Chapter 476
He Xinsi arranged accommodations for his guests. All of their palaces were located in the north, and they could freely enter and leave the palace.
Apart from Zou Yuan, the other two sages were summoned to arrange the distribution of the message to the six kingdoms.
This time was different from before; they also had to follow Shui Zhou's instructions to inject new mechanisms into the six kingdoms' cigarettes and confirm the new locations.
Shui Zhou came prepared. Even if Qiu Hua hadn't said those provocative words, Sun Heng would have eventually asked for divination.
What if they find the World Destroyer? They seem to have a solid plan, but they haven't revealed a single detail to the outside world.
He Xinsi got up and walked to the door, looking at the empty courtyard, and asked, "What do you think of Shui Zhou's purpose in coming this time?"
"I'd like to know what you think about framing me for killing the eldest princess of Dan Kingdom?" Yu Sui stepped out from behind the screen.
She didn't kill a single person when she came to Nanjing.
“You killed the person, and you stole the fragments. You were afraid that Situ Jin would expose you in front of everyone, so you shifted the blame to me.”
Yu Sui walked up behind He Xinsi and asked, "Why should I bear this crime?"
“You didn’t kill Shan Chen.” He Xinsi turned around with a smile. “Then you should do something.”
“I didn’t kill Shan Chen, but I can kill you. Your Majesty, aren’t you curious if I can kill you a second time?” Yu Sui smiled, revealing her sharp canine teeth, half joking and half threatening.
"Didn't you stop because you were curious about Shui Zhou's story?" He Xinsi was no longer afraid of Yu Sui's threats. "The Eye of Guixu, the world-destroying strange fire, the salvation of all living beings—will Shui Zhou's words really come true one day?"
He sighed softly, raised his eyes to look into the distance, and seemed to hide a hint of expectation and envy in his peaceful eyes.
If she could, He Xinsi would also like to go out into the world and meet the legendary world destroyer. That power, capable of shaking heaven and earth, must be incredibly awe-inspiring.
Yu Sui did not give an answer, nor did he discuss the prophecy of the world being destroyed by the strange fire. Instead, he asked curiously, "Why is Your Majesty afraid of Sun Heng?"
"Afraid?" He Xinsi pondered the word for a moment, then laughed and said, "Little girl, are you afraid of your master, Saint Chang Gen?"
"A little." Yu Sui's expression was honest; she wasn't lying.
I used to be very afraid, now I'm just a little afraid.
"Why are you afraid?" He Xinsi looked at her with interest.
Yu Sui said, "Master's strength is unfathomable, and it's impossible to guess what he's planning to do."
“I think Sun Heng feels the same way.” He Xinsi nodded gently and walked into the courtyard. He raised his hand to tuck his collar and strolled through the flower grove to relax.
"Can Elder Sun really compare to my master?" Yu Sui was surprised by this.
"Although I haven't been to Taiyi for many years, I think that among the twenty-four sages of Taiyi, Elder Chang is still first and Sun Heng is second."
He Xinsi said, "Sun Heng has a clear goal. From the first day he entered Taiyi, he took over the water boat and has been busy eliminating the strange fire. Just like you said, he would do anything to eliminate the strange fire."
“But what is there to be afraid of?” Yu Sui said.
Her expression remained calm, and she was not consumed by the fear He Xinsi had described to Sun Heng.
"No one in the world knows the origin of your master, so do you know the origin of Sun Heng?" He Xinsi turned around and looked at the girl who was standing still at the door.
"I heard that before he broke through to sainthood, he experienced all kinds of people."
Yu Sui lowered his eyes and pondered, then recounted the rumors he knew one by one: "He has worked as a stable boy, a handyman, an actor, a musician for weddings and funerals, a barber, and a tailor. These are all professions considered to be among the lowest of the low."
“Old Sun once said that he did everything to make a living when he was young.” He Xinsi gently waved her sleeve, brushing away the fallen flowers on the stone table, and gestured for Yu Sui to come and sit down. She then said, “Brew a pot of tea.”
“Please take it yourself,” Yu Sui said.
He Xinsi: "..."
I didn't expect that even this small request would be rejected.
He wasn't annoyed and continued to smile at Yu Sui.
It wasn't until Yu Sui brought out the tea that He Xinsi continued, "Old Sun has done it all: a teacher who educates people, a ruthless bandit who kills and robs, an executioner who beheads people on the execution ground, a great general who fights on the battlefield, and a prime minister who is second only to the emperor in the imperial court."
"It seems that Old Master Sun's life was quite remarkable." Yu Sui poured him water from the teapot.
"Like many others, he married and had children, worked hard to make a living, did dirty and strenuous jobs, killed people and saved people. He had been to great heights, possessed money and power, had everything, and therefore thought nothing mattered."
He Xinsi squinted as if recalling something: "When Old Master Sun is in different roles, he will have different goals."
"As an ordinary person, one marries and has children; as a husband, one earns money to support the family; as a bandit, one burns, kills, and robs; as a saint... one must eliminate the strange fire."
Yu Sui frowned upon hearing this.
She finally understood what He Xinsi meant. For Sun Heng, eliminating the strange fire had nothing to do with saving the common people.
Therefore, he didn't care that destroying the strange fire might destroy the entire Xuan Gu Continent.
Sun Heng's goal was simply to destroy the strange fire.
He only has a goal, not a reason.
This is probably different from the understanding of Sun Heng held by Wei Xizhen and others.
Yu Sui had only heard that Sun Heng had lived a very hard life and had done almost every kind of low-class job, but he had never heard that he had also been a ruthless bandit who robbed and killed people.
People and bandits, bandits and officials, officials and saints; every change of identity is like killing one's former self and being reborn.
"Old Master Sun's will is unbreakable." He Xinsi's words were meaningful, and her gaze towards Yu Sui was intriguing, as if she was certain that she would face off against Sun Heng in the future.
"No one before could find a way to deal with the strange fire. Under Elder Sun's guidance, Shui Zhou not only found the Sacred Stone, but also deciphered the Heavenly Script. Now he has found the Eye of Return to the Void. It's as if it were destiny. What Elder Sun wants to do, he will definitely do."
After he achieves his "sole goal," he will die and be reborn, taking on a new identity and finding a new goal.
Such a person, constantly shifting their mindset, principles, and values, contradicting each other and doing anything, still maintains rationality and self-consistency. Anyone else would probably have gone mad long ago.
Yu Sui felt exhausted from juggling multiple personas, both in front of and behind the scenes, between Qingyang and Taiyi.
"It's quite amazing, really. If it weren't for Elder Sun's insistence on taking over the Water Boat, the prophecy of the world being destroyed by the strange fire would have been almost forgotten by people."
He Xinsi lowered her head and smiled, then sighed softly, "I've already forgotten."
Yu Sui remained silent.
Forced by immense pressure, the young man from Dan Kingdom unleashed his power, awakening people's fear of the strange fire. From this point on, everything seemed to be developing in the direction Sun Heng had hoped for.
The greater people's fear of strange fire, the more they will value the water boat.
Sun Heng convinced the world that only those who could travel by water could save the six kingdoms.
He is a savior who reigns supreme over the six kingdoms.
In the afternoon, people came one after another to talk to He Xinsi.
Situ Jin suggested that Nan Jing return the pagoda belonging to the Dan Kingdom to him. He Xinsi then said that Nan Jing was willing to keep it for him.
Yu Sui watched as Situ Jin stood frozen in place, as if she hadn't expected He Xinsi to be so shameless.
According to He Xinsi, the culprit Nangong Sui is highly skilled and might make a comeback at any time. He cannot allow the Dan Kingdom's envoy to continue to cause trouble in Nanjing. If Nangong Sui's goal is the fragments of the Floating Pagoda, then since the fragments are in Nanjing's hands, she naturally will not cause trouble for the Dan Kingdom's envoy.
Situ Jin asked, "Are you saying that Nangong Sui will return to the palace where Shui Zhou, Qingyang, and the Sage of Nanjing have gathered, to continue killing and robbing?"
He Xinsi nodded.
Situ Jin admired He Xinsi's response and ultimately left empty-handed.
After Situ Jin left, He Xinsi said to Yu Sui, "To break the oath, it must be done in the name of the six kingdoms. Some people have no choice but to agree, even if they don't want to. Like Dan Kingdom and Yan Kingdom, the reason they were able to possess the fragments of the Pagoda is because they met the conditions and made it clear to the world that breaking the oath of non-war was the result of discussions among the six kingdoms."
Yu Sui looked at him with a puzzled expression: "Your Majesty, I didn't mean to know."
Ignoring He Xinsi, He Xinsi continued, "Now that this goal has been achieved, there is no need to hand over the fragments to those people."
They killed the eldest princess of Dan Kingdom to steal the fragments because they didn't want to break their oath. Now that Shui Zhou needs the Floating Pagoda, if He Xinsi says the Floating Pagoda is missing a piece, Shui Zhou will search high and low to find it for her, and the situation will become extremely ugly.
He would give the Water Boat the Floating Pagoda, but He Xinsi ignored the Dan Kingdom's request for the fragments.
Yu Sui said, "Now, behind the Dan Kingdom is the entire Mechanical Family."
“You’re right.” He Xinsi smiled and looked up at Yu Sui. “Thinking about it, shouldn’t you find a suitable country to promote your mysterious school of magic? How about Nanjing?”
Yu Sui: "Are there any geniuses like me in Nanjing?"
He Xinsi burst into laughter upon hearing this.
Later that evening, Nangong Ming visited the Wuwang Hall alone.
From the moment he entered, Yu Sui guessed Nangong Ming's purpose.
Before leaving, Nangong Ming asked He Xinsi for instructions on how to search for and capture his youngest daughter in Nanjing. He had come to ask He Xinsi to hand over his youngest daughter to Qingyang.
He also stated that this person had disgraced the Nangong clan and hoped that he would take him back to Qingyang for punishment.
Nangong Ming returned, both to test whether He Xinsi had really let Yu Sui go and to take back the power to deal with Yu Sui from He Xinsi.
He Xinsi was very happy to see Nangong Ming arrive, and her attitude towards him during their conversation could even be described as quite enthusiastic.
This filled Nangong Ming with doubts. He then discovered that He Xinsi was actually interested in his youngest daughter, which annoyed him so much that he took the initiative to change the subject and leave.
After everyone left, He Xinsi sighed to Yu Sui, "Why should he be jealous? You are his child, and Nangong Ming should be proud of that."
Yu Sui was hearing this for the first time and looked at He Xinsi with surprise.
The girl asked, "What does he resent about me?"
He Xinsi said, "His talent surpasses his, and his experiences are even more legendary."
It wasn't because of her family, nor because she killed anyone.
“If that’s not the case, believe me, what you did is completely insignificant in your father’s eyes.”
He Xinsi's eyes lifted slightly, a hint of excitement in her smile: "But he definitely wants to know why you did that. I really want to see what his expression will be when he learns the truth."
In He Xinsi's view, the relationship between Nangong Ming and Yu Sui was not one of father and son, but rather a game between two "people" from the very beginning.
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