Chapter 780: History Cannot Be Changed, But History Books Can!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“At the end of the day, you all are basically just being ungrateful!” Leng Tong smiled bitterly. “No, not ‘you all’. It’s ‘we all’! Can it be that I can escape this sin as well? All of us are simply ungrateful people! What royal excuses are we looking for to justify ourselves?! Anything we say would just make the blood of others run cold!”
Leng Tong laughed coldly and continued in a strange voice. “Three Saint realm experts of the Illusory Blood Sea ganged up together to bully a fourth level Venerable junior. But not only were they unable to win, they were all killed instead… Boss Chen, don’t you find this extremely laughable? If the rumours were true, that Venerable Mei is only seriously injured and not dead, tell me, does the three Holy Lands still have the face to wind this matter up? Just the humiliation is enough to shame us to death!”
The moment these words came out, everyone’s faces became exceptionally ugly.
Chi Tian Feng forced a smile onto his face and shook his head. “Brother Leng, you might be aware of this, but the thing that that Venerable Mei used was the Saint King Pills left behind by the first Saint King of Tian Fa. It allows the user’s strength to improve explosively by at least 10 times or more! At that time, we saw ourselves that she’d consumed three of those pills together, allowing her to burst forth with such terrifying strength. In addition, there was the lightning tribulation which worked to her advantage, resulting in such an ending. After this, there definitely won’t be another case of someone capable of transcending realms and obtaining victory like that. Venerable Mei is the only one who managed to defy all logic and achieve such an unbelievable feat!”
“You rarely stain your feet in the affairs of the mortal world and put all your heart into cultivation steadfastly. This is something that I’ve always admired greatly about you. However… times have changed. What kind of strength has our three Holy Lands reached now? Could it be that we still need to continue relying on some Xuan Beasts that doesn’t know anything to protect us? Humans are the rightful rulers of the world since the beginning—the wisest of all creatures! But if we need animals to protect us every time… how could this be endured?!”
“I naturally understand your point, and I can empathize with it. As a human myself, I, Leng Tong, have my pride as well. I, too, am unwilling to rely on anyone not from the human race to fight against the strange races. But even if we no longer require Tian Fa’s strength, do we really need to force them into a corner and wipe them out? Have you all forgotten about how Tian Fa sacrificed to secure the safety of the continent all these years? Now that we’ve grown stronger, are we going to kick them aside?”
Leng Tong continued huffily. “Not using their strength in the War for Seizing the Heavens is one matter, but declaring war against them is another matter entirely! Could it be that just because we don’t want them to partic.i.p.ate in the next War for Seizing the Heavens that we must annihilate them completely?!”
“As humans, we naturally have our pride! But there’s another point that all of you, my Saint brothers, need to know. The most precious thing about being a human is that compared to beasts, we possess something called a conscience! Right now, we’re personally moving to slay the comrades who’ve shown us great kindness and helped us greatly for more than 10,000 years. Haha… dare I ask everyone, can we still be called humans?”
“We don’t want to do this either. But those wild beasts of Tian Fa are just too simple-minded! Even if they know that we don’t need them anymore, they would still rush to the Pillar of Heavens Mountains! Even if we heap burning satire and freezing irony upon them, those dumb Xuan Beasts would still think that we’re praising them…”
Chen Chong said in a depressed tone. “I’ll give you an example. It’s said that 1,500 years ago, our three Holy Lands were at an unprecedented peak, not inferior to our current level. That year, we no longer needed Tian Fa’s help. The palace lord at the time went and told the Tian Fa Saint King: ‘We have full confidence in winning this fight by ourselves this time. As the saying goes, there’s no need to use an ox cleaver to kill a chicken. Lord Saint King is a lofty figure, so there’s no need for you to dirty your hands in this fight. Why don’t you bring your army and return? We will never forget the kindness and help you’ve rendered to us these past 10,000 years!’ Those words had already clearly conveyed their intentions to exclude Tian Fa from partic.i.p.ating in the War for Seizing the Heavens. But the Saint King of Tian Fa actually replied: ‘Don’t worry about it. We can talk about kindness and all that stuff after the battle. This time, we shall kill the strange races until their blood flows like a river. Isn’t it more enjoyable to use an ox cleaver to kill chickens? Us Xuan Beasts also know your funny idioms now…”
Chi Tian Feng and the rest could not stop themselves from laughing aloud in mockery. Undoubtedly, all of them were laughing at the Tian Fa Saint King who thought himself to be very clever.
Chen Chong had intended to use this incident as a joke, to lighten the atmosphere. But unexpectedly, Leng Tong’s expression became even more unsightly. “The Xuan Beasts’ simple mindedness and honesty are their most precious qualities! Is it something very funny?”
Pausing for a moment, he continued. “It’s precisely because they’re simple and honest, never scheming against others, that we had been able to trust them with any tasks without worry! If we gave them our backs and asked them to protect us, there would be nothing to be scared about! Can humans do that? The three Holy Lands can trust Tian Fa with our backs without question, but which one of the Holy Lands would dare to trust the other two Holy Lands with their backs? How difficult is it to find such honest and reliable comrades! But you all, actually took them to be fools to toy with!? Just for this kind of laughable reason, you wanted to annihilate all the Xuan Beasts?”
Chen Chong’s face stiffened, and he turned angry. “Leng Tong! Do you know what you are saying? Remember which side you’re standing on! You’re a human! Could it be that you think it’s an extremely glorious thing to live in the protection and kindness of a bunch of wild animals for 10,000 years? Now that we have this kind of rare chance, why can’t we make use of it to wipe away our shameful history?”
“Wipe this shameful history away?! You actually think that that period of history was shameful?!” Leng Tong looked at him with shock. “Boss Chen, no matter whether you think it to be shameful or not, this… is still history that has already transpired. It is the unchangeable truth, so how will you wipe it away? Even if our three Holy Lands killed all the Tian Fa Beast Kings and wiped out every last Xuan Beast, hunting them to extinction, would it be able to change what happened in the past?”
“History cannot be changed! However, the history books can be rewritten!” Chen Chong stared back at him with a stormy expression. “Leng Tong, do you really want this old man to say everything so clearly?”
Leng Tong was left completely speechless! This sentence that Chen Chong spoke was completely shameless and so insidious that it shocked him completely!
He only managed to react after a few seconds. His pale face turned red with anger in an instant, and his eyes were bloodshot as he raised his voice. “Despicable! Shameless! Utterly shameless! So this was the scheme you were were hatching! To actually… actually… try to rewrite history!! This is disregarding and dishonoring our ancestors! This… this… this is the act of wretches and b.a.s.t.a.r.ds! You all… are all of you agreeing to this?”
“Nonsense! What disregarding and dishonoring our ancestors! What we’re doing is wiping away the shame of our predecessors! Since the beginning of time, the winners are king, while the losers are the villains! This is the undying truth! Did you think that all the history you’ve read until now is real? Let me tell you: history is simply a collection of historical records! And where do you think all those historical records came from? Aren’t they all written by people?! And who do you think those people are? Hm? They were naturally written by the hands of the victorious! Do you understand now?”
Chen Chong flew into a rage and his eyes grew wider. “The historical books we have seen from the beginning of the dynasties—the history that we are familiar with—are actually the memory of the people of the victorious. As for all the good and evil characters inside our so called historical records, the majority of them are fake! Imaginary! They are wishful thinking! Do you understand? Ah?!”
“As long as we successfully destroy Tian Fa, the so-called history… will be whatever we write it to be! If we don’t want Tian Fa to exist in history, then there won’t be the words ‘Tian Fa’ in the history of this continent! If we want someone to disappear from the annals of history, that person will not have existed! We can even turn the so-called Ferocious Land of Tian Fa into a poisonous tumor that spread great harm in the continent—traitors who betrayed humans to the strange races! As long as we are the final victors! From that point on, whether it is a hundred years later, or a thousand years later, the later generations will only know the version of history that we pa.s.sed down! All of them will naively take it to be the truth! Do you understand now? I’m telling you right now! The history books have never told of the true history! Never!”
Towards the end, Chen Chong was practically shouting.
“But won’t you feel the least bit guilty about that? Don’t you think that this is an act that’s utterly devoid of conscience? You did not think about those heroes that contributed all their efforts for 10,000 years for the sake of this continent. Can you really feel at peace like that?” Leng Tong did not yield a single inch. His right hand twitched, and the big stone bowl in his hand was crushed again!
“Conscience? What conscience?” Chen Chong sneered. “Only the winners have the right to talk about conscience! When our version of history is accepted by all throughout the future generations, you will find that this so-called conscience is actually the most insignificant thing; unworthy of being mentioned!”
He laughed coldly and continued. “You really naively thought that we only started planning to deal with Tian Fa now? Why was Tian Fa’s predecessor Saint King sealed inside the Misty Illusory Manor’s Beguiling Mist? Did you really think that the three Saint Emperors and 16 Saint Kings of the Misty Illusionary Manor all failed at the same time? Are you really that naive? I’ll tell you honestly! If not for Tian Fa Forest being too difficult to attack, it would have already been turned into our three Holy Lands’ mount training camp! Why did we attack only Venerable Mei? Why didn’t we kill the other Beast Kings? Why? Why? When will this block head of yours get enlightened?”
“So it turns out… that this plan to deal with Tian Fa was premeditated so long ago…” Leng Tong stood up speechlessly. His rage turned into sorrow, and then into powerlessness and hopelessness. His shoulders dropped and he sighed sadly. “If this is what it means… to be enlightened, then I, Leng Tong, hope that… I will not be enlightened for the rest of this life! This world… is.. disgusting! So this so-called beautiful world is actually filled with such ugliness! Even the lofty three Holy Lands… are the same!”
“I really thought that we were heroes of the War for Seizing the Heavens… and we hadn’t let down the word ‘heroes’… kekeke, looks like I was wrong, and very ridiculously wrong too!” Leng Tong said with disappointment. His countenance was suddenly filled with loneliness and sorrow.
“Disgusting, repressed, it doesn’t matter! Whether it be beauty or ugliness, this is the true face of life! And it is even moreso the life of those who make history!” Chen Chong continued emotionlessly. “So, put away that chivalrous att.i.tude of one who bemoans the state of the universe and pity the fate of mankind! In this world, you only need to do two things. First, live on! Second, win! As for the other stuff, it’s best to not think about them!
“As for being a hero… heh heh heh…” Chen Chong chuckled coldly a few times, and his tone turned cold. “Leng Tong, do you know how heroes are made? Let me tell you! As long as us three Holy Lands wish it, we can turn even a pervert or a hooligan into a hero! How? First, exaggerate! Second, exaggerate! And third, exaggerate more! If one person blows their own horn, it would be nothing but nonsense. But if 100 hundred people do it, it is building credibility! If 10,000 people or 100,000 thousand people proclaim that a person was a hero, that person is a hero! He is a grand hero! Do you understand? Even if that person was only equal to a pile of dog s.h.i.+t, as long as enough people praise him, he would be able to sit on the throne of a hero forever!”