Xuanxia

Chapter 1104 Zhao Hao's Will

"Blood Sea Robe?"

After hearing Fu Qingzhou's answer, the smoker was a little confused.

His expression instantly became very strange, and he scratched his hair with one claw, his face full of disbelief.

This look surprised Fu Qingzhou a little.

"What's wrong old man?"

He extended his hand to the smoker: "Are you okay..."

"Don't touch me!" The smoker suddenly growled, "You...let me think about it!"

Fu Qingzhou was indeed a little stunned.

what happened?
In the previous account of the Smoker, there was no mention of his relationship with the Blood Sea Robe Technique? And when he was fighting with Huijue of the Golden Cicada Temple, the Smoker didn't notice anything either?
"I'm fine, I just...thought of...something..."

The smoker murmured, "You, let me think about it myself."

Having said this, Fu Qingzhou had no choice.

But after saying this, the smoker showed no intention of leaving. He just sat there, lost in thought.

The scene was quite awkward. Fu Qingzhou felt very uncomfortable staying here. Helplessly, he could only sigh, climb down from the bed resentfully, and walk out of the house, dragging his still tired and weak body.

Unexpectedly, when the door opened, I saw Zhao Hao leaning against the wall outside the door.

"Hey, are you out?"

Zhao Hao saw him and his eyes lit up: "Such a serious injury, how can you recover so quickly?"

"I haven't fully recovered yet." Fu Qingzhou smiled weakly: "But I want to go out for a walk."

"Then let's go for a walk."

Zhao Hao shrugged.

The two walked side by side on the streets of Anqiu City - the town that had been surrounded by ghost arrays and therefore completely plunged into gloom and sadness was slowly recovering its vitality.

Naturally, those shops did not resume business so quickly, but many people had already walked out of their houses, basking in the sun almost greedily. When they saw the Northern Frontier Army passing by, there was still fear and vigilance on their faces, but when they saw that these soldiers ignored them, they finally basked in the sun with peace of mind.

"I've been to this city before."

Zhao Hao said leisurely: "This place is rich in jade. There is a jade mine more than 30 miles outside the city. There is a jade street in Anqiu City. When I was twelve or thirteen years old, I came here to gamble on jade. It was very interesting."

"When I first came here, I did not hide my identity. The jade merchants knew that I was the prince of Xishuo. Although the raw stones they sold to me looked not good, their value increased after they were cut. I once really thought that I was born to play with jade..."

"Then a friend of mine said, why don't you try hiding your identity?"

At this point, Zhao Hao started laughing first.

Fu Qingzhou also laughed: "How much money was cheated?"

"Three months' worth of food confinement."

Zhao Hao said helplessly: "After that, I will never gamble on stones again."

Fu Qingzhou burst into laughter.

After laughing, he slightly restrained his smile and said with a curled mouth: "The former King of Xishuo was indeed loved by the people of Xishuo."

"Why don't you tell me, are those people afraid of me or my father? Or are they trying to flatter us?" Zhao Hao raised his eyebrows.

"Do you remember the names, identities, and even the names of the shops of those jade merchants?" Fu Qingzhou asked back.

Zhao Hao was stunned.

"You were still young at that time. Even if you disguised yourself, if you always went to familiar stores, people would probably recognize you..."

Fu Qingzhou said softly, "No one recognized you later, which can only mean that you are playing with jade and never pick jade merchants. If those people were really afraid of you and wanted to flatter you, how could they not recognize you when you came as a prince? I'm afraid that the people around you will always be the most powerful jade merchants in the city. At least, they have to let you know that they are afraid of you and respect you."

"Once you come here with your identity concealed, those people will notice it. Even if they don't do it as obviously as before, they can't treat you as an ordinary guest. They still have to give you face. Otherwise, what will happen if you get angry and punish them?"

He smiled and said, "There is only one reason I can think of - after all the jade merchants here knew that you were the prince, they sold the good raw stones to you out of love, as a kind of return to King Xishuo." Zhao Hao was silent for a moment.

"you're right."

He said: "In the past, my father was deeply loved."

"But now, he doesn't care about the people of Anqiu City at all. The ghost cultivators he sent out surrounded the city with a ghost formation... If you don't come and we can't break the formation, then the people in the city will definitely die before all the Northern Frontier soldiers are killed."

Zhao Hao raised his head, squinted his eyes and looked at the sun in the sky, and sighed: "He is no longer the father he used to be."

Fu Qingzhou looked at his profile and said slowly: "There is something I need to tell you."

Zhao Hao tilted his head in confusion.

"The technique that the 'lord' practices is a technique called Yin Sheng Ni Liu Da Fa, which is a castrated version of the Styx Nine Turns."

Fu Qingzhou said softly: "It has a characteristic, which is that it can implant certain thoughts deep in the soul of others, turning them into its puppets and tools."

Zhao Hao's pupils shrank!
"I'm afraid the real Xishuo King Zhao Liang has been controlled."

Fu Qingzhou said: "It's not that he has changed, but someone has forced him to change."

Zhao Hao's breathing became rapid.

After a brief shock, he asked the most important question: "Can he change back?"

"do not know."

Fu Qingzhou's answer was also very simple: "I am also looking for this answer."

Zhao Hao let out a light breath.

He suddenly stopped and looked towards a restaurant on the street.

"Don't look, the door is closed." Fu Qingzhou said with a smile, "If you want to drink, come back later."

"I don't want to drink."

Zhao Hao chuckled and said, "I just suddenly wanted to get something to eat."

"Want to eat?" Fu Qingzhou raised his eyebrows.

"No."

Zhao Hao still smiled: "You know what? Not long ago, I met my father once, and he seemed a little crazy..."

Fu Qingzhou blinked.

A bit crazy? That was probably after leaving the Styx Valley...

"That time, he seemed very obsessed with eating."

Zhao Hao continued, "I don't know if he was injured and wanted to replenish his blood, but when he was hungry, I felt that he was more like the father in my memory."

He started talking in a rambling manner, and Fu Qingzhou stopped talking and just accompanied him as they wandered aimlessly on the street.

Zhao Hao said a lot.

He wanted to save his father, to have another meal with him, to make his father wake up...

But for some reason, after listening to these words, Fu Qingzhou could only feel one thing.

Zhao Hao...has lost all hope for this.

All his hopes for the future will come to an end after this conversation today.

The future in today's chat has already been experienced and realized in his mouth.

So in the future, they will face...

That's the reality.

(End of this chapter)