The Word of Heaven

Chapter 213 Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang, Love and Hate
The guest house was very quiet.

There was a long silence.

Chu Jun came to his senses and pushed the door open.

She walked around the guest house, her steps were very slow because she was serious.

Half a minute later, after she was sure that the Chi Yin Cult had not conducted in-depth surveillance on the guesthouse, she entered the room and stood in front of Gu Zhuo again, and said solemnly, "Isn't this a bit too rash?"

Gu Zhuo sat on a chair with a cup of hot tea beside him, looking relaxed and comfortable after being away for many days.

"Rash?" he said casually.

"I think it's very rash."

Chu Jun said slowly, "It shouldn't be so easy to divert the trouble to someone else. Have you ever considered that the Chiyin Cult might know that the barbarians are going crazy for you? If they reach a deal for you, wouldn't we be the turtle caught in the jar?"

Logically speaking, these words should not be said now. They are issues that should be sorted out before making the current decision.

However, due to her trust in Gu Zhuo, apart from the most basic doubts at the beginning, she did not think about the current situation at all, so the conversation happened at this moment.

Gu Zhuo took a sip of hot tea and said, "This possibility does exist, but it is not unacceptable."

Perhaps it was because the tea tasted good, his patience was the same as during the day.

"Most of the evil demons and heretics have problems with their souls and are crazy and insane. People like them are naturally not easy to accept the influence of the so-called heaven. Besides... the Chiyin Sect is simply looking for a mate."

"I once had a chance encounter with an elder of the Chiyin Sect. Although her aesthetic taste was not that great, her choice of mate was at least within human range."

"As we all know, the barbarians are not human, so it is unlikely that the Chiyin Cult has much communication with the barbarians."

Gu Zhuo put down his teacup with a leisurely look and said in a gentle voice: "So the risk of visiting the mountain is acceptable."

Chu Jun had nothing to say, because there was indeed a certain logic in this, that the barbarians were not human.

Gu Zhuo said: "I am only worried about one issue now."

Chu Jin looked at him and asked in confusion: "What is it?"

Gu Zhuo looked out the window and saw that the red clouds were still on the top of the peak under the night sky. He sighed and said, "What if the leader can't help but fall in love with someone else after meeting me and makes me sick?"

Chu Jun was speechless at first, but then he realized that this was very likely to happen, so he comforted her, "My master told me before that the people of the Chiyin Sect are very loyal, so you don't have to worry about this."

"Actually, it's okay to fall in love with someone else."

Gu Zhuo retracted his gaze, looked at his second disciple with concern, and said, "I am more worried about you now."

Chu Jun was silent.

The next moment, she recalled the hot and eager gazes she had felt while walking outside, and suddenly an extremely strong impulse and desire arose in her heart.

Not vomiting.

It's not disgusting.

Gu Zhuo's voice followed.

"You want to beat me up?"

"No."

Chu Jun denied it firmly, looked into his eyes, and said sincerely, "I just wanted to thank you."

"I thought you wanted to thank my whole family, but my whole family has long been extinct. If you want me to thank you on your behalf, you have to wait until I die and meet my own family."

Gu Zhuo spoke casually, his words were obviously a joke, and his good mood was particularly obvious.

Chu Jun sighed in his heart, and finally stopped thinking about those things and just let himself not care.

No matter what, compared with digging holes deep underground day and night before, at least she doesn't have to do that repetitive and boring work now. She has a place to sit down, a nice scenery to see, and even tea to warm her stomach. She is clean and no longer dirty.

These are obviously very good.

Why did she feel that it was better at that time?

Chu Jun felt disappointed.

Gu Zhuo said: "My injury won't heal for the time being."

Before leaving the mountains and the wilderness.

He didn't want to say these words because they were meaningless.

Chu Jun frowned and said worriedly, "Can the leader see it?"

Gu Zhuo said: "It depends on the extent of his injury."

"Aren't you worried?"

“Why worry about something I can’t change?”

“…Is this optimistic?”

"I won't be angry even if you say I'm a jerk."

Chu Jun sighed.

For some reason, she always felt that Gu Zhuo was very much like her peer, but at times he seemed like a senior, which made her feelings and sensations towards him more complicated.

She glanced out the window and saw that it was getting dark, so she decided to talk about something relatively pleasant.

"I actually care about something you said before, but I didn't ask at the time."

"Which one?"

"That's what I said. I don't understand why I am your second apprentice. This is actually a humiliation to me."

"It's not that complicated. In that story, the second apprentice is a pig, and he's quite fat."

Chu Jun looked confused, wondering how could it be a pig?

Gu Zhuo looked at her bewilderment, thought for a moment, and then said, "Don't take it too seriously. Even if you are really a pig, you are an unusual and unique pig, not a fat pig."

Chu Jun opened his eyes wide, his breathing became heavy, and he asked in a trembling voice: "I am a pig?"

No matter how stupid a person is, he could tell at this moment that she was extremely angry.

This was the first time in her life that she had such a clear relationship with this word, and she had every reason to be angry about it.

"I."

Chu Jun raised his hand, pointed at the tip of his nose, and asked word by word: "Pig?"

“This name is indeed not very nice.”

"So you knew that?"

Gu Zhuo was a little embarrassed. After thinking for a moment, he asked sincerely, "What do you think of the Pig in the Palm?"

There was deathly silence in the guest house.

The sound of the wind suddenly became noisy at night, passing through the silent formation and falling into the ears of the two people, like laughter, clearly a mockery.

Chu Jun raised his head and looked quietly into Gu Zhuo's eyes.

After a long while, the girl's lips opened and closed slightly, no sound came out of them, but it seemed as if she had said all the dirty words, then she turned and left, staying outside the guest house to look after the sky full of stars.

Gu Zhuo didn't care either.

He leisurely took a sip of hot tea, sighed contentedly, closed his eyes and waited for dawn.

……

……

Deep in the mountains, on top of a peak.

The sound of snow being trampled was heard, it was Yu Yang's heavy footsteps.

Against the cold wind and snow at night, he moved forward under the dim starlight and finally reached the top of the mountain.

The high priest had his back to him, his gaze fixed on something far away - there was a mountain that seemed to hide the setting sun, with sunset glow rising from it, lighting up the endless and silent rich night.

That peak is the mountain gate of the Chiyin Sect.

The voice of God once again rang in the high priest's heart, faint but real, pointing out the way forward for him.

In fact, he still didn't understand why that man had done something so outrageous that made God so concerned that he gave clear decrees one after another.

The high priest put aside his thoughts, his eyes still fixed on the mountain gate of the Chiyin Sect, and said to Yu Yang: "You are finally here."

Yu Yang looked at his empty left sleeve, was silent for a while, and said: "Because you gave me a reason to come."

The high priest asked, "Have you thought about it?"

Yu Yang said: "I am right."

The high priest fell silent upon hearing this and turned to look at him.

Yu Yang looked calm.

The wasteland is vast, and there are countless people there, who have been unable to be killed throughout history.

However, among these countless barbarians, the number of people who have reached their level is so rare that even the word "one in ten thousand" is not enough to describe it. It can even be said that the difference is so great that it cannot be measured.

Great barbarians like Yu Yang and the high priest naturally believe that they shoulder the heavy responsibility of leading the tribe forward - if there is a kind of ascension in the practice of barbarians, then this is their ascension.

This strong and lofty sense of responsibility, which they both knew well, made them rarely interfere in everything the other did, because both Yu Yang and the high priest knew each other's ultimate pursuit.

"I still disagree with you."

Yu Yang looked at the high priest and said, "Again, if God is a real being, why has my race been suffering for thousands of years, and God has remained silent?"

The high priest said seriously: "The time has not come yet."

Yu Yang said sarcastically: "I thought you were going to tell me that the sins of our clan have not yet been atoned for, and we must continue to worship devoutly for thousands of years."

The high priest ignored him and said, "The time is coming."

Yu Yang narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "What exactly do you want to do?"

The high priest said, “There is a man who needs to die.”

Hearing this, Yu Yang was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter.

He bent over with laughter, tears welling up from his eyes, as if he had heard a huge joke.

"Can you listen to what you are saying?"

"God asked you to kill a person?"

"What a ridiculous statement! The lives and futures of all the tribesmen who died in the past thousands of years and the countless tribesmen who are still living in this snowstorm are all tied to the life and death of one person."

"You're telling me now, as long as we kill that person, we won't have to fight for the sun with our blood anymore, and God will make the land under our feet bloom with spring and face the sea?"

"Don't you think this is ridiculous?"

"Have you been driven crazy by your own illusions?"

"How could such a person exist in the world?"

"If such a person really exists, then he can't possibly be a human being!"

The roaring sound continued to echo at the top of the mountain, shaking the snow around it and making it fly. It was an undisguised disdain and mockery.

Yu Yang looked at the high priest's eyes with curiosity and asked, "Don't you think what you are doing is ridiculous?"

From the first sentence to the current questioning, the high priest has always maintained his calm and his expression is unmoved.

“The right path is always lonely.”

He looked at Yu Yang and said, "I understand all the ignorance and confusion in this world."

Yu Yang was quiet for a moment, stopped laughing, and said, "Since you are sober and not ignorant, can you tell me who that person is? What kind of person can make God let you do such a thing of hunting and killing?"

The high priest said honestly, "I don't know."

Yu Yang continued, "If we really kill that man, what can God bring to our tribe?"

The high priest looked at him and said seriously: "This is not a transaction, but something we should do."

Yu Yang's smile gradually disappeared, and he asked seriously, "Do you still care about my people?"

The high priest said calmly: "This is also the question I wanted to ask you." Yu Yang was silent.

The high priest looked into his eyes and said slowly, "For your idea, countless casualties of our clan were caused, and in the end, we got a statue that has no practical significance. This is what you have been doing in recent years."

Yu Yang didn't say anything.

The high priest said: "No matter how you think I am stupid and hopeless, I have been keeping my people alive all these years, while you have been killing them. This is the biggest difference between you and me."

Yu Yang didn't want to listen any more and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

The high priest said calmly: "You should die."

Yu Yang was silent again.

The high priest said: "Your plan has reached the final step. After that day, everyone in the human world who should know will know what you created, and will intrigue against each other for it. Then, what is the point of you living anymore?"

Yu Yang said: "So I should atone for my sins."

"Atonement is only one of them."

The high priest looked at him quietly and said, "More importantly, I need your life to help me move forward and find a new possible existence for my people."

Having said that, there is almost nothing to say.

Yu Yang turned around, his eyes fixed on the depths of the thick night.

There is an incredible spring in the deepest part of the mountains, amidst the endless ice and snow. The clear lake reflects the blue sky, and the black soil contains the breath of life and hope.

Thinking of the land that haunted his dreams and the warm and comfortable sunshine, his mind gradually calmed down, and then he said, "I have a question."

The high priest looked solemn, and knowing that he was already wavering, he said, "Answer me if you know anything."

Yu Yang asked: "Who is that person?"

The high priest was silent for a long time, recalling the revelations he had received from God, those faint sounds of nature, and said, "Perhaps he is no longer a human being."

Yu Yang laughed and said, "Could he be the sky?"

The high priest had a complicated look in his eyes. It was unknown what he was thinking about. He said, "I don't think so. God's will can exist in the world, but God should never really exist."

"Because you are afraid of blasphemy."

"perhaps."

Yu Yang no longer dwelled on this.

He thought for a moment, then said to the high priest: "I promise you, because I am very curious about what kind of person deserves to be killed by the so-called God you believe in through the hands of mortals."

For some reason, the high priest felt that something was wrong, but he ultimately said nothing because he believed they had a common goal.

……

……

The next day, morning light arrived.

Until this moment, Chu Jun still hadn't taken even a step into the house, because she really didn't want to see Gu Zhuo's hateful face.

When the elder of the Chiyin Sect knocked on the door of the guesthouse and entered after receiving a response, he clearly saw the frost on her shoulders that had not yet faded. He was surprised but also happy.

"The leader has sensed something and has come out of retreat."

The elder said, "Please come and meet the two guests."

This sentence is very polite, without any hint of madness, just like a normal person.

Chu Jun nodded slightly, maintaining the necessary pride and indifference, and woke up Gu Zhuo.

After a long night's sleep, although Gu Zhuo's injuries did not ease at all, his spirit was much better.

After a simple wash with Taoist methods and brushing off the dust on their shoulders, Gu Zhuo and Chu Jun, the nameless master and disciple, headed to the top of the mountain under the leadership of the elder.

There's something to say on the way.

As a disciple and follower, Chu Jun certainly had no right to speak freely, so it was Gu Zhuo who spoke.

"Is there a female elder in your sect who likes to wear wedding gowns?"

"...Most people in our sect like to wear wedding gowns."

The elder smiled very kindly and said sincerely, "For example, in my cave, there are more than ten different wedding dresses."

Chu Jun was slightly startled when he heard this, and looked at the elder of the Chiyin Sect, once again confirming that he was a man, and definitely not a woman.

Gu Zhuo's expression remained unchanged as he said with admiration, "Your sect is truly extraordinary."

Chu Jun thought, this is clearly a sarcastic tone, right?
"Are you the fellow disciple of mine you want to meet?"

"I just remember that not long ago I personally witnessed the marriage of your fellow disciple and a girl. At that time, both of them burst into tears. I will never forget that scene."

"…Maybe I know who you're referring to."

The elder's expression became very strange. Thinking about the current situation of the two people in the words, he said in a complicated tone: "They... were indeed very moved. They are still very grateful to you to this day."

Gu Zhuo was very pleased and said, "That's good."

The elder hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you want to see them?"

"No need."

Gu Zhuo smiled gently and said, "It was just a chance meeting, and we just went with the flow. Now that I know they are doing well, why should we meet again?"

The more Chu Jun listened, the stranger he found the words. However, it was not convenient to ask at this time, so he could only suppress his curiosity.

There was no more words spoken all the way to the top.

Before reaching the top, the elder stopped and dared not take another step forward.

Ahead is the cave residence of the leader of the Chiyin Sect.

The fiery sunset glow that could be seen within a radius of nearly a hundred miles rose from here, silently demonstrating the power of the Chiyin Sect.

Gu Zhuo and Chu Jun walked into the cave.

It is called a cave, but in fact it is an extremely large stone platform with a three-story wooden building on it.

There was no one in front of the building. I walked around to the back and saw a new view.

There is a vast sea of ​​clouds and the sky is full of wind and snow.

There is a stone tower in the snow.

There was a nun sitting in front of the pagoda.

This nun is the leader of the Chiyin Sect.

Chu Jun looked at her back, thinking of what Taoist Zizai had said to him, and felt a strange mood.

Could it be that this person became a monk after Yingxu's death, with a dead heart?
Just at this moment, a hoarse and unpleasant voice sounded.

The nun from the stone pagoda.

"You are Yingxu..."

Her voice was slightly tearful, full of reluctance and sadness: "His apprentice?"

Gu Zhuo said calmly, "That's about right."

Chu Jun couldn't help but look at him.

Gu Zhuo thought that after all, they were master and disciple, so why bother about it so much.

The nun did not turn around.

However, the two people standing behind her had a vivid image of her crying silently in their minds.

Chu Jun was very surprised to find that this person's realm was even higher than rumored.

It is very likely that he has already entered the realm of enlightenment and is standing at the gate of enlightenment.

The next moment, Gu Zhuo's voice rang out.

"Congratulations, senior, for another breakthrough."

"Why are you so happy?"

The nun seemed to be deeply touched, her voice full of sorrow as she said, "As long as he can come back to life, I would rather not have this state of mind, even if my body and soul are destroyed."

Chu Jun was a little confused, wondering why this conversation was so normal?

This was completely different from what she had imagined last night when she was eating wind and drinking dew.

Gu Zhuo said: "Please accept my condolences, senior."

The nun closed her eyes, not wanting to let the tears flow, and asked, "Did he mention my name to you before he left?"

Before saying this, she obviously hesitated again and again, and finally mustered up the courage.

Chu Jun thought, should I say yes now?

Gu Zhuo answered without hesitation.

"No."

He said firmly: "I haven't mentioned you even once."

There was silence in the room.

The nun's crying has disappeared.

This magic master who has clearly entered the realm of enlightenment and is very likely one of the strongest in the wilderness is standing up, and his aura is no longer sad and sorrowful.

Chu Jun looked at Gu Zhuo.

Her eyes clearly expressed a question: Is this how you divert the trouble? Are you sure we won't be drowned by this trouble first?

Gu Zhuo looked at the nun's back and said seriously, "I don't like lying."

Chu Jun was speechless, thinking that what you said must be a lie.

Gu Zhuo continued, "Especially when it comes to the word love, I think you, the senior, need to be respected, and the respect I give you is the fact and the truth."

The nun was stunned.

For some reason, the snow and wind howled at this moment and rushed towards her, making her even more sad.

It's like countless past events came flooding back like a tide.

Gu Zhuo sighed and said, "But I don't think he has no memory of you."

Chu Jun thought that this was a bit too euphemistic.

If she had encountered such a bad thing and a weird demonic sect like the Chiyin Sect appeared in the world, she would definitely remember it for the rest of her life.

At this moment, she suddenly realized a problem - what is the relationship between Gu Zhuo and Yingxu?
Could it be that Yingxu is her extremely obsessed senior brother?
The nun came to her senses, but she was still unwilling to turn around. She said in a trembling voice, "Is this the truth that you came all the way here to tell me in person? Is this the truth that you want me to face with blood?"

Gu Zhuo said: "Yes."

The nun was silent for a while, then said sadly, "Why are you so cruel?"

Having said this, she finally stopped facing the stone tower and turned around.

It was a face that could not be described in words.

It has nothing to do with beauty or ugliness, because they are actually two faces.

One is the face of a nun, with thousands of changes, all of which are favorite.

One is the face of a monk, solemn and unchanging, full of hatred.

Whether it was love or hate, it all fell on Gu Zhuo's eldest disciple.

Chu Jun was a little stunned.

Gu Zhuo was unmoved. He sighed again and said, "I finally understand why he doesn't want you."

The leader stared into his eyes and asked, "Why?"

Gu Zhuo said honestly: "Because you are really ugly when you look like this."

(End of this chapter)