Speed ​​Pass starts with choosing a hunter

Chapter 432: The World Is Disunited
The emperor seemed to be mad.

Li Chengyuan personally led the army to fight for a year, killing prisoners more than a hundred times and massacring cities dozens of times.

This is not a war at all, it seems to be just for the pleasure of killing.

Even the butcher who killed millions of people at the founding of Xuanyang and whose number of kills was unparalleled in the world seemed not as cruel as him.

The Wu people's resistance became increasingly fierce, and there were signs that they would fight to the death with the Zhennan Army. Many great scholars in the academies could not stand it and wrote letters to advise them.

Confucianism places the greatest emphasis on benevolence and righteousness. Li Chengyuan's behavior undoubtedly goes against Confucian teachings, and he does not even try to conceal it.

But Li Chengyuan didn't listen to any of them and put it all behind his mind. He killed everyone who deserved to be killed and showed no sign of stopping.

In southern Xinjiang, there is a city of the Wu clan.

The city at this time had become a bloody city. The corpses everywhere described in history books were tangible at this moment, making it hard to bear to look at.

Li Chengyuan was almost pathological in that he massacred nearly 10,000 people with his own hands, being extremely cold-blooded.

Qingzhou King Li Kangyan and Zhennan General Tong Kang looked at each other and saw the fear in each other's eyes, but they had no intention of stopping him because Li Chengyuan had already returned to the state of Tongshen.

No one knew what means this emperor used, but his fighting power soared. In just one year, he got rid of the aftereffects of the backlash of luck and almost recovered to his peak.

Li Chengyuan cut off the head of the last Wu clan child, his eyes full of desire for blood.

But his expression soon returned to normal.

"My brother, General Tong is not of our race, so his heart must be different. These Wu people dared to take the lead in rebellion, and they must be suppressed with severe punishment, otherwise their evil intentions will not die."

"Yes."

Li Kangyan and Tong Kang were no longer surprised by this situation.

Li Chengyuan took a deep breath with satisfaction. The violent power in his body made him obsessed.

"I have been leading the army in person for a year. It is time for me to return to the capital. I will leave the affairs here to you two."

Hearing this, a hint of imperceptible joy flashed across Tong Kang's eyes.

He really didn't want to stay with the Emperor any longer.

In the spring of the 53rd year of Yuan Ding, the palace finally welcomed back the long-lost emperor.

But soon after Emperor Li Chengyuan returned to the palace.

Something big happened in the capital. The third prince escaped from the city the night before Emperor Li Chengyuan was about to arrive in the capital, and no one knew why.

After returning to Beijing, Li Chengyuan's behavior returned to normal.

He even held morning court sessions for seven days in a row, which made many ministers secretly breathe a sigh of relief. As long as Emperor Li Chengyuan was normal, those rebels in Xuanyang would not be able to cause any trouble.

But just when everyone thought that Xuanyang would soon return to stability, the Hanging Temple suddenly attacked.

A piece of news that shocked the world spread like crazy.

Emperor Li Chengyuan practices evil skills to replenish his luck with blood!
The one who revealed the news was the third prince Li Wei.

The eminent monks in the Hanging Temple have the heart of a bodhisattva, but they also have the angry look of a diamond. The abbot of the Hanging Temple even said that he would lead the monks of the Hanging Temple to eradicate evil spirits and restore peace to the world.

With the Hanging Temple taking the lead, many major clans in the Central Plains and Jiangnan also took action.

The reasons they use are all that the emperor is immoral and cruel to all living beings.

The third prince Li Wei not only exposed that Emperor Li Chengyuan was practicing magic, but also told the world that Li Chengyuan deliberately started a war in southern Xinjiang just for his own selfish desires. Only then did the people of the world realize that it was no wonder that the emperor behaved so abnormally in southern Xinjiang; it turned out that he was doing it to heal his wounds.

At one time, more and more people threatened to enter the capital to fight.

This reason is a thousand times better than the Tianxuan Sect's open rebellion.

The world still belongs to the Li family, just with different people.

The Li royal family was not a monolithic group. Li Chengyuan now had many princes who were capable of inheriting the throne. The move by the Jianghu army led by the Hanging Temple did not violate Confucian ideals.

A Confucian sage once said: "If the ruler makes a serious mistake, you should advise him; if he does not listen after repeated advice, you should replace him."

God is already wrathful and people are resentful of him, and coupled with Li Chengyuan's evil methods that are not tolerated by the world, of course there are calls for condemnation from all sides.

Of course, many of them have evil intentions.

Li Chengyuan had previously been ambitious to clean up the martial arts world. Naturally, no one dared to stand up and resist during the heyday of the Spring and Autumn Period. Now that the country is in decline, he is adding insult to injury.

There are countless people in the world who practice evil skills. Li Chengyuan is at most just affected by the emperor's body.

These people just want to change to a more obedient emperor.

above the hall.

There were originally hundreds of officials attending the morning court, but now only less than half are left.

Even three of the six ministers had resigned. Although Li Chengyuan suppressed all the resignations, it was of no avail.

This is what scholars are like.

A gentleman does not stand on a dangerous wall.

In the eyes of those officials, neither Li Chengyuan nor the Hanging Temple, which was gathering troops, were good people, and it would not benefit them no matter which side won.

"Bastard!"

Li Chengyuan's eyes were full of violence. Looking at the sparse number of ministers in the hall, he felt irritated for no reason.

It's the inner demon!
He suddenly woke up.

To recover his strength quickly, he would have to pay a huge price, and that was the invasion of external evil into his body, which is commonly known in the martial arts world as being possessed by a demon.

Li Chengyuan was gradually losing control of himself.

At this time, the old minister of the Ministry of Personnel slowly spoke: "Your Majesty, the only solution now is to issue an edict of remorse, and then recall General Xu, appease the Western Desert countries with benefits, and then slowly make plans."

"You want me to issue a confession of guilt?"

Li Chengyuan looked coldly at the old Minister of Personnel.

He had aspired to become an emperor who would go down in history since he was young. Once this edict of apology was issued, all was over. It would be difficult for him to leave a good reputation, as those historians would show no mercy.

"Kill, kill, kill!"

There was a voice ringing in his mind constantly, and Li Chengyuan's murderous intent became stronger and stronger. He even wanted to kill all the court officials in the hall.

Li Chengyuan suddenly closed his eyes.

The voice in his head gradually subsided, and he took a deep breath: "Let's do as Minister Han wishes, and disperse."

At this time, a powerful voice rang out: "Withdraw from the court!"

Li Chengyuan felt a little dazed. He turned around and found that the eunuch who served him had been replaced and Wang Fu had died long ago.

Soon he was the only one left in the hall.

Li Chengyuan suddenly felt a little lonely.

Emperors in ancient times liked to call themselves "Gu", and there is a reason for this.

Everyone thinks that the emperor is born with power and can do whatever he wants, but Li Chengyuan knows very well that the emperor must be sealed in the cage compiled by those old Confucian scholars, otherwise those scholars will definitely retaliate and destruction will not be far away.

"They are all traitors!"

"Deserves to be killed!"

The world situation keeps changing.

Emperor Li Chengyuan issued an edict of repentance, but it didn't seem to have much effect.

The high monk of the Hanging Temple insisted that Li Chengyuan was an evil ghost from the Possa Hell and needed to be suppressed and converted.

The great general Xu Dingchun had no choice but to lead the Zhenxi Army to rush to the Central Plains for assistance.

On the Huazhou line, they confronted the army led by the Hanging Temple.

The four continents of the north have become a pure land on earth in this way.

Huanglong Mansion. "It's messy. Too messy."

Yang Fangyu looked at the information delivered every day and shook his head repeatedly.

Anyone can see that Li Chengyuan will not be emperor for long.

Confucianism needs an emperor, but it doesn't have to be Li Chengyuan. Once the support of Confucianism is gone, Li Chengyuan will be powerless even if he wants to persist, and the most he can do is to end up in an undignified way.

The Li royal family is not invincible.

There were quite a few people who stabbed Li Chengyuan in the back, all of them wanting to win the credit of following the dragon.

Among them, the third prince Li Wei, who had the support of Buddhism, and the fifth prince Li Dai, who was ranked on the Hidden Dragon List, had the greatest influence.

Li Huan's eyes were complicated.

As a member of the Li family, he suddenly felt more fortunate for his previous choice.

If he had chosen to join forces with Bai Yuan at the beginning, it would have been very similar to the current situation where the Third Prince Li Wei defected to the Hanging Temple and forced the emperor to abdicate. It would have definitely caused chaos in the end, and the title of King of Qingzhou might have been stripped away by someone with ulterior motives.

The fact that Qingzhou is peaceful today is closely related to his original choice.

At this time, a man strode over the threshold of the provincial government office, bringing up a gust of wind.

Yang Fangyu and Li Huan turned around and saw Bai Yuan walking in wearing armor and carrying a sword.

"A Yuan, you don't have to take care of the remaining small matters yourself."

Li Huan couldn't help but speak.

There is no such thing in this world where the chief officer goes out to fight while his staff stays behind in the camp.

But Bai Yuan likes it, and seems to be enjoying it.

The Tianxuan Sect was suppressed by the Zhenbei Army in Lingzhou and could not advance any further. Bai Yuan took the opportunity to quell the wars in several states between Lingzhou and Lingzhou.

Today, Xuanyang is a place of war on all sides, but the area under his jurisdiction is the most stable.

During this period, more and more people have flocked to Shuofang, and the population has almost doubled.

I heard that the land price in Huanglongfu has been rising again and again.

"I shouldn't go for the time being."

Bai Yuan sat down and poured himself a cup of tea.

The reason why he was running around in person was, of course, to strengthen his points. Although the bandits in those states were not strong, they had enough numbers. Now he had opened more than a hundred divine palaces, covering half of his arm. His strength was even stronger than before.

When he was in Lingzhou, he was able to kill Linghu Yang.

It’s because of the Divine Palace.

The divine palace in the right palm was fully opened, and it became a sharp sword that was powerful enough to kill Grand Master Mingxin.

Bai Yuan estimated that even though his current strength was not as good as that of the bearded man during Ming Xin's time, there were definitely not many people in the world who could block that palm.

This is the reason why he stands proudly in troubled times.

He drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, then looked at Yue Xiaobai: "Xiaobai, the Central Plains is in chaos, aren't you going to go back to the sect to take a look?"

Yue Xiaobai, who was standing by, said calmly, "There are less than ten people in Xiyue Sect including me. What's the point of going?"

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Bai Yuan felt that what Xiaobai said made sense.

Among all the sects in the world, the Xiyue Sect is undoubtedly the most special one.

Although there are few people, each of them is extremely strong.

There is even a divine ancestor among the ten people.

A sect like the Xiyue Sect is actually the most comfortable in the current situation. They have too few members, and there is no need to support the prince in troubled times. It is almost impossible for others to annex the Xiyue Sect, unless someone is willing to face a god and nine swords of enlightenment.

That's why Yue Xiaobai is so calm.

Bai Yuan was a little curious: "Has Xiyue Sect never thought of supporting a prince?"

Yue Xiaobai still had an icy face: "The Xiyue Sect's master once said that we cannot get involved in court affairs."

"Oh."

Bai Yuan couldn't say a word about this.

This is the same as what an old client said about never going to brothels. He knew that there were several high-ranking officials above the third rank who came out of the Xiyue Sect.

The Xiyue Sect does not participate in the court, but it has quite a few people planted in the court.

Yue Xiaobai suddenly changed the subject: "Besides, Xiyue Sect has already placed a bet."

Looking at Yue Xiaobai who seemed to be smiling, Bai Yuan was suddenly speechless.

When you think about it, the person who placed the bet from Xiyue Sect was not himself.

Now he has land and soldiers. If Xuanyang is really overthrown, he will become the largest prince in the north.

Similar to the Xiyue Sect is the Longhu Sect.

It’s just that these two factions did it very secretly, so no one discovered it.

No wonder the Dragon and Tiger Sect and the Xiyue Sect did not make any moves during the chaotic times. It turned out that all the money was spent on Bai Yuan.

By investing in Bai Yuan, if Xuan Yang wins, they will be considered to have made great contributions to the pacification. If Xuan Yang loses, they can turn to fund Bai Yuan to compete for the Central Plains. No matter how you look at it, it's a win-win.

In comparison, the Hanging Temple is inferior.

Of course, there is never an absolute good or bad in this matter.

If the Hanging Temple could really assist the Third Prince in reaching the Imperial City and forcing Li Chengyuan to abdicate, then the Hanging Temple would undoubtedly become the biggest winner, and could even surpass several major sects such as the Dragon and Tiger Sect.

It all depends on human efforts.

The Hanging Temple is a major Buddhist sect with a profound heritage, and its strength is no weaker than that of the Dragon and Tiger Sect.

Although the imperial court appears to be the strongest on the surface, it is now leaking from all sides and is strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

Taibao Yan Shaoan is now leading troops to suppress the East China Sea monster tribe, Taifu Liang Yuankang is in southern Xinjiang, and Xu Dingchun was originally in the Western Desert. The Hanging Temple took advantage of the emptiness of the Xuanyang Central Plains, so it sent troops in the name of the third prince. If it weren't for giving up the Western Desert and letting Xu Dingchun return for support, no one would be able to resist the Hanging Temple.

Even so, Xuan Yang had a very hard time fighting.

Bai Yuan's current position is very delicate. He is not very prominent among the major clans and does not pose much threat, but he has occupied a large area of ​​land in the north and should not be underestimated.

Most suitable for wretched development.

He had no intention of dying for his king, and of course he would not interfere in the affairs of the Central Plains.

Build high walls and slowly become king?
A strange thought arose in Bai Yuan's mind.

The luck was broken, and the number of masters in the world more than doubled. The number of powerful people with perception in the four states of Shuofang reached a terrifying number of half a hundred. This was unimaginable a few years ago.

These people together are a considerable force.

Bai Yuan looked at Li Huan again: "Brother Li, how did Master Zhigan handle it?"

Li Huan smiled slightly: "Eighty percent of them have already joined the Shuofang Army."

"very good."

Bai Yuan's eyes lit up. Li Huan's efficiency was much higher than he had imagined.

Martial artists are full of rage and are not easy to talk to. To be able to gather so many powerful sentient beings so quickly, his methods must be very complicated.

However, he had heard from many people that Li Huan had gained the reputation of being a poisonous scholar in Shuofang.

It means doing things ruthlessly.

Perhaps because of Li Huan's contrast, Bai Yuan's reputation in Shuofang has improved a lot.

(End of this chapter)