The Supreme Heaven was like a black cloud covering the sky and earth, crushing heavily in the void.
Under the thick clouds with flashing lightning, Tianzhou with its beautiful mountains and clear waters seems more relaxed and pleasant. Compared with the depressing and suffocating heaven, life here seems even more precious.
Very few people knew that Taichu Emperor, who seldom showed up in public and claimed to the outside world that he had been practicing in seclusion in order to master higher powers, actually had a small industry in Tianzhou.
This is a small garden, not very big, only about a hundred acres in size. Compared with those important ministers and senior officials of the Heavenly Court, whose residences in Tianzhou often occupy hundreds or thousands of miles in size, the small house of Emperor Taichu in Tianzhou can be called miniature and is indeed the most inconspicuous one.
Outsiders only thought that this was the property of a minor official in the Heavenly Court who had bought it with great difficulty in Tianzhou. The neighbors nearby were all of similar status, and they were minor officials in the Heavenly Court. They were the kind of people who would be dragged into the slightest disturbance in the Heavenly Court and used as scapegoats for those beheaded on the Heavenly Punishment Platform.
No one knew that when the Great Emperor Taichu claimed to be in seclusion in the Heavenly Palace for cultivation, he actually spent most of his time in this house...
In this house, there are three gentle and lovely wives, four cute, clever, well-behaved and obedient concubines, and a small group of lively, lovely, smart and charming maids. However, from top to bottom, whether it is the wife, the two concubines, the four concubines, or the dozens of maids, they don't know that their "master" is that person.
Early in the morning, he grew a thick long beard that almost reached his belly, and his face was slightly darkened. His body shrunk by more than a foot, but his shoulders were two inches wider than his original body. His body had a bit of the charm of a square city gate, no longer the handsome and elegant Taichu Emperor. He wore a dark green casual shirt with copper coin patterns, and stood in front of his house, watching the carriages coming and going on the road.
This mansion is located in an unknown small town in Tianzhou.
The residents in the city are basically grassroots officials and minor clerks of the Heavenly Court. Everyone's daily life is the same. When it is their turn to be on duty, they will return to the Heavenly Court trembling with fear, serve their chief officers, and complete various tasks... If they are lucky and are not involved in any fatal incidents and are not beheaded together with their chief officers, when the rotation time is over and it is time to rest, they will return here to share the joy of family with their relatives and families.
In recent times, there have been constant turbulence in the Heavenly Palace, starting with the Secret Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets. Many important government offices have been massacred from top to bottom. Countless big men who were once high and mighty have been put on the Heavenly Punishment Platform, along with their adjutants, staff, subordinates, etc., and countless petty officials were beheaded along with them.
However, these neighbors of Emperor Taichu, the minor officials living in this small town, might have been lucky, and the whole town was still quite peaceful, and no one had their heads chopped off in this turmoil.
Emperor Taichu stood in front of the door, and many of the neighbors and acquaintances who came and went all smiled and greeted him with a relaxed and happy look on their faces.
The Great Emperor Taichu smiled and nodded to these little people at the bottom of the food chain in Heaven. Depending on the closeness of their daily relationships, he would either greet them loudly, or take the initiative to salute them, or even walk up to them and chat with them, asking about the latest situation, etc.
He really enjoyed this feeling.
As the supreme ruler of the Supreme Heaven, how different are these neighbors and acquaintances from him? But when he is with these little people, the Great Emperor Taichu feels that he is "truly" "alive"...
'To be alive', rather than a 'human tool that controls the Supreme Taichu Heaven'!
Every time the Great Emperor Taichu thought that he was just a "tool" being used by others, he would get inexplicably annoyed and want to find a few important officials in the Heavenly Court who he didn't like and take off their heads to play with them like balls.
Every time at this time, even if he saw the Queens and concubines in his own harem in the Heavenly Palace, those beauties as pretty as flowers, who allowed him to play with and pick them at will, or even abuse and humiliate them at will, and they had to fawn on him, and no matter what he did to them, the palace maids and serving girls would smile and actively cooperate... he felt that "life" was too "feminine" and boring.
It is still this small house. The women in it are not extremely beautiful, nor do they have the enchanting charm that can overwhelm the whole country, nor do they have the ambition and cleverness to scheme for the whole world, and they do not have the powerful and mighty families to support them... They only have good looks, dignified and virtuous personalities, and are wholeheartedly living a simple life. They come from ordinary families, and there are only three or five Tianwei and Tianxiao-level young cultivators in their families who serve in the Heavenly Court. However, these women whose positions are as humble as his own are his 'truly recognized original wives'.
Many times, Emperor Taichu has seriously thought about finding an opportunity to kill all the empresses and concubines in his harem, as well as the families behind them, and the princes and princesses they gave birth to, who were bastards .
Why not just make the one wife, two concubines and four concubines in the house legitimate?
Has it been made public and announced to the world that it has been corrected?
But think about the consequences...
The Great Emperor Taichu curled his lips... Even though he was the supreme ruler of the Heavenly Court, if he did this, those "stupid women" in this house would probably not survive more than three days in the harem of the Heavenly Court.
Even with the protection of a real emperor like him, they could hardly survive more than three days in the harem of heaven!
It makes me angry just thinking about it.
I really want to kill all those people with ulterior motives in the Supreme Heaven, from top to bottom... and replace them all with those guys in the Taichu Yuan Court who obey me absolutely and do my bidding.
but……
The Great Emperor Taichu smiled cheerfully and bowed enthusiastically to a passing carriage: "Hey, Uncle Yun, how are you these days? Ha, Yun girl, you're here too, are you accompanying Uncle Yun out of town to go fishing and walk the dog? Hey, this three catties, it must be more than three catties now, right? I think it must be more than three hundred catties..."
"Hey, Yun girl, in two days, it will be your brother Chu's birthday. You...hahaha, Yun girl, are you shy?"
Emperor Taichu smiled and whispered a few words to the white-haired old man in the carriage. The two of them looked deeply at the shy girl in the carriage and nodded slowly in tacit understanding.
Well, is this marriage settled?
The son of the white-haired old man Yun Bo, who served in the Heavenly Court, was also a minor official, equivalent to the position of the Great Emperor Taichu. The two families were close neighbors, with similar identities and backgrounds, and they usually interacted very closely. Chu Yi and Yun Yatou, who grew up together, were childhood sweethearts, so it was only natural for them to get married!
Emperor Taichu looked at the carriage slowly going away and his mood suddenly became very good.
The high pavilion was bright and spacious, sweeping away the stagnation brought by the days of cursing, beating, hacking, and killing people in the Taichu Chengyuan Hall. With his current cultivation, he inexplicably felt that his state of mind had improved a little, and his whole body was surging with energy, as if he had made a breakthrough in his understanding of the Dao.
It’s true... this child Chu Yi is different from his other sons and daughters.
Completely different!
Although those emperor's sons and daughters were also his biological children, they had learned to play tricks, seek benefits, and undermine each other since childhood...all kinds of struggles for power and all kinds of open and covert attacks made Emperor Taichu really want to crush them to death.
He had been tired of those kids since they were young. When they grew up, the Great Emperor Taichu only regarded them as "a group of tools with blood ties". Even their marriages could only be described as "righteous marriages". Every son of the Emperor married, and every daughter of the Emperor married, they had to bring enough benefits to the Great Emperor Taichu.
Whether they are happy after marriage, whether the person they marry suits their mood, whether they can live a peaceful and stable life together... Taichu Emperor doesn't care, and the people they marry and the people behind them don't care .
Anyway, all we want is the name of 'marriage'.
As for whether they treat each other with respect after marriage, or treat each other coldly, or even become enemies, who cares?
Only Chu Wei.
This doll is very good, very good.
Although in the eyes of the neighbors and acquaintances in this small town, Chu Yi might just be a person who comes from an ordinary family in a small town, very serious, studious, honest, kind... a very "ordinary" young man, and almost every household has three or five such people!
But for the Great Emperor Taichu.
Serious, studious, honest, kind... To him, these are simply the rare treasures he has always dreamed of!
This was the greatest expectation that Taichu Emperor had for his future son when he was still a small ant - a serious and studious person, a positive and motivated person, an upright and enthusiastic person, and a kind and simple person!
This is the good son in the mind of Emperor Taichu, his true son.
As for now, the group of people in the Heavenly Court, such as the eldest prince, the second prince, the eldest princess, the second princess, etc.... Even the Prince Yuanfu who just defected and is being attacked and hunted by the commander-in-chief of the Heavenly Forbidden Divine Guards with a large army...
The Great Emperor Taichu curled his lips fiercely and suppressed the urge to kill all those princes and princesses, their "mothers", and their "mother clans".
"Even though I don't like them, damn it, they are my biological children after all, my biological children... Hey, hey, back then, I had high hopes for them... Hey, hey, after all, they are my biological children... Even though they are not as good as Chu Yi, even though they are not as good as him!"
Clenching his fists, the Great Emperor Taichu slowly turned around and walked into the gate of the mansion step by step. He nodded to the old gatekeeper who was dozing off with his eyes squinted in the gatehouse, "Be serious and attentive. Pay close attention to the etiquette and procedures for Chu Yi's marriage. Don't let any mistakes be made!"
In the gatehouse, there was an old gatekeeper who was no more than three feet tall, with white hair and beard, and whose muscles were shrunk into a ball due to old age, bow legs, and a big hunchback. He smiled all day long and looked kind and harmless. Well, the real Lord of the Heavenly Book, opened his eyes in a hurry, and bowed to the Great Emperor Taichu with a smile: "Don't worry, I promise to do it properly, without any mistakes... uh..."
Tianshu Laojun's ears twitched slightly, and he waved his left hand gently. The light and shadows and the scenery around him did not change at all, but in the surrounding space, layers of fine and subtle space restrictions had completely blocked the entire town. Inside and outside the town, everyone was doing their own thing, and nothing seemed to have changed. However, if an outsider wanted to use his great magical powers to spy on what was happening in the town, he would not be able to spy on anything.
"Huh? What's the big deal that requires such caution?" Emperor Taichu looked at Tianshu Laojun in astonishment.
Tianshu Laojun slapped the back of his head, his eyes opened wide, and wisps of gray spatial light surged, outlining a small void teleportation array in front of him. With a crisp "ding" sound, two exquisite jade talismans flew out of it.
When Laojun of the Heavenly Book touched the two jade talismans, large pieces of text turned into a golden torrent that gushed out and floated in front of the two people.
"The Qing Emperor's clone went to Linghu Yunlu and met Taiyu and White Lady?"
"The people of Taiming went to Linghuyun City to capture those three little girls?"
The Great Emperor Taichu frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about the Qing Emperor. He went to find Taiyu and Bai Niangzi. I'm afraid he wants to find out the whereabouts of Yuan Fu from Lu Yi... Humph, Yuan Fu's group of brats act in an orderly manner. It's not so easy to be exposed, especially not by the Qing Emperor who has been in seclusion for many years to recover from his injuries... Qing Emperor, let him go."
"But are those three little girls really that important?"
"In that case, let's get involved." The Great Emperor Taichu frowned slightly and suddenly said, "Chu Yi is not young anymore. Is he still a mere centurion now?"
Tianshu Laojun laughed dryly: "Yes, he is now the Patrolling Heavenly Forbidden Divine Guard..."
The Great Emperor Taichu said calmly, "Well, I know that he is now the captain of the Black Clothes Division of the Patrol God Guards, and he is about to get married. This position is too low... It would not sound good if the news of him being the spy of the Black Clothes Division got out."
"Send his immediate superior, along with him, to Linghu Yuncheng now, immediately, to investigate the matter of the three girls. Destroy all of Tai Li's plans, and by the way... ahem." Taichu Emperor looked at Tianshu Laojun and said softly, "Achieve merit, be awarded honors, and be promoted. Do you understand?"
The Lord of the Heavenly Book blinked his eyes and asked softly, "How high will you be promoted to?"
The Great Emperor Taichu hesitated for a moment, and stared at the Heavenly Book Lord with wide eyes. After a long, long time, the Great Emperor Taichu asked hesitantly, "Isn't a powerful star lord still a little low? Well, let's send a document first and transfer the person over. What position, how high, and when to promote is just a matter of a word. Is this important?"
Tianshu Laojun hurriedly shook his head.
Of course it doesn't matter.
The entire Supreme Heaven is your private property. You can arrange a decent official position for your truly beloved son so that he can enjoy a little glory when he gets married... It only takes a few words.
The only worry is Tianshu Laojun, the actual operator.
Things must be done perfectly without any mistakes, all the credit must be traceable and able to withstand the scrutiny and even investigation of countless interested people... What is especially important is that Chu Yi cannot have any accidents in this operation!
If Chu Yi was also abducted by the people behind Yuan Fu like Lu Yi was in Yuncha Ridge... or something even more terrible happened, then Laojun of Tianshu and countless people in the Heavenly Palace would all commit suicide... and they would not have to live like this anymore.
As the personal secretary of the Great Emperor Taichu, Tianshu Laojun did not forget to remind him: "However, when you go to Linghu Yunlu, you must not hide it from Taiyu and Taimi. I'm afraid there will be trouble afterwards."
The Great Emperor Taichu pondered for a moment and nodded slowly: "It seems that a great chaos is imminent. Don't you smell that familiar smell? The smell of death, the smell of many people dying..."
"So, a little disturbance is nothing." Taichu Emperor smiled faintly and said, "You are also a witness of what happened back then. You have experienced what happened back then. What if it happens again?"
The face of Tianshu Laojun changed drastically.
What happened back then, happening again?
He didn't know where Emperor Taichu's judgment came from, and he didn't know what decision Emperor Taichu had made in his heart.
However, if what happened back then were to happen again... Tianshu Laojun's internal organs would be shaking and trembling... He had no idea whether his old bones could withstand another round of destruction from what happened back then.
Especially since he was alone back then.
And now the Lord of Heavenly Book has a wife, concubines, sons, grandchildren, and millions of relatives and family members... Another time?
That time... the ancient Nalanda Temple fell. The Buddhism that was once glorious and covered the entire Supreme Taichu Heaven with Buddha's light completely declined. The Buddhist practitioners who were once considered "superior to the people", those who had some cultivation, some realm, and were truly great monks, were all reduced to ashes. The remaining so-called "Buddhist practitioners" were like wild dogs eating carrion, running around in the countryside, or being kept in the houses of the powerful...
Along with the glory of Buddhism, more than 90% of the living beings in the entire Supreme Taichu Heaven were completely reduced to ashes!
In the vast Supreme Primordial Heaven, more than 90% of the creatures were wiped out. In the Supreme Primordial Heaven today, there are countless creatures. How long did it take for them to reproduce and thrive again?
Again?
The Lord of Heavenly Book didn’t dare to think about it… He really didn’t dare to think about it.
But facing the Great Emperor Taichu and those terrifying beings of equal status, Tianshu Laojun knew very well that there were some things that he was not qualified to know. He could only stand firmly and wholeheartedly beside the Great Emperor Taichu... share his glory and die with him!
"Yes, yes, yes, old minister, I will definitely see to it." Tianshu Laojun bowed deeply to Taichu Emperor.
"Those three girls with the surname Qing..." Old Lord of the Heavenly Book asked cautiously again.
The clone he had sent to the lower world to investigate the death of the son of Emperor Taiming had gone through hardships with the three girls of Qingyou in the ancient city of Loulan, and had experienced the siege of the King of Qi in the wild star field. Therefore, Tianshu Laojun still had a little affection and goodwill towards the three girls of Qingyou.
Although it is not much, just a little bit, but for an old ghost like Tianshu Laojun, this little bit of goodwill and kindness is already precious.
The Great Emperor Taichu pondered for a moment and nodded slowly: "Perhaps, it is for the 'sword'?"
"The sword is a weapon for killing. The power of sword cultivators is superior to that of cultivators from other sects!"
"However, given the current rules and regulations of Supreme Primordial Heaven, can a Sword Emperor appear among the sword cultivators? Haha, everyone has tried it over the years... Could it be that these three little girls will be an exception?"
Shaking his head, Emperor Taichu said calmly: "Maybe it's an exception? No matter what, as long as it's someone or something that Tai Mi and Tai Ni want, we must grab it first. What do you think?"
The Lord of Heavenly Books understood.
He understood deeply.
He saluted, stepped back, and a long hair fell down, transforming into an avatar stationed in the gatehouse. Then, his original body turned into a point of starlight, flashed out of thin air, and disappeared without a trace.
In the void, the numerous restrictions set up by Laojun of the Heavenly Book quietly disappeared.
Emperor Taichu adjusted his expression, stretched the muscles on his face, put on an extremely brilliant smile that came from the heart, put his hands behind his back, and ran towards his own inner residence with a smile on his face, like a golden retriever who had picked up a big hoof on the street.
"Yun Niang, Cai Niang, Yan Niang, it's spring time outside the city, how about we go out for a spring outing together?"
"Three days ago, in the Peach Valley east of the city, the wild peach trees on the mountain had already formed buds. It is estimated that they will all bloom in the next two days..." When Emperor Taichu said this, his eyes flashed with divine light, and he glanced in the direction of the Peach Valley east of the city.
Yes, that's right. In the Peach Valley that is more than ten miles wide and hundreds of miles long, the wild peach trees all over the mountains have their buds just half opened... Taichu Emperor had an idea, and the valley was suddenly filled with warm breezes, heat rising, and a strange vitality lingering. The wild peach trees all over the mountains seemed to bloom as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and the flowers were three times bigger than in previous years.
"While Yi'er is on duty and not at home being an eyesore, let's hurry out of the city... Oh, come to think of it, it's been a while since I went out for a stroll." Emperor Taichu was in high spirits. Before his three wives could reply, he had already rolled up his sleeves and directed a group of maids to spin around like spinning tops.
The carriage, the clothes, the windproof curtains, all kinds of fine wines, all kinds of snacks, all kinds of fresh fruits... and so on. Compared with Laojun Tianshu, the Great Emperor Taichu was much more careful and meticulous when dealing with these household chores!
At the same time, in a secret spy base in Tianzhou, the Black Clothes Division of the Sky Patrol Forbidden Divine Guards, Centurion Chu Yi, received a secret order from his superior and stepped onto the temporary void teleportation array with surprise and joy.
"Today is the time for a good man to make great achievements and bring glory to his family!"
Chu Yi only thought that he was just an insignificant one among the countless secret spies of the Heavenly Forbidden Guards who were secretly transferred to Linghu Yuncheng for scout... He had no idea that under the dispatch of Laojun of the Heavenly Book, in order to ensure his safety, countless main elite troops of the Heavenly Court were mobilized without his knowledge.
Even in order to cover for Chu Wei, three sons of the Great Emperor Taichu also went out openly!
At this moment, Xi Wubian was striding into the residence of Qingyou and the other two girls.
Twelve pairs of platinum wings with surging divine flames were wantonly releasing raging flames, almost covering the entire Linghu Yuncheng.
"Listen carefully, Linghu clan. I am acting on the orders of the Great Emperor. This has nothing to do with you, Linghu clan."
"You can just stand by and watch. If you dare to hinder us in the slightest, you, the Linghu clan, will have to bear the wrath of the emperor!"
When Meng Wubian saw the formation restrictions that had been pierced, he knew that he could no longer hide it. The commotion here must have alarmed those old ghosts of the Linghu family... Since he could no longer hide it, he might as well just go for it!
Use the name of Emperor Taimi to intimidate the Linghu family.
How dare a mere lackey under Emperor Taiyu provoke Emperor Taimi for just three little girls who have just ascended to heaven?
impossible!
Absolutely impossible!