By shouting out Su Li's whereabouts, he had forced all the people and matters hidden in the darkness into the light of day. Chen Changsheng had not done this deliberately, but had acted according to his heart. What he cared about the most was following his heart. But before doing this, he had naturally carefully considered the consequences and felt that the benefits would outweigh the disadvantages, just as Liang Wangsun had sighed ruefully.
This was a sort of strategy, and also a sort of calculation. On his journey south, the principles that Su Li had taught him, like strategies and sword styles, had all been used by him. From another perspective, when he shouted those four words to the bright and beautiful spring sunshine of Xunyang City, it was like stabbing an Intellectual Sword into the pitch-black night, finally tearing open a hole and finding some light.
But the moment he saw Liang Wangsun with his own eyes, he suddenly realized that there was a problem with his calculations. The problem here was not that he could not defeat and had to flee, but that he believed that Liang Wangsun should not have appeared in the first place. Liang Wangsun had disregarded the inheritance of the Wang Estate and the surging will of the people. He had actually come to kill Su Li in broad daylight. Just why?
"Why?" Chen Changsheng asked Su Li.
Su Li replied, "Because they are all surnamed Liang."
Liang Xiaoxiao, Liang Hongzhuang, Liang Hongsun … these three people who had shown that they most wanted Su Li dead were all surnamed Liang. They were all of Prince Liang's bloodline? And what unresolvable grudge did Su Li and the Liang Household have?
"Once an emperor, who would be willing to remain a prince forever?" Su Li looked out the window at the faintly discernible black lotus carriage and said, "What the successive masters of the Liang Household wanted to do the most was to return to the capital and sit on the imperial throne once more. It was just that they never had the chance. Only ten-odd years ago, with that internal strife in the capital, did they finally see a possibility."
Chen Changsheng had heard Su Li speak of that matter and asked in confusion, "Back then, wasn't the Longevity Sect the one that wanted to rise up?"
Su Li replied, "To scheme for the world, one must think deeply. Several hundred years ago, the Liang Household began to infiltrate the Longevity Sect. Ten-odd years ago, the Longevity Sect incited conflict between the north and the south. It was precisely their good method."
Chen Changsheng was confused. Back then, the elders of the Longevity Sect had all been killed by Su Li's sword and the scheme that the Liang Household had hidden for several hundred years had been crushed. They truly did hate them, but why did they hate Su Li to the bone?
Su Li said, "One of those elders has the surname Liang, so he should be Liang Xiaoxiao's ancestor. As for why Liang Wangsun and Liang Hongzhuang hate me so much, perhaps it's because after I killed people in the Longevity Sect, I took a trip to Xunyang City and killed all those old fellows in the Liang Household. "
Chen Changsheng was silent and speechless. He thought to himself, this is the same as killing an entire family. With such a deep hatred, it's no wonder that the youths of King Liang's bloodline hate Su Li so much that Liang Xiaoxiao didn't even hesitate to collude with the demons.
Outside the window, Liang Wangsun and the bishop of Xunyang City could faintly be heard conversing.
Chen Chang Sheng listened silently for a while and suddenly asked, "Senior, do we really need to … … kill so many people?"
A mocking expression appeared on Su Li's face. "Are you preparing to preach again?"
Chen Chang Sheng shook his head and said, "I just feel that this matter shouldn't have caused so much bloodshed."
Su Li did not directly answer. He said, "Back then, the Longevity Sect and the Liang Household wanted to conquer the south and the north. At that time, the capital was in utter chaos, and the Imperial Court and the Orthodoxy were still divided and in confrontation. The only problem that the southerners could not resolve was also the greatest problem: the existence of Tianhai. In the end, they found a method to resolve this problem."
"What method?"
"They wanted me to go to the capital and kill Tianhai. Even if I couldn't kill Tianhai, I believed that Tianhai would still be heavily injured."
"Senior, did you go?" The moment Chen Changsheng asked this question, he knew that it was nonsense.
Of course, Su Li did not go to the capital to kill the Tianhai Divine Empress, or else history would not have turned out this way. Just as expected, Su Li looked at him like he was an idiot and said, "Do I look like I'm sick?"
Chen Changsheng thought to himself, those southerners really are sick, to actually think of such an impossible idea. He asked, "How did they persuade Senior back then?"
"They captured my wife and imprisoned her in the cold pool of the Longevity Sect. Then, they used the righteous cause to persuade me."
When Su Li said these words, there was no other expression on his face, but even after ten-odd years, Chen Changsheng seemed to still be able to sense his anger.
"No one likes to kill people, and I don't like it either."
Su Li finally said, "If too much blood flows, it's very troublesome to clean the sword, let alone the clothes, so I don't like to bleed either. But sometimes, people must be killed, and blood must flow."
Chen Changsheng understood. This story of the past that he had once heard had been completely filled in today. Su Li wanted to use this matter to tell him a simple principle, and at the same time, he did not want to listen to his advice.
To exist in the world, to live freely, to protect the people one loved from harm, one had to be strong enough, and make the entire world acknowledge one's strength, fear one's strength. How could one prove it, how could one make the world acknowledge this point? One had to dare to kill, to dare to make the entire world bleed.
Su Li had done just this. He killed all of the Longevity Sect's elders, almost wiped out King Liang's Household, and turned the continent into a river of blood. Even though he wasn't able to save his wife's life, no one dared to threaten him or use him in the next dozen or so years. No one dared to threaten his daughter either.
Understanding did not mean that he could accept it, but Chen Changsheng could not say anything more to Su Li, so he could only say it to someone else. He walked to the window, opened it, and gazed at Liang Wangsun in the Black Lotus Imperial Carriage. He simply said, "I want to protect him."
Liang Wangsun's handsome and noble face revealed a mysterious smile. "Many people believed that you died in the Garden of Zhou, but I didn't think that you would die in Xunyang City."
Chen Changsheng's words were very simple, and Liang Wangsun's response was also very simple. Since he had killed Su Li under the watchful eyes of countless people, it meant that he no longer cared about the threats of anyone, not even the Orthodoxy.
"Back then, he did not kill you, he did not kill Liang Hongzhuang, and he also did not kill Liang Xiaoxiao."
Chen Changsheng continued, "He left the Liang Household a path of retreat, so perhaps the Liang Household can also leave him a path of retreat."
"But back then, very few people were able to survive, and do you really think that was a path of retreat? No, what the Liang Household lost was the hope of countless people over the past several hundred years. However, I really can leave him a path of retreat. " Liang Wangsun callously said, "You let me chop off his four limbs, cripple his meridians, and I'll let him live."
Chen Changsheng fell silent for a while, then said, "That's not fair."
Liang Wangsun replied, "Blood for blood, death for death, nothing is more fair than that."
Chen Changsheng said, "Senior went to the snowy plains for the sake of the humans and was heavily injured by the demons' encirclement. Otherwise, none of you would have been able to kill him, so he should not have died at the hands of humans, at least not this time. At the very least, he should not have died like this, no matter how many people he once killed, even if he really wasn't a good person."
Hearing these words, the priests around the inn and the deathsworn of the Liang Household all felt their moods change.
Liang Wangsun looked at Chen Changsheng at the window and calmly said, "Perhaps what you say is reasonable. For a legend of a generation to die like this, I, who killed him, will probably only leave behind the name of a thief in the annals of history, but … I don't care, and the world won't care, because this is the only chance to kill him, and everyone in the world wants him dead."
Chen Changsheng asked, "Even if this is tantamount to conspiring with the demons?"
"This is a shameless murder. Let alone conspiring with the demons, even if it's a deal with the devil, so what?"
As Liang Wangsun finished speaking, the buildings around the inn began to collapse one after another, the figures of countless cultivators appearing.
Although the city gate of Xunyang City was already closed, how could it stop these people that wanted to kill Su Li?
A fiery ray of light suddenly flashed in the sky. As the temperature rose and a fierce gale blew, a Red Cloud Qilin landed on one end of the street. Xue He sat on it, his armor still stained with the blood from that day. Soon after, Liang Hongzhuang, dressed in dancing clothes, appeared on the other end of the street. His charming face was already covered in dust and the sword wounds on his body were still clearly visible. It was a mystery how he had managed to endure and rush back. Seeing Liang Hongzhuang appear, Hua Jiefu slightly creased his brow. On that day, it was precisely this bishop of Xunyang City that had secretly informed Liang Hongzhuang of Su Li's whereabouts.
"You see, even the Orthodoxy actually wants him dead." Liang Wangsun looked at Chen Changsheng and said, "And how can you oppose the entire human world?"
Chen Changsheng looked at those figures around the inn and in the alleys. He did not know who these people were, what sort of reputation they had in the northern lands of the continent, or what sect or sect they belonged to. He could only sense how terrifying these people were from their Qi. These were all people that had come to kill Su Li. Xue He was a Divine General of the Great Zhou, so he probably would not act. Liang Hongzhuang probably already did not have the strength to act. But these people would act. Not to mention that there was still that famous assassin, Liu Qing, who had always been hiding in the shadows. In today's battle, besides Liang Wangsun, the most terrifying person was probably this person.
Su Li was heavily injured. He had sent an invitation to the entire continent for a banquet. The guests that had come to participate in this banquet had already arrived. They used their swords as chopsticks, prepared to drink a cup of fine wine made from blood and enjoy a feast of human flesh. Chen Changsheng did not know if there would still be guests coming to this banquet, so he wanted to try flipping over the table.
He stood by the window, looking at Liang Wangsun in the black lotus carriage. His expression did not change. He slowly circulated his true Qi and his spiritual sense fell into the sheath of his sword. He connected with the spiritual soul of the Black Dragon and awakened those swords that had slumbered for many days.
Countless swords.
He began to calculate, began to prepare to ignite his true essence, began to prepare for the simultaneous attack of ten thousand swords.
The Intellectual Sword, the Blazing Sword — these were the swords that Su Li had taught him. The ten thousand swords were his swords.
He wanted to try and see if he could use his advancement in the path of the sword to make up for the consumption of the ten thousand swords' sword intent, thus recreating that scene in front of the Mausoleum of Zhou and then directly killing Liang Wangsun in one blow.
Chen Changsheng was a young genius at the upper level of Ethereal Opening while Liang Wangsun was a true expert on the Proclamation of Liberation. No matter how one looked at it, even Chen Changsheng himself, the difference in strength between them was like a city.
But he still wanted to try and see if he could kill his opponent.
Because the current situation was predetermined. He had to kill Liang Wangsun so that Su Li could live.
Perhaps this was the newest principle that he had learned from Su Li.
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Finally over three thousand. This plot would begin to speed up tomorrow. The reason why it had been written slowly these past two days was firstly because he was lacking a breath, and secondly, it truly needed to be slowed down so that Chen Changsheng could walk a little more solidly. For this principle of killing, everyone can go back and look at the chapter where Chen Changsheng almost became an idiot.
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