Chapter 5043 The Nature of Jianghu
Jianghu.
What is Jianghu?
Where is Jianghu?
This is not a geographical question, but a philosophical question.
In the martial arts comics in the mortal world, you can often see a hero carrying a knife, a sword, and riding a horse, walking into an inn called Yuelai.
He shouted: "Waiter, three catties of braised beef, five catties of Shaodaozi."
Anyone who heard this sentence knew that this was a knight who wandered in the world.
When he had enough food and drink, he rode his horse and left the city. When it got dark, he either slept in the wilderness or went to the Yuelai Inn in the next town and said again: "Waiter, three catties of braised beef, five catties of Shaodaozi."
Therefore, most people in the world define Jianghu as a cycle from one inn to another.
But is this really Jianghu?
Maybe, but it definitely cannot represent Jianghu.
Revenge is Jianghu.
Fighting and killing is Jianghu.
Eating and drinking is Jianghu.
Being chivalrous is Jianghu.
Intrigue is Jianghu.
The world is the Jianghu.
The Jianghu is like the Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram of Taoism, which encompasses everything.
In the past, the Jianghu in Ye Xiaochuan's mind was about revenge, fighting and killing.
Later, he gradually realized that this was all the appearance of the Jianghu.
The essence of the Jianghu is actually intrigue, deception, and human relationships.
Where there are people, there are grudges, and where there are grudges, there is the Jianghu.
People often use the high temple and the farthest Jianghu to draw a line between the court and the grass.
In fact, the temple is also the Jianghu.
Going up, the world of cultivation is also a Jianghu.
In the big Jianghu of the world of cultivation, fighting, killing and deception have never stopped.
Even now when the world is in danger, the deceptions between the various sects have never stopped.
This is the bad nature of people. They only consider their own interests and do things that benefit themselves.
Anything that is not good for themselves will be avoided.
Everyone knows that the incident of the Ancient Cave of Ten Thousand Foxes is very serious, and all the sects are trying to avoid it.
When they use their ugly faces to distance themselves from the incident, they also want to divert the disaster to other sects.
But it is not easy to find a scapegoat.
Now everyone knows that the only ones who had the strength and time to attack the Ancient Cave of Ten Thousand Foxes were Xuantian Sect, Cangyun Sect, Piaomiao Pavilion, and the Six Departments of the Goddess.
Piaomiao Pavilion and the Six Departments of the Goddess are all women. According to the news, almost all the people who attacked the Ancient Cave of Ten Thousand Foxes that night were men, so Piaomiao Pavilion and the Six Departments of the Goddess can be excluded.
The Five Clans of Southern Xinjiang are even more impossible.
The Goddess Sect is also all women, and they just fought with the Goddess in the Poison Dragon Valley the day before, so they didn't have time to do this.
The murderer must be between Cangyun Sect and Xuantian Sect.
Cangyun Sect is now a big family with a large number of loyal followers. Yu Jizi was the savior who saved the world ten years ago and is the chief leader of the world. He is the real controller of the world now. Who dares to throw this dirty water on Cangyun Sect?
Xuantian Sect, which has a deep hatred for Ye Xiaochuan and has suffered a great loss of strength in the past ten years, has become the scapegoat in everyone's mind.
Tuoba Yu said that this matter has nothing to do with the heaven. This method of exterminating the sect is completely a revenge style.
This is to lead the matter to Xuantian Sect.
Yu Jizi did not have the idea of putting Xuantian Sect to death now, but his intention to destroy Xuantian Sect has never wavered, otherwise he would not have planned the Wanhu Ancient Cave incident, let alone secretly captured an elder of Xuantian Sect who participated in the massacre.
Today, Yu Jizi kept chasing this matter and tentatively said that he heard that Ye Xiaochuan had returned to Wanhu Ancient Cave on the night of the massacre. It was all a test.
He has not yet tracked down the whereabouts of the group of Xuantian Sect masters who participated in the action that night. His intuition tells him that most of them are dead.
But intuition is only intuition after all, and he must confirm this matter.
Those elders are all Li Xuanyin's direct descendants and the backbone of Xuantian Sect.
It is one thing for those elders to be alive.
It is another thing for them to be dead.
If they are dead, Yu Jizi will have to change his strategy.
Of course, he is not just guessing.
He guessed that Ye Xiaochuan might have appeared in Qilin Mountain that night for two reasons.
First, Ye Xiaochuan had a substitute, and no one was sure when this substitute existed.
Second, more than a hundred elders of Xuantian Sect disappeared innocently, and only Ye Xiaochuan could do it.
When he said that Ye Xiaochuan had appeared in the Wanhu Ancient Cave that night, he clearly felt that Ye Xiaochuan's expression had changed slightly.
This made Yu Jizi's heart tremble.
He realized that his guess was probably correct.
Most of the senior elders of Xuantian Sect, including Kunlun Three Monsters and Xuantian Twelve Immortals, have died at the hands of Ye Xiaochuan.
Yu Jizi was shocked.
Those more than a hundred people are all top masters in the world, among whom there are dozens of masters in the realm of heaven and immortality.
What method did Ye Xiaochuan have to kill so many people silently without leaving any traces.
Even if Ye Xiaochuan had three or four Xumi masters, it would be impossible to kill so many people. There would always be people who escaped.
Yu Jizi was surprised and immediately changed his strategy to deal with Xuantian Sect in his mind.
In the past, he did not want to kill Xuantian Sect in the near future.
He understood the principle of "lips and teeth are cold" better than anyone else.
Once Xuantian Sect fell, Piaomiao Pavilion alone could not defend the western gate of the Middle Earth.
But now, Xuantian Sect has lost its trump card, and its existence has little meaning.
At this moment, Yu Jizi has already had the idea of using the incident of Wanhu Ancient Cave to completely destroy Xuantian Sect and divide up the power of Xuantian Sect.
Although it will weaken the fighting power of the human world to a certain extent, in the long run, as long as the catastrophe is delayed for one or two years, the fighting power of Kunlun Mountain will gradually recover.
Just when Yu Jizi was about to use Ye Xiaochuan's hand to gradually uncover the truth about the massacre of Wanhu Ancient Cave.
Ye Xiaochuan suddenly said: "Master Yu Jizi is joking. That night, I was thousands of miles away in Hanhai City. How could I appear in Wanhu Ancient Cave?
The massacre of Wanhu Ancient Cave by the bad guys is just a private matter of my Guixuan Sect. Now the heads of various sects in the human world have gathered here to discuss a major matter related to the fate and safety of the human world.
This matter can be investigated slowly in the future. It is better not to waste precious time on the affairs of my Guixuan Sect."
Yu Jizi was shocked.
He is now very sure that Ye Xiaochuan not only knows that the murderer is Xuantian Sect, but also killed or captured the group of Xuantian Sect masters who participated in the massacre that night.
Publicly, Xuantian Sect did sneak attack and massacre more than 8,000 people from Guixuan Sect.
Privately, Xuantian Sect has a hatred for him for killing his mother, and they are irreconcilable.
Publicly and privately, Ye Xiaochuan has reasons to destroy Xuantian Sect.
Yu Jizi couldn't understand why Ye Xiaochuan didn't want to use this incident to kill Xuantian Sect?
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It will be difficult to find a suitable excuse in the future.
Master Kong Yuan, who couldn't make a fart with three sticks, suddenly spoke up and said, "Amitabha, what Master Ye said is very true. Now the most urgent task is to focus on the catastrophe. Other grudges can be put aside."
As soon as Master Kong Yuan spoke, the others understood what was going on.
Originally, Guan Shaoqin wanted to fan the dark wind and light the ghost fire to help Yu Jizi and Tuoba Yu.
Master Kong Yuan's words made Guan Shaoqin swallow back what she wanted to say.
She smiled and said, "Yes, although the tragedy of the Wanhu Ancient Cave violated the way of heaven and destroyed human nature, it was after all a personal grudge between one or two sects.
Right now, we have to deal with the catastrophe and the enemy of heaven.
It won't be too late to settle these grudges after the catastrophe is over."
