Tuoba Xiong groaned in pain and wanted to stand up again to do something, but the trembling caused by the severe pain made him unable to even move the slightest. How could he stand up and kill a grandmaster who couldn't even get close to him?
He could only cast his gaze towards Yan Xiaoyi, who was silent and still thinking.

"General Yan! You must not trust him!"

He tried his best to calm his heavy breathing and soothe his heaving chest, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Mr. Li from your country promised me that he would help me kill Yelu Xuan!"

Looking at Tuoba Xiong on the ground, who was no longer the majestic figure but a murderous beast, Yan Xiaoyi came to his senses.

Although the focus in those bright eyes did not change much, there were now two more traces of anger: "How the gentleman will deal with it is not yours to interfere or hinder! He will naturally do what he promised you, but what have you paid for it? When you pay the reward first, you can accuse the gentleman with the face of an innocent person!"

Although he understood what Yan Xiaoyi meant, Tuoba Xiong was still furious.

In desperation, he could only cast his gaze towards Yelu Xuan, and prayed in his heart that this demon would go to Northern Qi and die under Li An's sword: "Yelu Xuan, I will kill you! Why don't you die?"

"hehe!"

Yelu Xuan seemed to have heard the most beautiful music in the world, and he even narrowed his eyes slightly to enjoy it.

His heart was as cold as his alien qi.

Over the years, he knew his apprentice too well, but precisely because he was interesting, he would train him unreservedly. He did take away his tribe and his relatives, but he paid an equal price - that is, the entire Xihu!
"I am going to go north now. The future of the Xihu Kingdom will be decided by you!"

"Perhaps you agreed to exchange the Xihu Kingdom for my life. It's up to you. I have done everything I should do."

"After that, we will go to see the secrets hidden behind this world!"

"Hahaha!"

"Young Yan, let's get going! It would be good to send Master Ku He's body back home soon, right?"

Yan Xiaoyi silently 'woke up' from his state of meditation to recover his true energy, and silently walked towards the open space where Yelu Xuan was.
He didn't think of escaping.

First, Ku He's body was still here, and he would not be able to cross this Gobi grassland with him.

Secondly, Yelu Xuan would not agree.

Even if the other party's legs were seriously injured, he was still a grandmaster. If he really didn't want me to leave, I might not be able to leave.

Without taking any futile defensive actions, he just led two horses and came straight to Yelu Xuan, lifted him onto the horse's back, then turned around and came to Ku He and collected the other's body.

After everything was settled, Yan Xiaoyi exerted force with his arms and put Ku He onto the back of another horse and tied him up with a rope. Surprisingly, Ku He seemed very light, as if he weighed only seventy or eighty kilograms.

It seems that even the Grandmaster cannot resist the silent invasion of time.
"It's a bit regrettable." Yan Xiaoyi said calmly, as if sighing, "In the end, I couldn't die on the battlefield."

"Ha ha!"

Yelu Xuan shook his head, adjusted his posture on horseback, slowly applied the golden medicine, looked at the sand slowly rising from the plain in the distance, and said softly: "You ruined the 'big plan' of the Western Hu, and I have also changed Li An's plan for the Northern Qi. Now I am not only alive, but I have to go to the Northern Qi to meet him."

"As long as I am alive, there will be changes in this Xihu!"

Yan Xiaoyi stared at him and said coldly: "What exactly is your intention? In my opinion, there is a high possibility that you will die when you go to Northern Qi. Even if Mr. Li is lucky enough not to kill you, he will not let you go free. By then, you will just die slowly in the wrong place and at the wrong time."

"Do you see my legs?"

With a chuckle, Yelu Xuan revealed his legs, which were covered with wound medicine and felt frozen, from under his robe. "These legs can no longer recover. The little things that Ku He brought to kill me were really overbearing. Even though I used my true energy to resist them, they still made my legs incomplete. I'm afraid I won't be able to stand up in the future!" "But it is precisely because of this that I can let go of the burden in my heart and free myself from the cage of Xihu."

"In my opinion, I will never be able to return to Xihu after going to Northern Qi. This is indeed the wrong time and the wrong place!"

"But who knows, this mistake won't turn into the right time and the right place?"

Ignoring Yelu Xuan's crazy talk, Yan Xiaoyi climbed onto his horse, checked on Master Ku He who was sleeping with his eyes closed beside him, gently turned the horse's head, and with a kick of the horse's belly, he found the right direction and started forward.

Behind him, Yelu Xuan followed closely.
Soon, the two horses and three people gradually disappeared in the wind and sand.
The tiny figure moved slowly across the vast sky and earth. Two horses strolled leisurely on the grass. As they went further northeast, the green on the ground became more and more intense.

Twelve days later.

Near the border of Northern Qi, the last possible place for an ambush, Yelu Xuan still did not wait for Tuoba Xiong's pursuit and ambush. This was the best proof that the other party had compromised.

This puts the choice back in Ang Lee's hands.

After crossing the foggy river, you will enter the territory of Northern Qi.

From a distance, Yan Xiaoyi saw the Northern Qi border troops. The two figures among them looked like Li An's disciple Hong Kaijia and his own son, Yan Shendu!
"Swallow Boy"

A good horse understands human nature.

The sudden sound caused the two horses to slow down.

Yan Xiaoyi frowned and turned his head silently, thinking that they had already reached the border, did Yelu Xuan want to go back on his word and change his mind?
"Do you remember the blindfolded master behind the little Fan Shixian during the battle at Dadong Mountain?"

"No need to remember, I know who that person is."

"That's good, I can save some time talking." Yelu Xuan looked at the grassland behind him and said softly, "That person is recorded in the Western Hu's books as a member of the temple!"

"You call them messengers, or people with heavenly veins, etc. It's not much different to ordinary people in the world."

"Legend has it that every several hundred years, a Heavenly Vein awakens. Although this title sounds solemn and sacred, in fact, from my understanding, they are just walking among the people on behalf of the temple, spreading the seeds of knowledge and faith."

"But why is it that Xihu has no part in this initiative that should benefit the whole world?"

"Are we barbaric?"

"Yes and no."

"Logically speaking, a place like this is far inferior to Northern Qi and Southern Qing. Shouldn't it deserve more help? Why is the temple always keeping its eyes on the two countries ahead?"

“This problem has troubled me for a long time!”

Yan Xiaoyi remained silent, just listening to the great master in front of him speaking as if he was venting his feelings.
“I didn’t understand it until now!”

"The temple has changed. It no longer spreads the light of wisdom. It has become dilapidated."

“He began to fear this from the world.”

"Power!" (End of this chapter)