Wandering among the heavens, learning has no end.

"Master and Mistress are husband and wife, so they should have feelings for each other, right? Why did they quarrel to the point of separating?"

Su Xiaoyong couldn't quite understand it.

She felt that she would definitely not argue with Ji Yuan again, let alone separate from him.

"These kinds of things, when you argue, it might not be because of a lack of affection, but could be a personality issue."

Stop thinking about it. Why bother thinking so much? It only adds to your worries. I'm going to quicken my pace now.

Ji Yuan took Su Xiaoyong's hand and used the "Riding the Wind for Thousands of Miles" technique to fly swiftly towards the direction of the South Peak Cloud Residence Pavilion.

……

Yunju Pavilion.

Ji Yuan led Su Xiaoyong on a stroll through the Yunju Pavilion.

The Yunju Pavilion on the South Peak is much smaller than the Yunju Pavilion on the North Peak because it was built later.

However, although it's a bit small, it's still enough for one more person to live in.

Ji Yuan arranged a room for Su Xiaoyong, his own room, while he moved into the room that Shan Gudao used to live in.

Yunju Pavilion on the South Peak has only three rooms, and Granny Qin stayed in one of them.

Ji Yuan arrived a few years ago and stayed in the remaining room, while Shan Gudao's room remained empty.

He didn't really want Su Xiaoyong to move into Shan Gudao's room; he didn't have a good impression of Shan Gudao.

Ji Yuan felt it would be unlucky to let Su Xiaoyong stay in his room.

Actually, he didn't want to live there himself, but there was no other way; he couldn't very well ask his teacher's wife to change rooms.

……

night.

Ji Yuan returned to her room and looked at the pillows on the bed.

Having watched the original series, he knew that Shan Gudao had hidden some of his belongings here—a wooden box covered with a cloth and placed on the bed.

He had already seen the items; they were useless. They were some letters that Shan Gudao had investigated in the early years, as well as a letter that the Nan Yin princess had written to the Nan Yin sorcerer, in which she asked the sorcerer to take away her child and continue her plan to restore the kingdom.

This letter was probably given to Shan Gudao by Feng Qing, a descendant of a court official from the Southern Yin Dynasty, many years ago, to convince Shan Gudao that he was a descendant of the Southern Yin royal family.

It concerns the matter between Nan Yin and Da Xi.

In short, before the Southern Yin Kingdom was destroyed, it sent a princess to the Great Xi Kingdom for a marriage alliance. The princess married the Crown Prince Fangji of the Great Xi Kingdom and became Consort Xuan.

After the marriage alliance, the Southern Yin Kingdom was destroyed, and Consort Xuan began plotting to restore the kingdom.

He secretly cultivated his own power, refraining from rash actions, and planned to take action only after Crown Prince Fangji became emperor.

She definitely failed, though the show didn't explain how.

Upon learning that she had been misled by a villain and was imprisoned along with Crown Prince Fangji, she wrote a letter to Afeng Lu, a loyal minister of Nanyin and a sorcerer. She arranged for someone to send her child outside the city so that he could guide her to rescue the child and hand him over to the four descendants of Nanyin, Jin Yu and Huang Quan, so that they could continue their plot to restore the kingdom.

However, something must have happened, because Ah Feng Lu did not receive the princess's child.

This led to the Feng family searching for some clues in Daxi for many years, only to find a fake one in the end.

As for the four people, Jin Yu, Huang Quan, and others, after the fall of the Southern Yin Kingdom, they took a large amount of Southern Yin's wealth and integrated into the Great Xi Kingdom.

This money was originally intended for the restoration of the country.

However, the princess's child was never sent over, and it was unclear whether the child was dead or not. As time went on, they developed other ideas and no longer wanted to restore their kingdom. Instead, they took the money from Nan Yin and went off to live their own lives.

In short, this is Li Xiangyi's background: he is a descendant of both the Southern Yin royal family and the Da Xi royal family.

As for why Consort Xuan ended up in prison, Ji Yuan speculated based on clues from the drama.

It's highly likely that the person she referred to as being misled by a villain was a prince of the imperial clan at the time.

According to the official historical records of the Great Hei Dynasty, the prince eventually became the emperor.

He became emperor because the then-Crown Prince Fangji rebelled and was executed by the emperor, which allowed him to ascend the throne.

Take this with a grain of salt; it's highly likely that the changes were made after the prince became emperor.

Based on Consort Xuan's letters, it is speculated that the truth is that the Prince of the Imperial Clan discovered Consort Xuan's intentions. So, on the one hand, he tried to seduce Consort Xuan and told her to support the restoration of the Southern Yin Kingdom. On the other hand, he collected evidence to frame the Crown Prince for plotting a rebellion.

Finally, under the pretext of "purging the court of corrupt officials," he eliminated the crown prince and became the Guangqing Emperor of the Great Xi Dynasty.

However, not long after he became Emperor Guangqing, he discovered that he could not have children.

They tried various methods, including building a Pagoda of Bliss, hoping to change the feng shui and see if it would be effective.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Southern Yin sorcerer Feng Alu disguised himself as a craftsman and infiltrated the palace, intending to assassinate Emperor Guangqing. This might be to avenge the Southern Yin princess, or it might be that the destruction of the Southern Yin kingdom was related to the Great Xi.

However, his assassination attempt failed. Instead, he became involved with Consort Ying, one of Emperor Guangqing's concubines, and they had a son who became the next emperor of the Great Xi Dynasty.

In other words, the current Emperor of Da Xi has long since lost the bloodline of the Da Xi royal family.

In this world, the only one who is likely still of the bloodline of the Dae Hee royal family is Li Xiangyi.

Actually, this is ridiculous. Emperor Guangqing was able to get rid of the crown prince and become emperor. How could he not know that he was being cuckolded?

Perhaps he knew, but he probably didn't care; he couldn't let himself remain childless forever.

Therefore, in order to have offspring, he could make sure that the offspring had no blood relation to him.

Moreover, Emperor Guangqing may have been planning this from the very beginning of building the Pagoda of Bliss.

Because the Tower of Bliss is a huge mechanism; triggering it can instantly cause the tower to collapse into the ground, as if it had vanished into thin air.

In the end, it really came to pass. The place where Feng Alu and Consort Ying secretly kissed was in the Pagoda of Bliss, and Feng Alu was also hidden in the Pagoda of Bliss by Consort Ying.

After Consort Ying successfully gave birth to a child, she activated the mechanism, burying Feng Alu and the Pagoda of Bliss underground forever.

That's why Ji Yuan thought that Emperor Guangqing had known about this all along.

After all, such a huge project and such a big event were all handled by Consort Ying, a mere concubine, while Emperor Guangqing was completely unaware of it.

Totally impossible.

However, Emperor Guangqing's initial plan was probably to find anyone at random, and he never thought of finding the sorcerer Feng Alu from the Southern Yin, but he just happened to find Feng Alu.

If Feng Alu has the blood of the Southern Yin royal family, then this could be considered a different kind of restoration of the Southern Yin kingdom.

……

Ji Yuan then took out Shan Gu Dao's box and looked at the letters inside.

Inside the box was another box with a combination lock. He knew the combination: it was Consort Xuan's birthday.

The paper on the outside of the password box was written by Shan Gudao and contained information about what he had learned from investigating Nan Yin.

Inside the coded box were some important messages, as well as a letter from Consort Xuan.

Ji Yuan was thinking about something at that moment.

Dan Gu Dao is currently hiding in the shadows, still plotting to restore his kingdom. If he doesn't sabotage it, his trip will have been in vain.

He believed in striking at the heart of the matter, and his first step was to find Feng Qing and make him figure out who the Southern Yin royal family descended from.