Novel Full Chapter 172 - 154: His Hundred Years Is Me, My Lifetime Is Him
Chapter 172: Chapter 154: His Hundred Years Is Me, My Lifetime Is Him
Bai Ruxue left with the grand army of the Four Seas.
She left behind only a mountain of corpses.
Kong Sheng stood in the sky above the Tianlan Sect for a very, very long time.
He remained motionless, even as the scholars from the Confucian Academy arrived to collect the bodies of the Human Race Cultivators.
No one knew what their Academy Master was thinking, and no one dared to disturb him.
After a long while, Qi Daoming, the Academic Palace Sacrificial Officer, arrived at the Tianlan Sect. He walked step-by-step toward Kong Sheng and stood beside him.
“Is the Human Race Alliance meeting over?”
Kong Sheng sighed and spoke slowly.
He had not attended this final meeting of the Human Race Alliance, sending his junior brother in his stead.
“It is,” Qi Daoming nodded.
“And the outcome?” Kong Sheng asked.
“What else could it be? Those vultures carved up everything they could. Each one complained they didn’t get enough, but in reality, they all stuffed themselves until they were dripping with grease.”
Qi Daoming gathered his sleeves and gazed at the mountain peaks, stained red with blood.
“Bai Ruxue was right.” Kong Sheng looked out over the world. “This is a world that devours people. Whether it’s the Human Race or the Demon Race, few are without stain. And the most unstained one of all… is dead…”
“…” Qi Daoming knew who his senior brother was talking about.
“What was decided about Xiao Mo’s posthumous reputation?” Kong Sheng asked again. “How will the history books of later generations define him?”
Qi Daoming shook his head and also sighed. “The Cultivators of the Upper Three Realms argued fiercely. The different Sects and factions all held completely different views.
“Some proposed that the histories of the World of Ten Thousand Laws should record things truthfully—write what Xiao Mo did, as he did it.
“Others felt that because Xiao Mo fought against the Human Race for the sake of the Demon Race, and even used that Saint’s Heart to help the Dragon Race with their Tribulation Crossing, he indirectly caused the tragic death of the Celestial Vault Daoist.
“Especially because of him, the seal on the Dragon Race’s Qi Fortune was broken, leaving behind a tremendous hidden danger for the Human Race. They insisted Xiao Mo must be branded a traitor.”
“Just tell me the final result,” Kong Sheng said, his world-weary eyes filled with a deep exhaustion.
“In the end, the Cultivators of the Ascension Realm and the Immortal Realm voted together. They decided to expunge Xiao Mo from the histories of the World of Ten Thousand Laws,” Qi Daoming said faintly. “Just like that person from twelve thousand years ago. After a few millennia, most people in the world will have forgotten he ever existed.”
“I see.” Kong Sheng was not surprised by this outcome.
“What about *Knowledge and Action Combined*?” Kong Sheng asked again.
“As for *Knowledge and Action Combined*, it is the Great Dao he created. This path of his involves the interests of far too many people, especially those here at our Confucian Academy.
“*Knowledge and Action Combined* has destabilized, and even shattered, the Dao Hearts of many old scholars.
“Therefore, many proposed placing *Knowledge and Action Combined* on the third floor of the Confucian Academy’s Library Pavilion, making it a forbidden text that cannot be disseminated to the world.
“However, in accordance with your wishes, Senior Brother, I forcibly suppressed these opinions.
“In the end, everyone agreed that *Knowledge and Action Combined* would become one of the Confucian classics, available for all Confucian Scholars in the world to read at their own discretion.
“It’s just that Xiao Mo’s name… I’m afraid it cannot be written upon *Knowledge and Action Combined*.”
Kong Sheng shook his head. “In this situation today, I, as the Academy Master of the Confucian Academy, have been truly incompetent. I have failed the old Master.”
“Don’t say that, Senior Brother. You’ve already done your best. But in this world, aside from stepping into the legendary Second Realm, who can truly achieve detachment?”
“Senior Brother, what I’m worried about is the Four Seas. Once they learn of the Human Race Alliance’s decision, and once that Lord of the North Sea finds out that her beloved has been expunged from the World of Ten Thousand Laws, will she… ”
“Rest assured, she won’t.”
Kong Sheng gazed in the direction of the North Sea, cutting Qi Daoming off. He knew what he was about to say.
“One only gets angry when one cares.
“The moment he passed away, that Lord of the North Sea had already lost all sentiment for our Human Race. She stopped caring about us long ago. She probably even feels that our World of Ten Thousand Laws is unworthy of even possessing his name.”
「…」
Bai Ruxue returned to the North Sea Dragon City.
Three years had passed since the official end of the Human-Demon War, and thirteen years had passed since the day Xiao Mo died.
Thirteen years ago, on the day Xiao Mo died, Bai Ruxue had knelt on that spot for a very, very long time.
But in the end, Bai Ruxue picked up the Yin Yang Fish Pendant that He Yeye had placed before her and returned to the North Sea.
After returning to the North Sea, the first thing she did was lead the North Sea’s grand army to the West Sea, the South Sea, and the East Sea, one after another.
Any of the Sea Race willing to pledge allegiance to Bai Ruxue were allowed to live.
If they were unwilling, then only a dead end awaited them.
In the end, aside from the East Sea Dragon King who only submitted after being beaten half to death, the other Dragon Kings were all quite sensible.
It took her just under a year.
Bai Ruxue became the Overlord of the Four Seas.
After unifying the Four Seas,
Bai Ruxue had the Four Seas search for a way to coalesce a Residual Soul, while she trained the Sea Demons of the Four Seas to strengthen their power. At the same time, she also stabilized her own Realm.
Finally, once Bai Ruxue’s Realm was completely stable, she led the Sea Demons of the Four Seas, effortlessly broke through the Tianlan Sect’s Sect Protection Array, and annihilated the Tianlan Sect.
But after all these years, not a single Demon among the Sea Demons of the Four Seas had found a way to coalesce a Residual Soul.
But how could they possibly find one?
Many of the Sea Race commanders truly did not understand what Her Majesty was doing.
’Once a soul shatters, it’s shattered. There’s nothing left. It just returns to the heavens and the earth. From ancient times to the present, we’ve never heard of anyone whose soul had scattered being able to coalesce it again.’
But they didn’t dare say anything. They could only follow her orders.
“Xiao Qing, I’m going to be leaving the North Sea for a while.”
On the seventh day after the Tianlan Sect was annihilated, Bai Ruxue finished arranging all affairs and prepared to hand the Four Seas over to her.
“I’m giving you full authority over the Four Seas. If any Demons in the other three seas disobey, kill them as you see fit. As long as I’m still alive, no one will dare lay a hand on you.”
Hearing her sister’s words, Xiao Qing lowered her head and remained silent.
Seeing her little sister’s downcast expression, Bai Ruxue gently stroked her head.
Bai Ruxue knew that ever since that day, Xiao Qing had spent these thirteen years steeped in self-blame and regret.
“Xiao Qing… what’s past is past. I don’t blame you, and Xiao Mo wouldn’t blame you either. More than anything, we both want you to be happy every day,” Bai Ruxue said with a gentle smile.
“But Sister…” Xiao Qing looked up. “What about you? Brother Xiao wouldn’t want you to spend every day…”
“It’s different.”
Bai Ruxue gently interrupted her sister.
“Your world has me, it has Xiao Mo, it has Qiaoqiao, and it has many, many friends.
“But Xiao Qing.
“In my world, there was only him.
“So even if his soul has scattered, I have to go find him.
“He said that for a dragon, a hundred years is but a single year, while for a human, a hundred years is a lifetime.
“But so what?
“His hundred years was me.
“And my entire life… was also him.”