Chapter 690

: xshuquge

Guan Shanhai's voice spread throughout the entire Imperial City; from high-ranking officials to common people, everyone who heard this name felt their bodies tremble.

Even children learning to read and write in private schools had heard the name "Meng Junzi."

The ancestor of the Meng family, an existence who once competed with the Jiang family for the world. Although the Jiang family eventually won and established the Great Xia, the Meng family was not like the losers of previous dynastic struggles who were wiped out; on the contrary, the Meng family was thriving, becoming the number one noble family of the Great Xia.

While this was certainly due to the Jiang family ancestor remembering old ties, it was more importantly because the Meng family's foundation was too deep.

The Meng family originated in the Great Yu period, but the Meng family at that time was just an ordinary noble family. The one who truly led the Meng family to greatness and accumulated a rich foundation was Meng Junzi, who became the head of the family at the end of the Great Yu period.

"Fellow Daoist Guan, having such heavy murderous intent is not very good." Meng Junzi stood with his hands behind his back, exuding an upright and peaceful aura, dispersing the immortal pressure that shrouded the Imperial City.

"You really have become an immortal!" If Guan Shanhai had been skeptical before, Meng Junzi's display now confirmed that he, like himself, was also an immortal.

Meng Junzi's appearance shocked everyone, including Meng Jingzhou.

Meng Jingzhou stared longingly at the ancestor standing above his head, his mouth wide open in surprise.

No, so you, ancestor, have become an immortal.

Seeing Man Gu was also quite surprised; he had only been in the Imperial City for an hour and had already met two immortals. He knew that following Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou would broaden his horizons.

Meng Junzi had only appeared at the beginning of the Great Xia's founding and had never appeared since. People said he was disheartened after losing to Jiang Ping'an and had sealed himself away.

Guan Shanhai had thought the same. Jiang Ping'an and Meng Junzi, these two peerless geniuses of later generations, were too dazzling; he couldn't help but pay attention to them. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent students to teach at the Meng family's private school in the capacity of the Imperial Academy Dean.

At that time, he had seen with his own eyes Meng Junzi sealing himself away, having his descendants bury him in the mountains of the Meng estate.

Looking at it now, I'm afraid that self-sealing was just a performance for him to see.

Why would an immortal need to seal himself!

Guan Shanhai stared fixedly at Meng Junzi, recalling when Meng Junzi had become an immortal right under his nose and where his immortal tribulation was.

Suddenly he understood; Meng Junzi had become an immortal 100,000 years ago.

"Back then, Wu Yao and I became immortals at the same time during the founding ceremony. You and Jiang Ping'an were the same, both becoming immortals during the final battle!"

"Unexpected, really unexpected. For 100,000 years, you never used the power of the Dao Fruit, always pretending to be a half-immortal. You really know how to endure, Meng Junzi, I really underestimated you!"

Meng Junzi smiled slightly: "Fishing, after all, requires patience. Look, didn't we get a harvest today?"

Guan Shanhai had always been cautious, avoiding battles whenever possible. Battles had winners and losers; as long as he didn't fight, he would always be invincible. That was why he had sent Jiang Ping'an away. If he had known Meng Junzi had also become an immortal, he would never have appeared in the Imperial City.

Guan Shanhai seemed not to hear Meng Junzi's provocation, sneering: "When I ordered General Yu to intercept the immortal peach, you didn't show up, watching the Xia Di pass away with your own eyes. You really are ruthless."

These were words to kill the heart. Guan Shanhai deliberately brought this up so that everyone in the Imperial City could hear clearly, to tell the people of Great Xia that their so-called emperor was just a tool pushed out by immortals to scheme and manipulate. This was enough to shake the emperor's status in the hearts of the people!

Meng Junzi, upon hearing this, was not in a hurry at all, still maintaining that slow pace: "And how are you so sure the Xia Di is really dead?"

"Or rather, does the Xia Di really have a problem with his lifespan running out?"

"What do you mean by acting? The Xia Di didn't die of old age; is it still in time to send the immortal peach over now?"

The Immortal Fairy was still not quite awake, continuing to yawn, her eyes hazy: "Immortal peach? Didn't Miss Yun say she only found one? I don't know where the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root ran off to. Little Yangzi, you eat this good stuff. Anyway, the Xia Di's lifespan running out is all faked."

"Faked?"

Lu Yang was shocked. He thought the "acting" the Immortal Fairy mentioned referred to the Xia Di's passing, but listening to this, even the Xia Di's lifespan problem was faked?

Hearing the Second-in-Command's raised tone, the Immortal Fairy finally woke up enough, and then said: "If he were about to die immediately, why would I have him be the Prime Minister?"

"Fairy, did you know from the beginning that the Xia Di's lifespan was faked?"

"Not from the beginning. It was during those three months when I was the Acting Sect Master, preparing for the 120,000-year celebration of the Congwendao Sect. Didn't I go to the Imperial Palace for a meeting and see the Xia Di? That was when I knew he was faking it."

"Wasn't that the first time you met!"

This was something even Yun Zhi hadn't expected. The Xia Di's disguise could deceive Lu Yang, deceive the people of the world, and deceive Guan Shanhai, but it couldn't deceive the Immortal Fairy, who possessed the Immortal Dao Fruit and mastered the power of life and death.

Lu Yang remembered one thing.

At the very beginning, the Senior Sister told him and the Fairy that the Xia Di was not doing well and asked the Fairy if there were any immortal objects to prolong life. The Immortal Fairy said she could give the Xia Di an Immortal Dao Fruit prototype and let him become the Fourth-in-Command. After the Senior Sister rejected this proposal, the Fairy mentioned the immortal peach.

And ever since the Fairy went to the Imperial Palace for the meeting and saw the Xia Di, she never mentioned letting the Xia Di become the Fourth-in-Command again.

Not only did she not say anything about letting the Xia Di become the Fourth-in-Command, but when she was at the Imperial Palace, after the Fairy finished beating the heads of the Four Great Xian Sects, she even proposed to challenge the Xia Di.

If the Xia Di's lifespan had really been short at that time, the Immortal Fairy wouldn't have done that.

Lu Yang understood; this matter was a trap set for Guan Shanhai from the very beginning.

No wonder the Senior Sister didn't send the immortal peach directly to the Imperial Palace but had Seeing Man Gu pass it to him.

The Senior Sister never intended to let the Xia Di take the immortal peach to prolong his life from the start.

If the Xia Di had prolonged his life, the power of the national destiny would still be on him, and Guan Shanhai would never have jumped out.

The role of the immortal peach was to make Guan Shanhai intercept it, so that Guan Shanhai would be convinced that the Xia Di was really not doing well.

Guan Shanhai's expression was so gloomy it could drip water.

He didn't expect everything to be fake.

He had been paying attention to the Xia Di's movements recently and had even observed the Xia Di at close range in the capacity of Dean Qi, yet he hadn't seen that the Xia Di was disguising himself.

He was a suspicious person, but the recent changes in the Imperial City indeed looked like the Xia Di was about to die: the Xia Di first had the First Prince impersonate him to handle government affairs to test his ability, then the First Prince was unwilling to inherit the throne, and the Xia Di successively eliminated the Fourth and Fifth Princes, forcing the First Prince to ascend the throne.

"Good, good, good. I didn't expect that I, Guan, have spent my whole life scheming against people, only to be schemed against by a group of juniors!"