Chapter 917
Will Not Marry or Have Children
Chapter 917 Will Not Marry or Have Children
Although the students remained at the academy, they could not move around as before, so the entire academy was as quiet as a chicken coop, with not a single person in sight.
The atmosphere was mixed, but if you listened carefully, you could tell that each classroom was full of people.
They were not involved in the battle at the Celestial Master's Mansion at the foot of the mountain.
Even the Zhang family disciples were imprisoned in the academy and were not allowed to step out of the palace gates.
As Pan Yun carried two buckets of water down the mountain, just as she was about to cross the main road to Fengqi Courtyard, she saw a head stick out and then retract, only to quietly stick out again a moment later.
Pan Jun ignored him and walked straight ahead.
But the other person recognized her and immediately greeted her with a series of chuckles.
Seeing that Pan Yun ignored him, he anxiously looked around. When he saw that no one was around, he immediately ran out and stopped her: "Pan Yun, did you come back to participate in the power struggle of the Celestial Master's Mansion?"
Pan Yun: "You also know about the power struggle within the Celestial Master's Mansion?"
Zhang Weiliang's face turned red, and he retorted defiantly, "Why wouldn't I know? I'm a member of the Zhang family!"
After looking him up and down, Pan Yun asked, "Didn't you graduate? Why are you still here?"
Zhang Weiliang lowered his head and said, "My father locked me up here and ordered me to cultivate with my junior brothers. He forbade me to go down the mountain. I know that the Immortal has passed away, and although my eldest brother has prestige, his dantian is completely shattered, so he can't command respect. The second branch's patriarch wants Zhang Liuyuan to take his place. Apart from my second uncle and my father, everyone else in the family supports the second branch, especially the collateral branches. Their power is far greater than that of my eldest brother..."
Zhang Weiliang looked at Pan Yun expectantly: "Pan Yun, did you come back to help Senior Brother?"
Pan Yun hummed in agreement and then said, "This matter alarmed your Zhang family's ancestor, but things have been settled. Senior Brother is now the head of the family."
Zhang Weiliang looked incredulous: "How is this possible? Senior Brother's dantian is completely shattered, how could the ancestors agree to let him become the head of the family?"
Pan Yun raised an eyebrow, a half-smile on her face: "If you suspect Zhang Liuzhen so much, why does your family still support him so much? Aren't you afraid of being implicated and killed?"
Zhang Weiliang: "My second uncle was determined to do things his own way, and my parents had no choice..."
Zhang Weiliang realized what was happening and immediately shut his mouth.
Pan Yun murmured, "No wonder, it turns out you yourselves weren't united..."
No wonder her senior brothers and sisters went to such great lengths for Zhang Liuzhen, rushing to Kunlun Mountain to deliver the giant bird to her and then rushing back at top speed.
Pan Yun snorted and said to Zhang Weiliang, "Senior Brother's dantian is healed."
Zhang Weiliang's mouth dropped open.
Zhang Liuzhen's dantian was healed, which was the most important reason why he was able to successfully succeed to the throne.
No matter how talented or prestigious he was before, if his dantian is shattered, he will not be able to communicate with heaven and earth, nor will he be able to intimidate other Taoist sects. The Celestial Master's Mansion will not recognize him as the Celestial Master.
In fact, in Pan Yun's previous life, Zhang Liuzhen did not become a Celestial Master; he even died before Zhang Maocheng.
His young son succeeded him.
Now, he doesn't even have a wife, let alone a son.
This year, Zhang Maocheng was supposed to arrange a marriage for him, but he still refused.
Pan Yun didn't think it was her fault; she always felt that the changes in this time and space were not solely due to her.
To be able to exist as a separate spacetime, it must naturally be that it has a branching point from her previous world and is different from it.
That evening, as Zhang Liuzhen slowly entered the house in the spring rain, holding an oil-paper umbrella, Pan Yun kept staring at him.
Zhang Liuzhen felt a little embarrassed by her gaze, so she touched her face and asked, "Is there still blood on my face that I haven't washed off?"
Pan Yun shook her head: "It's clean." Zhang Liuzhen then closed her umbrella, casually dragged over a small stool, and sat down next to her on the veranda to enjoy the rain, asking, "Then why are you looking at me?"
Pan Yun: "I wanted to read your face, but I found that I couldn't tell anything from it."
Zhang Liuzhen smiled slightly and said, "It's right that you can't tell. Although I haven't been formally conferred an title, I have already gained the Zhang family's recognition. Now, half of my destiny is intertwined with the destiny of the nation, so naturally you can't see it."
Pan Yun nodded and asked curiously, "Senior Brother, I have a question I'm very curious about, but I don't know if I should ask it?"
"It's not appropriate to ask."
"Now that you mention it, I'm even more eager to ask," Pan Jun said before he could refuse, "Why don't you get married?"
Zhang Liuzhen raised an eyebrow: "So that's what you wanted to ask. I thought you were going to ask something else."
He said calmly, "I have no interest in this."
"So you won't get married in the future?"
Zhang Liuzhen smiled and nodded.
Pan Yun: "Then what about the next Celestial Master?"
Zhang Liuzhen: "Just adopt one. What the Celestial Master wants is status, not blood ties."
Pan Yun seemed to be thinking, "So his psychopathic son disappeared before he was reincarnated?"
Zhang Liuzhen lowered his eyes to carefully observe her expression, and couldn't help but smile softly: "Are you worried that I'll give birth to a troublesome devil?"
Pan Yun's eyes widened: "You know?"
Zhang Liuzhen straightened his sleeves, a smile playing on his lips, and said gently, “Like you, I am born with a Dao body. Your special feature is that you have supernatural powers and a delicate heart that can communicate with all things in the world; while Xue Shao was born with the ability to see qi and be close to the rules of heaven and earth.”
Pan Yun stared intently at him, showing no embarrassment at having her secret exposed, and asked eagerly, "And you, Senior Brother?"
“Me?” Zhang Liuzhen lowered his eyes and met her gaze. He smiled slightly, his voice barely audible: “I can see the past and the future.”
Pan Jun's mouth dropped open.
Zhang Liuzhen lowered her eyes, her gaze falling on her fingers, her voice tinged with doubt: "However, the world I see is very different. Even the same thing will have subtle changes when seen from one time to the next. It's like a world in a grain of sand. I am in this grain of sand and seeing the future of another grain of sand. No, I should say, it is a world of more than one grain of sand."
Pan Yun's lips curled slightly as she said, "Time is irreversible. The future that Senior Brother sees is either a calculation like an illusion, or it has already happened in another world."
Zhang Liuzhen nodded: "I've pondered this for many years on the Cliff of Contemplation, and I've come to the same conclusion."
Zhang Liuzhen raised her eyes: "So, when I saw myself severely injured, confined to the inner quarters by my family, forced into marriage despite my illness, and my child dying from exhaustion before birth, that child..."
Zhang Liuzhen's face was complicated: "He had a very hard life. When his father passed away, he was only six years old. The second branch of the family looted all the valuables. They first tried to kill him in the inner courtyard, but they couldn't. So my mother took him and fled the mansion. They were surrounded and intercepted along the way. The retainers, guards, and servants who were with him died as they fled. When they reached the capital, out of fifty-six people, only six remained. They protected him and fled to the Zhenwu Temple on the outskirts of the capital. They almost all died at the hands of the second branch of the family. It was only when the officials of the Daolu Division arrived that they were rescued."
However, the second uncle was only punished by being sent to Chaotian Palace to clean the ancestral temple.
"Doesn't that sound terrible?" Zhang Liuzhen turned to look at Pan Yun, and sneered, "But after he grew up, he overstepped the bounds and violated the rules, forcibly abducted innocent women, raped other men's wives and daughters, and set up private prisons, resulting in forty-one deaths!"
Zhang Liuzhen's gaze slowly fell on the paulownia tree, and he said softly, "Everything Xiao Hong went through, he will do in the future."
Pan Yun remained silent.
"I don't know if he was terrified during that battle royale or if he was born a bad seed, but whatever the reason, now that I know, I will not let this bastard come into the world."
Therefore, he never thought about getting married and having children.
(End of this chapter)