There are many reasons for coughing, but the most common one is illness.
Cold Qi injured the lungs and lingered about. Even an expert of the Divine Domain would find it very troublesome.
Shang Xingzhou did not know that Emperor Bai would continue coughing like this for many years to come.
But he knew that Emperor Bai had suffered serious injuries, just like himself.
Whether it was the two Angels or Madam Mu, they were all extremely powerful opponents.
He and Emperor Bai were the strongest in the world, but they had to pay a certain price.
At this time, he could have chosen to do something, but he did not because of this reason, and also because he knew that Chen Chang Sheng and Xu You Rong would not support him — his and the White Emperor's wills could constantly change as the situation changed, but the young man and woman would not.
He said to the White Emperor, "But it still came to this day."
"She has great talent, a good bloodline, ability, intelligence, and beauty. If she marries with me, we can give birth to the most outstanding offspring."
The White Emperor said, "For this, I can endure many things, including her ambition, but I did not expect her ambition to be so great."
Shang Xingzhou understood what he meant.
If Madam Mu had only wanted to seek some benefits for the Great Western Continent, the White Emperor would have maintained his silence, but her recent actions had involved the survival of the Demi-human race.
"Actually, I always knew she looked down on me. She always thought I was a monster who didn't understand art."
The White Emperor indifferently said, "None of this matters. I can still endure her, but I can't endure it like Bie Yanghong. Most importantly, Luoluo is the next White Emperor that I have chosen. You should also be well aware of just how pure and powerful her bloodline is. Just because the Great Western Continent wants her to be married off to Xuelao City? She's crazy. "
Shang Xingzhou said, "This is what I don't understand about you the most in this whole matter. The child in her belly is also your descendant."
The White Emperor said with an indifferent expression, "When it comes to children, it has never been about quantity, but quality. One outstanding child like Luoluo is enough. What use is there in giving birth to more trash? Since ancient times, the number of people in our clan has been extremely small. Not everyone is like that emperor of yours, giving birth to so many sons and letting them kill each other. Whoever survives in the end will inherit the throne. What was this? Raising poisonous insects? You humans really don't know what's good for you sometimes. "
The emperor in these words naturally referred to the mighty Emperor Taizong.
Shang Xingzhou said, "If that's the case, why do you need to do this?"
"That year in the snowy plains to the north of Mount Han, you borrowed my hand to heavily wound the Demon Lord and also delayed me for five years."
Emperor Bai looked at Shang Xingzhou with a deep gaze.
"These five years are enough for you to do far too many things. You actually managed to wrest back the authority of the Human race from Tianhai's hands … I can't help but ponder a question. If Xuelao City is destroyed and you unite the world, what will my race do then? Therefore, I can only try to delay your pace. "
Shang Xingzhou calmly replied, "I am not Emperor Taizong. I do not have the ability to defy the heavens and change fate. All of you have overestimated me."
Bai Di said, "You are my friend. I know how terrifying you are. Moreover, you have taught two good students."
Shang Xingzhou didn't answer, saying, "So you set up this trap?"
These were the same words he had said before.
What was the point of doing all this?
That means everything.
This was the White Emperor's city.
Everything that happened in this city had to be approved by him, or tacitly approved, or even pushed in the dark.
Whether it was Madam Mu's deeds or the Xiang clan leader's deeds, whether they were good or evil.
Like the Heavenly Selection ceremony, or the dangers that Chen Changsheng had once faced, or this trap, or the deaths of Bie Yanghong and Wuqiong Bi, or that most important of all.
The White Emperor's refusal to marry Luoluo to Xuelao City did not mean that he had not thought about allying with the demons at the very beginning.
"You used your daughter as a bargaining chip to have the two sides fight, but you watched from the sidelines. No matter what the result was, as long as you came out and made a rallying cry, it would be complete."
Shang Xingzhou continued, "People like us who have lived for too long have too much time to think about problems, so our plans naturally won't have too many loopholes. But you did not expect Chen Changsheng to arrive so early and change the entire course of the situation. Moreover, he was so determined to dig you out of that mountain."
The White Emperor said, "I said before that you taught two good students, and you've also arrived."
Shang Xingzhou replied, "How could I not personally attend such a major event?"
The White Emperor knew that the major event he spoke of was not merely the Demi-human race's intention to ally with Xuelao City, but also the two Angels of Sacred Light.
To people like him and Shang Xingzhou, who stood at the apex of the continent, the truly major events could only be matters beyond this world.
They were both people who walked the Great Dao, and their Dao was the Dao of this side.
To use Wang Zhice's words, positions were relative, so one's stance was naturally predetermined.
The actions of the demons had already touched their bottom line.
"It probably has nothing to do with the Demon Lord."
The White Emperor said, "Only madmen like her and Black Robe would do such a thing."
Shang Xingzhou replied, "Women are all madmen, so they can't be allowed to stand too high."
Many years ago, he had opposed the marriage between the White Emperor and Madam Mu precisely because of this consideration.
Similarly, he held the same view of the Tianhai Divine Empress.
"So I did not expect that you would be willing to ask Xu Yourong for help."
The White Emperor added, "She is also a woman, and the fiancée of your student."
Shang Xingzhou replied, "Defeating you is an extremely difficult task."
"Correct, in the end, I still lost to you and your disciple."
The White Emperor added, "This makes me feel more and more that those words are reasonable."
He was naturally referring to the words that were currently circulating throughout the continent.
One temple in Xining rules the world.
The word 'rule' in these words could be understood as ruling, but it could also be understood as ruling submission.
If Shang Xingzhou and his two students worked together, they could rule all sorts of disobedience.
"If I remember correctly, you said these words before entering seclusion."
"Correct."
"You've never admitted defeat."
Shang Xingzhou calmly said, "Then once I exterminate the demons, how are you prepared to face me?"
"I truly was very worried in the past, but I'm a little better now, because before you can return to White Emperor City, you first have to defeat that good student of yours."
The White Emperor continued, "I've realized that your student is even more outstanding than I imagined. It's truly very difficult for you to accomplish this."
Just as Shang Xingzhou had said, powerful figures like them who had immersed themselves in the passage of time only needed to calculate and they would be able to come up with a plan.
Luoluo would become the next White Emperor, so as long as Chen Changsheng remained on the throne, no matter how powerful the Human race became, the Demi-human race would be safe.
Madam Mu had once said to Luoluo that this relationship between master and disciple was not firm. Only if Chen Changsheng was willing to marry Luoluo could she be at ease.
The White Emperor did not believe this. He was very sure that it was precisely because Chen Changsheng could not marry Luoluo that he would treat her better.
This was not because he could not ask for it, but because he felt sorry for her and the joy of being adored and loved. This was an incomparably intense desire to protect her.
Of course, the prerequisite for all this was that Chen Changsheng could not be killed by Shang Xingzhou, nor could he lose power.
"You have such a high opinion of that good-for-nothing student of mine?"
This was the first time in their conversation that Shang Xingzhou had acknowledged Chen Changsheng as his student.
"In truth, everything stems from your attitude toward him."
The White Emperor calmly said, "If you did not regard him so highly, why would the world regard him so highly in the first place?"
Shang Xingzhou asked, "And if this regard is not what you think it means?"
The White Emperor replied, "Then we'll talk about it when the time comes. Moreover, if someone is willing to promise me even more in the future, I can naturally change my mind."
Shang Xingzhou said nothing more and left the street.
Chen Changsheng had been watching this entire time.
He watched Shang Xingzhou's back vanish into the crowd, saying nothing.
Back then, on the Divine Path of the Mausoleum of Books, he had carried the Tianhai Divine Empress's body down while Shang Xingzhou had walked up. They had passed each other without a word or a glance.
He had not said anything at the time, and he had not mentioned this matter since, but he had actually found it rather difficult to bear.
Today, Shang Xingzhou had glanced at him twice, but he still felt this way.
Shang Xingzhou looked at him like he was looking at a stranger.
Two hands landed on Chen Chang Sheng's shoulders one after another.
It was not a burden, but a comfort.
Chen Changsheng smiled at Tang Thirty-Six, then turned to Xu Yourong and said, "I'm fine."
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The snowy plains in the middle of winter were as cold as the abyss. The air exhaled by the demon beasts was quickly frozen into crystals.
The wind was fierce, but there was not a shred of warmth.
Black Robe calmly gazed to the west and suddenly said, "It lost."
At these words, the nearby Mountain-toppling Fiend let out a pained roar. It was not because the Mountain-toppling Fiend understood its words and knew that the most important plan the demons had worked on in the last few years had been destroyed, but because the Demon Commander sitting on its head had angrily snapped off one of its horns.
Behind Black Robe and the Demon Commander were ten-some Demon Generals, and even further away were several massive and mysterious figures shrouded in black fog.
The demons had not sent reinforcements to White Emperor City for several reasons.
Black Robe's confidence in the powerful fighting power of the Angel of Sacred Light and his grasp of the situation in the capital was also because there was not enough time.
But the most important reason was a person.
A middle-aged scholar stood in the snowy plains.
The most famous scholar in the world since ancient times.
Wang Zhice.
"I didn't think that he would even invite you. Now that I think about it, it was probably Daoist Ji who put in a lot of effort that allowed you to escape Little Jie's killing intent."
The cold wind blew, revealing Black Robe's slightly green face, but his voice was devoid of emotion.
Upon hearing this long-lost name, Wang Zhice sighed, "Has the wind and snow of several centuries still not been able to wash away your hatred?"
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(The long-lost three thousand words.) (To be continued.)
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