566: Do You Plead Guilty?

Do You Plead Guilty?

In the pit, the Fuxi skeletons were dead quiet. Their heads were raised and their vacant eye sockets were staring at Zhong Yue.

They were already dead, but it seemed like they didn't know about it. They were still trying to escape, trying to fight!

Or to be precise, someone wanted them to do so, someone evil.

This evil existence knew the Fuxi died with deep hatreds and indomitable wills. Even after death, their indomitable wills would still linger in their bones and power their skeletons to continue putting up a fight. Thus, the Fuxi skeletons were gathered together, then sealed and suppressed in a pit. So that the hatreds and indomitable wills, and also the spiritual energy in them could be extracted out.

The Fuxi Clan gods weren't even spared from sufferings even after death, they weren't even able to rest in peace. How cruel, how savage…

"I will save you all, my people. I promise you I will.", Zhong Yue stood up and walked away as he mumbled, "Now that I am here, you will be able to rest in peace…"

Mother Da Zhen was lingering not far away from Zhong Yue, she was following him while glancing around in fright. A single noise like the sound of breeze could even scares her to go into hiding.

She was terrified by the strange events in the city. Although she knew that Zhong Yue was her enemy, an opponent that only one of them could live, but she still chose to stray closer around Zhong Yue as that gave her a sense of security.

After all, it wasn't the known dangers that scares one the most; it was the unknown that strikes the greatest fear in one's soul.

The strange and peculiar experiences she has been through in the city has made her to lose her confidence. But what she has gain, however, was the knowledge of the existence of an unknown force that lingers in this damned city.

But now, even with her being a god, her dignity and self-esteem were nowhere to be found anymore!

Zhong Yue moved past the pit and strode toward the center of the City of Nature. Along the way, he was counting softly, "One, two, three, four… there should be five and six as well. Many of the gods under Bi Xie Celestial Emperor died along the wa but the true calamity is still in the center of the city. There, they have triggered something and that was what killed them all. Then, it means that, they must have been to six…"

"I should be in one now, then the first strange occurrence should be two, then back to one, then three then one, four and one again. So, the next to come should be five."

Mother Da Zhen was not far away, she heard him mumbling and was puzzled, "Has he really gone mad? What one, two, three, four, five and six? Why is he counting simple numbers and what is he talking about? Did the horrible deaths of his people made him lost his mind? What a sad child, if we live through this, I promise you I will treat you nicely, making you into the carrier of my best insects…"

They were drawing nearer to the city square and the roads around were like a maze, it was as if they were walking inside of a giant's intestines, or maybe they really are.

There was a series of faint drumming noises, growing louder as they walk closer. Even the surroundings were shuddering along with the noises.

"Five, it is coming!"

Zhong Yue slowed his pace and glanced around, there were many huge skeletons around them.

These skeletons were the gods under Bi Xie Celestial Emperor's commands. They died here along the streets while running away from the city square.

Just how strong were the gods?

Despite their strong prowess, they were weak like a class of children in the face of the unknown existence in the city. All of their cultivation base and prowess were sucked dry away from them, their flesh rots away and their spiritual energies extracted out away from the skeletons, leaving them in the end as nothing but a pile of fragile bones.

They couldn't even escape and died in the city, died without seeing a glimpse of hope.

Zhong Yue could tell just how terrified were the gods from the skeletons as their skulls were distorted from the terrified expressions on their faces before death. Some of their jaws were opened incredibly wide, these were the gods that shouted and died in despair and there were some that have gritted so hard that their teeths shattered into pieces.

Meanwhile, there was a few that sat in the lotus position, they have accepted their fate and died in peace while some others tried to fight back but their efforts were clearly in vain.

Zhong Yue glanced around and tried to find any useful hints from the skeletons. Moments later, a glimpse of reflected golden ray caught his attention, it was a book.

The book was forged with the divine golds but with the spiritual energy in it cease to exist now, it was nothing more than just the ordinary golds. However, the words in it remained, it was written in the common language between the gods, recording everything they have encountered in the City of Nature.

It was from a courtier of the West Barren divine court, a historiographer that records everything that happened in their journey and expedition in great details.

Zhong Yue read the book and found many useful clues in it.

The gods have indeed explored many ancient secrets buried in the passage of time.

Such as the origin of the gods from the other places, their leader Patriarch Nature who was the son of a great existence, and that they were all here under a heavenly order to exterminate the rebels.

Here, they have faced with a strong resistance from the natives of Ancestral Star and the rebels, but were still able to successfully execute the order under the help of many strong figures—the rebels were exterminated and the curtain has raised for the rise of a new era, a new world.

However in the last battle, the resistance from the rebels was too great that Patriarch Nature was gravely wounded and the army of gods suffered great loss as well.

Furthermore, the extermination of the rebels was too sensitive an issue to the livings in the universe. If the universe knows about it, the related faction would be pressured greatly. Thus, that great existence wouldn't have allowed the gods to live on to tell the tale, even Patriarch Nature was no exception.

So the surviving gods were left in the Ancestral Star, they buried themselves with the rebels.

Whereas Patriarch Nature, the great existence's own son, killed and used himself as the last seal to suppress the rebels even after death.

Who is this great existence that sent Patriarch Nature? The rebels they have been referring to are no doubt the Fuxi Celestial Race, but why did they say it is not honorable to exterminate the 'rebels'?

Zhong Yue strode forward and was puzzled. Exterminating the Fuxi rebels would grant Patriarch Nature and his army with a great war contribution, but why were they not rewarded and instead, demanded to die as well?

What was evenmore puzzlingly was that all of the gods and Patriarch Nature were willing to follow the order and die in the City of Nature just so they could stop the secret from being exposed to the world.

'The honors and glories of an eternal empire are often built on the top of mountains of dead.', the golden book summarized in the end.

The book has also recorded that they have fought in the battlefield, it was as if they have time travelled back to the ancient Dark Age and battled in the war. Many of them were killed.

Zhong Yue was bestirred, he carefully read through the book.

Some of the gods were sent to the middle of the heated war, they fought with their lives and died in the hands of the gods; some were sent to the sides of the captivated war prisoners, they were captured and planted with the divine herbs, eventually died in the end.

The third time, they have met and clashed directly with the strong figures, more than half of the surviving gods died on the spot.

The fourth time, they boarded on an underground bridge, below them were a spooky river with mysterious livings swimming in it. They even saw the faces of their dead friends in the water.

The spooky river has billowed over violently and carried them away. When they stood back on their feet and opened their eyes, they were already in a grand palace. A jury was sitting in the center of the palace and they were put to trial. Many of them were deemed guilty and sentenced to death on the spot.

After that, they have suddenly return back in the city.

The surviving gods continued traipsing to the center of the city. There, they found another City of Nature.

Then, the recordings stopped right here, whatever happened next wasn't recorded anymore.

They found another City of Nature and died in the last strange occurrence…, Zhong Yue closed the book and pondered, fifth strange occurrences recorded in the golden book was actually the sixth times. The bizarre light rays from the underground is also another strange occurrence, which they failed to notice. As for the underground bridge they are talking about, it should be at…

He raised his head and saw an underground tunnel in front of him. There were the cold breezes blowing out from the hole which was actually the mouth of an ancient statue.

The statue was a beast with peculiar appearance. It has the body of a sheep, face of a human, teeths of a tiger and its eyes were on the armpits.

Zhong Yue looked at it for a few moments, then walking into its mouth and down the stairs. Soon after, he could hear the sound of water and a narrow bridge that was built across the sides of a river came into his vision.

His vision was heavily obstructed in the City of Nature, the furthest he could see was only half of the river's width, the other half was hidden in the dark. Leaving him with no idea how wide the river was.

The same goes with the bridge. Half of it was swallowed in the dark, making it to appear as if it was hung helplessly in mid air or like a direct path into the mouths of a dark beast. It was indeed scary.

The only one that followed me here is Mother Da Zhen, with her still alive now, I shouldn't be seeing any faces of the dead in the river, should I?

Zhong Yue thought and he walked onto the bridge, heading toward the other end.

Hua-la—

The spooky river started billowing harder, the water current flowed faster and the waves were higher. There were also some shadowy figures looming in the waters!

All of a sudden, Zhong Yue's body shuddered. He saw a face slowly floating up from the waters.

It was the face of an old man—the old Fuxi that told him to not be afraid in the desert!

Right after, the faces of the Fuxi gods followed behind. They were the Fuxi gods he have encountered in the strange occurrences before!0

They were struggling in the river, raising their hands up and reached out for Zhong Yue.

The water waves surged higher and their hands could then reach closer to him. Also allowing Zhong Yue to see clearly of their faces when the water waves billowed higher into midair.

Abruptly, a huge wave gushed over but Zhong Yue never tried to move at all, he stood still and allowed the many hands to grab on him as he was swallowed by the river water.

Zhong Yue was washed away from the bridge.

"Do you plead guilty?"

Before Zhong Yue opened his eyes, a solemn and sonorous voice rumbled in his ears. He opened his third eye and saw the grand palace the golden book has mentioned. The ancient statue he saw before was sitting in the center as the jury and beneath it were the atmans of the Fuxi gods.

"Fuxi, I say, you are guilty!"

The human face, sheep body beast opened its hand and ate away one of the Fuxi god, it chewed him like a candy.

"Do you plead guilty?", the beast raised its finger and pointed at another Fuxi god, it asked.

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