Su Ji recognized that the green-shirted woman on the tower of the city gate was Lin Zi, and Xi Bojifu in front of her was just a corpse manipulated by her.

Lin Zi gently put a hand on Xi Bojifu's shoulder, and a faint purple qi spread through her fingers to Xi Bojifu's limbs.

Su Ji found that the purple qi was getting thicker and thicker, and a purple flame ignited, enveloping his father's body in an instant. The whole person withered and withered like a flower, silently turned into a wisp of ashes, and disappeared with the wind. Su Ji took all of this into his eyes, but he didn't react excessively, and said lightly:

"You're trying to make me miserable, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you. ”

Lin Zixiu frowned slightly, and said suspiciously: "Aren't you sad about losing your loved ones?"

"I'm sad because my loved ones have passed away, not because of the loss of my loved ones. ”

"What's the difference?"

"You don't understand, and you don't have to, because you're just a demon who has brought disaster to the country and the people. ”

"Disaster to the country and the people?" Lin Zi said disapprerovingly: "When a man makes a mistake, he always has to find a high-sounding excuse to blame the woman." If Shang is wise and martial, how can he be deceived by a woman?"

Su Ji asked rhetorically: "If you hadn't deliberately confused the king's heart, how could the Shang Dynasty have fallen?"

"I was ordered by Nuwa Niangniang to confuse the king, but I was just acting on the orders of heaven. If you want to blame, blame the king of Shang for once blaspheming Nuwa Niangniang with an obscene poem, which provoked Niangniang's anger and caused a catastrophe. ”

Su Ji said angrily: "Nuwa Niangniang ordered you to cut off the Yin Shang world, and she didn't let you harm anyone. But you cut out the abdomen to take out the baby, knock out the bones and extract the marrow, poison the loyal martyrs, and even destroy the living souls, you should be corrected!"

"I am a demon, and it is natural to harm others, how can Nuwa Niangniang not know this truth? Niangniang ignores me, that is, she acquiesces to me to harm others. The business is like an iron bucket. If I don't kill meritorious heroes and innocent people, how can Shang people betray their relatives and leave them? If Shang doesn't lose people's hearts, King Wu will not be able to respond to the people, and those so-called loyal ministers and good generals will become chaotic ministers and thieves, just like you now!"

"Not bad. Su Ji's eyes showed complicated emotions, "I am a rebellious minister and thief, and you are a demon queen who is spurned by the world, but there is a bit of similarity." ”

"You and I are much more similar than that. Your adoptive father in Chaoge, Lord Su, was originally a descendant of Jizhou Hou Su Hu, and I used to be the daughter of Jizhou Hou Su Hu. All of this is not a coincidence, but a providence in the dark. ”

"Providence?"

After a moment of silence, Lin Zi said in a deep voice: "It is also the will of heaven that I appear in front of you here and now." ”

"What is providence?"

"Providence wants you to come to the capital of the pickaxe and change the situation in the world, and what I have done so far is to bring you to this point. ”

Su Ji's eyes were lowered, and he couldn't imagine that the enemy he had been looking for all along, was just a pawn used by the gods to borrow a knife to kill people.

What is the nature of the gods?

Immortality or Immortality or Redemption?

If the gods can really protect mortals, why should they send enchantresses to destroy a country and even the innocent people of the world just because of a moment of anger?

There is also the so-called "Heavenly Dao", which seems to be a mysterious and unpredictable game. Mortals who ask for the truth of cultivation either die unexpectedly, or become pawns of fate......

Su Ji looked up at Lin Zi and said with a gloomy expression: "Why do you want to control my fate? Could it be that you are on the orders of Nuwa Niangniang? Since Nuwa Niangniang regards you as a chess piece, why do you have to work for her?"

"Although Nuwa Niangniang regarded me as a chess piece, she did not cross the river and tear down the bridge. Back then, I was deeply sinful, and it was not enough for the people to be angry if I didn't kill me, so I could only destroy my body and protect my true soul from extinction, so that I could one day return to the world and complete the mission of subverting the Zhou Room today. If you have to ask why, it's just because Providence cannot be disobeyed......"

Providence?

After being silent for a long time, when Su Ji raised his head, he found that the city gate tower was empty, and Lin Zi's figure was no longer visible.

Su Ji took a deep breath, not knowing what kind of providence he would face next. But no matter what, he was determined to stick to his path. With a "boom" sound, the inner city gate slowly opened, and Su Ji walked straight through the city gate to the palace.

At this time, there was silence in the palace.

All the civil and military officials gathered at the royal ancestral hall to pray that the heavenly soldiers would come down to quell the chaos.

The music was played, and the drums were played in unison.

Ji Gongyu wears a large fur, a dragon-patterned dress decorated with the pattern of the sun, moon and stars, wears a crown with twelve crowns hanging from the front and back, and a large gyu is inserted around his waist, holding Zhengui to face the west and reciting the sacrificial text. However, although he worshiped his ancestors and worshiped the gods, and then worshiped his ancestors, he never saw any movement in the sky.

When everyone was anxious, Father Yu Shi said: "Your Majesty, just bowing like this, I'm afraid it's not enough to report to the Emperor of Heaven, and you still need to worship the heavens." ”

"What is the worship of Tongtian?" asked Ji Gongyan.

Father Yu Shi ordered the priest to arrange three bronze trays side by side on the altar and explained: "The so-called worship to heaven requires placing three kinds of sacrifices on the firewood stack, lighting the firewood, and letting the fireworks rise high in the sky, so that the emperor can smell the smell and report to the emperor that he will enjoy the sacrifice." ”

Ji Gongyan observed the three bronze trays on the altar, and saw that the left plate contained jade, and the right plate contained silk, but the middle plate was empty.

"What kind of sacrifice should be put on this plate?" Ji Gongyu asked again.

Father Yu Shi said: "Ordinary sacrifices need to place the heart of a freshly slaughtered live animal as a sacrifice, while a sacrifice to worship the heavens requires an extremely noble heart in the world, a royal heart. ”

Ji Gongyu was stunned!

The hundred officials were dumbfounded, but because of Yu Shi's father's military power, no one dared to say a word.

When everyone was sighing, two people walked in front of the ancestral hall, one after the other, the one who was strutting in front was Yu Han, the son of Yu Shi's father, and the one who was walking with his head bowed in the back was Ji Wang, the younger brother of Ji Gongyan.

Seeing Ji Wang, who appeared in time, Ji Gongyan seemed to see the "heart of the royal family" close in front of him, and said with great joy: "My brother, but you are here to worship the heavens?"

Ji Wang's expression was flustered, his eyes were full of fear, and he nodded resignedly.

Ji Gongyan couldn't wait to say: "It is a feat for my brother to sacrifice his life for all the people in the world, and the widow will definitely bury you...... Someone's coming!"

Hearing this, the waiter brought a tray with a sharp knife that cut out the heart.

Ji Wang was sweating profusely, took a deep breath, and slowly stretched out one hand to the sharp knife with a cold light, holding it in his hand slightly. Seeing his younger brother's hesitant appearance, Ji Gongyan was anxious and urged: "Bastard! What are you rubbing, don't do it quickly!"

Seeing that his brother was so intransmissive, the hesitation in Ji Wang's eyes instantly turned to nothing, and he suddenly stabbed out!

Poof!

Ji Gongyan's body trembled, his eyes widened suddenly, one hand slowly covered his chest, and bright red blood kept flowing from between his fingers. Ji Wang's knife did not stab himself, but into his brother's left chest!

Ji Wang said with tears in his eyes: "Brother, your royal heart, I accepted it on behalf of the people of the world." ”