Chapter 147: Zhang Jiao entrusts his daughter on his deathbed; Zhang Yan: Great Virtuous Teacher, are you sure you aren't a cultivato

Afterward, Zhang Jiao waved away the guards in the vicinity.

Only then did he look at Zhang Ning and speak earnestly: "Ning'er, I fear Father truly won't make it this time!"

"What?"

Zhang Ning felt a buzzing in her brain and was about to cry out loud.

"Don't! Don't say anything! And don't have too strong a reaction, lest people outside hear!"

Zhang Jiao hurriedly stopped her.

Although Zhang Ning was very confused, she barely managed to steady her emotions, though tears could not help but stream down her face.

She looked at her father and asked: "Why? Father, didn't you say just a few days ago that you could live for several more months? Why?"

Zhang Jiao shook his head and said: "Because Father forcibly calculated the destiny of one person and suffered a backlash."

"I estimate that I have only three days of life remaining."

"What?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ning was shocked and couldn't help but ask: "Who exactly did you calculate to cause this? Is there no way to change it?"

"It's useless!"

Zhang Jiao shook his head, then smiled and said: "But Father does not regret this calculation. On the contrary, I am very glad I performed it;"

"I calculated that this person will completely change this decaying and terrible world in the future and realize the true Great Unity of the world."

Zhang Jiao himself had not expected that his own unintentional calculation would yield such an incredibly satisfying answer.

Although, for unknown reasons, the information he calculated was very vague and only a tiny bit.

But Zhang Jiao felt that this was enough.

He looked forward to the day that person would change the world.

"Does the Great Unity of the world really exist?"

Zhang Ning asked with some confusion.

Her father and two uncles had already paid a bloody price to realize this goal;

Countless righteous people of the Taiping Dao had done the same.

Was this not enough to prove that the Great Unity of the world was merely a delusion?

"Naturally, it exists!"

Zhang Jiao nodded with a smile: "It is just that Father chose the wrong method!"

"But that person possesses the power of miracles and will certainly be able to do it!"

"Therefore, Father wants you to leave here under my arrangement, take the Taiping Heavenly Book, go see that person, and hand the Taiping Heavenly Book to him;"

"At the same time, Father also hopes you can stay by this person's side, live well, and help Father witness the arrival of the day of Great Unity with your own eyes;"

"If possible, Father even hopes you can marry him;"

"Can you promise Father this?"

Zhang Jiao looked at Zhang Ning with expectation.

Admittedly, he wanted Zhang Ning to witness the arrival of the Great Unity.

But wasn't he also using this opportunity to let his daughter completely escape danger and have a happy, stable life?

Others might not be able to, but that person would certainly be able to give his daughter these things.

Such fortune, such a destiny, such heavenly favor—it was countless times stronger than that of Emperor Guangwu of Han back in the day.

He would certainly be able to give his daughter happiness.

"This..."

Zhang Ning was stunned upon hearing this, but she couldn't help but ask: "Who is the person Father is talking about?"

She was truly curious.

Who could be the person praised so highly by her father?

"You should have seen him. It is the commander of the government forces outside the city, Su Xuan, who hails from the Su family of Deng County, Nanyang."

"It's him?"

Zhang Ning was shocked, then pulled a long face and said: "He is the one who caused you to be like this, Father. He also killed Uncle Zhang Mancheng and Uncle Bo Cai. You actually want me to marry him and hand the Taiping Heavenly Book to him;"

"And you even believe he can realize the Great Unity of the world in the future?"

How absurd!

Zhang Ning found it completely unbelievable.

Although she admitted that Su Xuan was very handsome and had a great temperament.

But that didn't stop her from hating Su Xuan.

Zhang Jiao shook his head with a wry smile and comforted her: "Father is like this now because I brought it upon myself. It was Father who took the initiative to calculate him; strictly speaking, I offended him. How can I blame the victim because of this?"

"As for Zhang Mancheng and Bo Cai?"

"They were merely serving their respective masters and standing in different camps!"

"Moreover, Zhang Mancheng was overly arrogant, daring to call himself the Divine Envoy; it was clear he already had ulterior motives;"

"Furthermore, after he started the uprising, he did not refrain from harming and coercing the common people;"

"In this regard, Bo Cai was the same;"

"Therefore, their deaths, to a certain extent, can also be said to be self-inflicted!"

"In the end, the Huang Jin army had already changed for the worse from the very beginning!"

"We were originally an army of the people, an army that wanted to save the people, change the dire situation of the people, and lead the people to a good life;"

"We wanted to overthrow the decaying Han;"

"But look at what the Huang Jin army has actually done since we started the uprising?"

"And have we really brought any benefits to the people?"

Zhang Ning shook her head upon hearing this.

She knew it all too well.

This was also the reason why she was so repulsed by the Huang Jin army.

This was completely different from the Great Unity world her father had described at the beginning.

So, her father also knew that the Huang Jin army had changed for the worse from the start.

"It's not that Father didn't think about changing and reversing the status quo of the Huang Jin army, but I failed!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Jiao sighed and shook his head: "The evil in the human heart cannot withstand testing and temptation;"

"Once the evil in the human heart is released, it can never be taken back;"

"The Huang Jin army has already failed. Promise Father, go find Su Xuan; he is the new hope for the future."

"This is Father's final request."

Zhang Ning nodded sadly, gritted her teeth, and decided: "Fine! Daughter promises you!"

"I will go to his side and hand the Taiping Heavenly Book to him;"

"If he is willing, I will also marry him;"

"And I will witness him creating the Great Unity world on Father's behalf."

If Su Xuan failed to do so in the future, or even became like the current Han or the current Huang Jin army, she would kill Su Xuan and then commit suicide.