Chapter 1877: Argument

Lingxu City even built a special history museum to display precious collections from before and after the founding of Between Beijia. The long-armed ape Old Ge also had this tour guide business, and the business was quite good. The tourists taken by it didn't know that the place actually didn't charge admission. He He Lingchuan listened and watched at the time. If he were still the son of the Yuan Nation's prefect before he got the Great Fang Hu, perhaps he would also believe it deeply?

However, he later understood that every family has to label the justice of its own founding. The root is justice, and now it is justice. Between Beijia has existed for 600 years, and it has had time to paint its own past history and dress it up well.

"The Between Beijia history you heard in Lingxu City might have some exaggerated components, but most of them are based on facts, otherwise they wouldn't stand the test of time." Bai Bai Ziqi said sternly, "After the Heavenly God left this world, immortals and monster races fought constantly, and later it was the conquest between immortal sects and human countries, each time it was the common people who suffered. I have also read many secret files in the Tiangong. Before the founding of Between Beijia, there were Daoist sects that invented evil methods, trying to seize spiritual energy from common people. First, they attacked villages, then cities, taking living people to refine pills, using all kinds of methods."

He He Lingchuan had to admit that Bai Bai Ziqi was right here.

The cataclysm of heaven and earth caused spiritual energy to plummet. In order to fight for that bit of remaining stock, immortals and demons attacked each other incessantly. At that time, they had not yet realized that the appearance of the Heaven-Luo Xing had changed the rules of the world; the more ruthlessly they killed, the more spiritual energy turned into Yin energy, which was then sucked away by the Demon Realm.

By later, even if someone discovered it, it was too late.

It was too late to turn back.

"The withering of all living things in the world—at its root, isn't it because the Heavenly Demons are seizing Yin energy through the Heaven-Luo Xing?"

Bai Bai Ziqi immediately said, "That is also because the Immortal Sects and human nations have been at war without end; otherwise, where would the Yin energy come from?"

"From the early Medieval period until before the founding of Between Beijia, this world was dim and lightless, yet it was in turmoil every single day. Let's put it this way: the current Flash Gold Plain is a microcosm of that land back then—plagues, poverty, war, and hopelessness."

"But the Immortal Sects didn't care about the suffering of the human world. Do you know how many treasures we dug up from the base of this sect, which claimed to have already declined, when we conquered the Great Return Sect back then?" Bai Bai Ziqi turned the cup in his hand. "The money for the first construction of Spirit Void City came from here."

"Since the founding of Between Beijia, the population has increased more than seventy-fold. It is prosperous and peaceful, with rare wars—isn't this good?" He stared at He He Lingchuan. "Before Between Beijia, the surrounding nations fought to the death; after Between Beijia was established, they all became well-behaved and honest. Doesn't this count as a virtuous deed? If not for Between Beijia, this place wouldn't even have basic order, just like the current Flash Gold Plain. By comparison, what good deeds have Lingshan and the immortals ever done for this world?"

He He Lingchuan found it amusing: "Ruled by outsiders, transporting Yin energy to the Heavenly Demons, and you are actually proud of this?"

"The vast Between Beijia is orderly and polite, and the world is stable—why can't I be proud? Managing such a vast empire is exhausting, and making sure the majority of people can eat their fill is as difficult as ascending to heaven! Yet, apart from Yin energy and palaces, the Heavenly Gods have no other demands on Between Beijia; they are simply not as insatiable as the immortals." Bai Bai Ziqi said earnestly, "Whether it is a human nation or a demon nation, there must be a ruler. If it were replaced by a human king or an immortal, would it really be better?"

He gave a mocking smile: "Do you know that before the founding of the Mou Nation, Lingshan also attempted to control and establish a human nation?"

He He Lingchuan shook his head. This kind of information was truly hard for him to find; only Lingshan's rivals would bother to collect it.

"There is historical record of it—seventy-six times!" Bai Bai Ziqi said. "This includes Panlongcheng; although it was not a nation, it was an important power. But no matter how Lingshan tried, they could not replicate Between Beijia's success. They simply were not suited for the world after the cataclysm; they simply could not become qualified leaders! But humans—but this world—needs leaders!"

"Between Beijia, I didn't say it was the best, but looking at the world, it is at least the least bad." He suddenly lost his breath and coughed incessantly, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood. "As for the Heavenly Gods needing Yin energy... I can only say that mortals will all die in the end."

He He Lingchuan raised an eyebrow; this was indeed something the proud Bai Bai Ziqi would say.

Bai Bai Ziqi looked straight into He He Lingchuan's eyes: "Whatever the Great Fang Hu taught you, it is only one-sided. This world is very large; it does not just have Panlongcheng, and it does not just have the little favors and petty righteousness that Panlongcheng taught you."

"This world is very large, and it does not just have Between Beijia."

He He Lingchuan gave a mocking smile, his voice tinged with two parts of sighing: "Brother Bai, the more you say this, the more you are walking down a path of no return to your own death."

"And isn't He Xiao the same?" Bai Bai Ziqi said solemnly. "The deaths of the Great Heavenly God and the True Immortal are both inseparable from you. Even if you kill us to silence us, this secret will eventually leak out. As long as you leave the Upside-Down Sea, Between Beijia and the Tiangong will look for you, and Lingshan will also look for you. The world is so big, yet you still have no place to stand."

"Is that so?" He He Lingchuan said leisurely, "You just said a moment ago that I want to point my sword at the Flash Gold Plain."

Bai Bai Ziqi couldn't help but laugh as well: "You want to be the first strongman in the Flash Gold Plain in eight hundred years?"

After the disintegration of the Flash Gold Empire, that place had been fragmented for eight hundred years. Whoever could unify the land—wouldn't they be the first strongman?

"How would I know if I don't try?" He He Lingchuan sipped his wine. "The Spirit Void gods' foundation in Flash Gold has already been brought into the Upside-Down Sea by Miao Miao Zhantian this time, right?"

Bai Bai Ziqi looked at him and stopped laughing: "You had it all calculated long ago?"

Miao Miao Zhantian wanted to hollow out Qianhuan's cave, and he himself was very anxious, so of course he wanted to make full preparations. That meant summoning all the forces that could be mobilized on the Flash Gold Plain, whether they were his own or the gods', whether they were Heavenly Demons or demon immortals, whether they were Between Beijia's or the Tiangong's.

Reading the original text!

With one more bit of strength, there is one more bit of chance for victory.

This battle must be won and cannot be lost; if lost, there would be no "afterwards."

And then, there was no afterwards.

They were all wiped out in one go. The consequence of this was that the power of the Spirit Void gods on the Flash Gold Plain was left empty.

Bai Bai Ziqi used to feel that He He Lingchuan leading him and Miao Miao Zhantian into the Upside-Down Sea was mainly to borrow Qianhuan's hand to eliminate the threat the Heavenly Gods posed to He He Lingchuan; but ever since he gained insight into He He Lingchuan's ambition, he realized that this man's ability to set up a scheme was truly superb, having even thought through the aftermath for Qianhuan and Miao Miao Zhantian.

Once He Xiao leaves this place, he will surely become a huge threat to the Tiangong and the gods.

It's a pity, though; he no longer has the strength to stop it.

"Brother Bai, who else on the Flash Gold Plain can stop me?" He He Lingchuan revealed a provocative smile. "Does Between Beijia expect to rely on the doddering old Qingyang?"

"Even if you build your own force, so what?" Bai Bai Ziqi shook his head. "When King Yuan raised an army with a nation, Between Beijia destroyed the nation; when Zhong Zhong Shengquan raised an army with a city, Between Beijia destroyed the city. You... how can you survive?"