The Word of Heaven

Chapter 266 I disagree
After the sound of the bell faded away, the Taoist body and soul did not completely collapse, and the pain that should have happened did not actually come.

Live and become a fact.

Death is over.

Only in the cold can one feel the warmth, and only after walking through the long night can one know the value of sunshine. Most things in the world are about contrast, including life and death.

Then, finding a way out of a desperate situation should be something worth being infinitely happy about.

Yu Sheng is not happy.

She looked at Gu Zhuo's calm smile, listened to the slightly hoarse voice, and suddenly wanted to close her eyes.

However, before closing her eyes, she seriously suppressed her impulse and did not let anything blur the world in front of her.

She really wanted to ask Dao Xiu the same question, because that was also what puzzled her, but...what was the point of asking now?

The dust has settled.

The annotations on the fortune book have dried up.

Yu Sheng was silent for a while, then looked at Gu Zhuo expressionlessly and said, "If you become ugly, I won't like you anymore."

As she said this, she held his hand even tighter, just as she had done when she killed him a hundred years ago.

Gu Zhuo smiled gently, looked at her and said, "But you don't look that good now, do you?"

Logically speaking, Yu Sheng had reason to be angry about this.

Even though she has always been a very generous person, she could still be unhappy when faced with such a strange statement, right?

No one expected her answer.

“So we are actually quite compatible now.”

Yu Sheng said this very seriously.

Gu Zhuo sighed and said, "Isn't it bad to go back and forth like this?"

Yu Sheng said: "Is there something wrong with liking you?"

Gu Zhuo thought about it seriously for a while, shook his head and said, "No."

Yu Sheng looked at him and said, "Isn't that enough?"

This conversation ends here.

Everything that needs to be said has been said. Even if I have to repeat it three thousand times, I will still turn around and leave. Why make myself feel reluctant?

The moment he finished speaking, Yu Sheng had already released his right hand.

Her palm landed silently on Gu Zhuo's chest. Her true essence ignored the Taoist meridians that had not yet fully stabilized, and her Taoist magic ignored the millions of cracks in his soul. It condensed into magical powers that were about to pour out.

Snapped!
There was a slight sound, as if a door was closed.

The cold wind came slowly, like his hand running through her black hair.

Yu Sheng's waterfall-like black hair fluttered up.

Gu Zhuo still stayed where he was.

After a moment of silence, Yu Sheng put down his hand and asked seriously, "Do you want to die?"

Gu Zhuo said calmly: "I have already said it just now, I will not die."

Yu Sheng didn't say anything else.

The daylight had long since faded, and the place was no longer bright and clear, and one could see things.

Those people who are in front of Weiyang Palace at this moment are already the strongest people in the world, and their realms are all very high.

How could they not see that Yu Sheng's palm strike without any warning was not to kill Gu Zhuo, but to make him leave, to go thousands of miles away.

However, in the end, nothing happened. It was like thousands of trickles of water that finally converged into a stream. When the waves rushed for thousands of miles and were about to enter the sea with difficulty, they suddenly encountered a cliff thousands of feet high and shattered into white foam, leaving nothing behind.

This is the fact. Yu Sheng wants Gu Zhuo to leave, but he is powerless.

Gu Zhuo looked at Yu Sheng and said, "It's time for you to go."

Yu Sheng had no expression on his face.

The next moment, Gu Zhuo did the same thing to her.

His right hand fell on her chest, and the breath of Tiandiheng instantly enveloped her, and he said seriously: "Don't try to come back."

Yu Sheng looked extremely cold and said, "I really hate the way you handled this matter. Do you think I'm the kind of boring and foolish woman in a play who doesn't even know what I'm doing?"

Gu Zhuo shook his head and said, "I never thought that you didn't know, but it's precisely because you know what you are doing that I don't want you to do it."

Yu Sheng looked into his eyes and said in a deep voice: "You are selfish to do this."

Gu Zhuo smiled and said, "Sorry, I am such a selfish person."

This is what Yu Sheng said not long ago.

Perhaps because he thought that repeating the same words back would easily make people angry, Gu Zhuo quickly stopped smiling.

"Do not be angry."

"Why?"

Yu Sheng's voice was extremely cold.

Gu Zhuo thought about it, but still couldn't think of a solution. He couldn't just kiss her at this time, right?

"Feel sorry."

As these two words came out, true energy poured out from the palm of his right hand.

Yu Sheng was forced to step back. The cold wind followed some kind of will, lingering around her, wrapping her in an invisible cocoon and preventing her from moving even a little.

Only when she reached the vermilion palace wall did she stop.

Pei Jinge looked towards Gu Zhuo.

Gu Zhuo said seriously: "It's troublesome."

Pei Jinge didn't say anything, but picked up Yu Sheng slowly and seriously.

Then she lowered her head and said, "Don't be angry."

Yu Sheng said expressionlessly: "I just think he is stupid."

Pei Jinge thought, why bother deceiving yourself like this.

"It's a stupid thing to do, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it."

She hugged Yu Sheng and walked away, saying seriously: "If it were me, it would be hard not to fall in love with this kind of stupidity."

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……

Several eyes fell on the White Emperor.

From a certain perspective, Yu Sheng's previous choice was a betrayal, no matter how many reasons she had to do so.

The White Emperor looked at Pei Jinge as he walked away, without any emotion in his eyes.

Whether shocked or sad.

His expression was calm, almost indifferent, and looking deep into his face, one could see fatigue.

Perhaps it was just like he said not long ago, compared to that summer festival, all that was left today was a heavy feeling of boredom.

"The master is right."

The White Emperor suddenly said: "When the will of heaven appears, the world will understand that it is the will of heaven."

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The master of the temple said a lot of things today. Perhaps all the other immortals combined could not compare to him. However, the two words that appeared most frequently in his words were "God's will", which meant that God's will will eventually appear.

But no one expected that God's will would eventually appear in this way.

The White Emperor stood with his hands behind his back, looked at Gu Zhuo and said, "I acknowledge the existence of Heaven's Way, but I have never been afraid of it. I always believe that I can defeat it in battle."

The self-reference in the words is no longer "I", but "Zhen".

That means he is now the Emperor of Qin.

"Until you stepped forward, I never thought that Heaven would leave me with such a difficult problem."

The White Emperor raised his head and looked at the sun after the clouds dispersed.

I don't know when, but the winter day has reached its zenith and it is noon.

He retracted his gaze and said to Gu Zhuo, "My sister and I are as close as brothers. I hope she lives a long life. How can I not be grateful to you for saving her? However, I must kill you and repay kindness with enmity, because I am the monarch of the Qin Dynasty."

It was quiet in front of the Weiyang Palace.

"At the moment when my sister landed that palm on me, I even thought that it would be fine if we stopped here today." The White Emperor's voice was full of fatigue: "But you chose to stay after all."

Gu Zhuo didn't say anything.

In fact, he had a lot to say.

For example, if I leave, how will you face Yu Sheng? Can you turn a blind eye to the blood ties that are thicker than water and the fact that we have stood side by side countless times over the past hundred years?

If you can't do it, should you thank me at this moment?
Perhaps these words cannot shake the White Emperor's will, nor change what will happen next, but they can ultimately shake his determination.

That's enough.

The White Emperor looked into Gu Zhuo's eyes, and all the tiredness and exhaustion disappeared. After a moment of silence, he said, "No matter why you made this decision, the fact is already like this... Then die."

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After the bell rang, countless people from the God City died in that quiet world, shocking even Wan Shouyi, a truly powerful man who was only one step away from attaining enlightenment.

But this is only the echo of the morning and evening bells.

The truly terrifying bell sound was heard under the sky, in front of the Weiyang Palace.

In the end, Yu Sheng did not step into the night.

This is the greatest significance of the ringing of the bell.

However, the rest of the people here are still inevitably affected by the morning and evening bells, which is the inevitable passage of life under the turning of the sky.

Otherwise, why would Daoxiu say that we will all die here?
When a person is about to die, the most important thing is of course to die without regrets, without having to look back on the past in the last moment of life, with only regret and shame left behind.

Dao Xiu's voice rang out.

“Can there be Buddha in the world?”

This sentence sounded very inappropriate, but he said it very seriously and there was no sign of joking in it.

Then everyone understood what he meant.

The White Emperor said, "Of course."

Dao Xiu sat cross-legged, picked up a flower that came from nowhere, smiled and said, "Then I have no objection."

The sunlight passed through the hole in his chest, leaving a golden glow, making his flesh and blood look bright.

The monk, who looked like a child, looked at Gu Zhuo with complicated eyes and recalled many past events.

In Yuangou Temple, the sky is filled with Buddhist light, covering the Zen room by the lake.

Gu Zhuo, who was sitting next to him, was clean and bloodless.

At that time, he had thousands of puzzles and tens of thousands of inferences, but in the end he was wrong.

But... who could have thought that the truth would be like this?
Things in this world are too absurd.

Dao Xiu put away his thoughts.

Next, there was only one thing he wanted to do - to live until Gu Zhuo died and recite sutras for him, the Sutra of Rebirth.

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Si Zhu looked at Gu Zhuo and said seriously, "Last summer, I asked you what Yingxu was like before he died. Can you tell me now?"

Gu Zhuo said: "If I remember correctly, you just promised her that you would die."

The director's voice was unexpectedly calm, not like that of a dying man at all.

"The moment I stepped into the capital, I never thought about living beyond today."

"Throughout my life, I have made countless decisions that went against my own heart. Sometimes I wonder why I was able to enter the realm of immortality. I also wonder if I can go further on the path of cultivation if I can be single-minded and not deceive myself."

"This is a question that has troubled me all my life. However, it is this puzzlement that makes Yingxu and I become rare close friends, because I really admire his ability to do what he wants to do regardless of the consequences."

"Perhaps this is why I am increasingly curious about what choice he will make between life and death, and whether he will give up the truth he longs for. Perhaps this is why I must let him die."

"Looking back now, this idea is somewhat ridiculous. If it were to happen again... perhaps many things would have different results."

The Master said: "This is my true thought."

The White Emperor listened quietly without saying a word.

No matter how obscure some words are, their meaning cannot be hidden.

As long as Gu Zhuo nodded at this moment and said the words that Yingxu said before his death, whether they were true or false, I think the Master would be willing to do something for him.

It's just a lie, that's all.

Gu Zhuo smiled, and his smile was very gentle.

The sunlight fell into his eyes, no longer as vast as the sky, but with real emotions.

He said: "This is not a request for forgiveness."

The Sizhu nodded and said, "Time cannot really go back. No matter how much regret I have, for me it is just the emotion after I have finished the task."

Gu Zhuo asked: "So what is this?"

The Sizhu said calmly: "It is my reconciliation with myself."

Gu Zhuo looked at him, shook his head and said, "Reconciliation is never a one-person thing. It always requires a response from the other party, and I will not give you the answer you want, whether it is false or true."

The director was silent for a moment and asked, "Why?"

Gu Zhuo answered very seriously.

"You have lived your life so unsteadily, always walking between the two sides of the river, for both state affairs and personal revenge. It should be the same after your death... This is not what I want to tell you."

"There's only one reason why I'm not telling you."

He said calmly, "I don't want to see any chance of you dying contentedly."

The boss still asked those three words: "Why?"

Gu Zhuo said: "Yingxu is my eldest disciple."

No one can deny this reason.

The master said nothing more.

His eyes were a little haggard, but just like what he said, there was no regret at all.

He turned around, bowed to the White Emperor, and said, "Your Majesty, thank you for waiting."

The White Emperor turned a deaf ear to it.

Then, the chief priest walked up to Wang Ji.

Wang Ji was silent for a long time.

Long before the sound of the bell faded away, he had not spoken again and just watched coldly.

Just as he had done a hundred years ago.

Whether it was Yu Sheng being able to live again or Gu Zhuo revealing the truth about the Heavenly Punishment, it did not cause him to have any unnecessary emotions.

It was like it had nothing to do with him.

In fact, what he was going to do was successful the moment the bell rang.

The White Emperor cannot live forever.

Maybe five years, maybe ten years, no longer than fifty years, you will die in the end.

Yishui Sword will not be a slave.

So he has nothing to ask for.

At this moment, Si Zhu stood in front of him, just in case, and also for another simple reason.

In the eyes of the world, in the eyes and hearts of every powerful immortal in front of the Weiyang Palace, only His Majesty the Emperor is qualified to kill Gu Zhuo, and no one should interfere.

"You deserve to die."

The White Emperor looked at Gu Zhuo, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Do you have any last words? I will tell them for you."

As he finished speaking, an inexplicably sharp and piercing sound was heard in front of Weiyang Palace.

Along with it came another sentence, which was a bit light and comfortable.

Just like the fog on the island in Yishui that occasionally dissipates, bringing in gusts of river breeze after the sun shines.

"You said you wanted him to die. Sorry, this matter..."

Wang Ji looked at the White Emperor and said with a smile: "I disagree."

(End of this chapter)