Chapter 204: Chapter 180: Inhuman Monster (Part 3)

The man with the gloomy face laughed.

"Just right, I have something to test here. Go over there and take a knife, kill them all. I want to see the difference between you using a weapon and bare hands."

However, this time, it did not move.

The orders of the Chu people were absolute. It was merely a tool, but at this moment, faced with the order to kill, it had the thought of not wanting to kill.

"I..."

It clumsily organized its words.

"They, can live."

"...Hmm?"

The man with the gloomy face frowned.

"What are you talking about?"

Not only him, but more Chu people gathered around. The tool displayed a tendency to defy its owner, a sign extremely dangerous and absolutely forbidden—evidently, the safest course of action was to destroy this threat.

Yet this slight intent to kill was sharply sensed by it.

Weren’t the Chu people its family? Why would family want to kill it?

It couldn’t understand, even its brain stopped thinking for a moment.

But under the threat of death, its body reacted faster than its thoughts.

Stimulated by the killing intent, its survival instinct chose to strike first.

That day, the remaining people of the Chu suffered enormous losses. Even though they fled with the royal family as fast as they could, half of them were still slain in that massacre.

And it, too, fell completely into confusion.

As a tool, a weapon, it was born to restore the glory of Great Chu, but on this day, it personally severed the hopes for Chu’s revival.

Lost without a direction, where should it go?

"Sure enough! You truly are made for great things!"

The young men brought over from Liang Province were extremely happy, especially upon seeing its invincible demeanor.

"Even those Chu people cannot defeat you, you are born to be an emperor!"

Emperor? What is that?

It wasn’t very clear; the Chu people hadn’t taught it this.

All it knew was that this land filled with corpses was not suitable for a long stay.

Gathering some belongings, it left the place that had raised it, wandering aimlessly without orders—of course, it would kill, because after that incident in Liang Province, the Great Yu Court had already known about this secret weapon of the Chu people and issued stern orders to all Inspectorates to track it down, sending skilled experts to eradicate this danger in its infancy.

But it mattered little, the dangers ahead only made it kill more and grow stronger.

Even the cunning scholars couldn’t do anything to target it, for unbound by anything, it had truly become invincible.

As it traveled, more and more Inspectorates were razed to the ground by it, and in the process, more and more people gathered around it, from the initial few, to dozens, hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands... and in the midst of this, it gradually learned more and more, even becoming more like a real person.

It developed its own joys and sorrows, its own interests and hobbies, though it couldn’t have parents like ordinary people, it still had a group of friends from all walks of life—though these friends always called it "Your Majesty," no matter how many times it asked them not to, it still considered them friends.

"I should fight for them."

The weapon lost its direction but gradually formed its own ideas. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Driven by these thoughts, its battles became fiercer and fiercer, charging into the fray, raising smoke everywhere, destroying the decaying Yu court, crushing the prairie armies, even eliminating the remnants of the Chu people completely.

It successfully fulfilled everyone’s expectations, claiming this vast land.

"As long as I achieve all this, everything will get better, right?"

It once thought this way.

But, the good times didn’t last long.

After all external enemies were suppressed, its friends began to fight among themselves, using its name, they attacked each other for fame and power, even turning their weapons against it.

"Are you really human?"

Those who were once seen as partners and friends drew their weapons against it.

It knew the reason; the remaining Chu people had spread rumors about its non-human identity to target this traitor, but it never imagined that for a mere fantasy of immortality, these former friends would go this far.

In a daze, it felt as if it had become the tree in the story, and these friends who were once regarded as mere materials by the Yu people had now picked up axes and were, like the Yu people, the tree cutters.

"Want the immortal technique for eternal life? Then come and kill me."

It was not a tree.

That day, those former friends who had journeyed with it were buried alongside it in the imperial tomb.

Of course, it didn’t die. After burying those old friends, it sealed itself in the imperial tomb, leaving only a so-called bloodline outside, just like those humans capable of procreating—but it wouldn’t give this so-called throne away for nothing, to get something from it, one must pay the corresponding price.

There is no greater sorrow than a heart that’s dead, it will not do anything for others anymore.