Chapter 526: Chapter 525 Historian

Bai Hongtu felt that the grandmaster lived up to his reputation even when it comes to bullshitting, he was outclassed by several measures.

“With that silver tongue of yours, I’m considering making you my master,” Bai Hongtu said sincerely.

The immortal elder glanced at Bai Hongtu, his gaze instantly seeing through Bai Hongtu’s ulterior motives, “Trying to move up the ranks, huh?”

While Jiang Li was narrating his explorations in the Underworld, Bai Hongtu was providing live commentary.

“Upon hearing Jiang Li’s description of the beautiful sights in the Underworld, everyone couldn’t help but yearn for it.”

As expected, both Yu Yin and the immortal elder beat Bai Hongtu up, only the saintly Pure Heart spared him a beating – she merely gave him a kick.

“Yearning, huh? I’ll show you yearning,” said the elder, not showing any mercy while beating his disciple.

“You guys continue to beat me and talk at the same time, no need to halt either,” Jiang Li, who was accustomed to such situations, said.

Back when everyone was at the Golden Core or Nascent Soul Stage, Bai Hongtu was often beaten by the immortal elder for his cheeky remarks.

After getting beaten, Bai Hongtu would always boast to Jiang Li, claiming he exchanged dozens of rounds with an immortal and neither was able to prevail over the other.

Pure Heart was the most shocked of them all. This was her first time learning the truth about the creatures from the outer realm, about what really happened nine thousand years ago, and about how the Mahayana Realm was just a fiction.

Pure Heart quickly accepted all these, because one fundamental truth hadn’t changed – Jiang Li was invincible.

In her mind, Jiang Li was invincible, and indeed he was.

She even believed that it wasn’t because Jiang Li couldn’t find the Immortal Realm, but because the Immortal Realm was afraid of Jiang Li and hid intentionally.

There’s nothing Jiang Li couldn’t achieve.

“One grand primordial immortal, ten golden immortals…. The Underworld’s strength is more formidable than I imagined,” the immortal elder admitted, “If the Heavenly Dao didn’t make a move, the Underworld would have the qualifications to go toe-to-toe with the Immortal Realm.”

“As for these eight great rules, I’ve never heard of them. They sound ordinary at first glance, since we encounter them often, but if a grand primordial immortal had to spend his entire life studying them and even the Heavenly Dao must abide by them, it’s not an exaggeration to call them ‘ultimate’ rules. Moreover, if it’s a rule that the weak are prey for the strong, wouldn’t it mean that the current Xinzhou violates the rule?”

After all, the immortal elder was the disciple of the Daoist Ancestor, not the Daoist Ancestor himself, hence he didn’t know about these secrets.

“Your Majesty, Emperor Zhou has arrived,” a maid outside the sleeping quarters announced respectfully.

It was then that Yu Yin remembered, Ji Zhi had indeed mentioned he would visit the Tianyuan Emperor Dynasty in a few days to discuss talent exchanges. She had lost track of time while engrossed in the novel world and forgotten about this matter.

She showed no signs of surprise on the outside, merely grunted with a calm and composed demeanor, giving off the impression of being in complete control of the situation.

…

“I’m just here to pay a courtesy visit. Was there a need for such grand arrangements?” Ji Zhi was surprised by Yu Yin’s entourage.

Jiang Li, the immortal elder, Bai Hongtu, and Pure Heart.

“You’ve reached the Body Integration Realm?” Jiang Li noticed Ji Zhi’s realm in a glance. It was evident he had just made the breakthrough recently.

Jiang Li slapped his forehead, filled with regret.

He should have used the power of merit to feed Ji Zhi until he reached the Earth Immortal Stage, so he could freely travel through the river of time.

“Come, let me see if I can send you into the river of time.” Ji Zhi, with his newfound confidence in his capabilities, felt that as a newly ascended Body Integration Realm expert, sending someone like Jiang Li into the river of time would be easy as pie.

He had promised that he could send Jiang Li into the river of time once he reached the Body Integration realm. Now was the time to make good on his promise.

With a glare from his eyes, Ji Zhi unleashed the power of time, gesturing with his hands while exerting himself so much that his face turned red and his veins popped out.

In the end, he managed to send himself into the river of time.

Ji Zhi stood on the river of time, utterly confused about how he got there.

Wasn’t it supposed to be Jiang Li who came here?

A silhouette approached from downstream, steering its boat rapidly towards Ji Zhi.

Ji Zhi saw the ancestor of the Ji family whom he revered – Emperor Shun.

Emperor Shun, holding an oar, used it to knock Ji Zhi back into the Xinzhou world, all the while yelling angrily.

“Unfilial descendant, you even tried to send that great deity into the river of time. Are you trying to collapse the river? Among the Ji descendants, only you and your daughter are gutsy!”

In terms of cultivation level and control over the Dao of time, Ji Zhi was far behind Emperor Shun.

Ji Zhi was as clueless as a monk — he was still dazed when he returned to Xinzhou.

“What just happened? How did I end up in the river of time?”

Bai Hongtu analysed, “Perhaps it’s because you’ve always held a privileged status as a royal prince, and thus you may not be acquainted with the concept of a seesaw.”

“Let me explain how a seesaw works. Two people sit on opposite ends of the seesaw. Due to the difference in weight, one person goes up while the other comes down.”

“Your situation with Jiang Li is the same. Jiang Li weighs more than you, so no matter how much you try, you’re the one who ends up in the river of time.”

“…Just because I’m a prince doesn’t mean I’m a fool.”

Back when they were all candidates for the Human Emperor, Bai Hongtu treated Ji Zhi like a fool every day. Nothing has changed since then.

Ji Zhi, on the other hand, who was proficient in time manipulation, also treated Bai Hongtu like a fool every day.

So they were even.

Every time Jiang Li saw Ji Zhi and Bai Hongtu quarrelling, he felt he himself was far too normal and didn’t fit in with these two.

“Who’s that trailing behind you? He looks familiar,” Jiang Li asked when he noticed a figure fervently scribbling among Ji Zhi’s entourage of ministers.

Upon hearing Jiang Li mention him, the man looked excitedly at Jiang Li.

“He used to be Si Nan, the chief disciple of the Observing Mahayana Sect,” Ji Zhi revealed.

Jiang Li then remembered him. He had met him on the shopping street during the Human Emperor Festival’s preparatory stages. At that time, Si Nan had declared that he knew Jiang Li.

“And now?”

“He is my newly appointed historian. He claims he originally wanted to become a historian in the Imperial Palace, but since it is hard to meet you there, he came to us in Zhou instead.”

“He said he saw you more often in Zhou than in the Imperial Palace.”

Yu Yin, who was standing by quietly, felt there was sense in what the man said.

Ji Zhi continued, “When I appointed him, I asked him why he wanted to be a historian. He said that the initial intention of founding the Observing Mahayana Sect was based on the belief that you, being both the Human Emperor and in the Mahayana Realm, were destined to be the Human Emperor of the ten thousand realms and that your every act was tied to the destinies of all living beings.”

“The Immortal Realm has the Heavenly Dao, with the Immortal Emperor acting on its behalf. The Ten Thousand Realms have the Human Dao, with the Human Emperor as its representative.”

“The Observing Mahayana Sect’s purpose is to observe all living beings to predict changes in the Human Dao and also observe the Human Emperor to predict the fate of the ten thousand realms.”

“Because the Observing Mahayana Sect couldn’t easily observe you, they changed their approach and took up governmental positions in Zhou instead to observe you.”

“Putting it that way, since your Imperial Palace doesn’t even have a historian and relies entirely on Liu-Commander’s ‘Memoirs of the Human Emperor’ as a history book, I thought I might as well hire you one, so I accepted him.”

Jiang Li read what Historian Si Nan was writing with his divine sense: The Human Emperor’s awesome might is unfathomable. He possesses profound insights on the Dao of time. His Majesty attempted to send the Human Emperor into the river of time, but instead, the Human Emperor used supreme divine power to send His Majesty into the river of time. His Majesty returned from the river of time, clueless.

“You’re going to let the historian write it like this?”

Ji Zhi gestured with his mouth, hinting for Jiang Li to look at an old man.

“He is my real historian, responsible for recording my actions and deeds. This person called Si Nan is exclusively assigned to record your actions,” Ji Zhi explained.