Aunt, please don't chase me. I don't want to be the emperor.

But although this gourd looks like it is made of ice, it is actually made of blue jade and is indestructible. The ground was cracked but the gourd was not hurt at all.

Accompanied by thunder in the sky, heavy rain fell.

Ji Wan'er seemed to have used up all her remaining strength. She leaned weakly against the wall, her body slowly drooping, and finally sat on the ground. She was drenched by the heavy rain but didn't care at all.

Kong Mingliang bent down to pick up the ice jade gourd, then walked to Ji Wan'er and sat down beside her seemingly casually.

"Can I drink the wine in this gourd?"

"what ever."

Kong Mingliang asked casually, and his words seemed inappropriate for the occasion.

Ji Wan'er no longer cared about anything. This was the wine reserved for Ji Taibai, but Ji Taibai was no longer around, so anyone could drink it.

Kong Mingliang actually drank it in the end, but he didn't put his mouth to the gourd. Instead, he poured some out, controlled it in his palm with spiritual power, and finally drank it all.

"Well, it's a good wine, it's really a good wine, you should have a sip too."

Kong Mingliang handed the gourd to Ji Wan'er. Ji Wan'er took it and drank from the gourd, taking a big sip.

Kong Mingliang smiled and said to her, "You'd better leave some for Ji Taibai, otherwise when he wants to drink, you might have to go out of the domain again."

"What do you mean?"

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Here is an explanation of the Broken Heart of Taoism. This is a very dangerous state in this game. It means that the cultivator's mind is broken and the spiritual power in the body is out of control. The stronger the spiritual power, the higher the damage. For those at the Yangshen level, it can even be said that there is no chance of survival.

Generally speaking, a broken heart of Taoism will only occur when a cultivator suffers a devastating blow, in other words, he will be angered to death.

In the history of this work, Zhou Jinyu (Zhou Yu) and Liu Xuan (Liu Bei) all died because their Taoist hearts were broken.

In the Kong Mingliang extra-biography, Kong Mingliang's heart of Taoism was also broken, but he survived and became the first Yang God in history who was still alive despite having a broken heart of Taoism.

But unfortunately, when he woke up, the Shu Kingdom had already perished.

3.38 His Majesty the Emperor has brought shame upon himself before his ancestors

"What do you mean?"

Ji Wan'er glanced at Kong Mingliang sideways, her face full of tears, her eyes filled with sadness and confusion.

Kong Mingliang smiled, shook his head and said, "Miss Wan'er, the Sword Immortal just disappeared, and no one saw him die, right?"

"But such a big thing happened in the Great Zhou Dynasty. If he is still alive..."

"Didn't you come back when Da Zhou was in trouble?"

"........"

Ji Wan'er didn't say anything, but her expression was somewhat moved, as if she was persuaded.

Thirty years ago, when the Daxuan Rebellion broke out, Ji Wan'er was still far away in the British Kingdom outside the territory. She had no idea what was happening in the Central Plains, so she did not rush back to suppress the rebellion.

Kong Mingliang struck while the iron was hot, smiled and began to speak again, but his smile seemed a little self-deprecating: "Do you know why my master and I don't learn the art of divination?"

Kong Mingliang's master was Zhang Ziliang, the founder of Wen Tian Lu and the first imperial preceptor of the Great Shu. While his Wen Tian Lu encompassed a wide variety of martial arts techniques, it contained no mention of divination.

Zhang Mengxuan knew the art of divination, which he learned by himself through observing the stars when he was at the Tianshi Temple in Qinglei Mountain.

Ji Wan'er didn't say anything, just looked at Kong Mingliang.

Kong Mingliang then continued, "Because my master and I both firmly believe that man can conquer nature."

"But you lost."

Ji Wan'er's words were very rude, but they were the truth.

Kong Mingliang's past deeds are known to everyone in the world.

During the period when many heroes were vying for supremacy and the kingdom was divided into three parts, Kong Mingliang knew that it was God's will that Shu would perish, but he was still persuaded by the Shu Emperor Liu Xuan to come down from the mountains and enter the world, hoping to save the then precarious Shu.

Knowing that it was impossible, he still did it, believing that man can conquer nature and doing things that go against the will of heaven. This is what Kong Mingliang did at that time.

But the final result was that he was defeated and the Shu Kingdom was finally destroyed.

"Haha, yes, I lost." Kong Mingliang was not angry at all, and even smiled and said, "But even though I lost, my master did not lose."

Ji Wan'er looked at him, and Kong Mingliang continued, "Although I have never learned the art of divination, I know there is a kind of fate in physiognomy, which is called the Five Saints' Fate."

"Jiang Shanggong of Tianji Pavilion also said that Brother Bai has this fate."

"That's right, but my master was just an ordinary person with an ordinary fate. However, he killed two people with this fate one after another and eventually helped the Shu Emperor establish the Great Shu Dynasty."

Ji Wan'er knew who the two people Kong Mingliang was referring to were.

One is Bai Qi, the God of Death from the Ying Dynasty, an invincible general who conquered cities and strongholds. Ji Xian's Death Sword was actually his sword. The other is Chu Heng, the Overlord of the Heng Kingdom. His strength is so great that he can move mountains and shake the world, a truly unrivaled power.

Both of them were people who possessed the Five Saints' Destiny, but in the end they both died at the hands of Zhang Ziliang, an ordinary person with an ordinary fate.

Although Ji Wan'er did not understand the art of divination, after Ji Taibai challenged Tianji Pavilion with a sword, Ji Wan'er followed him when he went there again. This is how Jiang Shanggong described the Five Saints as not being destined by heaven, and he used several people with the same fate from ancient times to the present as examples.

Kong Mingliang then said, "I lost, but my master won. Moreover, throughout history, there are more than just my master who have defeated the Heavenly Dao. Isn't that also the case with the Sword Immortal?"

Hearing Kong Mingliang say this, Ji Wan'er once again recalled what happened hundreds of years ago when Ji Taibai challenged Tianji Pavilion with a sword.

Jiang Shanggong once said that those who possess the Five Saints are destined to be extraordinary, but will definitely die in the future. Because those with this fate will become enemies of the whole world.

With such a path, no matter how powerful one is, he will surely fall.

But later, the old man shut up.

Because Taibai, the fairy princess of poetry and swordsmanship, really took on the whole world with her sword, and was invincible and unstoppable. She crushed the inevitable death of the Five Saints who were not destined to die.

From then on, the fate of the Five Saints, who were destined to die, was rewritten, and Ji Taibai became the one who broke through his destiny.

"Even the sword immortal who cannot be killed by the whole world, what makes you think he will die? No one in the whole world has seen it with their own eyes."

“…”

Ji Wan'er was silent for a long time, and finally opened her mouth slowly: "You are right, I cried too early..."

As she spoke, Ji Wan'er wiped away her tears and seemed to have regained some strength to stand up from the ground.

Seeing Ji Wan'er's current condition, Kong Mingliang felt relieved.

Fortunately, Miss Wan'er listened to my advice. Otherwise, if she continued to suffer like this, her Dao Heart would surely be shattered. You must know that a broken Dao Heart is no joke. The higher the spiritual power, the stronger the backlash. A broken Dao Heart of a Yang God is often a near-death experience.

Why is it said to be a narrow escape from death? Because throughout history, among all the Yang Gods whose Tao heart was broken, there is only one who survived.

That person is Kong Mingliang, the only Yang God whose Tao heart was broken but still alive.

Kong Mingliang looked at Ji Wan'er, who stood up, opened the blue jade gourd, and drank the foreign wine inside. Kong Mingliang didn't stop her, but waited until she finished drinking, then smiled and asked, "Are you not leaving some for the Sword Immortal?"

"I'll just go to the outer realm again for him later." Ji Wan'er said, "Let's go save Miss Ling first. This time, I traveled to the outer realm for a hundred years and finally found a way to save her."

Ji Wan'er looked at the man from outside the domain.

The foreign man shrugged, indicating that he had been waiting for a long time.

But after hearing Ji Wan'er say this, Kong Mingliang paused for a moment and did not speak immediately.

Ji Wan'er was very perceptive and noticed Kong Mingliang's reaction: "What's wrong?"

"Miss Ling Xin... is missing."

"What did you say!?"

Ji Wan'er was shocked and her face turned pale.

Kong Mingliang shook his head and said, "During the chaotic times of the Great Xuan Dynasty, many loyal officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty died or fled. The only person who took care of Miss Ling Xin was Lie Que Shuai Qianfan, but she was seriously injured at the time and fled to Yanzhou. She didn't have the chance to go back for twelve years."

"After the Great Zhou was restored, when our people found the ice tomb in the Western Frontier, the ice coffin was empty and Miss Ling Xin was gone."

After hearing what Kong Mingliang said, Ji Wan'er couldn't help but take a step back and said dully, "How...how could this happen?"

Kong Mingliang also stood up and said, "We've been sending people to search for her all these years. No matter what mission the Seven Secret Guards carry out, they always have to carry out a mission to find Miss Ling Xin, but...it's been almost eighteen years, and there's been no success."

“How could this happen…?”

"Besides, there is another more urgent matter right now."

"what's up?"

"You know, His Majesty the Emperor is really not in the palace."

"what?"

Ji Wan'er was stunned, and then recalled the scenes that happened when she first arrived at the palace.

The Imperial Guards soldiers she had met earlier, and then Zhang Mengxuan and Ji Xingyu, all claimed that the Emperor wasn't in the palace. Although their respective statuses were extremely prominent, even second only to the Emperor, Ji Wan'er could easily detect their awkwardness and reluctance from their expressions and tones, and concluded that they were lying.

But...are they really not lying?

But if you're not lying, do you need to be so reluctant to speak?

Ji Wan'er was a little confused and became more and more bewildered.

Kong Mingliang couldn't help but laugh and said, "I've heard the Sword Immortal say before that you're a bookworm. Even though you've been an official in the court, you never care about officialdom. It's true."

"Speak directly if you have anything to say."

"As an official in the court, one should know what to say and what not to say. It's actually quite difficult to disclose your Majesty's affairs to the outside world." Kong Mingliang said a little embarrassedly, "Your Majesty Ji Xian... escaped."

Ji Wan'er didn't understand: "Escaped...what does that mean?"

"He simply doesn't like the throne and has given up on it. Currently, the elite secret guards of the Great Zhou are busy trying to capture him."

"..."

During Ji Wan'er's silence, Kong Mingliang told her everything about Ji Xian.

3.39 The Emperor's ancestors came to arrest him

"What a joke!"

After hearing Kong Mingliang's story about Ji Xian, Ji Wan'er flew into a rage: "An emperor doesn't even want the throne. How could such a person appear in my Great Zhou?"

"Calm down, the seven secret guards are already looking for him."

"It's been almost two months. If we could find him, we would have found him long ago!" Ji Wan'er couldn't wait any longer. Ji Taibai and Ling Xin were nowhere to be found, so she said, "That guy might be in Qingzhou. Let's go there now."

When the foreign man heard that Ji Wan'er was going to Qingzhou, he immediately became anxious and spoke in a broken Central Plains dialect: "Wait, Wan, if you leave, what should I do? I came here with you to save people!"

"You should go back to Britain first." Ji Wan'er glanced at him and said, "I'm leaving first."

After she finished speaking, only a shadow of Ji Wan'er remained, and she had disappeared.

The foreign man widened his eyes and stood there in disbelief.

This...left me behind.

Let me go back to Britain, but I don’t know the way! ! ! !

Now it was Kong Mingliang's turn to be in a dilemma. He looked at the foreign man and said, "You are from the outside world, right? Hello, I am Kong Mingliang, the Grand Tutor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If you want to return to the outside world, we will do our best to help you."

In fact, Kong Mingliang deliberately told Ji Wan'er about Ji Xian's affairs. When describing the affairs, he even exaggerated and deliberately discredited Ji Xian, describing Ji Xian as a devil who was proficient in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.

Only in this way can Ji Wan'er's current attention be diverted to Ji Xian.

She couldn't care too much about Ji Taibai and Ling Xin's affairs now, she needed something new to distract her. Kong Mingliang knew this very well, so he did this.

It's just a pity for His Majesty...

There were already enough people coming to capture him, and now not only her mother, Queen Tang Lin, was out, but even the ancestor of their Ji royal family, Ji Wan'er, had returned from outside the domain, and then... came to capture him.

Kong Mingliang really wanted to help Ji Xian, but after weighing the pros and cons, he could only do so.

So, what was Ji Xian doing at the same time?

.......

After Huo Lizi finished teaching the new disciples at the Lizi Sect of the Tianji Pavilion, he went to the Lifeng Alchemy Hall to check on the elixirs the disciples had refined. He then went to the Fire Refining Tower to check on the fire and the disciples' fire training, and then went to the library to check on the books.

Huo Li Zi is very dedicated to the affairs within the Li Zi Sect, taking care of every detail. As long as it is a slightly bigger matter, he will definitely check it personally.

While Huo Li was checking the library, Ji Xian came over.

"Master of the Gate."

Huo Li Zi was checking the bookshelf when Ji Xian came over and bowed.

"Oh, it's you." Huo Lizi looked at Ji Xian, smiled and asked him, "Is there anything I didn't understand when I taught you before?"