Chapter 103: Father and Son
The mechanical cloud bird flew back to the top of the temple, and the door on its side automatically opened to put down Prince Mingxi, and the bird's wings clicked, and it returned to the very edge and parked.
The clouds drifted slowly from the waist, and the wind was blocked by the powerful spiritual power on the periphery, but the biting cold spread out from nowhere.
The top of the temple turned out to be an empty flat land, the same mirrored floor tiles reflected the reflection, Prince Mingxi walked a few steps to the center, and there would be a crisp sound of footsteps every step over, and the floor tiles left traces of shattering after he stepped on, and then automatically merged at the moment when he raised his feet, he couldn't help but be frightened, and his eyes subconsciously looked into a more distant place - theoretically speaking, it was impossible to have a bird's-eye view of the entire Feiyuan with the height of the temple, but at this moment, the strange scene of the four realms was really like a beautiful picture scroll slowly spreading out in front of him.
To the north, the majestic mountain of Charm connects the boundless blue sea, and it seems that even the chirping of seabirds is close to the ear, and in the south, the snow-capped fields are endless, and the blue-black rocks are sharp and steep, and to the east, the lush green woods are sprinkled with countless beautiful lakes like pearls, which is in stark contrast to the dusty ancient city of yellow sand in the west!
Prince Mingxi soon realized that it was just an illusion reflected in his eyes, but it still caused shocking ripples in his heart, and he couldn't help but look away for a long time.
What a glory it is to look down on the whole continent in such a place! It is a feeling that makes everyone want to stop it.
Emperor...... This is the top of the pyramid, which belongs only to the supreme authority of the emperor!
"Heh......" Prince Mingxi pressed his forehead, sneered for some reason, and said to the silent emperor on the other side, "What an illusion of great mountains and rivers, my father and emperor look down on his land like a god every day, don't you feel that something is missing?"
"What do you think is missing?" Emperor Tianquan was far away from him, and his voice was very soft, but the crown prince heard it very clearly, and suddenly snorted coldly in his heart, "The places bordering the four realms, including the vast land on the periphery of Tianyu City, can't be seen! Is the father deliberately blinding himself? Here you can only see the prosperity from the four realms, but you can't see the poverty and misery of the wasteland, my father shouldn't remember the topography map of Feiyuan, all the wastelands add up, the total range is more than ten imperial city sizes!" Is it such a big place that you avoid every day?"
Emperor Tianquan closed his eyes slightly, but the corners of his mouth still rose: "What if you see it? The people in the wasteland were originally sinners. ”
Prince Mingxi looked directly into his father's eyes, and the two same pairs of golden pupils flashed diametrically opposed gazes - the people of the wasteland were all former sinners, as long as someone in the ancestors committed a major crime and was expelled from the imperial capital and the four major realms, then this clan will be immortalized and forever branded with the mark of sinners, which cannot be washed away.
"You're not here to talk to me about this, are you?" Emperor Tianquan was unhurried, beckoning to his son and motioning for him to come over, "There is no need to say the excuse of greeting and politeness, there are only you and me, father and son, and there is no need to play clumsy scenes anymore." ”
"I think so, I can't even watch this scene myself. The prince's smile was a little sarcastic, but more helpless, "Let me think about it, where should I start to catch up? Is it the Sea Devil, is it the Night King? Maybe it's the plan to separate the Flying Heaven and the Four Realms? Hehe, do you want to stop moving forward, starting with the Queen Mother?"
"You're not a person without logic...... Emperor Tianquan's face didn't change, he wasn't surprised by the prince's words at all, and even knew what he wanted to ask, and continued, "Mingxi, I actually don't care much about what you want to do, you are the crown prince, the future emperor, you can do whatever you want, this is the power you should have, even if you are planning to seize military power and control the trade of the Mirror Pavilion, I have never deliberately stopped you, do you know why?"
"I do want to know why. Prince Mingxi replied honestly, this has always been his doubt, anyone with a little bit of scheming can see that the power in his hands has far exceeded the "prince" itself, but the emperor has been silent and never interferes with everything he has.
"Huh...... Because you're all going to come back to me eventually. Emperor Tianquan confidently stretched out his hand to him, and Prince Mingxi frowned and asked, "What did you say?"
"I said, you will eventually return to me, no matter what I do, whether it is flying in the sky, whether it is separated from the four realms, or even joining forces with the Night King, it doesn't matter at all, because you will eventually come back to me. Emperor Tianquan repeated word by word, and after a short silence, he suddenly exhaled a breath, withdrew his hand and rubbed his head that began to hurt, Prince Mingxi looked at him strangely, his face was a little pale at this moment, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
He didn't understand his father's words, where did this person get the confidence to say such unrealistic empty words!
"You hate me. After a long time, Emperor Tianquan breathed a sigh of relief and said calmly, "I know you hate me, since that day eighteen years ago, you have hated me all the time, but I have always loved you and want to give you the best of everything. ”
"You have indeed given me the best of everything, a life of fine clothes and food, power above ten thousand people under one person, and the opportunity to cultivate wings, if it weren't for that thing, we should be able to be truly filial piety to our fathers and sons, right?" Prince Mingxi smiled bitterly, and then his voice became more determined, "But why is it like this? The sky is above your head, as long as you raise your head, you can see it, even if you fly to the sky with the flying wall, the sky will still be more farther away, even if you can reach the Heavenly Realm, the Heavenly Realm is still the sky!" Why did you force the queen mother to die for such a childish dream?"
"Childish dreams...... Is it?" Emperor Tianquan did not deny it, his eyes were complicated, "If I knew that she would stop it in this way, it would be a pity not to have such a childish dream...... It's a pity that your mother's temperament doesn't give me any room for regret. ”
"In that case, why don't you give up yet?" Prince Mingxi continued to ask, clenching his palms silently, "If you have the slightest regret, you won't come up with a ridiculous plan to separate the four realms today! You have completely failed the queen mother's determination to die generously, but you are just an ignorant emperor who is selfish and insists on ignorance." ”
"The plan to separate the four borders is not something that exists today, but it has never been implemented. Emperor Tianquan defended himself, but then felt that such an explanation was unconvincing, shook his head again, and frowned, "The original 'Flying Heaven' plan was accurately calculated through the Star Sacrifice Palace, and after I ordered the dark department to visit the four realms to investigate the foundation, the final conclusion was that the results of the calculation were credible and feasible, and then there was a plan to separate the four realms, but this operation has been indefinitely stranded, because it is impossible to find where the original 'shattering' power was hidden." ”
Emperor Tianquan paused for a moment, and suddenly asked, "You should have known about these for a long time, right?"
Seeing that he didn't reply, Emperor Tianquan didn't continue to ask, and said, "The plan to separate the four realms has been forced to suspend until the arrival of the Night King......
"Night King......" Prince Mingxi gritted his teeth, "it was he who let go of the Sea Devil and caused the tsunami to flood the city, killing 100,000 people in the North Shore City!
"That being said, the Night King's power is worthy of the name of the gods. Emperor Tianquan had a thoughtful expression on his face, and without thinking, "Until the Night King appeared, I didn't know why the Emperor's power that had been searching for many years had been missing, and it turned out that the central array needed the same bloodline to get closer, otherwise the only way to restart the blood sacrifice of the year was to slaughter all the creatures in the realm, so the Night King made an agreement with me, he would pay Feiyuan the power to return to the sky, and I only needed to assist him in finding the ancient ...... that devoured him."
"Ridiculous!" Prince Mingxi interrupted him angrily and waved his sleeves violently, "The same bloodline can be close, doesn't that mean that the Night King himself can't find the formation eye at all?Otherwise, why would the gods of the Heavenly Realm deign to cooperate with humans?Then what is the way he is left...... You can only slaughter the whole territory! You can accept such conditions?"
Emperor Tianquan paused for a moment, waiting for him to calm down a little before continuing: "I want to return to the sky no matter what, even if it is just with the Heavenly Imperial City, it doesn't matter if he wants to sacrifice the whole realm with blood, anyway, it is what I want to give up. ”
"You!" Prince Mingxi was shocked and speechless, almost unable to believe that such words could really come out of the mouth of an emperor so casually.
"The Night King put forward two conditions to me, first, he needs the Sea Demon Cang Shark to recover his injured god body, but the Sea Demon Seal has been transferred to the Star Sacrifice Palace, and he will let the descendants of the Spirit Phoenix Clan personally come to lift the seal, as long as the Star Sacrifice Palace turns a blind eye, and second, he needs the Lingyin Clan, who listens to all things, to help find the ancient species, so I promised him to release Lan Xin from the end of the sky, but Governor Gao proposed to me, saying that the Water Hell of the Binding King has been using monsters to test the medicine recently, and the effect is very significant, hoping to release the Sea Devil at the same time, borrow the water fly as a medicine guide, but I didn't expect the Night King to agree......”
"So the test body of the Water Prison of the King escaped out of control, did you provoke it yourself?" Prince Mingxi was incredulous, and even his tone was in a trill, and finally connected all the abnormalities into a thread, "Because it is a water test drug, so after the test body escapes, it will instinctively look for the sea devil body, which accidentally caused the destruction of the end of the sky, Lan Xin was robbed by him, and the Night King will appear in the mirage in person, just because you lost the ...... he wanted to listen to all things."
"There are a lot of coincidences, but most of them are exactly what you say. Emperor Tianquan smiled casually, not paying attention to it at all, "Haishi was accidentally shipwrecked a year ago, and the Night King had already entered the Haishi incognito, he should have started to investigate the situation of Feiyuan at that time, but in the end he still chose to join forces with me, Mingxi, what do you think this means? Hehe, I'm afraid that the Night King thinks it is very difficult to come to the whole realm of the blood sacrifice again, or is it safer to pin his hopes on listening to all things first?"
Indeed, Feng Ji once said that the current strength of the Night King is less than one-ten-thousandth of that year, and such a risky thing as the Blood Sacrifice Territory will undoubtedly be tried until the end of the road.
"Oh, that's ridiculous...... Father, I once thought that you were being taken advantage of, but it turned out that you knew everything, and even took the initiative to help. Prince Mingxi couldn't help but shake his head, and even the last trace of luck in his heart was finally wiped out, "I always thought that someone deliberately provided the medicine guide for the test medicine, deceived you to help lift the seal of the sea devil, and induced the test body to run wild, in order to save Lan Xin and liberate the cang, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it to be you who made the medicine guide with monsters, haha...... The effect is still very significant, isn't it? Sure enough, the current King Binding Water Hell is no longer just studying the art of immortality, right?"
When it comes to "immortality", Emperor Tianquan's gaze suddenly becomes far-reaching, and everyone is rumoring that he dreams of eternal life, so he will be crazy about doing all kinds of human experiments, trying to extend his lifespan, but no one knows how painful it is for him to be lonely now.
"Mingxi, do you know the purpose of the immortal technique?" After a long time, Emperor Tianquan got up and walked towards him, with an unpredictable smile, and approached the prince little by little, "Do you remember what I just said to you? You will all return to me eventually, because your hatred is meaningless at all, your queen mother...... Alive. ”
“......”
"That's why I said it doesn't matter what I do, you'll come back to me eventually. Emperor Tianquan whispered in his ear, such words surrounded the crown prince like a nightmare, Mingxi pushed his father away, and his tone was raised impressively, "Don't try to deceive me in this way! The queen mother died in front of me, I watched her pierce her heart with my own eyes, and watched her buried ...... Don't try to lie to me, don't try to use my mother to win my sympathy!"
Emperor Tianquan completely ignored the prince's hysteria, but clasped his shoulders hard, looked him directly into the eyes and continued: "Why do I long for eternal life? Because I need a long life to find a way to redeem her, why do I insist on returning to the sky? Because only the sky can save her!"
"You lied to me! You lied to me!" Prince Mingxi had lost his mind, and the emotions that had been suppressed for many years were like a volcano erupting at this moment, but a voice came out from the deepest part of his heart, making him have to believe that what his father said was true.
As early as when he was in North Shore City, Lan Xinju revealed that there was a mysterious spell, the father wanted to save a person, that person was about to die, and he could only 'live' in that spell, but the power of the spell was gradually disappearing, and only by returning to the sky could it be maintained for a long time!
At that time, he couldn't help but guess the true purpose of this spell, no matter what he thought, that spell was used to save his mother's queen was probably the greatest.
Now, at the moment when all the speculation came to light, he didn't want to believe that it was true.
This is obviously the result he wants the most, why, why is it so repulsive!
If the queen mother is still alive, what has he hated for so many years? What is the purpose of so many years of scheming and scheming and ups and downs in the political arena? Everything is like a joke and meaningless!
Prince Mingxi gritted his teeth, suddenly understood, and the tears in his eyes poured out uncontrollably - no wonder his father would say the sentence "You will eventually return to me" so confidently, he knew the death hole early on, that is, the queen mother who committed suicide in front of him.
Emperor Tianquan looked at his son contentedly, and gently reached out to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
Wen Yi, Wen Yi, you gave him the purest hatred, made him angry and resisted, and finally investigated the flying plan he dreamed of, and he did his best to oppose it as you expected, but you forgot the most important thing - for the child, the mother is irreplaceable.
For a long time, Prince Mingxi calmed down his emotions, with a fierce light in his eyes, and said word by word: "Where is the queen mother?"
"Huh...... Come with me. Emperor Tianquan took a step back, turned his palm, and a small mirror fell between his palms, and Prince Mingxi's pupils shrank, and he could see at a glance that it was not a mortal thing.
The jade-faced mirror was opened again, and the colorful world behind the mirror reflected a brilliant luster, Prince Mingxi didn't say a word, he straightened his clothes, wiped the tears on his face, and strode in unswervingly.