Chapter 21: I Would Never Wantonly Slaughter the Innocent

【"As long as the Honored Lord is willing to slay the demons, my Jingtu Temple will no longer make things difficult for the Honored Lord. You will remain the facade of the righteous path, and you will remain the leader of all cultivators under Heaven."】

【"As for you, Honored Lord, there is no need to say that demons also have a distinction between good and evil," Monk Dharma Flower said with a calm expression. "In the human world, a demon is a demon, and a human is a human."】

【"Humans and demons are opposing sides; regardless of good or evil, if it is a demon, it should be slain."】

【"If it is a devil, it should be eradicated."】

The others, hearing the words of Monk Dharma Flower, were so shocked at this moment that they dared not speak further.

You, this monk of Jingtu Temple, might not care about your life, but these cultivators still cherished theirs.

Shushan has been famous for a long time, and the great name of the Shushan Dao Venerable, Real Person Gu Jiangming, is known to all and understood by everyone.

Who would dare to provoke the displeasure of Shushan?

【"Therefore, I will not be persuaded by you," Monk Dharma Flower said calmly, finishing his final sentence.】

【"And what you are facing is the entirety of the righteous cultivators of the world; we are many and powerful, and you may not necessarily be able to do anything to us."】

【"Able to kill us all in one breath."】

Monk Dharma Flower's words caused the expressions of the others to change slightly.

【"Therefore, I ask the Honored Lord to slay the demon—" Monk Dharma Flower repeated the previous sentence once more.】

He sat down and began to chant scriptures; years of cultivation had already brought his strength to substantial progress.

Monk Dharma Flower also wanted to test exactly what realm the renowned Shushan Venerable Master Gu Jiangming had reached.

More importantly, the name of Shushan, through its promotion over these years, had already severely impacted the preaching of the scriptures of Jingtu Temple.

Now that there was such an easy way to break the deadlock, not only could he test Gu Jiangming's current foundation, but he could also break the pattern of Shushan standing alone at the top.

Watching the screen.

Jiu Jiu decided to step forward herself.

She could feel Gu Jiangming's dilemma at this moment, but after thinking about it, rather than letting Gu Jiangming be troubled, it was better for her to bring it to an end for him.

Jiu Jiu knew that on one side of Gu Jiangming were his disciples, and on the other was the pressure given to him by the righteous human cultivators.

His disciples looked up to and revered Gu Jiangming.

The human cultivators were actually also proud of the strength and height Gu Jiangming had achieved today.

It was her identity that had ruined the life Gu Jiangming should have had—a life that was brilliant and shook both the past and the present.

【Please remember, your choice will affect your ending!】

【Please choose carefully!!!】

Jiu Jiu ignored the prompt on the screen; she decided to rush out and bring an end to things for Gu Jiangming.

【You walk out from Shushan and use the Sword Control Technique to lift the sword from the ground into the air, intending to end your own life before the world.】

【Gu Jiangming closes his eyes, but when he opens them again, the tens of thousands of weapons and magical artifacts on all of Shushan gather in the sky, forming a dark, oppressive mass.】

【His eyes are cold, yet they condense an unquestionable resolve.】

【"Kneel—"】

【Just a single word.】

【It reverberated in the ears of everyone like a thunderclap from Heaven and Earth.】

【Those with shallow cultivation only felt their vision go black and collapsed on the spot with blood foaming from their mouths; those with a bit more training knelt on the ground, using all their strength to resist the pressure emanating from Gu Jiangming.】

【Yet this was merely a casual sentence spoken by Gu Jiangming.】

【How, how could his cultivation be so formidable to this extent?】

【And Gu Jiangming, atop Shushan, has his hair tie fluttering in the wind; his loose hair gradually turns gray-white as the sunlight falls, and his face gradually reveals an indescribable weariness.】

【"Impossible," Monk Dharma Flower says with wide eyes, "The Ancestral Master said that in this era, it... it is already impossible for anyone to reach this step."】

【Monk Dharma Flower feels the powerful pressure emanating from Gu Jiangming, which is different from ordinary people and exceeds his own by more than ten, or even a hundred times, and is instantly struck dumb, unable to speak.】

【"You, you are either a god or a human!" Monk Dharma Flower says with great effort.】

【"And shouldn't your lifespan have reached the point of being exhausted? How is it possible that you can still release such vast, boundless Mana?"】

【"You, you haven't really obtained some method for Seeking Longevity, have you?"】

Gu Jiangming, watching the entire progression, also gritted his teeth.

The opponent found him at the most opportune moment; the 【Seeking Longevity】 on Gu Jiangming's screen actually already showed that his lifespan had only one year left.

That is to say, one year later, if no major changes occurred, Gu Jiangming would die directly.

During this time, Gu Jiangming had also been actively seeking a solution, continuing to fulfill his ideals while cultivating with all his might at Shushan.

However, after Gu Jiangming climbed to this realm, he could no longer improve further.

For some unknown reason, Gu Jiangming was stuck here and unable to move.

He could only watch his lifespan being consumed bit by bit.

That this monk could seize the moment when Gu Jiangming was at his weakest to come over clearly meant there was some hidden thread that Gu Jiangming did not know about.

Gu Jiangming had looked at the information on the screen at the time.

He once thought that Monk Dharma Flower was just stubborn in his belief that humans and demons were incompatible, a logic he couldn't get around.

He didn't expect Monk Dharma Flower's acting to be so profound and unfathomable, disguising himself so impeccably.

It was fortunate that Gu Jiangming used the trump card he had realized himself through the Dao by controlling the character over these years; otherwise, he might have really been successfully ambushed this time.

【You successfully make a pact with Heaven and Earth, using your final year of lifespan as collateral to restore your strength to its peak during this Reincarnation.】

【The time limit is 1 hour.】

Originally, his lifespan over these years was nearing extinction, and he was about to reach the stage of his Dao dissipating and his body dying; Gu Jiangming's character's cultivation was weaker year by year.

Through the activation of this method, Gu Jiangming returned once again to his most powerful period.

And on the screen.

The entire Shushan was already shrouded by Gu Jiangming's Mana.

"Have you ever witnessed my peak?"

Gu Jiangming watched himself, his momentum continuously spiraling out of control, even the waves of earth-shattering power released spontaneously into the air occasionally emitting sounds like sonic booms.

【"Half an hour of time."】

【"Give me a reason that allows you to survive."】

【"After all, I am what you call a prestigious sect of Daoism; I would not wantonly slaughter the innocent."】

A deeply arrogant voice rang out from the screen.

In this sentence, one could discern neither absolute righteousness nor absolute evil.

Standing above the clouds, at the pinnacle of the crowd, Gu Jiangming raised the Wine Gourd at his waist, as if drinking the last fine wine of his life.

He appeared incomparably calm and self-possessed.

Seeing this moment.

Gu Jiangming was also amazed.

No, are you really me?

How could you say such things in such an unremarkable tone?

Oh no, I've actually been shown up by the character I'm controlling.

Before Gu Jiangming had any room for further reaction.

A card shimmered brilliantly before Gu Jiangming's eyes.

【Congratulations on unlocking a brand-new character portrait skin—Peerless Elegance Gu Jiangming.】

Also unlocking this card.

Was Jiu Jiu, who had been watching the trend and development of all this together.

But she was clearly more concerned about Gu Jiangming's body.

Jiu Jiu could sense that under this unstable pressure, the meridians within Gu Jiangming's body were enduring immense impact and destruction every single moment; if not handled properly, this would undoubtedly be his final moment.

She was filled with worry.

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