The night outside was pitch black, and the sword practice room was still brightly lit.

Ning Hongyuan suddenly remembered that at the martial arts test conference three days later, he could finally raise his eyebrows, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart.

However, Ning Hongyuan still didn't dare to slack off, and after a few hours of sword skill cultivation, he began to take the opportunity of rest as usual, staying up all night to read hard, reading some history and some ancient books.

Just then, the door opened.

A majestic figure walked towards Ning Hongyuan.

Ning Hongyuan hurriedly got up to greet him, "Father!"

Ning Yiwu smiled lightly, "It's so late, still not sleeping?"

"Didn't you sleep too?"

Ning Yiwu smiled slightly, seeing that his son was still practicing sword and reading late at night, he turned his head back, put his hands behind his back, walked to the door, and immediately turned around, facing Ning Hongyuan and said: "You kid, come with me, I have something to say to you!"

"Yes!" Ning Hongyuan had roughly guessed what was going on.

Ning Hongyuan followed in the footsteps of Ning Yiwu and came to a mountain cliff.

The mirror-like moon hung in the sky, composing the silver light on the earth.

Occasionally, a fish leap broke through the silence of the river night, and then fell into boundless silence.

Ning Yiwu pointed to the dense forest in the northwest direction and asked, "According to reliable information, within a month, a great change will occur in my Divine Sword Sect, do you know?"

The northwest direction here is the direction of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, and Ning Hongyuan probably knows what it means.

Ning Hongyuan looked in the direction his father pointed out, and thanked him, "Father is here for the Ten Thousand Swords Sect?"

Ning Yiwu smiled faintly, "Oh? You know this? Without my permission, did you take the old man with white eyebrows out?"

Ning Hongyuan said: "He was hit by his father's seal of life and death, and he couldn't recover to his former martial arts strength for a while, I don't think he would run!"

Ning Yiwu patted him on the shoulder, "Whether he runs or not, I actually don't care, I care about your safety!"

Ning Hongyuan was a little surprised, "Thank you father for your concern, didn't my father plan to hold him hostage as a pawn?"

Ning Yiwu sighed, "After I pondered it carefully, I found that this chess piece was actually not as useful as I imagined, and it might be useful at best in the end, but it was just a reason for the Ten Thousand Swords Sect to find a famous teacher." ”

Ning Hongyuan paused for a long time before asking, "Is my father going to kill him?"

Ning Yiwu asked rhetorically, "Do you want to save his life?" is he the mastermind behind the previous plot to assassinate you. ”

"It's all gone, so why bother. ”

Ning Yiwu looked up to the sky and laughed, "You have such a state of mind, it really comforts my father." ”

"And what is my father going to do with him?"

"Do you want to hear what you're talking about?" replied Ning Yiwu.

"My father made it clear that I couldn't get along with my father for the sake of an outsider, and no matter how broad-minded I was, I wouldn't be pedantic to this extent. ”

"He must die in the end, and there is no room for two tigers on one mountain. ”

Ning Hongyuan sighed, "Is there no room for maneuver?

Ning Yiwu also sighed, "I don't want to kill him, after all, he was once a comrade-in-arms, but he left behind endless troubles, you know the reason, I must have told you that I have different political views from him, and his ambition is so big, it is impossible for him to coexist in the world!"

Ning Hongyuan was silent.

Ning Yiwu continued: "Did you go to the Black Cloud Forest before? Where did you go, when I went to look for him just now, his expression changed greatly, so greedy for life and afraid of death, he actually put life and death out of the way, what did you do to him?"

"I helped him reclaim his lost beauty. ”

When Ning Yiwu heard Ning Hongyuan's words, his expression was suddenly stunned, and after a long time, he said, "You let him return to himself?"

Ning Hongyuan took a few steps forward, his expression indifferent, " He is not a person who likes the struggle for power, this troubled era has changed the original intention of many people, in the final analysis, the reason why he is like this, is nothing more than because of the fault of the first emperor, the first emperor once in order to recruit soldiers, in order to expand war preparations, etc., urgently need money, so he had to send a young white-eyed old man to rob the tomb, and finally because he was afraid that the matter would be revealed, affecting his majesty, not only did he not reward his merits, but also wanted to kill people, so it seems that father, you once felt that he was a great hero of the emperor, a careless mistake, it would lead to such a result, a mistake forced out a careerist, how many people were killed。 ”

Ning Yiwu listened to Ning Hongyuan's meaningful words, smiled proudly, and then patted Ning Hongyuan's shoulder, "You kid, it's amazing! Twenty-five years old has such knowledge, I haven't heard you say these words for a long time, since you said that the old man with white eyebrows is a careerist, then what is a hero?"

"I don't know what a hero is, but I know very well that the former emperor is not such a magnificent person!"

Ning Yiwu said: "Don't say these words to outsiders, do you know why my father always said that the emperor was great?"

Ning Hongyuan said calmly: "Back to my father, I don't know. ”

"That's a banner, there is no perfect person in the world, you don't want to be too harsh on the emperor, I want to unite people's hearts, I have to set up a heroic image, now the world is still the emperor's, I can't trespass!"

Ning Hongyuan said: "I know that my father is sad in his heart, and now the world still misses the era when the emperor was alive, and my father wants to use this image to unite the hearts of the people in the world, but my father has not thought about it." ”

"What are you going to say?" Ning Yiwu asked rhetorically.

"If my father unifies the world in the future, will those who remember the former emperor be loyal to their father?

Ning Yiwu sighed, "This is where I am sad. ”

Ning Yiwu pointed to the endless sky, "I have a hundredfold confidence in the unification of the world, but after the unification of the world, a mess of things makes me frown." ”

"Is my father worried about whether he should continue the old path of the emperor or explore a new path?"

Ning Yiwu laughed, "Those who know me, my son too!"

"If my father continues the old path of the former emperor, although there will be no large-scale political confrontation, but hundreds of years later, today's chaos will surely recur again, but if my father explores a new road that has never been taken, it must be resolutely opposed by many stubborn people, and this new road has no lessons from the past, it is far more difficult than continuing the old road of the former emperor, and compared to the first road, many people will die!"

"I am very pleased that you have such foresight, since the battle of the ancient tribes, this heavenly domain has been chaotic for tens of thousands of years, and they have grown up in the years of half peace and half war, but after growing up for tens of thousands of years, they are still like a child. ”

Ning Hongyuan suddenly plucked up his courage and asked loudly: "In that case, why doesn't my father give up this ideal of dominating the world? Our family will go to the new Martial Realm Plane and pursue the Great Dao together!"

Ning Yiwu's tone instantly became heavier, "Do you want me to go to other martial realm planes with you, if that happens, will it lead to the ancestral land?"

This world needs a lonely swordsman, and it also needs a so-called "man of fame and fortune" like me, who is looked down upon by a lonely swordsman, hahaha! You know these truths. ”

Ning Hongyuan suddenly stood in awe, immediately knelt on his feet, and said while bowing: "Father is angry, the child just said what he thinks, if the father insists on dominating the world, the child will definitely go all out to help his father, and there will never be any complaints!"

Ning Yiwu turned around and didn't help him up, "I don't mean to blame you, why don't I want to put this ideal aside, but I can't bear it, do you know that Yu'er's mother has been protecting us? Protect us from being stolen by those robbers from the rest of the Martial Realm plane, if the people of the Heavenly Realm are united, why are we afraid of these foreign thieves? Those Venerables behind Yu'er, every time I talk to them, I feel that I am inferior, do you know why I am inferior?"

Ning Hongyuan, who was kneeling on the ground, bowed his head again and bowed, "Please speak up, father!"

His forehead was already bleeding, but Ning Yiwu still didn't pick him up.

"I have low self-esteem, they are so united, several of them have the sword venerable level realm, they are so concerted, there is no personal ambition, but what about our heavenly domain? let alone the sword venerable! Hmph, the little swordsman claims to be big, I don't know how many more poisonous seven swords you told me about before! So, I don't have the confidence to speak, and I don't have the face to be on an equal footing with them, I am sad!"

Speaking of this, Ning Yiwu suddenly changed his words, "I'm sad, I'm sad why my people don't unite, why they fight in the nest! Why do I always think that strangers always want to harm myself, for this reason, I once wanted to change all this by doing chivalrous and righteous ways, but in the end I found that I was wrong, this way didn't work, this time, I tried another way." ”

"In what way?"

"War!"

Ning Hongyuan was silent.

"Although I am sad, but I don't give up, I just want them to see if the people of my heavenly realm can work together! Can they unite as one! The reason why I didn't blame you for taking the white-eyed old man out of the sword practice room without permission is because I understand him a lot, his ideal end point is the same as mine, and the path is different. ”

Ning Hongyuan bowed again: "Father's ambition, the child is ashamed!"

Ning Yiwu said: "Get up, I only say these words to your two brothers, and I have never mentioned your mother!"

Ning Hongyuan stood up and said, "My father came to visit late at night, so there must be something important to discuss!"