The Name of Eternity.

Chapter 218 Slapping Li Tiangang

Hearing Li Muxiu's words, Li Tiangang's face changed and he immediately shouted:

"Second uncle!"

Li Muxiu raised his head, stared at him deeply, and said:
"He is my good friend. I would say this even in front of His Majesty. My personal relationship with him is pure and innocent. I have never asked him to do anything for the Li family, and he has never done anything for our Li family!"

At this point, he seemed to think of something, paused, and his expression turned a little ugly:

"In addition to entrusting him to take care of Hao'er for me, but he is your child..."

Feng Boping interrupted, "I volunteered to take care of Hao'er. It has nothing to do with whether you, an old man, entrust me with the task. If you don't tell me, will I just ignore Hao'er? Just based on the seven-year-old fish that Hao'er grilled for me, I will protect him for the rest of his life!"

Li Tiangang's eyes narrowed slightly. Seven years?

This means that Li Hao has been in contact with this thief king for seven years.

Thinking of his second uncle's hobbies, he immediately deduced the general situation and sighed inwardly.

It seems that Haoer has been affected since childhood.

"Leaving Hao'er at home was my biggest mistake and the thing I regret the most."

Li Tiangang took a deep breath and said to Li Muxiu: "Second Uncle, I will not pursue your influence on Hao'er, but now, I ask you in the name of the real dragon to sever your relationship with him and never have any contact with him again!"

Li Muxiu's face changed, and he looked at him in shock and anger: "You want to order me with a real dragon?!"

"Yes."

Li Tiangang looked cold and serious, suppressing the anger in his heart:

"Uncle, don't forget what blood flows in our bodies and what surname we bear! Although my father is gone now and no one can restrain you, our Li family's thousand-year-old family rules have been like this for generations. Do you want to resist?"

Li Muxiu looked at him in shock and anger, but in the end, his eyes were filled with disappointment.

He closed his eyes, and after a long time, he opened them again. His eyes contained indescribable pain and vicissitudes. He said dejectedly:

"I spent the first half of my life in dissolute dissoluteness and did many wrong things. I feel sorry for your father and left him alone to guard the lonely city. I will not break the rules again. This life of mine was given by the Li family, so I will burn it out for the Li family..."

His body trembled slightly, and he slowly turned around and looked at Feng Boping.

As they stared at each other, Li Muxiu's eyes were filled with tears and blood: "Lao Feng..."

Feng Boping's body trembled slightly, but a smile slowly appeared on his face, and he said:
"Old Li, why are you crying at such an old age? Didn't I tell you that even if we are separated by thousands of miles, we can still spend the days and nights together. We can't decide when to come together or when to part. You and I have already reached the age of accepting our fate. Just accept it..."

Li Muxiu clenched his fists tightly and his whole body was shaking. His fists were very strong and heavy, and he was known as the boxing saint, but he could not break the shackles of his blood or break the bondage in his heart.

Half a step to invincibility is not true invincibility after all.

Once you take that half step forward, you can never take it back.

"Uncle, this is good for both of you. Don't blame me, Li Tiangang, for being ruthless."

Li Tiangang said in a deep voice.

Li Muxiu's back looked haggard. He didn't say anything, but remained silent.

Feng Boping smiled at Li Muxiu, then glanced at Li Hao's clone with regret in his eyes, and said: "But I promised Hao'er that I would guard Tianmen Pass for him for three years..."

"unnecessary!"

Li Tiangang looked at him, but his expression was not so good. He said in a cold voice: "If you really care about Hao'er, you should know that your reputation is notorious. If you keep pestering Hao'er, it will only bring him a burden!"

"Do you want to destroy him? He will inherit the throne of my Li family in the future. He will be very famous. If people knew that he was colluding with you, what would they say about him?"

Feng Boping's cheek twitched slightly, and he wanted to refute, but when the words came to his lips, he just laughed softly:

"That's right. I'm just a lonely traveler in this world. I can't compare to the glory of your God General Mansion, and I can't reach it..."

He shook his head in self-mockery, looked at Li Hao's clone, and whispered: "Hao'er has grown up and doesn't need anyone to take care of him anymore. If he can come back from the Dead River, no one will dare to invade Tianmen Pass. Even if someone really comes, I'm afraid an old man like me will be useless. That must be a Taiping Dao Realm existence..."

He muttered to himself, smiled again, and looked at Li Hao's dark clone with kind and gentle eyes:

"Child, the road ahead depends on you."

"It's been a long snowy journey. I can only accompany you so far."

The dark Li Hao stared at him blankly, wanting to speak, but not knowing what to say. In the end, he only said two words: "Don't go..."

Feng Boping's lips trembled slightly, but he just smiled, then turned around, looked at the vast sky and earth, looked around, and looked in the direction of Cangya City in the distance.

His eyes flickered slightly, and he said nothing. His figure suddenly stepped out and disappeared out of thin air.

The art of leaving no trace in the world means that if he wants to leave, no one can stop him.

This technique was created by him, and combined with his martial arts, he can bring it to its full potential.

A breeze blew by, lifting the corner of Li Muxiu's clothes like a small hand, floating for a while, and then falling down.

Li Muxiu was as silent as a stone, without a sound.

Li Tiangang glanced at him and knew that his second uncle was in a bad mood. He whispered, "Second uncle, we should go to Longcheng Muhe. I'll go over first and take a look at the situation over there..."

Li Muxiu did not respond.

But in the distance, there was a whistling sound, accompanied by a voice of surprise:
"Second brother, Tiangang?!"

Hearing the voice, both of them were shocked. Even Li Muxiu suddenly raised his head and looked towards the source of the voice.

I saw a figure rushing towards me, wearing a tattered gray robe, dressed like a beggar, with messy hair, but the face and the sword at his waist were exactly Li Xiaoran!

"Fourth child?!"

Li Muxiu was stunned.

Li Tiangang was also stunned. For a moment he suspected that he was dazzled. He focused his eyes and finally saw clearly that it was really his fourth uncle!
He's back? Why is he here?!
"Hao'er?"

While Li Tiangang and the other two were shocked and stunned, Li Xiaoran saw the dark side of Li Hao next to him. He was stunned and almost cried out in surprise, but soon he realized that there was something wrong with Li Hao in front of him and his aura was not that strong.

Moreover, he was wearing clean clothes, not the tattered clothes he wore when we parted.

Previously, Li Hao was chased to the Mu River, but he had experienced the Liangzhou War, and his hair was stained with a lot of monsters' blood, and his clothes were torn and tattered due to the war.

"Why are you the only one back? Where's Hao'er?!"

Li Muchu confirmed that the person in front of him was really Li Xiaoran. He was stunned and couldn't help but ask hurriedly. His eyes widened violently, as if all the blood in his body was tense.

Li Xiaoran came back to his senses and said quickly, "Don't get excited, second brother. Hao'er is fine. He still has something to complete. He is only one step away from clearing the Dead River. Now he is heading to the Great Desolate Heaven."

Having said that, he glanced at Li Tiangang and hesitated, not knowing whether he should say it.

After all, the ancient holy clan, the Ji family, is a sensitive word.

Li Tiangang had fought in Yanbei for more than ten years. After the war ended, he naturally heard about such a big event and knew it was related to the woman from the Ji family.

"He went to the Great Wilderness?"

Li Muxiu was stunned, but when he heard the other party say that Li Hao was fine, his tense body slowly relaxed, and he immediately asked: "The Great Wilderness is so dangerous, what is he doing there, and how long will he be gone?"

"I should be back soon." Li Xiaoran said.

We just need to send the old man from the Ji family back to the territory of the ancient holy clan. It shouldn't take much time.

At this point, he saw that the two wanted to ask about Li Hao, so he smiled and said, "Is the one next to you Hao'er's clone?"

"Ah."

Li Tiangang nodded. When he heard the other party say that Li Hao was fine, he looked relieved. But when he heard that the other party had gone to the Great Wilderness, his face changed slightly. He immediately thought of that woman, his wife.

His heart couldn't help but skip a beat. Could it be that the child had gone to look for his mother?

When the father and son were fighting in Qingzhou, he later heard that the reason why Li Hao slapped Li Rumeng was because the other party insulted his wife and also told Li Hao about his wife.

"This child..."

He couldn't help but grit his teeth, his face became tense again, and his heart was full of worry.

Even he didn't dare to visit the Ji family, the ancient holy clan, let alone Li Hao.

"Let's not talk about Hao'er for now. Look who I brought back to you."

Li Xiaoran said to the two of them.

As he finished speaking, a voice reached the ears of Li Tiangang and Li Muxiu:

"Tian Gang, the second brother..."

Hearing this old and familiar voice, Li Tiangang and Li Muxiu were both stunned. Their hearts were shocked. They looked up in horror and saw a shadowy heroic soul floating out from behind Li Xiaoran.

The mighty body and kind face left the two of them stunned, as if they were in another world.

"father?"

Li Tiangang's pupils contracted tightly, he was stunned for a moment, and then he rubbed his eyes vigorously.

When he saw it clearly again, all the thoughts in his mind were thrown away in an instant, and tears suddenly welled up in his eyes:

"father!!"

His knees softened and he knelt down in front of Li Tianzong, his face wet with tears:
"It's my fault that I was unfilial and incompetent and failed to bring you back sooner!"

Li Muxiu stared blankly, his eyes reddening, and asked, "Brother, have you escaped from the Dead River?"

Li Tianzong quickly raised his hand and helped Li Tiangang up. In response to Li Muxiu's question, he nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, I am free now and can go home!"

Li Muxiu's old body trembled slightly. He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and lowered his head.

Time seemed to have taken off his outer coat. This weathered old man now looked like the spirited young man in brocade robes back then. His shoulders twitched, and he lowered his head as if he was suppressing his throat, but his voice was choking:

"Brother, it was all my fault. I was too playful and let you guard Dragon City alone. I killed you!" "I should have been the one who suffered in the Dead River all these years. It was me..."

Li Tianzong was slightly stunned. He gently raised his hand and patted Li Muxiu's shoulder lightly.

When he saw the tearful face of this brother who grew up with him, his eyes became more moist and he said softly:
"As a true dragon, I should have been the one to fight in the Dragon City Battle. It has nothing to do with you. Even if you were there, we brothers would have died there."

"It's a good thing you're not here. I heard from the fourth brother that the Li family is now relying on you. You are the pillar of the Li family..."

At this point, he smiled and said, "Do you remember when your father beat you? He made you kneel in the yard for three days and three nights. When I secretly brought you food, I told you that besides me, you might be the most capable person in the Li family in the future. You really didn't let me down."

Li Muxiu was stunned, looking at his eyes, the brothers looked at each other at this moment.

They both look like old people.

But time seemed to have blown them back to their youth...

Just like in that courtyard, on a hot summer day, there was the eldest brother practicing martial arts in front of the wooden stake, and the second brother who was sitting by the pond and acting naughty.

The eldest brother looked at her gently as he did in the past, but the naughty second brother crossed his arms and turned his head away with a look of dissatisfaction.

But now, these eyes that have faded with time meet at this moment, and all the words melt away at this moment.

Li Muxiu's face was in tears. This old man, who had been through many battles, had not shed a single tear even when he crawled out from among the corpses of a hundred thousand demons, but at this moment he was sobbing uncontrollably.

The knot and scar in his heart that had been there for many years disappeared at this moment.

It turns out that the eldest brother never blamed him...

Li Muxiu's body trembled slightly, but slowly, he put away his emotions, wiped the tears from his face, and a rare blush appeared on his old face.

He quickly interrupted, thinking of the main business, and asked hurriedly: "Brother, how did you get rid of it? Didn't you say that you had to clear the Dead River? You just said that you haven't cleared it yet..."

“That’s complicated.”

Li Xiaoran said at the side: "But generally speaking, we have to thank Hao'er. It was his help that allowed Big Brother to escape."

When he said this, he felt a pang in his heart. Although he had escaped, he was also dead.

But on his way back, Li Tianzong told him not to tell anyone else about this. Li Tianzong just wanted to go home and take a look, and then leave quietly.

"Thank you Hao'er?"

Li Muxiu was stunned, and then he thought of the child who had repeatedly done things that surprised him. His heart couldn't help but move, and his eyes were filled with relief and tenderness.

"Hao'er?"

When Li Tiangang heard Li Xiaoran's words, he was shocked when he just stood up and asked, "What does it have to do with Hao'er?"

"What a big deal!"

Li Tianzong took over the conversation and chuckled, "I heard from the fourth brother that Hao'er is your son. Tiangang, you really gave me a good grandson! It's amazing!"

Li Tiangang was stunned. He never expected that even his own father would be so fond of that child. Is he really... that good?

"That child doesn't know the rules and is careless by nature. Did he offend you?"

Li Tiangang couldn't help but ask, with a bit of caution.

At this moment, he was no longer the general marshal holding the magic sword, but a son in front of his father.

Li Tianzong was stunned and said with a smile: "What are you talking about? Hao'er is a lively and lovely child. He is proficient in everything, including music, chess, calligraphy and painting. His martial arts talent is comparable to the reincarnation of an ancient saint. In the thousands of years of my Dayu Divine Dynasty, he has been considered a first-class genius!"

"Besides, he is very sensible. There is no such thing as him not following the rules. It's just red tape. Although my Li family needs family rules, a family is a family and a country is a country. There is no need for everything in the family to be so rigid."

Li Tiangang's heart was shaken, he was stunned for a long time, unable to speak.

If it were someone else's words, he might not have listened to them, but since his father said so, he suddenly began to doubt whether he had been doing something wrong all along.

Was it... too harsh on the child?
Or is it really too much control?

Everyone who has come into contact with the child seems to favor and admire him. Is it because of his noble status in the Divine General's Mansion, or is it just because of the child himself?
Li Tiangang's thoughts were turning, and the memories of his time with Li Hao since returning from Yanbei quickly flashed through his mind.

But before he could recall carefully, Li Tianzong said gently: "I heard from the fourth brother that after Xiaojiu left, you succeeded Xiaojiu and became the true dragon of the Li family. You must have worked hard over the years."

Li Tiangang came back to his senses, and upon hearing this gentle concern, he felt as if the blood in his body trembled.

He fell to his knees in front of Li Tianzong again with a thud, lowering his head and crying:

"Dad, Dad, I am incompetent. I am not worthy of being the true dragon of the Li family. My third brother and sixth brother are all gone. I failed to take good care of them. I failed to protect this family!"

His shoulders were shaking. He had never cried when the border of Liangzhou was breached. His tears had long been dried up in Yanbei and at the Li family's funeral.

But at this moment, she cried like a child again.

Li Tianzong was slightly stunned, thinking of some family situations that he had asked Li Xiaoran on the way. Among his nine children, six died in the battle, and some died when he was still in the God General's Mansion, such as the eldest and second oldest.

But he didn't expect that after he left, other people would encounter accidents one after another.

Seeing Li Tiangang crying, he also showed deep sorrow in his eyes, but he suppressed the sorrow, smiled, and gently took Li Tiangang's arm:

"Child, don't blame you. It's my fault as a father. If I hadn't gotten into trouble in Dragon City, if I could have entered the realm of Taiping Dao earlier, you wouldn't have been in trouble."

"Dad, how can I blame you? You are strong enough."

Li Tiangang couldn't help but say that his emotional outburst was only temporary, but years of war experience made him quickly restrain himself at this moment.

He wiped the tears from his face and grabbed Li Tianzong's heroic spirit arm: "Now it's all right, you're back. When I step into the realm of Taiping Dao in the future, I will go and bring Xiaojiu back!"

Seeing that he had regained his confidence and courage, Li Tianzong smiled, patted his shoulder and said:

"I know you can do it. Hao'er has also inherited the true dragon. Give him a few more years, and Hao'er will lead our Li family to eliminate all the demons and restore the Li family to the glory of our ancestors!"

When Li Tiangang heard this, his expression changed slightly, and he nodded and said, "When he comes back from the Great Wilderness, I will let him inherit the title of True Dragon."

"Haven't you inherited it yet?"

Li Tianzong was a little surprised. The inheritance of a true dragon is better when one is young. At the age of fourteen or fifteen, with the help of his ancestors, his cultivation speed increases dramatically. He can quickly pass the period of genius and become a real strong man.

"I was supposed to inherit it, but was driven away by Tian Gang."

Li Muxiu was standing aside and spoke out of the blue.

Li Tianzong was stunned and couldn't help looking at him in confusion.

Li Xiaoran's face changed slightly. On his way back, he deliberately avoided the matter of Li Hao and Li Tiangang. He didn't want his elder brother to have worries and concerns in his heart before his heroic spirit dissipated, so he didn't want to worry about this matter.

"Second brother, what are you talking about?" Li Tianzong asked.

"Brother, ask him yourself."

Li Muxiu took a deep breath and wanted to mock Li Tiangang, but when he thought about how his elder brother had just returned and it was a rare reunion for father and son, there was no point in mocking him, so he restrained himself.

"Tian Gang?"

Li Tianzong looked at his son.

Li Tiangang faced his gaze without thinking of hiding anything, and said:

"Dad, when Hao'er was born, Yanbei was in turmoil, and I was transferred to Yanbei to fight. I wanted to leave him in the mansion to practice, and let my eldest sister-in-law and others take care of him. But in the years when Qingqing and I were not by his side, the child learned a lot of bad habits."

He said: "He was idle all day and didn't practice well. After I came back and disciplined him a little, he drew his sword against me and fought with me. In the end, he ran away from home in anger and came to Tianmen Pass to fight with me..."

"You fart!"

Li Muxiu's suppressed anger erupted at this moment. He said angrily:

"What's wrong with Hao'er? My eldest brother also said that he is proficient in everything from music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Although he likes these, he has never delayed his practice because of them!"

"Isn't his cultivation high enough? It's far beyond his peers!"

"Now he is fifteen years old. At only fifteen, he has already reached the third immortal realm and can kill the demon king. Who in this world can do this?!"

"You two haven't been with him for more than ten years. Hao'er was poisoned by Liu and his divine blood was destroyed. He didn't have time to take revenge, but you slapped Hao'er just because Xiao Ba's daughter complained about it. You didn't even listen to his explanation. You said you were disciplining him?!"

"Without your discipline over the years, is Hao'er any worse than others?!"

Hearing Li Muxiu's angry words, Li Tiangang's face changed slightly. It sounded familiar. He said:

"But if he puts all his energy into practicing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, he will only reach a higher level!"

"Then don't eat or sleep, and practice as hard as you can all day long!"

Li Muxiu said angrily: "That's your son, not a wooden man or a stone, he is flesh and blood!!"

Li Tiangang opened his mouth slightly, but was at a loss for words.

Li Tianzong heard the argument between the two and immediately understood what was going on. His face turned ugly and he asked, "Then what happened? Why did Haoer run away from home?"

"Of course I couldn't stay there because of his so-called 'discipline'."

Li Muxiu looked at Li Tiangang with hatred, but sadness was in his eyes. He still remembered the day when the sky was full of wind and snow:
"That kid said that he no longer has the last name Li. He would rather die outside than in the God General's Mansion!"

"He doesn't want to be beaten to death by his own father!"

Li Tiangang said angrily: "How could I possibly want to beat him to death? I just wanted to teach him a lesson..."

A crisp sound suddenly interrupted his words.

Li Tiangang's head tilted to the side, his eyes filled with shock. He was stunned for a long while before turning around. He saw his father Li Tianzong's pale figure, his face full of anger.

"How could you force that kid to say something like that!"

"How sad must you make that child for him to say such heartbreaking words!!"

Li Tianzong was so angry that he looked at him, trembling all over.

(End of this chapter)