Longevity: Sweeping Across the World as an Eunuch

Chapter 47: Chapter 46: Just Like Back Then

He lit the Mist Star Grass.

A strange fragrance filled the air.

Inside the room, the Palace Maids and Eunuchs had fallen into a deep sleep.

"When you were born, I suggested strangling you. I even offered to do it myself, but she refused."

"To think, you still ended up killing her..."

To be born without a pregnancy, to live by borrowing a womb—with such demonic methods available, it was hardly surprising that he could grow into a seven or eight-year-old child in a single year.

Su Chen wasn’t surprised that Emperor Jianwu recognized him. He had probably revealed himself back when he delivered Princess Consort Luo’s child.

"Why has Your Majesty sought me out? I don’t believe we have anything to discuss."

Su Chen took a small step back, maintaining a safe distance from Emperor Jianwu.

There weren’t many in the Imperial Palace who could make him feel wary. Aside from the white-robed man burning with a special Longevity Fire, there was only this Great Demon Fiend who had lived for over three hundred years.

"I didn’t want to kill her either. Unfortunately, to use the Spiritual Embryo Secret Technique, the mother’s body must be killed so I can reclaim the power left behind from my previous life, bit by bit."

"She had to die."

Emperor Jianwu stared intently at Su Chen.

In all the world, the only person that he, a Grandmaster-level Great Demon Fiend, had misjudged and still couldn’t see through was the man before him, Su Chen.

The twenty-fourth year of Tianwu, the tenth year of Jianwu—for two entire dynasties, he had somehow never discovered such a master was hidden in the Imperial Palace.

"I want to make a deal with you."

"Ten years!"

"For these ten years, you will help neither side!"

"I will take back the throne and set everything right!"

"Great Liang’s fortune is useful to me. With me on the throne, I at least won’t let the world fall into chaos, and I certainly won’t sacrifice a million lives to please Demon Fiends..."

Emperor Jianwu toyed with a Jade Cup, his words concise.

Then, as if parting with something of immense value, he said,

"As payment, you may visit the Immortal Treasure..."

’Immortal Treasure... what’s that?’

Su Chen was puzzled but kept his expression neutral.

"You know the Wind Snow Sword, and you carry the scent of the Sword Fate Technique Page. I assume Grand Supervisor Bai Xuan took you in as his disciple before he died and told you everything."

"As for the Immortal Treasure, I need not say more, right...?"

Emperor Jianwu seemed certain that no one could refuse the Immortal Treasure.

’But just what in the world *is* this Immortal Treasure?!’

Still, staying neutral wouldn’t cost him anything. On that night of the raging blizzard, if he hadn’t run into the Little Emperor, Su Chen’s sword might have already struck this man.

"This is your affair. It has nothing to do with me."

With that said, Su Chen left.

The Cold Palace returned to its silence.

「From the depths behind the palace curtains.」

A figure emerged.

A Purple Robe.

White hair, a youthful face.

It was, astoundingly, another Purple-robed First Supervisor.

"Strange."

"It’s as if he noticed me."

Bai Mo said with a frown.

"Impossible."

"Your technique comes from the Immortal Treasure. Never mind a First Grade, even a Grandmaster would struggle to perceive you. How could a mere Second-Grade Internal Organ discover your presence?"

Emperor Jianwu snapped.

"Perhaps it was my imagination."

He said as much.

But Bai Mo knew that Su Chen had indeed looked in his direction for a long time.

"The Sword Fate Technique Page."

"So it wasn’t just some absurd dream after all."

In the pharmacy’s courtyard, Su Chen stood holding an icicle, recalling the sword technique the White-clothed Sword Immortal had imparted to him in his dream.

This sword technique had three variations.

BANG!

The icicle slashed out like a sword.

BOOM!

In an instant, countless chilling sword shadows swept past.

The icicle shattered.

Even with only a superficial grasp of the first variation, the power of this single strike was already comparable to the thirty percent of the Wind Snow True Intent that Su Chen had mastered.

"Time for bed."

Stretching, Su Chen went to sleep.

However, that night, some people could not sleep.

「In the Imperial Palace.」

Within a Dark Hall, three towering, inhuman figures—First-Grade Demon Fiends—were tearing at struggling, living humans, their mouths dripping with fresh blood. Suddenly, their fur stood on end. They let out beastly roars and stood back-to-back, entering a combat stance, utterly terrified.

’It’s here again.’

’It wasn’t my imagination.’

’There really is a Human Race Grandmaster Cultivator on the verge of the Microscopic realm hidden in the Imperial Palace...’

’It can’t be the Grand Ancestor of Liang.’

’He’s still under the Seal in the Black Coffin beneath the Imperial Mausoleum. Besides, he wasn’t worthy of reaching the Microscopic realm. Who could it be? Where did this Grandmaster come from...?’

A figure in a white robe arrived, their garment whipping in the air.

This Master Chu paced back and forth, feeling for the first time that this Imperial Palace was as perilous as a dragon’s den or a tiger’s lair.

"This isn’t what we agreed to! Half a million lives and three First-Grade Demon Fiends to back me up, but nobody said I might have to face a Grandmaster!"

The three towering, inhuman Demon Fiends, who fed on human flesh and blood, stared intently at the white-robed man with their crimson, vertical pupils.

"What do you want?"

"We’re up against a Grandmaster. You’ll have to pay more!"

「The next day, at the crack of dawn.」

Su Chen, the so-called "Microscopic Grandmaster," stretched lazily, sat in his recliner by the fire, and began to patiently guide the newly motivated Xuan.

"How many times have I told you? We’re just ordinary Eunuchs. All we need to do is live our own lives peacefully here in the Imperial Palace."

"So what if he was the Governor? Wasn’t he disgracefully dismissed by the Emperor and driven out of the Imperial City? We’re just ordinary Eunuchs. We can’t withstand any turmoil. A single Grandmaster Imperial Guard could beat the two of us until we scream our lungs out..."

"You’re young and strong, so maybe you’d be fine. But with these old bones of mine, if a Grandmaster Imperial Guard punched me, he’d probably have to kneel and beg me not to die..."

Over the past year, Xuan had heard these words so many times his ears were growing calluses.

But this time, Xuan listened with unusual seriousness. He stood beside Su Chen, brewing him tea, as if this were their last meeting.

He nodded.

"Master, you’re right about everything."

"These past two days, I’ve been thinking, and I’ve finally understood. This world is unjust, and someone has to be the one to shatter that injustice!"

"I want to pursue cultivation! I want to be the one who shatters this injustice!"

"Master, I’m sorry, but I have to leave you. I’m going to the Western Depot. Only there can I travel the world and have a chance to witness all the Cultivation Techniques it has to offer..."

As he spoke, Xuan, his eyes filled with determination, knelt and kowtowed heavily to Su Chen.

Seeing the light in Xuan’s eyes, Su Chen was momentarily lost in a trance.

It was as if he could see a high-spirited figure in a green robe standing before him, saying, "One day, when I ascend to the Purple Robe, you may wear the Red Python Robe."

The Red Python Robe, the robe of the number one red-robed eunuch.

Then it was as if he saw a once-cautious Blue Robe, his ambition blazing like a wildfire, kneeling and kowtowing, saying, "Please support me, Master Su!"

"You’re just an ordinary Eunuch. You don’t have to bear these burdens..."

Before Su Chen could finish, Xuan kowtowed deeply once more, shouldered his packed bag, and stepped out of the room.

"Master Xu."

"I want to become the second Governor. I want to try and change this world. It might be laughable, but I still want to try..."

"While this youthful spirit of mine hasn’t yet faded, while I haven’t yet become numb and indifferent..."

"If I stay in this deep palace, I might remain Xuan, but I’ll no longer be Ye Xuan!"

Xuan was gone.

The pharmacy felt a little empty.

Su Chen was alone again.

"Is this what you wanted to see? Letting him join the Western Depot, travel the world, and change this unjust society? He’ll die..."

Su Chen sighed softly.

A slender hand took over from where Xuan had left off, pouring water, brewing tea, and adding fine coal to the fire with practiced ease.

At the same time, a voice spoke.

"This is his heart’s desire. I merely gave him an opportunity."

"Besides."

"My godfather back then, and myself today—aren’t we both walking the path our hearts desire, a path we’d walk with no regrets, even in death?"

"Perhaps, in a hundred years or so, he really will achieve Great Success in his cultivation, purge all the injustice in the world, bring fortune to the common people, and fulfill the aspirations of his heart. You never know!"

"It’s not the same! He’s different from you. His ambition is too grand, and he is too ordinary. He will die!"

Su Chen sighed.

"To die for the ideals of one’s youth, to die for a heartfelt wish on the path beneath one’s feet... for those of us with incomplete bodies, perhaps that is not a tragedy, but a joyous affair."

"I don’t care if he lives or dies."

"All I care about is that I, Han, am the one who remains by Master Su’s side, boiling his tea and tending his fire. That is enough."

In the pharmacy, Xu Han was dressed in a Big Red Python Robe, the Chief Eunuch Jade Token hanging from his waist. He was the august head of the Western Depot, a Eunuch Giant, a man at the peak of power in Great Liang. Yet at this moment, he was acting like a common attendant, pouring and serving tea for Su Chen, standing by respectfully—just as he had when they first met ten years ago.

Back then, he had been an insignificant eunuch who had just made a mistake, carrying a food box with the faint mark of a slap still on his face as he kowtowed before him.

"This boy, Xu Xiaohan, pays his respects to Uncle."

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