Chapter 2452: A Crack in His Being, Wide as a River

In An Yi City, a man with eyebrows like autumn knives and bright, shining eyes, dressed in official robes, hurried past.

The rising sun hung high, casting fierce light across ten thousand miles.

He pressed his sword and entered the arrow tower, but as he stepped into the shadow, he suddenly turned his head again.

He saw the fierce sun on the horizon, and amidst the endless rising light, a red skirt edge suddenly unfurled, then large patches of red clouds spread out, like blood, like fire.

Besides that, there was no other special movement, but he clearly heard a voice asking—

Does the world have righteousness?

Yan Shao Fei turned his head back and walked into the arrow tower.

His face was completely obscured by shadow, and of course, it was also a piece of cool shade.

The Wei country was his great tree; he was also a tree for many people.

Today, he was the Great Wei Patrol Peace Official.

This position was specially created for him by the Great Wei Emperor. It held authority to patrol crimes, handle public order, and was not supervised by the three departments. He received title and salary, but not blame. There was no such position in ancient times; he was the only one in the world. This showed the emperor's value for him.

With official robes on his body, he was no longer a knight-errant.

He once wielded a sword for a thousand miles, crying out if things were not right. Now, he hid his edge for the country, protecting the border and pacifying the people.

He did not feel that his current self was nobler than before, nor did he think that his current self was spineless.

It was just that he truly lacked the freedom of the past.

If it were any time before, he would not have remained silent.

A man wields a sword with righteousness as the head. What is there to hesitate about?

But today, he had to think about whether a deity presented to the world with "righteousness" as its grid was what the Wei country needed.

The answer to this question was probably already on his official robe.

After Shou Lian died, he personally killed the remaining three of An Yi's Four Evils. But that wasn't purely out of personal chivalry. Because he hadn't done so before.

The power of chivalry has limits after all. Even someone as strong as the world's first knight-errant, Gu Shi Yi, an existence at the True Person level who could contend with Hu Yan Jing Xuan, couldn't manage everything. Before stepping onto the grassland, he had to make absolute peak preparations, and even then, he still had to plan a good escape route first.

Just take today as an example. If there was no hope of transcendence, what weight would it have for him to stand in front of the Jing country and vainly express support for "Heaven Duke"?

So Yan Shao Fei walked into the arrow tower!

Standing inside the arrow tower was the Great Wei Emperor Wei Xuan Che, wearing imperial robes!

The Wei country's emperor didn't know when he had moved here. He stood there, his line of sight cast through a narrow observation window towards the distant sky, not knowing what he was watching.

"Your Majesty." Yan Shao Fei was first shocked, then lowered his eyes.

"Do you want to do something?" The Wei Emperor said.

"Your subject has already thought clearly." Yan Shao Fei hesitated slightly, then seemed to release a burden: "Once, it was either black or white, often drawing my sword out of anger, demanding right from wrong in everything, and thus earning a thin name for chivalry. Your subject of course doesn't feel that I was bad at that time, but now I am no longer young, the responsibility is heavy, and I should also have growth. I should think more!"

The Wei country's emperor looked at the light in the sky: "To some people, maturity means growth. To some other people, maturity is a kind of destruction. This world is often very complex, and sometimes also very simple!"

"Look at the common people in this city. Some muddle along, some diligently strive, some are always suspicious of everything, but there are also some who are fortunate enough to maintain their innocence. The not innocent are not base, and the innocent are not stupid. The sea contains all, hence the human way prospers greatly!"

He looked at Yan Shao Fei, with an encouraging gaze: "Whether Gu Shi Yi achieves the Dao or not will not change the Wei country in any way. Whether you, Yan Shao Fei, fly high or not, will only truly influence the future of An Yi City. I allow you in Wei not to shackle you, not to let you hide your light!"

Just like that year when he expected Wu Xun, giving all the support he could give, expecting the future of martial arts.

He had unlimited expectations for Yan Shao Fei, and not just as a True Person or a brave general.

So he did not set limits for Yan Shao Fei.

An Yi City is vast and majestic, with arrow towers standing like a forest of spears, often equipped with weapons. The arrow tower located in the east of An Yi City is just one wood in an ordinary forest.

But a moment later, a long sword flew out of the archway, like a divine dragon emerging from the sea, howling towards the sky.

This sword was lively and free, open and dazzling!

For a time, it seemed to stain the glow of the sky dome, rolling up colored light like long tail feathers, flying horizontally on the edge of the sky, brilliant like a Vermilion Bird.

Yan Shao Fei, the knight-errant of Wei, was willing to assist Gu Shi Yi in achieving the Dao.

The sword is named "Get Intent"!

Which child holding a wooden sword has never freely imagined the fast and intense rivers and lakes?

Which compassionate heart has never thought of upholding intent with a sword?

The world-renowned Zhen River True Monarch was also once on the list of the Maple Forest Five Knights.

Among the disciples of Ling Xiao Pavilion, the core of the new generation, Jiang True Monarch's own sister, also often calls herself "Jiang Little Knight".

She already has her own thoughts and is always seeking her path in life.

Jiang Wang never forced her to make any life choices, giving her the greatest freedom under the premise of safety—except for reading and practicing writing.

But as Jiang Wang's sister and Ye Ling Xiao's closed disciple, she also didn't have any difficulties to face—except for reading and practicing writing.

What truly moved her was that one sentence—"All those who do not respect the common people and are high above, must face the eternal dusk!"

Wasn't Maple Forest City buried and Flying Horse Alley perished just those common people not respected by the high above?

She was also born a commoner!

If not for her brother's desperate efforts, if not for her brother carrying her out, she would also be in that small city, her name forgotten.

How afraid she was in that collapsing private school at that time, how she hoped someone could come and save everything, stop the disaster.

The one who suddenly appeared at that time was her brother.

Her great knight was her brother.

Whose else?

A man wields a sword, it is for the word "knight".

Inside the Ling Xiao secret realm, on the ascending cloud platform, Jiang An An raised her hand and pointed, and a pool of snow color already pierced into the clouds.

The sword is named "Illuminate Snow Startling Hong".

Willing to pass through the human world with startling hong, willing to illuminate the human world with snow color.

Gu Big Knight, may you achieve the Dao and cry out for the unfairness of the world.

In Li country, in Song country, in Li country, in Sword Pavilion, in Dragon Gate Academy...

Or a long howl rises, and among them, weapons cry!

They have different identities and different lives, but more or less they have all had experiences related to "chivalry". Perhaps now smoothed by life, or having long since ceased to indulge in brave intentions. But suddenly turning back, they still remember why they drew their swords in the first place.

Why they drew their swords in the first place is why they cry today.

"Or engaged in a hundred trades, those who do not lose their chivalrous hearts," today all hear the "righteousness proclaiming sound"!

Gu Shi Yi, at this step of achieving the Dao, abandoned humanity, becoming full divinity, existing as a pure "righteousness" deity.

Those in the world who have righteousness can all prove its will.

The world's chivalrous warriors can all know its heart.

Hence this moment—"Eight directions echo, jointly support the righteous act"!

Suddenly, a sword cry like a dragon's roar rose from Shan Tai Xi River, instantly crossed the Wu Meng Du Mountain Range, and swung horizontally in the high sky.

A long sword with a handle like ink, a body like snow, and a guard like a full moon, was sternly raised high in the air.

The most weighty support came.

This sword is named Long Xiang Si!

The world's sharpest weapon!

Jiang Wang's true self Dharma Body had always brought the sword here during this period—he didn't forget the dark spy's gaze when he first brought Qing Yu and An An here to row a boat.

If Gu Shi Yi was achieving the Dao today with the posture of subverting the Jing country, or as a high layer of the Equality country, he would not express himself.

He understood very early on—the opposite of correct is sometimes another kind of correct.

He later also knew that the opposite of wrong is not necessarily correct; it's possible it's another kind of wrong!

The Jing country had committed many wrongs, both personally to him and to this world, but he also had to recognize the Jing country's sacrifices and burdens.

He believed that some people in the Equality country indeed had ideals, but he had also certainly been hurt by another part of the Equality country. He didn't think the Equality country was a good prescription to save the world. He had never recognized it, and had repeatedly refused to be recruited.

Regarding Gu Shi Yi, when Gu Shi Yi first saved him from the Equality country, Chong Xuan Sheng said that fame is hard to fully believe, not knowing whether the person is loyal or treacherous, and must be cautious. He just said at that time—it was just a one-sided encounter, I dare not judge, much less suspect, moreover, let's wait and see, try to repay!

Today, Gu Shi Yi has already borrowed Ji Xuan Zhen's knife, responded to Jiang Hong's sword, and thoroughly killed humanity to achieve a deity purely based on "knight", a de-personified deity like the ancient human emperors and the five directions respected gods they established, born only for chivalry, standing for the common people of the world.

He really had no reason not to support him.

He also once wielded a sword to eliminate evil, he also once cried out against injustice, killed the unrighteous, and executed the unbenevolent. He also repaid enmity and lived a life of fast intent in the human world!

Regarding himself, Gu Shi Yi once offered him a helping hand when he faced the Equality country, and there was the friendship of the "Feng Hou Eight Formations Map".

Regarding the world, he thought there should be a Heaven Duke in the world!

Just like the existence of Tai Xu Dao Lord, maintaining the fairness of the Tai Xu Illusion Realm to the greatest extent.

If Gu Shi Yi could truly achieve a deity representing "chivalry", then those who viewed common people as ants should also be self-alerted to their faults and self-review their conduct.

This is a matter favorable to billions of common people.

Long Xiang Si is willing to cry out for this!

If Heaven Duke existed, knights might not be necessary.

Heaven Duke is already extinct, hence knights are born!

Bo Lu raised the flag of "world great public, ten thousand kinds equal", burned fires in Fallen Immortal Forest, and raised his remnant body in the world—indeed seen by Gu Shi Yi.

Those who cry out against unfairness cannot be treated as if they are not seen.

His move to support was not for Li Mao of the Equality country, not even for Bo Lu, but for the spirit of "Heaven Duke". It was the ideal that Bo Lu erected in Heaven Duke City.

Righteousness is for the public.

His path is here.

His ideal is expressed today.

He came to save Bo Lu and also defend his Dao!

With his body as a niche, worshiping righteousness for a hundred years. One morning he achieved the Dao, and the world responded.

At this moment, the righteous ones of the world jointly supported the righteous act.

The world watched the sea battlefield, where noon burned into dusk. The remains of Heaven Duke City ignited the chivalry deity.

Amidst the endless splendid dusk, Gu Shi Yi's god body was condensing.

The dusk of the gods crowned Him, and eternal chivalry spirited Him.

This is a grand leap, concerning transcendence and eternity, and all people are spectators!

Qi Wen still stood on the bow of his ship, Ye Hen Shui sat in his building.

No other strong Qi people came to the sea.

The Qi country maintained silence!

On the city tower of Tian Fu City in Lin Hai County, the heroic and dashing Jiang Wu You, wearing battle armor, and Jiang Wu Xie, holding a red spear upside down in common clothes, stood side by side, gazing at the distant sea.

"The East Sea is truly a blessed land." Jiang Wu Xie sighed: "Xuan Yuan Shuo, Fu Hai, Gao Jie, and now there is still one Gu Shi Yi. Since the new beginning of the Dao Calendar, this place has already impacted transcendence four times, which can be considered the first in the present world. Now that it belongs to our Great Qi, how can we not say that it is the return of heaven's fate?"

Jiang Wu You looked at his effeminate and handsome face, said nothing, and then looked at the distant sea.

This is an excellent platform to observe the sea. Ten thousand miles of blue waves, a patch of red glow, the world's beautiful scenery, no other color surpasses this kind.

A transcendent leap is so magnificent and grand.

Its time was silent, then there was a sound.

Ji Xuan Zhen's voice—

"Saying some words you think are your own, lecturing on some reasons that seem but are not, experiencing some winds and rains that do not count as winds and rains, just feeling great and desiring to become great?"

"How much weight of responsibility have you, Gu Shi Yi, borne? Even if you practice chivalry every day for two hundred years, stake by stake is all fair, how many unfair matters can you manage, how many unfortunate people can you save? How many heaven demons have you killed, how many heaven monsters have you executed, how many times have you fought in blood for the human race?"

"Common people, common people, mouthfuls of common people. Without transcendent sacrifice, where is the soil for commoners to survive! It is the Jing country that protects the present world, it is Heaven Capital City that suppresses the gates of ten thousand monsters, not you, Gu Shi Yi!"

"Today you dare to block my knife edge and try to aid the evil thief of the Equality country, you have already committed the criminal law of my Central Empire. Discussing the crime, you should die; discussing the law, you cannot be forgiven! You want to prove transcendence?"

The Great Jing Jin King shook his body which was ten thousand zhang high, the sea water not reaching his knees. He spread out his big hand, directly probing into that splendid dusk, grabbing and wrinkling this sky curtain: "The Jing country does not allow it!"

Zhi zhi zhi!

Above the clear sky, electric light spread for ten thousand miles.

In the splendid dusk, black spots like rust appeared one by one.

Like reefs in the water, stubbornly unchanging, breaking waves into flowers.

That was the Dao quality that Ji Xuan Zhen shattered in the eternal dusk, calling for Gu Shi Yi to swallow!

Gu Shi Yi borrowed Ji Xuan Zhen's knife, swallowed dusk and became a god, and also swallowed this difficult-to-digest bitterness.

Of course, in the process of leaping to transcendence, there are inevitably a thousand tribulations and ten thousand difficulties.

Gu Shi Yi had also long been prepared—nothing more than engaging, nothing more than fighting.

The righteous ones of the world gave Him support, constantly filling Him with divine intent, enough to make Him endure the pain, fill the gaps, and slowly digest these impurities.

But since Ji Xuan Zhen had already expressed himself, how could Gu Shi Yi's enemy be only one? The different colors in the dusk, how could they only be rust?

Among those densely floating and sinking black spots, another wisp of cyan color flowed, suddenly seen floating like a belt.

"Your chivalry is narrow, your righteousness is small righteousness! The world is unfair, why do you need to save it? Gods have fallen, there is no need to resurrect them!"

Ji Xing Si Great Director Ouyang Jie had already returned. Turning his body, he took out a cast iron sword order, erected it in the sea of dusk like a tombstone: "There is no need to become what end-day deity, welcome your own end day!"

This stele stood and made the dusk solidify.

A huge "Ji" character in the middle of the sword order scattered and became countless strips of iron chains spreading throughout the dusk.

The cyan color in the dusk was brought by these punishing chains.

They looked very much like the second-ranked Heaven Net Vast among the Legalist ten great chains.

But they were not purely legal power; they simultaneously engraved Dao punishment patterns.

It is the evolution of Legalist power in the Dao country, and also the power of Ji Xing of the Central Empire. Ouyang Jie refined these unique punishing chains of Ji Xing Si based on the second-ranked Legalist chains.

These punishing chains bind kings and dukes above, lock soldiers below, and restrict heaven's power.

Gu Shi Yi's god body had not yet condensed, but was already first bound by chains!

His divine power was still in the process of being grasped, but was already first imprisoned!

Another fist, blasting out a blank path in the dusk.

Ji Jing Lu, in brocade martial clothes, had already leaped into this middle: "What chivalry is self-sought, transcendence is eternally proven. You still haven't stolen the legacy of the gods' dusk, relying on the support of the world's people? If you want to prove eternity with this, I think... your virtue does not match your position, your merit cannot be completed!"

A martial arts grandmaster, untouched by dusk. His iron fan opened, fanning away the glow.

He did not discuss Gu Shi Yi's right or wrong, only said that Gu Shi Yi's leap, he thought, was an imperfect cultivation. Even if the Jing country didn't make a move, Gu Shi Yi's chance of success was not great, but the Jing country had to wipe out that possibility and prevent the myth from happening.

He ran in the boundless dusk, striking down the glow that Gu Shi Yi once tried to struggle free and rise again.

Black spots, cyan lines, white marks, red covered the sky of dusk, being wantonly smeared and decorated.

Eternal dusk was actually so colorful!

And Ying Jiang Hong did not speak. He just watched all of this, seeing the eternal end. He grasped the sword that represented the South Heaven Master, very calmly made a swipe, from below up, one sword drew across—

Hong long long!

Hong long long!

The light pillar supporting the sky on Heaven Horse Plateau collapsed instantly without a trace.

Eternal dusk, at this moment, actually lost eternity!

The endless splendid dusk was just torn apart like this!

Gu Shi Yi's god body, which had originally condensed a head, four limbs, and a body, at this instant separated again!

The split god body tried to merge into one place several times, but was unable to control itself becoming increasingly distant. The gaps in its body cracked like long rivers. In the last cracking sound, it collapsed and scattered into dusk again, returning to the dusk.

Like a long river for ten thousand miles, quicksand of Heaven Horse, the Yellow River surging.

This is the last end day, forever dusk.

Gu Shi Yi wore the crown of gods' dusk, condensed the Dao trace of "righteousness", and in the East Sea, took a leap, about to become the deity of righteousness.

Supported by the righteous ones of the world, permitted by the great countries of all sides...

The Jing country opposed!!!

Thus, it cannot be.