The night forest is silent, the chilling cicadas are silent, and the autumn insects are silent.
The tea on the stone table is already cold, and the lamp is broken.
Suddenly, there was a thin rustling sound somewhere in the woods.
The two looked over and saw a squirrel running over a tree at high speed.
That squirrel was very fat, with a gray shadow drawn from its fluffy tail, it looked very cute.
Looking at this scene, for some reason, Chen Changsheng forgot about his imminent death, or even the ending that might be more miserable than death, with an innocent smile on his face.
The Empress Tianhai didn't smile, she just looked at the squirrel quietly, not knowing what she was thinking.
She waved her sleeves, as if to brush away some emotions she didn't like.
The cute squirrel was jumping from one tree to another, and it turned into a bloody flower in mid-air.
Chen Changsheng was stunned, and asked sadly, "Why?"
The Empress Tianhai didn't answer his words, but the voices that sounded in the forest in the early autumn night answered him one after another.
Those voices were dull and popping, as if a skin full of wine could no longer withstand the internal pressure and burst open just like that.
A middle-aged man staggered out from behind a tree, his chest and abdomen had been swollen, as if he had been directly crushed by some terrifying force, his eyes, nose, mouth and ears kept spurting blood , Before he could say anything, he fell down.
Chen Changsheng knew him, he was one of the three cardinals of the Episcopal Office.
He came to look for Chen Changsheng, or he came to protect Chen Changsheng according to Li Gong's order.
Now he died like this before Chen Changsheng's eyes.
Those dull voices continued to sound, and in the night forest in early autumn, more than ten bloody flowers burst out on the trees or in the fallen leaves all over the ground.
Every spot of blood represents that a master of the state religion died violently.
In the night farther away, some state religion masters who were not affected were forced to show up one after another and fled in all directions, but how could they be faster than the wind passing through the night forest
Looking at the terrifying and almost weird scene before him, Chen Changsheng felt chills both physically and mentally.
These dying people are rare masters in the world, but in front of the Holy Empress Tianhai, they don't have any strength to fight back at all.
The Holy Empress of Tianhai had put her hands behind her back again, and the wind blowing from her sleeves was still passing through the forest.
The ruthless killing is still going on, and people die from time to time, and the tragedy is indescribable.
Chen Changsheng shouted that enough is enough.
He felt that his voice was loud enough, but she didn't seem to hear it.
He felt blood in his voice, but she didn't seem to feel anything.
Dozens of incomplete corpses lay quietly in the night forest.
Tianhaisheng looked at the night expressionlessly from behind, and raised his right hand again.
Suddenly a painful muffled sound sounded in the night, and then a person was forced out of the night.
The person who came out of the night was Liu Qing. The sword in his hand was bent and deformed, his clothes were full of tears, and blood was flowing continuously.
He knelt among the fallen leaves, looking at the Holy Empress Tianhai behind Chen Changsheng, his eyes were full of shock and awe, but no fear.
Both Su Li and the mysterious assassin left this continent. He had cultivated to the peak of Gathering Stars when he was in Hanshan, and he is undoubtedly the most powerful assassin in the world. But he had no way to get close to the Holy Empress Tianhai, and even the secret technique hidden in the night was seen through by her at a glance, it was like a joke.
After Hanshan met the Demon Lord, he was already very aware of the gap between himself and those real powerhouses in the sacred domain, and he understood how ridiculous it was for Su Li to bring people like himself into the capital to kill the saints. , but he still came to Kyoto.
Because he's an assassin, that's what he's supposed to do.
Assassins will always die, and he has no dissatisfaction with being able to die in an assassination of the strongest man in the mainland. He even felt very excited. Neither Su Li nor the eldest sister had ever really fought against Tianhai. Although he lost without accident, he tried after all, and... Tianhai is really so strong!
Looking at the Empress Tianhai beside the stone table, Liu Qing's breath was a little anxious, her eyes were bright, and she seemed a little excited.
Empress Tianhai slightly raised her eyebrows.
She knew that Liu Qing was from Tianji Pavilion, and she was not going to kill him because of the sake of old man Tianji, but now she was going to kill him because she didn't like being looked at like this.
I don't know if it's because I've been paying attention to her every move, or because there is a so-called heart-to-heart connection in the dark. Hearing the sound of the fallen leaves beside the table being trampled lightly by the soles of her boots, watching her provoke Eyebrow, Chen Changsheng knew that she was planning to kill Liu Qing, just like she ruthlessly killed those priests from the palace before.
Liu Qing rescued Su Li in Xunyang City, and helped him on Cold Mountain. Of course, Chen Changsheng didn't want him to die, so he was very anxious, especially when he heard the faint sound of hoofbeats outside the fence, and guessed it should be the Orthodox cavalry. Listen! Movement, after rushing to this side. If he couldn't stop her from continuing to kill, then tonight's Orthodox Academy and Baicao Garden would most likely turn into a horrible cemetery.
But now he can't move, he can only make very small movements from the neck up, so he can only try to persuade her again with words. He looked at the Holy Empress Tianhai and begged, "Please let them go. They are all low-level cavalrymen and have nothing to do with such a big event. As for him... he is already a lunatic, so why kill him."
The Empress Tianhai looked down at him and said, "Why should I promise you?"
Chen Changsheng was silent for a moment, then said: "After all, you gave birth to me, but you didn't raise me up, and I don't ask for anything else, I just ask you for this one thing."
The Empress Tianhai raised her eyebrows again, as if mocking.
Chen Changsheng pretended not to see the change in her expression, and continued: "Why do you need to kill so many people? Isn't it enough for you to kill me?"
The Holy Empress Tianhai retracted her gaze and looked at the bloodstain among the fallen leaves. The bloodstain was not left by the priest of Li Palace, but by the squirrel with the fluffy tail.
For some reason, she looked at the bloodstain and remained silent for a long time, as if she was thinking about something.
The hooves of the cavalry outside the courtyard wall were getting closer and closer, and the Orthodox Academy was vaguely heard to be in chaos. Chen Changsheng even heard Tang Thirty-Six's shout.
Time was still passing, and he was getting more and more nervous.
Suddenly, Saint Tianhai reached out and grabbed his collar, and the night wind blew through Qiulin, and the two disappeared without a trace.
Liu Qing struggled to stand up from the fallen leaves, spat out another mouthful of blood, and looked at the empty stone table with a dazed expression.
Accompanied by the sound of impact and door opening, several openings were broken in the courtyard wall, and the Orthodox cavalry and people from the Orthodox Academy rushed towards the woods.
Liu Qing turned around and disappeared into the night.
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Chen Changsheng only felt his body lighten, and then he found himself in the air. The autumn forest in the Herb Garden became a blanket in the distance under his feet, the lights in the palace also became the reflections of the stars in the river, and the burning lights in the Orthodox Academy turned into a blanket in the distance. The torch also gradually went away, and then he saw Qujiang in the distance, saw Zhu Shilin, and then entered a cloud.
Breaking through the clouds, the cool night wind roared in, and the ground and those shallow water channels rushed towards him. He landed on the ground with both feet, and when he looked around, he realized that he had already arrived at Tianshu Mausoleum.
The next moment, his feet left the ground again, instead of flying again, he was lifted up.
The Holy Empress Tianhai carried him like a chicken waiting to be slaughtered, and crossed the clear canals between the stone pings to the bottom of the divine path of the Tianshu Mausoleum.
There was a gazebo, and under the pavilion sat a man, his whole body hidden in armor, like a bronze statue.
It is cloudy in Kyoto tonight, and there are few stars that can be seen.
When Empress Haitian brought Chen Changsheng to the gazebo, the clouds in the night sky parted a tiny gap, and starlight fell on the armor.
The person in the armor woke up, and two distant and vicissitudes of eyes appeared in the depths of the dark helmet.
The Holy Empress Tianhai said: "Those who go to the divine way will be killed."
The man in the armor didn't speak, but slowly raised his right hand and grasped the hilt at his waist.
With this movement, a few wisps of dust splashed out from the armor, as if more than six hundred years were in it.