714: Chapter One Hundred Sixty-Three: Two Hundred Eighteen Years_1 714: Chapter One Hundred Sixty-Three: Two Hundred Eighteen Years_1 Du Ruhui opened his mouth, instinctively wanting to advise, telling Zhuang Gaoxian not to insult an individual like Song Hengjiang.
But in the end, he said nothing at all.
As the Emperor’s Tutor and also the Pri Minister, he knew Zhuang Gaoxian very well.
Having beco a true immortal of his era, defeating his nesis Qiang Yong, slaying the hero Han Yin, and leading Zhuang Country to a period of great prosperity, Zhuang Gaoxian was at his most confident and contemptuous of all.
So advice, he probably could no longer take in.
The mindless Yin Demons lay silent in their respective stone coffins, seemingly watching with cold eyes, observing what was happening among these so-called intelligent beings, what these beings endowed with wisdom were missing.
Dragging the aged Song Hengjiang with one hand, Zhuang Gaoxian finally arrived in front of the only glazed glass coffin.
His eyesight was obviously far superior to Jiang Wang’s, for he saw at a glance the connection between the glazed glass coffin and the stone coffins outside in the circular grotto.
And the power hidden within the body of the woman sealed by chains and spells also made him raise his eyebrows slightly.
“Is this your explanation?
Using those Yin Demons outside to nurture an even stronger demon?” Zhuang Gaoxian’s voice was extrely cold.
“You should have let stand properly,” said the elderly Song Hengjiang.
Completely at the rcy of another in life and death, his first request was to stand upright.
“Oh.
Oh.”
Zhuang Gaoxian nodded his head.
He responded twice, with completely different anings, and simply released his grip.
“Why don’t you take a closer look at her?” Song Hengjiang asked emotionlessly.
“A re demon without any intelligence, why would it be worth…” Zhuang Gaoxian stopped halfway through his sentence, his voice growing even colder: “What exactly are you trying to say?”
By this ti, Song Hengjiang had nothing left to worry about.
As the worst scenario he had imagined ca to pass, he even felt a sense of relief.
“Don’t you think,” he said with a sorrowful look at Zhuang Gaoxian, “that you resemble her a lot?”
“Nonsense!” Zhuang Gaoxian rebuked sternly.
“The noble Qingjiang Aquatic Clan, to spout such baseless claims?
To save your own life, you really will say anything!”
“Indeed, you look very ordinary, not nearly as beautiful as her,” Song Hengjiang said, glancing back at the glazed glass coffin, then turning to Zhuang Gaoxian.
“But that’s because Zhuang Chenggan was too ugly.
Are there no portraits of your great-grandmother in the Zhuang royal palace?”
Of course there were portraits of her in the Zhuang royal palace.
And of course, Zhuang Gaoxian had seen them.
That’s why he would lose his composure later.
It’s just that at the beginning, he hadn’t thought in that direction at all.
“Absurd!” he said.
Song Hengjiang looked again towards the woman sealed in the glazed glass coffin, his gaze gentle.
“Have you ever considered why your grandmother lies here, lies beneath the waters of Qing River?”
“Qingjiang Aquatic Lord, you truly are the most absurd, how could this demon be related to …”
Song Hengjiang cut off his self-consolation: “Because before becoming demonized, she was of the Water Race, she was my dear younger sister!”
Du Ruhui stood silently at the side.
Finally, he understood what that strange smile in Song Hengjiang’s eyes outside the Demon Grotto represented.
Zhuang Gaoxian had the blood of the Water Race flowing in his veins!
He was a mixed-blood of the Human Race and the Water Race, not a pure mber of the Human Race.
Originally…
he was not qualified to be King.
If nas are not right, then language will not be in accord, and the governance will not be in harmony.
This is the true calamity that could shake the foundations of Zhuang Country!
Once exposed, Jinguo will be the first to deny his identity as Zhuang Gaoxian.
However, what confused him was—while it was possible for a half-blood to completely lose the features of the Water Race, how could Zhuang Gaoxian, a “True Person” of this era, be completely ignorant of his own bloodline?
How did he pass the enthronent ceremony at Jade Capital Mountain when he first succeeded to the throne?
As the Pri Minister of Zhuang Country, having wielded power for so many years, Du Ruhui was for the first ti realizing how many secrets this country still concealed!
“What does your sister becoming a Yin Demon have to do with ?” Zhuang Gaoxian continued to struggle, “My father was the Benevolent Emperor, my grandfather was Emperor Taizu of Zhuang.
My grandmother was the virtuous and high Queen Xi of the Song family!”
“The virtuous and high Queen Xi Wan, whose original na was Wanxi, her family na was Song,” Song Hengjiang said forcefully, “My full sister by the sa mother, Song Wanxi!”
He retorted, “Otherwise, who do you think I fought a bloody war for at Lan River that year?
And for whom did the Qingjiang Aquatic Clan wage a war that nearly decimated their race?”
“The story is moving,”
Zhuang Gaoxian sneered, “Raising a demon is a path to self-destruction.
Do you think that by trying every possible way to tie yourself by blood to , the Qingjiang Aquatic Clan can escape this calamity?
You probably don’t know what a ‘True Person’ is!
I have examined myself and found not a trace of Water Race blood!”
“But as a ‘True Person’ of this era, you must be able to sense there’s sothing different, right?
Because Zhuang Chenggan, who laid the sche back then, was just a ‘True Person’ himself.
Even if he did everything perfectly, you should be able to find sothing that’s not the sa, correct?”
Song Hengjiang’s tone was very confident.
Because what he said was completely true.
Zhuang Gaoxian indeed knew there was sothing different about himself.
That was why he allowed Song Hengjiang to continue speaking.
After achieving the state of Dongzhen, he knew his body was not completely the sa as an ordinary mber of the Human Race.
It was an extrely subtle difference, one he had not previously thought problematic, assuming it was simply a manifestation of his unusual talent.
But if that was a thod left by Zhuang Chenggan to conceal his Water Race bloodline, then everything made sense.
And Song Hengjiang continued to recount, “At that ti, the demoness Valley Yiyi treacherously struck, leading to the tragedy of Wanxi…
In front of her corpse, Zhuang Chenggan swore to that only his and Wanxi’s child would beco the ruler of Zhuang Country.
I don’t know how he did it, but he really did it.
He’s been too cold in many respects, but in this matter, he left speechless.”
Valley Yiyi…
Zhuang Gaoxian knew this was the na of one of Emperor Taizu’s noble consorts.
The records stated she died of a peculiar illness.
Now, it seed there was more to the story.
Was Taizu’s noble consort actually so demoness?
Was she the one who killed the virtuous and high Queen?
“I didn’t co here to listen to your stories,” said Zhuang Gaoxian, troubled and perturbed.
Even as a ‘True Person’ of this era, with his ntal fortitude and sophistication being exceptional, the sudden revelation that he was not of a pure Human Race bloodline was difficult to accept.
He angrily demanded, “Just tell , why raise a demon!”
“Because I didn’t want to lose my sister,” Song Hengjiang looked him straight in the eye, his wrinkles trembling, “My innocent and kind sister, who married into the Zhuang royal palace full of joy and happiness, but when we next t, she was at death’s door, about to beco a cold corpse.
I couldn’t accept it!”
“There was only one way to save her, to let her beco demonized…
only by making her a demon…”
Song Hengjiang’s voice was pained, as if he was recalling that desperate scene from years ago, “This was the only solution I could think of…”
“I knew the dangers, and I kept it secret from everyone.
Including Zhuang Chenggan, including Qingyue.”
His eyes, filled with bloodshot veins, glared at Zhuang Gaoxian furiously: “I kept the secret for two hundred and eighteen years!”
He could have kept it hidden longer.
But Zhuang Gaoxian insisted on breaking in!
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