Chapter 189 Past Grudges

“Seventh Prince’s strength and knowledge are both above mine!
In this generation of the Ming Dynasty, the Seventh Prince is also the only one who has obtained a complete set of high-level heavenly treasures and completely digested them!
If it were the Seventh Prince, he might be able to wake Su Xin up and let her come back!

Although my brother the Seventh Prince and I have conflicts, they are not life-and-death feuds, nor are they irreconcilable!"

As the number one love-brained person in the royal Zhu family, Zhu Wushi's starting point and destination for all major decisions are, as expected, his white moonlight, his brother Gu Santong's fiancée - Su Xin.

Now, Zhu Wusi is thinking about surrendering to Zhu Chengwu, and as expected, it is also because of Su Xin.

For the sake of his beloved, in order to increase the chances of his beloved waking up, it is not unacceptable for Zhu Wushi to join the fight if he cannot defeat him.

When Zhu Chengwu went to the birthplace of Yang Lei Zhen Yan in the Elbru Mountains to wait for the Yang Lei Zhen Yan to take shape and disappeared in the Ming Dynasty, the changes in the martial arts world and the court of the Ming Dynasty did not stop because of Zhu Chengwu's disappearance.

The world will not perish without anyone, and everyone will move forward.

This is an irrefutable reality!
Although Zhu Chengwu was once the darling of the Ming Dynasty underworld and the center of public attention, even twenty-five years ago, many stories were happening in places that Zhu Chengwu could not see.

Before Zhu Chengwu disappeared, during the three years of seclusion, the sworn brothers Gu Santong and Zhu Wusi began to rise to prominence and stir up trouble in the Ming Dynasty's underworld.

Because of the strong pressure from Zhu Chengwu at that time and relying on Zhu Wushi's royal status, all forces in the Ming Dynasty had to give Zhu Wushi and Gu Santong some face.

Gu Santong had a great talent for fighting, and with the help of the "Vajra Indestructible Magic Skill", the number one defensive skill in the Ming Dynasty, he actually made a name for himself in the Ming Dynasty's martial arts world in just one or two years.

After Zhu Chengwu achieved the status of Grandmaster and disappeared, Gu Santong took over and became the first person under Grandmaster of the Ming Dynasty after Zhu Chengwu.

Don’t think that Gu Santong is no good just because Zhu Chengwu had already defeated the four great masters of Shaolin Temple and ascended to the top of the Ming Dynasty, while Gu Santong was still struggling below the master.

In fact, Gu Santong's practice progress and strength are already very impressive.

Although Gu Santong and Zhu Chengwu were both injured outside the city of Xuzhou, that was because Zhu Chengwu tied his own hands and hardly used his "A World Away" and "Fire Palm" and only used his innate internal energy.

Gu Santong's speed of progress is what makes him a master under normal circumstances in this world.

After reaching the middle and late stages of the first-class realm, it takes a few years to achieve the peak of the first-class realm, and then a few more years to hone martial arts and achieve a minor master level. Finally, either a few years to travel around the world or a few years to practice in seclusion in order to reach the master level.

It is an absolutely rare case that someone like Zhu Chengwu has mastered the unique martial arts before reaching the peak of the first-class level, achieved the combat power of a minor grandmaster, and reached the grandmaster level without any pause after reaching the peak of the first-class level.

During the three years that Zhu Chengwu was in seclusion in Xuzhou City, Zhu Wusi, who accompanied Gu Santong in challenging various masters, thought that he and his brother Gu Santong had a bright future.

Brother Gu Santong achieved his dream and became famous in the world.

While accompanying Gu Santong, he successfully poached his brother Gu Santong's fiancée, Su Xin, and turned her into his lover.

Unfortunately, although Zhu Wusi succeeded in stealing the girl's girlfriend, his dreams and plans were blocked by Zhu Xingyu, the previous Ming King who was still alive at that time.

Zhu Xingyu disagreed with Zhu Wusi marrying an ordinary woman from a low-class family, especially when that woman was someone else's fiancée.

In fact, it was also Zhu's fault for ignoring himself!

At that time, Zhu Wusi had already begun to rise and was one of the most outstanding martial arts talents in the royal Zhu family after Zhu Chengwu.

If Zhu Wusi was not so outstanding, and was just an ordinary illegitimate son of a palace maid, Zhu Xingyu would not have so much energy and time to care about Zhu Wusi, this dispensable son!

Because of Zhu Xingyu's obstruction, Su Xin, who followed Zhu Wusi to the capital of Daming Dynasty, finally had to leave the capital of Daming Dynasty.

In order to make his son Zhu Wushi give up, Zhu Xingyu also sent an expert to deal with Su Xin, the unstable factor that affected his son.

At that time, Zhu Xingyu was about to die. He had no time to slowly win back Zhu Wusi who was obsessed with love. He could only take the fastest and most radical way - killing Su Xin.

But Zhu Xingyu and Zhu Wushi at that time did not expect that Gu Santong had been following Zhu Wushi and Suxin all the time and was also near the capital at that time.

Gu Santong was not so willing to give his cousin and fiancée to his good brother Zhu Wusi. It was just because Zhu Wusi helped Gu Santong a lot and Zhu Wusi found the right time to make such a request, and Gu Santong couldn't bring himself to refuse.

In fact, Gu Santong regretted it after he promised to give Suxin to Zhu Wusi. Suxin was not only Zhu Wusi's white moonlight, but also Gu Santong's sweetheart.

Therefore, when Su Xin followed Zhu Wusi to the capital, Gu Santong always followed behind Zhu Wusi and Su Xin.

One is to protect the safety of the two, especially Su Xin, and the other is to see if there is any chance to pry the wall back.

The first King Daiming did not agree with Zhu Wusi and Suxin's marriage, and his act of driving Suxin out of the capital of Daming was exactly what Gu Santong wanted.

Zhu Xingyu's decision to send a master to kill Su Xin gave Gu Santong a golden opportunity to save the beauty and win her back.

After that, Gu Santong and Su Xin got together.

Gu Santong, who has already achieved success in the martial arts world and has finally won back the beauty he loves, has a change of mindset and actually starts living in seclusion in a small town with Su Xin.

But Gu Santong was satisfied, while Zhu Wusi was indignant.

In order to win back Su Xin, Zhu Wusi began to try every possible means.

During that period, Zhu Chengwu tried to go to Beijing but was stopped by the four great masters of Shaolin Temple.

The four great Shaolin masters were defeated, Zhu Chengwu retreated back to Xuzhou City, and the first King Daiming also passed away.

Zhu Wusi began to think about whether to get closer to Zhu Chengwu or Zhu Chengzhi in order to achieve his goal of marrying Su Xin with his royal status and giving Su Xin a grand wedding.

It was precisely because he had thought about surrendering to Zhu Chengwu twenty-five years ago that Zhu Wusi seemed to have no psychological pressure to surrender to Zhu Chengwu after discovering that Zhu Chengwu was invincible and after being reminded by Cheng Shifei.

Afterwards, Zhu Chengwu disappeared, and the Fu'an Marquisate fell into disarray. Zhu Wushi no longer had to think about who would win in the end and who to surrender to, so he simply moved closer to his elder brother Zhu Chengzhi.

In order to win the support of his elder brother Zhu Chengzhi and to deal with his powerful brother Gu Santong after winning Su Xin, Zhu Wusi knew that he needed stronger military force.

So Zhu Wusi seized the opportunity and secretly plotted against the 108 top-notch masters who had gathered together because of his brother Gu Santong at Tianchi in Tianshan Mountain.

He then used his energy absorbing technique to absorb all their internal energy, and in one fell swoop entered the realm of junior grandmaster.

The power-absorbing technique is a great miracle of the Ming Dynasty!
It relies on absorbing the internal strength gained from others' hard practice and forcibly accumulating internal strength quickly. When the conditions are met, its speed of breaking through the realm is unmatched.

But the internal force of others is always the internal force of others. After absorbing the internal force of others into your own body, if you don't spend time to eliminate all the marks of others, there is no hope of becoming a master in this life.

After all, the mastery of a mastery system is a process of realizing oneself, allowing the true qi in the body to accommodate one's own will, replacing the heart of heaven with one's own heart, and allowing the vital energy of heaven and earth outside the body to obey one's own wishes.

If the internal force in your body is not pure, it is impossible to understand yourself and sublimate the internal force into true energy.

Although his realm was restricted to below Grandmaster, Zhu Wushi's combat power was able to reach the Junior Grandmaster realm after absorbing the internal energy of 108 first-class and second-class warriors. Zhu Wushi, the Junior Grandmaster, was different from the regular Junior Grandmasters.

The ordinary junior grandmasters have limited internal energy but powerful martial arts, which increases the internal energy output within the same period of time.

Zhu Wusi, this young grandmaster, has strong internal strength but average martial arts skills. He relies on his unparalleled internal strength to forcefully expand the channel through which his internal strength is output.

After achieving the level of a minor grandmaster, Zhu Wusi relied on his royal status to put the blame for the deaths of 108 warriors on his good brother Gu Santong.

And use this as an excuse to eliminate evil and defend the way!

Zhu Wusi thought that as long as he killed his good brother Gu Santong, Bai Yueguang Su Xin would naturally return to him.

Finally, Zhu Wushi and Gu Santong fought a fierce battle at Tianchi in Tianshan Mountain, the place where they both started and obtained the power-absorbing technique and the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.

After several days and nights of fierce fighting, Zhu Wusi, at the cost of lifelong internal injuries, managed to defeat his good brother Gu Santong, who was also at the level of a junior grandmaster, with just half a move.

But neither Zhu Wusi nor Gu Santong expected that this half move would hit their common white moonlight - Su Xin who suddenly appeared.

Su Xin was on the verge of death, and Zhu Wusi had no other choice but to think of the Tianxiang cardamom in his hand.

Tianxiang Doukou is a high-level rare treasure from heaven and earth whose forming process was accidentally interrupted. Those that have not yet been finally formed have been divided into three pieces, for a total of three pieces.

These three unformed high-level treasures of heaven and earth - Tianxiang Cardamom cannot help warriors and spirit cultivators improve their strength, but they have another extremely powerful effect.

That is, it can help seriously injured warriors and refining spirits under the Grandmaster's Yangshen to prolong their lives.

After eating the first cardamom, no matter how serious the injury is, it will not get worse, but the person who eats it will fall into a sleep forever and will not wake up until someone gives him the second cardamom.

However, the person who takes the second cardamom can only wake up for a year, and only by taking the third cardamom within a year can he be completely cured.

Although such a powerful and rare item does not have the function of assisting martial artists to break through realms and improve their strength, if the Ming Dynasty was not the Celestial Empire and this generation had not produced a martial arts legend like Zhu Chengwu, the Kingdom of Perth would not have presented the unexpectedly obtained Tianxiang Cardamom to the previous Ming King Zhu Chengzhi as a gift to congratulate him on his ascension to the throne.

In fact, after the tribute was completed, the envoys from Perth regretted their decision when they learned in the capital of the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Chengwu, the martial arts legend of the Ming Dynasty, did not have a good relationship with Zhu Chengzhi, the eldest brother of the then Ming King, and that Zhu Chengwu had disappeared. They realized that the strength of the Ming royal family was not as strong as they had imagined.

But Tianxiang Doukou had already been offered as a sacrifice, and they could not go back on their word, so they could only swallow their anger.

However, the envoy of Perth regretted it, and Zhu Chengzhi, the then Ming King, felt that the Tianxiang cardamom was tasteless after he got it.

Tianxiang Cardamom cannot prolong life or bring the dead back to life, it can only heal serious injuries. However, if the enemy is powerful and has been beheaded, Tianxiang Cardamom will not be of any use at all.

Therefore, Zhu Chengzhi, the then King Ming, directly gave Tianxiang Doukou to his younger brother Zhu Wusi, Queen Fang Huiju and favorite concubine Han Xiuying as a symbol of trust.

At that time, Zhu Wusi might not have thought that this unexpected reward would eventually become Bai Yueguang Su Xin's last chance to retain a glimmer of hope.

Su Xin was seriously injured and on the verge of death, and only Zhu Wusi could save her.

Plus the pre-war bet.

After losing half a move, Gu Santong kept his pre-war promise and tied himself up on the ninth floor of the Heavenly Prison.

It was not until his son with Su Xin, Cheng Shifei, accidentally fell into the ninth level of the Heavenly Prison and inherited all of his skills that he died.

Of course, Zhu Wusi, who has now recruited Cheng Shifei as one of his four major spies, does not know the fact that Cheng Shifei is the son of their good brothers Gu Santong and Bai Yueguang Suxin.

Zhu Chengwu is not only the only person in the Ming Dynasty who has successfully digested a high-level treasure of heaven and earth, but he has also been hiding his tracks for twenty-five years, guarding the formation of another high-level treasure of heaven and earth, the Yang Lei Zhen Yan, in the Elbrus Mountains.

If the other two Tianxiang Cardamoms cannot be obtained, Zhu Wusi believes that his seventh brother Zhu Chengwu will be the only one who has hope of awakening his white moonlight - Su Xin through other methods.

In addition, Zhu Chengwu’s “evil dictator” speech at the gate of Xuzhou City was also an important reason why Zhu Wusi began to think about the possibility of getting closer to Zhu Chengwu.

Having been the Iron-Hearted Divine Marquis for more than 20 years and holding a high position of power in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Wushi felt that as long as his seventh brother Zhu Chengwu still wanted to sit on the throne of the Ming King, it would be impossible for him to become a dictator of the evil way.

The seventh brother Zhu Chengwu is very powerful and no one in the six dynasties can defeat him. Zhu Wusi admits this.

But controlling power, herding the people and practicing martial arts are two completely different concepts.

The practice of martial arts is only about improving oneself.

But in order to control power and govern the people, he had to rely on his subordinates.

No matter how strong a person is, it is impossible for him to manage the entire Ming Dynasty's population of 5 million by himself.

Even if the seventh brother Zhu Chengwu ascends the throne of the Ming King, he still needs to employ people to govern the Ming Dynasty well.

And this is Zhu Wushi's opportunity.

The seventh brother Zhu Chengwu, the dictator of the evil way, would definitely give up his power for the sake of the martial arts practice that he values. If he had surrendered earlier, by then, Zhu Wusi's power might have been even greater than it is now.

Although due to the martial arts strength of his seventh brother Zhu Chengwu, Zhu Wushi might no longer be able to continue to implement the plan that he had been implementing in secret and personally sit on the throne of the Ming King.

But if he could have Su Xin's company, whether or not he ascended to the throne of the Ming King would be just a small problem for Zhu Wusi.

This is Zhu Wusi, the number one love-minded person in the Ming Dynasty royal family Zhu family.

"You guys go down first! I need to think carefully about how to deal with my brother the Seventh Prince!"

After figuring everything out, Zhu Wusi, who suddenly felt the world was open, waved his hand and signaled the four spies, Duan Tianya, Gui Hai Yidao, Shangguan Haitang and Cheng Shifei, to retreat first.

"Goddess..."

Anxious Cheng Shifei wanted to say something, but was immediately interrupted by his colleague Shangguan Haitang.

As the only female among the four spies, Shangguan Haitang is more thoughtful. She knows that if she refutes her adoptive father and interrupts his thoughts now, the consequences will not be good.

Originally, my adoptive father didn't like this successor of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art. The reason why he recruited Cheng Shifei as the number one secret agent was just to give face to Prince Ming and Princess Yunluo.

"Yes, foster father!"

At this time, the number one spy Duan Tianya and the number one spy Gui Hai Yidao had already bowed and left.

In the end, Cheng Shifei had to retreat reluctantly under Shangguan Haitang's persuasion.

(End of this chapter)