[Lotus Lantern] Keep your life

To be honest, I was not very interested in King Wu’s war against Zhou. On the contrary, after watching their endless fight to overthrow Shang Zhou and save the world from fire and water, I have already lost my mind. The slightest interest is gone.Since the last battle with the four generals of the Mo family at Mengjin Pass, I have been dragging Yuding behind the barracks to teach me how to read, and I have never been to the front line again.To tell the truth, I am afraid of death, very afraid, at least now I don’t want to die, I always think of the raging fire in the Hunyuan bead umbrella that day, and what the three Jiao said, if he hadn’t stayed that day, I would have died. I have already been burned to death, not just me, I am afraid that even the souls in the soul-suppressing cauldron will not be spared.

The war is cruel, there is no doubt about it, although in recent years, where the Zhou army has gone, most of the Shang vassal states have chosen to open their cities and surrender, but things will not always go smoothly, and the sergeants who are foolish and loyal to King Zhou of Shang are also Not a few.King Wu's Eastern Expedition, since Sishui Pass, the tragedy of the war has been deeply imprinted in my mind. Jiepai Pass, Chuanyun Pass, Tong Pass, Lintong Pass, which pass will the ordinary soldiers buried with on the battlefield be in? few!Let’s not talk about the internal injuries that Yang Jian suffered when Nezha and Lei Zhenzi were hit by Yu Hua’s poisonous knife in order to save the chaos at Sishui Pass, and the internal injuries he suffered when he went to Penglai Island in the East China Sea to snatch Master Yiqi’s detoxification elixir. Zhou army generals such as Tu Xingsun and Deng Chanyu who died innocently in the attack on Mianchi County, just said that they had broken the Chuanyun pass and forced Xu Fang, the commander of the guard, to commit suicide, which aroused Shen Gongbao's heart of revenge and asked the god of plague Lv Xian to deliberately commit suicide. When the plague was spread in the Zhou army camp, hundreds of thousands of sergeants died in the Zhou army camp for unknown reasons!

Even if Yuanshi Tianzun wants to use this opportunity to help the heavenly court select the gods, the dead generals may be conferred gods on the Conferred God Platform, but that's all there are only 360 five places, those ordinary soldiers, those Limin people have He Gu!Is it true that even in the eyes of immortals like Yuanshi Tianzun who I admired so much, their lives are like insignificant ants? !Since it is known through the laws of heaven that Chengtang's vitality is exhausted, the Holy Lord of the Western Zhou Dynasty has come out, and the dynasty is about to change, wouldn't it be better to be more direct? Why bother to promote the so-called principles of heaven after the cold-blooded fighting of soldiers and wars? reincarnation!

"Damn it!" The more I thought about it, the angrier I became, and the anger in my heart became higher and higher. The writing brush in my hand broke with a 'snap', and I couldn't read the bamboo slips that Yuding brought me to practice reading on the table. , suddenly turned sideways, and the table next to me was knocked to the ground.Could it be that what the Great Golden Crow said is correct, only the strong in this world can have the ability to decide their own destiny, and the weak can only resign themselves to their fate!

"Oh, Xiao Qiao, what's the matter with you? Although my apprentice was sent to the rear by Jiang Ziya to supervise the grain, and he has no chance to go to the front line, but you should know that the grain supervision is also very important! What's more, in these few days During the years of defeating Zhou, how much face has my disciple given me? He is resourceful, calm and capable, both civil and military, and unstoppable. He is now the third-generation chief disciple recognized by us in teaching, and he is now the third in the Three Realms. God of War! You are not happy!" Yu Ding ran in and comforted me.

"If Yang Jian's title of God of War can only be obtained after going through so many wars, then I would rather he not have this title!" I am very happy for Yang Jian to be a small food supervisor, so why would he be angry? I wish he would never go to the front line!

"You see, I didn't let you come with me at the beginning, but you didn't listen. I know you are soft-hearted, but you don't have to worry anymore. The Zhou army has now surrounded Chaoge. King Zhou's subordinates, Wen Zhong and Bi He personally ordered the killing of the two loyal ministers, and he himself cut off his own retreat. After the last battle of the Battle of Muye, Emperor Xin abdicates and King Wu inherits the Datong, the world will be peaceful. You don't need to worry about it anymore." Yu Ding stepped forward to fix the desk case I knocked over, and picked up the bamboo slips scattered on the ground, I felt a little sorry, for some reason, my temper seemed to be getting worse recently.

"King Wu inherits the great rule, so the world will be peaceful? Heh, since ancient times, there has been an emperor who didn't step on thousands of innocent lives to ascend to the throne. Since Chaoge has been breached and the merchant army inside has fled and surrendered, he Why bother to kill them all! Instead of stopping Jiang Ziya, he just allowed him to kill innocent people indiscriminately. Is this the morality that you believe in in teaching!" The result of the Battle of Muye is already very obvious. It is recorded in the book that Emperor Zhou It is a fact that both Xin and Daji have sex with Zhaixinglou. Although Di Xin is not a good king, I believe he is a good husband. Even after knowing Daji's identity as a vixen, he still loves him so deeply. She loves so much that she doesn't hesitate to spend all her power to build the star-seeking building she wants for her concubine, and she loves so much that she doesn't hesitate to kill her own pillar of the country, Wen Zhongbigan, and wants to dispel the ministers who want him to kill her concubine. Thought, I love it so much that I will never give up even if I bear the infamy of an ancient and stupid king... Heh, I must be crazy to think this way.

"What you said is a bit unreasonable, don't you scold me too?" Yuding said in a low voice after packing up her things.

"Yu Ding, do those who are on the Conferred God List have to die on the battlefield and go to the Conferred God Platform with their souls before they can have a chance to be conferred the gods?"

"I'm not too sure about this. Junior brother has never been willing to tell us about the list of gods." Yu Ding was taken aback after hearing this, as if he didn't expect that I would suddenly change my attitude and ask such a question.

"Do you think Jiang Ziya sent Yang Jian to the rear to supervise the food because he was reluctant to die? He had already been named by the heavenly court, did it mean that even if he died in battle, Jiang Ziya would not give him a god again? Is this just Does it mean that if he dies in battle, he is really dead?" I whispered while holding the fan, as if talking to myself.

"Little Qiao, don't think too much, no matter what, this war is finally coming to an end! It's been a few years since I've been writing a book, oh, your handwriting is too ugly, oh~ What are you writing about? You have a handsome appearance, bright ears, shoulders and eyes, wearing a three-mountain flying phoenix hat, a light yellow collar, golden boots lined with pan dragon socks, jade belt and tuanhua eight-treasure makeup... "

"Hmm~! Give it to me, what's so interesting!" After listening to him read a few sentences, I realized that I quickly snatched them away. At this time, the poems describing Yang Jian later on, my God, fortunately, he recognized my broken characters. It was difficult to read, but fortunately the middle lines had just been blackened with ink, and fortunately he hadn't seen the last few lines, otherwise he would have revealed his stuff!

"Hey, this is~ the family members with a high heart and no recognition of heaven, who live in Guanjiang with arrogance and gods, Chicheng Zhaohui Yingling Sheng, who manifests the boundless number Erlang. Hey, second brother, isn't this written by you? The poem is very well written Well, it’s just this handwriting, it’s too miserable!” After guarding against Yuding but not guarding against the little Nezha who rushed in all of a sudden, he took the opportunity to snatch the bamboo slips hidden behind him!He hurriedly turned around to grab it, but saw Yang Jian who was walking softly behind him, who was dressed in white clothes and snow-covered!

"I want you to care! I said why do you come here when you have time? The last decisive battle is over? What is that Shen Gongbao caught?" Seeing Yang Jian's thoughtful look after hearing this, I was a little embarrassed , hurriedly changed the topic and said, just now I was interrupted by Yuding, my worries and conjectures a moment ago were temporarily thrown aside.

"Dixin and Daji went to the Star-chasing Building together. When the army invaded Chaoge, it was already a sea of ​​flames." Yang Jian nodded to Yuding first, and then opened his three double-edged halberds. The changing ink fan sat down and said softly.Sure enough, I knew it was going to be this way, but maybe it was the best ending for both of them.

"And that nasty Shen Gongbao was also captured by my second brother. After King Wu's celebration banquet is over, we will escort him to the Kunlun Mountains to be punished by the master, and see if he dares to be a traitor in the future!" Nezha also He leaned forward and shouted angrily.

Shen Gongbao was actually Yuanshi Tianzun's apprentice, and he was an enemy of Jiang Ziya all his life. Because he was dissatisfied with Yuanshi Tianzun's handing over the power of god to Jiang Ziya, he betrayed and taught, ignoring the fatuous and tyrannical king of Shang Zhou, and tried his best to assist him, provoking a large number of experts to deal with Jiang Ziya. It can be said that it is extremely abominable to cause great difficulties for King Wu to defeat Zhou!I only heard about these from Yu Ding when I was in the Zhou army camp. I really didn’t know before that this Shen Gongbao would also be a disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun. I only remember that he was filled with the eye of the North Sea by Yuanshi Tianzun in the end. After his death, Jiang Ziya made him a general who divides water. In fact, I never understood why Jiang Ziya, who is so full of evil, wanted to make him a god. Could it be that he can become a decent person even if he goes to heaven?

The last battle of Muye in this crusade ended with the absolute victory of the Zhou army. The three-year crusade ended in this way, and the next one was the conferred gods on the Conferred God Platform on Kunlun Mountain.Coming out of the barracks and heading to the front line, listening to the cheers of the generals and soldiers of the Zhou army, my heart seemed to be filled with enthusiasm. This one glance made my fiery heart suddenly feel like an ice cave, so cold to the bone.

I stared blankly at the brutal post-war scene in front of me, with corpses strewn all over the street and rivers of blood flowing like that!At this time, listening to the cheers of the surviving victor was piercing and terrifying.Among the young corpses lying on the street with distorted and bloody faces, several of them are really damned!It turned out to be so simple to hold a human life in one's hand. With one order, the death of a life is as simple as trampling an ant to death. This is the power of life and death that the so-called Holy Master should have!Jiang Ziya waved his hand with the list of gods, and the originally mottled and miserable battlefield became silent again in an instant, as if those passionate men on the battlefield had never appeared before.

My heart seemed to stagnate for a moment, and I held the folding fan tightly in my hand, but the poem kept echoing in my mind: Jun Moxiao, drunk on the battlefield, how many people have fought in ancient times.

Fighting in ancient times, how many people can return!

By accident, I suddenly wanted to see the traitor who was about to be escorted back to Kunlun Mountain. Maybe I just wanted to meet this bastard who caused a major obstacle to King Wu's campaign against Zhou and killed countless people. Maybe I wanted to Go and beat him hard to get rid of the depression in my heart, or maybe I want to ask him for an explanation to solve the doubts in my heart.

"So it's you?!" In Zhouying's cell temporarily used to detain the rebels, I saw Shen Gongbao, whom I had heard of countless times. The slender Danfeng's eyes were slightly playful and sharp, and she asked such a sentence suddenly.

To be honest, I was a little surprised. The appearance of this Shen Gongbao was a bit different from what I had imagined. His long black hair was simply fixed behind his head with a single black thread, and a few strands fell from his temples to his shoulders. His gray-white robe was stained. The soil looks a little messy, the bridge of the nose is high, and the pair of slender red phoenix eyes under the sword eyebrows are actually a bit handsome. If it weren't for the fierce gaze in his eyes, I would have found it hard to look at him. The man associated with the teaching traitor.Still, I swear I really haven't seen him before.

"You know me?" I asked inexplicably.

"I met you in Kunlun Mountain more than ten years ago. I know you but you don't know me." He said with a slightly contemptuous smile.

"Really?" Seeing his smile, I suddenly felt a chill down my spine, and unconsciously took two steps back and asked to myself, unexpectedly I almost forgot my future purpose for a moment.

"Why did you betray Chanjiao?" I had a feeling that the reason for his betrayal of Chanjiao couldn't be simply because he was jealous of Jiang Ziya.After trying to stand still, I asked with a deep breath.

"Hmph! Are you sure you really want to know?" Shen Gongbao stood up, the corners of his mouth still raised, but his eyes fixed on me and said.

There was a bad feeling in my heart, I suddenly turned around and wanted to leave, I suddenly didn't want to know, I shouldn't have asked him at all!Turning around and just taking half a step, I heard a joking voice behind me, but it made me freeze as if I couldn't move any more.

"Do you really think that Yuanshi Tianzun didn't let you intervene in this Conferred God War for your own good? Huh! Don't dream! He is afraid of your identity, and he is afraid that your kindness will destroy his painstakingly planned conspiracy. What kind of noble and good man?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" I suddenly turned around and said anxiously, how could Yuanshi Tianzun not let me intervene in this battle, how would he know, and my identity, wouldn't he know it too.

"Do you think that Yuanshi Tianzun retreated for seven years to select 360 five gods for the heaven? It's as simple as that? All the gods can be canonized after death, but there is no clear regulation on whether these people die naturally or artificially. Moreover, Most of the famous people on the list of gods are disciples with strong spells in Jiejiao, but there are only a few three-generation disciples in Chanjiao, I don't believe you, don't you think there is something strange about this?" Shen Gongbao continued to sneer in a sharp voice.

"It's nonsense, the list of gods is in Jiang Ziya's hands, and even the Jade Cauldron doesn't know what's in it, so how can you, a traitor, know about it!" After hearing his words, my heart was beating hard, but on the surface I had to try my best to pretend to be indifferent said with a smile.

"Traitor? Hahahaha! Master is really calculating. If it weren't for me, a traitor, who has been visiting three mountains and five mountains for him, inviting all the masters of interception to come out of the mountain to prevent Jiang Ziya from overthrowing the emperor, how could he have stopped Jiang Ziya so quickly?" It's ridiculous that Jiang Ziya started to study Taoism in Kunlun Mountains at the age of 32, but he was doing nothing all day long and didn't think about making progress. It's ridiculous that he couldn't cultivate a trace of immortality until he was 72 years old. He is not worthy! Why can he become the direct disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun, and he is called brother and brother with the twelve immortals who have practiced for thousands of years, but I am still just an inconspicuous little Taoist on Kunlun Mountain after practicing for thousands of years. Don't even look at me! Haha, he knew that I was dissatisfied with Jiang Ziya for a long time, so he deliberately said in front of my face that he would hand over the power of the gods to Jiang Ziya this time, so as to arouse my rebellious heart, which is ridiculous. I just fell for him!" Shen Gongbao laughed bitterly loudly, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

"I'm afraid this is just the reason you found for your rebellion. It's your own jealousy. How can you blame others! How many innocent lives have been killed because of your personal grievances with Jiang Ziya? Do you think I will believe it?" You rhetoric!" I replied pretending to be calm while holding my folding fan tightly.

"Hmph! If you didn't have doubts, you wouldn't be standing here and talking to me now! The disciples of Chanjiao all hide from the world and practice, and the three generations of Xuanmen disciples can be counted together, and there are very few with strong mana, but they are so powerful. Teaching disciples is very different. Except for those who practiced in seclusion, most of them became officials and assisted Shang Zhou, just like the Taishi Wen Zhong was the pillar of the country for the third generation of the Shang Dynasty. From this point of view, the interpretation of teaching created by Yuanshi Tianzun is the same as The Jiejiao created by his younger brother Tongtian Jiaozhu is not a little bit worse at all, but you see now, all the disciples of Jiejiao are dead or wounded, and Tongtian Jiaozhu was also brought back to Hongjun Daozu and back to Zixiao Palace. Since then, the teachings have been cut off, and the teachings have flourished. Don’t you think Yuan Tianzun’s game of chess is brilliant? Using the phrase "Cheng Tang’s energy is exhausted, and the Holy Lord of the Western Zhou Dynasty has appeared" justifiably launched a campaign to overthrow Shang Zhou , A righteous battle to kill and intercept the teachings! Gao Ming, you are really clever!" Shen Gongbao stared at me with cold eyes and said angrily.

"Shut up! You are talking nonsense, nonsense, nonsense!!!" Hearing what he said, I suddenly felt a chill all over my body, and I couldn't calm down anymore, so I couldn't help shouting at him angrily.

"Am I talking nonsense? I accidentally injured Jiang Ziya during the Conferred God War, and was caught by Yuanshi Tianzun, but he let me back, because he knew that I was still valuable, but now that the Judgment is gone, I have no value to use, Yuan Tianzun will definitely fill me in the eye of the North Sea, and will not let me have a chance of survival, why should I waste my tongue talking nonsense with you here? Hmph! Do you think King Zhou of Shang is really Are you as cruel and stupid as people say? Do you think that if Yuanshi Tianzun didn't want to take the opportunity to strengthen the power of elucidation, he would let the real Yuding and the real Taiyi accept disciples casually? Humph! Since ancient times, there have been winners and losers, and the king has Dead, the Judgment is gone, the ending is set, the biggest winner now should be Yuanshi Tianzun! He is the one who has been in control of this Conferred God chess game! You should go to him for the lives of those innocent soldiers! It is him, he is the one who is cruel Killing them one by one, you should find him to avenge the hundreds of thousands of innocent souls! He is the chief culprit!!!" Shen Gongbao pressed on every step of the way, and I had nowhere to go.

"I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I won't believe your rhetoric!" At some point, the thin sweat on my back was soaking through the skirt of my clothes, and my mind was blank. I don't know how much of his words contained truth or falsehood, but I still couldn't accept his nonsense for a while. Seeing the sternness in his eyes, a large tear came out of his eyes unconsciously. , a dull pain in my heart, and a moment of coldness penetrated into the bone marrow.

The body was suddenly pulled from one side to the back, and the white crimson clothes stood in front of him like Mount Tai, fending off Shen Gongbao's approaching ruthlessness, a fierce murderous aura immediately permeated, and only heard a "swipe" , the three-pointed and two-edged blades were already placed between Shen Gongbao's necks.Smelling the familiar breath in front of me, a warm current flowed through my heart immediately, and a soreness rushed to the tip of my nose for a while, I clutched the corner of the snow-white skirt tightly, and finally choked up.