550 World-solidifying Skill & the Human Emperor Palace (2/2)

At the first sight of the Human Emperor Palace, it looked a little out of place with the surrounding buildings. Although it was also splendid and magnificent, it didn't carry an air of simplicity and great antiquity like the other buildings did and lacked an inborn atmosphere of history. It looked as though it was a place for upstarts among the building complex here.

Yes, it felt like a place for upstarts.

Of course, it was just Zhou Bao's feeling. At present, Yan Yuntian had already gone into raptures. He thought that the Human Emperor Palace was very pleasing to the eye. Why would others say that it was not suitable for him?

Chen Jinzhong was a conscientious worker just as his name implied. Because he still kept introducing the situation of the Divine Wind Palace to Yan Yuntian while walking.

Originally, Yan Yuntian wanted to walk with Zhou Bao, but obviously, Zhou Bao was short of the consciousness to be his subordinate, for he was enjoying the scenery alone. Except for giving a wry smile, Yan Yuntian had no other choices.

He had thought that he could borrow the power of this position to frighten Zhou Bao and even make him his hatchet man after he had become the candidate for the Human Emperor.

But after watching the battle between Zhou Bao and Senior Grand Tutor Hong, he gave up even the slightest idea.

The candidate for the Human Emperor had great influence and was authoritative. In a sense, he was in the name of the will of heaven. What was that?

The will of heaven was not the Right Way, the awe-inspiring righteousness or the virtue of the God, said by those fusty scholars. Plainly speaking, as its name implied, it was the willpower of the heaven. After conducting a series of complicated rites in the coronation, the candidate for the Human Emperor could receive the fated willpower from the heaven. If he acted according to it and enforced justice on behalf of heaven, he would possess great power and even obtained fate and an immense amount of Qi of heaven and earth while he was taking action. If he was unwilling to do it himself and handed it over to someone else, then the one who did it would also gain great benefit. This benefit was invisible, but one could feel it at the same time. Therefore, it was the favorite thing for practitioners to enforce justice on behalf of heaven because they could benefit a lot from everything they did. In that case, if someone else had control of the Human Emperor completely, how much benefit could he gain?

They could gain untold benefit. And that was why the Divine Wind Palace was bound up in the Human Emperor-selecting Ceremony for so many years. Once they controlled the candidate for the Human Emperor, they were equal to have an ace in the hole. It would be of great help to their actions.

However, everyone had misjudged the result this time.

Yan Yuntian looked like a man of power and prestige and was promising. But in the eyes of so many mighty experts, he was just used to make up the number. Therefore, usually, they didn't keep in contact with him frequently. However, the other influences in the Divine Wind Palace, for example, the group led by Yu Nancheng, had associated with Yan Yuntian in secret. They just considered Yan Yuntian's contending for the candidate for the Human Emperor a game and hoped to see that all of Yan Yuntian's efforts were in vain, just like drawing water with a bamboo basket.

However, they had never expected that Zhou Bao actually drew water successfully by sealing up the leaks on the bamboo basket.

As Zhou Bao succeeded in drawing water with a bamboo basket, it meant that Yan Yuntian's position now was utterly different. Presently, Zhou Bao became quite famous.

”Hey, can we change places? How about we move to the Grand Divine Wind Palace? The Human Emperor Palace looks like a place for upstarts!” As Chen Jinzhong took the crowd to the door of the Human Emperor Palace, Zhou Bao had already stood at its door. He said these words unhappily at the sight of Chen Jinzhong.

At these words, Chen Jinzhong felt like kicking Zhou Bao. He was afraid that only Zhou Bao, for so many years, dared to say that the Human Emperor Palace was a place for upstarts and he wanted to move to the Grand Divine Wind Palace.

The Grand Divine Wind Palace, however, was the place for the lord of the Divine Wind Palace. The candidate for the Human Emperor may be of power and influence, but in the end, the real master of the Divine Wind Palace was the lord here rather than the candidate for the Human Emperor.

Chen Jinzhong had to shook his head helplessly as he saw the smile on Zhou Bao's face. He said, ”King Wuyang, you're joking. The Human Emperor Palace is specially made for the candidate for the Human Emperor, who is in charge of the whole world. Only the Human Emperor Palace is able to demonstrate the majesty of the Human Emperor!”

”Oh, is there any reason about it?”

”Not really. The place that was specially chosen to build the Human Emperor Palace is the place for celestial beings. There is just no better place in this world!”

”Isn't the Grand Divine Wind Palace better than it?”

”The location of the Grand Divine Wind Palace was settled in antiquity times. Its layout is abstruse and no one is able to see through it and get to know whether it is weal or woe!” Speaking of this, he glanced at Zhou Bao, whose face was filled with disbelief, and gave a wry smile. ”You shouldn't just focus on how domineering and prestigious the lords of the Divine Wind Palace are. In fact, since antiquity times, merely half of the lords ended well. However, since the Human Emperor Palace came into being, every candidate for the Human Emperor have died a natural death.”

”Is that true?” Zhou Bao had never heard of this information. But he knew that Chen Jinzhong would not lie to him. If so, the location of the Human Emperor Palace really was of a good Fengshui.

”Your Majesty, your coronation will be delayed for some time because the Golden Throne has been destroyed. But since you're the settled candidate for the Human Emperor, the Human Emperor Palace belongs to you from now on!” Chen Jinzhong said reverently. Unlike Yu Taixu, he was the man in the power of Chen's ancestral temple and also belonged to the branch of the Human Emperor in the Divine Wind Palace. Therefore, he dared not to be rude to Yan Yuntian, the candidate for the Human Emperor.