I still didn't understand what Old Liu and Black Night Owl meant. "What you're saying only proves that Jiang Chen's strength suddenly increased dramatically. What does that have to do with him being an Emperor?"

Old Liu said anxiously, "Why don't you understand?"

"We've all been focusing on the Emperor's remains. Have you ever considered what would happen if there were no Emperor's remains?"

I was immediately stunned. "Are you saying that the Emperor's remains were destroyed long ago?"

Old Liu explained, "My lord, haven't you always felt that it's unreasonable for the Emperor to have disappeared while searching for the Empress?"

Why the Emperor couldn't find the Empress had always been a question in my mind.

The Emperor was the king of the art, and his cultivation was beyond doubt.

The Emperor had a wealth of talent under his command, and he had become sworn brothers with Ye Qianyang, the number one practitioner of the art at the time, the Nine Coffin Taoist.

If the Empress was still in the human world, even if she hid in a secret realm, she should have left some clues. Why couldn't the Emperor, who dominated the art at the time, find the Empress's whereabouts?

As for the Empress entering reincarnation...

I had always been suspicious.

According to the information brought back by Zero and the others, someone among the civil officials of the underworld concealed the Empress's whereabouts after reincarnation.

That person could conceal one reincarnation of the Empress, but could he conceal her countless lifetimes?

Old Liu saw that I didn't speak and continued to explain, "Have you ever considered a possibility?"

"The Emperor and Empress have long since vanished into thin air."

"Or, the Empress is the Celestial Soul, and the Emperor's soul was scattered by her long ago?"

I subconsciously stopped walking. "What are you talking about?"

I only stood there for a few seconds before I realized that everything Old Liu said was the most likely possibility.

Old Liu said, "My lord, think about it, if the Empress didn't come from the Heavenly Prison, why can't the underworld or the human world find any trace of her?"

"Even if the Empress smuggled herself from the Yellow Springs, there should still be some clues left in the underworld. Why can't the underworld find the Empress's origins or whereabouts?"

"No matter how well the underworld civil officials concealed it, they couldn't possibly sneak into the Reincarnation Hall and destroy all the records about the Empress inside, right?"

"The fact that there's no trace of the Empress in the underworld, does that mean that the Empress, like the Reincarnation Saint, is a Celestial Soul that has devoured countless of her own kind?"

I couldn't help but gasp. "Old Liu, you can't just make these guesses. Do you have any evidence?"

Old Liu said, "Think about Pang Gu Fang?"

Old Liu said, "Pang Gu Fang was the Emperor's Left Prime Minister! Since ancient times, only mediocre people can be emperors, but no mediocre person can be a prime minister."

"Why was Pang Gu Fang able to interfere in the Emperor's family affairs, and why was he able to build the Three Palaces for the Emperor?"

"Doesn't all of this prove that Pang Gu Fang was already suspicious of the Empress's identity at the time, and that's why he created the Three Palaces to counteract the Empress?"

After thinking for a moment, I said, "What you're saying makes sense!"

Back then, when Black Night Owl told me about the origin of the Three Palaces, he said that the Emperor deliberately created the Three Palaces to stimulate the Empress.

This kind of thing might make sense in today's romance novels.

But what about in ancient times?

Let's not even talk about how rare it was for an emperor to be devoted to one person.

Just the Emperor's identity and way of thinking determined that he wouldn't do such a childish thing.

Old Liu said, "My lord, think about it again, why did Pang Gu Fang come directly to take Zero and Cang Tianji after he got out of trouble? Her main purpose was still that she didn't trust the Empress."

"It's just that the Emperor's secrets hidden within don't allow her to tell the truth."

"At the time, none of us considered this. You and Ye Dangjia directly killed Pang Gu Fang, so this secret will never be known."

Old Liu had said so much that I already believed half of it. "What else? What other evidence do you have?"

Old Liu said, "My lord, don't you think the Emperor's infatuation is just an act?"

I couldn't help but frown. "What do you mean?"

Old Liu said, "I'm still saying the same thing, which is more important, the country and the beauty, the people of the world and the beautiful woman? The Emperor will naturally have his own measure."

"If the Emperor loves the beauty more than the country, why doesn't he just pass on the throne? Why does he make all kinds of arrangements to allow himself to return under specific circumstances?"

"So, I think the Emperor values the country more."

Old Liu paused and said, "In that case, we can draw a second conclusion. That is, the Empress hid in reincarnation, why must the Emperor chase after her?"

"The result of the Emperor tracking the Empress from reincarnation must be reincarnation. Reincarnating together, childhood sweethearts, it sounds romantic, but for the Emperor, is this realistic? So, this is an even bigger contradiction."

"I'll think about it from another perspective. The Emperor can completely not enter reincarnation. With his cultivation, he has many ways to make himself immortal. At worst, he can become a Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren, borrowing hundreds of years of life from the underworld to wait for the Empress."

"As long as the Empress is reincarnated, the fate masters under the Emperor can calculate her location, what a sight it would be for the Emperor to lead an army to welcome the Empress?"

"The Emperor needs to accumulate power in the human world to fight against the heavens, wouldn't it be better for him to accumulate power while waiting for the Empress? Why must he seek that kind of bitter romance?"

"Bitterness and romance do not belong to the Emperor."