Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1993: The Seven Stars of Azure Dragon (Forty)
"That's not the case. We found Master Nian Duan as soon as possible, but she refused." Mo Ya shook his head and replied.

"How could that be?" Fusu frowned and looked very surprised.

He knew that Nian Duan was dissatisfied with many of her father's practices, but because of the empire's full support for the medical school, she never refused to treat the emperor or any imperial official unless there was force majeure.

Why would you refuse at this time?
Mo Ya interrupted Fusu's increasingly deep thoughts, shrugged helplessly and replied, "Master Nian Duan refused because she was powerless."

"She said that she had diagnosed the Emperor twice before, and each time the situation got worse. She was completely powerless to save the situation, and she had no idea how to even alleviate it."

"Everything she could do had already been prepared for His Majesty before the imperial convoy set out. She can't help at all if she goes there now."

"There's nothing I can do..." After receiving this reply, Fusu weakly sat down on the seat next to him, closed his eyes and murmured in a low voice.

After a moment, Fusu calmed down and asked in a stable tone, "Mr. Mo Ya, what else do you think I can do?"

Mo Ya replied cautiously, "If it's to His Majesty the Emperor, then I'm afraid there's nothing we can do."

"You are just a prince, he is the emperor."

What Fusu had to do was to find a way to save Ying Zheng's increasingly deteriorating health.

Of course there is a way... Even if the medical master Nian Duan has issued a notice to abandon treatment, there is still a way.

Maybe there is no cure, but at least there is a way to relieve the symptoms.

As for why Nian Duan directly said that he couldn't cure it... Fusu and Mo Ya both knew it very well, because Ying Zheng refused to cooperate.

Therefore, the key to solving the problem lies in getting Ying Zheng to cooperate.

But the fact that Ying Zheng would rather continue his tour than return to Xianyang shows that he was not willing to cooperate at all.

Who can force the emperor?
In the empire, only the emperor can force others, no one can force the emperor.

Mo Ya's answer was pointing out this point.

Fusu sighed again and waved his hand, "Thank you for your hard work these past two days, Mr. Mo Ya. Go and take a rest."

The black crow nodded and retreated quietly without saying a word.

Fusu sat alone in the room, staring blankly ahead, with a myriad of thoughts surging in his mind.

Suddenly, he remembered a letter from Gu Xun that Bai Feng had handed to him a long time ago.

In the letter, Gu Xun asked him to kill a person at an appropriate time after he left - the leader of the Yin-Yang School, Donghuang Taiyi!

Fusu's martial arts skills are pretty good, but far inferior to Donghuang Taiyi.

So Gu Xun didn't want him to kill the man alone, but to join forces with others to surround and kill Donghuang Taiyi.

Gu Xun had told Fusu the identities and names of those people, and had contacted them in advance. Fusu only needed to contact them again when the time was right to reunite.

Fusu had never understood what his teacher meant by "the right time".

Fusu didn't care whether he could kill Donghuang Taiyi.

As the head of the Yin-Yang School and the most mysterious figure in the martial arts world, Donghuang Taiyi's strength is unquestionable - from Gu Xun's arrangements it can also be seen that this guy is not an easy person to deal with.

For any martial artist, or even any martial arts force, trying to kill Donghuang Taiyi is an extremely difficult and risky act.

But for Fusu and Liusha, that's it.

Even if Gu Xun did not make any additional arrangements and just let Fusu find a way to kill people himself, he still had plenty of tricks.

As long as he wanted to kill, he was sure to kill Donghuang Taiyi.

The only problem is timing.

Donghuang Taiyi's identity is sensitive. As the mastermind behind the Yin-Yang School, Ying Zheng is actually behind him - otherwise, even if Gu Xun doesn't kill him, Fusu will try his best to kill him.

Therefore, the key to successfully killing Donghuang Taiyi is to meet one requirement - to ensure that Ying Zheng will not stop it.

Before, Fusu had always been unable to figure out when his father would give up Donghuang Taiyi and allow others to kill him?

Now he has some taste of it.

Maybe the right time his teacher asked him to wait for was not when his father gave up Donghuang Taiyi, but when he could no longer interfere in anything...

When this guess came to his mind, Fusu could no longer suppress it and increasingly believed that this was the correct answer.

But... Fusu found it difficult to accept this answer.

At the same time, I am constantly trying to deny this answer.

My father is just ill. There is no news that he is completely terminally ill. It is impossible for him to get into trouble in the short term...

If time drags on a little longer, the Mirage will be back soon, and the teacher will be back too, so there is no need for him to lead people to kill Donghuang Taiyi...

At the right time, there must be other possibilities...

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Fusu kept looking for reasons to deny his guess, but it was in vain.

A layer of despair gradually covered his distracted eyes.

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One month later, deep in the East China Sea.

After nearly two years of sailing on the sea, the Mirage finally stopped its seemingly endless journey and dropped anchor on the boundless sea, like an isolated island towering in the sea.

The Mirage arrived here three days ago, dropped anchor and has not moved since.

Everything on the ship was normal, and no one came forward to explain why they were anchored here or what to do next.

It's as if the ship is still sailing normally.

This made ordinary people on the ship, such as boys and girls, very uneasy.

But none of the people in charge showed up - Yun Zhongjun, Yueshen, and Xinghun.

Apart from them, the eldest son Siming and Madam Xiang's sisters had also shown up, and quite frequently, but they had not given any instructions.

It’s not that they don’t care, but that they don’t know what the current situation is.

They also couldn't see the three Moon Goddesses who might know the truth, so they could only wait in confusion - this was also the reason why they appeared frequently in the past few days, they all wanted to see what would happen next.

However, three days passed and everything was calm and nothing changed.

The mirage's mooring seemed like the ship just needed to take a rest, or it might be an accident.

That night, the stars were bright and the moon disappeared.

In the room of Ehuang and Nvying, Gu Xun stood by the window with his hands behind his back, his head tilted up, his eyes fixed on the stars in the sky, his expression unusually serious. "What's that expression on your face?" Ehuang, who had just returned from outside, saw this scene and felt a pang in her heart. She quickly asked, "What happened?"

During the three days when Mirage stopped sailing, she asked Gu Xun many times about the current situation, but she never got an answer.

Gu Xun just told her to wait perfunctorily.

Until tonight, she finally saw some different emotions on Gu Xun's face, but... he looked so serious, didn't he feel it was a good thing?

Gu Xun didn't look back, and replied calmly, "Nothing, just checking the stars."

Ehuang breathed a sigh of relief, then moved closer to Gu Xun and asked, "Don't you need to look at the stars to do astrology? You can just look at the sun, right? Why is it suddenly not working?"

Gu Xun's eyes twitched, and his tense expression finally broke free. He replied unhappily, "Watch your conversation! Your conversation!"

Then he explained, "When I perform astrology, I don't need to observe the real starry sky. It doesn't mean that stargazing is useless."

"In any case, the starry sky can help us better observe the destiny and the stars, which can increase the accuracy of astrological results to a certain extent."

"So..." Ehuang grasped the point and asked, "You just want to improve the accuracy of your astrology now?"

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"That's about right." Gu Xun gave a rather vague answer, "It's not necessary to do this, it's just a convenience."

"The starry sky here is quite beautiful. You can enjoy it and take a look at the stars at the same time."

"Starry sky..." Upon hearing this, Ehuang looked up at the sky, and saw a sky full of stars, each of which seemed to be very brilliant.

Such a brilliant starry sky, except for the 'flaw' of not seeing the bright moon, is perfect and can indeed be called a magnificent sight.

“It’s really pretty.”

However, having been on the boat for nearly two years, Ehuang, who was in a very bad mood and had her urine yellow, was not very interested in enjoying the scenery. She was more concerned about why Gu Xun was practicing astrology.

"What are the results of your astrology?" She asked without hiding anything.

"The result..." When this topic was mentioned, Gu Xun's face darkened again. He sighed softly, and after a moment of silence, he replied in a complicated tone, "There's nothing to say. It's expected."

"What's going on?" Seeing his expression, Ehuang became more eager to know.

"Ying Zheng is going to die."

Looking at the starry sky that was more vast and boundless than the sea, Gu Xun replied softly with deep eyes.

Before Ehuang could say anything else, he added, "Tomorrow is his final day, and the Emperor Star will also be extinguished and disappear."

When the supreme ruler such as the 'human king', 'son of heaven', or 'emperor' corresponding to the emperor star dies, it itself will disappear and can no longer be observed until a new 'king' is born.

Strictly speaking, each 'star' in the destiny horoscope is unique because it corresponds to a person.

When people die, the planet will be destroyed.

Once the starlight is completely extinguished, it will never light up again.

But there are a few "stars" that are exceptions, such as the Emperor Star.

It will temporarily extinguish and disappear with the end of imperial power, but will eventually shine again with the birth of a new king.

Of course, the answer to the question of whether the Emperor Star that shines again is the same Emperor Star as the one before it went out remains in doubt.

At least all the schools that understand astrology-related skills, including the Yin-Yang School and Taoism, have not reached a clear conclusion.

Some people believe that the Emperor Star is not the star corresponding to a certain person, but the reflection of power in the destiny star map. Therefore, the Emperor Star is constant, but the person it reflects will often change.

The basis of this argument is that the light of the Emperor's Star will not be extinguished and regenerated due to the change of imperial power. At most, the light will be affected by it and fluctuate in brightness.

Moreover, after King You was killed by the Quanrong and King Ping succeeded to the throne and moved east, the imperial star gradually dimmed until the Battle of Juge, when the Zhou royal family completely declined. After Qi Huan became the hegemon, the imperial star was completely extinguished.

It stands to reason that the Zhou emperor would continue to exist in the world for the next few hundred years, so even if the imperial star became dim, it should not have gone out directly.

But it really is destroyed.

On the contrary, during these hundreds of years, there have appeared one after another stars that are similar to imperial stars but have essential differences - these stars correspond to the various overlord-level princes that have emerged in these hundreds of years, such as Qi Huan and Jin Wen.

However, some people believe that the Emperor Star is no different from other stars except that it is particularly conspicuous. Every time the Emperor Star extinguishes and returns, it represents the replacement of a new Emperor Star.

The basis for supporting this argument is still related to the abnormal astrological phenomena of the Zhou emperor.

Supporters believe that it is because the Emperor Star is no different from other stars, so when the Zhou emperor corresponding to the Emperor Star completely lost power and no longer had the ability to influence the people of the world, the Emperor Star became an ordinary and inconspicuous star.

They believe that the Emperor Star during that period was not completely extinguished, but was simply no longer conspicuous and did not attract any attention at all, so it "disappeared" from the perspective of stargazing.

Anyway...each has its own reasons, and each has its own unreasonableness.

Gu Xun was not interested in the theoretical research of astrology, nor did he care what the situation was with the Emperor Star - it was all metaphysics anyway, so what did he do?

He only knew that the extinguishing of the imperial star must mean the death of an emperor.

In other words, Ying Zheng was about to die.

His relationship with Ying Zheng was not as good as that between Han Fei and Wei Zhuang, and before the Mirage set sail, the relationship between Gu Xun and Ying Zheng had even deteriorated.

So at this moment he was just a little sad, sad about having to say goodbye to an "old friend" completely.

But to say how much he wanted to save Ying Zheng is pure nonsense.

In fact, even if Gu Xun's relationship with Ying Zheng was comparable to that with Han Fei, he would not try to save Ying Zheng as he did Han Fei.

Han Fei was only courting death while he was alive, "lamenting that he could not bear to look back at his homeland under the bright moon."

If Ying Zheng were alive, he would drag countless people in the world to death with him.

Gu Xun couldn't bear the responsibility of life and death of so many people, nor did he want to.

As a friend, he had done the most he could by not speeding up Ying Zheng's death.

Ehuang was stunned when she suddenly heard the news.

Although Gu Xun had mentioned more than once that Ying Zheng was going to die, she still found it hard to believe when the incident really happened.

In this era, you can be unaware of anyone, but you must be unaware of Ying Zheng.

Many of the Zhou emperor's subjects did not know who the Zhou emperor was, but there was no subject of the empire who did not know the emperor's majesty.

This does not mean that any ordinary citizen knows Ying Zheng's real name, but that they all have a clear understanding of the supreme ruler above them - the former King Zheng of Qin, now the First Emperor.

Instead of just knowing that there is an emperor, but having no idea what the emperor is.

Even the Yin-Yang School, which already had a 'sun', namely Donghuang Taiyi, could not ignore the brilliance of Ying Zheng.

However, Ehuang trusted Gu Xun's words. Although her first reaction was not to believe it, she did not try to question him after she came to her senses. Instead, she thought of another matter that was more closely related to herself:
"According to what you said before... Ying Zheng will die tomorrow, which means tomorrow..."

Gu Xun hummed lightly, nodded and interrupted her, "Yes, after tomorrow, everything will be over and we can go back."