Chapter 309: Chapter 181: Cut Li Changqing’s Tendons for Me_3

“Hmm.” Xue Qianbai picked up his cup, blew on it, then took a sip.

“Why?” Li Changqing was a bit curious.

Xue Qianbai also looked out the window, staring intently, not knowing what he was looking at.

After a while, Xue Qianbai slowly said, “The people of the Su family overstepped their bounds, so I killed them as a warning to the Su family.”

“Because of Princess Qinyang?”

Li Changqing smiled slightly.

Upon hearing the name Qinyang, Xue Qianbai’s long eyelashes fluttered slightly, and Li Changqing knew he must have hit the mark.

Li Changqing still remembered that Xue Qianbai had mentioned the name of the woman he loved, it was Qinyang.

Later, Li Changqing also learned from the Evergreen Commerce Association’s intelligence department that the name Qinyang represented the Qinyang Dynasty in the Southern Wilderness.

At the same time, the Eldest Princess of the Qinyang Dynasty was also named Qinyang.

So, the woman Xue Qianbai liked was the Eldest Princess of the Qinyang Dynasty.

In recent years, the situation of the Qinyang Dynasty had not been good, full of internal troubles due to the aging Emperor, leading to several coups. Though the regime hadn’t changed, it had been a considerable internal drain for the Qinyang Dynasty.

Moreover, within the Qinyang Dynasty, the princes fought openly and covertly for power, causing even more trouble.

Various factions had already formed within the dynasty, with non-stop party struggles, making the entire Qinyang Dynasty a chaotic mess.

In short, the chaos made the Qinyang Dynasty precarious, on the verge of collapse at any moment.

Since Xue Qianbai said so just now, Li Changqing could roughly understand that the two elders from the Su family in the Southern Wilderness had likely extended their influence into the Qinyang Dynasty and posed a threat to Princess Qinyang, prompting Xue Qianbai to take action and dealt with the two elders.

“Yes.” Faced with Li Changqing’s inquiry, Xue Qianbai didn’t deny it.

“Sigh.” Li Changqing sighed lightly, “The fight for power among the princes of the Qinyang Dynasty is very serious, and actually, as the Eldest Princess, Qinyang doesn’t have the right to contend for the throne. But those princes will surely try to win her over, as Princess Qinyang, being the Eldest Princess, certainly has support in the court. Whoever she supports has a better chance of winning.”

“Princess Qinyang doesn’t really belong to any faction, but she has managed to live well until now, undoubtedly thanks in large part to you, Xue Qianbai.” Li Changqing said slowly, imagining how many troubles Xue Qianbai had helped Princess Qinyang resolve secretly.

“Li Changqing, do you think women really can’t become Emperors?” Xue Qianbai stared at Li Changqing and asked.

“Hmm?”

Hearing this, Li Changqing raised an eyebrow and immediately thought of the famous female Emperor in history from his previous life, Wu Zetian.

“It’s not entirely impossible,” Li Changqing said. “But for a woman to become Emperor, the road is just much harder. What she has to face might take her a lifetime to digest. Being a woman Emperor might make this life quite splendid, but it may be accompanied by endless loneliness.”

Listening to what Li Changqing said, Xue Qianbai showed a trace of surprise: “You’re the first one to give me a definite answer. I’ve asked others this question, but everyone told me it’s impossible.”

“There’s nothing impossible in this world,” Li Changqing firmly believed this.

Even traversing different worlds happened to him, what else couldn’t happen?

“Have you met the people from the Su family in the Southern Wilderness?” Xue Qianbai said, “Dao Mountain Ancient Land has also received news that Su Xianci from the Su family in the Southern Wilderness came to the Eastern Wilderness to visit the Guanglan Palace, the Su family in the Southern Wilderness and Guanglan Palace are preparing for an alliance by marriage.”

“Why do they want to form a marriage alliance?” Li Changqing was rather curious about this question.

“Do you know much about the Su family?” Xue Qianbai asked in return.

“I’m not familiar,” Li Changqing only knew such a place existed.

“The Su family is known as the foremost family in the Southern Wilderness, with at least two Great Martial Sect elders presiding, very powerful. The one who established the Su family’s foundation was the second-generation ancestor of the Su family, who possessed a congenital Divine Body, the Overlord Blade Divine Body.”

“With this kind of Divine Body, one has profound insight into swordsmanship, can make a name for oneself at a young age. In the Cangyuan Realm, there’s a saying to describe the Overlord Blade Divine Body: ’The Unbeaten Overlord Blade.’”

“The second-generation ancestor of the Su family, in the Innate Realm, could resist a Grandmaster for ten moves without losing, relying solely on the Overlord Blade Divine Body!” Xue Qianbai told Li Changqing.

This indeed amazed Li Changqing, someone in the Innate Realm could actually withstand ten moves from a Grandmaster? Isn’t that becoming a monster?

“However, by the ninth generation of the Su family, no one was born with the Overlord Blade Divine Body. Now in Su Xianci’s generation, which is the tenth, still no one has awakened the Overlord Blade Divine Body.”

“So the Su family is planning to select a talented woman to marry into the Su family, hoping to produce a superior next generation, aiming to pass on the Overlord Blade Divine Body.” Xue Qianbai said slowly, “As for the reasons other sects and families agree to marry into the Su family and what price the Su family has paid, I don’t know.”

“So it’s all for the genes of the next generation.” Li Changqing shook his head; with two generations without the Overlord Blade Divine Body, the Su family must be getting anxious.

If still no one with the Overlord Blade Divine Body appears, the Su family would fall from the divine pedestal.

This feeling, Li Changqing understood.

At this moment, in Changting Town.

Afternoon was halfway through.

Since Li Changqing was not in the Yan family, Zhang Fuguang didn’t have much to busy himself with in the courtyard, he fed Ah Fei and then waited for Zhang Siyao to finish school.

Today, after Zhang Siyao finished school, Zhang Fuguang took her strolling around the street.

At a stall on the street, they were selling small red balls, which Zhang Siyao liked very much.

Zhang Fuguang paid to buy one; the wages Li Changqing gave him over the past few months didn’t have much place to spend, so he bought some food and things for his daughter.

“What do you want to eat tonight? Let’s eat outside before heading back.” Zhang Fuguang asked Zhang Siyao.

“Buns.”

Zhang Siyao said earnestly.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Fuguang chuckled. Zhang Siyao just loved eating the buns from the place they first went to in Changting Town.

“Alright, I’ll buy them for you.” Zhang Fuguang said with a smile.

“Hehe.” Zhang Fuguang led Zhang Siyao to the bun shop.

However, the new batch of buns was not yet steamed, so Zhang Fuguang could only wait for the ones in the new steamer to be ready, and a few other customers were also waiting.

Zhang Fuguang thus listened in to the conversations of others, hearing news from the outside world.

Meanwhile, Zhang Siyao played with her red ball nearby.

While playing, the ball slipped out of her hand and rolled to the mouth of an alley, and Zhang Siyao chased after it.

The red ball rolled under a stationary carriage.

Zhang Siyao bent down to retrieve the ball from under the carriage.

But at that moment, she suddenly heard someone talking inside the carriage.

“At the Yan family, the person’s name is Li Changqing.”

“No need to kill him, just cripple his legs. Also, I hear he’s an amateur painter, so sever the tendons in his wrists too. Make it so he can never hold a paintbrush again.”

The voice was deep, somewhat cold.

“Understood.”

Two voices spoke in unison.

“Here’s your deposit,” the first voice said. “Do this tidily, there’s only a Yan Botao at the Yan family who is of the Innate, it should pose no problem for you two from the Black List.”

“Hehe, don’t worry, we’ll make sure it’s done beautifully. Dealing with Yan Botao as well would be no problem.” The two men laughed as they spoke.

“Don’t cause trouble.”

“Just deal with this Li Changqing, that’s all.”

At this moment, Zhang Siyao clutched the ball in her hand, a trace of fear appearing in her eyes. She heard what the people inside the carriage said and hurriedly ran away.

“Someone was eavesdropping outside just now, should we go grab them?”

“I said don’t stir up trouble,” the person said indifferently. “It’s just a child no more than a few years old, probably doesn’t understand what we were talking about. Act at night, don’t cause any trouble, or you won’t get the rest of the money.”

Zhang Siyao hugged her small ball and stumbled all the way back to Zhang Fuguang’s side.

Zhang Fuguang was still waiting for the new buns to be steamed.

Zhang Siyao tugged at Zhang Fuguang’s sleeve, her face showing a frightened expression.

“Yaoyao, what’s wrong?” Zhang Fuguang noticed something was wrong with Zhang Siyao’s expression and immediately crouched down, saying, “Don’t be scared, Father is here.”

“Dad,” Zhang Siyao said with a sobbing voice. “Just now I… I went to pick up my ball, and then I heard…”

Zhang Siyao told Zhang Fuguang about the conversation she overheard under the carriage while retrieving her ball.

“They said they want to cripple Mr. Changqing’s legs, and cut his tendons so he can never hold a brush again.” Zhang Siyao choked as she spoke.

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