A goddess dwells in my heart.

Chapter 35 Lin Yuexi: I Will Stifle the Martial Emperor in His Infancy

Lin Zhengge snorted coldly: "Otherwise, how could it be unofficial history?"

Lin Yuexi peeked out from behind Lu Zheji and continued, "Brother, the prototype does exist, but she wasn't a concubine. She was a quasi-emperor under Emperor Wu, and also his chief disciple, with the title Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor. Popular folklore often portrays beautiful women as harbingers of disaster or demonic women as bringing ruin to a country, but in reality, in official history, Emperor Wu brought this upon himself. The Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor was blindly loyal to her master, and ended up bearing the infamy for him for all time."

Lu Zheji seemed to be deep in thought; the Great Wei's attitude towards the demon race was actually quite complex.

The terms "human race" and "demon race" are actually closer to the relationship between my country and foreign countries.

The demon race has never been a unified race. The differences between the dragon race, the fox race, and the fish race are greater than those between humans and pigs. It's just that the ancestors of the human race put them all in the same basket.

Of all the races in the world, the human race is just one of them. The statement that "all races other than mine are demons" is actually quite self-centered.

Out of the need for alliances and counter-alliances, the human race has an alliance with several demon races, one of which is the fox race. Those demon races that are allied with the human race also regard all races other than their own as outsiders, and they watch humans kill pigs and cattle as humans watch tigers hunt antelopes.

The human elite would not show hostility towards these demon clans, but the common people at the bottom of society did not understand this. In their eyes, all demons were the same.

Lu Zheji asked, "So, what does this have to do with the Lin family?"

Lin Yuexi smiled and said, "Because the Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor was the founder of the Myriad Spirits Sect, and the Lin family ancestor inherited the Myriad Spirits Sect as his personal disciple."

You're basically insulting their ancestors, no wonder they got angry.

He thought for a moment, then asked, "The Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor is the founder of the Myriad Spirits Sect and also the Martial Emperor's first disciple. Doesn't that mean the Martial Emperor is also the founder of the Myriad Spirits Sect?"

Lin Zhengge raised his chin, his tone filled with undisguised pride: "That's right. Among the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, there are several sects that inherit the lineage of Emperor Wu, but only the Wanling Sect has not betrayed him. The only monarch the Lin family has served for generations is His Majesty Emperor Wu."

Lu Zheji suddenly realized why the Lin family was a force of the Northern Wei and why they were at odds with the Southern Wei royal family of Chang'an.

It wasn't just because of conflicting interests; the Southern Wei royal family had allied themselves with the Goddess Palace, which had killed Emperor Wu and the Devouring Demon Emperor, making them utter traitors in the eyes of the Lin family, betraying their ancestors and forgetting their lineage.

Lin Zhengge's gaze returned to Huilu Zheji's face: "So, whose side are you on now?"

Lin Yuexi chimed in with a grin, "It's no use asking him; he doesn't even know the sect's name."

Given Lin Zhengge's status, she naturally understood the meaning of those words. She narrowed her eyes slightly: "I see, he's a bodyguard you've been keeping. I want him. Name your price."

Lin Yuexi said with a playful smile, "Alright, you serve as my sect's holy son's alchemy vessel for ten years, and I'll give him to you."

"Moon!" Lu Zheji couldn't help but shout in a low voice, this joke had gone too far.

Lin Zhengge's expression also changed slightly, and his eyes suddenly became sharp as knives.

Lu Zheji quickly smoothed things over, saying to Lin Zhengge, "She's talking nonsense. As far as I know, their sect doesn't have a Holy Son yet, and even if they did, such a thing would be absolutely impossible."

Lin Zhengge naturally understood that this meant there was no chance. She ignored Lin Yuexi and turned to Lu Zheji, sighing softly, "They treat you badly."

Lu Zheji wasn't quite sure what she wanted to say, so he chuckled and said, "I think it's alright, the resources they've provided are quite generous."

Lin Zhengge shook her head: "You're always so silly. You get bullied and you still speak up for the bullies."

"What do you mean?"

"Why did I make trouble last night? It was because I saw you being bullied by her, and you were just sitting there eating like an idiot."

Lu Zheji was stunned for several breaths before he realized that Lin Zhengge meant that at the welcome banquet last night, Lin Yuexi served him food not because she was picky and didn't want to waste it, but because she deliberately gave him the unpalatable leftovers to humiliate him.

If it were anyone else, Lu Zheji would only think that Lin Zhengge was being too sensitive and was simply suffering from paranoia.

But Lin Yuexi happened to come from that bullying sect. On the very first day, Yin Siyue stuffed his personal clothes into his hands to wash, saying that she wanted to trample on his dignity. It seems that Lin Yuexi had a similar thought process.

He turned to look at Lin Yuexi, but the girl in the moon-white dress showed no remorse. Instead, she looked at him defiantly and said, "What? Isn't it natural for a senior sister to bully a junior brother? I think you're enjoying it too?"

The road was broken and silent.

They were all pampered young ladies, unaware of the cost of living when they were in charge of the household. They treated those rare spiritual materials as if they were nothing.

Of course, he would never admit that the reason he ate so deliciously was partly due to the fact that it was imported food made by a beautiful young woman.

However, what amazed Lu Zheji most at this moment was not Lin Yuexi's wicked sense of humor, but rather...

"I didn't even think of that. How did you come up with it?"

Lin Zhengge raised her chin: "From childhood to adulthood, without my protection, you've suffered so much. Do you think your sister Lin would lie to you if she said someone bullied you?"

Her dislike for Su Wan Ning stemmed from the same reason: her intuition told her that Su Wan Ning was bullying Lu Zheji because the medicine she fed him was so bitter. This was perfectly normal given the Su family's inherently wicked nature.

Unfortunately, honest advice is hard to swallow. This fool was completely bewitched by Su Wan Ning's innocent facade, adopting an attitude of "She's my mother, you're not allowed to talk about her," which infuriated her.

Lu Zheji felt a warmth in his heart, then found it somewhat amusing: "What, Sister Lin? Aren't you my Sister Shen? No, you should be called Sister Lin now. I was just wondering last night if you were picking a fight with Lin Yuexi because she called me 'brother,' which made you jealous."

Lin Zhengge blushed slightly: "What Lin sister? Don't talk nonsense."

When she was young, as a member of the Xun Gui family, she visited other people's homes. Lu Zheji was a year older than her, and the elders on both sides asked her to call him "brother," so she did.

But after years of being classmates, she felt that something was off.

The head of the family said that this older brother wasn't very bright, and specifically instructed her to take good care of him so that he wouldn't be bullied.

After six years of living together day and night, she had become accustomed to protecting him in every way; this was definitely not a brother-sister relationship.

To Lin Zhengge, Lu Zheji was just a bratty younger brother who grew up under her protection, only this bratty younger brother happened to be a little older than her.

Unfortunately, the identity of Shen Kexin is not hers alone. This pseudonym was originally taken from the names of Lin Zhenci and Lin Zhenge, and they used it in rotation.

Due to the requirements of their cultivation techniques, they had to disguise themselves as one person. Compared to Lin Zhenci, her nominal older sister, she was more sensible at a young age, so she had to accommodate Lin Zhenci and imitate her gentle and weak appearance.

Since Lin Zhenci always called Lu Zheji "Brother Lu" in a soft and sweet voice, she could only imitate her and call him "Brother" in a sweet and cloying voice.

Now that she's finally back to her original identity, she doesn't want to call this brat "brother" for the rest of her life.

Seeing the blush on her ears, Lu Zheji laughed even harder: "Didn't you used to call me 'Brother Lu' all the time?"

Lin Zhengge said, embarrassed and annoyed, "The past is the past! It was fine when you were a kid and didn't know any better, but how old are you now? I've protected you so many times, it's already a favor that I haven't made you call me 'sister'."

"It's alright, if you don't shout, plenty of others will."

Lin Yuexi tiptoed, took Lu Zheji's arm, and sweetly whispered in his ear, "Brother~"

Lin Zhengge sneered, "Shameless women, you haven't answered my question yet: are you enemies of the Lin family?"

"Senior sister was just making a bad joke, don't take it seriously. That's just how this sect is, everyone from top to bottom is crazy..." Lu Zheji said, then belatedly realized why Lin Zhengge was taking it so seriously.

Yin Siyue had said that the essence of this celebratory banquet was the Southern Wei court testing the attitudes of various powers toward the struggle for the crown prince's throne. Lin Yuexi's presentation of this forbidden book, which pointed at the Lin family's ancestor and cursed him, was tantamount to a challenge from an opposing force.

He quickly added, "It's a misunderstanding, a real misunderstanding. Another senior sister of mine said that our sect is going to promote the alliance between the Northern and Southern Wei, and we will not stand against the Lin family."

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhengge's expression softened slightly.

Lu Zheji couldn't help but glare at Lin Yuexi, who was nestled against him. He knew that this was not a misunderstanding, but that Lin Yuexi had deliberately misled the Lin family so that they would be on high alert.

This woman has a truly awful personality.

Lin Yuexi winked at him, playfully sticking out her pink tongue, then sneered at Lin Zhengge, "Whether we're adversaries or not is hard to say. My sect is a force of Southern Wei, while the Lin family is from Northern Wei. If one side isn't sincere..."

Lin Zhengge coldly interrupted her: "It is you who are judging others by your own petty standards."

Lu Zheji understood the unspoken meaning between them: this alliance between the North and the South was initiated by the Northern Wei emperor, but the Southern Wei was also wary of whether this was a sugar-coated bullet dropped by the Northern Wei.

The two sides have been fighting for four hundred years, with countless corpses and old grievances lying between them. This divide is not so easy to eliminate.

Lin Yuexi suddenly spoke up again: "Besides that, we have another possible reason to be hostile."

Lin Zhengge narrowed his eyes slightly.

Lin Yuexi casually played with a strand of long hair that fell to her chest and chuckled, "Emperor Wu, a great emperor of his generation, would never perish so easily. As former officials of Emperor Wu, if he were to return from the cycle of reincarnation one day, I'm afraid you, the Lin family, would still follow him."

She paused, a meaningful smile playing on her lips.

"If our sect finds his trail, we will nip him in the bud before he returns to his peak."

Lu Zheji: "!!!"

Oh no, I've stumbled into a den of thieves!