Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 246: Overseas Polar Region, Entrance to Lingyuan

"Mr. Zhao, you've been coming here quite frequently these days."

In the afternoon, Zhao Qi'an went to the market in the west of the city.

When he met Dean An, the old man was not sitting on the rooftop terrace of the Treasure Pavilion drinking tea and playing chess, but was in a flower garden in the market town, wearing a coarse linen shirt and loosening the soil with a hoe.

The little Taoist boy Zhao Lingyun also changed into coarse linen clothes and put on a sun-proof hat. He squatted aside, holding his chin with both hands, watching Dean An loosen the soil.

He turned his head and saw Zhao Qi'an coming over. He immediately stood up and saluted Zhao Qi'an like an adult: "Adoptive father."

Zhao Qi'an touched his head.

I have to say that sending the little Taoist boy to Dean An was the right choice.

At least he is no longer troubled by the memories of his past life and is unable to extricate himself from his own world. He can also learn other things like other children. Now he knows to take the initiative to greet Zhao Qian'an when he sees him.

When An Shoudao saw Zhao Qi'an, he immediately became a little annoyed: "You can't take this kid out this time. It's hard to come back and have two days of peace."

He was obviously very dissatisfied with Zhao Qian'an's decision to take the little Taoist boy away, and muttered a few words like "distracted mind" and "unsuccessful academic studies".

Zhao Qian'an was followed by many business managers. He turned around and ordered people to set up a small table on the side of the road, and then asked people to bring the prepared herbal tea and pastries.

An Shoudao came out of the flower garden and didn't bother to be polite with him. He sat down and drank a cup of tea by himself.

Zhao Qi'an sat down face to face and said, "This time, I came to see you, President An."

An Shoudao held the teacup and chuckled, "Looking for me? Do you want to play a few games with me?"

"I have some questions to ask."

"You are... so boring." An Shoudao took a sip of tea, put the cup on the table, turned sideways to face Zhao Qi'an, and asked, "What else does Mr. Zhao want to ask you?"

Zhao Qi'an said seriously, "I met with the Imperial Master a few days ago."

An Shoudao was not surprised and said with a smile, "That day you said that the Imperial Master had met you in the Heavenly Book Pavilion. I knew that she would come to you sooner or later. Did you respond as I said?"

"She wants to take me to Mount Xumi."

"Dang Cang..."

Zhao Qian'an answered calmly, causing An Shoudao to accidentally knock over the teacup on the table.

An Shoudao stood up, put his hands on the table, and leaned towards Zhao Qi'an, his face full of solemnity: "She wants to take you to Mount Xumi? Why?"

He looked down at the water stains spreading all over the overturned teacup on the table, raised his head without changing his expression, met An Shoudao's serious eyes, and replied: "She mistakenly thought that I was from the same place as her."

"Where?"

"Lingyuan."

An Shoudao looked Zhao Qi'an up and down with a serious expression, then shook his head and said, "You can't be."

Zhao Qi'an was surprised and asked, "Why?"

"To cross Lingyuan and come to this world, one must be Lingyuan Supreme God. Even if Lingyuan Supreme God is reincarnated, how could he not have the aura of the Wheel of Heaven? I didn't detect it in you."

An Shoudao sat back down, his expression returning to normal. He twisted his beard, looked at Zhao Qi'an, and smiled, "How did you deceive Shui Yuexian? That woman is not easy to deceive."

Maybe... it's because I really come from another world.

Zhao Qi'an said silently in his heart, and perhaps the National Master could not have imagined that outside this world, in addition to the people from Lingyuan, there were other visitors from other worlds.

He said to An Shoudao: "Dean An knows Ling Yuan?"

"I have known Shuiyuexian for many years, so I know something about this." An Shoudao twirled his beard and pondered for a while before saying, "In the ancient book 'Records of All Things', it was mentioned that when the world was first created, the universe was divided into two realms, the clear one was on top and the turbid one was on the bottom, forming two realms, namely Yin and Yang."

"Later, there was a book called "Yintuxing" written by an ancient person in the Jin Dynasty. The book contains a travelogue. The author described himself sailing from the East China Sea, entering the outer sea, exploring the "polar region", and was lost at sea for several days. Later, he encountered a whirlpool. When he woke up, the ship appeared at the foot of a high mountain. After climbing the mountain, he realized that it was the land of immortals. All the immortals he met could leave their bodies and travel the world..."

"In fact, the place recorded in this book is Lingyuan. The ancient people of the previous dynasty accidentally entered a cultivation sect in Lingyuan."

Zhao Qi'an asked in confusion, "How does Dean An know that the author of "The Journey to the Dark" entered the Lingyuan? Rather than an overseas fairy island?"

An Shoudao laughed and said, "Because Shuiyuexian was 'picked up' by your majesty when he forcibly entered the overseas polar region."

Zhao Qi'an couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this.

The overseas polar regions were sea areas he had not yet explored.

The oceans of this world are simply too vast. Zhao Qi'an only occupies the East China Sea. The farthest of the twelve East China Sea countries, the Thunder Kingdom, is still tens of thousands of miles away from the open sea.

Even if the ship departs from Yangzhou Port and has smooth sailing without any obstacles, it will still take more than half a year to reach the open sea.

But Zhao Qi'an had heard of the "Overseas Pole". According to legend, that was the boundary of this world and the most powerful evidence of the theory of the round earth and square sky.

He originally thought that the "round earth and square sky" theory was nonsense, and that this world should be the same as the world before he traveled through time, a planet, heading all the way to the East China Sea, and eventually returning to its original place.

But now that he knew of Lingyuan's existence and knew that Lingyuan was outside the "Overseas Pole", he was a little shaken for a moment.

"It seems that I can't apply the common sense of my previous life to this world."

Zhao Qi'an thought with a wry smile.

An Shoudao said: "I have never been to Lingyuan, so I have no idea what kind of place it is. But I know that Mount Xumi was probably moved out of Lingyuan by Shuiyuexian."

Zhao Qi'an was shocked when he heard this: "The Imperial Master can still enter and exit the Spiritual Abyss freely?"

An Shoudao was not sure, "You can come and go freely... that may not be the case, but if you pay a price, you can go back at least."

Zhao Qi'an asked: "What kind of place is Mount Xumi? Is it just a holy place for cultivation with abundant spiritual energy?"

He had always believed that Mount Xumi was just a holy place for spiritual practice with abundant spiritual energy.

Not only him, but everyone in Kyoto city thought so.

But ever since the Imperial Master mentioned that Mount Xumi needed new recruits and that Emperor Tianwu was having a hard time supporting it... he guessed that things might not be as he imagined.

An Shoudao twisted his beard and glared at him in dissatisfaction: "Why does Mr. Zhao always ask about things that I don't know? I have never been to Mount Xumi, so how can I know what is so extraordinary about it?"

He paused for a moment and said, "However, I don't know what the inside of Mount Xumi looks like. But the location where Mount Xumi fell... is indeed intriguing."

(End of this chapter)