Chapter 366: Brother Zheng: Hongming Sword?

'You have the ability to rebel, and that is your sin!'

Tianxuan and Li Kai did not say this out loud, but the father-in-law and son-in-law knew it very well.

In an instant, the atmosphere in the hall became depressing, as if a dark cloud had fallen from the sky and weighed heavily on the hearts of the father-in-law and son-in-law.

"So, you'd better take Nanyue and the others and leave quickly!" After a long silence, Li Kai, who was Tianxuan's father-in-law and son-in-law, raised his head again and said to Tianxuan earnestly.

Tian Xuan smiled calmly: "Father-in-law, leave? Where can I go?"

Li Kai hadn't thought it through yet, and hesitantly asked, "Return to the Western Region?"

"No!" Tian Xuan rejected Li Kai's proposal. "Although the Western Regions Protectorate has been established, and most of the Western Regions are under the jurisdiction of the Qin Dynasty, I conquered them. However, Your Majesty has long been on guard against me or others occupying the Western Regions to rebel. At the beginning, Your Majesty sent hundreds of students to Wushuang City just to throw sand under my hand."

"In addition, at least half of the troops of the Western Regions Protectorate were transferred from the Central Plains. If I want to rebel in the Western Regions, Your Majesty only needs to send an imperial edict to bring the Western Regions Protectorate to the brink of collapse. By then, there will be opposition forces such as Loulan in the Western Regions, and Your Majesty will be watching covetously in the Central Plains."

"My fate will be a miserable death!"

"Then, why don't you just give up this official uniform and become a man of the world?" After hearing this, Li Kai realized that letting Tianxuan occupy the Western Regions and become the king would not work, so he gave another suggestion.

"It still won't work!" Tian Xuan denied again, "Now, I am wearing this official uniform. Even if His Majesty wants to deal with me, he has to think twice. If I take off this official uniform and become a wanderer, I don't know if the remnants of the six kingdoms will let me go. Even if the remnants of the six kingdoms don't cause trouble for me, His Majesty will take advantage of the situation and list me as the number one threat that must be eliminated!"

"This is not okay, and that is not okay!" Li Kai was really angry at this cheap son-in-law, and scolded him unhappily, "Then what do you want?"

"It's very simple." Tian Xuan said calmly, "Just pretend nothing happened and return to Guanzhong. If His Majesty wants, just give him the Hongming Sword."

While saying this, Tianxuan lowered his head and looked at the divine sword hanging on his waist, his eyes full of reluctance. Although he was very unwilling, Tianxuan knew in his heart that if Zhengge wanted it, he could only give this sword to Zhengge!

"In addition to presenting the sword to His Majesty," Tianxuan paused and continued, "I also know the whereabouts of another divine weapon that is not inferior to the Hongming Sword in terms of symbolic significance or power. The most important thing is that it is still a sword! When the time comes, I will report the information about this sword to His Majesty, which will be enough to reassure His Majesty."

"This is the only way." After listening to Tianxuan's words, Li Kai pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement with Tianxuan's opinion.

"Father-in-law," putting aside the private matter for the time being, Tian Xuan looked at Li Kai seriously with an indifferent look, "We should discuss how to deal with the Shushan clan!"

"My Lord, what are your plans?"

Following Tianxuan's words, Li Kai changed his identity. He was no longer a good father-in-law who patiently advised his son-in-law and was afraid that his daughter would become a widow. He became an official of the Qin Empire again, stood up from his chair, and said to Tianxuan with a serious expression.

"First, the resettlement location of the dispersed Shushan people should be as far away as possible. In addition, the Shushan clan's Shu brocade is world-renowned. Although the most outstanding weavers will be included in the empire, the others should not be underestimated."

"That makes sense." Li Kai agreed with Tian Xuan's point of view. "There are five or six thousand people in Shushan. It would be most appropriate to place them in a place with many silkworms in groups of one hundred."

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Guanzhong, Xianyang City.

The Four Seas Return to One Hall. Dusk had already arrived, and there was not even a cloud in the western sky, only an empty expanse. As the light gradually dimmed, bright candles lit up in the Four Seas Return to One Hall, illuminating this hall that handled all matters, big and small, of the Great Qin Empire.

Zheng Ge, this great emperor who was both legendary and talented, sat upright on the dragon throne, his ink-stained brush moving across thin papers, reviewing memorials submitted by the civil and military officials of the Qin Dynasty.

Suddenly, a strange shadow appeared in the seemingly empty hall. A lonely and melancholy figure with stubble under the chin appeared in the candlelight. The strong and strange yin energy around him turned into ghosts.

Black and white mysterious!

"Xuan Jian, what happened?"

Zheng Ge, who was among the first to revise the memorial, knew who the person was without raising his head. Because Xuan Jian showed up without being summoned by him, Zheng Ge's thick eyebrows were slightly frowned, and he asked unhappily.

"Your Majesty, an incredible piece of information has come from Lord Wushuang!"

Facing Zheng Ge's implicitly hostile question, Xuan Jian's strong body trembled, and he knelt on the ground subconsciously with his head lowered, offering the most sincere submission to Zheng Ge.

"What information?"

Xuan Jian told him everything: "After Wushuang arrived in Shu County, he joined the mountain troops formed by Li Kaifeng, the governor of Shu County. There were a total of 5,000 of them. Afterwards, Wushuang led these 5,000 mountain troops to attack Shu Mountain, but......"

In front of Zheng Ge, Xuan Jian reported to Zheng Ge in detail the intelligence collected by his men, from the meeting between Tianxuan and Li Kai, the father-in-law and son-in-law, to Tianxuan leading the elite masters of the army to climb Mount Shu, to the supreme divine sword Hongming Sword that was sealed in Yu Yuan by Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi himself, which appeared in the world because of Tianxuan's arrival, and so on!
One thing after another, it seemed as if Xuan Jian was in Shu at that time and witnessed it all.

Bang!

'The Hongming Sword has appeared, and I recognize the Wushuang Lord Tianxuanzi as my master!'

While Xuan Jian was telling all this, Zheng Ge was still focusing on the first batch of revised memorials, as if even if the sky collapsed at any moment, it would not be as important as dealing with these memorials. However, the key point mentioned by Xuan Jian was easily extracted by Zheng Ge. When Xuan Jian finished speaking, Zheng Ge's face suddenly changed, and a solemn look appeared on his handsome face.

As a result, the brush held in Zhengge's hand slipped out of his hand and fell into the inkstone filled with ink.

"Hongming Sword?"

Such a piece of news could not help but distract Zheng Ge. His tall figure left the dragon throne and paced on the high platform where the dragon throne was located, muttering this title in his mouth, and his eyes, which were full of brilliance and seemed to encompass the splendid rivers and mountains of the Great Qin Empire, showed a hint of excitement.

"Your Majesty, the Hongming Sword was created by Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi. It is a peerless divine weapon that only emperors are qualified to wield."

Xuan Jian, who was kneeling in the hall, listened to the meaningful words coming down from the high platform. A cold murderous intent appeared on his face, which was extremely melancholy due to the loss of his wife and son. He gave advice to Zheng Ge who was sitting on the throne.

"Now that I have acknowledged you as my master, Lord Wushuang, should I make some arrangements..."

Xuan Jian stopped talking halfway through his words, but the deeper meaning behind his words was self-evident.

"No need." Xuan Jian's words awakened Zheng Ge. A smile of wisdom appeared on Zheng Ge's handsome face, which inherited the appearance of his mother Zhao Ji.

(End of this chapter)