The Word of Heaven

Chapter 331: Ringing for You
"No more?"

Pei Jinge recited softly, and after a moment of silence, he looked up at Gu Zhuo.

Gu Zhuo repeated, "Yes."

Pei Jinge looked at him and suddenly said, "Stab me."

Gu Zhuo was stunned.

Pei Jinge said calmly: "Or die."

Gu Zhuo understood.

Pei Jinge raised his right hand, grasped the hilt of the knife, and said nothing.

To the people on the ground, this scene seemed more like a battle that was about to come to an end than the previous silence.

In the small town, the deacons of the Sky Patrol heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that there would hardly be a better day in their lives in the future.

It is related to the death of the Demon Lord, but more importantly, everyone can imagine that after the Demon Lord's death, they will surely usher in unprecedented wealth and prosperity. That is a bright future that will be viewed differently by all the officials in the court and praised by His Majesty the Emperor himself.

Everything is within reach.

At the top of Cihang Peak, the monks had mixed expressions. Some were at a loss, some were stunned, and some were unwilling to accept that the Demon Lord had died at the hands of Pei Jinge - being defeated by the Demon Lord's sword was an acceptable thing, and no one could deny the power of this Taoist master, so no one would excessively belittle today's Cihang Temple.

What is unacceptable is that such an arrogant Demon Lord forced the monks in Cihang Temple to bow their heads and compromise, but as soon as he turned around and walked out, he was killed by Pei Jinge with a knife.

Yes, the Yuhua realm is indeed amazing, and Pei Jinge is undoubtedly one of the strongest people in the world today, but has the world ever lacked strong people like her?
This is difficult for Cihang Temple to accept.

Many monks looked at the scene in the distance, their Zen minds trembling violently and uncontrollably generating crazy thoughts, and their breathing became heavier and heavier.

Joy and sorrow, anger and madness, all these emotions are intertwined into a torrent on the earth. No one can truly see it all, and no one can fail to feel it all.

Amid countless gazes, Pei Jinge delivered the knife.

The long sword was rusty, and the sunlight shining through the shattered rain clouds could not be reflected by the blade.

"It's time to get a new one."

"Reluctant to part with it."

"I didn't expect you to be so affectionate."

"If I were ruthless, you would die."

"Yes."

Gu Zhuo looked at the long knife that was heading straight for his heart, thinking that the bloody knife would eventually land on his shoulder, his eyes were complicated.

While thinking, he had already taken action to meet Pei Jinge's blade.

The back of my hand pressed tightly against the rusty long knife, causing friction and a burning pain.

The distance between the two shortened again.

Gu Zhuo exerted a little force, and the long sword suddenly trembled violently and escaped from Pei Jinge's control.

Just as she had said before, she still had strength left in her body so she did not resist and let the sword be taken away.

Gu Zhuo stepped forward again, holding the long sword upside down in his right hand.

He turned the knife in his hand and thrust the blade into the bloody hole on Pei Jinge's shoulder, exactly where he wanted.

The blade pierced through the shoulder, and blood gushed out and dripped again.

Everyone standing on the ground was stunned.

This was a scene no one expected.

The world was as stunned as Gu Zhuo was a moment ago.

Just as the dead silence continued to spread and before the uproar arrived...

Gu Zhuo flicked his fingertips.

No one knew where the finger landed, but a bell rang out of nowhere, echoing throughout the heaven and earth in an instant.

Pei Jinge's expression suddenly changed.

Such a bell sound is a morning and evening bell no matter how you think about it.

The next moment, her eyes became extremely strange.

Gu Zhuo looked at her and said silently: "It's not true."

Pei Jinge didn't know what to say, and thought to himself, how could I not tell whether the bell sound was real or fake?
Gu Zhuo said: "We should always do things to perfection, so that you will lose as it should be."

Pei Jinge thought, should I thank you then?
Gu Zhuo drew out his long sword and said, "After all, I have few friends."

When he said this, he thought of Wang Ji, and couldn't help feeling melancholy.

Pei Jinge still didn't want to talk.

She had already done what she wanted most, but the result was not what she expected, but that's how things are.

How can there be so many things that go as planned in this world?

It's good to have had it.

They were all very simple thoughts, and she was immersed in them. She felt inexplicably light-headed, and she didn't know whether it was because she was satisfied or something else. Even the pain and fatigue that should have been there faded.

At some point, she even wondered if this was the last moment before death, but she really couldn't think of any reason why Gu Zhuo would kill her.

Why can’t I think of it?
She couldn't help but think about this question and found many reasons for herself, such as they had been in the same business before, they had a friendship, and she had cooked many meals for him this spring.

Well, even if the food she cooked at the beginning was really not tasty, if she ate that kind of food every day, she would definitely want to kill someone, but wasn't that because there were no ingredients? This is forgivable, right? And she was really attentive later, so she wouldn't hold a grudge for such a small thing, right?

Oh, actually she was not pure and innocent, there was still a reason why she was killed.

Her Royal Highness the Princess was rarely angry about what happened in front of the stone house that day, so it seems reasonable for you to use my life to eliminate the possibility of that happening and take risk avoidance to the extreme, right?
Pei Jinge was thinking wildly, and she herself didn't know why she was thinking about these things. She knew very well that all this was nonsense and would never happen in reality, so why did she want to think about it?

At this moment, warmth suddenly enveloped her.

She thought, this should be blood, right?
Thinking of this, Pei Jinge opened his eyes, which had been closed at some point, and then froze.

The image that came into view was Gu Zhuo.

Warm stool is not blood.

It's his hug.

……

……

"Please tell me, what are you going to do?"

"I'm injured."

"What does this have to do with me?"

"It hurts badly."

"I can't die."

"Mainly because I can't think of a reason for you to be alive and not hunt me down."

"Although this statement is correct, who has the right to stop me from healing?"

"But, that would be annoying, wouldn't it?"

"and then?"

"Rather than going back and being annoyed and asked questions by a bunch of people, it's better to go together."

"I'm sure Her Royal Highness the Princess doesn't like this."

"But she can understand the need for this statement."

The conversation ends there.

Pei Jinge accepted it with silence.

Gu Zhuo held her and fell towards the southeast.

In the eyes of the world, the two figures that had intersected hundreds of times became one at this moment.

The green mountains are lonely and the sky is hazy with rain.

In such a picturesque scenery, how can this scene be so stunning?

It only brought shock.

No one expected that the battle today would end like this.

The deacons of the Sky Patrol Department were unwilling to believe and could not accept that Gu Zhuo had surpassed several realms and defeated Pei Jinge who had entered the state of immortality.

But the bell sound that resounded through heaven and earth was the best explanation.

No one can deny the power of the morning and evening clock.

Qi Tong stood on the eaves, watching the black line disappear at the end of the ground, and was silent for a long time.

Until a subordinate broke the dead silence in the rain and asked in a trembling voice: "What should we do now?" "What should we do?"

Qi Tong regained consciousness and said expressionlessly, "The Morning and Evening Bell is not an ordinary thing. With the current state of the Demon Lord, he must pay a heavy price for the ringing of the bell."

The subordinate was puzzled and asked, "And then?"

Qi Tong said calmly, "What else do you want? Our company has forced the Demon Lord to use even this last resort. Isn't this a great achievement?"

……

……

The mountain breeze blew through the layers of woods, and the chill it brought was no longer as strong, but the rain was still falling.

Gu Zhuo and Pei Jinge sat under a tree, listening to the sound of rain hitting the leaves, feeling peaceful.

As far as the eye can see, the whole world is green.

"How long are you going to sit here? What are you thinking about?" Pei Jinge's voice sounded light, no different from the rain.

Gu Zhuo did not answer immediately. He tore off a piece of her clothes with his hands and bent down to bandage her wound.

The battle was really fierce, and no one held back until the winner was decided.

Injury is inevitable.

"I'm asking you a question."

Pei Jinge was somewhat dissatisfied.

Gu Zhuo looked at the wound on her shoulder, thought for a moment, and said, "If the dojo you first opened was that black and white world, I would be caught off guard and suffer a lot."

——The reason why the world is black and white is that all things are forbidden. This is undoubtedly a means specifically used to deal with him.

Pei Jinge said: "Why do you think I do this?"

Gu Zhuo thought about it seriously, but still couldn't come up with an answer. After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "I don't understand. Why?"

"This is a method I only gained after I broke through the realm."

Pei Jinge didn't finish his words, but his meaning was clear.

Gu Zhuo understood and said with emotion: "You are more proud than me."

Pei Jinge rolled his eyes and said, "The word proud is too nice to hear. Why not just call it stupid?"

Gu Zhuo was somewhat speechless and said, "Why do you use such words to describe yourself?"

"Facts are facts."

Pei Jinge stretched out his hand, letting the raindrops that fell through the branches and leaves fall on his palm, and said indifferently: "And I really don't think I'm that smart."

At this time, Gu Zhuo stopped talking.

He vaguely realized that he was the reason why Pei Jinge felt stupid.

As he spoke, the wound had already been simply cleaned.

Pei Jinge followed Gu Zhuo's example, tearing off a piece of her dress, revealing her jade-like calf, and treating his knife wound.

Gu Zhuo suddenly remembered something.

"When I first arrived in the capital and the summer festival hadn't started yet, why did you lie on the couch in my inn room waiting for me like that?"

"Can not remember."

Pei Jinge answered very naturally.

Gu Zhuo didn't realize that there was anything wrong and simply described the scene at that time.

The lights are dim, and lying barefoot on the chaise longue is very alluring.

Pei Jinge was silent.

After a moment, she exerted force with both hands without changing her expression, causing Gu Zhuo to feel pain.

She said calmly: "If you must ask why, now I can only tell you that I want to see your unbearable side."

Gu Zhuo no longer had the heart to speak.

"There's something."

Pei Jinge changed the subject very stiffly: "Chu Jun came to you this time to pass on a message from Wang Jingshuo. He wants you to fulfill the promise that Her Royal Highness the Princess made, which is to enter the state of immortality."

Gu Zhuo was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked: "How do you know this kind of thing?"

Pei Jinge turned a deaf ear to it.

She couldn't tell Gu Zhuo that she had heard everything the two girls said during those days in Cihang Temple.

Then where should she put her dignity as a senior?

I'd rather die than admit such a thing.

Gu Zhuo vaguely guessed what was going on. He looked at her with complicated eyes, and after a moment of silence, he said, "The wound should not need to be bandaged anymore."

Pei Jinge hummed.

Then she asked, "How long are you going to keep me?"

Gu Zhuo said: "Wait until my injury heals."

Pei Jinge looked at him, and suddenly felt a sense of regret for why he had been so gentle in the first place, and said, "I don't know how to say sorry."

Gu Zhuo laughed dumbly, shook his head and said, "I didn't mean to ask you to say sorry."

Having said this, the two men stood up, dragging their injured bodies, and walked into the rain towards the outside of the forest.

"Is there any place you want to go?" Gu Zhuo asked.

"I have seen all the scenery in this world."

Pei Jinge recalled the scene of the morning and evening bells ringing throughout the capital that day, and wondered if there was any more magnificent scenery in the world than that?
Perhaps only the barbarians, who were also recorded in history books but never seen by modern people, moved south?
It's no different from dreaming.

The Qin Dynasty is now at its peak. The people of Huang have been almost slaves under the influence of the Zhenbei Army for decades. How can they possibly go south?

Pei Jinge's expression suddenly became complicated. He looked at Gu Zhuo deeply and said, "I have a place to go."

Gu Zhuo was puzzled and asked, "Hmm?"

Pei Jinge said: "That was the villa I left for myself when you asked me to temporarily take over as the leader of the Tianming Sect."

Gu Zhuo was startled for a moment, then he laughed happily.

"why are you laughing?"

Pei Jinge frowned, somewhat displeased.

Gu Zhuo smiled and said, "I never thought that the things I left behind at that time could be used today."

Pei Jinge looked at him coldly.

Gu Zhuo still smiled, turned around and stretched out his hand towards her.

Pei Jinge asked: "What is this for?"

"No matter if it was before or today."

Gu Zhuo said seriously: "It is a pleasure to cooperate with you."

After hesitating for a long time, Pei Jinge finally stretched out his hand and said casually, "You're welcome."

Gu Zhuo looked at her and thought, your tone is so casual, why do you hesitate for so long?
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At nightfall, the Divine Capital received the sword book delivered by the Sky Patrol at the fastest speed.

The prime minister was the first person to see it.

After reading the news about the eunuch leader's death in the sword book, his face had become so gloomy that water could drip from it. Just as he was silently praying for another piece of good news... what caught his eyes was the result of the battle between Pei Jinge and Gu Zhuo in front of Cihang Temple.

After a moment's silence, the prime minister forced himself to remain calm and accept these two devastating pieces of news.

Then, he entered the imperial city as quickly as possible and asked to see His Majesty the Emperor.

However, it was not until late at night that the White Emperor received him.

After hearing these two events that happened within just one day, His Majesty the Emperor remained silent for a long time in the eyes of the Prime Minister, with an extremely indifferent expression.

Just when the Prime Minister thought he was about to witness His Majesty’s wrath, he heard strange words in his ears.

"Life and death are the most unavoidable things in this world. In this world, life is bound to end in an inevitable way. The only way to stay out of it is to ascend to heaven and transcend."

"But transcendence... who knows what will come after transcendence?"

"Throughout history, there has never been a person who ascended to heaven and returned to the human world to leave any relevant records for future generations."

His Majesty the Emperor looked at the Prime Minister and finally asked, "Do you think those who ascended to heaven are dead or alive now?"

(End of this chapter)