Chapter 224: The Legitimate Heir
" Empress Shu never met Old Rong? She didn’t knew why you put those spells that time, right? If she knew you were hiding her from the god of death, would she have let you? ", Xing asked the Tianshi Emperor who was now silent. She wanted to know more about that Old Rong she is supposed to kill. Even knowing little things about him might help her in the future.
But she didn’t know that these questions are the deepest most regrets of the one who is revered by everyone as the greatest one sitting by her side.
Xing wondered, ’why does men think keeping things away from women is protecting them? That Chenglie did that with me too!’ but the answer skipped her mind.
Tianshi Emperor continued,
" Old Rong was sly. He never let his presence known to anyone. He pretended to help me but was planning behind my back to take over the Heavenly Realm by joining forces with the Demon Realm. Initially he told me he was some second ranked god who was banished from the heavens because he tried to help a much weaker god and some other high level god got mad at him and he was blamed wrongfully and was sealed with many spells to boast the ego of that high level god. He made me believe it was the God of Wind and I believed him like an idiot even though I should have known about the Wind God more and he never discriminates based on the power they hold.
The God of Wind treated me, a mortal really well from when I was a child... In fact he was more of a father to me than my Imperial father was...My father only cared about my mother and nothing else. And when my mother was killed wrongfully, I complained to the God of Wind and he was the one who took me to the Heavenly Audience Hall to meet the Heavenly Emperor to help me get help to avenge my mother and his efforts helped me get the Heavenly Sword and also the God of Wind personally trained me. I forgot everything over the years I was spilling blood in the Warfield and when I found out about Meili, my entire mind went blank as he stated the rules and only hate remained. It was my mistake. I was so used to people listen to me and when I was refused by the Huangs and then by the God of Wind, my ego got hurt and I tried to do it my way which was so wrong.. ", he sighed.
" I noticed something was odd with Old Rong when I told him that my Meili was pregnant. I had a feeling that he was not happy but he was good at hiding his true feelings and even asked me to be careful of the Gods. Thankfully I got my sense back and I started to be skeptical of his intentions when he tried to contact Meili.
I was keeping Meili almost as a hostage in her courtyard when she was pregnant fearing that Gods might find her and also to protect her against Old Rong. I even kept my brothers away from her. But unknowing to me, Old Rong had met Meili and told her everything and the reason why she was being protected that way by me. He also had told her that the child will be hunted by the Gods since it is not supposed to be born. That since she had to die half a year back, her child is not supposed to be alive and so the child will be considered an abomination and will be eliminated to protect the flow of fate"