The Prodigal Son of the Mystical Sect

"Little prodigal son, you are very good."

Emperor Zhou looked at Chu Tianxiao and said with interest: "Let me guess, how many drafts have you made about the current situation? No matter what I ask or say next, you have already thought about it. Countermeasures?"

Chu Tianxiao bowed and replied calmly: "Yes, Your Majesty."

Emperor Zhou heard this and said calmly: "But I'm afraid you can't guess what I'm going to say next."

After saying this, Chu Tianxiao stared slightly: "Your Majesty, please speak."

He saw Emperor Zhou staring at him and speaking word by word.

"Little loser, I want to thank you."

"Thank you for the training tower, thank you for the spiritual rice, and thank you for disrupting Cicada's situation that night."

Emperor Zhou looked at Chu Tianxiao with sincere emotions in his eyes.

"That night, I was trapped in Rong's trap, and I was worried about the situation in Kyoto and my people... If you hadn't broken the corner and shaken the chess game, the consequences of that night were unpredictable... Everyone in the world thought that I was the one who turned the tide. But I know very well that the person they should thank most is you."

At this point, Emperor Zhou patted Chu Tianxiao on the shoulder and said, "Thank you, little prodigal son."

After saying these words, even though Chu Tianxiao had thought about countless possibilities before coming, he never expected that the King of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the master of the five realms, would actually say "thank you" to him repeatedly...

You know, this is not an ordinary big shot, this is a thank you from the king of the most powerful empire in China... In his position, how can the word 'thank you' be said so easily? What's more, for a junior like Chu Tianxiao?

But thinking about it on the other hand, once you say it, what an honor it will be to others? Even though Chu Tianxiao has received too much praise during these days, all of them combined are probably not as good as a 'thank you' from Emperor Zhou!

Not to mention, Emperor Zhou said it so many times in a row as if he didn’t want money!

Such an opening was beyond Chu Tianxiao’s expectation!

However, he was still alert and came back to his senses as soon as he turned around. He smiled and clasped his fists and said, "I also want to thank Your Majesty."

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Emperor Zhou's pupils shrank slightly and he looked at him with interest, then Chu Tianxiao said with a faint smile.

"Thank you for your majesty's original holy message. Thank you for lending me the sound-transmitting snail. Thank you for your majesty's rushing back in time to save everyone."

After a pause, Chu Tianxiao sat down, picked up a pot of wine, poured a full glass, and said with a smile: "Of course, the most important thing is... thank you for the family banquet, your majesty, thank you for inviting me to drink... "

"Singing over wine, what's the point of life?"

After saying these words, Emperor Zhou's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he let out a burst of hearty laughter, sat down opposite Chu Tianxiao, and said: "You are the first person to talk to me like this in so many years. …”

"...It's cold at high places. For Your Majesty, that's something you can't do anything about."

"Yeah..." Emperor Zhou picked up a glass of wine, looked at the star-studded night sky outside, and said leisurely, "Everyone in the world talks about the palace locking the palace maiden, and the old woman with the red wall, but they don't know that the Forbidden City here also locks me... …”

Seeing Emperor Zhou's appearance, Chu Tianxiao felt touched for some reason and drank a glass of wine.

Emperor Zhou's eyes showed appreciation and he said: "Little prodigal son, I ask you one thing, you must not deceive the king."

Chu Tianxiao's pupils shrank, he cupped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, please ask."

"What do you think about tonight's night talk?"

Chu Tianxiao was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then said casually: "The king and his ministers have been friends for many years."

When the sound fell, Emperor Zhou slapped the table and laughed heartily: "How dare you say that? Do you know that with just these words, I can sentence you to the crime of treason?"

Chu Tianxiao said: "Your Majesty has already said thank you to me, so he will not punish me just because of my words. What I said is nothing more than a 'thank you' in return for Your Majesty, a sincere word..."

As he said that, he smiled lightly: "Actually, is His Majesty's attitude towards me how he should treat his ministers? Although I know there must be a reason for all this, and most of it has something to do with dad, but I won't ask, Because this is a secret, if Your Majesty wants to tell me, he will naturally say, if you don’t want to, it’s useless to ask.”

Speaking of this, Chu Tianxiao stood up, blew the night wind, and said leisurely: "Of course, the most important thing is that the night wind here is awe-inspiring, and the words will dissipate... Your Majesty, you should know my intention."

Hearing this, Emperor Zhou nodded slightly and said, "Little prodigal son, I can only tell you that the time is not yet ripe..."

"However, I can answer many of your doubts, except for Zhong Yi's matter... As for Zhong Yi, I can tell you that he is definitely not in danger."

"Now, you can ask questions."

After saying this, Chu Tianxiao smiled lightly, sat down again, and said: "Okay... first question... Your Majesty would have known that the demons would take action that night? Otherwise... the adults who came to deliver the message that night should not have Come twice.”

Emperor Zhou's eyes brightened slightly and he nodded: "Yes... Now that I think about it, it was indeed a wise decision for me to ask Gao Weng to hand over the 'Western Formation Hub' to you before he was about to be discovered."

"Of course, the premise is that you must be alert enough... Fortunately, you are indeed alert enough!"

"You...have lived up to my expectations!"

Chu Tianxiao clasped his fists: "Your Majesty is so complimentary... The second question is, how did your Majesty know that I broke the Black Sky Blood Altar?"

Emperor Zhou said: "Because the Black Sky Blood Altar is closely related to Kui's method of trapping the formation... If I escape from the trap and get some information, it will be easy to deduce what will happen next."

Chu Tianxiao narrowed his eyes slightly: "The two parties are not independent? But intersecting? Is this a coincidence?"

Emperor Zhou said slowly: "I knew you would have this question, and this is one of the important things I want to tell you..."

Hearing this, Chu Tianxiao clasped his fists: "Your Majesty, please speak."

Emperor Zhou poured a glass of wine and said slowly: "Little prodigal, do you know that the demons are not a race native to the human world, they... are outsiders?"

Chu Tianxiao nodded: "I understand this."

"Then... have you ever heard of the word 'demon world'?"

Hearing this, Chu Tianxiao's pupils shrank slightly: "Please enlighten your majesty."

Emperor Zhou drank the glass of wine and said slowly: "The vast land of Shenzhou and Tianhuang Continent are both called 'human world', but this does not mean that 'human world' is the only world. Outside of the 'human world', there are still some worlds similar to it... The 'demon world' is one of them, and it is also the only world outside of the 'human world' that we can be sure of. "

After this, Chu Tianxiao reacted quickly: "In other words... the demons came from the 'demon world'? They have been on this continent for thousands of years, right? What are they... doing here?"

"...Yes, you accept it faster than I thought." Emperor Zhou didn't know that Chu Tianxiao had seen such statements before he traveled through time, and he praised, "Why the demons came to the human world, no one knows, but their wolfish ambition to occupy the entire human world is obvious..."

Chu Tianxiao was silent for a moment: "But this is different from what your majesty said..."

"Don't worry, You need to be patient when listening to stories. "Emperor Zhou said slowly, "Over the years, Shenzhou Haotu has been constantly deepening its understanding of the demon clan, and has captured a lot of important intelligence through multiple operations... Now we can be sure that the demon clan of Tianhuang Continent has established a connection with the demon world, and the cicada that night is the best proof!"

"In addition, there is another extremely important piece of information..." Emperor Zhou said, "Cicada is Ku's disciple, and Ku does not have only one disciple. If the information is correct, it should be a demon clan princess named '珟'. She should be a woman, and has already controlled the 'Chihuo Palace' of the two demon clan factions, and 'Cicada', I don't know what means, controlled the other faction, 'Xuehan City'!"

Listening to Emperor Zhou's words, combined with Chu Tianxiao's own recent days Things that are figured out, a line, gradually sorted out...

Looking at Chu Tianxiao's slightly dazed expression, Emperor Zhou nodded and said: "It seems that you, the little prodigal, have also guessed it... Yes, this is a game."

"A game to determine the true successor of Ku's mantle!"

"Ku... uses the human world as a chessboard and all living beings as chess pieces, and lets Chan and Wen... sit down and play chess!"

"The game that night was the result of their game everywhere, and when you broke the Black Sky Blood Altar, the winner and loser of that game were clear."

Emperor Zhou said: "Although Chan still came in some way in the end, he actually only had less than 50% of his cultivation at that time... He was no longer a threat."

As he said, he stood up and said meaningfully: "The Forbidden City is very big..."