Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 766: What to do if you accidentally kill an emperor

Zhao Bing and his son were also fleeing. This time, no one helped them to fly. Only two Vajra Realm guards were left to protect the two men on their horses. However, they heard a cry of an eagle and the wind came. One of them was lifted up by the strong wind and shot through by feathers in the air. Another was hit by a thunderbolt that struck down from the sky. His face was black and his hair was burnt. He lay stiffly wrapped in smoke. Zhao Zhu, who had some martial arts skills, had only half of his sword in his hand when he was caught by a steel claw half a foot off the ground. Zhao Bing saw his son being captured and slapped him with his palm, but was broken by another steel claw. The sharp hook pierced his shoulder bone and flew into the air with a scream.

ji...

The eagle changed direction, grabbed the two of them and headed south, leaving the battlefield on the northern slope and approaching a saddle-shaped viewing platform protruding towards the She River on the outskirts of Longhu Mountain. In the middle stood a small pavilion called Guanbo Pavilion. Old Xu's eyes were fixed on the battlefield in the north, but Chu Pingsheng looked at Yu Youwei, who was standing next to an overturned carriage on the right bank of the She River and was drenched by the water, and Gongsun Xiushui from the Wu Family Sword Tomb with an amusement on his face.

Xu Fengnian and Li Chungang went up to Longhu Mountain and asked them to hide at the foot of the mountain to avoid being affected by the fighting on the mountain. But even if he did not attack Jiang Ni and others, the fragments of the Immortal Palace would fall into the river, and the people on the mudflats would definitely not feel good. Fortunately, they were located in the north of the upper reaches, not in the south where Wang Tongshan was located, so the losses they suffered were smaller.

Ning Emei and Helian Jianchi only had the hems of their gowns wet, their upper bodies were fine, and Jiang Ni was completely unharmed. Old Xu was surprised by this. Chu Pingsheng explained that Li Chungang took her to the Wu family sword tomb to observe swords, and regardless of whether she had actual combat ability or not, with her innate sword embryo physique, she should be able to master some sword-flying spells. As long as she could see quickly, she should have no problem taking off and avoiding the waves.

At this time, the princess of the fallen country was squatting behind a wet rock with the talisman in her hand, crying with her knees hugged. It seemed that she had inherited Li Chungang's sword art and was sad after knowing the result of this battle.

Chu Pingsheng shook his head and sighed. He was not moved by the friendship between this cheap female apprentice and his master, but he regretted not sealing Li Chungang's soul into the human skin drum like Qi Lianhua. However, in order to ripen the ginger mud as soon as possible and sharpen the sword, he could accept the escape of an old dog's soul.

"Sir, what should we do with these two people?"

Old Xu took Zhao Bing and Zhao Zhu from the big eagle. The Prince of Yanci had hidden an exquisite dagger inlaid with turquoise in his sleeve. He wanted to launch a sneak attack when Old Xu was distracted, but his right hand was cut off by the broken sword of King Su. His face was pale and he was groaning in pain.

"Kill him."

"and many more."

Zhao Bing begged for mercy: "Don't kill me, I can surrender."

"surrender?"

"That's right. I am the King of Yan, the hereditary king of the Zhao family. If I surrender, it will be a heavy blow to the Zhao family in Liyang. Zhao Chun and the officials will definitely become alienated. And if I surrender, the entire southern border will become yours. You can go west to Guangling Road, enter Western Chu, and look at Qingzhou. You can go east to Dongyue Road. As long as you cross the Guangling River, it will be a smooth journey to Tai'an in the north."

Chu Pingsheng laughed: "Is this still the Yan Ci King who is known as the most capable fighter among the five vassal kings? If those old ministers and meritorious officials heard this, they would be shocked."

Zhao Bing sat down limply, looking at his eldest son who was enduring the pain of losing his hand: "I... I'm old."

Chu Pingsheng said, "First of all, I promised Lu Xuanlang in Yangchun City that if he fought to the death with the imperial court, I would let Guangling Prince Zhao Yi and his Beikui Army, Yan Ci Prince Zhao Bing and 100,000 elite soldiers from Southern Xinjiang be buried with them. A man should not be dishonest, right?"

"Secondly, do you think I don't know what you are thinking? Southern Xinjiang is so big, and I don't have my own team. Even if you surrender to me, the local leaders are still under your control. If the situation changes in the future and you turn against me, I have no trump card to turn the tables. So, surrendering is just a delaying tactic."

Chu Pingsheng smiled slightly: "I once said to Wang Chudong, Beimang Huyan Daguan is one person and one sect, and I am one person and one country. What use do I have for your Southern Border? Just take it as you need it."

He waved his hand and said, "Kill him."

Without saying a word, Old Xu raised his sword and chopped it down. Puff! The future emperor in the original play was beheaded and his body was torn to pieces.

"Old Xu, let me tell you something exciting. The person you killed is the future emperor of the Liyang Dynasty."

The groom just grinned and said, "I don't think it's as satisfying as killing Beiliang people."

"Yeah, I also think killing Kitakura people is the most satisfying."

Zhao Bing saw that he could not escape, so he looked at the clouds and said, "Demon, you will not succeed, the punishment from heaven will come soon." "Do you mean the heavenly calamity or the people in the fairy palace?"

Zhao Bing was stunned when he heard this. Old Xu's broken sword had already fallen, the human skull rolled away, the body fell to the ground, and the blood stained the green hills.

"Aren't the Heavenly Tribulation and the Celestial Palace the same thing?"

Lao Xu's swordsmanship is not one of forcing things, but as he was a laborer in an oil mill a few months ago, it is naturally difficult for him to distinguish the relationship between immortals and heavenly calamity.

"So-called immortals? They are just a group of people who have cultivated their primordial spirits and know how to use magic to fish for the luck of the human world in the sky and collect incense to gain the ability of immortality. In essence, they are the same as the young eunuch in Tai'an City who survived by absorbing dragon energy. They are both imprisoned in a circle, but one is in the sky and the other is in Tai'an City. Why do you think Bei Zhenwu and Xi Baidi would rather suffer the so-called reincarnation than stay there? Apart from being able to live forever, what is interesting about the immortal palace compared to the human world? In this life, you can conquer thousands of miles of territory, in the next life, you can be a happy immortal, in the next life, you can fight all over the world and be respected by martial arts, and in the next life, you can have a love that will be passed down through the ages... Isn't this more interesting than boring and hard training in heaven? What's more, with their abilities, if they want to go back, they can go back in a few years if they are diligent."

"Dirty."

"It is quite dirty. For example, Wang Xianzhi claims to be in charge of Wudi City and guarding the Heavenly Gate, preventing immortals from coming to the mortal world. In essence, they have found good resources and do not want immortals to interfere with their playground as reincarnated immortals. It is said that the Heavenly Gate was opened because Liu Songtao slaughtered martial arts masters and royal nobles, and the masters of the same generation kept silent and allowed him to do evil. Therefore, they took their anger out on the earth and did not open it for 20 years, thus cutting off the way for immortality for cultivators in the mortal world. Is this really the case? It is just that the Central Yellow Emperor and the Southern Red Emperor allowed the reincarnated immortals in the lower world and the masters who pursue immortality in the mortal world to kill each other."

Chu Pingsheng said: "The so-called luck of the emperors in the court during the Spring and Autumn Period actually means that these emperors on earth were recognized by the heavens. It was a compromise made by the immortal group in the heavens to balance the power of internal factions, which was then reflected in the power structure of the human world. Zhao Huangchao could have ascended to heaven a long time ago, but why didn't he? What he said about living in seclusion and raising dragons to protect the Zhao family in Liyang was just a lie, because he didn't dare to ascend to heaven. Once he entered the heavens, his end would never be good."

Old Xu asked, "Why?"

"I remember telling you that Xie Guanying was a chess piece of the Blue Emperor. Everything he did was to help the Blue Emperor, who was reincarnated later than the White Emperor and Zhenwu, to gather luck and gain a foothold in the human world as soon as possible, so as to gain the ability to compete with the White Emperor and Zhenwu who had accumulated many lifetimes. Then why did Xie Guanying teach Zhao Huangchao the dragon-raising technique? And also gave him the dragon-trapping lock? It's very simple, because Zhao Huangchao was the first chess piece to resist the Immortal Palace's fishing in the human world."

Chu Pingsheng paused and said, "Back then, he used Xuanyuan Qingfeng's reincarnation to induce Liu Songtao to become a demon, wreaking havoc on the world, beheading the emperor, killing ministers, and shaking the interests of the immortal group in the world. Why didn't the martial arts masters at the time take action? It's very simple, because of interests. The immortals' grand strategy is to have good luck in the court, and someone promised them that their luck will be in the martial arts world in the future. Once they guide their luck into the martial arts world, they can easily advance to celestial and land immortals. But why would the head of Longhu Mountain rather sacrifice the golden lotus of Longchi's luck and ask the ancestor's clone to nail Liu Songtao to death?"

Old Xu said, "The immortal in heaven is furious and wants Liu Songtao dead. Zhao Huangchao also wants to make Liu Songtao, who has lost his value, unable to speak. Longhu Mountain made a deal with Zhao Huangchao. After the deal is done, Longhu Mountain will replace Wudang and become the state religion of Liyang?"

Chu Pingsheng smiled and said, "Old Xu, you have become smarter."

"It's all because of the good teaching of the young master."

Chu Pingsheng was not modest and continued, "The second chess piece in the rebellion against the Immortal Palace is the Yellow Dragon Warrior. Do you really think that just one person, a few prostitutes, a few words, and some vertical and horizontal techniques can provoke a war among the nine countries?"

"Who did that?"

"He was just a figure who lit the fuse. It was the Confucian scholars and officials from various countries who graduated from Shangyin Academy who set the stage for the trend."

"Zhang Fuyao?"

"That's right, Zhang Fuyao. An old monster who has enjoyed the fortune of Confucianism for 800 years and suppressed all Confucian scholars, would such a person only ask for peace in the world? Peace in the world? What is peace in the world? Peace is only when I am satisfied, and it is not peace if I am not satisfied. Those who have been in the court and lived for sixty or seventy years old can be called human elites. People like this who have the ability to be a king and a patriarch are naturally the best of the best. There is a saying that like father, like son. Why did Zhang Fuyao accept Huang Longshi as his apprentice? The biggest possibility is that Huang Longshi has a similar personality to him. Since Huang Longshi is a person who likes to play tricks, do you think Zhang Fuyao will be a good person?"

"So, the man behind this is Zhang Fuyao, the Confucian scholar?"

"That's right. Most of the immortals in heaven are ancient Qigong practitioners, wandering sorcerers, and Taoists. No one from Confucianism and Taoism has ascended to heaven in the past 800 years. If he wants Confucianism to dominate the world, the best way is to cut off the connection between heaven and earth and separate immortals forever. So there is Wang Xianzhi sitting in Wudi City, there is Qiyun entering the world, and there are Li Chungang, Deng Tai'a, Huang Longshi and other people as representatives of the trend of thought of refusing the gate of heaven and killing the immortals who come down to the world. What is momentum? What does it mean that the mighty trend of the world cannot be stopped? It's very simple. A trend of thought is recognized and accepted by the majority of people. To be hostile to it is reactionary, and Zhang Fuyao's Confucianism is a master at playing with trends of thought and brainwashing people."

Seeing Old Xu lost in thought, Chu Pingsheng continued, "Zhang Fuyao's Taoism is that no matter who sits on the throne, he must rely on his Taoist successors to maintain his rule. Xu Xiao, Gu Jiantang and other people who wantonly slaughtered aristocratic families are just a sharp knife in his hand. Without the guidance and control of the heavenly beings, those Confucian officials who hold power are just alternative immortals in this world. Besides, to be an emperor, one must follow the destiny of the world. In terms of destiny and opportunity, who in this world can be higher than the Green Emperor, the White Emperor, and the Zhenwu? Then the one who is recognized by them can be called the son of destiny."

Old Xu suddenly realized: "So the final result is that the throne will be taken by the reincarnated bosses in turn, and Confucianism will be the state religion forever? No wonder Xu Xiao killed so many people, his son is actually the reincarnation of Zhenwu. Young Master is right, the common people are just cattle and sheep in the hands of this group of people."

(End of this chapter)