ATPnovel Chapter 752 - 471 Crossroads
Chapter 752 - 471 Crossroads
Chapter 752: Chapter 471 CrossroadsMoonlight quietly spilled across the windowsill and into the chamber, casting its glow upon Xu Xinyao’s eyes, which shimmered like water.
Gazing at her, there was a moment when Xu Yuan felt his heart truly moved.
The perpetual goal of energy re
Xu Yuan stared at the girl opposite him and snorted with laughter:
"Even so, do you still want to persist with researching this project?"
Xinyao’s bright eyes flickered, unsettled.
After a long silence, Xu Xinyao’s voice finally arose, faint as a ghost:
"If that’s the case, why would Father refuse me?"
Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised:
"Even so, are you willing to continue?"
"Anyway, whatever I do, you all will take it for military use."
Having said that, Xu Xinyao fell silent for a moment, then added in a ethereal tone:
"Moreover... if it really has that kind of power, maybe there would be fewer deaths on the battlefield."
"....."
Xu Yuan was taken aback by her words.
He had not expected Xu Xinyao to utter such a statement, nor had he expected her to realize in an instant the possible consequences of such a weapon.
But he soon sighed in his heart.
Because it was a pity that this was not his previous life.
Every Saint was like a humanoid nuclear weapon, yet Xu Yuan had never seen war halt its approach because of the presence of Saints.
Even if Soul Nourishing Rings could be mass-produced, war would not stalemate because of a weapon named "Soul Nourishing Ring".
In the Underground Palace, the reason a box of Source Crystal Bombs could almost obliterate the Mortal Transcending specters was simply because they lacked sentience.
Any normal Mortal Transcendence expert would have a hundred ways to evade it.
"I was only speaking of the most ideal scenario."
Xu Yuan shook his head, speaking in a low voice, "Such a thing can cause effective damage to high-level Cultivators."
"But it can be used on the battlefield," Xu Xinyao suddenly said.
"...." Xu Yuan blinked.
"Super large formations might not be breakable, but it should work on a ten-thousand-person scale. By then, it could puncture through strategic points," Xu Xinyao’s voice carried a bit of urgency.
"It’s too expensive, we simply can’t afford it."
Xu Yuan immediately denied it: "If such a method were effective, Source Crystal Bombs would have dominated the battlefield a long time ago, not the army formations we see now..."
"Brother!"
Xu Xinyao slightly propped herself up, her voice rising as she interrupted Xu Yuan: "There will always be a military use for them!"
"....."
Xu Yuan fell silent, staring strangely at her.
Military use?
He had never thought he would hear such a phrase from the mouth of this sister known as the ’fourth holy maiden’.
Realizing the dangerous nature of her words, Xu Xinyao fell into silence once more.
After a long time, Xu Xinyao’s voice slowly arose in the silent chamber:
"In your eyes... am I very foolish?"
Xu Yuan’s gaze was inscrutable as he stroked his chin, providing no answer but countered with a question:
"Have you... come to terms with reality?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Xinyao’s body trembled slightly, her hands clutching the fabric of her dress on her knees, her smile resembling that of crying:
"When I spoke of this matter with Father, I saw the contents of the memorial in his hands.
"Because of the war with the Sects, rivers of blood flowed in the Northern Lands, tens of millions dead, and the afflicted number in the hundreds of millions...
"The situation has already come to this,
"Brother...
"Don’t you think, that everything I’ve done before seems laughable in front of Father’s grand plans?"
The chamber was silent, the scent of incense lingering.
Xu Yuan rubbed his temples.
He felt that his father had definitely done it on purpose, and his goal had clearly been achieved.
In the silence,
Xu Yuan slowly stood up, walked over to the girl’s side, and gently placed his hand on her trembling shoulder:
"You didn’t cause this, so why the sadness?"
"How is it not?!"
Xu Xinyao hung her head, her fingertips pressing through the fabric into the flesh of her thigh, her voice as if it had been suppressed for a long time:
"Our Prime Minister’s Mansion is one of the instigators, and also one of the beneficiaries!!"
"......"
Upon his sister’s words, images from "Cangyuan Chronicles" flashed through Xu Yuan’s mind, where Xu Xinyao betrayed the Prime Minister’s Mansion. It was eerily similar.
[So, our Prime Minister’s Mansion is the initiator of all this?]
That was the question she asked in "Cangyuan Chronicles."
In "Cangyuan Chronicles," Xu Xinyao’s betrayal was a long process.
From first learning that her own father triggered the war, to witnessing the war refugees with her own eyes, to seeing the desperate wails of countless civilians when the Black Scale Army sacked cities...
Scene after scene over a course of more than ten plots, only then did she turn to side with the Sects.
In a flash of thought, Xu Yuan suppressed the notion.
He knew very well that Xu Xinyao was very confused at the moment, and needed someone to guide her.
The order and timing of a person’s appearance were very important.
In "Cangyuan Chronicles," when the fourth sister received this information, the people by her side were the protagonist Qin Mo and various members of the Sects.
Through their guidance along the way, she had strayed.