Ze Tian Ji

Su Li did not directly answer the question, instead saying, ”Back then when the Longevity Sect and the Liang Household wanted to have the south invade the north, the capital at the time was in a state of complete mayhem. The imperial court and the Orthodoxy were fractured and ridden with internal strife. The only problem the southerners could not resolve was also their greatest problem. It was the existence of Tianhai. In the end, they found a method to solve this problem.”

”What method?”

”They wanted me to go to the capital and kill Tianhai. Even if I could not kill Tianhai, they believed that Tianhai would be severely injured.”

”Senior, did you go?” As soon the question left his mouth, Chen Changsheng knew that it was pointless.

Of course Su Li had not gone to the capital to kill the Tianhai Divine Empress, or else history would not have taken its current form. Just as expected, Su Li looked at him like he was an idiot, asking, ”Do I look like I’m insane?”

Chen Changsheng thought to himself, it’s those southerners that must have gone mad, to actually think of this idea that could never possibly be realized. He asked, ”Back then, how did they attempt to persuade Senior?”

”They captured my wife and then imprisoned her in the cold pool in the Longevity Sect. Then they righteously exhorted me.”

When Su Li said these words, there was not much expression on his face, but even after the passage of ten or so years, Chen Changsheng still felt like he could sense his fury.

”Nobody likes to kill others, and neither do I.”

Su Li ended it with these words, ”If too much blood flows, it’s very troublesome to clean the sword, let alone the clothes. So I don’t like killing. But there are times when there are some people that have to die, when blood has to flow.”

Chen Changsheng understood. These matters of the past that he had once heard about had finally been completely explained. By telling him this, Su Li wanted to communicate to him a very simple truth, and also no longer wanted to hear Chen Changsheng’s advice.

In living in this world, if you want to live freely and protect those that you love from harm, you have to be strong enough—so strong that the whole world will admit that you are strong, will fear your strength. How can you prove it, and make the world admit this point? You must be willing to kill others, willing to let the entire world bleed.

Su Li was precisely like this. He had slain every last one of the elders of the Longevity Sect, and then almost annihilated the Liang Household, turning the continent into a river of blood. He could not restore his own wife’s life, but in the following decade, no one dared to threaten or use him, and no one dared to threaten his daughter.

Understanding did not mean acceptance, but Chen Changsheng had no means of saying anything else to Su Li, so he thought he might as well go talk to someone else. He walked to the window and pushed aside the curtain. He looked at Liang Wangsun seated on his black lotus on the emperor’s carriage and very simply declared, ”I want to protect him.”

On Liang Wangsun’s handsome and noble complexion appeared a smile that said he didn’t understand. ”Many people thought that you died in the Garden of Zhou. I did not think that you would actually die in Xunyang City.”

Chen Changsheng’s declaration was very simple, and Liang Wangsun’s response was also very simple. Since he had come under the watch of countless gazes to kill Su Li, it indicated that he did not care for the threats of any man, even from the Orthodoxy.

”Back then, he did not kill you, he did not kill Liang Hongzhuang, nor did he kill Liang Xiaoxiao.”

Chen Changsheng continued, ”He left the Liang Household a path to retreat, so perhaps the Liang Household can also leave him a path to survive.”

”But back then, very few people survived. Moreover, did you really think that counted as a path of retreat? No, what my household lost was the hopes and dreams of countless people and countless centuries. But maybe I can give him a way to survive.” Liang Wangsun callously declared, ”If you let me chop off his four limbs and cripple his meridians, then I can let him live.”

Chen Changsheng silently considered this for a few moments, before finally answering, ”This is not fair.”

Liang Wangsun answered, ”Using blood to return blood, to use death in return for death, this is the fairest.”