Chapter 863: Dark Moon and High Wind (Part )

At this moment, Liu Xunyi's face and body were splattered with blood, and the Wuji Sword emitted breathtaking cold white light under the reflection of the moonlight.

Looking up, he saw more than a dozen wounded guards lying in the yard, including captains from Tianji Pavilion and Bai Jin's followers.

Tulong and Tuhu, who were guarding outside the door, collapsed to the ground, their life or death unknown.

"Liu Xunyi!"

"Brother Liu..."

Upon seeing Liu Xunyi, Qin Wei and Bai Jin were stunned. Their quarrel came to an abrupt end, and a look of deep horror suddenly appeared in their eyes.

"Brother Liu, why are you..."

“Don’t call me brother!” Before the flustered Qin Wei could speak, Liu Xunyi’s eyes suddenly became fierce, and the Wuji Sword in his hand drew a silver arc from the air, and the cold sword pointed directly at the unprepared Qin Wei, and shouted, “I, Liu Xunyi, don’t have a brother like you who is ungrateful and heartless!”

"What's all the fuss about..."

Lan Qi, who was awakened by the noise, drew aside the bed curtain in a daze, and staggered out to find out what was going on, with a complaining tone in her voice.

"After searching everywhere for something, I finally found it without any effort! Liu Xunyi, you came just in time, prepare to die!"

"Bai Jin can't..."

Taking advantage of the moment when Liu Xunyi's attention was distracted by Lan Qi, Bai Jin, who was ready to strike, suddenly drew his sword from its sheath, completely ignoring Qin Wei's dissuasion. He stepped his right foot on the stool, and his body soared into the sky. He used a move "Splitting Huashan with Force" from top to bottom to directly hit Liu Xunyi's crown. It seemed that he wanted to split Liu Xunyi in half.

"Just because you want to kill me?"

When Bai Jin was almost successful, Liu Xunyi snorted coldly, and leaned back suddenly, allowing Bai Jin's steel knife to fall rapidly towards his forehead. The blade was only half an inch away from the tip of his nose, but it failed to hurt him at all.

Until Liu Xunyi's body was almost parallel to the ground, Bai Jin saw that he had no way to avoid it, and immediately showed ecstasy on his face. He grasped the knife with both hands, his strength suddenly doubled, and his speed increased by three times, and he chopped at Liu Xunyi's head with the force of thunder.

"boom!"

Unfortunately, although Bai Jin's sword was fast, it was still nothing in front of Liu Xunyi.

When the back of Liu Xunyi's head almost touched the ground, his right leg quickly rose up like a spring, and with a dull sound, he kicked Bai Jin's lower abdomen with great force, causing Bai Jin, who was falling continuously, to let out a miserable howl. Then his body flew backwards to the sky and hit the roof heavily, breaking a beam, and finally fell back to the ground along with broken wood debris, rubble and sand.

It sounds slow, but in fact, everything happened in a flash. Bai Jin, with blood oozing from his mouth and nose, was like a half-dead stray dog, curled up at Liu Xunyi's feet in embarrassment and pain.

"Liu Xunyi, you... cough cough... poof!"

Bai Jin, who still had a trace of consciousness, covered his abdomen with both hands, which was in great pain as if it was burning in fire. He glared at Liu Xunyi with a pair of bloodshot eyes. He wanted to curse, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he suddenly felt the blood churning in his chest, and then his throat felt sweet. A large mouthful of bright red blood gushed out of his mouth and nose impatiently. The curses were all drowned out by a gurgling sob.

"The Deputy Privy Councilor is cunning and has done all kinds of bad things. You are an accomplice to the evil and help the tyrant to commit atrocities. You are not a good person either." Liu Xunyi looked down at the barely alive Bai Jin, his tone cold and without any emotion, "Today, I will make you pay with blood!"

"Brother Liu, please don't..."

"puff!"

Before the panicked Qin Wei could shout to stop him, the Wuji sword suddenly came down and pierced Bai Jin's lower abdomen in an instant. The tip of the sword penetrated deeply into the ground with a "ding" sound, shattering the bluestone floor tiles under Bai Jin. Gradually, horrible cracks like spider webs spread around him.

This shows how decisive, cruel and ruthless Liu Xunyi's sword was.

"what!"

Lan Qi, who had just woken up from the chaos, never expected to see such a cruel and bloody scene as soon as she opened her eyes. She couldn't help but scream in fear, and then her eyes went black, her head tilted, and her body fell out from behind the bed curtain. A touch of beauty was looming under the messy bedding, but unfortunately the owner had fainted from fright and was unconscious. However, Liu Xunyi didn't care about the life and death of Bai Jin and Lan Qi at all. At this moment, there was only one person in his eyes, that is, Qin Wei, who stood in front of him blankly, with a dead heart and a pale face.

"Qin Wei...if you...don't make a move now, when will you..."

With his life hanging by a thread, Bai Jin endured the severe pain in his abdomen and the increasing weakness. He used up his last bit of strength and let out a trembling roar towards the stunned Qin Wei.

"what……"

Qin Wei, who had suddenly come to his senses, was already in a state of panic. After hearing Bai Jin's reminder, he had no time to think about right or wrong. He subconsciously ran to the bed and wanted to take the weapon under the pillow.

"Whoosh!"

However, before Qin Wei could take two steps, the furious Liu Xunyi suddenly kicked away the steel knife that Bai Jin had dropped beside him.

The knife was as powerful as a tiger and as swift as thunder. It flashed a dazzling silver light in the air, and then with a "bang" it pierced deeply into the wall, blocking Qin Wei's way.

"what!"

Qin Wei, feeling guilty, uttered another cry of surprise. Looking at the cold and sharp blade so close to him, he suddenly felt his heart stop beating, his throat tightened, and he could no longer muster any strength in his body.

He turned around tremblingly, and looked at Liu Xunyi with a look full of fear and dread. He wanted to say something, but his tongue was out of control and no matter how hard he tried, he still remained silent.

"why?"

Liu Xunyi's reaction towards Qin Wei was completely different from that towards Bai Jin. When attacking Bai Jin, he could be ruthless, even to the point of treating human life as worthless.

But facing a friend who had been with him through thick and thin for more than twenty years, the anger in Liu Xunyi's heart was ten or a hundred times greater than before, but his grief was a thousand or ten thousand times greater than his anger.

"why?"

Liu Xunyi stepped on the blood that kept flowing from Zibai Jin's body and slowly approached Qin Wei step by step. Tears gradually overflowed and the hand holding the sword trembled slightly uncontrollably.

"Why exactly?"

When Liu Xunyi arrived in front of Qin Wei, when the tip of his sword pointed directly at Qin Wei's brow, tears had completely blurred his vision, leaving him in a colorful trance... He vaguely saw the scenes of the two of them playing and fighting as children, and relying on each other.

"Why did you kill the Marquis?" Liu Xunyi was heartbroken, grief-stricken, "The Marquis saved our lives, raised us, taught us to read, taught us martial arts... Why did you repay kindness with hatred? Why did you betray the East Palace? And why did you poison the brothers of Tianji Pavilion?"

"I am the one who really wants to ask why!" When the sadness of the brothers' falling out gradually overshadowed the fear of death, facing the tearful Liu Xunyi, Qin Wei's uneasy heart was like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. In a mixture of shame and anger, he broke through the awkwardness and restraints, fearlessly stepped forward towards the sword of Liu Xunyi, and choked, "Why did you come back? Why didn't you run away with Zhao Xin? Why did you still remain devoted to the court even though you knew the emperor wanted to kill you? If you hadn't come back, nothing would have happened! If you hadn't come back, the end of the East Mansion and the Marquis wouldn't have been so miserable! If you hadn't come back, we brothers... wouldn't have been so irreconcilable tonight!"

"Nonsense!" Liu Xunyi said in a deep voice, "If I hadn't come back, how would I know that the Prime Minister was wrongly accused and the Marquis died in vain? How would I know that the trouble in the East Palace was caused by the West Palace? And how would I know... your despicable behavior?"

"What do their affairs have to do with you? When you were thrown into the prison by the emperor and wrongly convicted, did they care about your life or death? You keep saying that you like the free and unrestrained days in the martial arts world, that you are infatuated with Zhao Xin, and that you have nothing else to ask for... In this case, I risked my life to rescue you from the prison, tried every means to get you to participate in the wedding, and worked hard to do so many things, just to provide you and Zhao Xin with a chance to escape and live together. Why did you let me down?" Qin Wei was angry and his tone became more and more sad and angry. "Before you left Lin'an, I repeatedly advised you to seize the opportunity and never return to Lin'an. Why didn't you listen? If you were willing to listen to me, why would you be fooled by the Mongols? Why would you be used by the court? Why would you bear the eternal infamy? Why would you become their scapegoat?"

"It's not that I don't listen to you, but I can't listen to you!" Liu Xunyi said angrily, "If I take Zhao Xin away for my own selfish reasons, how will the court explain to Mongolia? Once the war breaks out, how will the millions of people in the Song Dynasty protect themselves? What's more, Zhao Xin... has never thought of running away with me..."

"That's how you are. You always think you are right and I am wrong!" Qin Wei seemed to be unable to suppress the depression in his heart any longer, and shouted angrily, "If you would listen to me and break up with Zhao Xin earlier, you wouldn't have caused so much trouble? You always worry about this and that, and seem to be thoughtful, but in fact you are just acting on impulse. You never see the cruelty of reality, never understand the meaning of 'knowing the times', never plan for yourself in the long run, and never know which is more important, the future or a woman... In Luoyang City, you almost gave up dealing with Luo Tianjin because of Luo Ningyu, and now in Lin'an City, you are willing to be an enemy of the emperor because of Zhao Xin. In the final analysis, it's all because of women. Liu Xunyi, haven't you suffered enough from women in your life? You are no longer a child, why don't you think about the cause and effect when encountering things? Don't consider the current situation, only recognize feelings, why are you so naive?"

"Because I'm not as heartless, cold-blooded and selfish as you!"

"I am heartless and ungrateful? I am cold-blooded and selfish?" Facing Liu Xunyi's scolding, Qin Wei laughed angrily, and a hint of ruthlessness suddenly flashed in his tearful eyes. "If I were heartless, why would I exchange my life for yours in front of Zhao Yuan? If I were selfish, why would I repeatedly beg Lord Qian to give you a chance to turn from evil to good? Anyone in the world can say that I am cold-blooded and heartless, but you, Liu Xunyi...you are not qualified to blame me!"

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(End of this chapter)