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Chapter 193

Chapter 193 Scene 26: Things are different and people are different

"Hush - don't make a sound!"

The man in the iron gate had a hoarse voice, which sounded like it was squeezed out of his throat. Ning Yue struggled desperately, but she refused to give in.

"Yue'er, don't make a sound! I'm daddy!"

The other party hurriedly opened his mouth to comfort her, but there was a hint of trembling in his voice, as if it was difficult to suppress his emotional fluctuations.

The red-haired girl trembled suddenly, as if she couldn't believe her ears, but she quickly stopped struggling and turned her head to look behind her. At this time, a beam of moonlight happened to shine on the other person's face, but her appearance was different from In her memory, the chief priest of Cangliu City was completely different.

Today, Feng Weishu has long lost the majesty of the past. His face is covered with stains and dirt, and it is almost difficult to distinguish the original color of his skin. There is no light between his eyes, only a dead gray color emanating from the depths of his soul. The despair. The beards that had not been shaved for a long time were tangled together and tied into countless knots. The dry and greasy hair was also hanging down, like a large piece of rag on the head that had not been washed for a long time. On the exposed arms, there are several areas where the skin has ulcerated, probably due to long-term lack of water and food.

Ning Yue's eyes widened, and she looked in surprise at the man in front of her who seemed familiar yet extremely strange. She didn't know whether she should call him father or the high priest.

Feng Weishu seemed to realize that he had frightened his daughter, so he took half a step back and fell back into the darkness of the dungeon.

"Why did your voice become like this?" the girl finally asked.

"I was poisoned and mute by Gao Li. He was afraid that I would yell in prison, so he imprisoned me deep in this cell because he didn't want to attract the attention of others."

After finally seeing his daughter who had been away from home for several years, Feng Weishu suddenly choked up, "Yue'er, you have grown up...come closer and let your father take a good look at you..."

"What's there to see?" Ning Yue took a big step back and stood far outside the cell door, "Gao Li said you were no longer alive, so it turns out he lied to me."

Hearing this, the man standing in the shadow dwarfed unnoticeably, as if the joy of reuniting with his daughter had not even had time to be expressed before he stopped abruptly: "Yue'er, you still hate being a father? Do you know? , your mother and I have been looking for you everywhere these years, and our hearts have been broken——"

"Don't mention your mother in front of me! If it weren't for you imprisoning me in the abyss, I wouldn't have come to the land, and she wouldn't, wouldn't - you are not worthy of being my father, and you have never None!"

"Do you already know?" Feng Weishu's shoulders shook violently. Unexpectedly, the high priest, who had never shown sadness or joy, now lost all his arrogance and loneliness, and shed tears uncontrollably, " Indeed, if I had not neglected my care, the coral would not have been quietly brought ashore by Kun Jie..."

The red-haired girl bit her lips hard and held back her tears:

"What's the use of regret now?!"

"Yeah, what's the use of regret? If I had known this, I should have gone all out to drive out all the rebels in the city. If I could personally eradicate that self-proclaimed villain back then, today's Cangliu City would not be destroyed. , everything may turn around..."

Speaking of Kun Jie, Feng Weishu couldn't help but clenched his fists and beat the stone wall in front of him so hard that his joints were broken.

"So, is Cangliu City really gone?"

In fact, Ning Yue has always had doubts about what Gao Li said. However, after listening to what the man in prison said, the last illusion she had in her heart was finally completely shattered. Cangliu City - that I have condensed countless beautiful moments of my childhood into my hometown, which seems to have lasted forever, but now I can never go back.

The girl's heart was full of mixed feelings, and after a long time she asked again:

"What exactly does Kunjie want to gain by doing this? I know that he and you once studied breathing with your grandfather, and both fell in love with your mother."

"That's right, Kun Jie and I were both beloved disciples of the Sui Ya Master sect. At that time, the two of us were selected to enter the Dharma Hall. We started as assistant priests and worked our way up. In the end, we both got the chance to follow your grandfather. An opportunity to practice breathing."

Seeing Feng Weishu nodding in recognition, Ning Yue continued:

"I also know that what the great priests of the past told the clansmen about the black gems being about to run out was just a big lie, wasn't it?!"

"Kun Jie told you all these things, right? Are you so credulous in believing that villain's words?"

The man behind the iron fence did not immediately answer the girl's question, but asked instead.

Ning Yue immediately hummed:

"Whether it is true or not, it is an indisputable fact that the Dharma Hall has declared to the outside world that the Mysterious Gems are about to be exhausted for thousands of years, spreading panic in Cangliu City. And the purpose of doing so is not to intimidate the tribe into having to rely on the power of the Dharma Hall to maintain the barrier. Why rely on the seemingly omniscient high priest in the Dharma Hall!"

"Indeed, the matter of Xuangui is indeed a secret kept secret by the great priests of all generations. But the reason why we do this is not for our own selfish desires."

The red-haired girl immediately shook her head in disbelief: "If it's not for yourself, who else can you do it for?"

Feng Weishu suddenly raised his head, but the previous haze was swept away in his eyes, and his eyes became brighter, as if he wanted to rectify the name of himself, the Dharma Hall and the previous chief priests:

"Since you know that the Xuangui incident is a fabrication, you should also know that it was Kun Jie who used the discovery of Xuangui's secret as an excuse to have a big quarrel with his master, Zong Suiya, and then left the court and became the leader of the rebel party. Sir. But you must not know why he established a rebel party and opposed the law hall in tit-for-tat at every turn."

Ning Yue was stunned for a moment by the other party's question, and then responded decisively:

"Both of you are my grandfather's disciples. Isn't Kun Jie's goal exactly what Fa Tang wants? He hates the people on earth just like you and wishes he could kill them all!"

But these words suddenly made Feng Weishu laugh. The hoarse laughter in the darkness was like an innocent ghost scratching people's eardrums with their nails, which made people feel creepy:

"Kunjie's purpose is the same as that of the Dharma Hall? This is the most ironic thing I have ever heard in my life!"

"Kunjie said that he would find the Holy City as soon as possible and use the ultimate power left by his ancestors to benefit the Cangyu clan. But this matter is something that the Dharma Hall and the chief priests of all dynasties dare not even think about or mention. I dare not mention it!”

Ning Yue didn't understand what was so ridiculous about her words, and immediately wanted to argue. But Feng Weishu laughed again, and retorted without question:

"We don't dare to think about it, we don't dare to mention it? Yue'er, Yue'er, that Kunjie must have never told you. In fact, Master Suiya led the chief priests of the Dharma Hall to find the Holy City more than four hundred years ago. The location!"

Hearing the other party's words, the red-haired girl was suddenly stunned. She did not expect that the ancient city depicted on the ancient map that caused Qi and Yin and Xiang Baili to die one after another, and even threatened the safety of herself and her friends, that piece of ancient ruins. The ruins that made Qi Shouyu and others risk the disapproval of the world to find their location was no longer a secret among the other party.

Ning Yue shook her head vigorously, and then seemed to be convinced. She looked at the man she once called her father in the cage in front of her and murmured: "You promise, everything you tell me this time is... truth?"

Feng Weishu looked at the suspicious eyes of his daughter in front of him and nodded solemnly:

"The reason why Fa Tang led his tribe to leave Cangliu City is that he hopes to bury the secrets of the Holy City forever under the sea after returning to the land. This is because people from the land learned about the Holy City and the secrets contained in it. After gaining the ultimate power, they are sparing no effort to search for it everywhere. You should have seen that the barbaric desires hidden in the hearts of these people are simply difficult to control. Even if the law hall kills people because of this, it is only a last resort and expedient. It’s just a plan.”

"What a stop-gap measure! Trying to kill people to keep the secret was wrong from the beginning!"

Although the red-haired girl said this, she finally believed that the other party was not lying. Because based on her understanding of this aloof man, it was absolutely impossible for her to say the words "expediency" unless she was really uneasy.

Unexpectedly, Feng Weishu suddenly knelt down in front of his daughter. The sadness he had been holding back surged out of his heart like a flood that burst its banks again, and could no longer be suppressed:

"Yue'er, as a father, I don't expect to be forgiven by you. Ever since you left home, I have regretted it all the time. Especially when I saw Coral washing her face in tears, I felt like a knife. As a father, I have been thinking, Could it be that my desire to keep all the secrets alone all these years was wrong from the beginning? If I had told you all this back then, if I had not killed so many people with an iron fist over the years. , will everything today be a different scene? It was me who harmed the coral, harmed you, and harmed the relatives I care about most... Now it is my life in exchange, and I am willing to exchange it for you. Peace to mother and daughter!"

Ning Yue has never seen her father be so glum. Listening to the other man's sobs that sounded like a broken bellows, she thought of her dying mother again - the young girl suddenly felt a surge of compassion in her heart. Two lines of clear tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes because of her love. However, in the end, she still could not speak, did not tell him that she had actually forgiven him, and did not call him father again:

"I really miss my mother, more than ever! But if all of this is because of that holy city, could you please explain clearly what is so special about the ultimate power left by the ancestors there? "

"It is recorded in the ancient books of the clan that the ancestors mastered powerful spells that can turn the sea into mulberry fields. They can even control the movement of stars in the sky, make the Milky Way dull, and change the color of the sun and moon. Even the ancestors themselves can Destroyed by this power that should not have flowed into the human world. However, these books have long become taboos in the clan, and the words on them can only be understood by the chief priest and a few chief priests."

Feng Weishu wiped away his tears with his sleeves and continued word by word, "Although my father has never seen that kind of power with his own eyes, I can imagine that even if I compare it with it, I can only compare it to it." , nothing more than clouds and mud!"

"But why is Kun Jie now scheming, taking the lead at every step, and determined to obtain this terrible power?"

Ning Yue was speechless after hearing this, and it took her a long time to suddenly react and ask again. Unexpectedly, Feng Weishu's face darkened in the prison, and his voice became hoarse than before:

"He - actually wanted to use this power to destroy everything in this world! And it was precisely when your mother accidentally learned that Kun Jie had such a plan that she completely severed ties with him."

"But why would he do this? If he destroyed everything in the world, wouldn't he also be unable to survive?"

The red-haired girl couldn't figure out the reason for a while. But Feng Weishu shook his head and continued to explain: "Why specifically, I have sent countless people to investigate over the years, but I have never found it out. I just have a vague feeling. , Kunjie seems to have an inexplicable deep-seated hatred with the people on land and my Cangyu clan. And he may want to complete his final revenge in this way!"

After the words were settled, both father and daughter fell into a long silence. It was not until the sound of banging bangs on patrol in the city floated far outside the prison that they realized that it was already past midnight.

"I talked too much today, Yue'er, you have to leave quickly!"

Feng Weishu began to urge her daughter to leave. Unexpectedly, Ning Yue shook her head:

"No, when I came out, Gao Li was outside the Sinian Palace. I'm afraid that by this time, he had already led Zhi Jinwu in the palace to search for my whereabouts."

The father inside the iron gate raised his finger and pointed at his ear:

"No, if he discovers that you have escaped, the palace will already be in a different situation. My father has made an agreement with you that you and I will meet in this prison every night to discuss ways to escape."

"The imperial city of Yujing is impregnable, what else can be done?"

The red-haired girl still had doubts, but Feng Weishu reached out and pushed her away from him:

"Although Gao Li still obeys Kun Jie on the surface, the relationship between the two is not as unbreakable as it seems on the surface. You believe that as a father, given time, we will be able to find a way to leave this ghost place together!"

Ning Yue nodded hesitantly, picked up Xue Ling at her feet, and carefully followed the path back to the door of Sinian Palace. However, as Feng Weishu expected, Gao Li might be afraid of disturbing the girl. After resting, she just ordered someone to place the cart of azaleas at the entrance of the hall, but did not go inside to look for her.

The girl hurriedly leaned into the white fox's ear and whispered a few instructions, then bent down to dig through the hole in the wall, then tiptoed back to the door of her room, and then breathed a long sigh of relief.

After that night, whenever there was a chance, whenever the time passed, Ning Yue would sneak out of the hole in the wall of the Sinian Palace to meet Feng Weishu. Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and her secret was never revealed. Gao Li discovered him. The plan on how to escape gradually became clearer.

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