Chapter 226: Tricking the Trickster
So that Old Rong, after being banished from the heavens for treason, found the Tianshi Emperor and manipulated him to get him out of the spell and then he lived with him hiding from the Gods and at the same time planning to eradicate everything the Heavenly Emperor had built till then and to gain control over the three realms to rule as he wish.
Xing could now understand why the Gods were so focused on her. It was her ancestor’s sin to collude with a traitor for his own gains and it should be paid by his descendant. They are in the right in this issue. They had every right to force her to do this task.
Wow! Tianshi Emperor, my ancestor... You really screwed up my life! I really should be mad at you...
But in another perspective, he colluded with Old Rong to save his wife and child and so if he didn’t do that then, maybe I wouldn’t even exist now! So I should be thankful to you...?
Xing didn’t know how to feel about all this but she knew past cannot be changed and only future has hopes.
"So why didn’t the Gods kill old Rong themselves after the war?", Xing asked the Tianshi Emperor and she remembered the answer the Heavenly Emperor told her only after hse asked, "I know", she turned at him and shouted, " Gods cannot kill other gods except in battlefields! And Old Rong surrendered after the war... So that’s why they sealed him in the human realm bound with spells and you... Liberated him!", she paused sensing his guilty expression. He was sitting beside her watching the sunset with a stern look and Xing could feel how lonely he is feeling.
The peak they were in was still bright and they could see the lower regions getting shrouded in darkness bit by bit as the sun sunk deeper. Night was approaching fast.
Xing in her own thoughts almost forgot that this guy just told her in a sentence that his wife died as a punishment from gods. He seemed to be not wanting to elaborate it to her and she didn’t want to hear it from him either. That would be the thorn pricking in his heart for the past two hundred plus years he had lived watching his descendants die one by one while he still lived.
Xing remembered that day when her mother died she saw that owl and even a tear drop fell on her hands. So he was there... To pay respect to his dead ninth generation descendant.
That would have sucked to live through so many deaths!
"So how did you trap Old Rong in that weapon?", she asked to change the mood. Also she needs to know the details.
"Old Rong is not trapped in the weapon. He is the weapon!", the Tianshi Emperor answered to her in a calm tone, his eyes still fixed in the setting sun.