As soon as they entered the coastal city of Mulberry Sea, they could smell the faint smell of the sea. The streets were filled with traffic. In this era, this was one of the most prosperous cities. Perhaps it was because it was close to the Small Sage Manor, but most of the people here had a bit of scholarly aura when they walked.
"Tianming, what are you looking at? He had been looking outside ever since he entered the city.”The snow maiden patted Tianming on the shoulder.
" Nothing, it's just that…seeing this prosperous Mulberry Sea City…" Tianming looked at the prosperity here, but he thought of the dilapidated city in his memories that Jing Tianming had transmitted. In the city, people were as thin as bones. They would fight over a mouse that ran across the ground. It was normal for them to exchange their children for food.
Jing Tianming had tried to teach them how to farm and how to survive, but very few people responded. After staying for a while, he no longer had any hope for them.
He mobilized those who had responded to him to dig a well by the river that had been dry for more than a month. There were not many people, less than ten people. In four days, they dug seventy to eighty feet. Finally, there were traces of water. Those people naturally went to tell others.
When Jing Tianming led them to dig another two feet, they felt that they could continue digging deeper and use this to drag out this difficult period of time. When he climbed up the well with the rope and wanted to tell the good news to the others, he was shocked.
He realized that other than a few children who were still alive, the people standing in front of him all looked the same: You've done well, we're very pleased. This is what you should do. Now you can scram, we don't need you anymore.
He looked back at the people who were digging the well with him. Some of them looked up at the sky, some looked down at the ground, but none of them dared to look at him.
In response, he only smiled in relief. Hope was always limitless. Jing Tianming drank with them. If he was not around, how long could they drink? One day? Half a day? Or perhaps…just for a moment! They did not know. However, even if it was just a moment more, they would rather chase away the person who had extended their lives but still did not belong to their circle.
In the end, Jing Tianming carried his luggage, his black eyebrows, shark teeth, and Fei Tong in his arms as he set off on his journey that he did not know the end of. Even though he knew that in less than a month, the well would be almost dry again, and the people in the city would start fighting again. In the end, in less than two months, that city would become a dead city. Jing Tianming knew, but so what? To be suspected of having ulterior motives? So what if he didn't leave? He had always been suspected. When those people reached a dead end again, he would lead them to find a way out and then face those gazes again?
That was the first time that Jing Tianming, the giant of the Mo Family, had expressed his doubts about " universal love ". There were always some people who did not even love themselves. He didn't even cherish it and didn't even look for a way out! Was this kind of person really worthy of…'universal love'?
When Tianming saw this scene in his memories, he didn't think too much about it. He was only angry, pure anger! Why did you treat him like this when he saved you?
"Of course, this Mulberry Sea City is one of the most prosperous cities in the entire Qin State.”Master Ban said softly.
"That's right! " This place is so prosperous." Tianming's eyes suddenly became deep. This was Jing Tianming." People don't have to worry about food and clothing every day. Some places had no clothes, no food, no dirty water, and no human flesh. It was so pitiful.”
" Therefore, we're all in love with one another." Teacher Xu frowned. With his background, although he had seen people who suffered, he had not reached the level that Jing Tianming had described. However, judging from his eyes, he did not seem to be lying." We want those people to live like the people we see here." Or, let the rich give some to the poor.”Everyone in the car nodded, which was in line with the doctrine of 'universal love' that they yearned for.
"Is that so?" The corner of Jing Tianming's mouth curled up as if he was sneering. Without waiting for them to speak, he said," Master Xu, do you know how long it would take to build such a huge city like Mulberry Sea City to this extent?”
" This…" Master Xu stopped stroking his beard.
Jing Tianming pulled down the curtain and looked at the commanders who were deep in thought. Shaoyu also frowned, thinking about something." It took several generations, or even more than a dozen generations, to build and develop this city to such an extent. Shouldn't they enjoy the afterglow left behind by their ancestors? What right do we have to make such a decision for 'them'?”
" But..." Master Ban opened his mouth but didn't say anything. Wasn't the prosperity of Sang Hai a legacy left behind by the ancestors for their descendants?
"Those poor people are mostly people who blame the heavens and others. They think that they can live as long as they can. They blame their parents for not giving birth to them in Xianyang and Sanghai. They blame them for not being born in a rich family. And some of them did it to survive. They worked hard and struggled, but they had their own bottom line. Only then…did they have the right to be saved.”Jing Tianming thought of the dead city and was speechless for a long time.
"What about the others?" The snow maiden ignored Gao Jianli's hand that was gently pulled back.
Jing Tianming shook his head." If you give him money, he'll spend it all very quickly. Then, he'll look at you with reverence and longing." Give him a second set of money, and he would calmly thank you. When you plan to give him one last time and tell him: " This is the last time. You have to work hard.'，He would look at you with hatred and disgust. Of course, his eyes would be filled with anger!”
"This…How is this possible!" The snow maidens stared at Tianming in disbelief, and the others were equally shocked. Ge Nia's expression was calm, but his hand that was holding the knife tightened. He knew that Jing Tianming was right, because…he had personally witnessed something like this happen.
"Our 'universal love' cannot, or should I say, should not face the entire world. Only those who truly want to live and have a bottom line that they won't touch are worthy of being saved and loved.”Jing Tianming slowly spoke of the 'universal love' that he had in mind. In his opinion, the 'universal love' that Mo Zi had in mind for everyone in the world was simply an unrealistic dream! However, even though the universal love he spoke of was much less than Mo Zi's, it was still so far away.
"But if that's the case, what's the point of 'universal love'?”Master Ban spoke. Although he didn't agree with Jing Tianming's idea, there was a hint of wavering in his tone.
"'Universal Love' is equivalent to 'Universal Love' that is different from one's relatives, friends, partners, and ordinary people other than officials.‘"Universal Love should be different from the above three," Jing Tianming said solemnly."Universal Love should have a difference in weight and size.‘It is our ideal, but it is not our code of conduct.”Jing Tianming looked at the people who were deep in thought and felt a weight lifted off his heart. He did not want them to fall into the pit of Mo Zi's 'universal love' that he could not see the future of. Although the hope of the universal love he mentioned was slim, at least he could barely see the faint starlight.
Although most of the others agreed with Jing Tianming's words, Teacher Xu's eyes still revealed that he could not deny what Jing Tianming said.
"Teacher Xu."
"Ah?" Master Xu looked at Jing Tianming.
"If I ask you to spread the sword-forging technique passed down in your family to the world, would you be willing?”Jing Tianming asked.
Master Xu shook his head.
"Then if a young man with superb talent in sword forging and a kind heart wants you to teach him, are you willing?”Jing Tianming asked again.
Master Xu frowned but still nodded.
"Then, this is 'part-time love'! What?"
" This..." Master Xu opened his mouth but remained silent.
"Have you ever thought about what would happen if you really do it?”Jing Tianming asked angrily.
"Humph!" Master Xu was like a child, turning his head away when he couldn't argue.
"The ultimate form of universal love is for everyone to be close to each other. This will lead to people being good, while non-aggression will prevent the country from expanding and fighting against foreign races. Without internal troubles and external threats, it was the beginning of…the reduction of troops.”As Jing Tianming's tone became darker and darker, Teacher Xu was stunned. Although Master Ban felt that disarming wasn't a good thing, he still couldn't explain why.
"Do you want me to continue?”Jing Tianming did not wait for them to speak." Then came the invasion of the wolves and the Hu. With the reduction of the army, Omnipotent Love and Non-Offensive had also weakened the people's bloodlust.”
Tianming took a deep breath, and the anger in his eyes was shocking! How could he not be angry? From the time Shaoyu, Liu Bang, and the others started the chaotic world to crusade against the Qin Country, to the end of the chaotic world and the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains lost more than half of the land in the north, nearly 20% of the entire Central Plains! At this level! How could he not be angry?
When the Central Plains had just been pacified, Shaoyu had divided the six states. After that, during the civil war, the wolf tribe had already conquered one-tenth of the northern territory. By the time they had divided the territories, 30% of the northern territory had already been lost. Shaoyu was instantly enraged! A letter immediately flew into Jing Tianming's hands. After a short meeting with Tianming, which was so short that they didn't even say ten words, Tianming brought Robber Zhi and the white phoenix north. Wherever they passed, they killed all the wolves and Hu!
As for Shaoyu, who was in Chu, after a few days of reorganizing his troops, he was about to head north when Liu Bang started to attack Shaoyu. The Central Plains was in another three years of war.
When the news from the north spread to the Central Plains, countless Jianghu people spontaneously went north. There were Mohist, Confucians, farmers, Taoists…There was also the Yin-Yang School that had been shattered by Jing Tianming, and there was also the gathering and dispersing quicksand that had not been scattered for long. Although Jing Tianming had never mentioned this identity, he had indeed become the master of Quicksand as Wei Zhuang's disciple after his death.
Although there were many disciples from various sects, most of them were unaffiliated people who did not belong to any sect. Some were thieves, some were mountain bandits, and some were even rich people who only knew how to show off and enjoy themselves... They walked in groups of three to five, and some were even hundreds. Altogether, there were more than 28,000 of them!
Is there a grudge between us? So what?
Do our sects have grudges against each other? So what?
Is there a grudge between us? Yes! As long as I can go back, I won't run anymore! I will fight you! If you die in battle, I will bring your ashes back to your hometown. If you have a family, I will treat them as my own!
As descendants of the Yellow Emperor, our own people are like our own brothers. We can fight whenever we want! Scold me if you want! As for you daring to touch my brother, who do you think you are?
If we want to plant our land, we can do so. If we don't want to plant it, even if it's abandoned, what does it have to do with you? If you dare to invade, the only thing we have to do is tear you apart!
In the end, the Confucianists thought that the Taoists: Under the recommendation of Tianzong Xiaomeng, Renzong Xiaoyao Zi, Quicksand, and the Mo Family, Jing Tianming became the leader of these nearly 30,000 people.
In the beginning, they could still resist the attack head-on, or even counterattack. Here, you could see the ferocious expressions of the scholars who used to be cultured and elegant. You could see the rich people who used to be heartless handing over some dry rations to others. They even raised their swords and shouted,"Kill!" Kill! Kill!" Even though they were often the first to fall.
Even if they were stronger than their enemies in all aspects, they were still martial artists, not soldiers. The strength of an individual was quickly overshadowed by the strictness of an army. Although the Hu army was not particularly powerful, it was still an army. As long as they did not engage in a fight, the charge of the cavalrymen was almost invincible to ordinary martial artists. Even if some of the experts could block more than ten cavalrymen at the same time, they were still a minority.
They could only retreat! Every step he took, he felt pain in his heart. Every step he took, it was as if his heart was bleeding! Their territory! They lost it in their hands just like that! This! It was a humiliation!
When they received the news that the civil war had started again, they were furious at Liu Bang! They had already heard from Jing Tianming that Xiang Yu, the Conqueror of the Western Chu, had told him about the invasion of the foreign races in the north and spread the news that could destroy the foundation of Huaxia. However, Liu Bang had actually started a war at this time! At this moment of life and death! Perhaps when they first arrived here, they might not have believed what Jing Tianming said, but after all the battles that had happened in the past few days…Jing Tianming always took the lead! Every time they retreated, they would be at the back! He had always been the one to shoulder the night patrol!
They didn't know what right they had to doubt the words of their leader, who was only twenty-five years old and younger than most of them, but was much stronger than them.
Three years had passed, and countless descendants of China had died on this battlefield. They had left unwillingly because of their broken arms and legs, and countless young men had joined in.
They also had an army. Although there were only 3,000 of them, they were all experts who had experienced dozens of battles! The will of these 3,000 men to recover the border, as well as their anger at not being able to protect the land under their feet, combined with the usage of the 'God' taught by Tianming, produced the 'Army Spirit'! They were the true 'army spirits'. The swords in their right hands were waving to reclaim their land! The shield in his left hand was raised to guard the border!
Ever since they had obtained the army spirit, they had only suffered heavy casualties twice. The first time was when Jing Tianming was surrounded because of his reckless advance. That was the first time their army spirit had appeared. A total of 3,600 people were surrounded by 20,000 cavalrymen in a canyon. No matter who saw it, it was a situation of death.
However, Jing Tianming did not have any way out. He roared with determination,'For the country under my feet! For the lost frontier! For the friends who died before us! For…everything behind us! Kill! Without waiting for the others to make any moves, he raised his sword and charged forward.
His words and actions resonated with everyone. They did not stop and followed closely behind Jing Tianming. It was unbelievable! A group of second-rate and first-rate players in the game, with only three top-notch players, Robber Zhi, Bai Feng, and Sheng Qi, all of them were able to keep up with the current number one player in the game, or rather, the number one player in China, who stood at the top of the pyramid.
The cavalrymen who hadn't accelerated to half of their original speed were more than twice as slow as Jing Tianming, who had accelerated to his maximum speed! The 3,000 men behind Jing Tianming instantly clashed with the cavalry in front of them. In an instant, everyone was thrown off their feet! It was the wolf tribe that was raised up, and it was the horse of the Five Barbarians that was overturned! The clash between cavalry and infantry was definitely one-sided. The truth was just as the wolf leader had thought. It was indeed one-sided! What was unbelievable was that his cavalrymen were the ones who fell!
The 3,600 soldiers who had unleashed their army spirits possessed three-fifths of the strongest part of their leader. The speed of the Thief Zhi, the dexterity of the White Phoenix, and the speed of the White Phoenix. Sheng Qi's strength, Jing Tianming's sword technique, and finally, their minds were connected.
The power of this powerful army spirit was enough to make an ordinary second-rate expert instantly become a peak expert! Perhaps this was no longer the so-called soul of the army, but the soul of the country! The soul of the nation! Although the power of their army souls was only useful against the non-humankind, which was the wolf race and the five barbarians. But what did they want? They had never thought of a civil war! What they wanted was to take back everything they had lost! What did this restriction mean to them?
More than 3,600 top-notch experts who shared the same thoughts! In front of them was a massacre! The burial ground that the wolf clan had chosen for Jing Tianming had instead become their graveyard! The only way out of this canyon had long been sealed by 300 soldiers!
When the soldiers were injured, their comrades would block the incoming attacks. Their perfect coordination almost made the Hu feel despair! The only way to cause casualties to the soldiers was to use their trash-like lives! If five people didn't work, then ten people! If ten people didn't work, then twenty people! Using this method of killing, they had spent over 8,000 lives, and only managed to kill 63 soldiers.
Kill! Kill! Kill! Facing the crazy warriors, the wolves and the Five Barbarians were frightened, retreated, felt guilty, and collapsed! They begged for mercy, surrendered, and wanted to live! But so what? Every time they killed a person, the aura of the soldiers became stronger until they could no longer contain this invincible aura!
Even Bai Feng, who had always been calm and collected, had a hint of malevolence on his face. With Sheng Qi's power, Bai Yu could kill one or even several people with just a single strike.
When Thief Zhi attacked, he targeted the leaders of the various races and killed them.
Sheng Qi, who had obtained speed, agility, and technique, was even stronger! In fact, he might even be number one at this time! Wherever he went, there was an empty space. There was no alien race where he stood!
A battle that was bound to lose had become an absolute victory! No one from the wolf tribe or the Hu tribe survived. Even the horses they rode on were slaughtered.
The entire north was shocked by this battle! 3,600 against 20,000. Infantry against cavalry, a complete victory! The losses did not exceed a hundred people! Was this a miracle that could only be achieved by a Heavenly Weapon?
From then on, all the alien races in the north retreated when they saw the 'Thorn' flag. No one dared to fight against it.
The second time, the non-humankind gathered all their cavalry, cavalry, and infantry, totaling 50,000. They began to accelerate from three miles away. Even if they managed to pull out their formation in time, they still lost more than three hundred people in the first charge! But then, they didn't give the Outsiders any chance! As they continued to interweave, it gradually turned into a siege! Less than 10,000 non-humankind beings escaped. The rest were all buried in the grassland. But this time, the horses were left behind. They needed horses.
This was also a truly massive loss for them. They had lost nearly five hundred soldiers, most of whom had died in the Hu's first charge.
Three years later, the civil war in the Central Plains stopped, and the news of Xiang Yu and Liu Yu splitting the world spread like wildfire. Cheers from the north! They knew that their reinforcements would arrive soon!
A month after the armistice, Shaoyu prepared the rations and the troops. Fan Zeng was the military advisor, and Long Qie, Ying Bu, Zhong Limei, and Ji Bu were the generals. Speed was the most important thing in war! He only brought 30,000 elite soldiers. These 30,000 were all true veterans! They could even defeat Liu Bang's 60,000 elite soldiers!
However, they had not gone more than a hundred miles north when Liu Bang broke his promise again! Attacking East Chu! Shaoyu was furious but he could only turn back, but he only brought ten thousand elite soldiers and four generals! The twenty thousand elite soldiers would be led by Fan Zeng to continue their assault on the Hu!
In the war between Chu and Han, they lost 20,000 elite soldiers. Shaoyu, who was the strongest strategist under him, was no different from cutting off his own arms! The defeat of Chu and Han might have already been decided when Shaoyu decided to go north!
And after the war between Chu and Han, Liu Bang claimed to be recuperating, but in reality, he had secretly cut off all contact with the north, food, information, everything! He was afraid! He was afraid that the civil strife he had started would turn the North against him, not to mention that he had already received news of the northern soldiers discussing him.
In a situation where they lacked food and assistance, the heroes of the north walked step by step into the abyss! The most powerful soldiers of the army did not die on the battlefield against foreign enemies. They had never lost their lives, but they died in the internal fear of killing without smoke.
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