219 “Blessing from Heavenly Official” Chapter 218

Chapter 218 A hundred years of deep water and a thousand years of heat 2

The Imperial Master said: “It’s not that His Royal Highness doesn’t know this, it’s just that he doesn’t know what to do.”

Xie Lian bowed his head slightly and said: “He is a god. Naturally, it is impossible for him to tell the believers that I do not allow you to worship gods other than me. I am afraid that he does not disdain to make such a request.”

The Imperial Master said: “Of course you understand him very well.”

Xie Lian added: “However, the birth is at such a joint. He cannot lack believers and mana, otherwise it will affect the construction of Tongtian Bridge.”

The National Preceptor said: “That’s right, so the four of us have to convey the stakes to the people.”

Thanks for the pity: “What’s the result?”

Huacheng said: “Not so much.”

The National Preceptor said: “Not so much. At least not as good as we expected. Some people were worried that the bridge would not be built, so they came back a little bit. However, there are also a large part of the people who think that His Highness is too overbearing. If their prayers are not fulfilled, they turn to worship other gods that can satisfy their wishes. This is indeed understandable. They are free believers, and they can believe in whatever they want. It is only natural.”

“It’s not that he doesn’t want to satisfy everyone, but he really…”

Xie Lian sighed and whispered: “…I am powerless.”

The Imperial Master continued: “After His Highness the Crown Prince found out about this, he stopped us and said that if you want to leave, you can leave. If you are forced to stay, you will not sincerely believe in him. Indeed, despite our repeated warnings, the hearts of the believers have already dispersed. Even if they come back reluctantly, they are not sincere and the power of faith is not as strong as before. It is just perfunctory.”

Xie Lian said: “He cannot be angry with believers, and he is unwilling to ask other priests for help.”

The national master said: “Even if he asks for help, other priests will not help him at all. If they are willing to help, they will not object at the beginning, and will not take the opportunity to seduce his followers later.”

“His Royal Highness became more and more silent. He built and supported that bridge with one person’s strength. I looked at him every day. Although he didn’t say anything, I could see how painful he was. And this pain can only be borne by him alone. Even if the four of us wanted to help, we couldn’t share much for him.

“Finally, after three years of hard work, the volcano is about to erupt.

“As soon as the news was sent out, people rushed to the bridge. The four of us were guiding the huge crowd while worrying about His Highness the Crown Prince who was supporting himself alone.”

The Imperial Master sighed: “We never worried about what he couldn’t do before, but at that time, we actually started to worry about him.”

“At first, the bridge was relatively stable. But as more and more people rushed up and the support time became longer and longer, His Highness’s hands began to tremble and his face began to turn pale.

“Others can’t see it at all, only we can.I feel bad, so I tell people please wait, give him some time, don’t rush to him all at once, just let him take a breath, and he will definitely save you all.But the volcano was about to erupt, and their lives were at stake. No one was willing to wait. They all rushed to the bridge like crazy, and even trampled people to death. We couldn’t stop it at all!

“Finally, what we feared most happened.

“In the past three years, due to the continuous loss of believers, His Royal Highness’s magic power has long been not as strong as before.When tens of thousands of people poured onto the bridge to celebrate their salvation and were heading to heaven happily, the bridge broke.”

Xie Lian held his breath.

The Imperial Master said: “The sky was torn apart, and tens of thousands of people, densely packed together, suddenly fell from the high sky, falling into the sea of fire with heart-rending screams, and were burned to ashes in an instant right in front of His Highness the Crown Prince’s eyes!

“I was almost petrified at the time. I didn’t dare to look at His Highness the Crown Prince’s face. I couldn’t get up, pick it up, or put out the fire. There was no way! Most of the people who hadn’t had time to get up were buried in the magma and sealed in the fly ash. They screamed, cried, and cursed. The scene was really terrifying… I have never seen anything more terrifying than that.”

Xie Lian imagined it for a moment and felt a little cold in his heart.The Imperial Master continued.

“The bridge is broken. The people of Wuyong are also crazy.”

“They set fire to the palace of His Highness the Prince, toppled his statue, stabbed his heart with a knife, and called him a useless thing, a bullshit god. He is a god, and gods should be extremely powerful. Gods cannot fail.

“But he just failed.So, he can’t sit on it anymore.

“The priests in heaven have been waiting for this moment for a long time. They said, ‘We have told you a long time ago that that will not work. You have caused too much trouble, and we have to ask you to go down.’

“And His Royal Highness asked a very stupid question.He asked: ‘Why don’t you help me?’

“For no reason, why would others help you? Moreover, if he can successfully help Wuyong Country survive this catastrophe, won’t he have no rivals in heaven?

“So, this is a really stupid question.I think he knew this, but he asked anyway.

“Of course no one answered him, and His Royal Highness was demoted.

“When he returns to the human world, he is neither a god nor a prince.We followed him and all said, you can definitely ascend again, so he started practicing again.But it’s too difficult.You should understand.”

Of course Xie Lian understands.

The higher you stand, the harder you fall.After falling from the sky to the earth, what greets him will be endless coldness and malice.

The national master said: “The volcano continues to erupt, and the Wuyong Kingdom has fallen into unprecedented misery.Refugees, rebellions, and invasions continued, and everyone was worried. Their attitude towards His Royal Highness was completely different from before.

“Even so, His Royal Highness still wants to help people. However, at this time, something else happened.

“Many other priests began to show favor.

“Although they are unwilling to stop the eruption of the volcano, they are happy to offer some small favors, such as giving some herbs, food and so on. Because His Highness the Crown Prince has been demoted at this time, of course, what he can do is far less than what these priests can do.

“The people of Wuyong seem to have suddenly grasped the life-saving straw, the reincarnated parents, and the number of believers is losing faster. In fact, there are not many left at all.All the original praise and love for His Royal Highness were transferred to other priests intact, leaving him only with hatred and disgust.”

The Imperial Master closed his eyes and said: “At that time, we were really unwilling.

“Obviously, these priests didn’t do much for them at all, they only came out to show off after the disaster. His Royal Highness was the one who did the most. He tried his best, and he could have succeeded, but he was just one step away! But why was he the only one who suffered in the end? Why did the people who gave the most turn a blind eye, while those who gave a little were grateful?

“That’s when I started to change my mind.

“I can’t help but think that if His Highness the Crown Prince had chosen to pretend not to know the future foreseen in his dream from the very beginning, and stood aside on the grounds that ‘this is destiny, and the gods can’t do anything about it,’ and only reluctantly rewarded him like other priests after the volcano erupted, people would definitely be grateful to him.”

Huacheng said softly: “Did you think of it then? You should have thought of it from the beginning. Cut off a piece of flesh to save a person, and people will be grateful. But the more you cut off, the more people want. In the end, even if the person is cut off until there is only a white skeleton left, people will not be satisfied.”

The Imperial Master said: “I don’t dare to tell him these thoughts at all, but His Royal Highness is getting more and more silent. I don’t know what he is thinking in his heart, and whether he has thought about the same things as me.

“Day after day, the volcano continues to erupt intermittently, and the entire Wuyong Kingdom has been immersed in panic for a long time and cannot get out.No one knew how to make it stop, to end this nightmare.

“One day, His Royal Highness the Prince suddenly told us that he had found a way to stop the volcano. But when he said that way, we had a big quarrel.”

Huacheng said: “I guess the method is human sacrifice.”

The Imperial Preceptor said: “Yes. His Royal Highness the Prince said that he selected a group of evil people and could use these evil people to sacrifice and throw them into the bronze furnace to calm the anger of the bronze furnace.

“The four of us have different specific ideas, but overall, we are opposed to it and we absolutely cannot do this kind of thing.At the beginning, His Highness did not want Wu Yong to send troops to attack other countries because he did not want to trade lives. If he now chooses to sacrifice a living person to the copper furnace, what is the difference between that and that?Even worse.Some opposed it so fiercely that they started quarreling directly with His Royal Highness.

They had a big argument that time and even started fighting.I was originally opposed to it, but compared to the attacks from the outside world, our own quarrel is more unbearable.You must know that the four of us have always supported His Highness the Crown Prince, and now we are his only support. But that time, not only did we act in excitement, but some people also told His Highness the Crown Prince that he had changed, that he had forgotten his true intentions, and that he was not the original Crown Prince.

“Those words were so heart-wrenching, I really couldn’t stand it. If we all stand on the opposite side of His Highness and accuse him, there will really be no one in the world who stands with him. So in the end, I didn’t object, I just said forget it, don’t worry about it anymore, leave it alone, whether in heaven or on earth or refugees. It’s really too tiring.

“But no one listened to me.After a big fight, the other three people, except me, left.”

Xie Lian shook his head, not knowing what to say.However, leaving at this time would undoubtedly make things worse.

The Imperial Master said: “I am the only one left.His Royal Highness didn’t say anything, he just asked me, ‘Are you leaving?’

“Seeing the look on His Highness’s face when he asked me this question, at that moment I really felt that even if he really threw people into the bronze furnace as a sacrifice, I could understand. I said, ‘Your Highness, I will not leave.’

“His Royal Highness still didn’t say anything.He no longer mentioned the use of human sacrifices, but changed his mind and set up an altar near the copper furnace. Together with him, I practiced the method every day under the insults and rocks of many refugees, trying to suppress the anger of the volcano.

“I thought this matter was over. Who knew, one day, I discovered something that made my hair stand on end.

Having said this, the Imperial Master’s expression became extremely terrifying, as if he had seen that horrifying scene again.Xie Lian’s heart seemed to be squeezed by an invisible hand, saying: “What’s the matter?”

The Imperial Master said: “He…he suddenly covered his face.”

“…”

The Imperial Master said: “His Highness has a handsome appearance, and he never covers his face, and nothing can hurt his face. I have never seen him like this in so many years, so I am confused.I asked him, Your Highness, what happened to your face?He said he was accidentally burned by the fire.

“I have no idea where he was injured. He didn’t let me see the wound, applied herbal medicine himself, and his whereabouts suddenly became erratic. These were originally very abnormal, but at this time, a great thing happened, which temporarily diverted my attention – the volcano suddenly stopped erupting.

“The copper furnace returned to its dead silence, gradually settled down, and did not erupt again for a long time.Since His Royal Highness is the only one who has worked hard on this, many Wuyong people thought that he suppressed the volcano, and some people began to worship him again.His Royal Highness’s spiritual path has also become smoother.At least, no one would insult or throw stones at him anymore, and people would gradually smile at him again.

“But I always felt like something was wrong.

“A lot of things are wrong.Although my three friends have different personalities, I know them to some extent, and they probably won’t all just walk away and ignore me.Even if they were really angry with His Highness the Crown Prince, they would not be angry with me either, and there would be no news at all.

“What’s most wrong is His Highness the Crown Prince’s face. He keeps covering his face with something. At first it was a rag or a cloak. Later, he wore a mask and didn’t take it off all day long.

“Sometimes I wonder if this person is not His Royal Highness at all, but someone else pretending to be him, because his words, actions, and even personality have all changed.Sometimes he is affable, sometimes he gets angry.Once when he was alone in the house, he smashed all the mirrors, causing blood to drip from nowhere.What’s even scarier is that I often hear some strange sounds.”

Thanks for the pity: “What is the sound?”

The Imperial Master said: “Sometimes, late at night, there will be sounds of people coming from His Highness the Prince’s room, as if several people were talking in low voices and quarreling.But when I went in and looked, there was only one person in the room.After several times, His Royal Highness asked me not to enter his room.

“One night, I heard that strange sound again, and this time, I found that it seemed to be the voices of my three friends!

“I couldn’t bear it any longer and thought, could it be that they came back secretly?What are you hiding from me?So, I got up and ran to His Royal Highness the Prince’s room.

“The strange thing is that there is really no one else in the room, only His Royal Highness is lying on the bed, and the mask has not been taken off. I stood and listened for a while, and found that those sounds seemed to be coming from His Highness the Crown Prince.

“To be precise, it came from under his mask.

“I slowly walked to His Highness the Crown Prince’s bedside. The closer I walked, the more convinced I became that it was really coming from under the mask. Could it be that His Highness the Crown Prince was talking in his sleep? Because he missed his friends so much that he learned their voices in his dreams?

“I hesitated for a long time, during which His Highness the Crown Prince did not move.I thought he was asleep, so I gently removed the mask from his face, and then I saw something.”

There was unconcealable fear in the eyes of the Imperial Master.

He said: “I saw my three friends.

“It was either His Highness the Crown Prince who spoke, or they did. His Highness the Crown Prince’s face was covered with scratches from sharp weapons. The scratches made the skin and flesh turn up, and the blood was half-coagulated. Moreover, I don’t know when three more faces appeared, and their mouths were moving, opening and closing. These are their faces!!!”

Xie Lian shuddered and said: “He… also threw the three attendants who left him into the copper furnace??”