civilwarnovels Chapter 1035 Great Scholar
Chapter 1035 Great Scholar
Chapter 1035 Great Scholar
At this moment, everyone present noticed that something was wrong with Gu Wenyu, but no one took the initiative to speak.
Among the five supreme pillars of the country represented by military officers, one died and one was imprisoned. Xu Xiao also clearly expressed his intention to surrender to Yu Hengyuan. Naturally, the remaining two people would not be the first to take action. Besides, the confrontation between civil and military officials was a common trend in the court.
Now that the new emperor is about to ascend the throne and is preparing to settle an old score with a cabinet minister, it would be good enough if they don't add insult to injury, let alone stand out and be conspicuous.
The other ministers, who seemed to be part of a common interest group, looked at each other in bewilderment.
In addition to Gu Wenyu, there are two others who were able to secure their positions after a period of accumulation because they bet on the previous emperor in advance. Logically speaking, they should be the ones to stand up, but at this moment they are forced by Yu Hengyuan's momentum and dare not speak out.
Of course, he also had the idea in his mind that he would rather die than let his fellow Taoist die.
In the battle for succession, most of the dirty work was done by Gu Wenyu. He was born a commoner, but was unexpectedly recruited into the Temple of Literature because of his extraordinary wisdom. He was also accustomed to the privileges and treatment brought by his background since he was a child, which made him start to climb up desperately.
Because of this, he alone bore nearly 90% of the darkness behind the struggle for the throne at that time.
The two cabinet ministers, who were also literati, had impressive backgrounds, so they were extremely disdainful of his actions.
Now that Gu Wenyu has been singled out and used to appease Yu Hengyuan's anger over the past few decades, this is a completely worthwhile sacrifice in the eyes of the two.
After all, if they dealt with a family of a supreme pillar of the state first and then eliminated a cabinet elder, it would have been the most brutal purge in the dozens of generations of imperial changes in Daxuan.
I can't possibly pack up and take them both away next.
When Yu Hengyuan came on the scene, the words he said to the young eunuch confirmed to these elders that compared to Yu Huangtian who had already started to go crazy, the new emperor still had a certain sense of the overall situation.
At the same time, this is also a privilege allowed by the default court political rules for the new emperor to do whatever he wants when he ascends the throne.
As for the remaining three ministers who did not participate in the battle for the throne decades ago, except Cheng Baishuang, the other two were just there to watch the fun.
There is no such thing as the fox mourning the death of the rabbit.
Even because of Gu Wenyu's self-destruction, the civil servants of his faction will be either dismissed or exiled, which will make him start to think about how to gain greater benefits for his own faction.
As for other officials and ministers, they really didn't even have the qualifications to speak in a low voice.
Then, the entire place in front of the altar was so quiet that the only sound that could be heard was Gu Wenyu's increasingly rapid breathing.
He seemed to calm down in an instant, and after glancing at the indifferent eyes around him, he sneered.
"You don't think that this is the end of the matter now that you are here, do you? Wake up! The man in front of us is no longer the stupid and kind prince from decades ago!"
silence
If Liu Zhengtang, the Supreme Pillar of the State, and his family had not yet perished, there would definitely be ministers and officials who would speak out at this moment, but let's not talk about whether Gu Wenyu had committed a blood debt punishable by a thousand cuts decades ago.
For example, as long as the man on the thirty-three heavenly steps hasn't spoken yet, no one else will jump out to express their opinion first.
Besides, some debts should indeed be repaid.
Countless gazes continued to be cast towards Gu Wenyu without any fluctuation. This time it was the other party who remained silent for nearly a minute, and then let out a sarcastic laugh.
He raised his head and looked at Yu Hengyuan and said:
"If you want to confess, you can do it now, but I will not admit that I did anything wrong. A general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers. The only thing I regret is that I miscalculated that the late emperor would leave behind such a big trouble like you!
Hehehe, but I certainly haven’t calculated anything about him correctly.
He is a lunatic who is crazier than everyone else.
They plotted against their own brothers and took advantage of their feelings for each other."
"Enough." Cheng Baishuang frowned slightly and pointed a finger into the void. At that moment, a strange word was formed and suddenly imprinted on Gu Wenyu's eyebrows.
Gu Wenyu did not put up any resistance. His path of literary practice was not as good as Cheng Baishuang's, but he recognized that the other party's words were to help him break free from the interference of the illusion.
But the problem is that Gu Wenyu is extremely sober at this moment.
After noticing that his moves had no effect, Cheng Baishuang looked at Yu Hengyuan hesitantly.
Yu Hengyuan said calmly:
"Master Cheng, you wouldn't think that I am deliberately distorting his cognition and throwing mud at my good third brother, right? This is my domain, the Pure Truth. Although it is an illusion domain, its main function is to allow everyone to examine their own hearts calmly.
The ambition hidden in his heart, the darkness buried in a corner, and the justice that cannot be executed for various reasons.
With the help of my field, everyone will break the shackles of worldly limitations and begin to accept who they really are.
Therefore, what he said next was all the truth.
Because without any interference from external objects or forces, people would not bother to tell lies.
Gu Wenyu, let me ask you, is what I just said wrong?"
Gu Wenyu smiled indifferently and said, "Their deaths have helped me to step onto the ladder of power. Even if the means were cruel, so what? But you are wrong about one thing. It's not 439 people, but 1,691 people in total.
I personally led people to deal with them all. Now, when night falls every day, when I close my eyes, I seem to be able to hear the whispers of these dead souls.
They are damning me to hell.
But there is no hell in the world, this is clearly hell!"
Gu Wenyu's smile froze, his expression twisted, and he suddenly pointed at Li Taike who remained silent and said:
"If I had a background like him, I would have been appointed as the young master of the Wensheng Temple by the master of the Temple. Why would I abandon the dignity of a scholar and do these dirty jobs?
There is no way, I really have no way!
Even though I believe that my talent is not inferior to anyone present, the previous Great Xuan Dynasty was only focused on maintaining the stability of the current order and balancing the power conflicts in the martial arts world. Even though there was a great enemy, the Northern Barbarians, there was no intention to touch them in the slightest.
There are also Buddhist lands and Taoist realms, which have already poisoned countless people through their faith.
In my third year of studying at Wensheng Temple, I submitted an article about suppressing Taoism and Buddhism. As a result, my teacher at the time severely criticized me, and said that there was something wrong with my thinking.
Therefore, I could only follow the crowd, but compared with other students with good backgrounds, for someone as ordinary as me, it would be a great honor for me to become a seventh-rank official in my lifetime!
so."
Gu Wenyu looked directly into Yu Hengyuan's eyes. A drop of blood had already dripped from the corners of each of his eyes. The two bloodstains looked particularly terrifying on his increasingly pale face.
“I don’t regret anything I’ve done, and I’m willing to take full responsibility for it.
This is the retribution that a general must pay after achieving success at the cost of countless lives.
But the funny thing is that the heavens are blind, and when the day came to pay back the debt, they chose me, an ordinary person with no background or means!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a loud thunder sounded.
The five-clawed golden dragon that was originally flying in the azure sky suddenly roared towards the sky.
But then, under the control of Yuhuangtian who suddenly revealed a smile, he flew obediently behind him, and at this moment, a purple-black lightning column directly enveloped Gu Wenyu!
Inside the lightning column, his figure became increasingly blurred, and one could almost vaguely see his hands and feet turning into particles and floating in all directions.
But its aura is rising straight up!
His realm had originally reached that of a great scholar (comparable to the celestial realm of a warrior), but now his aura was enough to compete with Yu Hengyuan in the Dharma Realm!
"He broke through to become a Confucian master?" Several elders who had hurriedly dispersed nearby looked surprised.
At the same time, Li Taike, who had already reached the level of a Confucian teacher, said:
“He is not a Confucian teacher, but a great Confucian scholar.”
"A great scholar? A scholar who can follow the law with his words?"
After the establishment of Hidden Dragon Hall, detailed information about the realm became known to everyone through the mouths of these people from outside the world.
For example, after the Dharma Realm is the Tianyan Realm, and the corresponding realm to the Wendao is the great scholar who has the ability to speak and practice.
But at this moment, in the increasingly dim lightning column, everyone saw that only the head of Gu Wenyu, the first great scholar in the Mountain and Sea Realm, was left.
His originally distorted and crazy expression was long gone. He looked up with a gentle smile on his face.
Then his voice spread throughout the imperial city.
“Today, I, Gu Wenyu, establish the Gu School of Thought. All the younger students who are born into common people and have completed their enlightenment studies and have the ambition to overthrow the old school cliques will be inherited by me. There are a total of 136 books, which can help them become great scholars!
"I wish! There will never be another person in the world who is as self-degrading as me! I wish! Everyone in the Mountain and Sea Realm will be like a dragon!"
In an instant, the sky and the earth became clear, and the few dark clouds that were originally floating around disappeared quietly, along with Gu Wenyu.
This made Yu Hengyuan, who had a vengeful heart, look a little complicated.
Also influenced by his field, Liu Zhengtang chose to depose the emperor, but Gu Wenyu, after questioning the heavens, suddenly gained enlightenment and even died on the spot, thus forging the Gu school's inheritance of literature and Taoism that was imprinted on the world with his final will.
Then he looked towards Yuhuangtian, and the other party also put away the smile that was originally on the corner of his mouth.
Yu Hengyuan knew clearly that the other party could have stopped him with the power of humanity, because Gu Wenyu's epiphany came after he questioned the heavens, and he was pushed by the heavens to achieve his own path.
However, within this imperial city, the power of heaven is still difficult to penetrate.
But Jade Emperor Heaven took the initiative to open a hole.
"Why didn't you stop it?"
"Why should I stop it?"
“What happened before is understandable, but letting the power of Heaven invade the imperial city is…” Yu Hengyuan’s eyes signaled the Hidden Dragon Envoys who had long been forgotten by everyone.
At this moment, among the six Hidden Dragon Envoys, four were beaten black and blue by Cao Changqing, but they still tried to open their eyes wide, looking up at the strange words faintly emerging under the clear sky with an expression as if they were looking at gods.
At the same time, there was another person who was so unbelievable that he kept mumbling to himself.
"How is it possible that this is just a world with a score of less than 80!"
"First, the man in green showed up and beat up the four of us. Then, a weird eunuch showed up and beat up the man in green. When we arrived, it was confirmed that there were no more than five people in the Dharma Realm in the realm!"
"Now there is another great scholar who has suddenly gained enlightenment and created his own school of thought! What the hell is this world!"
"And those things called aliens before were strange enough. Why are the strengths of these natives improving so abnormally? Oh, it seems to be some kind of destiny body."
"But the upper limit of this destiny body is quite low. In the novels I read, the strength displayed by the characters is at most the innate realm. Or, there are stranger stories and more powerful destiny bodies, but they have all been deliberately covered up by the natives here."
"That shouldn't be the case. If there is a problem with the destiny body, other messengers will also take the initiative to communicate with us, unless these indigenous forces are..."
The talkative Hidden Dragon Envoy suddenly stopped talking because he realized that the people around him were everyone.
Yu Huangtian standing on the thirty-three heavenly steps, Yu Hengyuan releasing the black dragon dharma under the heavenly steps, Li Taike, the great prime minister, five cabinet elders, three senior pillars, a young eunuch, Dugu Qiubai and Qi Lianhua, two of the five elders in the worship hall.
There were too many gazes, most of which contained no emotion, while the rest showed murderous intent.
The Daxuan Dynasty, which originally seemed to be on the verge of an internal purge, suddenly put aside their prejudices against each other at this moment. They all stared at the Hidden Dragon Envoy, and no one took the initiative to speak, but just looked at each other indifferently.
"What do you want to say?"
Yu Hengyuan walked forward and asked, while Xu Xiao, who had been following behind him, silently took out a machete from his space ring.
The secret about the destiny body concerns the interests of all the strong people in the mountain and sea world. Even if some people are not destiny bodies, their relatives may very well be them. And just because they are not destiny bodies now does not mean they will not be in the future.
In fact, the later a destined body appears, the higher the upper limit of its strength.
This also left a trace of thoughts and expectations in the hearts of countless people.
But if the outside world knew that the Mountain and Sea Realm was such a treasure land, they would most likely have no chance of becoming their destined bodies, and would most likely be forced to leave their homes.
So this is a bottom line that everyone in the mountain and sea world must follow.
But now a hidden dragon envoy has discovered that the frequent appearances of the masters from the Mountain and Sea Realm are too abnormal, and he has associated it with the issue of the fateful body.
Then the result
Before the Hidden Dragon Envoy, whose face had turned pale with fear, could open his mouth to explain, the Golden Dragon of Humanity and Merit controlled by Jade Emperor Heaven was already hovering above these Hidden Dragon Envoys!
After its dragon mouth opened wide and took a deep breath, the gold medals of merit that were originally used to restore it to its peak strength turned into wisps of luck and spontaneously merged into the golden dragon's body.
Qin Fan, who had been quietly watching the video in the post, suddenly raised his eyebrows.
He clearly noticed that after the video of the great scholar Gu Wenyu preaching with his death ended, at the beginning of the next video, Yu Hengyuan had already begun to climb the thirty-three heavenly steps, but in the corner in front of the altar, there were a few fewer people.
At the same time, the originally tense and solemn atmosphere seemed to ease.
"Hmm, those Hidden Dragon Envoys are gone. Did something unexpected happen just now?"
(End of this chapter)