You Drove Me Out with Your Hypocrisy and now Crying When I Come to Take It All? Chapter 127 : Chapter 127

Chapter 127: The Upheaval in Jiannan Circuit, Cheng Yu’s Hidden Piece

In so village sowhere.

A farr with a heavy sack slung over his back was drenched in sweat.

Yet as he walked along the road, he was smiling more sweetly than if he had just eaten honey. Even when he ran into a neighbor he did not get along with very well, the two still exchanged smiles.

“Off to collect grain again?”

“Yeah. The Jinyiwei lords rescued my youngest son, so I’m going to collect his share too!”

“After you get the grain, rember to turn into town and go to the martial hall to collect at. A whole storehouse of at! Damn, those bastards acted like wolves, and they ate at like wolves too!”

“Good! To hell with the rebellion. I’m feeding my son at!”

The two burst into laughter, and scenes like that were playing out everywhere.

A few days earlier, the Jianghu had descended into chaos.

Explosive news had spread throughout Jiannan Circuit.

Iron Halberd Mountain had been secretly occupied by Prince Qing’s remnants for decades.

The common people had been terrified, every last one of them living in fear. Those vicious rebels had been lurking so close to them all along.

The mont an uprising broke out, the common people of the entire circuit could be plundered, or even forced into rebellion themselves.

Even if they sohow survived until Great Qian swept the land clean, they would still be Rebel Subjects from territory that had once been occupied, never to rise again for the rest of their lives.

The weak had always been dragged along by the tis and by the strong.

In the struggle for dynastic power, there were victors and there were losers, but the ones who always suffered most were the common people.

Those with money had fled Jiannan Circuit long ago.

Only the poor remained, living each day in anxiety, every one of them fearful for their lives.

At any mont, they might beco slaves driven before the rebels’ horses, or ghosts beneath their blades.

They had spent every day trembling in fear.

And while they kept fearing, and fearing, they gradually realized that sothing was wrong.

How was it that life was becoming more and more prosperous?

It was not because Heaven had blessed them, nor because the Bodhisattvas had answered their prayers, but because the new Jinyiwei Thousand-Household Commander had taken office.

Across every prefecture and county, the Jinyiwei were suppressing and raiding Jianghu forces.

With those who exploited and oppressed the people, both openly and in secret, now gone, how could life not beco easier?

Families lined up one after another to reclaim the property that had been seized from them.

In the morning, they got back the land taxes extorted during Wang Family Village’s harvest. By night, they were receiving the unpaid wages owed for that black-hearted corvée labor.

Life had suddenly beco full of hope.

Who still cared about Prince Qing’s rebel faction? For the first ti in their lives, they were living like actual human beings!

Even the illiterate elderly deeply rembered the na of the man who had brought all these changes.

His na was Cheng Yu!

He had killed until the Jianghu of Jiannan Circuit wailed in misery, while the common people behind him ate their fill.

He had the thods of an Arhat and the heart of a Bodhisattva!

Such great grace and virtue could never be repaid, not even in a hundred lifetis!

Jiannan City.

Beneath the Jinyiwei Thousand-Household Office.

Cheng Yu, who in the eyes of the people was no different from a Bodhisattva, listened to the constant stream of rewards chiming in his ears.

The various comprehension items won out through sheer quantity, bringing about a considerable qualitative leap.

It was enough to strengthen Cheng Yu considerably and arm the Jinyiwei under his command.

But he did not smile. His face was as calm as still water instead.

Because Xiao Qian, who was hanging before him, was simply too absurdly stubborn in her thinking.

Stroking his chin, Cheng Yu asked in puzzlent, “You an that people are divided into ranks, and that so people are simply ant to be sacrificed for others?”

“Isn’t that so?”

Suspended by Cold Iron Chains, Xiao Qian revealed a crazed smile.

“They were born to die. The way they die is their Heavenly Fate!”

She hysterically expounded the family doctrine of Prince Qing’s line.

The Righteous Path of Heavenly Fate!

Her attitude today was far more extre than usual.

Xiao Qian did not think there was anything strange about it.

She believed that since she was already trapped in prison, if she could not even hold fast to her convictions, then she truly would have nothing left.

With one hand behind his back, Cheng Yu silently pinched a stick of incense between his fingers.

Strange, mysterious smoke rose from it, visible to him alone.

“So this is the reason you people ca running out, shouting about the Righteous Path of Heavenly Fate, slaughtering the common people like mad, only to accomplish absolutely nothing?”

The mont Xiao Qian heard her ancestors and forebears being mocked, she instantly flew into a furious rage.

“That is because the appointed hour of Heavenly Fate has not yet co! The descendants of Heavenly Fate bear Dragon Blood and are born noble. Why shouldn’t lowly commoners be killed?”

In the next instant, a thunderous peal exploded.

The incense in Cheng Yu’s hand burned out, and the Thousand-Forged Ice-Thunder Xiuchun Saber ca to rest against her throat.

“By that logic, if I kill you, wouldn’t that prove that Heavenly Fate decreed you should die by my hand? That would make nobler than you. And if even one chosen by Heavenly Fate can die, then wouldn’t the one who killed them be even more favored by Heavenly Fate?”

Faced with death and that bizarre question, Xiao Qian froze.

Everything she had been taught since childhood said that once Heavenly Fate erged, it would be unstoppable.

How could she ever have considered failure?

No one had ever taught her how to answer a question like this.

She did not even realize that her ideals had already begun to waver.

After struggling for a mont, she retorted, “Only those who bear Dragon Blood possess the proof of Heavenly Fate. The descendants of Heavenly Fate will overturn the False Court sooner or later! Everyone else is only a temporary obstruction. Failure is rely a trial set down by Heavenly Fate!”

“Dragon Blood?”

A faint smile appeared on Cheng Yu’s face.

So that was it. These people’s Dragon Intent ca from external Dragon Blood. No wonder it was inherently inferior to inborn Dragon Might.

“The problem is, where is your Dragon Blood?”

“Naturally it is...” Xiao Qian disdainfully circulated her Internal Energy, only for her eyes to widen. “Where is my Dragon Blood?!”

She abruptly discovered that the Dragon Intent within her Internal Energy had vanished without a trace.

“Tsk, tsk.”

With his hands behind his back, Cheng Yu mocked her, “So Dragon Blood can be lost too. You descendants of Heavenly Fate really aren’t much. It seems you’re nothing more than lunatics ranting to yourselves.”

“Impossible! Impossible!”

Xiao Qian’s understanding simply could not comprehend what was happening now.

The Dragon Blood that symbolized her status as a direct heir of Heavenly Fate...

was gone!

How could the symbol of Heavenly Fate possibly disappear?

Her worldview began collapsing at terrifying speed.

Could it be that they were never special at all, and had only used that as an excuse to slaughter others?

Cheng Yu smiled.

“Tell , if the other descendants of Prince Qing learn that you’ve lost your Dragon Blood, will they still treat you the way they used to?”

“Stop talking! Stop talking!”

Xiao Qian fell into extre self-doubt.

She wanted to cover her ears and refuse to listen to Cheng Yu’s words.

But her hands were suspended, so she could not cover them at all.

In her despair, she began screaming hysterically, trying to drown out Cheng Yu’s voice.

“Stop talking, aaaaahhh!”

Cheng Yu smiled and shook his head before leaving.

Xiao Qian’s solitary cell echoed with shrill screams.

A long while later, Xiao Qian had scread her throat hoarse and cried her eyes dry.

In the midst of her despair and confusion, she suddenly discovered that quite a bit of her Internal Energy had recovered.

With all her strength, she struggled violently, and the Cold Iron Chains snapped at once.

She stared wide-eyed at her freed hands.

“I’m free? Heavenly Fate truly does favor !”

Her despair vanished in an instant.

In wild ecstasy, Xiao Qian tore free of the chains.

Dragging her heavily injured legs, she fled the hell-like prison under the cover of night.

But at the sa ti, the self-doubt caused by the disappearance of her Dragon Blood had already been planted deep within her heart.

In the darkness, three Jinyiwei watched her leave, sinister smiles spreading across their faces.

There was no favor from Heavenly Fate here.

There was only Lord Cheng’s invisible hand controlling everything!

“My lord, your stratagem truly reaches the heavens. She did not hesitate in the slightest!”

With his hands behind his back, Cheng Yu gave a faint nod.

“Enough flattery. Just watch carefully and learn. Everything will proceed according to plan.”

Those Prince Qing remnants who called themselves chosen by Heavenly Fate were, at their core, all extrely selfish and self-serving people.

Introduce a single ripple, and it was enough to stir up monstrous waves.

And that was not to ntion the fact that he had expended an extrely precious stick of Bewildering Immortal Incense to ensure that Xiao Qian could be guided and beguiled.

He had also arranged for dicine for her injuries to be mixed into her prison als every day.

Now that this hidden piece had been placed, all he had to do was manage it slowly.

When the critical ti arrived a few days later, it would erupt in full.