The Word of Heaven

Chapter 278 The whole world is shocked
Outside the mountain path, below the pavilion.

The sun is shining here.

The chief looked at the drizzle that never stopped and the dead silence in Jilou City, his eyes remained unchanged.

“Everything went just as you would expect.”

The Sky Patrol expert said with a trembling voice: "It is impossible to kill the Demon Lord in today's siege."

The chief said gently, "So you want to know why I allowed this to happen and allowed those people to do whatever they wanted to gather the people together just to set up an array?"

This trusted subordinate of his held an extraordinary position in the Sky Patrol Division, second only to Pei Jinge and Qing Xiaoyue in the past years, but he did not have a formal name, only a nickname.

——Seven links.

The meaning of this nickname is very direct, referring to the fact that he has all the senses, has extremely profound attainments in perception, and is particularly good at spying on the true and false of others.

"Yes."

After hesitating for a moment, Qi Tong lowered his head and said, "I want to know the reason behind this."

The chief said, "Because I never thought he was a bloodthirsty person."

Qi Tong was stunned.

There was no mockery in the voice of the Sizhu: "Although he is called the Demon Lord, it does not mean that he likes killing people. If he does not like killing people, there would not be a river of blood in Jiluo City today. Why should I stop it from happening?"

Hearing this, Qi Tong looked confused and muttered to himself, "But isn't the purpose of the Sky Patrol to prevent things like this from happening?"

The chief said with an unchanged expression: "No one in this world knows everything. At this moment when you and I are talking, there must be people suffering injustice in the vast territory of Daqin. No one can prevent such things from happening forever."

Qi Tong came to his senses, looked at him and said, "But this is not a reason for us to sit idly by."

“Because there is no reason to stand aside and watch.”

The chief looked towards Jiluo City again and said, "The Sky Patrol Department should focus more on those things that need to be stopped, and ignore them appropriately at a moment like today. Do you understand?"

Qi Tong was speechless.

The chief said, "And isn't the ending good now? The corrupt officials were tortured to death in public, and the trash from the noble families and sects were beaten into dust. I believe the people of Ji Luo will be very satisfied with what happened today."

"After all, not many people die while witnessing such a grand event. It's enough to be a topic of conversation for others to brag about for the rest of their lives."

He smiled and said, "Isn't it?"

The sun was shining brightly, but Qi Tong's body became stiff.

The chief ordered, "It's just that you will be busy because of this excitement."

Qi Tong found that his lips and tongue were a little dry, and his voice became difficult: "What do you mean?"

"What happened in Jiluo must not be spread."

The Sizhu looked at him and said, "The news needs to be blocked because the people who come later need courage."

Qi Tong was silent.

The Director was indifferent and continued, "I remember that Zhao Qi and Nan Zong are both in Cangzhou. They will meet Gu Zhuo soon. Let's try to get these two to take action..."

I couldn't continue the conversation.

Qi Tong interrupted him, his eyes dazed and confused, and asked: "But didn't you say in front of Weiyang Palace that day that you wanted to save all living beings? Are those who died today and along the way no longer living beings?"

The Sizhu smiled, his smile as warm as the sun, and said, "Of course they are all sentient beings. This is a fact that no one can deny."

"But like I said before, there are always some people in this world who we cannot save, so someone must sacrifice himself in the process of saving sentient beings. I think this is a very simple truth."

The old man, who exuded a rotten smell, had a calm look in his eyes and said honestly: "The Demon Lord is the most remarkable practitioner in the past thousand years. Even if he is no longer the Taoist master of the past, I don't have absolute confidence that I can kill him. In order to be absolutely safe, I must just watch from the sidelines. This is why I am still unwilling to take direct action until today."

Qi Tong's voice became very hoarse, and he shook his head and said, "But, I think these sacrifices are what His Majesty the Emperor does not want to see."

The chief smiled slightly and said, "Of course His Majesty will not like this, because he is a very proud person. If he hears about what happened today, he will definitely deny it, so he does not need to know all this now."

Qi Tong was silent again.

After an unknown amount of time, he looked up at his superior and said seriously, "What happened in Jiluo City cannot be concealed forever."

How could the boss not understand the meaning of the words?
"It does not matter."

"why?"

Qi Tong still looked into the old man's eyes, his tone becoming more and more determined.

The Sizhu looked at him, smiled with some emotion, and said: "The important thing is, as long as the blood can make Gu Zhuo expend a little energy, it will not be in vain. As long as the Demon Lord is killed in the end, all these sacrifices will be worth it."

Qi Tong said: "And then?"

The Sizhu smiled and said, "Then after the Demon Lord dies, His Majesty the Emperor will accept these sacrifices as the price and will not pursue them... This should be what you think I am thinking now."

Qi Tong lowered his head, licked his increasingly dry lips, and said, "That's right."

The Master said: “So you are wrong.”

Qi Tong subconsciously looked up at him, wanting to find out the truth.

"I will eventually die when the Demon Lord dies..."

The chief smiled no more, his eyes were calm and peaceful, he said: "With those who died today, and those who left yesterday, we will step into the Yellow Spring side by side."

Qi Tong didn't say anything else.

Yes, of course he can continue to accuse that this is not a matter of sacrificing others, and that is definitely not what the Sky Patrol should do.

However, now that the Master has decided to give up on himself in order to seek the maximum possibility, how can secular rules become a cage in front of him?
What's more, the vast majority of people in this world, those who are qualified to try to kill Gu Zhuo, do not think that what happened in Jilou City today should not have happened, and they all think that this was a worthwhile attempt.

So is this the trend?
Qi Tong didn’t know, he just felt that the Demon Lord who was in Ji Luo City at this moment... might be lonely.

“Just do what needs to be done.”

The voice of the Sizhu sounded again: "We still have a long way to go to kill the Demon Lord, and many people have to bravely sacrifice for this."

After saying this, the no longer young man dragged his rotting body out of the pavilion and continued his journey eastward.

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It has been raining, and the atmosphere is not harmonious.

Blood and minced meat mixed together and slowly flowed in all directions with the rain, exuding a sense of death.

Gu Zhuo raised his head and said goodbye to the sky.

The cold rain washed his eyes, but it couldn't wipe away the tiredness.

He reached out his hand and smoothed the slightly damp hair behind his shoulders, revealing his pale face no longer.

The butcher knife was still held in his hand, but he never dropped it because there were gaps on the blade.

The wild wind had long gone, and Ji Luo in the rain was inexplicably calm in the blood.

Gu Zhuo looked at the plum blossom in full bloom by the roadside.

He threw the butcher knife away casually, and it landed on the crotch of the Palace Master of the Tide God Temple, bringing out a hoarse and low roar, which was not deafening because his throat had long been weak.

In countless sights.

Gu Zhuo, with his clothes slightly wet, turned to face the people standing on the long street, behind the windowsills, and beside the brick walls, with no emotion in his eyes.

The next moment, the deathly silence in Jilou City was broken.

The voices of fear began to ring out.

"Devil, no... just a madman!"

"How could there be such a person?"

"How can you kill someone like this!"

"No, no, we have to go quickly."

The people standing in the pool of blood looked at the man in black, and at the dignitaries lying naked on the ground, thinking that even the adults whom they respected the most in their daily lives ended up like this... At this moment, many people actually developed a strange empathy of the loss of a rabbit and the grief of the fox.

Yes, even people like the governor and the Chaosheng Palace Master ended up like this, shouldn’t the fate of ordinary people like us be even more miserable?

Then some people found that there were dead people next to them, their limbs were twisted, their finger bones were broken through the flesh and blood, and their faces were dirty... So people became more convinced that their own views were the facts, and they didn't realize that these people were actually trampled to death by millions of different footprints.

These thoughts were so real, appearing in the hearts of every citizen, and the fear could no longer be suppressed.

In Gu Zhuo's eyes, the sea of ​​people suddenly dispersed.

Those who were once brave enough to disregard life and death no longer had the courage to stay. In the chaos, they began to flee desperately, using their hands and feet to escape, pressing on others' shoulders, and stepping on others' bodies to escape.

The picture is so confusing.

Crying comes from despair.

The crying drowned out the sound of rain.

Either panic, or wailing, or numbness...the same thing is fear.

Gu Zhuo looked at those ordinary people who lived like ants. There was no emotion in his eyes and his mood became colder.

He closed his eyes, hiding the tiredness that could no longer be hidden.

The wind blew, bringing cold rain through the long street, falling on the people who were about to die in the chaos according to his will, saving the lives of these ultimately innocent people.

At this moment, a heavy gasping sound was heard behind Gu Zhuo.

"What kind of rumors do you think will be spread after today?"

"I can tell you that no one will know what you did today. The kindness you showed, these extremely stupid idiots will only keep telling the people they know that you killed people without blinking an eye, killing people from one end to the other, and leaving a river of blood."

"So everything you do is meaningless, do you understand?"

The voice suddenly became extremely high-pitched, with great mockery and sarcasm, and laughed wildly: "So you are no different from those idiots. No, you are even more stupid than them!"

Gu Zhuo turned a deaf ear to it.

The person who spoke was not the governor of Ji Luo, but the master of Chao Sheng Temple.

He endured the excruciating shame and pain and pulled the butcher knife out from under his crotch.

The blood that should have flowed had already been shed. As the blade left, some pieces of meat fell off, but there was not much blood to be seen. It was really not much different from the pork on the chopping board.

The Chaosheng Palace Master dragged his body, which had been cut into pieces, and stood up with great strength. He stared at Gu Zhuo's back with his only remaining eye and cursed in a hoarse voice: "What happened today will definitely not be the last time. You will definitely die in your own stupidity! You don't even dare to kill people. I have never seen an idiot as ridiculous as you!"

Gu Zhuo opened his eyes.

It was not because of the curse that contained resentful meaning, but because the crowd on the long street was about to disperse and he did not need to waste any more energy.

He turned around and looked quietly at the Chaosheng Palace Master, at those so-called big shots who were about to die, at the fear and hatred that were so clear to them, but he said nothing, let alone drew his sword to kill.

Silence is the greatest contempt.

The Chaosheng Palace Master became even angrier, and the others began to get angry too. Foul words flew along with the drizzle, making it unbearable to hear.

Gu Zhuo walked toward the long street and brought back a chestnut horse with impure fur from somewhere.

The sound of horse hooves trampled the blood-stained puddles. He put on a hat that he picked up to keep out the rain, which also covered the sky.

The bigwigs in front of the city gate tower were at a loss, watching the horse passing by them, wondering if this was the end of their day.

Why did you kill so many people? Why didn't you kill us? Then someone thought in confusion, maybe living like this is the greatest pain?

After this thought came to mind, these people who seemed to have the most dignity in their daily lives began to want to die, but they were unable to commit suicide because they did not want to die after all.

The only exception is Palace Master Chao Sheng.

Standing in the rain, he looked at the Demon Lord riding on his horse with disdain and sarcasm, then he grasped the butcher knife in his hand and wiped it towards his throat without any reluctance, because he could not accept living like this.

However...the blade ultimately failed to reach his throat.

when.

The butcher knife fell from the hands of Chaosheng Palace Master, colliding with the blue bricks and stones, splashing up gravel.

He opened his eyes wide, looked at his hands that were completely out of control, and shouted in shock and anger: "What did you do to me? Why can't I kill myself!"

Gu Zhuo remained silent, and the sound of horses' hooves remained.

Everything is silent.

Death is both a relief and a gift.

So I will let you live in the most painful way.

The chestnut horse was submerged in the darkness of the city gate, and the sound of its footsteps gradually faded away.

Palace Master Chaosheng was stunned as he watched Gu Zhuo's back disappear from his sight.

After a moment, he fell to his knees, crying bitterly.

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"Can you... still hold on?"

"If you keep doing this, you'll really die."

"Die before you become us."

"I know you don't want to be transformed into a completely inhuman existence, but you have to stay alive first, right?"

"There is hope only when you are alive!"

Walking in the cold wind and rain, Gu Zhuo was not really lonely.

Nothing in the world has ever abandoned him.

If not, how could Ji Luo have just encountered that light rain, allowing the formation of Chao Sheng Temple to take shape and then be destroyed in an instant?

Gu Zhuo stretched out his hand, caught some rain water in his palm and put it into his lips to relieve the dryness in his throat.

"If I never think about dying, I won't die."

His voice was a little low: "So you can rest assured."

The words were harsh, without any soft meaning, and they failed to bring joy, but no one blamed him.

The heavy tiredness like a mountain is real, and it would be too much to force gentleness at this time.

A beam of sunlight broke through the dark clouds, passed through layers of rain curtains and fell on Gu Zhuo. The scene was sacred and solemn.

Unlike the bright moon after nightfall, the sun is always silent regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter.

Silence does not mean inaction, it has been taking care of Gu Zhuo in its own way.

It is the warm sunshine in winter, the fiercely burning evening fire after stepping out of the river, the sunshine that reflects the beautiful scenery in front of you in the afternoon of a certain day... and even the dazzling light that happens to fall into the eyes of an enemy.

So when it spoke after a long absence, everything was silent.

"That little girl is almost at the capital, so you don't have to work so hard anymore."

Gu Zhuo lifted his bamboo hat, looked at the quiet official road ahead without any smoke or dust, and closed his eyes comfortably in the sunshine.

The black shirt stained with blood and rain was covered with a faint luster, like divine light, extremely holy.

He said, "Then I can take a break for a while."

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Under the same sky, the sun is shining brightly in the capital.

Xie Yinglian was also riding a horse and wearing a bamboo hat.

During these days, her journey, which should have been bumpy, was unexpectedly smooth, and she did not encounter even a single attack from beginning to end.

It was not because the Sky Patrol Department did not take her seriously, or because the Xie family was pardoned from the death penalty, but because Gu Zhuo attracted the attention of the entire world with her undisguised whereabouts.

How could Xie Yinglian not guess the specific intention?

She couldn't understand why Gu Zhuo did this, but she liked this approach very much, because it was truly making an enemy of the world and was worthy of her admiration.

The gate of the capital city was right in front of us. The soldiers guarding the city were carefully checking the passes of every person entering the city to ensure that there were no mistakes, so a long queue formed outside the city.

Under the gaze of everyone, Xie Yinglian did not rein in his horse but continued to move forward.

But in the blink of an eye, a strong man from the City Gate Department rushed over and looked at the woman in the luxurious long dress with an expressionless face.

Just as the general was about to speak, a clear and proud voice sounded first.

From Xie Yinglian's lips.

"The Demon Lord asked me to bring a message to this world."

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In a very short period of time, the already peaceful capital of God was plunged into chaos second only to the winter solstice. The sound of countless horse hooves rang out on the long street like a torrential rain, falling into everyone's ears, carrying the latest news.

Before this, a strong man from the City Gate Department ignored the laws of the Great Qin, leaped into the air at the fastest speed and rushed to the imperial city to deliver Xie Yinglian's intentions to the imperial study.

At the same time, the Sky Patrol Department and officials from several government offices gathered together to look through every file that recorded the three words "Xie Yinglian", in an effort to find out all the interactions between her and Gu Zhuo, and then search for the secrets hidden therein.

The entire city was no longer peaceful. Countless people were busy with this, with anxiety evident on their faces.

All this was just a few words from Xie Yinglian.

She said that Gu Zhuo wanted to say something to the world.

The whole world was shocked.

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Xie Yinglian was not stopped, and neither was the horse she was riding.

Zhuque Avenue was deserted, and all government departments were asking civilians to return home at an unprecedented speed and not come out again.

On both sides of the avenue, practitioners from the Sky Patrol were on high alert. In the distance, it seemed that heavy cavalry in black armor were waiting for orders and could launch a charge at any time.

A clear light was faintly visible in the sky above the divine capital shrouded in sunlight.

——That was the Divine Capital Formation that had not yet been completely restored.

This is almost the same scene as on the winter solstice.

Of course, all this has nothing to do with Xie Yinglian.

It's just about the sound of the bell.

Related to Gu Zhuo.

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The place where the two sides met was not in the imperial study, nor in front of the Weiyang Palace, but in front of the square of the imperial city.

The prime minister who was seriously injured in the Weiyang Palace incident is now bedridden, the chief minister is away on a mission to kill the Demon Lord, and the three generals representing the Qin military are not in the city at the moment. Apart from the White Emperor himself, only the Empress is qualified to respond to this sentence.

So here she comes.

The Queen Mother has an unparalleled appearance and a high level of spiritual attainment. She has been admired by all women in the world for many years.

Xie Yinglian was not surprised either.

In fact, this was not the first time she met the Queen.

After winning first place in that summer festival, the Weiyang Palace held a dinner as usual. That night she received a word of encouragement through the pearl curtain.

She was a very proud person, so of course she wasn't excited about this, but she felt inexplicably familiar with it.

Until today, Xie Yinglian finally understood why he had such a feeling at that time.

"turn out to be……"

She looked into the Queen's eyes, and saw the most ruthless indifference in her gentle eyes. She said with deep emotion: "You and I are actually the same kind of people."

On the way to meet Xie Yinglian, the conclusion drawn by the Sky Patrol had already appeared in the hands of the Queen Mother, so she understood what this sentence meant.

——Gu Zhuo once said to this girl, "You are sick."

The Queen certainly would not repeat these four words, nor would she be angry about it. She smiled and said, "I don't think this is what he asked you to bring from afar."

Xie Yinglian smiled back and said, "Of course not."

The Queen Mother asked, "What is that?"

Xie Yinglian said: "I heard that a disciple named Chen Chi from Chaotian Sword Palace was captured."

Countless eyes fell on the girl, and many officials remembered a fact that was about to happen.

——Chen Chi will be subjected to Ling Chi today.

The Queen continued to smile, as if she knew nothing about it, and said nothing.

Xie Yinglian had already dismounted.

At this moment, she stood in the gaze of thousands of people, facing the sun with her hands behind her back.

She looked extremely comfortable. There was not a trace of timidity in her eyes, only happiness.

She didn't care about the Queen's silence, and smiled and said, "That's a very simple sentence."

The Queen Mother said, "Please speak."

Xie Yinglian sighed and said, "But I still think that sentence is too complicated, too troublesome, too sour, and too meaningless, so I will change to a more direct way to say it, so that you can understand what he means."

The Queen raised her eyebrows slightly, as if she finally felt that the woman in front of her was interesting and not someone who lingered on vulgarity.

Xie Yinglian said honestly: "He said this for his friends because he didn't want to be threatened..."

"So who dares to lay a hand on his friend?"

The girl turned around, no longer looking at the Queen, smiled sweetly at the world, and said, "Then prepare to have your whole family die."

(End of this chapter)