Shan Tingyan disconcerted Li Mu. Li Mu didn’t belong to Qingyang Temple. He had no relationship with the temple but Shan Tingyan had.

She was born at Qingyang Temple and her parents were at Qingyang Temple now. Li Mu could imagine how hard it would be to ask her to betray her temple.

In Shan Tingyan’s mind, running out of her temple with Li Mu was the most outrageous thing she could ever do. So she couldn’t agree with Li Mu’s plan, even if Li Mu’s real aim was Zhou Tie.

But leaving Shan Tingyan to act alone troubled him more. Shan Tingyan totally relied on Li Mu and clung to Li Mu all the time, which stopped Li Mu from doing anything alone.

Li Mu didn’t dare to talk about his plan to Shan Tingyan. But time didn’t wait. The longer Li Mu was stuck here, the more dangers his companions in reality would face.

Time flew by with Li Mu’s patience. He couldn’t hesitate anymore. He couldn’t hurt his family because of his hesitations.

Should Li Mu destroy his family in reality to cherish people in the heart realms? That was ridiculous! And Li Mu wasn’t familiar with Shan Tingyan at all. He didn’t need to take any responsibility or royalty to Shan Tingyan.

Li Mu decided to act. He planned to kill Shan Tingyan first and then sneaked into Qingyang Temple to kill his foe.

God blessed Li Mu. When he planned to kill Shan Tingyan, an opportunity occurred.

A piece of news spread all over the city.

The betrayer Bai Jing was caught by Qingyang Temple. And he admitted he killed somebody in Qingyang Temple. According to the decision made by Qingyang Temple, Bai Jing would be executed in front of all the people with a punishment named Paoluo. All people in Qingyang Temple needed to know the rules.

The so-called punishment Paoluo was to fire the bronze stake into redness with woods, and then to cling the criminal on the stake to bake him or her to death. It was not only cruel but also tragic. Human nature died out in the punishment.

Because of the wars between warlords, the authorities could hardly control many places. And the authority had limited power over the wealthy and influential clans. So they couldn’t do anything about this kind of punishments.

Hearing the news, Li Mu merely couldn’t help laughing. What a wonderful opportunity! He could take this chance to revenge back.

Facing Shan Tingyan’s bitterness, Li Mu angrily cursed, “That son of b*tch can’t find us. So he sacrifices Brother Bai. If I watch this happening in front of me, my Taoist heart will be destroyed even if I forget it for a living.

Shan Tingyan sighed speechlessly and lowered her head.

Li Mu held her hands on his chest.

“Little Yanzi, sometimes a man must do something and sometimes mustn’t. I won’t waste my life easily. But being afraid of death and disloyal to people fighting for me weren’t my nature. Bai Jing is my true friend. I can’t watch people setting him up and baking him to death.”

Tears dropped through Shan Tingyan’s cheeks. She touched Li Mu’s face, said tenderly, “My Brother Mu is a masculine hero and my pride. Don’t worry. I won’t stop you from doing anything. But you must accept my conditions firstly.”

“What condition?”

“Just two conditions. If you can accept, I will allow you to do anything.”

“Tell me. I will accept them.”

“Okay. Firstly, we must be with each other both living and dead. Secondly, we are marrying now. I shall be your wife so I can accompany you to death as your wife.”

The two conditions beyond Li Mu’s plans put him in a dilemma. Li Mu planned to sneak into the Temple and fight to kill all his foes. Saving Bai Jing would attach the achievements. But not saving him didn’t influence his plan. Because killing his foes would help him to get out of this heart realm.

If Shan Tingyan acted with him, Li Mu had to spare attention to take care of her. This inconvenience would heavily drag his foot for anything.

But he could accept the marriage. Marriage in a dream, who cared. Li Mu just married Mrs. Hong. Another wife didn’t matter at all. Didn’t the saying go that how marvelous to have another wife in a dream?’

But if he rejected, Shan Tingyan must cling to him.

After seconds’ hesitation, Little Brother Li decided firmly, He would just accept her condition and die together if he failed.

Li Mu didn’t care too much about Shan Tingyan all the time. In falsehood, seriousness meant nothing.

Li Mu accepted and married Shan Tingyan that night. They were the real husband and wife.

“My dear, what’s your plan? Return to the Temple directly?”

“Returning directly didn’t help. It makes no difference with committing suicide. We need to sneak secretly. We shall save Brother Sissy and kill Zhou Tie in the meantime!”

“Brother Sissy?”

“Brother Bai!”

A smile leaked out from Shan Tingyan’s lips. And then she noted, “Why kill Zhou Tie? Don’t we aim to save Bai Jing?”

Contempt flowed out of Li Mu’s eyes. He snorted, “How loyal and faithful! I wonder if he ever hesitated to kill me or Bai Jing? Mercy to foes means cruelty to ourselves. Will you still stick in your royalty and faith?”

“But ...”

“No but. Little Yanzi, you are my wife. As wives should follow their husbands, you need to stand by my side. Or just leave. I will do it myself.”

Shan Tingyan lowered her head. After a long silence, she answered slightly, “Okay, I’ll follow you. Tell me about the details.”

......

Zhou Tie didn’t feel Li Mu’s changes. In his mind, Lu Mu was nobody. Everyone could humiliate him. Zhou Tie even designed Li Mu’s meaningless fight.

How did such an inferior coward deserve his little Shan Tingyan’s love? Li Mu must die. Shan Tingyan must only belong to him.

Shan Tingyan’s secret running away with Li Mu boiled Zhou Tie with anger. Once he thought of this, extreme anger struck his heart.

Zhou Tie spent every day like a year for a long time. After the running of those three bitches, no news returned.

Zhou Tie designed a masterful conspiracy to catch them and sent many people. Nothing had been gained for several days.

This stressed both Zhou Tie and his father heavily. Zhou Tie’s people caught up with Bai Jing accidentally, which was an unexpected surprise for Zhou Tie.

With a series of torture, Bai Jing’s words convinced Zhou Tie that Bai Jing didn’t know the hidden place of the couple. And Bai Jing neither ran with the Li Mu couple nor knew where Li Mu and Shan Tingyan went.

Bai Jing repeated those words again and again. His lips always showed some cold smiles even under inhuman tortures. Zhou Tie hated the smiles.

On this day, Zhou Tie came to the jail alone. He asked his people out, said to Bai Jing coldly, “I know how faithfully you treat Li Mu. I will give you an opportunity to keep your faith at the end of your life.”

Bai Jing dropped his head like a deaf man.

“Do you want to save him?” Zhou Tie asked suddenly.

Bai Jing raised his head slowly and then stared at Zhou Tie with contempt, speechless.

Zhou Tie didn’t care about his attitude and continued, “I have an idea to burnish your friendship. Only if you committed that you murdered your fellow in the temple, Li Mu could stay away from the accused. Is that brilliant? What do you think about it?”

Silent as before, Bai Jing couldn’t even believe one word of Zhou Tie.

“Do you think it’s another conspiracy?”

“Isn’t it?” Finally, Bai Jing replied.

“Even if it is, what can you do?” Zhou Tie said with disdain.

“Tell you the truth. Rumors across every corner of the city loaded me and my father with lots of stress. We want to end it quickly.”

“So my wrong commitments are your solution?”

‘Yes, I can’t find him. But we can accuse you instead. It’s a nice choice for you. What’s your answer? Commit it or not?”

Zhou Tie succeed. With his torture and fortune, Bai Jing committed all the accuse.

Enemies had knives while we had nothing. Zhou Tie had lots of ways to pursue Bai Jing to commit all. A quick killing saved thousands of tortures.

Of course, Bai Jing committed for another intention. He wanted to change the possibility of Li Mu’s living with his own death.

Actually Bai Jing would be accused of killing people in the Temple with his commitment. But that accusation would ruin the Temple’s reputation.

After all, as the master of Qingyang Temple, Zhou Tie’s father couldn’t blind hundreds of people in Qingyang Temple to convinced them with imposed accuse. The father and son of the Zhou Family still had dignity.

So Bai Jing’s commitment drew a perfect conclusion. And the questions would disappear.

Absolutely, most people clearly knew what happened. But there was no remarkable deficiency of morality and justice in the behaviors of the father and son of the Zhou Family. So people kept silent even if they were unsatisfied inside.

The horrible conspirator always did all things in the name of morality and justice, even if you knew they did prostitution things. But nobody could do anything with evidence.

Until now, most of Zhou Tie’s conspiracies achieved. But Zhou Tie still felt bad about two imperfections.

One was that he didn’t manage to detain Shan Tingyan. That bitch dared to run with Li Mu.

The second was Li Mu turned wiser to hide his traces.

These imperfections made Zhou Tie angry. And he didn’t come up with another plan. There were vast territories and wars in the country. How could he find them in the wars?

But Li Mu figured out the reasons that Zhou Tie wanted to kill Bai Jing. One was to peace the questions, and the other was to let his anger out.

But Li Mu missed one reason, which was to set up their powers. Qingyang Temple’s power within its areas got weakened by wars and chaos. Their words didn’t weigh as before and they gained fewer approvals.

Especially the inferiors who bent less to Qingyang Temple. The father and son of the Zhou Family couldn’t bear it. So the reestablishment of the reputation of the Temple was on the corner.

Nothing would gain more surrender than killing. People always liked to be standbys. Watching killing in their own eyes raised their fear of the temple and prevented them to be disloyal.

To the father and son’s surprise, the news attracted a fish. But this fish wasn’t the one before but an orca whale with sharp teeth.

Li Mu picked up easy weapons. His plan couldn’t come true with his two empty fists. Without suitable weapons, he wouldn’t sneer hastily.

Of course, his perfect weapon was a rifle. No matter how good or bad your fighting skills were, you could just shoot your enemies. But rifles were hard to get. And Li Mu couldn’t get any in a short time.

Talking about the rifle, Li Mu couldn’t even get a gun. And a rifle helped little. Because Little Brother Li often shot in the wrong direction. A sword suited him more.