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"So, your purpose of disturbing the world this time has failed again. I can only say to you, very sorry, because the opponent you are facing this time is not something you can handle, so you should go out of the city earlier..."

In the teahouse, Huangfu Zhai dissolved the layout of Shangguan Yan one by one, calmly wiped the bronze mirror in his hand and asked calmly.

Shangguan Yan sighed, picked up the tea bowl on the table and shook it. After confirming that the tea was warm, he then drank half of the bowl in one sip...

Huangfu Zhai continued: "I just deliberately showed my nervous flaws, making you think you can win a game. In fact, I just want to see what kind of frustration feels like when you feel the most hopeful, and suddenly falls to the bottom of the valley..."

After a long time, Shangguan Yan took a deep breath and said to Huangfu Zhai: "Jiuzi, I'll say the same thing. Can you return the cold smoke to me?"

Huangfu Zhai asked: "At this moment, are you still planning to waste time on a useless person?"

"At least, she is useful to me now..." Shangguan Yan gently stroked her hair and said lightly, "After all, I'm used to him staying by my side to protect me. She's there, I feel at ease..."

"This reason is not perfect..." Huangfu Zhai said, "And you don't want those who will be blinded by feelings. I really know you too much..."

"Maybe, people will change..." Shangguan Yan said, "Including me, you did win tonight, but you still can't stop the tragedy..."

Huangfu Zhai said: "You want to talk to me about your great principles, right? Very good, I'll listen carefully..."

Shangguan Yan continued: "Teacher, do you want to hear about my other experience in Yingzhou back then? His experiences of the seven warriors before were even more disgusting..."

Huangfu Zhai said: "Are you going to promote your dark theory?"

Shangguan Yan shook his head: "Please listen to me after this story. That year, I wandered around Yingzhou and lived in a local wealthy family for several nights.

It was a family with a strong samurai atmosphere. When the master of the mansion saw that I was from the Central Plains, he warmly treated me. As a result, on that day, I once again experienced the hypocritical human nature.

During the meal, the slave of the owner of the family came to report that there was a down-and-out samurai outside the door and wanted to come and go. By the way, the Yingzhou samurai committed suicide in front of the famous samurai family. After death, he would win unprecedented honors for himself, which would be recorded in the samurai genealogy and be circulated from generation to generation.

Soon, the mansion host warmly received him, while I kept observing his expression in secret, trying to see if he really planned to commit suicide. Unfortunately, he didn't know how to disguise at all. At least in my eyes, he was just a ronin who wanted to eat and drink.

Then, he told his experience, saying that his family was poor and had no face to live in the world, and wanted to express the dignity he should have as a samurai with the highest honor and septile of the stomach.

To be honest, at that moment, I was even moved by his sincere emotions. Although I told myself that all he told was lies, I was still willing to believe him stupidly once, wanting to see if that person is really willing to die for dignity.

But what happened next, I can only say that my experience was still too shallow back then. The owner of the mansion and the samurai who defected to him at home were moved by him sincerely, and discussed whether to let him commit suicide by separatism and retain the dignity of the samurai.

For this reason, they had a fierce debate. In the end, the owner of the mansion believed that since this man had decided to commit suicide by cesarean section, he should give him the highest respect. Then he called out the best samurai in the mansion and became his introspective, and allowed the down-and-out samurai to commit suicide by cesarean section in front of the samurai family in the courtyard!"

"What then?" Huangfu Zhai asked expressionlessly.

Shangguan Yan continued: "As a result, everything was as expected, the down-and-out warrior was not a murderer at all. He just wanted to borrow his understanding of the samurai spirit to become a servant in the mansion and have a stable income. After all, it is such a luxury to have a stable job in Yingzhou's land full of killing.

After his lies were revealed, the warrior wanted to escape, but was finally surrounded by more than a dozen retainers and was destined to be unable to escape. He put down the so-called warrior's dignity and began to kneel in front of the master like a dog, waving his tail and begging for mercy, begging him for a life of life.

Seeing that he was so cowardly, the lord suddenly felt that his face was lost. Later, he found that the samurai sword and short blade carried by the samurai were also made of bamboo, which made him feel even more ashamed.

He actually let a despicable ronin deceive himself, and forced him to commit suicide in public in the name of a warrior to save his lost face.

The down-and-out ronin knew that he would die today, so he gave up his struggle. In the eyes of everyone, he changed into a brand new robe prepared by the lord for his suicide. Then he knelt in front of the courtyard. Under the supervision of Jie Tso, he picked up the short blade of the bamboo knife and stabbed it hard into his abdomen.

Ha, you know, using soft bamboo to pierce his skin, how great the pain is to endure. The ronin failed to stab himself dozens of times and failed to successfully cut his stomach. In the end, he had no choice but to hit the ground and squeezed into his stomach.

Then, with Jie Tuo Ren's shout, he cut a cross into a trace of his abdomen with great difficulty. At that time, the sweat on the ronin's body was several times more than the blood shed. It was really the only one I saw in my life.

Finally, Zhicuoren cut off his head with a knife, and the bright red blood splattered three feet. It was so spectacular that I was fortunate to witness this exciting scene throughout the whole process. It was unforgettable for my whole life..."

"What do you want to tell me after saying so much?" After hearing Shangguan Yan's words, Huangfu Zhai asked with confusion, "Do you want to accuse the cruelty of the warrior family or the fraudulent nature of the ronin? I just want to ask, when this scene happened, what are you, as the descendant of the Zongheng lineage, doing? You can completely stop this tragedy..."

Shangguan Yan picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea into Huangfu Zhai's cup, and then quietly said: "The story has not been finished yet. After the ronin died, the master buried him in the highest specifications, and recorded him in the genealogy of the warriors, praising him as one of the greatest warriors.

Afterwards, after saying goodbye to the owner of the mansion, I took the initiative to inquire about the deeds of the ronin. It turned out that he did not lie. He was indeed a warrior. His family was poor. His wife and children were seriously ill and needed money to buy medicine for treatment. They sold the weapon considered as the second life. Then they wanted to find a stable income to treat his wife and children.

Unfortunately, when I arrived at his home, the wife and children had died of illness on the bed for three days. This incident made me see through how selfish human nature is.

The aristocratic family actually forced people into desperate situations indiscriminately for their reputation, while the ronin lost his life for his stupid behavior and even killed his relatives. There is no essential difference between the two, which is simply disgusting, the same hypocrisy, the same stupidity..."

"The nature of your view of things really makes me unable to refute..." Huangfu Zhai said, "Faced with these outrageous scandals, do you think you can summarize it with a hypocritical sentence, but don't want to change them?"

"I'm really trying to change..." Shangguan Yan said, "I have experienced too many dark side of human nature in recent years and learned a lot of truths. I found that the source of all this is the expansion of human hope. If you destroy all this or put it in a cage, you won't have so many worries.

Since human nature is evil, why not pretend? Why not show him all the time and then destroy him in one fell swoop? Just imagine, if this world has no desire and people return to the most basic food and clothing, and run around for scarce food all day long, and everyone is like this, wouldn’t there be no war and differences?”

"In that case, what's the difference between a human and a wild beast?" Huangfu Zhai said, "Is this why you want to destroy this world? I want to say it's ridiculous..."

"Not ridiculous at all!" Shangguan Yan said, "I will formulate a new order. After the war, all surviving people in the world will obey my command.

I will give them the most basic food, and then allocate farmland that is only enough to make a living. I have no time to work day and night to estimate other desires, so that they can only live together. In this way, the ugly side of this world will be reversed? Master, what do you think of me? If this day really comes, the concept of great harmony among various schools will be fully realized. Do you support my ideals..."

"You are just a madman!" Huangfu Zhai couldn't help but shout, "After all, you are the stupidest person. I really regret that I was soft-hearted and didn't send you to hell!"

Shangguan Yan said, "No, you won't be willing to give up, because I am your best student. You should be proud of me. How could you kill me? I believe you have not found a more suitable student than me for so many years..."

Huangfu Zhai said: "From the moment I decided to give up, you will no longer be my student!"

"Ha, at least I was your best student, right..." Shangguan Yan laughed dryly and continued: "Back to the old question, teacher, when do you plan to return the cold smoke to me? Because it won't take long, Gaomi will soon be up. I want to leave here as soon as possible..."

"What did you say?" Huangfu Zhai was stunned by hearing this.

Shangguan Yan gently stroked a line of hair and said calmly: "You won the Master of the Shendu Bureau, but you can't control the situation outside the Shendu, because I will kill Gaomi's daughter and blame Feng Qingxu, and she will willingly die for me. As long as I implement it, the news will be transmitted to Gaomi's ears in ten days. Guess, how long will Gaomi come to the city?"

Huangfu Zhai's hand slashed in the mirror suddenly, and an extremely sharp gaze shot out at Shangguan Yan's eyes. He never expected that Shangguan Yan would just use everything about Shendu as a game to fight with him. No matter what wins or loses, what should happen will still happen. All his efforts are in vain...

Shangguan Yan stretched out a finger and shook it gently and said to Huangfu Zhai: "Master, we will tie this game. Now I want to make a deal with you. You will return Lengyan to me. How about I give you a new student quota? Don't worry, that student promises that there will be no darkness as me. She is naive and I can't bear to bully her..."

"Who?"

Huangfu Zhai seemed to compromise and nodded softly.

Shangguan Yan came to Huangfu Zhai, put his head in his ear and whispered...

"Ye Yin, my junior, or junior..."

Huangfu Zhai pondered for a while, then slowly stood up and said, "It's getting late, I should leave. The person you want will wait for you in front of the outer city gate before dawn..."

"Thank you for your accomplishment..." Shangguan Yan bowed and then slowly left the teahouse.

"Ye Yin?"
Chapter completed!