Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 210: Breath of the Same Kind (4K)

"By the way, I wonder who the assassin is? What grudge does he have against me?
When asked about the identity of the assassin, Qi Lianzhi's expression suddenly became strange.

He touched his chin, thought for a while and gave a firm answer: "Not a human."

Zhao Qi’an: “?”

not human?
Could it be a ghost?
Zhao Qi'an didn't understand what Qi Lianzhi meant for a moment.

In fact, during the fight, he had tried to peek at the assassin's true face.

But the black cloak worn by the assassin is a precious weapon that can block outsiders from prying eyes and conceal his true appearance.

Zhao Qi'an originally wanted to borrow a "break delusion" fate to see through this person's disguise.

However, when he was about to do that, a strange feeling arose in his heart.

There was clearly no one around, but he always felt that there was a pair of "eyes" secretly watching him.

This feeling is hard to describe and explain. It is more like the illusory sixth sense warning him.

But this is not an illusion, some warriors are born with six senses and can detect crises in advance.

Zhao Qi'an has seen two similar destinies, such as the "harmony between heaven and man" of his ninth adopted son Zhao Lingyun, and the "foresight of danger" of Gong Xinying, both of which have similar abilities.

For this reason, he immediately stopped spying on the assassin, so he still doesn't know who assassinated him.

Now, when he heard Qi Lianzhi say that the assassin was "not a human being", his first reaction was that the Salvation Cult had made a comeback and sent people to Kyoto City again.

In his impression, only the Salvation Church likes to deal with those supernatural things, and controlling ghosts has always been a good trick of the Red Lotus lineage of the Salvation Church.

But why... didn't Gong Xinying mention it to him?
Zhao Qi'an remained expressionless, but actually secretly glanced at Gong Xinying's panel.

There is still no change in the loyalty column, and it doesn't look like he has betrayed us.

Qi Lianzhi said: "It is a strange beast, like a monkey without hair."

He shook his head as he spoke, as if he was quite puzzled by the question.

Zhao Qi'an was stunned for a moment. This was somewhat unexpected.

Alien beast?

Although there are strange beasts left over from the ancient wilderness in this world, some of the powerful wild species can even rival the celestial warriors.

But in this world, beasts are beasts. No matter how human-like they are, they will not practice cultivation. There are also no monsters that can transform into human form as described in folk legends.

But the assassin who tried to assassinate Zhao Qian'an had clear fluctuations of spiritual power. It was obvious that he had practiced a systematic martial art and was able to display magical powers... How could this be a strange beast?

But Zhao Qi'an did not ask about these things.

After all, how can an ordinary person see these?
……

Zhao Qi'an spent the entire morning in the Astronomical Observatory.

It was not until noon that the Astronomical Observatory let the two people leave.

After leaving the headquarters of the Astronomical Observatory, Old Nie made a few gestures towards Zhao Qian'an, his expression rarely revealing a hint of worry.

Zhao Qi'an shook his head and said, "I have already mentioned to General Qi that I want you to stay in Kyoto before the birthday banquet, but this still depends on whether the Imperial Master agrees."

Old Nie pointed to the top floor of the Astronomical Observatory’s headquarters, made an “X” with his hands, and looked at Zhao Qian’an.

Zhao Qi'an seemed very confident and said softly, "She will agree."

Old Nie looked at Zhao Qi'an in confusion, as if wondering why Zhao Qi'an was so sure that the Imperial Master would agree to his request.

But Zhao Qi'an had no intention of explaining to him. He walked towards the carriage with a calm expression: "Let's go home."

……

Inside the headquarters of the Astronomical Observatory, Qi Lianzhi finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing off Zhao Qian'an and his old servant.

"Damn it, isn't it said that Zhao Qi'an is a greenhorn? Why is he so complicated?"

He couldn't help but mutter, he was most annoyed with dealing with these bureaucrats who spoke in an official tone.

I thought Zhao Qian'an had just entered the officialdom and was not very cunning, so he should be easy to fool.

But when I really checked it out, I found that it was not the case at all.

Qi Lianzhi originally wanted to meet with the Imperial Master regarding Zhao Qian'an's matter, but when he reached the top floor, he found that the Imperial Master was not in prison.

He had no choice but to return to his duty room first. Looking at the documents piled up like a small mountain on the desk waiting for him to process, he felt exhausted.

"When will the situation in Jingzhou end? If they don't come back, I'm going to quit!"

Qi Lianzhi couldn't help but grumble. It was more painful for him to sit in the ministry and deal with those pedantic official documents than to kill him.

It would be better to charge into battle with a knife and just chop off people's heads.

He kind of missed the days when he had his head chopped off in the anti-Buddhist army.

But thinking back to the years when he served as a personal guard for Mr. Lin, the old man carried a ruler on his back, wearing clothes that only a Confucian scholar would wear, wandering back and forth behind him, staring at him studying and writing, and if he dozed off for a moment, he would hit him on the head with the ruler...

Qi Lianzhi was startled and suddenly he no longer missed the past and thought that the Astronomical Observatory was pretty good.

Just as he began to review official documents, he didn't know how much time had passed.

Suddenly, a burst of fresh fragrance came to his nose, instantly waking up Qilianzhi, who was feeling a little sleepy.

He raised his head suddenly and found that there was an extra person in his duty room without knowing when.

Shui Yuexian stood in front of his desk, with her hands behind her back, bending over the desk and looking at the official documents spread out on his table.

Qi Lianzhi stood up quickly, clasped his hands and bowed, "Master Imperial Master!"

Shui Yuexian then stood up, her voice still ethereal and pleasant: "Have you looked for me?"

"Yes, the origin of the strong man next to Zhao Qi'an has been found out. He is..."

"Nie Xiuyuan, I know him."

Shui Yuexian interrupted Qi Lianzhi and paused for a moment before saying, "Shura Xinxiang, the successor of Qi Sha."

If you want to become a Yangxian, you need to find your own "path".

But not everyone can find their own "path", and that is why some people choose to follow the "path" that others have walked and be promoted to the first-grade Yangxian.

Take the Seven Killers lineage for example. The first generation of Seven Killers must have been a Yang Immortal who had walked his own "Path". After the death of the first generation of Seven Killers, all the spirituality in the remaining holy remains was absorbed by their descendants, who were then able to walk the Yang Immortal path again.

The spirituality in the holy remains is the key to inheritance!

The Seven Killers lineage has been passed down from generation to generation in this way until the current generation of Nie Xiuyuan.

Shui Yuexian once wondered whether Zhao Qi'an would be the next successor of the Seven Killers chosen by Nie Xiuyuan, but she quickly denied it herself.

Because Nie Xiuyuan still has a long life ahead of him, it is impossible for him to choose a successor so quickly.

Moreover, the Qisha lineage "uses killing to nourish the mind". Zhao Qi'an has been in Jingdu for ten years without any movement, so it is impossible for him to be the descendant of Qisha. Qi Lianzhi was a little surprised that the national teacher already knew Nie Xiuyuan's identity, but he did not think much about it and continued: "Zhao Qi'an wanted Nie Xiuyuan to stay in Jingdu until after the Wanshou Banquet, and then leave Jingdu. He said that there were too many people from all over Daqian who came to celebrate His Majesty's birthday during this period, and there were all kinds of people. And with the assassination today, he was worried about his own safety."

Unexpectedly, Shui Yuexian nodded and agreed to Zhao Qi'an's request: "Okay."

But the next moment, she changed the subject: "If you want to stay in Kyoto after the birthday banquet, you can also let Nie Xiuyuan come to Xuntianjian to take up a post."

This sentence immediately made Qi Lianzhi's eyes widen.

This... isn't this a big Buddha invited to the Astronomical Observatory?

If this were really done, there would probably be a big earthquake in the prison when those who went to Jingzhou came back.

But now that the Imperial Master has spoken, it will be useless even if General Ling objects.

Qi Lianzhi's mentality was quite optimistic, as if he was not concerned about the matter. Instead, he was looking forward to Nie Xiuyuan agreeing to it. By then, there would definitely be something interesting to watch in prison.

He frowned and nodded seriously: "I will pass this message on to you in the end."

Afterwards, Qi Lianzhi reported another incident that puzzled him: "The other assassin has been imprisoned, but there are some things that I am particularly puzzled about."

"What's the matter?"

"That assassin is clearly a strange beast, but I checked and found that it actually has three dantians like an ordinary warrior, and the hundreds of orifices on its body are exactly the same as those of an ordinary person... Is it a human? Or a beast?"

Faced with Qi Lianzhi's confusion, Shui Yuexian did not answer in a hurry.

She paced back and forth in the room, seemingly thinking about how to explain.

After a while, she slowly said, "Do you know Guan Yunzi's donkey?"

Qi Lianzhi shook his head.

He knew that Guan Yunzi was the pillar of the Daqian nation, the leader of all Taoist sects in the world, and an old immortal who lived over 200 years old.

In the portraits of Guan Yunzi that are circulating in the world, most of them show this old immortal riding on a donkey, but Qi Lianzhi really has no idea what story this little donkey may have.

Shui Yuexian said simply: "It was once a 'person'."

Qi Lianzhi was stunned for a long time, then he took a breath of cold air.

Shui Yuexian raised her hand and said calmly: "A second-grade fortune-teller has the ability to turn the virtual into the real. Whatever you think in your mind can become a reality."

As she spoke, bits of light condensed from her outstretched left hand, and slowly formed a hairpin from bottom to top.

She inserted the hairpin into her bun and said, "It's not difficult to turn a human into a beast. What's more, the hairless ape in prison has only changed its appearance, but it is still a 'human' inside. If it is the donkey under Guan Yunzi's seat, even if you skin it and remove its bones, it will be no different from an ordinary donkey. Even if you kill it and eat its meat, it will still taste like donkey meat."

Qi Lianzhi seemed to have understood something, and murmured, "So, the one who ordered the hairless ape to assassinate Zhao Qi'an must be at least a strong man in the realm of creation?"

"Not necessarily."

Shui Yuexian replied calmly, "Don't worry about this matter. I have solved the assassin's trick. You can send him to Zhao Qi'an. Let him handle the Zhao family's own affairs."

"Yes."

Qi Lianzhi bowed and accepted the order, then turned around and was about to go down and do it.

But when he was about to leave the duty room, he stopped, looked back, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Shui Yuexian asked, "Is there something wrong?"

Qi Lianzhi hurriedly said: "There is nothing wrong, but I am confused as to why the Imperial Master is so concerned about Zhao Qi'an?"

Shuiyuexian was silent, as if she was thinking.

But this time, the silence lasted for a long time, so long that Qilianzhi thought he asked something he shouldn't have asked, and the Imperial Master was not prepared to answer.

When he was about to laugh it off, the Imperial Master answered him:
"I just feel that there is something familiar about Zhao Qi'an."

"I wonder... could he be from the same place as me?"

……

"I wonder... could he be from the same place as me?"

After coming out of the duty room, Qi Lianzhi was still a little confused, and kept repeating this sentence in his mind.

There are actually many different opinions about the origin of the national teacher Shui Yuexian, both inside and outside the court.

But in fact, no one knows where Shuiyuexian came from, and her origins have always been a mystery.

I'm afraid the only ones who truly know the origin of the Imperial Master are the current Emperor and the Imperial Master himself.

His Majesty once joked after drinking that the Imperial Master was a "fallen immortal" who did not belong to this world. When he came down from the immortal world to travel, he was stolen the "feather robe" for ascending to the upper world by the immortal, and he has been staying in this mortal world ever since.

Qi Lianzhi had heard of this story, but the more he listened, the more it sounded like a folk legend. However, the one who stole the "feather robe" was not the emperor, but a farmer who was grazing cattle.

To be disrespectful, what the current emperor said after drinking was just for fun. He always brags about killing gods and ghosts in his dreams.

That is why, although His Majesty's drunken words spread throughout Kyoto, people just listened to them for fun and few believed them.

But now, after hearing what the National Master said, Qilianzhi began to wonder, could it be that the National Master really is not from this world?

And Zhao Qi'an...is also from the fairyland?
No way...

The Imperial Master is a person without roots or origins, but Zhao Qi'an does have roots. He is the eldest son of the Zhao family in the East China Sea and the prince of the Duke.

It couldn't be that Zhao Qi'an wasn't the biological son of Zhao Wanjin, the Grand Duke of Donghai? That shouldn't be the case. It was said that Zhao Qi'an and Zhao Wanjin, the Grand Duke of Donghai, looked very similar when they were young. The father and son were cut from the same mold.

Moreover, such aristocratic families have means to detect kinship, so it is impossible that the next head of the family is not a biological son.

But the Imperial Master would not speak without a purpose, she was indeed paying special attention to Zhao Qi'an.

Qi Lianzhi couldn't figure it out, so he decided to send the assassin who committed the crime today to Zhao Qian'an first.

Although this is not in line with the prison rules, the imperial master's orders are higher than the prison rules.

After all, even the rules in the prison were set by the imperial master.

……

"Master, Master, please come quickly. The Astronomical Observatory has sent us a talking monkey!"

When Zhao Qi'an was discussing matters in the study with Gou Xiangxi, Zhao Nishang and two Class A aides who had just been released from the fourth floor of the Treasure Pavilion, they heard the ugly slave shouting outside the study.

A talking monkey?

Inside the study, everyone looked at each other, not knowing what that thing was for a moment.

As soon as Zhao Qi'an heard that it was sent by the Astronomical Observatory, he immediately knew what the talking monkey was.

It’s the assassin who committed the assassination today!

But the Astronomical Observatory doesn't investigate the case properly, so what's the point of sending it to him?
Zhao Qi'an was confused and said to everyone in the study, "Wait for me here. I'll go take a look."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)