Chapter 258, the end of life
By the time Chu Hou returned to the court, it was already another month later.
The mountains and rivers that have been divided for hundreds of years will eventually be unified.
It should have been great news, but Chu Xi's time was really not good.
As soon as Empress Chu returned to the palace, she chased Chu Xi Mangong with a sword without even taking off her armor.
"You are an unfilial daughter, you forced your own mother to go to the border to fight the world, but you really have you!"
"It's not a small trick, otherwise Gu Yuan can't believe it!"
"You still keep Gu Yuan as a concubine? There are so many good sons and daughters in the world, do you have to choose one with a lot of thoughts? If you just choose someone as useless as your father, I won't care! β
Emperor Chu: "? β
"Ahem."
After all, this farce was stopped by Emperor Chu.
I saw the words "generosity and righteousness" written on Emperor Chu's face, and hugged the waist of Empress Chu.
"Don't be angry, don't be angry, it's easy to get old when you're angryβ"
"Are you disgusted that I'm old?"
Empress Chu raised her eyebrows, and then, she only heard a rapid and powerful wail.
Afterwards, Chu Xi still asked the doubts in his heart.
"Why is Gu Yuan so sure that I must be pregnant with his child?"
Empress Chu took a sip of tea indifferently: "Man, just do a little more seriously." Since I brought you out that night, I'm sure I'm going to send him another one. After all, Gu Yuan is the prince of a country, and there are still many little palace maids who are covered by you, and their eyes are hot to his body. β
Chu Xi suddenly realized: "No wonder. β
Empress Chu put down the teacup and carefully examined Chu Xi from head to toe.
"What are you doing here, Queen Mother?"
"It's weird." Empress Chu asked curiously, "I don't think you like Gu Yuan either, so what are you doing keeping him by your side?" β
Chu Xi replied in a tone that was unbearable: "After all, it is the winner, and you should always leave someone to witness this hard-won victory with yourself." β
Empress Chu said "hehe": "You are really hard-won." You didn't play your own father to death, you didn't exhaust your mother to death, and you didn't scare your uncle to death. β
Chu Xi coughed twice: "It was you who said that I would do it at the beginning." β
Emperor Chu, who had not spoken, glanced at Chu Xi.
They didn't expect Chu Xi to be so fat at the beginning.
"But after this incident, we have also thought about it."
Chu Xi: "Huh? β
Emperor Chu held a jade seal and handed it to Chu Xi.
The jade seal was made of warm jade, and there were nine lifelike jade dragons carved on it, with distinct scales and whiskers.
Even if he didn't pick it up, Chu Xi also knew what words were engraved underneath.
Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity.
This is the heirloom jade seal of Great Chu, which has always been owned by Emperor Chu.
"I think you've grown up enough to take on the responsibilities of the country."
The jade seal was heavy, Chu Xi calmly held the jade seal, and laughed: "What, my father is going to be the emperor?" β
"What is too emperor." Empress Chu glanced at Chu Xi, "We must be going to visit this great river and mountain, who will stay with you in this suffocating palace." β
βοΌβ Chu Xi said, "How can there be an emperor who will step down before the year of confusion, and how can there be an emperor who will slip away as soon as he leaves office?" β
Emperor Chu held Empress Chu's hand and coughed a few times pretendedly.
"Ahem...... I am already an old man of thirty-eight years old, almost forty years old, and almost fifty years old, so the position of Emperor Chu should be handed over to you, a young man......"
ββ¦β¦β
Chu Xi sighed.
"Well, it's only a matter of time anyway. Since you want to leave the palace and pursue freedom, you can't care what I do. β
Chu Hou waved his hand: "No matter what, it's up to you." β
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In the spring of the nineteenth year of Wanhe, the former Emperor Chu was located in the Showa Emperor Ji Chuxi.
Emperor Showa was called the emperor and renamed "Emperor Zhaoming", and at the same time changed the name of the era to the first year of Showa.
This unprecedented empress has made remarkable achievements, and the day of her accession to the throne is even more joyful for all the people.
She unified the world, which had been divided for many years, and at the same time vigorously developed industry and commerce and agriculture to minimize the losses caused by years of war.
The people are harmonious, and the world is unified.
Everyone in the world calls Emperor Zhaoming a rare Ming monarch in this century, and no one has ever cared about her identity as a woman.
In the fifth year of Showa, Emperor Zhaoming chose to elect the queen.
This is also the only erotic story that is talked about for future generations after Emperor Zhaoming's great achievements.
It is said that the queen of Emperor Zhaoming is Emperor Gu who failed to invade the imperial city of Great Chu and was captured.
However, only the parties concerned know what the facts are.
In the seventh year of Showa, Emperor Zhaoming gave birth to his eldest daughter. As soon as the little emperor was born, she was given the name "Zhaoning" by Emperor Zhaoming, so she was called Emperor Zhaoning.
In the tenth year of Showa, the barbarians came to attack. Lin Qingyuan, the general of the Zhu State, led his troops to annihilate the barbarians in the southeast in one fell swoop, and the rest of the small countries were intimidated by the might of Great Chu and bowed down one after another.
In the fifteenth year of Showa, Emperor Zhaoming established Emperor Zhaoning as the prince, and at the same time, he expanded his territory overseas. A year later, the victory returned.
The name of Emperor Zhaoming resounded throughout the four fields, and the territory of Great Chu also reached its peak at this time.
In later generations, there is no monarch or emperor, and there is no one who can reach the level of Emperor Zhaoming, who is worthy of Emperor Zhaoming's exploits.
"I ......"
Chu Li opened his eyes and his expression was abrupt.
She reached out and found that all the fine lines and folds on her hand had faded, and her aging face had returned to normal.
"Floating Mirror ......"
In the floating mirror, she became the emperor of Da Chu and the later Emperor Zhaoming.
That life has been so long, and it is so real.
There was a slim nothingness all around him, and when Chu Li raised his eyes, he could only see his life of wandering.
No, it's not.
That's not her.
It's Chu Xi.
"The illusion in the floating mirror, everything that happens in the floating mirror is real, but the people who go in choose differently, and the ending in the floating life will be different."
"Do you want to see Chu Xi's original ending?"
"No ......"
Without waiting for Chu Li to answer, the floating mirror automatically showed Chu Xi's story in front of her.
"Chu Xi is an upright and kind person, and when she first met Gu Yuan, she was also in the peach forest of Shangshu Garden. She took pity on Gu Yuan's past, so she saved Gu Yuan, and even chose to shelter Gu Yuan for a long time afterward. β
It took eight years for the two to get to know each other and stay together. Chu Xi fell in love with Gu Yuan, and Gu Yuan also fell in love with Chu Xi. It's just that Gu Yuan is ambitious in his heart, and there are a lot of things he wants, and it is difficult to get them. β
Gu Yuan took advantage of Chu Xi, but Chu Xi still had a deep affection for Gu Yuan. She may have known that Gu Yuan didn't love her so much, and she also knew that Gu Yuan had other thoughts in her heart, but Chu Xi didn't choose to expose it. β
"I know that Gu Yuan's mind is not pure, but he still chooses to love." Chu Li looked at the slender figure in the picture with a cold expression, "Stupid." β
The floating mirror did not respond to Chu Li's words, and continued to narrate Chu Xi's story.
"The Great Chu Imperial City was broken, and Chu Xi stood on the city wall to confront Gu Yuan. Gu Yuan had love for Chu Xi in his heart, but he couldn't let go of the power and the world at his fingertips, so Gu Yuan ignored the choice Chu Xi gave him. Chu Xi was disheartened and jumped down from the city tower, killing two corpses. She exchanged her life for a trace of kindness in Gu Yuan's heart and saved the people in the imperial city. β
"She may be a qualified princess, but she is definitely not a qualified king." Chu Li also experienced Chu Xi's life, and she understood in her heart, "She sacrificed herself for the lives of the people in the city, but she never thought about whether she could sit in that supreme position and protect her own people." β
"Gu Yuan unified the two countries, he let go of Emperor Chu and Empress Chu, and also let Lin Qingyuan go. He is also a wise gentleman who has paid a lot for the world. It's just that since Chu Xi's death, there has never been another woman by his side. Gu Yuan was lonely and widowed all his life, and before he died, he was a minister surnamed 'Shen', and that minister was the descendant of Gu Yuan who swore to chase after him when he was at a low point. β
"I worked hard to give up the world that my beloved fought for, but I gave it to someone with a foreign surname." Chu Li didn't understand, "What is Gu Yuan thinking?" β
"Gu Yuan is in love with Chu Xi, but he also loves the world. Man, always a contradictory race, will only know to cherish after loss. β
Chu Li asked, "So, who are you?" β
"I'm the machine spirit of the Floating Mirror."
"Machine spirits?"
The thing that exists in the world today is basically captured and sent into the spirit weapon.
Because except for the natal sword of sword cultivation, which can slowly condense the spirit of the sword weapon during the Jindan period, the rest of the weapon spirits can only slowly maintain the spirit weapon with their own strength after the monk turns into a god, so that it can give birth to the spirit spirit.
"Do you want to know who the monk who came in with you has become?"
Chu Li asked tentatively, "Is it Lin Qingyuan?" β
He paused for a moment before replying, "Yes." β
But it's not.
Gu Yuan in the floating life is also him.
It's just that...... It seemed that something had imprisoned the floating mirror, so that he could not say those words.
"Also, how could he turn into Gu Yuan."
Chu Li was relieved.
In the floating life, Gu Yuan's choice has basically not changed.
is still self-conscious, and still chooses power to give up Chu Xi.
"So, what's the point of throwing me and him into the floating mirror."
Chu Li thought that Zhong Chenghuan might not be a person who was purely on the side of the evil cultivator.
"The Floating Mirror is something that helps monks through calamities. However, this is the first time I've seen Tsukiki and Monk Jindan here......"
"You're a Superior Spirit Weapon?"
The machine spirit tried it and found that it seemed that he could answer Chu Li's question.
"Yes. After the monk becomes a god, if he wants to advance and return to the void, he must go through the floating life. If you don't experience the floating world, it is difficult to complete the immortal path. Some monks do not want to go into the mortal world, so they choose to enter the floating life. β
Chu Li still wanted to ask, but as soon as the machine spirit finished saying these words, he disappeared.
Chu Li didn't know if the owner behind it had taken it away, or if it had chosen to leave on its own.
But now she is just a foundation building monk, why should she go through the floating life?
Chu Li didn't understand.
In that floating life, every choice Chu Li made was contrary to the original Chu Xi. If Chu Li has anything to gain, there is only that trace of the king's will left.
Life and death are taken away, and I am the only one.