Chapter 645 – Originally, You Were Nothing at All (1/2)
Chapter 645 – Originally, You Were Nothing at All
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Both the Mausoleum of Books and the streets of the capital sank into a deathly silence.
Many people were stunned, their mouths agape, and nobody could speak. They all believed that they had misheard. Perhaps the howling of the wind had suddenly increased, making it impossible to hear clearly?
The Tianhai Divine Empress's eyes were very beautiful, bright as stars, precisely like the eyes of a Phoenix.
A streak of light flashed in her eyes, a strand of her thoughts moving out.
She gazed at a certain place in the Mausoleum of Books. She did not see it clearly, but she saw everything with absolute clarity.
That feeling still existed. It had always been there, it had always been in this place.
Crack! Several lightning bolts as thick as trees struck down from the night sky, striking all around the peak of the Mausoleum of Books and revealing everything with incomparably vivid detail.
The black clouds above violently roiled, constantly twisting against each other. It seemed as if countless dragons were engaging in pitched battle, as if the mysteries of heaven were beginning to move, and the will of the heavens was about to descend.
An extremely faint Qi seeped out of the Divine Empress's body and drifted upwards, piercing straight through the clouds and returning towards the depths of the vast sky of stars that the eyes alone would not be able to see.
She raised her head to the starry sky, her expression indifferent, not a single word emerging from her lips.
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”What does it mean?”
”Chen Changsheng is not the son of the Divine Empress and Emperor Xian?”
”Could he not be Crown Prince Zhaoming?”
With Daoist Ji's words, the entire capital sank into a state of absolute shock.
When that rumor began to spread last year, not many people believed it. However, too many things had happened later on that forced people to believe it. The most crucial of these things were the stances of the Orthodoxy and the Divine Empress.
For his sake, the Imperial Court and the Orthodoxy had gotten into conflict after conflict, the two factions ultimately deciding to carry out a decisive battle tonight. The Divine Empress had not hesitated to lower her cultivation level to help him defy the heavens and change fate so that she could break the oath she made back then and perfect her soul. But if he was not Crown Prince Zhaoming, weren't the Divine Empress's actions meaningless?
The person that was most shocked was naturally Chen Changsheng.
Drawing on a strength he hitherto had no idea he possessed, he struggled to stand. Supporting his body with his sheath, he stared at the dark capital.
He wanted to know just where his master was and also just what those words of his meant.
The Divine Empress did not turn her head, nor did she pay him any attention.
This silence hung over the world for a seemingly endless amount of time.
His face grew paler and paler, his young and honest face brimming with frustration.
Was this true?
It had been fake all along.
He suddenly understood.
Yes, everything was fake.
When the false is taken for true, the true becomes false.
His master had made up a pack of lies and deceived the entire world.
Even he and the Divine Empress had been deceived.
The Scroll of Time perhaps really could truncate time, but that didn't mean that this time would fall on his body.
The Canon of Flowing West could change a great deal, but it could not stop the great river from ultimately flowing west.
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In this very short period of time, Chen Changsheng understood many things, even all things.
Those matters had once confused him, confused Tang Thirty-Six and confused Xu Yourong, and simultaneously given all three a vague sense of concern.
Yes, if he really had been Crown Prince Zhaoming, why would his master have let him enter the capital and appear before the Divine Empress?
Two and a half years ago, on a spring day, he had left Xining Village and come to the capital.
He had failed in ending the engagement, and been similarly unable to test into any of the other Six Ivies, ultimately ending in his entering the abandoned Orthodox Academy. It had nothing to do with whether or not the Pope knew of the situation at the time or Mo Yu having that letter. It now seemed that it had been a foregone conclusion that he would enter the Orthodox Academy. Because his master was the previous Principal of the Orthodox Academy, and his being in the Orthodox Academy would make it easier to associate him with this fact.
At the very beginning, did the Pope know of this matter? He probably didn't. Archbishop Mei Lisha then? He probably did know.
The elderly archbishop had sat in his room brimming with plum blossoms in the Bureau of Ecclesiastic Education, blocking out the storms for the Orthodox Academy and making a path for Chen Changsheng. He helped Chen Changsheng mature and ripen at an almost unimaginable speed. On the Divine Avenue, he had announced in Chen Changsheng's place that Chen Changsheng would take first rank of the first banner. He let Chen Changsheng stand out from the crowd and experience the limitless glory after a hard-fought victory.