novelraw Chapter 1154 589: Secretly Infiltrating Investigator
Chapter 1154 589: Secretly Infiltrating Investigator
The way of the masses lies in sacrifice and warfare!
Among them, 'sacrifice' is even placed before 'warfare'.
Compared to wild grass and reckless chopping, the inheritance burnt offering is the supreme essence among the masses. But the essence of the sacrifice is not for people to seek divine protection, rather… it is to allow people to shift blame!
The elders of the masses kill and slay, getting paid to kill without asking whom, using their heels to think. Such violent conduct will only result in endless karma and evil deeds.
If no precautions are taken, there is a fear that in no time they will lose their minds and fall into a slaughter frenzy.
The world's wars are endless, among them, battles for justice and morality, how many righteous wars to rectify chaos and support the sovereign are there truly?
They are probably rarer than Phoenix hair and Kirin horns!
That's why the existence of the inheritance burnt offering and the sacrificial master are necessary, to infuse a line of rules and guidelines into unrestrained violence through 'sacrifice', 'offering', and 'cost'. At the same time, after the sacrifice and offering, the sacrificial master can indirectly bear the mutation and evil consequences for the inheritors.
Otherwise, the masses and slaughter would not just be wearing the same pants, they would've already completely merged into one.
The real essence of the masses - necessary violence, struggle for survival, campaigns for rectification, and endeavors to restore order, how many can easily achieve these? People only pay lip service to them.
Therefore, something is needed to bear the consequences and calamities brought by the masses.
In most situations, it is Tian Yuan.
Just like how during war times, Ashes and White Deer always mix together, Tian Yuan can inherently bestow necessity and legitimacy to the violence and slaughter of the masses and bear most of the consequences, making it truly the best partner for the masses!
At the same time, without the resources of Tian Yuan, it is impossible to raise an army large enough and of the right standard for the masses. All inheritances of the masses in the current age are highly bound to the regime.
Both being Chosen Ones who fill fields with corpses, the difference between slaughter and the masses, between brutal chaotic troops and righteous divisions, lies in this legitimacy!
The same goes for Old Tang!
It's just that his legitimacy has already changed versions.
But when summoning the ancestral spirits, the blood price as a sacrifice is still needed.
The inheritance of the Heavenly Slaughter Duke, even among the masses known for madness, is an extremely fierce, violent, and evil method. Without this burnt offering to maintain it, the successors might quickly take their gifts down to the vortex…
On the surface, the blood price is indeed a gold coin, but fundamentally, it points directly at the meritocracy system of the former Eternal Dynasty!
The Emperor, with the heavenly destiny of the Eternal Dynasty, granted legitimacy to the masses under his command and used the vastness of the Empire to guarantee the sins created by the masses.
The twenty-one-level meritocracy, all earned from the battlefield, centers on: "beheading for merit, killing enemies for gold!"
The Heavenly Slaughter in its early days was one of the few who ascended to the pinnacle through military merit in the early Dynasty. In terms of military matters, his status was only second to the Emperor.
Its inheritance is naturally highly bound to the Dynasty and its military merit system.
Even if it has fallen to its current state, as long as there are authentic gold coins of the Eternal Dynasty as a blood price, they can naturally wield this power without burden.
What the blood price truly requires is not the gold coin, which has become an antique and decoration, but the endorsement and guarantee provided by the Emperor's supreme power when minting the coin.
From the perspective of Superior's heavenly destiny—since you are taking the Emperor's gold coins and doing the work of the Eternal Dynasty, then naturally, the deeds committed with your sword are to be borne by the Emperor, and the bill settled by the Eternal Dynasty!
Thus, Fourth Great-Uncle's confusion lies here.
Why does this gold coin, freshly minted, indeed possess the heavenly destiny of the Eternal Dynasty?
It's brand new and pure, yet the aura pointing directly at the heavenly destiny of the Empire engraved on it cannot be faked… Four hundred years have passed, the Emperors have perished entirely, even the last Emperor fell into the vortex, how can there still be a new Emperor succeeding the throne, with the Swordsmith overseeing the making and the Emperor's Hand issuing coins?
Could it be that the Dynasty has truly been restored?!
Yes, yes, no, no, yes… no…
For a moment, the mind of Fourth Great-Uncle, long turned to ash, nearly overloaded but quickly reacted: good, all good!
If the Dynasty is restored, won't the Victory Army be rebuilt? If the Victory Army is rebuilt, won't the inheritance of our family be continued?
Moreover, this young man before us is cunning and savvy… ahem, this adaptability surpasses by far the Emperor's Hand of the past, certainly a rare villain-hero in the future, ahem, hero and great personage.
Given our longstanding relationship, rounding it all up, our family can surely be counted as contributors to the Dynasty's rise!
Binding, it must be bound tightly!
But we can't let Tang Qian, who hesitates over the slightest thing, know, lest we frighten him away, lock it down first then talk.
The mind of the ancestor, long since turned into a ghost, was already thoroughly engaged.
At this moment, he looked at Ji Jue with immense satisfaction.
He who pays is the boss, and he who can grant titles is naturally the boss among bosses, the opportunity is presented directly, how can one not wholeheartedly pledge allegiance to the Dynasty?
"Ah Qian…"
The tone of Fourth Great-Uncle instantly turned kindly: "Do you know, after all these years our family has passed down, the most important virtue is what?"
"Uh—" Tang Qian was also stunned, "Ruthlessness and quick escape?"