It was the third day of the fifth month of the seventh year of Daxia.

Yingtian Continent, Yingtian City.

…

This is a brand new city.

Originally, there was no city wall in Fu Xiaoguan's design, but Bai Yulian, who was responsible for building the city, listened to the opinions of Fatty and Xu Yunqing, and built an extremely strong city wall for the city.

This city combines the shadows of Jinling City, Guanyun City, and Chang'an City.

For example, the four broad avenues that lead straight from the four city gates to the central palace complex, the buildings on both sides of the avenues have the elegance of Jinling City.

However, the markets in the four directions of east, south, west and north have the ruggedness of Guanyun City.

The buildings in the central group of halls are mostly based on the architectural structure of the imperial palace in Chang'an City.

Fu Xiaoguan said that there would be no emperor on this continent, but Xu Yunqing believed that this continent was so large and the farmlands distributed everywhere were so vast that someone would eventually be needed to govern it, so many halls were still set up here for future officials to work here.

It is actually an imperial city.

After all, it was somewhat different from what Fu Xiaoguan had expected.

To the southeast of the central group of halls is the essence of this city - the Humble Administrator's Garden!

Of course, it was also designed by Fu Xiaoguan himself, and then he stole the name.

To the north of the garden, hidden among green pines and bamboos, is a large and well-arranged courtyard.

This is the courtyard where Xu Yunqing lives.

The fat man's yard was next to Xu Yunqing's.

Night slowly falls.

The lights in the Humble Administrator's Garden lit up one after another.

The red and green stars are very beautiful.

Xu Yunqing liked to sit in the five-story Dongwang Pavilion on nights like this, drinking the Xishan Tianci he brought from Daxia while looking at this vibrant city.

At this time, her heart would be filled with tranquility, and she would feel as if she had returned to the Xishan Villa by the river, or to the thatched cottage on the solitary peak in the Taoist temple.

Usually at such times her daughters-in-law and grandchildren would not come to disturb her, only the fat man would sit on a chair beside her and accompany her silently.

The same is true tonight.

But Xu Yunqing felt a little uneasy for no reason.

This uneasiness is directly manifested in two places:

She began drinking heavily.

Her brows were furrowed into a frown.

The fat man watched silently for a moment, then sat up from his chair, took the bottle of wine on the table and poured himself a glass, then asked, "What's wrong?"

“I always feel like something bad has happened.”

"...Little official?"

"Well, maybe it has something to do with the little official."

The fat man drank a glass of wine, and his thinning eyebrows raised slightly. "Could it be that he went to the eighteenth floor of Tianji Pavilion?"

Back in Guanyun City, Xu Yunqing once stopped Fu Xiaoguan from going to the eighteenth floor.

At that time, Fu Xiaoguan was full of curiosity about that place and seemed impatient. In the end, perhaps because of his own persuasion, or perhaps for the overall situation of Daxia, he did not go down after all.

But now…

Now he has stabilized the Great Xia and even established preliminary trade relations with Frankie.

To be honest, his mission has indeed been completed, and his last remaining wish is to become a free and easy landlord in Yingtian Continent.

According to the time, even if he stopped and walked from time to time, he should have arrived in Daxia by now. So, would he go to the eighteenth floor to take a look out of curiosity again?

Xu Yunqing shook his head.

"When Ji Yun returns to Daxia, he will definitely stop him!"

The fat man was a little surprised. "You...you seem to know what's under the eighteenth floor? Have you been there?"

Xu Yunqing nodded.

"I've been there."

The fat man was startled, and Xu Yunqing continued, "Back then, after leaving Linjiang, I went to Wu Dynasty to find Wu Changfeng. My purpose was to get the imperial seal and go to the eighteenth floor to take a look."

The fat man asked, "Why do you want to go and see it?"

"Big Brother told me."

After a pause, Xu Yunqing picked up the wine glass and said, "I have always been curious about the three fragments of Nan Ke Ji that appeared on my body."

She turned to look at the fat man with a serious expression.

"You all thought that was my memoir, but you were wrong. I didn't write it at all!"

"I've verified every prophecy in it. I even went to the Moon Worship Cult because of that prophecy. What's even more terrifying is... it predicted the arrival of this humble official!"

"The young official is obviously my son."

"I faked my own death to escape, just to see how my son would become not my son anymore."

This sentence is a bit confusing, but the fat man understands it.

"What did you see? It was that night at the end of April in the eighth year of the Xuanli calendar when my son disappeared from our house. He was finally found in the back mountains. Dong Shulan's men had done the killing. Was he already dead by then?"

Xu Yunqing shook his head. "At that time... he wasn't beaten to death by Dong Shulan's men."

"...How did he die?"

"He was killed by the black box that fell from the sky!"

The fat man's face trembled. He looked at Xu Yunqing in disbelief, swallowed hard, and then asked, "You mean... that black box fell from the sky and killed my son?"

"Yes, it was too late for me to save him."

Xu Yunqing sighed, feeling deeply guilty. "That's how I let him down, but he actually came back to life... This proves once again that Nan Ke Ji's prophecy was true!"

"He is the Chosen One!"

"Everything he did afterwards proved that he was the Chosen One. That's why Senior Brother was so certain, that's why he sent Su Mo to be with him through Bai Yulian. And that's why he let Su Jue and the others follow him after he went to Jinling."

"Over the years, my senior brother and I have been trying to figure out where this Nan Ke Ji came from."

"It only has three pages. It should have more detailed records. This world... except for the eighteenth floor... Senior Brother believes that it must have come from the eighteenth floor."

The fat man was startled again, "So what did you see when you went to the eighteenth floor?"

A trace of fear appeared on Xu Yunqing's face.

"I used the Imperial Seal to open the door. Outside... outside was a lush green grassland. Three feet in front of me, stood a little girl picking mushrooms!"

The fat man leaned forward and asked, "A little girl picking mushrooms?"

"Yes, a very pretty little girl, about eight or nine years old. She was holding a bamboo basket in her arms, and in the basket were a few dried mushrooms."

"...dried mushrooms?"

"Yes, she said...she has been standing at that door for a thousand years!"

The fat man stood up suddenly, extremely shocked by what Xu Yunqing said tonight.

Because no one can live for a thousand years!

Also because Xu Yunqing had no need to lie to him at this time.

"What else did she say?"

"She also said... now that the Chosen One has arrived, the Destroyer will soon follow. The game is about to begin, and it will be exciting."

"Then what?"

"Then she left with the bamboo basket."

"What's her name?"

“No.”

"Who is the Destroyer then?"

Xu Yunqing pondered for a moment, "I once thought it was my eldest brother, then I suspected it was you, or maybe you suspected it was me, but now... I think the destruction may have just begun."

"That's probably why I'm so uneasy."