My father is a Confucian sage, but the system forces me to be a crude warrior

Chapter 426 Master Xu: I'm not pretending anymore, let's go! Let's storm the palace!
The light snow continues.

Zeng Anmin's smile remained unchanged as he pointed into the room and said:

"please."

Seeing Zeng Anmin's expression, Master Xu raised an eyebrow: "You don't seem surprised?"

The snowflakes landed within three feet of him, as if encountering some kind of obstacle, and were blocked out, slowly sliding down along the soft, invisible "wall" in the air.

"I found out after I killed Guan Tiansheng."

Zeng Anmin said something out of the blue.

Qin Wanyue stood to the side, looking completely bewildered.

Upon hearing this, Master Xu's eyes gleamed brightly, and he then gave Zeng Anmin an approving look:

"I knew you were clever and quick-witted from a young age."

"Compared to the Celestial Master, I'm still far inferior." Zeng Anmin simply smiled and shook his head, then gently patted Qin Wanyue's arm.
"Wan'er, go to the main hall. I have something to discuss with the Celestial Master."

Qin Wanyue showed no sign of distress; she gave a slight bow to Master Xu.

Then he said to Zeng Anmin, "Then I will go first."

……

"What a wonderful girl, what a pity."

Master Xu watched Qin Wanyue's figure disappear into the wind and snow, and sighed with some emotion.

"What's a pity?" Zeng Anmin frowned slightly, staring at Master Xu with a somewhat unfriendly expression.

Master Xu naturally sensed the sharpness in his voice.

He smiled nonchalantly, his back to Zeng Anmin, and his leisurely voice rang out:

"Boy, do you really think Emperor Jianhong will let you leave the capital again?"

Zeng Anmin's heart stirred.

He looked at Master Xu with feigned confusion and said, "I don't understand what Master Xu is saying."

The snow is still falling.

The light snow gradually turned into heavy snow.

The snowflakes that landed on Zeng Anmin's shoulders would melt into water the next moment and then evaporate due to his body heat.

The yard was quiet.

Master Xu did not answer immediately.

Instead, he stroked the snow on the ground with great interest, then lightly pointed a finger.

The snowflakes slowly gathered together, eventually turning into a snowball.

"Da~"

The snowball landed in Master Xu's palm, revealing its small and adorable appearance.

Have you ever played in the snow with children?

Master Xu's voice was relaxed.

Playing in the snow?

Zeng Anmin was stunned for a moment, then nodded absentmindedly.

Let's have a snowball fight!

"Who hasn't played this before?" He looked at Master Xu, a puzzled expression on his face. "What are you trying to say?"

"Do you think your playmates will be more wary if you throw this snowball out, or if you hold it in your hand?"

Master Xu raised an eyebrow.

Zeng Anmin frowned.

He pondered for a moment.

Then he looked up at Master Xu:
"You mean I'm like this snowball now?"

"If you let me leave the capital..."

"I don't know what your father thinks," Master Xu's voice carried a hint of vicissitude.
"But the one in the palace definitely doesn't want you to leave the capital now."

"So after your father finishes the battle of Qinghai Bay, he will definitely come back, and..."

Master Xu turned around, a half-smile playing on his lips, and looked at Zeng Anmin:
"You are not this Snowball."

"Qin Shoucheng, Qin Wanyue, and my good-for-nothing apprentice are the ones who should be punished."

"If you want to leave the capital, there aren't many people in the entire city who can stop you now."

"But you need to think this through. If you leave the capital and head south, how will these people cope?"

Zeng Anmin's heart skipped a beat.

A sense of restlessness arose in my heart.

He looked into Master Xu's sharp eyes.

I feel like they've seen right through me, even my underwear.

He looked up at Master Xu with a puzzled expression:
"I don't know how to respond to Master Xu's words."

"hehe."

Seeing Zeng Anmin's stubbornness, Master Xu simply smiled and gently raised a finger.

"Shu~"

The snow in the entire yard was completely cleared away.

"sit."

Master Xu pulled out two prayer mats from somewhere, placed them on the ground, and took the lead in sitting down, crossing his legs as he looked at Zeng Anmin.

Zeng Anmin sat down without saying a word.

At this moment, the two sat facing each other.

"You can guess a thing or two of what I'm thinking, so how could you not guess Emperor Jianhong's limited abilities?"

Master Xu glanced at Zeng Anmin:

"Back then, during the imperial examinations, after Ji Qing returned to the capital, a second-rank elder from the Daoist sect arrived here..."

He looked around at the courtyard: "If I remember correctly, it should have been over this courtyard at the time."

As he spoke, he looked back with a smile: "And there's the journey to the west."

"You know he wants to kill you."

"So you must leave the capital."

"And now the best place is the South."

"Whether it's Gu Xiangnan or your father, they can guarantee your safety."

Hear this.

Zeng Anmin finally felt relieved.

He never knew how much of what Master Xu said could be believed, and how much could not.

But he gleaned some clues from these words.

First of all, Master Xu was unaware that he possessed a dragon vein.

He didn't know that his real goal was to establish a new nation.

"He only thought that if he left the capital, it would be to protect himself."

Figure this out.

Zeng Anmin felt reassured, his face flushed slightly as he looked at Master Xu:
"I……"

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Stop running away." Master Xu looked directly at Zeng Anmin: "Running away won't solve anything!"

"I can help you, and help the Qin family, to secretly leave the capital."

As soon as these words came out.

Zeng Anmin's eyes lit up instantly, and he sat up abruptly from the prayer mat.

He grabbed Xu Tianshi's sleeve.

"That's wonderful!! Celestial Master, there's no time to lose, let's go now!!"

As he spoke, he took a deep breath and bowed deeply to Master Xu:
"I will forever remember your great kindness, Celestial Master! In the future, if there is anything I can do to help you, I will go through fire and water without hesitation!!"

As he spoke, he walked forward.

Master Xu watched Zeng Anmin's retreating figure.

His lips twitched uncontrollably...

"Bang!" Zeng Anmin, who was walking forward, suddenly stopped.

"Hiss~ What is that?!"

He covered his head and stared blankly ahead.

He felt as if his head had hit an invisible barrier.

"That's the formation I set up."

"How can I let outsiders know that I have come to find you today?"

Master Xu's leisurely voice rang out.

When Zeng Anmin looked at him again, he saw him holding a delicate little cup and leisurely sipping tea.

The tea in the cup was still steaming.

"Master Celestial Master, what do you mean by this?"

"Alright, stop pretending."

Xu Shitian frowned and looked at Zeng Anmin, saying:

"Since you knew I would come to find you today, you should also know why I am looking for you."

"I really didn't know," Zeng Anmin tried to explain. "I thought you came to find me to help me get out of Beijing."

"My good-for-nothing second disciple also died at your hands, didn't he?" Master Xu's voice was quite complicated.

“Since you want to help me, I’ll help you to the end… uh…” Zeng Anmin’s expression froze, and he looked at Master Xu in astonishment.

See his expression.

Master Xu sighed softly, raising his gaze straight up to the sky:
"In the end, he still sided with the imperial power."

The sound was somewhat desolate.

“Xi Liu… Guan Tiansheng, Shen Qiu.” Master Xu slowly raised his head, his gaze fixed on the direction of the imperial palace:
"Our emperor has studied chess records for half his life, but his chess skills are still so poor."

"Decades of painstaking planning, ruined by you."

"This is all thanks to the great kindness of the Confucian sage." Zeng Anmin solemnly straightened his back and clasped his hands in a fist salute to the sky.

“Otherwise, I would have long since become a skeleton in a tomb.” Xu Tianshi turned his face to Zeng Anmin and said seriously, “Speaking of which, I should thank you.”

"Why thank me... I am ashamed..." Zeng Anmin quickly waved his hand.

Master Xu's voice echoed softly:
"If you hadn't seen through the scheme of the Western Flow, I would never have imagined that the boat carrying tribute wine that floated down the river..."

"They even stole soil from my grave."

"Crack!" The steaming tea in Master Xu's cup suddenly froze into ice!

His imposing aura suddenly rose from the courtyard.

Vast as an abyss!
It was as if a giant capable of lifting the sky was standing in front of him!

Zeng Anmin was so overwhelmed by this aura that he staggered back several steps, only managing to stop himself by channeling his martial arts energy!

Right!
As soon as this sentence came out.

Zeng Anmin's fists, hidden beneath his sleeves, clenched tightly together!

Just as I guessed!

Seven Emotions Elixir!
This was a crucial condition for Wang Dong, the patriarch of the palace, to break through to the first rank!

"The most important reason why that fleet had to secretly enter the capital was to prevent Master Xu from finding out!"

"The promise you made to me back then should be fulfilled today." Master Xu's gaze was calm.

"What promise?" Zeng Anmin blinked.

"Help me kill someone." Master Xu's gaze was sharp.

Zeng Anmin sighed.

Sure enough, they came knocking on our door.

"Who to kill?"

Zeng Anmin stared intently at Master Xu.

Master Xu looked at Zeng Anmin with equal solemnity:
"Wang Dong."

……

Zeng Anmin's lips twitched uncontrollably.

"Who?"

"Wang Dong!"

"No, I'm asking who you want to kill him?"

"you."

……

Zeng Anmin remained silent for a long time, then slowly raised his hand and pointed to himself:

"Are you saying that I, an extreme Confucian cultivator, should kill Wang Dong, an ancestor who wields a divine weapon and whose combat power is comparable to a first-rank martial artist?"

Master Xu stared at Zeng Anmin: "Are you really just a Confucian scholar?"

Zeng Anmin fell silent again.

It was obvious that Master Xu knew he was a practitioner of both Confucianism and martial arts.

I don't know how he found out.

But Zeng Anmin knew that Master Xu knew from the beginning.

Moreover, in order to help him conceal his identity as a martial artist, he even carved the essence of the Demon Emperor's blood into his body.

“Even if I am not just a Confucian cultivator, you still let me…”

Zeng Anmin really didn't know what to say.

“You also possess a divine artifact.”

"Although I don't know where you got that axe, I've always known that you possess a divine artifact."

"and……"

A glint flashed in Xu Tianshi's eyes, and the next moment his figure appeared in front of Zeng Anmin.

"boom!!!"

A giant hand descended from the sky and landed on Zeng Anmin's head without him even noticing.

"Om!!"

The martial arts energy within his body suddenly began to circulate.

"As expected!" Master Xu stared intently at Zeng Anmin: "Your martial arts cultivation has progressed faster than I imagined!"

"Third grade!"

"And there's also a divine artifact to help."

"Plus the array I carved on you back then."

"That's enough."

Master Xu looked intently at Zeng Anmin: "Besides you, there is also this old man, and another third-rank martial artist."

"The three of us will join forces to defeat Wang Dong; he will surely die."

Zeng Anmin was somewhat at a loss for words.

It is clear.

This Xu guy understands me better than I thought.

Besides the two hidden cards, the Golden Finger and the Ancestral Dragon Map.

He knows almost everything else.

"With you by my side, everything would be foolproof."

Zeng Anmin nodded slowly.

"With those pills, Wang Dong will reach the peak of the second rank within a month at most, and then face the tribulation."

"The dragon vein of the Holy Dynasty is located in Shouyang Mountain."

"I will take you there then."

Master Xu slowly rose from the futon.

Zeng Anmin took a deep breath and looked up at Master Xu:
"After this is done, I want everyone in the Qin family, everyone in the Duke's mansion... to leave the capital."

Master Xu glanced at him: "It's an easy matter."

Zeng Anmin shook his head: "I don't want a verbal agreement. You should know that I never act without seeing the benefits."

"hehe."

Master Xu chuckled softly, then slowly took a step.

With each step he took, his figure faded a little more.

"We should have news in the next couple of days."

The voice fell.

Master Xu's figure finally disappeared into the courtyard.

"Wow!!!"

The barrier disappears.

The snow that had been piling up for half a day suddenly fell with a roar.

The snow scene inside the courtyard became identical to that outside.

Zeng Anmin stood in the courtyard.

“Pah.”

He staggered.

"Huff, huff, huff~"

He was breathing heavily.

His fists were clenched tightly together.

"It's done!"

He murmured as he looked at the snow scene in the courtyard.

The mutual schemes between Emperor Jianhong and Master Xu.

With his instigation as the middleman, the final battle is finally about to begin!
"hehe."

Zeng Anmin let out a long sigh of relief.

A slight smile curved his lips.

"After returning from Xiliu, I deliberately avoided mentioning Shen Qiu."

"It was to make Emperor Jianhong believe that I had joined forces with Shen Qiu, a subordinate of Master Xu, to overturn his plans in Xiliu."

"He must now believe that Shen Qiu is an undercover agent specially sent by Master Xu to his side."

"Therefore, getting rid of Master Xu is now an urgent matter for Emperor Jianhong!"

"And Master Xu... that old fox is very troublesome."

“He won’t believe everything I said in the main hall, and if this causes delays, it will not be good news for me.”

"So all I want is for him to come and ask me for confirmation."

A glint of light flashed in Zeng Anmin's eyes:
Shen Qiu died young.

"But after this trip to the west, he suddenly heard news of his beloved disciple again."

"He came here this time to ask me to confirm whether Shen Qiu's news is true or false!"

"So I deliberately gave myself away just now... He now believes 100% of all the news that happened in Xiliu."

"His next step is to thwart Emperor Jianhong's plan."

"If Wang Dong really becomes a first-rank official... tsk."

Zeng Anmin crossed his arms, his mind filled with the image of Wang Dong successfully breaking through to the first rank by relying on the dragon vein.

The back view of Master Xu fleeing in panic.

"Tsk, tsk."

Zeng Anmin had almost fully recovered by this time.

He slowly looked up.

He stared blankly at the sky.

The first snowfall stopped abruptly at that moment.

"Now it's my turn to make a move."

(End of this chapter)