If everyone was just quiet before, then when Master Hengxu asked this question, everyone held their breath. For a moment, even the sound of the wind blowing around them could be heard clearly.
Seeing that he was filled with sorrow, his heart was suddenly filled with anxiety.
Only Fu Chaosheng remained the same as before.
There were faint ripples in his deep green pupils, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye. Facing the seemingly calm but actually suppressed questions from Master Hengxu, standing in the center of the gazes of so many cultivators, he did not look guilty at all.
There was only one sentence: "There is nothing to explain. It's not me."
"no?!"
Lu Song once thought that this monster was very evil, but perhaps because he was still involved with Yashan, he subconsciously felt that he might have some good points. He never thought that he would deny it and not admit that he had done it at all!
"You, you, you monster, how dare you lie!"
The already hoarse voice was now almost silent due to extreme anger and exertion.
Not only did his face turn red, but his entire neck was red as well.
Lu Song raised his hand and pointed at Fu Chaosheng. He was so angry that his whole body was shaking. His vision went dark and he almost lost his balance.
It is hard to tell whether his answer was expected or unexpected.
Logically, he was the one who had a conflict with Lu Song in Lanke Building yesterday, and he was also the most likely one to take action last night; but now he was standing here, calmly saying that it was not him, which made people feel particularly convinced, and he did not seem to be lying.
But, Lu Song's cultivation is so high, and he is the master of the Spiritual Pavilion, so he should be able to distinguish the aura, right
Moreover, he was so sure in his words before...
Everyone looked at each other.
Zhenren Hengxu also frowned, and his gaze towards Fu Chaosheng suddenly became sharper, as if it had turned into two sharp knives, wanting to peel off his skin and see the truth inside.
But Jianchou felt very confused at this moment.
She didn't know much about Fu Chaosheng, but what she knew was enough to judge many things.
Something sank deep in my heart.
The anxiety was eliminated, the complexity was dispelled, and only a sense of "emptiness" remained.
Fu Chaosheng was standing next to her. His voice was the first thing she heard, but she felt it was very far away.
She looked at him slowly.
He also glanced at Zhenren Hengxu, Lu Song and all the other people who were there.
Then I realized there was no need to read on.
The result was clear when Fu Chaosheng denied it.
So she smiled, without showing any flaws on her face, and just bowed forward, saying politely: "Since Fellow Daoist Fu is here, I think both sides can confront each other about what happened last night. It's not something that an ordinary person like me can do. Please forgive me for being rude, and I'll take my leave first."
When these words were spoken, everyone was a little surprised.
But seeing his sad expression, he didn't see anything unusual. Instead, it seemed that he really was just as she said, not particularly concerned about the matter, and seemed to have confidence in her great demon friend, believing that it was not him who did it.
For a while, everyone had their own speculations.
Naturally, Zhenren Hengxu would not stop this.
However, several fellow disciples and elders on Yashan who were familiar with Jianchou felt that this was not like the style of Senior Sister Jianchou. They looked at each other, but didn't know what was going on.
I didn't dare ask or stop her, so I just let her go.
At this time, the fog in the entire Shattered Immortal City had begun to gradually dissipate.
It can be seen that when Zhou Chou was walking in this courtyard, feeling the gradually thinning fog, he felt that the fog around him not only did not dissipate, but became even thicker.
It's not lingering outside the body, but trapped in the heart.
She went back to her room and sat in meditation, but did not practice. She just looked at the gradually denser green shade outside the window. She placed the Burning Lamp Sword beside her and was a little absent-minded while thinking.
The subsequent development of things was certainly not surprising.
Even if Zhenren Hengxu wanted to convict someone, he would have to rely on the word "evidence". How could he determine that it was Fu Chaosheng who did it based on Lu Song's words alone
Not to mention he flatly denied it.
One says yes, the other says no, and there was a conflict between these two people yesterday. Whose words can be believed
I’m afraid everyone trusts Lu Song more.
But no one dared to assert that it was Fu Chaosheng who did this, and that it was Fu Chaosheng who launched a sneak attack and broke Lu Song's arm last night.
Zuo Liu and several fellow apprentices who noticed that something was not quite right with her sent word of the incident and calmly informed her of the follow-up to the incident.
Since she left, Fu Chaosheng seemed a little dazed.
Later, facing Lu Song's repeated accusations and Zhenren Hengxu's repeated questioning, he was no longer as patient and calm as before.
Each answer became more impatient than the last, and in the end they almost got into a fight.
In other words, they have already fallen out.
In front of the two great masters, Hengxu Zhenren and Fudao Shanren, and in front of many cultivators from the Nineteen Continents led by the Kunwu Yashan Sect, he said with a cold face: "If I had attacked by surprise, do you think I could have let you live until now and let you identify me?"
Everyone's expression suddenly changed.
At such a moment, the demonic nature of the great demon was fully and hideously displayed before them, causing a chill to rise in their hearts.
No one expected that he would be so arrogant and bold!
The matter was ultimately left unresolved.
On the Yashan side, including Jianchou, no one actually said a word for Fu Chaosheng from beginning to end. The only dispute instead occurred between Jianchou, Lu Song, and Zhenren Hengxu.
As for the part about Fu Chaosheng, it seems unremarkable.
The extremely angry Master Lu Song of the Spiritual Pavilion was finally persuaded to go back by the highly accomplished Taoist Hengxu Zhenren, who only said that they would look for clues together and heal his wounds and reconnect his arm.
Fu Chaosheng is safe and sound.
When the others saw this, they knew it was going to be fun. Those who were related went up to offer comfort, while those who were not related or had any grudges against them just laughed and left one after another.
The farce seemed to have ended.
But anyone with a brain and eyes can see that the undercurrents beneath the surface did not end with the temporary end of the farce, but instead became even more turbulent.
Like a volcano about to erupt...
No one wants it to explode right now, so almost everyone is trying their best to control and suppress it...
But these are all temporary.
Everyone knows that sooner or later, this volcano will explode, and the power of the eruption will be faster and more violent than before they suppressed it, a hundred times, a thousand times.
Everyone involved in the situation is now standing on the crater of the volcano.
Unable to leave.
It can only rise and fall with the changes in the situation.
The door of sorrow is knocked when the sky is about to go dark.
She walked over and opened the door, and saw Fu Chaosheng's figure. A layer of dim sunset glow coated his body, which should have looked bright, but in her eyes it looked like blood.
His face was against the light, and Jianchou could hardly see it clearly, but he felt that there was a sense of decadence in his eyes.
Mayflies are born in the morning and die in the evening.
Judging from his original destiny, at this moment, he might have reached the end of his life. He would no longer fly by the water, but would just gently stay on a piece of green grass, waiting for time to end it
Then the complexity that had been suppressed rose up again.
Jianchou sighed and stepped aside: "What's the matter?"
But Fu Chaosheng stood outside and didn't come in.
He was still very tall, and his shadow under the sunset was a long one, overlapping into the door and passing by Jianchou's feet.
He raised his eyes and looked at her: "Are you unhappy?"
This question is really irrelevant.
Seeing that he didn't come in, Jianchou didn't force him and simply walked out by herself. She paced and stood under the eaves, looking up at the sunset in the sky with a vague gaze.
She just laughed and said, "I was just thinking about the attack on Pavilion Master Lu last night."
Fu Chaosheng was silent for a moment. He just stood by the door and looked at her back reflected by the sunset.
Even though he did not have a human sense of aesthetics and never thought that the sunset glow that represented death and disappearance was beautiful, at this moment, he seemed to be able to feel the beauty of "dusk" that the poets on the isolated island on earth had sung for thousands of years.
"Old friend, do you think I did something wrong?"
"Did you do this?"
Jianchou finally asked the question, which was far from being as serious as she had been thinking at the time. Instead, it sounded like a joke, with a hint of lightness.
She turned sideways to look at him.
Fu Chaosheng did not avoid it at all, nor did he feel nervous or strange. He just remembered the scene when she turned and left when they confronted each other in the daytime.
Then, he was as calm and composed as if he was denying it in front of everyone.
He replied, "It's me."
Did you do this
It's me.
At this moment, Jianchou wanted to laugh, and the absurd feeling in his heart arose: "Then why deny it?"
"If I don't deny it, my old friend will be troubled by it."
How to deal with the follow-up, or how embarrassing it will be in Yashan.
Fu Chaosheng answered without any hesitation, and even seemed particularly clear-headed.
To him, there is neither black nor white, nor right or wrong in this world.
If he had to forcibly divide his world into two parts, one part would be Jianchou, and the other would be everything else besides Jianchou.
He would never tell a lie to Jianchou, but he never took other people seriously.
He doesn't really understand the ways of the world, perhaps it's his nature as a mayfly, or it may be that he has never thought of wasting time to accommodate the weak.
But this doesn't mean he doesn't understand the interests involved.
During the time he served as Master Fu on the isolated island on earth, he had learned a lot.
However, what happened today left him a little confused.
In his opinion, Jianchou and the others should be separated, and the change of one would not affect the other. But when she turned and left today, he realized that the "others" part had become a little messy.
He could sense that she was unhappy, but he didn't know why.
Only after Hengxu and others left did Kun remind him a few things.
He thought about it for a long time.
Originally, he thought that Kun was wrong and that Jianchou would not be unhappy because of his actions. However, after asking, he found that his feeling was wrong and Kun was right.
She was unhappy because he had done this.
She was also upset that he had publicly denied what he had done.
Fu Chaosheng couldn't learn to beat around the bush, so he just repeated the question he had asked earlier but Jianchou avoided answering: "My old friend, do you think I did something wrong?"
"… "
To be honest, Jianchou didn’t feel that he was very unhappy, he just suddenly realized something that he had not realized before.
She felt that she shouldn't discuss this issue with him at the moment, because many thoughts were lingering in her mind, making her feel that she was not very clear-headed.
But his question was so direct that there was no room for avoidance.
So after a short pause, Jianchou looked at him and gave a calm and affirmative answer: "Yes, I think what you did was not quite right. Pavilion Master Lu has no grudge against you. Although his words were extreme and did offend you, firstly, the matter has been settled, and secondly, his crime was not so serious. But you retaliated with brutal force, causing him serious injuries and breaking one of his arms, and you still refuse to admit it."
He denied it because he had considered the pros and cons.
If I admit it, there will be endless troubles, not only for myself, but also for Jianchou and her Yashan; if I don’t admit it, they won’t be able to find any evidence against me, so what can I do to him
But Lu Song’s crime is not so serious…
There was a hint of darkness under his dark green pupils. Fu Chaosheng stood there without moving and said, "He is not guilty of such a crime, but I don't like him."
"Just because you don't like someone, you have to do this to them?"
Although he had long been known to be a demon, his ideas would be different from others, and the things he did might not necessarily be upright, it was clear that Chou had never thought that the differences would be so great.
"He left me a word before, giving me a warning and advice, but I did not believe it."
But now, I feel that Lu Song should not have lied.
It is not a shocking thing to say that Fu Chaosheng is stained with blood and has many innocent lives on his hands.
On the contrary, this is reasonable for this big monster.
Jianchou couldn't help thinking.
Was it that she had not thought deeply about it before, or was it that the right opportunity had only come today, allowing this thing that had already existed to surface
She looked at Fu Chaosheng, and after a quick look, she suddenly felt that he was a stranger.
Fu Chaosheng, however, pursed his thin lips slightly.
When she mentioned Lu Song's "advice", her expression became colder and icy: "It is precisely because of what he said that my old friend became suspicious, so I want to kill him."
But Kun refused to let him go, and finally saved his life.
Jianchou never thought that he would hear such words from his mouth.
It does not talk about cause and effect, it is extremely simple logic.
He didn't and didn't need to think more about it, as if the most fundamental reason for the matter had nothing to do with him, or he didn't think he was wrong at all.
She couldn't help but ask, "So you did kill many innocent people on the isolated island?"
"To enter the extreme realm, the living souls must cause chaos, and then there will be an opportunity."
Fu Chaosheng spoke in a flat voice and did not mention that Zhang Tang, who was already a judge in Jiyu, was also beheaded for opposing him, because in his opinion these were all trivial matters.
"I killed people for the sake of necessity, but in the eyes of my old friend, is that wrong?"
To kill for the need...
At this moment, she looked at Fu Chaosheng's deep eyes that concealed the vicissitudes of life, and she didn't know what to feel.
It is normal to say it is ridiculous, and it is ridiculous to say it is normal.
It seems wrong, yet it seems right.
As a great demon, isn't it in keeping with his status for him to do this
"Let's talk about it in two days. I think I may need to calm down."
Jianchou felt like he had run into some kind of maze and couldn't quite figure it out. He was unwilling to make any irrational judgments or decisions at this moment, especially something that wouldn't have an answer for the time being.
After a long silence, she said this, then said "some other day" and turned to go back to the house.
But just as she turned around, a force suddenly came from behind her and landed on her left arm.
It was Fu Chaosheng who suddenly grabbed her!
The straight and calm voice already added a bit of unconscious repression and oppression: "Do you think I'm wrong?"
When Jianchou turned around, he was met with a pair of rare, not calm eyes, as if a huge wave was stirred up in the deep sea, even somewhat similar to the anger before a storm.
There is also a…
The loneliness is hidden so deeply, even so fragile.
She held back and didn't move.
Fu Chaosheng did not retract his hand that was holding her arm. Even he himself could not explain why he had such an impolite behavior, but at that moment he felt a strong emotion in his heart, surging in his chest...
He felt uncomfortable.
They stared at each other quietly for a moment before he slowly let go of her hand.
"My old friend thought I was wrong because these people had never offended me, nor had they ever posed a threat to me, so I shouldn't have killed them."
"What about Keren?"
"What crime have the birds and beasts committed? They have never committed any crime, and they are not necessarily a threat. All living things in the world are either eaten by others or driven into slavery by others..."
The voice no longer had that kind of depression and anger, it just came quietly, like the sound of water flowing in the deep night, revealing the vague and deep lowness and sadness.
“Even these plants, flowers and trees grow between heaven and earth and have their own birth and death.”
"Buddhist monks are vegetarians and do not eat meat, and do not commit sins such as killing. However, in the scriptures, plants, flowers and trees are listed as species without emotions and are excluded from the six realms of rebirth."
"Gulls prey on insects and fish, tigers and wolves prey on cattle and sheep; both are the strong preying on the weak."
Hearing his voice, Jianchou neither responded nor refuted.
She just looked at him, and felt that his features and expression at this moment gradually overlapped with the mysterious young man by the pond on Dengtian Island that year.
His words gradually merged with his words of "never let the sun set" back then.
"And you humans prey on everything weaker than humans in heaven and earth. Insects and fish are not immune, seagulls and birds cannot escape; cattle and sheep are not immune, tigers and wolves cannot escape."
"Some kill because of hunger, others kill because of need."
"If I am strong and others are weak, then people will regard me as a monster; if I am strong and others are weak, then how will others regard me?"
Fu Chaosheng was born of heaven and earth, and he has always understood this heaven and earth, and the way of heaven, thoroughly, so that there is not even a trace of beauty to cover up.
Sensible and cruel.
He looked at Jianchou with a calm look in his eyes.
"All living things are killing and eating each other in order to survive; looking around the world, who is not a demon?"
"The strong prey on the weak—"
“This is the true truth that this universe has endowed all living beings with.”
Looking around the world, who -
Not a monster
Jianchou just felt a little cold, and he didn't know whether it was because of Fu Chaosheng at the moment, or because of the words he said, or perhaps, because of something bigger and deeper that was coming towards him.
After he finished saying this, the voice that was faintly filled with some reluctance finally lowered itself again, and for the first time he really called her name.
"See, I'm not wrong."