Chapter 98: The Wise King, Tyrant and the Prophet (Please subscribe for the fifth update!)
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Li Hao saw clearly the final choices of Gu Sheng and Yao Xin. He just shook his head without comment.
As the "God of Death", Yao Xin's concept of life and death is destined to be different from that of ordinary people.
Li Hao had no intention of influencing her choice, just as he had never interfered too much in the development of the hundreds of tribes in the mountains and seas.
As time goes by, Li Hao has increasingly understood how to become a qualified creator, a true god.
In comparison, the subsequent impact brought about by Gu Sheng’s sudden death is what Li Hao should pay more attention to now.
When Ak left the City of Bones carrying the remains of Gusheng, the prophets realized belatedly that the bear was the culprit behind all this.
With surging anger and questioning, the prophets approached the bear.
As a result, Xiong Bin, who had been prepared, changed his previous honest behavior and imprisoned all the prophets.
——After the kingly way comes the domineering way!
——After Gusheng’s death, no one could follow his path as a wise king.
——So from now on, the entire City of Bones will carry out my will.
He suppressed all the forces opposing him in the City of Bones with thundering means.
With his undisputed strength, Xiongbi dominated the future direction of the Skeleton People and even the entire Hundred Races Alliance.
During this period, even the Skeleton People themselves were full of controversy about the bear's actions, not to mention other races.
If Gu Sheng were in power, he would naturally not hesitate to use his personal charm and prestige to persuade those opposing forces and races one by one.
However, as Xiong Bin said, there has been no wise king since Gu Sheng.
Among the hundreds of tribes in the mountains and seas today, no one can have the prestige and personal charm of Gu Sheng to continue the trend of unification.
In order to continue Gu Sheng's ideals, Xiongbi chose to conquer other races with the simplest and most brutal force.
Wherever there were rebels, Xiong Bin would lead his army to fight in person.
However, this war led by the bear was a war of conquest with the purpose of "conquest".
As long as they are willing to surrender to him and join the Alliance of Hundred Races, the bear will forgive their past resistance and rebellion.
It is hard to say whether Xiong Bin is a qualified leader.
But it is undeniable that Xiong Bin's strength and tyranny did force the trend of unification, which had been stagnant due to Gu Sheng's death, to continue.
Behind the unrest in the hearts of the people in the Alliance of Hundred Races are obedience, resistance, repression, and anger.
But no matter what the members of the Hundred Races Alliance thought, they all expressed their genuine fear of the bear.
Under the influence of various emotions, the Alliance of Hundred Races, which did not have much racial consciousness, naturally developed empathy for those members who had the same emotions and positions as themselves.
Regardless of race or position...
As long as you fear the rule of the bear, then we are kindred spirits.
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One hundred and thirty-eight years later, at the altar of the Creator in the City of Bones.
It is still the same conference table where the think tank members once sat, and it is still the same familiar scenery and scenes.
However, now, Xiong Bin is the only one sitting at the think tank meeting table.
In the City of Bones, among the Skeleton People, and among the hundreds of tribes in the mountains and seas, there has never been the concept of the so-called "ruler".
Even though the bear is now stubborn and insists on its own way, it never thinks that it is superior to other skeletons. It is just carrying out the responsibilities that are placed on its shoulders.
That was the promise that Xiong Xiong made to Gu Sheng, and it was also the peace that they had imagined together in the past.
"Do you regret it?"
Ali appeared silently behind Xiong Bin and asked softly with a slightly tired look.
"regret?"
"I never knew how to write the word 'regret'."
Without turning around, Xiong Bin completely gave his back to Ali and said with a smile.
"But you, you haven't come to see me for more than a hundred years since our last quarrel. Are you here to kill me this time?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the scene fell into silence.
"Sure enough, I knew you never do meaningless things."
After a brief silence, Xiong Bin, who had obviously expected this, sighed.
“Kill me!”
"Then reorganize the alliance and complete the pace of unification."
"Under the oppression of a tyrant like me, all the races, including the Skeleton People, have a common anger and goal. The next thing will be much easier."
Instead of taking the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on the bear, Ali just walked step by step to the opposite side of the bear.
"Using hatred to unite people, you are even crazier than I thought."
"Have you ever thought that after you die, the hundreds of races without hatred as a cohesive force will return to their previous state?"
What Ali said was not speculation, but a foreseeable fact.
Compared to using personal charm and prestige to unite everyone, Xiong Bin's approach of using hatred to unite everyone is destined to be extreme and temporary.
"That's your business."
He shrugged indifferently and opened all four arms of the bear at the same time.
"I have done everything I could. The Hundred Races have been living under the same anger for nearly a hundred years."
"If this is the case, you will not be able to complete the next steps..."
"That only proves that Gu Sheng and I's ideal is destined to be nothing more than an illusory illusion."
Before Ali could react, Xiong Bin suddenly grabbed his spine with one hand and pulled it out forcefully.
Snap...
With a crisp sound of bones breaking, the light in the bear's eyes disappeared.
But the arm that was holding its spine stretched straight towards Ali, and at the same time, the last voice of the bear was heard.
"I won't let you bear the guilt of killing your friends, but you must bear the guilt of killing me to unite them!"
"This is... the last thing I can do for you."
Looking at the bear that stood firm until its death, Ali began to wonder for the first time whether he had done something wrong.
"Shuli, it would be nice if you were still here!"
Although no tears flowed, Ali seemed to understand the bitterness of tears at this moment.
If Shu Li were still here, would things be different?
With such confusion and sadness, Ali took over the broken central bone of Xiongbi, and also took over the ideals passed down from Gusheng.
The era of wise kings is over, and the era of tyrants is over too.
What is about to begin will be a new era led by the Prophet.
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——Year 376 of the Hundred Races Calendar, when two suns soared into the sky.
——One hundred and thirty-eight years after the remains of the wise king were stolen, the tyrant Xiong finally died in front of the altar of the Creator.
——In the next three years, the prophet Li, with the remaining power of punishing the tyrant, reorganized the alliance of hundreds of races, rebuilt the think tank system, and promoted social change with the wisdom of hundreds of races. This was known in history as the "Enlightened Age."
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——Year 1,163 of the Hundred Races Calendar, when the night-blooming cereus is in full bloom.
——The prophet Li announced her retirement and has not been seen since. People say that she may have found the immortal who once gave her wisdom.
——Over the next six hundred years, the three powerful tribes, the seven major tribes, and more than a hundred minor tribes took turns to lead the think tanks, completely entering the "think tank era".
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