The sea is blue and the sky is blue, and the waves are blooming.
Four large ships, riding the wind and waves, were galloping towards the west.
From the day he left Penglai Island, for seven consecutive days, Lin Ze stayed alone on the topmost cabin of one of the large ships, meditating and practicing.
Except for Lin Ze, most of the cabins on this entire floor were filled with jade boxes, some densely packed and some empty.
Suddenly, Lin Ze suddenly opened his eyes and glanced south, with a look of surprise on his face.
It seemed that his eyes penetrated the ship's plank and saw something extraordinary.
After being suspicious for a while, Lin Ze seemed to have made up his mind. He stood up and said to the outside of the cabin: "Wu Fan, I have to leave for a while because I have something to do. You will be in charge of the fleet. Remember, you don't have to stay here to wait for me.
Hou, just keep going back."
After saying this, Lin Ze moved and got out of the cabin in an instant. He then figured out the direction and rushed towards the south.
After driving for more than ten miles, Lin Zefang saw a thin figure on a rock.
Lin Ze looked relaxed, fell from the air, stepped on the sea, saluted the figure, and said loudly: "Disciple pays homage to the teacher."
The person standing on the rocks is surprisingly the Great Qin State Master Xu Fu, who went to sea to search for immortals on the orders of the Emperor of Qin and disappeared for many years without any reason.
Xu Fu turned around, smiled kindly, and said happily: "You are very good."
Lin Ze straightened up and said slowly: "I haven't seen you for many years. How are you doing, teacher?"
Lin Ze was quite grateful to Xu Fu.
Although Xu Fu had other motives for accepting him as his disciple, it could not change the fact that Xu Fu valued Lin Ze.
By providing Lin Ze with training resources and letting the four elders of Fang Xiandao protect Lin Ze, Lin Ze passed through his growth period safely.
Xu Fu responded with a smile: "Although overseas people are a little poorer, they are free and carefree. Those who live a sophisticated life are at ease."
"But you, I heard from Qinghe, have done a lot of great things over the years."
"Assisting the new emperor to ascend the throne, he first put down the rebel rebellion, then retreated south to Nanzhao, conquered the Western Regions in the west, pacified the barbarians in the north, and destroyed the six kingdoms in the east. His martial arts were extraordinary and he was the best in the world. He was no less generous than your majesty back then.
"
Lin Ze said with a self-deprecating look on his face: "Hey, are all the disciples so good? Elder Qinghe is exaggerating, and the teacher can just smile."
Xu Fu stared at Lin Ze for a while and said in a serious voice: "Your fate has become more and more strange."
Seeing that the topic suddenly changed from reminiscing about the past to discussing numerology, Lin Ze was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Please ask the teacher to clarify my doubts."
Xu Fu shook his head and said: "The secret of heaven cannot be leaked, cannot be revealed, and cannot be revealed."
Lin Ze...
After thinking about it, Lin Ze suddenly asked: "Teacher made a decisive decision back then and avoided death, but he only appears in front of his disciples today. What are your instructions?"
Xu Fu chuckled: "Of course I'm here for you."
Lin Ze looked calm: "Teacher, please clarify."
Xu Fu sighed slightly: "Lin Ze, did you know that you were about to be in disaster?"
Lin Ze shook his head: "I don't know."
Xu Fu stared into Lin Ze's eyes and asked with a serious face: "I would like to ask you, why did Fusu die?"
Lin Ze said without hesitation: "You risk your life and die at the hands of an assassin."
"Who sent the assassin?" Xu Fu pressed forward step by step.
Lin Ze said calmly: "Of course he was sent by His Majesty the Qin Dynasty, Hu Hai."
Xu Fu couldn't help but feel a little angry when he heard this: "Nonsense, you are obviously the one who assigned me."
Lin Ze asked back: "May I ask, teacher, who is my disciple? Is he a member of Hu Hai's family? Is there any life-or-death enmity between this disciple and Fusu?"
Xu Fu was speechless for a moment. After a while, he laughed dumbly and said, "You are very sharp-tongued."
Lin Ze asked indifferently: "Teacher showed up today, is he here to investigate Fusu's death?"
Xu Fu shook his head and said: "Of course not, my teacher is here to save you."
Lin Ze spread his hands and said: "But the disciple is obviously fine, no illness or disaster, and his martial arts is extraordinary, so why does he need the teacher to save him?"
Xu Fu shouted with a look of disappointment: "Did you know that His Majesty did not really die, but was practicing in seclusion in a secret place? The day he comes out of seclusion will be the time of your death."
Lin Ze pretended to be puzzled and said: "Teacher, why do you need to scare the disciples? It is a good thing that Your Majesty practiced cultivation and came out of seclusion before he died. How can the disciples be killed?"
Seeing Lin Ze pretending not to know, Xu Fu couldn't help but shouted coldly: "Everyone knows that you hired an assassin to kill Fusu. Do you think you can blame Hu Hai?"
"Or do you think that His Majesty will kill one of his other sons for the sake of his other son? Even if it is to make you a scapegoat, His Majesty will not let you go."
"Lin Ze, are you really not afraid at all?"
Lin Ze spread his hands: "I'm afraid of returning, but the disciple doesn't have any good ideas. If I can't beat him, I don't know where to run. Why don't you take me with you when the teacher is running away?"
"The laws of heaven are impermanent, and nothing is absolute. There may not be any chance of improvement in your matter. Lin Ze, do you still remember that my teacher once asked you, do you believe in fate?"
Lin Ze shook his head and said, "I don't remember."
Xu Fu...
Taking a deep breath to calm down his somewhat ups and downs, Xu Fu said slowly: "I can save you as a teacher."
The relaxed smile on Lin Ze's face slowly faded away, leaving only calm.
"If the teacher needs something that the disciple needs to do, wouldn't it be better to ask directly? Why do you have to calculate? Could it be that it would be too harmful to the disciple, and the teacher can be sure that the disciple will not agree?"
Xu Fu was obviously stunned: "What do you mean by this?"
Lin Ze did not intend to go down in vain, but said directly: "Teacher, if you have nothing else to say, please forgive me and leave first."
"If the teacher has time, he can go to land with his disciples and enjoy the happiness."
Xu Fu looked into Lin Ze's eyes and frowned slightly: "As far as my teacher knows, you are not the kind of person who is not afraid of life and death. Why aren't you afraid that His Majesty will settle a score with you?"
"I once made a prediction. His Majesty will be released from seclusion within a year at most. How will you deal with yourself then? Go to death calmly, or will you beg for mercy?"
Lin Ze sighed and said, "Teacher, why bother with this matter? It won't be too late until that day comes."
Having said that, Lin Ze made a note in his mind that in one year at most, the Eternal Emperor would appear again.
According to Lin Ze's intuition, this time is very likely to be much earlier than Xu Fu said.
Originally, Lin Ze was a little happy to see Xu Fu.
But after not seeing each other for many years, Xu Fu came to find him on purpose, and actually had a plan against him in his heart. He even tried to trick Lin Ze using his old tricks.
Lin Ze was bored and didn't want to accept the move at all. Considering the past friendship, Lin Ze didn't want to care too much.
"Disciple, please leave first."
Lin Ze dropped a sentence and took off in the wind.