Chapter 88 Chapter 88: The King of the Gods (2)

In the third year of Emperor Yincheng, October 6th, night. Outside the barracks of the North Camp, Bai Yi's personal soldiers stood with their sabers out of their sheaths, which looked like silver in the moonlight.Several military officers who wanted to see each other were stopped outside, and no one dared to argue, so they could only stand side by side and wait.The soldiers stood opposite them, staring at their every move coldly.Everyone could feel an unusual tension in the air. In the barracks, Xi Yan and Bai Yi sat facing each other on both sides of the table, with a lamp in between.

"You can start now, there are only you and me here." Bai Yi looked into Xi Yan's eyes, "No third person will know anything you say here today." Xi Yan got up and walked to the door, opened the door, looked outside, and nodded with satisfaction: "It is indeed as closed as an iron barrel, and your men are more capable than mine." "You are proficient in scouting tactics, and you use too many tricks, and it will be difficult to run the army strictly." Bai Yi gestured, "Let's start, I know you have some strategies to defeat the enemy, and you may not be able to rely on your own strength." When you're done, say it."

"Do one thing first, remove all those iron barrel-like defenses outside." Xi Yan returned to the table and sat down. "Why?" Bai Yi asked. "Because what I'm going to tell you next involves a struggle between two organizations that may have lasted thousands of years, in which at least millions of people have died. And this struggle continues, in the long In that time, neither side has gained a long-term advantage, and neither side has tried to give up." "I want to know very much now." Bai Yi nodded. "But for thousands of years, Tianqi and Chenyue have in fact tried their best to cover up the core of this secret. The two organizations are only in this matter together. Usually people who understand this secret, either Is a high-priced Chenyue believer, either a leader of Tianqi, or he has to be removed. Even Tianqi has killed people to cover up this secret. Although this is a disgraceful history for us, we have to admit "Xi Yan looked directly into Bai Yi's eyes, "I told you that there is a very special reason, and you can't step into the camp of Tianqi, I know that. But I don't want those ears outside to hear the slightest bit, and some things spread , would cause a terrible commotion."

Bai Yi was silent for a moment: "Okay, do as you say." "Everyone, back away! Back a thousand steps away! No one should disturb us." Bai Yi ordered outside the barracks. There was no answer, but there were orderly footsteps going away.In a blink of an eye, the elite soldiers all evacuated the barracks, and the surrounding was a little quiet. Xi Yan nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, the story can begin, from the time of the primordial Hongmeng, so we'd better turn off the lights." He extinguished the light with his hand, and the barracks was completely dark. There were no windows in this barracks, only a few stars were cast in the sparse gaps between the ceiling boards.

Xi Yan leaned on the back of the chair and changed a comfortable posture, but his voice became low and solemn: "Bai Yi, are people a race that yearns for peace, or a race that yearns for war?" Bai Yi was silent for a while: "It's hard to say. It's too complicated. Many people yearn for peace, but every dynasty and generation has people trying to expand their territories." "Yes, it's hard to explain, but someone has been thinking about it. Have you ever heard of the name Gulun'er?" "He used to be the national teacher of the imperial dynasty, and later rebelled, so since then, Chenyue has been rejected by the royal family just like Tianqi." Bai Yi said.

"Although Gu Lun'er is a terrible person, he is one of the best popes in Chenyue's history. He is very much looking forward to sharing Chenyue's views on the world with those in power, so he took his followers into Tianqi City , he failed, but he sorted out Chenyue’s literature and classics for thousands of years, and thus produced a written theory. This theory explains why Chenyue keeps provoking wars and acts as a shadow behind the scenes.” "Interesting." Bai Yi said, "A philosopher?" "Chenyue's secret art masters have mastered too much power. They respond to the stars from above, summon the dead from below, master the power of sun, fire, ice and storm, and can cut metal with their spirit. These people are different from ordinary people. They They have been thinking about the ultimate meaning of the world all their lives, but they don't care about people themselves, nor do they care about Kuafu Heluo or Yuren. In their eyes, creatures are a bunch of uncivilized and insignificant things, and it doesn't matter whether they live or die. In other words, from their point of view, we are born to die, just like a cow is born to be fed to be killed and eaten. It is not surprising. As for the pain of the death of the cow, it is not within their consideration. They seem to be a mechanism. Because of the pain, creatures will avoid harm and protect themselves. This is a good thing, a very useful mechanism. But it is only a mechanism. In the vision of God, pain It is a trivial matter, so is survival, and so is hope."

"But they're creatures themselves." "So the ultimate desire of a Chenyue believer is to be able to transcend their mortal flesh. They have been pursuing to observe the world with the eyes of God all their lives." Xi Yan sneered, "They don't love the world or themselves, they only love this The ultimate power and meaning of the world." "This kind of thing...exists?" "I don't know, I'm a celestial exorcist. But if you say that the Chenyue believers don't have love in their hearts, it's not completely right. They don't care about individual individuals at all, but they care about the survival and development of all races, because Kyushu The races are an important part of the world and the root of the power cycle in the world. The world is like a river, and the races are the flowing water in the river. Without water, the power cannot circulate, and the river will die. The Chenyue believers love this world too much So, even with them, I love the tribes. It's just the so-called 'big love'."

"Big love?" Bai Yi asked. "It is to love as a god. Therefore, in the eyes of the masters of Chenyue, they are here to save us, but they are not equal to us, and we have no way to pray. In other words, they are loyal to God , instead of God to rule, they are the messengers chosen by God from the mortal world.” "Very good, more and more like a lunatic." "The masters of Chenyue in history were also very confused. They saw the wars in the world, the ebb and flow of power, and the blood of careerists from generation to generation. The masters felt that the desire for war and power in the hearts of all races had overwhelmed them. The world is messed up, it's corrupt, it's dirty, and the masters are distressed because they can't figure out why there is so much strife and killing in the world they love, so they ask God for answers. They confidently get Apocalypse."

"Is it a hallucination?" "Maybe," Xi Yan smiled, "but Master Chenyue is confident that they are close to the ultimate meaning of the world. The reason why there are so many wars is because this world was created as a battlefield!" "As... a battlefield?" Bai Yi's voice trembled slightly. "Yes! They say that war is actually a kind of power, a perfect mechanism. God uses war to coordinate the development of the world. God first uses war to eliminate weak and unsuitable individuals from various tribes, and then God uses war to coordinate the development of the world. War keeps the races alive, because they have to deal with it, and never let up. If the war is far away, people will become lazy and weak. They are still alive, but their ability to survive and their ambition to pioneer have regressed. , so that the whole race will slowly die. This is like herding a herd of horses. First of all, we must get rid of the weakest horse, otherwise it will affect the reproduction of the entire herd. The winner is the leader of the herd. In this way, all the stallions will hone themselves for the position of leader, and at the same time, the best leader can be selected, who has the right to reproduce with the mares. But this leader is temporary Yes, in order to continuously bring vitality to this group of horses, one duel has just ended, and another duel is already brewing."

"Then they themselves are the shepherds?" "Yes, Wrangler. So the masters of Chenyue regard themselves as the mentors of the development of the world. After sorting out this theory, they were ecstatic and felt that they were one step closer to the ultimate meaning of the world. From then on, war in their eyes became It's so beautiful, they only need to tease and coordinate, when we see the casualties, what they see is the great 'vitality' contained in the war." Bai Yi was silent for a long time, and Xi Yan stopped talking.He rubbed the scythe in the dark, trying to light his pipe, but his hands trembled slightly, and the flame kept illuminating his face, but he still failed.

Xi Yan smiled, threw the cigarette rod on the table, and gave up. "When I heard this theory for the first time, I couldn't sleep all night. I wanted to rush to the night sky and say loudly to the sky? Is that so? Is this the true face of the world?" Xi Yan smiled, "Now Speaking of it myself, I can still feel something terrible inside. My hands are shaking, it’s really embarrassing.” "It's because you think you've thought of some of them before, and you even think they're lost, otherwise why would you be horrified? If it's really the logic of a madman, then let them go crazy." Bai Yi whispered , "But the believers of Chenyue may not be crazy, maybe because we are too stupid." "Maybe." "Then what about Tianji? What are the warriors of Tianji thinking? The legend of Tianqi's immortality has gone through so many years. What are you insisting on for generations? Challenge the power and dignity of God? Fight against God's control over the world?" Bai Yi's gaze shone slightly in the darkness, "Perhaps behind the noble reasons, you are also contenders for power!" "Tianchao has no theoretical support." Xi Yan said lightly, "Or, the theory of Tianchao has been forgotten." Bai Yi was taken aback. "This is the time. Although most of the warriors of Heavenly Exorcism only know that they need to protect the peaceful world, they have no chance to know that the theory of Heaven's Exorcism does not exist at all." Xi Yan said in a low voice, "In a sense, the Sovereign They deceived them, although the Suzerains are also forced to do so." "Impossible, an organization that has been passed down for thousands of years, without a strong theory and structure, is impossible to continue with only the blood of a few people! Xiyan, are you trying to cover up something?" Bai Yi asked in a low voice. "For a suzerain to admit that his organization has no theoretical support, it is like a blind man wielding a weapon and fighting a powerful enemy to the death. Is there anything more humiliating than this?" Xi Yan sighed, " This is a fact, and we have been trying to find this answer for a long time. In the legends of the ages, we also have the opportunity to obtain divine revelation, and the person who will bring us divine enlightenment, we call it——'The King of Revelation'!" "The Lord of Enlightenment?" Bai Yi asked. "No one knows who he is, and no one knows where he came from. He is a spirit that has been passed down from the ancient times of Hongmeng. I don't know when it will be revived in someone. His awakening will summon the strongest spirit in the ancient times. Warriors, you know, we call it the 'Iron Emperor'. The Lord of Enlightenment will bring everything to the followers of Sky Drive, including strength and salvation." Xi Yan paused, "But the Lord of Enlightenment Jun, was killed!" "How is it possible?" Bai Yi was so shocked that he almost stood up, "According to what you said, it is almost a god-like existence, how could it be killed?" "No one can prove it, but there are various reports that the Lord of Revelation did appear, but he died. This spirit has been revealed to us followers of the Valkyrie several times in ancient times, but for seven hundred years , He has been silent and never appeared. Until nineteen years ago!" Xi Yan's voice trembled slightly, "I don't know why, it seems that someone already knew that he might appear, so they instigated the princes' thirty-year-long campaign against the sky. Annihilation. Countless sky-drive warriors were tied to the rack, beheaded, and strangled. Their ultimate goal was to kill the Lord of Enlightenment before he awakened! However, they failed, and the Lord of Enlightenment still appeared. This person, But he is a Chenyue believer!" "There is nothing more absurd than this." Bai Yi whispered.He knew that his face must be pale, and the things he heard were incredible, but these came from Xi Yan's mouth, Xi Yan might not be his friend who shared weal and woe, but Xi Yan would not deceive him.He has this trust in Xi Yan.But at this moment, he has to believe that the policies of the imperial dynasty in the past few decades have been completely manipulated by two mysterious organizations. People of different gods fight in the dark. "The Lord of Revelation claimed that he had received divine revelation. He did have evidence to prove that he was the one we were waiting for, but we did not have the chance to meet him. At that time, the surviving elites from Kyushu sent out to find him, but he was in the Fleeing, from the moment he proved his identity, he has been caught in a continuous pursuit. Someone bought his head from the assassins of Tianluo Mountain Hall with a lot of money, and the courtiers who were loyal to the princes also received secret instructions To kill this man. Just like that, some people are trying to kill him, some people are trying to protect him. The army of revelation fled all the way to the north, and finally reached Akihayama Castle, where he was last seen. He should He is dead, although no one knows how he was killed, but he failed to fulfill the mission of saving Tianqi. Fortunately, and unfortunately, he finally met the generation of Tianqi suzerain before his death." Yan took a deep breath, "The suzerain of that generation is named You Changji!" "Yes, You Changji is still regarded as a traitor in Tianqi. At that time, the two of us were still working as Jinwu Guards in Tianqi City, and it was also when we first got to know the inside story of Tianqi. Everyone knows that You Changji is heinous. , he betrayed the spirit of Tianqi, hoping to fight our most powerful opponent, the Chenyue Sect, with 'absolute power'. The suzerains saw the possibility of becoming a tyrant from him, so he in turn He was killed by the Heavenly Exorcists once. But the most secret thing is that before You Changji rebelled, he did meet the man who was called the Lord of Enlightenment. So far no one knows what these two people talked about at that time. You Changji searched for some clues in the materials left by You Changji, but You Changji was also very cautious and did not leave any relevant text." Xi Yan breathed a long sigh of relief, "That's it, so today's Tianzhu It is an organization composed of some warriors with no goal and no way to go. It only survives on the blood, and Chenyue's power has skyrocketed. They seem to be ready to take advantage of this opportunity to attack in an all-round way, making their will the only master. " Bai Yi pondered for a moment: "Then, their actions towards us are only a part of it. They hope to become the spiritual masters of this world." "Yes, if you talk to people from Hanzhou, Ningzhou, and Leiyanshan Heluo people, you will know that envoys with black flags have quietly visited their hometowns. In the past ten years, Chenyue Sect has They placed a huge net of influence on the entire land of Kyushu. Now they are preparing to close the net. Right here at Shangyang Pass, their move has officially announced to us that a new round of war has begun." "That's true, a new round of war has begun!" An old voice said outside the door. Bai Yi stood up in shock.He didn't make any sound when he got up, and at the same time pressed the hilt of the sword at his waist.Facing the door so thin that a fist could punch through, he stood still like a sculpture. The person speaking outside opened the door calmly.It was a man in a huge black cloak, the high collar turned up hid his face.He was tall and thin, standing straight in the doorway like a spear stuck there. "The suzerain of the Tianqi warrior group, the eagle of Cangming. General Bai Yi of Chu Weiguo. The two of you are now acquainted. Since we still have a common goal, we can restrain our hostility and sit down to talk." Xi Yan Said slowly. "The Eagle of Cangming?" Bai Yi's hand was still on the hilt of the sword. "It's me, I'm your only reinforcement." Yi Tianzhan replied flatly, "Xi Yan sent me a letter with an eagle emblem on it, and it took me three nights and two days to arrive." "But how can you enter the city? There are zombies outside." Yi Tianzhan walked to the table, wiped the scythe and lit the oil lamp, and he raised the oil lamp up: "Young man, you should be able to tell that I am a feathered man." Bai Yi saw his long snow-white hair, so pure that there was no trace of magazines. "Now is not the time when the moon phase is full, you can fly in...you are..." "I'm a Hexue, and I'm also a Celestial Exorcist. I was once the master of a city-state. You can call me Gumo, Gumo Stark." Yi Tianzhan looked at Bai Yi coldly, his eyes There seems to be a sharp barb in it, "Don't look at me with the hilt of your sword like this. When you face me with hostility, please think clearly. In my opinion, you may be able to use the word 'traitor' to describe me. .” Yi Tianzhan slowed down his speech and paused word by word: "Traitor of Tianqi! When I was young, we practiced stricter discipline. What you have done in the past has given enough reasons to the suzerain to go Order to kill you!" Bai Yi's silent and majestic gaze met Yi Tianzhan's eyes, as if a sword had hit a wall.Bai Yi felt that his heart seemed to stop beating for a moment, and he silently let go of the hilt of his sword. Xi Yan's smile resolved the frozen silence between the two: "There is no need to mention the past, Tianqi has also changed from a majestic and huge organization to a street mouse that everyone shouts and beats. It doesn't work anymore, old man. And when we made mistakes, we were sixteen years old, and people were too young then." "I'm not here to inquire about crimes," Yi Tianzhan sat down slowly, suddenly the corner of his mouth twitched, and smiled, "I just want to give young people a warning." The three of them sat around the table and were silent for a moment in embarrassment. "If I know there are guests, I should prepare some tea." Bai Yi broke the silence. "You have a lot of blood here, and if you don't take action immediately, the blood will rise up and overflow your throat." Yi Tianzhan said coldly, "Your time is running out!" "What time?" Bai Yi said awe-inspiringly. "The enemy's final attack is about to begin!" "when?" "You once passed by Tianqi, and you don't really understand our enemy, but the battle between us and Chenyue has lasted for thousands of years, and we know these secret masters who like to manipulate corpses too well." Yi Tian Zhan said, "General Bai Yi, how long have those zombies besieging you been standing outside?" "Almost a month." "They haven't fallen yet, but as you know, zombies are like living people, the blood will flow slowly, and the vitality of the body has not completely disappeared. They just lost their souls and suffered too much injury, but their The body was awakened by the power of Gu Xuan. The remaining power in their bodies is still being consumed slowly, although this is much slower than that of ordinary people. But you feel that they will wait there for years and months Is it?" "They lose their vitality." "Yes, the existence of Gu worms is just to replace their dissipated souls, just like an artist manipulating a puppet. But this puppet will eventually fall when its strength is exhausted. Among zombies, only the extremely complicated forbidden technique The corpse warriors made can keep alive for a long time, and they can even eat like living people. And those things outside your city gate, they are almost exhausted. When they fall down, the ten thousand red brigades of the Li Guojun What kind of threat is it to you? There are still tens of thousands of people in your hands who can fight." "So Chenyue will launch a real attack before the zombies fall?" Yi Tianzhan sneered: "Yes, Chenyue intends to kill you, just besieging is not enough. They need an attack! And I know when they will attack." "Excuse me, when?" Bai Yi couldn't hold back anymore, he knew that the opportunity was in front of him, he gave up all his arrogance and eagerly asked for advice like a student in front of the teacher. Yi Tianzhan smiled, looked up at the roof, and said in a very distant voice: "When the invisible stars rise to the top of the zenith, their power will be strengthened to the greatest extent. At that time, it will be extremely difficult for them. Great opportunity." "Gu Xuan!" Bai Yi understood. "You can teach me!" Yi Tianzhan nodded, "Gu Xuan's power tide is about to fill up, like a bow being drawn to the end! Zombies who are about to die will gain the greatest power at that time, and their inner bodies The drier blood will speed up, and at that time they will become like wild beasts, trying to kill anything alive!" Bai Yi's face turned pale slightly: "They have already calculated the role of the stars from the beginning!" "It's like this. Based on Tianqi's thousands of years of experience, our enemies are too smart and too patient. When they observe you, they are like snakes in the grass, not moving at all, and when they shoot at you, they just You have already calculated that you have no way out!" Yi Tianzhan asked suddenly, "This time to surround Ying Wuyi, don't you think you have set a trap for Ying Wuyi to get in? You participated in the conspiracy, but unfortunately you still You are not the core figure of the conspiracy, so you have no idea that in this conspiracy, the one who is really going to be eliminated is you! It is not Ying Wuyi! Who is the person behind the scenes?!" Bai Yi stood up abruptly!He stared at Yi Tianzhan, took a step back, his whole body was on guard. Yi Tianzhan didn't look at him, but just looked at the lights silently. "I... can't say it!" Bai Yi gritted his teeth. "No, it should be said that you don't know." Yi Tianzhan said lightly, "When Chenyue tried to manipulate someone, most of them were hidden behind the scenes, and the pawns exposed in front of the scene could be killed at any time. Abandon. Since you are the one who is going to be eliminated, you must not know it. In the eyes of the master of the secret way, the pride and toughness of soldiers are just as ridiculous as children fighting bravely." Yi Tianzhan sighed slightly: "I am not asking you anything, nor am I laughing at you. In fact, Xi Yan and I are just pawns on someone else's chessboard. In the eyes of the real behind-the-scenes people, our counterattacks are all up to him in the calculation." Bai Yi sat down slumped, panting lowly. "But what's that?" Yi Tianzhan sneered proudly and aloofly, he stared at the lights with cruelty in his eyes, "During the seven hundred years without the Lord of Enlightenment, we ridiculous celestial beings were forgotten by the gods, but Aren’t we going to war with Chenyue countless times? We killed a lot of people, and they didn’t take advantage! Suppressing people’s counterattack with the power of God, Chenyue also failed to achieve their goal!” "What... what should we do?" Bai Yi suddenly raised his head, his eyes sparkling, "Now let's talk frankly! What is our trump card?" "We need to kill someone." Xi Yan said. "Who!" Bai Yi went on to say: "Also, even if I still have the seven long-salary arrows intact in my hand, I can't expand the range of the King's Landing Formation. When I used the King's Landing Formation that night, you have seen that the North Camp is so big. The range is already the limit of what I and this pair of bows and arrows can do." "That's not enough." "How big do you need it to be?" Xi Yan pointed to the whole picture of Shangyang Pass on the earthen wall of the barracks: "It's so big." "Cover the entire Shangyang Pass?" Bai Yi shook his head resolutely, "That's impossible!" "No, it's possible, we can use magic tools!" Yi Tianzhan said. "We don't have mystics accompanying the army, and we don't have magic weapons that are powerful enough to activate the King's Landing Formation." Yi Tianzhan shook his head and sneered: "Young man, don't talk about topics you are not familiar with. I am a feathered man. There is no race in this world who understands secret arts better than feathered men! Hidden treasures, just like you used the Wing Chasing Bow and Long Salary Arrow when you launched the King’s Landing Formation, the soul-imprinted weapon itself is a magic weapon. Any magic weapon is just echoing the stars with the spiritual power it contains, and your arrow hits The soul is sealed. And the magic weapon can also be alive." "Live?" Yi Tianzhan nodded slightly, and paused every word: "People are the most powerful magic weapon!" "You want to use people to replace the Long Salary Arrow to launch the King's Landing Formation?" "Yes!" Yi Tianzhan said, "When we have enemies we cannot defeat, we can also seek protection from the gods of the stars. What power is more powerful than the god of Beichen bestowed on the warriors? King's Landing The array summons the power of the God of Beichen. The Chenyue believers worship all the stars, but they are afraid of Beichen. Because the power of Beichen is different from all stars, it crosses everything, no matter the metal armor or the mountain. It will Guard us." "Are you sure?" Bai Yi felt his palms sweating. "Try it." Xi Yan smiled casually, "However, launching the King's Landing Formation in this way will bring us a lot of trouble." "Will there be sacrifices?" "Not necessarily, but," Xi Yan looked at Bai Yi, waiting for the reflection in his eyes to twitch, "The person who acts as a magic weapon must open his heart to the call of the God of Beichen, and he must have enough The courage and strength to accept the arrival of the Valkyrie. Not everyone has this courage, and some people will lose their minds because of it. So before this, such a star array was only launched by the most core sky-drive warriors. The number of people is very scarce. So we have to recruit you, although you are not a sky drive, but you are no stranger to that kind of inner shock." "You said... the shock in your heart?" "First call!" Xi Yan spit out these two words slowly, "The person who acts as a magic weapon will experience the feeling of first call, that is the power of the Valkyrie enters your soul. At this time, those warrior kings in ancient times , Those iron emperors will be revived in the depths of your soul. Their war horses gallop through your heart like trampling on your soul. It will manifest itself as a nightmare. This is the first call of the Iron Emperors to their followers!" He asked Bai Yi quietly: "It's like twenty years ago, that night, in Tianqi's tavern, when that man sharpened his sword, what did you hear? What did you see?" Xi Yan smiled slightly. Bai Yi was silent, expressionless. "Okay." After a long silence, Bai Yi took a deep breath, "I believe in you, and now I can only believe in you. But we need seven people, Lord Stark is the fifth, I am the sixth, who Is it the seventh?" "We already have this candidate, a new Sky Drive warrior." Xi Yan and Yi Tianzhan exchanged glances. "Or is it a requisitioned magic weapon?" Bai Yi asked coldly, "Does he know what he will go through?" "I think General Gu Yueyi has fully understood." Xi Yan stood up as he spoke, and opened the door of the barracks for the second time. The head coach of the Northern Jin Army, Gu Yueyi, stood silently outside the door, bowing slightly to the three people in the room. Bai Yi got up in shock, and then sat back in the chair wearily: "Suddenly I feel that I am really a ridiculous person." "General Xi asked me, I just think I can do this at any cost." Gu Yueyi replied indifferently, "I don't have the opportunity to think too much, but I don't want my subordinates to be buried in this conspiracy with me inside." Bai Yi nodded, seemed to have aged a lot suddenly, and sighed faintly: "Yes, you all think very simply, but I am the only one who struggles with conflicts. I can't stop you from doing what you want to do. It's not the first time that you have infiltrated your forces into the army. You are a group of people, just like Chenyue, but not as crazy as they are." "The lesser of two evils." Xi Yan smiled and pressed his shoulder. Yi Tianzhan seemed to be tired of such conversations, stood up without saying a word, and walked out with his hands behind his back.Xi Yan smiled slightly at Bai Yi, and followed his pace. When they walked to the door, Bai Yi's voice came from behind: "A group of people who have lost the protection of God, don't know where to go, sacrificed so many companions, and fought against another group of lunatics like lunatics. Have you ever thought about it?" What is the purpose of all this? Can you defeat the believers of God with human strength? It sounds like your blood is really weak! Even you yourself will suspect that all your actions are just pawns struggling to escape on the chessboard of fate. ?” Yi Tianzhan stopped suddenly.Xi Yan glanced at him and saw his face was indifferent.He was slightly worried, which was often the prelude to Yi Tianzhan's anger.He knew that this aged Heavenly Exorcist Suzerain did not have the good temper that a Yuren should have. "Young man, we met for the first time, and you are still not familiar with my character. What fate chessboard?" Yi Tianzhan turned around, and replied indifferently and proudly, "I don't believe in fate!" He suddenly laughed, a bit rudely: "If I believe in fate, wouldn't my fate be too bad?" The door closed, and Bai Yi sat at the table alone.He pondered, reached out and extinguished the lamp. He was the only one left in the darkness, the surroundings were really lonely, not a single sound could be heard, it was as empty as an ancient wasteland.He was thinking that maybe outside this room was just a boundless darkness, without lights, people, and everything.It was similar to the feeling that the small wine shop gave him that night twenty years ago. "Twenty years ago, that night, in that tavern in Tianqi, when that man sharpened his sword, what did you hear? What did you see?" Xi Yan's words still echoed in his ears. Twenty years ago, there was the sound of swords being sharpened, and wine shops. He thought: "What did I hear... what did I see..." It should have been raining heavily that day, and there was rain everywhere.The night was very dark, and there were no clouds, lightning or thunder, only the pouring rain, which seemed to never stop.He was sitting in a small restaurant in Tianqi City. There were many people in the restaurant. The old man with wet clothes at the door of the restaurant was sharpening his sword on a stone. The sound of rain, the sound of metal rubbing against a millstone. Gradually the world became lonely and empty, the noise of the wine shop faded away, and the existence of other people became irrelevant.He watched the old man sharpen his sword, which rattled on the grindstone. It was raining heavily, and someone was breathing amidst the sound of the rain. "No, that's not breathing," he thought. Maybe it's someone stepping on the water, maybe it's the sound of the horse's nostrils blowing hot air, maybe it's the armor, the wrought iron armor, jingling with the horse's ups and downs.He started to feel nervous, he thought something was coming!But he couldn't stand up, he couldn't look away, he watched the old man sharpen his sword silently, the blade was dark and dull. "Here we come! Go! I want to go!" thought he. But he didn't know where to escape, the darkness outside the hut came alive, some people were laughing, some horses were breathing, the nails were clanging, thousands of shapes were formed in the darkness, merging into sea tides. He has nowhere to go. Then those men in iron armor appeared before him.They came galloping, out of the darkness, I don't know how much.Their nails undulate, and Bai Yi can clearly see the rain splashing on those nails.But he couldn't see the faces of these people clearly. Their faces were covered by iron helmets with only one slit, and their entire bodies were covered by armor and black cloaks.They galloped into the tavern, God knows how the little door could hold so many horses and their giant-like masters on their backs. Bai Yi stood up, and those horses galloped past him.Their master drew his sword.The sword looks so familiar. The sword of this standard was sharpened in the hands of the old man just now, but now it has been held in the hands of the warriors, with a dazzling iron light.The iron light gathered and illuminated the sky. Bai Yi raised his head and saw the stars, which slowly rotated in the sky.There are no wine shops, no old people under the sky, countless horses are galloping by, and warriors are brandishing heavy swords. This is a torrent of steel, and Bai Yi is standing in this flowing water, like an invisible reef in the rapids.But he could feel the real existence of those people and horses, and the air they aroused cut Bai Yi's face like a knife. They go to the end of the world. Bai Yi felt that his body had lost control. He had already experienced fear and trembling, and his heartbeat was as fast as a horseshoe, but none of the reactions could help him adapt to the force brought by the iron flow. It is ancient, vast, majestic, pure, and defying everything—power. Bai Yi burst into tears, his tears burst like a bank, he wanted to sit on the ground and cry. All he could do was cry, and he couldn't resist. "No! Can't think about it! It's useless to think about anything." Bai Yi stopped his thoughts and said to himself in his heart, "There is only one way ahead, and if you say anything, you can only go on."