Golden Greenery

Mu Yue began his real escape because Li Bai was chasing him behind him.

Pei Min, Li Bai's sword master and sword master, died under Mu Yue's sword. Pei Min's only son also died under Mu Yue's sword before that. The most famous trash in Chang'an City destroyed the eldest son of the Wenxi Pei family.

Sword Master Pei Min died miserably, his face was burned to pieces, and his eye sockets turned into two bloody holes. Even if others didn't believe it this time, Li Bai believed it, because the quicklime stuff was indeed Mu Yue's method. He and he had been close friends for four years and knew him very well.

In Li Bai's view, this is what happened, and it is conclusive.

After his mentor Pei Min got the news, he rushed back to Chang'an in advance and learned from the Pei family's eyes and ears that Mu Yue had left the city and fled south. So his mentor didn't have time to enter the city and went directly around Wagu Cave to intercept Mu Yue.

During the explanation and dispute, the mentor accidentally killed Zhang Guo by mistake. Yes, it was a manslaughter, because Li Bai himself could only say this to himself.

Mu Yue took the opportunity to plot against his mentor by using dirty tricks, and then succeeded in a despicable sneak attack, killing his mentor and leaving him completely changed beyond recognition.

The kindness of his master is greater than heaven. At this time, Li Bai no longer needs anyone to give him orders. He must kill Mu Yue to avenge his master. I learned from the spies of the Pei family that Mu Yue bought a horse in Xiliu Town and fled westward. He was as smart as Li Bai. He immediately knew that this guy was planning to take Chencang Road to escape to Shu.

Single man, sword and horse, Li Bai caught up with Mu Yue and Niu Xiaoqing before they entered Chencang Road.

"Muyue dog thief, take your life!"

Mu Yue was actually glad that he had not yet entered Chencang Road. There was only a narrow trail between the steep mountain walls, and there were plank roads that made it difficult to turn around in many places. Once he entered there, there would be no place to hide.

When Mu Yue heard Li Bai shouting to kill, he rushed into the market on horseback, causing people to flip over and run out from the other side.

Then he kept looking for various side roads, villages, and markets to the west to avoid Li Bai's pursuit.

Of course, it was impossible to escape forever. He and Niu Xiaoqing would definitely not be able to outrun Li Bai, who was as skilled in riding as he was in swordsmanship.

If he couldn't escape, he would fight. He would fight Pei Min's apprentice with the Qinghong Sword that originally belonged to Pei Min. Li Bai's Qinglian Sword was famous throughout the Tang Dynasty.

Li Bai was the third... no, now the second best martial artist in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Bai had revealed to Mu Yue before that he actually could defeat his master Pei Min in swordsmanship without drinking alcohol to enter the state of 'Drunken Sword Immortal'. But he has to go beyond two hundred moves, because he is young, and the same is true for his strong swords and fists.

That is to say,

Li Bai is probably the number one martial artist in the Tang Dynasty today. He is the best in both poetry and swordsmanship. People who are blessed by heaven are so rich in talent that it is simply infuriating.

Mu Yue had sparred with Li Bai twice before. With his seventy-nine years of hard training, he failed once with the eighth move and once with the sixth move, but he always suspected that Li Bai was showing mercy.

He guessed correctly, Li Bai only needed three moves to make Mu Yue's sword loose.

But Li Bai didn't kill him, he just ordered him to pick up the sword and come back again and again, and then at most three more moves, and then come again.

Li Bai did not stab him, but forced him to beat him again and again, forcing him to keep running west for his life, beating him while running.

Mu Yue is afraid of death, but he would rather die than break his promise. He swore to Gao Lishi that he would not tell who killed Pei Min. He swore that he killed Pei Min himself, so even when faced with the fierce pressure of his former friend Li Bai, he would never tell the difference for himself.

I was the one who killed the dog thief Pei Min.

Mu Yue's attitude made Li Bai more convinced of the facts he deduced. If Mu Yue hadn't done it, based on his understanding, this guy would have swung his tongue to the sky and swore a poisonous curse.

But Li Bai couldn't kill Mu Yue, he couldn't do it.

Although Li Bai loved vanity and pursued fame and fortune, he was also a promising young man of the Tang Dynasty who valued love and justice at heart. Because of the importance of love and justice, he wanted to avenge his dead mentor, and because of the importance of love and justice, he could not kill Mu Yue.

Li Bai made many friends and guests in Chang'an, but Mu Yue was the only true friend he made in Chang'an.

In front of Mu Yue, he didn't need to act like a poet, nor did he need to act like a swordsman. The two of them could be like two bad boys, lying on the railing on the second floor and commenting on the low tube tops of the Chang'an ladies in the street, or they could bet each other on what color Hu Ji was wearing underneath.

When drunk, he would take it out on the roadside and pee, like children competing to see who could pee the most. You can be like two old academics from the agricultural department, carefully observing the horses mating all afternoon, and then happily scare the old donkey and tell it that it wants to eat fire.

He couldn't kill Mu Yue.

Pei Zhong was not killed by Mu Yue, he was framed. The mentor should not have 'mistakenly killed' Lao Zhangtou, who was Mu Yue's only relative.

He couldn't let Mu Yue go because he killed his mentor Pei Min.

So, Li Bai chased Mu Yue and beat him. When he was tired, he would eat and sleep separately, then he would catch up and fight again, and then escape.

This situation lasted for two months. For two months, the three of them kept going westward.

Mu Yue almost died once in two months.

Li Bai was not the only one chasing him. The Pei family and other aristocratic families also sent killers to pursue him. However, because he ran too fast and unexpectedly ran so far west, most of the killers missed him. .

Only three killers from Chang'an Weishi caught up with him, and Mu Yue fought fiercely with them.

After all, Mu Yue is a person who has been training hard for seventy-nine years, and he still has some fighting ability. If one-on-one, he can still draw a tie. But one against three, after twenty moves, all that's left is struggling.

Just as he was about to die on the spot, the swordsman Li Bai suddenly appeared like a ghost, stabbing the three killers to death with one sword, one with three swords, and three with three swords. Mu Yue felt that Li Bai still had a hand on him.

Just as he was about to express his gratitude, Li Bai pointed out his sword and said, "Run away, keep running away."

Mu Yue didn't even have time to wipe the sweat off his forehead, so he could only pull Niu Xiaoqing and continue to flee west.

In the past two months, Mu Yue had been running for his life every day, but Mu Yue never left Niu Xiaoqing and ran away alone. For such a weak little lady, abandoning Niu Xiaoqing would be like letting her die here, which Mu Yue couldn't do.

"Miss Xiaoqing, Mu Yue is incompetent, but you will definitely not die before I die."

Niu Xiaoqing was a little moved, really moved.

Two months later, Li Bai stopped chasing. It's not that he figured it out, or that Mu Yue ran away, it was because he chased him out of Yumen Pass.

Outside Yumen Pass lies the vast Western Region of the Tang Dynasty.

On the high slope outside Yumen Pass, Li Bai stopped chasing and Mu Yue also stopped running for his life. They were twenty feet apart and they both stopped.

Li Bai turned around and knelt down in the direction of Chang'an City in the pass. After kowtowing three times, he shouted sadly: "My mentor, Li Bai is incompetent and allowed the dog thief Mu Yue to escape. Li Bai is incompetent. I am ashamed of my mentor's spirit in heaven——"

Standing up, Li Bai yelled at Mu Yue at the top of his lungs: "Brother Mu, don't step into the Yumen Pass again, everyone in the Tang Dynasty is trying to kill you. Brother Mu, don't go back to the Tang Dynasty again during Li Bai's lifetime." .”

"I have no friends in Yangguan here, Brother Mu, take care of yourself along the way -"

Mu Yue and Niu Xiaoqing rode to the Western Regions. Behind them, Li Bai was fencing and singing, and his singing was desolate.

“Green mountains stretch across Beiguo, and white water surrounds Dongcheng.

Say goodbye in here, then fight in the lonely and long way.

The wandering clouds convey the love of an old friend.

I waved my hand and went away, and the horses roared. "