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Chapter 309 The world is a circle
Several packets of medicinal residue were placed in front of Li Dachui.

The items were brought over personally by Wu De.

“According to the rules, all of these things should be destroyed, but now the rules in the palace have been almost completely abandoned. Those eunuchs are lazy and just dump these things into the ditch!” Wu De shook his head and said. “If it were before, it would have been really difficult to get their hands on them, but now it’s a piece of cake.”

Li Dachui opened one of the medicine packets and spread the residue inside onto the table.

Some are easy to identify, but others have been boiled down to the point of losing their original appearance. Some were originally in powder form when used as medicine, but after being boiled down, they are no longer visible and can only be identified by smell.

It may seem like a difficult problem, but for Li Dachui, who is apprenticed under Changchun Valley, it's really not a problem.

"Protector, have you noticed anything wrong?" Wu De asked.

Li Dachui sneered and put the packet of medicine away: "I thought the emperor had some special method to eliminate the problem of attacking the heavens, but it turns out there's still a problem."

"These medicines?"

"Yiming's skill level is quite good!" Li Dachui said, "These medicines are all for calming the mind and soothing the nerves, and they are specifically targeting this problem!"

Li Dachui nodded his head.

The Qin dynasty's conquest of Heaven was a sign of a flawed mind.

Ninghai of Beiyuan is physically damaged.

They are all martial arts that progress very quickly when you start practicing, but in the end they all kill you.

More than a hundred years after the founding of the Li imperial family, they were unable to solve the problem of fighting against the heavens, and eventually basically abandoned this martial art. However, by this time, the Qin Dynasty had already established itself, and the martial arts cultivation of the imperial family was no longer the main point.

Having mastered both literary and martial arts, one can sell one's skills to the emperor.
With enough power, one can naturally attract enough martial arts masters.

Li Anmin is an exception.

He was extremely ambitious and took up the Heaven-Slaying Sword again. Moreover, he was indeed quite talented in martial arts, so he cultivated very quickly.

But ultimately, it cannot avoid the inherent drawbacks of this skill.

"So, how far has it progressed?" Wu De asked.

"Judging from the medication used, the patient is probably already terminally ill!" Li Dachui said calmly.

Wu De was shocked: "Doesn't that mean the emperor won't live much longer!"

“I said being seriously ill doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll die!” Li Dachui laughed. “Remember Li Muyi?”

"Could the emperor go mad?" Wu De suddenly realized.

“If it weren’t for Yiming’s tireless efforts over the years to suppress the emperor’s illness with medicine, the emperor would have gone mad long ago!” Li Dachui said. “But Yiming’s medicines can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. They can delay the eventual onset, but they cannot completely prevent it. So what can we do?”

Wu De pondered for a while, then tentatively asked, "Spiritual travel?"

Li Dachui nodded, pointing to a much smaller pile of medicinal residue. "This is clearly residue from alchemy, but these medicinal herbs are extremely precious. Master Fu of Changchun Valley once refined a pill called the Rejuvenating Pill."

Wu De nodded and said, "I've heard of it. Not only are the medicinal materials required extremely rare and hard to find, but you also need a master alchemist, and you need some luck to successfully make the Rejuvenating Pill."

"However, the Rejuvenating Pill is for people who are seriously injured and whose true energy is almost completely dissipated. It can be considered a cure-all," Li Dachui said. "But if someone like me, who is calm and composed with abundant true energy, were to take it, do you know what the consequences would be?"

"I'm afraid my fate is uncertain!" Wu De thought to himself.

Li Dachui pointed at the dregs on the table and said, "The pills made from these dregs are certainly not as good as the Rejuvenating Pill, but their effects are about the same. Perhaps Yiming is not incapable of making pills like the Rejuvenating Pill, but he also knows what the consequences would be if he took too much at once. So he deliberately reduced the potency and gave it to the emperor little by little, which is why the emperor has been able to hold on for the past few years!"

"What does the emperor want to do?"

"From the Innate Realm to the Divine Realm, no one has any experience. The only person in the world who knows of the Divine Realm is my mother," Li Dachui said. "So the Emperor and Yiming are both gambling, betting that the Emperor will advance to the Divine Realm before he completely loses control. Since no one has any experience, it's possible that quantitative changes will accumulate into qualitative changes!"

Wu De's eyes widened in astonishment. "That's like going all in at the gambling table! If he loses, he's finished. But he's the emperor! If he goes mad, it will bring disaster to the whole country!"

Li Dachui picked up the dregs of medicine, sniffed them again, and exclaimed, "Yiming has some good skills. If I have the chance, I should learn his alchemy knowledge properly. Maybe it can help Changchun Valley's pharmacology advance further."

"Is it really possible for the emperor to enter a state of spiritual travel through this?" Wu De asked. "And if he did, what would happen?"

"Impossible!" Li Dachui said decisively. "If advancing from the Innate Realm to the Divine Realm could truly be a qualitative leap, then countless powerful families across the land would have achieved this. The Emperor is merely grasping at straws in his desperation. As for that old bastard Yiming, firstly, he wants to use the Emperor to secure more benefits for his Daoist sect; secondly, he probably wants to test his new elixir—what if it works?"

"That old bastard deserves to die!" Wu De roared.

“If it weren’t for him, the emperor might have gone mad long ago!” Li Dachui said.

"If he had gone mad earlier, it might have been a good thing. With the Crown Prince on the throne, he might have been able to revitalize the court!" Li Dachui laughed. "The Qin Dynasty is rotten to the core; it's not something that can be solved by simply changing one person."

"How long can I last?"

"I don't know!" Li Dachui shook his head and said, "It depends on luck!"

“I think we should inform Chief Minister Wei about this matter,” Wu De said, frowning.

"Of course I'll know!" Li Dachui said with a smile, "Otherwise, what if His Majesty the Emperor suddenly goes berserk and strangles Chief Minister Wei to death one day when he's meeting him?"

“That’s quite possible!” Wu De said, “Does Your Excellency know how Li Muyi was killed after he went berserk back then?”

"I really don't know that."

"Back then, Li Muyi suddenly had an attack in the temple, almost wiping out all the high-ranking monks who were treating him," Wu De said. "And there were no martial arts masters nearby who could match him. In the end, the army was called in, and the army was full of martial arts experts. In one great battle, several ninth-rank masters died, and in the end, they just overwhelmed him. And that was only because that guy went mad and didn't know how to run away, but instead charged forward and killed like a madman. Innate masters are really hard to kill!"

Remembering that the man before him had once killed two masters of the Innate Realm, Wu De couldn't help but shake his head with a sigh.

"This top-secret intelligence has been sealed away on the fifth basement level of the Black Ice Platform. However, young master, there is no news of your parents there. All documents related to them have indeed been completely destroyed, leaving no trace!"

Li Dachui sneered and looked at Wu De, saying, "Actually, I can cure Li Anmin's illness. I guess I'm the only one in the world who can cure his madness."

Wu De stared at Li Dachui with a puzzled look on his face.

Li Dachui reached out, and blue sparks swirled between his fingers. Then the sparks disappeared, and white light hovered between his fingers. The heat of the sparks had not yet dissipated, but they were also chilling. Finally, they merged into one, and the warm aura made Wu De feel incredibly comfortable and warm all over.

Startled, Wu De immediately retreated, feeling extremely threatened by his ninth-rank martial arts cultivation.

This warm, cozy atmosphere makes it almost impossible to muster any inner strength.

"Possessing the incompatible true energy of Phoenix Fire and Moonlight Weak Water, this is the Qi of Heaven and Earth!" Wu De staggered, looking at Li Dachui as if he had seen a ghost.

He knew that Li Dachui was a martial arts prodigy.
He also knew that Li Dachui was shrewd and resourceful.

But he never knew what kind of martial arts Li Dachui practiced.

He had always believed that Li Dachui was a disciple of the Lord of Tai'an City.

But he never expected that Li Dachui had actually mastered the Qi of Heaven and Earth.

Even Ye Qingqiu back then only cultivated the Phoenix Flame.

As one of the highest-ranking members of the Black Ice Guard, he naturally knew many secrets. Otherwise, why would the Great Qin Dynasty have been so relentless in its pursuit of the Demonic Sect for so many years?
The founding emperor Li Qing survived because of Qingfeng.

Qingfeng later founded the Demonic Cult.

However, when Qingfeng was around, his martial arts cultivation was too high, and he was elusive and rarely seen.

Therefore, what the Qin royal family longed for day and night was to obtain Qingfeng's martial arts secrets!

That is, the unity of heaven and earth!

Unfortunately, despite the Qin royal family's countless efforts over the centuries, nothing came of it.

They captured many members of the Demonic Sect and learned a great deal about Phoenix Fire or Moonlight Weak Water, but they gained nothing about the Qi of Heaven and Earth.

It seems that since Qingfeng, no one has been able to successfully cultivate the Qi of Heaven and Earth.

"Did Protector Li's Qi of Heaven and Earth originate from your mother?" Wu De asked.

Li Dachui nodded: "That's what my godfather told me!"

Wu De sighed, "If the Crown Prince had succeeded back then, Ye Qingqiu would have been the Empress. Then, this Qi of Heaven and Earth would have naturally returned to the Qin royal family, the regrets of Emperor Li Qing and Qingfeng would have been resolved, and the matter that the royal family had longed for for hundreds of years could have been settled. But fate is cruel, and in the end, it turned out like this!"

After thinking for a moment, he shook his head again. Something's not right!
Li Dachui should also be considered a member of the royal family!
Of course, there was absolutely no way that Li Dachui could save the emperor from his current life-or-death predicament.

The current emperor and he have a blood feud involving the murder of his father and mother.

However, if we think about it a little deeper, if one day Li Dachui can reclaim the world that his father lost, whether it's a matter of unifying the universe or conquering the heavens, he will eventually return to the Li imperial family.

The world has come full circle, and in the end, it has returned to its starting point.

(End of this chapter)