The Word of Heaven

Chapter 285 How to Save All Living Beings

The voice of the Sizhu fell into the ears of everyone.

The long street was silent.

If what he said is true, the Demon Lord has already transformed the heaven and earth and become one with all things, and all this is just to kill the Lord Si today.

For Master Si, even if he eventually dies at the hands of the Demon Lord, this is still the greatest honor in the world.

After realizing this fact, for some reason, the people present suddenly felt an uncontrollable and strong discomfort.

the reason is simple.

The master is not worthy.

Yes, he is indeed one of the most remarkable figures in the past hundred years. He played an important role in the Qin Dynasty's entry into the second millennium. The current prosperity is inseparable from him.

From a certain perspective, Her Royal Highness the Princess, who had almost retired after the White Emperor had repaired the broken country, did not contribute as much to the Qin Dynasty as he did... But no one still felt that he deserved all of this tonight, and deserved this grand farewell.

There are many reasons.

For example, no matter how hard the Sizhu worked, he could not change the fact that he was not the one who really decided the direction of the situation - the incident in Weiyang Palace did not count; for example, the Sizhu's realm was not outstanding among the others; for example, people were always used to putting the Demon Lord and the White Emperor together, and believed that defeating the Taoist sect was the greatest achievement of His Majesty the Emperor...

But these are not the most direct reasons.

When it comes down to it, the vast majority of people don’t really like the way the Master does things.

Rather than so-called prudence, people feel that it is a kind of stinginess and meanness after careful calculation.

When you are in a position, you should do your job. No one thinks that the master should not make these choices, but those practitioners who have truly reached the highest level on the path of cultivation are all proud.

Since you are so proud, it is natural that you would look down on it.

So some people spoke up.

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"I don't think you deserved to die like this."

There was no emotion in Renjian Jiaoyang's voice, it was as if he was stating an absolutely objective fact.

Nan Zong stopped looking at Gu Zhuo and Pei Jinge, his eyes fell on the side of Si Zhu's face, and he said seriously: "This is also my opinion."

Pei Jinge didn't say anything, but everyone knew that she must have meant the same thing.

Then there is Qingxiaoyue.

This middle-aged, bleak man, who was born in Xuandu Tiandao Sect and almost became the Taoist master's first disciple, and was the first traitor of Taoism, and had been working silently for the White Emperor in the night for decades, sighed deeply and gave his opinion sincerely.

"I'm sorry, but I also don't think you deserve it."

As these four bigwigs spoke out one after another, some people gradually began to give up their silence and second the motion.

——The Demon Lord has paid such a heavy price, and the Lord will definitely die tonight, so there is no need to be too cautious.

Only Wei Qingci never expressed his opinion.

Listening to these voices and watching Gu Zhuo approaching step by step, Si Zhu laughed and said to Qing Xiaoyue: "Why are you here? Aren't you interested in getting involved in this matter?"

Qing Xiaoyue smiled slightly and said, "Anyway, I'm not here to save anyone."

The director thought for a moment and said, "Then this is indeed a great event worth traveling thousands of miles to see."

Qing Xiaoyue looked at him with some emotion and said, "You seem to be very disdainful of our opinions."

The chief said: "To describe it with the word disdain is a bit too much."

Qing Xiaoyue raised an eyebrow and asked, "Really?"

"I mean……"

The director put away his smile and said, "These words are actually disrespectful to him whom you admire, because this is his own decision."

While speaking, Gu Zhuo never stopped for a moment.

His disregard for these words seemed to be actively confirming what the Master said, making every word in his words more powerful.

Until Pei Jinge's voice rang out.

"I think you need to do something now."

"What's the matter?"

The Sizhu asked calmly.

Pei Jinge didn't turn around. He looked up at the bright moon and said, "You should commit suicide."

There was an uproar.

Then, all the people's voices disappeared.

However, the world did not fall into silence. A thunderous rumble like thunder came faintly from the distant east and fell into everyone's ears.

Whether they are those great practitioners or ordinary civilians.

Some people thought that the three thousand heavily armored cavalry outside the city were entering the city, but when they looked around, they saw no smoke or dust rising and nothing had happened.

The boss remained silent.

"That's the answer to your earlier question."

Qing Xiaoyue said to Qiuzhi.

Qiuzhi shook his head honestly and said, "I don't understand. Can you explain it more clearly?"

"The Sizhu's fist finally landed between heaven and earth."

A bitter voice came from afar.

When the words faded away, the person who spoke had already appeared on the street.

That person is a nun.

She was quite tall, and her monk's robe was even wider, but her body was thin.

There was compassion in her eyes, but it was very little, more of a gentleness towards all sentient beings.

This is naturally the abbess of Changle Temple.

The Demon Lord is reincarnated, and the White Emperor does not come out.

Her Royal Highness the Princess resumes her practice of cultivation.

Daoxiu and Wang Ji died together, and the abbot of the temple was reduced to ashes.

So at this moment after Si Zhu fell into the realm of hell, even though she had become a dying person, she was still the only immortal person walking in the world.

After a moment of silence brought by the appearance of the abbot, countless voices rang out on both sides of the long street.

Countless people came out of the houses, knelt down on both sides of the ground as if they had seen a Bodhisattva, and kept bowing and praying to the abbot.

No practitioner was shocked by this. Changle Temple was so close to Cangzhou, it was natural for the people in the city to be devout in their faith.

What's more, even Renjian Jiaoyang and others paid tribute to him at this moment.

Only Gu Zhuo remained indifferent.

The abbot didn't even look at it.

She looked at the Sizhu and repeated, "You should commit suicide."

The same words were spoken, but unlike before, there was no uproar this time.

The boss remained silent.

The abbot looked him in the eyes and said, "In front of Weiyang Palace, you said you wanted to save all living beings."

The Sizhu said calmly: "I have a good memory."

The abbot said, "Then you have a reason to commit suicide."

The master asked, "Really?"

The abbot said seriously: "If you are determined to fight the Demon Lord, Cangzhou will be razed to the ground before you die, and there will be no life for hundreds of miles."

At this point, people finally understood why she left Changle Temple and came to Cangzhou City in the last moments of her life.

The boss didn't say anything.

The abbot looked at him and continued, "There are nearly one million civilians in Cangzhou City, and hundreds of miles of fertile land. It is one of the most important territories of Daqin."

The head of the temple remained silent. The abbot was quiet for a while, then said, "According to your previous judgment, the demon lord is no different from death, so you have actually won this battle, so you say you have won."

"If that's the case, why can't you commit suicide now?"

She bowed, made great respects to the Master, and pleaded, "Please save all living beings."

These words were extremely sincere, and people could not hear any mockery or sarcasm in them, so they knew that this was true compassion.

Yes, this mercy comes at the cost of the Lord's self-sacrifice.

Sacrifice is the most sacred word in the world, but being sacrificed is one of the most disgusting things in the world.

People like Renjian Jiaoyang and Jiandao Nanzong, who have no sect or school, hate these three words to the extreme.

At any other time in the past, even if it was the White Emperor in person, they would still express their dissatisfaction without hesitation, not to mention that the person standing in front of them was just the abbot.

But at this time, Zhao Qi and Nan Zong were silent.

The silence had nothing to do with their opinion of the Master, but had to do with the fact that the Master had actually said such words.

People looked at the master, asking silently with their eyes.

——There are all these people in front of you at this moment, will you save them or not?

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To survive or not to perish, this is a question worth thinking about.

The premise is that you cannot tell everyone your answer before the question comes.

The director looked at Gu Zhuo.

He still couldn't find the part of human nature beyond the universe in those eyes.

Then he had no reason to reject the abbot's proposal.

After a moment of silence, he said, "Yes, I have my reasons for committing suicide."

Suddenly, a clear laugh was heard.

"But you won't kill yourself."

Pei Jinge turned around and said sarcastically, "Because you don't believe it."

The Sizhu said expressionlessly: "I have reasons not to believe it."

"The reason is..."

Qing Xiaoyue raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and answered himself: "In the battle of Xuandu a hundred years ago, everyone watched him die, but he still came back to life. Who knows whether what I saw tonight was true or false."

The Director seemed not to hear the mockery in his words, and said indifferently, "Not bad."

When Nanzong wanted to speak, he found that Qiuzhi was hesitant to talk, so he gave way.

"Senior, aren't you being a little too shameless?"

Qiuzhi stood up without hesitation, stared into the eyes of Sizhu, and said in shock: "Have you forgotten everything you said before? I was just now full of admiration for you for forcing the Demon Lord into a desperate situation, and now you turn around and tell me that everything is fake. Isn't your statement a bit inappropriate?"

The manager ignored it.

To him, a lowly person like Qiuzhi is not worth even a second glance.

Zhao Qi looked at the Sizhu, a little disappointed, and shook his head and said, "It is indeed shameless."

This is also the view of the vast majority of people.

In a moment, on the long street.

The boss was looked down upon by thousands of people.

It was as if he was the one standing on the other side of this world, not Gu Zhuo.

However, just like every day in his past life, his expression remained cold and calm, without any change.

This is undoubtedly an extremely powerful thing.

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At some point, Gu Zhuo stopped.

The Master was less than three hundred feet away from him, so he could not draw his sword quickly.

When the sword rises, heaven and earth change.

People once again recalled what the abbot had said before, thought of the horrific scene of the land sinking for hundreds of miles around Cangzhou, and thought that it was impossible for them to escape, and fear followed.

Cangzhou was no longer peaceful. Countless different voices came from the people who stood up because of the abbot.

"Please, the nunnery master will not lie to you. You can really die now."

"As long as you are willing to die, we will all remember you!"

"As for that tall building just now, I promise you that as long as you are willing to die, a new temple will be built there in the future to let the whole world know about your great mercy!"

"Yes, yes, we do this every year... No! Every day, I will go to the temple to worship you every day from now on, and I will never let you lose the incense!"

There were endless pleas and solemn promises coming one after another from every citizen who wanted to live.

The boss ignored it.

His gaze was always on Gu Zhuo, looking into those eyes, trying to find a smile in them.

Yes, as the voices of civilians roared in panic, he became more determined to believe in his current opinion and completely forgot what he had said not long ago.

The boss was calmer than ever before.

But he couldn't quiet people.

Then those voices were no longer all begging, they began to be angry, hateful, and cursing.

"You are the chief of the Sky Patrol Department. Your duty is to protect our safety. How could you do such a thing?!"

"Do you think that if you don't die now, you will be able to live next? I tell you, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely know what you have done, and you will still die in the end!"

"No, it's not just you who will die, but all your loved ones as well!"

"If I can survive today, I will definitely go to the Shendu Jiaofang Division to fuck your wife for ten days and ten nights. If I don't have the strength, I will ask someone else to do it. As long as you are not dead, just wait for me!"

Countless obscene words came one after another and hit the ears of the Master, but still could not shake his expression.

But his eyes eventually turned cold.

It was related to those words, but also because some people, under tremendous pressure, went crazy enough to bring feces and urine out of their homes and throw them at him.

Naturally, the feces and urine could not fall on Master Si's body as they were blocked by his true energy barrier, and even the stench could not reach his nose, but this did not mean that he could accept such dirty and smelly things.

The Master felt slightly angry, confirming once again that the vast majority of people in this world were hopeless idiots who simply had no ability to distinguish right from wrong.

He was still unwilling to take his eyes off Gu Zhuo. He ignored the people's anger coldly and firmly, and shouted in a deep voice: "Shut up!"

The sound was like thunder, deafening.

The curses from hundreds of thousands of people were brutally suppressed by these two words and could never be heard again.

Cangzhou was dead silent.

If you don't look at the ground next to Master Si, which is stained with feces and urine, it would be as if nothing had happened before.

Gu Zhuo just stood there.

He looked at the Master, with no pity or mockery in his eyes, just calmness.

However, the Lord saw pleasure and sarcasm in everything in that world.

His eyes became extremely bright, and he became more certain and confident of his own opinion. He said to Gu Zhuo expressionlessly: "You have made more preparations for today than I expected. It's amazing."

No one responded.

Wait a minute, it hasn't been pulled out.

Countless people looked at Master Si in silence.

The common people are trembling and fearful, but what about the strong ones?
A sigh broke the silence.

Pei Jinge looked into the eyes of the Sizhu and asked seriously: "Xi Lixuan, can you have a little shame?"

(End of this chapter)