aChapter 156

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　　“According to what was said in the secret letter in the brocade bag by that imperial concubine, the real purpose of the Sixth Princess’s trip is not peace talks, but to assassinate the emperor of the Wujiu Kingdom in the name of peace talks.”
　　“To set up this game, the first important chess piece she dropped was the Sixth Princess. As early as the first month after the Sixth Princess was born, she asked a cultivator on the mountain to seal an extremely mysterious power in her body, which is exactly the so-called immortal power in the Sixth Princess’s body rumored outside.”
　　“And the second important chess piece she dropped was Fan Qi.”
　　“Back then, Fan Qi’s treason and massacre of the city were all planned by that imperial concubine behind the scenes.”
　　“The treason was naturally to gain the trust of the emperor of the Wujiu Kingdom, and there were two reasons for massacring the city. The first was to further gain the trust of the emperor of the Wujiu Kingdom, and the second was to use the souls and blood qi of hundreds of thousands of Baishu Kingdom common people to improve Fan Qi’s cultivation and refine that evil sword — Infant Cry — in his body.”
　　“After doing these two things, that imperial concubine waited quietly for more than ten years, silently waiting for the Sixth Princess to grow up and waiting for the best opportunity to assassinate the emperor of the Wujiu Kingdom.”
　　“And then she waited until the opportunity of this peace talk.”
　　“Today, when the Sixth Princess chopped off the head of that Fan Qi, it was the moment when the sword for assassinating the king and the person holding the sword met.”
　　In Xu Taiping’s room, the Fairy Lingyue briefly described to Xu Taiping the content of the secret letter in the brocade bag.
　　“This is a dead end.”
　　Xu Taiping leaned back in the chair and let out a soft sigh of relief.
　　“That’s right, even if the Sixth Princess succeeds, she will definitely not be able to escape from the imperial palace.”
　　The Fairy Lingyue nodded.
　　“Moreover, the evil sword Yingti is very interesting. Before meeting the person holding the sword, it is just a mass of evil spirit formed by the fusion of malice and killing intent, and no one can detect it. And after meeting the person holding the sword, if the sword is not drawn, it will surely devour its master.”
　　She then added another sentence.
　　“No wonder Fan Qi would use killing intent and anger as his boxing intention and deliberately set up a life-and-death arena here. He is deliberately covering up the aura of the evil sword Yingti, right？”
　　Xu Taiping thought to himself.
　　“How did the Sixth Princess react after reading this letter？”
　　He then turned his head to look at the Fairy Lingyue.
　　“Being ordered to die by the mother she respects, no one can accept it for a while. Moreover, according to what was said in that letter, since she was born, she has been regarded as a discarded piece by her own mother.”
　　The Fairy Lingyue sighed softly.
　　“However, based on the personality of this Sixth Princess, I think she will most likely still accept it.”
　　She then said again.
　　“Even if not for her mother, just looking at the many chivalrous swordsmen who went to their deaths bravely along the way from Baishu Kingdom to Wujiu Kingdom, and the bodyguards who died protecting her, she should all accept this doomed situation.”
　　Xu　Taiping　nodded.
　　“Yes, every step of the way, that imperial concubine has been pushing this Sixth Princess into a situation of certain death, both in terms of the situation and her own state of mind.”
　　The Fairy Lingyue echoed.
　　“Planning for more than twenty years, sacrificing the lives of thousands of common people, plus a fierce general and her own biological daughter, just to take the life of the emperor of Wujiu Kingdom？”
　　Xu Taiping still didn’t quite understand.
　　“According to what was said in that letter, the emperor of Wujiu Kingdom is a great hero of a generation. If he dies, Wujiu Kingdom will surely be in chaos.”
　　The Fairy Lingyue explained.
　　“I think this reason is still a bit insufficient. That imperial concubine seems to be plotting something that we don’t know.”
　　Xu Taiping shook his head.
　　This plan seems reasonable, but Xu Taiping always felt that something was wrong.
　　“Your first instinct is right.”
　　The corner of Fairy Lingyue’s mouth suddenly turned up.
　　Upon hearing this, Xu Taiping immediately looked at Fairy Lingyue in surprise.
　　The relationship between the emperor and the common people in the mortal world is like that between a boat and water. Therefore, even if they are cold-blooded, they cannot abandon hundreds of thousands of people without any scruples to set up this game. The only ones who can really do this and regard the lives of ordinary people as worthless are the cultivators on the mountain.
　　As Fairy Lingyue spoke, she used the power of her soul to control a chess piece in the chess box on the table to fall onto the chessboard.
　　Sister Lingyue, do you mean that behind this, there may be a game between the cultivation world？
　　Xu Taiping’s heart trembled violently.
　　At the same time, he felt that the doubts that were originally like a dead knot began to loosen.
　　I indeed smelled the smell of the struggle for the Tao.
　　Fairy Lingyue nodded again.
　　The struggle for the Tao？ What is the struggle for the Tao？ But in this mundane world, with turbid spiritual energy, what can there be for the cultivators on the mountain to fight for？
　　Xu Taiping asked several questions in a row.
　　Taiping, have you heard of the banished immortals？
　　Fairy Lingyue asked Xu Taiping again at this time.
　　Xu Taiping nodded and then replied：
　　I read in the sect’s scriptures that after breaking through to the next realm after the Tongxuan Realm, cultivators can be reincarnated through the method of Bingjie, and the reincarnated people of such cultivators are all called banished immortals.
　　Fairy Lingyue nodded upon hearing this.
　　“This method of cultivation through self-destruction is a last resort. When a cultivator’s lifespan is nearly exhausted and they are unable to break through, they can only use this method to prolong their lives. However, this method has a very big drawback, that is, not every immortal who has been reincarnated can wake up their previous life’s memories. Most of the immortals who have been reincarnated will either become ordinary people in the end or completely become another person.”
　　“And in order to avoid such problems, some cultivators will leave a dao seal on their souls before self-destruction and hand this dao seal over to the person they are closest to for safekeeping. Then, when the right time comes, they will unlock it for them. This is called unsealing the seal.”
“And the so-called dao seal is mostly a regret left in the previous life, such as an unfulfilled great cause or a lover who failed to meet again. As long as this strand of obsession is resolved, they will definitely be able to wake up their previous life’s memories again.”
　　“But in this way, a new problem arises.”
　　“Because once your dao seal is known by your enemies and they break your dao seal, causing you to be unable to resolve this strand of obsession, you will no longer have the opportunity to embark on the path of cultivation.”
　　“And this is the so-called dao struggle.”
　　Fairy Lingyue very carefully explained to Xu Taiping.”