"Coming back so soon?"

To the north of the Qianming Hall of the Endless Palace, in the "Ouchi Intelligence Agency" managed by Ai Tosaka, the empress who was still emitting smoke from the bath appeared on her body, which surprised Ai Tosaka.

"If it really has something to do with him," said the empress, frowning at something, "where is my aunt?

"Did he pry that ancient ship into action?" The old man's voice sounded at the courtyard gate, and Granny Yao appeared.

The white-haired old woman paused for her crutches, "Another thing should happen to that kid." ”

Ai Tosaka continues to preside over the liaison of all parties in the courtyard, and the tsunami of the falling star sea has a wide impact, and she has to grasp all aspects of the movement for the empress. The Empress and Granny Yao walked in the plum grove outside the courtyard, chatting as they walked.

"Am I doing something wrong, master? The empress said faintly: "He shouldn't have been transferred to the elephant training center in the first place, after he arrived at the elephant training center, he became a humanoid switch, and one thing came out of him." Now that he gets to the court, he's about to become a human-shaped hurricane. ”

"Speaking of the original ......," Granny Yao smiled ambiguously, "it didn't start with the elephant taming house." ”

"Master......" the empress covered her cheeks, "it was a last resort at that time." ”

"If I change my little love here, I guess it's really a last resort. Granny Yao narrowed her eyes, "I can't say anything about the old woman, so I'll talk about pushing the boat along the river and sailing against the current." ”

The empress was about to bury her head in her chest: "Master, you have said it all!"

"But it's a good thing," Granny Yao turned back to her serious face, "I mean, the fact that the kid has become a humanoid switch is a good thing for your idea that you don't want to be the king of the dead country." ”

"What do you say?" the Empress looked up in amazement, a shy blush still on her face.

Walk to a plum tree, at this time it is still early for the plum blossoms to bloom, a little bud white and red, similar to the ice and snow peony of Dingjun Mountain. Granny Yao looked at the flower buds, and then at the empress, her eyes overflowed with undisguised admiration and envy.

"You have been living in the Endless Palace since you were a child, and after revealing the blood source abnormality, I took you out of the palace and lived with him. Granny Yao said solemnly: "Didn't you think that he was actually very special, maybe even more special than you?"

Granny Yao's words made the empress frown even deeper, "Isn't he a mortal seed recognized by the Holy Mountain?" Master, you said it, the elders said it, and so did my induction. ”

"He is a mortal seed," Granny Yao sighed lightly, "but he is different from the heir of the Zhu family, and unlike the mortal seed who can be a Xingtian or a war servant, he is more special." ”

"What's so special?" the empress's breathing became lighter, and she subconsciously pursed her lips, she naturally had a guess, and that guess made her unwilling to face it.

"The same as the ...... of a thousand years ago Taizu is as special," Granny Yao turned her gaze away, "His soul is so condensed that it is impossible to measure, as if it does not exist, which means that he has pure mortal power that is close to the primordial. He can activate the Root Ash Artifact, end the troubled times like Taizu, and open up a new dynasty. ”

"What?" the Empress covered her mouth, cutting her exclamation in half.

"But, it's not right!" she shook her head in disbelief, "Why didn't I sense it? I just sensed that he had the power of a mortal, just like the Xingtian and the War Servants, he was an ordinary mortal seed." ”

"Because you gave him your blood. Granny Yao smiled faintly: "His peculiarity is covered up, you can only touch him who is connected to your blood, and the real him is still hidden under your blood." ”

"From the moment he was born, the Holy Mountain was watching him. Granny Yao continued: "You should know that Taizu was also born in the last year of the previous dynasty. The previous dynasty collapsed, chaos invaded, and Taizu rose up and finally established the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, when the Holy Mountain confirmed that he was a mortal seed similar to Taizu, he thought that the Great Ming Qi was exhausted and he would create the next dynasty. ”

"But something has changed, you actually have a double sage blood source that surpasses Taizu, which makes the holy mountain no longer able to judge the ups and downs of chaos and the change of the current world......"

As soon as he said this, he was interrupted by the empress's cold words: "So all this is arranged, and my encounter with him is arranged?"

"I arranged it. Granny Yao looked directly at the empress calmly: "At that time, no one expected that you would sit on the throne of the Ming Dynasty, and according to the agreement between the Holy Mountain and the Ming Dynasty, you will replace me as the daughter of the Holy Mountain." So...... I am still the Zhu family after all, I hope that the Zhu family's bloodline can be passed on in another way, if you can grow old hand in hand with him, the Zhu family will have a future after all. ”

"That's why the master intentionally or unintentionally revealed to me the method of transplanting the blood, and even deliberately pretended that the medicine needed for the transplant was unintentionally dropped," the empress's gaze became more and more hollow, "encouraging me to transplant the blood source to him, so that we have an extraordinary ...... since we were young Bonds?"

Granny Yao laughed, "It's indeed me, but I didn't cast a spell on you to make you fall in love with him." It is you who are not separated from him, and it is your heart. ”

The empress choked, and Granny Yao said again: "I was just pushing, and now it seems that my push has an unexpected joy." Think about it, you sat on the throne of the Ming Dynasty, if you didn't have this bond with him, you and him would inevitably become rivals. Now it's different, the moment you decide to transplant your blood to him, you've changed your fate with him. ”

"I, I ......" This earth-shattering secret made the empress unable to react for a while, so she stubbornly said: "I don't care about fate! Even if he is a pure mortal seed, he is not as strong as me, and if he really becomes a mortal enemy, I will kill it with a sword!"

was looked at by Granny Yao with a faint smile, the empress gasped for breath and barely figured out her head. "The elders just watched, watching the master, you fiddle with me and another future Taizu, let you decide history?"

"History is not up to me, and the Holy Mountain never rules history. Granny Yao said gently: "This is the supreme law, you should understand." This is the history you decided, and the moment you stepped forward in the Heavenly Temple, history was also changed by you. ”

"Of course, if something can be done to speed up or delay history, the Holy Mountain will still do it. Granny Yao shook her head slightly, "It's just that the changes brought about by his variable are not limited to himself, after him, the Holy Mountain has deduced a few other seeds, which may not be as pure as him, but the changes born from this are not as pure as his." You also know that during the period from the end of the previous dynasty to the destruction of the chaotic world, the rising mortal seed was not only Taizu. ”

"I ......," the Empress pressed her forehead, not knowing what to say or even what to think. “

"So the Holy Mountain doesn't care, whether it's the changes in the present world that you caused, or the ancient ship that the kid found, as long as it's something you tossed out, the Holy Mountain will only be a bystander. You are leaving Aurora's history unknown, and the Holy Mountain must obey the law. ”

Granny Yao's words were like an ethereal voice outside the sky to the empress, "But it's only the elders and Xingtian who are watching, like me and Xiao Ai, and the war servants of Yu Linwei, we can make choices according to our own wishes and ideas, and participate in history." ”

With a sigh of relief, Granny Yao turned back to the previous topic: "Now you should understand why he became a troublemaker, right? But if you have a bond with him and bind him to your fate, the changes he causes will naturally be different from before. You should rejoice...... No, proud, don't leave. It's all your choice, from being the Empress to choosing him, it's all your decision. From the Holy Mountain to me, all I did was help you push it. ”

"Gao De guy ......" The empress's heart knot was slightly relieved, and the other heart knot was aggravated, "I have been arranged since birth, think about it, it's really pitiful, will he hate me? With a person like him, he must not be willing to accept the fate that has been arranged, right?"

Indeed, it was all her own choice. Even if there is an element of being arranged, thinking about Gao De, what right does she have to be angry about being arranged by fate?

"No...... No......" she shook her head violently, "He's not a pure mortal seed, and I don't just sense him related to my bloodline. When I went to the island to look for him, I sensed that his soul had been manipulated, and someone was lurking in his body......! took the opportunity to investigate carefully, but he didn't catch the guy, but he felt that his soul had changed somewhat. It seems to be connected to something, and it looks like I have burned it while sitting on the seat of the society, there is a smoldering mortal fire. ”

"Take the opportunity?" Granny Yao was not surprised, and the focus of her attention was still biased: "Could it be that it is here again......?"

The white-haired old woman blinked, and her expression was particularly naughty at this moment: "That kid is useless?"

"Master——!"

The empress finally couldn't bear it anymore, and stamped her feet coquettishly: "It's just a kiss, a kiss!

"Let's get down to business...... Granny Yao said with a smile: "Don't worry, maybe it's the demon of which faction, or maybe it's the passage that the ancient ship built through his association with the ancient ship." Since his soul is impeccable, it is actually impossible for him to enter the gray realm. But he inherited your blood, and your blood gave another layer to his soul, like a simulated soul. ”

"This may be a loophole, allowing him to enter a place like the ancient ship where the gray realm and the present world are intertwined, and leave a soul mark in it. Since it's a loophole, it's estimated that it's been exploited by demons. But don't worry, the demons didn't really penetrate his soul to control him. ”

"That's how it should be," the Empress breathed a sigh of relief, "he probably didn't know that he was being boarded by someone else, and he couldn't tell him rashly, and he had to find some safe way to help him solve it secretly." ”

Speaking of this, his face changed suddenly, "What if he actually knows?"

The Empress frowned and pursed her lips, "That boarder, that woman, although she didn't catch any clues, always felt very strange. ”

"What's so strange?" Granny Yao became interested: "It's a woman, is he going to repeat the mistake of your old brother?"

"I ......" The empress looked at Granny Yao and stopped talking.

There's a strange sense of familiarity, like being faced with you.

The empress couldn't say this, it was too weird.

"It's my eighteenth great-great-great-great-grandniece, I mean, it feels a little familiar. ”

In the Soul Palace, Gao De was interrogating Xiao Chu, and when he explained the background, Xiao Chu actually came to say this.

"So you haven't figured out what's wrong with you?"

Gao De froze, "Why don't you get into my body without my permission, and use my perception to see what I'm doing? Do you want to rely on me and be my portable grandmother?"

"I'm indeed an old grandmother by age," Xiao Chu said seriously, "As for the wrong...... Before that, I didn't get into your body without your permission and saved you by channeling the fire of the Valley of Absolute Souls to you. ”

"It's not the same thing!"

Gao De grabbed his hair irritably, but reached out and touched the curved sharp corners. "Forget it, in short, you can't just enter my body in the future, I call you before you can come in!"

"I'll try my best," Xiao Chu spread her hands, her head dangling, but Gao De could guess that her face was full of innocence. "But I burned it by you, and you burned it where I slept, and it's my nature to protect you, and I'll act as long as I sense something abnormal. I just felt like you were being infiltrated into your mind by a strange power, as if I was observing your soul, and I came out. ”

Since you admit that you are an old grandmother, don't pretend to be such an ignorant girl!

Gao De rubbed his forehead and said, "Please use your brain more before you act, since someone is observing my soul, didn't you come out to show it to others?"

"yes......"

Xiao Chu patted his head in annoyance, "I made a mistake." ”

She still has something to say: "But nature is hard to disobey." The connection between us is mortal fire, and as long as you are burning your soul, I can run into you at any time. It's useless for you to just tell me that, I'll have to run out when the time comes. ”

"So how can I stop you from escaping?" asked Gao De seriously.

"Find more lantern bearers," Xiao Chu pointed to the palace where she lived, "and burn the surroundings warm, so that I just want to sleep and not take care of things." ”

"That's not enough!" Gao De lost his temper, and it seemed that he had to find another way to stop her.

Seeing that Xiaoli didn't find anything abnormal, and even rewarded him for the sweetness, Gao De didn't continue to pursue Xiao Chu, and he had limited time, so he had to communicate with the lantern people.

Under the round platform between the palaces, Gao De glanced at the five lantern bearers in demonic shells, and changed his tone to a serious tone.

"I've just solved a problem, I'll talk about that later. It's really a coincidence, what happened to the Falling Star Sea, so I took the opportunity to kill my opponent. ”

"It's quite a coincidence...... Li Rongniang dutifully took care of her, this is exactly what Gaode appreciates her, and she has been tempered by the sudden suffering with high emotional intelligence.

Li Rongniang took Lu Jiumei, you said the movement on Crouching Tiger Island one by one, and said that it was suspected that the ancient warship buried below had moved, and it was caused by Gao De, Gao De nodded and said: "That guy and I really have a tacit understanding, and we will have to rely on shrinking in his shadow to develop and grow in the future." ”

"My lord is humble," Lu Jiumei said sincerely: "I think that compared to you, Gao De is shrinking in other people's skirts...... The one in the shadows. ”

This woman actually sarcastically ate herself for eating soft rice! But she said it was so reasonable that Gao De couldn't and couldn't refute it.

"Let's see how things go," said Gao De, "even if the ancient warship only sank to the bottom of the sea and did not need to be excavated, I guess Gao De would have pretended to need to excavate, and it was this errand that he obtained such an important official position, and it was impossible to give up easily, and our plan went ahead as usual." ”

"When the three of you arrive at the Tonggushan mine, connect with Qiu Zhengren, and send the miners over as soon as possible. Wang Jiu and Rong Niang, if you continue to take root on the island, it is best to take over all the work from Gao De and let him be a hands-off shopkeeper. ”

Everyone was solemn and ended the "First Plenary Meeting of the Lantern Man".

When Lu Jiumei and Li Rongniang walked out of their respective tents, and at the same time saw Gao De resting on the side of the hill with his hands on pillows, the guy was biting the dog's tail grass and looked extremely leisurely.

"Let Master Gao be the shopkeeper," Lu Jiumei suddenly had confidence: "I don't think it should be difficult." ”

"It's really not difficult," Li Rongniang echoed with a smile: "Lord Gao should be busy with more important matters." ”

"Big deal?"

Lu Jiu's eyebrows curled the corners of his mouth, and he said disdainfully: "What else can be more important and meaningful than cultivating thousands of lantern bearers and letting mortals control their own destiny?"

"That's right," Li Rongniang agreed from the bottom of her heart: "It's worth us to eat and sleep here, and even become Kunlun slaves." ”

"Uh......" Lu Jiumei is a woman after all, "I'll ask Master Gao later to see how he takes care of his skin." Look at his face, it's whiter than I am. ”