Chapter 157: A hundred years ago, a hundred years later
"Sir, everything is good, but there is only one thing Wei Xiang doesn't like." Gongsun Qiuyu stood still three feet away from everyone. He had a sinister smile on his face and looked at everyone with a playful look.
Like a jackal teasing its prey before enjoying a delicious meal.
"How kind of a woman!"
"Even Wei Xiang understands that those who achieve great things do not stick to trivial matters, but you care about the lives and deaths of ordinary people. How can this become such an important thing?"
"You see, in order to help this guy, you sealed the magic sword and exhausted all your energy. Now that the magic sword is gone, your soul is about to run out of fuel. That sir and sir care so much
Isn’t this little friend like a piece of fish on the chopping board, to be slaughtered by others?”
Gongsun Qiuyu said this, the evil spirit in his body was washed away, and the smile in his eyes became wild again at that moment.
"The magic sword is still mine after all!"
"Dashang will eventually be revived!"
It can be seen that the aura that permeates Gongsun Qiuyu's body at this moment is much weaker than before, but it disappears even more.
But as the magic sword was sealed, Zhou Jue's soul was on the verge of dissipating, and Li Danqing and others seemed to have no capital to compete with Gongsun Qiuyu.
The faces of everyone who realized this became extremely ugly. They stared at Gongsun Qiuyu. Although they all held their own blades, the gloomy look on their brows became stronger with every breath.
"Axiang." At this time, Zhou Jue suddenly looked at Gongsun Qiuyu and said softly: "Why don't you understand?"
"It is impossible to restore the country with just a sword."
"Sir, I don't dare! But Wei Xiang dares! With this sword and the body of this Martial Lord, I can kill even Weiyangguan, which is carrying the sky, under the horse. Who in the world can stop me!?" Gongsun
Qiu Yu yelled angrily.
A look of disappointment flashed in Zhou Jue's eyes, and he shook his head: "The world belongs to the people of the world. To win the world, you must first win the hearts of the people. Shang competed with Wuyang. Wuyang has been in power for a hundred years, but Shang has lost the deer.
Glory is hard to restore. What you restore is not the Great Shang, but the hatred and resentment in your heart."
"That's better than doing nothing like Mr. Ru!" Gongsun Qiuyu roared.
"You still don't understand." Zhou Jue was a little uninterested at that time.
"I don't need to understand your thoughts, sir! Wei Xiang only does what he wants to do!" After Gongsun Qiuyu said this, his whole body surged with momentum, and the blood rain in the sky was summoned by him again, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent.
Zhou Jue sighed. He stopped talking to Wei Xiang and turned to look at Li Danqing.
He laughed and said, "Didn't my little friend keep asking me if I have any special skills that I haven't told you yet?"
"Zhou Jue did hide something in this matter..."
"Huh?" Li Danqing was stunned when he heard this and was a little confused.
"I do have another trick, which I have never told you, but it's not to hide my secrets, but I don't want you to have the opportunity to use this trick."
As Zhou Jue spoke, a powerful aura suddenly filled his darkened body, but this aura was not the previous power fluctuations, but...
Sword intent.
The purest and clearest sword intent.
"The Heavenly Elephant Sword Intention that I have comprehended has surpassed the martial arts and is close to the divine way."
"The so-called celestial phenomena can be used as swords. This is the essence of the sword meaning of celestial phenomena."
As he said this, Zhou Jue's sword energy purging all over his body became more and more majestic: "Of course, among all things, myself is naturally included..."
"Own?"
"Use yourself as a sword?" Li Danqing seemed to have an insight into something. As the sword intention overflowed from Zhou Jue's body, the celestial sword intention poured into Li Danqing's body by Zhou Jue also seemed to be felt. At that time, Li Danqing's
Restlessness in the body.
Zhou Jue nodded and said with a smile: "Using yourself as a sword? My little friend is right."
"My last move is to use myself as a sword."
As soon as he said these words, the sword intent around him reached its peak at that time, and the celestial sword intent in Li Danqing's body also became more and more restless at this time.
The rain of blood rolled over the sky in the midst of Gongsun Qiuyu's arrogant smile. Zhou Jue's face was silent, he looked at the rain of blood and just spoke softly.
"This disaster started when Zhou abandoned literature and turned to martial arts. It should end with Zhou turning his body into a sword..."
"The destruction of Jixing by Shang is the way of heaven."
"It is against the rules for a person to enter the divine way."
"Zhou has always been going against heaven throughout his life, so heaven has also failed me."
"But this last sword was struck by Zhou for the sake of the world..."
As he spoke, Zhou Jue looked up at the dome and said softly.
"this day."
"I, Zhou Jue, have never failed you!"
At that moment, Zhou Jue's figure completely dissipated, turning into a white sword intent, blowing up waves of strong wind, absorbing all the dust on the ground and the surrounding ruins, wrapping them together, and turning into a sword
A torrent of intent, heading straight towards the incoming rain of blood...
The cleansing light of the sword's will overcame the bloody wind and illuminated the purgatory-like Painted Ji City like daylight. All the blood was shattered. The vast sword's will tore apart everything in sight in just a moment. Gongsun Qiuyu
Under the horrified gaze, it reached directly between his eyebrows...
The sword intent was stirring in Li Danqing's body. At that moment, he seemed to feel something, and a burst of equally dazzling light suddenly lit up. Li Danqing looked at the man's monstrous sword intent, and his mind was in a trance...
…
More than a hundred years ago.
In the center of the world, there is a city that is as majestic as a divine creation.
It has countless waterside pavilions and pavilions and carved beams and embroidered doors.
The sounds of people singing and dancing to make peace resound from dusk to dawn.
It has 30,000 bachelors who sit in the Imperial Academy and study essays and discuss Taoism every day.
From the hardships of people's livelihood to the great truth, everything has been achieved, no matter how big or small it is.
It has millions of soldiers and powerful generals like clouds.
The whole country is surrendered and the people's wishes are the same. At the end of the year, the envoys who pay tribute will crowd the whole country.
It also has a king.
There is a beautiful world in your belly, and you have great talents and great ideas in your mind.
That city is called Chaoge.
…
A scholar entered the Taixue Academy on that day and became one of the thirty thousand bachelors.
The scholar is very energetic and often speaks loudly and eloquently.
His colleagues always looked down upon him, and the scholar was depressed and frustrated.
One day, the scholar spoke sharply in the palace again. The chief minister finally lost his temper and rebuked the scholar in front of everyone, saying that he was talking about military affairs on paper and that he was harming the country with his empty talk.
I don’t know if it was due to fate, but the king happened to be in the same mood that day and came to the Taixue Academy. Witnessing all this, he interrupted the taunting of the leader and said, an official should speak freely, a king can make decisions by himself, and a scholar
Don't miss the country.
Then he had an interview with the scholar. After the initial nervousness, the scholar seemed to be as normal as usual and was very relieved.
The scholar said that the world of great commerce, peace and prosperity, and martial virtue are abundant.
There are three hundred warrior kings in the world. They seem majestic and beautiful, but in fact they are a problem for the great merchants.
The territory of the Great Shang Empire was so vast that it was difficult to measure even thousands of miles. However, the vastness of the rivers and seas also had extreme numbers, and the vastness of the world could also be measured.
All the spiritual energy in the world comes from the twenty-eight holy mountains, which is the ultimate number of spiritual energy in the world.
The growth of vegetation and the reproduction of all things actually require spiritual energy.
However, to practice as a warrior, especially to reach the realm of the Martial Lord, requires an extremely large amount of spiritual energy. If a warrior rises, his spiritual energy will be exhausted. There are constant natural and man-made disasters. In the seemingly prosperous Shang Dynasty, once there is civil strife, the Martial Lord will be destroyed.
If you defect, the great merchants will be in danger of collapse.
The scholar spoke eloquently, but the young king always had a smile on his face. After the scholar finished speaking, he looked at him and asked, "Does that sir have a way to break the situation?"
The scholar thought he was recognized, so he became more and more excited and said: "Choose one of the two, one will curb martial arts..."
The king asked: "If we curb the martial arts, how can we explain the rebellion of Lord Wu?"
"Moreover, what is Lord Wu's crime? Punishing current ministers for future crimes is not the way of kingship, nor is it the way of benevolence. It is the way to cause chaos."
The scholar was stunned for a moment and then said: "Then open up more holy mountains."
The king asked: "How to open it?"
"Master Yongwu..."
"Wu Junan comes out?"
The scholar suddenly fell silent. The Martial Lord absorbed the spiritual power of heaven and earth and came out. Among the thousands of Martial Lords, not one might have the ability to open up the holy mountain. And if another Martial Lord was born in the world, the spiritual power would become increasingly exhausted. This seemed to be a trap.
An endless loop.
The young king stood up at that time: "Everything in the world affects the whole body. If you want to govern the world, it is important to know the dangers, but more importantly, you must understand the purpose of governing the world, whether it is for the public or for personal gain."
"When Lord Wu is prosperous, his spiritual power will be exhausted, and disasters will arise from the sky, which will harm our people. If you want to govern the world, you want to save the people from fire and water, rather than resorting to military force and involving the people. In this way, wouldn't you be abandoning the basic and chasing the weak..."
…
From that day on, the scholar rarely saw His Majesty again. He was busy with his affairs, so it was a great gift to be able to spare time to talk to such an unknown official like him. Naturally, the scholar did not dare to expect that.
What.
But the king's words were engraved in the scholar's heart.
To govern the world is to serve the people of the world.
From that day on, the scholar temporarily put aside his duties as King Wu and focused on the present. He was already extremely talented. One after another, he was selected to send political decrees and national policies to the palace, and then handed them over to various ministries for implementation. His status also rose with the tide, but at the age of thirty
Then he took the seat at the head of Taixue Mansion.
On the day of his conferment, the scholar entered the palace to meet the saint. However, within seven or eight years, the young His Majesty had become so old that the scholar could not recognize him.
He looked haggard and had dry eyes. He was clearly the same age as the scholar, but he seemed to be over forty.
He recognized the scholar and knew the other person's surprise, so he just smiled and said: "In recent years, government affairs have been busy, so I'll make you laugh."
The scholar did not dare to ask more questions and just bowed. The king was sitting in the palace. Although he looked tired, his momentum was not diminished. He asked the scholars about government affairs. The scholars all answered fluently. The king was very satisfied with the newly promoted leader.
Three days later, the palace eunuch knocked on the scholar's door in the middle of the night and invited him into the king's bedroom through the side door of the palace.
When the scholar was confused, the king handed him a list at that time.
That was the list of new martial lords in the world in the eight years since the two first met. The scholar counted them carefully. There were more than 120 people in total...
The scholar's expression suddenly changed. He knew that if martial arts flourished, the world would be in chaos!
…
As the scholar had imagined, there was a severe drought in autumn that year, and famine broke out in several counties. The grain and grass provided by the treasury for disaster relief had been exhausted two years ago. They were looking forward to a big harvest after autumn to fill the treasury, so the imperial court also prepared a huge amount of food for this purpose.
of money.
This famine became the last straw for the prosperous dynasty. The victims mutinied, rebels spread everywhere, and the government and the public were in chaos.
However, the head of the Taixue Academy stayed behind closed doors from that day on, immersed himself in the library every day, and read by candlelight all night long.
Two years later, the government and the opposition became increasingly chaotic, and petitions to suppress the rebels came from all over the country like snowflakes. At that time, the scholar left the Imperial College and presented the king with his first national policy since he became the head of the Imperial College.
No one knows what they talked about that day, but the palace attendant said that the two of them waited from early morning until nightfall, and the scholar just walked out of the king's palace.
The next day, the scholar resigned from his position as the head of the Taixue Academy, abandoned literature and joined the martial arts. One day, he arrived at the realm of Lord Wu and opened up the holy mountain Lishan. He led the army to suppress the rebellion, using iron-blooded methods and killing without calculation.
The king, uncharacteristically, ignored the famine and mobilized craftsmen from all over the country to build a thousand-foot high platform.
Its name is.
Lutai.
…
Countless illusions were extinguished at that moment. Li Danqing looked in front of him in a daze, only to see a sword light rushing through the blood rain in the sky and piercing Gongsun Qiuyu's eyebrows. His figure stagnated, with a crazy smile on his face.
He froze, and his body fell straight to the ground.
In a trance, Li
Danqing saw a scholar nodding and smiling at him between heaven and earth. Li Danqing was inspired by him and nodded towards him.
But the next moment, the scholar completely dispersed and disappeared.
"It's over." Li Danqing looked at everything in front of him and murmured.
…
Three days later, in the city lord's palace in Beihe City, important officials from the three palaces and nine divisions gathered together.
The normally aloof city lord stood aside shivering, accepting turns of questioning from important officials of the three mansions and nine divisions.
A city was destroyed, more than 100,000 people lost their lives, and a sacred mountain rebelled. Such a terrible thing had never happened since the founding of the Wuyang Dynasty. Moreover, the eldest princess of the Wuyang Dynasty almost died here. The government and the public were shocked, and Ji Qi was furious.
, it is rare for three government departments and nine departments to jointly handle a case, and the momentum was so great that it was rarely seen since the founding of the dynasty.
Li Danqing, who had changed into a suit of brocade clothes, walked out of the city lord's mansion radiantly. Behind him, Xia Xianyin and Master Ji came with him. The guards around him wisely avoided him when they saw this.
"You really don't want to go back to Yangshan with me?" Li Danqing looked at Xia Xianyin and asked.
Xia Xianyin was a little reluctant, but still shook her head.
"When I finish the matter, I will definitely come to find you."
Li Danqing was a little helpless. He shrugged his shoulders and did not force himself after all, but then asked: "What about the marriage to Ying Li?"
Xia Xianyin looked at the anxious Li Danqing, and of course she knew what he was thinking. Her face turned red and she gave him a white look, and said, "Don't worry, I won't marry him."
"That's right! You have to give birth to more than a hundred of my son's children first. If you dare to start a rebellion and end up giving up, I will go to Wuyang City to snatch relatives and people!" Li Danqing said proudly.
road.
Xia Xianyin couldn't see Li Danqing's face the most, and said angrily: "When did it become more than a hundred? Isn't it a hundred?"
After hearing this, Li Danqing suddenly looked successful. He narrowed his eyes and said teasingly: "Okay! A hundred is a hundred! I also feel that any more will be a bit difficult for my old waist."
Xia Xianyin was stunned, and her face suddenly turned red. Then she realized that she had fallen into Li Danqing's trap. Wouldn't such a rebuttal be tantamount to admitting something?
She was about to retaliate, but Li Danqing looked at Master Ji at this moment, and smiled and cupped her hands towards her: "The mountains will remain green and the water will flow forever, you devil! Goodbye!"
After saying that, without giving Xia Xianyin a chance to refute, she turned around and ran away.
Xia Xianyin suddenly felt a little angry. He looked at the direction in which Li Danqing was leaving and stamped his feet. Before his anger could subside, Li Danqing ran ten feet away and shouted to her again: "Remember! It's one hundred."
indivual!"
"Don't wait too long, we won't live to be hundreds of years old!"
Xia Xianyin, who had just calmed down a little, turned red again. She looked at the other person's leaving back and gritted her teeth and said bitterly: "This bastard."
"He's very special, isn't he?" But at this moment, Master Ji on the side suddenly said.
Xia Xianyin was stunned and looked at the eldest princess beside her, only to see that the other party was looking up at Li Danqing's leaving back with eyes fixed on her, as if she was reluctant to leave.
Xia Xianyin seemed to feel something, and felt a little disappointed in her heart: "Yes... that guy is indeed special."
"Can't bear to leave? It's too late to leave now. I can tell the public that you died in Huajicheng." Master Ji raised her eyebrows and said with a hint of provocation in her tone: "That guy has a lot of misdeeds.
If you don't look at him, maybe there will be someone else next to him next time we meet."
Xia Xianyin was also aroused. She looked at Master Ji, her eyes not giving way to each other, and said: "Although we are not together, we are on the same path, so we will definitely see each other again."
"He didn't let me down, and I won't let him down either."
Master Ji looked at the girl with firm eyes in front of her, hoping to find some uncertainty, but the ending really disappointed her.
She smiled, said no more, turned around and walked towards the gate of the city lord's palace.
But at this moment, Xia Xianyin suddenly stopped Concubine Ji: "Eldest Princess!"
"Huh?" Master Ji looked at her and saw Xia Xianyin's face looking like she was hesitant to speak.
Master Ji came over understandingly and said with a smile: "Is it about Xu Lian?"
Xu Lian had disappeared since Wei Xiang's attack that day. Xia Xianyin had a close relationship with Xu Lian, so it was reasonable to be worried.
Xia Xianyin said: "Xu Lian's liaison with the Demon Cult is naturally an unforgivable crime, but there are thousands of people in the Xu family..."
Concubine Ji smiled at that time. She touched a letter in her arms. It was the money Xu Lian gave her to buy her life. Of course, she was buying the lives of thousands of Xu family members in Wuyang City. This
It was a very good deal, and what was recorded on the envelope was the name of the hidden stakes lurking in the Wuyang Dynasty in the Yongsheng Palace.
She said: "Don't worry, I know this."
"Xu Lian had an affair with the demon sect, and the Xu family did not know about it. The law does not punish everyone, and they are not in the way."
After hearing this, Xia Xianyin breathed a sigh of relief. At that time, he and Master Ji walked into the mansion. Before entering the mansion, he still didn't forget to look back at the guy's back who was about to disappear at the end of the street.
…
After successive battles, the entire Painted Halberd City was reduced to ruins, with countless ruins and broken walls piled up together, and tens of thousands of corpses buried underneath, making it look like a scene of purgatory on earth.
At this time, a figure dressed in white came slowly from not far away. He stepped on the surrounding ruins and walked all the way to the center of the battle.
The man in white looked around, and his eyes suddenly stopped at a certain place. Then he walked over, lowered his head and looked at his feet. At that time, he stretched out a hand, and a vague power wave swayed from his body.
, the ruins of the broken wall beneath my feet floated up at that time.
Next to it, the body of a man in green clothes lay quietly there. He was covered in filth and there were blood scabs on the corners of his mouth.
The man in white looked at him, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he said softly.
"Mr. Zhou, after the play is over, it's time to wake up."
The man in green clothes closed his eyes tightly, then suddenly opened them...