Chapter 122 – The Human World

At the top of the Great Eastern Mountain, the morning mist had gone, the mountain wind was blowing strongly, the clouds separating them were breaking off, and the true appearance of the temple had appeared. A bright yellow dragon robe in the body of the Emperor of Qing, quietly standing at the edge of the railing, waiting for Ye Liuyun’s arrival. When the mountain was surrounded by 5,000 longbowmen, especially among the rebels, there were traces of Dongyi City’s ninth-grade experts, this always calculating Emperor of Qing seemed to have finally realized that things were starting to go out of his control for the first time, and a faint sadness floated between his middle-aged brows.

The black round eaves of the old temple complex, rang when the sound of a bell, refreshing, moving, tranquillizing people’s minds, but let the world is not peaceful up. Sacrifice of heaven used in the grants burned in the furnace, the smoke curls, Qing Emperor counted the Prince’s sins, seems to have been sacrificed to the temple and the more vague and ethereal will of heaven.

Sacrifice line, Qing emperor’s most important task has been completed, he needs, just with those unfounded revelation of heaven, back to Kyoto, deposed the crown prince, and then pick a smooth successor.

However a hat at this time slowly crossed the line of the last stone step at the top of Dadong Mountain, naturally but suddenly appeared in front of the temple in front of a group of Qing officials.

The emperor calmly looked at that place, looked at the hat hat below the ancient and strange face, looked at that pair of clear and gentle as autumn water eyes, slowly said:

“Uncle Liuyun Shi, you are late.”

Ye Liuyun step by step stepped up to the mountain, no one can stop, at this time quiet to the temple, a long time speechless. On the top of the mountain, all the officials and priests, including the Minister of Rites and Ren Shaoan, all subconsciously bowed down to this great master of Qing.

In front of Ye Liuyun, only Emperor Qing was still standing straight as usual, while the old eunuch Hong who was not far from his side was rickety, but everyone knew that this old eunuch was rickety every moment, seemingly watching ants walking on the ground, but not because of the fact that at this moment, he wanted to show his respect to Ye Liuyun.

“How can you say it’s late?” Ye Liuyun sighed as he looked at the emperor, his tone filled with unspeakable helplessness and regret, “Your Majesty’s trip to sacrifice to the heavens, could it be that you have obtained the fate of heaven?”

“The fate of heaven is all in me, since I am not afraid of the hardships and dangers, I have traveled thousands of miles to come on the Great Eastern Mountain, naturally my heart wants what I want.” The emperor said coldly.

Ye Liuyun slightly bowed his head, pondered for a moment and then said, “This kind of thing, heaven’s destiny, is always difficult to speculate. Although Your Majesty is a very human being, it is better not to presume to impose punishment on behalf of the Heavenly Lord.”

The emperor indifferently looked at Ye Liuyun who was more than ten feet away and said, “Uncle Shiyi came here today, could it be that he is only advising and does not have the intention of inflicting wrath on behalf of heaven?”

Ye Liuyun let out a bitter smile, his right arm slowly raised, the cuffs slightly faded, revealing the right hand without a trace of dirt. The fingers were smooth and neat, definitely not like a limb that an old man should possess.

His right hand pointed at the pool of blood in front of the Temple of Celebration, as well as the several Temple of Celebration sacrifices within the pool of blood.

“Your Majesty …… the one who inflicted the anger is yourself.” Ye Liuyun said compassionately, “Sacrifices are ascetics who serve the temple, and even they know that Your Majesty’s trip to sacrifice the heavens is a chaotic order. The king has a chaotic order, the minister can not be subjected to it, and the sacrifice can not be subjected to …… that is why you killed them.”

Yes, the Emperor’s sin prince book for the heavenly sacrifice came from the hand of the inner court, the crime chosen was nothing more than salivating, storing a concubine, and misbehavior, these vague matters, and this was the performance of the crown prince a number of years ago, and this calm, filial and fraternal crown prince of today is completely different, and the abolition of the crown prince in all the generations has not been such a fainting decree and nonsensical text for the heavenly sacrifice.

Da Dong Shan Qing Temple has a long history, although not in Kyoto, but the Qing Temple several major rituals often in this purification, only with the strange death of the major rituals, the second ritual of the three stone masters of the arrow and died, the Qing Temple was originally weakened by the Qing Emperor’s strength of the shape, is even more remnants of the strength of the few, so all the way up the mountain by the mountain gate, the Qing Temple of the Da Dong Shan rituals are shown to be so humble and submissive.

However, when Emperor Qing formally began the process of sacrificing to heaven to sue for the abrogation of the Crown Prince early this morning, there were still some priests who bravely stood up and spoke out against it with fierce words, and sacrosanctly pointed out that the Temple of Qing would never become a sharp blade in the hands of a dim-witted ruler.

The court’s secret infringement on Qingmiao, and the successive deaths of the two chief priests made the priests of the Qingmiao lineage on Dadong Mountain feel endless anger, and the arrival of the rebels at the bottom of the mountain gave these people endless courage.

So these sacrifices turned into a few dead corpses in front of the Black Eaves Temple, and their courage was turned into fishy and fly-inducing blood and water.

When someone dared to disobey His Majesty the Emperor, he had always been unafraid to kill, even if it was a sacrifice on Daedong Mountain. The only people Emperor Qing dared not kill were only those he could not kill for the time being – such as Ye Liuyun.

The Emperor gazed calmly at Ye Liuyun at the edge of the stone steps and said, “Uncle Shih, you are not a foolish citizen, so you naturally know that these sacrifices are nothing more than mortals, so even if I kill them, what does it have to do with the will of heaven?”

Ye Liuyun frowned slightly and said, “Even if the sacrifices are mortal, but this temple is extraordinary, I think your majesty should know better than me, when killing someone at the main gate of the temple and the blood flows into the steps, isn’t your majesty worried about the wrath of heaven?”

The emperor’s face was indifferent, he put his hands behind his back, and after a long time, he said in a single sentence, “You and I live in the human world, not the end of the heavens, that is why in my life, I have never honored the ghosts and gods, I only honor Uncle Shih alone.”

Ye Liuyun was silent.

The emperor turned his body sideways, quietly looking at the black temple eaves, the old tiles on the eaves shone with a solemn luster in the early morning sunlight, and said, “That is why I invited a deceased person to come and meet with Uncle Shih.”

There weren’t many people in this world who could qualify to be called Ye Liuyun’s deceased by Emperor Qing, only those few. So when the bell of the Qing Temple rang again, the wooden door of the side yard creaked and pulled open, a gust of mountain wind swept across the top of the mountain, and Five Bamboos, who was tied with a piece of black cloth, stepped out from inside the door ……

Ye Liuyun just smiled, of course, there were a few more moving and bitter smiles.

“It has been many years since we parted ways in Tanyu, and it has been more than two years since I have not heard news of Jun.” He looked at Wuzhu and said amiably, “I thought you had already gone back, but I didn’t realize that you were on the Great Eastern Mountain.”

Two years ago in the summer, the Northern Qi State Master Bitter Lotus was injured in a secret duel with someone, Ye Liuyun as one of the four great masters, naturally he could guess that the one who made the move was Five Bamboo, which is why this sentence “It’s been more than two years since I’ve heard news of Jun” was made.

Ye Liuyun’s sentence “I thought you had already gone back” hides too many messages, but in this world, except for him and the five bamboo, probably no one can understand, that year under the cliff of Tanyuzhou conversation, Fan Xian far above the cliff, did not hear.

Five Bamboos was as clean as usual, and after saying two words, he stood at the entrance to the small courtyard without moving another step toward the field, facing Ye Liuyun remotely, but a little closer to the emperor.

The two words he said were, “Hello.”

The district’s two words of hello, but it made Ye Liuyun more shocked and moved than earlier when he watched him come out from the courtyard, and even couldn’t help but laugh in relief, a very sincere laugh.

Then the laughter came to an abrupt end, Ye Liuyun turned to face His Majesty the Emperor, slightly owed a salute, exclaimed, “Your Majesty’s divine plan, no wonder there will be a line of the Great Eastern Mountain Sacrifice of Heaven, even this monster has been dug out by you, I just don’t want to admire it but I can’t.”

The emperor heard the words but did not have the slightest movement of expression, instead, the corner of the eyebrow was extremely not easy for people to notice trembled two times, yes, the festival of heaven was originally a bureau against Ye Liuyun, and when the five bamboo this bureau in the center of the front general stood out, Ye Liuyun did not have the reaction of falling into the bureau.

Potential this kind of thing, always is you come and go, the emperor’s eyes a touch of worry a float that is hidden, must be aware of their own and Fan Xian speculation of the big event, finally want to become a reality.

The emperor glanced at Elder Eunuch Hong beside him, his eyes were calm, but contained many meanings, seemingly inquiring, why didn’t he immediately make a move? With the realm of the Grand Master, even if it was two against one, if he could not seize the moment earlier, Ye Liuyun’s heart defense loosened because of the mysterious appearance of the five bamboo, if he wanted to snipe Ye Liuyun on the mountain, it would still be an extremely difficult task to accomplish.

Elder Eunuch Hong, however, did not pay any attention to His Majesty’s gaze at this moment, his gaze was unusually hot as he stared ahead, crossing over Ye Liuyun’s shoulders and shooting straight at the mountains and forests below the stone steps.

He moved half a step forward, blocking in front of the Emperor’s body, then slowly straightened his body.

It seems that all his life is rickety Eunuch Hong, suddenly straightened up, is such a simple action change, an indescribable momentum began to surging into his body, unusually majestic to the peak of the mountain around the emanation …….

Obviously, everyone knew that Eunuch Hong’s body had not gotten any bigger, but everyone had an illusion at this instant, as if Eunuch Hong had turned into an undefeatable heavenly god, emitting a blinding light all over his body, completely hiding Emperor Qing behind him.

The intensity of this true qi had even vaguely exceeded the limits of what a mortal’s physical body could contain.

It was overbearing to the extreme.

Boundless falling trees and endless great rivers rolling down, this was the first poem that Fan Xian copied in Kyoto, and regardless of whether or not the big word for great rivers was appropriate, however, this poem had already spread throughout this world.

Those who were fortunate or unfortunate enough to be on Da Dong Mountain on this day, at this instant, all associated themselves with the first half of this poem.

Because they felt a sword qi that rose up to the sky and was wreaking havoc in the mountains and forests below the stone steps, even the distant peaks of the mountains were invaded by this overpowering sword qi, and the green forests and trees began to lose their leaves for no reason, and the leaves fell into green piles.

Ye Liuyun looked at Eunuch Hong and said, “Emily is a beautiful woman, why is she a slave?”

Eunuch Hong’s silver-white hair fluttered in the wind, and said in a hoarse voice: “Great Masters are all slaves, I am His Majesty’s slave, and you …… are nothing but slaves in this human world, what’s the difference?”