Red Heart Patrols the Sky - Chapter 158 - Your Idea of Justice

Chapter 158 - Your Idea of Justice

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Chapter 158 of "Red Heart Patrols the Sky" kicks off with action-packed scenes: Jiang Wang deliberately chose to exit the city through the gate opposite the massive turtle... Discover more!

Jiang Wang deliberately chose to exit the city through the gate opposite the massive turtle beast.In the city, he moved neither hurriedly nor slowly, but once outside, he sped along the road and quickly reached the countryside.

“Alas.”

In the howling wind, he suddenly heard such a sigh.

“I wonder why this traveler is in such a rush?”

Jiang Wang stopped and rested his hand on the hilt of his sword.

As he looked at the figure that had suddenly appeared before him, he said slowly, “Escaping for my life, I had no choice but to hurry.”

The man who appeared before him was a handsome young cultivator, dressed in plain clothes, with a face that bore no particular expression, yet his eyes somehow conveyed a sense of melancholy.

He smiled, “Aren’t you the savior of You Nation, the great hero who destroyed the Thousand-Absolute Curse?

What life are you fleeing from?”

Jiang Wang sighed, “Perhaps I am not.”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk.

I chased after you just to take a closer look at our so-called paragon of justice and virtue, to see what he’s really like,” he shook his head and sighed, “Turns out, he’s nothing special.”

Jiang Wang replied, “I simply did what I had to do, there is no justice to speak of.

If City Lord Yin has nothing else, I must be on my way.”

The person he saw that day on the rooftop of the tavern, among the group of officials going up to the city to report their duties, was Yin Guan.

That’s why Jiang Wang remembered his face.

Everyone thought he was still hiding within the twenty-seven cities; the Negative Stele Army was currently searching the city, with the commander Zheng Chaoyang personally blocking the gates.

Yet, he appeared in the countryside outside the city, right under everyone’s noses.

“Ha!

Do you really think you saved this city?” Yin Guan scoffed, “The nation supposedly blessed by heaven is a nation without hope!”

“Maybe I saved it, maybe I didn’t.

But at the very least, I saved an innocent young girl,” Jiang Wang said, “As for whether You Nation has any hope, that’s for the people of You Nation to consider.”

“You stopped Mu Qing and erased the first curse, so you must have met Mu Qing’s wet nurse.

Do you know why she harbors resentment?

Have you asked why she would go to such lengths to do what she did?”

Yin Guan’s voice was filled with anger, “Do you know how her only child died?”

“I didn’t have time to ask, nor did I want to.”

“Her only child was the City Lord of the twenty-seven cities two years ago!”

Mu Qing’s ‘Brother Qing’ she mentioned?

Jiang Wang felt a jolt in his heart; he considered perhaps that the old woman’s son had suffered an injustice or had been persecuted by someone.

These were all imaginable tragic tales—pitiable, indeed, but not justifications for hating the world.

Grievances have their source and debts their debtor.

The guilty should face retribution, not the innocent.

He had considered many possibilities, but this answer was still unexpected.

Almost immediately, Jiang Wang made the connection to what Su Muqing had said—”My cousin is a good person, he really is.

But no matter what he does, he’s bound to die.”

Yin Guan was the City Lord set to go up to the city to report his duties today, and according to Su Muqing’s words, he would inevitably be deemed unfit for duty today and end up being devoured by the national guardian beast.

But he triggered the guardian beast’s madness and miraculously escaped death, almost single-handedly destroying the twenty-seven cities.

If that colossal turtle beast continued its frenzy, the downfall of a nation was not an impossibility.

Was he simply trying to save himself?

“He was an outstanding person; the three of us—Mu Qing, he and I—grew up together.

We both trained very hard in our cultivation.

To have more time to spend with Mu Qing, I deliberately concealed my skill, letting him become the City Lord that year.

I thought it was compensation.

But I didn’t expect…

to have pushed him straight into hell!”

“Do you know what it means to be a City Lord of the lower cities?”

“You Nation is divided into the upper city and the lower cities.”

“That is, above and below the turtle shell.

There’s only one upper city—the capital.”

“There are thirty-nine lower cities in total, named from one to thirty-nine.

Have you ever seen a place where the cities are only numbered?

You wouldn’t name a dog kennel, you wouldn’t name a chicken coop.

Knowing they are kennels and coops is enough.”

“Because the so-called rotation of City Lords is nothing but a sham!

The current political system in You Nation only aims to select the most talented and gifted cultivators from all over the country to feed that damned national guardian beast!

The one deemed worst in the assessment is actually the one with the highest talent.

But that talent becomes the reason for their death!”

“Only in this way can it keep growing, stay in You Nation, and always, ‘guard’ this place!”

“But the guardianship that the people are grateful for is nothing but the instinctual food-protecting behavior of a wild beast!”

Yin Guan’s eyes twisted in pain.

He was laughing.

Laughing at himself, as well as at this deformed country.

“So that’s how it is!” Jiang Wangdao.

“So that’s how it is?”

“I’ve just suddenly come to understand something,” Jiang Wang said, “I thought Zhao Cang wanted to kill me.

Now I realize that indeed he does want to kill me.

But he doesn’t have to do it himself.

He announced in front of everyone that I had solved the Thousand Extinction Curse in order to use your knife.”

“Because you are smart.

You rejected him.

A smart person can see clearly what this country is like.

If you had a backing, it would be fine, if not, it’s better to be known by fewer people.

And I…

do you think I should kill you?”

“Perhaps I should,” Jiang Wang clenched his sword, “because you have your path, and I have mine.”

“You still don’t think you’re wrong?” Yin Guan frowned, “Do you think the justice you believe in is actually just being accomplice to a tiger!”

“Do you know…” Jiang Wang said, “Your cousin really loves you.”

“What are you trying to say?”

“Then do you also know what effect that cursed paper effigy will have on her?”

“It will make her seriously ill.

And apart from her, everyone in the Su Family will die.”

“If I remember correctly, the people of the Su Family are also your kin.”

“Kin?” Yin Guan laughed, “Then do you know who exposed my true talent and made me the City Lord of the twenty-seventh city?

It was none other than Su Muqing’s father, my maternal uncle!”

“Just to use me as bait to solidify his power and even to climb into the High City.

He completely forgot how he became the Family Head back then, forgot how my mother died!”

Jiang Wang was silent; he couldn’t justly blame the man for this.

But he also had his path, and it wouldn’t be swayed by the misfortunes of others.

Jiang Wang said, “But have you considered, when that giant beast rampages and attacks the lower city, how many will die?

You can’t correct one mistake with another, bigger mistake.”

“That depends on how you define a mistake,” Yin Guan said indifferently.

“Then, one last question,” Jiang Wang asked, “Why are you telling me so much?”

“Hahaha,” Yin Guan burst into laughter, “It’s only now that I find you interesting.”

He answered, “Because just like you…

I’m waiting for someone.

You’re waiting for him to come kill me, and I’m also waiting…

for him to come kill me!”

As his words fell,

from the direction of the twenty-seventh city, a straight figure, like an arrow shot from a bow, sped towards them with a velocity that nearly tore through space!

If he were an arrow,

then the bow must have mountains as its back, rivers as its string.

This arrow must shatter the long sky!

Those majestic muscles, the powerful oppression, even from afar, let people know his identity—the commander of the Negative Stele Army, Zheng Chaoyang!

And with a wave of his large sleeve, Yin Guan strode past Jiang Wang.

“They only miscalculated one thing.

And it is…”

As he spoke, he began to accelerate towards Zheng Chaoyang’s direction!

“They never truly understood how talented I truly am.

Just how strong I am!”

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