Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 262 The Secret of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber: A Clever Tactic Backfires?
The Ming Dynasty, Yan'an Prefecture.

Zhu Jinzhen, who returned hastily, was naturally unaware of Zhao Min's plans; otherwise, he would certainly have been shocked as well.

A hen crows at dawn; a woman, she calls herself "I," establishing the system and ruling over all under heaven.

Such a rebellious thought is something most women wouldn't dare to entertain.

There are women in the terrestrial immortal realm of the martial arts world. In the Central Plains and overseas countries, there are countless women of extraordinary talent, like stars in the sky. But there are women who dare to attempt to usurp the throne and become empresses, like hens crowing at dawn.

Currently, Zhao Min is the only one.

If Zhu Jinzhen knew this, he would definitely give it his full support.

But now, Zhu Jinzhen has something more important to deal with.

“The rules of heaven and earth are changing every day. In ancient times, the connection between heaven and earth was severed. Beyond the heavens, there was once an extraordinary person, the emperor of the new dynasty, Emperor Guangwu…” Zhu Jinzhen looked at the characters engraved with meteorite iron from outer space on the table, his expression of deep thought growing stronger.

If he had only guessed before, he can now be basically certain.

The Heaven Sword in the world of martial arts is the one in Cao Cao's hands, and its inner workings are probably also related to Cao Cao. There is a greater than 90% chance that he was the one who released it.

However, the information he received left Zhu Jinzhen deeply puzzled, unable to understand it at all.

Zhu Jinzhen stared at the words on the meteorite. "The world is constantly changing. The word 'different' is deliberately marked on this meteorite instead of being continuous. What is it trying to remind future generations of?"

"The word 'different' signifies a major change in the rules of heaven and earth?"

As a being above the celestial beings, Zhu Jinzhen's swordsmanship is unparalleled, reaching the Dao realm. His understanding of the rules of heaven and earth and the natural world is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

He could indeed sense that the rules of heaven and earth in the martial arts world were somewhat strange.

But Zhu Jinzhen couldn't quite put his finger on what was strange about it. He just had a very strong sense of déjà vu, as if he had a strange familiarity with the rules of heaven and earth that he felt so strongly about.

"Does 'severing the connection between heaven and earth' refer to the actions of Emperor Zhuanxu, or... Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng?"

The four characters '绝地天通' recorded on the meteorite iron from outer space cannot help but provoke thought, making Zhu Jinzhen somewhat hesitant and puzzled. In ancient times, it was common knowledge that Emperor Zhuanxu severed the connection between heaven and earth, and there was no reason to record it specifically, unless Cao Cao discovered something related to it.

Otherwise, it could be something similar to the severing of the connection between heaven and earth that happened after the First Emperor's conquest of the heavens.

Zhu Jinzhen stared at the blank space on the meteorite, a sense of unease rising within him. "It starts with the character 'Tian' (天), but a large section in the middle has been deliberately erased, leaving only the last character 'Wai' (外). What exactly is the meteorite's content trying to convey? What are the missing or erased parts?"

Zhu Jinzhen didn't believe Cao Cao would be so bored as to use the Heaven-Slaying Sword to hide something inside.

There must be something they wanted to leave for posterity.

What puzzled Zhu Jinzhen was this: when he broke the Heaven-Slaying Sword to obtain this piece of extraterrestrial meteorite iron, the contents on it were still fresh and showed little sign of oxidation. However, there were many blank or incomplete parts in the middle.

Zhu Jinzhen was completely baffled by this.

It can't be that Cao Cao put the item in front of the Heaven-Slaying Sword without even checking it, right?

This is obviously impossible.

That is……

"Someone tampered with it, and in front of Cao Cao, or perhaps after his death, they altered the contents of the Heaven Sword, deliberately erasing some of the contents."

"But why is this ambiguous part still left behind?"

"There was once an extraordinary person. What kind of person could be considered extraordinary by Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period?" A strange light flashed in Zhu Jinzhen's eyes. He always felt that the term "extraordinary person" didn't seem to refer to ordinary strange people, but rather to someone even Cao Cao couldn't understand, hence the term "extraordinary person." As for what followed, Zhu Jinzhen had a vague guess.

The emperor of the Xin Dynasty, also known as Wang Mang, who is considered a time traveler and usurper of the Han Dynasty.

He also exists in the world of martial arts, and he is specifically mentioned on the extraterrestrial meteorite, presumably because Cao Cao discovered something.

A ridiculous thought popped into Zhu Jinzhen's mind: "Could it be that Cao Cao dug up something like a time traveler's diary from Wang Mang's tomb? And thus learned about the events of later generations?"

This is possible, but unlikely.

This is because such a premise requires that Wang Mang was indeed a time traveler.

Moreover, he is a time traveler who has a habit of keeping a diary.

It was only possible for Cao Cao to obtain Wang Mang's diary or records if they had not been discovered and destroyed by Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty after the Xin Dynasty was destroyed.

Zhu Jinzhen put himself in Cao Cao's shoes. If his tomb raiders had unearthed something from Wang Mang's tomb and learned about the course of history, the fate of the Three Kingdoms, and all that lay ahead, he would have been furious, but he would also have wanted to defy fate.

Putting everything else aside, if Cao Cao had known about later history, he would have sent the entire Sima family to feed the fish in the Luo River before Cao Cao died; not a single one of them would have escaped.

However, the Sima family in history still managed to usurp the throne of Wei.

Although later, heroes rose up across the land to vie for power, and various dynasties began to merge into this world, the Sima family's fate was even more tragic than in history, which is enough to prove that Cao Cao was probably unaware of the course of history.

As for what secrets of Wang Mang were discovered...

Zhu Jinzhen was unclear about the details, but he was certain of one thing: the matter was very significant, so much so that it was even longer than the account of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu that followed, only the middle part was missing.

"Was it deliberately erased, or were the records kept separately from the beginning?"

"Could the remaining blank space be inside the Dragon Slayer Saber?"

"Wouldn't that be superfluous?" Zhu Jinzhen flicked his finger, and a wisp of candlelight drifted over and landed on the meteorite. The temperature of the flame suddenly soared, but the blank areas on the meteorite remained unchanged.

He then restrained the water vapor floating between heaven and earth, condensing it into a water ball about the size of a washbasin, and threw the meteorite iron into it to soak, but still no writing appeared.

Then, Zhu Jinzhen tried many other methods.

As a result, the blank areas on the meteorite remained completely blank, without any change whatsoever.

"perhaps……"

"Can the contents of the Dragon-Slaying Saber dispel my confusion?"

"The supreme martial arts weapon, the Dragon-Slaying Saber; commanding the world, none dare disobey; without the Heaven-Reliant Sword, who can contend?"

Since such rumors circulate in the world of martial arts, Zhu Jinzhen felt that the Dragon-Slaying Saber and the Heaven-Reliant Sword might indeed have an important connection, just like in the novel "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber".

or……

Zhu Jinzhen's eyelids twitched, and an awkward smile appeared on his face: "It can't be that Cao Cao had already foreseen this day."

"So, in order to prevent the secret from being leaked, they deliberately tampered with this extraterrestrial meteorite."

"Besides the path of clashing with the Dragon-Slaying Saber and the Heaven-Reliant Sword, other methods, even violent destruction, would directly cause most of the information recorded on the extraterrestrial meteorite to disappear, right?"

If that's the case, wouldn't he have made things worse by overreaching?
(End of this chapter)