Chapter 840: Luo Su entered the pass
In his youth, influenced by the world around him, Yang Jian had been a devout Buddhist. He also believed in the existence of deities. Since ancient times, the emperors recorded in histories had always been extraordinary from birth.
The Five Emperors were like gods; many were conceived through divine dragons or descended through the intervention of deities.
When the Sage King descended, purple qi came from the east for thirty thousand li.
When Xi Shi, mother of the Luo River Goddess, was pregnant, she once dreamed of a phoenix entering her embrace. At the birth, purple radiance filled the room.
The Qin emperor had a great sun enter his embrace.
Emperor Gao of Han was said to have been born of a dragon.
Legends had emerged endlessly since ancient times: posthumous titles submitted to Supreme Heaven, the great oath at the Luo River that destroyed the entire Sima clan. He could hardly disbelieve them.
But all that lasted only until he became the Son of Heaven.
He was certain that no unusual phenomena had accompanied his birth, nor had any supernatural signs appeared during his rise to the throne.
Yet the people of the realm thought otherwise, because, actively or passively, he was spreading certain claims.
Amid countless rumors, the one deliberately spread by the Luo Clan gradually reached the Central Plains. It was a song: the Luo Clan was coming back.
But many popular rumors claimed that a sage had appeared in the world, prompting Heaven to send down unusual signs.
Could members of the Luo Clan Lineage truly still exist?
Was the Luo Clan really preparing to return south, back to the Central Plains from that legendary Winter City?
The Luo Clan in Winter City naturally knew nothing of the searches