Chapter 71: What Happened Back Then

"Zhenzhen."

Just as I was hesitating whether to buy it, Hensheng walked over.

Seeing Su Zhenzhen's furrowed brows, Hensheng rushed over to her and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Ah...hoo..."

The Celestial Master suddenly became agitated and struggled to lunge at Hensheng.

Su Zhenzhen's eyes flashed. Why did this sorcerer get so emotional every time he saw Hensheng?

"You know him?"

The Celestial Master nodded, still struggling to lunge towards Hensheng.

Su Zhenzhen then asked, "Do you know his true identity?"

The Celestial Master nodded again.

"You have something very important to discuss with him?" Su Zhenzhen guessed.

"Ah...hoo..."

The Celestial Master's lips moved open and closed, and the shapes of two words could be vaguely discerned.

He's talking about a dead man.

But the question is, who is the dead person? Or is someone about to die somewhere?

Seeing that the Celestial Master kept trying to get closer to him, Hensheng thoughtfully moved a little closer and asked, "Is there something you want to tell me?"

"ah……"

Suddenly, a mouthful of spittle flew out of the Celestial Master's mouth. Fortunately, Su Zhenzhen reacted quickly and pulled Hensheng back so that it wouldn't hit his face.

The spittle hit the ground, making a sizzling sound.

There's something in this phlegm.

Seeing this, Su Zhenzhen no longer hesitated and immediately used her points to buy an abdominal voice generator, which she then attached to the Celestial Master's stomach.

"You dead man, you dead man, you should have died long ago!" The Celestial Master gritted his teeth, as if he wished he could tear the hatred apart and eat it alive.

Su Zhenzhen frowned. Where had she heard this before?

The Celestial Master continued his tirade, "If you don't die, the entire dynasty will be plunged into chaos and death. You should never have been born!"

No, where should we begin with that?

Su Zhenzhen was more concerned about whether this sorcerer had anyone backing him. "Who is your master?"

"Self-taught, he was once enlightened by a celestial being."

"Who sent you to the border region?"

"Marquis Enyi, Song Anbang".

Su Zhenzhen hadn't expected to ask this question, "Why did he send you to Bianzhou?"

The Heavenly Master rolled his eyes. "The Northwest Army has suffered repeated defeats. If these useless fools lose, the imperial court won't have any money to pay reparations to the barbarians."

Why is it said that Hate Life is a dead man?

The Celestial Master sneered, "He died at birth. It was only by the emperor kneeling and begging the ancestors to protect him with dragon energy that he was given a new lease on life. If I hadn't set up the formation for him back then, he wouldn't have lived to be twenty. I was the one who gave him the name Hensheng (meaning 'born with hatred'). At the time of his birth, there were countless wronged souls from all over the world. He was born amidst a sky full of hatred, hence the name Hensheng."

Su Zhenzhen looked at Hensheng with some nervousness, after all, he had tried to commit suicide because of this matter.

Fortunately, Hensheng has grown up and is no longer self-deprecating. He can also find the loopholes in the Celestial Master's words in a clear and logical way.

"If you say I deserve to die, why did you save me twenty years ago?"

“I saved you because I was honored by the dynasty, and you are the only legitimate bloodline of the royal family. I need to repay your kindness. I say you deserve to die because you single-handedly turned the entire dynasty upside down.”

Su Zhenzhen immediately retorted, "Isn't that a bit off? This dynasty has been teetering on the brink of collapse for quite some time now, hasn't it? Back then, Hensheng wasn't even born yet, so where did he get such great abilities?"

The Celestial Master stared intently at Hensheng, "I'll ask you this: do you intend to overthrow the kingdom and ascend to the throne?"

Hensheng openly admitted, "It is my destiny, and I have no choice but to accept it."

"Bullshit about destiny!" the Celestial Master roared. "If you want to overthrow the current dynasty and aristocratic families, you have to start a war, and war means death. Do you dare say that these deaths weren't caused by you? And who should be held responsible for the lives of all those people who escorted you out of the capital? Not to mention how many people died because of your birth."

Su Zhenzhen immediately grasped the key point, "What do you mean by 'living or dying for hatred'?"

The Celestial Master shifted his gaze back, somewhat hesitant to meet Su Zhenzhen's eyes. "Before me, the Jiang family dynasty had a personally appointed Imperial Advisor. Emperor Chang once asked him how to ensure the dynasty's longevity. The Imperial Advisor divined and said that by doing more good deeds, the Jiang royal family could produce an unprecedentedly benevolent ruler. With such a benevolent ruler in power, the dynasty could endure for a long time."

Su Zhenzhen immediately connected all the information, "So, Hensheng is that benevolent ruler. And Jiang Yichun's good deeds in providing disaster relief were just to make the benevolent ruler come into being."

The Celestial Master nodded. "That's right."

Su Zhenzhen still felt something was off. "Wait, is this Jiang Yichun's only child? Didn't Jiang Yichun's father have any other children later? Why are you so sure that the one who caused all this hatred is this benevolent ruler?"

The Celestial Master smiled mysteriously. "That Imperial Advisor also divined that a benevolent ruler throughout the ages would not be born from the womb of an ordinary person; only a woman with an extremely noble destiny could bring him into this world."

Su Zhenzhen's brow twitched. "This woman with a noble destiny was not born into a noble family, but was a commoner. That's why Jiang Yichun went around incognito, and in the end, she overruled all objections to make this commoner woman empress."

The Celestial Master suddenly laughed, “That’s right. Moreover, the Imperial Advisor didn’t calculate the name of this woman with such a noble destiny; he only gave her a southeast direction. You should know that Jiang Yichun was once married to a commoner woman, and later that woman entered the palace, married his father, and gave birth to a daughter.”

Su Zhenzhen's face was cold. "Why do you know these things? And why do you call Jiang Yichun by his full name? Are you sure you're not making up lies to fool me?"

The Celestial Master, however, opened his tongueless mouth and laughed heartily, “Lying to you? You’re quite capable, able to summon ghosts, so how could you not tell if a living person is lying? Besides, as for Jiang Yichun, let alone a Celestial Master like me, many noble families in the court address him by his name.”

This was something Su Zhenzhen clearly hadn't expected. Didn't Jiang Yichun have a group of die-hard fans?

"You just said you're receiving a salary from the Jiang family's dynasty, what's that all about?"

"After calculating the general direction of the noblewoman, the imperial advisor vanished into thin air. Emperor Chang sent people to search for her for a long time but could not find her. So he searched for sorcerers among the common people, and that's when I found a job. To be fair, although the people suffered during Emperor Chang's reign, there were never any major upheavals, as was the case for dynasties over thousands of years. But after Jiang Yichun came to power, he allowed the aristocratic families and the common people to coexist, leading to a series of conflicts, and the lives of the lower classes became unbearable. He wanted to implement new policies, but he lacked the decisive measures. He wanted to be a sage and bestow blessings upon the world, but he didn't have the power to get the aristocratic families to contribute money and grain. In the end, officials cursed him, the common people cursed him, and the whole country was thrown into chaos by him."