My brother is so cunning

Chapter 991 Things are different now
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A deafening, crisp sound echoed through the empty hall.

Although Yun Zhongzi is not a martial immortal, he is still a peak golden immortal. His physical strength is no less than that of golden immortals who specialize in martial arts, such as Yang Jian and Sun Wukong.

This blow was many times heavier than a monkey's full-force strike to the head.

However, such a powerful and heavy blow, when it struck Wen Rui's head, was like striking a bronze bell with a wooden hammer. The recoil almost caused Yun Zhongzi to drop his hand, and the gold and silver rods were slightly bent under the impact of the enormous force.

"Ok?"

After being hit, Wen Rui finally snapped out of his reverie about his past tragic experiences and looked at Yun Zhongzi with a surprised expression.

"Uncle-Master, why did you hit my head for no reason? Luckily it was me; if it were any other deity, that blow would have cracked their head open."

Wen Rui's words were not an exaggeration. Even a Golden Immortal would not be able to withstand being hit from behind with such force by another peak Golden Immortal, even with an indestructible body.

If Wen Rui's physical body hadn't been replaced by a perfect demonic body, and if his skin weren't covered by a non-Newtonian fluid armor woven from the fibers of the Golden Cudgel, which was equivalent to the Golden Cudgel protecting him at all times, even a virtuous and divine body with the position of a Heavenly Venerable would have been knocked unconscious by a single blow.

Yun Zhongzi was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized that if one blow hadn't knocked him out, then he would strike again!
He was determined to escape with all his might. Once he knocked Wen Rui unconscious, the puppets he controlled would likely be unable to move due to the loss of command. Even if they still had the ability to act independently, they would certainly be much slower than before.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he could escape from the Creation Immortal Palace and head straight for the Lingxiao Palace next door.

Once they see the Jade Emperor, even though Wen Rui has now used some unknown means to bestow the title of Heavenly Venerable, he will not dare to openly harm them.

Even if the Jade Emperor can't protect him, he should head straight for the Thirty-Third Heaven to escape to the Tushita Palace and find his senior uncle, Laozi.

Once again, Yun Zhongzi swung his curved golden staff in a wide arc and smashed it down on Wen Rui's crown. However, this time the golden staff, carrying immense force, came to an abrupt halt as Wen Rui raised his hand and grabbed it. It was as if it were embedded in a massive iron gate, and no matter how hard Yun Zhongzi tried, it wouldn't budge.

"Uncle-Master, why did you suddenly become stressed?"

Wen Rui gripped the golden staff tightly, looking surprised, and said, "I remember you used to be very composed. You went alone into the Shang Dynasty's royal court to advise King Zhou to kill the fox demon, and you didn't panic at all even after the plan failed."

Before Yun Zhongzi could react, Wen Rui had already snatched the precious staff from his grasp and casually tossed it into a corner of the hall.

When Yun Zhongzi's weapon was taken away, he instinctively struck out with his palm to retaliate, but Wen Rui cleverly neutralized his force with a single move, grabbed his wrist with his other hand, and used the same superior Western martial arts grappling technique as the metal puppet to twist his arm behind his back and suppress him firmly.

But the suppression only lasted a moment before Wen Rui released his grip and let go of Yun Zhongzi again.

With a gesture of reassurance, Wen Rui said, "Uncle-Master, please don't get agitated. I have no ill intentions towards you. Although you killed my father, he himself doesn't hold it against me. Why should I bother to cause you trouble?"

If someone else had said that, Yun Zhongzi might have lowered his guard, but in Yun Zhongzi's mind, Wen Rui was not a good person.

With only a mortal body, he caused the army that was fighting against King Zhou to be in a state of chaos, and countless soldiers died because of his wicked schemes. Even the already old Jiang Ziya looked several years older in his presence. "You ordered a puppet to capture me here, just to reminisce about how difficult it was for you, a mortal, to defy the heavens back then?"

Yun Zhongzi took a few steps back with a wary expression, channeling his immortal power to form hand seals. Although he was not sure if his spells would be effective against Wen Xiaotianzun, whose physical body was so sturdy, he subconsciously used all the necessary means of self-defense.

"Uncle-Master, let's be reasonable. If you hadn't sabotaged the great cause of the Jie Sect believers in the mortal realm to revive the human race, how could you have been captured by the puppet and brought to see me?"

"Followers of the Jie Sect, reviving the human race?"

Yun Zhongzi felt that the combination of words spoken by Wen Rui was very awkward, and couldn't help but say: "Your Jie Sect is already doing good deeds by not aiding and abetting the tyranny of the Zhou Dynasty and harming the human race, yet you dare to shamelessly talk about reviving the human race? Where is the Great Zhou Dynasty? Where are the descendants of King Wu? Did the orthodox dynasties of the mortal world perish just because I went into seclusion for two hundred years? Is it your Jie Sect followers' turn to come out and rule the human world?"

"Ah... Uncle-Master, you might not believe it, but you really did miss a major event that changed the timeline in the past two hundred years."

Wen Rui scratched his head and said, "The Great Zhou Dynasty really did perish. The descendants of King Wu now only have one prince in name, but that so-called orphan of the Ji clan is actually my illegitimate son..."

Wen Rui's words contained too much information, and Yun Zhongzi didn't understand them all at once, but he did clearly hear the words "the fall of the Great Zhou".

"What?! The Great Zhou Dynasty is gone?!"

Yun Zhongzi exclaimed in shock, "How is this possible? Jiang Ziya once used the Fuxi Divine Calculation to predict the fate of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which was at least eight hundred years. Only five hundred years have passed now."

At this point, his gaze toward Wen Rui became even more suspicious, and he questioned, "It must have been you who sabotaged things, hiding behind the scenes and plotting against us! I knew long ago that after the victory in the war against Zhou, King Wu Ji Fa and Jiang Ziya had health problems, and even after taking the life-extending elixir of Yu Ding Zhenren, their condition did not improve. It was you who secretly poisoned them!"

"Uh……"

Wen Rui was genuinely a little guilty when questioned, but how could he admit it unless someone caught him red-handed? He pretended to be innocent and said, "Uncle-Master, you have too much prejudice against me. The destruction of the Great Zhou was entirely its own fault. It was not the disciples of the Jie Sect who destroyed the Great Zhou, but the Blood Demon from the Netherworld Blood Sea."

"The Blood Demon of the Netherworld Blood Sea? It must be you who colluded with Mosquito Taoist, forming a secret alliance and working together in cahoots!"

Although Yun Zhongzi kept replying randomly after reading the messages, he unexpectedly hit the mark, making Wen Rui sweat profusely and even wonder if he had given something away and that Yun Zhongzi had seen through the truth behind the scenes.

Considering the risks of killing someone to silence them in the Heavenly Court, right under the noses of the Jade Emperor and Laozi, Wen Rui patiently said, "Uncle-Master, calm down. If I were some kind of mastermind, how could I gain the Heavenly Dao's approval and be granted the title of Heavenly Venerable because of my immeasurable merits?"

“I invited you here only to explain things to you. Please do not make things difficult for my disciples when you travel in the mortal realm in the future.”

"The Jie Sect is no longer the Jie Sect of the past. Although it continues to teach without discrimination and enlighten all beings in an unconventional way, and has taken in many disciples of the demon race and even the demon race, it no longer acts as recklessly as before. We are now very civilized and represent the most progressive thoughts and culture in the Three Realms."

"If you don't believe my words, don't you believe what you've seen with your own eyes? Uncle Master can travel around the mortal world and see what kind of life the human race in the Southern Continent is living under the rule of my disciples of the Jie Sect, and how vast the difference is compared to the governance level of the former Zhou royal court and its feudal lords."

(End of this chapter)