The chivalrous spirit is fickle

Kang Xi raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, and couldn't help but ask back.

"Has anyone ever told you that you talk too much?"

Zou Si shook his head and answered with a straight face.

"My master always says that I don't talk much, but now that I'm about to die, I naturally have to talk more."

"Take the time to make up for what you didn't say before."

Kang Xi shifted his gaze away. He didn't want to look into Zou Si's eyes. It seemed that he had no reason to say anything more to a dying person.

After all, from the very beginning, no one took Zou Si's life too seriously.

Kang Xi wanted to get rid of Shi Gu who always caused trouble for them, but he did not have the confidence to get rid of Shi Gu. After all, Shi Gu's ability to escape was well-known throughout the world.

That's why he wanted to join hands with the Yulin Alliance to frame Shi Gu, and then have the Green Demon Fan Zheng secretly eat Shi Gu.

According to the plan, Zou Si was supposed to be eaten on the first day.

Thinking of this, Kang Xi wanted to get up and stop wasting time. However, after hesitating for a moment, he looked at Zou Si again and said softly.

“The people of this world cannot be saved.”

Chapter 71: Good and Evil Have No Fruit (II)

“The people of this world cannot be saved.”

Kang Xi looked at Zou Si, whose eyes were pure. He didn't know why he should continue talking. His lips moved slightly, and he laughed at himself helplessly.

"When I was young, I was like you. I heard many stories about chivalrous deeds and bravery. I yearned and yearned to be like the people in the stories."

Zou Si's eyes were slightly dazed. She couldn't understand the self-mockery in Kang Xi's eyes, and said in a puzzled voice.

"But you did it. You are Tailbone Knife Kang Xi."

Kang Xi curled his lips, but the self-mockery in his eyes became more and more intense. He put away his bone knife, placed it across his legs, and spoke slowly.

"You know what, little girl."

"To me, the so-called chivalrous and righteous behavior is actually more like seeking fame."

"I climbed mountains and crossed rivers, saving strangers one after another. I heard my reputation grow louder and louder. In the end, after I announced my name, the other party would take the initiative to give in."

“That’s seeking fame.”

"At that time, I traveled around the world, and it seemed as if everyone from all corners of the world was my friend. When they saw me, they would call me hero and drink and eat meat with me."

"I became sworn brothers with many people, just like real brothers, with great courage and generosity. But many years later, when I became a zombie, I finally understood a simple truth."

"Good and evil have no consequences. Just because a person is pitiful does not mean that person is a good person."

Zou Si listened carefully and couldn't help making some guesses. She had actually read quite a few idle books and she imagined a big drama in her mind for a moment.

Repaying kindness with enmity, or the death of a loved one in his arms, which made Kang Xi abandon good and turn to evil, there are many such plots in the books that Zou Si has read.

Although it's old-fashioned, it's very convincing.

Kang Xi lowered his eyebrows and looked at the floor of the palace. He stretched out his finger and wiped it across the ground, picking up a finger of dust. He carefully looked at the sand between his fingers and spoke slowly.

"I once saw a loving couple, a man with talent and a woman with beauty, they were a perfect match."

"But there is a feud between the two families, so they shouldn't be together."

"When I met that loving couple, they were being hunted by people sent by various families. Seeing how much they loved each other, I helped them and got rid of the pursuers."

Zou Si's eyes lit up and he interrupted, holding his sword.

"I've heard of this story. The families of those two people were quite powerful. In order to clear a path for them, you defeated the masters sent by the two families with a single strike. The strike left a mark, a gully."

Kang Xi raised his head slowly with a strange look in his eyes. After a pause, he continued.

"That story is made up. Those two families are just ordinary wealthy businessmen. They sent out just a group of ordinary servants. How could they be such masters?"

"..."

Zou Si's body stiffened slightly and he lowered his head in embarrassment, thinking that if he could go back alive, he would definitely identify the person who compiled the book and give him a good beating.

Kang Xi didn't know what Zou Si was thinking, so he continued speaking.

"Several years after that incident, I met the couple again by coincidence."

"At that time, they were married and had children. They changed their names and lived in the countryside, but they were still in love and enviable."

Zou Si nodded slightly. Although the story was exaggerated a lot, the ending was good after all.

Kang Xi seemed to have guessed what Zou Si was thinking. He sneered and continued in a low voice.

"I was quite happy at that time. I thought they both had a good ending and I did a good thing."

"The two men were very grateful to me and wanted to let me stay overnight. I did not refuse and stayed."

"However, that night, I had a dream."

"In the dream, there was an unclear figure who kept crying to me. He said that he was killed and thrown into a kiln. His blood and flesh were mixed with mud and burned into a porcelain basin. It was right under my bed."

"The man's face was bloody and his head looked like it had been smashed. His facial features were not visible. His limbs were twisted in opposite directions and his entire body was covered in blood."

"He asked me to bury the porcelain basin so that he could rest in peace and be reincarnated."

Kang Xi narrowed his eyes slightly, flicked the sand between his fingers, and spoke softly.

"The next morning, I found the porcelain basin under the bed."

"It was gray and smelly. If you looked closely, it looked like a rotting corpse."

Zou Si felt a chill when she heard this. Even with her cultivation level, if she really encountered a ghost, she could just kill it with a sword. But after hearing this story, she still felt a little chill seeping into her bones.

Kang Xi took a deep breath, without looking at Zou Si's reaction, and continued.

"He was a servant who was ordered by his master to find his eloped young master. After he found him, he was killed by his master and turned into a porcelain basin."

Zou Si frowned and couldn't help but ask.

"Why? Why do you want to kill people?"

Kang Xi sneered and spoke slowly.

"Because in the eyes of the man and woman, the two of them are naturally much more important than one life."

"The servant only lost his life, but they were able to preserve their loving and happy life. It was worth it."

"In the story of a talented scholar and a beautiful lady, no one cares how many servants died in the process. People only wonder whether the talented scholar and the beautiful lady finally got together."

Zou Si frowned and stared at Kang Xi and asked.

"Then what did you do? Did you avenge that servant?"

Kang Xi glanced at Zou Si and spoke in a flat tone.

"Revenge? Those two already have a child, and it's still in swaddling clothes. If I kill them both, how will the child survive?"

"Do I want to leave that child without a father or a mother?"

Zou Si was stunned when she heard this, and her breathing stagnated slightly. She thought carefully, but really couldn't think of a reasonable solution, and she couldn't make a choice.

Killing someone means paying with your life. This should be the simplest truth in the world, but at this moment it seems to be the most difficult problem.

Even if the parents deserve to die, a baby in swaddling clothes is, after all, the most innocent person in the world. How can we just watch him die before he has time to do evil or good?

After a moment's silence, Zou Si raised his eyes slightly and asked Kang Xi softly.

"You couldn't figure out the answer either, so you became a follower of the Great Demon?"

Upon hearing this, Kang Xi shook his head repeatedly and said indifferently.

"How can it be so simple? I just want to tell you a little girl."

"I have encountered many difficult-to-solve problems like this, and I have also seen some even more frustrating things."

"The so-called chivalrous and righteous behavior is actually more like meddling in other people's affairs."

Kang Xi suddenly felt a little lonely. He wanted to have a few drinks, but a zombie should only drink human blood.

Thinking of this, he felt even more lonely. After a long sigh, he whispered to Zou Si.

"Of course, what really made me give up was something else."

Chapter 72: Good and Evil Have No Fruit (Part 3)

"I've been to the East China Sea, it's really a wonderful place."

"The scenery is beautiful, the products are abundant, and you, the East Sea Sword Sect, are here to rule."

"But have you ever been to the West Sea?"

Kang Xi's voice was flat and hollow, as if he was reading from a script, talking about the East China Sea in his memory.

Zou Si frowned slightly and shook his head.

"I have never been to the West Sea. My master told me that the West Sea is vast and sparsely populated. Although there is a sea, it is extremely cold. I am afraid of the cold, so I probably will never go to the West Sea in this lifetime."

Kang Xi smiled when he heard this, put his hand on his forehead, but remained silent. When Zou Si couldn't wait to ask more questions, Kang Xi slowly spoke.

"Your master is right. The West Sea is a very strange place. It is covered with ice and snow. This is not the climate near the sea."

"But do you know where the West Sea is to the west?"

Upon hearing this, Zou Si felt that Kang Xi must be mentally ill. He had never even been to the West Sea, so how could he know what place would be west of the West Sea.

Kang Xi had no idea of ​​Zou Si's inner complaints. His eyes dimmed slightly, but he was immersed in memories of the past. He narrated everything that had happened very slowly.

"Go further west from the West Sea, and after flying across the vast ocean, you will find a piece of land."

"There was snow flying all over the sky, snow upon snow, a vast expanse of white."

Heavy snow fell, blocking out the sun, and icy clouds covered the sky. That was what Kang Xi saw when he crossed the West Sea.

When Kang Xi stepped into the snow, the snow was above his knees and he could not walk at all. He concluded that no living creatures could survive on this continent.

Even a warrior must be at the eighth level of martial arts to survive in this heavy snow.

So, Kang Xi lost interest in continuing the exploration and wanted to turn around and leave, but perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was fate.

In the vast expanse of white snow, Kang Xi saw a man.

In the palace, the ghost lights flickered and were reflected in Kang Xi's eyes. He quietly clenched his fists and spoke softly to Zou Si.

"When I first arrived there, I thought there would be no living things there, so I thought about turning around and leaving."

“But just as I was about to leave, I saw a figure in the heavy snow.”

Even after a hundred years, Kang Xi still clearly remembered that in the heavy snow, a young girl wearing wild animal fur, her face purple from the cold, was dragging a corpse and walking very slowly across the snow.

"I met a girl who was wearing the fur of an unknown beast, like a savage who ate raw meat and drank blood."

"She walked in the snow, dragging a corpse, and walked very slowly towards the coast."

In the ice and snow, the girl's cheeks were frozen red, and the hot air exhaled from her mouth and nose formed ice crystals on her long eyelashes.

She was an ordinary girl who had never practiced martial arts. On a snowy day like this, she would freeze to death before she could even reach the beach.

Even if she really reached the shore, she would not be able to return alive.

So, Kang Xi from a hundred years ago descended from the sky like an immortal and landed in front of the savage-like girl.

What was he thinking at that time? Kang Xi couldn't remember it clearly now, but until now, he still remembered the panicked look of the girl.

She was like a frightened silly roe deer, jumping around in the snow, and finally falling down in the snow, holding her head with her hands and curling up her body.

There was a flash of tenderness in Kang Xi's eyes, his fists loosened, his brows drooped, he looked at the palace below his feet, and spoke in a low voice.

"I probably want to help her and ask if there are any other lives surviving in that continent."

"What surprised me was that she could understand me. She spoke the same language as us on another continent across the ocean."

"Doesn't this sound like a miracle?"

After hearing this, Zou Si pondered for a moment and then spoke hesitantly.

"My master Zeng mentioned that a long time ago, there was a great demon who forcibly split off a part of the continent we live on. That ancient demon called himself Ji Jun."

Kang Xi suddenly realized what was going on when he heard this. He smiled silently and whispered to himself.

"I see. So that's how it is."