Chapter 677 – Without Illness (1/2)

Chapter 677 – Without Illness

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Xuelao City suffered from blizzards year-round and was extremely far from the human world, but news had never ceased to come from it.

The capital of the demons was a great city that was under just as much observation as the capital and Luoyang. Even if all seventeen of its gates were completely shut, there were still countless methods of sending information out.

However, Xuelao City had been sealed for three days now, yet the Pope still did not know just what had occurred within.

It was obvious that this was not some ordinary sealing of the city. Some momentous event must have occurred within its walls.

The matter of the Mausoleum of Books had also occurred just three days ago.

Chen Changsheng recalled those words his master had said to the Divine Empress. He had said that he had long since made preparations against the demons. Could it be that it was related to the sealing of Xuelao City?

He shook his head and no longer pondered these questions. What did anything that occurred in Xuelao City have to do with him?

The Pope examined his profile and sensed the change in his emotions. ”A useful body must be used to do useful things, whether for the common people of the world or calming one's Dao heart.”

Chen Changsheng gazed at the fallen leaves outside, saying somewhat woodenly, ”I've already been used many times.”

Bystanders might have found these words rather puzzling, but the Pope understood his meaning. Pity and guilt appeared in his eyes.

”Besides being used, there are still others, like relatives or friends.”

He said to Chen Changsheng, ”You have the surname 'Chen', you are a member of the Imperial clan, and you still have many living relatives.”

”Is Martial Uncle speaking of those princes? They want nothing more than for me to die a little sooner.”

This was a very accurate judgment. Whether it was the Prince of Xiang whose power was certain to reach to the heavens or the Prince of Zhongshan about to take control of the powerful Great Zhou Army, the person they all feared was Chen Changsheng.

Because Chen Changsheng was also a member of the Imperial clan, Shang Xingzhou's student, a person famed throughout the world, and most importantly, he was the future Pope.

When fighting over the imperial throne or power, he was the opponent those princes of the Chen clan would least like to face.

As for familial affection, these words were a joke when it came to the Chen Imperial clan.

Almost a thousand years had passed, but no one would forget the coup of the Hundred Herb Garden.

These current princes were all offspring of Taizong. How could they permit a descendant of the deceased imperials to gain so much power?

The Pope understood Chen Changsheng's meaning. ”Even if that's the case, you still have relatives.”

The 'relatives' here naturally referred to those exiled imperials currently living on the Sacred Light Continent.

Like that monk who had appeared by the stream near Xining Village's old temple.

In terms of blood, those members of the Imperial clan who had been chased by Emperor Taizong to the other continent were naturally Chen Changsheng's relatives.

There was even a possibility that his parents were still living on that side.

Chen Changsheng understood that the Pope had mentioned those people living on the Sacred Light Continent not to make him do something, but to convince him that there was still a connection between him and this world.

This sort of connection might make him feel a little warmth for this world, to no longer be so bitterly disappointed. Or perhaps it would give him a few reasons to like this world.

He was somewhat moved by this.

But he was moved that the Pope was saying these words, not their actual content.

Because he had not a single good impression of these 'relatives' living on the Sacred Light Continent.

”Those people aren't my relatives, they're all bad people.”

Chen Changsheng continued, ”When I was still an infant, no, even when I might have still been in the womb, they did many things to me.”

What things? So that the Tianhai Divine Empress would believe that he was Crown Prince Zhaoming, when he was just an infant or even still in the womb, the people of the Sacred Light Continent had used an external force to destroy his sun wheel and sever his meridians, then filled his body with what seemed to be the endless Qi of life, but was actually the incredibly dangerous energy of Sacred Light.