727 Hahaha! It’s the Weekend! (1/2)
Black, this person was really strange.
No matter from which point of view, this person was very suspicious. However, until Senior Gem Emperor woke up, he was the uncrowned king in the Earth Immortal camp. His power and prestige were much heavier than Sun Buping's deputy Bai Ze. And whether or not the Earth Immortals agree with his style of doing things, they had considerable trust in him. The reason for this was that Sun Buping trusted Black, so other people did not doubt him. This was something not obvious in Xuan Mo.
Of course, this was very unreasonable. This kind of trust was akin to blind flight and blind obedience. Even if Sun Buping had a gargantuan reputation, his followers shouldn't blindly trust those closest to him like that. What's more, according to Senior Gem Emperor, Sun Buping realized at the last moment that he believed in the wrong person, and that there was a betrayer in the Earth Immortal camp but that he never found out.
Could that person be Black?
Right now, it seemed very likely.
Senior Gem Emperor said, ”But I don't have conclusive evidence. In retrospect, many things that he had done could only be said to be suspicious but not enough to convict him.”
Wang Lu asked, ”Is it necessary to be so particular? Since you doubt him, kill first and talk later. Who's your leading cadre in doing things according to rules? You're an Emperor, so you should have a sense that law and regulations were only for common people.”
Senior Gem Emperor said in a deep voice, ”In that case, I needed at least one third of the Earth Immortals to become my accomplices. In that era, suspicious facts and people were too many.”
”... Then how on earth did you band your troops?” Wang Lu simply stated his admiration, ”Making a revolution with a group of suspicious people? Wasn't your team building too sloppy?”
”That's why their leader was Sun Buping, not me. He had the courage to tolerate everything, but I didn't have that interest. And it turned out he was wrong.” Senior Gem Emperor commented on his former daoist companion without any politeness. ”It's a pity that he walked away happily but left me with a big trouble. I can't lock in my target at all now, so I have to muddy the water first.”
Speaking of this, Senior Gem Emperor paused for a while, her face looking even more serious.
”And now I'm worried… Has there been any other change before I woke up?”
Wang Lu asked, ”What are the other changes?”
”Sun Buping said to me before he fell asleep that there was a traitor among the Earth Immortals. After more than ten thousand years, perhaps there might be more than one traitor.”
Upon hearing this, Wang Lu was a bit stunned, but then he immediately understood.
It was human nature to seek benefits and avoid harm.
The so-called Earth Immortals were just a group of powerful cultivators. There was still a qualitative gap between them and their enemy, the Fallen Immortals from the Immortal World. This was a bit like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
When Sun Buping was alive, he was like a dazzling banner, encouraging the morale of many Earth Immortals, who kept on fighting despite repeated defeats. However, after the defeat in that decisive battle, the Earth Immortals retreated to the Tomb of Immortals; Sun Buping was seriously injured and hid himself. The morale hit suffered by the Earth Immortals could only be imagined.
Was it true that all of them were willing to go to eternal sleep right away? With more than a hundred Earth Immortals, had no one ever considered surrender? If they considered it, would they not put it into practice?
Now that when one thought about it, at the start of the competition, only about half of the more than a hundred Earth Immortals appeared on the field, while the rest seemed indifferent… Perhaps they were not completely indifferent to the Grand Competition, but they were no longer interested in fighting against the Fallen Immortals.
In such a situation, if the traitor hidden in the team intended to incite, it was not difficult to instigate more people.
Thinking of this, Wang Lu once again said, ”So, you found reasons to banish the most prestigious members of the original group?”
Senior Gem Emperor said, ”Yes, when I woke up, the Grand Competition has been competing for half a year. I really can't judge what happened in this period, but I can at least prevent things from getting worse. From what I saw and heard when I woke up, those who have the power to instigate were exactly those few people. Banishing them away and establishing my own authority can at least deter the situation.”
”It's indeed hard work.” Wang Lu heartily sighed.
Senior Gem Emperor said, ”Don't patronize me, the situation on your side is the same. The construction of the City of Immortals has made the distance between your people and mine closer than ever before. In more than half a year's time, it might be your people who have been instigated.”
Wang Lu helplessly shrugged. ”There's no need for them to be instigated, there were already many of the so-called defeatists on my side at the beginning. Some people even gathered together to submit a petition, asking the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals to give consideration to the people of the world by giving up the struggle and surrender as soon as possible. Damn it, I haven't even seen the face of the Fallen Immortals, yet they had already tucked their tail like a frightened dog. Fortunately, Daoist He Tu was not confused and authorized me to use heavy-handed policies to suppress these cowards so the world is at peace now.”
Senior Gem Emperor shook her head. ”Is the world really at peace? I'm afraid it's not that easy. Even the City of Immortals has been infiltrated. My avatar smelt an unclean smell competing in Immortal One Area. Unfortunately, I couldn't locate it accurately, so it was inconvenient for me to make my move.”
”Unclean smell? That's consistent with what Wang Wu said…” Wang Lu said to himself, ”I'm afraid something really has happened recently.
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Sharp pain.
A heart-splitting, deep-into-the-bone-marrow pain. Like a surging ocean and rolling waves that instantly swallowed people, it caused people to lose reason, as if they went mad.
Under this kind of inhuman torture, even death had become a relief.
After no one knows how long, the endless pain lasted, and finally, the wind and waves subsided. In the dark ocean, a little sane light appeared.
”Am I… finally dead?”
The young man pieced together the fragments of reason and asked such a question in his heart.
However, the next moment, the bright light in front of him swept away the reverie in his mind.