novelraw Chapter 434 - 436: The Dog is Still Unwilling [Typhoon Day 3]
Chapter 434 - 436: The Dog is Still Unwilling [Typhoon Day 3]
"Martial God, sir... please... please spare me, let me go... I am willing to become one of the People of Dragon Country! I renounce my Toyotomi surname and will take the name Feng. From now on, I’ll be one of the People of Dragon Country, without hesitation! No, as long as you spare me... I am willing to be a dog for the People of Dragon Country, to serve you and labor for you!"
Just moments ago, he had been haughty, despising the likes of Tokugawa Ieiken’s followers who had obeyed Wu Tian’s order to swarm him. But now, faced with his own death, he cast aside his so-called Fusang dignity and Fusang honor.
Only by truly feeling the approach of death does a person realize if they are afraid to die. Toyotomi Hidekata, for instance, was now scared to death.
"Become a dog? Do you know a particular trait dogs have?"
Upon hearing this, the color drained from Toyotomi Hidekata’s face. He knew Wu Tian would not let him go.
He snarled, "Why... why must you kill me? Won’t you even give me the chance to be a dog?"
Gritting his teeth, he charged furiously at Wu Tian, ready to fight to the death.
"You want to be a dog? Heh, even the dogs wouldn’t agree!"
Wu Tian kicked out coldly. His foot moved so fast that Toyotomi Hidekata couldn’t react and took the full force of the blow.
PFFT!
Toyotomi Hidekata spat blood as he was sent flying backward, scraping violently across the ground for over ten meters. His flesh was torn raw by the friction. At last, his eyes closed powerlessly.
"How formidable!"
"Indeed, he’s invincible! Those people from the Shogunate were no match for him at all."
"He’s my idol! I admire him so much!"
The exclamations of shock and delight from the people of Peach Blossom Spring rose one after another. Gazing at Wu Tian, they all wore expressions of sheer astonishment.
The Fusang Shogunate, while not a major power in the Underground World, was still a respectable force. Who would have thought it would be annihilated by a single man? This was simply inconceivable.
Wu Tian stood there quietly.
"Sir, thank you very much," Tao Qianyang said, stepping forward with his people to express their gratitude.
"It was only what I should do," Wu Tian replied. "With or without you, the fate of the Fusang would have been the same."
"..."
Tao Qianyang was stunned, at a loss for words. The other men and women from Peach Blossom Spring simply looked up to Wu Tian with admiration, feeling that everything he said and did was incredibly charismatic.
"It’s you... it’s you."
Yuan Beizheng had been studying Wu Tian’s face intently for a long while. While Tao Qianyang had nothing more to say, he certainly did. He immediately stepped forward, saying, "It’s you. It must be you."
"Me?" Wu Tian was quite curious. What about me?
Yuan Beizheng began muttering with a frenzied look, "I’ve found him! Ancestors, I have finally found him!"
Wu Tian was rendered speechless. The men and women of Peach Blossom Spring were equally silent. Tao Qianyang, too, was baffled. He never expected the sage to act like this. What on earth was wrong with him?
Yuan Beizheng glanced around. Seeing no one else nearby and knowing he could absolutely trust the people of Peach Blossom Spring, he took a deep breath before speaking solemnly. "You all know of the Tui Bei Tu, correct?"
Wu Tian and the others nodded. They had long since forgotten the deaths of the Fusang devils, as the words ’Tui Bei Tu’ now fully occupied their minds.
Practically everyone had heard of the Tui Bei Tu.
In the era of the Great Tang of Dragon Country, Li Shimin ordered two famous Taoists, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, to divine the nation’s destiny. The master-disciple duo went on to co-author what became Dragon Country’s first great book of prophecy, the Tui Bei Tu.
The Tui Bei Tu consists of sixty portraits, each representing a prophecy. It was originally created to predict the destiny of the Great Tang, but Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng ended up predicting thousands of years of history beyond the Tang Dynasty.
Of the sixty portraits in the Tui Bei Tu, only seventeen remain unfulfilled, prophesying the future and the end of the world. For example, the fifty-sixth portrait states, "Flyers are not birds, divers are not fish; war is not waged with soldiers, but by a game of fate," predicting the advent of high-tech warfare. Its accuracy was both incredible and astonishing.
"What does that have to do with me?" Wu Tian asked.
Tao Qianyang and the others all nodded. What connection could the Tui Bei Tu possibly have with Wu Tian?
Yuan Beizheng took another serious look at Wu Tian and said, "Actually, the Tui Bei Tu has a sixty-first portrait that has been kept secret within the Yuan Family, unknown to anyone else."
A sixty-first portrait? What could it be about?
"The final prophecy of my ancestor’s Tui Bei Tu speaks of a Great Unity—a world where there is no distinction between black and white or north and south; a world with no cities or prefectures, no ’you’ or ’I’; a world that is one family, where all teachings become one.
"The sixty-first portrait, however, records a variable. If this variable doesn’t appear, the prophecy ends with the sixtieth portrait. But if the variable does appear, the sixty-first portrait comes into play."
Yuan Beizheng took another deep breath and said, "And now, that variable may have appeared. It’s you!"
His gaze was fixed on Wu Tian. Wu Tian himself was stunned; he had never expected that Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng would have specifically written the sixty-first portrait about him.
"..." Wu Tian fell silent.
In the realm of divination, he suddenly felt he might not be as formidable as Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng. At the same time, Wu Tian pondered another matter. Since the Tui Bei Tu mentions my appearance, does that mean the Biscuit Song, the Plum Blossom Poem, and the Horse Fore-knowing Prophecies also predict it?
"What exactly does the prophecy say?" Wu Tian asked straightforwardly.
Yuan Beizheng answered candidly, "The sixty-first portrait speaks of a person with an indistinct face who can alter the destinies of others. With his appearance, tremendous changes will sweep across heaven and earth, ushering in a new era!
"And this change will affect not only the Surface World but the Underground World as well."
Wu Tian nodded. Yuan Beizheng sighed and continued, "But as for what specific changes are to come, my ancestor did not record them. However, he left behind a final instruction: if such a person appears, my Yuan Family must follow him!"
Tao Qianyang was shocked. Yuan Beizheng, a renowned sage, is going to follow Wu Tian from now on, just like that?
The other people of Peach Blossom Spring cheered. He truly was the person they worshipped. So formidable!
Wu Tian was also taken aback. He glanced at the scenery of Peach Blossom Spring, gazing at the spiritual energy that was so dense it was visibly flowing through the air.
He made his decision. "Good. In three days, No Heaven Villa will descend upon Plum Blossom Garden!"
Wu Tian had to return now; he couldn’t leave his wife and children behind.
He mounted the Phoenix, intending to return to the surface first.
***
This day was July 11th, a day of typhoon weather. Rain fell on Yang City, and the wind blew much stronger than usual. Despite the storm, it wasn’t much cooler; the air was hot and muggy.
As Wu Tian returned from the Underground World, a private plane took off from Stick Country, heading toward Yang City in Dragon Country.
Onboard the plane sat the Monarch of Stick Country. He was accompanied by a young subordinate and protected by the four great masters of Stick Country, warriors whose strength was equivalent to that of the Seven Saints of Dragon Country.
"Your Majesty, have you really made up your mind? You’re going to cede your throne to Wu Tian?" the Monarch’s closest subordinate asked, clearly puzzled.