Chapter 2359: The Affliction

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This period of time, Jiang Wang has been continuously seeking methods to escape the heaven-human state, completely immersed in his own world, and completely unaware of the situation in the East Sea.

Only when the long river turns waves, did he suddenly become aware of a thought because of the heavenly way.

"Jing Country's King Kun killed Qi Country's Li Longchuan."

In the intelligence gathered from all sides, there was only this single sentence.

Why did King Kun kill Li Longchuan, how did he kill Li Longchuan, even Li Longchuan's dying appearance, how credible the process of this matter is...

He doesn't know any of it.

Friends who communicated just a few days ago are suddenly separated by life and death forever.

He is just a person whose forehead has been smashed by the bad news.

Jing Country and Qi Country seem to have reached an agreement, and the matter seems to be resolved. But he still knows nothing.

He doesn't know exactly what is going on, so he must seek an answer.

He doesn't know who the enemy is, nor does he prevent everyone from being an enemy.

The heaven-human state, rarely seen in ancient and modern times, he calls it a "disease".

This world is often absurd.

Black is said to be white, good is said to be bad, a flying deer is pointed at and called a lame horse, bones are born inside eggs.

Some people died!

Died like a speck of dust.

Some people act without scruples!

Some people make difficulties everywhere.

Why am I the only one who looks before and after?

Just because I cherish life more, cherish this world more?

Now Jiang Wang says, he is preparing to commit disease!

Some people consider the overall situation, then some people are hotheads.

Some people go mad, then some people commit disease.

This is very reasonable.

Reasonable to the point that Cao Ji for a moment doesn't know how to respond.

"This problem I also want to ask!" Song Huai walked down from Tianya Terrace, approached Jiang Wang, with a kind of intentionally manifested annoyed expression on his face: "Jiang little friend, you may not believe what I'm about to say. Regarding the full picture of this matter, I know no more than you. Up to now, I still don't know what happened between them. As to why the situation is like this, the old man doesn't mind telling you this way — when the mountain collapses in an instant, someone always considers first that the central empire must be more responsible."

Cao Ji remained silent. Jing Country had already withdrawn from the East Sea, and as the highest commander on the Qi side, he had no need for verbal disputes.

"It was Jing Country's King Kun who killed Li Longchuan!" Qi Wen spoke at this time: "I personally went to the Ghost Face Fish sea area where the incident occurred, and also brought professional coroners with me. From the traces at the site, King Kun borrowed the power of Ba Xia to suppress Li Longchuan, interrogated him under restraint, and then used that famous blade named 'Tui Yi', a Cheng Tian Fu renowned weapon, to chop off his head."

King Kun is not an unknown person, "Tui Yi" is not an unknown blade. But even so, to make Li Longchuan die like this is still too rash.

Rash to the point that Jiang Wang's heart sea is making dull ringing sounds.

Qi Wen continued: "King Kun's intention was evil, his methods cruel, shocking! That person has already been chopped by Commander Zhan Yu, and this also triggered the battle between Commander Zhan Yu and Jing Country's True Person Lou Yue."

Song Huai at the side frowned slightly, but did not speak.

Tian Anping went to question Lou Yue's crime and further fought. Saying this matter was triggered by Li Longchuan's death is also not a problem... although it sounds wrong no matter how you listen to it.

He doesn't refute, not thinking it's somewhat beneath his status to argue with Qi Wen, but understanding that everyone necessarily has their own angle and expression, which is inevitable. Jiang Wang is not a fool, he won't be led by a few words, and will naturally discern the truth among them.

In Jiang Wang's current state, too many words are not necessarily beneficial.

"Tian Anping?" Jiang Wang looked at Qi Wen.

Qi Wen's face was solemn, which made his words even more upright and credible: "It was precisely Marshal Tian who first discovered this matter, hence executing King Kun and his subordinates, and questioning True Person Lou Yue. He needed to rush back to Juming Island immediately to recuperate because he was injured by Lou Yue... In Jing Country's Jinghai plan this time, Lou Yue is the highest responsible person for the near sea archipelago affairs, and King Kun was under his jurisdiction."

After all, they are ministers in the same court. Although Tian Anping was not very polite, he still helped Tian Anping explain.

For this "former Wu An Hou" in front of him, his feelings are also quite difficult to describe.

If Jiang Wang had not left Qi Country, he should now be sitting in the position of Commander Zhan Yu, still that contemporary foremost military merit Hou. That madman Tian Anping would not have gotten the position so quickly, and the emperor would probably have kept him hidden for several years, continuing to temper his disposition.

Nearly four thousand years have passed since the beginning of the Dao Li era, and the world pattern is already fixed. In this world, truly important positions often have one person per position.

Jiang Wang could have sat up at any time.

Unfortunately, compared to Tian Anping, he is more the one who needed to queue.

However long Qi Xiao was in power, he queued for how many years.

Regarding the Li Longchuan matter, his handling was absolutely correct. For the first time, he exhausted the army, set out the ships, and the soldiers were across the near sea, and indeed forced out the best possible result for the current situation. Who can say that his stationing near the sea did not fulfill his duty?

The matter of King Kun plotting to kill Li Longchuan will not have a second kind of truth!

"I know King Kun." Jiang Wang felt even more stifled in his heart, and made himself slow down even more: "The reason he killed Li Longchuan, huh?"

"Preliminary judgment is that the conflict between the two sides started from Haimen Island, continuously intensified on the road, and gradually escalated into—" Qi Wen looked at Song Huai, and said to Jiang Wang: "True Person Jiang, would it be convenient to borrow a moment to speak?"

Song Huai, who had been listening for a long time, couldn't help but say: "What kind of shady dealings, can't say it for the old man to hear?"

Qi Wen completely ignored this East Heavenly Master, just looking at Jiang Wang.

In the next moment, clear waves unfolded before them, ten thousand li of blue. He found himself standing on a piece of still sea, and on that mirror-like sea surface, directly in front, stood the expressionless Jiang Wang.

In this piece of sea, there were only the two of them.

Looking at Jiang Wang at this time, it was as if seeing a mountain connecting to the sky!

Looking up, the peak end is not seen, retreating, the edge of the sky sea is unknown.

"This place is the Submerged Intent Sea. Even the East Heavenly Master cannot eavesdrop on your and my conversation without alarming me." Jiang Wang simply explained, and then said: "General Qi Wen wants to say what to me?"

Qi Wen always knew Jiang Wang's strength was astonishing, but hearing this sentence, he was still slightly startled.

Did Qi Xiao in the past just treat such a character as a chess piece, and dispose of him arbitrarily?

He forcibly suppressed his emotions and sincerely said: "Qi people always regard True Person Jiang as one of their own, and Qi Mou is no exception. Regarding the Li Longchuan matter, I should show you sincerity. Now there are two issues that are not convenient for me to say publicly, hence I want to talk with True Person in private."

"One, whether King Kun's behavior had instructions from a higher level of Jing Country is not good to say now. We did not capture Lou Yue for interrogation, so all suspicions are just suspicions. In the current situation, Ba Country is not attacking, everything is making way for Shen Xiao. If Jing Country can give a sufficiently weighty account, we will also try to avoid war, after all, we need to consider problems from the overall situation. Before the incident, General Li was recuperating on Haimen Island... He stood out, blocked that Ba Xia bloodline, and had a conflict with King Kun. He followed him all the way, also to maintain national interests and not hope that Jing Country would enter the East Sea. Now that King Kun and his subordinates have all been executed, and Jing Country has also made concessions in the East Sea—thinking that General Li will know under the spring, he can get a little comfort."

"Two—" Qi Wen paused: "From the traces of the battle at the site, it was Li Longchuan who made the first move. And it was for the kill."

If Li Longchuan and King Kun were just at odds from Haimen Island, and the contradictions escalated all the way, until they reached the Ghost Face Fish sea area, and Li Longchuan again made the first kill... then King Kun's reason for killing does indeed exist.

And these things are indeed not convenient to say publicly, and not good to let Jing Country know.

After all, counterattack kill and intentional murder are two completely different things in nature, and the price that can be exchanged is also different.

Qi Wen's explanation can already explain everything.

As the Xia Shi commander, and the current guard of Juming Island, all the choices he made in this matter indeed had sufficient reasons.

Jiang Wang just looked up at the sky.

The sky and the sea were closer.

"Longchuan's corpse... where is it at this moment?" Jiang Wang asked.

Qi Wen said: "General Li's corpse was first held by Ba Jiao Island, people from Bing Huang Island went to take over, and it should now be on the ship being sent back to Linzi."

Li Fengyao escorting the coffin back to Qi?

Sister and younger brother, a lonely sail westward, returning to the hometown of Shimen.

Jiang Wang couldn't bear to think of that scene, and under his feet, he slightly exerted force, breaking the Submerged Intent Sea.

The emotions at the bottom of the sea were stifling, like this about-to-rain, not-raining dusk.

He tried to calmly stir his thoughts, not looking at Cao Ji and Song Huai, but looking towards the third party present—that True Person of Diaohai Lou who always stood quietly in the clouds, observing coldly.

"True Person Qin." Jiang Wang opened his mouth to ask: "How is my friend Zhu Biqiong doing recently?"

Although Zhu Biqiong's feelings towards him have been wiped out, and they now meet like strangers, he still considers Zhu Biqiong a friend, and also instinctively trusts her more. If he wants to get a fair perspective from a third party, he still thinks of Zhu Biqiong first.

"Still counts as not bad." Qin Zhen said faintly: "True Person Lou personally went to her door to invite her, and she went to the Mirage Realm to respond to the remnant army of Dou E—just before the battle between the two True Persons Lou and Tian, at the Qingping Le Wine House at Qing Ao Reef."

With just this sentence, she said everything that needed to be said.

Jiang Wang lightly bowed to her, no longer seeking answers from Cao Ji or Song Huai, and directly turned and left.

He had already gotten Qi Country's viewpoint from Qi Wen. The attitude of the people of Jing Country was already indicated by that stele at the corner of the sea. Saying more here would be completely meaningless.

He had already finished listening with his own ears, now he wanted to see with his own eyes.

"Where does True Person Jiang plan to go?" Song Huai asked with great concern.

"Walk around everywhere, and also look around everywhere." Jiang Wang straightened his body, held his sword, stepped on the sea and went far, as if with the remaining glow of the sky as his cloak, he said without looking back: "It's been many years since I've done these things, I almost forgot, I was once also a Qing Pai."

He wanted to go to the places Li Longchuan had been in his lifetime, and personally look at the traces Li Longchuan left behind.

Cao Ji held the last piece of Jing Yi Ding Shen Gao and that empty food box, standing there, without saying anything further.

Yes, Jiang Wang was once Qi Country's Qing Pai captor.

He was Qi Country's general, Qi Country's Hou.

Later, because of the battle in the Mirage Realm, both he and his subordinates were treated as discarded pieces, which directly led to the outbreak of the event of his leaving Qi.

He still remembers the commander of the guards of the Wu An Hou Fu, named Fang Yuan You, a very steady and loyal person, who also followed Jiang Wang and established merits on the battlefield of Qi Xia. Further down, he doesn't remember.

There are too many things he needs to remember.

And Li Longchuan, how is he not Qi Country's general? If he hadn't died, he would certainly have been Qi Country's Hou in the future.

Now his corpse is sunk in the sea.

Was the truth of that person's death truly cared about?

The value of that person's death was, however, squeezed dry...

Seeking victory as a general, striving for benefits for the country, can be said to be his duty.

There is nothing new under the sun.

In this matter, Jiang Wang undoubtedly does not completely trust Qi Country.

But Cao Ji completely understands this distrust. He searched his heart, and when exerting pressure on Jing Country, he was not certain whether the specific process of Li Longchuan's death was truly as Qi Wen said. He just, as the highest commander, almost instinctively made the choice that was most in line with Qi Country's interests. And after True Monarch Ling Chen appeared and both sides had talked well, it seemed there was no need to salvage the specific details of this matter again...

Isn't it already according to "King Kun plotted to kill Li Longchuan" that the layout of Jing Country in the near sea was cleared out?

"Duke Hou seems a bit troubled." Song Huai looked over, his eyes full of deep meaning.

Cao Ji glanced at him faintly: "The road home is far, Heavenly Master be careful on the way."

Then he turned around, boarded the Huo Yang warship, and stood beside Qi Wen.

"Hou Ye—" Qi Wen opened his mouth.

"Set sail!" Cao Ji pointed at the deck with his military boots.

This warship, which had long wanted to leave, just like this, changed direction in the high air.

"Now, tell me everything you know again." Cao Ji leaned on the railing and gazed into the distance, looking at the direction where Jiang Wang disappeared: "You only need to tell me which details are now supported by solid evidence, no need to help me connect the clues."

The light in the sky turned white again and then dark again.

In the "South Island" southeast of Wu Dong Island, the four seasons are scorching, and the air is filled with tumbling dry intent.

Hell No Door's previously arranged foothold is here.

Coroner Wang and City King honestly squatted on the island, wearing islanders' clothes, pretending to be a couple, with the door tightly closed, probably well prepared for a long stay.

How scary—

Returning from the northern ice river, they saw the entire near sea archipelago everywhere mobilizing troops.

Again warships were across the sky, again purple qi was rampant, the night dome hung Zi Wei, and a high stele stood in front of Tianya.

Just now, there was a sword coming from the west, as if to split open the archipelago!

"Who is this person? So arrogant?" Coroner Wang stood in the middle of the courtyard, looking up at that sword light plundering the sky and leaving a long-lasting tail rainbow: "The East Sea has so many soldiers, swords are drawn and bows are bent, on the verge of breaking out. Isn't he afraid of being killed?"

"Jiang Wang!" City King stood beside the well, in the process of drawing water, looking at the deep well, without lifting his head.

"You even recognize this?" Coroner Wang was surprised.

"Even if he turns to ashes!" City King lifted the bucket, adding: "I told you, I admire him very much."

"There will be an opportunity for him to turn to ashes, let you recognize him. See if you're bragging." Coroner Wang said strangely.

"Okay!" City King laughed very brilliantly.

He put the bucket aside and put down an empty bucket again. Today he planned to do two good deeds a day, helping Grandma Zhang next door draw water, and at the same time helping Old Li Tou at the village entrance also draw a bucket.

But just at this moment, from that well water, a wisp of green light jumped out!

Coroner Wang and City King became solemn almost simultaneously and performed very respectfully.

That green light was beyond the well mouth, emitting a low voice: "Really interesting, the sea is in chaos. Jing Country's King Kun killed Qi Country's Li Longchuan. Now the Qi people all over the sea are shouting for a fight, Penglai Island's True Monarch Ling Chen has put down the Tianbei and talked about peace, and the one surnamed Jiang has come again—"

His remark seemed to have no purpose.

Coroner Wang suggested loyally: "Do we want to take advantage and strike Jing Country? Beat the drowning dog!"

This, of course, was an unreliable suggestion.

Jing Country is now in its most dangerous time. Any little hostility will be infinitely amplified.

The voice within the green light seemed casual: "Just now, I suddenly thought of something. You two came because you were interested in Bing Huang Island... then coincidentally, Li Longchuan, who was in the midst of rest and pillow with warm fragrance and soft jade, just happened to meet King Kun, wasn't it with your guidance?"

City King had an instinctive alert, opened his mouth and was about to say that there was absolutely no such thing.

Coroner Wang beside him had already reported loudly: "This was all City King's idea!"

City King only came and looked at his good big brother with a faint gaze, and then a green light swam onto him, turning into a hand, pinching his neck, and lifting him into the air.

The pervasive death intent almost swallowed City King. He instantly became full-faced red, and his neck was pale!

The voice of King Qin Guang in the green light was cold, like the sound of an executioner slowly grinding his knife before execution: "Why are you so self-righteous, why do you want to act on your own?"