Chapter 1032: Dragon Slaying Knife
Chapter 1032 Dragon Slaying Knife
Chapter 1030: Dragon Slaying Knife
Luoyang, Qinhou Mansion, Qin Hao's study.
“Is this the dragon-slaying knife?”
Qin Hao carefully played with the sword in his hand, then smiled and said to the beautiful woman in front of him: "Xiuning, you are not trying to deceive me with fakes, are you?"
Seeing that Qin Hao actually doubted himself, Li Xiuning flashed a trace of anger in his eyes and snorted coldly: "Humph, it can't be fake if it's true, and it can't be true if it's false. You can go and test it at will!"
Qin Hao looked at Xiu Ning teasingly, and after a few seconds he smiled and said, "I'm just kidding you, I know it's true."
Li Xiuning felt powerless when she saw this. This feeling of wanting to get angry but not being able to do so was really frustrating!
At first, Dong Zhuo sent Li Xiuning as an envoy to Luoyang to negotiate with Qin Hao, and negotiated to use the remaining three counties of Sizhou in exchange for Li Shimin. However, the negotiations broke down because both Qin and Liang armies increased their troops, but Li Xiuning, as an envoy, did not leave.
Li Xiuning has been trying to rescue her brother Li Shimin since he was captured alive. However, because she has no idea where Li Shimin is being held, and the power she controls is not strong enough, forced rescue is simply not feasible. It is possible to rescue people only through negotiation.
Li Xiuning tried to contact the Taoist family, hoping to get Taoist support to use Taoist power to exert pressure on Qin Hao. However, due to the death of Guangchengzi, the relationship between the Taoist family and Baijia became increasingly tense, and they had no time to help Li Xiuning. .
Since the emergence of the first great master, there has never been a precedent for someone to die in battle. However, the Taoist school has now lost two great masters, Zhang Daoling and Guang Chengzi. The leader of Shushan, Dugu Yuyun, has also disappeared after the fall of Luoyang. He has also disappeared to this day. Don't know whether to live or die.
Each great master is precious, not to mention that Taoism has lost three in a row, which naturally makes the Taoism’s top leaders extremely angry.
The relationship between hundreds of schools is extremely tense now, and a life-and-death war may break out at any time, so the Taoists naturally have no spare power to save Li Shimin.
Li Xiuning had a hard time with Taoism, but she did not give up. Instead, she approached her second grandfather, Taoist Taiqing.
But the unfathomable second grandfather just said "I know" without saltiness, and then stopped talking to Li Xiuning. This also made her seriously doubt whether Taojia had given up on his second brother.
Just when Li Xiuning was at his wits' end about the rescue, he learned that Dong Zhuo had decided to exchange the land of three counties for his brother, and this moved Li Xiuning for a while.
After that, Li Xiuning went to Luoyang alone to negotiate with Qin Hao, but ultimately failed due to various reasons, which made Li Xiuning feel extremely disappointed.
Without the land of the three counties as a bargaining chip, the only thing in Li Xiuning's hand that might make Qin Hao's heart beat is the dragon-slaying sword, one of the keys to Tiangong's treasure.
Li Xiuning knew that the second brother also valued the Tiangong treasure very much, but Luoyang had been completely occupied by Qin Hao, and the second brother had no chance to get the Tiangong treasure, so he might as well trade the key for his life.
The huge wealth contained in Tiangong's treasure is worth more than the three counties of Sizhou. No prince in the world does not want to get it.
But after all, Li Xiuning only has one key in her hand, and she still doesn’t know the specific location of the treasure, so she is not sure whether the value of a key can be used to exchange for her second brother.
But this is already Li Xiuning's last hope, so she must try it no matter whether it succeeds or not. What Li Xiuning didn't know was that due to the asymmetry of information, she had missed the best opportunity to rescue Li Shimin.
Before the allied forces of the princes retreated, if Li Xiuning could know the location of the treasure, he might be able to use coercion and inducement to do so. Maybe he could force Qin Hao to let Li Shimin go.
Although Li Xiuning placed all her hope of getting Li Shimin back on the key to the treasure, she would not stupidly take the key to find Qin Hao to replace him.
After a series of negotiations, Li Xiuning discovered that although Qin Hao was very interested in the key, he felt that a key was not important enough to exchange for Li Shimin, so he decisively rejected her deal to exchange the key for someone else.
Qin Hao wanted to get two keys at once, but Li Xiuning really only had one in his hand. Li Xiuning could only try to **** the second key after trying to persuade her to no avail.
The dragon-slaying knife in Li Xiuning's hand was obtained from the thief **** Ji Wuming, and Ji Wuming was good friends with the thief saint Bai Zhantang, and the two often committed crimes together.
Therefore, Li Xiuning judged that the possibility of Yitian Sword being in Bai Zhantang's hands was extremely high, so he mobilized all the forces of bad guys to hunt down the thief Bai Zhantang.
Bai Zhantang's strength is not very strong, but his ability to escape and counter-reconnaissance is unparalleled in the world. The clues that the unscrupulous people caught after him were quickly cut off, and no trace of Bai Zhantang could be found.
Li Xiuning's plan to hunt down Bai Zhantang has reached a deadlock again. But Bai Zhantang can't be found, and the Yitian Sword cannot be retrieved, nor can he get his second brother Li Shimin back. This also makes Li Xiuning feel a little desperate.
Time flies so fast. While Li Xiuning was chasing Bai Zhantang, a series of major events occurred, such as Dong Zhuo's death, the withdrawal of the Liang army, and the southward movement of the Allied forces.
Li Xiuning was in charge of the bad guys and part of the Liang Guards, so he could naturally get the news of Dong Zhuo's death as soon as possible. When he learned that Yang Jian had unified the Liang army and returned to Guanzhong, Li Xiuning's first thought was that Yang Jian wanted to seize power.
After Yang Jian united Sizhou Liang's army, the strength he controlled has undoubtedly surpassed that of the Li family. If he returns to Guanzhong at this time, it will be difficult to compete with Yang Jian with the power of his father Li Yuan.
As soon as he thought about this, Li Xiuning became more and more impatient to rescue Li Shimin. After all, Li Shimin was not only Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, but also Dong Zhuo's designated successor. Once he returned, he would definitely gain the support of all the Liang generals, and then the strength of the Li family would also increase. The Yang family will once again surpass Yang Jian.
But at this moment, Qin Hao came to Li Xiuning and said that since the Qin army could only obtain Sizhou through war, it would be useless to keep Li Shimin, so he decided to execute Li Shimin.
Qin Hao's words frightened Li Xiuning. Now she was no longer thinking about rescuing Li Shimin, but how to prevent Qin Hao from killing her second brother and temporarily save her second brother's life.
Li Xiuning reached an agreement with Qin Hao out of necessity. She asked Qin Hao not to kill Li Shimin for the time being on the condition of offering the dragon-slaying knife. After she found and presented the Yitian Sword, Qin Hao released Li Shimin.
Li Xiuning knew that this agreement had no binding force on Qin Hao. If Qin Hao didn't want to abide by it, she had no choice but to trust Qin Hao's credibility and character, so she finally handed over the dragon-slaying knife. .
(End of this chapter)