265 Walking down at the Altar of Zhong Shengming (1/2)

Getting what he deserved?

The words of Sword Demon were simple, but the information revealed within it were not the least bit simple.

What was the thing that he deserved? Sword Demon was obviously the demonic part of Zhong Shengming’s primordial spirit, born out of external pollution, that tried to usurp the legitimate part of Zhong Shengming. By justice, wasn’t horrible death the thing that he deserved?

So, why would he say that?

However, when Sword Demon said these words indifferently, Wang Lu didn’t seem to be very surprised by this.

Because, previously, he was already vaguely aware.

He just felt that, compared to the usurper Sword Demon, Sword God seemed to be not that powerful.

From the beginning to the end, what exactly has Sword God ever done?

It was nothing more than to snatch Big Sister Zhu Shiyao as his successor before failing to do anything else. It was really difficult to imagine him as the Sword God that swept around unhindered in the Nine Regions thousands of years ago.

In contrast, Sword Demon somewhat really has the style of a peerless old demon. Hiding behind the scenes and instigating the four sects team to dance in the palm of his hand with mere words, to open the gateway for him in succession… First, to defeat the guardian that suppressed the Sword Demon and then release a lot of negative emotions in the eight virtues trial for his use, and then afterward, simply using Wang Lu as his hired thug...

Finally, he was able to defeat the superior opponent, the combination of Sword God and Zhu Shiyao. Each step seemed like a miracle, with far higher difficulty than that of Sword God’s path.

Compared to the legitimate successor, the usurper actually seemed loftier. Moreover, after careful thought, the behavior of Sword God was quite difficult to justify. For example, why would he deliberately conceal Wang Lu’s relationship with his Big Sister? Even so much that in the first fight, Big Sister couldn’t even recognize Wang Lu. Aside from Sword Demon pouring Wang Lu’s body with demonic qi to cause mischief, how could there not be a contribution from Sword God?

How were the contact lenses of Big Sister broken...

Later, why did he suddenly choose to forcefully possess her? Moreover, wasn’t forceful possession made him not that different from a demon?

Now it seemed that Sword Demon had given him an extremely good answer.

Sword Demon slanted his head and looked at Wang Lu. ”You guessed it right. The so-called Sword God is merely a usurper.”

Wang Lu inwardly sighed; this was different from what he said to him earlier.

”What I previously said was not a lie.” Sword Demon said, ”Indeed, he was the legitimate successor of Zhong Shengming, and I was just the demonic part.”

After a pause, Sword Demon scrutinized Wang Lu before saying, ”But this does not change the fact that he was the usurper. Can you guess the truth of the matter?”

Wang Lu thought for a moment and then gave his answer, ”Did he usurp more than ten thousand years ago?”

”Very good.” Sword Demon nodded. ”Go on.”

Sword Demon’s attitude proved Wang Lu’s conjecture, however, the idea was a bit implausible to Wang Lu. Therefore, he slowed down his speech.

”Like dynastic succession, the original emperor was overthrown, and the rebel leader ascended the throne, offering a sacrifice to the heaven and earth and controlling the dragon vein. For common people, this is tantamount to legitimate dynastic change. However, for the original emperor, treason is always a treason. That being the case, you are the original emperor, and Sword God is the rebel usurper?”

When it came to this, it seemed like things have been straightened out. However, Wang Lu felt that there were still some things that needed to be talked about.

”How could you be overthrown by that thing? This doesn’t make sense. Moreover, you can even challenge the power of four in nine divine tribulations, so you couldn’t have possibly suffered personality split under such circumstances. Moreover, they even said your Heaven Splitting Sword Qi is fastidiously indomitable, so your heart demon couldn’t possibly corrode you and split your personality. This does not make any sense.”

Seeing that Wang Lu seemed to have met a dead end in his reasoning, Sword Demon voluntarily gave his explanation, ”The birth of Sword God was an accident.”

”Wait a minute. The amount of information in this sentence is a bit too much!”

Sword Demon said, ”It’s not surprising that you can’t deduce the truth. It’s because your perception of Zhong Shengming is wrong. And since you’re misinformed, naturally, the right result is impossible to be deduced… Sword God of Bai Li, is actually a non-existent existence. If you recall carefully, I never once volunteered to mention these words.”

Nonexistent!? Where did this even come from?

”Your knowledge of Bai Li’s Sword God Zhong Shengming comes from the history book—that is a matter of course. You didn’t live more than ten thousand years ago, so naturally, you can only understand it from the book. However, if you were lucky enough to be born more ten thousand years ago, you would’ve heard another name, Bai Li’s Sword Demon.”

”Bai Li’s Sword Demon?”

”Zhong Shengming is unbeatable in his entire life; he happily settled the debt of gratitude and grudge. However, he never walked on the right path. Whenever he wanted something, he simply snatched it away. When he saw something not pleasing to his eyes, he would simply kill it. In the immortal path, even the firmament of the ninth heaven could not restrict him, let alone ethics and morality of the mortal world. Someone who looks down on ethics and morality is naturally a demon. The fierceness of Bai Li’s Sword Demon was illustrious. When Zhong Shengming was still alive, countless of people trembled at his name.”