ATPnovel Chapter 75 My Conscience is Clear
Chapter 75 My Conscience is Clear
"Are you here? Are you?"
His gaze swept around, and Liu Zhan's aged body trembled uncontrollably. He longed for a response, yet feared hearing one.
He had actually heard that familiar voice briefly before, but he was too tired these days and was feeling drowsy while lying down.
In a daze, I thought it was just my imagination again.
He didn't know when it started, but he began to fear losing his power, and he began to feel lost.
The power gave him more and more confidence, and his strong skills, especially those magical secret techniques, provided him with more and more help. As a result, he became more and more afraid that all of this would one day leave him.
What you think about during the day, you dream about at night. Over the years, this voice has often appeared in his mind, mostly as hallucinations and dreams.
For countless days and nights, this familiar yet infrequently heard voice haunted me like a nightmare.
Over time, he has come to realize a pattern: if it's true, then he will inevitably receive further messages from the other party.
This time, however, the voice only appeared once in his dazed state and then disappeared, leading him to mistakenly believe that it was just another nightmare.
He was to be beheaded tomorrow, and tonight was his last chance. The arrow was on the bowstring, and he had no choice but to release it.
But now that all his power and knowledge had been taken away, he was absolutely certain that what had just happened was not an illusion, and that those eyes were still watching him.
It's even possible that they've been watching you all along, only to be present at this very last moment.
"Teacher, what's wrong? Teacher!"
Seeing that the teacher seemed to be shouting into the air, looking flustered and helpless, Gu Hengzhou also panicked a little.
Their teacher was always calm and composed; he had never seen him so flustered and disoriented before.
Is this failure such a blow to the teacher?
He tried to help his teacher up again, but was ruthlessly pulled away. In fact, Liu Zhan was thrown to the ground again as a result of this struggle.
"It's me!" After a while, Shen Che's voice rang out again. He had just been getting used to the power coming from Liu Zhan.
As the immense power, like a vast ocean, was poured into him, Shen Che felt his power surge rapidly, as if every cell in his body was cheering.
The gentle stream that once flowed through his body transformed into a surging, unstoppable river.
Especially on a spiritual level, my mental strength has been increasing, making me feel that my thinking has become much faster.
In order to perfectly integrate with other people's bodies, Liu Zhan has devoted himself to spiritual secret arts over the years, making his profound skills as refined as steel.
Only in this way can one withstand the impact and preserve one's purity when the secret technique is performed.
The many secret techniques in his mind also broadened his horizons. Although Liu Zhan's aptitude for secret techniques was not good, his research on secret techniques over the years was by no means lacking.
It was the knowledge in his mind that made Shen Che immerse himself in it for a while, and at the same time, his understanding of Liu Zhan seemed to have reached a new level.
This scholar was far more patient and ruthless than he had imagined.
"It really is you, it really is you!" He looked around with a mixture of resentment and fear, and the next moment, Liu Zhan's old face was filled with pleading.
"Give me back my power. It's all the result of my hard work and cultivation; it's mine!"
"Yours? We made a deal back then that I would take all your power."
"When I taught you those secret techniques and medical skills, I made it very clear to you that you could learn them, use them, and even teach them to others, but in the end, everything you possessed had to be given to me."
"So, this isn't yours; it's just temporarily stored with you. Now, I'm taking it back!"
"You're a robber! All that was my own hard work!"
"Robber?" Shen Che scoffed, completely unconcerned. "You want me to take back what's already in my mouth? What are you thinking?"
"Without me, you would have died long ago! We made a promise, but now you want to transfer your soul. You want to keep all this power for yourself, don't you?"
"You broke the agreement first, so it's perfectly reasonable for me to cut my losses!"
At this point, Shen Che couldn't help but look at him with new respect. "Liu Zhan, you really are a genius. Relying on the secret techniques I gave you and your medical skills, you actually managed to figure out this soul-shifting technique. I really underestimated you."
"However, this soul-shifting technique requires at least a decade of preparation. In other words, you started planning this a long time ago. The fact that you haven't shown any abnormalities for such a long time is truly impressive."
At this point, Shen Che couldn't help but sigh softly. In all this time, he hadn't looked for Liu Zhan very often.
Each time, unless it's to communicate with him, the time is brought back to a normal 1:1 ratio. Otherwise, at a 1:100 time flow, everything is fast-forwarding, and you can't discover anything at all.
Although Liu Zhan was a bit pedantic in the past, he was genuinely intelligent. After decades, even if he couldn't guess completely, he probably figured out most of it, which is why he was able to successfully keep it from him.
The soul-shifting technique developed by Liu Zhan has extremely demanding requirements. First, one must find someone who is extremely compatible with oneself. Second, this person must be kept by one's side at all times for at least a decade.
He needs to start subtly influencing the other person more than a decade in advance, continuously applying secret techniques and leaving marks on them.
Only in this way can we ensure the perfect fusion at the end and ensure that the body will not reject it.
"Liu Zhan, you were once a passionate young man with the world in your heart, always thinking about speaking out for the people and bringing peace to the world."
"I have great faith in your character, so I have never doubted you all these years."
"But now, you want to take over other people's bodies for your own use, and you want to use the blood of tens of thousands of people for a blood sacrifice."
"It's truly pathetic that they've stooped to this level to achieve their own selfish ends, all under the guise of selfless service!"
"No, my original intention has never changed!" Hearing the voice in his mind, Liu Zhan immediately retorted, "I am wholeheartedly devoted to the people, and my heart is with all the people under heaven; this intention has never wavered!"
"All these years of hard work and perseverance are for the purpose of enabling more people to live better lives, and for ensuring that ordinary people have clothes to wear and food to eat. I have no regrets."
"But I'm old, and I still have so much to do. I don't mean to break my promise; I just need more time!"
He looked around, trying to find Shen Che, but he couldn't see a trace of him.
The other person's voice could only echo in his mind. Over the years, he had never actually seen the other person, and that was what terrified him the most.
"I know what I did was wrong, but the only person I've wronged is Qiu Chi. As for those who died, weren't they all guilty of countless crimes? Weren't their hands stained with the blood of ordinary people?"
"As long as these sinners are sacrificed, I can live. If I live, more people can live and more people can have food."
"What wrong have I done? I did nothing wrong. I have lived a life with a clear conscience!"
"Perhaps!" Seeing that Liu Zhan insisted, Shen Che didn't want to waste any more words.
"Perhaps in your world you may not be wrong, and your actions may not be problematic. But in my eyes, you are terribly wrong. You shouldn't treat what resides within you as your own!"
"Liu Zhan, goodbye. No, I almost forgot, you're being beheaded tomorrow, and we probably won't see each other again."
"No, give the power back to me, give it back to me!"
He roared furiously at his surroundings, but no other sound came from them except for his own.
In the empty cell, only Liu Zhan's old, hoarse voice echoed.