Chapter 508 The Running Little World

"What do you mean? You're not talking about whether it's the wind, the flag, or your heart that's moving, are you?"

Faced with Li Yuanji's incredulous question, Xuanwu calmly shook his head, then turned to Li Chunfeng, "May I see Bai Ze?"

Li Chunfeng nodded and released the sleeping Bai Ze from the guardian beast's space.

To be honest, if the Hun Tian Huang Dao Yi hadn't caused such a commotion that he couldn't leave, he would have wanted to find someone to check on Bai Ze long ago.

Although one could sense that Bai Ze was not in any major problem, his sudden coma was still worrying.

Bai Ze's snow-white fur spread out on the ground, like a tranquil pool of moonlight. Xuanwu raised its wrinkled front paw, its movements so gentle they seemed incongruous with its size, and slowly pressed it against Bai Ze's smooth forehead.

In an instant, the pale blue light spread out like ripples on water.

“As expected,” Xuanwu narrowed its eyes and released its claws, “it’s a backlash.”

"Backlash?" Li Chunfeng's expression changed drastically, and he asked anxiously, "Is he alright? Will Bai Ze be in trouble?"

Xuanwu shook his head. "The backlash is because it accidentally probed and exposed the future, but don't worry, Bai Ze didn't deliberately probe the future, and besides... the abilities are interconnected, so it will be fine after a good night's sleep."

Li Chunfeng's tense shoulders instantly relaxed, he let out a long breath, formed a hand seal, and a soft light enveloped Bai Ze, slowly pulling the unconscious Bai Ze back into the space.

Bai Ze's matter was settled, but everyone's thoughts were still on the strange future that Xuanwu had just mentioned.

Li Shimin asked in a deep voice: "So the future that will cause Bai Ze to turn against us is the change in our world?"

"Yes."

Xuanwu once again walked to the Hun Tian Huang Dao Yi, stretched out its front paw and pressed it on the base. The star map, which was rotating in a small range, suddenly became larger, enveloping everyone in the room.

Looking at the stars swirling around them, it was hard for everyone to contain their amazement.

“If you look closely, the stars are always changing along their predetermined orbits. What makes the star map appear to be changing is the world in the center, our world. The stars are following the movement of the smaller world.”

As Xuanwu extended its claw and gently touched the center of the star, it was tinged with a pale blue light. As it moved, it trailed a long tail, and the direction of the change was immediately apparent.

So where are we going?

Li Shimin and the others exchanged glances, their eyes filled with confusion. As the top intellectual and military forces of the Tang Dynasty, this was the first time they had ever seen anything like "running" in the world.

Could it be that these small worlds can visit each other?

"You think our current place is too small? Take us to expand our territory?"

Li Yuanji offered a guess, and Li Jiancheng gave him an annoyed look, "Is war all you think about?"

Expanding territory, expanding territory! Can't you think about other things?

A room full of warmongers, all they know is how to seize land. Do they know how much effort it takes to manage it afterwards? This former deposed crown prince, now Prince Jin, is almost too busy to handle!

We told him to be careful with his words and actions, but Li Shimin was anything but careful. He made him do everything. Who is the emperor, anyway?

Sensing Li Jiancheng's deep resentment, Li Yuanji shrank back, trying to cover up his mistake guiltily: "I was just guessing..."

Li Chengqian, however, glanced at Li Yuanji casually while he was speaking, and said thoughtfully, "I think what Fourth Uncle said makes some sense."

"?" All eyes fell on Li Chengqian. Li Yuanji suppressed his smugness, while Li Jiancheng felt a wave of dizziness. "No way, no way, Chengqian has been turned into a war maniac too?"

Do Father and Second Brother even know how to raise children? Is this how the Crown Prince was raised? No way, his eldest uncle has to step in!

Unaware that Li Jiancheng was plotting to join the fight for his educational rights, Li Chengqian analyzed, "Although I don't know where the little world wants to go, its direction is very clear from the start."

Li Chengqian's fingers traced the trajectory of the world. "So determined, taking Zhou Tianxingzi with him on his journey, it's unreasonable to say that He is sleepwalking or just visiting someone's house, isn't it?"

“Father,” Li Chengqian looked at Li Shimin, “don’t you think so?”

"What?" Li Shimin subconsciously took two steps closer and asked curiously.

"Our little world, with its indomitable spirit, is just like you, like you on the battlefield."

Does it look like it?

Li Yuanji rubbed his eyes, and the others couldn't help but move closer. They didn't know if it was their imagination, but after Li Chengqian said that, it really did look more and more like him.

Li Shimin suppressed a smile. Chengqian was truly something; he knew he cared about his father, so he didn't have to think of him in everything.

"What are you so smug about?" Li Yuan glanced at him speechlessly, then shoved Li Shimin aside. "You're blocking my way. Let me see instead."

Li Shimin ignored Li Yuan, clearly envying him. Let him be envious; Chengqian just loves his father anyway.

"They certainly look quite aggressive." Li Jiancheng was starting to get carried away by Li Chengqian's rhetoric and couldn't help but question his own existence. Was the prevalence of warmongers simply because their world was inherently warlike?

"So from this perspective, I think Uncle Si's guess is not unreasonable."

Before Li Jiancheng could refute, Li Chengqian continued, "Secondly, don't you think there's a problem?"

Yuchi Jingde and Cheng Yaojin, standing behind, stared wide-eyed but couldn't find the problem. Fang Xuanling, however, hesitated before asking, "Is it the brightness?"

“That’s right,” Li Chengqian nodded. “Logically speaking, the stars in the heavens revolve around our world, and the world is the core of the star map, but isn’t the star of the world a little too dim?”

Following Li Chengqian's words, everyone suddenly realized that the world star that was illuminated by Xuanwu with blue light looked about the same brightness as the other stars.

Before Xuanwu lit up, this star was so gray and almost invisible.

"But nobody knows what World Star was originally supposed to be like..."

Li Jiancheng hesitated before speaking, at which point Li Chengqian turned to Xuanwu, "Uncle is right, so I need corroborating evidence. Xuanwu, when you just said the reason why Bai Ze was unharmed, you actually forgot to mention something, didn't you?"

Meeting the gazes of everyone who were looking at him, Xuanwu nodded slowly and calmly. "That's right. Since we've come this far, I'll get straight to the point."

"There is another reason why Bai Ze suffered less backlash: the world itself no longer has a distant future."