Chapter 227

Di Xiu, who was on the other end of the line, put down the small flowerpot that was basking in the sun in his arms. The gardenia in the flowerpot turned its branches in confusion and opened a flower for him.

"Some things are inconvenient for children to hear." Di Xiu tapped the leaves of Zhizhi, "Just bask in the sun here by yourself, okay?"

The buds of the gardenia suddenly opened, which means "no problem".

Di Xiu moved the small flower pot to a suitable location, then walked away with the communication, making sure their conversation would not be heard.

"Director Jiang." Di Xiu's voice was as gentle as he was. "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Jiang Jiang looked at the white-haired Emperor Xiu, who had a crown and a pure temperament, and asked directly, "Elder Emperor Xiu, do you know Qilin?"

"That ancient beast that cannot be reincarnated?" A strange look flashed across Emperor Xiu's eyes. "I've heard a little bit about it."

Across thousands of mountains and rivers, Jiang Jiang met his clear eyes: "Today, something happened in the [Qilin Council Room]."

She put emphasis on the word "Qilin".

Di Xiu didn't seem to understand her implication. He naturally showed some regret on his face: "That's really bad."

His eyebrows slightly curved, but there was no smile in his eyes: "But this seems to have nothing to do with the Plant Clan..."

Jiang Jiang knew very well that although Di Xiu was only an elder of the Grass and Wood Clan, his opinions were basically the same as those of the clan leader Di Wu. No one in the Grass and Wood Clan would do anything he did not approve of.

"Director Jiang, I actually know why you're here." Di Xiu said, "The Plant Tribe is born and raised on the land, and has little to do with humans. If you want to do the same as the previous director, please forgive me for refusing."

"The previous director?" Jiang Jiang was slightly startled, with a little confusion in his eyes, "Director Xun?"

Di Xiu was a little surprised: "You don't know?"

“I really don’t know.”

The Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs was established hundreds of years ago, and there are numerous files of various levels. The previous director of the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs died unexpectedly while performing his duties, causing the Bureau to be in turmoil for quite a long time. For some reason, [Mirror] has not yet determined the candidate for the next director.

The Bureau of Special Affairs was leaderless and could only temporarily appoint an acting director. This temporary position lasted for nearly twenty years - until [Mirror] selected a group of candidates and chose Jiang Jiang among the candidates, and this strange situation came to an end.

Under normal procedures, Jiang Jiang should have been guided by the previous director to hand over some things that could only be passed down in this position. However, due to the death of Director Xun when the Yichu Bureau was facing internal and external troubles, the acting director could only allow the Yichu Bureau to operate normally and prevent it from falling apart. Those incidents that could only be handled by a director who had transformed his [Talent] were thus accumulated.

When she first became the director of the Special Affairs Bureau, the 20-something Jiang Jiang had a very difficult time. The heavy things of the past 20 years piled up together, and the burden was so heavy that she could hardly breathe. A small number of files had already been damaged or lost in the past and could no longer be found. After the pressure on her was a little less, she began to build an underground archive to provide more rigorous protection for the remaining data.

After Jiang Jiang said that he didn't know, Di Xiu on the other end of the line laughed, and his laughter was almost like a sigh: "No wonder you came to ask, you don't know anything..."

"Fifty years ago, the Qilin Council Chamber also had an incident." Emperor Xiu said, "When the Qilin Daowen had problems, [Jing] asked you to come to the Grass and Tree Clan to seek help from the clan leader."

"The clan leader is always kind-hearted. He accepted Xun Ruowang's request without saying anything." Even though it was a long time ago, Di Xiu still couldn't let it go. "The clan leader was gone for a whole month... After he came back, his cultivation level dropped sharply and his life was in danger. Even his soul was damaged."

"I asked the Department of Other Affairs for a record of events that occurred that month, but Xun Ruowang was hesitant and evasive."

The good-tempered Emperor Xiu had come to Xun Ruowang's house several times because of this matter, but Xun Ruowang refused to say anything. When he was pushed into a corner, he would just hide.

Emperor Xiu was overwhelmed by the affairs of the clan leader and finally had to give up temporarily. As a result, a few years later, the seal of an alien beast near Kunlun was loosened, and Xun Ruowang went to suppress it, but met with an unexpected accident.

So what exactly happened fifty years ago has become an unsolved mystery with the death of the last person involved.

It was from that time that Di Xiu, who was obsessed with raising cubs in the Grass and Wood Tribe and never cared about worldly affairs, took over the external affairs of the Grass and Wood Tribe, and has been in charge until now.

Due to his inherent characteristics, Di Xiu rarely gets upset about anything, nor does he dwell on anything. However, what happened fifty years ago has become a hurdle in his heart that he cannot overcome.

"The chieftain was in a coma when he was sent back. He was finally revived, but due to the damage to his soul, he had lost all his memories and even his temperament had changed drastically."

The generally recognized image of the Grass Tribe's leader, Diwu, is "extremely beautiful, powerful, and bad tempered." When facing people he is familiar with and close to, he is even childish and does not seem like a tribe leader.

But the fifty-year-old Diwu Ancient Road is warm-hearted and cheerful. Although he is a Diwu tree, his temper is better than Di Xiu. Apart from staying in the Plants and Trees Group to handle clan affairs, he goes out to travel around the world. He is very powerful, likes to stand up for the weak, and loves to make friends.

But everything ended that month.

When Di Xiu woke up, he was like a firecracker that was about to explode. The small black fruits produced by Di Xiu could only help him calm down his temper temporarily, but it was not a permanent solution.

The hot-tempered Diwu still likes to make friends, but he has seen that most of Diwu’s friends who wake up suffer—after all, not all of Diwu’s friends can withstand a beating.

Some, after being beaten unilaterally for twenty or thirty years, gritted their teeth and severed their friendship with him. After all, few people can stand it when someone starts to fight with them over a disagreement.

Diwu himself discovered the problem, but he just couldn't control his temper. He tried to suppress and endure it, but it only led to more serious consequences - he lost control.

Di Xiu never told Di Wu what he looked like when he lost control, and he kept silent to him when he regained consciousness. However, Di Wu had only lost his memory, not become a fool. When he saw the severe injuries and weakness that could not be concealed on Di Xiu's body, he naturally realized that something was wrong.

Later, Diwu met Kuang Mian, a ruiner who returned to the ruins. At that time, Kuang Mian was still very young and had not yet become a ruiner. He was deceived by Diwu's face and naively thought that Diwu was just kind enough to learn from him and give him advice. It was only after being beaten unilaterally for several years that he realized that he was a "sandbag" used by Diwu to curb his out-of-control behavior.

Kuang Mian, who was so angry at being deceived that he exploded, successfully developed a method two years later that could temporarily restrain the loss of control of the Imperial House, so... he became more resilient. Thanks to his selfless dedication, the few friends of the Imperial House were able to escape.

Kuang Mian was forced to work hard because of the occasional "exchanges" with Diwu. He worked hard to improve himself from a salted fish with no great ambition. Finally, he took over Guixu and became a worried patriarch. He worried about the psychological problems and food, clothing, housing and transportation of Guixu students internally, and managed the connection between Guixu and various forces externally. He also had to fight with the out-of-control Diwu from time to time. He was so tired that he looked old at a young age. In the end, he had to wear a big hood like his socially anxious students, covering his chin.

Over the years, Di Xiu has become accustomed to Diwu's completely different temperament from the past, and has also become accustomed to handling most of the affairs of the Grass and Tree Clan, but this does not mean that he has let go of his past grudges. On the contrary, he has always kept them in mind and has never forgotten them.

"No matter what happens to the Kirin Council Chamber this time, we, the Plant Clan, will not help." Di Xiu looked at her with clear eyes. There was no blame in his eyes, only sadness. "The life of plants is long, but it is not without heart."

In the surface world, the human race is thriving, and fairies and ghosts have become legends. In the inner world, there are four schools with a steady supply of students, and the top leader of each school is a human.

The rise of the human race was in accordance with God's will. No matter whether it was the plant tribe or the demon tribe, no tribe wanted to compete with it. Instead, they tried to help the human race, adapt to the rules of human society, and then integrate into human society.

The life of the demon race is long, and the life of the plant race is even longer. In their long lives, they have watched their old friends grow from their prime to old age, and then to death. Time has blurred the long memories.

They are not of the same species as humans, but that does not mean their feelings are not genuine or pure. When their friends ask for help, they will help without hesitation.

"Just think of me as being scared." Di Xiu sighed softly, "I don't want the nightmare of fifty years ago to happen again."

They may get hurt or even die to help their friends, but helping others out of a sense of righteousness is not a reason to cover up the truth.

A part of the top-secret file was lost, and the secret was also in the file. Jiang Jiang knew nothing. The reason why she contacted Emperor Xiu of the Plant Clan was that the first of the series of contents left by [Mirror] before its final demise was—

[If the Kirin Council Room encounters an irreversible problem, contact the Plant Tribe and ask for their help. If they are rejected, tell them that "the fate has already been decided."]

Jiang Jiang was confused at first, and still is now, but she chose to tell the mirror the truth.

Di Xiu said nothing after listening to this, and Jiang Jiang couldn't tell anything from his expression. She still had a lot of things to deal with and couldn't spend all her time on communication, so they finally disconnected.

The projection disappeared from his sight, but Di Xiu stood there without moving. He spread out his palms, which were covered with sweat. When Jiang Jiang said, "The final candidate for destiny has been chosen," he suddenly felt extremely uneasy.

Over the past thousand years, he rarely had such sudden intuition. The land of the Grass and Tree Clan had always been spring-like all year round, but at this moment, Di Xiu felt a chill in his heart.

He flipped his hand and produced an exquisite talisman, which ignited without fire. After a while, a voice from the Emperor's House came from the other end of the talisman: "Emperor Xiu? What happened? What happened?"

Emperor Xiu asked: "Patriarch, are you with the ruined one now?"

"You guessed it right." Diwu's voice was filled with laughter. "Kuang Mian is looking at the stars in broad daylight, his eyebrows are wrinkled so much that they can kill flies. Now he has left me on the first floor to keep company with his roomful of creations."

He muttered, "Over the years, his excuses for avoiding fights have become more and more varied."

Di Wu didn't remember what happened fifty years ago, nor did he know that Jiang Jiang had just looked for Di Xiu. He came to fight with Kuang Mian, thinking it was just the same as usual, and Kuang Mian would steal two out of five.

Thanks to Emperor Xiu's frequent visits to Guixu, Emperor Xiu also knows Guixu quite well. No matter what interests the successive masters of Guixu have, they must be at the top of the world in astrology, otherwise they will not be able to observe the star map. In order to ensure the accuracy of the star map, the masters will not observe in the daytime unless it is absolutely necessary.

Before, Diwu brought Yu Tu to Kuang Mian's house to let him see [Talent]. Kuang Mian sent him a message that night, indicating in a tactful way that they should pay more attention to the safety of Yu Tu.

As for the Buyehou… Kuang Mian was silent for a long time before he said, “It is as ethereal as a shadow, and cannot be described.”

Thinking of this, Di Xiu's voice became more serious than ever before: "Patriarch, when the Xuzhe finishes observing the star map, ask him if there is any change in the fate stars of Tu Tu and Buye Hou?"