The moment Zhao Hai fainted, a memory that didn't belong to him suddenly appeared in his mind. It was as if a program that didn't belong to your computer had suddenly been installed, causing Zhao Hai's brain to almost crash. Although it didn't crash, his brain still crashed, digesting the information in his brain bit by bit.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhao Hai woke up. He felt a memory that didn't belong to him suddenly appear in his mind.
In this memory, his name was Adam Buda. He was born in a military family of the Aksu Empire on the Ark Continent. He had served the Aksu Empire for three generations, holding the high position of Marquis. But when it came to Adam's generation, it declined. Adam was a hedonistic son of rich parents. His mother died early, and his father was always outside leading troops. He was even more lawless to the extreme, oppressing men and seizing women, committing all sorts of crimes. But his father was a very protective person, and he also held a large number of troops, so nobody dared to touch him.
But his father made a mistake. When the Aksu Empire's new and old King changed places, he stood on the wrong side.
The old King of the Aksu Empire was the forty-seventh. He had a total of fifteen princes, five of which could inherit the throne. They were the Eldest Prince, the Third Prince, the Fourth Prince, the Seventh Prince, and the Thirteenth Prince.
According to the laws of the Aksu Empire, only the children of the King's Empress and Imperial Concubine had the right to inherit the throne. Of course, not all children of the Empress and Imperial Concubine could inherit the throne. Only those children who were conferred the title of Grand Duke or above could inherit the throne.
When a person of the Imperial Family was born, they would have the title of Count. If they didn't make any contributions to the Empire, they would only be a Count for their entire life, and a Count without a fief. Only when they made contributions would their title rise, and the highest would be Prince.
Of course, it was impossible for the children of the Empress and Imperial Concubine to only have the title of Count. They would generally be conferred the title of Duke, and then as long as they made some small contributions, or casually found an excuse, they would be promoted to Grand Duke, and finally to Prince. This way, they could inherit the throne.
The five children of the forty-seventh Aksu King who could inherit the throne were all Princes. Among them, the Eldest Prince and the Fourth Prince were born of the Empress, the Third Prince and the Seventh Prince were born of Imperial Concubine Carlin, and the Thirteenth Prince was born of Imperial Concubine Avril. He was also the weakest one, and no one was optimistic about him. People had always believed that the Eldest Prince was born of the Empress, and he was the legitimate heir. The Third Prince had always worn the same pair of pants as the Eldest Prince, so many nobles in the Empire supported the Eldest Prince to succeed the throne. The Fourth Prince and the Seventh Prince were in the same group. The Seventh Prince had the support of the Fourth Prince, and also the support of the Carlin family. Only the Thirteenth Prince was the youngest, the weakest, and the most low-key, so no one was optimistic about him.
And Adam's father was in the Eldest Prince's faction. This was also normal, because the Eldest Prince's voice was the highest at that time. The Buda clan wasn't an old nobility, they had only relied on military exploits in the generation of Buda's great grandfather to rise step by step to the position of Marquis. They wanted to quickly break into the ranks of those old nobles, so he chose to support the Eldest Prince, who was most likely to become King at that time. This way, as long as the Eldest Prince became King, the Buda clan would have the possibility of breaking into the core of the Aksu Empire's power, becoming a true recognized nobility in the Empire.
It must be known that on the continent, any King's nobility was divided into two types. One was the old nobility, and the other was the new nobility. The difference between the new and the old nobility was very clear. The new nobility would generally be considered upstarts, and wouldn't be recognized by the old nobility, and thus wouldn't be able to enter the core of the country's power.
After so many years of development on the continent, nobility played a very large role in a country. Sometimes, they could even influence the rise and fall of a country. Especially those old nobility that had developed for thousands of years, and dozens of generations, they were a power that even the Emperor feared. It could be said that those old nobility were the core of the entire Empire's power, and any new nobility would want to obtain their recognition.
In order to obtain the recognition of those old nobility, one naturally had to have the corresponding strength. The Buda clan's speed of digging up was too fast. This was the method that the old kings of the Aksu clan came up with to keep the old nobility in check. But ever since the death of the forty-sixth king, the Buda clan's days weren't easy. The new king wanted to promote them, but those old nobility wanted to suppress them. Therefore, they could only continuously support the new king, in order to facilitate the clan's development.
But Adam's father stood on the wrong side. He supported the most popular eldest prince, but in the end, he didn't become king. Instead, it was the most low-key, seemingly the weakest thirteenth prince who became king. The eldest prince was sentenced to death, and the eldest prince's party didn't have a good end. Adam's father was also found an excuse to be imprisoned, and then died in prison without any clear reason. And those bad things that Adam had done before were also dug up. But because of the existence of Green and the others, the Empire was also afraid that several eighth rank experts would find trouble with them. In addition, the new Emperor had succeeded the throne, so they also had to show a bit of magnanimity. Therefore, they dealt with Adam lightly, reducing the Marquis title that Adam should have inherited to viscount. Their family's originally very fertile fief was replaced with the Black Waste, and Adam was even fed the Water of Nothingness, becoming a complete cripple.
Even if an ordinary noble had a fief, they would hand it over to a steward or someone they trusted to manage it. Although the fief was their own foundation, their people would still stay in the imperial capital, in order to pay attention to any changes that occurred in the empire. Those that were beneficial to the clan, those that weren't.
But Adam and the others weren't like this. After their fief was changed by the king, they were ordered to leave the imperial capital within three days. Moreover, they weren't allowed to leave their fief for the next three years. This was something that had never happened to any of the clans.
And the reason why the current king of the Aksu Empire, the original thirteenth prince Aboyo Aksu, treated the Buda clan like this was because the Buda clan was part of the eldest prince's party, and also because of the pressure from those old nobility. Now that he had just ascended to the throne, he naturally had to suppress the eldest prince and the seventh prince's party with all his strength. But he didn't dare to move against those great nobles, and those old nobles didn't like the Buda clan, so they naturally pressured Aboyo from the side. That was why Aboyo made this decision.
The reason he let Adam drink the Water of Nothingness was because of the Buda clan's ancestral battle qi cultivation method, Wild Dragon Battle Qi. This battle qi cultivation method was very famous on the continent, and was accidentally obtained by Adam's great grandfather. Its cultivation speed was three times faster than ordinary battle qi cultivation methods, and its attack power was also very strong. It had always been the top battle qi cultivation method that all the great clans of the empire drooled over. If Adam still wanted to learn battle qi, and if he really learned Wild Dragon Battle Qi, and also remembered today's grudge, then he would be a threat to those great nobles and the imperial family. That was why Aboyo let Adam drink the Water of Nothingness.
And the reason why Aboyo didn't kill Adam, apart from the aforementioned reasons, there was another reason. It was because Green had offered this set of Battle Qi cultivation methods to Aboyo, and had also sworn a poison oath that in the future, the Buda clan members would no longer practice the Wild Dragon Battle Qi. Therefore, Aboyo let Adam go.
Of course, Green didn't openly offer this cultivation method to Aboyo. He entered the imperial palace at night, found Aboyo, and then offered the cultivation method. Doing this was first to plead for leniency for Adam, and second to let Aboyo know his strength, so that Aboyo would dispel the idea of killing Adam.
Aboyo was indeed afraid that an expert like Green would find trouble with him, so he agreed to Green's request. He only demoted Adam's noble title and changed his fief, but didn't take Adam's life.
Green also agreed. He was very clear that although his own strength wasn't weak, the imperial family's strength was also very strong. The reason why he could enter the imperial palace without anyone noticing was because he was very familiar with the situation inside the imperial palace, and because the new emperor had just ascended the throne. The imperial palace had undergone a great reshuffle, and his strength was still a bit weak. In addition, the cultivation method he knew was very special, so he wasn't discovered.
The reason why Green didn't go save Adam's father before was because he thought that Aboyo wouldn't kill Adam's father. No matter what was said, Adam's father was still a bargaining chip that the imperial family used to deal with those old nobles. The imperial family shouldn't easily abandon him.
But they didn't expect that the reason Aboyo could become king was precisely because of the support of those old nobles. So after he ascended the throne, he naturally had to curry favor with those old nobles, so he killed Adam's father. By the time Green found out, Adam's father was already dead. Green could only think of a way to protect Adam, the Buda clan's last bloodline.
And the reason why he handed over the Wild Dragon Dou Qi cultivation method was also because of the Water of Nothingness. The reason why the Water of Nothingness could become the continent's supreme magic weapon wasn't only because it could make people unable to cultivate magic and dou qi, but even more tyrannical was that this situation would continue on to their descendants.
In other words, as long as you drank the Water of Nothingness, your descendants would also be unable to learn magic and dou qi, and this situation would only end after ten generations.
But that was an entire ten generations. Ten generations unable to learn magic and dou qi, what would happen at that time? At that time, whether or not the clan would still exist, whether or not it could continue on to the tenth generation, these were all unknown. This was the terrifying aspect of the Water of Nothingness, and also the reason why Green handed over the Wild Dragon Dou Qi.
If Adam and the ten generations of the Buda clan after Adam were unable to learn the Wild Dragon Dou Qi, then what was the use of keeping this thing? It was better to hand it over in exchange for Adam's life, so Green didn't hesitate to hand over the Wild Dragon Dou Qi.
And the facts proved that what he did was completely correct. If he didn't hand over the Wild Dragon Dou Qi, he was afraid that Adam wouldn't have been able to leave the capital alive.
But it was unknown whether someone did something to the Water of Nothingness, or whether Adam himself was incompatible with the Water of Nothingness, but in any case, after drinking the Water of Nothingness, Adam fainted and didn't wake up all the way to the fief. When he woke up, he had already changed from that hedonistic Adam to the earth's otaku Zhao Hai.
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