We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real? - Chapter 12

Chapter 12 Emperor Zhou’s Visit

“Excuse me, is Zhang Li here?”

This is the third person to ask this question today. Yuan Wuxing wants to put up a sign outside the door saying “Zhang Li is not here”.

“Yes, you also want to persuade Senior Zhang to withdraw the application?”

The visitor was wearing a cloak, and his face could not be seen. When he heard Yuan Wuxing ask this, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

“So many people have come to see Zhang Li? I thought my Great Zhou was bright and clear, and there wouldn’t be too much filth.”

“Yes, you were the twenty-first or twenty-second one, I can’t remember. Take my advice, give up.”

“You must be Yuan Wuxing, the owner of this house. You misunderstood. I am Zhang Li’s friend. I heard that he came to the Great Zhou, so I came to him to reminisce about the past.”

Yuan Wuxing was about to say something when he heard Jiang Li shouting in the room: “Wuxing, let him in. He is indeed my friend.”

Jiang Li said, and Yuan Wuxing naturally and politely invited the cloaked man into the room.

“If I hadn’t recognized your handwriting on the application, I wouldn’t have known you’d arrived in the Great Zhou without telling me so I could welcome you.”

“I was just planning to go home and run some errands, but who knew it would involve so many people?” The

man removed his cloak, revealing a handsome face and well-proportioned features. Most striking of all, his pupils were those.

“Your Majesty!”

Yuan Wuxing cried out, his mind numbed with shock.

“You haven’t told him who you are, Jiang Li?” Princess Zhou glanced at the stunned Yuan Wuxing.

“It can’t be helped. He started badmouthing me the moment we met. How can I get the truth from him without changing my identity?” Jiang Li shrugged helplessly, his features slightly adjusted, and he returned to his original appearance.

“You, no, you are the Emperor Jiang?!”

The moment Jiang Li returned to his original form, Yuan Wuxing’s mind went blank, and he gave up thinking completely. When he came to his senses, his face flushed.

He had previously told Jiang Li with a mysterious air, “Emperor Jiang is behind the baby theft,” “Emperor Jiang condoned my cousin’s cultivation of the devil,” and “Emperor Jiang himself practices the devil.”

Yuan Wuxing wanted nothing more than to crawl into a hole.

Zhou Huangjizhi looked at Jiang Li with a half-smile: “If Old Bai knew you were a Daoist monk, he’d be so happy he couldn’t sleep for a year.”

“A temporary position, a temporary position.” Jiang Li, feeling uncomfortable under Zhou Huangjizhi’s gaze, quickly changed the subject and pulled out the photo ball.

Zhou Huangjizhi briefly channeled her magical power and read the contents of the photo ball.

Clan leader Jiang and City Lord Zeng were plotting to destroy evidence; Clan leader Jiang and City Lord Zeng were conspiring with Prefect Gong; Prefect Gong was contacting successive Qingcheng City Lords to leverage his connections and establish a connection with the Third Prince.

Clan leader Jiang and his companions thought they were acting in complete secrecy, but they didn’t know that a cold eye was watching them the entire time, faithfully recording everything with the photo ball.

“Huh…” Zhou Huangjizhi let out a long sigh, “Thank you for your trouble, Brother Jiang. With these things, we can catch these people in one fell swoop. The Qingcheng factions are intertwined and complicated. It was my fault for not paying attention to the people I hired.”

“Jiang Yixing lied that I asked him to practice magic, and people believed it. They even made up their own imaginations that I never go home to pretend to be an image, that I am actually practicing magic in secret, that the Human Emperor is the biggest leader of the magic, and that the power of faith is vital to me, etc., but no one thinks that Jiang Yixing is lying, and no one thinks that I really never go home.”

Jiang Li sighed: “My generation strives to make the world peaceful and beautiful, but there are always people who think that the world is dark. But I also have a responsibility in this matter. As the strongest person, I only focus on my own cultivation, but ignore that someone may be using my name to bully others. Even if this person is you for five hundred years Relatives I’ve never met.”

Zhou Huangjizhi also sighed, “Indeed, the fate of the Great Zhou is closely tied to the justice of the law, yet there are always those who believe that simply by cultivating connections, they can abuse their power for personal gain and escape legal punishment. Some even hesitate to punish those from other dynasties, believing this is a matter of diplomatic politics, not the purview of the law. They even gloat over their devotion to the emperor and their country. As an emperor, I’m exhausted.”

Jiang Li and Zhou Huangjizhi exchanged a glance and sighed in unison, “People turn a blind eye to what’s obvious and always enjoy imagining things!”

Yuan Wuxing’s eye twitched. Watching the two great figures sighing, he felt a sense of disrepute crumbling.

Although he, too, was part of that “imagination.”

“But this is understandable. As the Human Emperor, how many people dare to question you, Yuan Wuxing? Having a cultivator like you who upholds justice is a blessing for the Great Zhou!” Zhou Huangjizhi patted Yuan Wuxing’s shoulder vigorously in encouragement.

Yuan Wuxing quickly stood straight and shouted, “Yes.”

…

Outside Qingcheng, near the spatial node, a crowd thronged. Residents of Qingcheng had flocked to witness the power of time travel. This spell involved the laws of time and was extremely rare.

Clan Leader Jiang and the others hadn’t realized Jiang Li would request it, largely because such applications were so rare, perhaps only once every ten years.

Numerous parents of missing children had also rushed from other cities, eager to see if Jiang Yixing had stolen their children.

The Third and Fourth Princes stood side by side in the air, their eyes slightly closed, their hands clasped behind their chests, their yellow robes swaying in a row.

Clan Leader Jiang and City Lord Zeng stood together, unfazed, even a hint of amusement on the verge of laughter.

The two princes had reached an agreement, collaborating to conceal the truth. They simply didn’t believe Jiang Li and Yuan Wuxing could stage a comeback.

Unless the Zhou Emperor himself or the Human Emperor challenged the outcome, there was no chance of a reversal. Even the arrival of the heads of other dynasties and major sects would be futile!

But the Zhou Emperor and the Human Emperor would come here?

What a joke! How could it be?

They looked towards Jiang Li and saw a hooded man in a black robe standing next to Jiang Li and Yuan Wuxing. He was a sneaky, cunning fellow, and clearly not a good person.

“The time has come. Prepare to rewind time.” The Third and Fourth Princes opened their eyes and scanned the surroundings.

Countless people looked up, their gazes fixed on the Third and Fourth Princes.

The two princes’ hand seals shifted so rapidly that they left behind layers of afterimages, a truly astonishing sight.

As the two men silently chanted incantations, their voices barely humming, a sense of detachment washed over them, a sense of a world away, a distance growing between them and the two princes. This sense of distance wasn’t spatial, but temporal. The two princes’ forms gradually faded, eventually vanishing completely, leaving the sub-spacetime.

One cultivator, attempting to comprehend the Dao of Time, accidentally fell prey to the Time Devil. Had his companions not discovered the problem and awakened him, he would have woken up over a hundred years later. For that cultivator, it would have been a matter of a moment.

The practice of the Dao of Time by the Great Zhou royal family required guardianship.

“You two nephews are very skilled, and your hand seal-making speed is quite impressive for their level of cultivation,” Jiang Li commented on the two princes.

“Hmph, Brother Jiang, don’t give me any face. These two guys are clearly showing off their skills. If a fight required so many procedures, they would have been killed long ago.” Princess Zhou snorted coldly, dissatisfied with her two sons. “After this is over, I will make sure they prepare for actual combat.”

Yuan Wuxing stood beside the two big men, trembling, not daring to interrupt.

(End of this chapter)