I want to be innocent, but they don't allow me

"This woman! She's crazy!"

Li Mu was struck by lightning.

Looking at the beautiful small words on the handkerchief that were obviously written with rouge, Li Mu's mood suddenly fell to the bottom.

The content above is actually not much.

I just wrote down some small things in a random jot.

Small things related to Li Mu.

Most of them were complaining bad things about Li Mu.

The wandering eyes, the restless hands, and the inexplicable concern that always makes people blush and their heart beat fast.

There is something unclear between the lines.

At the end, Mu Zhen should have told Ge Lao.

"Whether it's a mistake or not, Ning has no regrets. The King of Yan has done me a favor, and I will repay him with my own body."

"---Unfilial grandson Ge Peining."

Li Mu didn't understand the meaning of these words, but he understood Ge Peining's intention.

"Did she really go to the third floor because King Yan was kind to her?"

Li Mu smiled bitterly in his heart, "Such a stubborn woman!"

At this time, Bai Hao brought several other Confucian disciples to greet Mu Zhen, and then said:

"Sir, we have been ordered to stay here. Please, Sir and the prince, move to the Music Pavilion to take a rest."

Although the tone was respectful, his words and deeds were meant to drive the person away.

Li Mu's eyes were a little empty. He slowly raised his head and looked at Bai Hao and the others. For a moment, he connected everything together.

"Is he so sure that I would die because of a woman?"

From the beginning to the end, the people behind the scenes were gambling.

Bet whether Li Mu will put himself in danger for others.

Li Mu had no idea what made the person behind the scenes so confident in him.

What's more, I don't understand why the person behind the scenes would go to such trouble given the means used.

A chaotic stream of thoughts flooded into my mind.

Li Mu tried his best to warn himself that even if he entered the building, he might not be able to bring Ge Peining back.

In the end, it's just one more person.

However, Ge Peining's figure kept appearing in Li Mu's mind.

Every frown, smile, and gesture is clearly full of charm and deadly poison that seduces everyone.

But in Li Mu's heart, she was like a spring breeze, like a gentle big sister next door.

"Qingyi, go back first."

Li Mu held the silk handkerchief tightly in his hand, his fingertips slightly red. Hearing Mu Zhen's words, he was stunned for a moment, then nodded mechanically.

He walked slowly behind Mu Zhen, pushed Mu Zhen up, and walked out.

However, before he took two steps, Li Mu's feet suddenly stopped.

"Qingyi!"

"Teacher, I..."

Li Mu hesitated to speak.

There are countless reasons in my heart to persuade myself.

If I enter the building myself, I will be following the wishes of the person behind the scenes, and then only my relatives will be sad and my enemies will be happy.

But there was a reason that forced Li Mu to do this.

With this thought, Li Mu's thoughts became clearer.

His confused eyes gradually became firm, and he said solemnly: "Teacher, I want to go!"

It's just three simple words: 'I want to go'.

It was not because of the calculations of the person behind the scenes, nor was it because Ge Peining entered the third floor to find her.

It was just because Li Mu wanted to, and because he wanted to, he did it, that's all.

As these words came out of his mouth, countless complicated thoughts suddenly flashed through Li Mu's mind.

The past scenes replayed in Li Mu's mind.

What followed were the battles that Li Mu experienced.

Familiar faces.

Then everything went dark before my eyes, and then I saw it again.

Li Mu was naked, lying on a tree that was tens of meters high.

Li Mu was stunned for a moment, feeling something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"This girl is really good-looking. I wonder if she can be a match for this masked man."

Li Mu looked at the fight between the red-dressed girl and the masked assassin under the tree and sighed in his heart.

However, Li Mu soon discovered that the masked assassin had cheated and the girl's life was in danger.

Li Mu felt a sense of disconnection in his heart, and he shouted inexplicably: "Where is the snake?"

He immediately jumped down from the tree and rushed towards the masked assassin.

Li Mu, who was in mid-air, was startled. Before he could think, everything in front of him went dark again.

Everything around me dissipated like mist.

Coming back to his senses, Li Mu rubbed Li Linger's head with one hand.

Seeing her tear-stained face, he asked in a sobbing voice, "What are you doing? Didn't you run away? Why did you come back?"

Li Mu paused his hand on Li Ling'er's head and turned to look around.

Ying Yu, Xiao Zhao, Su Yuwei.

There is also the head of the Lin family, old man Ran Nu.

Li Mu frowned and suddenly remembered that he came back to save people.

He tightly grasped the broken saber in his hand and said with a smile: "If you want to come back, then come back."

Then he turned and looked at the old man Ran Nu, with an indescribable heroic spirit: "Old man, we meet again!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the scene in front of him changed again.

Li Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, watching everything around him change like mist: "Hallucination?"

Afterwards, all the battles that Li Mu had experienced appeared in front of Li Mu one by one.

Li Mu's mind became clearer and clearer.

Slowly closed his eyes.

"I saved Li Ling'er because even if she died, I couldn't escape."

"I returned to Prince Yan's Mansion because I couldn't bear it."

"On the first day of the new year, it was the Ran slave who started it first. I had no choice but to do it."

"Helping the officials to arrest wanted criminals is to verify the divination..."

Li Mu kept repeating the various excuses he had made for the previous battles.

His speech became faster and faster, and his expression became more and more crazy.

"No! There is no reason. No reason is needed."

Li Mu suddenly opened his eyes and roared loudly.

Then, I seemed to hear the sound of water drops falling in my head.

Immediately, a strong light flashed before my eyes.

As the strong light gradually dissipated.

Li Mu found himself in an endless white space.

But it feels very familiar.

In front of him, there was a sapling that was only as tall as his waist.

"Have you grown taller?"

Li Mu didn't know why he had such doubts in his mind.

Subconsciously, I reached out and touched the tender green branches.

Just at the moment when Li Mu's fingers touched the branch.

A fist-sized vortex appeared out of thin air at the fingertips.

It seemed to swallow up everything around it.

Li Mu was startled and was about to withdraw his hand, but the suction of the vortex made Li Mu unable to resist.

In a flash, he inhaled everything along with the surrounding white.

"..."

"I'm Ji Ou!"

Outside the thatched cottage in the open space, Li Mu was breathing heavily.

Mu Zhen turned around and looked at Li Mu: "If you want to go, your teacher will not..."

However, halfway through his words, Mu Zhen was stunned for a moment. Confusion first appeared in his eyes, and then turned into shock and joy. He said in disbelief:

"You broke through?"

"what?"

Li Mu was stunned. He couldn't remember clearly what happened in his mind before.

"What happened to me just now? Wait, a breakthrough?"

Then he found that there was a layer of Qi shield as thin as a cicada's wing on his body.

Li Mu looked at Mu Zhen with some confusion, and suddenly found that the feeling Mu Zhen gave him was completely different from before.

Li Mu could clearly feel the gap between himself and Mu Zhen, and he didn't know how to describe it.

Very big, even bigger than the gap between the first and fourth stages.

He just felt that Mu Zhen in front of him was an opponent he could never contend with.

"How could this happen? I've never felt this way before..."

At this time, Mu Zhen said, "Stop showing off."

But the voice was still obviously trembling.

Li Mu understood and quickly dispersed his Qi shield, then asked tentatively, "How strong is the teacher?"

Mu Zhen glanced at Li Mu and said calmly, "It's just that I've stayed in the first level a little longer than you did. You'll know later."

Li Mu thought you were kidding, and after a moment's hesitation, he untied the water seal from behind his waist and handed it to Mu Zhen:

"I don't know if I can come back, so I'll give this to the teacher for safekeeping."

Mu Zhen took over Zhishui, frowned slowly, and said, "Have you thought it through?"

Li Mu smiled and nodded vigorously: "Think it through."

Mu Zhen pondered for a while, then sighed and said, "Go."

Li Mu took two steps back, bowed deeply, and disappeared from the spot in an instant.

Until Li Mu left, Mu Zhen looked towards the direction of the hut, his body trembling slightly, and he murmured:

"Even the saints back then were probably no better than this."