Chapter 841 - Answer

Chapter 841 - Answer

“You can talk about anything. Just think of it as a casual conversation. Since becoming the Emperor, I haven’t had anyone I can converse casually with.” Gao Zhijian said, expressing his complaints to Li Huowang.

Li Huowang threw the stone and dusted his palms. “Heh, you think I’m here just to talk.”

“No, but you can think of it as just talking to me before we enter the main conversation. After all, I have to watch what I say when I’m in the palace.”

“You are the Emperor. Who’s controlling you?”

“As I am the Emperor, there are rules that I need to follow. How I eat, how I speak, and how I greet someone.”

As he talked, his consorts and wives approached him and complained flirtatiously about how tired they were.

Gao Zhijian shooed them off. He pointed his rough fingers at the women walking away and said, “I don’t like them. All they want is to sleep with me. I feel like puking when I look at them.”

“You are going to make every man in the world mad with that statement.”

“Senior Li, you don’t understand. You would probably understand me if I threw you into their hands for three months.”

“Ahem!” An old eunuch coughed, holding onto his horsetail whisk.

“Gao Zhijian, it’s best if you talk like an Emperor now. Otherwise, the old eunuch will cough his lungs out.”

“Hahaha!” Gao Zhijian laughed as if it was the best joke he had heard. He slapped his knees and raised his head as he laughed.

His laughter faded and he became serious again. With a wave of his arm, everyone around him took several steps back.

Li Huowang sighed and took out two spine swords from his back before throwing them onto the ground.

“Senior Li, will you still send food to the Qi Kingdom?”

“Yes,” Li Huowang said frankly.

Li Huowang didn’t want Li Sui to get involved. If the Liang Kingdom’s Surveillance Bureau and the Liang Kingdom’s palace were to fight, no one would gain anything.

Li Huowang stood up and patted Li Sui’s head, concealed within her red robes. “Don’t worry. This is my own problem and I will handle it myself. No need to involve yourself.”

“Even if he wants to kill you?”

“Even if he wants to kill me.”

Li Huowang swung the spine sword and returned to the Qi Kingdom through the rift. The fields of the Liang Kingdom were where the Qi Kingdom’s Righteous Monastery was. The monks recognized him, so there was no commotion when he returned.

However, what Li Huowang had said just before leaving caused them to worry. Once Chan Du learned that Li Huowang was back, he immediately rushed over.

“Benefactor, how was it? Did you manage to talk with them and learn why they are attacking you?”

Li Huowang answered bitterly, “We talked. As for why, the Liang Kingdom’s Emperor thought that once you guys are prosperous again, you would threaten them instead.”

“The Liang Kingdom’s Emperor? Benefactor Li, is it really him?!”

Li Huowang didn’t understand why Chan Du was confused. “Didn’t you already know that? Why are you reacting so loudly?”

Chan Du clasped his hands and turned the prayer beads in his palm. “Amitabha. I have never once suspected him. I thought that the assailants came from another world.”

“What? Other worlds?” It was Li Huowang’s turn to be confused. He felt that a bomb had just gone off in his head. “Why didn’t you tell me this important?”

“Uh... did we really need to tell you? Didn’t you already know about it?” Chan Du pointed at the five glittering Buddha statues in the hall.

“Vaicorana from Vajradhatu, the Diamond Realm. Akshobhya from Abhirati, the Eastern Pure Land. Ratnasambhava from ?rimat, the Southern Pure Land. Amitābha from Sukhavati, the Western Pure Land. Amoghasiddhi from Prakuta, the Northern Pure Land. Together, they form the Five Dhyani Buddhas because they control the five different worlds.”

Li Huowang stood there, his mouth hanging open in shock at Chan Du’s words.

“Benefactor Li, why are you so surprised? I thought you knew about it?”

Li Huowang was practically fuming with anger. “You sects and your fucking contradicting worlds! How would I know which is real and which is fake?!”