Chapter 426 Sound from the Sky
Zhao State.

The Emperor of Zhao looked down at his youthful body, his eyes showing amazement, and murmured, “I never thought that I would be able to regain my youth. Thank you, young man.”

Li Nuo smiled slightly and said, “We are all family, Your Majesty is too polite.”

After walking out of the palace where the retired emperor lived, Her Majesty took Li Nuo’s arm, leaned her head gently on his shoulder, and said, “Thank you.”

Li Nuo smiled and said, “You are being polite to me too?”

Zhao Zhiyi curled his lips and said, “No need to thank me, forget it…”

Li Nuo grabbed her hand and said, “If Your Majesty insists on thanking me, I would be disrespectful to refuse.”

Zhao Zhiyi pinched his waist gently and said, “The emperors of Qi and Chu have abdicated. I think it’s time for me to abdicate too.”

As the only emperor on the mainland who entered Confucianism, she could fully understand the intentions of Li Nuo and the Confucian officials of Daxia.

No one is born superior to others, even if that person is yourself.

If totalitarianism is not eliminated, the people will never have peace.

Li Nuo held her hand and said, “When the time comes, you and Che’er can come back to Chang’an with me. I will have more time to spend with you guys in the future.”

Zhao Zhiyi nodded slightly. She had no interest in the throne, and giving it up would be a relief for her.

After thinking for a moment, she spoke again and said, “There is something I have never told you…”

After telling Li Nuo about Master Gongsun, Zhao Zhiyi shook his head slightly and murmured in confusion: “I don’t know what she meant by the words she left behind. I personally prepared her funeral, and I saw her body burnt to ashes with my own eyes. But she said that we might see each other again in the future. Can the dead be resurrected?”

Li Nuo was silent for a moment, nodded slightly, and said: “It is indeed not impossible for the dead to be resurrected.”

On the “Book of Heaven”, there is a portrait that Li Nuo does not recognize. Once it is lit up, Li Nuo can obtain the power of a peak semi-saint calligrapher. Although he is still half a step away from the saint realm, Li Nuo can already vaguely sense some things.

Bringing the dead back to life is indeed the power of calligraphers.

However, to bring back to life a person who has turned into ashes, I am afraid that even the power of the saint realm cannot do it. That is the ultimate goal of calligraphers.

Not only could he predict that he would help Zhiyi seize the throne, but he could also predict that he would practice calligraphy in the future. That Master Gongsun must have reached the seventh level of the Yin-Yang School.

It seems that there are more saints on this continent than just the strategist who has been stirring up the situation for hundreds of years.

Although God did not give the Yin-Yang School ultimate personal power, he gave them a pair of eyes that can see through fate.

In addition to extending the life of the old emperor of Zhao, Li Nuo also extended the life of the national teacher of Zhao for another sixty years. He was a close friend of Dongfang Xuan. After the “Code of Law” and “Confucian Classics” were merged, extending people’s lives no longer consumed extra lifespan.

In the process of annexing Wei, Qi and Chu, Dongfang Xuan obtained a lot of Yin-Yang classics. Two semi-saints of Yin-Yang were studying them day and night.

After dealing with the affairs of Zhao State, Li Nuo took Zhiyi and the others back to Chang’an.

After hundreds of years, the continent finally achieved unification.

Since the grand court meeting, those strategists who were stirring up the situation on the continent behind the scenes have never appeared again.

The world situation has been determined, and even the top strategists will find it difficult to turn the tide.

But the strategist with the cultivation of a saint never showed up.

Li Nuo understood the thoughts of the strategists very well. The peace and war on the continent, the division and unification of countries, were all the games of the strategists.

They call themselves chess players, with the mainland as the chessboard, the countries as the chess pieces, and themselves as the chess players. They will not personally enter the game and become chess pieces.

This is their pride as strategists.

It doesn’t matter if you lose a game of chess, at worst you can just start over. But losing your pride and dignity is what a strategist can’t accept the most.

Judging from the current situation, even if the sage of diplomacy personally took action, nothing would be able to change.

Li Nuo glanced at the two figures playing chess in the pavilion.

Da Xia now not only has a sage of diplomacy, but also an emperor in the holy realm.

After heaving a sigh of relief, he stretched out his hand towards the distance. Two small figures ran over from a distance and jumped into his arms. Li Nuo kissed each of his two daughters on the face. Butler Wu came up and said, “Master, Prince Rui wants to see you.”

“Prince Rui?”

Li Nuo looked into the distance and saw a figure standing there. He nodded and said, “Let him come over.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly looked up at the distant sky.

In the pavilion in the middle of the lake, Li Xuanjing put down the chess piece he had picked up and said, “A guest has arrived.”

Prince Chun looked back and frowned, saying, “Why didn’t you come earlier or later? It’s really annoying to disturb others when they are playing chess…”

Having said that, he still got up and walked to the lakeshore.

Five figures dropped from the sky and landed in front of them.

Three of them were the three old men of the Zongheng family who had appeared in the grand court. The other two were a young man and a middle-aged man. Prince Chun looked at the middle-aged man with a look of astonishment on his face: “Lin Fuzhi, you are not dead!”

The middle-aged man was none other than Lin Fuzhi, the Jingzhao Yin who committed suicide during the Rebellion of the Two Kings.

Lin Fuzhi bowed to the two of them and said with a smile: “Your Highness Prince Chun, Lord Li, we meet again…”

Prince Chun’s gaze swept across Lin Fuzhi’s body and finally fell on the face of the handsome young man.

The handsome young man just glanced at him, and then his eyes were fixed on Li Xuanjing. A smile appeared on his handsome face, and he said, “After hundreds of years, I finally met an interesting opponent…”

Seeing Prince Chun’s alert look, he smiled slightly and said, “Your Majesty, there is no need to be like this. I have no hostility towards you. It’s just a game of chess. There are winners and losers. If you lose a game, there is always another game…”

Prince Chun snorted coldly, exuding a powerful aura that locked onto the men. He said in a deep voice, “Don’t even think about doing anything else!”

The handsome young man smiled and shook his head, saying, “The general trend of the world is that after a long period of division, there will be unification, and after a long period of unification, there will be division. This is the law of history, and you cannot change it.”

While speaking, his eyes were always on Li Xuanjing.

Although his expression was calm, his eyes were filled with a strong sense of arrogance, as if no one was worthy of his attention except the person in front of him. Even the Saint Realm Emperor of the Great Unified Dynasty beside him was just a subsidiary product of the chess game of the strategists. He looked at Li Xuanjing and spoke again: “Human desire is an abyss that can never be filled. Confucianism restrains selfish desires and violates human nature. It will not last long. The great harmony you want will eventually become a fantasy. With your cultivation, you can see this clearly…”

Butler Wu, who was standing next to Li Nuo, clenched his fist and said, “Why is this guy so arrogant? I really want to punch him in the face!”

Li Nuo didn’t find it strange. The saint of the school of diplomacy stirred up the situation on the continent and played with the major dynasties in the palm of his hand. The so-called emperors of the five dynasties were just their pawns. It was not surprising that they looked down on everyone.

I’m afraid that in the other party’s eyes, only those who have defeated his father are qualified to have an equal dialogue with him.

As for other people, they may not be much different from ants.

King Rui looked at the handsome young man indifferently, with a hint of mockery on his lips, and said lightly: “He is just a slightly stronger one among a group of ignorant and poor creatures. What qualifications do you have to be so arrogant…”

The handsome young man slowly turned his head and met King Rui’s gaze.

He actually saw a look of pity in the other person’s eyes.

This fueled a fire of anger in him.

He is a saint of diplomacy. This continent under the feet of hundreds of millions of people is just the chessboard for him to play chess. The emperors of the five dynasties are just his chess pieces. Why should we pity an ant who is not even a chess piece? Why should we pity him?

His figure disappeared from the spot, and when he appeared again, he was already in front of King Rui.

A hand appeared at King Rui’s neck, but the next moment it grabbed nothing.

It wasn’t that King Rui dodged, he just stood there without making any movement.

The hand of this sage of diplomacy passed through King Rui’s neck. No matter whether he used his spiritual power or the power of heaven and earth, he could not touch King Rui’s body. He was clearly standing there, but even the sage could not touch him.

For the first time, a look of shock appeared on the handsome young man’s face. He suddenly took a step back and exclaimed, “What the hell are you!”

In his hundreds of years of life, he had never seen such a strange scene.

However, he soon calmed down.

Over the past few hundred years, he had seen a cook who chopped off a martial arts saint’s head with one knife, a thief who stole people’s skills, and a calligrapher who influenced reality with a pen. Although the scene before him was shocking, it was nothing compared to that terrifying calligrapher…

He looked at King Rui with a strange look and said calmly, “No wonder you dare to be so arrogant. You even created another family outside of the other families. I was wrong. I have seen countless people in my life, and you are also a figure among them. I will not mind your offense just now…”

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure disappeared from the spot and reappeared in front of Li Xuanjing, saying, “How about a game of chess between you and me?”

On the other side, Li Nuo looked at King Rui and asked, “What do you want from me?”

King Rui looked up at the sky and said, “Since I realized this power, I have not only seen things that others cannot see, but also heard some strange sounds. These sounds came from the sky, and I can’t hear them clearly. I think maybe you can hear them clearly…”

Li Nuo’s eyes narrowed slightly.

King Rui shook his head and said, “Don’t worry, I just saw more than others, other than that, I can’t do anything… However, as long as it is a book, whether it is tangible or intangible, with words or without words, I can see it, such as your previous “Code”, Lord Li’s “Confucian Classics”, and your current “Heavenly Book”. I also know that if you are willing, you can possess this power in my body…”

Li Nuo was silent for a moment, then stretched out his right hand and placed it on King Rui’s shoulder.

On the heavenly book, a certain portrait lit up.

The next moment, the power of stealing in Li Nuo’s body instantly climbed to an extremely powerful level, and the power in King Rui’s body gradually entered his body.

boom!
The moment this power entered Li Nuo’s body, the chaotic sounds coming from outside the sky almost made his mind explode.

After he calmed his mind, those ethereal voices gradually became clear.

……

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“Stop writing books and find a job in a workshop!”

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(End of this chapter)