Chapter 111 The truth is no longer important

"Side Technique - Demon Disintegration!"

The water ghost, who was originally restrained by the forbidden shackles and had no power to resist, suddenly expanded into a giant ten feet tall at this moment!

His tangled muscles burst through his clothes and turned into a strange dark blue color, and his eyes were full of ruthlessness and cruelty.

A strong wind suddenly arose.

He twisted his sturdy arms and punched Xu Chong who was nearby.

Xu Chong was staring at Lu Zhong intently and did not expect this sudden change at all.

Completely out of instinct, Xu Chong raised his hand and slapped forward, trying to block the water ghost's attack.

But at this moment.

The water ghost's huge body began to shrink further, and the whole person fell towards Xu Chong.

Xu Chong's soul flew into the sky.

If it was just the body shrinking and falling, it wouldn't have frightened him so much.

But the problem is.

Under these circumstances, the water ghost was supposed to face Xu Chong's fist, but he dodged it and was instead...

throat!

"you can."

The water ghost's lips moved slightly and his eyes were smiling.

--No!!!

Xu Chong exerted force to pull his hand away.

The intense

Unfortunately it's too late.

——Puff!

A head flew up.

Xu Chong was covered in the spurting bright red blood.

It all happened in a flash.

When the water ghost suddenly jumped up, Lu Zhong turned around.

By the time he got closer, the water ghost's head had already flown into the air.

"Damn it!! He actually knows paranormal skills?!"

Lu Zhong's expression was extremely ugly, and he directly pushed down the water ghost's still standing body, "Fortunately, there was the forbidden magic shackle, so it couldn't burst out completely."

After calming down, Lu Zhong looked at Xu Chong with concern: "Is my friend Xu injured? I have some excellent medicine here..."

“No need.”

Xu Chong smiled and asked, "Master Ci Fu, what you meant just now is that this move cannot be fully unleashed?"

"...As long as there is no seeding of the Tao, the restrictions of the forbidden law shackles can ignore the realm."

Lv Zhong looked at the smiling face stained with blood and subconsciously looked away. "The Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique is quite special. It destroys the acupoints, reverses the meridians, and burns the body at the same time. It does not require strength to complete, so it can break free from the restrictions... Unfortunately, he doesn't know that the material of the forbidden magic shackles is extremely tough, enough to support the changes in his body and suppress the subsequent explosion."

Water ghost doesn’t know?

Ah.

How could I not know?

Xu Chong sneered and turned sideways to face Zhang Shunyi.

Zhang Shunyi lay on the ground in despair, staring blankly at the headless corpse.

The Master's words kept turning over and over in my mind.

"Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness, answer."

"Reach out your hand!"

"Why? Although your answer is correct, it is just a repetition of what the saints said. How can you pass the provincial examination with just this? Stretch out your hand!"

"If you fail your homework today, you are not allowed to go home for dinner!"

"What?! That kid hanged himself?!"

"Don't try to persuade me in person. Just listen to me..."

"Don't you want to take part in the provincial examination?"

"You are confused!"

“…”

Although most of them were very strict, Zhang Shunyi could clearly feel the care that came from the heart.

But why would such a person enslave and kill his father?

Zhang Shunyi couldn't understand, and confusion began to appear in his eyes.

Xu Chong caught this and asked directly without caring about Lv Zhong, "Do you remember the mysterious man now?"

"Mystery man……"

Zhang Shunyi slowly came back to his senses and said, "It's Zhou Ze."

Not long after he started practicing martial arts, he regained his memory.

Back then in Canglang, the person who lured him to suspect Wang Hezhi was none other than the chief clerk of Canglang County, Zhou Ze.

"No wonder your inner demons are not serious, because when you broke through, Zhou Ze had already been painted on the water ghost's portrait as a traitor of the Taiping Dao."

"Of course you wouldn't trust a traitor's words, so your suspicion of the Master is not as firm as it was at first."

Xu Chong pointed at the corpse on the ground and said, "But think about it, if Zhou Ze was also a water ghost, why would he lead you to doubt yourself?"

"this……"

Zhang Shunyi was stunned. "It means that Zhou Ze is not a water ghost at all... So what the teacher said just now is true?"

"No, quite the contrary."

Xu Chong shook his head. "I think it was Zhou Ze who enslaved and killed your father."

"Back then, when I was just promoted to an official, I obtained the technique from my blood memory and became a first-level martial artist very early on."

"On the day your father got into trouble, I was in charge of leading the search and arrest team. During the process, I sent all the yamen runners away and went to Blackwater Dock to investigate first."

Xu Chong looked at Zhang Shunyi and said calmly, "I found your father as expected."

"What?!"

Zhang Shunyi stood up directly, "Did he say anything to you?"

"He told me to be careful with Zhou Ze and to take care of you if I have the energy to do so."

Xu Chong replied, "He was already dying at the time. I couldn't save him, so I had no choice but to return... When the yamen runners found him, he had already died."

"That…… "

Zhang Shunyi lowered his head and looked at the corpse again: "Why did you say that, Master?"

"Perhaps he thinks that if you die with a blood debt on your shoulders, your inner demons can be completely eliminated?"

Xu Chong shook his head, "But it's quite the opposite."

"That's quite possible."

Lu Zhong thought for a moment and nodded, "That outburst just now, now I think it was really a request for death."

Lies form a closed loop here.

"So... that's how it is..."

Zhang Shunyi murmured.

His vision was completely blurred and could not be cleared no matter how hard he tried.

After a moment, he turned to look at Lu Zhong, almost pleading, "Are traitors... necessarily extremely evil?"

Lü Zhong's face turned solemn, and he asked, "Are officials of the imperial court necessarily the most kind and benevolent?"

Although there is no answer, this is already the best answer.

Good and evil are not determined by identity.

same.

Life and death are not determined by good or evil.

Although it was cruel, Zhang Shunyi got the answer he wanted.

“The students understand.”

Zhang Shunyi burst into laughter while crying, bowed with his hands clasped, and said in a choked voice: "Please allow me to be buried here, Master."

"Go ahead."

Lu Zhong nodded. "Although Xie Changqing was granted the title of Marquis of Taiping, he has no foundation in the court after all. I can still suppress this matter."

"Thank you, Master."

"Thank you, Master Ci Fu."

…

The cemetery of water ghosts was determined by Xu Chong on the edge of the cliff outside the east city wall.

Not next to the Imperial Observatory.

But it is next to the Imperial College.

Although there is no separate passage like the Imperial Observatory, the sound of reading can occasionally be heard here.

Xu Chong felt that even if the water ghost came back to life, there would be nothing wrong with it.

The two men didn't use any tools, they just relied on their bare hands to dig out handfuls of soil.

Move carefully and slowly.

After a stick of incense, a small mound of earth rose up.

Xu Chong found a huge rock and used his palm as a knife to carve out a stone tablet.

Zhang Shunyi watched silently and did not stop it.

Although traitors are not allowed to erect monuments or leave words here, basically no one sets foot here, so there is no need to worry about being discovered and reported.

But he was wrong.

Xu Chong put his fingers together like a knife and quickly carved a few words.

"this……"

Zhang Shunyi was surprised.

"What do you think I want to carve?"

Xu Chong glanced at Zhang Shunyi, "Wang Hezhi ? That's not him."

"The words of the water ghost..."

"First, Water Ghost is not his real name."

"Second, if the name of the underworld is to add a ghost after the name...what if he gets angry and doesn't bless us anymore?"

really.

Zhang Shunyi nodded in agreement, "Why not engrave the word Master?"

"Look up and look into the Imperial College. Did the old man on the third floor see it?"

Xu Chong said, "He is the chief priest of the Imperial College in the secondary capital, and is also called Master."

"All right."

Zhang Shunyi withdrew his gaze.

The stone tablet was erected and planted in front of the mound.

Xu Chong clapped his hands and faced the sea of clouds: "The scenery is beautiful and quiet. Sometimes someone reads to him, which is not bad."

"What the Master likes is not to listen to people reading...but to teach people to read."

Zhang Shunyi shook his head.

"That's good."

Xu Chong curled his lips and said, "The Imperial College in the secondary capital is full of people who are unlearned and unskilled. He will be busy now."

"That's true, if you put it that way."

Zhang Shunyi nodded.

The two of them didn't say anything else, just quietly watched the rising and falling sea of clouds.

Until it was getting dark.

"Actually, it wasn't Zhou Ze who killed my father, right?"

Zhang Shunyi suddenly asked.

Xu Chong raised his eyebrows, "Why do you think so?"

"That day, the day my father had the accident."

Zhang Shunyi said, "When I was about to leave for the county school, he asked me a question."

"What?"

Xu Chong tilted his head.

"He asked me if I would forgive him if he killed someone closest to me one day."

"I didn't understand it at the time, so I asked myself, isn't he the person closest to me?"

"He nodded with satisfaction and let me stay in the school for a day."

Zhang Shunyi smiled and said, "Now that I think about it, the person closest to me... should be Brother Xu."

Xu Chong was shocked.

"But no matter what the truth is, it doesn't matter anymore."

Zhang Shunyi shook his head. "I still say that. I don't hate the person who killed my father, but the person who changed my father."

"I believe that the Master would not do that, and Brother Xu would not do that either... Brother Xu was still young at that time and could not do that."

"so."

Zhang Shunyi turned sideways to face Xu Chong and bowed deeply: "I am leaving now. Please take care of yourself, Brother Xu."

Xu Chong looked at him, sighed softly, and then bowed.

"treasure."

Not long after.

The huge team started moving, slowly passed through the city gate and went down the mountain.

This high-level team stayed in the temporary capital for only one day.

The new top scholar was exchanged for the corpse of a traitor.

Xu Chong did not see him off, but sat alone beside the stone tablet until late at night.

"What do you mean by 'you can do it'?"

"Can I help Shunyi through this difficult time?"

"Or, can I get through this on my own?"