## Chapter 110: Not Share This Moon, Nor Share Other Days!

In the Wildman Forest, a pregnant silence hung heavy.

Jiang Wang released his crimson-stained hand, sheathed his sword, and concealed his Star Tower. Yet, the potent killing intent that had erupted from him did not dissipate. It settled deep within his eyes, like a colossal stone submerged in a dark pool.

“Dead?” asked Fourteen, breaking the stillness.

“Lei Zhanqian is dead, but this one, Zhang Linchuan, is not yet.”

Heavy Xuan Chu Liang’s Life-Cutting Blade had vanished without a trace. He had witnessed too much in his long life to be swayed by mere emotion, only a slight furrow appeared on his brow. “This man is not simple. Neither truly human nor divine, neither a true puppet nor possessed… it might be some divine ability rooted in the principle of fate.”

If it were a simple possession, he would have seen through it in an instant. How could this evil spirit dare to latch onto the ship of the Qi Kingdom? Seeing this divine ability’s performance, which rendered Zhang Linchuan almost indistinguishable from Lei Zhanqian himself, Chu Liang inferred that it was indeed a path based on fate.

“Could it be that even you cannot completely exterminate him?” Heavy Xuan Sheng inquired.

“Where is it so easy? He is not truly standing before me. This is merely an existence akin to a clone,” Heavy Xuan Chu Liang stated lightly. “Striking across worlds, I merely severed three hundred years from his true body’s lifespan, forcing him down from the true god level.”

Fourteen blinked, a power she could not comprehend.

“Then can you pinpoint Zhang Linchuan’s true body?” Heavy Xuan Sheng pressed. “Where is he now?”

Putting aside his feelings for Jiang Wang, his animosity towards Zhang Linchuan was equally intense. This evil cult leader was truly audaciously wicked, leaving people with a chilling sense of fear. Had it not been for Lin Youxie a few months ago, Fourteen herself would have been in peril!

Previously, he felt little about Lin Youxie’s disappearance, exerting himself purely for Jiang Wang. Only after understanding the full scope of the events did he acknowledge a share of responsibility for Lin Youxie’s death. Lin Youxie’s demise was a profound tragedy, but he also recognized the rarity of exposing the hidden poisonous tumor within Lu Shuang County. Zhang Linchuan’s caution, planning, and disguise were all first-rate.

Imagine if it hadn’t been for Lin Youxie’s accidental realization, which created a loophole in Zhang Linchuan’s otherwise flawless plan. Imagine if Zhang Linchuan had truly eliminated all dissent and reestablished himself within the Qi Kingdom under Lei Zhanqian’s identity. With Lei Xi’s top-tier divine talent inherited through this body, Zhang Linchuan’s pre-existing vision as a true god, coupled with his intelligence, cunning, resilience, and the Lei family of Lu Shuang’s inherent closeness to the imperial clan…

To what terrifying extent could Zhang Linchuan have developed? What kind of enemy could he have become? It was truly unimaginable! Especially a person like him, who held a fundamental, irreconcilable conflict with Jiang Wang – a relationship of life and death. Since it was a matter of your death or my life… naturally, he desired Zhang Linchuan’s demise so that he might live. Hence, his urgent inquiry about Zhang Linchuan’s true body location.

Heavy Xuan Chu Liang shook his head. “This person’s fate-aligned divine ability is quite peculiar. Before he revealed himself, I couldn’t even detect that he had replaced Lei Zhanqian. Even after his exposure and our formal confrontation, his main body, hidden within the divine path world, used multiple transfers through his believers to connect with this physical body, making it impossible to track. I could sever his main body’s lifespan because the entanglement of fate between his main body and this physical body was one of identity and lifespan, even if he was decisive enough to abandon the latter. The final words he spoke to Qing Yang, though only a wisp of residual thought, still utilized this connection. The path of fate is not my specialization. If Ruan Jianzheng were here, perhaps he could glean something…”

Heavy Xuan Sheng offered no words of regret about what could have been; such words were meaningless. He simply crushed the transmission talisman in his hand. Not long after, hurried breaths approached the Wildman Forest. Qing Zhuan, leading a group, swiftly flew in, entered the forest, and half-knelt on the ground. “Marquis, what are your instructions?”

Heavy Xuan Sheng cut to the chase. “Take this Marquis’s seal and mobilize the county soldiers nearby. Apprehend County Governor Luo Zhengchuan, seal the Lei family ancestral home, and investigate any remaining evil cult members. Simultaneously, arrest Zhou Qingsong of the Zhou family and all those affiliated with them. Report everything to the Patrol Inspection Office for questioning! The demon who borrowed a body caused chaos for over a year, and the key figures throughout Lu Shuang County bear unavoidable responsibility!”

“Yes, sir!” Qing Zhuan accepted the orders and departed.

Heavy Xuan Sheng then turned to Jiang Wang. “What say you?” Fourteen and Heavy Xuan Chu Liang also looked over. Was today’s loss for Zhang Linchuan, this profound defeat, enough? Was the death of the body Zhang Linchuan had replaced through divine ability on the spot, the painstaking operation in the Qi Kingdom reduced to naught, enough? Was Zhang Linchuan having a large portion of his lifespan severed by Heavy Xuan Chu Liang’s blade and being temporarily knocked down from the true god level enough?

Jiang Wang, silent for a long time, now used his blood-stained hand to form a sword-finger, pointing towards the night sky. “Zhang Linchuan and I will not share this moon, nor will we share other days.” This was not a sigh, but a declaration. His voice was icy, yet firm.

Below the true god realm lay the false god realm. Zhang Linchuan, who for a short period could no longer exhibit the power of the Cave True level, presented an excellent opportunity to exterminate him!

Heavy Xuan Sheng raised his gaze to the solitary moon and simply said, “The moon is so bright tonight. Let us not let him see it too many times.”

Jiang Wang turned and walked out of the forest. The oppressive pressure gradually lifted, and the corpses on the ground were collected. The evening wind rustled through the withered leaves that the remaining branches could no longer hold. The midnight of the Wildman Forest was thus silent, and so lonely.

The second day of September, in the thirty-ninth year of the Dao Calendar, was an ordinary day. But due to the public letter issued by Jiang Wang, the Marquis of Wu An of Great Qi, it became anything but. On this day, the Marquis of Wu An, with his seal and personal handwriting, penned a letter dipped in blood and dispatched it to Tian Xing Cliff, the Mirror World Platform, and even to the world’s ruling nations!

In this public letter, he recounted the grave harm caused by evil cults, specifically singling out the infamous “No Birth Teach” for its numerous wicked deeds, disrupting the order of the present world, neither tolerated by the principles of heaven nor by the people of the world. He summoned the people of the world to join forces in exterminating the No Birth Teach. For the heads of the No Birth Teach, from top to bottom, he listed generous rewards. He swore to uproot this evil cult.

For Zhang Linchuan, the progenitor of the No Birth Teach, the Marquis of Wu An publicly offered two thousand yuan stones, plus a promise of a single full-force action from himself! The people of the world marveled at the Qi Kingdom’s Marquis of Wu An’s wealth and felt the weight of this hatred even more deeply. One yuan stone, it must be known, could purchase a storage box or exchange for a top-tier Open Meridian Pill. The Mo family’s highly popular fine squirrel box cost only three yuan stones.

In the past, when a Burning Sun Flying Boat was destroyed by the sea clan due to Jiang Wang in the overseas realm, Ding Jing Shan only required Jiang Wang to compensate three thousand yuan stones. The Burning Sun Flying Boat was an existence on par with the Thorn Boat, a true battlefield killer! The weight of two thousand yuan stones was evident from this comparison. Even for the present-day Jiang Wang, taking out so many yuan stones at once would require pledging assets from De Sheng Business and the Tai Xu Corner Tower. It was fair to say he was sacrificing his entire fortune to repay, swearing to kill Zhang Linchuan.

And the promise of the Marquis of Wu An’s full-force action was an even greater matter. The present Marquis of Wu An was already among the top several experts near the God level. Achieving the contemporary True Person realm was fully expected, and once achieved, he would be no ordinary True Person. This was a promise with infinite potential for appreciation.

In this public letter, Jiang Wang also meticulously described Zhang Linchuan’s current state, listing all the information he had exhibited, his lightning-fast methods, the divine ability to replace others, his talent for concealment… making it clear that this person had been severely wounded in the battle and his combat power had fallen to the Cave True level.

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In other words, an evil cult leader, at most of the God Near level, could be exchanged for two thousand yuan stones and the promise of the Qi Kingdom’s Marquis of Wu An.

This letter, once circulated throughout the world, caused a great stir!

“Jiang Wang lost his mother in his youth, and his father shortly after. Such was his fate, and he never complained or blamed. He only wished to repay diligence with a bitter heart, gain merit through righteousness and courage, walk his own path, and love himself and those he cherished. At the age of seventeen, he encountered the calamity of the White Bone Path evil cult. Overnight, his hometown fell, his relatives and friends perished, and he looked up to find no old acquaintances! Since then, he has not had a single night of peaceful sleep. Tens of thousands of mournful voices have echoed in his ears, and the blood tears in his eyes cannot be exhausted. Heaven’s will shows no pity; only I carry this remaining hatred.”

In the Duke of Huai State’s mansion, a handsome youth in Chinese robes, holding a letter he was just beginning to read, paused several times before continuing:

“Drifting ten thousand miles, this body unbound, thus I gained close friends, thus I entered East Qi. Though my years are few and my strength weak, my talent shallow and my wisdom thin, heaven bestowed upon me a chest full of red blood which I dare not lose, and granted me a seven-foot body which I dare not abandon. I have walked ten thousand miles, poured out my heart ten thousand times. I lift a three-foot sword and walk a three-foot path of righteousness! In the blood battles of lost realms, I stood firm against the disaster water, I slaughtered demons in the border wilderness, never falling behind. Killing people and demons, sealing blood demons, I dared to be the first! Grace must be repaid, faith must be kept. I, Jiang Wang, have never been willing to fail anyone in my life, yet my good friend Lin Youxie died because of me, Jiang Wang! With the integrity of a blue card, he investigated the unlawful and tragically died at the hands of the evil cult leader… My heart cracks with hatred, and my grief is extreme, reaching madness!”

The beautiful woman sitting opposite the handsome youth’s eyes were also subtly reddened without her knowing. She listened as the youth read on:

“Alas! The White Bone Path of yesteryear, the No Birth Teach of today! They beguile hearts, straying onto evil paths, spreading poisonous thoughts, the disaster is widespread; can the principles of heaven tolerate this? One messenger, one evil scripture, lightly extending disaster for years. One altar, one divine image, wantonly slaughtering and poisoning for miles. Believing in this evil god, if not with blood and life, they worship. Those with broken bodies and ruined lives are everywhere, those with shattered families and dead relatives are countless! Vast blue sky, bright red sun, can the righteous men of the world truly endure these evil spirits? I have come to the human world, looking up at heaven and down at the earth. I do not believe that heaven has no eyes, nor that good and evil go unrewarded! If there is a reward, I ought to personally exact it. Even if my body is ground to dust and my bones shattered, I will exact it! Now there is a man named Zhang Linchuan, the White Bone Messenger of yesteryear, the progenitor of the No Birth Teach of today… Jiang Wang swears by heaven, that he shall not share the sun and moon with him!”

Zuo Guangshu clutched the letter tightly in his hand, unable to read on. Xiong Jingyu found it difficult to imagine that this public letter had come from the hand of Jiang Wang, who had resided in the Duke of Huai State’s mansion for many days. That gentle, polite, and sincere child had actually endured so much suffering… She had seen too many people, who, because they had suffered, then resented the unfairness of heaven, raged at the world’s lack of justice, and from then on harbored extreme hatred for the world, committing every evil imaginable, wishing they could bury the entire world with them… While Jiang Wang, bearing so much, could only utter the sentence, “Such is fate.”

The long princess of Great Chu calmed her emotions slightly and asked, “What else is written after?”

“Rewards targeting the No Birth Teach,” Zuo Guangshu answered in a low voice, then looked up again. “No good, we must increase the reward in the name of the Duke of Huai State’s mansion, and we must also push this letter into the Southern Domain. If grandfather is unwilling, then I will use my name…” His voice trailed off because an old man in court robes stood just outside the door at that moment.

“Nonsense,” the Duke of Huai State of Great Chu frowned. “At such a young age, you speak of the entire Southern Domain at the drop of a hat. Who do you think you are?”

“Grandfather!” Zuo Guangshu said with reddened eyes, “Big brother Jiang he…”

Zuo Chao simply reached out. “Give me the letter.”

Zuo Guangshu reluctantly handed over the letter.

“Where did this letter come from?” Zuo Chao unfolded it with one hand, reading it while asking.

Zuo Guangshu replied, “Big brother Jiang sent it to Tian Xing Cliff and Jing country’s Mirror World Platform, requesting that the No Birth Teach be designated as an evil cult and summoning the world to exterminate it… I had someone copy a replica and send it here…”

“Alright, this matter is no longer your concern. Stay home properly and read your books!” Zuo Chao folded the letter he held. Having just returned from the court meeting, he turned and left the mansion once more.

“Mother!” Not until his grandfather was out of sight did Zuo Guangshu say annoyedly, “What did Elder mean? I cannot possibly not concern myself with big brother Jiang’s matter.”

“Alright. Listen to your grandfather, go read your books.” Xiong Jingyu patted the back of Zuo Guangshu’s head and said softly, “If your grandfather doesn’t handle it, mother will go to the palace once.”

And let us not speak of how the young duke of Great Chu flipped through his books without truly reading them, or how he drafted and redrafted in the Tai Xu Illusion Realm, ultimately failing to pen a single word…

Before the sun had set on this day, the Great Chu Empire issued a national letter, declaring to the world. Chu country, one of the world’s hegemons, formally listed the No Birth Teach as an evil cult, and furthermore, as the most wicked type of evil cult and perverse shrine, issuing a decree for its nationwide extermination. Spreading the teachings of this cult to a scale of twenty people or more was considered the same crime as murder. Those who saw and did not report the missionary activities of the No Birth Teach in a timely manner would also be held accountable.

The Duke of Huai State’s mansion further offered separate rewards for all levels of the No Birth Teach leaders. Those who killed core believers of the No Birth Teach could not only receive rewards from the Qi Kingdom’s Marquis of Wu An’s mansion and Bo Wang Marquis’s mansion but also from the Great Chu Duke of Huai State’s mansion. For a time, the Southern Domain was in shock. The followers of the No Birth Teach were shouted at and attacked by everyone. Even a small, tarnished orthodox Daoist sect called “Small Wu Xiang Life and Death View” was smashed by the enraged common people.

This grand campaign to exterminate the No Birth Teach, which originated in Lu Shuang County of the Qi Kingdom, gradually influenced the entire nation and even the East Domain under the support of the Marquis of Wu An’s mansion and Bo Wang Marquis’s mansion. Outside the East Domain, the Great Chu Empire was the first to respond, listing the No Birth Teach as an evil cult and decreeing its nationwide extermination. The Mu country also released news at this time that the No Birth Teach had once caused disaster in the grasslands, blaspheming the highest spirits, designating it as an “must-exterminate” grade evil cult and declaring that “all the light of the Cang Tu god shines, and must not tolerate the evil of No Birth.”

The Sword Pavilion Master, Si Yu An, openly stated that the Marquis of Wu An was a very polite young man and he had high hopes for the Marquis of Wu An’s future. If he had the opportunity to encounter those little mice of the No Birth Teach, he, an old man, wouldn’t mind earning a little extra money on the side.

And the open statement of the Fa family grandmaster, Wu Bingyi—speaking of Lin Youxie, a future disciple of Ju Di Palace who had not yet entered the school, he listed Zhang Linchuan’s name in the criminal kill record, summoning all Fa family disciples in the world to kill him… This thoroughly turned the No Birth Teach into street rats!

Zhang Linchuan, no matter how much he might have tried, could never have imagined that the Jiang teacher brother he had once deceived and manipulated now wielded such enormous influence. A thin sheet of paper, bearing the name of the Marquis of Wu An, now carried the weight of ten thousand *jun*. With just one public letter sent out, there was no longer any place for the No Birth Teach to hide in the East Domain, Southern Domain, Mu country, or Chu country!

In just a few short days, more than half of his Earth Fiend Messengers were dead or injured. Even the protective Dharma King Yi Gui fell into an ambush and was nearly killed. His followers retreated in droves, like a collapsing mountain, and his missionary career suffered a devastating blow. This was not merely a blow to his career; it directly related to his personal cultivation and extraordinary power, and it came at the critical moment when he had been injured by Heavy Xuan Chu Liang! In a daze, he realized that the No Birth Teach, which had borrowed the darkness of the No Birth World to spread wildly and whose tentacles almost covered the world, was already on the verge of collapse!

By principle and by law, the No Birth Teach had been designated as such. Righteous sects would not tolerate the growth of evil demons and heterodox paths, and within the national order, the existence of evil cults was absolutely forbidden. And Jiang Wang’s reward of two thousand yuan stones plus his promise of a single full-force action…

Now, on this day, he, the three-in-one progenitor of the No Birth Teach, not only had to be vigilant against external dangers, but even within the core of his own sect, some eyes were gleaming with a covetous, hungry green light!