"Wei Lang, I'm going to die, can you come and see me?"
Jiang Qin's voice is infinitely sad.
After hearing the call, Xun Lingjun trembled and hurried up the steps.
"Lord!"
The three dead soldiers shouted in unison.
Wei Que responded, and then the man known as "Mr. Xun Ling" slowly walked towards the white-haired old worshipper who was kneeling on the ground.
The old priest lowered his head, blood was flowing from his mouth, and the fatal stab wound on his chest was bleeding like a fountain.
The red dress was soaked and the ground was in a mess.
"Jiangqin, here I come."
Wei Que said in a low voice.
The white-haired woman reluctantly raised her head and looked at her sweetheart, "Wei Lang, I'm sorry, the dragon is gone..."
"Yes, the dragon is gone, but isn't that a good thing? I don't want to be an emperor anymore."
As Wei Que said this, he took off the golden dragon robe and threw it towards the water.
Qiu Jin's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, he flew over, caught the dragon robe that was about to fall into the water, and immediately put it on his body. It actually fit him well. He said with a smile: "Mr. Xun Ling, you don't want to be the emperor." Don’t waste the good stuff, wear it for me!”
When Jiang Qin saw Wei Que, he threw away the robe that he had embroidered for him without hesitation, and said with a trembling voice: "You, you... why..."
"You want to ask me why I don't want to be the emperor?"
Wei Que said in a deep voice, "Because a lot of people will die. The ancients said, 'One general can kill thousands of bones', and there are more than ten thousand bones buried under the king's dragon chair? If because of my ambition, I should have killed so many people." Those who live in peace die in vain, so I would rather never be the emperor!"
As soon as these words came out, the three dead soldiers were all moved. Even Qiu Jin, Ye Yiran, and the young man in green robe Ling Zhen who were standing next to them couldn't help but feel admiration.
"Is this the reason why... you took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender?"
Jiang Qin asked in a trembling voice.
Wei Que nodded expressionlessly, "Actually, I still had 20,000 elite soldiers under my command that day. If I were determined to kill those 20,000 soldiers, I might have no hope of breaking through the encirclement. But if I really did this, those two Tens of thousands of elite soldiers, as well as the 60,000 people in the city, must have no way out! I live alone, but let so many people die... I don't want to, not even want to die! So I opened the city gate, holding a The national jade seal, voluntarily surrender to the Longshu army."
Ling Zhen praised him from the bottom of his heart: "What a benevolent and righteous monarch who loves his people like his own son."
This middle-aged man with frosty temples shed tears and said: "Whether you like Liang or not, I am the most coward in the world. No matter how much infamy and infamy you get, I will accept it! Liang has been subjugated for twenty years, and the Central Plains has been destroyed." We have been under the rule of the Longshu Dynasty for twenty years. What is the point of starting a war again at this time? The country has been restored, so what? The country has not been able to be restored, so what? Aren’t those who are suffering all the common people of the world? "
In fact, Qiu Jin, who has not read many books, can still murmur to himself at this time: "In prosperity, the people suffer; in death, the people suffer..."
"Throughout history, those who have provoked wars in the name of restoring the country, how many of them have considered the safety of the people? What national justice and national security are all just pretexts! It's obviously them. If you want to be king and emperor, if you want to be famous throughout the ages, why should you find such a high-sounding reason, and why should you use the bones of the people in the world to pave your way forward?!"
Lord Xun Ling said emotionally, "In prosperity or in death, it is the people who suffer! When my brother, regardless of the objections of the ministers, abdicated the throne to me on his sickbed, he once said that no matter who becomes the emperor, he will be the emperor." It doesn't matter, as long as he can treat the people well, he will be a good emperor of the country! I, Wei Que, am the king of the subjugated country. I am destined not to be a good emperor in this life. If I start another war now, then I will really feel sorry for the Central Plains. The common people!”
After finishing speaking, Chi Xinting fell into deathly silence.
Suddenly, the white-haired old priest laughed, and said while laughing: "Wei Lang, after you say these words, all my efforts for the past twenty years will become like a joke!"
The blood on her chest was still trickling, but her body was shaking with laughter, "In the midsummer of that year, I led eighty disciples of the Phoenix Sect and rushed to Jingxing Mountain to defeat the enemy. When I reached the top of the mountain, I discovered that those damn mountains The thieves had been killed by the imperial army, and the leader of the army was a young man with fine features... Later I found out that that young man was actually the emperor's biological brother!"
"A few years later, the emperor passed away. Since there was no prince, the young man became the emperor naturally. Not long after he ascended the throne, he awarded rewards to all the chivalrous sects in Daliang Kingdom. My The Phoenix Sect was even listed as one of the 'Top Ten Sects of Daliang'."
Jiang Qin's face was pale, but his smile was bright, "That day, the heads of the ten major sects were invited to the capital of Daliang. At the banquet in the palace, he toasted a glass of wine to all the heads of the nine major sects, but only one He didn’t come to respect me. After the other nine people left, I asked the emperor why he didn’t give me face like this? He smiled and said that he wanted to have a drink with me alone. That day in the imperial study room, I met Jiu from Daliang. The Fifth Supreme Lord drank a lot. He was very drunk. He held my hand, looked into my eyes, and confided all his ambitions. I also boasted that I would make the Phoenix Sect the best in the entire Central Plains. A powerful sect..."
Ye Yiran thought: "What a poignant love story!"
"But in the end, no one of us was able to fulfill our promise."
The smile on the white-haired old priest's face disappeared, "Seven years later, the Long Shu Kingdom attacked with a large army, but he surrendered without a fight and became a coward who was laughed at by the world! And I, with the strongest of the Phoenix Sect, Hundreds of disciples went to assassinate Emperor Longshu... The assassination failed and hundreds of disciples lost their lives. Only I managed to survive."
"After that, due to excessive practice, my hair turned completely white, and I almost went crazy. My whole body exploded and died... In the next nearly twenty years, I did three major things. .The first one is to contain the spiritual energy of the entire Kunlun Mountain in a piece of jade; the second one is to obtain Qiufeng, one of the top ten divine swords in the world; the third one is to capture and tame a Yinglong. After becoming both a dragon and a phoenix, I captured the 'him' who had become the king of the Longshu Kingdom. I put on him the dragon robe that I embroidered stitch by stitch. Who would have thought that...my him would actually be I no longer want to be the emperor!"
Hearing this, Wei Que couldn't help but sigh deeply and whispered: "Jiang Qin, I'm sorry for you."
The old priest of Phoenix Pond raised his head and looked at Lord Xun Ling's face. His face was as calm as the water in the pond. "Wei Lang, it's too late to say this now. I only have one wish before I die. Can you take the initiative to hug me?"
Wei Que walked over without thinking, knelt down on one knee, gently hugged the bloody woman, and put Qin Yi's arms around him.
"Wei Lang, I practice a technique called the 'Mending Heaven Technique'. Do you know what the ultimate secret of that magical technique is?"
Jiang Qin suddenly said sadly.
"ah?"
Wei Que was stunned.
In an instant, the whole body of the white-haired old man was emitting an extremely dazzling white light.
"The ultimate meaning of the Heaven-Mending Technique has only one simple word, called 'collapse'. That is the word that can be used by the emperor when he dies..."
Jiang Qin said loudly, "Since I can't help you become a king and share the prosperity with you, then I will die with you!"
