Volume 1 The Land of Ashes Chapter 45 Do You Have the Right to Decide All This?

Zhu Yuan's words made everyone present shiver, and the fear between his eyebrows became more and more intense.

"But it doesn't matter, you don't necessarily have to suffer such a fate." But at this time, Zhu Yuan's words suddenly changed and said so.

When the people who were already desperate heard this, it was like a traveler hanging on a cliff grasping at a life-saving straw.

Their dim pupils lit up, and they all looked at Zhu Yuan, and the desire in their eyes was extremely hot.

Zhu Yuan showed a look of embarrassment at the right time.

"But it's not for me to decide." As he said this, his eyes fell on Chu Qingxiao's body.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, but the next moment they also reacted.

Zhu Yuan said that once Chu Qingxiao absorbed the divine power, the blood of the Candle Yin God would be sealed, and the awakened Candle Yin True God would fall into a deep sleep again, and this Eternal Night Realm would also disappear.

But if Chu Qingxiao doesn't do this, doesn't it mean that the realm of eternal night can always exist, and they can continue to live.

"The cycle of life and death is a certain number of heavens."

"The soul of the dead will not rest in peace, and if they live in the world, sooner or later they will be swallowed up by the turbidity of heaven and earth, and turn into evil spirits, only knowing how to kill, and have no wisdom."

"Are there few such examples throughout the ages?" Song Guicheng said sharply at this time, so that the people who were trying to say something, the words that came to their lips were swallowed back alive.

"What's more, in this eternal night realm, the evil qi is surging, and it is even more terrifying than the turbidity of the heaven and earth outside, if you stay here, in the end, you will be transformed into a puppet of candle yin."

"Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever thought that we are being harmed by candles?"

"It's just that you can't avenge this great revenge after death, but do you still want to help the abuse? Let the candle yin recover, then after that, how many people like you and me will be killed by the candle yin on my territory? ”

Song Guicheng's words were full of righteousness, and everyone who heard this also showed hesitation.

And this is obviously not what Zhu Yuan wants to see.

His brows furrowed, and he turned to look at Song Guicheng: "Commander Song!" ”

"Not everyone in this world needs to be righteous and awe-inspiring in order to live."

"You are a dragon general, you and I are mortal enemies, although I hate you, but I also admire an opponent like you."

"But you can't impose the responsibility of your dragon commander on them, can you?"

"You want to live forever, and I can fulfill your wish to sacrifice your life for righteousness at any time."

"But what does this have to do with all of you in Wuling City?"

"What does Dayu Tianxia have to do with Wuling City?"

"You have been besieged for half a year, have you ever seen your royal court send a single soldier? Twelve years is a long enough time for you humans, but what have you been waiting for? An outer disciple of Tianhang Mountain? You don't think she's here to get you out of the sea of suffering, do you? ”

"Do you want to die again for those who never cared about you, or even forgot about you?"

Zhu Yuan's words were extremely inflammatory, and the eyes of everyone who heard these words lit up with a slight hesitation, and they were covered with anger at this time.

Zhu Yuan was very satisfied with everyone's performance, and he said: "In order to express my apologies for hurting you because of the difference in position, I still have gifts for you." ”

As he spoke, he reached out and snapped his fingers.

The surrounding black qi surged suddenly, and under the surprised gaze of everyone, figures appeared one after another at this time, they were standing around Chu Qingxiao and the others, and they were the people of Wuling City.

Everyone was a little uncomfortable with the sudden appearance of so many people around them, and their expressions were horrified.

At this time, two figures walked out of the crowd, a seven or eight-year-old child leading a bright and beautiful woman.

The child led the woman and jumped to Cao Shugong, and a clean and bright smile spread on his face: "Dad." ”

"My mother's illness is cured, and she said that she will take me outside the city to build a snowman tomorrow."

"I'm so big, my mother has never taken me out to play, will my father be with us tomorrow?"

Cao Shugong was stunned and recognized that it was his child and wife in front of him.

The woman also stepped forward and took Cao Shugong's hand, her eyes were a little red: "Uncle Gong, you've worked hard all these years......

"Such a big family, it's all up to you to support ......"

"Now that I'm sick, I can sew clothes for you, cook your favorite meals, and teach Tong'er to read and write."

"You can also go to the lake, climb the mountain, go to see the river flow of the Luohe River in Duzhou, and see the yellow sand outside Tongyue Pass, haven't you always wanted to go? In two days, we'll go and see it together as a family, okay? ”

"Stop fighting, come home with us."

The child's immature voice and the woman's soft gaze made Cao Shugong's heart tremble, and his body trembled.

The fairy spirit also walked up at this time, she came to Mr. Luo's side, and looked at the scholar in front of her: "Tai'an, do you understand now?" ”

"We don't have a choice, we're all dead souls."

"I know you're high-spirited, and you must not be able to accept such a truth, so I don't want you to know."

"I just want to guard you, you be your husband, I'll follow you, be a slave who brings you tea and water, or a laundry and cooking helper, I just want to accompany you, I don't want to see your pain again and again, despair again and again......"

"Let's go back to the study, you still have so many students waiting for you."

After saying this, the fairy looked back and saw behind him, a group of immature-looking children surrounded him, and they called crisply: "Sir." ”

said: "Sir, when will the study start!" ”

"Sir, I want to hear the story of the sword slaying the dragon and the snake, when will you tell it again......"

"Sir, the Thousand Words Sutra is so long, can I recite it to you in two days......

"Sir, Daddy won't let me come to the academy tomorrow, can you help me beg Daddy."

The children pulled the corners of Mr. Luo's clothes, shaking vigorously, and the crisp call and the affectionate gaze of the woman in front of him made the scholar faintly moved.

More people came out at this time, either as friends and relatives of the family officials, or as their wives and children.

They talk about their past experiences and about a bright future in the future.

They gestured to those present, stretched out their hands, smiled and extended invitations.

They said, "Let's go home." ”

Back to that warm and bright home.

You can have a hot meal of noodles or dumplings, drink two glasses of sake, and fall asleep.

When I woke up, it was business as usual.

Wuling City Cheshui Wharf, the child is smart and clever, and the wife is gentle and virtuous.

You don't have to stay in the dark dungeon to face a group of monsters you've never seen or even imagined, and participate in a life-and-death battle for the gods.

You're just a servant, or a servant.

The amount of money that arrives in a month is only a few taels of silver.

What do these things have to do with you, and why should you be born and die for them?

As long as you forget everything today, then everything will be quiet.

Zhu Yuan looked at the scene in front of him, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was even worse.

He opened his hand and said, "This is a world that belongs only to my God......

"There is a difference between him and the present world."

"For example, everything here can be determined by the will of my God."

"Wealth, power, power, you name it."

"Here, you don't have to run around for life, you just have fun every day, and you have a lot of time to do whatever you want."

"You will not be troubled by sickness, nor will you be erased by the years, but as long as my God is ever, you will be forever."

When everyone heard this, their faces seemed to be filled with joy, compared to the fate of them who had died just now, everything Zhu Yuan promised at this moment was as if they were in heaven.

Zhu Yuan saw that all this was in full view, and he retracted his gaze with satisfaction and looked at Chu Qingxiao beside him.

Chu Qingxiao's eyes were still filled with a look of struggle.

"You've done a lot of hard work." Zhu Yuan said softly at this time.

"You have proven many times that your persistence will not change anything but bring them despair."

"What do you mean?" Chu Qingxiao seemed to hear something in the other party's words, and he asked with a frown.

Zhu Yuan laughed: "The Candle Yin Divine Blood is the treasure of my Candle Yin clan, since being expelled to the Black Abyss, most of the divine blood has been lost, and my Yin Exorcism Clan only has this last divine blood." When Wuling City was destroyed, our original plan was to plant the blood of the gods into this land, turn it into a dark realm, and then use the dark realm to extract the power of this realm, so as to awaken our gods. ”

"But you've caused us a lot of trouble, you've taken away the blood of the gods, and the false god has sealed it in your body."

"After months of siege, we also suffered heavy losses, and the remaining witches were unable to break the seal left by the false gods, and in the end they had to summon my soul from the realm of eternal night by secret methods."

"But alas, the revenant soul can't interfere too much in this world."

"But this divine blood is the hope of the Yin Exorcism Clan."

"I have already done a loss to the clan by stealing it from the Holy Land, and I must not let it be lost, so I sacrificed all the living Candle Yin people in the city, summoned my god, and opened the realm of eternal night, so that you, me, and the souls of Wuling City have entered it."

"But the false god who sealed this thing is a powerful character, although he has reached the age of death, but the hundred-legged insect is dead and not stiff, even if it drags you into the realm of eternal night, I still have no way to break the seal. So ......"

"I can only use small means."

Zhu Yuan's face showed a look of pride, and it could be seen that he was very satisfied with the "small means" in his own mouth.

"You see, you are a very persistent fellow, believing in the justice that you humans often shout in your mouth, but in fact there is no existence."

"I just need to take this not-so-good memory out of their heads, but leave you with some clues."

"Of course you will try to find it, and I will cooperate with you to find it."

"Then, when we meet in this dungeon, I will tell you the truth as it is now."

Zhu Yuan's face flushed a little as he said this, as if he was introducing a masterpiece to everyone, his face was full of excitement and fanaticism.

"Think about it, when you know that the justice you insist on is in exchange for the destruction of the entire Wuling City, how desperate you will be at that time."

"And every despair of yours will loosen the seal of the divine blood in your body."

"As long as I repeat the cycle, fill you with hope again and again, and fall into despair again and again, the seal of divine blood will be loosened little by little, like a corroded by ants, when the loosening reaches a certain point, the seal will collapse."

Chu Qingxiao's face showed an incredible look, and he looked at Zhu Yuan: "What do you mean......"

"Yes."

"It's not the first time, we've met here many times, and every time, you've always surprised me."

Zhu Yuan nodded excitedly, he said and stretched out his hand to the crowd, where a father and son were standing in place - it was Butcher Liu and his son Liu Pei.

"You know them, don't you?"

"Your good neighbor."

"In the first three reincarnations, after you entered the Zhu family's compound, you were chased and killed by Heijia and hid in your neighbor's house."

"After seeing the weirdness of the black armor, this butcher who can only kill pigs actually accompanied you into the underground palace."

"As a reward for his bravery, at the end of each reincarnation, I let him see the tragic situation of his son in front of him, hundreds of times."

"I'll admit I'm a little selfish, after all, he once hacked two Yin Beasts to death on the battlefield, and also injured one of our witches."

"But the result was good, and he soon accepted the light of the candle and became a believer in my God, and you see, how well they are doing now, and father and son are together forever."

Zhu Yuan said it lightly, but as long as he imagined it a little, letting a father watch his child die in front of him hundreds of times was enough to break anyone's mind.

"And them." Zhu Yuan's interest seemed to be surprisingly high, and he stretched out his hand to Cao Shugong's wife and children.

"You humans have a saying that mothers and children are deeply loved."

"In the seventh reincarnation, you found Cao Zhutou to help."

"He is indeed a good head catcher, and he is also very smart, and he quickly found out some abnormalities, and then you came to the underground palace together, I originally wanted to do the same, so that Cao Zhutou can also experience the feelings of Butcher Liu."

"But after thinking about it, I have to leave some people in Qingxiaoli in Wuling City who can make you feel warm, so I let his wife feel the pain of losing her son."

"A woman's heart is softer, only a hundred times, she has completely lost the temperament to resist, you must know that at the beginning, she still helped you and Cao Zhutou cover you to sneak into the underground palace."

Zhu Yuan said, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly patted his head again, looking at the place where Mr. Luo was on the other side.

"By the way, there's the most interesting part."

"I've always liked your human writings, and I've been studying them all these years, but unfortunately some of them are difficult for me to understand."

"So I thought I'd see if I could let Mr. Luo understand the greatness of the candlestick first."

"But don't look at Mr. Luo's weak bookishness, but his bones are very hard, and in almost every reincarnation, he is your good helper."

"But no matter what method I use, such as making the fairy girl suffer some grievances, or making him repeatedly experience the scene of his students being torn apart by the Yin Beast, or directly trying to torture him once you humans invent all kinds of torture, he will not give in."

"It's the fairy girl, who feels sorry for her lover, after seeing him tortured again and again, she chose to surrender and join the candle yin, in the next four or five reincarnations, the fairy girl has helped a lot, and in exchange, I didn't use any means against Mr. Luo."

"However, the rewards and punishments of the candle yin are clear, and these punishments are exempted from Mr. Luo's body, but they have to be borne by the fairy girl."

"You human beings have a saying, ask what the world is like, and teach life and death to make promises."

"I didn't understand it very well, but I had the heart to ask Mr. Luo, which was also the original intention of wanting Mr. Luo to convert to my god sooner."

"But later, although Mr. Luo would rather bend than bend, I understood the meaning of this sentence in the fairy girl."

"You say, is this another answer to that sentence, the mountains and rivers are full of doubts, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village?"

Zhu Yuan said this, and the smile on his face seemed to overflow, with sickness and madness.

But soon he retracted these expressions and said again: "You see, your persistence is only the source of their pain. ”

"Now you have a good opportunity to give up your senseless insistence and hand over the divine blood."

"Of course you're going to die, but what does it matter? Your soul can live forever with them in this realm of eternal night. ”

"You've all been through enough pain!"

"You don't owe anyone anything."

"Why carry more things for the sake of people who don't care about you at all, look at them......"

"Are you going to kill them with your own hands? They are your fathers, uncles, and best friends, and they have all suffered from despair again and again for your persistence. ”

"Can you bear to let them go through that pain again?"

"And can you really face the world you missed for twelve years alone?"

"Chu Qingxiao."

"You can make any decision for yourself, that's your freedom."

"But look at them......"

Zhu Yuan said this, and looked sideways at the people on the side again.

At this moment, most people seemed to have accepted Zhu Yuan's proposal, hugging their relatives and friends, and laughing with children.

Maybe everything in this Eternal Night Realm is fake, but one thing Zhu Yuan is right, their happiness at the moment is real.

Chu Qingxiao also looked at the crowd, his gaze was complicated, and the struggling color on his face became more and more intense.

Zhu Yuan's voice sounded again: "Do you really have the right to make decisions for them as well?" ”

This question was like a sharp arrow smashing the last trace of persistence in Chu Qingxiao's heart, his clenched fist was released at this time, and the whole person seemed to be drained of strength, and the brilliance in his eyes dimmed and became lifeless.

Zhu Yuan looked at Chu Qingxiao with this appearance, and a victor's smile finally appeared on his face.

"A wise decision."

He said this, and a hand slowly stretched out at this time, heading towards Chu Qingxiao's chest.

The candle yin above the dome also seemed to feel something at this time, and the black silk thread also surged at this time, wrapped around Zhu Yuan's arm, and swirled together towards the thing it had longed for......

At this moment, Chu Qingxiao's expression was empty, watching that hand getting closer and closer to him, but he froze in place, and did not react to what was about to happen.