Hu Bugui looked at the candied hawthorns that Ye Fan had thrown onto the ground, staring at him in utter shock.
What was wrong with the Ancestor? Had something triggered him?
Ever since he was a child, he had watched the Ancestor love candied hawthorns.
He had been sent to play with the Ancestor when he was only eight years old.
Candied hawthorns had always been the Ancestor's absolute favorite!
“Ancestor, what is wrong?”
Hu Bugui asked, his face filled with confusion.
Ye Fan looked at Hu Bugui's shocked and bewildered expression.
He realized his reaction had been a bit too extreme!
“It is nothing. I just do not like eating candied hawthorns anymore. Do not buy them in the future!”
“Alright!” Hu Bugui nodded.
The Ancestor is not normal. He is highly abnormal!
No wonder the Patriarch said the Ancestor's illness has worsened. He has actually started trying to pretend to be a normal person!
But you are doing a terrible job of pretending!
He had just seen the Ancestor stuff the candied hawthorns into his mouth, only to pull them back out and throw them away!
Noticing Hu Bugui's gaze, Ye Fan's eyes flickered. My behavior has changed so drastically. Could he be suspicious of me?
It seems I need to find a way to make my return to normalcy look natural and come up with a reasonable excuse!
With a flicker of his eyes, an idea struck Ye Fan. He turned to Hu Bugui and said:
“Xiao Hu, I accidentally ate a spirit fruit yesterday and realized my mind has cleared up!”
Hu Bugui was stunned for a moment. Then, catching on, he put on a look of pleasant surprise:
“Wow! That is wonderful! Ancestor, you have actually regained your senses? That is truly amazing!”
But in his heart, he thought, Keep acting, Ancestor. Just keep on putting on your little show!
He had never heard of any spiritual medicine that could cure a fool!
This was an issue of intelligence!
Besides, the Ancestor had played this trick before, teasing him half to death!
“Yes! You may leave now. Let me know when we are going to attack the Qingshan Sect!”
Hu Bugui nodded repeatedly in agreement.
But he did not take Ye Fan's words to heart at all!
He figured that in a few days, the Ancestor would completely forget about this!
He had plenty of experience dealing with this!
...
After Emperor Tianqi returned to the Xuantian Continent, he was both excited and apprehensive.
He knew very well that his own Ancestor had run off with the Immortal Saber!
Now that they were back, with the Immortal Saber in the possession of the Tianqi Dynasty, their Ancestor's strength would surely skyrocket!
At the same time, he was somewhat worried. Would the people of those ancient powers come looking for trouble?
Those ancient powers were so terrifyingly strong; they simply could not afford to offend them!
Back in the Xuanming Great World, when Lu Ming and the others began their grand battle against the Ghost Kings,
Emperor Tianqi and the Tiansheng Sect Leader had seized the opportunity to slip away.
They did not want to get involved in the conflict between any of the factions.
After all, even if they won, they would not get any benefits!
Besides, they were nothing but cannon fodder there.
They did not even have the pills to neutralize the law suppression.
Just about anyone could easily kill them!
Therefore, after escaping, the two of them had gone into hiding.
They remained hidden until they were eventually ejected from the Xuanming Great World...
However, when Emperor Tianqi returned to the Tianqi Dynasty, he was utterly dumbfounded!
Ji Wuming, the manager in charge of guarding the soul lamps, informed him that the Ancestor's soul lamp had gone out!
“How is that possible?”
Emperor Tianqi could not help but cry out in shock. How could their Ancestor, who had been perfectly fine, suddenly die?
Ji Wuming was trembling all over, drenched in cold sweat.
He was cursed with terrible luck!
To think that this time, it was the Ancestor's soul lamp that had gone out.
“Come! Let us go see!”
Emperor Tianqi dragged Ji Wuming along as he rushed to the imperial family's soul lamp chamber.
Looking up, he saw that many soul lamps had been extinguished!
The several princes who had gone to the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm this time, along with a group of Soul Transformation ministers, and the two Unity-stage consecrated experts—all of them were dead!
Most of them had died on the golden mountain in the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm while fighting over the Immortal Saber!
Looking up even further, he saw that the Ancestor's soul lamp at the very top had indeed gone out!
Staring at the extinguished soul lamp, Emperor Tianqi's face turned pale with rage, and his entire body shook.
If other forces found out about this, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Not to mention the other factions, even the Tiansheng Sect and the Yunhua Sacred Palace would not let them off!
They would absolutely carve up the Tianqi Dynasty among themselves.
“You are not allowed to tell anyone!”
Emperor Tianqi glared at Ji Wuming with bloodshot eyes, his voice freezing cold.
“Understood!”
Ji Wuming nodded repeatedly with extreme caution.
At the same time, Ji Wuming was filled with horror. Ever since he had started managing the Soul Lamp Hall, first, the Crown Prince, the Third Prince, and several other princes had died.
Then, the new Crown Prince had barely assumed the title before dying just a few days after going out.
After that, several Unity-stage consecrated experts had perished, and now, even the Ancestor was dead.
He truly began to suspect if he was some kind of jinx who was bringing ruin upon them all!
After all, while members of the imperial family had died before he came to the Soul Lamp Hall, since his arrival, the imperial family had practically been wiped out!
And it was always the high-ranking members. No, he had to run away immediately.
This was just too damn bizarre!
He was genuinely terrified that Emperor Tianqi would eventually take out his anger on him!
After returning to his bedchamber, Emperor Tianqi fell into deep thought.
Is our Ancestor really dead?
Could it be that he was worried about the ancient powers coming to find trouble, so he took the Immortal Saber and faked his death to run away?
After a moment, he gnashed his teeth, pulled out a sound transmission talisman, and spoke into it with an arrogant tone:
“Sect Master Gu, you had better hurry up and pay back the spirit stones you owe us from the Xuanming Great World!”
After sending the sound transmission talisman, Emperor Tianqi took a deep breath.
Under the current circumstances, he could hide the truth from the Tiansheng Sect and the others for now, but it was not a permanent solution. He had to find another way!
What if I align myself with the Ancient Imperial Clan?
After all, back in the Xuanming Great World, he had followed Huangpu Tao around and run errands for him for a while.
He just did not know what had happened in the final battle between the Great Ghost Kings.
Recalling that their Ancestor had run off with the Immortal Saber, which had left Huangpu Tao furious, he worried that the other party might not accept his allegiance.
Emperor Tianqi could not help but worry. Then, he called someone in to ask:
How was the search going for the Unity-stage experts who had gone after the Qingshan Sect?
If they could not find them, they should just stop looking!
After all, given the current situation, even if the Qingshan Sect fell, they no longer had the strength to compete for the title of the number one power on the Xuantian Continent!
Besides, with those ancient powers around, it was completely out of the question anyway!
However, upon inquiring, he learned that the dispatch team had not returned yet.
Emperor Tianqi frowned slightly. Why did he have such a bad premonition?
He had a feeling that those people might never return!
Remembering his grudge with Lu Ming, Emperor Tianqi became even more determined to find an opportunity to latch onto an ancient power.
Otherwise, he would be a dead man!
Meanwhile, the faces of the Tiansheng Sect's Ancestor and the Sect Leader were also incredibly grim.
Upon their return, they discovered that Grand Elder Xiao had actually escaped from the Cliff of Reflection!
Not only that, but he had also seized the opportunity to sweep away a large amount of the Tiansheng Sect's treasures when he fled!
The sect was currently in complete chaos!
“Sect Leader, what happened? Why did we suffer so many casualties this time?”
Seeing the grim expressions of the Sect Leader and the Ancestor, and fearing that they would lay the blame on him, the Second Elder spoke up first.
After all, out of all the people the Tiansheng Sect had sent out, only the two of them had returned!
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