"Why?"

"Six hundred and seventy-seven years ago, three hundred and sixty-four days ago, you left the Hundred Herbs Garden to meet your senior brother and me, and you said at that time, if we could help the first emperor ascend the throne, what would you do? Two hundred and fourteen years and sixty-nine days ago, the first emperor's eye disease worsened, and he was unable to see, so he decided to let you correct the folds on his behalf, and asked my senior brother and me for their opinions. Twenty years ago, before the Emperor returned to the Sea of Stars, you told the Emperor that you would return the throne to the Chen family after only one year, but ......"

"You mean that I should pass on the throne to ...... as promised One of these pieces of waste?"

The Holy Empress of Tianhai looked at the fifteen chariots that had entered Kyoto, and looked at the princes of the Chen clan on the chariots, with a mocking smile on her face.

"This is a very good reason, the so-called righteousness of the common people does seem to be more important than personal commitments, and you will also say that you have to consider the survival of the Tianhai family. ”

The Taoist stood in the rain and looked at the Heavenly Book Tomb, and said calmly: "But these reasons could have been used twenty years ago, but now they can't, because I have already thought about it for you." ”

The Heavenly Sea Holy Empress retracted her gaze, looked at the picture in the night, and said, "Then in your opinion, to whom should my throne be passed on?"

The Taoist is in the picture, it should be on the street of the southern city of Kyoto, but it seems to be elsewhere at the same time.

No one can be sure of his true location now, because he doesn't have a real location, he is like a swallow in the light rain, seemingly in the rain, or maybe above the rain.

He said: "Of course, the throne of the Great Zhou should be passed to Niangniang, you and the only son of the first emperor. ”

Chen Changsheng was behind the Heavenly Sea Holy Empress, but she didn't turn around, and said indifferently: "Pass it on to this little guy who is going to die?"

"The first emperor has many sons, but Niangniang, you only have this one son, he is the prince of course, in addition to the blood of the Chen royal family in his body, there is also the blood of the Tianhai family, after ascending the throne, he will naturally take care of his mother's family, and he will inherit the treasure, I believe that the royal family will not have an opinion, and the Tianhai family will not have an opinion, isn't this perfect?"

The Taoist said: "The confluence of the north and the south has been successful, and the Great Zhou Dynasty will surely be eternal, and the only thing that needs to be done is to ask Niangniang Niang to abdicate." ”

It's just abdication, but it's just four words.

It's just a good one.

The Heavenly Sea Holy Queen quietly looked at the Taoist in the rain.

The Taoist stood quietly in the rain and stopped talking, for what he had to say was almost finished, and he believed that the entire continent had heard this conversation with her.

I don't know why, the Holy Queen of Tianhai suddenly laughed, the smile was extremely sparse, and there was a strong sense of ridicule.

"From the time you sent him to Beijing more than two years ago, until now, you seem to have been doing one thing, and that is to let me see him. ”

Chen Changsheng sat on the ground, looked at her tall back, listened to these words, and found that it seemed to be true.

Whether it is the marriage contract with the Eastern Imperial Divine Shogun's Mansion, or the new students of the National Religious Academy, the Qingteng Banquet and the Shinto proclamation, many things that happened in the past seem to be in order for him to grow up faster, and at the same time appear in the sight of the Holy Queen Niangniang as soon as possible.

A lot of things are driven by Archbishop Merissa, but behind him, there must be the figure of that Taoist.

"When you see him, you will be curious, you will be inquisitive, you will be suspicious. ”

Tianhai Sheng put his hands behind his back and said softly to the Taoist in the rain and to the world in the rain: "He is like a green fruit, cultivated by you, ripened, and quietly watched by me, until finally it is about to ripen, exuding a fruity fragrance, being smelled by others, and giving birth to the desire to eat him." ”

"This fruit is very tempting to the whole world, and even more so to me. ”

Tianhai glanced back at Chen Changsheng and said, "If I eat him, it will be the most complete Heavenly Dao cycle, and it will be the most perfect end of this cause and effect. ”

She turned to look at the whole world in the night rain, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of her lips: "But...... I just don't eat it. ”

The whole world was silent, whether it was in the Tensholing Tomb or in Kyoto, only the sound of light rain falling on the ground could be heard.

She continued: "This immortal fruit may be able to help mortals become immortals, but it will only be bad for me. ”

In the end, with some regret, she said with emotion: "The immortal gave me the fruit of longevity...... It's a pity that you're not immortals, you're just human. ”

People only.

Nothing more.

......

......

There is a garden in the kingdom of God, and there is a tree in the garden, and there is a fruit on the tree.

That fruit contains an incomparably abundant life, and as long as you eat it, you can transcend the world and obtain unimaginable spiritual experiences and harvests.

This is a legend, this is the legend of the Holy Light Continent.

The people of this world should not have heard of it, but he did.

The monk from afar slowly raised his head by the stream and looked at distant Kyoto, and there was a touch of solemnity in his clear eyes.

......

......

The Taoist stood in the night rain, still very calm, but he didn't know what his true mood was at the moment.

The streets around were quiet, and in the middle of the night, people were still asleep, only he was awake, but was he awake?

After he appeared from the night rain, none of the rains that fell from the sky could fall on his robe, but at this moment, there were more droplets of water in his hair, crystal clear.

Yes, that immortal fruit is a conspiracy, or rather a bureau.

Except for the scroll of the Western Stream Dictionary hidden after the whole event, there is not much mystery, it is very simple, not complicated.

Since he set up this bureau 20 years ago, he has been very soberly aware of this.

There is no way to be too complicated in this bureau, because it involves the wisdom of the Heavenly Dao, and the more complicated the bureau, the easier it is to arouse the vigilance of people at the level of Tianhai.

But he believed that except for some gods on that distant continent, no one could see through it, and the problem of the immortal fruit, Tianhai could not do it.

And he believed that the immortal fruit was an irrepressible temptation for anyone, especially for Tianhai.

This is a murderous game that is secretly in line with the way of heaven, and there is no reason why it should not be established.

However, Tianhai did not fall into the game.

She didn't see through the question of the immortal fruit, she was just doing what she wanted.

Does she want to eat the elixir?

But she knew that those people had spent countless energy and twenty years to send him to me, ostensibly cutting him off for three years with the Xiliudian, and it seemed that they didn't want her to know who he was, but how could those people not know that she would definitely know who he was?

The whole world waited quietly for her to eat him.

The whole world is ready to watch her eat her own son.

Then she won't eat it.

Even if there may be no problem with this fruit, eating this fruit, or really being able to transcend life and death and enter the realm of true freedom, she still won't eat it.

Not because of vigilance and prudence, but because of loyalty to one's own will.

She is her will.

Her will is that when the whole world wants her to do something, she will not do it.

......

......

After the old temple in Xining Town.

The monk vaguely understood something, and turned his head slightly to look up the stream.

It was late at night, there were no lights in the desolate town, and it was pitch black.

But in his eyes, the surrounding scenery was still as bright as day, and he could see the fish floating quietly in the cracks of the stones, and he could see the petals of flowers drifting in with the flowing water.

The petals floated to his bare feet and slowly swirled.

He smiled and sighed.

There were some regrets, but not disappointed.

......

......

"Or immortality, or eternal fall into the abyss, this is a gamble, if you don't eat him, it doesn't mean that your vision can see through the supreme heavenly way, it can only show that you are afraid. ”

The Taoist standing in the night rain was not disappointed, because this was just the beginning.

He said: "You know that this is the Heavenly Dao Bureau, and your opponent is not me, but the Heavenly Dao, so you don't dare to end up at all." ”

Hearing this, the Holy Queen of Tianhai raised her eyebrows slightly, like a phoenix about to fly.

"Since you are afraid of the Heavenly Dao, aren't you afraid of the backlash of the Heavenly Dao?"

The Taoist looked at her and said calmly, "Don't forget that I was also present when you swore a blood oath to the starry sky. ”

"Even if the way of heaven comes, he is the one who will die. ”

The Heavenly Sea Holy Empress said calmly, "I will watch him die with my own eyes to make sure that nothing happens to me." ”

The Taoist said with emotion: "You are really still the most ruthless person in the world. ”

The Heavenly Sea Holy Queen said, "Each other. ”

The two seemed to be talking to each other, but in fact, they were separated by tens of miles, and sometimes even felt like thousands of miles apart.

Because the position of the Taoist in this world is still ethereal, and it is impossible to determine where it is.

Chen Changsheng didn't know his place in this world.

He used to think that he was a young Taoist priest in the old temple of Xining Town, a student of his master, but now he found that he was just a fruit.

If it can be eaten, it has some value, and if it doesn't, then it will be ignored and just waiting to be ripe, fall, and then pureed.

He was the biological son of the Heavenly Sea Holy Queen, but she was watching him die so calmly.

Logically speaking, the two people who were talking to the whole world at this time should have been his closest people.

One is his biological mother, and the other is the master who raised him as an adult.

However, when they were talking, they didn't even look at him.

Speaking of ruthlessness, who could have experienced it more truly and profoundly than he did tonight?

What is that feeling of indifference, sadness, and laughter?

It's very piercing.

Piercing pain, in a very short time, erupted from all parts of his body.

With a few faint cracks, the golden needle around his neck flew out and pierced deep into the stone slab.

Blood with infinite energy flowed through his guts like a flood.

The remnants of true qi scurried everywhere in his broken meridians, constantly invading his bones and flesh.

Cobweb-like cracks began to appear in his guts.

His face was pale.

He was in pain.

He's going to die.