My portable grandfather refreshes every week

This time, on the back of the Blood Dragon, the old man's mood worsened.

I don't know if it was her daughter-in-law's words that broke her down, or if seeing her daughter-in-law turn into an undead calamity that gave rise to a very dark suspicion.

"By the way, how did you manage to kill your daughter-in-law?" Xue Dinglu asked again.

In previous exchanges, this person had no place in the conversation, which Xue Dinglu could understand. After all, she was someone the old Demon Emperor wouldn't even bother to look at. But it was precisely because of such people that his empire was destroyed.

"She's not dead," the old Demon Emperor said directly.

"Hmm?" Xue Dinglu looked puzzled.

"She wasn't dead before I died. During the rebellion started by my youngest son, I only killed him and the other rebels who were with him. After that, I died from the insect's poison and can only see what happens next as a soul." The old demon emperor said directly, feeling very confused.

Because he considered a possibility... what if his children, wife, and men also became part of this undead scourge?
He felt his hands tremble just thinking about that possibility.

This is a kind of anger and pain without cause.

Xue also frowned and fell into deep thought.

The Blood Dragon soared above the undead territory. This time, no attack was made that could hit the Blood Dragon in the sky. At the same time, Xue Dinglu also roughly located the center of the undead in the sky.

It was an incredibly massive bone castle, so obvious that its identity could be discerned at a glance. Even if it wasn't the Lich King, it must have been some extremely powerful undead.

Therefore, Xue Law and the Old Demon Emperor swooped down and smashed through the high wall of bone without caring about anything else.

The army of undead surged forward, but these undead didn't even need Xue Lude to make a move. The dragon's breath could easily melt them into blood, and each claw strike could kill a large number of undead.

"This is still not the Lich King's Great Tomb," Xue Dinglu said after looking around.

It's obvious that the quality of the undead here isn't high. Given that everyone in this world has glass cannons, the Lich King must have units around him that could threaten the Old Demon Emperor and Xue's Law.

This is the unique nature of magic in this world. With the glass cannon granting them near-immortality, Xue's laws have no idea what kind of power they can unleash.

But now, everything here is pitifully weak, there isn't even a legendary undead, it's more like a large group of serfs.

This was Xue's feeling: these undead seemed to still be just serfs, and now, after the invaders arrived, the serfs were simply forced to take up arms and become militia.

Just then, a magnificently dressed skeleton slowly emerged, its skull still glowing with eerie blue flames. This undead, who seemed to be the leader, murmured, "Brother, are you here to kill me?"

The old Demon King fell silent instantly. He looked at the ornately dressed skeleton and murmured, "Loren..."

"I'm sorry, brother, I never expected to be resurrected after I died, but I don't want to participate in this war, so I'll stay here, just like before..." the skeleton said, and Xue Dinglu even saw a kind of "relief" expression on the skeleton's face.

"What exactly happened?" the old Demon Emperor continued to ask.

“Your youngest son, Karl, resurrected me, and not just me, but many others. They built a new empire on the site of the former capital, just as it was when you were still here, brother…” The undead named Loren sat on the ground, completely unconcerned that his fine clothes were soiled by the ground.

"Everything is modeled after what you were born in, from the various official positions to the imperial structure, and even the troops that the generals can command. He has set everything up according to your empire. In fact, what he wants to do is exactly the same as your ideals, elder brother..."

"He wanted to reunify the world! But only as an undead!"

The undead Loren seems to be a friend of the old Demon Emperor, not a blood brother, but someone closer than a blood brother. Xue Law even sensed a mutual sense of admiration in their interactions.

It's like two old friends who haven't seen each other for years meeting again. One is in court, and the other is outside. When they confirm each other's identities, both of them are overwhelmed with emotion, and one of them even breaks down in an instant.

"Then, can you lead me to him?" the old Demon Emperor asked.

“Sure, but brother, if I appear within a thousand miles, I will be controlled. This is an ironclad rule that a lowly undead like me cannot defy, especially for higher undead.” He continued, “So, brother, just take my head. I will lead you to Little Karl…”

"Alright!" Neither the old Demon Emperor nor Xue Lude were the type to hesitate. The two decisively ripped off the man's head, and then a mass of lava completely melted the magnificent bone castle.

On the back of the Blood Dragon, Xue Luding and the Old Demon Emperor immediately understood part of the situation regarding the Undead Scourge.

Just as they had guessed, when Xue Luding and his companions encountered the old Demon Emperor's daughter-in-law, they had already made this guess in their hearts.

Could the Lich King be Old Deng's youngest son?
The culprit who single-handedly destroyed a vibrant empire where all things flourished, and who caused the death of the old Demon Emperor.

Even the old Demon Emperor couldn't believe that he had been completely unprepared for his son, which is why his youngest son pierced his abdomen with a dagger forged from the claws of the Shub insect race and was completely corroded by the poison inside.

This was also his primary cause of death; he never imagined that the one who most wanted to kill him would be his own son…

Now, the undead Loren has told them a lot of information.

The undead prince, Karl, the youngest son of the old Demon Emperor, resurrected almost everyone who died in the chaos of the Empire and built a new empire made of the undead.

They even inherited the reign titles of the previous empire.

And he became the empire's second emperor!

The current undead emperor even has ideas completely different from other undead. He wants to create an empire of eternal peace, an eternal empire ruled by the undead over the whole world!

This is why the undead army attacks other warlords, not simply because they follow the instincts of the dead.

The old Demon Emperor and Xue Ludao listened in silence to everything. After a long while, Xue Ludao finally said, "Your youngest son is still dreaming of being emperor even after he's dead..."

Xue's Law knew about the old Demon Emperor's abstract youngest son. When the old Demon Emperor was pacifying the Shub insect race and those monsters corrupted by the Shub insect race into evil insects, that little Karl directly launched an attack at Xuanwu Gate.

He killed all his brothers and sisters, leaving none alive!

He didn't spare even his older sister who was already married, or even his younger sister who was much younger than him; his ruthlessness was beyond imagination.

I don't know what he was thinking, but he believed that as long as the old Demon Emperor only had himself as his successor, the throne of the empire would fall to him!

Then he discovered that besides choosing him as emperor, Old Deng had other options, which was to kill him and create a new account. So he began to have a new and amazing idea: as long as the old man died, wouldn't he be able to become emperor directly?
Thus, through his extraordinary wisdom and with the help of nobles from other races, he obtained the dagger made from the teeth of the insectoid race, smeared it with insectoid blood, and concealed it through special means.

He would assassinate his father, the Demon Emperor, when the Demon Emperor was most exhausted and relaxed. Once Old Deng was dead, the entire empire would be his!

But to his utter surprise, even this failed to deliver a fatal blow. Even though the old Demon Emperor was pierced through and affected by the deadly poison, he still managed to kill him, along with all the traitors. He even managed to find their accomplices and wipe out all the other noble races in the entire capital in one fell swoop...

This rendered all the plans he devised with his extraordinary wisdom useless...

And the empire began to collapse, becoming history. Just as the old Demon Emperor said, what followed was the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, an era of warlordism and cannibalism...

Only after losing the empire did people yearn for that powerful and stable empire.

Just as people in the Northern and Southern Dynasties all longed for and praised the Han Dynasty, people in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms all longed for and praised the Tang Dynasty...

All I can say is, it's too classic...

Xue's Law could even see a longing for the past on this Cool Six's face.

He said, "So your youngest son felt that he couldn't be the emperor of humanity, so he started to think that humanity has its limits, and that the more extraordinary one's wisdom, the more unexpected situations would arise, so he stopped being human, right?"

Xue's Law is even hard to criticize.

Neither the old Demon King nor the skeleton spoke; instead, the skeleton asked first, "And who is this?"

"My friend from another world is stronger than me." The old Demon Emperor simply said this, and for a moment the undead's soul fire flickered a few times before he immediately said very respectfully, "Greetings, Emperor of another world."

Xue Law: "..."

He's not some emperor, just a stupid college student...

Forget it, I'm too lazy to explain. Given that people in this world believe that only the strongest can become the boss, it's quite normal to have this kind of thinking.

Xue's Law did not intend to forcibly change the minds of people from other worlds. For example, even though he hated kneeling, many people from other worlds liked this etiquette, and if you didn't make them kneel, their reaction would be even more intense.

Therefore, in this situation, Xue's Law can only be used as a charlatan. In places with lower levels of civilization, charlatanism is more effective than anything else.

Although his first words after posing as a charlatan were, "God said, you are not allowed to kneel."

At this moment, the old Demon Emperor spoke up to explain: "He is not the emperor of another world, but just a student."

In that instant, the ghostly flames around Loren twisted even more distorted, and he exclaimed in horror, "Someone stronger than you, Big Brother, is actually a student! Is that the realm of gods?"

Xue Law: "..."

The Old Demon Emperor: "..."

Forget it, I'm not going to explain anymore. The more I explain, the harder it'll get. I'll just play the charlatan for now...

That was the only thought left for the two of them.

Soon, led by the undead Loren, a massive complex of buildings came into view.

The great tomb stands tall on the barren plain, like a giant black sword. Nothing grows around it, and even the moonlight becomes thin when it shines here, as if the light itself fears this territory of the undead.

The entire tomb was like a living coffin that was breathing, as if it were still pulsating.

It is filled with an aesthetic and distorted layout that only the dead would have.

"We've arrived. This is the Great Tomb, the capital of the Little Karl Empire... Brother, I may soon..." The undead's words were cut short as his soul fire vanished in an instant, as if he had been crushed.

Then, a sinister voice rang out: "Father, you've finally arrived!"

The voice, tinged with joy, pleasure, and even a twisted quality, emanated from the skull that no longer possessed the fire of the soul.

The old Demon Emperor's face was grim. He said, "What do you want to do?"

"Father, come to my palace. I'll have the guards let you in. Come here, and I'll tell you everything." He laughed, letting out the hoarse, shrill cry of the undead. "As for this traitor, I will utterly annihilate even the last embers of his soul! Hehehe!"

The sound lingered above the blood dragon. Even though the two were still hundreds of miles away from the great tomb, the undead Loren who had been with them was now completely dead.

The skull showed obvious signs of weathering instantly, as if it would turn to dust with the slightest touch.

Lower-level undead cannot resist higher-level undead; this is an ironclad rule among the undead.

"Loren is my brother. He was the one who supported me in unifying the world from the very beginning, and fought alongside me in battles for decades, helping me manage food supplies and logistics..." the old Demon Emperor said.

"Oh……"

"He didn't enjoy much happiness in his life. Less than two years after the empire was established, he died in the empire because he had overexploited his life force and suffered too many hidden injuries... At that time, I still needed to wipe out the remnants of other races, so I didn't have the chance to see him one last time," the old demon emperor continued.

The old man rambled on, as if reminiscing or talking to himself.

The two landed at the entrance to the Great Tomb, but the scene before them caused the old Demon Emperor's pupils to constrict.

“Father…Father Emperor…” The two undead guards, who looked like ghouls, looked at the old Demon Emperor, but they both lowered their heads, whether out of shame or pain, it was hard to tell.

Xue Luding also threw them out from the stiff corpse; they were the old Demon Emperor's other two sons.

The old Demon Emperor didn't say anything, but calmly walked in.

He didn't even turn around, but that back view seemed to be saying something.

"Son, your father will come to kill you!" (End of Chapter)