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“I am glad you saved me. Chen Pingping and the Northern Qi court all want to know the secret in my heart, but Ku He does not want it to be known by anyone.”
"I can tell you right now..."
Fan Xian was even more confused. "No, why are you telling me this?!"
Sean gave a bitter smile. "After I finish telling you the secret, I'll tell you if I have time."
Fan Xian didn't care about anything else; this secret might be related to his mysterious mother.
Then, Sean began to tell the story from back then.
The Emperor of Wei dispatched a thousand-strong army to the north in search of a temple, with Ku He and Xiao En as its leaders.
The two continued north past Beilao Pass and encountered the polar night, where they did not see the sun for dozens of days.
When the food ran out, the army began to eat each other. Sean and Kuhe ate quite a lot as well. In the end, only Kuhe and Sean made it out of the darkness.
Ku He has eaten human flesh, and now, as the Grand Preceptor of the Great Qi, how can he tolerate such a dark history being known?
The secrets of the temple and Kuhe's dark past are the reasons why Kuhe sent people to kill Sean.
Next, the two found a temple in the far north, and the temple looked exactly as they had imagined.
Then the door opened, and a fairy named Ye Qingmei came out.
She said that everyone sees a different version of the temple.
What you see is what your inner temple is like.
Fan Xian was stunned when he heard this; it turned out that his mother came from the temple!
In this timeline, because Wu Zhu was injured, the two of them had not yet retrieved the key to the box, so they had not yet read Ye Qingmei's letter.
Afterwards, Ye Qingmei gave the two of them a cultivation manual, but emphasized that the manual was most suitable for Ku He to cultivate.
This cultivation technique is the Heavenly Dao Method, which Ku He practiced until he finally broke through to the Grandmaster level.
Although Sean also cultivated, his improvement speed was far slower than Ku He's, and he did not become a Grandmaster.
Sean also mentioned that Ye Qingmei was carrying a box, which further convinced Fan Xian that Ye Qingmei was his mother.
Ye Qingmei later had to go back to take Wu Zhu, so she parted ways with Ku He and Xiao En, and asked Ku He and Xiao En to keep the matter of the temple a secret.
Ku He was a devout ascetic who regarded Ye Qingmei's words as divine authority. Naturally, he also demanded that Xiao En keep the secret, or he would kill him.
Later, Ye Qingmei took Wu Zhu to Dongyi City and Nanqing, where she established a business and married into the royal family.
Upon hearing this ending, Fan Xian was somewhat shocked. "Ye Qingmei married into the royal family. Who did she marry?"
Sean said proudly, "This matter is very secret, but it can't be hidden from me. She married Emperor Qing."
However, she did not enter the imperial harem and did not get married formally.
She lived in the Taiping Villa, and the two had a marital relationship; Ye Qingmei even conceived a child with Emperor Qing.
This is all Sean knew about the last things concerning Ye Qingmei.
Fan Xian only now realized that he was actually Emperor Qing's son, a prince!
No wonder Emperor Qing was extremely lenient with him, even finding reasons to quickly promote him, and insisted on handing over the Imperial Treasury to him.
Clearly, Ye Qingmei did not tell Emperor Qing, Chen Pingping, and Fan Jian about her origins, and Wu Zhu himself had also forgotten.
Suppressing his excitement, Fan Xian continued, "Now you can tell me why you told me the secret, right?"
Sean smiled kindly again, "Child, you are my grandson."
Fan Xian almost started cursing. Why are you cursing at me?!
But as Sean continued his analysis, Fan Xian began to feel a chill run down his spine.
He also realized that from the moment he entered the capital, he had been caught in a huge web.
"You've been learning poison techniques since you were a child, all in preparation for escorting me."
“You grew up in Danzhou, but you were promoted rapidly in Kyoto in less than a year.”
"The reason you were promoted so quickly is to give you the opportunity to escort me, and then kill me with your own hands, or have me kill you!"
Fan Xian knew very well that he was the son of Ye Qingmei and Emperor Qing, and that Xiao En had fallen into Chen Pingping's trap.
Chen Pingping is incredibly cunning; he managed to outmaneuver Sean completely.
"The secret in my heart will not be revealed under any torture, but I have not sought death."
"It's because I have a thought in my heart, a thought about my son's illegitimate child, that is, my grandson."
"Chen Pingping arrested my grandson, but he never told me the news directly. Instead, he tested and threatened me little by little!"
"But the more he acts like this, the less I will say. Only if I keep quiet can my grandson be safe!"
Fan Xian still didn't quite understand Xiao En's thought process. "Danzhou is so big, how can you be so sure it's me?"
Sean said confidently, "Firstly, the age is right, and secondly, I want you to escort me back to Northern Qi."
"If Chen Pingping really wanted to cultivate you, why would he have secretly withdrawn the Black Riders? And why didn't he have any backup plan after you jumped off the cliff?"
"You were escorting me this time, so someone must have given you orders to kill me, right?"
"You're being asked to kill me, but with absolutely no regard for your safety. Chen Pingping wants you to kill me, or for me to kill you!"
"They didn't even cripple my martial arts skills, yet they wanted me to personally extinguish the thoughts I'd held for over twenty years. How cruel!"
Fan Xian thought Xiao En was too obsessed, "But why is Chen Pingping torturing you like this?"
Sean gave a wry smile and said, "You've only known Chen Pingping for a short time; you don't understand him at all!"
"Once he harbors hatred in his heart, he will seek revenge even if it takes ten or a hundred years!"
I broke his leg and crippled him back then, how could he not hate me and torment me?
By now, Fan Xian has completely figured out the whole thing.
His entry into the capital was indeed part of a grand scheme orchestrated by Chen Pingping and Emperor Qing, all in an attempt to extract the secrets from Xiao En.
Chen Pingping was too familiar with Xiao En, so he made every step perfectly, without leaving any evidence such as birthmarks or belongings.
Overly shrewd and confident people tend to doubt the empirical evidence before them and choose to believe the conclusions they have drawn from their own investigations.
Fan Xian found the two old foxes in Kyoto to be truly terrifying, as they had anticipated all of Xiao En's thoughts and judgments.
Just then, a burst of true energy shot into the cave, striking Fan Xian squarely on the back of the head. Fan Xian's eyes rolled back and he completely lost consciousness.
When Sean saw the ability to project true energy and strike pressure points at will, his hair stood on end!
"Grandmaster!"
But then he saw a young man who wasn't much older than Fan Xian.
Li Chang'an had already mastered more than two hundred acupoints, and at the same time, he released his true energy, which caused the stone wall in the cave to be forcibly carved open.
In Sean's eyes, this level of control over true qi was already astonishing!
"What a young Grandmaster! You've been eavesdropping on the temple's secrets. What do you plan to do with us, grandfather and grandson?"
Xiao En thought Fan Xian was his grandson and subconsciously wanted to protect him.
Li Chang'an withdrew his true energy. "The temple? The temple holds no secrets for me. My existence is higher than that of the temple."
"I came into this world and need the method of utilizing nuclear radiation deduced by the temple to allow me to reach a deeper level as soon as possible."
Sean looked nervous, but said very firmly, "You think it won't be that easy for you to obtain the Heavenly Dao Technique."
Li Chang'an flicked his hands, and a pill flew into Sean's throat, where it was then swallowed.
"A pill made from a thousand-year-old ginseng, to prevent you from dying suddenly."
"I'll make a deal with you. You hand over the Heavenly Dao Technique, and I'll tell you where the real grandson is."
Sean looked at Fan Xian with concern, "Since you heard everything, you should know that he is my grandson."
Li Chang'an stared into Sean's eyes and said, word by word.
“He is not your grandson, he is the son of Emperor Qing and Ye Qingmei.”
Chapter 110 Obtaining the Heavenly Dao Technique! Teng Zijing Kills Yan Xiaoyi! (13)
Name: Sean
Age: 70 years old
Realm: Ninth Rank
Talents: Espionage (Rank 9), Martial Arts (Rank 8), Political Strategy (Rank 8)
Abilities: Espionage (Rank 9), Political Maneuvering (Rank 9), Poisoning (Rank 9), Politics (Rank 6)
Emotion: 0
“Sean, you people are too shrewd and too self-righteous. Chen Pingping has a firm grasp on every single aspect of your personality.”
"He won't tell you everything about Danzhou, he'll just tell you little by little, deliberately making you guess."
"Fan Xian learned poison skills from a young age and was quickly promoted, indeed to escort you back to Northern Qi, for the ultimate secret in your heart."
“You are under close surveillance, and the information you have is all filtered by Chen Pingping. How dare you draw such a self-righteous conclusion.”