Chapter 1040 – The Hearts of Emperors Are All Wind and Snow (1/2)
Chapter 1040 – The Hearts of Emperors Are All Wind and Snow
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
There were many reasons to cough, with the most common being illness.
Cold air harming the lungs was one of the most lingering illnesses. Even an expert of the Divine Domain would find it very troublesome.
Shang Xingzhou had no idea that the White Emperor would be coughing throughout the following years and months, coughing for many years.
But he did know that the White Emperor had suffered significant injuries, just as he had.
The two Angels of Sacred Light and Madam Mu were extremely powerful opponents.
He and the White Emperor were the strongest of the current era, but they also had to pay a certain price.
That he chose not to exercise all the options available to him at this time was based on this reasoning. It was also because he knew that Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong would not support him. He and the White Emperor could alter their wills according to the situation at any time, but that young couple would not.
He said to the White Emperor, ”But, in the end, it still came to this day.”
”She was talented, of a good bloodline, capable, extremely intelligent, and also beautiful. By marrying her, I could father the best descendant.”
The White Emperor added, ”For this, I could endure many things, including her ambition, but I didn't realize that her ambition was so great.”
Shang Xingzhou understood what he meant.
If Madam Mu had only plotted to gain a few advantages for the Great Western Continent, the White Emperor would remain silent, but her recent actions had now even involved the fate of the entire Demi-human race.
”In truth, I always knew that she couldn't stand me, that she always felt that I was a monster that didn't understand art.”
The White Emperor indifferently said, ”None of this matters. I could endure her, but I could not endure like Bie Yanghong. Most importantly, Luoluo was the one I chose to be the next White Emperor. You should also be aware of how pure and formidable her bloodline is. And she wanted to marry her off to Xuelao City just because that's what the Great Western Continent thinks should be done with daughters? She really went crazy.”
Shang Xingzhou commented, ”In this entire matter, this is the part that I don't understand about you. Your descendant was also in her bosom.”
The White Emperor indifferently said, ”In the matter of sons and daughters, I've never cared about quantity, only quality. An excellent child like Luoluo is already enough, so what use is there in having more pieces of trash? This is the reason my clan has always been very small since ancient times. Not everyone can be like that emperor of yours, having so many sons and letting them slaughter each other to see which one will survive in the end and claim the throne. What do you consider that? Raising Gu1? There are times when I really don't know what to say about your Human race.”
The emperor he was referring to was naturally the mighty Emperor Taizong.
Shang Xingzhou said, ”This being the case, why do all this?”
”Back in the snowy plains to the north of Mount Han, you borrowed my hands to heavily wound the Demon Lord, and also delayed me for five years.”
The White Emperor gave Shang Xingzhou a deep stare.
”These five years were enough for you to do too many things. You unexpectedly managed to seize back the rule of the Human race from Tianhai's hands… I was forced to ponder a problem. If Xuelao City is destroyed and you unite the world, where will my race go? So I could only strive to slow your pace.”
Shang Xingzhou calmly said, ”I am not His Majesty Taizong. I do not have the ability to defy the heavens and change fate. All of you have overestimated me.”
The White Emperor replied, ”You are my friend, so I know how frightening you are. And you even managed to raise two excellent students.”
Shang Xingzhou did not respond to this comment. ”So you made this plan?”
He was still referring to his previous question.
'Why do all this?'
He was talking about everything that had occurred.
This was the White Emperor's city.
Everything that happened in this city had all obtained his agreement, or tacit approval, or even secret promotion.
Whether it was Madam Mu's deeds or the Xiang clan elder's deeds, whether they were for good or ill.
Like the Heavenly Selection, or the dangers that Chen Changsheng had faced, or this plan, or the deaths of Bie Yanghong and Wuqiong Bi, or that most important of matters.
The White Emperor would not agree to marry Luoluo off to Xuelao City, but this did not mean that he had not initially considered allying with the demons.
”You used your daughter as a betting chip to make both sides fight while you watched from the sidelines. No matter what the result was, you would come out in the end to mount the stage and shout, bringing everything to a perfect close.”
Shang Xingzhou continued, ”For people like us that have lived too long, we have far too much time to think, and our schemes naturally won't have many flaws. But you did not expect Chen Changsheng to arrive so early, altering the course of the situation, and you also did not expect him to be so obsessed with digging you out of that mountain.”
The White Emperor said, ”As I said, you raised two excellent students. And besides, you also came.”
Shang Xingzhou said, ”For such a major event, I had to personally step on stage.”
The White Emperor knew that the 'major event' did not merely refer to the Demi-human race's intention to ally with Xuelao City, but more to those two Angels of Sacred Light.
To individuals like him and Shang Xingzhou, who dwelled at the peak of the continent, the only truly major events were events beyond this world.
They all walked the path of the Great Dao, and their Dao was this side's Dao.
To use Wang Zhice's words, positions were relative, so it was only natural that their standpoints be foreordained from their birth.
The actions of the demons had already touched their bottom line.
”It probably has nothing to do with the Demon Lord.”
The White Emperor determined, ”Only people as mad as her and Black Robe would do something like this.”
Shang Xingzhou said, ”Women are all crazy, so you can't let them stand too high.”
He had opposed the marriage of the White Emperor and Madam Mu many years ago on the basis of this reasoning.
Similarly, he thought the same of the Tianhai Divine Empress.
”So I cannot understand why you were willing to request Xu Yourong's assistance.”
The White Emperor said, ”She's a woman, and she's also your student's fiancée.”
Shang Xingzhou replied, ”Defeating you is an extremely difficult task.”