Chapter 134: Zilong, I Am Also Your Elder Brother!
Boom!!!
Amid the roar, Chi slammed the huge kite‑shield heavily in front of him.
The silvery spear tip collided brazenly with the crimson giant shield!
There was no earth‑shaking explosion.
Only deathly silence remained!
Crack—!
The sound of shattering was somewhat harsh.
The crimson kite shield, touted as the Absolute Guard, began to crack.
"Hm?!"
Zhao Yun, who had already turned, had his pupils snap shut.
He felt it.
His own spear, his own Dao, were blocked by a kindred will…
Blocked?!
All are Guard!
But the opponent…
It seemed not to be the Great Guard that protects all living!
Rather, it was the Absolute Guard that would burn everything for a single person, willing to confront the whole world!
"Roar—!!!"
The Red‑Daring Dragon Guard felt the terrifying pressure emanating from the shield.
On the towering body, the crimson Dragon Scale fractured inch by inch, blood gushing!
But he…
He actually, bearing that about‑to‑break kite shield, forced himself to step forward!
Thud!
The entire blood‑red battlefield shuddered violently!
"Wang!"
"Go!"
Su Ming took the whole scene in, inhaled deeply, said nothing, and set off.
Walking behind Chi!
Crack!
Crack!
The cracks on the kite shield multiplied.
Chi's body trembled violently.
The crimson Dragon Scale covering his body shattered and peeled off in large pieces, turning to ash.
For each ounce of pressure he bore, he let out a painful roar.
Yet his steps never ceased.
Carrying the Dao that could crush everything, he pressed onward!
Su Ming's pace was neither hurried nor slow.
He was a traveler walking in the eye of a hurricane.
All around, heaven and earth were tearing apart, yet within his single step, the wind was calm.
Because Chi was there!
One is the absolute loyalty that burns oneself to light the way.
The other is the absolute reason that uses that light to reach the end.
The figure in white robes turned slowly.
Waves rose again in his heart!
He had seen countless loyal warriors.
He had seen countless robe‑clad men who were fearless unto death.
But he had never seen such a combination.
He was somewhat moved.
He did not stop them.
He only watched silently.
Watching them, step by step…
Carrying his own spear.
Carrying his own Dao.
He trudged laboriously toward that Gate.
What a striking similarity this scene!
That year, outside the Jin Cheng Palace.
The rain poured down heavily.
He, too, stood in front of a person just like this.
"Your Majesty! No!"
"The nation's traitor is Cao Pi, not Sun Quan! If we now strike Wu, once the armies clash, we cannot bring it to a swift end!"
"For avenging my second brother alone, disregarding the nation's great righteousness, disregarding the lives of ten thousand soldiers, this is not the deed of a wise ruler!"
He knelt in the rain, earnestly urging him.
Every word he spoke was counsel for the state, every word was golden and sound.
But that man with blood‑red eyes, devoured by endless sorrow and raging fire, only stared at him.
He stared for a very long time.
Then, he smiled.
He smiled uglier than a cry.
"Zilong…"
"You are right about everything."
"But I… am not only the Great Han Emperor."
"I am still Liu Bei, the elder brother of Yun Chang!"
"Does an elder brother need to weigh right and wrong or wait for the right moment to avenge his younger brother?"
"I can wait no longer…"
"I fear that if I keep waiting, when I reach the road to the Yellow Springs I will have no face to meet Yun Chang!"
That day, the rain over Jin City fell heavily.
In the end, he still could not stop it.
He could only watch, eyes wide open, as that half‑virtuous ruler was devoured by his elder brother's hatred and the Emperor's stubbornness.
He personally ignited the fate of the nation.
Leading the last elite of Shu Han, he charged straight into the inferno called Yiling.
"Dao…"
Zhao Yun's gaze withdrew from memory and settled again on Su Ming.
He suddenly understood.
He wanted to use【Great Righteousness】to counsel, to judge.
But these people.
The path they walk has never been the way of【Great Righteousness】.
It is【True Heart】!
It is a resolve to see it through even if it means opposing the world!
Such【Dao】has no right or wrong.
Also…
Cannot be stopped.
"Roar—!"
That towering crimson figure.
Still using a flesh‑and‑blood body and a soul about to shatter, he stubbornly braced his own spear.
Behind him, the young man trod the blood‑stained road paved by that loyalty.
Step by step, he drew nearer to the Gate.
Dong!
Dong!
Dong!
With each step, Red's body shivered violently, the crimson flame in his eyes dimming a notch.
Su Ming saw it with his eyes and felt pain in his heart.
But inspiration and tears are reserved for the weak.
Yet if he stops.
It would be the greatest insult to that loyalty!
The only thing he can do, and the only thing Red hopes he will do—
Is to not look back, and keep moving forward!
Finally.
That crimson figure, bearing a silver spear that had not waned a hair, arrived before the Gate.
Below the Gate, Xiang Chong, Liao Hua, Zhang Yi and several other generals' souls' wills.
Silently they stepped aside to both sides, leaving a passage.
"Roar—!"
Red let out a final roar and entered the Gate!
Su Ming followed closely behind.
He stepped into the crimson temple Gate!
Buzz—!
The brilliant silver gleam of the bright silver spear finally faded away like a burnt‑out candle.
Outside the Gate, that ancient battlefield of Corpse Mountain Blood Sea also shattered piece by piece like Mirror Flower Water Moon, vanishing in smoke.
Boom!!!
The shattered kite‑shield disintegrated into countless specks of light.
Red's towering body could no longer hold up.
It seemed as if all its bones were pulled out, and it fell back softly.
Wang...
The road is open.
An arm extended from behind him.
Su Ming silently lifted Chi's body, as heavy as a mountain, onto his shoulder.
Advance!
End of Chapter
