Chapter 406 You Recognize Him as Your Father
Gongsun Qi spoke with such decisiveness and nonchalance that it was impossible not to believe he was right.
After a brief moment of surprise, Han Ziyang asked, "What do you know?"
Gongsun Qi asked, "You have awakened the Legalist school's Heavenly Punishment bloodline. What does Nangong Ming want you for?"
"Break the oath of non-war between the six kingdoms." Han Ziyang answered decisively, "I believe the oath of non-war should be broken, at least the struggle between the six kingdoms will become more fair and square."
Gongsun Qi was silent for a moment, then said, "Breaking the oath of non-war, isn't it enough to just collect all the fragments of the Floating Pagoda?"
Yu Sui also stared at Han Ziyang, waiting for his answer.
“After the oath is lifted, new rules will need to be established,” Han Ziyang said. “Your Highness needs me to quickly quell the great chaos after the oath of non-war between the six kingdoms is lifted, and to create a new world in stability.”
Gongsun Qi remained completely calm: "His ambitions are considerable."
"You agreed?" Yu Sui asked.
Han Ziyang looked up at Yu Sui: "Of course I can't agree right away, I have to keep him hanging on."
Yu Sui continued, "If you agree to his request, the first state Qingyang will swallow will be Yan. Didn't you say that the clan leader was once the prime minister of Yan?"
Han Ziyang, however, said, "The world, after a long period of division, will eventually unite. Once the oath of no war is lifted, the six states will become one."
Gongsun Qi asked, "So you don't care who the final victor is, as long as the world is unified?"
Han Ziyang rolled his eyes: "You mean you want me to help the Yan Kingdom?"
Yu Sui raised her hand: "I didn't say that."
“I absolutely will not allow it to be Qingyang,” Gongsun Qi said. “If your stance is Qingyang, then I will come to the Prince’s Palace right now.”
Han Ziyang tapped the table with his finger: "I have no bias towards either side. I'll repeat myself, I'm just a guest of the Nangong Prince's Mansion!"
Gongsun Qi asked, "Which country did you choose to become a citizen of?"
Han Ziyang paused for a moment, then said in a low voice, "My master said that I am not from the land of the Legalists, so he never asked me to choose a nationality, nor did he say which country I was from."
He is a person without official status, yet he possesses the divine punishment technique of the Legalist lineage.
"Nangong Ming didn't investigate your background?" Gongsun Qi asked again.
Han Ziyang's expression was somewhat strange: "I think the Prince knows, but when I asked him, he was unwilling to say. Madam Han should also know some inside information."
"You have absolutely no memory of your parents?" Yu Sui asked.
"No." Han Ziyang shook his head gently.
He has been by his master's side ever since he can remember.
Yu Sui then thought of her senior brother and hoped that Han Ziyang would not be in the same situation as her senior brother.
"Since you say it's not the Heavenly Punishment bloodline brought by the Strange Fire, then what do you know?" Han Ziyang began to question Gongsun Qi. "I have already answered that I only want the world to be unified, and I have no intention of favoring any particular country."
Unifying the world—this was the task his master had entrusted to him. Han Ziyang had promised his master that he would definitely accomplish it.
Yu Sui smiled silently after hearing this, realizing that in the end everyone had the same ambition.
“You are indeed of the Han bloodline,” Gongsun Qi said calmly. “Your father is Han Xiao, the youngest great-grandson of the Han clan patriarch.”
When Han Ziyang suddenly heard news about his father, he felt a bit dazed, and a sense of unreality welled up inside him.
"he……"
Before Han Ziyang could finish speaking, Gongsun Qi continued, "Han Xiao is an uneducated and philanderer; he has at least seven or eight, or fifteen or sixteen, children."
Yu Sui looked at Han Ziyang in surprise: "You have so many brothers and sisters?"
Han Ziyang: "..."
Speechless.
Gongsun Qi: "Only thirteen children were found and taken back by the Han family. I heard that there are still many others who are still living outside, but those children whose identities were recognized all died later."
"Why?" Han Ziyang asked, puzzled.
Gongsun Qi: "Because your father married the princess of Nan Jing and severed ties with the Han family, Nan Jing requires him to have only the children born to the princess, and all other children must die."
Han Ziyang laughed in anger, while Yu Sui asked in surprise, "His father is still alive?"
Gongsun Qi's tone remained calm: "He should be busy in Nanjing having more children with the princess."
Yu Sui had never heard of a live stallion before, and her gaze toward Han Ziyang became incredulous.
Han Ziyang, who had fantasized and speculated countless times about the origins of his parents, felt dizzy at this moment, his face filled with absurdity. He stood up abruptly, placed his hands on the table, stared at Tingfengchi, and said, "If that's the case, then why doesn't Your Highness just tell me? He is the son-in-law of Nan Jing, what's there to hide?"
“Nangong Ming may not even know that he’s just keeping you hanging,” Gongsun Qi said. “Your background was something he told me when I went to kill the clan leader to save his own life. He said that he was the only one in the world who knew your background, otherwise you wouldn’t be alive now.”
"After severing ties with the Han family, Han Xiao changed his identity and even his name. No one in Nanjing knew that he was a member of the Han family, a land of Legalism."
Enraged, Han Ziyang kicked the chair over, causing a loud crash. Yu Sui raised an eyebrow, looked at the broken chair without speaking, and turned to ask Gongsun Qi, "Why are you going to kill the clan leader again?"
Gongsun Qi did not answer.
Years ago, he went to the Han family to steal things, hoping to bring his wife and daughter back to life. In the end, he didn't get the things, but he did get a secret. But he didn't care about these things back then.
"Why did you only answer him and not me?" The girl's accusing voice came from Tingfengchi. Gongsun Qi replied irrelevantly, "My wife is also from the Han family, a Legalist family."
Yu Sui was stunned for a moment, then looked up at Han Ziyang: "So you two are relatives?"
Gongsun Qi immediately distanced himself from the matter: "My wife has no relation to the clan leader's lineage."
Han Ziyang gritted his teeth: "I'd be better off being picked up by my master!"
“A man who is ignorant and philandering must have something to offer so that the Southern Jing royal family would try to strictly control his bloodline,” Yu Sui thought for a moment and said. “Or is it that his father is the most handsome man in the entire Xuan Gu Continent, which is why the Southern Jing princess is so infatuated with him and insists on marrying him?”
Gongsun Qi: "He's just average-looking."
Yu Sui looked Han Ziyang up and down: "Then you must look like your mother."
Han Ziyang didn't know whether to be angry or amused. He glared at Yu Sui resentfully, but Yu Sui said innocently, "I was just praising your good looks."
Gongsun Qi: "You say you like A-Li, but you praise other men for being handsome?"
Yu Sui was taken aback: "Then don't tell your senior brother."
Gongsun Qi: "I will tell him."
Han Ziyang said angrily, "What kind of time is this for you to still be flirting with me?"
Yu Sui earnestly refuted the rumors, saying, "What nonsense are you talking about? He is my senior brother's uncle. I was just asking for help from an elder."
Han Ziyang: "So it turns out you two are relatives!"
"You can be related to him if you want," Yu Sui said. "Isn't it better to recognize him as your father than to have your biological father who's far away in Nanjing busy having children with the princess?"
Han Ziyang had been holding his breath, unsure whether to go up or down, but after hearing Yu Sui's words, that breath exploded.
He raised his foot to kick another chair, but Yu Sui slammed his hand on the table, releasing his five elements energy to stop him: "You have to fix that broken chair and compensate me for it."
Yu Sui's move was exactly what Han Ziyang wanted, and he immediately engaged her in a battle of the five elements, with a sharp whistling sound coming from inside the room.
Gongsun Qi seemed completely unaware that the two on the other end of the telepathic communication had already started fighting, and still said unhurriedly, "'Heavenly Punishment' is a unique bloodline power of the Legalist Han clan, which is inherited and awakened by bloodline, so the Xun clan of Nanjing needs the bloodline of the Han clan."
"Although Han Xiao is ignorant and incompetent, his talent is not bad, and can even be said to be very high. Given the unique bloodline of the Han family and his high talent, it is not surprising that the Xun family of Nanjing cooperates with him."
"However, it seems that there are other reasons for the Xun family's cooperation with Han Xiao, such as their certainty that Han Xiao's child will awaken the Heavenly Punishment Technique."
"The Xun family?" Yu Sui dispersed his Five Elements Qi. "Is Han Xiao the father of Xun Zhiya, the Holy Maiden of Nan Jing?"
"Perhaps," Gongsun Qi said. "There are many princesses in Nanjing. After Han Xiao changed his appearance, we don't know which princess he married."
He paid no attention to Han Xiao's children.
Yu Suichao, who had also dispersed the Qi of the Five Elements, said to Han Ziyang: "Back at Taiyi Academy, Xun Zhiya was suspected of possessing the Heavenly Punishment bloodline. If she really awakened the Heavenly Punishment, then Xun Zhiya would be your sister. But what can we do? It seems I lost your sister in the Endless Sea as well."
Before coming, Han Ziyang had asked Han Bing for extra lessons and knew about what happened in the Taiyi Endless Sea. The boy that the Nangong family was protecting and the Holy Maiden of Nanjing had disappeared together, and their fates were unknown.
But Han Bing didn't say that it was the harmless princess of the Nangong Prince's Mansion who did it.
Han Ziyang sneered, "Even if you kill her, do you think I'll cause you any trouble?"
Yu Sui smiled and said, "I'm relieved to hear you say that."
"In other words, there may be two people who have awakened the Legalist Heavenly Punishment now," Gongsun Qi pondered. "Perhaps there are more in Nanjing."
“My father probably doesn’t know your background, but he’s definitely suspicious of your relationship with the clan leader,” Yu Sui said. “If he knew the secret of the Southern Jing royal family killing the Han family’s children back then, he would have guessed it immediately.”
Gongsun Qi also asked, "How did Nangong Ming know that you possess the Heavenly Punishment Technique?"
Han Ziyang's eye twitched slightly. He took a deep breath and sat down again. "I contacted Madam Han first and asked her to tell the Prince."
Yu Sui: "Are you crazy?"
Han Ziyang then said in a low voice, "Master told me to do this."
Yu Sui's eyes silently conveyed: That means the old man has gone mad.
Han Ziyang didn't think there was anything wrong with his master's decision. However, when he recalled what happened back then, he couldn't help but think of Han Lian. He had already vowed to forget this woman.
He said, "My master wants me to obtain the fragments of Qingyang's Floating Pagoda. I can only use the Heavenly Punishment Technique to befriend the prince and find an opportunity to take the fragments of Qingyang."
"Why does the clan leader want you to obtain the fragment?" Yu Sui asked, frowning. "Is it because of the strange fire, or is it to break the oath of non-aggression?"
"When Master asked me to retrieve the fragment, I hadn't yet been chosen by the Strange Flame, so it wasn't because of the Strange Flame." As soon as Han Ziyang finished speaking, a question arose in his mind: Is it really not because of the Strange Flame?
It seems that Master, like the Xun family of Nan Jing, had long foreseen what would happen in the future.
He knew Han Lian had a problem, yet he treated her with great leniency, even allowing her to kill him, as if he had known all along that his death was imminent.
"Have you seen it?" Gongsun Qi asked. "The fragments of Qingyang."
Han Ziyang shook his head: "No, the prince hasn't suggested taking me to see the fragments of the Pagoda."
Yu Sui was about to say that she had two pieces in her hand when she suddenly looked up and looked outside. Han Ziyang followed her gaze and looked outside as well.
Someone is coming.
Yu Sui gestured for Han Ziyang to be quiet and walked outside, where she saw a maid entering the courtyard under the moonlight.
"What is it?" Yu Sui asked, standing at the door.
Upon seeing this, the maidservant quickly stopped on the spot, lowered her head and said, "It was my mother-in-law who asked me to come back and tell the princess that a lot of golden-armored soldiers have come to the palace and had a conflict with the second young master at the gate."
Yu Sui understood: "I know, I'll go take a look later."
The maid then withdrew.
Yu Sui said something to Han Ziyang and then hurried towards the gate of the Prince's Mansion.
When she arrived, there were already quite a few people in front of the Prince's Mansion. Nangong Ming, Cao Yan, Jiang Chi, and others were standing in front of the gate. Han Bing, who had gone out, had also returned, followed by a troop of golden-armored soldiers.
The wounded Gu Jun stood outside the door, confronting Su Feng, who was leading the Imperial Guards on patrol.
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