The Emperor Reigns Them All

"It's a pity that the most powerful person is dead. He can prove that Wei Baoheng asked people to murder me." Li Ye returned to the shore, touched his chin and looked at the corpse in front of him, feeling regrettable.

The corpse was Chen Jianghe. When he fell to the river, Li Ye salvaged him so that he hadn't been washed away by the river. Chen Jianghe had died, which was a loss to Li Ye. But at that time he was in a fierce battle and could not think about too much.

However, the corpse was also useful. After all, Chen Jianghe was Wei Baoheng's one of the important masters and many people had seen him. So Wei Baoheng couldn't deny. Moreover, Wang Li and others also seized several attackers. With their confession, the evidence was enough.

As Li Ye had expected, Wei Baoheng made a mistake. And Li Ye caught the other's mistake.

Some officials died and were injured, but it was not serious. Those who could fight with the attackers on the river were masters of Chang'an Office. The number of them was small. The officials who were under Qi-refining Stage had stayed on the shore all the time. Now, they were surrounding Li Ye, holding torches.

The cultivators of Black Office didn't show up. The situation had been basically controlled. So the Black Office didn't need to appear in case its identity would be revealed. Liu Zhiyan and the Ugly Man were taken into custody, so were the members of Changhe Gang.

These people were actually very pitiful. The fierce battle on the river was far beyond their expectations. They had never seen such cultivation methods as Chen Jianghe's Thousands of Arrows Formation and Four Water Dragons. There were shocked at that time. Even now they still were in a panic, and some people were still shaking.

Liu Zhiyan and the Ugly Man were also tied. Li Ye came to Liu Zhiyan and scrutinized her for a moment.

Her appearance was not amazing. She had small facial features, soft outline, slightly thin red lips, and big, bright eyes. She looked like a gentle woman, arousing pity.

In her early twenties, she had reached Qi-refining Stage. It could be said she was in her prime. But now she was a prisoner. Naturally, she neither was spirited nor piteous. Inconspicuous stubbornness was on her face and her gaze was sorrowful.

Such a kind of face was actually more pitiful than a crying face.

"You're the Big Master?" Li Ye squatted in front of Liu Zhiyan.

Liu Zhiyan bit her lower lip. "I'm the Big Master of Changhe Gang."

Li Ye looked at her. "My feeling tells me that you have the courage to accept defeat."

Liu Zhiyan said, "Winner takes all."

Li Ye nodded. "But from your eyes, I see unwillingness."

Liu Zhiyan felt sad. "I haven't avenged my father. I'm unwilling to die."

Li Ye was slightly moved, but his look didn't change. "In this case, why don't you have hatred?"

Liu Zhiyan bowed her head and silenced for a long time. She never sighed, but everyone could feel her the inner sorrow as if this young woman was full of sadness.

After a while, she said, "Sometimes we are involuntarily in Jianghu. Life is full of disappointments. Fate is so, why should I be resentful?"

Hearing this, Li Ye could not help but admire her. He asked, "You are not afraid of death?"

Liu Zhiyan shook her head. "Everyone is afraid of death."

When she said this, regret could be heard from her voice. It seemed that she had shown that death was terrible, but it was more terrible when things needed to be done haven't been finished.

However, she did not think it was meaningful to say this.

Song Jiao came over and whispered in Li Ye's ear. Then Li Ye nodded.

He told Liu Zhiyan, "I can help you and the Changhe Gang survive."

"This is impossible!" Liu Zhiyan suddenly widened her eyes.

Li Ye smiled and said, "You should know that there are few impossible things in the world. The reason why some people think that it is impossible is that those things are beyond their ability."

Liu Zhiyan stared at Li Ye and asked, "Who the hell are you?"

Li Ye answered, "I'm the Prince An of Tang Empire and the Vice Magistrate of Chang'an Office."

Liu Zhiyan was stunned.

And Ugly Man was stunned too.

Maybe they didn't expect that the person who was lured by them had such an identity.

The position of both the Grand Prince and Four-class Official was so high that the Changhe Gang seldom think about. They only thought about being the first gang of Wei River.

"What they promised to give you, I can give you too. Except that, I can give you a chance to mend for the crime of looting of dock warehouse by good deeds. You can think about it." After saying that, Li Ye deeply looked at Liu Zhiyan who was still in shock, and stood up and left to check the casualties of those officials.

Song Jiao followed him.

"My instinct tells me that you don't want to kill this woman." Song Jiao looked at Li Ye and couldn't help but giggled. "Perhaps, this woman makes you feel excited."

Li Ye was calm. "I don't like to kill people. As for the excitement... There are many kinds of excitement in the world. Which one do you mean?"

"Well, what kind is your excitement?" Song Jiao covered her smile, but watery eyes full of smile.

Li Ye bowed his head, silenced for a moment and said, "We have the same hatred."

Song Jiao's smile froze.

She certainly understood Li Ye's meaning.

Both of them hadn't avenged their fathers.

There was no sorrow or change on Li Ye's face.

Looking at this calm face, Song Jiao felt sad. She knew very well how difficult it was to keep calm and not exposed weakness when faced great misery.

It also needed stubbornness.

Song Jiao changed her look and said, "There's no difference between the disputes in Jianghu and the court. And the price of fierce disputes is misery, helplessness, and death."

Li Ye looked up at the night sky. "Maybe, there will not be so many disputes when the world is rich, peaceful and harmonious."

Song Jiao shook her head. "That kind of world has not existed for a long time...or perhaps, it has never existed before."

Suddenly, she looked up and looked to the west.

At that moment, her gaze was as cold as the ice and snow.

The weird thing was that there seemed to be a ray of sunshine that could melt the snow and ice.

She said, "I am going to see an old friend."

...

Wei Jiangnan stared at the uninvited man suspended in the river, his hands twitching slightly.

This Wei River was quiet and deep, and there was nothing in the river except the sea of stars reflected at the feet of the person, seeming to be false in the faint light.

It was not difficult for Wei Jiangnan to see the other side's face even under such conditions. What surprised him was that he didn't know this person. It was an ordinary face so that people would immediately forget as soon as he or she turned around.

Facing this face, Wei Jiangnan even found that he could not guess the other's age.

Was he thirty, forty or fifty?

All were possible.

Wei Jiangnan stared at this stranger dressed in a green robe with long, gray hair, but felt an unprecedented tension, just like Liu Dazheng and the Taoist.

Wei Jiangnan's attendants came out on the cargo ships. When they saw this uninvited man, they all took out their weapons and were ready to fight.

A group of men with weapons on the cargo ships confronted a strange man floating on the river.

Wei Jiangnan did not act rashly.

Soon he became more nervous because the stranger began to speak.

The voice of the stranger was very dull, but his word was especially powerful.

He said, "You just said, you are going to catch someone back?"

This was what Wei Jiangnan said just now. When he said this, he was full of confidence and believed that he could catch Li Ye easily. For this reason, he even wanted to recite a piece of poem.

But now when he heard what the strange man said, Wei Jiangnan flushed.

Wei Jiangnan didn't dare to move, because he was afraid of the other side's high cultivation. He gritted his teeth and said, "Who are you?"

The man in green didn't answer Wei Jiangnan's question, but faintly said, "You can't go."

The meaning of the strange man was very clear. He came here to stop Wei Jiangnan, and he was very confident in stopping Wei Jiangnan, just as Wei Jiangnan was sure to take down Li Ye. In front of so many people, Wei Jiangnan felt embarrassed by what the other side said, anger surging.

As one of the top masters among the whole Wei Family, Wei Jiangnan had never been so insulted.

"If I have to go?" Wei Jiangnan asked.

The man in green said faintly, "Well, you'll die today."

His voice was still very dull, but the tone was serious and unquestionable.

"How dare you are so wildly arrogant! Even if you have high cultivation, but you can't look down on the heroes in the world!" Wei Jiangnan was repeatedly humiliated in public and finally couldn't bear that. He was a literati. How could he lose face? How could Aristo loss face? There were many attendants around him among them there were some masters. So he thought he had the possibility to win even though the other side's cultivation was higher than his. At least, he couldn't give up without fighting!

"Go!" Wei Jiangnan waved his hands.

He also moved as soon as he waved hands.

But before that, the man in green who was floating on the river had already extended a hand to Wei Jiangnan and pressed down in mid-air.

It was a simple action.

"Boom!"

The water rose for several meters and the docked cargo ships suddenly shook and were pushed into the river!

The pit was shown, the ships sank, and the waves rose!

Those cultivators all sank into the water with the ship!

Wei Jiangnan's clothes were broke into pieces.

And he himself was hanging up in mid-air.

Wei Jiangnan was in mid-air just like the man in green, but he couldn't move as if being caught in the throat!

"You're one of the heroes of the world?" The man in green snorted.

Then he opened his hands.

Immediately Wei Jiangnan spat out blood as if he was hit by a heavy hammer. His body, like a broken kite, fell toward the river bank and bumped into several willow trees. No one knew where he would arrive.

From the beginning to the end, there was no change in the face of the man in the green robe.

He swung his sleeves and left.