Looking at Ge Sheng's disappointed expression of answering the wrong question, Christie had a subtle smile that succeeded in her mischief, and she stretched out a finger and shook it gently: "As I said, the Clouft family is the deepest hidden hole card in the hands of the hero, if the hero is really the original emperor, why should he hide the existence of the Clouft family?" The so-called hole cards are sharp weapons used to turn the tables on the Jedi. ”

"Xia, the twenty-fourth son of the Initial Emperor, the former head of the Blazing Legion, the head of the four princes of the Stern Empire, the conqueror, and the Marshal of Xichen."

Christie slowly uttered such a string of nouns.

Ge Sheng was stunned.

"He, isn't he dead?"

Anyone who has read ancient history will never forget the name Xichen.

If the Primordial Emperor is the tallest god statue in the Empire, then Xichen is the knight who rushes to the forefront.

He personally opened up the territory of the Great Empire, which is now a bit dreamy.

It was a vast empire that encompassed the entire Stert Empire today, most of the Lanye Empire plus half of the Oss Empire, and the entire Commercial Federation.

The invincible Flame Legion, known as the invincible myth, has been directly commanded by him for a long time, as the most trusted and most relied on son of the original emperor, since the beginning of the third western expedition, he is the commander-in-chief of the entire western expeditionary army, and all arrangements are decided by him alone, so some people have described him as like a most ferocious and loyal hound, where the initial emperor points far away, he will return calmly with the map there soon after.

However, all this came to an abrupt end when the Emperor died of illness during his last expedition to the west.

As the supreme person in charge of the expeditionary force after the death of the original emperor, he ordered that the whole army should not mourn, and the whole army hastily withdrew from the war that originally tried to conquer the Qingyi Empire after the relocation of the capital, and returned to China with the coffin of the original emperor for burial.

However, all this is only the beginning of the farce.

As everyone knows, the Battle of the Hundred Kings began, and in order to compete for the empty Throne of Thorns, many of the descendants of the original emperor threw themselves into the endless grinding of flesh and blood, and Xi Chen, who was originally the most likely to ascend to the throne, was unexpectedly quickly defeated in the Battle of the Hundred Kings, and he himself was publicly executed, in exchange for his wife being able to live in peace.

As for why Marshal Xichen, who had the highest prestige and military achievements in the Western Expedition, lost so quickly in the Battle of the Hundred Kings, this has always been a focus of debate among historians, and the most mainstream view at present is that because of Xichen's long-term chivalry, he could not fully display his talents in the all-encompassing imperial civil war, and due to the coercion of possible relatives, he finally had to exchange his life for the safety of his family.

"But what history tells us is always what they want us to see."

Christie said calmly: "Xichen is the marshal of a hundred battles, no matter how cold-blooded and cruel the family civil war is, it is only a part of the war after all, the reason why he gave up fighting for the throne is more because of the sleepiness of the war and the search for the meaning of the war." ”

"I was able to meet the saint after I had been given the position of head of the Clouft family, and at that meeting I asked him this question, and his answer was simple, only four words."

"The world is alive."

"Actually, for a long period of time, Xi Chen has coveted the throne, in the years when the original emperor was still alive, the owner of the throne of thorns naturally did not think about the second person, but the original emperor will die after all, after all, he is just a former saint, and the time of sanctification is extremely short, so after the death of the original emperor, who can inherit the throne, how to inherit the throne, for a long time, is the problem that Xi Chen considers."

"That's why the Clouft family exists."

"Because Xichen has been fighting outside all the year round, his control over the local territory is far less than that of those brothers who have been entrenched there for a long time, so he must rely on external forces, and the land of the commercial federation on the road that the western political army must pass through is an excellent fulcrum, so he liberates the entire Clouft family with official duties, and allows it to develop in the commercial federation, which is to lay the most sure hole card for the battle for the throne after him."

"However, when everything went as he expected, the Primordial Emperor died, the world was in turmoil, and a hundred kings rose together, at this time he only needed to raise his arms and command his Blazing Legion, which had obeyed him only since the death of the Primordial Emperor, and cooperate with the already entrenched Clouft family, with his talent and prestige, it was only a matter of a gesture to cut off the hundred and so rebel kings one by one, and the only thing to worry about was time."

"But at this time, Marshal Tu, the man who once slaughtered countless living beings in the west, began to doubt what he had done."

"I can't estimate what kind of mental journey that the saint had before he became holy, but what we know is not the slightest false."

"In public history, Xichen was executed in public, but his wife and children were well protected, and for this reason, many historians believe that it may have been a deal between Xichen and his enemies."

"In fact, the deal is likely to have existed, but the content is not quite what historians believe."

"After Xichen's death, the Blazing Legion completely rebelled, supported the army and became self-reliant, and for hundreds of years became a kingdom of its own, unrestrained by anyone, not even the Blade of Disillusionment, and decades after the end of the War of the Hundred Kings, due to some coincidence, Xichen's great-grandson sat on the throne of thorns, and his knotted wife became the old woman who secretly 'ruled' the Sturt Empire for hundreds of years."

"From these facts, we can deduce many things."

"Because Xichen abolished all the hidden bloodlines before he became holy, so at any time, we regard him as a saint of the human race, not a saint of the hidden race, in the following hundreds of years, he has never interfered with anything in the Sturt royal family, but has done something in the human world that is secret but far-reaching, but even so, the Sturt royal family still because of this saint who once belonged to them, has made many almost flattering changes, and the Sturt emperor who flows with his blood is one of them, The old woman with a high status was naturally one of them, but at that time, the current royal family of Sturt probably knew that Xia was once their clan's existence was already a handful, but those things that had been done had been deeply imprinted on their bodies. ”

Ge Sheng listened quietly, and through Christie's narration, he finally understood some things that he had been puzzled about before.

For example, the origin of the blade of disillusionment in the body of Qingli Sichun, such as where he got the allegiance of the Blazing Legion, the reason why Qingli Sichun was able to become the emperor of Sturt today is probably inseparable from some of the approvals given to him by this former distant ancestor and current saint, after all, as far as Ge Sheng knows, Qingli Sichun is the first qualified person selected by Xia, and the person who has the hope of becoming the true successor of Xia.

Christie didn't pay attention to Ge Sheng's divergent associations about the fourth spring of Qingli, but continued: "Although Xia gave up all the causes and effects that he had left in the world as Xichen after becoming holy, some causes and effects were not broken if he was willing to give up, and his inextricable connection with the old woman was like this, and so was the Clouft family. ”

"My Xia Jean butler is the most important secret chess piece that Xichen left in the Clouft family, one that can ensure that even if the entire Clouft family rebels against him, he can easily regain control of the family's flag."

"It's just that after he became a hero, this chess piece was idle, but it is estimated that this sage did not expect that his chess piece would become the most important arbiter in the entire chess game in the end."

"That's why I have the courage to show up in front of the other two parties at the end."

"Only by gaining the trust of Xia Jean Butler can I have the certainty and confidence not to die in this civil strife."

(End of chapter)