frightfiction #546 - A ruler for communicating with the spiritual world
#546 - A ruler for communicating with the spiritual world
Chapter 543: A Ruler for Communicating with the Spiritual World
Hearing Cheng Yu's words, Zhang Chen smiled, "Then we're going to make a fortune!"
While Zhang Chen was steaming rice, the group of noble young men gathered around the fire, shaking off the blizzard from their bodies. Then, the young man who had offered the pearl earlier cursed, "Damn it! Damn it! That bastard Chen Sanliang is simply too much! When I return to Jiangnan, I will never spare him! I, Xu Lie, will never coexist with him! He destroyed my White Tooth Academy, causing countless teachers to burn their past classics, reducing the millennia of heritage of my White Tooth Academy to ashes. He deserves to die! How did this beast rise to prominence? My teacher was even forced to death by him. He's truly a beast."
The young man named Xu Lie's voice was full of sorrow, "The White Tooth Academy was a millennia-long plan of my Xu family in the Northern Territory. It was all ruined by that old beast. My path was also destroyed by that old beast. Especially since half of the scholars were actually bewitched by his fallacies and willingly followed him to the demon race to create the so-called Great Harmony Nation. Such a traitor deserves to be torn to pieces!"
Zhang Chen, who was cooking not far away, immediately perked up his ears to eavesdrop after hearing the other party mention Chen Sanliang's name. It had been several months since he had heard Chen Sanliang's name.
"Chen Sanliang has continuously walked through the three major vassal states, challenged ten academies, and had thousands of scholars bewitched by him, becoming his loyal supporters. Does this guy want to cut off all the cultural heritage of my Northern Territory?" Someone echoed, his voice full of anger.
"Chen Sanliang wants to exterminate the literati of my Northern Territory! Mr. Liu Chen directly committed suicide in front of Chen Sanliang because he could no longer write. Mr. Wu Gong even directly severed his own arm. And Mr. Wang Hua burned his life's work, turning it to ashes along with his creations. Each and every one of these things, this guy is simply insane, wanting to exterminate the cultural heritage of my Northern Territory. Only by surrendering to him and following him can one obtain a glimmer of hope. This time, I must go to the Academy Palace and ask the teachers to come out and debate with him."
Zhang Chen cooked while eavesdropping on Xu Lie and the others, a strange look appearing in his eyes, "What a Chen Sanliang! He actually dares to turn against the Confucian school. He challenges the major academies all the way, constantly honing his own theories and perfecting his own principles. His momentum will only become stronger and stronger. When the time comes, he will point his sword at the Academy Palace. The Academy Palace is his goal."
As Chen Sanliang continuously provokes the major orthodoxies, closing one academy after another, he will gradually cultivate an invincible momentum, and finally point his sword at the Academy Palace and fight with the Academy Palace.
The Academy Palace is Chen Sanliang's goal. Right now, the major academies are just his whetstones, just his nourishment.
"In this process, Chen Sanliang constantly subdues the disciples of the major academies, turning them into his supporters, guiding them to create a human nation in the Northern Territory, helping him to complete the Great Teaching faster. This is Chen Sanliang's method." Zhang Chen couldn't help but be shocked by Chen Sanliang's plan. The other party is really serious about things. He said he would fight the Confucian school to the death, and he would fight the Confucian school to the death, insisting on abolishing all schools of thought and respecting only the Teaching.
However, joking is joking, don't joke with Sanliang. Chen Sanliang's Great Teaching is destined to be unacceptable to the human race.
The major families of the human race monopolize knowledge and theories, while Chen Sanliang announces that everyone, regardless of wealth or status, can be taught knowledge. This is simply digging at the foundation of the major families, shaking the rule of the major families. How can the major families tolerate him?
Only the uncivilized demon race, whose concept of hierarchy is not so serious, can become a breeding ground for Chen Sanliang's theories.
"Chen Sanliang has immeasurable merit! At least he has opened a glimmer of hope for the common people of the world." Zhang Chen held the rice and dishes, a touch of emotion in his eyes.
The reason why he didn't stop Chen Sanliang also accounted for a large factor. Although Chen Sanliang brought turmoil and slaughter to the human race, he also brought new hope to the people.
Zhang Chen took the rice and meat over, and then the family gathered in front of another bonfire, listening to Xu Lie and others scolding Chen Sanliang while eating, his mind was full of thoughts, sitting in front of the bonfire without saying a word.
"The change is coming! This is a change that will remove the heads of countless people!" Zhang Chen said to himself.
That group of people ate their fill and went to sleep in the tent under the carriage. When dawn broke the next day, Zhang Chen looked at the snow, which had already passed his knees. Zhang Chen's family finished breakfast and packed their luggage to prepare to leave. At this time, the group of scholars finished breakfast and saw Zhang Fei harnessing the carriage, their eyes falling on the fifth-rank demon horse.
The demon horse did not show its bloodline power, and with the suppression of Zhang Chen's Zhen character talisman, the mysterious power in its body was suppressed, but its tall and large physique still attracted the attention of Xu Lie and others.
"Boy, your horse is not bad. We need a carriage to travel. The pearl I gave you yesterday is enough to buy your horse! Leave this horse and carriage behind." Xu Lie shouted at Zhang Chen condescendingly.
"You said yesterday that the pearl was only for the bonfire and food, but it doesn't include the horse and carriage," Zhang Chen turned to look at Xu Lie.
"Boy, are you dreaming? A bowl of rice plus a few pieces of meat, and you want to exchange it for a night-luminescent pearl? Are you crazy from poverty! Do you know how much a night-luminescent pearl is worth? Stop talking nonsense, quickly leave the horse, carriage, food, and the pearl, and you can get lost." A scholar scolded Zhang Chen.
Cheng Yu blinked his eyes, instantly got into character, his voice with a sob, "Several sirs, in this freezing weather, our family of women and children rely on this carriage to travel. If we lose the carriage and food, wouldn't we freeze to death in the wilderness?"
“Hmph, do you want to freeze to death, or die right now? You few lowly commoners dare to covet my luminous pearl.” Xu Lie smiled coldly, his eyes flashing with murderous intent.
This was a desolate wilderness, and the other party was a widow and her children; who would know if they died here?
Besides, even if this wasn't a desolate wilderness, the other party was just a few commoners; killing them would be no big deal!
“I knew it, none of these nobles are good people.” Zhang Chen shook his head: “Stop playing around, let's collect their corpses.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Yu was already surrounded by lightning as he rushed out, while Zhang Tuowei on the side activated his soul manipulation. Although the scholars cultivated martial arts, they were only at the Dark Force stage. The moment they saw the power of the extraordinary, their expressions changed drastically.
Xu Lie hurriedly shouted: “You are bloodline users! Wait a moment, there must be some misunderstanding! We are all nobles, why must we fight to the death?”
Most bloodline users were nobles. Nobles who lost their bloodline power were long ago stripped of their noble status.
Unfortunately, no one responded to his words. These dozen or so people were all martial artists, perfect for Zhang Tuowei and Zhang Fei to practice with.
In just a moment, the shouts in the wind and snow had stopped. Zhang Chen, holding a small stove, looked at the bright red on the white snow and couldn't help but shake his head: “I knew it, none of these nobles are good people. What Chen Sanliang is doing is too right; we must overthrow all of these dog things! Make them fall into the dust and rebuild the order of this world.”
Speaking of this, Zhang Chen shouted at Zhang Tuowei: “Search the corpses! These people are all children of wealthy families, and the items on them are valuable. We'll have the money to settle down in Jiangnan later.”
Zhang Tuowei wasn't afraid of dead people either, and he and Zhang Fei enthusiastically went to feel the corpses, and one money bag after another was searched out. They felt from head to toe, not letting go of anything valuable.
“Brother, this Xu Lie has some good things on him. Look at this bag; it's actually full of purple luminous pearls.” Zhang Tuowei took out a small bag from Xu Lie's body. Opening it, he saw that it was full of purple luminous pearls the size of pigeon eggs, each one looking crystal clear and very pleasing.
“Not bad, not bad! We're rich this time. There are more than thirty of these luminous pearls; we won't be short of money when we get to Jinling.” Zhang Chen took the woven bag, looked at it in his hand, and directly stuffed it into his arms, confiscating it.
Children can't keep money! What money should children keep!
However, apart from this bag of luminous pearls, there were no other valuables. Thinking about it, if these people had other gold and silver on them, they wouldn't have directly used luminous pearls to pay the bill.
Just as Zhang Chen put away the luminous pearls and was preparing to call everyone to hurry on, suddenly, from the distant white snow, a hazy figure walked out: Chen Sanliang!
“Why are you here?” Chen Sanliang gradually approached, looking at the corpses all over the ground, he couldn't help but reveal a hint of surprise.
“These guys wanted to take advantage, but they didn't even ask around. Am I, Zhang Chen, someone who can be easily taken advantage of?” Zhang Chen looked at Chen Sanliang: “Why is Mister here?”
Chen Sanliang looked at Zhang Chen, pondered slightly, and then said: “They are direct disciples of White Tooth Academy. This time, I took action to pacify White Tooth Academy, originally wanting to search for a treasure, but who knew I searched the entire academy and couldn't find it, so I suspected that this group of direct disciples had taken the treasure and escaped, so I chased after them.”
Zhang Chen's expression was stunned when he heard this: “What treasure is it? That it's actually worth Mister making such a big move?”
“A ruler!” Chen Sanliang said.
“A ruler?” Zhang Chen was inwardly aware that this must not be an ordinary ruler, so he asked: “What kind of ruler is it that it's actually worth Mister making such a big move?”
“A ruler that is very likely a twelfth-order mystery!” Chen Sanliang said.
“How could White Tooth Academy have such good fortune? That's a twelfth-order mystery.” Zhang Chen asked in shock.
“White Tooth Academy is built on a large tomb, and that ruler was excavated from the tomb. However, that ruler is already broken. Otherwise, the birth of a twelfth-order mystery would definitely cause an earth-shattering mess! It is precisely because that ruler is incomplete that it was hidden by White Tooth Academy. It is said that the ruler can connect to the void, and obtaining it can break the bridge between the real world and the spiritual world, thereby entering the legendary Thirty-Three Heavens, seizing the good fortune of the Thirty-Three Heavens, and finding the elixir of immortality.” Chen Sanliang's voice was full of solemnity: “The School Palace has been planning this matter for thousands of years, and White Tooth Academy is just a pawn of the School Palace. The reason why I know about this is also what Tiger Strength Great Immortal told me.”
“Since White Tooth Academy excavated such a magical ruler, why didn't the School Palace take it back, but instead left it in White Tooth Academy?” Zhang Chen questioned, feeling that Chen Sanliang was being fooled by White Tooth Academy.
“That ruler is already broken. If you want to repair it, you can only complete the repair in White Tooth Academy, because within White Tooth Academy, there is a place where space is weak, which connects to the spiritual world. And that ruler, in this place, can automatically absorb the energy within the spiritual world to self-recover! The School Palace has been planning for thousands of years, but still hasn't allowed the ruler to complete its recovery, so I thought I might as well seize it and perhaps find other ways to make the ruler recover. This ruler is very important. I want to enter the legendary Thirty-Three Heavens, excavate the legendary immortal elixir to save your master, and all hope is pinned on this thing, relying on this ruler!” Chen Sanliang said.