The Word of Heaven

Chapter 304 The overall situation is the most important thing
After watching Xie Yinglian leave, Eunuch Cao went to the side of the Queen.

After hesitating for a moment, he lowered his voice and asked, "Is it inappropriate to do this?"

The Queen raised her lips slightly, and said with a gentle smile: "Of course it's not suitable, but I really like Xie Yinglian very much, and I can't help but give her a chance."

Eunuch Cao knew that he had overstepped his bounds, so he took the opportunity to ask about it, and asked seriously, "What if she is ultimately unwilling to accept the opportunity that Your Majesty has given her?"

"Then I'll be sorry."

The Queen's tone couldn't be more casual.

Eunuch Cao's eyes narrowed slightly, and he felt a heavy pressure in his heart when he thought of the warning that the Demon Lord had asked Xie Yinglian to bring.

The Queen knew what this confidant was thinking, but she remained nonchalant.

"Gu Zhuo's threat certainly needs to be taken seriously, but if the court dares to kill him, why wouldn't they dare to take action against the people he cares about?"

"Besides, this is always a step forward, isn't it?"

"The bell is bound to ring, it's only a matter of time."

"What we need to do is let everything happen when it's right, rather than refusing to face it."

……

……

At some point, dense clouds floated over the night sky of the capital, and rain began to fall.

The rain on summer nights always comes so quickly, crackling on the eaves. It doesn’t sound like rain but more like wet firewood burning.

Qiuzhi sat by the window, supporting his chin with his right hand, looking at De Qiusi expressionlessly.

His other hand tapped the tabletop lightly, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and he said with emotion: "Meeting you once again, it really seems to be a little bit like letting you see that I am still somewhat like I used to be."

De Qiusi remained silent.

"If that incident hadn't happened the spring before last, perhaps the person sitting here now would be you?"

Qiuzhi said self-deprecatingly: "And I am still that unknown killer who is homeless and wandering like a stray dog. How can I sit in this position and make you tremble with fear as if you were walking on thin ice?"

De Qiusi raised his head and looked at the young killer who he had not taken seriously two years ago. He asked tiredly, "Whatever you want to ask, whatever you want to know, everything I know about Master... that sinner, Master Si, I have told you. What do you want?"

Before dusk, he was invited to this small building by officials from the Sky Patrol Department. Over the next few hours, he was questioned, interrogated, and persuaded... During this time, various Taoist methods targeting the soul were used one after another, until his energy was exhausted, his spirit was almost collapsed, and he could no longer bear it.

At this time, De Qiusi was like a fish out of water, his eyes were dull and lifeless, and it was difficult for him to even survive.

"When you are in a position, you should do your job."

Qiuzhi smiled and said, "What else can I want? Isn't it that the summer festival goes smoothly and the world is at peace?"

De Qiusi stood up suddenly, and the tables and chairs rubbed against the ground, making an extremely harsh sound.

With a bang, he slammed his hands hard on the table, leaned down and stared at Qiuzhi with wide eyes, shouting, "I have nothing to do with world peace. I am a piece of shit now! Do you know what a piece of shit is? It's just a pile of shit on the roadside. Do you know what shit is? Why do you have to pick on me? Can I kowtow to you?"

Qiu Zhi was completely unmoved and said nothing.

De Qiusi was stunned, tears welling up from his eyes. He fell to the ground in despair, his body losing all strength. There were still sounds from his mouth, but they were all heavy breaths like a broken bellows.

Qiuzhi stood up, came to him and squatted, shook his head and said: "You think too much, I really didn't mean to make things difficult for you."

De Qiusi asked with tears on his face: "Then why don't you let me go?"

"How about this……"

Qiuzhi sighed, looking as if he could no longer bear it, and said, "Let's talk about your master, and this matter will be over."

De Qiusi said blankly: "Didn't I tell you everything?"

Qiuzhi came close to him, handed him a handkerchief, and said gently: "You are not an idiot. You must know what to say and what not to say."

De Qiusi's eyes changed slightly, and his body seemed to be instantly submerged in the rain outside, and he felt suddenly cold.

"What...what do you want to do?"

"what?"

Qiuzhi blinked and smiled, saying, "I want to reassure you."

De Qiusi was silent for a moment and said, "I don't know anything."

Qiuzhi said mockingly: "If you are as innocent as you say, you shouldn't have such an expression now."

"And isn't that nice?"

He patted De Qiusi's shoulder and said earnestly, "I have personally given you the handle, so you don't have to worry about me causing trouble for you in the future. Isn't this the truth?"

De Qiusi was silent for a long time, then asked, "What if... I refuse?"

"what?"

Qiuzhi seemed surprised, turned his ear to him, and said loudly: "Can you please say it again?"

How could De Qiusi not understand?

He smiled bitterly and said, "But words are useless. How can I make you believe it?"

Qiuzhi was very satisfied with this sentence. He stood up and took De Qiusi to the study.

When De Qiusi saw the thick stack of files on the desk, he could no longer maintain his composure and said in a trembling voice, "Do you know what you are doing?"

Qiuzhi smiled and said, "I know your reaction shows that my guess is correct."

De Qiusi said no more and began to flip through the files in a daze.

There was no need to look through it carefully; he could just glance at the year, month and day and make the distinction immediately.

After two quarters of an hour, all relevant files had been screened out.

All during these four years, during the two summer festivals.

Qiuzhi looked at De Qiusi with a smile.

De Qiusi took a deep breath, and with a trembling pen, he marked the really important words, and asked in a low voice: "Aren't you afraid of death?"

Qiuzhi said, "Who is not afraid of death?"

De Qiusi said, "But you are seeking death."

Qiuzhi recalled an old story and said, "Many years ago, on the first day I was picked up in Wuyou Mountain, my fat master told me a truth. For a killer like us, the more afraid you are of death, the easier it is to die. I have to admit that this sentence is completely deceiving people, just to make an illiterate like me willingly die. But, when I was in a desperate situation, I found that this courage to die can indeed buy me a chance of life. You ask me why I say so much nonsense? I just want to tell you that positions are actually the same as principles. They are not forever and are changing all the time."

After hearing this, De Qiusi said nothing, because he had no right to choose a side.

At this moment, Qiuzhi suddenly frowned and looked out the window at the rain.

He sensed the looming chilly aura, and after a moment of silence, he turned and walked out the door, saying casually, "You can do whatever you want. Anyway, it has come to this point, there is no turning back."

Walk out of the small building and into the night rain, seeking knowledge without an umbrella.

The raindrops fell along his hair and skin and onto his clothes, bringing wetness and embarrassment but not blurring his vision.

He looked at the extremely beautiful girl holding an umbrella, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said slowly: "The popular person around the Queen is not staying in the palace at the moment, why did he come to such a dirty place like the Patrol Department?"

Xie Yinglian smiled and said, "Isn't it just to see you?"

Qiuzhi's heart turned cold, but he smiled and said, "Why didn't I know that I could still ask Miss Xie to come in the rain?"

Xie Yinglian raised his eyebrows and said, "If even your life and death are not worth my visit, how many people in the God's Capital are worthy of my attention?"

Having said that, there seems to be no point in continuing to act as if I know nothing.

Qiuzhi was silent for a moment, looking at the palaces of the imperial city in the rain, and sighed, "It's so fast."

Xie Yinglian said: "You don't deny it?"

"If denial makes sense."

Qiuzhi said: "And since it's you who came, it means that the queen has already made up her mind to kill me."

Xie Yinglian said: "The decision is in my hands."

Qiuzhi said: "After all, it is not in my hands."

The night is dark and the lights are sparse.

The two people's voices were drowned out by the wind and rain, like stones falling into an abyss, with no echo being heard.

Even though the world is bustling, the feeling of silence becomes more real.

Xie Yinglian stretched out his hand, letting the raindrops bloom like flowers in his palm, and said, "Among my peers, there are not many people I am interested in killing, and you are one of them."

Qiuzhi said, "Thank you." "You're welcome, and..."

Xie Yinglian looked at Qiuzhi and said, "I should say thank you to you."

Qiuzhi was stunned for a moment, then he laughed and said, "That's right, since you lost to that guy at the Cihang Fahui, you haven't had a formal battle since then."

Xie Yinglian looked towards the small building and said politely, "So I will wait."

Qiuzhi suddenly asked, "How sure are you?"

Xie Yinglian said honestly: "Less than 70%, because you are very strong."

Qiuzhi shook his head and said, "Since it's a life-and-death fight, it should be at least 50%, right?"

Xie Yinglian said: "If you were still the same you in Wuyou Mountain, this statement would naturally be true, but this is the Sky Patrol Division."

Qiuzhi was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "That sounds reasonable."

Xie Yinglian didn't say anything else.

The same is true for seeking knowledge.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier.

At a certain moment, De Qiusi pushed the door open from the small building and was about to continue the conversation with Qiuzhi when he suddenly discovered the presence of Xie Yinglian.

Of course he knew who the girl with such unconcealed beauty was. His face turned pale instantly and he almost couldn't breathe.

"get out."

Xie Yinglian's voice sounded gentle, but her eyes did not even fall on De Qiusi, and she was extremely disdainful.

However, this disdain was the greatest gift to De Qiusi. He rushed into the heavy rain without hesitation and left as quickly as possible.

"It's our turn."

Xie Yinglian said.

Qiuzhi asked, "Any last words?"

Xie Yinglian mocked and said: "Even if there is, who can I tell it to?"

Qiuzhi said seriously: "I do have one."

Xie Yinglian was a little surprised and said, "Please go ahead."

Qiuzhi thought for a moment and said, "If I die, please go and apologize to my thin master Qing Xiaoyue who has passed away, and then go to the grave of my fat master and tell him that the great revenge has been taken... That's all."

Xie Yinglian asked: "Begin?"

Qiuzhi said, “Begin.”

As he finished speaking, the rain in the sky suddenly stopped.

The next moment, the transparent water droplets burst without warning and flew around like pieces of paper!

This is not the Tao.

Rather, it was the movement caused by the aura of Qiuzhi bursting out instantly the moment he finished speaking, and then all of it condensed into one point.

Dozens of shadows formed a line, tearing through the night and rain, and heading straight to Xie Yinglian.

That's a fist.

boom!
There was a loud bang and a strong wind blew out.

The ground was broken into countless cracks like a spider web, and the dust had not yet had time to rise before it was wetted and extinguished by the rain.

Qiuzhi's punch was not only extremely powerful, but what was even more terrifying was that there was no sign beforehand, which meant that Xie Yinglian would not be able to use his full strength when responding to it.

This is indeed the case.

A stream of blood flowed from the corner of Xie Yinglian's lips.

In just a moment, even the peerless martial arts such as the Yuanshi Demonic Scripture was unable to allow her to fully react to the punch.

The oil-paper umbrella was breaking into pieces, turning into ashes and becoming dust.

The rapier hidden in the umbrella handle appeared in the night.

The inquiring eyes revealed a fleeting regret.

Without any nonsense, he completely ignored the meridians torn apart by the violent surge of true energy and punched again.

Xie Yinglian did not hold a sword.

Her behavior was extremely arrogant. She clenched her five fingers into a fist and attacked head-on.

boom!
Two different fists met and collided, and the sound of bones breaking was clearly audible.

The night shrouded by heavy rain was like a vacuum torn apart, and nothing could get close.

Two shadows of different colors were moving around in this small space, rumbling sounds continued to be heard, and blood splattered from time to time.

In the distance, Eunuch Cao was watching this scene with a serious look in his eyes.

He didn't expect that Xie Yinglian and Qiuzhi were so powerful. Although their realm remained at Chengyi, their combat power was no different from that of the practitioners at Guiyi realm.

If his realm was not even higher, if he gave these two people more time, he would probably not be able to truly control the situation tonight, and things would become irreversible.

Just as Eunuch Cao was worried, the two entangled auras suddenly collapsed, and the air waves swept up the rain like arrows and shot in all directions, leaving countless holes of varying depths on the wall, which was shocking.

Immediately afterwards, Xie Yinglian and Qiuzhi each flew backwards.

In the pouring rain, the masts, oars and small buildings collapsed one after another.

When Xie Yinglian retreated, he grasped the sword in the umbrella and used the sword as a staff to keep his body.

The pursuit of knowledge, however, led him straight into the ruins.

Xie Yinglian raised his hand, wiped the blood from the corner of his lips with his sleeve, then walked forward with the sword in hand.

The smoke and dust were so heavy that the heavy rain could not put it out in a short time.

As she walked into the ruins of the small building, she glanced casually at the files with fresh ink on them, and then looked towards Qiuzhi.

It all happened in the blink of an eye.

Qiuzhi half-knelt on the ground.

Half of his body was covered in blood and flesh, with torn cloth deeply embedded in the wound, covering the broken bones.

Indistinguishable from the Shroud.

The outcome has been decided.

The corners of Xie Yinglian's lips curled up slightly, revealing a happy smile, as if he was drinking aged wine.

Qiuzhi raised his head with difficulty, looked at the woman, and wanted to say something.

However, before he could open his mouth, a sword light tore a pale piece of light in the dark rainy night and entered his eyes.

Life and death are approaching.

At this moment, the paleness retreated and dissipated like the tide.

Xie Yinglian suppressed his smile.

Qiuzhi looked confused.

Eunuch Cao appeared between the two of them, forcibly intercepted the sword light with his right palm, and looked at Xie Yinglian as if she were a madman. He didn't expect that she would actually kill him without caring about the consequences.

"Give me an explanation."

Xie Yinglian looked at the old eunuch and said in an extremely cold voice: "Why did you stop me from killing someone, or have you even forgotten what the Queen said?"

Qiuzhi came to his senses and realized the reason.

He found it all so ridiculous that he couldn't help but hold his stomach in the ruins, bend over and laugh out loud.

"Why else? Isn't it just that bullshit situation?"

"The overall situation is the most important! My death is the overall situation that all the officials in the court care about the most!"

"Who said there is no one here who is not afraid of death?!"

Eunuch Cao ignored him and after a moment of silence, he shook his head and said to Xie Yinglian, "Of course I will not forget what the queen said. I can die for knowledge, but I cannot die tonight."

(End of this chapter)