since the Song Jie family joined forces to reorganize the Bashu structure 18 years ago, I should have thought that there would be such a day."

"All this is for the overall situation. As long as you don't do anything stupid, you will be the Lord of the Castle after tonight. The whole Bashu will belong to you. The Sichuan Gang and the Basong are just clowns." The woman persuaded.

"Haha, the Jie family is also a clown in your eyes, right?" the man laughed wildly, "Eighteen years ago, you tricked me into Phoenix Mountain to wait for death. Eighteen years later, you still want to cheat me in this cave, regardless of my father's life and death, just to become your puppet again."

"All this is fate." The woman sighed, "Eighteen years ago, someone told me a lot of stories, telling me that fate must be in my own hands. At that time, I didn't want to be the tool for the marriage between the two families of Song Jie, so I tricked you to Fenghuang Mountain and just wanted to drag you to the engagement ceremony. If you didn't show up, the marriage would naturally be cancelled. I didn't want you to die, and I secretly sent you a lot of food. Once when I was delivering food to you, they found that I was gone, so I had to pretend to be missing. All this was just to escape the shackles of fate. But in the cave of Fenghuang Mountain, I figured it out that even if I escaped this time, there would be a next time. This is the fate of a family, it's mine, and it's yours. We will never be able to break free from the ties of fate by being tied to the family."

"I don't believe in the so-called fate. I want to save my father. I want to kill all of you..." the man shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Listen to me, as long as you have to endure tonight, you can still save your life. Our couple in the past few years..."

"Haha, husband and wife? It's so funny!" the man laughed, "We have been in name only for the past few years. You don't care about me being free and care about what you do. Everything is just pretending to be in front of outsiders! You just want me to save my life and continue to be your puppet of the Song family. You don't want to come forward directly, don't want other forces to fear you, and want to wait for the right time to unify the world."

"I said this is the fate of our being in the Valve, and everything is for the benefit of the family." The woman insisted, "If you die, the Jie clan will die, and there will be no such family in this world."

"The Jie clan..." the man shouted in pain, "Is it wrong for us to make decisions on our own? Are we destined to be someone else's puppets? Is God really going to destroy the Jie clan?"

"Even if you defect to Li Tang, you will only change to another boss. I know that the Li family promised your father the right to govern Bashu. It was just a trick to win over you. Once Li Tang gained the world, the Jie family will be eliminated by the first one unless you give up Bashu." The woman said calmly, "This is politics."

"I don't care. I don't want to continue being a puppet. I want to go back to save my father. Even if I die, I will die together." The man said firmly.

"Why are you doing this? We are all poor people at the mercy of fate." The woman said sadly.

"I don't want to see you hypocritical. We have been ruthless for the past three or four years. Now we seem to be a real couple. I hate you for pity for me, just like waiting for you to deliver food to me eighteen years ago in that cave. Your eyes were the same as now. I don't need you to pity me..." The man roared, "Get out of here, I want to go back, I'm going to die."

"Although you and I have no feelings for you and I have taken care of a lot in the past few years. This is the reason why I am alone tonight. If you are allowed to leave the city, you will die in the camp. If you are allowed to stay in the fort, you will die in the hands of the Sichuan Gang and the Ba League. As long as you wait for dawn here, everything will return to peace, and it will not be in vain for us to get along with each other." The woman said softly.

"Hmph, I won't be fooled by you. Do you think I'm still an ignorant child eighteen years ago? Get out of here..." the man yelled.

Then there was the sound of a fight, and then I heard footsteps coming towards us. The cave was narrow and we had no choice but to retreat. The person coming towards me quickly came towards me, and then I was pushed forward by the person behind me...

"puff!"

I felt that the knife I picked up in the fort just now seemed to be stuck on something, and liquid splashed on my face. I just subconsciously raised the knife just now, and I really didn't want to kill someone.

"Yuhua, beware of an ambush!" the man in front of me shouted in pain.

A fire broke out not far away, and a woman walked towards her with a torch, looking at the scene in front of her in horror. It was Song Yuhua.

"I really didn't mean it. He rushed over like this. It's so narrow here, and there were someone just now..." I explained in a hurry.

When I turned around, I saw Wanwan, who was covered with a veil behind me, was looking at me coldly.

"This may be his life." Song Yuhua said sadly as Xie Wenlong was lying on the ground and died.

"We, we are ready to escape from here." I said cowardly.

"You should leave Chengdu quickly!" Song Yuhua said in a low voice, "Tomorrow, the Han family will conduct a comprehensive investigation of the forces of Bashu, and the forces of the Demon Sect are the first to be affected. Princess Xiuning please take care of it. The Han family has no intention of conflicting with Li Tang at present. I don't blame you for the matter of Dashi Temple. Everyone is just chess pieces on the chessboard."

"Thank you, Sister Yuhua, for not grudges before. Xiuning is very grateful." Li Xiuning said thanking with her fists.

We intersected in this small cave.

"Fate can be controlled by oneself." At the last moment, I said softly to Song Yuhua.

"You lied to me like this eighteen years ago, and you still lied to me eighteen years later." Song Yuhua smiled bitterly, "How many more years can you do it again?"

"I……"

"You go quickly, you won't be able to leave when dawn." Song Yuhua urged, "You don't have the colorful phoenix flying wings, and you have a little understanding of each other. I always remember what you say."

Not long after, we walked out of the cave, and were on the periphery of Duzun Castle, looking back at Duzun Castle with the fires soaring into the sky. The fighting sounded dimmed. The Jie clan, who had led Bashu for decades, became history in this raging fire, and tomorrow is a new day!

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