"Tea... Teacher...! This... this is really...?"
Listening to Qing Mo paint the blueprint of his future, Li Chengqian, seated beside him, could not even form a complete sentence!
He had never imagined that his teacher's sights were set on the entire world!
He was treating the whole world as a chessboard, making his blood brothers the pieces upon it!
What shocked him even more was that Qing Mo wanted Li Tai, Li Ke, and the others to go forth and seize the vast lands beyond the Tang Dynasty—even beyond Asia—and continuously spread China's bloodline and culture outward until they had expanded across the entire world!
To be honest, this idea was simply too bold, too utterly staggering!
But...!
But if things truly went as Qing Mo had said—if he, Li Chengqian, became the one to drive this vision forward, the one to begin spreading China's bloodline and cultural heritage throughout the entire world, making those of Chinese blood the masters of the world!
If his brothers were to carve out territories overseas and be enfeoffed as kings, wielding an emperor's authority!
Though on the surface they would revere him and the Tang Dynasty as supreme!
In the lands they conquered themselves, they would be emperors there!
If... if they truly achieved what Qing Mo had described!
Then he, Li Chengqian, would become the one and only emperor unmatched through all ages!
Li Chengqian took a deep breath and tried his best to calm himself from his overwhelming shock. Yet his eyes now burned with blazing fervor and an iron-like resolve!
"Teacher, such a grand vision and mighty undertaking are far beyond this student's imagination!"
"This student is willing to follow Teacher's plans. Even if the road ahead holds a thousand hardships and ten thousand perils, even if it is thick