Chapter 65: Sinners Through the Ages
I'm full of ears.
About 50,000 years ago, he was born in an ordinary family in Xuanyuan.
Because of the early death of my parents, and so much time has passed, I have long forgotten my exact birthday, and I only remember the dark yellow rusty armor that my father gave me before he died.
Later, I joined the army, but because the Xuanyuan has a spiritual capacity of 10 million, which is several times more than that of the Tianshan Mountains and the Immortal Immortal, the competition in the army is also quite fierce, and it can even be described as miserable.
When the soldiers of other countries were thinking about whether they could get ahead in a certain battle, I was full of worries about how to make their names appear in the roster of soldiers who participated in the battle.
I have waited 7,000 years for this day.
That mission was to quell the rebellion in the barren land of Xiyuan, and I was honored to be selected to the front as an ordinary soldier, and I killed many helpless civilians.
Among those people were the disabled and the able-bodied, the hungry and skinny elderly, and the pregnant women.
I killed them only because they tried to overthrow the rule of the previous king, and only because of an order from above.
After the uprising was quelled, the army would reward and promote according to the rank of the number of creatures killed, and I distinctly remember that time I was ranked fifth in the whole army, and I also clearly remember that time when I put down the rebellion, the total number of creatures I killed was 8,353.
So I received a large reward, and at the same time, I was promoted to the rank of sergeant and major general in the legion, a position that is roughly equivalent to the sixteen outer circle guards and generals of the Tianshan Empire.
I was glad that I had killed one more person than the sixth-ranked soldier, because he only had a reward, not a promotion, and there were only five vacant positions that year.
Sometimes there is only one chance, and the result is always a millimeter of error.
I am now the Protector of the Empire, and the name of that soldier has not appeared in any of the generals' lists until now, because more than 43,000 years ago, he killed one less person than I did.
Later, I participated in many of the same battles, killing countless different people, and in each subsequent battle, I only remembered when I received the reward and promotion, and then I forgot it, but what I never forgot was the first eight thousand three hundred and fifty-three, maybe this number, I will remember it for the rest of my life, until the day I died.
It has been more than 20,000 years since I became the deputy general of Nanyuan, and one day I received a task directly from the first king, and the funny thing is that he said that the reason why this task was directly handed over to me was because I was very cold-blooded and good at killing.
This task is very simple for me, it is for me to kill a civilian woman that night, this woman was accidentally provoked by the first king after getting drunk, and the first king said that the queen was very angry when she found out, so let me deal with it as soon as possible.
So I went to the woman's house that night, but to my surprise, she was in labor.
Seeing me knock open the door and approach the house with a knife, she was almost fainting from pain, desperately pointing at her stomach and making a begging gesture.
That night, when I finally decided to raise the butcher knife, I heard a child's cry.
So I slashed the woman to death with a knife and took her baby back.
The first king was very angry, he blamed me for not cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, but when he himself really saw the newborn child, he hesitated.
I don't know how the first king persuaded the queen that the child was actually left in the palace, and that she was not killed by any killers afterwards, and she grew up healthy and happy, and she looked slim.
This child was given the name by the first king: Xiuyun.
Many years after the child had been brought back to the palace, the former king had expressed his gratitude to me several times, saying that I had not killed his child that night, and I only politely replied: The king's order was for me to kill her mother, and I carried it out, and that's it. β
However, the first king still rewarded me with a Xuanyuan treasure, which is the soul taming sword that I will never leave for more than 30,000 years in the future.
The Soul Taming Sword is made of more than 1,200 Blood Stones, which can control the minds and souls of living beings, and since I got it, I am full of invincibility.
Xueqin may be right, the reason why Qi Xiao can be named the god of war may be because he has never had the opportunity to meet me on the battlefield.
Out of debt to Xiuyun, I have always taken special care of her, and I will do my best to meet any request she makes to me, as long as it does not violate military regulations.
Over time, she became more and more special in my heart, and maybe we always care about people and things that we have put a lot of time and energy into them.
If it hadn't been for what she had done to make up for her before, she might not have fallen in love with her later.
This result is terrible for my ears.
Because I am not allowed to fall in love with anyone in this life.
In the Tianshan Empire, there is a woman with unfathomable divination skills, and she is the only one in history who has been selected by two Qing Amnesty Rings at the same time.
Everyone said that her eyes were like divine lightning, her sleeves turned to the world, and the five worlds of heaven and earth were the sun and moon in her palm.
At a Xuanyuan celebration, I was fortunate to meet this elegant and wise woman, who had a very nice name, called Mo Yan.
I remember Mo Yan's long purple floor-length hair, the blue and purple dress she wore, the two azure sapphires she wore on her chest and belt, and the fact that she said to me calmly and calmly: "General Man'er, you will fall in love with two women in this life, and the women you love will eventually die, one under the blade, and the other among the flowers." β
Just because of Mo Yan's words, I told myself that I couldn't fall in love with anyone, because I wanted to change my fate with those two women through my own strength.
I am full of such contradictions, I can kill anyone because of military orders, but I will not allow myself to kill anyone because of that ethereal emotion.
When I knew my feelings for Xiuyun, I let myself avoid her, and at the same time tried my best to avoid other women, I alienated them, I armed myself without flaws, armed to perfection, so perfect that for tens of thousands of years, Xiuyun never knew that I was full of joy for her.
She once smiled and said, "The only thing I love is maybe this country."
Later, Xiu Yun fell in love with Qingjian, and gave birth to Mo Xueqin for Qingjian, I tried my best to restrain myself, from beginning to end, I forced myself to maintain a relationship with her just a general monarch and minister, and I could do everything I could do for her within this relationship.
But then I made an exception, I saved Mo Xueqin for her, and I told the queen that Xiu Yun was pregnant with the flesh and blood of a civilian man, and that man had died.
Maybe it's also because of this, I didn't defeat the fate predicted by Mo Yan, and Xiu Yun finally died, under the sword of the three princes of Xianying, Xiangguo Liang.
I don't know if Xiu Yun's final ending was because of Xiangguo Liang's Di Dao, or because I was full of love for her.
I thought that after the pain of losing Xiuyun, I would never fall in love with anyone again, but a thousand years later, it turned out that I was right.
My outward appearance and my heart, in that thousand years, finally became one.
In that thousand years, I was full of things in my ears, and it was really only my Xuanyuan Empire.
Until Mo Ziyan came of age, until he opened the Hansuo Bay Barrier that had imprisoned the empire for thousands of years, I saw the eldest princess who had grown up in the cave of Hukou Waterfall, the eldest princess Mo Xueqin, who was born almost exactly like Xiuyun.
Princess Xueqin is not only very similar to Xiuyun in appearance, but also has a personality and the way she gets along with me is almost exactly the same as Xiuyun.
Princess Xueqin likes to come to my general's mansion when she has nothing to do, and she doesn't particularly care about learning illusions, like Xiuyun, Xueqin also likes to rely on me, she seems to be a living Xiuyun, a Xiuyun who has been resurrected from the dead by God.
So much so that for a long time, I regarded Xueqin as a cultivator.
But she is different from Xiuyun, Xueqin has a red mole between her eyebrows, but Xiuyun does not, Xueqin's heart has my ears full, but Xiuyun does not.
When Xueqin gave me the light red cotton clothes she had sewn by herself, I realized that she was not Xiuyun, she was a completely different woman, and what scared me the most was that I seemed to have true feelings for her, just for her, not for Xiuyun.
I suddenly remembered Mo Yan's prophecy, that I would fall in love with two women in this life, and that they would both die eventually, one by the blade and the other by the flowers.
So I fell into an extreme contradiction again, I could not withdraw the king's public marriage, and I could not let myself have more feelings for Xueqin, I naively lied to myself, I just liked her, and liking is not love, so she will be fine.
We have a powerful king like Demon Ziyan, as long as Princess Xueqin does not leave Xuanyuan, even if I marry her, she will be fine for the rest of her life.
It's just that I'm still wrong, to this day, Mo Yan's prophecy has all come true, and I'm like that puppet manipulated by fate, even if I know the ending in advance, I can't resist.
Xueqin died, she died among the black flowers, and her expression was content, very peaceful, because she heard the stories I told her, those stories of Xiuyun, Qingjian, Xiuyue, Qingfan, Longing, Demon Ziyan, and all the things that happened in the night of Hansuo Bay.
I held Xueqin's hands that had lost their warmth, and I kissed the hair on the top of her head deeply, and I knew that the love in my ears was sinful, sinful enough to kill, to end the life of a flower-like maiden, as sinful as all the swords I had wielded in all the years that filled my ears.
My ears are full of sinners, sinners through the ages, and my sins did not start when I pulled out all the chains of the immortals, not from the time I fell in love with Xiuyun, not from the time I killed Qingjian, nor from the time I fell in love with Xueqin, but from the first battle I participated in more than 40,000 years ago.
Xueqin, I used to be so afraid that I would fall in love with you so much that I had been avoiding you all these days, but now more than ever, I longed that my love for you had gone deep into the sea, so that you, like our queen, could be reborn in six days, with a new and complete life.
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