Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 382 Dragon Cauldron
Li Qing is a military strategist who can kill ten thousand men, and she is in Qin territory. Even if she were to come to fight after attaining enlightenment, she would not be afraid.

But looking at Qu Ying sitting on the steps of the bathhouse, her eyes were unusually cold: "White Ghost, you did this, didn't you?"

Qu Ying smiled and asked, "Which 'you'?"

"The man who shattered jade."

Li Qing was a military strategist, and of course she also had her own intelligence network. After discovering this monster that defied the laws of nature in Sishui, she had been investigating how Li Xu created this evil spirit.

All the clues ultimately point to that mysterious organization.

The man who shattered jade.

Yes, they are helping not only Li Qing, but also Li Xu.

And they used completely different methods.

Qu Ying overthrew the sect and helped Li Qing expand rapidly. At the same time, someone else was helping Li Xu to create tireless and fearless white ghosts.

They seemed to be secretly exerting their influence from both sides, urging a major battle to break out between Li Qing and Li Xu.

Qu Ying didn't deny it; his smile was even somewhat sunny: "So what if it is?"

This was an open conspiracy from the start.

Li Xu was never a lord who was good at fighting, otherwise, how could the territory he inherited from his father have shrunk over the years?

How could he not feel anxious when faced with his aunt, whose territory was constantly expanding and growing stronger?

Li Xu couldn't refuse Bai Gui.

In Qinzhou, a desolate land where humanity had long been extinguished, turning people into monsters was hardly a difficult choice.

As long as Li Xu continues to create White Ghosts, Li Qing will inevitably have to fight him first, both from the perspective of righteousness and the war situation.

The more Li Qing pressured Li Xu to fight, the more he would become compelled to manufacture weapons of war, and in turn, further pressure Li Qing to prepare for war.

This is a spiral, an unsolvable paradox of the human heart that has existed for thousands of years.

The spear tip scraped across the palace floor, leaving a piercing sound. The man in white walked slowly to Qu Ying, and the Tiger Marquis looked down at him: "How did you do that?"

The white ghost is on the verge of death but not quite dead. It is tireless, does not experience hunger, is not afraid of pain, and has a strong body and moves swiftly.

This is contrary to the natural order.

Humans need to eat to move, and arrows need to be drawn to shoot. How can there be a creature like the White Ghost that only shoots and never shoots?
Qu Ying looked up at her face: "You already have the answer in your heart, don't you?"

Elsewhere, it would be a pipe dream to do such a thing.

But in Qin Prefecture, there is one thing that can indeed obscure the secrets of heaven.

And this thing is known to everyone.

The spear tip left a blur before coming to a steady stop on Qu Ying's throat. A murderous rage surged in Li Qing's eyes: "You found the Dragon Cauldron?!"

As the old saying goes, "The world, after a long period of division, will unite; after a long period of unity, will divide."

To a time traveler like Pei Xia, this is a historical pattern.

But to the people of Kyushu, this was "the will of Heaven".

Thus, hundreds of years ago, at the height of the Qin Dynasty, the ambitious Qin ruler, in order to defy the will of Heaven and ensure the eternal life of the state, commissioned the casting of a "Dragon Cauldron" by the millions of people of Qin.

From the moment of its birth, the Dragon Cauldron has been inextricably linked to the entire Qin State.

Objectively speaking, the Dragon Cauldron did indeed protect the Qin state for nearly a thousand years.

However, if you look through history books, you will find that this kind of protection is often more like a curse of "immortality". It is like a person who, even if his bones are broken, his internal organs are rotting, and he is abandoned by everyone, and he suffers extreme pain in his body and mind at all times, he just can't die. The pain seems to have become eternal.

Twenty years ago, the princes rebelled, and the people of Qin Province suffered greatly. The entire Qin Dynasty was already deeply mired in problems, yet it could not be destroyed.

Without embers, there can be no new life.

And so it happened that later, he drew his sword at an angle and finally severed the Dragon Cauldron.

However, who could have imagined that the Dragon Cauldron, rooted in the land of Qinzhou, would shatter in an instant, seemingly dragging the entire land into an abyss?

For the next twenty years, the fire died down, and the entire Qin Prefecture was not revived, but instead plunged into an endless darkness.

It can be said that any Qin person would have extremely complex feelings about the name "Dragon Cauldron".

As if to punish the Qin people for their defiance of Heaven, it has been associated with evil and suffering from the moment it appeared.

The indestructibility of the Dragon Cauldron signifies the end of the Qin Dynasty—it's a curse.

The shattering of the Dragon Cauldron and the sacrifice of Qin Zhou were also a curse!

Do you know what you're doing?!

Tiger Marquis's normally cold voice seemed to be suppressing a true tiger's roar, with anger lingering in his throat, as if he were waiting to devour someone.

But Qu Ying remained unusually calm, still leisurely toying with Su Yan beside him.

"No one knows this better than us."

Qu Ying let out a long breath: "Back then, it was we who instigated the Qin Emperor to cast the Dragon Cauldron."

This sentence, like a thousand-pound weight, landed silently.

Even Li Qing stared at him with wide, incredulous eyes.

"Of course, I didn't exist back then, and there wasn't even a Broken Jade Man."

He began to speak slowly: "Over the past thousand years, we have changed our names many times."

"The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the Seeking the Way Hermit, the Astrologers... We once served the Qin Emperor, spending a great deal of time and energy to make him believe that the will of Heaven could be concealed. We flattered him, instigated him, and deceived him, finally making him determined to forge a divine object that could conceal the secrets of Heaven."

"Without our help, how could you mortals have forged something like the Dragon Cauldron? So in a sense, the Dragon Cauldron should have belonged to us from the very beginning."

“But…” Qu Ying shook his head and smiled mockingly, “The emperors of the mortal world are truly too greedy. Once he was convinced of the Dragon Cauldron’s power, he regarded it as his own possession and even tried to exterminate us, wanting to monopolize this unparalleled treasure.”

"Back then, our main area of ​​activity was in Qin Prefecture. The betrayal of that dog emperor severely weakened us, and it took us hundreds of years to recover. But that's not important. Death is nothing, it's a trivial matter. What's important is that he can't occupy the Dragon Cauldron. The Dragon Cauldron was born with a mission, so..."

Qu Ying grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth: "Twenty years ago, we secretly sowed discord, instigated, and manipulated, using our accumulated resources in Qinzhou over hundreds of years to send this dynasty to its doom."

He reached out and calmly deflected Li Qing's spear tip. He stood up, walked slowly to the palace gate, and looked at the mountains and sky outside. He sighed with regret, "What a pity, all our efforts were in vain."

The Jade Shatterer did not obtain the Dragon Cauldron.

Twenty years ago, a young man carrying a long sword shattered the Qin state's thousand-year-old dream.

It also shattered the evil schemes of this shadowy figure.

"For twenty years, we have been searching for fragments of the Dragon Cauldron. Now, the time has finally come."

Qu Ying turned around, her gaze sweeping across the palace, her eyes glancing at Pei Xia almost imperceptibly before finally settling on Li Qing.

“We are going back to His embrace.”

(End of this chapter)