Chapter 1095 – Lets Fight (1/2)

Chapter 1095 – Let's Fight

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

If the question arose from anger or derision, it would be easy to answer, but Chen Changsheng had asked with sincerity.

He truly did want to know the answer.

From the moment he saw Daoist Wu in the stone chamber and knew that Wang Zhice had appeared, he began to ponder this question, but he had never been able to find an answer.

Since one side needed to yield, why couldn't it be their side?

If retreat meant falling into the abyss and death, then why couldn't they be the ones to die?

Why could these idealists who were willing to lose their heads and spill their blood for the sake of all living beings not make this choice?

Wang Zhice did not know how he should answer.

In his long life, he had never believed himself to have accomplished nothing. He had made many contributions, done many things for the Human race.

And he believed that he held a great compassion for this world.

So whenever he turned to look back on the past, he did not feel any remorse or shame, only serenity and self-confidence.

Only today, upon hearing this question, did he realize that this had just been wind blowing across the hard dumpling skin, that none of the true flavor had been boiled out from within.

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Wang Zhice had found himself unable to answer Chen Changsheng's question because he knew that this was a real question.

Others did not know that this was an actual question, so they naturally believed that Chen Changsheng was shaming Wang Zhice.

Angry retorts and sharp criticisms rose one after the other.

”Then why don't you die?”

”Your Holiness, you can also die!”

”Can you and the Holy Maiden combined be more important than the venerable Daoist? Be more important than Lord Wang?”

From a realistic perspective, these criticisms were very reasonable.

Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong were both extremely talented, but they were still very young and still needed a great deal of time to enter the Divine Domain.

Shang Xingzhou and Wang Zhice, on the other hand, were legendary experts with long-established reputations.

If the humans wanted to defeat the demons, the latter pair were more important.

”My words have only to do with reason, not with strong or weak, or else Zhou Dufu would not have died back then.”

Chen Changsheng's comment caused the crowd to gradually fall silent.

Until today, the entire continent could not be sure whether Zhou Dufu was dead or alive, but countless theories had circulated around the continent over the centuries.

Those rumors often involved Wang Zhice, and they were all extremely dark.

Wang Zhice seemed to think of something, and his expression slightly darkened.

Chen Changsheng continued, ”Some people believe that all the living beings of the world are important and are worth the sacrifice of countless people, and then they come to demand this of me, which brings me to my question. As for myself, I do not believe this is right, so I naturally don't need to answer this question.”

He was both responding to the criticisms and speaking so that Wang Zhice could hear.

Wang Zhice was quiet for a very long time and finally gave a rueful sigh. ”In the end, it's just out of selfishness.”

Everyone fell silent.

After some time, Chen Changsheng said, ”So it was really just selfishness.”

Xu Yourong calmly looked at him, knowing that he was deeply anguished.

This was not the answer that Chen Changsheng wanted, even though he already knew this might be the answer before he had even asked the question.

From the Hundred Herb Garden to the Mausoleum of Books, the characters on stage were constantly changing, but the plays being staged were still those trite and banal plots.

There had never been anything new beneath the starry sky.

But how would the story end this time?

If… alas, there was no 'if'.

After several hundred years, Wang Zhice had once more appeared before the people of the world.

How many people would still be willing to support Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong?

The experts from the south were quiet, while the Mutuo clan's Old Lady and the head of the Wu clan seemed to have disappeared.

How many of those Li Palace priests and Orthodoxy cavalry so loyal to Chen Changsheng would still have the courage to raise their weapons once they knew that they were fighting Wang Zhice?