At the top of Tatung Mountain, the usual cloudy scene.
Zhuge Long Su walked up to the top of the mountain, only to see his teacher, uncharacteristically incarnated as ‘Hao Rang Zheng Qi’, in front of the cliff, looking out over the distant city of the divine capital.
If one were to refine it, Zhuge Longjue also knew that his teacher was looking at the imperial palace, the Hall of the Nurtured Heart, at someone in there.
This was rare, not only because in the past, Meng Shanhe had always waited for Zhuge Longjue to arrive before forming an avatar with the ‘Hao Ran Zheng Qi’ that had overflowed into clouds to meet him, but also because Zhuge Longjue had basically never seen his teacher in such a sentimental mood.
“I did not expect that Your Majesty would degenerate to this extent.” Meng Shanhe said indifferently with his hands in his arms and his back to Zhuge Long Su.
“Teacher, you already know about this?” Zhuge Long Su was both surprised and took it for granted.
He had come on this trip to report on Feng Tianming’s intention to use the Nirvana Sacrifice.
After Si Haofeng had gone around with the names of the missing heavenly treasures in the imperial secret vault, there was no need to ask Meng Shanhe, Zhuge Longjue had already guessed that Feng Tianming was going to use the Nirvana Sacrifice to renew his life.
“The Emperor’s Star is moving differently, it cannot be concealed from me.” Meng Shanhe was still looking out at the imperial palace in the distance and said, “Besides, Ming Xiao was also coincidentally dressed as a man back then, and had attended cla*ses at my place, so he was also considered my student.
A month ago, within the imperial palace, Ming Xiao’s aura suddenly rose to the sky, and then was silent for a moment.
“If you already knew about this, why didn’t you stop His Majesty’s evil deeds?”
Zhuge Longxu was truly shocked. He had thought that his teacher had seen it from the recent movements, but he had never thought that he had already discovered Feng Tianming’s sinister actions when Feng Mingxiao was a*sa*sinated.
But if that was the case, why didn’t he stop it immediately?
Was it because of the Confucian school’s principle of not getting involved in politics?
No, that was not it.
The fact is that Zhuge Longjue knows that although his teacher is old, he is not an old-fashioned person who does not know how to change things. If it is necessary, not to mention politics, it is possible to give orders personally.
Zhuge Longjue looked at his teacher with a questioning eye, and Meng Shanhe obviously felt it too.
Only to hear him say, “If not, Ming Xiao would not be able to pa*s the hurdle of kinship, and she would still have hope in His Majesty, a hope that would be extremely detrimental to the Northern Zhou.”
“Great chaos is coming, and the Northern Zhou needs a true emperor, one who can bring good to the country and society, and not one who will gamble with the country and society for his own selfishness.”
‘Nor does it need an emperor who refuses to abdicate even as he lies on his bed waiting to die.’ Zhuge Longxu silently added this sentence in his heart.
For Feng Tianming, the emperor, Zhuge Long Su could only say that he was born in the wrong place.
If he had been born into the imperial family of Great Qian, with the support of Great Qian’s incomparably deep heritage, Feng Tianming might not have been able to incorporate Northern Zhou into the territory of Great Qian.
Unfortunately, Feng Tianming was born into the Feng family, the imperial family of Northern Zhou.
This country, which was in a state of turmoil and relied on Meng Shanhe for support, was not suitable for Feng Tianming, an emperor who was always up to no good.
The various operations he has carried out without regard for the strength of the Northern Zhou have made Zhuge Longxu’s heart ache for the Northern Zhou even as he watches.
Not to mention the recent events after the Divine Capital War, before the 8th day of the lunar month, for a gimmick to force the Mountain River Academy to hand over the Son of Heaven martial arts, Feng Tianming secretly sent that old monster in the palace to help General Yi Qianshan of Guocang Pa*s, who used his strength at the Tong Shen realm to deal with the Bo Han of the Golden Wolf Khanate and wiped out 100,000 troops.
Otherwise, General Yi Qianshan and Bohan had been confronting each other for many years at Bracket Cang Pa*s, but why did he not come early and come late, just at that time when the 8th day of the Lunar New Year was approaching, and suddenly beheaded Bohan and wiped out 100,000 troops in the process?
After this incident, the Golden Wolf Khan King deliberately rose to retaliate, but it was my teacher who went to the gra*sland to fight with the Golden Wolf Khan King and forced him to retreat.
So, it is better for this emperor to abdicate early if he is thinking of fooling around.
Well —–
With Feng Tianming’s nature, if he abdicates, he will still mess things up, so it’s better for him to die and forget about it.
“Teacher, what should the student do?” Zhuge Longxu asked directly.
“Wait and see what happens. Just wait for His Majesty to reveal his true colours. The academy is not involved in politics, so it is better not to break this rule. We only need to keep Ming Xiao and the princes alive.” Meng Shanhe turned around and said.
As long as Feng Mingxiao did not die, the Nirvana Ritual would not be successful, and then Feng Tianming, who had revealed his true colours, would definitely become a rebel and be separated from his family, and then it would be the time of his death as well as his abdication.
“The lives of the princes? Teacher is saying that the sixth prince will poison the other princes?” Zhuge Longxu asked.
Thinking of that Sixth Prince’s extremely similar personality to His Majesty’s, there was a real possibility that such a thing could happen.
Especially since they had learned from Si Haofeng that Feng Chaonan already knew about His Majesty’s reawakening. Then with what he had done earlier, it was highly likely that he would take the desperate step of killing all the princes to ascend to the throne.
“It is not the Sixth Prince, but His Majesty,” said Meng Shanhe, “that forbidden art is not recorded in the canon among the academies as it is against the harmony of heaven. The Nirvana ritual is not 100% successful, especially now that Your Majesty has injured his root.
If it is to be successful, one would need to use that forbidden technique, using the blood and essence of a blood relative as a guide to divide the excessive true qi and vital energy for him, and then after pa*sing the dangerous period, absorb the blood and essence of the blood relative to bring back the true qi and vital energy.”
“This ——” Zhuge Long Su was shocked beyond words.
Feng Tianming once again refreshed Zhuge Long Su’s perception of him. Back then, when Feng Tian Ming came to power, there was a precedent of killing his brother, so Zhuge Long Su did not feel any surprise about his plotting to kill his own sister for his life.
But Feng Tianming’s attempt to sacrifice his son shocked Zhuge Longjue.
Although he had seen many families use their children as bargaining chips, it was the first time Zhuge Longjue had seen someone who killed his heir to continue his life.
Moreover, the number of this heir, or more than one, Zhuge Long Su even guessed the possibility that Feng Tian Ming had tied up all of his heirs in a nirvana sacrifice to ensure certain success, adding to the success of his own nirvana.
“Northern Zhou must have a true emperor.” Zhuge Longxu said in a decisive manner.
Feng Tianming’s actions had truly emboldened Zhuge Long Su. With this Majesty’s cruel heart, this sacrifice would not be the last.
If he were to succeed in raising the dead, there was no telling how many more people would suffer in the future.
“But teacher, where does the great chaos you speak of come from?”
Zhuge Longxu suddenly thought of the chaos that Meng Shanhe had mentioned earlier.
And even if there was, with the strength of both sides, it could be eliminated.
“The great chaos starts with the ambition of man,” Meng Shanhe said with a long sigh, “the ambition of longevity.”
