Chapter 892: Chapter 562: Old Fusang and New Fusang, Shadows in the Darkness (3)
He spoke word by word: "Under his leadership, we, who were young at the time, gathered from all over Fusang, chose to resist with violence, and later rose quickly, almost relying on his strength alone to lead us out of that era with brute force and raise our flag."
As he spoke, a terrifying aura of iron and fire, seemingly emerging from a mountain of corpses and sea of blood, emanated from his withered yet upright figure. A look of dreadful killing intent appeared in his eyes, just like back in those days.
This aura swept through the shrine, repelling the cold sensations around as if encountering their nemesis. Many Spiritual Spirit Beasts that gathered from the Wilderness and hid in the dark retreated in panic, not daring to perceive the situation here anymore.
His voice seemed to merge with the wind and thunder, resonating within the shrine:
"We killed our way forward, human heads rolled, regardless of whether they were the descendants of the self-proclaimed supreme gods of the Eight-headed Serpent or those gods enfeoffed as Dukes and their inheritor bloodlines. Whoever resisted was slain!"
"Slaying one wasn’t enough, then a hundred, if a hundred wasn’t enough, then a thousand, ten thousand!"
"Back then, we even resolved that if ancient Fusang’s saying of eight million Divine Spirits did not comply, we would kill all eight million of those defiant gods!"
Under the serious gazes of everyone and Vishdair’s fervent and appreciative scrutiny.
This old man named Arasaka Masamune finally no longer seemed like a hollow figure, but rather the War God, the Killing God, suppressing this shrine and its representative past decay and glory.
If they were killed while alive, how would they fear mere ghosts?
But soon, this aura gradually dissipated.
The old man calmly said, "We took Great Xia as our teacher, emulated its system, spent ten years personally beheading those so-called evil gods and their auxiliary clans, overthrew the old Eight-headed Serpent imperial clan, sealed the well straight to the Eight-headed Serpent, abandoned the Eight-headed Serpent shrine, and finally established a new order a hundred and forty-seven years ago."
——About a hundred and fifty to sixty years ago, right at the beginning of the last Golden Era, which has only intensified in the following decades.
Arasaka Masamune withdrew his gaze, placed both hands on his knees, and said calmly, "This is the end of old Fusang and the beginning of the Arasaka Group I founded."
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Seemingly allowing everyone some time to digest, or perhaps recalling the past had consumed the scarce energy left in this body.
He seemed a bit tired, observed the crowd lost in contemplation, and waited a full minute before speaking again.
"But this is by no means an end that lasts forever."
He sighed, looking at the crowd who seemed to have anticipated: "Because killing can’t accomplish everything, and in the end, we discovered... we cannot kill all people and gods."
"You might be puzzled by Fusang’s policy of segregating normal humans and Beastmen."
The crowd couldn’t help but nod.
"Back then, we overthrew those evil gods who took pleasure in bloody sacrifices and viewed human lives as trifles."
"But not all Beastmen influenced by bloodlines and those gods colluded with them; some of their worshipped gods and their followers were relatively kind and even contributed during the beast tide resistance and rebellion."
"They are innocent."
His voice was soft: "Yet they are ultimately different from ordinary people."
"The people’s hatred doesn’t dissipate so quickly, and the complex relationship between Beastmen, normal humans, and Spirit Masters doesn’t reconcile quickly either."
"At first, we tried to let them coexist to change each other’s impressions."
"However, under the new order, due to their distinct appearance, past events, and the barriers brought by bloodlines, various differences inevitably led them to be discriminated against by ordinary people and normal Spirit Masters, making them more extreme."
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