Chapter 36

So then, not hesitating to offend Great Qin is also understandable.

Otherwise.

No matter how you look at it, it's idiotic behavior!

If word got out, people would laugh their teeth off!

The same scene also played out in Great Yuan and Great Qing.

As emperors who could stand alongside Qin Huang Ying Zheng.

Tie Muzhen needed no one to remind him—he saw through the essence of the matter at a glance.

As for Kangxi.

Rather than calling him wise and martial, it's more accurate to say he knew his own household's affairs!

As one of the eight great imperial dynasties ranked at the bottom in national strength.

Unless his brain was broken.

Otherwise, how would he dare cause trouble in Great Qin, the number one in national strength!

In other words, those six words—"having a thief's heart but no thief's guts"—are the most accurate portrayal of his awkward predicament!

Great Qin, Xianyanggong.

Although confident that no other imperial dynasty would dare make a move against Bei Mingzi.

Ying Zheng still waved his hand grandly and ordered in a deep voice.

"Convey my decree, proclaim it across the Nine Provinces continent."

"The Daoist Tianzong is a force under Great Qin, protected by Great Qin!"

"If anyone dares plot mischief, no matter to the ends of the earth, I shall mobilize all of Great Qin's strength to annihilate them!"

Accompanying the voice full of majesty.

A breath of awe-inspiring Wang Bazhi aura came rushing forth.

The ministers below the hall listened, their blood boiling with fervor!

"We humbly obey Your Majesty's decree!"

Zhang Han replied loudly with a solemn expression.

Then he turned and withdrew, beginning to arrange matters.

At this moment.

Zhao Gao, who was attending Ying Zheng at his side, suddenly spoke up.

"Your Majesty, does Your Majesty require your subject to go to Daoist Tianzong and retrieve the Laozi Dao De Five Thousand Words?"

"Are you trying to teach me how to do things?"

Ying Zheng cast a sidelong glance at him.

His tone gave away neither sorrow nor joy.

But it was just such an utterly ordinary sentence.

Yet Zhao Gao was instantly so frightened that his whole body trembled.

Without even thinking.

Thud—he dropped to his knees on the ground.

Beads of cold sweat seeped from his forehead, his face deathly pale.

"Your subject deserves death! Please Your Majesty to punish me!"

"Hmph! Go down yourself and receive thirty strokes!"

Ying Zheng gave a cold snort.

Then, without even glancing at him, he turned his gaze toward Li Si.

"Li Si, you send someone to tell Bei Mingzi."

"Tell him to set his heart back in his stomach, no need to worry that I will demand the Laozi Dao De Five Thousand Words."

"Just serve me well, that is enough."

Hearing these words.

Li Si, standing in the front row, had his expression momentarily freeze.

Then he bowed and accepted the order.

His heart was filled with admiration.

He knew.

Only Qin Huang possessed such a broad, kingly breadth of mind.

And only Qin Huang dared to trust others so unconditionally, without the slightest worry that they might rebel!

Great Qin, Daoist Tianzong.

Gazing at the rubbings of the Laozi Dao De Five Thousand Words that had appeared out of thin air.

A glint of unusual color flashed through Bei Mingzi's eyes.

Then with a flip of his right hand, he stored it away.

Xiaomeng at his side noticed, and a trace of doubt flashed through her eyes.

"Master, you...."

"This item should be offered to Qin Huang—how could people like us be permitted to peek at it."

Bei Mingzi shook his head with a calm smile.

In his words.

He did not mind it in the slightest.

He knew.

Though such a divine object was good, an ordinary man who possessed a jade without fault would be guilty for it.

Only by offering it to Qin Huang could the Daoist Celestial Sect lineage be preserved!

Xiaomeng nodded half-understandingly and did not press further.

Azure Dragon Peak, Azure Dragon Shanzhuang.

"Laozi's Dao De Five Thousand Words?"

"It seems the Heavenly Dao Golden List has finally decided to be generous."

Ximen Wudi slowly raised his teacup and took a light sip.

His gaze toward the Heavenly Dao Golden List carried a faint trace of a smile.

Although the Heavenly Dao rewards obtained by the others on the list could absolutely stir up a storm of blood and rain across the Nine Provinces' jianghu.

But for him, who had been checking in for many years.

He really wasn't all that interested.

Even the Life-Extending Pill that drove countless people mad with desire.

He had quite a few in his hands.

And now.

The Heavenly Dao Golden List had actually rewarded a copy of the Dao De Five Thousand Words containing a trace of Laozi's Dao resonance.

This could not help but spark a hint of interest in him.

Looking forward to what kind of Heavenly Dao rewards those listed later would obtain!

At the same time.

Great Ming, the rear cliff of Mount Wudang.

Although tomorrow was his own hundredth birthday celebration.

Yet at this moment, Zhang Sanfeng did not have the slightest bit of happiness.

On the contrary, his heart always had a feeling of unease!

As a martial arts grandmaster at the peak of a Land Immortal, about to step into the Heavenly Being Realm.

He understood clearly.