Knowing that young Ji Dan was Li Ping'an's clone, Donghuang Taiyi no longer prohibited him from drinking, and took the initiative to make him drink to relieve his boredom.

The top of the royal palace.

The two of them were leaning on the blue stone tiles, with a sky full of stars in their eyes and a half-empty bottle of wine in their hands.

The guards and palace servants below were all sweating, and they all braced themselves to continue below, fearing that the king and the fourth son of Xibohou would fall.

As for the chat between the two of them, no one here could listen.

Li Ping'an's cultivation is not fake either.

"What are you going to do next?"

Li Pingan asked:

"The teacher has sent someone to supervise you. Do you really want to follow the script of becoming a god and become that tyrant?"

"What other options do I have?"

Donghuang Taiyi curled his lips, supported his body with his arms, and pointed at the stars in the sky:

"Look at those stars, we know that these are just star maps manifested by the Great Dao, and the real stars are just dim.

"Mortals in Chaoge City generally believe that the stars were formed by those nobles with meritorious service and status who went to the sky after their death.

"This is where you stand determines your understanding of the world.

"I look at my father, and you look at your teacher, just like ordinary people look at the stars. They can only speculate and imagine, but it is difficult to know the details."

Li Ping'an curled his lips: "You can't say that. How can you know if you don't try?"

"It's meaningless, everything is meaningless."

Donghuang Taiyi sighed:

"I really don't know how you can be so optimistic.

"There is an absolute gap in absolute strength. The last variable between heaven and earth is the two groups of disciples in Yanjie. Everything else is determined.

"Although the Six Saints are strong, they are locked between heaven and earth by the Hongmeng Purple Qi. As long as the source of heaven and earth is taken away, they will immediately wither.

"Do you think there is anything else that can stop them?

"No, your soulless art is indeed mysterious, but it will take at least several thousand years to build up a fighting force that can threaten Yuanxian... They don't take your soulless art seriously.

"Besides that, what else do you have? You are just like me, Li Ping'an, everything is given by him, how can you resist him?"

Li Pingan smiled and said nothing.

He asked: "You are willing to say this to me now because the teacher has hurt your heart?"

"no."

Donghuang Taiyi closed his eyes and sighed:

"My heart is broken...

"My memory, my memory has many twists and turns.

"The Chaos Clock brought the ancient me here to fight you, and a memory appeared in my heart. The ancient me saw the current me... I immediately understood what happened here.

"I was inevitably affected by this memory, and then I did some things, which were revised by my father one by one, and my father also added to these memories accordingly.

"The world has not changed at all, you know? That is, from the time I ended the summons of the Chaos Clock and returned to that time, which was about 250,000 years ago, my influence on the world was limited to three feet around me.

"I tried to refuse to adopt the little fox at the beginning, but my father directly wrote down the life path I had experienced before into instructions, and asked me to follow these instructions and do them.

"I inevitably fell in love with Zhichu, but everything remains the same.

"I was held down by my father, that is, held down forcefully, and died in the battle with the ancestral witches in the ancient war. I killed the same ancestral witches and injured the same ancestral witches. There was no change at all.

"Why did my father do this to me?

"It's very simple. In order to ensure that there will be no changes in the world when you and your father appear, to ensure that you go all the way to the Emperor of Heaven, gain prestige, and become a semi-saint...

"That's when I finally became convinced that I was a substitute, the substitute before he found you.

"This reminds me of what the old man, the guide of Zheyun Taoist, once said to me.

"My father once had many sons whose personalities were very similar to mine...actually very similar to yours."

Li Ping'an was silent for a while, then asked: "Is Old Man Wanri really my father?"

"Who knows, but it seems unlikely that he is Li Dazhi... Where is your mother?"

"My mother passed away due to illness. Before I came over with my father," Li Ping'an raised his hand and touched his nose, "it's really hard to tell. I'll go to my father to ask about it later, and then go to the Chaos Clock."

Come on over."

"The Chaos Clock knows most of my father's secrets."

Donghuang Taiyi smiled and said:

"Actually, if you really want to explore it, you and I can be regarded as adopted children, a parent-child relationship.

"I don't mind if you call me big brother."

"I mind," Li Ping'an looked a little disgusted, "I don't have a big brother who gives up on himself. With your current performance, I don't even want to be my teammate."

"I have all my feelings," Donghuang Taiyi pointed to his heart, "If I want to become stronger, I only need to let the Chaos Bell ring. For you, I can return to the peak in an instant."

Li Ping'an's eyes flickered slightly: "Now I kind of believe what Patriarch Hongjun said."

"What did he say?"

"There are three successors to Teacher Wangri, me, you, and one who is a creature from his native world who has not shown up yet.

"He wants to create a world that lasts forever, and then let the three of us take charge of this world."

Li Pingan rubbed the back of his hand:

"This sounds very reliable, but if you think about it carefully, the price is too high."

"The price is that countless lives are sacrificed, right?"

"Well, if I accept this calmly, then am I still me? I just want to be a good person, not a hero, but once this happens, I have no right to say that I am a good person."

Li Pingan sighed:

"Self-interest is not so beneficial.

"It is so difficult for Dao Xin to ask for a clear conscience, and it is even so difficult for Dao Xin to ask himself whether he is a good person.

"Most living beings... look at this Chaoge City, most people just count three meals a day and think about warm clothes. What's wrong with them? Why should their obsessions be burned down just because of the strong man's wishes?

"Sometimes I really want to ask, where is justice?

"I often thought about this after I built the Heavenly Court. Where is justice? Where has justice gone? Is respecting the strong really an order? Strong creatures can deprive weak creatures of their right to live at will. Is this order?

"Really, if we want to achieve a relatively equal order and make it impossible for all living beings to practice cultivation and live in an equal environment, then I am willing to be this evil person and abolish the practice."

Donghuang Taiyi smiled casually: "You are a competent Heavenly Emperor, but not a competent Half-Saint."

"A half-saint has no responsibilities."

"Then what do you want to do next?"

"Go find the truth."

Li Pingan took a sip of wine and whispered:

"Before you talked to me so much today, I wasn't really sure, I was just making random guesses.

"Then now that I know, I have to find out."

Donghuang Taiyi was a little confused: "So what if you figure it out? Isn't it good to wait in a daze to take over the new world?"

"Then? I have been living in guilt and suffering, and my mind has gradually collapsed and led to self-destruction. I have become a delusional old man again, entrusting my so-called hope and future to my successor?"

Li Pingan was startled for a moment and took a breath.

Donghuang Taiyi wondered: "Did you suddenly realize something?"

"It looks like, it really looks like."

"like what?"

"I suddenly discovered that my transcendent teacher is really like my father back then... He couldn't get into a good university, so he insisted on letting me get into it, and then he was satisfied."

Li Ping'an made a dumbfounded expression.

"It's bad, now I kind of believe that Wangri is my father."

"Ah?" Donghuang Taiyi looked puzzled, "Didn't you say you weren't sure before?"

"Oh, I won't make any guesses with you, I'll go ask directly!

"If you want to be a tyrant, just be one!

"If someone takes my body back, they'll say I'm drunk."

Li Ping'an lay down carelessly and closed his eyes to collect his thoughts.

Donghuang Taiyi had several black lines hanging on his forehead, waved his fist at the young Ji Dan, then sighed softly, and continued to look at the stars in trance.

…

Zhu Yunzong, Li Ping'an is in the new attic on the mountain behind the main peak.

"Can you still be my biological child?"

Li Dazhi stared at Li Ping'an, his expression a bit hard to describe:

"Your mother and I have a strong love. We share the same interests and support each other through the ups and downs. When we came into this world, if you hadn't urged me, I might not have renewed our relationship now!

"Of course, don't say this out loud.

"Anyway, it's like this now. I have two new wives."

Li Ping'an touched his chin and carefully considered Donghuang Taiyi's words.
To be continued...