Song Qingyue was being so rude!

He still remembered how low Song Qingyue had bowed when Song Hengjiang died.

He still remembered how that proud young lord of the water mansion had wagged his tail and begged for mercy, allowing himself to be driven.

He had almost tamed this fellow into a dog!

Considering the merits accumulated by the Qingjiang water race since the founding of the Zhuang Kingdom, he had listened to Du Rujui’s suggestion and implemented a slow strategy against the Qingjiang water mansion, wanting to quietly complete control over the Qingjiang water race.

The entire plan could be completed in five years.

If it cooperated with his next step of plundering Lanhe, the time could even be advanced.

At that time, Song Qingyue’s life or death would be irrelevant.

But before today, who could have imagined that he, a contemporary True Person with a lifespan of one thousand two hundred and ninety-six years, would not even have these five years?

Du Yehu rebelled, Song Qingyue rebelled.

Du Rujui was hiding, daring not to show his face!

Great General Huangfu Duanming had actually betrayed him too?

By this point, Zhuang Gaoenv was no longer angry.

Human hearts are unpredictable; this lesson is ancient.

He had also never trusted human hearts.

When Du Rujui was his teacher, the first sentence he taught him was, “The Emperor should doubt!”

So no matter what choice others made, he was actually not surprised.

His anger was in having leisure time. Except for a shaking state, nothing could truly shake his mind.

But the shaking state was already an established fact.

He accepted all this, then came to face all this.

The Qingjiang Water Lord’s scolding was endless, but Zhuang Gaoenv only wiped the sky with his backhand. It was like holding a cloth, wiping away all the thunder, rain, and clouds in the sky. The night sky returned to clear brightness, but one could see scattered stars, flickering like mysterious eyes, watching this difficult war.

This fellow Song Qingyue was very cunning; his true body was hidden in the Qingjiang water mansion, only using the power of the water veins to send his voice, making it impossible for him to forcibly kill and seize power. Jiang Wang and others who had been chasing and killing him to this point would not allow him to kill his way into the Qingjiang water mansion.

It was impossible to give up.

Although mountain authority and water authority were not in sync, and the backlash from the state situation had even made his combat power unstable, his Dao body suffered disaster, making it more difficult to respond to the siege.

But in his life, there were absolutely no words for giving up.

Wiping away that patch of thunder and rain clouds was wiping away Song Qingyue’s right to speak.

Under his feet were the mountains and rivers of the Zhuang Kingdom; he represented the imperial dynasty’s orthodoxy. On this land, he did not believe he was isolated and without aid!

That year, Han Yin was cut off from the support of the state situation on the battlefield, thus suffering defeat and death. But he and Han Yin were not necessarily the same.

He had formally accepted the Yujing Mountain edict seal in the first year of Zhuang Li Yongtai, which was the year 3904 of Dao Li, becoming the Zhengxia Emperor acknowledged by the Dao Gate.

In the year 3918 of Dao Li, he won the crucial war of Zhuang-Yongguo, and that year, the era name was changed to Dading.

To this day, the sixth year of Zhuang Li Dading, throughout the Dading period, the Zhuang Kingdom had enjoyed favorable weather, and the people lived in peace. How could this not be the merit of a monarch? How could this not be the rule of a wise monarch?

Counting on his fingers, it had already been nineteen years as Emperor! If counting from the day he took power, it was even longer. From the day he sat on the dragon throne, it was even longer.

He was the monarch with the most achievements in the history of the Zhuang Kingdom; he had pushed the Zhuang Kingdom to unprecedented heights.

If it were said that no one in the entire Zhuang Kingdom supported him, and all were like Jiang Wang and Du Yehu, whose hearts were covered by pig fat… he did not believe it!

Under the wheel attacks of the Dragon Light Shoot Dou, Tianzi Sword, and Long Xiang Si, he suddenly dodged left and right, upside down, exhausting his efforts to parry and maneuver, fully displaying the demeanor of a True Person. Seizing the opportunity, he then drove his Qi to speak, saying loudly—

“Great Zhuang Emperor Zhuang Gaoenv, edict commands the world!”

As soon as the first sentence was spoken, he discovered that this voice was not autonomous.

Jiang Wang held nothing back against him.

The jade-colored body became an Ear Immortal, actually flying out a Guan Zizai Ear. Its clear brilliance was truly like an immortal! Sitting high in the sky, it directly controlled all sounds within a radius of three thousand Zhang in this heaven and earth!

Orders could not be transmitted, nor could they arrive!

Zhuang Gaoenv coldly snorted. That slightly plump face, at this moment, was surrounded by clear Qi, and his majesty suddenly emerged.

Behind him, mountains and rivers vaguely appeared differently, and ten thousand people prostrated.

All said—”My Emperor ten thousand years, ten thousand ten thousand years!”

Endless voices impacted this square heaven and earth. He drove the truth of the world, adding to his voice, forcefully confronting the Ear Immortal, breaking through the voice blockade!

Thus he said—

“Now there are national thieves, defying ethics, wanting to assassinate the monarch!”

“Our family and country, accumulated over three generations, a thousand li of mountains and rivers, will they actually perish once?”

“If this can be tolerated, what cannot be tolerated!”

“All my people of the Zhuang Kingdom, how can we tolerate this great evil!”

“I decree it—righteous men of the world, rise up for the loyal king. Ministers of the world, obey my decree!”

“The world should beat the drum for me; I will fight more for the world. Now I tread the extreme heaven and earth, reorganize the mountains and rivers, and save the state altar again.”

“This is truly the machine for the survival or destruction of the world; do not endanger it! Together, punish the national thieves!!!”

After all, he was a contemporary True Person, the Zhengxia Emperor. His words inevitably spread throughout the Zhuang Kingdom. Over four thousand li of land, for a time, was filled with the Emperor’s holy intent, shaking unceasingly.

The whole country was boiling!

The capital of the Zhuang Kingdom was named “Xin’an”. Du Yehu led the Jiujiang Xuanjia to defend it.

Du Rujui’s personal arrival had still not caused waves; at this moment, he was still silent.

This was the central pivot of the Zhuang Kingdom, the most core place. Controlling Xin’an city was like controlling a person’s heart.

And the eight hundred li Qingjiang water system was complex, like a person’s blood vessels. The Qingjiang Water Lord raising a clan rebellion thus stopped the blood from flowing, making the human body not smooth.

Zhuang Gaoenv also had no choice but to proclaim the slogan of the loyal king.

Once the loyal king of the world rose up, and the mountains and rivers were covered in blood, the “blood vessels” would open, the “heart” would move, and he would have the opportunity to break through the dilemma of being blocked by the state situation and truly mobilize the power of this country. He could also remotely respond to the dragon vein, break the seal, and bombard the dragon thief with dragon Qi!

Even if he retreated one step, the military and political system of the Zhuang Kingdom was already paralyzed, and the county soldiers and righteous heroes in various places were not enough to penetrate the state situation.

As long as, as he said, “ministers of the world, obey my decree,” all levels of officials in the Zhuang Kingdom would respect the Emperor with the power of officialdom. The people everywhere in the Zhuang Kingdom would worship the Emperor with the hearts of the people.

He could still, from the most basic level of this country, re-gather power and contend with the state situation with this power!

Where was the meaning of the state system? Where was the meaning of so many ordinary people?

To Zhuang Gaoenv, at this moment, this was the answer!

But…

When he truly reviewed this world, he soberly knew that this matter was not so easy. Today’s opponent had a profound understanding of the state system, completely sealing the passes and pinching the state’s throat!

The four counties of the Zhuang Kingdom were named “Hualin,” “Daishan,” “Qinghe,” and “Yongchang.”

Hualin County was the center of the empire, where the Zhuang capital was located, receiving the radiation influence of Xin’an city. The ten thousand families in Xin’an city closed their doors, the White Feather Army all sat obediently in their camps and did not go out. In the entire Hualin County, how many early birds were there?

There was no need to mention Qinghe County; it was too deeply affected by the Qingjiang. Thirty thousand water race warriors patrolling the Qingjiang were sufficient to deter the absolute majority of cities. The county government in Qinghe city had already fallen, and the Qinghe County guard were all prisoners.

Daishan County was where Jiujiang city was located. Zhuang Gaoenv himself was also clear about the influence of the Jiujiang Xuanjia in Daishan County. At this moment, patrolling with drawn swords in Xin’an city, suppressing his Zhuang surname imperial power, many of them were people from Daishan!

And Yongchang County… this newly annexed county, cut from Yong soil, it was fortunate that it had not split at this time; the support it could give him, this Zhuang Kingdom Emperor, was also pitifully small.

The border army of the Zhuang Kingdom was powerful, but facing the Yong Kingdom army watching like a tiger in Yin’ge city, how could the Lock Dragon Pass be easily let go? Moreover, the border army was personally garrisoned by Great General Huangfu Duanming, and Huangfu Duanming had always looked up to Du Rujui…

Of course, the Zhuang Kingdom had a county-city system. All levels of officials, except the central pivot ministers, and the city lords in various places were also important.

Just like in San Shan city, the fat young city lord immediately put on his armor and held his knife when he heard this decree, rushing to the city lord’s mansion council hall.

The noble City Lord Dou Yueye of San Shan city was just drinking tea and chatting with the high-level officials of San Shan city, seemingly unaware of anything.

These adults who were delaying in enjoyment!

“Mother!” Sun Xiaoyan shouted, waking up these uncles and aunts who did not care about state affairs… and his old mother: “The Emperor has issued a decree, wanting the world to be loyal to the king! Let’s quickly assemble the soldiers—”

Dou Yueye, who was sitting at the head, looked over in surprise, waved his hand signaling him to come closer: “What did you say? Mother didn’t hear clearly.”

Sun Xiaoyan took big steps and came closer, raising his voice, very seriously preparing to say it again: “Mother! I just said—”

Dou Yueye slapped his forehead: “What are you eating? Is now the time to eat? You want to eat? You just ate too full!”

Sun Xiaoyan was slapped to turn several circles in place.

Shaking his head, dizzy, he walked out of the council hall.

Very wronged, very much wanted his sister…

The attitude of City Lord Dou Yueye of San Shan city was absolutely not an isolated case.

Because under Zhuang Gaoenv’s political ideas, Dou Yueye’s experience was also not an isolated case!

And now, since the mountains and rivers had changed positions and the state altar had been overturned, how could Xin’an city allow Zhuang Gaoenv to leisurely use imperial power and dispatch people?

After his imperial decree, another political order immediately came out from Xin’an city, borrowing the state situation to spread throughout the world—

“I, Li Jianqiu, succeed the legacy of Dong Shi, entrusted by Du Xiang, with the Prime Minister’s seal, I order the world!”

“Zhuang Gaoenv is an immoral monarch, acting against the times, overturning Fenglin and plundering true essence, harming common life to enrich one person, the world publicly sees!”

“Common people cannot be bullied; how can common life be taken lightly?”

“The dim monarch wants to make the mountains and rivers bleed dry; the Prime Minister’s mansion only wishes for peace for the ten thousand people!”

“The Prime Minister’s mansion transmits the order to various counties and cities: your salaries, your emoluments, the people’s fat, the people’s ointment, please consider the livelihood of the people, treat the people well, immediately close the city gates, and do not follow the chaotic orders. Our vast Zhuang Kingdom can naturally wash away the demonic atmosphere. The people should sit in peace, do not try to warm wine in a red furnace, and quietly wait for the dawn!”

The check and balance of monarchical power and prime ministerial power is an eternal topic of the state system.

Who the common people should listen to is often decided by the influence of the monarch and the prime minister.

Most of the time, of course, the monarch is above the prime minister, but counting through the past dynasties of various countries, powerful prime ministers are not few. Precisely, Du Rujui held the Prime Minister’s mansion, and his influence in the Zhuang Kingdom was extremely deep!

Because during those years when Zhuang Gaoenv sat alone in the deep palace, the entire country was supported by Du Rujui alone. The Prime Minister’s mansion in the Zhuang Kingdom was almost equivalent to the court; many times, orders came out from the Prime Minister’s mansion.

Zuoqiu Wu, the dean of the Diligent Book Academy, once conducted an experiment—

He would project the same class of students as two pages of a history book. In the two pages of the history book, he would ask the same question. In the first page, he would say “agree please stand,” and in the latter page, he would say “disagree please stand.” The results actually showed a significant difference.

Zuoqiu Wu was a great historian and a famous Confucian who studied human nature. His research was for cultivation, and it truly allowed humans to understand humans better.

Humans are born fearing trouble, and of course, they fear danger even more.

The Zhuang monarch’s order was to call the world to come and fight desperately. The Prime Minister’s mansion’s command was to tell the people of the world that they did not need to do anything.

This made the choice of the people tilted at the instinctual level.

Of course, the Zhuang clan had ruled this place for three generations, several hundred years, and Zhuang Gaoenv had been Emperor for several decades, receiving the Yujing Mountain edict seal for nineteen years. Zhuang Gaoenv naturally had a very strong appeal in this country.

But the Jiujiang Xuanjia rebelled, the Qingjiang water army raised the flag, Huangfu Duanming was already dead, the border army could not move lightly, and even if they moved, it would not be in time… who could, like his order, lead an army to penetrate the mountains and rivers?

Not that no one was willing, but no one could!

Just at this time, Jiang Wang also spoke.

His voice was like thunder, with a sky-shaking posture, rolling over the mountains and rivers of the Zhuang Kingdom. The sound of outer Dao vajra thunder descended; the world could not help but hear it!

“I am Jiang Wang.”

He said thus.

By now, he no longer needed to introduce himself.

In any country in the present world, the two words ‘Jiang Wang’ were enough.

And in the Zhuang Kingdom, this name was perhaps more evil, more terrifying, and also more powerful.

He said in a deep voice: “My hatred for Zhuang Gaoenv is as deep as the sea; today I must kill him. Whoever dares to block the road is my enemy. Enemies and I do not share this life!”

He only said this one sentence, and he only needed this one sentence.

He wanted to deter not only the officials of various roads in the Zhuang Kingdom, but also those people or forces who felt that Zhuang Gaoenv had investment potential and wanted to lend a hand.

He announced his hatred, showed his determination. If anyone felt that his, Jiang Wang’s, hatred was not worth mentioning, then despite stepping onto this battlefield of life and death!

As soon as this sentence came out, Zhuang Gaoenv clearly felt that the power of the people’s will that was constantly surging towards him was instantly cut in half. The deterrent force of the name Jiang Wang had reached such a level!

The scattered surging power of the people’s will was fundamentally not enough to support him in countering the group of pursuers.

But his fighting spirit was still not extinguished.

If Jiang Wang and the others thought that they could end this war in this way, then they were greatly mistaken!

Why could the Zhuang Kingdom stand in the western border, and why could he, Zhuang Gaoenv, preserve the state altar when his strength was insufficient? It did not rely on Han Yin’s kindness.

It relied on Yujing Mountain!

Behind the Zhuang Kingdom, there was a reliance, namely the Dao belonging country, the Zhengxia Empire recorded in the Dao Gate register!

His name was on both the “Yuqing Jin Ce” and the “Yuan Shi Yu Ce”.

If he had an accident, Yujing Mountain could not fail to protect him.

Yujing Mountain had invested so many years in the Zhuang Kingdom; it was impossible not to seek a harvest.

Exactly, on the border of the Zhuang Kingdom, there was the gold page of the Yuqing Jin Ce and the jade page of the Yuan Shi Yu Ce!

The methods of these pursuers were varied; being chased and killed in this way, all the credible methods he could think of were cut off.

But could these thieves cut off the “Yuqing Jin Ce” and “Yuan Shi Yu Ce”?

Zhuang Gaoenv raised his palm to resist the Tianzi Sword, avoided Wang Changji’s gaze, not letting him have the opportunity to open a divine soul battlefield, then tied a seal with one hand—

The great Palm Master of the Yujing Mountain sect!

Although the opportunity to contact him within ten years had been used up, now was the crucial time for the survival of the Zhuang Kingdom’s state altar. How could Yujing Mountain not save it?

The seal had already formed, and the Yuxu Qi was furiously urged. He requested the power of Zixu True Lord to descend, requested Yujing Mountain to intervene, and help him reorganize the mountains and rivers!

However, when he urged the Yuxu Qi to its limit, he did not feel that gold page and jade page… just as if they had never existed.

He had wasted so much power in vain again!

How could they not exist?

Where did they go?

Who hid them? Or were they already destroyed?

Du Rujui…

He thought of this name again.

These gold page and jade page, except for him, only Du Rujui had the authority to mobilize them. He had only given Du Rujui such power!

Such favor and honor, and now, what harvest?

Are you seeking Cave True, or seeking what?

You really should die!!!

Zhuang Gaoenv’s summoning of the “Yuqing Jin Ce” and “Yuan Shi Yu Ce” yielded nothing, and the mobilized Yuxu Qi rushed empty. But he himself did not fall empty.

Which of the people surrounding and attacking him were willing to call him lonely?

That light and shadow were complex, all were sky-covering killing methods!

He stubbornly responded to the endless offensive like a tidal wave, but in the moment of not contacting the gold page and jade page—in this lost moment, a terrifying pressure filled the loss!

Boom boom boom!

It was the sound of thunder!

Zhuang Gaoenv cautiously looked with his Kunlun Pupil and saw a thunder and lightning eye, which appeared in Wang Changji’s palm, rapidly turning into a thunder pool.

Not just one, but five.

Five thunder pools connected, and what fell down was a sea!

He had always avoided Wang Changji’s line of sight to avoid falling into a fierce battle with his divine soul again, but because of this, he did not avoid this strike.

Because his current position was precisely where he had avoided the line of sight during the chaotic battle… a subconscious choice!

Wang Changji watched with cold eyes, like a traveler passing by, then struck with one blow.

He pressed this patch of thunder sea onto Zhuang Gaoenv’s body!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Zhuang Gaoenv raised one hand high, and a dark swirl appeared in his palm. The Hun Dong Gui Yuan technique had been urged to its limit by him… but with a crackling sound, it instantly exploded!

His Kunlun Pupil suddenly opened wide. It was as if at the beginning of heaven and earth, the clear Qi rose. His Yuxu Qi thus surged madly towards the sky—the will of the people! The position of the Emperor! The Kunlun Pupil! The Yuxu Qi!

Thus, these four combined to form a brilliant canopy.

It was an umbrella for the mountains and rivers!

This was his trump card defensive secret method, fusing the secret transmission of Yujing Mountain and the Emperor’s secret technique into one, never shown before.

The thunder sea boomed on the mountains and rivers umbrella, finally not fundamentally injuring Zhuang Gaoenv, only booming him and the umbrella down from the high sky.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Amidst the booming thunder, he held the luxurious big umbrella and fell composedly.

When his feet touched the real ground, he noticed that this place was somewhat familiar in its desolation.

He couldn’t help but look up and saw a stone tablet—from this angle, he could only see the back of the stone tablet, but he remembered correctly that on the front of this stone tablet, there was a sacrifice text he had personally written, and it was sealed and carved by the state academy’s sacrifice wine.

But all this was not important…

There was an old man sitting leaning against the stone tablet.

His head was bowed low, as if very tired… and indeed he had permanently fallen asleep.

Not far away, there was also a prostrate charred corpse, belonging to an irrelevant person named “Lin Zhengren”.

Looking at the old man on the back of the stone tablet.

Even cold and ruthless as Zhuang Gaoenv, he was stunned for an instant.

The person he thought should really die…

Had already died.

In the Prime Minister’s mansion, Li Jianqiu held his sword horizontally, guarding the Prime Minister’s seal.

Not far from the desk, on the corridor pillar, Fu Baosong was securely tied there. He leaned against the corridor pillar, unable to move or speak.

In the vast main hall, there were only two of them, only one dim oil lamp.

They were the two people whom Great Zhuang Prime Minister Du Rujui valued and cultivated the most in recent years.

They were both sitting, just in different positions.

Li Jianqiu drew his sword from its sheath, breaking the silence. He used the sword tip to pick the lampwick, and the room immediately brightened up.

Zhuang Gaoenv was stunned, but Jiang Wang was not.

It was very good that Du Rujui was dead, but how could he die alone?

He chased the mountains and rivers umbrella and killed over. Jiang Wang again began to transform his body into three realms, wanting to take advantage of Zhuang Gaoenv’s fluctuating mind to strike him hard again.

But Zhuang Gaoenv instantly came back to his senses, raising his hand was Nan Yuan Bei Zhe, forcefully pushing Jiang Wang far away.

At this time, Zhao Rucheng, Wang Changji, and the others had all fallen down, still surrounding Zhuang Gaoenv, still attacking one after another.

This time, Zhuang Gaoenv actually followed his own Nan Yuan Bei Zhe path and approached Jiang Wang!

He held the mountains and rivers umbrella in his hand, wore a crown robe, and had his hair scattered.

He had escaped this path, tried so many methods, and so many possibilities had been cut off. He suddenly felt very tired!

And anger arose amidst the tiredness. He stared fiercely at Jiang Wang. It was a jade-colored Kunlun Pupil staring at a red Qian Yang Pupil.

“Why!?”

He angrily asked: “Why did a God approaching the border come seeking death now!? Since you have endured so many years, why not continue to endure!?”

He had always been preparing for a duel after Jiang Wang’s Cave True—if all his strangulation methods before Jiang Wang’s Cave True did not succeed, then he would accept a Cave True level duel.

That duel was originally supposed to be in more than ten years, or even several decades later. Even if Jiang Wang could compare to Li Yi, he should still have three years!

He had such a clear plan for the future, a grand ambition within reach, the thorough subjugation of the Qingjiang water race, the construction of the national protective array, the sorting out of domestic military and political power, the third war against the Yong Kingdom… he had planned every step well, and prepared for every step for a long time.

Yujing Mountain, Jing Kingdom, Yizhen Dao, Mohists, he maneuvered among various sides, calmly seizing growth resources.

He had always been the victor on this path.

But why had Jiang Wang come now?

When everything was still not thoroughly formed, and all plans were only half-finished!?

He was indeed caught off guard.

This was indeed impossible to imagine beforehand!

Jiang Wang held his sword, and outside his body was the illusion of three realms.

He had already extremely allocated his power. On this path of chase and kill, unless it was a crucial moment, he would absolutely not lightly use the Body Transformation into Three Realms state.

But facing a True Person like Zhuang Gaoenv, if he did not use the Body Transformation into Three Realms, he fundamentally had no qualification to confront him head-on.

On this path of consumption, killing to this point, he was already barely managing.

But there was not the slightest bit of retreat in his eyes.

He just said: “When the previous generation White Bone Saintess killed your grandma, your grandpa endured; when the White Bone Zunshen killed your dad, your grandpa endured; when the people of a city were sacrificed to the evil cult, you endured! You all felt yourselves were more important. I am not the same as you; I cannot endure.”

Zhuang Gaoenv fundamentally did not care about his arrangements for his own grandfather. Zhuang Gaoenv originally wanted to ask, where were they not the same?

But Jiang Wang spoke again: “That day under the Qingjiang water, I knew you were coming! You perhaps also knew I went over! But there are still many things you don’t know!”

Zhuang Gaoenv’s eyes changed. He let go of Nan Yuan Bei Zhe and indeed took a big step forward, killing together with Jiang Wang: “For example?”

Jiang Wang felt Zhuang Gaoenv’s anger. The enemy’s attack made him focus, and the enemy’s anger made him joyful!

His voice squeezed out from between his teeth: “Suppose you knew that your grandpa was actually still alive all these years, that he watched with wide eyes as your dad died, watched with wide eyes as you suffered bullying, I don’t know if you can endure it?”

He held his sword and counterattacked, meeting Zhuang Gaoenv with attack against attack!

“Suppose you knew that the timing to kill Dong A was found by your grandpa, that he did it to lure me into demonhood, to stimulate my killing intent, thereby making Du Rujui without a successor and unable to attain Cave True. I don’t know if you can endure it?”

“Suppose you knew that the last remnant soul of Zhuang Chengqian was killed by me! He just died under the Qingjiang water, died before you arrived! I don’t know if you can still endure it?!”

Was it true? Was it false?

Zhuang Gaoenv was so smart, such a suspicious person, of course, he could find the answer in the history of the Zhuang Kingdom.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Zhuang Kingdom shook his body and rose, his uncontrollable killing intent suddenly became very fierce and noisy. Finally, he also began to hate!

But Zhao Rucheng’s sword forced its way in, the Tianzi Sword cutting the Tianzi Qi.

Under the Lingxi state, his left hand expertly created a rift in the ground, bent his finger, and pointed—Nine Tribulations Cave Immortal Finger!

“Die!”

Zhuang Gaoenv turned He Duan Fu Chang, making Jiang Wang’s counterattack turn on himself.

Then he boomed out a punch.

Only a crisp cracking sound was heard, directly shattering Zhao Rucheng’s finger bone!

The power of He Duan Fu Chang was reversed in the dark.

Jiang Wang, who was just attacking with his sword using the Dao path of “I am not praised, I am all not I”, suddenly suffered this change, and his sword turned on himself. Yet, a Qingyun flashed, and even folded several turns, his body counterattacked with his finger instead of a sword, raising the Yanfu Sword Prison, caging this sword into it, resolving it on the spot!

The seemingly insoluble He Duan Fu Chang was broken head-on!

Zhuang Gaoenv had used it too many times today; it was not fresh!

He controlled the power of reversal.

In that instant, he simply used Jiang Wang’s sword move to attack Jiang Wang himself.

But Jiang Wang himself could receive it!

After receiving it, he rushed forward again, using a sword style that was still fierce and unwavering, to tell Zhuang Gaoenv a re-clarified fact—

“From this moment on, if you want He Duan Fu Chang to take effect on me, there is only one way—let me kill you!”

All moves have traces to follow; life and death reversal is just unavoidable.

But in that instant of life and death, could Zhuang Gaoenv turn He Duan Fu Chang in time, and did he dare to gamble?!!

Zhuang Gaoenv had the answer.

He suddenly punched, smashing away the Dragon Light Shoot Dou, then used Nan Yuan Bei Zhe to push away Jiang Wang. Then his body turned and actually fell before that spirit tablet, pressing his palm on the spirit tablet!

His terrifying power dissipated under his palm, directly grinding Du Rujui’s corpse into powder, which a strong wind blew away without a trace. And that thus smoothed spirit tablet seemed to become his scepter.

He just supported himself like this, propping up the mountains and rivers with this tablet. Terrifying Yuan Qi power pushed away all enemies from the four sides and eight directions with him as the center: “Past, present, future, I am the master of the mountains and rivers!”

“The Great Zhuang state altar has been three hundred years, Taizu cut through thorns, Ren Emperor painstakingly managed, countless people succeeded one after another, countless people heroic rivers and mountains, only to become today’s four thousand li!”

“Past generations of heroic spirits, unmatched statesmen, do you still remember?!!”

“In the name of the Great Zhuang Emperor, I summon you, etc.!”

“Protect my rivers and mountains!”

The spirit tablet under his palm instantly lit up. That was a blood-colored light shining, fierce, cruel, yet fervent, powerful!

Not just here?

At this time, if someone flew to an extremely high place, they could see, with Fenglin city here as the starting point, San Shan city, Shanyang city, Qinglan city, Jiujiang city…

In many cities where heroic sacrifices were once made, where innocent bones were once buried, such lights lit up, and such spirit tablets were erected!

At first glance, it was like the vast land was lit up with blood lanterns one by one!

The spirit tablet under Zhuang Gaoenv’s palm was actually also a means he had buried!

It was not only mourning, not only acting, but also wanting to fully utilize the demise of the Fenglin city domain!

The old city lord of Fenglin city once cried in the temple wanting justice—”So many people in Fenglin city domain, how can they just be sacrificed in vain?”

Zhuang Gaoenv today gave the answer—”Not a vain sacrifice, there is still room for utilization after death!”

Yes, he was calling out to the entire country.

Calling out to the people of today, and the heroic spirits of the past.

He summoned all the people, alive and dead, to stand out, maintain his, Zhuang Gaoenv’s, authority, and continue to contribute power to the Zhuang surname imperial dynasty. Contribute in life, and contribute after death.

He wanted to use these spirit tablets, use the heroic spirits of past generations who died for the Zhuang Kingdom, to condense the state situation again and gather his invincible power!

Remnant thoughts, remnant souls, remnant intents, became rivers and seas drop by drop.

Countless streams of light gathered towards him, and his crown robe was bathed in divine glory!

At this moment, ten thousand spirits turned towards the Emperor. The Zhuang surname imperial family’s operation for more than three hundred years, he used it all today.

Those who died for the Zhuang Kingdom in past generations were fighting for the Zhuang monarch today.

No matter if it was Jiang Wang, Zhao Rucheng, Zhu Weiwo, or Wang Changji, Lin Xian, Bai Yuxia, at this moment, they could not approach him, and were all forcibly pushed back.

This was a pure and majestic power, the state situation added to the Emperor’s body, surpassing the category of Dao techniques and divine abilities. How could anyone under Cave True reach it?

Even the power of Curse Death that had always been rampant in his body obediently hid at this time, unable to act recklessly!

In the Zhuang Kingdom’s capital, Xin’an city, Du Yehu urgently rushed into the Prime Minister’s mansion and threw a roll of yellow silk in front of Li Jianqiu: “Quick!”

Li Jianqiu also did not say much. He spread out the scroll, used the imperial intent as a brush, and quickly wrote.

Dozens of words dissecting his heart and liver were a book for the heroic spirits to rest.

Du Yehu gathered the soldiers’ evil as power, forcibly pressed down the jade seal transmitting the country, stamped the seal on the end of the scroll, and thus it was a national book!

Li Jianqiu then affixed the Prime Minister’s seal to it and said seriously: “Go find Song Qingyue and let him add the Water Lord’s seal. Now our name is not right, our words are not smooth; if we don’t add the Water Lord’s seal, it’s not enough to contend, and we cannot soothe the heroic spirits.”

Du Yehu grabbed this book with his big hand, soared up, and quickly flew towards the Qingjiang water mansion—

But could he arrive in time, and could he contend?

At this time, Zhuang Gaoenv’s divine splendor was flying; how many houses in the world were rebellious, and how could treacherous ministers and thieves be?

I will chop them with one intent!

He was the Lord of Heaven’s Mandate, he was the Zhengxia Emperor. As long as his feet were on this land, he should be an invincible existence.

To reverse this heart is to reverse the heart of heaven.

To reverse this mandate is to be a national thief.

But at this time…

Thud thud thud!

The sound of knocking on a door echoed.

“May I ask if there is anyone inside?” A voice asked thus.

It was a solid, warm voice.

Jiang Wang was stunned and raised his head. Zhao Rucheng was shocked and revealed his face!

“Disturbing you.” That voice said: “I only want to see… if there is still someone alive.”

After this polite apology, the sound of pushing a door echoed.

Even that Emperor Zhuang who received the worship of ten thousand spirits was also shocked and lowered his head for a time—

The spirit tablet under his palm, just like a door, was slowly being pushed open!

The light of heaven and earth turned, things changed, and stars shifted.

Everyone in the field appeared in a patch of ruins.

The earth was cracked, the sky was dark, with broken walls and remnants everywhere, and densely packed graves…

Jiang Wang felt as if struck by thunder!

Zhao Rucheng dared not believe and looked left and right.

Even the always cold and indifferent Wang Changji lowered his eyes at this moment.

This place was…

This place was the Fenglin city domain that had been peeled off from the present world for many years!

This was the gap between the present world and the nether world.

Yes.

Zhuang Gaoenv was the Zhengxia Emperor of the Zhuang Kingdom, the direct descendant of the Zhuang surname imperial clan that had ruled this land for three hundred years.

He was calling out to the present and history of this country, he was calling out to the people and heroic spirits. He summoned all the people of the Zhuang Kingdom to fight for him!

And the tens of thousands of people in the Fenglin city domain… the tens of thousands of people he had abandoned and forgotten…

They were also people of the Zhuang Kingdom.

They therefore came back.

They were sunk in the gap between the nether world and the present world, returning in the pain of eternal sinking, returning to see His Majesty the Emperor!

Could the Emperor of the Zhuang Kingdom face the people of the Zhuang Kingdom?

Zhuang Gaoenv was horrified to discover that the power of those heroic spirits surging towards him was instantly cut off, unable to come again. It was as if worlds were separated!

“Where is this?!” he asked angrily.

Of course, he knew the answer. After all, he had glanced at it after robbing the White Bone True Dan. But he was unwilling to accept this answer and hoped to get other answers.

Having already reached Cave World True, sometimes one seeks falsehood!

The separation of the Fenglin domain buried his last opportunity.

A courtyard door was just pushed open, and a young man with an upright face and simple clothes walked out of the courtyard. He carried a hoe on his shoulder and had a roll of books tucked slantwise at his waist…

Looking at so many people, he was obviously also surprised.

But after an instant of surprise, his face showed relief.

He put down the hoe on his shoulder and conveniently closed the courtyard door.

“Big brother!” Zhao Rucheng’s voice trembled.

Jiang Wang stared at him, his lips trembling, unable to speak.

Ling He…

Ling He said with relief: “It’s really good, you have all grown up.”

“I don’t know how long it’s been? I still remembered at first, but then I just forgot…”

He touched his somewhat pale face and said with a smile: “I look younger than you all now, right?”

“I was preparing to go out today, wanting to see if that town on the west suburb side still has anyone not buried… They should all be buried, but I always feel as if I’ve forgotten something. My memory has been very bad lately. Um, I think I want to go out and see today.”

He chattered, like he was just making small talk.

Usually, when he was in the city Dao academy, Zhao Rucheng always disliked him for being troublesome. Whenever Ling He started “chanting scriptures”, he would find various excuses to slip away.

Today, however, he was reluctant to leave.

Only then did people know who had done all those graves covering the view.

Ling He, on this land, buried the people on this land.

He had always been doing this.

It had been five years and two months!

“You, hello, is someone inside?”

“Is there still someone… alive?”

So many years… so many days… he repeated such questions every day.

No one had ever answered him.

He was very happy to see so many people today.

But among these people was also Zhuang Gaoenv, who was wearing a crown robe… he did not like him.

“Are you our Zhuang Kingdom’s Emperor?” he asked.

He didn’t know why, but this person clearly looked ordinary, and his eyes did not possess any extraordinary power, but when such a person, such eyes, looked at him, Zhuang Gaoenv actually felt nervous.

He had the unease of not having recited his lessons well in childhood and being questioned by Teacher Du: “I…”

“How do you still dare to come see us?” Ling He asked again.

Zhuang Gaoenv thought of the spirit tablet, thought of the text on the spirit tablet he had personally written, and felt a kind of pity in his heart, actually also some real grief: “At that time I…”

“Do you know how many people died in Fenglin city?” Ling He asked again.

Zhuang Gaoenv was stunned.

Household registration, naturally there was. How many people were in the Fenglin city domain, one could naturally check before. But now… it was already cancelled.

All the people were completely dead.

What was the meaning of checking this?

He found his lips a little dry: “Three… four… tens of thousands?”

“It’s forty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-six people.” Ling He said.

Zhuang Gaoenv could not speak.

How could he continue the conversation?

Ling He began to tie a seal: “Now we, want to demand a debt from you.”

Zhuang Gaoenv was suddenly shocked and turned, his face showing ferocity.

Boom boom boom!

With him as the center, white high walls suddenly rose. Wall after wall, jointly constructing a constantly changing, constantly expanding maze!

If he rose up, the stone walls would also follow him up, seemingly extending to the ends of the sky.

Zhuang Gaoenv waved his big sleeve, then boomed down a large section of stone wall.

But outside the stone walls were still stone walls, seemingly endless in view.

This was not Ling He’s power!

This was the pain and despair of the entire Fenglin city domain, of these forty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-six people, for five years and two months!

Just like Jiang Wang’s Body Transformation into Three Realms created the true.

This city domain, abandoned within the gap of the present world, also evolved its own “true” in the long process of resisting pain.

Hate was the only truth.

“This is Zhao Lang’s stone wall maze from the Fenglin city guard army.” Ling He slowly said.

He stood on the highest stone wall, his body shape rising with the stone wall. He overlooked the Emperor of the Zhuang Kingdom in the center of the maze, quickly tying seals with both hands, finally joining his hands in front of his lips, index finger and middle finger connected, thumb, ring finger, and little finger paired respectively, and in the triangular area formed by the middle finger and ring finger, he opened his mouth and spat out a breath—

The spat breath instantly turned into a tornado, roaring and rushing towards Zhuang Gaoenv’s body!

“This is the Blow Breath Tornado, from Wang Changxiang of the Fenglin city Dao academy and the Qinghe county Dao academy.”

He raised his right hand high towards the sky.

A slight swirl in his palm, and the sky violently turbulent. The sky wind was like a whip, whistling sharply and whipping down towards Zhuang Gaoenv!

“This is the Nine Heaven Gang Wind of Fenglin City Lord Wei Quji. He died defending the city, and before his death, he wanted to ask Dong A, wanted to see the monarch.”

Ling He quickly walked along the edge of the endless stone wall, his footsteps getting faster and faster. In the howling wind, he held a knife in his hand. It was narrow and straight, with a cold edge like snow.

“The knife is named Fast Snow.” He said, chopping down with one knife: “This is the knife of Wei Yan, the Fenglin city guard army!”

In this stone wall maze, he alone unleashed an attack on Zhuang Gaoenv. The attack was so violent.

No, how could he be alone?!!

He represented the tens of thousands of people in the Fenglin city domain!

Every knife of his was the roar of forty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-six people.

What is merely a thousand jun, ten thousand jun? Who in the world can bear it?

The Emperor of the Zhuang Kingdom was the lord of the ten thousand people of the Zhuang Kingdom.

If ten thousand people supported him, then he was the Emperor.

If ten thousand people overturned him, he was nothing.

The national character of the Zhuang Kingdom had supported him in the past, and at this moment, it was restraining him.

As monarch, one should bear the will of ten thousand people, and also bear… the resentment of ten thousand people!

Ling He’s killing methods were endless, covering the sky and earth, making Zhuang Gaoenv struggle left and right.

“This is Shen Nanqi…”

“This is Huang Azhan…”

“This is Xiao Iron Face…”

Hundreds of kinds, thousands of kinds of Dao technique killing methods, flowed like a waterfall. Those Dao technique killing methods, perhaps simple, perhaps complex, but in this independent world concluded by the Fenglin city domain, they represented the power of this world.

Raising his hand and stepping, he merged the Dao into one.

He even drew out a ruler from somewhere—

Ruthlessly drawing it across Zhuang Gaoenv’s face, sending him flying high.

“This is an old mister from a nameless private school!”

Everyone was blocked outside the stone wall maze; this was a long attack. It was the war between the forty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-six people of the Fenglin city domain and Zhuang Gaoenv!

If ten thousand people attack the monarch, is the monarch still a monarch?

When the endless booming sounds only echoed, the stone walls of the maze collapsed one by one.

Zhuang Gaoenv, who was already bruised and swollen, staggered to his feet.

“Hehehehe…” At this moment, he could already completely feel that he was not connected to the state situation. His Emperor position was dispersing, and his cultivation was also declining. He was a monarch who had been truly pulled down from the dragon throne!

But he forced a smile: “You can’t kill me, just this much…”

Ling He punched his face: “This is… Ling He’s fist!”

But this time, Zhuang Gaoenv just lightly swayed. Then he raised his foot to his chest and kicked Ling He flying!

Ling He’s body flew backward in the air.

He was light and floating, like a wisp of smoke.

He looked very thin.

People dared not embrace him, afraid they would embrace him into scattering.

At this time, he lowered his head and looked at Zhao Rucheng: “Little five, my fist has no strength, you won’t laugh at me, right?”

Zhao Rucheng shook his head.

Ling He said: “Little five, you shaved your hair, so short, it really makes me strange… Have you found yourself now?”

Zhao Rucheng looked at him: “I want to find you.”

“Stupid again. Second old is stubborn, fourth old is greedy, fifth old is stupid. You ah…” Ling He shook his head dotingly. Then he looked at Jiang Wang: “Several years ago, I seemed to sense you. Third old, I wasn’t sure if you would come over.”

“I came over.” Jiang Wang said: “At that time, I went to kill Dong A.”

Ling He nodded, then pointed to the position of his heart.

His body became more and more illusory, but his heart became clearer and clearer, five colors and ten lights, mottled and hazy.

He said: “This records the remnant thoughts of all the people in the Fenglin city domain. I buried them, and I also recorded them. I am the evidence of their living.”

“You want to kill the monarch today; you are doing the right thing.”

“Don’t be afraid.”

“If anyone in the world doubts you.”

“Answer him with my heart.”

Thus, the smoke dissipated.

Only a heart with constantly changing light colors flew towards Jiang Wang.

And a roll of scriptures fell, falling into the hands of the silent Wang Changji.

Where was there any undying myth?

That kind of legend of reaching Cave True and even deriving the Dao in one step would not happen to the mediocre Ling He.

The entire Fenglin city domain perished.

The death Qi of the nether world eroded everything.

When Fenglin city fell, he was only an ordinary Dao academy disciple who had not opened his pulse for long.

He persevered until now with only one stubborn thought.

It was the resentment of the entire Fenglin city.

It was an old dream, shattered in Jiang Wang’s eyes.

At this time, a hand suddenly reached out, reaching towards that heart.

Zhuang Gaoenv’s hand!

His face was ferocious; he wanted to wipe out the last remnants of this Fenglin city domain.

Long Xiang Si was horizontal in front of him. Jiang Wang, with his person and sword, rushed towards his body!

Between square inches, the sword light was like a waterfall, deciding life and death!

“Go die!” Zhuang Gaoenv’s temples were scattered with hair, and he used He Duan Fu Chang!

But he was already pushed far away, and the illusion of divine ability actually dissipated.

He tried to stabilize himself.

But he was too weak!

First, he fought with the True Person Han Xu, then repelled the crowd of Gods from the Yong Kingdom, then forcefully resisted the ultimate moves of each Yama from Hell No Door, then encountered the Long River’s encirclement and killing, being killed all the way back from the Long River to the Zhuang Kingdom, still suffering the backlash of the state situation… and then in the stone wall maze, being bound by the national character, enduring the impact of the resentment of the entire forty-seven thousand people of Fenglin city!

He was boomed to the ground by a sword, booming into the ruins of Fenglin city. By his side lay a flag, with only half a character, vaguely “Wang Yue”.

He forcibly mobilized his remaining power, flipped and jumped up, and was boomed down again by a sword.

He lay on the ground, struggling to crawl forward in the broken walls and remnants, his palm already full of blood and dirt.

“Jing Kingdom! Jing Tian Six Friends!”

“You promised me. Now is the moment of agreement, why haven’t you acted yet?!”

Jiang Wang chased up, grasped his long hair with his left hand, pressing him down. His right hand loosened the sword hilt, and as the sword body fell, he joined his five fingers to grasp the front end of the sword body!

Long Xiang Si was incomparably sharp, lightly cutting through his fingers.

But he seemed unaware, holding the sword like a dagger, just stabbing it dripping with blood into Zhuang Gaoenv’s back!

Zhuang Gaoenv still did not give up, still struggling forward.

“Yujing Mountain!”

The gold page and jade page were nowhere to be seen; he still could not contact Yujing Mountain.

“I am the positively sealed True Person, the Zhengxia Emperor.”

“You are watching me die.”

“You are actually watching me die!”

“Yizhen!” He roared again!

But the Yizhen Dao was absolutely impossible to act at this time; even in such despair, he soberly knew the answer.

So unwilling.

So unwilling ah!

I have also exhausted everything to reach today…

He suddenly flipped over!

Jiang Wang, however, grasped his face and pressed him down onto the ground again!

His front body was pressed to the side, just like holding a dagger, he grasped Long Xiang Si and stabbed him wildly!

His blood and Zhuang Gaoenv’s blood mixed together, impossible to distinguish whose blood it was.

Puff puff puff!

Mouth after mouth of blood, staining red with red.

“Hehe hehe…”

Zhuang Gaoenv breathed with difficulty.

Puff puff puff!

Jiang Wang stabbed frantically.

Zhuang Gaoenv was choked by blood foam and coughed violently again.

He suddenly struggled up!

Again, he was pressed down!

“Jiang Aiqing! I want to tell you a secret! A shocking secret!”

His face was filled with a strange, crazy smile, and he spat blood, saying: “Yizhen Dao Lord He—”

Puff puff puff!

Jiang Wang did not listen to anything he said.

His voice was also mixed with blood foam, making it unclear.

Jiang Wang completely forgot his moves, did not remember his divine abilities, did not know how to use his sword. He just mechanically and frantically stabbed!

Puff puff puff puff puff puff!!

The sound of weapons entering flesh seemed never to stop.

Blood rain fell from the sky.

He did not know who it was mourning.

Jiang Wang was completely unaware, still stabbing non-stop, turning the Emperor’s body on the ground into a bloody mess!

“He’s already dead.” Zhao Rucheng pounced over, tightly holding his waist, not letting him move again: “He’s already dead, he’s already dead. Third brother!!!”

Jiang Wang was stunned and let go of his sword, let go of Long Xiang Si, which he had come to rely on for life.

Zhao Rucheng hugged his waist.

And he just knelt down in this barren land… this was his hometown that he hadn’t returned to for many years.

Blood rain fell on the long street.

Old friends did not meet.

His hands trembled, and he lifted these blood-dripping hands, wanting to cover his face.

But again, he grasped them into fists and let them fall.

In the blood rain, he looked up at the sky and roared—

“Ah!”

“Ah!”

“Ah!!!”

This volume is completed.

This chapter is 12,000 words, including 8,000 words, which is four extra updates, for the alliance masters “Little Huang’s Foot Qi”, “Li Dushan”, “Tianshi Daren is Above”, and “Mo Mo Mo Mo oh”!

Thank you book friend “All Become Now” for becoming the alliance master of this book, which is the 535th alliance for Red Heart Patrol Heaven!

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Thank you everyone.

I will write the afterword tomorrow.

But I also might pigeon it to the day after.

Too tired.

Thank you all for accompanying me, we have walked together to here.

See you later!

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