Chapter 2451: Shared Righteousness Across the Land, Is There a God?

Gu Shiyi spoke of conscience, of chivalry, of righting wrongs wherever he saw them, but Ji Xuanzhen didn't believe a single word. He didn't just disbelieve Gu Shiyi; he fundamentally didn't believe in such things. Who, having come this far, hadn't weathered storms? How could anyone be so naive?

In this world, only interests were eternal. All choices in life were about weighing the options.

But the dusk flowing from Gu Shiyi's palm was something he had yet to witness.

"Eternal dusk, you actually stole the inheritance of the Cang Tian God Lord!" Seeing the dusk in his palm, Ji Xuanzhen's mind raced. "So that person walking on Tian Ma Plateau was you! So you are the Zhao King!"

Feng Hou's eight wise ministers, for the final victory of the human race, single-handedly resisted the demon race's vast army on a side battlefield, embracing a tree as they died. Though his body was gone, his integrity remained forever.

Generations of humans sang his name and praised his spirit.

Literati and poets particularly loved the "Integrity Embracing Tree," named in commemoration of him.

Later, a wisp of remnant soul awakened from this "integrity." After tens of thousands of years, propelled by the thoughts of countless humans, he descended as a god and proved transcendence once again, titled as the Cang Tian God Lord. The difficulty of this was beyond words; such a feat was unprecedented in ancient times. It was a pity the Cang Tian God Lord ultimately fell.

Yuan Tian God was willing to be a dog, guarding Tian Ma Yuan for tens of thousands of years like a single day, just for the inheritance the Cang Tian God Lord left in the depths of dusk!

Jing Guo and Jing Guo jointly blockaded Tian Ma Plateau. For how many years they repeatedly sent people to explore, not without coveting this inheritance.

But it had actually already been taken, unknowingly falling into Gu Shiyi's hands.

Eternal dusk solidified everything. What story happened on Tian Ma Plateau perhaps only Gu Shiyi himself knew.

But upon seeing the dusk, Ji Xuanzhen at least understood this person's source of power.

No wonder Gu Shiyi was so powerful. He had grasped the legacy of another era, possessing the most orthodox mythological power represented by the Cang Tian God Lord. He also took away the dusk when the gods withered.

Looking now, Gu Shiyi's battle with He Lian Liangguo was fundamentally still a concealment of himself. The mythological power beneath this body shell had not yet been truly displayed!

"Now I am the Zhao King again! You Jing Guo people are so absurd, even deceiving yourselves, yet still manage to believe it!" Gu Shiyi's eyes had no pupils left, only pure dusk. Ji Xuanzhen's palm blade condensed in the eternal dusk. Ji Xuanzhen's line of sight sank into the endless dusk.

But Ji Xuanzhen's Dao body, at this moment, gave birth to dragon-snake patterns.

They seemed like Dao characters but weren't, densely connected, like water veins weaving a net, linking and integrating all the power within this Dao body.

They didn't describe specific meanings, but a glance could perceive their grandeur, as if an ancient majestic text describing some history. But now, it was too late for people to read!

This was Dao quality.

It was the immortal foundation Ji Xuanzhen refined for himself.

Dong Zhen controlled Dao principles, Dong Zhi knew the essence of all things. Yan Dao created Dao principles, giving birth and ending them with a single thought. And to surpass Yan Dao and achieve transcendence, one must first refine truly complete Dao principles and possess enough Dao quality. They could serve as steps for promotion during the final leap. They could also help cultivators isolate themselves from the pull of the present world before the leap.

Quality was originally high and vast; Dao was born of heaven.

The weight of Dao quality could be said to be the foundation of transcendence.

Whether one could refine Dao quality often became the watershed for Yan Dao True Monarchs.

Ji Xuanzhen had already used Dao quality to coat his body. The power embodied by this thing itself was perhaps more intuitive. And within this ongoing confrontation, his body possessed immortal quality, his eyes an undefeated light. Though he sank forever within the dusk, he never perished.

Even the dusk condensed from the perishing of those gods was unable to truly grind him down.

So, in eternal loneliness, the autumn wind of an era rang out, bringing something from nothing, howling across that boundless plateau in a single glance.

He sliced apart Gu Shiyi's Dao body with a single strike and was still cutting through the dusk!

Under these circumstances, Gu Shiyi's figure became increasingly tall and straight. While scattering power, his breath surged. The scattered dusk seemed to become piling soil, constantly building Gu Shiyi's great body.

Ji Xuanzhen's process of cutting the dusk, conversely, seemed like helping Gu Shiyi digest the gods' gift.

But they, of course, both knew that every swallow now carried knives. Ji Xuanzhen might not see through this trick, making a wedding dress for naught.

The fragmented and scattered dusk power, every bit of it, was stained with Ji Xuanzhen's immortal quality.

Swallowing them would only become a hidden trouble for his Dao body. Not swallowing them meant being unable to rapidly gain power.

He chose to swallow!

This was not a one-sided battle. Gu Shiyi was genuinely struggling in front of Ji Xuanzhen, at least having room to struggle.

"I indeed once walked in the dusk and received the gift of the old era." Gu Shiyi said roughly, as if swallowing countless sand and stones, "That is the gift of history, not belonging to any family as private property. How could it be called stealing?"

In his right hand were fragments of void dusk. He raised his head as always, bold and grand: "Whether the Zhao King walked in that place I also do not know. What Yuan Tian God saw is his business. And I, on Tian Ma Plateau, witnessed a murder. This is the reason I came here today! The one who killed Yin Xiaoheng is clearly..."

The sound of a long sword entering flesh.

Too late to turn back, Ying Jianghong still stood there as if unmoved. But his sword had already pierced through Bo Lu, pierced through that piece of Yu Feng Robe, and then inversely pinned into Gu Shiyi's Dao body, essentially stringing these two Yan Dao strong ones together!

Bo Lu's bloodshot eyes were wide open. He had already exhausted all his fight, but his power was too weak, and Ying Jianghong was truly terrifyingly strong. He could barely grasp the attack's trajectory, yet was fundamentally unable to offer any effective resistance, not even having time to remind Gu Shiyi!

The time of the battle was almost negligible. Distance and life and death were all flattened by that unmatched power.

"Uh... ah."

Gu Shiyi's mouth slightly opened. The words he should have said weren't spoken; he spat out a piece of sunset.

Of course, he knew those words were unnecessary.

The person determined to be the true criminal was already killed. What meaning was there in exposing who the true criminal was?

Gu Shiyi's body was draped with a mountain shadow.

Within the mountain shadow, the surging ghost body power constantly scattered, eventually reaching some critical point, like a bubble being pricked. Bo Lu's ferocious ghost form had already been ground away, revealing his original appearance as a human – a very thin and weak youth.

Looking at him like that, it was hard to believe he was the protagonist of the series of events: "Bo Lu fled the country, threw himself into rebellion, fought Wen Zhong in the disaster waters."

He was also once high-spirited, also once led a thousand armies and ten thousand horses into battle, once bore a heavy cross across a thousand mountains.

What kind of mood did he carry when he left the country that year?

His thin body was embedded in the too-wide Yu Feng Robe. Because he was pinned together, the robe didn't slip off.

His wide-open, silent eyes stared straight at the distant Ying Jianghong – truly having no strength to turn back and look.

"Do you believe... in Tian Gong City?"

He asked.

"Tian Gong," and then there could be "equality."

His question was his own answer.

After asking, he fell silent.

Because his eyelids were peeled off early, he never closed his eyes.

"Why did 'chivalry' come into being in this world? Precisely because there is injustice. You were just in the wrong time, joined the wrong organization, and were wrong not to possess the power to change everything – but your ideal wasn't wrong."

Gu Shiyi, facing away from him, said, "I came to you today just to tell you this."

Gu Shiyi repeated, "I am late."

Bo Lu, we didn't know each other before, never knew.

But I agree with you.

This sentence was also said too late.

Bo Lu couldn't hear it.

Ying Jianghong's sword was the one that chopped off the head of the former God Mian Great Priest Bei Gong Nantou. It was the sword that, as God Ce Commander, killed his way to the esteemed position of Nan Tian Shi.

To be able to face this sword was already a great honor.

To block this sword was absolutely impossible for Bo Lu.

Bo Lu's life ended just like this.

Carrying the expectations of Yue Tai Zong Wen Zhong, the entrustment of the late Yue Emperor Wen Jing Xiu, titled as Qian Tang Jun, establishing Tian Gong City, and finally dying as the person Bo Lu, for his own ideal.

"I think he died in the right place." Gu Shiyi was quite calm: "You say, right?"

"Perhaps." Ying Jianghong opened his five fingers. He re-gripped the sword hilt. Bo Lu's corpse and Gu Shiyi's Dao body were both impaled on his sword.

And opposite Gu Shiyi, Ji Xuanzhen, who was cutting the endless dusk, just lifted his eyes: "Huh?"

As absolute peaks of the central empire, as Ji Xuanzhen and Ying Jianghong personally, whether they understood or not, they now had to send Gu Shiyi away. Today's ending was already written. Whoever came, a different outcome was not allowed.

Terrifying power collided, naturally generating rotating voids one by one outside this sea domain! Like tombstones of despair, they swallowed light and devoured thoughts.

Gu Shiyi was just in front of them, under the gaze of two absolute top True Monarchs, in this forest of tombstones, collapsing into a human-shaped dusk.

He was destroyed almost without resistance.

Although his resistance would have been useless, how could Gu Shiyi be someone who would stand by?

This "not resisting" immediately caused the two True Monarchs to be alert.

But Gu Shiyi only scattered there. The dusk in his eyes, the loneliness on his body, spread out into one after another sunset across the sky.

"I, Gu, have acted openly and aboveboard my entire life. What I didn't do, I won't admit. What I should bear, I won't dodge."

"I am not God Chivalry, nor the Zhao King."

"I was indeed invited by Equality Country."

"Many times I was invited."

"The most painful thing in the world is having the determination to change the world but being unable to."

"In your most powerless, most despairing moments, you are most easily not yourself."

"I have walked alone for too long, and I also need a distant torch fire."

"When I cannot find the road ahead, I also hope to be illuminated."

"I wavered several times. The closest I came was only lacking the certification of Sheng Gong."

"But why did I stop?"

"I agree with their ideals."

"But I cannot agree with all of them, and all of their means."

"At that time, a woman from Equality Country used cruel methods to chase and kill a young person. Her purpose was to force that very talented young person to break ties with his country, and at a critical moment, shake his mind and absorb him into Equality Country. To use him as a pure pawn to overthrow the country."

"I cannot agree with such a practice."

Gu Shiyi said, "I stopped that woman, and left my name, warning them not to continue. I also parted ways with them from then on."

Ji Xuanzhen listened, bewildered!

At such a moment, Gu Shiyi spoke these words?

Having killed to this extent, whether Gu Shiyi was the Zhao King or God Chivalry, or not God Chivalry, did it really still matter? Did anyone care?

Saving a thug from Equality Country meant dying on the same side as they were, a truth universally applicable, unchanging through a hundred generations!

He raised his head, his eyes scanning the high sky, wanting to penetrate the place where Gu Shiyi dissolved.

Ying Jianghong, instead, looked at Gu Shiyi's figure filled with dusk. This strongest Tian Shi thus said: "Perhaps the world originally has no right or wrong, only depends on who is the one who laughs last. All saints are silent, God Lord is just right. Myth breaks, immortals are just right. Immortal Palace falls, Yi Zhen is just right. Yi Zhen's curtain call... the present world is just correct!"

Up until now, he still thought Gu Shiyi's choice was stupid.

But perhaps because it had been too long since he last saw Gu Shiyi's stupidity, he couldn't find this kind of stupidity laughable.

"Perhaps you are right." Gu Shiyi's voice said, "But I want to say you are wrong."

His voice no longer had rich emotions, moving from bold to grand: "If Tian Gong exists, chivalry need not exist. I'd rather you were right, so I wouldn't need to be born."

Ying Jianghong felt a slight regret: "Everyone has their own right, and no one can truly convince another. This is the only truth of this world. I do not approve of you, but I can understand you. It's a pity you can no longer speak for yourself!"

Nan Tian Shi was a true strong one. He did not refuse the existence of different viewpoints. He did not fear a hundred boats competing to flow, daring to compete with the world's swords.

Understanding, sympathizing, respecting, or hating, abandoning, despising, none of it could influence the road underfoot.

Everyone walked to this point. The reason could only be verified by life and death.

He had to walk forward, which meant someone else would fall. He understood that such moments of life's roads crossing would become increasingly few, so he felt a slight regret. But not lonely.

Only Gu Shiyi himself had too late for regret. He didn't even have time to sigh.

As the last human shape filled with dusk also disappeared, that represented the departure of humanity.

Large pieces of dusk-colored blocks wandered in the high sky, a sunset so magnificent, that was the condensation of divinity!

Self-extinguish and come into being, self-die and be born.

He died in the blazing sun hanging high at noon, and he was born within the splendid, boundless dusk!

On Ying Jianghong's sword, only a too-wide long robe and a too-thin, weak Li Mao were impaled. His long sword slowly pulled out. In the process of pulling out, the long robe and Li Mao both slowly disappeared.

"Using the body as a shrine, worshipping righteousness as a god. No one would have thought you were truly walking the path of a god—" He looked at this constantly rolling piece of sunset, vaguely gathering into a divine face, his eyes showing a few points of complexity: "I already believe your own statement, but are you really God Chivalry?"

"Who I am, you may define." The divine face rolling in the sky swallowed and spat out billions of spirits, adding a fresh touch to the eternal dusk: "But I will finally achieve an existence you cannot redefine."

"I no longer prove you wrong, but you will finally know what is right."

"I will become the god of the end day."

"All who do not respect common people and those high above shall have eternal dusk!"

"I achieved this path to save a world of injustice."

"In the era of gods falling, I will reopen the divine heaven!"

After the splendid sunset, boundless radiance supported the virtual shadow of a great divine country.

The power after the breaking of the eternal heavenly country was taken over by him. The sorrow after the gods perished was spread by him.

Tian Ma Plateau, standing on the north bank of Chang Jiang, at this moment erupted with an incomparably brilliant light pillar. The eternal dusk infused into a heaven-connecting divine pillar, reaching straight to that infinitely high sky.

In the vague heavens, a god's sorrowful voice rang out. That was the unwilling echo of a glorious era.

In the vast human world, countless points of light flew up.

There was the righteous chivalry who righted wrongs with a drawn sword, the faithful chivalry who dedicated their lives to a single promise, the heroic chivalry who exhausted their family wealth to save those in urgent need, the benevolent chivalry who sacrificed themselves for others—

Repaying a meal's kindness with death, redeeming a promise with ten thousand gold, seeing injustice and being unable to bear it, eyes full of scars thinking of that great snow!

When will this heart wash the human world?

The righteous ones in the world, all can prove this will!

At this moment, the sunset rolled in the sky, spreading into boundless power.

He was the spiritual leader of the world's wandering chivalry.

This was also a kind of faith.

All the world's wandering chivalry respected him as a god!

And he chose to achieve this today!

With the world's righteousness as support, with the eternal heavenly country as reliance, with the remnant thoughts of gods as divine rank, with this heart that cannot tolerate injustice and cannot bear to see common people suffer, he walked forward so decisively.

He wanted to grasp the dusk of the present world, possess the definition of eternity, grasp the power to punish evil and crime, to perish decadent old power.

He wanted to become the incarnation of chivalry.

To prove the god who represented the single character "righteousness"!

The god who possessed a position in the present world!

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