Remould the Glory of Sword Art-Chapter 1220 - 139: Father and Son (Conclusion)
"Fool."
A multitude of emotions flowed within his chest, finally transforming into two cold and harsh words.
Luo Lie quickly approached Luo Hai and coldly reprimanded, "Don’t think that just because you’ve Condensed Dao, you can act without caution... Nalan Xuance is an incredibly terrifying figure. Even I am not fully confident I can stop him."
Many feared Nalan Xuance because the Xuanwei Technique could control people’s hearts.
The Hook and Clamp Masters under Nalan Xuance were brutal, ruthless, cold-blooded, and merciless.
But to Luo Lie.
The Xuanwei Technique was insignificant.
The Hook and Clamp Masters were even more negligible.
Only those who had promoted to the Yang God Realm and understood Nalan Xuance’s might would know... the terror of the Iron Curtain.
What truly made Luo Lie apprehensive was not the Xuanwei Technique, but the Iron Curtain!
This national Heavy Weapon had accumulated the fortune of Da Li for a whole century.
This was the fortune of a nation, the weapon of a nation!
"..."
Luo Hai looked up at Luo Lie, unmoved, still leisurely sipping tea.
"Although I let Chen Chong go, as long as I head to the Northern Land and capture him back, it can be seen as making amends."
Luo Lie lowered his voice and said, "The One Strike Sect has a deep and long-standing relationship with the Crown Prince... Nalan Xuance might not do anything to me, but to you... it will be different."
If he is willing to be used by Qian State.
Luo Hai would naturally be the youngest and most powerful pawn under Nalan Xuance.
Even comparable to Chen Chong.
But... if he could not be used by Qian State.
Then Nalan Xuance would directly eradicate him.
Luo Lie could already envision the methods Nalan Xuance would use against his son after learning all the intel from tonight’s Crown Prince Mansion.
"Father..."
Finally, Luo Hai spoke.
He smiled and asked, "Do you really think Nalan Xuance won’t make a move on you?"
Luo Lie frowned slightly, stupefied for a moment.
"Three years of Destroying Buddha."
Luo Hai extended three fingers, saying each word with emphasis, "How many temples did the Yuanzhou Iron Cavalry trample over? Under Chen Chong, how many trusted confidants of Qian State were eradicated?"
Three years.
Since Chen Chong was conferred as Shangzhu Country, Qian State had used him as a blade.
In terms of contribution to the Destroying Buddha effort.
If Chen Chong claimed second, no one could claim first.
Although... this Shangzhu Country harbored kindness and did not completely eradicate and kill hostage monks. But looking at the entire grand undertaking of Destroying Buddha, the Yuanzhou Iron Cavalry was the most efficient and accomplished the most. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Only half the words were spoken.
Luo Lie understood Luo Hai’s intention.
In terms of binding level and trust relationship, the Yuanzhou Iron Cavalry was not inferior to the One Strike Sect.
But how much time had passed?
Chen Chong, who had just achieved great merit at Xuanbei Pass, was immediately detained by Nalan Xuance at the Crown Prince Mansion after merely accepting an invitation to a banquet.
The relationship between the One Strike Sect and Yuanzhou Iron Cavalry.
The relationship between himself and Chen Chong.
What’s the difference?
The cold wind swept over, the clouds overturned.
The aura of a Yang God Realm expert gradually dissipated.
Seeing no movement from the Inner Court, Nalan Qiutong and the Flower Master quickly came before the courtyard, cautiously knocking on the door, wanting to confirm the situation inside.
"..."
Luo Lie naturally ignored it.
His Domain of Destruction still enveloped the sky above the Inner Court.
He pondered for a long while, hoarsely saying, "I and Chen Chong, after all, are different..."
"How are you different?"
Luo Hai continued to smile and ask, "He rebelled, and you did not?"
Words that strike the heart.
Yet, they plunged Luo Lie into an unprecedented long silence.
In Nalan Xuance’s eyes.
By letting Chen Chong go, beheading the Shadow, letting Xie Xuanyi and Chen Chong leave... he had utterly shattered the grand chess game of the Crown Prince Mansion tonight.
Isn’t this betrayal?
Isn’t this rebellion?!
"Father."
Luo Hai said calmly, "Didn’t you always want me to inherit the One Strike Sect?"
These past days.
Luo Hai had expressed refusal more than once.
But this time...
Luo Hai chose to agree, but with a condition.
"I am willing to take on this burden. But the premise is that the One Strike Sect must walk on the right path."
The young master lowered his eyes, gazing at the clear and bright tea water in his cup, his voice murmuring, "Over the years, you have been in a high position, unaware of the people’s suffering... The Northern Five States are in turmoil, plagued by banditry. The people of Li Kingdom wish to live in peace and establish their livelihoods but cannot, having to endure the biting cold of wind and snow, and the hunger of having no food. After finally welcoming figures like Han Li and Chen Chong, who guard and protect, they could have lived well, but were hindered by Qian State’s orders, busy all day with internal strife and mutual conflict."
The One Strike Sect stands proudly above.
Disciples of the main sect enjoy luxury, wanting for nothing in food and clothes.
How many have ever been to the Northern Five States?
Even if they went, they naturally traveled with wealth abundant, and were provided for in every way.
As the saying goes, feasting and revelry within rich gates, while bones of the starved litter the roads... Luo Lie could not see these scenes. Having Condensed Dao and become a high and mighty Yang God, aside from continuing the One Strike Sect, his only goal in life was to break through to the nearly unattainable Heavenly Human Realm.
Such an existence, even with Da Li Country in chaos, no authority would dare offend.
"These, what do they have to do with you?"
Luo Lie silently looked at his son, slowly opening his mouth.
This was not a condescending question.
It was genuine confusion from the heart.
Luo Hai... as one of the many sons of the Sect Master of the One Strike Sect, even if sent away to the remote Chao Yin Pavilion, he was still an influential figure above All Living Beings.
In theory, the turbulence of Li Kingdom had nothing to do with him.
The One Strike Sect was the sect most trusted by the Crown Prince.
The Crown Prince’s Destroying Buddha accorded great benefits to the One Strike Sect.
"Indeed..."
"What does this have to do with me?"
Luo Hai lightly sighed.
His eyes were full of sentiment and regret.
"Many years ago, an old monk came to Chao Yin Pavilion."
After a pause, Luo Hai continued to speak.
His gaze remained focused on the tea in the cup, the surface rippling, reflecting like waves.
He murmured with a sense of reminiscence, "That old monk gave me a great creation..."
"?"
Luo Lie’s pupils slightly contracted.
"He took me to the East Sea, to seclude on the cliffs of the East Sea."
"I had an incredibly distant yet incredibly real long dream... as if, in a single night, I walked ten years, a hundred years. It was just a dream, yet it felt like countless real lives I lived in this world."
"I went to see the Yu State Desert, to see the Bian State lanterns."
"In Yun Province, a young lady drank with me, in Qian State, I spent a night reveling on flower boats."
"If I had willingly stayed in Chao Yin Pavilion, playing the part of a rich wastrel, I might have lived a very happy life... After all, the things you’ve left me, too many to squander..."
Luo Hai looked up, murmured, "But I also went to Chong State."
"I can’t forget, there people traded children as food."
"By the roadside, wild dogs tore open the bellies of the freshly dead, eating their entrails, and burrowed into the still warm flesh to escape the cold and snow..."
"I also went to Ning State, where I was beheaded by horse bandits, even when I named the One Strike Sect, it was still useless... They were too hungry, killing me wasn’t even for wealth..."
"I went to many, many places..."
"Met so many, many people..."
Luo Hai let out a long sigh, seriously saying, "Father, do you know? If Da Li continues like this, it will really be destroyed."
