Chapter 231

It was just after 3-5am. It is the darkest hour before dawn, and this night was also the darkest night in Fengdu City.

The earth, which was wrecked by the havoc of fierce spirits, was ruined everywhere and filled with desolation. The sound of sad crying and the crackling of flames is circulating in the ears. The Hungry Ghost Festival will be over soon, and the sky is about to dawn, but the long night belonging to the earth has just begun.

They found Xu Zhi Nan on the wretched and vast battlefield.

Xie Bi An didn’t know what happened after he exposed Xu Zhi Nan's true colors. This man has the shell of Cangyu Sect’s leader and the insides of Chunyang Sect’s leader. How should the cultivators of these two sects deal with themselves? And how would those who have sided with the Cangyu Sect choose? After all, the heart of Dao they kept talking about every day was already worthless. The time when the immortal cultivation world was in a precarious situation, and even when the whole earth was ready to fall and break at any moment, they instinctively swung to the stronger side, seemingly understandable.

And looking around now, either dead or wounded are on the battlefield. Xu Zhi Nan is also described as wretched. His icy gray-colored cultivator’s uniform was stained with blood everywhere. The snow owl summoned with the Ice and Snow Jade was guarding beside him, like it’s his only remaining dependence.

Hua Xiang Rong led a large number of Cangyu Sect's cultivators to confront them, and a small number of cultivators chose to follow "Qi Meng Sheng", even if she’s only a shell.

There were only a few of the Wuliang Sect’s people left. Only Song Chun Gui struggled to support and protect the dying Li Bu Yu.

Lan Chui Han on the other hand is nowhere to be found.

The appearance of Fan Wu She made everyone hold their breath.

Fan Wu She placed Xie Bi An lightly under a tree. Xie Bi An turned his head and looked around, trying to find Lan Chui Han but could not, and his eyes became gradually anxious.

"No need to look. He was taken to the underworld by Jiang Qu Lian." Fan Wu She said coldly.

Xie Bi An stiffened: "What do you mean? What do you mean by he ... was taken to the underworld? Is he still alive?"

Fan Wu She snorted coldly and did not answer.

"Is he still alive!?" Xie Bi An raised his volume, which immediately led to the quiver and pain in his chest.

"He’s dead." Fan Wu She said impatiently.

"... I don't believe it."

Fan Wu She stopped paying attention to him and turned his gaze to Xu Zhi Nan. He took out Gong Shu Ju and Cheng Yan Zhi’s body: "Give me the Golden Trunk Jade Policy."

Xu Zhi Nan's gaze was extremely greedy as he stared at the tiny ice coffin. He slowly wiped away the blood seeping from the corner of his mouth and said in a pale, outrageous voice, "Give him to me first."

"Okay." Fan Wu She strides with his long legs and walks step by step towards Xu Zhi Nan.

"Wait!" When Fan Wu She approached with a black death aura, Xu Zhi Nan suddenly felt terribly frightened. A dangerous aura attacked his muscles and nerves for no reason, and he asked in reply, "Your Holiness is really going to give it to me?"

"You are the one who wants to exchange with me."

"I do want to exchange with Your Holiness, but Your Holiness has now taken back the Heavenly Secret Talisman and have returned to the peak of your power in your previous life, and I am now seriously injured, so it would take little effort for you to take a thing from me."

Fan Wu She narrowed his eyes: "What do you want to say?"

"I want to say that I am old, but not yet muddle-headed." Xu Zhi Nan shook the jade policy in his hand and said coldly, "Your Holiness, don't do anything forcibly. I can tear up that page regarding the Human Emperor."

"It seems that you are really tired of living." Fan Wu She hostility surged, and his eyes boiled with a murderous aura.

Xu Zhi Nan flipped open the jade policy and twisted one of the pages with his withered fingers: "This thin page will turn into powder in my hands in an instant. I urge Your Holiness to think twice before you act."

Fan Wu She said with a cold voice: "You dare to threaten me?"

"Give me the stuff first!" Xu Zhi Nan's eyes were bloodshot and his body kept trembling, as if he was desperately trying to restrain something.

"You can't give it to him. Cheng Yan Zhi's body ..." Xie Bi An struggled to get up.

Fan Wu She hooked his lips into a smile, suddenly waved his hand and threw the ice coffin towards Xu Zhi Nan.

Xu Zhi Nan was startled. While waiting to probe the object through the void, that ice coffin gradually enlarged while following the arc formed by throwing, and finally recovered to the original size, smashing towards Xu Zhi Nan.

Xu Zhi Nan raised his hand to release spiritual power. With the ice coffin suspended in mid-air, and the ice layer is thinning down at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Fan Wu She’s body shot towards Xu Zhi Nan like an arrow.

The snow owl howled and waved its wings to stop Fan Wu She. Fan Wu She attacked with vicious sword energy, forcing that ancient beast back for the time being. He passed under the wings of the snow owl, and attacked straight at Xu Zhi Nan.

At this time, the ice coffin has melted halfway. Xu Zhi Nan waved his sleeve robe once, and the ice coffin was hidden behind his back. He grabbed the Jade Policy and flew up, dodging Fan Wu She’s sharp sword moves.

"Give me the Golden Trunk Jade Policy!" Fan Wu She growled.

"Let me live, or else ..."

"You are not qualified to bargain with me, but you can choose to leave a complete corpse for yourself." There was no way he would let go of someone who had harmed his big brother.

Xu Zhi Nan was desperate. He suddenly spread out the Jade Policy in his hand. With a "hiss", a light piece of paper was torn off just like that by him.

Fan Wu She's eyes were wide open: "You dare!"

Xu Zhi Nan smiled sinisterly. His spiritual power flowed and attached to the paper. The page of the Golden Trunk Jade Policy belonging to Xie Bi An, or Zong Zi Heng, flew into the void. The paper glowed in gold abruptly, and the dark sky suddenly overflowed with light, as if a gap in time and space had been torn open in the night. Countless words and images poured down like a rainstorm, spilling over the sky and earth, causing everyone present to clearly witness the fall of every piece of memory.

Xie Bi An looked at the memory of his past life as it was just spread naked in front of all people like that. As if thunder penetrated his body, he did not speak or move.

Everyone was frozen and silent. A silence that was suffocating.

In a few moments, they glimpsed at a person's life through a thin piece of paper with divine power.

From his first cry to calling out "mother" personally, he began to cultivate at the age of three. At the age of five, he had already danced the wooden sword in a presentable manner. He was gentle, filial and sensible. Although he could not expect his father to come to see him, he and his mother depended on each other, and was still naive and happy.

After that, he grew up. His supreme talent was gradually revealed. The elders praised him non-stop. His uncle took him in as a disciple. He practiced Daoism diligently, not daring to slack off for a day. During his free time, he liked to grow flowers and enjoy delicious food and wine. At the age of twelve, when he traveled alone for the first time, he became fascinated with the diverse world.

He had many younger siblings, but he loved his ninth brother the most. Perhaps because the two brothers' mothers were close, or perhaps it was just an unexplainable affinity. He took his ninth brother to cultivate, sword practice, and take care of his daily life. As long as he was in Daming, the two of them were inseparable almost every day.

Later, his ninth brother also grew up. When he brought his ninth brother, who left the palace for the first time, on the way to the Jiaolong Assembly in a hurry, they were ambushed, and nearly lost their lives in a foreign land.

The turning point of everything began with this crisis.

The things that were discovered later, those found on the surface, some people had witnessed before, some had read from history books before, some had heard from unofficial history anecdotes before, but those hidden under the water completely subverted their cognition. Even if some people had experienced them before, they had been blinded by one leaf*, blinded by hatred, and misread for a hundred years.

The truth was far more absurd, more twisted, and more cruel than they knew, or thought they knew.

Persecution, betrayal, deception, misunderstanding, intimidation, pain, and death. They watched as Zong Zi Heng went through the world's most dirty, filthy, and unbearable calamity. Watched him try to protect everyone with a wholehearted desire for goodness, only to have everyone turn against him, watched him struggle in the sea of fate, and eventually became exhausted, dragged into the abyss by the ruthless vortex, and finally ended everything by killing himself.

 

They watched him unable to get a genuine person for a lifetime because of his golden core, which carried the imperial destiny, whether it’s his parents, friends, or lover. Instead, everyone wants to gut him ---- whether it's showing a fiendish look from the start, or pretending to be polite and comply with him with a warm smile, or even his ninth brother, who said repeatedly he can’t separate from him.

They witnessed a massacre. A massacre of only one person, just that this person carried on for thirty years before he died.

No one was prepared to see such a story. This man, and the Emperor Kong Hua who was known in the world were definitely not the same person.

Xie Bi An leaned against the tree trunk with his energy drained from head to toe. His eyes were as empty as if his three immortal souls and six mortal forms had been sucked away. Everything that happened in his previous life was forced to be displayed in front of everyone. It was not like just being stripped naked, it was like being skinned, feeling shame and pain to the extreme.

What was displayed in the Golden Trunk Jade Policy, even though it was a person's whole life, it all happened in just a snap of the fingers. When all the fragments of memory disappeared with the aura extinguishment, the crowd was still deeply immersed in it, unable to return to their senses for a long time.

Compared to Xie Bi An, there was another person who was as if subjected to the death of a thousand cuts.

Fan Wu She stood like a bottled sculpture. His pupils were like two deep bottomless holes. They were black, no light could shine in, and any emotion would be swallowed up.

What did he see, what did he see?

What he knew, what he believed in, what he clung to, what he hated, what he suffered and died for in a hundred years, now the Golden Trunk Jade Policy told him that there was another side to those pile of sins from Zong Zi Heng that was turned into sharp blades that stabbed into his heart.

Impossible, impossible, impossible.

That man betrayed him for the sake of the throne and caused his mother’s death. He was homeless and miserable for ten years and suffered all the sufferings of the world. He served a hundred years in Hell, tasted the never-ending torture, and felt the pain of longing, all because that man betrayed him first!

So his resentment is justified. His revenge is justifiable. Everything he did to that person is only that person's own fault.

Shouldn't it be so!?

Why should the Golden Trunk Jade Policy give him a truth that turns everything upside-down?!

His heart hurts as if it is going to break ...

 

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PS: Xiaohei finally knows the truth (￣y▽￣)╭ Ohohoho.....

 

blinded by one leaf*[一叶障目]--- not seeing the wider picture

 

 

Edited on 8 June 21 (Emzie)

 

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