Chapter 849: Speaking the truth
Chapter 849: Speaking the truth
"Dad, how come you're still so grumpy after all these years?"
Wen Rui helplessly spread his hands and said, "Since I was three years old, which of those so-called lessons you taught me, didn't the facts prove that I was right in the end?"
Pointing at his fingers, Wen Rui enumerated them like a treasure on the back of his hand: "You were told to kill Shen Gongbao, but you didn't. What was the result?"
"You were asked to force Emperor Xin to abdicate and assist Crown Prince Yin Jiao to ascend the throne, but you refused. What was the result?"
"I asked you to gather some talented people to secretly assassinate Daji, but you disdained to do it. What was the result?"
"I asked you to ask Emperor Xin to summon Ji Fa to Chaoge in exchange for the imprisoned Ji Chang. You refused. What happened?"
"If you were asked to capture a disciple of the Chan Sect, you would show absolutely no mercy and kill him on the spot to eliminate future troubles. You can't bear it."
"I asked you to send people to arrest and execute an old fortune teller in Chaoge City who was spreading lies and misleading the people. You said that the law should not be violated."
"Every time I made a reasonable suggestion, you would fly into a rage, saying that these were all unjust conspiracies and that I had evil intentions. If you couldn't argue with me, you would beat me up. In the end, the Shang Dynasty was destroyed, and millions of merchants were displaced and became slaves of the fallen country. The Jie Sect was almost destroyed, and countless of my fellow disciples and loved ones died."
The more Wen Rui talked, the straighter his back became. On the contrary, Wen Zhong had nothing to refute and his momentum weakened.
As a time traveler, Wen Rui had adult memories at the age of three. He was not involved in any of the stupid things that children did or the rebelliousness of teenagers.
It's much less troublesome than some devil child who came to the world.
People in ancient times started their careers early. Before he was fifteen years old, and had not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony, Wen Rui had already become Wen Zhong's right-hand man, giving him advice and helping him govern the army and the people, making Wen Zhong even more powerful.
Wen Zhong never taught Wen Rui a lesson for the mistakes that young people should make. The conflicts between father and son mainly focused on the many forward-looking and vicious schemes that Wen Rui proposed to Wen Zhong.
In addition to killing certain specific figures who would affect the direction of the Conferred Gods War in advance, Wen Rui also proposed to take action against Xiqi in advance, spreading blood-sucking worm eggs in Xiqi's waters, selling opium at a low price to weaken its people's strength, making it impossible for Xibo Hou to recruit soldiers even if he had the intention of rebellion.
However, Wen Zhong was too upright and honest. He not only rejected all of Wen Rui's proposals, but also swore that if Wen Rui dared to commit evil deeds behind his back, he would clean up the mess himself.
"Father, please calm down. Your disappointing son has now become a Heavenly Lord."
Sensing that Wen Zhong's momentum had dropped slightly, Wen Rui continued, "Moreover, my position as Heavenly Venerable was not given to you by God out of consideration for your appearance. I earned it with my own ability."
"Even if I had stood still and let you strike me with the lightning just now, I wouldn't have been hurt at all. But if you and I, father and son, had had some friendly and affectionate physical communication in the Lingxiao Palace, the aftermath would have blown up half of the Yuque Immortal Palace. I don't know how many immortal officials would have been affected, and if they were not careful enough to watch the show, they would have died. Then we would have really committed a great sin."
Wen Zhong let out a sigh, and with a glance around, he saw the unlucky immortal officials who were burnt on the outside and tender on the inside by his deflected purple lightning. The thunderbolt in his palm gradually dissipated.
Just now, he was teaching his son a lesson in anger. The divine purple lightning he shot out was not a fake attack. It was powerful enough to severely damage a real immortal.
Putting aside its power, the divine purple thunder is also a manifestation of the power of heaven. It symbolizes justice and law between heaven and earth, and can punish and sanction behaviors and existences that violate heaven. In other words, this divine thunder has the characteristic of being sure to hit. As far as Wen Zhong believes, the purple thunder will definitely hit the target he wants to punish, and it is impossible to avoid it.
However, when Wen Rui waved his hand just now, without showing any divine power or immortal power, the purple thunder of Shenxiao that was bound to hit him was deflected, turning the impossible into possible.
At the moment of deflecting the purple lightning, Wen Zhong's third eye also saw Wen Rui's actions clearly. He was not deflecting the magnetic field, nor was he changing the electric field potential, nor was he using the Lafa ground cage that could avoid low-level attacks.
At that moment, the space around Wen Rui was distorted by the huge gravity. Following the laws of nature, the normal path of the purple thunder along the previous spatial path was modified, so it naturally bypassed Wen Rui and distorted the target it was heading towards along with the space.
The Shenxiao Purple Thunder's hit is the law of heaven, and the distorted space distorts the law of heaven. The power of the law fights against the power of the law, and only then can the attack that should have hit be avoided.
The rebellious son who couldn't even break through the Qi training stage now couldn't even guarantee that the purple lightning would hit him. Thinking of all the bad consequences of not listening to Wen Rui's suggestions in the past, Wen Zhong's anger gradually subsided.
"Okay, I won't fight with you, my rebellious son, for now. Tell me, what good things did you do in the Moon Palace? Have you forgotten the family motto of my Wen family?
Wen Zhong patiently asked, "If Chang'e hadn't sent the Jade Rabbit to the Shenxiao Lei Mansion to report the news, I wouldn't have known that you had done such an evil thing that disgraced our family tradition. Bullying men and women, taking advantage of others, do you still dare to say your last name is Wen?"
Wen Rui looked calm, just like he was five hundred years ago when he was despised by Wen Zhong for his evil plan. He was not ashamed but proud: "Dad, you have your old habit of prejudgment again. I have my reasons for doing this. If you had not judged me to be evil by nature and listened to my advice, you would not have harmed tens of millions of merchants and tens of thousands of Jiejiao fellows."
"Okay, if you can explain the reason, I will not pursue your evil deeds of bullying the Moon Palace Fairy, occupying the moon, and greedily taking the essence of heaven and earth to refine your private treasures."
Wen Zhong was unable to refute this statement in front of many of his former fellow immortal officials from the Jiejiao sect in the Lingxiao Palace.
Although Wen Rui's plan was vicious, it had to be said that it was very effective. After people who had experienced the entire Conferred God Tribulation looked back and sorted out the details, they found that Wen Rui's suggestions were all insightful. Any one of them, if implemented, could have changed the tragic ending of the demise of the Shang Dynasty and the destruction of the Jie Religion.
"If you can't explain the reason, then go to the Void Star Realm with me and fight, so as to avoid being bound by the magic."
"Dad, you are being too serious. It's not to the point of starting a father-son game."
Wen Rui waved his hands and said, "If I can't make sense, then you have to admit your mistakes and accept the punishment. Even if we fight to a conclusion, if you win, nothing will change. If I win, you can't call me dad. Wouldn't it be a waste of the fight? You know me. I never do business at a loss."
It's not the first time that Wen Rui has been disrespectful in front of Wen Zhong. He has been like this since he was three years old. Wen Zhong has long been accustomed to it and did not get angry again because of these few words.
"Dad, do you remember that I asked you to regularly send down the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder in the mortal world to kill the demon mosquito army exposed in the open air?"
Wen Rui did not directly explain the public welfare function of the lunar development project, but mentioned another seemingly unrelated matter.
(End of this chapter)