Chapter 2266: Flaw in the White Jade

He didn't kill Ge Fei in the end.

Not only because he was arrogant and couldn't bring himself to draw his sword against a fool, but also because he knew clearly in his heart that a Ge Fei who had turned into a madman was absolutely not the true cause of the death of the White family master.

At that time, the Wu Sheng Cult Master had been beaten down to the False God level, and the Yue Kingdom had already received warnings and was strictly guarded. Zhang Linchuan stirred up trouble in other countries, mostly through surprise attacks. How could he come and go freely in the Yue Kingdom, which had a Great Protecting Array, a strong army guarding, and a High Chancellor in existence and prepared?

Outsiders might think Zhang Linchuan was utterly evil, with monstrous means, capable of anything. White Yuxia, who had grown up in the Yue Kingdom since childhood and deeply understood this country, had never believed the phrase "unexpected negligence."

The evidence roundabout given to him by Feng Du was merely supplementary verification, not the key to his understanding.

He had always been thinking about one problem: why his father, Bai Pingfu?

The Langya White family had made huge contributions to the country, and were still contributing. His father, Bai Pingfu, had guarded ritual and rules throughout his life. Although he wasn't a strategic talent for the country, he had never made any mistakes or committed any crimes.

Even Bai Pingfu was loyal and devoted to the emperor! From a young age, he taught him what benevolence, righteousness, ritual, and filial piety were, and what loyalty to the monarch and love for the country meant. So he also once diligently studied literature and martial arts, aspiring to repay the country. He also once poured out a cavity of hot blood on Guanhe Terrace, exhausting everything, rather injured than dead, daring not to lose the country's dignity.

He couldn't understand.

He couldn't understand not because he wasn't smart enough, but because his heart wasn't ruthless enough.

Even from the perspective of a wise monarch and wise minister, he couldn't think of a reason for a loyal minister like Bai Pingfu to die.

Can the Son of Heaven execute a minister without a crime?

In this year, in this autumn, he finally confirmed the answer.

The intense changes and turmoil in the Southern Domain allowed him to touch a bit of the muddy aftermath of the truth amidst the wind and rain.

The sudden and almost crude introduction of the Yue Kingdom's new policy today had foreshadowing that had been buried for many years.

Wen Jingxiu, through Gong Zhiliang, roundabout asking him back, explicitly implying that he should avenge his father and swallow the Ge family, had no good intentions at all.

These people were just trying to drive him, to make him do what Ge Fei did today – he was more suitable than Ge Fei to be the banner for the family son. He was purer, more glorious, and more symbolic.

And Ge Fei, who was involved with Huang Weizhen, after all, had some sensitive identity. Otherwise, Wen Jingxiu wouldn't have waited and waited, waited until there was indeed no reaction from the Chu Kingdom side, and then slowly allowed Ge Fei to come down the mountain.

White Yuxia also had complete reason to suspect that Wen Jingxiu was still looking at his identity as the manager of Bai Yujing Tavern, wanting to use his connections to drag Jiang Wang into the water. To have the world-renowned Minister Jiang stand platform for his new policy.

So he only wanted to coax Jiang Wang away and repeatedly instructed Xiang Qian not to tell Jiang Wang.

He decided to face all this alone and complete this late revenge.

His Shenlin Realm strength was indeed not Ge Fei's opponent, nor was it possible for him to assassinate the monarch like Jiang Wang. He was even more unwilling to pull Jiang Wang to help him kill – whether it was Ge Fei or Wen Jingxiu, they were huge troubles at the current stage. No matter who it was, it was very difficult to say whether they could bear the consequences of killing them.

But revenge doesn't necessarily mean killing people. Cutting off a head doesn't necessarily resolve hate.

He wanted to shatter Wen Jingxiu's grand blueprint and tear off this wise monarch's magnificent mask. He wanted to make Ge Fei, who had strived to become human, turn back into a mountain sea monster!

As for himself...

In the noisy long night of Fuan City, White Yuxia drew out his sword, pointing directly at Ge Fei, pushing this grand play to its highest tide: "Although I, Bai, am not as skilled in cultivation as you, I am now willing to fight for the country and for the new policy. The world is fair, the ten thousand people have public justice, the White family swears it with blood!"

Tonight, up to this point, Wen Jingxiu was silent, Gong Zhiliang was silent, Zhou Sixun, Bian Liang all made no movement.

But they wouldn't continue to be silent.

Could they watch with open eyes as the prodigy White Yuxia, who defended the new policy and loved the country with a red heart, was killed by the proven and confirmed Ge Fei, who obstructed the country's fairness?

Then the Yue Kingdom's vigorous new policy would become a joke! The common people's pursuit of fairness in the world would become a lie!

White Yuxia lifted his sword and killed towards Ge Fei: "Come kill me! Or let me chop off your head, sacrifice it to the banner of the new policy, and apologize to the world!"

Ge Fei was full of grievances and unable to defend himself. Regarding the things the original body did, he knew even less than all the common people in Fuan City at this moment, and had no way to start quibbling.

He found it very difficult to understand human political games. How could he, this country's prodigy, a pillar of the country, just preparing to take up the High Chancellor's banner and support the world's turmoil figure, suddenly become a national traitor?

One moment he was eliminating relatives for the sake of righteousness, the next he became destroying corpses and traces?

The same thing, humans can give completely different definitions. These completely different definitions can actually easily change in words.

Ge Fei still had a lot to learn, and he was really angry and aggrieved – he could be a scumbag, he could be a bastard, but why pin things he hadn't done on him? Go find the previous Ge Fei!

Senior Brother Wen's methods are rough, Gong Zhiliang is really stupid! All self-smart calf things!

Bringing White Yuxia back and not doing full preparation. Also letting White Yuxia's mother go, hoping for a good gathering and a good separation – his father is dead, can he have a good gathering and a good separation with you?

Now his mom, White Yuxia, has become a pioneer of reform, a defender of the nation.

I, Ge Fei, have become a malignant tumor of the nation!

Watching with open eyes as White Yuxia drew his sword and killed him righteously, Ge Fei's heart was almost unable to restrain its violence –

Why say "almost," because he ultimately still restrained himself.

That killing intent that almost broke out of his pupils was forcibly pressed back, appearing as blood threads imprinted on his eyeballs.

With will as a dam, the emotions like an angry sea tide were tightly blocked in his body.

His figure was like a floating leaf, and with the yellow soil as his return path, he floated and fell at this time.

His posture was extremely slow, yet in the misplaced vision, he left extremely fast.

Finally, autumn ended.

When the comet tail sword brilliantly pierced through the long night, Ge Fei had already disappeared.

White Yuxia stopped in mid-air, gripping the sword hilt, stopping the whistle of the long halberd, facing the vast night, silent for a time.

He had imagined many situations.

For example, Ge Fei completely giving up his human identity, showing his unrestrained violent nature, and fighting him to the death here.

For example, Wen Jingxiu being a step late, "not having time" to save him...

He had already made such preparations.

When White Yuxia, who supported the new policy, died at the hands of the angry Ge Fei, there would be no room for maneuver between Ge Fei and the Yue Kingdom's new policy. Wen Jingxiu would have to choose one of the two. And no matter which side Wen Jingxiu chose, it would inevitably affect the High Chancellor's chess game.

Up to today, White Yuxia still didn't know what the High Chancellor's overall situation was; he couldn't get the most core intelligence.

But he knew very well that the High Chancellor was the only person in the history of the Yue Kingdom who could play chess with the Chu Kingdom. If the High Chancellor's layout was affected, it would inevitably lead to the collapse of Wen Jingxiu's game.

The High Chancellor had to compromise for the whole, sitting trapped on Yinxiang Peak for so many years. How could Wen Jingxiu, who was almost half-publicly standing on the opposite side of the Chu Kingdom this time, succeed?

White Yuxia was to fight with all his strength with Ge Fei, to live as long as possible to welcome victory, but he also had the awareness to die.

He knew Jiang Wang and Xiang Qian would take care of his old mother, and he had no other regrets in this life. The glory of a famous family once engraved in his heart, the family he wholeheartedly wanted to shine for ten thousand years, could no longer stir up half a ripple now. When he scattered all his family property, cut off his fields, and gave it all to the common people of Langya, he only felt relaxed, not regret.

But...

He thought of many things, made preparations in all aspects, only not expecting this one –

Ge Fei actually ran.

And ran so decisively, so straightforwardly. Didn't explain, didn't prove himself, didn't violently kill, not even a casual attack to vent anger!

A mountain sea monster capable of defeating Zhongli Yan head-on, could it fear the edge of a comet tail sword?

Could he really fear Wen Jingxiu killing him?

White Yuxia felt a sense of losing a sword chop in the void. He immediately reacted and confirmed Ge Fei's evil: "Don't let him run! Ge Fei killed his father and mother, feared crime and fled. Every person in the Yue Kingdom, everyone can execute him!"

The entire Fuan City roared in response, everyone indignant at Ge Fei's ugly beast heart, but all stopped at verbal condemnation, with few actual actions.

Ge Fei was a contemporary True Person, who would chase him?

Then at this moment, this historically long city bloomed with rushing-to-the-sky splendor.

Within the splendor, a king's throne condensed.

Behind the throne, there was a vague roar of a river and mountains guarding. The illusion was colorful, with phoenixes dancing and dragons flying.

The virtual shadow of the Yue Kingdom's Son of Heaven, Wen Jingxiu, sat on that noble position, casting deep and unfathomable eyes: "White Yuxia, you did very well."

"A commoner just exhausts his own duty!" White Yuxia didn't mind performing the monarch and the people sharing the same heart. He loudly said: "That treacherous thief Ge Fei feared crime and fled. Your Majesty must not let him go. This wolf-hearted and dog-lung thief, living one more day, doesn't know how many people he will harm!"

"Beloved minister, rest assured, no matter who dares to obstruct the new policy, dares to ruin public justice, I will absolutely not forgive!" Wen Jingxiu also showed the anger of the Son of Heaven: "Pass the order down, immediately seal the border. Dispatch the great army, dig three feet deep! Jia Kui is personally responsible for this matter and must bring Ge Fei back for investigation. I want to see his true face!"

The Great Protecting Array of the country was naturally activated, and Bian Liang also led the Yue Armor to expedition again.

Inside Fuan City, people knelt down in a piece, and the common people shouted "Long live the Emperor!"

This set of procedures went down extremely naturally, skilled as if already rehearsed many times.

White Yuxia felt a bit wrong.

Everything tonight was very smooth, including collecting key evidence beforehand, including the timing of Ge Fei's action to exterminate his family, which was just right, even including Wen Jingxiu's attitude now – the absolute majority of details were the same as planned, and he completed them very well.

Different from the plan was that the cruel, violent, and hard-to-control Ge Fei actually chose to flee.

Also, the Wen Jingxiu who had to stand out and express himself now, his eyes did not have emotions such as anger, hate, etc., not even bringing killing intent.

Wen Jingxiu was not angry, and had no killing intent, which only explained one thing – this Yue Kingdom's Son of Heaven had not been revenged upon.

Could Ge Fei not be important?

In Wen Jingxiu's plan, what exactly was important?

"I will go help General Bian!" White Yuxia was decisive, lifted his sword and left: "Even if I chase him to the ends of the earth, I will still catch this dog thief Ge Fei back, make him spit out the people's fat and cream, and kneel down to apologize to the elders of the Yue Kingdom!"

"Wait –"

Wen Jingxiu raised his hand and pressed it down, then remotely borrowed the power of the country, pressing down White Yuxia's figure, his tone very gentle: "A thousand gold son does not sit in a hanging hall. Yuxia, that Ge Fei is evil and unpredictable. After all, he is a True Person. You are a pillar of the country, why is it necessary to risk yourself? A hundred Ge Fei are not worth you in my heart!"

White Yuxia's bad feeling grew stronger. He sighed and retorted: "Your Majesty, you are the master of ten thousand people, absolutely do not say such words again. General Bian can risk himself, the Yue Armor soldiers can risk themselves, why can't I, White Yuxia, risk myself? For the country and for the people, what does my safety count for! You not letting a commoner go chase Ge Fei, is it not trusting the commoner's determination? Today I point to the sky and swear, I must catch this thief –"

"Yuxia, don't be in a hurry when encountering things! I taught you early, the more crucial it is, the more you need a slow plan. How can you still be so impetuous after cultivating with Minister Jiang for several years?" Wen Jingxiu didn't cover up his value for White Yuxia, even his criticism seemed very intimate: "Rest assured, Ge Fei certainly can't run. I'm not letting you go chase Ge Fei because I have a more important task for you. You are a great talent of the country, you should paint mountains and rivers, how can you bend yourself for the matter of arresting a thief?"

Minister Jiang, Minister Jiang!

Wen Jingxiu suddenly mentioning this title made White Yuxia's heart jump violently. He seemed to already see the net covering down, covering the sky and earth, nowhere to hide. But he couldn't see clearly.

Where did the problem arise?

No time to think again!

"The world is heavy, nothing is more important than the common people! Capturing and killing Ge Fei, and giving the common people an account, is the most important task at present – Your Majesty, the situation is urgent, any matters, wait until a commoner brings back Ge Fei's head, then come to narrate! Rude!" White Yuxia decisively urged his sword energy, the comet tail sword in his palm exploded, and the night sky also corresponded by drawing a brilliant star rainbow.

Tonight, the comet passed through the sky, and the endless night color was rushed open. White Yuxia's body virtualized.

He expected Wen Jingxiu not to make the scene too ugly, hence he rushed open the country's power, forcibly wanting to leave. The bigger the scene, the more it was a kind of protection for himself.

But Wen Jingxiu's hand, lightly wiped in front of the throne, actually wiped away that rainbow light in the night sky bit by bit, and the comet tail sword in White Yuxia's palm also instantly collapsed its sword energy, extinguishing its sword light. His golden body and jade marrow body heavily remained in mid-air.

"There will be an account, all that should be will be." Wen Jingxiu, with appreciative eyes, gazed at White Yuxia: "White beloved minister, the Langya White family, loyal and fierce for generations. Your father was loyal, and you are also loyal. Since you stand on the position of the country's new policy, fighting for fairness, and exposing Ge Fei's unrighteous facts – the country needs you exactly at this time, the new policy needs you exactly at this time, you certainly will not shirk responsibility at this time!"

White Yuxia naturally wanted to shirk.

But Wen Jingxiu fundamentally did not give him a chance to speak, and continued: "The High Chancellor said 'select officials fairly, noble and lowly have the same rights', White beloved minister also said 'the world has public justice', quite fitting my heart! I decide to dismiss Ge Fei from the position of Right Imperial Censor and appoint you, White Yuxia, as the Yue Court's Right Imperial Censor. No, Right Imperial Censor is still not enough to praise your red heart. I want to give you Left Imperial Censor, and order you to be in charge of the entire Yue Court!"

The Yue Kingdom's emperor was high on the throne, overlooking all directions: "Does everyone think it is fair? Is White Yuxia of the Langya White family worthy of this position?"

The common people inside Fuan City responded in unison: "Fair!!"

"Long live the Emperor!!!"

Some people had even started shouting "Chief Censor Bai!"

White Yuxia's body was fixed in the air, but his heart sank infinitely.

At this moment, he only realized that he was still trapped in a scheme.

He had maneuvered in a thousand ways, not stepping into Gong Zhiliang's trap, not being a chess piece of the Yue Court, yet after many turns, he was still pressed into this place, fixed in this chess game.

In the darkness, there seemed to be an invisible big hand that had already knocked down this chess score. All his efforts to change the situation were unable to escape the score.

He overestimated himself and underestimated Wen Jingxiu!

He thought that his preparations during this period were a long-term lurking, accumulating strength for one strike, and he would pass like a streak of light through a gap, heavily damaging this chess game. But perhaps everything he did in the Yue Kingdom was within Wen Jingxiu's observation. He thought he was flapping his wings and flying, but he was actually throwing himself into the net.

Not right – not Wen Jingxiu!

This was not Wen Jingxiu's handwriting, nor was it a move Gong Zhiliang could make.

He had seriously studied Wen Jingxiu's layout style. This Yue Kingdom's Son of Heaven liked to hide his edge and never put his sharp side on the surface. Although Gong Zhiliang was a talent who guarded success, his ability was only in doing what the High Chancellor entrusted to him well, not possessing the ability to manipulate such a game.

Stepping back further, if it was Wen Jingxiu or Gong Zhiliang's layout, with his wisdom, it would have been impossible to completely fail to detect it beforehand. He had studied these two people for too long.

Behind this, there was still a chess player!

Who?!

White Yuxia felt himself in a wild ridge covered by clouds and fog, with no road ahead and no road back. Looking far in all directions, but his body was on this mountain, fundamentally unable to see the full view of this mountain clearly.

But he clearly felt danger approaching. In this dark long night, a bloody giant mouth that chose people and devoured them had already opened.

When would that fatal strike come?

Since he decided to seek revenge and chose to stay alone to seek justice for his father, White Yuxia had the awareness to lose everything.

He did not fear danger, but he absolutely could not...

At this moment, Wen Jingxiu's voice rang out: "Good, good! Minister Jiang supports me like this, how can I let him be disappointed?!"

White Yuxia almost broke his throat drumming, shouting loudly: "What does it have to do with him! I have already detached from Bai Yujing, I have no relation with Jiang Wang anymore!"

But he shuddered to discover that his voice fundamentally couldn't be transmitted.

No, his voice was transmitted.

The people heard White Yuxia's voice, shouting like this – "Long live my Emperor! Your minister must fight for the country and fight to the death without stopping!"

At this moment, White Yuxia felt malice from Wen Jingxiu.

This was almost a repeat of the previous scene.

Just as he used Liu Zhiguang, Zeng Shixian, and others, letting Ge Fei have an unclear relationship, he, White Yuxia, no matter how unwilling, could still be linked to Jiang Wang!

He was the manager of Bai Yujing Tavern, he was the only guest Jiang Wang admitted and always kept by his side. How could the relationship between him and Jiang Wang be cut off?

Didn't he know this point? He knew.

His refusal of Jiang Wang's good intentions, his unwillingness to move his family to Xingyue Plain, wasn't it just considering that too many people having a relationship with Jiang Wang would necessarily affect Jiang Wang?

But he was conceited in his wisdom, thinking he could handle the affairs of the Yue Kingdom alone and cleanly, not involving others. Facts proved he was wrong!

Wen Jingxiu wanted to utilize him, and he was fully utilized.

He wanted to struggle free, but couldn't.

Wen Jingxiu at this time represented the Yue Court, forcibly linking the Yue Kingdom's political reform with Jiang Wang, a member of the Taixu Pavilion. His actions would necessarily not stop at this.

White Yuxia could completely imagine how the subsequent actions would be continuous. This killing chess had already started, and he could only continuously respond, running ragged, until his own central palace could no longer be saved.

In this process, chariots, horses, cannons, and advisors, whatever died filled the gap.

Even he himself could imagine many developments.

He didn't want Jiang Wang to become the person who ran ragged.

He felt a huge despair!

Just like being gripped by an invisible force at the throat now, making him produce a hallucination of drowning to death.

Since Jiang Wang took office in the Cabinet, he had not once shown favoritism towards any force in Cabinet affairs, had not built a Cabinet department, had not given private power, and had not fought for Taixu's benefits. His several proposals were all for promoting the development of the entire cultivation world.

He could be called clean! And he always enjoyed the highest prestige in various Cabinets.

Could it be that today, because of him, White Yuxia, he would be rolled into such a complex and muddy chess game involving the Yue Kingdom, the Chu Kingdom, and Huang Weizhen, unable to maintain his position as a member of the Taixu Pavilion? To be pulled from the clouds to the mud pit, unable to be transcendent again?

Wen Jingxiu was still speaking, and there were voices proclaiming.

The Son of Heaven's golden mouth, inch by inch, nailed down the so-called "truth."

White Yuxia, like Ge Fei a moment ago, was unable to defend himself with a hundred mouths. Even his voice could not be heard, voiceless and unable to defend.

Cannot explain clearly!

At this moment, in White Yuxia's truly exquisite eyes, a bright light burst out that made people unable to look directly at.

He gazed in the direction of the Big Dipper and murmured: "Seven years serving the monarch, no benefit to the monarch. I am White Jade with a flaw, today I wipe it away for the monarch. May the monarch be innocent, and from this point on, have no disasters."

Yuan Spirit Sea, Hidden Star Sea, Five Mansions Sea, Through Heaven Sea, the four seas moved together, rolling up shocking waves.

Terrifying sword energy exploded and whistled open in his body, disintegrating this Shenlin body with unstoppable momentum, from the inside out.

He would rather die than be Wen Jingxiu's chess piece!

Wen Jingxiu's virtual shadow stood up on the throne at this moment and quickly condensed into a real shape, wanting to stop White Yuxia's suicide – but where was the time?

Brilliant white light like a comet's tail almost pierced through White Yuxia's skin, making his originally white skin shine like white paper, thin to the point of breaking.

People seemed to only remember at this time how inwardly strong this person was initially on Guanhe Terrace. In that wind and cloud gathering, every step forward was an occasion where the world knew and heard. He didn't want a guaranteed match quota, just wanted a rightful victory in the main hall. In the end, he earned his name through blood.

And today, he also only sought a rightful death in the main hall, not to live muddied in others' chess games, absolutely not to be a puppet on a string linking the East family.

The comet tail cried out again tonight, shining in the long night.

The human world seemed to bloom a second bright moon.

The end of the road for heroes and heroines is always a memorable painting in the world.

People stared with wide eyes, seeing –

One hand pressed on the outside of the "bright moon."

A set of blue clothes stood beside that group of almost melting brilliant light.

What kind of upright figure was that, in this dark long night, who had a spine that pierced through the sky dome.

He, with a cold examining posture, calmly looked at the Yue Kingdom's emperor, yet slowly said: "I am not White Jade, no need to be without flaw!"

The sword light that exploded and whistled from inside to outside White Yuxia was... pressed back, bit by bit.

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