Repugnant Gateway 3

by Zhi Bai

  "What is my Dao?"

  An Zheng's eyes lit up: "I can't think of this at the moment, so I'll just have to find my way again and again."

  He ferociously threw out a punch. He looked extremely ordinary, and even a three year old child could send out a punch like that. But the power of this punch was simply too terrifying. An Zheng felt that what burst out from his fists was not the Cultivation Power, but an angry dragon that had been imprisoned for too long!

  The berserk energy directly tore the assassin with Sumeru Stage, who was closest to him, into pieces. This assassin's realm was clearly higher than An Zheng's before, but when he realized that An Zheng's punch wouldn't be able to block it, it was already too late. This power had already surpassed the power of Xumi, but it had reached a whole new height … Captive Stage!

  The so-called desire to be a prisoner was to control one's desires and concentrate on cultivation. Those true experts basically could not find their own paths before Captive Stage. Only when he reached the Captive Stage, when his mind was completely at peace, and after imprisoning all his desires, would he truly discover the direction he should be headed in.

  In that moment, An Zheng felt that he understood what he was chasing after.

  That was righteousness.

  He could not help but recall the words that Nie Qing said to him before … If everyone was an iron army, then they would be invincible. If everyone is an iron man, then the world is righteous.

  This punch struck the righteous energy in An Zheng's heart.

  Even though that assassin was very strong, his heart was unsettled. All the darkness in his heart was weakened by this righteousness.

  The assassin's figure gradually disappeared, and was completely torn into pieces by An Zheng's power. It was not just this assassin, the assassins in front of An Zheng were like shadows under the blazing sun, and melted like snow under the scorching sun. In the strong light, the bodies of those people gradually turned into black shadows, and in the absolute light, the black shadows would definitely disappear.

  One, two, three, four …

  In the blink of an eye, half of An Zheng's opponents were killed by his fist. It was a kind of light that people yearned for and feared. All the filth had no chance left under the light.

  The assassins that were slightly further away saw that the situation wasn't good and turned around to run. Even the leader of the assassins who had reached the Captive Stage felt fear in his heart at this moment. He did not understand why An Zheng had suddenly become so strong, so strong that even he did not have the courage to fight against An Zheng. Everything happened too suddenly. They weren't prepared at all, and even if they were, they wouldn't be able to resist such power.

  An Zheng who was covered in blood straightened his body, his hair was wildly dancing in the hurricane, and his eyes were extremely bright, because he had gradually seen his own path clearly!

  He took a step forward. It seemed like a simple step. But to those assassins, this step was like traversing a thousand miles. Initially, they thought they still had a chance to escape, but after taking this step, An Zheng had completely surpassed them and imprisoned them. They did not even have the chance to turn around and escape. At that moment, it was as if An Zheng was the only one in the world.

  "Let's go all out!"

  One of the assassins screamed, and punched forward with all his might. That feeling was like a mantis raising its arms to block the incoming wheel.

  The moment his fist made contact with An Zheng's strength, his arm started to melt. It melted unstoppably, and even if he tried to withdraw his arm, it would be to no avail. His arm melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it had turned into water, and then instantly evaporated, leaving nothing behind. First his fist, then his arm, his shoulder, his head, his whole body, melted away like a snowman.

  "This... "Impossible!"

  The leader of the assassins relied on his Captive Stage and gathered all of his power to strike out at his back. However, this strongest strike felt like it had smashed into the ocean, and didn't affect anything at all. The ocean was still seas, and although his Cultivation Power could cause a ripple, the ocean water was even more ferocious after the ripple.

  He felt his heart clench. Perhaps that was the feeling of death.

  The bodies of the remaining assassins gradually disappeared. The scariest thing was that their minds were still conscious during this process. They looked on helplessly as a part of their bodies began to disappear. However, they were powerless to stop it. This fear was hard to describe. It was as if they had fallen into the most terrifying hell before their deaths, suffering the most cruel and brutal torture.

  "No!"

  One of them howled in anguish as he watched half of his body shatter before disappearing from sight. During this process, he even saw his internal organs being exposed, as well as his heart still beating.

  The Assassin's leader felt despair. He did not expect a youth to release such a terrifying power.

  "You … Who exactly is it?! "

  He roared at An Zheng, his last dying roar.

  However, An Zheng became even calmer, his hair slowly fell down from the crazy dance, and the fearsome ruthlessness in his eyes also disappeared. His body was still filled with blood stains and wounds. His face was still shockingly white, but at this moment, An Zheng was like a true judge … That's right, the Assassin Chief's heart suddenly had the illusion that An Zheng was a judge.

  For some reason, at this moment, the Assassin Chief's mind couldn't help but think of all the evil things he had done before. The evil things that he thought he would never care about seemed to turn into yakshas in his mind. Regardless of whether it was big or small, whenever he thought of something, a yaksha would appear in his mind, and these yakshas would give him all the punishment.

  "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

  The Assassin Chief was so frightened by what he saw that he felt his guts splitting apart. He finally understood why he couldn't resist An Zheng's power anymore.

  However, he was unwilling to die just like that. After so many years of viciousness, he chose to perish together with them at the last moment.

  "Even if I die, I will drag you down with me!"

  The Assassin Chief roared wildly and gathered all his strength into his hands from the Dantian Qi Sea. He rushed towards An Zheng's fists, and the two fists in his hands pushed forward as if he was an evil god.

  "If evil is born in your heart, then you will be terrified. You have already lost."

  An Zheng's fist suddenly exploded with a blinding light. His fist became a sun, and that kind of light was not something that a human eye could endure. That kind of power was not something that any evil could block. The darkness had been completely dispersed at this moment. The sun, which represented the power of light, had moved into An Zheng's hands.

  The Sun and the Evil God collided.

  The Evil God turned into ashes and the assassin leader disappeared.

  With just one punch, a dozen or so experts of the Sumeru Stage and one expert who had already stepped into the Captive Stage were all annihilated.

  This was An Zheng's way, this was a power that was exclusive to An Zheng.

  After this punch, An Zheng felt as if all his energy had been sucked out, his legs went soft, and he couldn't help but crouch down. He supported himself on the ground with one hand, and his vision gradually became clear … He had returned to the real world from the world of light.

  Chapter 207 - White-headed

  "Do you enjoy it?"

  That voice once again appeared in An Zheng's mind, sudden and terrifying. An Zheng felt like he was a prisoner being watched by someone, and the other party was the prison warden. While he was in prison, he did not have any secrets. The other party knew everything about him. Yet he didn't even know who the other party was. There was a cold wall between the two of them, but that wall was only useful to An Zheng.

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nbsp; There was something very strange about the voice, both disbelief and certainty.

  "Even I am a bit surprised that a person can reach such a terrifying level of power when he uses his full strength. Your potential really made me look at you in a new light. I only chose you because you had a strong blood energy. Now it seems that I have indeed underestimated you. "

  "Who are you!"

  An Zheng struggled to stand up and roared, but he did not know where that person was.

  The voice appeared unrestrainedly in An Zheng's mind, as if it was carrying a sense of ridicule, "With your current strength, you still won't be able to do anything to me. Was there a kind of shame about being watched naked? Then continue to grow stronger. I look forward to your performance. However, I have already retracted the power that I lent you. If you want to experience that beauty, you need to work even harder. "

  No matter how An Zheng shouted, the voice disappeared and did not reappear.

  "You … Who are you talking to? "

  Chen Zaiyan asked somewhat fearfully.

  An Zheng turned around, and only now did he completely sober up when he saw Chen Zaiyan. "It's nothing, maybe it's because my body became extremely weak after borrowing the power of some kind of divine artifact, and that's why I hallucinated. It's all good now."

  Chen Zaiyan did not understand the matters of cultivators, so he did not doubt An Zheng's words at all. He felt that An Zheng did not have that kind of strength to be able to kill that many experts by himself. Otherwise, why would An Zheng receive so many injuries in the beginning? It was clear that An Zheng did not want others to know that he carried some sort of divine tool with him, which was why he used it at such a crucial moment. However, at the very least, the immediate crisis had been resolved.

  But just at this moment, the few assassins on the wall turned around and saw that Chen Zaiyan was not killed, and then, one by one, they jumped down from the wall and rushed towards An Zheng and the others.

  At this time, An Zheng had already completely lost all of his strength. He couldn't even stand steadily, so how could he still have the strength to continue fighting?

  Seeing those few assassins pouncing towards them, Huo Tangtang, who had used her hand to tear one of the assassins apart, rushed over and arrived first. Standing in front of An Zheng, he pointed his finger in front of him. When her finger touched the air, it was as if she was touching water. The air actually rippled and rippled in a visible manner. As Bowen spread out, a blister appeared on the outside of every one of the assassins. At first, they didn't realize it, but by the time they realized something was amiss, it was already too late.

  Huo Tangtang held together the middle finger of his left index finger, raised it, and muttered a single word: "Exterminate!"

  The bubbles were all shattered, and the people in the bubbles were all blown to smithereens.

  Such a quiet and gentle girl was actually this terrifying when killing people. An Zheng did not see the scene of her hands ripping apart the assassin, if not he was even more shocked.

  Four or five of the assassins were killed by the bubbles, not even a complete corpse was left behind.

  At this moment, the imperial guards who had rushed down from the city walls had finally arrived. They had formed a line of defense outside An Zheng and himself, but at this time, not a single assassin was still alive. After a while, Swallow King, who was surrounded by a large crowd, walked over. When he saw that a large majority of the army had been killed, his eyes turned red.

  "It is my fault for not being able to protect you, Solitary Sin!"

  Chen Zaiyan immediately knelt down, "How can this matter be blamed on the King. If the King did not bring us up from the prison of the Ministry of Justice, we might have died a long time ago."

  Mu Changyan turned his head and looked at the broken limbs on the ground. It seems that their target is you, but if they can kill Gu Yong, they won't give up. An Chengli! Get people to investigate this matter. If they catch one, we will capture one, and then we will see how many people are going to die alone! "

  An Chengli ordered his men to turn around and chase after the assassins who ran away.

  Mu Changyan ordered loudly, "Protect An Zheng, Chen Zaiyan and the others and bring them to the Eastern Warm Pavilion of the Tiantong Palace. From now on, he would stay in the same room with Gu Ruoyun. He wanted to see if those people would have the guts to commit murder in the East Warm Pavilion! Forget about Chen Zaiyan, even if he truly committed a crime, it would not be someone else's turn to kill him, kill him alone! "

  A group of imperial bodyguards helped An Zheng, Chen Zaiyan and the others up, and escorted them out of the city gate area, using their fastest speed to return to the Eastern Warm Pavilion.

  In an empty room, An Zheng and Chen Zaiyan were lying on separate beds. The imperial physician had already bandaged their wounds before leaving to make the medicine. At this time, only An Zheng and Chen Zaiyan was left in the room, it became exceptionally quiet.

  "Thank you."

  After an unknown period of time of silence, Chen Zaiyan suddenly said "thank you".

  An Zheng shook his head: "No need to thank me.

  Chen Zaiyan was startled for a moment. "You want to save someone for this country?"

  An Zheng laughed: "Master Chen, you think too highly of me, I do not have such a big heart. I only saved them because I wanted to save them. I just didn't want to see people like you die. To put it bluntly, the reason why I saved you has nothing to do with you. It's just that I don't want my conscience to be condemned in the future. This has nothing to do with whether or not you are the Minister of War. Even if it's just an ordinary civilian, I don't think he deserves to die. On the other hand, if I feel that he deserves to die, then regardless of what sort of status he has, if he can be killed, I will still kill him. "

  Chen Zaiyan remained silent for a while and then said: "You are a very strange person … There may not be many people like you in this world anymore. Some people said that when a person could really do something wrong to someone, he would be bewitched. And when a person really does what is right and wrong, then that person is a saint. "

  An Zheng said: "It's not that mystical, I am just an ordinary person who has his own bottom line regarding what is right and wrong. I believe that the majority of the people in this world are the same as me. However, some people feel that they don't have that much power, so they gradually lower the bottom line in their heart. But when they can, I'm sure they won't be indifferent to all the injustices. "

  Chen Zaiyan said: "Human nature is not as beautiful as you think, a majority of people would want to resist, but when it comes to themselves. No matter how unfair the matter is, as long as it does not involve them, they will not interfere. "

  An Zheng didn't want to argue with him over this, because he knew that there were quite a few people who were as persistent as him.

  Chen Zaiyan asked, "Have you ever thought that because you saved me, you might become the mortal enemy of the empress dowager? They'll try to get rid of you, just as they're trying to get rid of me now. They will not allow anyone to stop them when they are strong. They want to make all those who dare to resist feel fear. "

  An Zheng said: "If no one comes out to stop them, wouldn't they be even more powerful?

  Chen Zaiyan said: "You and I are different. You might not have the kind of awareness that if the world were to change and begin with a dead person, I am willing to be the first one to die. I had to do it at the most critical and important time, so that my death could trigger certain changes. Otherwise, my death would have been meaningless. But you are different. Your good and evil are very clear, very direct. We are two different people. "

  As An Zheng lay there looking at the rooftop, he couldn't help but think of something. However, he did not know if this was the right time to ask about this matter, because once it was asked, it could change a lot.

  So he was silent.

  Chen Zaiyan also looked at the ro
oftop, as if he was somewhat sad. "But you and I have some similarities. It's like you and I are walking on a narrow path, bumpy … No, not a path, but a bridge. In order to protect the good and evil in your heart, in order to pursue the true strength of this country, you have walked on a bridge like this. If one was not careful, one would fall into the abyss and never be able to return. But I also know that you and I are the kind of people who would never back down just because we walked on a bridge, even if there were gangsters blocking our way on a bridge. "

  An Zheng still did not speak, and his mood became even worse. Chen Zaiyan's words were like needles stabbing into his heart.

  Was Chen Zaiyan a good person?

  Not really.

  Is Chen Zaiyan a good official?

  Probably.

  Because of the existence of people like Chen Zaiyan, that was why the State of Yan, which was already riddled with holes, was still alive and breathing. And once the empress dowager and her people truly took control of the situation, it was likely that the State of Yan would be very close to the destruction of the entire country. Now that An Zheng knew what the empress dowager's goal was, he was extremely selfish and resentful. Her goal was to grasp the entire strength of the great swallow and then take revenge on her homeland. She was not only going to destroy the State of Yan, she was also going to destroy the State of Zhao.

  As for the State of Zhao, he was afraid that they had not noticed it at all. State of Zhao had thought that the reason why Empress Dowager Su had chosen to do this was to repay the debt she owed to her mother country, which was why she had sent several hundred people to the Grand Autumn Ceremony to support him.

  Chen Zaiyan was still muttering to himself, it was possible that this experience would have a deep impact on him, even though he felt that he was someone who had experienced a lot, this was probably the first time he was in a life and death situation.