Elevator Dimension Line

Hou Shuiwei's throat bobbed. The other party was now laying its cards on the table. If he didn't cooperate, he knew things would get bad later.

Later, Mizuo's eyes darted around and he said, "I accept, but you will need time. Right now, you don't know anyone, and those court officials won't recognize you at all. You need time, you need those ministers to get to know you. When that time comes, I will pass the throne to you. How about that!"

Tantai Ye chuckled. How could he not know what Hou Shuiwei was up to? He agreed on the surface, but it was just a delaying tactic.

“Your method is excellent. Let’s do it your way. We do need a smooth transition period!” Tantai Ye said with a smile.

Gosui laughed, also letting out a sigh of relief. As long as the other party agreed, once they got back...

Just as Hou Shuiwei was thinking about his next plan, a dazzling light suddenly flashed by. He looked up and was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

Suddenly, an eye appeared in the air right in front of him. The eye seemed to be made of beams of light, and as it opened, a dazzling light flashed, and the eye transformed into glass, shimmering with seven colors...

The next moment, a beam of light shot out from those pupils that resembled the starry sky of the universe, directly entering the space between Hou Shuiwei's eyebrows.

Gosui's body, which was slumped on the ground, stiffened, and his expression froze for a moment. But after only a moment, Gosui's eyes flickered and he recovered.

"Get up!"

With a single sentence from Tantai Ye, the latter stood up, dusted himself off, and then gave Tantai Ye a deep bow.

“You brainwashed him!” Arisa exclaimed in surprise as she approached.

Tantai Ye shook his head and smiled, "It's not exactly brainwashing, it just injected something into his mind, making him deeply aware of our identities. He'll still be useful later, but complete brainwashing would be useless."

Arisa nodded. She was no longer the simple student council president she used to be. After years of hard work and struggle in Zone Zero, and after seeing the world by Tantai Ye's side, she had come to understand the world.

This made her instantly understand what Tantai Ye meant. The Emperor in the future was indeed still useful. They had no foundation at the moment, and if they had to build everything themselves, the process would be too slow.

Therefore, they need to use the identity of the former Mizuo to first obtain royal status, then consolidate power in their hands, and then naturally become emperors, launch a war of unification, and eventually unify the entire world.

"Remember this: from today onwards, the Gongfengyuan is of the imperial lineage, as you promised a long time ago. Tomorrow, issue an imperial proclamation to restore the Gongfengyuan's imperial status... You can come up with the specific excuse yourself."

“Okay, I understand!” Gosui replied respectfully.

Tantai Ye turned around and gestured to Zhu Juan about the fog outside. Zhu Juan understood and quickly stopped her ninjutsu.

Arisa also removed her protective shield shortly afterward.

A commotion arose outside, and then the guards who had been frozen in place outside the tent were released from their restraints. The fog had enveloped them, so they hadn't seen anything.

At this moment, as the samurai army poured in from outside, they rushed to the tent entrance together with the guards.

"Stop!" Hou Shuiwei stepped forward and roared, "What are you all doing? I was just joking with an old friend. Get out of here!"

The crowd exchanged bewildered glances, but seeing that their emperor sounded energetic and didn't seem to have any problems, they all withdrew.

The head guard wanted to ask something more, since he had been closest to the door, but he had seen that the other party's intentions were not good.

"Shinbei! It's alright, don't worry. I do know them. You can go now!" Gosui nodded. To be honest, this guard leader was the most loyal person left by his side, and he was considered his true confidant.

Seeing that Mizuo's gaze was indeed uninteresting, the man named Shinbei sheathed his katana, bowed slightly, and then led his men out, standing around the tent again.

Tantai Ye had already woken up the maids who had just fainted. The maids were so frightened that they lay on the ground, not daring to lift their heads. Falling asleep in front of the Emperor was a serious offense.

"Get up! Go and bring some stools," Hou Shuiwei instructed.

“No need!” Tantai Ye interrupted. “Please send someone back to the royal palace to arrange accommodations for me.”

After Mizuo nodded, walked to the tent entrance, beckoned a guard and gave him a few instructions, and then the guard rode off towards Kyoto.

After that, Shuiwei didn't have time to hunt anymore and immediately ordered people to pack up and return to the city.

The group marched in a grand procession toward Kyoto.

Although Emperor Go-Mizunoo was a figurehead emperor, his status still warranted a certain level of formality. Not to mention the five miles before and after his departure, the escort of over three hundred samurai soldiers was already a very grand affair for that time.

Of course, there are others who can rival him. For example, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was at the height of his power at the time, traveled with far more pomp and circumstance than the Emperor.

Even Emperor Go-Mizunoo's palanquin was only slightly larger than that of ordinary nobles, looking more like a platform with a canopy, and was incomparable to the palanquins of the Chinese emperors.

There were only enough seats for four people, and it was already packed. Tantai Ye didn't want to squeeze in. However, Arisa had a lot to say to Mizuo, so she pulled Hoshimi Miyabi into the palanquin.

Seeing this, Tantai Ye became too lazy to leave and, pulling Zhu Juan along, disappeared in a flash.

Arisa chuckled upon seeing this. Although she arrived late, she could tell that Zhu Juan was probably going to be one of her sisters in the future.

Instead of returning directly to Kyoto with Zhu Juan, Tantai Ye took her to Kiyomizu-dera Temple.

The two did not enter Kiyomizu-dera Temple directly, but appeared in the bamboo forest behind the mountain. This time, Tantai Ye did not use the mirror space, but used the teleportation jump directly.

In Zhu Juan's experience, it was as if a black mist flashed before her eyes, and then a bamboo forest appeared, faster than the blink of an eye, almost instantaneously.

This different feeling shocked Zhu Juan once again, making her feel even more empathetic towards Tantai Ye's mystery. The other party had more than one secret method for traveling, and calling it a secret method was just her own idea. In fact, in her opinion, it was more like the methods of ghosts and gods, which were not something that humans could control at all.

The trip to Kiyomizu-dera Temple was made after Tantai Ye consulted Zhu Juan.

After all, she came to Beijing with her companions, and it wouldn't make sense for her to just disappear as soon as she arrived, so she came to check on things.

However, Zhu Juan did not walk out of the bamboo forest directly, but subconsciously grabbed Tantai Ye's sleeve.

"What's wrong?" Tantai Ye asked with a smile.

Zhu Juan hesitated for a moment, then released her grip, knelt respectfully on the ground, and said with utmost seriousness, "Please tell me, sir, your true identity!"