readytorunbook Chapter 617 Lies
Chapter 617 Lies
King Yuechuan seemed completely unsurprised by Lu Yangyang's words; he even casually remarked...
"She is indeed a smart little girl."
Then he asked Lu Yangyang, "Since you think so, why don't you stop me? As far as I know, you should have the same goal as that Crown Prince."
“I did want to stop you. Look at those people. They traveled thousands of miles, crossing mountains and rivers, bowing with every step for their revered god. But they could never have imagined that the being they worshipped as a god, you, the high and mighty King Yuechuan, wanted their lives and wanted to completely shatter their faith.” Lu Yangyang pointed to the people struggling in agony below the altar. She didn’t know how many people had been poisoned, nor how King Yuechuan had managed to do it.
"Then do you think they did nothing wrong?" King Yuechuan looked in the direction she pointed, but his eyes remained cold.
It was as if, in his eyes, those people were nothing more than ants that could be crushed at will.
“They are wrong,” Lu Yangyang walked over and said, word by word, “They are wrong. They are wrong to place their faith in people like you, without ever considering that the world changes and people’s hearts change. People are ultimately just people, not the gods they worship. When the Mingyue Clan established the Yuechuan Kingdom, when they helped and sheltered these innocent people, they must have genuinely cared for them. But too much time has passed, and power and strength have become too tempting. So they have slowly changed, and they have truly come to regard themselves as high and mighty gods, but they will never again show the slightest pity to these people who genuinely believe in them.”
"The people behind you, these members of the Yuechuan royal family, value bloodline above all else, proving that the Yue clan's bloodline is the bloodline of the Gu God, the noblest bloodline in the world. They've said it so many times that they've even come to believe it themselves, without a doubt. To avoid defiling this incomparably noble bloodline, they've even resorted to incest within their clan, just to prevent confusion and ensure its purity. But what happened next? How long can this absurd reproduction last? What will they do when they can no longer find a way? What happened before they were forced to compromise?"
"I heard that the previous King of Yuechuan only had one son and one daughter. Apart from that, there was no other bloodline among his close relatives that was pure enough. And that son and daughter were your elder brother, Mingyue Qi, and you. From a young age, you witnessed how absurd and crazy your clansmen were in their pursuit of continuing their bloodline. You saw the children born from incestuous relationships become deformed and insane. You couldn't accept this fate, so... your brother found a way to leave Yuechuan. From then on, the responsibility of Yuechuan fell on your shoulders alone. You suffered the daily torment of the Mingyue clan. Every day, every moment, you waited, waiting for the day when you could completely and utterly destroy everything, annihilate the entire clan."
King Yuechuan chuckled softly, pointing at the controlled members of the Mingyue clan, including some as young as a few years old: "You're right. Day after day, I've tried to destroy all of this. Look at them, they can't even walk steadily. They've never done anything evil, but tell me, is it wrong for them to live in this world? Tell me, how many people do I have to kill to change their fate? I came from their time, step by step. I watched, I watched, I killed them one by one, but look, they were still born, and they continue to perpetuate this disgusting bloodline."
"You are very clever. You have already guessed the truth about the so-called bloodline of the Bright Moon Clan, but you still haven't guessed why I want to start a war. You must be wondering how I managed to poison so many of them, right?" King Yuechuan chuckled. "The Moon River Kingdom has been established here for hundreds of years, and I have been King Yuechuan for over fifty years. In all these years, I have only done one thing."
Lu Yangyang's eyelids twitched violently. "Your people?"
"The Yuechuan King's army numbers 18,000. Tell me, how many can we kill today if we go on a killing spree?" The Yuechuan King leaned against the white jade railing of the altar, a smile playing on his lips.
Lu Yangyang's mind raced with calculations. According to the information she had received, the number of civilians below, even if you included the entire Holy Capital, was less than 30,000. Meanwhile, the well-trained Yuechuan King's Army numbered 18,000, which was more than enough to wipe out all those civilians.
"You want to destroy the entire Yuechuan?" Lu Yangyang looked at the King of Yuechuan in shock. "Why? As long as the Mingyue Clan ceases to exist, your goal will be achieved. Why do you have to drag those people down with you?"
"Without faith in the Gu God, the Bright Moon Clan would not exist. If I kill the Bright Moon Clan, new clans will appear. Why bother? Wouldn't it be better to wipe them all out?" King Yuechuan looked up at the sky, which was a clear blue without a single cloud.
The midday sun shone down, casting a warm glow on his excessively pale face.
"What a warm day today."
“If it were you, you might not win?” Lu Yangyang said, staring at him.
King Yuechuan looked at her with great interest: "You really want to save them that much? I've waited for you for three days, and you only gave me the answer you guessed today. Doesn't that mean you also think they deserve to die? If so, why save them?"
“Because,” Lu Yangyang’s lips tightened slightly, she pursed her lips gently before speaking again, “because whether I’m right or wrong, whether I’ve guessed the answer or not, it can’t stop your determination to destroy the Mingyue Clan. No matter how grand my words are, they can’t replace or understand everything you’ve felt over the years. So why should I pity the innocent on your behalf, on behalf of those lives lost in the Yuechuan Palace, on the innocent?”
"The Mingyue Clan is greedy, absurd, and cruel, but those below them are also fueling this absurd greed. Just as you said, if you kill off one Mingyue Clan, another clan will emerge for the sake of the Gu God's bloodline, and they will continue to repeat the same fate."
"Should those innocent children, who are still too young to understand anything, die? Should those people, who devoutly believe in God, die?"
"King Yuechuan, it's not them who deserve to die, it's the legend about bloodlines. If you want to end all this, what you really need to destroy is not these vibrant lives, but the bloodline theory that you all firmly believe in. We have a saying in the Central Plains: 'Are kings and nobles born with a special destiny?' Since then, bloodlines have never been able to supersede power."
"Faith is not a sin; what is sinful is the lies you attach to faith."