Chapter 231: Hollowed-Out History (Two-in-One)
After Prajna Lianyue discovered that Gu Fangchen was very casual about setting her up to kill her, what she feared most was that Gu Fangchen was no longer the person she remembered.
Especially if Gu Fangchen chose not to acknowledge her because of the tension between them...
If five hundred years of obsession ended up with nothing, she really couldn't accept it.
Therefore, even a little bit of similarity or warmth is like a life-saving straw to her and must be grasped tightly.
At this moment, Gu Fangchen's response finally made Prajna Lianyue feel a little relieved.
Not for anything else, just so that she could know what kind of person Gu Fangchen was.
Even the centurion in memory was not a good person. He was only very kind to his adopted daughter, but he did not let anyone else, especially those who had offended him, go unpunished and framed them all.
When she cast aside the filters she had applied over the years, she realized that her father and the Prince of Zhenbei whom she knew today were actually not that different in character.
It’s just that she was protected before, but later she was plotted against.
Different perspectives, different impressions, different mindsets, and naturally what you see are also different.
If you recall it more carefully, you will find that the bone structure of the two is exactly the same, but they have to endure too much hardship as soldiers in Garuda, so they look older than their age.
There is no comparison with the pampered Crown Prince, just like the difference between Bai Gu and Hei Gu.
Prajna Lianyue knew clearly in her heart that if Gu Fangchen had not been just an ordinary person at that time and had no talent for cultivation, he would definitely be able to be more than just a mere captain of ten men.
As the overlord of the Western Regions at that time, Garuda had a very high proportion of cultivators in its army.
In this world where martial power determines everything, without talent for cultivation and without any family background, no matter what, it is impossible to achieve great success.
And considering Gu Fangchen's character - which was what Prajna Lianyue used to see as "cruel and vicious".
If Gu Fangchen set up this trap for revenge, then this is the best opportunity for him to kill and destroy her heart. As long as he does not recognize Prajna Lianyue, he can completely shatter Prajna Lianyue's expectations.
This is also the reason why Prajna Lianyue felt a chill in her heart before she fell into coma.
But she still chose to give the initiative to Gu Fangchen.
After that man died, one could even say that she lived for him, to revive him, to see him...
If Gu Fangchen wanted her to die, she would be willing to be killed.
Prajna Lianyue leaned in Gu Fangchen's arms and took a deep breath of relief. The anxiety and impatience of the past five hundred years were soothed away. She was finally able to calm down and feel the familiar breath.
She hugged Gu Fangchen tightly, her body completely relaxed, her eyes becoming a little blurred.
Even if it's fake...it's okay.
At least she could enjoy a moment of peace of mind.
Gu Fangchen touched Prajna Lianyue's long, dark and smooth hair, and felt the Saint Lady secretly rubbing against his chest like a clingy kitten.
If the Saint had a tail, it would definitely be raised high by now.
He looked odd.
So, when Prajna Lianyue was arguing with me before...was that considered breathing out my breath?
When Gu Fangchen picked up little Mingzhu, he raised her like a kitten. Now that she has grown up, she still has the personality of a kitten.
However, it was difficult for him to face Prajna Lianyue with the same mentality as facing his adopted daughter.
I think the same is true for Prajna Lianyue.
But for now… let’s just enjoy the reunion.
Gu Fangchen just quietly hugged Prajna Lianyue until he heard faint rumbles of thunder outside.
But this sound did not come from the sky, but from the earth.
Gu Fangchen raised his head and heard the faint thunder getting closer.
"Boom..."
He waved his hand, opened the curtains of the room, and looked outside.
In the distance, yellow sand and smoke billowed, and gradually became clearer.
Those were wolf riders like a black tide, carrying the fluttering Qingman flags, heading towards Fatuma. When they passed by the ruins of Garuda, they separated into a team.
"The Qingman people have arrived, it's time for us to leave."
Gu Fangchen narrowed his eyes and lowered the curtain.
A few days ago, he had already informed Sule that Fatuma was willing to surrender to Qingman and help Qingman.
After the contact is completed, Qingman will naturally formally send envoys to take over Fatuma.
According to Qingman custom, this so-called envoy was a Tiansa who was chosen to convey the will of the "God".
Prajna Lianyue, as a key link, naturally knew his complete plan and whispered:
"The Wu Clan is brutal and cold-blooded by nature. The people of the 'Extermination' Dao are a bunch of lunatics, and they're not easy to deal with. After helping the Wu Clan conquer the Mermaid Clan, the Sea Nation is far away and easy to defend, so there's no guarantee it won't suddenly turn against us..."
Gu Fangchen smiled and said:
"It won't be up to them then."
The mermaids regard the "Dragon Soul Sea" as a holy place, and below the "Dragon Soul Sea" is the Nine Netherworld.
Once the "Dragon Soul Sea" is controlled, it is equivalent to grasping the lifeline of the Sea Country.
After all, once the rift below reappears on earth, the first place to be devoured by the myriad evil spirits will be the Sea Kingdom.
The people of Haiguo are more anxious than them.
Prajna Lianyue still had doubts in her heart:
"Speaking of which... I know that the people of the Path of Love now obey you, but why do the people of the Path of Extinction also follow your lead?"
Gu Fangchen recounted the relationship between "Yier" and the "Four-phase Robber Lord" and explained the current situation, including the time when he was hunted down by the Demon Cult after Emperor Yong'an was killed.
Prajna Lianyue was greatly surprised and did not expect that the birth of the "Four-phase Tribulation Lord" was actually related to Ying Baishou.
"So, the death of Emperor Yong'an was a conspiracy between Confucianism and the Demonic Cult?"
Prajna Lianyue's face was solemn. Although she knew that Confucianism was hypocritical, she had never imagined that Confucianism had become so crazy.
She had also been curious about what was inside the "Heavenly Gate", but she never expected that it was something that even a first-rank powerful being could not avoid being affected by.
Gu Fangchen nodded.
The Demon Cult should have reached a consensus with the Confucianists. It is only a matter of time before the remaining dragon veins are taken over.
In the past, the way to stop [Eternal Unity] was to kill Xie Qian directly.
Now, he already knew that Xie Qian's death was just a superficial phenomenon and could not solve the root cause. Everything would come back again.
He asked with a serious face:
"Little Mingzhu, have you seen any fragments related to the 'ancient times' in that long river of time?"
Prajna Lianyue was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and took a deep breath.
"No... not at all."
She also noticed something was wrong.
This is so wrong!
She had never come into contact with the power of time before. After all, transcending time and space and achieving eternity is a first-class thing.
As a second-rank cultivator, she naturally couldn't peer into the distant past.
Even Xu Fu can't do it.
The Grand Master of the Imperial Court only dared to say that he knew what would happen five hundred years in the past and five hundred years in the future.
As for the ancient times, that was more than three thousand years ago.
But now, because of the formation that resurrected Gu Fangchen, she reversed time and was able to come into contact with a corner of the long river of time and saw many fragments of it.
Although she could only use those parts related to Gu Fangchen.
But what she could see was the entire river.
This river should have included all recorded human events.
However, at the beginning of the ancient Zhou Dynasty, everything came to an abrupt end and there was a blank.
“This is not just a matter of generational separation…”
Prajna Lianyue's face was solemn:
"Someone has cut off the entire river of time!"
Originally, people knew very little about ancient things. It might be because the time was so long ago that no one recorded it in history, so it was lost.
But now, it's obvious that it must be man-made.
Someone deliberately prevented future generations from learning anything about the ancient times and directly sealed that part of the past.
"It is indeed so."
Gu Fangchen narrowed his eyes.
If Xie Qian was influenced by the Tao intentionally or unintentionally and wanted the world to be finally occupied by the Tao, then his [Eternal Heaven] should be placed directly in the "Great World of Honglu" where "people who have attained the Tao" are everywhere.
However, in fact, he chose to start with the ancient Zhou Dynasty.
It's not that he doesn't want to.
No!
Because in the long river of time, the anchor point of "Honglu Great World" has disappeared.
Even the "Wang Yin Tian Dial", with the blessing of the "Boundless Spring", could not locate the "Honglu Dashi", so Xie Qian naturally could not locate it either.
This should be the effort made by those who fight against "Tao".
This period of history was completely hollowed out and the inheritance was cut off, which led to the power level of later monks becoming lower and lower.
However, that period of history should not disappear out of thin air.
Just like the [Ancient Human Emperor] cannot create a "Nine Netherworlds" out of thin air, but has to rely on the other side of the entire world.
That period of history, so vast and loaded with history, this cut-off stretch of time must have a place to rest...
Gu Fangchen pondered for a moment, and suddenly his pupils constricted. His mind flashed back to the various scenes that Ning Caiyong had shown him before he left.
Endless mountains and rivers turned upside down before his eyes, the sun and the moon were side by side, the stars were wrapped in it, and a thousand-foot crack appeared in the void, which was densely packed with eyes.
The gazes cast by these eyes turned into strands of golden silk threads, hanging down to the earth, like a curtain covering the sky.
And the people on the earth, like ants, caught the silk threads with their hands and were ecstatic.
"The constellations are spread out in the universe, and the furnace of heaven and earth is without principles..."
Gu Fangchen murmured in his heart the words he had heard in his ears at that time, suddenly walked out of the door, flew high into the sky, and looked at the "Gate of Heaven" that was looming in the sky.
"Tianmen"!
Even though it is 200,000 miles away, the "Tianmen" still seems to be fixed in the sky forever, becoming a wonder like the sun and the moon.
Gu Fangchen took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
The answer is at hand.
Why did Ning Caiyong directly give so much information about "preachers" in the information he gave him, without any hesitation?
Because none of this is important, the real message conveyed to him is precisely this entire sky.
The mountains and rivers are turned upside down, wrapping the stars. This sky that revolves around the earth, a sky that you can never fly out of, is the history that has been intercepted!
The long river of time flows eternally, and the stars in the sky rotate endlessly.
Someone disguised it as the sky, turning it into a curtain that covers the entire world, and it flows day and night.
Only guys like "Military Genius" Li Kan, who were between life and death, escaped the net because of self-sealing.
But as time goes by, there will always be people who become curious and rebellious, wanting to pierce this curtain and see what is hidden behind it...
Ying Baishou cut open the "Gate of Heaven" with a sword, and what he saw was that piece of history and the truth, so he regretted it and realized that he should not have cut out this sword.
He stood on the side of resistance against the Tao and sealed it back in his flesh as an atonement.
But once he had swung his sword, an unstoppable chain reaction would occur.
People in the future will become more and more curious about what is hidden under the "Gate of Heaven"?
As long as "Tianmen" exists, this trend will become a general trend, overwhelming and unstoppable...
To put it bluntly, this method is just a drop in the bucket. It can only block it temporarily, but cannot achieve the long-term goal of making the "Tao" disappear completely.
Gu Fangchen already understood that "Master Hengchang" must have come up with a new idea.
And oneself, including the modern fantasy world from which one comes, is the key.
But there must be a way out of this problem.
It's impossible that everyone would disappear and leave him wandering around like a headless fly.
No, wait…
Gu Fangchen was suddenly stunned.
Isn’t it also a clue that everyone has disappeared?
Ning Caiyong is missing, and "Master Hengchang" is also missing.
As people from ancient times, they should have been behind the curtain, but it was wrong for them to fall outside the curtain.
In other words...
They didn't disappear, but returned to where they should be.
Gu Fangchen looked at the sky and felt something in his heart.
So……
The meaning of Ning Caiyong asking him to say "goodbye Honglu" seems to be obvious!
As for how to enter the "Honglu"... Gu Fangchen narrowed his eyes, and in the blink of an eye, he had already thought of the answer in his mind.
The history of the "Honglu Great Era" has been dug out, but the "Tianmen" is still there, and the people and things related to it are also there.
Now, the only existence that can be contacted and has a close relationship with "Tianmen" is Xuanling!
Having Xuanling is like having an anchor.
What Xie Qian couldn't do, Gu Fangchen could do.
"Then... the plan remains the same, but we need to add some steps."
Gu Fangchen figured out a lot of things, his mind became clearer, and his mood became a little happier.
From below, the voice of Qingman Tiansa was heard.
"Mr. Messenger! The Khan is waiting for you. Would you like us to send someone to escort you back?"
Gu Fangchen came down and said:
"No need."
Seeing Gu Fangchen coming in front of him, Tian Sa knelt down and saluted Gu Fangchen very naturally in front of everyone.
The Fatuma people around were stunned.
Is this right?
This doesn't seem like etiquette for an "envoy," but for a "god"?!
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ps: fill in the hole, I have some ideas
(End of this chapter)
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