Chapter 1078 – Held (1/2)

Chapter 1078 – Held

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Xu Yourong's reply was very fast, as if she had not even needed to think about it.

But both Shang Xingzhou and Wang Po knew that this was because she had already thought of this question far too many times. No further thought was needed.

Wang Po gazed at the dust cloud getting closer and closer to the Mausoleum of Books and sighed.

Shang Xingzhou looked at her and said, ” Why must I agree to your request?”

Xu Yourong replied, ”'Request' is just a polite way of saying it, because I must respect you as Chen Changsheng's master. In truth, I require this of you.”

'Request' and 'require' were only a few letters off, but the wills they represented were vastly different.

There was already no one left who dared to treat Shang Xingzhou with such an unflinching stance.

”Why?”

”Because you want to make an expedition to the north, to exterminate the demons, to unite the world under the Human race.”

They were some of the most intelligent people in the world, so they did not need to explain too much. Their questions and answers were the truths that came from the depths of their Dao hearts.

Given the array of forces outside the Mausoleum of Books, if a battle really did begin, no matter who won, both sides would suffer grievous casualties. The aftereffects would linger for many years, and the confluence of the north and south would vanish like bubbles. Humanity would descend into civil war and for the next several decades, there would be no chance to defeat the demons and unite the continent.

Shang Xingzhou might even be dead in several decades.

He would not allow such a thing to happen.

”I do not like Tianhai and I also don't like Su Li, because no matter how far they looked, they were still only willing to look at the place they stood on.”

Shang Xingzhou indifferently said to Xu Yourong, ”I did not expect the Holy Maiden to also be this sort of person.”

Xu Yourong remained unmoved. ”If one cannot even stand firmly on the ground beneath one's feet, what meaning is there in looking farther?”

Shang Xingzhou replied, ”If one does not look far, one is liable to regard oneself too highly. Do you believe that you alone are enough to make the world fall into chaos?”

Xu Yourong answered, ”Once a person has many opinions, it becomes easy for their mind to fall into disorder. If the hearts of the people are in disorder, how can the world not fall into disorder?”

She spoke here of the Prince of Xiang and Prince Chen Liu, of the Divine Generals taught by Chen Guansong, of the ministers of the Imperial Court and the elders of the Bureau of Ecclesiastic Education, of every person that lived on this world and had his own opinions and ambitions on the world, and included Shang Xingzhou and herself.

”As long as I am here, the world will not fall into disorder.”

Shang Xingzhou's expression was very serene, yet it gave an extremely convincing confidence.

Xu Yourong calmly returned, ”People will die eventually, and Sir is not an exception.”

Shang Xingzhou looked at the South Stream Temple disciples and Wang Po, and asked, ”You think that you can kill me today?”

Xu Yourong replied, ”At the start, I believed that I could kill you, because I knew that your injuries have still not healed.”

Shang Xingzhou's eyes became deep and profound. He did not think that she would be able to see this.

On that night in the Mausoleum of Books, the Tianhai Divine Empress had used her body, soul, and Dao to fight against three supreme experts in a heaven-shaking battle.

Xu Yourong had not personally seen this battle, but in the following three years, she had performed many calculations.

She realized that the Pope on that night had not attacked with all his power. At the same time, she confirmed that the Divine Empress's most powerful attacks had basically been focused within Luoyang.

Shang Xingzhou's injuries lingered on from that day, and then they relapsed in White Emperor City.

But from the Divine Empress's choices that night, one could see that she put the highest priority on Shang Xingzhou.

Xu Yourong would not doubt the Tianhai Divine Empress's gaze.

She began to re-examine her initial plan and then made an extremely important alteration.

”You are stronger than the world imagines. It truly is very difficult for me to kill you.”

Xu Yourong gave a faint smile. ”But I can hold you.”

A sudden gale whisked away the dust on the Divine Path.

Two wings of pure white, ten-some zhang in length, unfurled behind her back.

Several hundred small white flowers once more bloomed on the mountainside as the South Stream Temple disciples came from their various locations to the base of the Divine Path.