Su Li said expressionlessly, "The Southerners lost their best and last chance like this. What would they thank me for? Zhouren, apart from thinking that I'm a lunatic, they won't thank me either."
After thinking for a while, Chen Changsheng said: "... just because you don't like it or thank you doesn't mean you want senior to die."
Su Li said: "In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, Tianhai, Old Man Yin, and the woman on the Shengnv Peak are still thinking about the north-south confluence, but I still don't agree. If I don't agree, Li Shan can't agree. The Longevity Sect can't agree, the north and the south merge... it will always be just a big cake drawn on paper, don't you think these saints don't want me to die?"
Hearing Su Li's words, Chen Changsheng was silent for a long time, looking at the big formation on the snowy field when he had just left Zhou Garden, he said, "The demons... want senior to die too."
"Do you think this is absurd? Remember, an enemy's enemy is not necessarily a friend, because there is something called interest in the middle. If I die, the mainland will be in turmoil, and Mojun and Tianhai are the two most confident people in the world. They were confident they could take advantage of the chaos and get what they wanted out of it, so of course they all wanted me dead."
Chen Changsheng looked at Su Li, and said very seriously and sincerely: "Senior, why don't you support the North-South Confluence? No matter how you look at it, this matter is good for mankind."
"Should I do things that are beneficial to mankind? Well, this sentence is too much like what the villain said, so I take it back."
Su Li looked at him and said calmly, "But can you answer me a question, what's the difference between being ruled by Tianhai and being ruled by the demons?"
Chen Changsheng really wanted to say that the difference between the two is too great, that wars between races are in danger of extinction, and wars between humans are just a matter of who bows their heads, but he knows that for people like Su Li , being ruled is an unacceptable situation in itself, and there really isn't much difference between the two.
"Senior, has the world in your eyes always been this dark?"
"Not dark, but colorless, cold ice. As I said, that's the benefit."
"Could it be... we can't think of the world as good?" This was the third time Chen Changsheng asked such a question.
"No, because this kind of thing has happened many times before. The so-called history is just the evidence of the present, and the so-called present is just the repetition of history." Su Li looked at him and said, "I don't want to be the second Zhou Dufu , so neither the Demon Race nor you Zhou people will believe it."
The black willow forest was quiet again. After Chen Changsheng was silent for a long time, he suddenly asked, "Senior, are you teaching me?"
From the moment he entered the military village, Su Li talked more with him. Whether he met the assassins or the cavalrymen of the Great Zhou, and the choice of topics that seemed random but actually had profound meanings in the conversations all showed that He was trying to teach Chen Changsheng something - how to look at the world and how to live.
Su Li looked at him and said mockingly, "Isn't it too late to realize it now? It is rumored that you have read Daozang thoroughly. Why can't I see any enlightenment in you?"
"But... why is that?"
Chen Changsheng didn't care about the senior's ridicule, but was quite puzzled. He is from Zhou, and Su Li is from the south. He is a new generation of mountain monsters trained by the state religion, and Su Li is a high-ranking swordsman. There is no relationship between the two, and the faction they belong to even secretly hostile Su Li has no reason to teach him like a teacher about the bad relationship between Orthodox Academy and Lishan Sword Sect, and the possible competition between him and Mr. Qiushan in the past and in the future.
"Because I admire you very much." Su Li looked at him expressionlessly and said, "Is this reason enough?"
Chen Changsheng shook his head honestly and said, "Senior, of course it's not enough."
Su Li was a little speechless. If it was any other junior who taught him so patiently, not to mention being grateful, at least after he gave a reason, it would be absolutely impossible for him to continue asking questions. He looked into the young man's clear and bright eyes, and suddenly laughed, thinking that he was right, if this little guy wasn't such a person, how could he lose his temper
"Because I hope you can live a good life, the longer the better." He said seriously to Chen Changsheng.
Chen Changsheng was slightly startled, wondering if the senior knew that his meridian was severed and his life was not long
Su Li's next words showed that he didn't know the secret. He said, "Because you can only become strong enough if you live long enough. I hope you will remain strong until the end."
"What's the last?"
"The next generation Pope."
"... Seniors want me to be the next pope?"
"That's right, it's the best thing for the southerners because you become the pope."
"Why?"
"Because you don't want to kill people, and you don't want to be intoxicated by killing people. You can see things other than life and death very clearly. I have never seen a young man at your age who can care so little about fame and fortune... Of course, your obsession with my yellow paper umbrella sometimes makes me doubt my own judgment."
"I don't know how the seniors can see that I don't care about fame and wealth... Is this how I can become the pope?"
Chen Changsheng subconsciously glanced at the gray sky, looked at the snowflakes falling from an unknown distance, and said, "It feels so far away."
Su Li looked at him with interest, and said, "Could it be that you have never had this kind of self-awareness?"
Chen Changsheng withdrew his gaze, and asked in a daze, "What self-awareness?"
"Li Gong attaches so much importance to you, cultivates you, and makes you the youngest Tongyou Shangjing in history, the youngest dean of the Orthodox Academy... If you don't want you to be the next generation pope, what do those old guys want to do?"
Chen Changsheng was silent. Now he already knew why His Excellency Bishop Merisa took such good care of him, and what His Excellency the Pope thought.
After leaving Tianshu Mausoleum, all the mysteries have already been answered. But he didn't understand this matter very well, and subconsciously didn't want to remember it. There were so many things that happened in Zhou Garden that he thought he really forgot about it, until now Su Li awakened him again.
He is the heir to the state religion.
However, his eyes still habitually fall on a place not far in front of him, and he is not used to looking up at the sky. Whether it is a gray sky or a blue sky, the light is so dazzling. If he returns to the capital, as the successor of the state religion, he may have to face the majesty of the Holy Empress, which makes him very disturbed. Of course, he must first return to the capital.
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