Read Novel Full Chapter 1400: Chapter 1394: You Knew All Along
Chapter 1400: Chapter 1394: You Knew All Along
The scenery of the Northern Frontier was the chill of all things frozen.
Min Youguo, the Imperial Preceptor who wielded immense power over the imperial court, actually pulled his cloak tighter around himself in this mortal chill.
A servant beside him offered a cup of hot tea.
The old man cupped the tea with both hands. He truly had grown old; even though he gripped the teacup so tightly, he still couldn’t stop his hands from trembling, causing the tea to continuously spill over the rim.
Heaven knows how much hardship it took for him to finally bring the teacup to his lips, but the hot tea had already gone completely cold in this winter air.
The steam from the hot tea clung to his eyelashes and eyebrows, turning into water droplets that slid down the corners of his deeply wrinkled eyes.
In the distance.
Lin Jiu, who was holding a brush and painting, paused his movements.
He slightly raised his head, looking from afar at Min Youguo, who seemed to have aged significantly in an instant.
He said in a deep voice, “Old thing, you only have this one son.”
Min Youguo remained silent.
Lin Jiu continued, “He is second to no genius in this world. He is smarter than anyone, possessing far-reaching vision. With his aptitude, he even has a chance of becoming a Great Emperor, and he works harder than anyone else in the mortal realm.”
“He… is only missing a loving father, and a bit of luck.”
Min Youguo shivered. The Northern Frontier was too cold, a bone-piercing chill.
“Give him a chance. As long as you and I are willing, not even the ruler of heaven himself can stop us from saving his life!”
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Inside the Peerless Hall.
Li Xinnian still couldn’t believe everything unfolding before his eyes.
He had been wrong. From the very beginning, it wasn’t Mu Xueqing and Min Tiange trying to steal everything from Su Chen and subsequently launching a sneak attack while he was breaking through!
In the beginning… Mu Xueqing and Min Tiange were saving the world.
“The Immortal Court should not emerge.”
Mu Xueqing’s stunningly beautiful face was filled with sorrow.
“According to ancient tales, the Immortal Court has always enslaved the people of the world.
No matter how much I tried to persuade you, you still insisted on reviving the Immortal Court. You have always believed that only immortals could save the mortal realm.”
“I only believe in those who treat me well. The immortals helped me, so I help the immortals,” Su Chen said furiously.
He couldn’t believe that even after sixty thousand years, this woman, Mu Xueqing, still stood on the moral high ground to criticize him.
She spoke with self-righteous indignation, yet she swung the butcher’s knife at her own man!
“You cannot distinguish good from bad. Unfortunately, between the world and my lover, my heart must lean toward the world.”
Mu Xueqing’s smile was poignantly beautiful.
“There was only one person in the world who would help me: Min Tiange.
He was always chasing your shadow, but I knew that at the very least, he could distinguish right from wrong, and he understood the grand righteousness of the world. He has a good father.”
“But you were wrong,” Su Chen sneered coldly.
“I was not wrong. Originally, he was just like me, wanting to set things right. But later, everything changed,” Mu Xueqing said.
“He is eternally unwilling to submit to anyone. Min Youguo acts like a running dog before the Human Emperor; how could he possibly resign himself to that?”
“I guarded against everything, but in the end, I let down my guard. Min Tiange is far smarter than you.
He hid it from me, and by the time I found out, he had already taken control of the Grand Tower and the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems.”
“It was too late for everything. The person who killed you ultimately turned into you.”
“Many years ago, I had already discovered your rebirth. It was most likely the work of the immortals as well; they toy with the people of the world.”
Mu Xueqing slowly closed her eyes, her tear-stained eyelashes fluttering.
“I have lost for sixty thousand years. Perhaps I could never have won in the first place. It is not that I cannot win against the immortals; it is that I cannot win against the human heart.”
“Eldest Brother!!!”
A furious roar echoed within the space; it was Li Xinnian roaring. He understood absolutely everything now.
Sixty thousand years ago, there were no truly good people, nor were there any truly evil ones.
They wandered the boundary between good and evil, until today, sixty thousand years later, offering up their lives to the bewitchment of the immortals.
“Eldest Brother, stop this.” Li Xinnian’s eyes were bloodshot.
“Right now, the immortals within the Blood Moon are invading our homeland. Qingya foresaw the future; she will die—she will die in the immortals’ invasion!!!”
“Eldest Brother!”
Li Xinnian’s voice was hoarse from shouting. Su Chen, having completed his mortal transformation, experienced a drastic change in expression.
His gaze was vacant. “Qingya will die? No, she won’t. The immortals revere me as the Son of Heaven. Once I return beneath the Blood Moon, I will make them stop the invasion, and everything will end.”
Hearing this, Li Xinnian looked at Su Chen’s wavering expression.
His own gaze turned blank as he subconsciously asked, “Eldest Brother, you knew all along, didn’t you?”
“What did you say?” A trace of panic flashed through Su Chen’s eyes.
“You knew what the Blood Moon was.”
Li Xinnian’s eyes lost their focus.
“When Min Tiange led the Wu Tribe’s invasion, you were in the Western Frontier with us. No, even earlier than that.
According to everything Mu Xueqing said, Min Tiange’s connection with the immortals was stolen from you.
That means back in the Western Frontier, when Min Tiange lured the Wu Tribe into the Central Plains, and when Crown Prince Fei Heng devoured people, you already knew.”
Su Chen’s silence confirmed everything Li Xinnian had said.
Li Xinnian felt as if a massive boulder was pressing down on his chest, almost suffocating him.
The pent-up breath rushed to his head, nearly forcing tears from his eyes. Yet, he continued to suppress them, to the point that his voice trembled.
“But you said absolutely nothing. My Great-Great-Grand-Aunt Tianyue died because of this.”
“I…” Su Chen’s body trembled.
“You pretended to know nothing. I know your temperament; you didn’t want things to develop this way either.”
As Li Xinnian spoke, he actually laughed. Perhaps only by doing this could he keep himself from breaking down completely, though he still couldn’t suppress his trembling lips.
“You hypocritically helped us look for Min Tiange, and you did the exact same thing in the Western Frontier.”
“You hid in the shadows, sitting idly by and watching everything. In reality, you knew exactly what was going to happen all along.
You knew the truth behind Min Tiange’s karmic opportunity, you knew what the Blood Moon was, and you knew about the existence of immortals far earlier than any of us.”
“Yet you didn’t say a single word, pretending to help us. Helping us find the people of the Grand Tower was, in truth, just forcing Min Tiange into a corner.
Helping us deal with the Lotus Ferry Nunnery and the Nirvana Sage Elder was all to orchestrate a situation where Min Tiange had no way out.”
“Until the Blood Moon rose.”
Li Xinnian’s lips stopped trembling. He glared coldly at Su Chen.
“You knew that everything for the Immortal Court you wanted to establish sixty thousand years ago would be handled by Min Tiange on your behalf.
As for you, you went to undergo your mortal transformation.
Now, you can return to take revenge on those who stopped you sixty thousand years ago, take revenge on Mu Xueqing, and take revenge on Min Tiange, effortlessly reaping the rewards of the Blood Moon that Min Tiange served up to you.”
“Xinnian, it isn’t like that.” Su Chen’s expression softened. “I treated you all as my clansmen. I am a member of the Li Clan!”
“I know.”
Li Xinnian nodded and said, “I am not stupid. I can feel that you truly considered yourself a member of our Li Clan, just as you considered yourself the restorer of the Immortal Court. Otherwise…”
“After I learned everything, you would definitely have killed me.”
Li Xinnian looked earnestly at Su Chen. “Would you? Eldest Brother?”
“I…”
Su Chen’s face was deathly pale.
Li Xinnian’s expression gradually turned cold.
“You wouldn’t. But, Su Chen… you forgot. You considered yourself a member of our family. I don’t care whether you are the Child of Destiny or the Son of Heaven; you must abide by the family rules.”
“Because your actions resulted in harm to your clansmen, I, the former Patriarch and the eldest son of the Li Clan’s eighth generation, judge you in violation of the family rules.”
“The second family rule: Treason against the clan.”
“Those who betray the clan must die!”
Su Chen stared at Li Xinnian in disbelief.
He was alarmed by Li Xinnian’s coldness and ruthlessness at this moment, hastily saying, “Xinnian, I…”
But before his voice could fade, Li Xinnian’s gaze plunged him into an icy abyss.
Blood qi… majestic blood qi surged from Li Xinnian’s body.
Even at the peak of the Void Refinement realm, Li Xinnian’s strength at this moment was still terrifying.
That blood qi erupted from Li Xinnian’s massive Blood Spirit Dharma Avatar; it was Li Xinnian’s boundless fury!
“Senior Zishu, Mu Xueqing.”
Following Li Xinnian’s sharp shout, Mu Xueqing shook her head and stood up.
At the entrance of this secret domain within the Peerless Hall, Zishu Feng, who had been hiding in the shadows all along, slowly walked in.
The Golden Dragon Flag in her hand snapped loudly in the wind.
“Kill him.”
Feeling these three majestic auras carrying boundless murderous intent, Su Chen was struck with panic.
He hadn’t expected that even Li Xinnian would misunderstand him so deeply, going so far as to attempt to kill him after his mortal transformation.
“Xinnian, are you crazy?!! I am your brother!”
Li Xinnian’s gaze was enough to chill anyone to the bone.
This gaze felt exceedingly foreign to Su Chen, like watching a sheep tear off its disguise.
“But Eldest Brother, you forgot. I am also your brother.”
“Only this time, I will no longer defend you, and I will let you see the real me.”
…
“Su Chen!!!”
Beneath the Blood Moon, Min Tiange roared with absolute madness. Like a lunatic, he transformed into a streak of light and headed toward the Imperial Capital.
He was in despair; he was mad.
He had schemed his entire life, but he absolutely never calculated that everything he did would be entirely futile.
When he sensed Su Chen entering the Peerless Hall, he had already understood everything.
Just as the Spirit Lord had said, the immortals had never accepted him.
The one the immortals had accepted all along was the ‘grateful’ Su Chen, the true Son of Heaven.
How laughable that he had spent his entire life striving for the restoration of the Immortal Court!
At this moment, he recalled the words his father had once spoken to him.
His father had told him to stop; his father had said nothing would come to a good end.
He had lived his entire life in Su Chen’s shadow. More than once, he wondered how a person like Su Chen could become the ‘Son of Heaven’.
Clearly, only someone like him—smarter, more hardworking, and with far-reaching vision—deserved to be the ‘Son of Heaven’.
Everything Su Chen possessed should have rightfully belonged to him!
It wasn’t until now that he finally understood: Su Chen was indeed unworthy, but it was precisely because he was unworthy that he was exactly what the immortals wanted.
Because Su Chen was easier to manipulate!
“I will kill you all! I’ll let you die alongside the Imperial Dynasty, and let the Blood Moon die with you!”
He was mad. In his eyes, everything was the exact same color as the Blood Moon. Right now, he only wanted to destroy everything he had created!
And then…
A square cube manifested before his eyes.
Barriers and array formations rose into the air one after another, blocking his path and obstructing his hatred-filled eyes.
A boundless sea of blood descended from the sky. By the time he calmed down amidst the life-and-death crisis, he found himself already within a Dao Domain.
A foul, metallic stench assaulted his nose as the crashing waves of the blood sea played the most impassioned symphony.
Raising his head, familiar silhouettes emerged one after another.
The people of the Azure Cloud Li Clan!
Atop the silver coffin, which stood out conspicuously amidst the blood-red hue, a man clad in black robes stood with profound iron chains swirling nimbly around him.
The ultimate oppressive might emanating from the Underworld made this person appear capable of judging anyone’s life.
Li Dalong looked down with pity at Min Tiange, who resembled a cornered, bristling dog.
This entity, who had once orchestrated everything from behind the scenes, was now so incredibly pathetic.
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