Chapter 2450: Heroes of the World

Chapter 2414: World Heroes

Gu Shiyi's strength surpassed everyone's imagination. He achieved True Monarch not long after Bo Lu, and yet, compared to Tian Gong City being shattered by Ji Xuan Zhen, he was able to withstand this palm strike from Ji Xuan Zhen.

His body was like a mountain, his power like the sea. He blocked the dying Bo Lu, confronting the Great Jing Jin Wang. Wild waves rose for him; in an instant, the water became like a range of peaks.

This was truly the scene of a super strong person!

The nearby sea archipelago was already under the actual control of Dong Qi, but at this moment, this sea domain had become an arena for absolute peak strong persons, no longer under the will and control of Qi Country.

Bo Lu had already been cut down to the height of an ordinary person, unable to maintain his massive Dao body, his breath uncontrollably falling. His flesh connected to sinews, bones to blood, like an old skin bag about to be discarded. He glared with ferocious eyeballs, half of his eyelids cut off, flowing turbid bloody tears.

But his voice was clear.

He said: "You shouldn't have come."

"I came late," Gu Shiyi only said.

Ten thousand li unobstructed, onlookers silently watched the sea battlefield, just like the sky at this moment, ten thousand li clear, the mixed and confused wind and rain, in an instant, the waves and clouds were treacherous.

Absolutely no one should have come to save Bo Lu. Regardless of their identity, which side's force, in various matters concerning interests and reasons of wisdom and foolishness, this choice was untenable.

Everyone knew what coming to save Bo Lu today would face.

The killer boss from the Gate of Hell had just come to brush the edge, dropped a useless rain, shouted a hollow slogan, and was then chased and killed to heaven and earth, drilled into the extreme abyss crack — if not for the sudden wave of Qian Tian Mirror, he would already be dead.

And to truly stand in front of Bo Lu, to truly face the anger of the central empire, this matter...

This was clearly coming to die.

And it was a meaningless death, adding oil to the fire, filling the pit with one's body.

But the world's first hero... still came to participate in the battle!

Why did he?

No one could figure it out. But Bo Lu thought in his heart, this was perhaps his — Gu Shiyi's — answer.

"Gu Shiyi." Ji Xuan Zhen chewed on this name again, lifting his deep eyes: "If you are the leader of the Equality Country, where are the remaining two people? If you are not the leader of the Equality Country, then where is the leader of the Equality Country?"

He glanced at Bo Lu, whose ghost body was leaking wind everywhere: "Don't think you can take away this Heavenly Ghost from my hands just by relying on you, right?"

"Or." His eyes looked back, with a nearly domineering posture, fixing on Gu Shiyi's eyes: "Do you want to try and escape in front of me?"

Gu Shiyi suddenly twisted his head, turning his gaze to the side, this act was like tearing off a layer of skin! On his eyes, fine lines emerged, like blood beads. Like a series of needle stitches had been stabbed, looking heartbreakingly painful.

But he grinned, wildly saying: "What you said is not interesting enough, not in my Gu Shiyi's style. If there weren't still so many people here, I really want to try — to pick off your head!"

After that shocking huge wave, a figure slowly rose.

The strongest Heavenly Master of the Great Jing Empire, Ying Jiang Hong, wielded his sword on the sea. He had clearly just appeared, yet it was as if he had already existed. His gaze covered all, and everything in sight was under his sword's enclosure.

A True Monarch was already superhuman; if they tried their best to escape, it was extremely difficult to kill them. But under the joint attack of Ying Jiang Hong and Ji Xuan Zhen, this point was very difficult to establish!

These two True Monarchs were truly terrifyingly strong, even in the Yan Dao Forest, they were absolute strong ones.

They were one in front and one behind, then they sealed off the absolute Heaven Gate and the absolute Nether Prison below. Life no longer had a path forward, fate had already reached a dead end.

And in the clearly visible distant sea domain, there were several bodies shaped by seawater, slowly condensing, with boiling breath within, capable of condensing into true strong ones at any time.

Everyone, including Bo Lu, was certain that no one would come to save them. Because even if the Equality Country came out in full force, this would only be a graveyard and nothing else!

Now was the time to verify this cognition.

After all, whether he should or not have come, Gu Shiyi had already come.

Bo Lu struggled to turn his body, standing back to back with Gu Shiyi.

No matter what he faced, he would forever fight.

The thousand-wounded, hundred-holed Heavenly Ghost body seemed embedded in the fluttering Imperial Wind Robe — yet it was Gu Shiyi who had casually torn off his own signature long robe and put it on for him.

How could he say he had no clothes?

The same robe as you!

The wind howled, the sea waves rolled high, and then heavily smashed down again, leaving only a forceful but futile sound.

"What kind of person you, Gu Shiyi, are, many people see, and there is a conclusion in people's hearts. You say 'conscience', Jin Wang will only laugh, because he doesn't understand you, and he doesn't believe hearsay. But I am willing to believe, I believe that on many nights you cannot sleep, because you, alone with a pair of fists, cannot save too many unjust matters."

Ying Jiang Hong expressionlessly looked at the two absolute peaks in front of him, with a bit of regret in his gaze after all: "But on today's battlefield, if you are really a passerby, this can only witness your stupidity. You are the leader of the Equality Country, and you can explain your conscience. Because you cannot sit and watch this protector, Li Mao, die alone because of his ideals."

"I can probably understand it this way," Ying Jiang Hong said: "You have come to accompany him, to sacrifice for ideals."

Gu Shiyi, as the world's first hero, had a noble origin yet his feet stepped on yellow soil. He left his country but his heart was tied to the world. For several hundred years, he acted chivalrously and fought against injustice, living an upright life, owing nothing to anyone.

His fame was not built by anyone building momentum for him; it was his fists, his steps, his life choices embodied time after time.

Just like when he, for some innocent common people who suffered harm in Zheng Country, ran to the grassland to warn the Cang Yu Patrol Office and established his prestige by taking down Hu Yan Jing Xuan. His first battle to prove his absolute peak was just being chased and killed for a thousand li by Su Qin Wang He Lian Liang Guo, nearly dying and having his Dao vanish — to others, it seemed very stupid, but to him, it was very common.

He had done more than one such thing.

To become the spiritual leader of world wanderers, his actions and the path he walked must have already passed the test of time. There must have been countless eyes that scrutinized him with 'yi'.

No one could say what was in his heart. His actions were seen by the world.

Even if he was a "fake person", he was already the incarnation of chivalry.

The so-called "world enjoys fame," there were many people in this world who recognized him, and Ying Jiang Hong was just one of them!

Gu Shiyi confronted Ji Xuan Zhen in front of him, not turning his head to look at Ying Jiang Hong, only saying: "You can understand the naive thinking of idealists, yet you are willing to be the blade of a muddled ruler. This explains your cruelty even more — Southern Heavenly Master!"

They had known each other for a long time and later had contact many times.

They couldn't say they didn't know each other, but their paths were indeed different.

These two people knew each other's experiences; probably no one else did. It wasn't a complicated story — Ying Jiang Hong once encountered Gu Shiyi alone challenging an evil cult on a mountain while sweeping away evil cults in a place. He greatly admired his talent and represented Jing Country to recruit him, but he was rejected by Gu Shiyi.

With Gu Shiyi's talent and sentiment that made even Ying Jiang Hong exclaim, it took him two hundred years to prove his absolute peak, which was enough to explain how difficult the road he walked was.

That year, Ying Jiang Hong just said that he had made the most wrong choice of his life.

But so many years had passed, and Gu Shiyi seemed to always stubbornly "wrong"!

Like yesterday, like today.

Like that time, it is this time.

Gu Shiyi's palm supported a ten-thousand-li plateau.

Ji Xuan Zhen's palm blade had already cut open a thousand-li crack.

Pitch-black cracks spread like palm lines in Gu Shiyi's palm heart.

Lifeline, wealth line, marriage line, every strip was broken.

Ji Xuan Zhen was expressionless: "I don't plan to let you attempt to kill me, because you still haven't made me interested in battle. I have never seen the possibility of you killing me in your body."

He, with the nobility of the Great Jing imperial clan, arrogantly lifted his eyes: "The three great leaders of the Equality Country divide the palm of the public, yi, and reason. This is for the Holy Public, Divine Hero, and Zhao Wang. You, Gu Shiyi, are the world's first hero, naturally you are the Divine Hero, right?"

Gu Shiyi looked at him as if he had something to say, but finally only said: "Of course you can recognize it this way, you can proclaim it this way — anyway, in this world, isn't it what you all say, that's what it is?"

"Hu Yan Jing Xuan took a punch from you, He Lian Liang Guo was toyed with by you, the people of Mu Country testified for you — including Jiang Wang, many people witnessed your leap to the absolute peak. Although we don't know how you did it, you have already washed away the suspicion! After achieving the absolute peak cultivation, with the identity of the world's first hero, no matter what you want to do, the sky is vast and the ground is broad, and it is greatly achievable. Today, however, because of a Bo Lu who is determined to die, you have come here to die —"

Ying Jiang Hong's voice behind him carried the astringent intent of the sea wind: "Even if you are really just the Divine Hero! Is it really worth it?"

Gu Shiyi calmly looked at the wound in his palm heart, as if not seeing this as an absolute gap, only asking: "Do you know why I refused your recruitment back then?"

Bo Lu was wrapped in that black and gold two-colored Imperial Wind Robe, breathing with difficulty, trying to maintain the candle of life.

Ying Jiang Hong regarded this as nothing, because it really didn't affect the outcome.

"I am quite curious about your answer today," he said.

"Not because of your identity," Gu Shiyi said lightly: "It's because of your arrogance."

"Arrogance?" Ying Jiang Hong carefully recalled that day: "I dare say I was not rude to you."

"You were very polite to me. You also said you would recommend me to join the Censorate, said you could find a way for me to cultivate at the Boundless Stone Wall, said I would have boundless prospects in the central empire. As a person, I should thank you. You respected me greatly." Gu Shiyi's expression was very strange, as if he was mocking, but not really smiling. He asked: "Do you still remember the name of that evil cult that year?"

Ying Jiang Hong frowned.

"You have certainly forgotten," Gu Shiyi's tone was very certain: "Because a small evil cult is not worth a big figure like you remembering. Even if you are so powerful, with a single thought you can exhaust the subtle, matters of a thousand years, roads of ten thousand li, all can be without omission, those small roles are not worth your bother. You want to care about a world too vast, unable to feel a single grain of dust!"

Ying Jiang Hong did not speak. Wasn't that a natural thing?

Gu Shiyi said: "That cult, it was called the Worship Fortune Cult. Yes, just that simple name. Many people who joined this cult were just seeking fortune, for themselves, for their families, seeking a bit of fortune —"

He slightly lowered his eyes: "But Southern Heavenly Master, you killed them all. You wiped out that mountain, not even a dog was left. You said evil cult members deserve to die ten thousand deaths, these words are not without reason. I admit the leader of the Worship Fortune Cult was full of evil, and those several high-level evil cult members committed unforgivable sins. But on that mountain, were they all people who deserved to die? You didn't go to ask. Because you didn't have time."

Gu Shiyi sighed a long breath: "I refused you, just for this simple reason. I don't want to become a person like you. I lower my head and live, caring for the fate of dust."

Ying Jiang Hong quietly looked ahead. In front of him was only Bo Lu's weak body, embedded in Gu Shiyi's majestic back shadow. He vaguely, just a little bit, understood.

"What grand righteous words!" Ji Xuan Zhen laughed: "So the 'yi' of the so-called Divine Hero of the Equality Country is just this word hanging on the mouth! The evil you Equality Country does, the sins you create, how could they be less? How strict you are with others, how lenient you are with yourselves. You, Gu Divine Hero, in the end, have become what kind of person!"

Gu Shiyi looked at the Great Jing Jin Wang, his eyes full of mockery: "In your eyes, everything is so natural. Just like what you think is true. What you say is right."

"I admit there are many logical things. There are many obvious truths. But is it so just because it is so? Why are you unwilling to check, to ask?"

"At first, when you said Jiang Wang colluded with demons, you all directly arrested people. First arrest, then investigate, a rare event in ancient times! Could he be an isolated case?"

"You are now retreating, you are tolerant of him. But that is because of his achievements, his legend, his influence. But you have never truly changed!"

The sea wind patted the sea waves.

Gu Shiyi questioned the world he was in: "I am not just talking about your Jing Country here, nor just about several great hegemonic countries, I am talking about you — a common disease of so-called strong persons!"

Ji Xuan Zhen calmly chopped his blade downward, listening to the sound of Gu Shiyi's Dao body cracking: "I don't understand your meaning."

Gu Shiyi completely disregarded the perception of his body: "The most absurd thing is this point!"

"You keep saying that the members of the Equality Country surrounded and killed your eight Jia commander Yin Xiao Heng on Tian Ma Plain. But this matter... was it really done by the Equality Country?"

The sound of his Dao body cracking overlapped with his angry roar: "This matter, from beginning to end, I only hear you say it! Was there ever any evidence, presented in front of the people of the world?"

"Why are you so certain it was the Equality Country? Not because the Equality Country really did something, but because the Equality Country is not an organization that will be sympathized with! No one will speak for them, no one will redress them — of course, they don't need it either. Their behavior, which is seen as crazy today, is exactly their resistance!"

Ji Xuan Zhen was of course not influenced by these words: "Your past sins are already enough for you to die a thousand, ten thousand times. Yin Xiao Heng's misfortune was just the final death shackles put on you. You don't need to shout grievance in reverse!"

Gu Shiyi looked at him: "What kind of organization do you think the Equality Country is? You detest it, but you have never truly observed it. You feel this is just a group of stinky rats hiding very deep. You regard the Equality Country as a whole, as if it were some country, some sect —"

"But in fact, the Equality Country does not have a unified will, nor rules that everyone must obey."

"It is just a group of people with common ideals, gathered together, each holding a torch, illuminating the road ahead for each other. The members of the Equality Country do not know each other, and no one can control anyone. Only when executing a task together will they distinguish between head and tail. Just like the establishment of Tian Gong City, it was Li Mao's own decision. Those who share his will will go with him. Those who do not share his will, he does not need to mind them. No one in the Equality Country accompanied him to build Tian Gong!"

"Regarding the reason for my action today, you have guessed many kinds. Even if I explain and declare myself, you will still be stubborn in your own suspicion."

The cracks in Gu Shiyi's palm heart had already spread densely, making his palm look like a piece of broken porcelain.

But he stood there proudly: "But I just want to ask — what did Bo Lu do, why do you want to destroy his Tian Gong City, and casually extinguish his life?"

"Since you speak of common ideals, you also have to bear common evil." Ji Xuan Zhen indifferently pressed down his palm blade: "Joining the Equality Country, that is his crime name."

Gu Shiyi's palm shattered like this.

But after the palm shattered, after the flesh vanished, the "hand" still existed!

That was a hollow hand in the shape of a "hand".

Saying it was hollow was not entirely true, because there was a wisp of sunset glow shadow within.

At first glance, it was as if you were looking through this hollowness and seeing the evening glow reflected on the sea surface —

But at this moment, it was clearly noon. On one side, the fierce sun hung high, on the other side, the wind rose and clouds surged, only the evening glow did not exist.

Gu Shiyi's palm heart actually hid dusk.

After cutting open the Dao body, it touched this eternal dusk!

Gu Shiyi's eyes also became the color of dusk because of this.

"You see, it's still like this, always like this. You never care about what others say, only about what you take for granted."

"Have you ever understood the true Equality Country?"

The dusk in his eyes swept forward: "I admit it again... I am just the Divine Hero, right?!"

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