Chapter 2446: This Body as a Banner

The person in front of me, this person who fundamentally doesn't care about means, who has no concept of good and evil, is smiling.

He actually says "hope."

This word is so out of place with "Hell's Door" (Di Yu Wu Men).

But it does exist.

When did I forget that?

Di Yu Wu Men was initially established in Broken Soul Gorge (Duan Hun Gu). It was a gathering of hopeless people, wasn't it?

Just like Yin Guan said back then — "We are all people with nowhere to go, whom even hell won't open its doors for."

This is precisely the origin of the name Di Yu Wu Men.

The green flame floating on the altar is like a burning summer flower.

Looking at Yin Guan like this, King Chu Jiang (Chu Jiang Wang) thinks of a summer many years ago.

Speaking of which, it could be considered fate. It was her first time traveling far, and of course, she snuck out herself — taking advantage of her family's absence, she used a Mo family puppet, modified it slightly, and added a magic array that constantly simulated sound, just enough to deceive the servants for a long time.

The absolute majority of experiences on this trip were bad. She felt like a rat in a gutter, sneaking through the human world.

She owned nothing, took nothing away.

She crawled through in the darkness, leaving behind only dirt, plague, and death.

She killed one person.

It wasn't her first time killing someone, but it was her first time thousands of miles away from home, holding a blood-dripping knife, acting entirely on her own, driven solely by instinct, cruelly killing someone with whom she would originally have had no intersection in life.

Her hands and feet were lost, her mind a blank.

And realistically speaking, that was an innocent person.

At the time of the incident, she had done nothing wrong, carried no burden of guilt; she was just an ordinary person living an ordinary life.

Who knows whose daughter, whose wife, whose mother she was?

She killed her, unable to find any reason to comfort herself.

At that moment, she raised her head vigilantly —

Yin Guan was sitting lazily on the roof ridge, smiling just like this.

She remembers that smile being very distant, and also very cruel.

"It's a bit funny to say. You killed her — an ordinary woman who makes a living by washing clothes — and here you are, crying sadly." At that time, Yin Guan opened his mouth exaggeratedly: "She didn't even have a chance to cry!"

On the ground lay the limp corpse of the woman, half-sprawled over that pile of clothes waiting to be washed, making them even dirtier.

Fresh blood dyed the wooden basin for washing clothes red, as if a red piece of clothing had severely faded.

At that time, she deeply despised herself. Hating herself for why she came into this world, hating herself for living. Hating this body shell that could only survive in such an ugly way!

She held the knife and then rushed up.

She didn't want to kill, only to be killed.

But the anticipated death did not come.

Yin Guan ran.

He ran extremely fast.

Later, this kind of speed became a tradition of Di Yu Wu Men.

She also didn't know what she was thinking at that time.

Perhaps curiosity was born in her heart, perhaps because of the pain.

Perhaps she simply wanted to escape the scene — she chased after him.

She used everything she had learned in her life, searching for traces.

Finally, beside an ancient well, they met for the second time.

"If you want to die, jump down yourself, don't trouble me." Yin Guan pointed at the well and said.

That was the second sentence he said after they met.

She jumped down.

Without saying another word, she sealed her five internal organs, froze her Qi and blood, afraid she wouldn't die thoroughly.

But she again failed to die.

She was fished out of the ancient well, dripping wet, like a dead fish thrown on the ground. The man named Yin Guan lowered his head and looked at her, asking her: "Do you have to kill people?"

She really hated such a question.

It was like using a knife to cut her heart, which was already full of holes.

But she saw his eyes — they were a pair of quite beautiful eyes, devoid of sympathy, hatred, or flattery, greed.

Nor were they the eyes she often saw, those dark eyes that tried to hide their disgust and fear.

They were just calmly looking at her, asking calmly, understanding calmly.

He seemed to understand very well what it meant to have a "body not one's own."

He seemed to know very well that kind of powerless pain.

She inexplicably nodded.

Then he said: "Then I have a good idea."

The now infamous King Qin Guang (Qin Guang Wang), was at that time very much like a clumsy swindler. Using not-too-skilled word techniques, he wove a trap of greed.

He said: "I recently have an idea for making money, and I'm currently looking for a partner. Surprisingly, you're also very suitable — come and lend a hand?"

She never thought she would get a job so quickly.

Her first job in life.

"Don't you think she's very pitiful?" she asked at that time: "I mean, that innocent woman I killed."

Yin Guan at that time only said: "This world is very cruel, there's no time for who pities whom. If I die one day, you don't need to pity me either."

As a token of joining the organization, she prepared to uncover the mask she always wore, revealing her identity.

But Yin Guan said: "Don't open the mask, don't let me see you, don't give me an opportunity to harm you. Since we want to do this kind of work, we have to do it big and strong, our vision must be long-term, we must hide our identity well."

She asked: "Then you... why don't you hide?"

Yin Guan at that time said: "I must make them afraid — more evil than evil, more terrifying than terror."

At that time, she still didn't know who Yin Guan's "them" referred to.

Anyway, the earliest concept of Di Yu Wu Men was proposed beside that ancient well.

At that time, they didn't know what today would bring.

They didn't even know if they would have a tomorrow.

Anyway, they just kept walking forward, looking as they went.

Later, she went to look again, but the ancient well was no longer there.

Perhaps she remembered the location incorrectly.

Perhaps it was filled in.

Today, hearing Yin Guan's decision and seeing his smile, King Chu Jiang suddenly felt that perhaps that ancient well was always there —

That was Yin Guan's eyes, which held no scrutiny, only calm reflection.

Wu Si is dead.

He committed suicide with six knives in his back.

Committing suicide with six knives in one's back is not a difficult thing to achieve. In a world possessing superhuman power, especially so.

It wasn't Gui Guo's (Equality Country) silence — there was no need for silence. Wu Si knew nothing about the other people in Gui Guo, and fundamentally involved no one. The protector originally prepared to be sent to meet You Que (You Que) was also not him, but was changed to Chu Xu (Chu Xu).

Even less was it Jing Country's (Jing Guo) silence.

Wu Si's true identity was Zhang Shao Wu (Zhang Shao Wu), an orphan of the Zhang Clan (Zhang Shi) of the Chun Shen Manor (Chun Shen Fu) in Jing Country —

The Chun Shen Zhang Clan, although not comparable to the five surnames of the three divisions that followed King Chang Le (Chang Le Wang) in exterminating the He Clan (He Shi) that year, was still a famous family in the northern lands for nearly a thousand years.

The previous Great General of the Chun Shen Guard (Chun Shen Wei), Zhang Xi Hong (Zhang Xi Hong), was the head of the Zhang Clan. Because he contended for the fragments of the Bing Xian Palace (Bing Xian Gong), he was killed by Yi Zhen Dao (Yi Zhen Dao). The strong one within Yi Zhen Dao who killed Zhang Xi Hong even used a bloodline curse to kill all his blood relatives.

Zhang Shao Wu had a congenital illness and turned into demon blood not long after birth, and actually survived this extermination disaster.

The contemporary Great General of the Chun Shen Guard, Yuan Yong (Yuan Yong), was a direct disciple of Zhang Xi Hong, and was already the strongest military head within the Chun Shen Manor. After Zhang Xi Hong's death, he almost publicly and as expected took over the Chun Shen military flag.

Zhang Shao Wu was completely unable to threaten his position. As long as he lived properly as an orphan of the Zhang Clan, it was a recognition of Yuan Yong's legitimacy, and the greatest support for Yuan Yong.

For reasons from any aspect, Yuan Yong could not possibly kill Zhang Shao Wu.

Even when Zhang Shao Wu's identity in Gui Guo was exposed, he still tried to protect him by force, going to the capital city to petition the Heavenly Son of Jing (Jing Tian Zi), begging for pardon with the nearly thousand years of fame and contribution of the Chun Shen Zhang Clan.

Wu Si truly committed suicide.

His hatred for Yi Zhen Dao was concrete to this extent —

Yi Zhen Dao is hidden within Dao Country (Dao Guo). Then as long as all the people of Jing Country are killed, Yi Zhen Dao will also be exterminated.

He committed suicide simply to cause suspicion between Jing Country and within Jing Country!

To make Jing Country, during this time when the storm was brewing, always carry some grudges, unable to reassure the other overlord countries.

Wu Si died like this, committing suicide in the posture of being killed. Jing Country said he committed suicide, Jing Country also said he committed suicide, and he really did commit suicide, but Jing Country dared not truly believe he simply committed suicide. The tacit understanding reached by the Gallant Cavalry Governor (Ying Qi Du Hu) Xia Hou Lie (Xia Hou Lie) and the Purge Evil Commander (Dang E Tong Ling) Kuang Ming (Kuang Ming) on Star Moon Plain (Xing Yue Ping), the moment that tacit understanding formed, had a crack.

And Wu Si being able to complete his suicide before the people of Jing Country came to the door was undoubtedly due to a tip-off in advance. This added a cloud of internal doubt to Jing Country, in addition to the external storms.

From Yin Xiao Heng (Yin Xiao Heng) to Wu Si, there has always been an invisible hand, pulling at the internal organs of this giant, Jing Country, making it bleed from the inside out.

This is just one small episode in this period of bloody rain and foul wind.

Protector Zheng Wu (Zheng Wu) died.

His real identity was Lou Ming Bi (Lou Ming Bi), a teaching mister at the Diligent Study Academy (Qin Xue Yuan). The reason he joined Gui Guo was to oppose the state system. He believed the state system was an evil path, and the great prosperity of the state system was a manifestation of the human path deviating from the grand proper way. This person was dedicated to "sweeping away the state system, restoring the prosperity of the various saints, allowing ten thousand families to have a path, and making the world prosperous."

This is the assertion on governing the world that Lou Ming Bi wrote in his Cheng Dao Book (Cheng Dao Shu).

Of course, this book would not face the world, and would never face the world.

In order to gain trust from Jing Country, the dean of the Diligent Study Academy, Zuo Qiu Wu (Zuo Qiu Wu), personally checked his past, summarized the evolution of this person's thought, and handed it all over to the Mirror World Platform (Jing Shi Tai).

This person died in one strike, his book burned in one torch.

Protector Chen You (Chen You) also died. His real identity was Xian Yu Dao (Xian Yu Dao), the state minister of Zhong Shan Country (Zhong Shan Guo).

Zhong Shan Country has little land and is weak, with a barren pool of talent. Even the state minister is held by clan members — but as long as there is a bit of talent, if they weren't surnamed Xian Yu, how could they not go to Jing Country but stay in Zhong Shan!

The reason Xian Yu Dao joined Gui Guo goes without saying — as a small country clan member who lived under the shadow of Jing Country since childhood, there is almost no end to what can be said.

Jing Country is even too lazy to listen.

The history book of Zhong Shan Country records this day —

"Zhong Shan Country lord Xian Yu Yun Shao (Xian Yu Yun Shao) presented a petition begging for sin, Zhong Shan Country crown prince Xian Yu Zhao Wen (Xian Yu Zhao Wen) entered the Heavenly Capital (Tian Du) as a hostage, to gain trust from the upper country."

How much wind and rain, how many tears of blood were in between, all brushed over in a single stroke.

Gui Guo is violently losing blood!

When a powerful central empire unsheaths its sharp claws, bares its fangs, and fights blood against blood, even if the opponent is truly mad, they must know pain and death, and must start to know fear.

Bo Lu (Bo Lu) does not fear.

Even a truly madman knows pain and will fear death.

But a true idealist will not.

Idealists only fear dying without value.

Bo Lu is a true idealist.

Merely from the fact that he stood out, stood in the sunlight, and raised the banner of equality high, is enough to prove his courage.

He is the first, and so far the only, openly standing member of Gui Guo in the human world.

He reversed the view in many people's hearts that Gui Guo could only exist in the darkness.

He believes in his way, firmly believing that "equality" is a good method to govern the world.

He is a true "protector."

As a native of Yue Country (Yue Guo), a prodigy of Qian Tang (Qian Tang) during the Yue Tai Zong (Yue Tai Zong) period, his first half of life was a life of striving for his country. Like Wen Zhong (Wen Zhong) and Gao Zheng (Gao Zheng), he understood that all of Yue Country's struggles were futile, and saw that the root behind Yue Country's tragedy was Chu Country (Chu Guo).

This cannot even be said to be Chu Country's fault. This is the inevitable result under the state system, where two countries are adjacent, like two trees competing for sunlight and rain.

Look around the world, where is it not so?

It's not that Yue Country oppresses Chu Country, it's just that Chu Country oppresses Yue Country.

It's just that Yue Country was unfortunately in the position of the weaker one.

And unlike Wen Zhong and Gao Zheng, after wandering outside for many years, experiencing many hardships, even turning into a ghost, his gaze was not on Yue Country. He thought that what truly needed saving was this world.

The land of Yue was only for nostalgia, so he called himself Qian Tang Jun (Qian Tang Jun), and established Tian Gong City (Tian Gong Cheng).

But it's very obvious that a city that only dares to be established in a dangerous place in the world is not enough to support too passionate ideals, is hard to attract those truly strong ones, and even less able to establish a mechanism for cultivating an unending stream of talent.

Furthermore, reaching Tian Gong City itself is a huge test.

How many people can successfully cross the Fallen Immortal Forest (Zhui Xian Lin)?

Not to mention that the entrance to the Fallen Immortal Forest is not controlled by Tian Gong City, its lifeblood is tied to others' hands. This is an inherent deficiency.

Some even say that Chu Country's tacit approval was because Tian Gong City posed no threat from the beginning.

The ending quickly verified this.

The opportunity won at great cost, the torch lit with immense courage, two years of operation, the efforts of countless people...

Destroyed on a clear morning.

This is not the first failure of Gui Guo, and it is absolutely not the last.

Now, Bo Lu is flying in the air.

The vast sea surface, like a vast blue mirror, reflects his miserable and embarrassed state.

It also reflects the power and high-blazing presence of Great Jing's (Da Jing) Jin King (Jin Wang).

On the nearby islands that have already fallen under the actual control of Qi Country (Qi Guo), he is madly fleeing, and Ji Xuan Zhen (Ji Xuan Zhen) is wantonly chasing him.

Intelligence from all sides of the world is continuously grasped by Ji Xuan Zhen through the "Mirror World." And Bo Lu, fleeing for his life, is at this time completely unaware of the changes happening in this world — he has no intelligence channels, and no one dares to pass messages to him.

Ji Xuan Zhen firmly controls the rhythm of the fight, continuously weakening Bo Lu, letting him maintain a state of bleeding at any moment, yet still able to desperately struggle, allowing him to have a chance to flee, but not escape.

"This king specially came to verify your ideals, but you seem not to truly believe them." The Jin King of Great Jing leisurely walked on the sea as if in his courtyard, using his palm as a knife, slowly tormenting the madly fleeing sky ghost: "From ancient times to the present, no ideal is without sacrifice, no banner is without blood, but each and every one of you seems very afraid of death."

"Why does no one come to save you?"

"Why are you still struggling?"

In the intense pain that was hard to endure, Bo Lu made no sound.

In the hopeless struggle, he continuously struggled.

He knew that the people of Jing Country were using him as bait, and he simultaneously knew that no one would come to save him — when Tian Gong City was first established, Sheng Gong (Sheng Gong) had already said that this was a path of certain death, and he still resolutely stepped onto it — he had long known that he was walking towards a certain death, but he still wanted to flee a bit further, flee a bit longer.

As long as one person sees Bo Lu, knows Bo Lu, they will think of Tian Gong City.

Just by using this body as a banner, may it last long enough to draw attention from this human world.

The ideal of Tian Gong City, perhaps, just exists like that.

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