Chapter 752 - 33: Fear
At the same time.
Goryeo Branch.
"...What’s happening behind us?"
Zhou Jian heard the rumbling from behind, somewhat suspicious and uncertain.
Just now, it started to tremble inexplicably.
Although it could be sensed that it was very far from their location, the recent Holy Light made everyone quite tense, so they stopped in their tracks.
"I completely don’t understand anymore."
Zhuoli looked at Zhou Jian, rubbing his brow: "This Yellow Springs journey is full of unexpected events, one after another. Now even if you told me that we are not in Yellow Springs, that what we’re seeing is all an illusion, I would believe you."
Zhou Jian: "..."
On the other side.
Chen Lusi also glanced back, then said, "There shouldn’t be any major problem, let’s continue forward."
"Do you know what happened over there?"
Zhou Jian heard what Chen Lusi said, paused for a moment, and then sighed inwardly.
As expected, Chen Lusi is still reliable.
He trusted Chen Lusi... but at the same time, he was also very interested in what had happened.
"I don’t know either."
Chen Lusi shook his head: "But, at the same time the tremor happened, the Tai’e Sword conveyed a wave of close emotions."
Zhou Jian: "Close... to Emperor Shi?"
"It’s the only possibility."
Chen Lusi nodded: "So there’s no need to worry about that side for the time being. He shouldn’t be hostile to Yellow Springs; the only concern is that he might be too hasty... But I think this eternal emperor, after dying once, knowing the final result of the Qin Dynasty, and considering that Yellow Springs has already fused and unified, shouldn’t be like that anymore."
Emperor Shi, this eternal emperor... initially had the opportunity to become a truly immortal emperor.
If, after unifying the Six Kingdoms, standardizing the tracks and script, he had completely settled down to wait for the passage of time, the most powerful force, to slowly take effect, to wait for the Six Kingdoms to slowly merge.
Like what Han Gaozu, Lady Lv, and Wenjing did, governing by doing nothing, recuperating and restoring.
Then perhaps the Qin wouldn’t have ended with the second generation.
He also wouldn’t have become a cautionary tale for later generations.
He would, without a doubt, be placed ahead of those followers who came after him.
Unfortunately, he didn’t stop at that time.
In the end, his son could only hand over the fragile and yet-to-be-unified Qin Dynasty to others.
But considering the considerable influence that the Yellow Spring Remnant Vein still holds to this day.
It’s also hard to say he was wrong.
If he hadn’t relentlessly pursued the Yellow Spring Remnant Vein and completely broken the backbone of the original Six Kingdoms, it’s hard to say whether the Han Dynasty could have completed the final step of integration so smoothly.
One can only say that the beauty of history lies in this.
And for people like them, it’s really hard to judge by right or wrong.
Just like after him, there was another successor, who did the same kind of crazy things.
He was even more military-obsessed, one might say; he squeezed dry all the reserves left by Han Gaozu and Wenjing.
He demonstrated to all the emperors that came after him how to be military-obsessed, how to exploit all the people.
For the ordinary people of that era.
He was a purely rotten emperor.
But such a rotten emperor struck the Xiongnu into fleeing in panic, expanding the nation’s territory to unprecedented levels.
...To lose Qilian Mountain is to have no pasture for my livestock, to lose Yanzhi Mountain is to have my women lose their color.
The despair represented by this phrase cannot be understated.
And like the cycle of history.
This Emperor Wu of Han, who played military obsession to its fullest, also eventually suffered a backlash.
He dismissed a hundred schools of thought and honored Confucianism alone, all the measures he took to strengthen central power, in the end, like Emperor Shi, all received the deserved backlash.
And during that period, he could have waited, to wait for time, this greatest force, to slowly play its role.
Slow down his steps a little.
But he didn’t wait either.
Chen Lusi couldn’t understand the mindset of these people.
Perhaps... this is what makes them heroes.
"Let’s keep going."
Chen Lusi stopped his wandering thoughts and looked into the distance once more.
Besides feelings of closeness, Tai’e Sword had also never stopped conveying feelings of excitement.
...A worthy enemy?
...
Goryeo Branch.
Source.
"...Hmm?"
Park Haoyu, who had completely transformed into a demon, suddenly let out a puzzled sound.
Then, he looked up, gazing at the cross-shaped scepter in his hand, seemingly puzzled.
On the other side.
Lamar Aihai and Arakel Tuck were also a bit puzzled.
Because the Holy Light was disappearing.
The Holy Light, which originally seemed to illuminate the entire Yellow Springs, was gradually diminishing, eventually turning into a thin line and disappearing without a trace.
This truly... was abnormal.
Park Haoyu saw this scene and let out a low laugh, as if mocking the God he served not long ago: "Hehe... My Creator, are you afraid I will take your place? You really are timid!"
Lamar Aihai and Arakel Tuck glanced at each other, vaguely feeling something was off as they looked at the mockingly ’Great Angel’.
Because the change in personality was too complete.
Even if they had to align opposites for the completeness of the Church System, there was no need for such direct confrontation.
At least neither of them had seen such an arrogant Fallen Angel.
...Or perhaps there was, and that was the original Fallen Great Angel.
But the opponent intended to take the place... this wasn’t a secret within the Church, involving the two-thousand-year-old dirty laundry of plotting against the Roman Pantheon, which the Church couldn’t resolve internally and could only resolutely support one side.
But after all, that was a special case.
As for this one now... surely they won’t think so too?