Chapter 234
Chapter 234
Chapter 234
The man with the sword on his back could not help but snort when he saw this. He knew without him saying anything that all of these people were thinking the same thing.
They are truly a bunch of scum, not even sparing innocent children!
"Alright, alright, Sword Saint, don't take it to heart. You guys were just speaking carelessly. After all, it's all in the past. Why bother about it?"
At this time, Yuwen Hui, who came from a top family, stood up to speak for peace. He looked down on Tang Yi, but they did not dare to underestimate this sword saint. Not only was he powerful, his swordsmanship was also unparalleled. More importantly, he also had a hidden master who was even more powerful than him. They, the families, were not willing to offend him easily.
The young swordsman in green just flicked his sleeves and ignored these people.
……
In the picture, a very long time has passed, and the screams outside have stopped for a very long time.
After a long time, the boy carefully poked his head out from the flowers. When he saw that the Taoist priest was no longer there, he came out of the flowers holding the sleeping baby girl.
At this moment, the original red walls and bricks have now become a pile of broken walls and ruins, with bloody corpses everywhere. The pale faces due to the loss of blood are filled with deep fear. It is obvious that they have suffered a lot of torture before death.
The child stood in the ruins, his eyes filled with tears and a look of disbelief, muttering to himself.
"why why?"
"We have never hurt anyone, why are you killing us? Why?"
The child felt as if his world had collapsed. Everything his father and uncle had taught him seemed so absurd and ridiculous at this moment.
This made the child recall the questions and answers he had with his father and uncle.
"Father, can't we just not eat?"
"Haha, we can't, but some people can."
"Who are those people? They must be the kind people my father mentioned, right? They don't have the heart to kill other living beings."
"Those people are called monks. It is said that those with high cultivation levels can even achieve immortality!"
"Uncle Yan, what is a monk? Is he very powerful?"
"Of course he is amazing. All monks are enlightened people. Ming'er is so smart, he will definitely become a monk in the future. When the time comes, Ming'er will help all the people who have suffered injustice in the world to clear their grievances. This was your father's great wish back then. What a pity..."
"..."
"Why, aren't all monks people who have attained the Tao? Why can they slaughter mortals at will?"
The child was extremely confused. Aren’t they said that all monks are kind and benevolent people?
"Wow!! Wow!!!"
At this moment, a burst of crying interrupted the child's thoughts. The child looked down and saw that the baby girl in his arms had a wrinkled face and kept crying.
Seeing this, the child quickly reached out to touch his tears, pursed his lips hard, blinked several times, then patted the swaddling clothes awkwardly and comforted softly.
"Oh! Oh oh...Qiong Yu, don't cry, Qiong Yu, be good, don't cry, brother...brother will take you to play, go play, okay."
As the child spoke, his voice began to choke up involuntarily, but he continued to wipe away his tears and coax the baby girl in the cradle.
However, no matter how the child tried to comfort her, the baby girl in the cradle kept crying, making the child panic.
It was not until the child got tired of holding the baby and when he changed hands that his fingers accidentally touched the corner of the baby girl's mouth. After the baby girl sucked her, the child realized that the baby girl had not had milk for a while and was therefore hungry.
"Qiong Yu..."
The child murmured something in a low voice and looked around. This was called a small village, but in fact it was just a few manors. They were all manors built by a few frustrated people who lived in seclusion here. Except for a few family members and servants, there was no one else. The nearest place was a small town dozens of miles away.
It would take an hour or two to travel dozens of miles in a carriage, and now, he and his sister were the only ones left. How long would it take to walk there? By that time, his sister might have starved to death.
After the child hesitated for a moment, a fierce look flashed across his face, even though he had never killed any living being before.
"This Demon Emperor is so ruthless that he actually wants to kill Fairy Qiong Yu who was just born. How despicable!"
"Humph, no wonder you were so ruthless later on, it's just that you never cared."
"I'm afraid that the previous ones were just taking advantage of Fairy Qiong Yu."
Even Yan Qiongyu, seeing the fierce look in the child's eyes, felt nervous and staggered, almost losing her balance. Fortunately, the Queen of the Sea Clan at the side reached out and helped her in time, preventing her from falling.
"I thought, at least back then, my brother was sincere to me, but I never expected..."
Yan Qiongyu's eyes dimmed instantly. No matter how cruel her brother was, she was always grateful for his kindness in raising her. But now...
However, the next moment, Yan Qiongyu's dim eyes suddenly widened, and she looked at the scene in disbelief.
The child put the baby girl gently on the ground, then pulled out a golden hairpin from the top of a female corpse. The next moment, he closed his eyes tightly and stabbed it hard.
It was not as imagined. The baby girl cried miserably. Although the crying was incessant and blood was spurting out, the blood was spurting out from the child's forearm.
The intense pain made the child's tears, which had been wiped away, burst out uncontrollably again. Her tender little face was twisted in agony, but the child clenched his teeth tightly, put his arm to the baby girl's mouth, and coaxed her while sobbing.
"Qiong Yu...Qiong Yu, be good, don't cry, don't cry...Oh!"
The child kept saying "don't cry" while wiping his tears. His lips turned pale due to excessive blood loss.
Looking at those misty tearful eyes, Yan Qiongyu felt that the picture began to become blurred.
This was a scene she had never remembered, but at this moment, it was engraved inch by inch in the depths of her heart.
Under the full moon, the once quiet and elegant place has now turned into broken walls and ruins. In the ruins with corpses everywhere, a pale child holds the baby girl tightly in his arms, enduring the pain and shedding tears, while feeding the ignorant baby girl with his bleeding arm.
It turns out that there are people in this world who are willing to sacrifice their lives for others.
"Father, why do we have to kill the rabbit?"
"Because we need to eat meat? Besides, rabbits will destroy rice fields and are harmful to us." "Then if we eat rabbits, won't that also harm the rabbits?"
"..."
"Father, why are they harvesting rice?"
"Because we need to harvest rice. Only with rice can we make rice and avoid starvation."
"Father, why do we always have to hurt other things?"
"Silly child, because we need to survive, everything needs something to survive, just like wolves have to eat rabbits to survive. This is not intentional harm, but we have no choice."
"Child, we must respect the right of all living things to survive. Of course, we cannot allow them to wantonly kill innocent people. We eat meat, but we will spare the cubs. We harvest rice, but we will leave the seeds behind."
“Life has a beginning and an end. From the moment we are born, we are on the road to death. But we are never afraid of death because we revere and respect life.”
"Human destiny is determined by fate, so who can do anything about it?"
……
Outside the Xuantian Palace, many powerful men of the younger generation were looking at the young scholar who was gradually maturing in the picture and listening to his words. They all had solemn expressions on their faces, and some of them even couldn't help but sigh.
"This person is truly a noble man. It's a pity that after all his painstaking teaching, he ended up becoming a demon emperor."
"Some people, from the moment they are born, have the seeds of evil hidden in their bones, and are destined to be a generation of demon kings."
When Wen Renzhi heard this, he couldn't help but curl his lips and said with disdain in his eyes, "How can you be called a noble person when you are just a mortal?" It's ridiculous!
After hearing Wen Renzhi's words, Tang Yi on the side quickly nodded in response and said with a chuckle.
"Yes, a person like the Demon Emperor, who is born with a demonic heart, how could he..."
However, before Tang Yi could finish his words, he was interrupted by a cold gaze. He turned around and met Yan Qiongyu's cold eyes.
"Well, give Fairy Qiong Yu some face, and everyone should be more lenient with your words."
Tang Yi smiled awkwardly. For some reason, he felt that Yan Qiongyu's attitude towards Emperor Xuantian showed some signs of changing.
In the picture, time passes, and in the blink of an eye, the baby boy has grown eight years older. When the boy was seven years old, Yan's mother became pregnant with Yan Qiongyu. Because the Yan and Xuan families have a close relationship, Yan's father asked Xuanming's father to help name the child.
In the blink of an eye, it was Yan Qiongyu's full moon banquet.
"Brother Youren, how is it?"
Father Yan looked so proud that many of his friends around him burst into laughter.
"Haha, Brother Yan, Brother Youren, your two families are close friends, and you happen to be a man and a woman, so why don't you just become in-laws?"
"Hahaha, I have no objection. I was the one who named that girl Qiongyu myself."
"As long as you agree to be my son-in-law tomorrow, I will go to the lady and ask her in person!"
While a group of people were toasting and chatting, in the garden nearby, a little boy was sitting in the pavilion, holding a swaddling baby carefully.
Looking at the little person in the cradle, the little boy teased the baby girl in a mischievous manner.
"Sister Qiongyu, look, your mother and father don't want you anymore. From now on, I will protect you, okay?"
However, faced with the boy's teasing, the baby girl, who didn't understand anything at all, just giggled. She was not afraid of strangers at all. Her chubby little hands kept reaching up, as if she wanted to grab the person in front of her.
"You smiled, and if you smiled, that means you agree. From now on, just follow me, okay? I will definitely protect you!"
……
Looking at the young Saint Emperor's appearance of a little adult, many people subconsciously smiled. Before, they could see on the Saint Emperor's face that most of them were a child who liked to think and was much more mature than his peers. But at this moment, they saw in the young Saint Emperor the innocence and childishness that a child of this age should have.
Seeing that Yan Qiongyu couldn't help but reveal a smile on her face, Tang Yi frowned and couldn't help but speak out.
"The Demon Emperor is worthy of being the Demon Emperor. At such a young age, he already knows how to cheat and deceive. He is really abominable. No wonder Fairy Qiong Yu was deceived by him for so many years."
Yan Qiongyu, who was still feeling somewhat warm in her heart, couldn't help but look gloomy after hearing Tang Yi's words. The innocence of childhood should not be taken seriously, but what happened later...
People will change after all. The brother from that time will never come back!
However, at this moment, Xuanming in the picture suddenly looked up at the sky, and then his pupils couldn't help but widen.
The next moment, everyone outside the Xuantian Palace saw a huge hand falling from the sky and slamming into the brightly lit inner hall.
In an instant, the inner hall, which was originally full of laughter and conversation, had turned into a ruin, and all the sounds of laughter disappeared in an instant.
"Hmph, you are so noisy. How dare you disturb my ears? You deserve to die!"
A cold but furious voice echoed over the Yan Residence. Inside the pavilion, Xuan Ming, who was originally teasing Yan Qiongyu, had trembling eyes, but he did not scream out. Instead, he clenched his teeth, picked up Yan Qiongyu from the pavilion's chair, and climbed directly into the garden, hiding himself behind the flowers.
The next moment, screams came one after another and lasted for nearly a cup of tea. During this time, the child hid in the flowers, with his eyes closed, his face pale, and he was obviously very scared.
But even though he was so scared, the boy still reached out and gently patted the baby girl in the cradle, as if he was imitating an adult and coaxing the baby girl to sleep.
Seeing this scene, some monks couldn't help but feel distressed. A full moon banquet turned out to lead to the destruction of the entire family. It was truly pitiful and lamentable.
However, some people sighed with some reluctance.
"It's a pity that the cultivator didn't kill the Demon Emperor back then. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many unprovoked disasters in the world!"
Among the powerful men, a handsome man with a three-foot-long sword on his back frowned and snorted coldly and scolded angrily.
"Humph, out of anger, he wantonly killed innocent people. Is this person considered a cultivator? He is just a demon. Besides, how can a child be innocent? Can he sentence an innocent child to a serious crime just because of his future mistakes?"
As he said this, the man carrying the sword swept his cold eyes to the side, causing many strong men to look away and not dare to look at him.
(End of this chapter)