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Qingyun Dynasty.

The Imperial Palace, the Golden Throne Hall.

Inside the grand hall, resplendent in gold and shimmering with light, stood an elderly man with white hair, dressed in a long blue robe, looking at the image projected onto the projection stone before him with an extremely solemn expression.

At this moment, a man dressed in a yellow dragon robe entered the main hall and said to the old man, "Ancestor, I think Pei Tianlu probably won't be coming back."

Upon hearing Yun Huang Qi Hongguang's words, Qi Zong sighed and said, "That's hard to say. He's a dying man; no one can predict what he might do."

Ever since the Qingyun Dynasty helped Pei Wenfu retain his throne, the Qingyun Dynasty has been searching for Pei Tianlu and Pei Shuhua, but so far, they have not found any trace of them.

The universe is too vast. If an emperor or a quasi-emperor wants to hide, it is indeed not easy to find them. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

If Pei Tianlu and Pei Shuhua really do find a place to hide and don't come back, then the Qingyun Dynasty doesn't need to worry too much.

The key point is that on the day Pei Tianlu escaped from the Crimson Moon Dynasty, both Qi Zong and Qi Hongguang felt that terrifying dark power emanating from Pei Tianlu.

As emperors, even if they didn't know what that dark power was, they could clearly feel that it was eroding their life force.

Furthermore, they suspected that Pei Tianlu's lifespan had ended so quickly due to the corruption of that dark power.

If Pei Tianlu were to perish with them and instead went to the Qingyun Dynasty to self-destruct and release the dark power within him, the Qingyun Dynasty would likely be destroyed.

Knowing the terrifying power of darkness emanating from Pei Tianlu, the Qingyun Dynasty has never given up searching for him over the years.

Under no circumstances should Pei Tianlu be allowed to get close to the Qingyun Dynasty.

At this moment, Qi Hongguang continued, "Feng Tengfei sent a letter saying that Pei Wenfu has gradually grasped the fortune of the Crimson Moon Dynasty. Perhaps it won't be long before we can transfer the fortune of the Crimson Moon Dynasty to the Azure Cloud Dynasty."

"Without the blessing of the Crimson Moon Dynasty, and given that Pei Tianlu was already nearing his end, he might not be able to suppress the dark power within him any longer and would die suddenly in some corner of the universe."

Upon hearing this, Qi Zong fell silent.

After a while, Qi Zong spoke up, "For now, we shouldn't transfer the Crimson Moon Dynasty's fortune. If we keep the Crimson Moon Dynasty alive, Pei Tianlu won't dare to fight us to the death. If we lose the Crimson Moon Dynasty, then Pei Tianlu will have no worries at all."

Although Pei Tianlu wanted Pei Shuhua to take the throne, and the Qingyun Dynasty stopped him, the Chiyue Dynasty is still in the hands of the Pei family. After all, those Pei family members are Pei Tianlu's descendants.

No matter how much Pei Tianlu hated his descendants for serving as dogs for other dynasties, as the patriarch of the Pei family, he could not remain indifferent to the lives of his descendants.

Now that the Qingyun Dynasty has completely taken control of the Chiyue Dynasty, killing the Pei family members is just a matter of a thought.

With the Pei family in his hands, even if Pei Tianlu wanted to come and perish together with the Qingyun Dynasty, he would have to consider the consequences of doing so.

If Pei Tianlu dares to seek revenge against the Qingyun Dynasty, the Qingyun Dynasty can also slaughter the entire Chiyue Dynasty royal family in a very short time.

The Pei family members are now hostages.

Qi Hongguang thought for a moment and felt that his ancestor made sense, so he said, "Alright, then let's wait another hundred years. Judging from the death aura we sensed from Pei Tianlu that day, he definitely won't live past a hundred years."

At this point, Qi Hongguang suddenly remembered something and continued, "By the way, Ancestor, there's one more thing."

"The Ye family of the Crimson Moon Dynasty sent us a message that there is another dynasty nearby called the Great Xia Dynasty."

"This dynasty was only recently established, with less than five hundred years of history, and it has many strange and unusual things. Moreover, the starships originated from that dynasty."

Thanks to the Ye family's promotion, many of the Great Xia Dynasty's products were sold to the Great Xia Dynasty, especially starships. A few years ago, when people from the Qingyun Dynasty learned about the existence of starships, they were extremely interested in them, and various forces wanted to obtain the blueprints for starship construction.

In the past, celestial ships that traversed the starry seas could only be made using celestial gold, which was scarce and not every power possessed celestial gold mines.

Now that various factions have suddenly learned that there are immortal ships that can be built without immortal gold, people are naturally very interested in this.

Unfortunately, the Ye family only sold a few starships, and they also said that they bought these starships from other star systems, and even the Ye family did not know how they were manufactured.

Upon hearing Qi Hongguang's words, Qi Zong chuckled, "The Ye family really has a good plan."

"They first released information about the starship to attract the attention of various forces, and then told us about the Great Xia Dynasty. They clearly wanted to use someone else to do their dirty work."

At this point, Qi Zong asked, "How many emperors did the Great Xia Dynasty have?"

Qi Hongguang replied, "According to the Ye family's intelligence, there are suspected to be two Great Emperors."

"However, it is rumored that the person who founded the Great Xia Dynasty was not a Great Emperor, but a Saint. However, this Saint had a Great Emperor behind him, which is why they were able to establish the Great Xia Dynasty."

"The Ye family suspects that the founder of the Great Xia Dynasty was not a saint, since a saint could not have founded a dynasty. Therefore, they believe that the Great Xia Dynasty had two emperors."

Qi Zong pondered for a moment, then said, "It's a consensus that sages are not qualified to establish dynasties. No dynasty is unaware of this. In your opinion, why would the Great Xia Dynasty lie about this?"

This……

Qi Hongguang thought for a moment but couldn't figure out the reason. It was simply that the lie told by the Great Xia Dynasty was too low-level. They actually said that a sage could create a dynasty. Even a fool would know that this so-called sage must also be a great emperor.

Qi Hongguang said, "Ancestor, I also can't understand why the Great Xia Dynasty would lie like this. Logically speaking, no dynasty should not know that only a Great Emperor can create a dynasty. Their lie is meaningless. As long as you are a cultivator of a dynasty, you will know that the Great Xia Dynasty has two Great Emperors."

Qi Zong smiled slightly. "Since every cultivator in the imperial dynasty knows that the founder of the Great Xia Dynasty was an emperor, and thus deduce that the Great Xia Dynasty had two emperors, would the Great Xia Dynasty bother to tell such a lie?"

"It is true that the founder of the Great Xia Dynasty was the Great Emperor, but there is no other Great Emperor in the Great Xia Dynasty. It is a lie. The Great Xia Dynasty used a saintly avatar to pretend to be the founder, and then let people infer from the information gathered by the Great Xia that there are two Great Emperors. This is the purpose of the Great Xia Dynasty's lie."

Upon hearing Qi Zong's analysis, Qi Hongguang suddenly understood and immediately said, "Does the Ancestor mean that the Great Xia Dynasty is bluffing?"

Qi Zong said, "It's not exactly bluffing. After all, the idea that the Great Xia Dynasty has two emperors was deduced by others; the Great Xia Dynasty never actually said they had two emperors." (End of Chapter)