Everlasting Immortal Firmament

Book 5: Chapter 157: Interrogating Jiang Lianshan

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The moment the Lianshan Ritual Array scattered, the Qian District’s central plaza was exposed.

A large commotion broke out among the citizens in the Qian District.

This commotion spread, growing increasingly louder as it did.

All who saw the scene felt incredibly shocked.

“Eldest Brother! Eldest Brother, what happened to you?!” Some citizens immediately charged into the plaza and hugged the corpses of their relatives while howling in grief.

The bloody scene shocked and horrified everyone around.

This is Divine Farmer City. How could something like this happen?

That’s the Azure Emperor? Who are these people?

When the ritual array scattered, it exposed the Azure Emperor. He narrowed his eyes, wanting to speak.

However, Gu Hai reacted faster.

“Yan Heavenly Emperor, Jiang Lianshan, my Qian Heavenly Dynasty sent envoys to Divine Farmer City out of respect and propriety to discuss the current affairs of the world. However, your Yan Nation kept ignoring my Qian Nation’s envoys for three years until today. The Yan Nation showed no concern for the Qian Nation’s visit. My Qian Nation is not that shameless to the point where we would force you to work with us when our paths are different. Today, the Azure Emperor used the Lianshan Ritual Array to attempt to murder my Qian Nation’s envoys, even cutting the leader of the Qian Nation’s envoys into eight pieces, leaving him without a complete corpse. Does your Yan Heavenly Dynasty intend to kill us envoys as a sacrifice and a declaration of war against the Qian Heavenly Dynasty?” Gu Hai suddenly shouted.

Long Sanqian instantly reacted to Gu Hai’s loud shout. That was close. If the Azure Emperor managed to speak before us, getting the initiative to deny everything, it would be bad.

Indeed, the Azure Emperor immediately glared.

Although the Azure Emperor was behind all of this, as long as he accused Gu Hai while everyone still felt confused over the situation, everyone would think that Gu Hai’s group caused this disaster.

However, Gu Hai’s shout turned the situation around.

The Azure Emperor did it?

The corpses of the Qian Nation envoys are among the many corpses on the plaza?

They are the Qian Heavenly Dynasty’s envoys? The Qian Heavenly Dynasty that dared to challenge Heaven?

The citizens suddenly fell silent and looked towards the palace in the Gen District.

In the Gen District, Jiang Lianshan narrowed his eyes slightly.

At the Qian District’s central plaza, the Azure Emperor snorted coldly, “Humph! Misleading the public with falsehood in my Yan Nation and accusing His Holy Eminence. Even if you are the Qian Nation envoy, you deserve death!”

The Azure Emperor shouted coldly and sent a palm strike in Gu Hai’s direction.

When the Azure Emperor attacked, azure light appeared out of nowhere.

The expressions of Ao Shun and Long Aotian changed. They prepared to make a move.

“Don’t move!” Gu Hai said.

Ao Shun’s expression changed, and he immediately stopped. Long Aotian frowned slightly, but he did not go against Gu Hai this time.

Buzz!

The Azure Emperor’s palm strike shot towards Gu Hai. However, Gu Hai did not counterattack. Instead, he coldly watched the palm strike approach.

The palm strike would soon land on Gu Hai’s group. The surrounding citizens appeared confused.

“Stop!” A furious shout suddenly rang out.

A bird of fire burst out of the stele in the plaza and crashed into the Azure Emperor’s palm strike.

Boom!

The fire bird exploded the Azure Emperor’s colossal manifested palm.

“Your Holy Eminence!” Countless officials and citizens saluted respectfully in the direction the voice came from, towards the Gen District.

The Azure Emperor raised his head and looked. He saw Jiang Lianshan standing in the Gen District coldly watching him.

“Your Holy Eminence!” The Azure Emperor took a deep breath and bowed slightly in that direction.

Gu Hai turned his head to look and saw an older middle-aged man in imperial robes. He looked robust with profound eyes and a small beard on his chin. At this moment, he looked coldly at the Qian District, appearing angry. Although some distance separated them, Gu Hai still felt a strong pressure similar to when he saw Long Zhanguo.

After a glance, Gu Hai shifted his gaze back to the plaza.

“Long Sanqian, Long Aotian, and Ao Shun, collect Lord Gongyang’s corpse!” Gu Hai said.

“Yes!” the three answered.

Keeping their guard up against another attack from the Azure Emperor, they took out a coffin and gently picked up the pieces of Gongyang Sheng’s corpse and placed them in the coffin.

Gu Hai walked over to Sima Changkong, who was on his last breath. Sima Changkong had more than ten gaping, bleeding holes in his body. His dantian was also broken.

“Hall…” Sima Changkong could not even speak properly, vomiting blood.

No matter who saw it, everyone found this miserable situation overboard. Furthermore, there were many dead Yan Nation citizens and soldiers in the surroundings.

The countless people immediately looked at the Azure Emperor somewhat differently now.

Gu Hai placed his hand over Sima Changkong’s dantian.

A wisp of Mending Heaven Energy flooded Sima Changkong’s body.

Buzz!

Sima Changkong trembled, and his mind cleared up significantly.

“Hall…Hall Master! Many thanks, Hall Master!” Sima Changkong said grateful.

Gu Hai nodded.

Far away, Jiang Lianshan asked, “Azure Emperor, what’s going on?”

Gu Hai narrowed his eyes slightly since the first person Jiang Lianshan questioned was the Azure Emperor. This clearly shows an intention to cover for the Azure Emperor. Could it be that Jiang Lianshan already knew about it when the Azure Emperor attacked earlier?

“Reporting to Your Holy Eminence. This person is Gu Hai. He snatched my Vine World Calabash. This subject was only snatching back my Vine World Calabash. However, Gu Hai resisted stubbornly, resulting in the shock waves that created this incident!” Azure Emperor said seriously.

“Oh?” The surrounding citizens felt slightly startled.

In the end, the Azure Emperor was the Yan Heavenly Dynasty’s man. Naturally, the citizens favored him. After hearing what the Azure Emperor said, the citizens frowned at Gu Hai.

“Oh? Is there such a thing?” Jiang Lianshan turned and looked at Gu Hai.

“One can always trump up a charge against someone. The five billion citizens of Divine Farmer City are watching. We are the Qian Nation Dynasty’s envoys, representing the Qian Heavenly Emperor. You now blame us for the Azure Emperor losing his calabash. Well, we represent the Qian Heavenly Emperor. The Qian Heavenly Emperor has lost his Heaven Splitting Ax. Can we accuse the Azure Emperor of taking it?” Gu Hai said.

“Humph! Gu Hai, what irresponsible remarks!” the Azure Emperor said with a glare.

“Irresponsible remarks? You are the one who is making irresponsible remarks. Right now, we represent the Qian Heavenly Emperor. Nevertheless, you used a ritual array to trap us. That is equivalent to assassinating the Qian Heavenly Emperor. Are these your personal actions, or were they directed by the Yan Heavenly Emperor?” Gu Hai shouted.

“Humph!” the Azure Emperor snorted coldly. “Naturally, I have evidence for what I said. Is the Vine World Calabash on you? Do you dare to let me search you?”

“Gu Hai? Is what the Azure Emperor said true?” Jiang Lianshan asked coldly.

“Indeed! Do you dare to let the Azure Emperor search you?”

“Humph! It looks like the Azure Emperor is right.”

Countless people immediately sided with the Azure Emperor.

However, Gu Hai turned his head towards Jiang Lianshan. “Yan Heavenly Emperor, is my Qian Nation’s Heaven Splitting Ax on you? Can I search you?”

“How audacious!”

Furious shouts came from countless Yan Nation officials, soldiers, and citizens.

Search Jiang Lianshan? That was not a question of whether Gu Hai could or not. That was simply humiliating Jiang Lianshan.

“Indeed, it is audacious. My searching the Yan Heavenly Emperor is audacious. Then, his searching the Qian Heavenly Emperor is reasonable?” Gu Hai suddenly shouted coldly.

Behind the Azure Emperor, Seven Kills scowled and yelled, “You are just distorting logic!”

“We currently represent the Qian Heavenly Emperor. Searching me is like searching the Qian Heavenly Emperor. What’s wrong? Your Yan Nation’s emperor is respectable, but our Qian Nation’s emperor is not comparable to yours? Humph! My Qian Nation’s emperor once killed sages and used the Heaven Splitting Ax to defeat Heaven. He is the strongest person in the world. What achievement does your Yan Nation’s emperor have to his name?” Gu Hai shouted with a glare.

“How audacious! What qualifications do you have to criticize my Yan Nation?” Dan Wang and others shouted.

“I am not qualified, but is the Qian Heavenly Emperor that I represent not qualified? During the Ten Thousand Sages Convention, the Yan Heavenly Dynasty sent envoys to the Qian Nation. The Qian Nation treated them with respect, but the Azure Emperor caused trouble in the heavenly court’s cities and even sent his subordinates to assassinate the Qian Nation’s princess, resulting in the Qian Nation’s army surrounding and capturing them. The Qian Heavenly Emperor knew that they were the Yan Nation’s envoys, so he let bygones be bygones—but only because they were visitors from distant lands. Hah! Yan Heavenly Dynasty, how awe-inspiring of you! How admirable of you! Our envoys arrived in the Yan Nation three years ago, yet you refused to meet them for three years. You even plotted to kill the Qian Nation envoys over groundless accusations. How admirable! How capable! How awe-inspiring of the Yan Heavenly Dynasty!” Gu Hai shouted while glaring furiously.

“You!” Dan Wang, Seven Kills, and the others stared at Gu Hai.

The expressions of the citizens and officials turned stiff; they did not know what to say.

They had heard of the events during the Ten Thousand Sages Convention. The Azure Emperor’s master ritualist, Gong Tian, had indeed surrounded and tried to kill Princess Wanyu. Although the Azure Emperor’s people had failed, the Qian Heavenly Emperor did not say anything. The Qian Heavenly Emperor did not even make things difficult for the Supreme Genesis and the Future Buddha when they pitted themselves against the Qian Nation. All the proprieties and etiquette had been observed.

But now…

“Are you not still alive?” the Azure Emperor said coldly.

“I am alive because of my own capabilities. It is because the Yan Heavenly Dynasty’s Lianshan Classic is not worth mentioning. It is full of flaws and completely incoherent. Just a few casual lines from me could show how worthless it is,” Gu Hai said.

The Azure Emperor glared at Gu Hai.

“Presumptuous!”

“How bold of you!”

“You bastard! How dare you make such claims about my Yan Nation’s Lianshan Classic?”

Countless officials immediately glared furiously at Gu Hai. No one had managed to find any flaw in the Lianshan Classic in a thousand years. It was the pride of the Yan Heavenly Dynasty. How could they tolerate such accusations?

“Am I wrong? The Lianshan Classic has the Gen Hexagram as the leading hexagram. Since I am the Qian Nation envoy, I used the Qian Hexagram as the leading hexagram and wrote a segment. How did your Lianshan Ritual Array react? The Lianshan Classic? It is only so-so. What I wrote is the true orthodox Classic of Changes!” Gu Hai shouted coldly.

“You!” The surrounding officials and citizens glared at Gu Hai.

The Azure Emperor looked coldly at Gu Hai.

“Yan Heavenly Emperor, this humble one is thoroughly disappointed in this diplomatic mission to the Yan Heavenly Dynasty. Since the Yan Heavenly Emperor does not wish to meet with my Qian Nation’s envoys, then my Qian Nation’s envoys shall return. However, there are some things that I need to clear up so that I can make a report to the Qian Heavenly Emperor. Was this attempt on my Qian Nation envoys’ lives today the Azure Emperor’s personal action or the Yan Heavenly Emperor’s instructions? Was it the Azure Emperor trying to kill us or the Yan Heavenly Emperor?” Gu Hai shouted coldly as he looked into the distance.

The surrounding citizens and officials quieted at this shout, appearing confused and a little worried.

He is interrogating His Holy Eminence. How will His Holy Eminence deal with this?

Nearby, the Azure Emperor turned extremely sullen. Some of the experienced and knowledgeable people appeared curious and startled. This Gu Hai managed to set the Azure Emperor and His Holy Eminence against each other with a few words?