Chapter 699 – Seeking the Dao has a Front and Behind (2/2)

But if his opponents were both Wang Po and Chen Changsheng, then he truly didn't have a chance of winning, and there really was a chance that he would die.

However, this didn't match up with Wang Po's way of doing things, just like how he had vanished without a trace into the capital.

He shouted at Wang Po, ”You're actually willing to join hands with someone else?”

Wang Po replied, ”I already joined hands with him in Xunyang City. Moreover, the thing I have to do today is rather important, so I can't be held up by you.”

Xiao Zhang asked, ”Just what are you planning on doing? You should know very well that as long as you walk on the main streets, everyone will want to kill you.”

”I want to kill Zhou Tong.”

Wang Po's answer was very calm and unperturbed. ”I thought you already knew.”

From the moment he walked behind Wang Po, Chen Changsheng never once spoke.

His present status was no weaker than Wang Po's or Xiao Zhang's, but on the basis of his respect for his seniors, he was willing to keep his silence.

Xiao Zhang did not forget him, putting to him the same question, ”And why must you kill Zhou Tong?”

Chen Changsheng's answer was very earnest. ”Just like killing Assistant Minister Wei, only this way can we tell the people of the world that acting this way is wrong, to have people and matters like this appear somewhat less in the world.”

On the side, Wang Po was very gratified to hear such words. ”Correct, to forget gratitude and commit injustice is wrong, to sell out one's master for glory is also wrong. Since a wrong was committed, a price must be paid.”

”Sell out a master? The Tianhai Empress was no good person, but I didn't see either of you coming to kill her,” Xiao Zhang sneered back.

Wang Po replied, ”Because I wasn't confident I could kill Tianhai, so I didn't have the bravery.”

Xiao Zhang asked, ”And now you're confident you can kill Zhou Tong?”

Wang Po answered, ”Yes, because my blade is faster now.”

Xiao Zhang harshly rebuked, ”Where did all these principles come from? For the sake of survival, just what can't be done?”

”You have your principles, we have ours, and what happens if the two contradict? In the past, I didn't understand, but recently I've comprehended it.”

Wang Po looked into Xiao Zhang's eyes and gravely said, ”If we kill all of you, then our principles will naturally have won.”

Chen Changsheng added, ”That's the principle.”

Xiao Zhang fell silent, then replied, ”It sounds rather reasonable.”

Wang Po calmly said, ”If you agree with this principle, then cease your attempts to keep us, or else we really will kill you.”

Xiao Zhang stared back at him and said, ”I've had countless battles with you over the past few decades, but you've never had this much to say to me.”

Wang Po replied, ”Because I want to convince you.”

Xiao Zhang asked, ”Why do you want to convince me?”

Wang Po replied, ”Because I don't have to use my blade against you this way.”

Several weeks ago, the entire continent came to know that he had left Scholartree Manor and come to the capital.

From that day forward, he had never once unsheathed his blade.

His blade intent had already accumulated to a nigh unimaginable level.

If Xiao Zhang were to strike with his spear, his defeat against this blade was a certainty.

But Wang Po would no longer have the confidence to walk very far on the streets of the capital.

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In the wind and snow, Wang Po and Chen Changsheng walked through the street, one in front and one behind.

They did not walk side by side because Chen Changsheng insisted. He felt that he still did not deserve it.

It was like they had returned to Xunyang City. Back then, they had also been one in front and one behind, confronting an expert of the Divine Domain, their bodies covered in blood, unwilling to rest until they died.

At that time, however, they had been breaking out of an encirclement. Today, they were coming to kill.