Zhao Kuangyin Draped in the Yellow Robe. Guo Rong was terminally ill, yet he had delayed Attaining the Dao as an Earth Immortal all this time because he wanted to protect and guide his young son, Chai Zongxun, for a few more years.
But now, he truly could not hold on anymore.
If he kept dragging it out, he—Guo Rong, Chai Rong, the second emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, the reincarnation of the Calamity Divine Demon—would die from a trifling Inner Demon illness.
Chai Rong himself had never imagined that he, the reincarnation of a mighty Chaos Divine Demon, would be so bound by his attachment to his dead mortal wife and children that, year after year, he would wake from dreams at midnight and personally witness his wife and children being killed by the Han Emperor Liu Chengyou.
As time went on, this became an Inner Demon illness.
At the final stage, when he was already beyond cure, Chai Rong called Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi to his bedside.
After years of association, the Zhao brothers had already become Chai Rong's trusted aides, the people he trusted most.
Thus, at this moment, Chai Rong chose the Zhao brothers as the ministers to whom he would entrust his orphaned son!
"Zhao Kuangyin, my son... I leave him to you."
"If he proves capable, then assist him. If he has no talent, then this world... take it in his place."
Zhao Kuangyin said, "Rest assured, Your Majesty. This subject will not fail your trust!"
Zhao Guangyi said, "Rest assured, fellow cultivator. With me and my elder brother here, nothing will happen to Chai Zongxun."
Hearing the brothers' assurances, Chai Rong smiled and set his mind at ease. "Very good, very good."
Two and a half days later, Chai Rong Attained the