The Young Swordsman of Dalu

Li Linlie and Na Bulu fought fiercely, and Na Bulu gradually became exhausted. He used his spiked club to block Li Linlie's spear and said, "Li Linlie! I, the Khan, admit defeat before you today. As long as you let me return to the Western Regions, I guarantee that as long as I, Na Bulu, am alive, the Western Regions will no longer be enemies of the Great Lu Kingdom!"

“No way! Can I trust you?” Li Linlie said.

“Of course!” Nabru said.

“Nabulu, you delivered yourself to our doorstep this time. The soldiers of our Great Lu Kingdom will never show mercy to the enemy! Your Western Region army has been killing our border people and enslaving our brothers and sisters, causing widespread suffering. Since you have fallen into my hands today, Li Linlie, consider it your bad luck!” Li Linlie said.

“Then let’s settle this once and for all!” Naburu said.

"Come on!" Li Linlie pushed Na Bulu away.

The two fought again. Seeing that Na Bulu was no longer able to fight back, Li Linlie used all his strength to knock Na Bulu off his horse and held him down with his spear. Na Bulu lay on the ground with fear in his eyes.

"Then surrender!" Li Linlie said.

"Li Linlie! Don't think that just because you've captured Na Bulu, your Ningcheng is safe! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Na Bulu laughed loudly.

"What do you mean by 'not going to work'?" Li Linlie asked.

“Right now, the people of Ningcheng are struggling to survive!” Na Bulu said. “Li Linlie, you made a mistake despite your meticulous planning!”

"Hmph! I, Li Linlie, will never let you succeed!" Li Linlie scoffed.

“Li Linlie is probably too late! My 50,000 troops from the Western Regions have already bypassed your 10,000-strong ambush and attacked from the rear via a side path! If you release me now, perhaps the people of Ningcheng can still be saved!” Na Bulu said.

"I will never let you go, you bastard! Men! Tie this man up!" Li Linlie said.

"Li Linlie, you bastard!" Na Bulu shouted.

"Gag him!" Wu Yuan said.

"Wu Yuan, lead 50,000 troops back to Ningcheng immediately to save the people from their suffering," Li Linlie said.

"Understood!" Wu Yuan withdrew.

When the Western Regions army saw their Khan captured, they all fled and surrendered, and the battlefield was in chaos.

Li Linlie led his men to clean up the battlefield. He arrived at the Western Regions army camp and saw Wen Fei confronting Yuchi Liang.

"Wenfei! Why is that?" Li Linlie asked.

"General! You should ask Prince Yuchi a good question," Wen Fei said.

"Yuchi! What exactly happened?" Li Linlie asked.

Yu Chi Liang did not answer. He said to Wen Fei, "This is the best opportunity to kill Li Linlie. If you kill him, I will return Shou Shangxing to you!"

"General Li! Your brother-in-law wants me to kill you! Are you willing?" Wen Fei said.

"Yuchi Liang, what are you up to?" Li Linlie asked.

"Li Linlie! I hate you!" Yu Chi Liang said, glaring fiercely at Li Linlie.

"Have you been drugged by that bulu? You're talking nonsense!" Li Linlie said.

"General Li, don't you want to hear how much he hates you?" Wen Fei said.

“Yuchi Liang! Why do you hate me! We did things that wronged you!” Li Linlie said.

"How dare you say that? If it weren't for you stealing my love back then, our Yuchi family wouldn't have been trampled underfoot in the Western Regions, my father wouldn't have died with resentment, and I wouldn't have been unable to hold my head up in front of Na Bulu, letting him humiliate me. I endured for so many years just to see you and Na Bulu get your comeuppance. I hate you!" Yuchi Liang shouted hysterically.

“Yuchi Liang, are you blaming me for bringing Yu Mei back to the Great Lu Kingdom back then? Have you forgotten that it was you who helped us escape back?” Li Linlie said.

"Stop talking! This is the most regrettable thing I've ever done in my life! I hate myself for it!" Yu Chi Liang said.

“As long as you remain the same as before, you can return to the Western Regions safely,” Li Linlie said.

“Why go back? To be slaughtered? I’m not going back! I’d rather watch that Bu Lu and you die!” Yu Chi Liang said.

“I have captured Naburu alive!” Li Linlie said.

“I knew he would end up like that! He’s just an incompetent clown!” Yu Chi Liang said.

"Yuchi Liang! Senior Shou, where did you imprison him?" Wen Fei asked.

“If you don’t kill Li Linlie, I’ll make sure you never find him!” Yu Chi Liang said.

"I'll search the entire Western Regions military camp to find Senior Shou!" Wen Fei said, and began searching the Western Regions camp.

"Senior Shou! Senior Shou! Where are you?" Wen Fei's voice rang out in the Western Regions camp.

Shou Shangxing woke up groggily, and seemed to hear someone calling him. He struggled to get up, feeling weak all over. He immediately realized that Yuchi Liang must have drugged the wine he was given, and anger rose in his heart.

"Yuchi Liang! You bastard! You actually attacked me! I'll teach you a lesson!" Shou Shangxing forced himself to walk out of the tent and saw Liulizi and the others lying quietly on the ground. He quickly bent down and touched Liulizi's nose, feeling that they had stopped breathing.

"You despicable and shameless Yuchi Liang! I, Shou Shangxing, will tear you to pieces! How dare you deceive me!" Shou Shangxing was so angry that he staggered.

"Senior Shou! Senior Shou!" Wen Fei's voice came over.

Shou Shangxing heard Wen Fei's voice and walked towards it.

Wenfei saw Shou Shangxing walking unsteadily and quickly ran over to support him.

"Senior Shou, what's wrong?" Wenfei asked with concern.

"We've fallen for Yuchi Liang's trick! How humiliating!" Shou Shangxing said.

“Senior Shou, please don’t say that. He has deceived all of us!” Wen Fei said.

"Where is he? I need to find him to avenge my disciples!" Shou Shangxing said.

“He’s confronting General Li Linlie up ahead! I was worried about you, so I came to find you! That guy Yuchi Liang even used you to threaten me at first, trying to get me to kill General Li Linlie,” Wen Fei said.

“Yuchi Liang is a despicable scoundrel! Take me to settle accounts with him!” Shou Shangxing said.

Wen Fei brought Shou Shangxing to Yu Chi Liang. When Yu Chi Liang saw that Shou Shangxing had actually woken up, he said, "How could you wake up? I gave you a large enough dose; you shouldn't have woken up!"

"Yuchi Liang, do you want me dead? And then you say I died helping the Western Regions army? You're making sure my Flying Sword Sect never recovers! You're so hateful!" Wen Fei said.

"Shou Shangxing, tell me, how have I, Yuchi Liang, treated you all these years?" Yuchi Liang said.

“You were the best friend I met in a foreign land! But not anymore!” Shou Shangxing said.

“Look at you all, you’re all heartless people. I’ve endured this for so many years, and now you expect me to keep putting up with it? This isn’t fair!” Yu Chi Liang said.

“This world is inherently unfair. Some people only see beauty, so they don’t care. Others only see ugliness, so everything is unfair. Yuchi Liang, you’re very capable. You’ve been acting in front of us for so many years. You must be exhausted. You shouldn’t have killed my disciples. You even told me to take them back to the Great Lu Kingdom!” Shou Shangxing said.

"I want to see every one of you living an unhappy life!" Yu Chi Liang said.

“This is just plain mentally unstable!” Wen Fei said.

"Wu Yuan, take him back to the main camp!" Li Linlie said.

Wu Yuan escorted Yuchi Liang back to the military camp. Wen Fei, Shou Shangxing, and Li Linlie looked at the somewhat insane Yuchi Liang and felt incredulous.