I really became a king.

Chapter 391

In the imperial capital of Dali, in front of a stone table in the Ding Courtyard.

Two figures were sitting there, the woman was elegant and graceful, the man was heroic and extraordinary, both of them exuded the pressure of being superior. They were the Emperor of Dali, Jiang Zhenyi, and the Queen, Ye Xinmei.

"You haven't made up your mind yet?" Ye Xinmei asked after a moment of silence.

Jiang Zhenyi didn't speak immediately. After a while, he sighed and said, "How can I do this to you..."

Ye Xinmei sneered indifferently and said, "Why can't you do it? This is related to the struggle for the throne. Do you really want to return power to the Fourteenth Master's lineage after a hundred years?"

Jiang Zhenyi remained silent, and suddenly asked, "Did you cause the serious injury to the fourth brother?" After saying that, he stared at his wife motionlessly.

Ye Xinmei shook her head and replied: "I told you, it wasn't me. Why don't you believe it?" There was a hint of anger in her words.

She has always been brooding over the fact that Prince Duan Jiang Lie was ambushed and severely injured.

Although she had this idea in mind for a long time, she never had the time to implement it because someone else took action first.

Because of this incident, her husband Lei Ting was furious and always believed that she did it. From then on, a rift arose between the couple who had always been close to each other.

If she really did it, it would be fine, but she didn't even have the time to do it. She is now taking the blame for someone else. How can she not be angry?

"Who could it be?"

Ye Xinmei has been secretly investigating this matter for the past few years, but has no clues. However, she always suspects in her heart that it was her husband who did it.

Because in the entire Dali Dynasty, apart from the secular sects, only the Dali Emperor in front of him has this strength.

However, she would not ask this question, otherwise it would completely anger the Emperor of Dali in front of her, and the relationship between them as husband and wife would be completely gone.

Jiang Zhenyi stared at his wife motionlessly, not believing what she said at all.

"Alas, you shouldn't have done this. It put me in a passive position and ruined my plans for so many years."

Ye Xinmei's face was filled with anger, and she couldn't help but retort: ​​"Planning? What planning? If it weren't for your efforts, would he have taken the position of the Lord of Northern Frontier? It was you who pushed him to the top little by little..."

Jiang Zhenyi shook his head, obviously not intending to explain.

Ye Xinmei became even more furious and continued, "But you still haven't learned your lesson. Now you have personally pushed his son to the position of Lord of Western Frontier. I don't care. I must make him step down from the position of Lord of Western Frontier!"

"Is it really that simple to just come down?" Jiang Zhenyi asked back. He knew that in his wife's plan, she was planning to kill him. Relinquishing the position of Lord of Western Frontier was only the first step, and the next step was to die without a burial place.

Ye Xinmei was not angry this time. She said in a tone of admitting, "Do you really want to keep him? You can't control him. With his growth rate, he will become a giant in a few years. By then, it will be too late to make a move..."

"So we must eliminate this trouble forever before he becomes a local tycoon!"

"Eliminate future troubles forever? Do you know how many eyes are watching me behind my back? First it was Prince Duan, then Prince Yi. What will they think if the father and son encounter unexpected events one after another?" Jiang Zhenyi, the Emperor of Dali, said angrily.

Ye Xinmei took a deep breath, calmed herself down, and said softly, "Why should we care about them? As long as we can preserve the orthodoxy of Dali, it doesn't matter if we bear some infamy."

"You don't understand." Jiang Zhenyi's tone also softened, "Are you really so confident that you can control the secular sect?"

“If the secular sects re-enter the world, secular martial arts will be dominated by one alone, and sooner or later it will become a force that cannot be eliminated. The best way is to allow the secular sects to come in and check and balance each other. Only in this way can the status of the Dali royal family be consolidated.” Ye Xinmei replied.

Then she glanced at her husband and continued, "You should be able to sense that the secular martial arts are subservient to the Dali royal family on the surface, but secretly they have become somewhat restless. Can you guarantee that the Dali royal family will never decline?"

Jiang Zhenyi did not answer this question, but said: "I believe that the three great dynasties including Xiqi also thought the same as you, so they chose to let the secular sects participate in the court, but now they are being backfired and have become too powerful to be eliminated. Are you sure you are not inviting a wolf into the house?"

Ye Xinmei suddenly laughed and said, "That's because their approach is wrong. I know what I'm doing and I won't let the power of the secular sect expand to this extent." His tone was firm.

"After all, this world is going to be handed over to our son. I won't let any force threaten our son!"

Then he looked up at the sky, stood up and said: "Early tomorrow morning, thirty armies and the secular sects will enter the Demon Realm Pass. If you can't bear to do it, leave everything to me. I will bear the infamy..." After that, he walked out of Dingyuan.

Jiang Zhenyi sat there for a long time without any movement, just silently looking at Ye Xinmei's back, with flickering eyes.

In the conversation just now, the couple was actually deliberately avoiding one question: that is the Ye family of Bailing.

In recent years, under the strong promotion of his wife, the power of the Ye family in Bailing has expanded rapidly. But what will happen after the power has expanded to the peak? Will it become another trend that cannot be eliminated?
This topic is very sensitive and both of them are deliberately avoiding it, but this is not a long-term solution after all.

"Forget it, let you do it first."

Jiang Zhenyi also had ideas about the secular sect. He also wanted to control this huge force. He had been preparing for this since the day he married Ye Xinmei.

Just like Ye Xinmei said just now, the dominance of one school in secular martial arts is not a good thing for the Dali royal family, so they must find a way to balance it.

In his plan, the Dali royal family must straddle the secular martial arts and the secular sects, and must have absolute voice. Only in this way can their status be consolidated.

"Return power to the Fourteenth Master's lineage?"

A smile flashed across Jiang Zhenyi's lips. Although no one deliberately mentioned this matter, he knew that many people were watching in secret.

His power was weak back then, and when he succeeded to the throne he took over the power left by his brother. Although those people have withdrawn from the center of power for various reasons over the years, they still have considerable influence in secret.

Otherwise, why would Prince Duan Jiang Lie rise so quickly in such a short period of time? There must be these people pushing him secretly, simply wanting to put the old master's bloodline back on the throne.

"You don't have this chance..."

Jiang Zhenyi murmured softly, then made a gesture, and a black shadow floated in front of him from the corner. It was difficult to see what he looked like, but it was definitely not Mo Ruhai.

"Pass the order down. Our people must have a certain say in the Western Frontier Sect Mansion."

The black shadow bowed slightly, then floated back into the dark corner and disappeared completely.

"Haha, it's such a big game of chess. It depends on who will win in the end..." Over the years since he ascended the throne, he has been secretly planning to build up a secluded sect and placed many hidden players in it, even including many members of the Dali royal family.

After lying dormant for so many years, now is the time to take action.

Then his face became a little gloomy, and he thought to himself: "It's a pity that after so many years, I have tried countless methods, but I still can't practice both immortality and martial arts..."

"But it doesn't matter. As long as I can firmly control the secular sect in the future, my position will be as solid as a mountain. It doesn't matter if I don't practice immortality."

Jiang Zhenyi is an ambitious man. He has been making plans among various forces over the years, including the Bailing Ye family, which he uses as a shield.

But he miscalculated one thing. He never expected that Wen Zong Da Dao would awaken one day.

If he knew, he would definitely make arrangements in the academies across the country. However, it is not too late now. Although the fourth ancestor of Emperor Wenzong is in the Western Frontier, there are so many scholars in the world that he still has time to make arrangements again.

“The Bailing Ye family…I hope they won’t let me down this time!”

"There is also the Zongmen Mansion. I hope we can temporarily suppress the Wenzong Mansion..."

Jiang Zhenyi looked towards the west and murmured softly, "I wonder how you will deal with this time?"

In fact, he had always been somewhat worried in his heart, wondering if his previous actions could be considered as raising a tiger to harm himself. After all, he was the one who pushed Prince Yi to the throne after Prince Duan, but the other party's rise was beyond his expectations, even surpassing that of Prince Duan back then.

It was precisely based on this concern that he acquiesced to Ye Xinmei's actions time and time again, including this time, when he wanted to use Ye Xinmei's hand to make a correction and put the chessboard back in his intention.

However, no matter how much Ye Xinmei and the secular sect wanted to kill Prince Yi, he would not let them do so, because Prince Yi was an important chess piece for him to check and balance the secular sect, and there could not be any accidents before completing the mission.

“Is this the once uninhabited Western Xinjiang?”

Ten miles away from the East Demon Realm Pass, with flags waving, an army of more than 300,000 people was marching towards the Demon Realm Pass, led by a middle-aged man with white eyebrows and black hair.

The man had a very strong martial arts aura, and was wearing an orange-yellow robe and armor. He pointed his finger at the distant Demon Realm Pass, looking full of high spirits.

Ye Dingtian rode beside him and nodded, "It's really a dramatic change. I don't know what kind of magic tricks that kid used to reshape the world."

This place is still ten miles away from the Demon Realm Pass. It is still a barren land with no grass, but the population has increased a lot, and people are coming and going everywhere.

“Yes, this kind of fortune-telling method must be very powerful.” The middle-aged man with white eyebrows and black hair exclaimed, with a hint of greed flashing in the depths of his eyes.

This kind of fortune-telling method should not be left in the hands of outsiders. He came here not only to control the precious land of Demon Realm Pass, but also for the many fortune-telling methods of Prince Yi.

As if sensing the meaning behind the words of the white-browed and black-haired man, Ye Dingtian said, "Fifth brother, this Prince Yi is very extraordinary, you must not be careless."

Ye Xiangtian smiled and said, "Don't worry, I know what's going on. But brother, the Wen Zong Mansion is newly established and is in high spirits. I'm afraid it will be difficult to subdue it."

Ye Dingtian glanced at the other person and felt a little unhappy. His cousin was good in everything, and his talent in martial arts was amazing, but he was too arrogant. He didn't care about anyone except himself.

This was a subtle reminder to him, implying that he should mind his own business and not interfere in the other party's military affairs.

Ye Dingtian stopped talking and just looked at the Demon Realm Pass in the distance silently, his eyes somewhat excited.

The Bailing Ye family has finally officially come to the fore, and it spans both secular martial arts and secular sects.

In this planned operation, he will be in charge of the sect headquarters, while his fifth brother Ye Xiangtian will be in charge of the military affairs of the Eastern Demon Realm Pass. It is believed that it will not take long before the Bailing Ye family will become the real masters of the Demon Realm Pass.

Compared to Bailing, the Demonic Pass is a vassal state. As long as the Ye family controls this place, they will have the capital to rise and will soon become the next Mu family of Northern Frontier.

By then, the Dali Dynasty will have a second king of a different surname, and that will be the Bailing Ye family. No, it should be said that it will be the Xijiang Ye family.

The Ye family had mobilized most of their assets to come to the Demon Realm Pass this time, and almost all of the talented young men in the family came out. On the one hand, it was to completely control the 300,000-strong army, and on the other hand, it was to build the Demon Realm Pass into the foundation for the Ye family to become the king.

"Fifth brother, remember not to be impatient, stand firm first."

Ye Dingtian was worried and reminded him again.

Ye Xiangtian glanced at him and said with a smile: "When did big brother become so timid?"

Ye Dingtian smiled bitterly in his heart. Before, he had never taken Prince Yi seriously, but after experiencing the Yinshan Secret Realm, he put away his contempt.

Because it was precisely this young man whom he had never taken seriously who caused the Ye family to suffer heavy losses in the Yinshan Secret Realm, and even Ye Ke, the most outstanding disciple of the younger generation, died at the hands of the other party.

There was also the "mass siege" against the peripheral forces of the Ye family in Bailing, in which nine out of ten houses outside the Ye family were emptied out. It was truly extremely brutal.

"Don't worry, bro. It won't take long before I avenge Ye Ke. By then, I will also make the Blood Robe Guards feared by everyone!"

Before Ye Dingtian could say anything else, a soft voice came from a luxurious carriage behind the two brothers: "Husband, have we reached the Demon Realm?"

As soon as the voice fell, the curtains of the carriage were opened from the inside, and a delicate and beautiful woman looked around.

This beautiful woman had a naturally weak look to her, and seemed to be extremely timid. When she noticed several gazes being directed at her, she shrank back with a red face.

"Alas, she is truly a peerless beauty... My fifth brother is truly blessed."

Ye Dingtian looked away with some regret, as if he was still not satisfied. There were several others who shared the same expression, including the generals on the march and the strong men from the secluded sects.

Ye Xiangtian didn't care at all, and was even slightly proud of it. He liked enjoying the envious looks of people around him. He was not afraid that others might have any improper thoughts about his wife, because as long as he was there, no one would dare to take action and could only hesitate.

Just as the two brothers stopped to watch, more than a dozen figures drove out from the East Demon Realm, led by Liu Siluan.

At this time, Liu Siluan's face was full of excitement. After months of waiting, he finally arrived at the Ye family of Bailing. He no longer had to live in misery.

(End of this chapter)