Li Yao narrowed his eyes and said, "So to speak, this Wang Xi is truly a remarkable person. He has both the methods to create a storm, the ability to establish 'Ghost Character', and the unparalleled sword arts in the world … After hearing what you said, I feel that my heart is itching to meet him!"
Han Yuantai further explained, "If the emperors of the Great Qian Dynasty were devoted to training, they would leave the affairs of the country to their trusted eunuchs. On the other hand, if the emperors were devoted to politics, in order to prevent themselves from being killed without knowing why, they would also raise warriors and train the 'experts of the royal palace' as bodyguards. The eunuchs who served them day and night were the best candidates for the 'experts of the royal palace'!
"Therefore, after a thousand years of ups and downs in the Great Qian Dynasty, while a lot of powerful eunuchs who were adept at trickery emerged, many of the eunuchs boasted tremendous personal strength, too!
"When the Thunderous Qian Hall rose and established the Great Qian Dynasty, it destroyed almost a thousand sects. The secret arts and magical equipment of the sects were mostly kept in the royal family's private treasury. It was not a problem for the emperor to give some of the knowledge to the eunuchs around him!
"Those eunuchs, on the other hand, did not belong to any sects or have any descendants. Who could they pass on their knowledge of training or the marvelous arts that they created? Naturally, they passed the knowledge to the little eunuchs around them!
"Just like that, the eunuchs passed the knowledge to the little eunuchs, and the little eunuchs passed it on to the little eunuchs. After dozens of generations of eunuchs, they melted the essence of training of hundreds of sects of the previous dynasty and concluded a set of the most mysterious arts that were especially suitable for their incomplete bodies, which was named 'Illusionary Yin'!
"This Wang Xi was an expert who had gathered the essence of the training of the experts of the royal palace in dozens of generations. He had grasped the secret arts of 'Illusionary Yin' to the highest level and was a top expert who was adept at everything!
"Before Wang Xi, most of the eunuchs were hiding in the royal palace and never showed up in the world of Cultivators. They only worked as the emperor's bodyguards and assisted the emperor in his training.
"Their five bodies are incomplete, and they are born with an inferiority complex. It has been passed down from generation to generation, but no one has ever noticed it!"
"It was not until Wang Xi rose to power unstoppably that the Cultivation sects learned of the existence of 'Illusionary Yin' and realized that the eunuchs in the Six Halls of the Royal Palace were already so strong!
"Wang Xi has been lurking for decades and bowing to the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty. He has only one thing in mind, which is to instigate internal strife in the Great Qian Dynasty as much as possible and weaken the strength of the major sects. He is even trying to make the experts of the Yuanying perish together with him or ask them to pursue the unpredictable immortality and the void. Then, he will pave the way for the emperor to truly control the world!
Li Yao smiled and said, "In that case, Wang Xi is a very loyal subject?"
Han Yuantai sniffed. "He is perhaps truly loyal to Emperor Qiyuan, and part of his purpose has indeed been achieved! However, as a result, the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty were divided, and the internal strife grew fiercer and fiercer. It created a great opportunity for the White Lotus Cult, the Heaven Battering Army, and Cloud Qin to rise! So to speak, is Wang Xi a loyal subject or a treacherous one? God knows! "
Li Yao thought for a moment and realized that it did make sense. If the emperor wanted to gather power, he had to weaken the local sects. However, if the local sects were too weak, the entire Great Qian Dynasty would inevitably be dying. It was a move that could not be used easily.
Li Yao continued asking, "Are the major sects so obedient to Wang Xi? Are they attacking each other just because Wang Xi asked them to?"
"On one hand," Han Yuantai said, "Wang Xi's methods of instigating trouble are too brilliant. But more importantly, the conflicts that the major sects have accumulated over the past thousand years have reached the peak in terms of wealth, land, arts, and companionship. There is no way to compromise at all!
"The relationship between the major sects is like a raging flood that cannot be stopped once it starts. Wang Xi is merely adding fuel to the fire!"
Li Yao sneered. "I'm often told that the Southland of Sorcerers is a barbarian country outside of civilization, and that the barbarian Cultivators are brutal barbarians. The Cultivators from central plateaus, on the other hand, value peace and justice. I didn't know that it was actually the case!"
"Win people by virtue? Hahahaha! "
Han Yuantai slapped his thigh and burst into laughter. "I wonder, have you ever heard of the saying, 'When one has a sharp weapon, one will be determined to kill others'? Even a common farmer would be eager to try a saber that can cut through all his hair when he finds one. Even his throat would be thicker! Besides, every Cultivation sect had a large batch of disciples who did not work but only focused on cultivation! Those disciples can eat half a cow for a meal, break a giant rock with one punch, and chop off a couple of heads in the blink of an eye when they launch their flying swords! But they know nothing except beating and killing people, and they don't bother to learn or do anything else! If the young, disobedient disciples are not released to fight in the outside world, are they supposed to stay in the sect and sing opera?
"Win people by virtue? If you want to win people by virtue, why do you keep so many disciples who do nothing but kill? De can't fill our stomachs! "
"All in all, the logic here is similar to the logic of the Jade Crystal Pellet. The more disciples a Cultivation sect has, the more resources such as' wealth, land, arts, and companions' they will need to provide for them. In order to get more resources, they will have to raise even more ferocious, ferocious disciples. It's an endless loop, too!"
"All the sects are mired in such a cycle. If any of them want to jump out of the cycle and do not have enough strength to protect themselves, they will be swallowed by other people! Such a vicious cycle has led to such a bloody, heartless, and tearless age. Winning people by virtue is just bullsh * t! "
Li Yao was silent for a long time. Thinking for a long time, he sighed and said, "According to what you just said, 'Wang Xi' lost his influence in the end?"
"Exactly."
Han Yuantai nodded and said, "As the saying goes, everything goes in the opposite direction when it reaches the extremes. After Wang Xitu revealed his brilliance, although he suppressed many sects in the world for a while, the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty that were divided under his instigation were somehow united in secret.
"Also, as his Cultivation improved, his power expanded, and he was flattered by countless sects, Wang Xi's own mentality might've gone through subtle changes, too. He was no longer willing to work as Emperor Qiyuan's puppet.
"Later, there was no telling what kind of soul-stirring drama took place among the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty, Wang Xi, and Emperor Qiyuan.
"All in all, Wang Xi's power deterred the world for almost ten years, until Emperor Qiyuan, his greatest backer, died abruptly at the beginning of last year!
"Wang Xi might've been truly loyal to Emperor Qiyuan and never thought of betraying him, but the same could not be said for the new emperor. He even thought that the new emperor was too young and was considering the new emperor as his own puppet.
"This time, however, he made the same mistake as the Cultivation sects in the past. He underestimated the new emperor too much, but he did not know that the young emperor was as ambitious as he was. He was certainly not a person who was willing to submit to somebody else as a puppet emperor!
"However strong Wang Xi was, he could only be invincible with the help of the emperor's aura. It was more or less the same as taking advantage of the emperor's authority.
"If the emperor and the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty both opposed him, there was no way that he could've resisted them. His ten years of hard work completely collapsed half a year after Emperor Qiyuan's abrupt death!
"However, the man was an unparalleled swordsman in the world after all. He was also meticulous and knew how to hide well. After he lost power and fell from power, he simply vanished into thin air before the emperor and the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty chased after him!
"Not only did Wang Xi run away on his own, he also took away a lot of magical equipment, secret classics, and pills from the emperor's personal treasury, as well as the gold and silver that he had accumulated for more than ten years. More importantly, he also collected the secrets of the major sects in the world through the assassination organization 'Ghost Character'!
"Magical equipment, secret classics, pills, and gold and silver might not be important, but the stinky, clandestine secrets in Wang Xi's hands were like thorns in the back of the major sects!
"Therefore, Wang Xi has become the public enemy of the entire Great Qian Dynasty. Every sect wants him to be obliterated and never to be reincarnated! It's a pity that they don't even know where Wang Xi is hiding!
"Lead Eunuch Wang Xi, 'Mother White Lotus' Wan Mingzhu, 'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng, and my brother Han Baling, regent of Cloud Qin, are the four people that are the biggest headaches for the Great Qian Dynasty right now. They are collectively known as the 'Four Rapscallions'! In fact, if the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty were not divided into internal strife and suicidal, how could the 'Four Rapscallions' have caused any trouble however ferocious they were? "
Li Yao thought for a long time and asked again, "Are the Purple Pole Sword Sect and the Ling family really on Wang Xi's side?"
Han Yuantai smiled. "Wang Xi's fall has a lot of implications. The Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty have reignited the fire of internal strife with the court as the battlefield. The label of 'eunuch's accomplice' is flying everywhere. Isn't it the same old trick of framing and slandering?
"If we are talking about the eunuch's accomplice, during the ten years when Wang Xi dominated the court, which sect was not implicitly associated with him? The sects that were stubbornly against him would've been annihilated by him together with other sects a long time ago!
"As for the Purple Pole Sword Sect, they were just unlucky!
"Wang Xi was a top-tier sword Cultivator. Naturally, he was fascinated by the mysteries of sword arts. The Purple Pole Sword Sect, on the other hand, was the best sword sect in the world. Naturally, it had countless collections of sword arts and famous experts!
"Therefore, when Wang Xi was in power, he often went to the Purple Pole Sword Sect to discuss sword arts and beliefs. With his power and Cultivation at that time, could the Purple Pole Sword Sect have shut the door to him?
"Therefore, on the surface, it is inevitable that the Purple Pole Sword Sect is closer to Wang Xi.
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