Chapter 572
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“You, are you the little follower beside Li Ling back then？”
Hearing Chu Zhaoyuan’s words, the old man slowly turned his head, and a pair of somewhat turbid eyes looked at Chu Zhaoyuan without any emotion in his gaze.
This Zhu Huai was at least nine feet tall, with gray hair, and the snow-white beard on his chin grew all the way to his chest, like a nib that had not yet been dipped in ink.
Although his face was thin and the flesh on his body had become loose, just by that skeleton alone he still gave people a soul-stirring momentum.
“I didn’t expect that General Zhu still remembers me.”
Chu Zhaoyuan looked honored when he heard this.
Actually, apart from seeing each other once in the prison when he was young, Chu Zhaoyuan and the old man had never met again.
This was the second time the two met.
“Naturally, I remember.”
“He clamored for your father and Li Ling to release me and asked me to be a general of your Great Chu. Later, he often sent people to deliver food and wine to me, and it lasted for sixty years. He is an interesting little guy.”
The old man said to himself while looking Chu Zhaoyuan up and down.
“I didn’t expect that the brat who smelled of milk back then is even older than when Li Ling saw me for the last time.”
Zhu Huai was very emotional.
When the King of Zhao heard this, he grinned.
At this moment, his smile was not like that of a father or a monarch, but more like that of a vigorous young man.
“Not too old either.”
After seeing this smile, Zhu Huai nodded indifferently.
“Boom！”
Just at this moment, the Blood Demon Patriarch, the First Seat Zhenwu, and Zhenye simultaneously launched killing moves at Zhu Huai who had his back to them.
In an instant, the surging breath fluctuations seemed to tear apart this world.
But the King of Zhao, Chu Die, who were blocked in the front of Zhu Huai were not affected at all. They only felt that this area was like a peaceful harbor in a storm.
And Zhu Huai never looked back even once.
Just at the moment when that strike was about to come, he suddenly, as if stretching his muscles and bones, violently spread his arms backward.
“Boom！ ……”
To everyone’s surprise, after a simple chest expansion movement, Zhu Huai’s originally shriveled skin and flesh suddenly swelled up in an instant. On his broad back like that of a bear demon, a face outlined by muscle lines, like that of an evil spirit, suddenly appeared.
At the same time, a fluctuation of breath caused by pure qi and blood power suddenly exploded.
“Bang！”
At this time, the combined strike of the three demons heavily bombarded Zhu Huai’s back.
But the result was only that the prison uniform on Zhu Huai was shattered, completely revealing the muscle lines on his back that resembled a ghost face. Besides that, not even his skin and flesh were injured.
Instead, because of the huge rebound force, the figures of the three demons all flew backward several zhang.
Seeing this scene, the monk of Banruo Temple had a face as if petrified, frozen there.
“What an astonishing physique？”
After a long while, he murmured in a low voice.
As a martial monk who also pays attention to tempering his physique, he knows very well how much effort and what kind of inhuman it takes to temper out the physique of General Zhu Huai.
The Princess Chu Die, who was being supported by King Zhao, also finally understood why her father was willing to bet his own life and the country on this person in the front of her after seeing this scene.
However, after blocking this blow, Zhu Huai’s expression on his face remained as calm as before, as if he had just casually swatted away a fly.
He still didn’t turn his head to look at the Blood Demon Old Ancestor and the two chief abbots of Fire Cloud Temple but while stretching his muscles and bones, he asked King Zhao curiously:
“Why do you think that I will make a move for you, the King of Chu？”
Upon hearing this, King Zhao shook his head and then smiled and said：
“Ever since I first saw General Zhu, I knew that you, General Zhu, would not be used by our Great Chu.”
Upon hearing this, Zhu Huai’s brows furrowed slightly, and then he said coldly：
“Since you know, why did you still dare to set up this game？”
King Zhao looked at Zhu Huai calmly and said：
“Because I know that the Martial God Zhu Huai, who once voluntarily imprisoned himself in the Underworld Prison for thirty thousand defeated soldiers, will never abandon the common people on this land that was once part of the Great Xia.”
“And you also know very well that if I die today, there will definitely be a great chaos in the State of Chu, and thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of common people will be displaced and death in other places.
Hearing this, Zhu Huai asked with a cold face：
“So, you are using the lives of these common people to blackmail me？”
Upon hearing this, King Zhao nodded without any defended and said:
”Yes.”
The magnanimity of King Zhao made the anger on Zhu Huai’s face subside a little.
”I can make a move once, but I won’t be the martial god of the Chu Kingdom, and even less will I fight for your Chu royal family.”
While speaking, Zhu Huai turned around, facing the Blood Demon Patriarch and the two demon monks who were attacking him again.
And just as he was about to make a move, he suddenly heard King Zhao behind him say：
”Old Zhu, look down.”
Hearing this, Zhu Huai raised his eyes and looked down at the Star-Picking Terrace.
Under the dim sky, it could be faintly seen that the lights in each household in the capital were lit up, and there were wisps of cooking smoke rising.
After hundreds of years, Zhu Huai saw the lights of thousands of families again.
His turbid and the dark pupils suddenly came alive again at this moment.
In his mind, he recalled again the promise he made to his father when he took over the Nanming Li Fire Spear： “Father, my son swears to the sky that the Nanming Li Fire Spear in my son’s hand will not fight for the powerful, not for the feudal lords, not for the royal power, but only for the common people of Daxia！”
And at this time, the voice of King Zhao sounded again：
”Old Zhu, I asked you out not to force you to be the martial god of my Great Chu, nor to make you swear allegiance to my Chu royal family. I want to ask you to become the martial god of all the human people on this land, to fight for the lights of thousands of families, to fight to end the war that has raged in Youyun Heaven for thousands of years, and to fight to expel the demons from Jiuyuan！”
Hearing these words, the almost numb heartstrings of Zhu Huai was finally touched.
I saw him raise his arm, open his palm, and said without looking back：
”Give me the Lihuo Token！”
King Zhao was overjoyed and immediately took out a token that had been prepared from his sleeve and handed it to Zhu Huai.
This Lihuo Token is both a token to control the Lihuo Formation and a token to unlock the seal of the Lihuo Spear.
Zhu Huai’s willingness to accept this thing is equivalent to accepting the recruitment. How could King Zhao not be happy？
And at this moment, I only heard the abbot Jingkong of Huoyun Temple, who was fighting with the Yellow Old Daoist outside the imperial city not far away, suddenly shouted： “Zhenwu, Zhenye, catch！”
”Whoosh！”
Almost at the same time as Jingkong’s voice sounded, two black lights flashed blood flew down from the clouds and hit Zhenwu and Zhenye precisely.
After Zhenwu and Zhenye felt the power contained in the two black lights, they both showed ecstatic expressions.
Then, I heard the abbot Jingkong say again：
“Blood Demon Patriarch, this Zhu Huai has been trapped in the Forgotten River Prison for hundreds of years. His qi and blood have dried up, and his muscles and bones have become old. You and my two disciples join forces in one strike, and surely we can kill him！”
“After the matter is done, Huoyun Temple can share your Chu State’s fortune for a hundred years!”
Hearing this, the Blood Demon Patriarch’s spirit was lifted. It had originally been a bit hesitant, but now it once again circulated all the mana in its body, preparing to build up momentum and deliver a fatal blow to Zhu Huai.
And after hearing this, Zhu Huai burst into wild laughter and said：
“Jingkong the bald donkey, you said that my qi and blood have dried up and my muscles and bones have become old？ Even if I’m so old that I only have one last breath left, you demons, don’t even think about making trouble on the land of my Great Xia！”
After saying these words, he suddenly forcefully crushed the Lihuo Token in his hand with one hand, and with the other hand, he raised it high and shouted angrily：
“Spear come！！！”
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Today there can only be three chapters. I had something urgent to go out for a while in the evening. I owe one chapter first and will update five chapters tomorrow.
