Repugnant Gateway

Chapter 1340 – Why I’m Halfway Up the Mountain

An Zheng’s figure was already far away within the forest. The trembling Wen Zhongda who was kneeling suddenly stood up and gave chase, yet with his cultivation, he was actually caught up to. While he was panicking, he did not have the time to think about it. This was the last chance that An Zheng had given him. If he did not chase them, An Zheng would be indifferent to the lives of a million people in the Qinguan.

“Master!”

Upon seeing An Zheng’s back, Wen Zhongda let out a loud shout, then kneeled on the ground. “Sect Master, please point me in the right direction.”

“What did Qin Zhi say?”

An Zheng stopped and did not turn back as he asked.

Wen Zhongda answered truthfully, “Qin Zhi always thought that he was a big threat to you, Sect Master.”

The corner of An Zheng’s mouth hooked up slightly, “Big trouble? He can’t even be considered a nuisance … When you go back, tell the Qinguan’s garrison troops that if they are willing to join our Heavenly Awakening Sect, instead of having the potential to cultivate, our Heavenly Awakening Sect will accept them all. If you don’t want to follow me, I will get the Yancheng to send me enough money and food. The temple is not high, it is close by your side. “The martial arts world is not intangible, you guys are inside.”

After saying these words, An Zheng stepped onto the stone steps. Halfway up the mountain was the Nine Heavens Temple.

When a person took a step forward, it would be like swallowing a mountain and swallowing a river. People said that tigers could not be stopped when they went down the mountain and had the power to swallow the world. However, An Zheng could not stop him from going up the mountain, as he had the attitude of rushing into the clouds.

Wen Zhongda knew, that even if An Zheng did not come today, Qin Zhi was nothing in An Zheng’s eyes. If An Zheng wanted to kill Qin Zhi, that would be done in an instant. Qin Zhi thought that he could threaten An Zheng or even control An Zheng, but he didn’t know how childish he was.

“Thank you, Sect Master!”

Wen Zhongda clasped his fists and bowed.

This bow represented the life and death of a million people.

An Zheng stepped onto the stone stairs and followed the winding road. The sound of the wind blowing through the dense forest was like sword qi that swept through everything. In the dense forest, the people who wanted to kill An Zheng, would have long ago released their Sword Qi in their hearts. The commoners felt that the martial arts world had nothing to do with them, but the martial arts world was a matter of the world. Just like An Zheng’s life and death, which was able to cause sucuckus. If An Zheng was alive, at least in these tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, everyone would be safe and at ease. If An Zheng died, then these tens of thousands of miles would be a river flowing with blood. Who knew how many people had died and how many had been displaced.

A man who had to suffer hundreds of millions of lives and deaths was no longeero, but an emperor.

Tan Shanse sat on top of that huge boulder without moving, steadier than someone who had been sitting on top of that boulder fohousand years. He looked calm and composed, but in his heart, he admired An Zheng’s methods of killing from the bottom of his heart. If it was anyone else, they would have to consider it a lot. With a million strong army under Qin Zhi’s command, if they didn’t appease him, there would be a possible mutiny. If they did, they would be filled with arrogance. If he killed them, there would be internal strife. However, An Zheng didn’t have the slightest bit of hesitation. He killed people cleanly as if they were nothing at all.

“I suddenly realized that I’m different from him.”

Tan Shanse sighed, he turned and looked at his subordinates, and became disheartened. He had a lot of subordinates, and there were at least four to five hundred people with decent cultivation waiting outside for him to give orders. When he looked around, he realized that the combined power of these people was not as graceful as An Zheng’s. This caused Tan Shanse to feel a little uneasy in his heart … It was definitely not a good thing to have such a feeling towards one’s enemy.

In the end, his gaze fell upon the person who had already drifted away from him.

“When I was at Da Xi, I was the most careful and raised you. That Taoist Wu Dangshan, however, cut the karma between us. Didn’t you always have a worry in your heart? That’s why you risked your life to exchangeach wood for your own … At that time, the person I feared the most was Chen Wunuo. If he knew of your existence, he would have sent you to hell right away. ”

He looked at the man. “But you will come back to me, because you are me.”

Feng Xiuyang stood there, with a sad look on his face: “I’m not you.”

“The cultivation level of that Ox-nose Wu Dang Shan is extremely ordinary. Do you really think that he can sever the relationship between me and my clone? “He is only using the Dao Sect’s sealing technique to seal off the connection between us. In this era, Ox-nose’s cultivation is even more insignificant.”

Tan Shanse looked at An Zheng who was walking up the mountain, his eyes looked a little uncertain: “But I don’t want to use you, I still have to keep you. I groomed many people and made them kill An Zheng, but they were all killed by him in the end. But these people aren’t important. I can cultivate more and more. But you are different, I thought, if there comes a day when I am unable to kill An Zheng, I will die in his hands. If you are alive, then I am alive. “I don’t even want to open the seal Niu Nose gave you and let you live according to your own thoughts.”

He turned around and looked at Feng Xiuyang. “Is it a little desolate?”

“I’m not you.”

Feng Xiuyang’s reply was still only these few words.

“Why must you deceive yourself? Even if I do not remove the seal, you are still only my avatar.” You should thank me for letting you live as Feng Xiuyang. If you recover my identity as a clone, An Zheng will definitely kill you. If you are only Feng Xiuyang, then An Zheng will not kill you … In my entire life, I have only done one thing, and that is to destroy all cultivators … But only now do you know that you’re greedy too. ”

He waved his hand. “You may leave.”

Feng Xiuyang stubbornly stood there: “I’m not you.”

“Whether it is or not, it is no longer important.”

Tan Shanse said: “Did you see the person who went up the mountain? He’s been going up the mountain. As for me, I thought I was sitting on a high ground overlooking everything. Now I realize that my height is not at the highest point, but at the middle of the mountain. I’ve always been halfway up the mountain … He began to look down from above, but now he was looking up. An Zheng had already walked very, very high, and not to mention the cultivation level of the Celestial Sovereign, he had even learned how to raise people … Do you know who raised people? “The Emperor.”

“If he does, I’ll kill him.”

Tan Shanse chuckled, looking even more desolate.

“If you don’t leave and stay by my side, I’ll undo the seal.”

Feng Xiuyang was still unwilling to leave: “Didn’t you capture me just to undo the seal? Since that’s the case, then you can try undoing it and see if I am Feng Xiuyang or not. If you win, I will dieaceful death. If you lose, I can live with pride. ”

“Pride?”

Tan Shanse snorted: “It’s not worth much.”

He stood up, stretched his body, and said, “If you don’t want to leave, I’ll leave. This place can’t stop An Zheng anymore, furthermore, I never planned to stop him myself. Many people, such as the Ninth Sage, think highly of themselves, not only Xu Zhe. ”

As he walked down the mountain, the huge black umbrella floated beside him. Feng Xiuyang also left and followed behind Tan Shanse: “I know what you want to do, you didn’t come here to kill An Zheng, you wanted to borrow An Zheng’s power to kill all of these cultivators. The reason why you created the so-called Gui Yuan Sect wasn’t to compete with An Zheng’s Heavenly Awakening Sect. You intentionally gathered these people together and instigated a belief that you could win the world by killing An Zheng, then sent them to their deaths. ”

Tan Shanse could not help but burst out laughing, “You’re still saying that you’re not me, I’m afraid that even An Zheng cannot compare to you in terms of thinking. Your thoughts and mine are really interconnected. ”

Feng Xiuyang: “Do you know why you never win?”

“Why?”

“Because you’ve always underestimated An Zheng.”

Feng Xiuyang said while walking: “You think that An Zheng doesn’t know that you are borrowing his power to kill those cultivators? If he knows, why did he kill him? ”

Tan Shanse’s footsteps suddenly stopped, and he turned around to look at Feng Xiuyang. “Are you saying that An Zheng already knows who he is, knows who I am, and knows who that person is?”

Feng Xiuyang: “You just said it yourself, he was always climbing the mountain, and you just started off a little taller, stopping halfway up the mountain without moving an inch. So you can always see that far, halfway up the mountain, about three hundred miles is three hundred miles. As for him, he has been walking up, so he saw farther than you … ”

Tan Shanse looked in the direction where An Zheng had disappeared. After a moment of silence, he laughed bitterly, “The enemy already knows who I am, but I don’t know who I am.”

Feng Xiuyang said: “Now it seems that not only are you inferior to An Zheng, you’re also inferior to me. The moment you started to doubt yourself, your realm had already fallen to my initial state. I was constantly looking for who I was, constantly wanting to deny myself, which was why I exchanged the peach tree for my life. If he denied it, then he would no longer pursue it. As for you, you are starting to look for me … When you suspect, when you pursue, you become confused about the mission you were determined to accomplish. And you will suspect the person who gave you the mission. ”

Tan Shanse suddenly reacted, and the gaze he used to look at Feng Xiuyang contained more admiration than before: “So you actually solved it yourself.”

Feng Xiuyang shrugged his shoulders, “I don’t want to live in such a fake manner. Zhang Zhenjun’s methods are indeed a little weak in this age. But the realm of Zhang Zhenjun is truly higher than you … He said it wasn’t to make me forget who I was, but to make sure I was who I was. The wood couldn’t be exchanged for life essence, it could only be traded for a life form. Zhang Zhenjun said that the most difficult thing was to change one’s mind. It was even harder to deny oneself than to affirm oneself. He said that his family had always been pursuing the path of nature because … Give yourself an excuse and live on. To be alive is the way of nature. ”

He stood there. “Are you trying to kill me?”

Tan Shanse was silent for a very long time before he let oueavy breath, “Forget it … You live, and I have to be stubborn. If I were to suddenly change my personality, An Zheng will return to being lonely. ”

He raised his hand and pointed to the sky, “I just want to ask a question from the heavens... Do you remember what you asked me to do? If you remember, why did you only let me stay halfway up the mountain. ”