Gu Zhiruo didn't answer. Instead, he formed new hand seals with his hands.
Then, he summoned a magical tool with the hand seals.
It was a divine sword exuding orange light all over.
"You... You can summon a spiritual sword?"
Ordinary spiritual pharmacists could also summon magical tools, and among them, there were naturally many swords and blades. However, these swords and blades were divided into different levels.
The magical tool Gu Zhiruo had summoned now was the top - notch among swords and blades - a spiritual sword.
Once a person's body came into contact with the sword, even just its light, the skin would be immediately burned.
Gu Zhiruo's eyes reflected the orange light.
"Gu Zhiruo, I'm your elder brother. We're blood - related brothers. You can't kill your elder brother! If you do this, you'll surely be laughed at by all the common people in Cangwu Kingdom."
A cold smile appeared on Gu Zhiruo's face.
He said coldly, "Do you think I wonder why I lured you to my Prince Regent's Mansion? If I wanted to get rid of you, with my current abilities, I could just go to your Prince Cheng's Mansion openly to challenge you. But I chose this dilapidated courtyard."
The right eyelid of the Prince of Cheng kept twitching.
So, what did Gu Zhiruo mean?
"Your Highness, the subordinates of the Prince Cheng's Mansion are still as overbearing as ever. When they entered my Prince Regent's Mansion, they swaggered in as before, attracting the attention of many common people. Although they dare not comment on royal matters, the common people can see clearly. Today, it was the people from your Prince Cheng's Mansion who broke into my Prince Regent's Mansion. I've always been 'weak'. This time, I'm just defending myself."
Self - defense?
No way!
Gu Zhiruo clearly wanted to take this opportunity to wipe out all the elites of the Prince Cheng's Mansion. Moreover, he didn't want to give others a chance to criticize him, so he designed to make the people from the Prince Cheng's Mansion take the initiative.
In the eyes of the common people, the prince was useless. It must be the Prince of Cheng who had ordered his subordinates to do this.
"The rumor in Cangwu Kingdom some time ago was also spread by you?"
Gu Zhiruo stabbed forward with his sword. Gu Liang barely dodged, but his clothes were still cut by the orange spiritual power, leaving a long mark.
"What rumor? Isn't that the truth? Your Highness really doesn't like me and has always been harsh on me. So today, you came here in person to get rid of me."
Another stab.
It was just a hair's breadth away from cutting Gu Liang's wrist.
He staggered backward to save his hand.
"Gu Zhiruo! How dare you kill me! I'd like to see how you explain this to our father after I'm in the underworld!"
"Explain? What do I need to explain?"
Gu Zhiruo stepped forward with a cold face. His questioning was fierce, and his sword moves didn't stop.
"Swish—"
The sound of the sword cutting through the skin.
Gu Liang cried out in pain. There was already a scarlet wound on his arm.
It hurt so much!
"This sword is for your disobedience to my mother, for putting her to death, and for hanging her head in the mass grave after her death."
Blood gushed out from Gu Liang's arm. Gu Zhiruo's blue robe was soaked, but there was not a shred of sympathy in his eyes for Gu Liang.
"Swish—"
Another sword. This time, the sword stabbed deeply into Gu Liang's shoulder blade. Gu Liang's eyes filled with tears instantly, and the veins on his face bulged.
Gu Zhiruo pulled out the spiritual sword.
Blood was still dripping from the tip of the spiritual sword.
"Gu Zhiruo, you're so cruel!"
"This sword is for our father."
Gu Liang's two arms were seriously injured. He couldn't form hand seals and couldn't use his spiritual power.
"Back then, during the rebel rebellion, if you hadn't defected to the enemy in order to seize the throne of Cangwu Kingdom and made a deal with them, our father wouldn't have died, my mother wouldn't have died, and millions of the common people in Cangwu Kingdom wouldn't have died either."
How did he know? How did Gu Zhiruo know so much? The matter back then was so secret. He had executed all the relevant people one by one. How did Gu Zhiruo still know the truth of this matter?
"This sword is for all the mockery and humiliation you've given me in the past twenty - odd years, for trampling on my dignity again and again!"
Gu Zhiruo raised the spiritual sword in his hand again.
He slashed forward heavily.
Gu Liang's legs suddenly knelt down.
There was a cracking sound from his knees.
His bones must have broken.
Sister Ling had taught him that a person must keep his true nature and be kind - hearted. But kindness also had its limits. When facing the enemy, all unnecessary sympathy, mercy, and kindness should be discarded.
If the enemy was despicable, you had to be even more despicable. They would never empathize with your sufferings. Only when they experienced such things themselves would they know how painful it had been for you.
Gu Liang fell to the ground with a thud.
Both his arms were seriously injured, and his legs were disabled.
Gu Liang's current situation was extremely miserable.
Gu Zhiruo walked over and squatted down.
He lifted Gu Liang's head and made him look at himself.
"Your Highness, look. It's me, this lowly person, who has personally ruined you. How do you feel now?"
"Devil! You're a devil! You're the child raised by the female devil Ye Ling. Your heart is as dirty as hers!"
Gu Zhiruo suddenly grabbed Gu Liang's chin.
Gu Liang groaned in pain.
Then there was a crisp sound. Gu Liang's chin must have been dislocated.
"You're not qualified to talk about her. She was the kindest woman in the world. It was your so - called just and noble families that killed her. You're the dirtiest existence. You can't stand others being nobler and cleaner than you, so you tried your best to drag her down. If she didn't want to, you demonized her. This is the disgusting thing you just people did."
The screams outside were one after another. Gu Zhiruo squatted on the ground and watched Gu Liang's expression change from joy to doubt, and finally to madness.
Until the senior from Changbai Mountain appeared in the courtyard.
"Everything is settled. It's time for me to go. Kid, if you have any other problems in the future, just send someone to find me in Changbai Mountain."
"Thank you, senior."
How could this be? All the elite soldiers he had brought had died miserably?
Gu Liang's expression was extremely wonderful at this moment.
"Gu Liang, I call you Your Highness because I still recognize that we share the same blood. But now that you're still so stubborn, after you die, you won't be allowed to enter the imperial mausoleum. Tomorrow, I'll hang your head on the city wall, and throw your body into the mass grave for the wild beasts to devour."
Just like what had happened to his mother back then.
If Gu Zhiruo hadn't returned from the East Swamp Wilderness with the late emperor's edict, there might not even be a memorial tablet of his mother in the imperial mausoleum.
There was only a cenotaph in the imperial mausoleum. His mother's body had long been lost. What was buried in the imperial mausoleum were just a few clothes she had once worn.
Gu Liang kept shaking his head.
He didn't want this!
His mother was the most noble woman in Cangwu Kingdom. His bloodline was the purest. He was a prince when he was alive, and he should enter the Gu family's imperial mausoleum even after death.
He, Gu Liang, was born noble. How could he be compared with those commoners?