Chapter 610 – Simply Kill Them All (1/2)
Chapter 610 – Simply Kill Them All
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”If he really is Crown Prince Zhaoming, I think that there are probably many people that want to kill him, even though they might already know that he is about to die. But you should clearly understand that their lives and even the continuation of their clans rest upon your body, so they will not take any risk, will not permit him to live a single day more.”
Xu Yourong calmly concluded, ”So I cannot leave the Orthodox Academy and the sword array of South Stream Temple can never be lifted.”
The simple and elegant cup made of azure porcelain slowly turned under her finger just like a waterwheel pushed along by a stream, gentle, smooth, silent.
The Divine Empress gazed at the cup under her fingers, revealing a faint smile that seemed to contain a deeper meaning. But she said nothing.
The azure porcelain cup was very beautiful and seemed very tough, but to her, only a thought was needed to smash it into fine powder.
Xu Yourong had no expectations that the Divine Empress would save Chen Changsheng, even if he might be her own son.
Moreover, the Pope had no means of curing Chen Changsheng's illness, so the Empress was not guaranteed to have one.
But she hoped that in Chen Changsheng's final months, he would have a beautiful and tranquil period that could not be disturbed.
After the age of ten, Chen Changsheng had always been bearing the shadow of death as he arduously marched forward without any time to rest. Every time she thought of this matter, she would feel somewhat sad.
”If Empress agrees with my words, I will leave the capital with him tomorrow.”
Xu Yourong looked at the Divine Empress and said.
The Divine Empress's smiled faded, leaving behind an expression of apathy. ”If he really is my son, then every day more he lives is a day that I will be concerned.”
Xu Yourong replied, ”On the journey back from Mount Han, I consulted all the scriptures. There is no actual proof of the backlash of the Heavenly Dao.”
”That is because both Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong did not violate the oaths that they made. The former caused the death of all his children excepting Taizong, and the latter straightforwardly killed all those old men who have their portraits hung up in the Lingyan Pavilion. If Wang Zhice had not run off so quickly, perhaps Taizong really could have lasted for a thousand autumns and ten thousand generations, even now sitting at my position.”
When she mentioned Emperors Taizu and Taizong, there was no respect in her voice. Especially when she mentioned Emperor Taizong who was admired by all, her tone seemed to even be mocking him, to regard him with no small measure of disgrace.
”Two years ago when Chen Changsheng lit up his Fated Star in the library of the Orthodox Academy, I and Mo Yu just happened to be on the Dew Platform. At the time, I noted that a Fated Star could also be the foreordained baneful star upon one's fate…if fate has foreordained that between me and him, only one of us can live, will the Heavenly Dao allow him to live or me to live?”
The Divine Empress's voice was gradually getting colder.
Xu Yourong was keenly aware that before the Heavenly Dao passed its final judgment, the Empress would move to give an answer.
The Divine Empress stood up, indicating that she no longer needed to speak. Holding her hands behind her back, she walked to the window and gazed out at the sky which seemed ablaze.
Xu Yourong also walked to the window and gazed at the splendid red of the evening sky. She narrowed her eyes, subconsciously also placing her hands behind her back.
From the back, the two had the exact same posture, like duplicates, or like a mother and daughter.
The Divine Empress commented, ”It’s apparent to anyone that you are much more like my daughter than the Princess of Ping.”
The Princess of Ping was a daughter that she had adopted from the Tianhai clan. Their blood relationship was extremely close and their appearances were somewhat similar.
When the Divine Empress was young, she had been one of the most renowned beauties of the world. At present, Xu Yourong was publicly acknowledged to be the most beautiful young woman, but their similarly sublime beauty was not the same.
But it was just as she said: anyone would think that Xu Yourong was her own daughter.
This was because of temperament, bearing, spirit, and similar reasons.
”In truth, I have also always treated you as my own daughter because we have identical blood.”
The Divine Empress gazed at a blazing cloud on the horizon, a dazzling radiance emanating from her beautiful face along with an incomparably firm self-confidence. ”Back when I made the offering to the starry sky and defied the heavens to change my fate, I was perfectly willing to die without descendants so that I could ascend to the imperial throne. I have never regretted this matter because I am very well aware that even the Heavenly Dao cannot prevent the rebirth of the Phoenix.”
The blazing cloud slowly moved west like a Phoenix breaking free of encircling flames.
”You are my descendant, my successor.”
The Divine Empress turned to Xu Yourong and indifferently said, ”As for whether or not he is my son, I simply don't care.”
Xu Yourong thought, he's still your flesh and blood. Does not a single strand of affection exist in you?
”I've taught you for so many years, but it seems to me that your teacher has untaught everything.”
The Divine Empress expressionlessly asserted, ”Affection is the world's most cheaply bought item, virtue an excuse for the weak to protect themselves. None of them are important.”
Xu Yourong asked, ”Then what is the most important thing?”
The Divine Empress looked up towards the sky and leisurely said, ”To exist.”
After a moment of silence, Xu Yourong asked, ”How should we exist?”
”How to exist? Take all that is wondrous, see how long can one exist, how can one make the soul inextinguishable, and proceed in the direction of the Great Dao.”
”All things have a beginning and an end. Even those of Concealed Divinity and those above, who have obtained Grand Liberation, have a birth and death.”
”Things easily decay, but the effects they leave are everlasting. Ultimately, one must see how deep the tracks are that one has left.”
The Divine Empress turned and looked at her, continuing, ”And those tracks come from your and my footsteps, follow the directions of our hearts.”
Xu Yourong asked, ”And if someone blocks your way?”
The Divine Empress answered, ”So we need the strength to kill all those who obstruct us. Only this way can we march the world forward according to our desires, to brand our souls upon history such that even the reprimands of tens of thousands of people after we depart cannot wipe it away. Only this way can we get close to true eternity.”