Chapter 13: World Ascension, Flowering and Bearing Fruit

Changsun Empress also shook her head and said, "Your Majesty, each exchange allows only five sentences per person."

"So in these few words, some matters are not explained very clearly by the other party."

"However, are we still going to give birth to this third son?"

After pacing back and forth with an uncertain expression, Li Shimin said, "Guanyinbi, my heart is also very chaotic right now."

"On one side is our Great Tang empire, and on the other is our child; I do not know how to weigh them for the moment."

"Whenever I think in my heart about eliminating this child before he takes form, I feel an indescribable intuition in the dark."

"How should I put it? His arrival might be destined by the heavens."

"Perhaps it is not something you or I can avoid just by trying to evade it."

"It may be that my Great Tang empire is fated to face this tribulation; if not this third son, then a fifth or sixth son would be born to bring about such a disaster."

"Therefore..."

Upon hearing this, Changsun Empress said with pleasant surprise, "Therefore, Your Majesty, let us give birth to him!"

"At worst, we will just educate him well in the future."

Li Shimin nodded and said, "I think so too. I suppose because he is the third son, we never taught him from a young age how to be an Emperor."

"Perhaps because our eldest son passed away prematurely and suddenly, I didn't have time to teach him before I was gone, which led to him not knowing how to be an Emperor."

"Or perhaps due to other reasons, he was not educated well."

"So after he is born, I will educate him properly and must teach him to be wise and martial."

"Regarding this matter, Guanyinbi, you must not be soft-hearted."

"As the saying goes, filial sons are produced under the rod; for such a rebellious son, I imagine he cannot be taught well without the rod."

At this moment, hearing this, Changsun Empress also nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, Your Majesty is right!"

"Such a rebellious son must be educated properly in the future; beat him when he needs to be beaten, and do not be lenient at all!"

"If he is truly unruly in the future, Your Majesty, feel free to beat him, beat him hard, and I will support you."

"Tomorrow, I will have someone make a sturdy rattan cane to use for properly educating this rebellious son in the future."

Changsun Empress was a very kind mother who was very loving toward all her children and would not easily punish them.

But unexpectedly, this time her opinion was surprisingly consistent with Li Shimin's, both preparing to educate the third son, Li Zhi, with the rod once he was born.

At this moment, the unborn Li Zhi probably did not even know what mistake he had committed.

"What the hell is this situation? I haven't even been born yet, and my own father and mother are already thinking about how to educate me with a rod?"

"Holy crap, I'm not even born yet, how did I become a rebellious son?"

"Damn it, Mother, are you really my biological mother? I haven't even been born, and you're already preparing a rattan cane to beat me; I ask you, is this what a biological mother should do?"

"I am wronged!"

At this moment, the unborn Li Zhi did not know that he had almost not been born because of a few words from Gu Zhangqing.

Having finally been born, what awaited him in the future would be days and months of being struck by countless rods.

From then on, his childhood would be extremely unforgettable.

Meanwhile.

Changsun Empress left her doubts in a message for Gu Zhangqing.

"Thank you for the reminder, Immortal, but I still have some matters and doubts, please enlighten me."

"Why did our eldest son not inherit the throne, but the fourth son did? Did we fail to educate him well from a young age?"

"How did he almost lose the Great Tang empire? How can it be remedied?"

Primordial World.

Gu Zhangqing was currently preaching to Xiaosheng in the Yuanyi World.

Suddenly, he received a system notification.

He then discovered the message left by Changsun Empress.

Then, he also began to reply to her message.

"Greetings, Changsun Empress. Your eldest son, Li Chengqian, was instigated by Hou Junji to rebel after your death, intending to kill his father and seize the throne, and was subsequently deposed as Crown Prince. Your second son, Li Tai, had talent surpassing all the other princes, but Crown Prince Li Chengqian suffered from a foot ailment, and after his temperament changed drastically, he lost the Emperor's favor, leading him to develop the desire to seize the succession."

"Emperor Taizong gradually favored Prince of Wei, Li Tai, so Li Chengqian, out of fear, sent people to assassinate Li Tai, which failed; his rebellion was also partly due to Li Tai's intense pressure."

"To become Crown Prince, Prince of Wei Li Tai promised Taizong that he would kill his own son to pass the throne to Prince of Jin, Li Zhi, and his conduct was worrisome. Therefore, after the Crown Prince's rebellion failed, Li Shimin, to preserve the lives of his three legitimate sons, demoted Prince of Wei Li Tai to Prince of Donglai and enfeoffed Li Zhi as Crown Prince."

"Li Shimin had a talented lady in his harem named Wu; she and Li Zhi were already intimate while Taizong was still alive. After Taizong died, she was sent to Baima Temple to have her hair shaved and become a nun. However, Li Zhi missed her day and night, and later, disregarding ancestral teachings, he summoned her back to the palace and enfeoffed her as a consort; later, he deposed Wang Huanghou and made her Empress, known as Wu Hou."

"Because Li Zhi was weak and sickly, Wu Hou often helped him handle government affairs and later ruled from behind the curtain. After Li Zhi died, Wu Hou monopolized power, changed the state name of Li Tang to Wu Zhou, and became the first female Emperor in history."

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【You have obtained one World Tree Origin Fragment.】

World Tree Origin Fragment.

This thing is a Chaos-level treasure.

Moreover, it is closely related to Gu Zhangqing's main body, the Tree of Life; perhaps after absorbing this Origin Fragment, the Yuanyi World and the Tree of Life will directly advance.

And he will also be able to enter the realm of the Multiverse.

When Gu Zhangqing claimed the reward.

Above his main body, the Tree of Life, a colorful World Tree Origin Fragment appeared out of thin air.

After this Origin Fragment appeared, it immediately caused the surrounding space to tremble incessantly, and a powerful and profound aura rushed toward him.

Even above Mount Buzhou, strange phenomena appeared one after another.

Gu Zhangqing was not affected in the slightest by this; on the contrary, he felt a very intimate sensation within it.

He knew this was because they were both existences transformed from fragments of the World Tree.

This was for the best, as it would be more handy for him to refine.

Thus, Gu Zhangqing absorbed this origin fragment into his body and began to refine it.

While refining, Gu Zhangqing was also continuously receiving the inheritance of the Chaos Demon God World Tree.

At this moment, in the mysterious inheritance space.

Gu Zhangqing encountered the Chaos Demon God that even startled him: the World Tree!

He even saw the image of the World Tree battling Pangu within the inheritance space.

In that Great Tribulation of Opening the Heavens, although the World Tree was strong, it was ultimately no match for Pangu; it held on for less than three minutes before being directly hacked into fragments by the Great God Pangu.

Although a small portion fell into the newly opened Honghuang, most of the fragments drifted into the depths of Chaos.

Time passes easily, and in the blink of an eye, another ten thousand great cosmic cycles had passed.

At this time.

A great joyous event occurred in the Yuanyi World.

The thousands of flowers that Gu Zhangqing had carefully nurtured day and night had finally borne fruit.

A total of eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight cyan-green fruits were hanging in abundance on the Life Tree, Xiaosheng.

Each one radiated a dense aura of life and nature.

When first known, these eight thousand-plus fruits were not even the size of a fist, but now, thousands of years later, they had reached the size of a water bucket.

Moreover, as Gu Zhangqing used his Divine Sense to peer through the fruit walls, he saw clearly.

Inside each was a small figure, slightly humanoid and with a curled-up body.

Regarding this, Gu Zhangqing felt quite like a grandparent looking forward to a grandchild.

Of course, besides this matter, there was also this.

As nearly one hundred million trillion innate divinities chose to open up worlds, his Yuanyi World and the nine autonomous worlds had all successively ascended.

The Yuanyi World had also broken through to the level of a Middle Thousand World.

Gu Zhangqing could therefore also break through to the level of a Multiverse Lord.

Furthermore, the Jiujie had also reached the stage of a Peak Small World.

With nearly one hundred million trillion innate divinities, all of whom were Main Gods who had opened up Small Worlds, one could see the strength of the Divine Rice's foundation.

Even though the Immortal and Demon Daos had become a major trend, the Divine Rice had not declined because of it.

A few years ago, Gu Zhangqing received news sent by Cangtian Laozu.

The leaders of the Immortal and Demon Daos, Hongjun and Luo Hou, were both wining over various Great Supernatural Beings, and a great battle was suspected.

Regarding this, Gu Zhangqing was well aware of the intentions of the Immortal and Demon Daos.

For this reason, he specifically notified all personnel belonging to the Divine Rice to stay far away from the Great Desolation West.

Sure enough, not long after this.

The final decisive battle of the Rice-Demon Great Tribulation arrived.

(End of this chapter)