The master comes down the mountain: I don’t want to be a son-in-law

Li Muchen stood there quietly, watching the mist in the distance drifting away in the swamp.

Scenes flashed before his eyes, and he linked together all the memories and clues to outline a complete story.

Everything became clear.

Now, apart from his mysterious father Li Yunhua and the whereabouts of his mother Gong Lingyan, there is nothing to bother him anymore.

"Your plan is indeed very thorough and the layout is meticulous enough," he said to the emperor in front of him, "but have you ever thought that you will never succeed?"

"Why?" The emperor disagreed.

"Because no matter how much you plan, you can never outsmart the laws of nature!" Li Muchen said.

The emperor was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "I once had the same concerns as you, which is why I have been setting up this situation for such a long time. I know that both my Li family and the remnants of the Demon Cult are under the supervision of Heaven. That's why I let Wu Dai and Li Tang go, and I watched my descendants ruin the country I built with my own hands without doing anything. Only by dispersing the royal aura of the Li family and dispersing the descendants of the Li family among the ordinary people can we escape the supervision of Heaven."

Li Muchen shook his head, "You are wrong. Heaven is everywhere. How can you escape its eyes when you make plans under Heaven? Even if you have the talent of gods and ghosts and the assistance of stars, you cannot escape the rules of this world. Even human thinking is within the scope of rules. Your every move, every thought, is the result of rules. I am afraid that Heaven has already known your plans and has made preparations to reverse them."

"Reverse the situation?" The emperor's face was serious. After thinking for a while, he shook his head and said, "Impossible! All my plans have been realized. Only this last step is left. As long as you merge with me, the soul of the demon will merge with my Li family's immortal veins, allowing me to have a physical body. Once I get out of here, I can inherit the Divine Palace and have the power to fight against the way of heaven."

There was a gleam of excitement in his eyes, and the look of having waited and forbeared for a thousand years was flying on his extremely confident face, which belonged to an emperor.

"Don't worry, you are the blood of the Li family, you can merge perfectly with me, and the heavens won't find out. This is why I must wait for a pure descendant of the Li family to merge with me."

"Do you think I will agree?"

"Why don't you agree?" The emperor was stunned, his face full of confusion. "I have said so much, aren't you moved at all? Don't worry, I won't deprive you of your memory, so you won't die. On the contrary, I will bring you the aura of an emperor. After the fusion, you will be me and I will be you. What I have is also what you have."

"I'm not you. I don't like the feeling of being an emperor. You should keep the imperial aura to yourself!" Li Muchen said.

"You..." The emperor's face darkened, and the king was angry and imposing. He swung his wide sleeves, "What an ignorant person! You are not a king, so you naturally don't know what it feels like to be a king. When you sit on this position, you will never forget that feeling. Moreover, after we succeed, we will not only be the king of a country, nor will we only be the ruler of the world, but we will replace the way of heaven. At that time, you will be able to control the world and make your words come true! Have you ever thought about that feeling?"

"That's just your idea." Li Muchen said, "All things are born naturally, and all living beings have natural ways, which are different. Not all of them think the same way as you do. Moreover, your idea, the feeling that you want to have your say and be the only one in the world, is something that only exists under the existing rules of the Heavenly Dao. If the Heavenly Dao is overturned, the Heavenly Dao will no longer exist, and these laws will no longer exist, and your feelings will naturally no longer exist."

"Eh!" The emperor was somewhat surprised. "Your Tao roots are not bad, and you have the style of our ancestor Laozi. This is more to my liking, and it is worth my waiting for so many years. You are right, if the Way of Heaven does not exist, then nothing else will exist. So we must replace it, not destroy it."

"So it's just the change of dynasties and the changing of the flags on the city walls." Li Muchen said.

"It's not the flag of the king, but the flag of the way of heaven!" The emperor laughed with great pride.

Li Muchen sneered: "I once studied the Tao Te Ching of my ancestor Laozi. Laozi said that heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature. I didn't understand why nature was above heaven at that time. Later, I realized that in addition to the way of heaven, there is also the root of the Tao, which is vast and boundless, profound and infinite. Only then did I understand what Laozi said. I also understood why Laozi rode a cow out of Xiguan instead of preaching in the world. It's a pity that the Li family did not pass on Laozi's way, but your way of the emperor."

The emperor laughed loudly: "Hahaha, how do you know that I didn't inherit the way of my ancestors? Let me tell you, my ancestor didn't ride a cow out of Xiguan. He just went to Kunlun and exhausted his life's strength to collect the remaining souls of the Heavenly Demon and sealed them in the Heavenly Soul Wall. This is something that even Lu Wu couldn't do! His original intention was to prevent the Heavenly Demon from reincarnating and recreating the disaster of the war between gods and demons. So he also sealed his cultivation into the Heavenly Soul Wall to suppress the Heavenly Demon."

Li Muchen frowned slightly: "So when you broke the Heavenly Soul Wall, you absorbed the soul power of Daozu?"

"If it weren't for the soul power of the ancestor, how could I be divided into three and survive for a thousand years in the broken jade of the Heavenly Soul? Not only has my cultivation level not decreased, but my realm has greatly increased!" The emperor said proudly, "He is the ancestor of my Li family. Merging with me is like his rebirth. In other words, the one standing in front of you now is not only the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but also the Laozi of the Spring and Autumn Period, and even more so the True Dragon Daoist Ancestor of ancient times!"

Li Muchen shook his head and said, "Impossible! You can't write the Tao Te Ching. Perhaps the Taoist master has already passed away, and what you have gained is nothing more than the energy he cultivated when he was alive."

"That's enough!" said the emperor. "The Tao is nothingness, only power is real. Li Muchen, I've said enough. If you agree, we can get out of here together, control the universe, and hold the sun and the moon!"

"What if I don't agree?"

"Then I will destroy your soul, and I will only borrow your body to leave. Although I cannot become a Heavenly Demon without the Demon Soul brought by the Saint's bloodline, I can still absorb the power of the Demon Soul, which will be enough for me to challenge those guys in Tiandu."

The emperor's face was full of confidence. He was confident in his own energy, confident that Li Muchen could not resist the temptation, and confident in his wisdom in taking this millennium into account.

Li Muchen raised his head, looked into the void in the distance, and said, "I won't agree to your request, and he knows that I won't agree to your request, so you will definitely lose this round."

The emperor's expression changed: "What did you say? Who is he?"

"Heavenly Dao!" Li Muchen said, "I just said that since you set up this trap, Heavenly Dao knew about it and has prepared a counter-attack."

"What rebellion?" The emperor still didn't believe it.

"Me! I am the one who set up the counter-game!" Li Muchen smiled slightly, "We are all under the rule of Heaven, and no one can escape the eyes of Heaven. Originally, Heaven would not let someone like me survive. This is also something I have always been puzzled about. Now I finally understand that it is because of your game that Heaven let me survive and let me grow up, because he knew that I would not agree to you!"