Chapter 605 – According to My Will, I Choose to Die (1/2)
Chapter 605 – According to My Will, I Choose to Die
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Without discussing the Pope or his senior brother and only considering his teacher and the Divine Empress, who did Chen Changsheng trust in more? Not long ago, he would not have even needed to think about the answer, but now, after long and serious thought, he dejectedly discovered that he could not trust either of them.
He had never met the Divine Empress, only understood several facets of her through Mo Yu, Xu Yourong, and Prince Chen Liu. Of course, he had read far too many records concerning the Divine Empress. He knew how incomparably powerful, cruel, and emotionless this woman who possessed the greatest authority in the world was. Now that he thought about it, his teacher was also this sort of person. Perhaps as one cultivated to higher realms, one began to revere and care about fewer things, and thus began to treat the world with more and more indifference? After stepping into the Divine Domain, one could no longer be counted amongst mortals, so one naturally would not possess many emotions of mortals either.
”If it really is as you said, then the Divine Empress and the Pope no longer have any space to maneuver. Even in these two years, everyone has been deceiving others as well as themselves, but they always have reasons for deceiving themselves. The conflict between the Imperial Court and the Orthodoxy will swiftly intensify, and there's even a chance that the capital will be thrown into chaos tomorrow.”
Chen Changsheng looked at Xu Yourong and said, ”I'm not Wang Po, still able to bear the world on my shoulders after my family is bankrupted and killed, but if this world were to fall into disorder because of me, I would still feel a great deal of mental pressure. In addition, if I really am Crown Prince Zhaoming, I cannot imagine a single reason the Empress would let me go.”
”If you really are Crown Prince Zhaoming, then the Empress is your mother by birth.”
Xu Yourong saw his calm expression and knew that these words were not sufficient to convince him, or even enough to convince herself. A person like the Divine Empress was not easily constrained by so-called proper human relationships and familial love. Xu Yourong gazed out the window at the autumn trees and said, ”I will plead to her on your behalf.”
”If the Empress truly wishes to kill me, whose plea would be of any use? And I think that she now knows everything.”
Chen Changsheng stood up and stood next to her by the window.
On the return journey from Mount Han, under Xu Yourong's meticulous care, although his injuries did not improve, they momentarily did not worsen either. With the power of the Heavenly Phoenix true blood, he even temporarily regained some strength.
The starlight illuminated Xu Yourong's sublimely beautiful face, making it seem even paler. ”We still have to find a method to resolve this.”
”In truth, there is a very simple method.”
”What method?”
”No matter what sort of schemes Teacher has secretly devised, they presumably involve me in some way. This being the case, if I disappear, these matters will naturally disappear with me.”
The bubbles on the lake reflected the starlight, beautiful and yet illusory. In reality, the extremely thin walls of those bubbles were all made of water.
If there were no water, those bubbles would naturally not exist.
Xu Yourong faintly guessed at what he wished to do.
Disappearing in front of the eyes of people like the Divine Empress and Daoist Ji was an extremely challenging task.
There was only one situation in which both the Divine Empress and Daoist Ji would have no solution.
That was to truly depart this world.
The soul would return to the sea of stars, the flesh would transform to dust.
Death.
”After leaving Mount Han, I've always been thinking, perhaps I've always been a person that was not meant to be alive.
”If I am Crown Prince Zhaoming, according to the theory about what the Empress offered up to the starry sky to change her fate, I simply shouldn't have been born. Perhaps it was just for that reason that when I was still in the womb, before I was even able to open my eyes, the sun wheel in my body was destroyed, and yet for some inexplicable reason, I didn't die.
”A person that should have died long ago actually managed to live ten-plus years; this in itself goes against the Heavenly Dao and naturally throws the world into chaos.
”Although I'm late by ten-some years, if I were to die now, it could also be considered a sort of remedy, just like building a new wall for a sheep pen.
”If I were to die, these schemes would all be useless. These conflicts would seemingly lose all meaning. Only peace and tranquility would remain, not a bad result.”
Chen Changsheng stared into Xu Yourong's eyes and very solemnly said.
He spoke slowly, doing his utmost to clearly enunciate each word to ensure that his intentions could be heard.