Chapter 1383 - Golden Dragon Carriage (1/2)
Chapter 1383: Golden Dragon Carriage
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
The Vice Leader pondered in silence for a while, and then, he said, “For sure, but could you answer two of my questions first, your highness?”
“Sure,” Zhang Ruochen answered.
The Vice Leader said, “First question, you’re going to Peakless Mountain to offer sacrifices to the heavens. Are you going there just for a woman?”
Zhang Ruochen knew why the Vice Leader asked this. He said, “I guess you are saying I’m being too immature and impulsive, aren’t you?”
“Just answer my question, your highness,” the Vice Leader said.
Zhang Ruochen walked around in the room with his hands behind his back. “I’m going to fulfill a promise.”
The Vice Leader didn’t respond to that question. Instead, he asked the second question. “Have you thought about protecting them before summoning the previous officials of Sacred Central Empire? Have you ever thought about how to lead them in the future?”
“I wouldn’t have done that if I didn’t have the ability to protect them and to give them a brighter future.”
Zhang Ruochen became fierce. He reached out his hand and said, “Do you dare follow me somewhere, Vice Leader?”
“Why not?”
A s.p.a.ce ripple emerged in the room, and the World Door to the Universe Map opened.
Zhang Ruochen entered the Universe World with the Vice Leader, looking down at the enormous world.
“An entire world… There’s an entire world inside your body…”
The Vice Leader was moved when he saw the Divine Sky-connecting Tree. He said, “Since you know what you’re going to do, I can rest a.s.sured.”
The Vice Leader took off his astral sky mask with his hand that was gleaming with saint light after getting back to the room in Phoenix Dance Palace.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes popped when he saw the face of that elder. He said, “Patriarch Taiyi… It’s… It’s you…”
The elder who was standing in front of Zhang Ruochen was Patriarch Taiyi from Yin and Yang Sect with white hair and a beard on his wrinkled face.
Zhang Ruochen saw Patriarch Taiyi once, and he had impressed him greatly.
Patriarch Taiyi said calmly, “I was admitted into Yin and Yang Sect with your father, and we followed Tao Master Yuanfa together. I’m a couple of years younger than your father, so I call your father ‘senior brother.’”
Zhang Ruochen immediately bowed. “Greetings, royal uncle.”
Zhang Ruochen saluted Patriarch Taiyi out of veneration. When he was still in Yin and Yang Sect, his real ident.i.ty might’ve been exposed without the protection of Patriarch Taiyi.
Perhaps Patriarch Taiyi had already seen through him before.
Patriarch Taiyi was very frank. He waved his hand and said, “I owe my senior brother a huge favor, which is why I joined Guarding Dragon Pavilion as the Vice Leader of Tiangang Pavilion. There’re also some other reasons, but it’s not the time to tell you yet. You’ll understand it in the future.”
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Senior uncle, is my father still alive? Where did he go?”
Patriarch Taiyi shook his head, sighed and said, “Actually, I also want to know whether senior brother is still alive or not.”
Zhang Ruocen was a bit frustrated. He then asked, “I heard that when father went missing, he summoned all the members from Guarding Dragon Pavilion who took everything from the treasury of Sacred Central Empire. Is that true?”
“That’s right.”
“Where is the treasury of Sacred Central Empire now?” Zhang Ruochen kept asking.
Patriarch Taiyi said, “It’s been emptied.”
“How is that possible?”
Zhang Ruochen found it hard to believe.
Patriarch Taiyi said, “Senior brother asked us to build something, which exhausted all the resources in the treasury.”
“What thing could exhaust the treasury of a central empire?” Zhang Ruochen asked.
Patriarch Taiyi said, “Senior brother forbade us from telling anyone before the time was right.”
“Including me?” Zhang Ruochen asked.
Patriarch Taiyi said, “Including you.”
Zhang Ruochen knew that Patriarch Taiyi was unwilling to answer him, so it didn’t matter how he asked. “I want to destroy Lingxiao Heavenly King Mansion before going to Peakless Mountain to wors.h.i.+p the heavens. What do you think, senior uncle?”
Patriarch Taiyi put his astral mask back on, and his forces went away completely. He said, “You’re the crown prince. No matter what decision you make, we’ll support you with our greatest strength.”
The entire Sacred City was chaotic these days.
The crown prince edict kept floating in the air. All the officials from Sacred Central Empire flocked to Sacred City, which led to one battle after another.
The army from the imperial government rushed to Sacred City first, which strengthened the defense of Sacred City.