Terra's Magnetic Field

"The second son is a smartass. He always thinks that he can plan and see through everything by playing chess well... But truly smart people never follow the rules of the game. They break the rules and become the rule makers. You must have told him that Xiao Qian inherited Wan's giant beast bloodline, and she will stand on the giant beast's side to maintain her rule in the future, so he will stand on Xiao Qian's side."

"The smart old man has become your pawn..."

Lao Ba picked up the wine jug and poured the wine into his mouth, swallowing it with his throat moving.

"That's right..." Ling was not surprised that her plan was exposed. If this man couldn't even see through this, he had no right to sit with her.

"I want to make the eldest and the second oldest quarrel in public, so as to force Wan to speak out. No matter what her answer is, it will cause political turmoil."

Lao Ba took over her words and continued:

"And turmoil is always the most comfortable stage for conspirators. The more chaotic it is, the more they thrive. You, the [Zuowang Dao], actually want to [cheat] me too..."

"Your power is not "freedom", but the most primitive means rooted in everyone's heart - "deception". You can deceive everything in this world and make everyone think that something is right. You can also reverse right and wrong, and even deceive time and space to reappear things that do not exist. Xiaofu was able to deceive Wanbao at that time, and it must have been with your help. You wanted to use this to make Wanbao doubt himself, because people who are shaken in their hearts are the easiest to deceive."

(Ling: Water is highly poisonous)

Lao Ba's finger had floated to Ling who was sitting across from the pavilion. She was always so ethereal and unpredictable, as hard to touch and grasp as a shadow.

"Are you kidding? Hehehe... Hehehehe!... Damn it! How can you tell?!..." Ling made a strange laugh. Her laugh did not sound like one that a human could make. It was a smirk that combined ecstasy, madness, and evil.

After stopping her terrifying laughter, she asked curiously:

"Why can I deceive the heavens and the earth, deceive the mountains and rivers, deceive time and space...but I can't deceive you?"

"When your mind is quiet enough, nothing in this world can disturb you."

Lao Ba then further exposed Ling's tricks:

"Originally you thought your plan was perfect, but Xi Bao's outburst completely disrupted your plan and changed the subject of the whole incident.

. Now, most people in the palace are more concerned about the conflict between Xibao and Wan than Xiaoqian and Xiaobai's affairs. Wanwan never expected that Xibao would play such a role...

"Oh, you should have expected this and sent her away in advance. I would do the same thing if I were you. The premise for implementing a perfect plan is to eliminate all unstable factors."

"Heh~ Arrogant Lao Ba, have you always thought that you are the smartest person in the world?" Ling produced a pot of wine from somewhere and drank with Lao Ba from a distance.

She somewhat admired this man, otherwise she wouldn't have invited him here as a guest tonight.

"I don't deserve it. I just think I'm a little bit smarter than all the people in the world who think they're smart." As Lao Ba spoke, he glanced around and raised his eyebrows, as if he had noticed something.

Lao Ba: "Sister Ling, what do you want? Do you want to make Xiao Qian the emperor, or do you want to sit on the throne yourself?"

Ling: "The dragon throne is too cold for my butt, but I can put a bed behind it and lie on it."

Lao Ba: "Oh? You want to be the one behind the emperor? But Wanbao won't agree. It's probably not your turn as an outsider to interfere in her family's world, even if you are Xiaoqian's master..."

Ling Xiao said, "Then let's kill Wan Bao who is in the way! It's just you and me. After the deed is done, you and I will be the masters of the world!"

Lao Ba: "Ling, you are too confident and underestimate Wan."

Ling: "You won't gamble this time?"

Eighth

: "What's the point of a bet that means you're going to die? In the end, you just want me to be your scapegoat. I won't play house with you anymore."

After saying this, Lao Ba stood up and walked out of the pavilion. He took a few steps and reached the grass outside. Across the street was a canal. After crossing the river and walking another two miles, he would reach the imperial city.

The canal sparkled in the moonlight at night, and several cargo ships passed by on the lake. These ships loaded with cargo carried the hopes of countless people.

Sensing the sharp sword energy, Lao Ba turned his back and raised his hand, pinching the red blade that was slashing towards his neck with two fingers. This was the [Sword of Scarlet Sky]!

"Xiao Qian, you are naughty again." Lao Bayi crushed the tip of the sword with force and pulled his tail back to repel the offender.

Wan Qian, who rushed out from the grass, was repelled by Lao Ba. Her master had instructed her before that if the negotiation failed, the other party should be killed.

Of course Ling is well aware that the young Wan Qian is no match for Lao Ba, she just wants to make him uncomfortable. How could she, who is so smart, not see the relationship between Wan and Lao Ba?

Lao Ba still had his back to them, and he was playing with the broken sword tip in his hand. It was still a little hot, probably about the same as a red-hot iron block, maybe a few thousand degrees.

This hot thing was made from Xiao Qian's bones and blood. Lao Ba sighed:

"Xiao Qian, your sword feels very similar to your mother's, but it's not as sharp as hers. Your mother's sword hurts me just by touching it. But yours is much softer. Your sword is only sharp where it should be sharp, while your mother's sword is sharp everywhere, just like her heart..."

"Xiao Qian, you don't have to deliberately imitate your mother. She also thinks so. Later generations don't need to follow the old path of their predecessors..."

The tone of Lao Ba's words when he said this was completely different from Ling's. It was obviously much gentler and more earnest. He had no intention of blaming the little girl behind him at all, as if the child was just joking with him.

"Eighth Uncle..." Xiao Qian couldn't say anything else.

"Ling, we don't need to be so despicable, and we don't need to do anything to gain the so-called world. Many times, you and Lao Er, Wan Bao, Kal'tsit... your so-called strategies are just relying on your shamelessness. You can easily do despicable things that ordinary people can't do. And you think you have the so-called [amazing wisdom], but in my opinion, that is just..."

Lao Ba crushed Wan Qian's sword tip into pieces, his voice suddenly changed direction, and his figure disappeared in front of Wan Qian's eyes.

"I just don't know what it means..."

Lao Ba said this while holding Ling's head. He slowly raised his arm, let Ling's face face him, and looked at the astonished head coldly.

“Ah???” Wan Qian quickly turned around and saw Lao Ba standing in the pavilion holding his master’s head.

"You seem to want to provoke me and see my strength. Because you have heard that I am actually the oldest among all the brothers and sisters. Yes, I am too lazy to argue about who is the boss, so I volunteered to be the eighth. Even the eldest brother is much younger than me."

"Then do you want to know how much older I am than you?" Lao Ba turned his back to the moonlight, with dark shadows covering his entire face, and his glowing eyes were particularly conspicuous.

Ling was speechless, and she couldn't understand what had just happened. She also couldn't figure out how Lao Ba had managed to take her head in an instant. Was it because of his extremely fast speed? Or was it...

"Twenty thousand years. I am twenty thousand years older than you!"

(It is very likely that he had already reached the highest level in the old version. After all, not everyone is as useless as the Queen Mother. But his personality makes it impossible for him to save the world, and he has been playing badly and slacking off.)

"I have existed since the beginning of civilization on this land! The earth and mountains are the womb that gave birth to me, and the sun and the moon are my parents who raised me! Do you understand now?"

“…………………………” Ling was so shocked that he couldn’t utter a word. Combined with the overwhelming power that Lao Ba had just displayed, his words were completely credible.

Lao Ba casually threw Ling's head to Wan Qian, walked past her, and ordered:

"Help her connect her head in two hours."

With that he disappeared into the night.

Since then, Ling has been much more obedient and never did anything cruel again.

(This set is useless to Wanbao. When she finds out that there are people stronger than her, it will only stimulate her to be more aggressive and break through the version ahead of time.)

Late at night, Wan suddenly woke up alone. Black Snake was sleeping beside her. She covered Black Snake with a small quilt and walked out of the bed to the corridor outside the house for no reason.

In that dark place, she saw a man in a tattered gown sitting alone on the windowsill near the door, a man with whom she had a close relationship.

"I didn't expect you to come tonight." Wan didn't feel it was strange. The tone she used when speaking to the man was neither dull nor enthusiastic. It was the tone she used to speak to an acquaintance she had known for a long time.

"Do you remember what happened in front of your mother's grave? You cried loudly that night. You blamed her for being partial to Nian... but now you seem to be too partial to Xiao Qian." Lao Ba was still holding the wine jug he had taken from Ling. The wine jug that Ling had drunk from before now touched his lips.

Wan could naturally smell the scent of another woman on him, which made her feel complicated. She was not chaste and had never kept her body for him, so she would not demand that he only love her.

Wan understood that this man wanted to talk about the issue that she had always wanted to avoid, and since he came this time, she could not avoid it.

"Have you talked to Ling? What does she think?" Wan asked this first.

"She's Xiao Qian," the man replied with only four words, without mentioning what happened in the pavilion before.

"You should decide this matter as soon as possible, otherwise it may lead to party division in the future, which will be difficult to deal with then."

"I know!" Wan was a little impatient.

She hated being urged to do things, and all the recent messes had upset her. She lowered her voice to avoid waking up the black snake in the room.

"Ah!" She sighed again, stretched out her hand to tidy up the fallen corner of the man's clothes, and asked calmly:

"How long have you been wearing this dress?"

"I don't know. When your mother passed away, you asked me to wear a decent dress, so I went to the street and bought the most expensive gown, and I have been wearing it ever since." The corners of Lao Ba's mouth curled up slightly, "Now you know how to care for others."

Wan looked up and glared at him, but the sharpness in her eyes soon disappeared. She didn't want to be the overbearing emperor tonight, she just wanted to be a simple woman. No matter how strong a person is, she has a soft spot in her heart.

Wan hugged her man without saying much, even though her man smelled like another woman.

Her heart was dry and needed nourishment.

Lao Ba also hugged Wan. The communication between them did not require language, just a look or a gesture from each other.

In this place late at night, a man and a woman were entangled.

Ending song: "How to Get Away with Murder"

Lyrics excerpt:

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name.

Empty heart, empty wine, no one in my heart.

Empty sleep, empty face of the moon, greedy for a few cups of wine in the world,

People in the world drink the world's wine, what is the point of love, hate, and vengeance, and only I am free and easy?

How many foolish hearts are looking towards the bright moon, but who knows that the bright moon shines on the ditch!

Flowers in the mirror and moon in the water, but the water is flowing eastward, pick a moon and get drunk,

The world of mortals cannot cut off the romantic love, walking alone through thousands of generations~

The storm is coming, the wind is blowing in the building, I am drunk today and drink today, I am free to travel in the breeze and bright moon, the sword comes to cut off the eternal sorrow,

The dream of the yellow millet must be awakened, the rootless and boundless will return to dust, where will the golden dragon fly to? It is better to live a life of drunkenness and dream, and be free and unrestrained outside the law of Taoism~

That’s all for today.

Postscript: I wish you all a happy New Year’s Eve!

It is very likely that Lao Ba knows Presise. His appearance after arriving at Rhodes Island and his codename "knife" are actually the same as the previous Xiaodao when he was young. Presise may have told him about the fragments of the previous reincarnation, and he himself has also deduced a lot of truth.

In the previous book, Precious and the Queen Mother are the same person. The lynx shape is actually a plastic suit, and she can change back to her original shape at any time. Her bug is that she can't die at all. Even if her physical body is destroyed, her spirit can be reassembled and resurrected after a period of time, and she can survive to the new world.

Mini-theater: Wanbao's last words

Wanbao is dying, and several brothers and sisters gather together to wait for her last words

Wanbao: Pass the throne to Xiao... Xiaoqian...

Sister Nian (punching Wanbao on the chest): What?! You want to pass the throne to me? This is unacceptable! Although Xiaoqian and Xiaobai are still young, and I am the only sister who is related to you by blood! But this throne... okay! I will do it reluctantly...

Xibao: Bullshit! Wanbao just said he would pass the throne to me!

Sister Ling: What nonsense are you talking about? I am Xiao Qian's master. Wan Bao just said that she would pass the throne to Xiao Qian! But I have to support her! ! (Behind the Curtain)

Big Brother: Stop talking! You guys may have lost your conscience, but you know what respect for elders and juniors means, right? Now that Wanbao is dead, I should be the one to run the government on her behalf! (righteous words)

Second Brother: Actually...

Later, the whole family started fighting each other in front of Wan Baoling's bed......

Chapter 403: Priss's Madness and Absoluteness

Without past, without memory, without family, without identity, like a newborn baby, the naked white-haired man knelt on the desolate ground.

Without any items that could identify him, his empty mind could not remember anything about himself. He only had a [feeling] now, a very [strong] feeling, like a [survival instinct]...

That feeling told him that if he followed this instinct, he would be able to unleash an incredible force that could [knock down] everything on this earth!

“Wow!! ————————Ah!”

roar!!--------------------

The moment he exerted his strength, severe pain as if his whole body was torn apart broke out in the man's body. At the same time as the pain, a strong electric current shot out from his body. Wherever the lightning touched, it turned into scorched earth, and the birds and beasts within a hundred miles fled as if avoiding a natural disaster.

This electric current is so unreasonably strong. This is the first time that such a force has appeared on this earth, in this world, and in the entire universe.

The electric current that erupted from the man's body was generated by cell friction. If we use the terminology of later generations, it would be "electric current propulsion", but the era in which the man lived at that time was much more ancient than Wan, Nian, Xi... They were much older! When he first erupted the electric current, it was a full year after Wan was born...

TMD【Twenty Thousand Years】!!! ————————

Although it was just [electric current propulsion], the destructive power of the electric current that the man shot out at that time was no less than the terrifying power of some powerful warriors of 500,000 or 600,000 horses in later generations! It can be seen how huge his flow was...

Just by looking at these, one can guess how powerful the man was before he lost his memory. Even though he did not know how to control the power in his body at the time, he was able to achieve this level with just a little bit of power splashed out by instinctive reaction.

"Bullshit!... Damn it!..." The man fell to the ground after the electric current burst out. Just now he remembered something, a [name]. Whenever he felt [angry], the hateful name would appear in his mind!

"That bitch of Precious!" The man gritted his teeth as he called out the name, with saliva dripping from his clenched teeth. It was obvious that he still hated that woman even though he had lost his memory!

It was probably that [Pureseth] who brought him to this state. Although he couldn't remember the details, he just felt that he was [betrayed]! And betrayal was what he hated the most! !

He swore revenge! He swore to tear that Priss into 300 billion pieces! !

Just like this [more than five hundred years] passed, and later the man dominated the planet under his feet with his supreme strength.

He hardly had to exert any effort. He was the only one in the world who possessed this power at that time. So when he arrived at a place, he only needed to show his strength a little bit. He didn't even need to kill anyone. Those stupid guys would take the initiative to become his vassal, worship him, and follow him... just like worshiping and following a [God].

At that time, he was the spokesperson for the gods on this land. What he said was an oracle. No one dared to question it, and no one dared to oppose it...