Chapter 864: Dark Moon and High Wind (Part )

"Are you crazy?"

Liu Xunyi looked at the hideous Qin Wei in disbelief and said sadly, "Qin Wei, when did you become like this? Where is your kindness? Where is your conscience? Where is your humanity?"

"I have always been like this, but you have never really looked at me clearly." Qin Wei laughed up to the sky, his attitude frivolous and arrogant, "My fate is determined by myself, so it is not up to anyone to tell me what to do?"

At this point, Qin Wei suddenly had an idea. He looked at Liu Xunyi, who was in tears, with eager eyes and urged her: "You came to me, which means Ding Chou and Qiu Han have told you the secret between me and Xifu. In this case, I don't have to hide anything from you anymore. Why don't you turn to the light now? I will plead for you in front of Lord Qian, and there must be a way to solve the dilemma. In the future, you and I will join forces and get whatever we want in the court. Whoever dares to be our enemy, we will make him disappear forever..."

"Asshole!" Looking at the hopeless Qin Wei, Liu Xunyi was extremely lost, extremely sad, and extremely angry. "Do you think I am like you, a fly that sees blood, a hungry tiger that devours sheep? Do you think I am like you, seeking fame and fortune, not hesitating to repay kindness with enmity, and selling out my master for glory? Do you think I am like you, blinded by greed and forgetting the bottom line of being a human being?"

"You are a good guy, and I am a bad guy." Qin Wei looked at Liu Xunyi as if he was looking at an old antique, and teased, "Then tell me? Why are good guys wanted by the court, the public enemy of the martial arts world, and can be killed by everyone in the world? Why are bad guys powerful, enjoying wealth and glory, and are loved by the people of the world?"

"This……"

"What is a good person? What is a bad person?" Qin Wei sneered, "The winner is the king, and the loser is the bandit. This is the eternal truth, and it is also the only standard to distinguish between good and bad. Holding great power, even if you are a chicken thief or a dog thief, you are still a good person. Having no power, even if you are upright, you are still a bad person. It is because you have never understood this truth that you will fail again and again until you are doomed."

"Nonsense! Absurdity!"

“If it can be followed by the world, then fallacy is truth. On the contrary, if only you adhere to the morality, then truth is also fallacy.”

"Shut up!"

Unable to bear it any longer, Liu Xunyi suddenly raised his foot and kicked Qin Wei hard in the abdomen, immediately kicking him to the wall. Then he swayed and moved closer, with the Wuji sword pressed against his neck.

"Brother Liu... I know I am no match for you..." Looking at the furious Liu Xunyi and feeling the chill on his neck, Qin Wei's expression became a little stiff. He said intermittently, "If you want to kill me... just do it! Anyway, you would rather listen to Ding Chou and Qiu Han's instigation than listen to my advice..."

“Don’t mention Qiu Han to me!” Liu Xunyi roared at the top of his lungs, pressing the tip of his sword towards Qin Wei’s neck again. He gritted his teeth and said, “Qiu Han is dead… all thanks to you. He bit his tongue and committed suicide in front of the Marquis’ tomb, and died with his eyes open!”

Not sure if he was frightened by Liu Xunyi's rage or deeply shocked by the news of Qiu Han's death, but Qin Wei stared at Liu Xunyi blankly like a wooden chicken and didn't speak for a long time.

"We started as beggars begging on the street and gradually became the Junior Guardian of Tianji Pavilion. Isn't that enough?" Liu Xunyi had tears in his eyes and his chest was full of resentment. "We have food and clothes in Tianji Pavilion. Although we can't say we are rich and powerful, at least... we have no worries about food and clothing. The fifth-rank Junior Guardian may not be a high official rank, but for you and me, it is already a success. In the eyes of ordinary people, you are a young talent with status and position. Isn't... that enough? I would rather die than figure out why you betrayed the East Palace? Why did you repay kindness with enmity? How much good did the West Palace... give you to make you lose your conscience and go against the laws of nature..."

"What conscience? What justice? Can those illusory things satisfy our hunger when we are hungry, or keep us warm when we are shivering?" Looking at Liu Xunyi who was speaking righteously, Qin Wei could no longer suppress his resentment and completely vented the emotions that had been suppressed for more than 20 years. "Liu Xunyi, what qualifications do you have to teach me? What qualifications do you have to choose my own life for me? I am just like you. I have been walking the path I want to walk. What's wrong with that? Zhao Yuan saved your life, but he never saved mine. I was able to come to Tianji Pavilion because of your suffering. "Please, to him... I have always been a vassal of Liu Xunyi, a burden to you. What about raising me, teaching me to read, and teaching me martial arts... It's all nonsense! From childhood to adulthood, he only has you in his eyes, and the only person he has raised, cultivated, and promoted is you! I won't stop you from being grateful to him, but don't count me in. I can get to where I am today entirely by my own hard work, and it has nothing to do with Zhao Yuan. I used to be a fifth-rank Shaobao, and now I am a third-rank Tianji Hou. Facts have proved that without Zhao Yuan's obstruction, I, Qin Wei, can live a better life."

"You are making a specious argument!" Liu Xunyi said angrily, "No matter what you think, you cannot change the fact that Tianji Pavilion raised you..."

"You want the truth?" Qin Wei smiled instead of getting angry. "Okay, I'll tell you! The truth is that from childhood to adulthood, you have been growing up in the envy and praise of everyone, while I... have lived to this day in endless contempt and ridicule. Liu Xunyi, ask yourself, who in the Tianji Pavilion doesn't point fingers at me behind my back? When I passed the assessment, was promoted to a lieutenant, and became a junior protector, there was no time when rumors were not flying all over the sky, and when was the credit not regarded as your careful teaching? Zhao Yuan deserves to die, and Qiu Han deserves to die even more. They have always looked down on me, suppressed me in every way, and made things difficult for me, for fear that I would accidentally steal your limelight. Liu Xunyi, you have always been walking in front of everyone, and have you ever looked back at the thorns under my feet? Your help to me is just to satisfy your vanity, to make everyone think that you are not only gifted, hardworking and studious, but also kind-hearted and loyal..."

"It turns out that in your heart... I have always been a false and hypocritical hypocrite." Qin Wei's words made Liu Xunyi feel heartbroken.

"No!" Qin Wei tried hard to hold back the tears in his eyes and said word by word, "I have always regarded you as a brother who shares life and death with me. Until today, even if you point a sword at me... I still regard you as a brother. If I want to kill you, a hundred Liu Xunyis would have died. How could I let you live to this day? I was not as good as you before, and I was willing to follow you and be your shadow. Now, I have finally made a name for myself, why can't you follow me once? When I became the leader of Tianji Pavilion, the first thing I thought of was to let you be the deputy leader. I can share everything I have with you, power, status, money, and even women. As long as you like, as long as you say a word, you can take half of my things at any time. If I hesitate, the word Qin Wei will be written upside down from then on! But what about you? What are you willing to share with me? You don't want to share anything with me. You are only willing to give alms. You throw things that you don't care about, don't value, don't need, and don't like to me like throwing away garbage. For this, I want to be blessed and grateful. Is this really fair?" "This..."

"Liu Xunyi, I, Qin Wei, believe that I have a clear conscience towards you, but you, on the contrary, have never regarded me as a brother. You only regard me as a follower and a follower. You would come to me to confide in me when you are suffering, but when I am suffering... you have never taken the initiative to care about me once. The truly ruthless person is not me, but you." Qin Wei denounced incessantly, "You can't stand seeing me being better than you, you can't stand seeing me being more glorious than you, you are jealous, so you do everything you can to undermine me..."

"No! No, no, no!" Liu Xunyi was so confused that he shook his head repeatedly, "I have never had such an idea, let alone thought of ruining your plan..."

"Really?" Qin Wei grinned. "From the first day you returned to Tianji Pavilion, you knew that I replaced Zhao Yuan as the new Tianji Pavilion Master, but have you ever saluted me? Have you ever shown me the slightest respect? Even... have you ever called me Marquis? I don't care if my brothers are not particular about trivial matters, but in front of outsiders and in front of my subordinates, have you ever had the slightest respect for me? If this matter were changed to someone else, if they had to argue with you once, it would be enough to kill you eight or ten times. In the final analysis, you, like Zhao Yuan and Qiu Han, look down on me from the bottom of your heart and think that I am not worthy of being above you. But the more this is the case, the more I have to make progress with my own abilities. Not only must I prove to you, but also to the world that my Qin Wei's methods are no less than any of yours. In this world, you, Liu Xunyi, are not the only one who is a child of destiny, and you are not the only one who can thrive."

"Today... you finally spoke your mind..."

Veins popped out of his forehead due to anger, his face turned pale as paper due to shock, and his eyes were filled with sadness due to disappointment.

At this moment, Liu Xunyi's emotions were so complicated that he couldn't express them in words. He was so entangled that he couldn't even breathe...

Liu Xunyi felt anger, hatred, sadness, and resentment towards Qin Wei... but after hearing his heartfelt words just now, Liu Xunyi felt a little more compassion, a little more sympathy, and even... a little more sympathy for him.

With a heart of revenge in mind, he vowed to avenge Zhao Yuan.

However, at this moment, Liu Xunyi could no longer kill Qin Wei.

Maybe it was because of what Qin Wei had just said, maybe it was because of the last bit of brotherhood that Liu Xunyi had left in his heart, maybe... Qin Wei was right, Liu Xunyi never considered the cause and effect when doing things, he only acted on impulse and emotion.

"what!"

Suddenly, Liu Xunyi, who was filled with sorrow and felt hopeless, let out a thunderous roar, raised his sword and stabbed it towards Qin Wei's neck. With a loud "bang", the sword brushed Qin Wei's skin and penetrated deeply into the wall. The Wuji sword was almost two-thirds penetrated, which shows how powerful Liu Xunyi's sword was.

At the same time, Qin Wei, who was caught off guard, was frightened to the point of shivering in fear. He let a trickle of blood slowly flow down from his neck, which was cut by the sword. He remained motionless like a wooden sculpture, looking at the furious Liu Xunyi helplessly.

At this moment, if Qin Wei had not leaned against the wall, he would have collapsed to the ground.

"From now on, you and I are no longer brothers!"

Gritting his teeth and leaving a threat full of resentment, the depressed and haggard Liu Xunyi took a deep look at the frightened Qin Wei, suddenly drew out his sword, quickly left the room, and disappeared into the darkness in the blink of an eye.

After Liu Xunyi walked away, Qin Wei, who was still frightened, breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, his feet softened and he fell to the ground with a plop. His expression was dull and his eyes were dull. He seemed to be immersed in the rift between him and Liu Xunyi. He was in great pain and burst into tears. He couldn't help crying for a long time.

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(End of this chapter)