The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

And from the Demon King's mouth, they heard a sentence that would excite anyone.

"Empire, your emperor has returned!" the old demon emperor said, looking at the old man.

……

This is all just Xue's Law deliberately creating a mystery.

Whether it was rescuing people at the critical moment or the old demon king making a appearance to win people's hearts, it was all a plan discussed by the two of them.

The two of them had come here after seeing the bone dragon. They landed directly in the forest occupied by the undead. They didn't see any landmarks along the way, so Xue Lude also put his serious spirit into practice.

I don't know who I am or where I am, but I'm going to go on a killing spree!

So he went on a killing spree, and the undead were easily sliced ​​apart in his hands like tofu.

Strangely enough, even the undead of this world are completely suppressed by the Holy Light. In addition, Xue Law directly purchased a large amount of magma from the Holy Mountain at a high price. Therefore, the quality of Xue Law's Holy Light is now even better than that of Pope Alora.

Therefore, Xue's Law can now be described as a walking embodiment of divine light.

It is quite possible that these bone dragons did not migrate on their own, but were accidentally driven here by him and the old demon emperor, which is why the settlement here suffered this undeserved disaster.

The bone dragon showed no regard for the survivors in the settlement, perhaps because it had developed intelligence and understood that avoiding the glowing treasure behind it was infinitely more important than killing the survivors; if it was too slow, it would be waiting to die!

So it fled at top speed, but was still caught up by Xue Dinglu and the Old Demon Emperor.

However, after seeing how familiar the military formation of this settlement was, the old Demon Emperor stopped Xue Luding, wanting to observe what was going on.

Then, when he realized that this group of people were still using the military formations and magic refining techniques from the Imperial era, the old Demon Emperor's face showed three parts nostalgia, three parts dissatisfaction, and three parts emotion. At the last moment, he and Xue Luding worked together to save people at the last minute.

Perhaps, seeing that even under such circumstances, the academy he had built by sucking the blood of the empire could still be of use, the old Demon Emperor was perhaps feeling sentimental, reflecting that his former empire had not been completely destroyed, but had still left traces of it in this world.

The two had discussed it beforehand.

This time, the old Demon Emperor was in charge. After all, this was his own world, his home. Xue Luding was just a henchman, so he didn't stop the old guy from winning people's hearts in this way.

The old man only needs to put on a show and say, "Your emperor has returned." But Xue, behind the scenes, has to consider many more things: he needs to make it glow, instantly kill the undead, and quickly build this Tower of Light.

The old Demon Emperor looked as if he had come from Dandong and changed into a snow-white outfit.

The old Demon Emperor began questioning these people.

How long has it been since the empire fell? What happened afterward? And what is the current situation? Xue Daolu is seriously starting to build the Holy Light Defense Tower here.

The technology originated from interstellar corps, enabling the rapid deployment of automated sentry towers. It cost Xue's Law 998 credits, but for Xue's Law now, that's a drop in the ocean! Buy it!

Meanwhile, Xue's Law added a bit of holy mountain magma to the power supply system, giving the watchtowers' attacks a built-in holy light enchantment.

Thus, this magnificent Holy Light Watchtower, over thirty meters high, was completed.

Putting aside everything else, this thing was able to destroy the mythical bone dragon after recognizing its automatic attack.

Even faster, just after Xue Luding had set up the automatic attack mode of the watchtower, the old demon emperor returned to Xue Luding's side. His emotions seemed extremely complex, with both anger and a kind of indescribable sense of relief.

"What's wrong? Why do you look so complicated?" Xue Dinglu asked when he saw the old Demon Emperor.

The old demon king didn't answer directly, but instead asked, "Do you have a cigarette?"

"You've only been on Earth a few days and you've already picked up this bad habit?" Xue Dinglu rummaged through his consciousness space and indeed found a pack of Huangshan cigarettes. He handed the cigarettes to the old Demon Emperor.

He lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and then cursed, "You damned bastards! You're dead!"

When the pure essence of Chinese culture was uttered by the people of this other world, Xue Dinglu had to exert all his strength to keep himself in check.

"What's wrong?" he asked in return.

The old Demon Emperor took another deep drag on his cigarette and said, "I originally thought that even if the empire fell, the concept of unification would still be deeply rooted in people's hearts, and there would definitely be successors to inherit my ideals and continue to achieve unification..."

"But now I realize that after unification, what awaits us may not be another unification, but rather the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period..." The old Demon Emperor silently told Xue Dinglu what he knew.

Xue Lude was stunned for a moment. This old man had attained enlightenment in Longchang on Earth, and his knowledge of Earth's history might even be stronger than that of Xue Lude, an Earthling who only knew history from literature and videos after middle school.

However, when he mentioned the "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms", Xue Dinglu was able to roughly understand what kind of situation this world was in.

This is a unique language encryption system of Dongda University. A single idiom acts like a hyperlink, unfolding almost all the information in Xue's mind.

"How much stronger is it compared to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period?" Xue Dinglu asked tentatively.

Although he didn't have a systematic understanding of this era, he knew that it was an era where humans were treated worse than pigs and dogs, and human flesh was the most popular food of the time. There really was a baby in the claypot rice.

In this day and age, exchanging children to eat is considered elegant; it's practically a group of cannibals among cannibals competing to see who is the worst, a truly glorious moment for humanoid apes.

Xue's Law thought, surely it couldn't be worse than the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, right?

The old demon emperor stared at Xue Lude with a death stare, making Xue Lude feel embarrassed and offer him another cigarette.

"Even worse!"

Xue's Law: "..."

How could they be worse than those ape-like creatures from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period? Don't lie to me!

Unexpectedly, the old Demon King said, "Do you know how people in this world avoid becoming undead after death?"

"After death, everyone's corpse will be eaten, and everyone will share it..."

Xue's Law: "..."

"Why not burn it?" Xue Luding's face began to contort as he voiced his question, because burning it would also prevent the birth of the undead.

"Your words are like those of the emperor who asked why he didn't eat minced meat."

Chapter 421 A Lich King of your caliber has no right to breathe.

“Tell me about your former empire,” Xue Dinglu said, looking at the clearly defined world in the distance, a world that seemed to have been frozen in time.

Without vegetation, a large cluster of withered branches stands crookedly on the ground, like towering tombstones, creating a desolate winter desert.

Only the dead wander the earth, aimlessly, as if still immersed in the past when their homeland was completely lost, or as if they only have these few remaining obsessions.

On the other side was an area where creatures lived amidst lush vegetation, but there were countless crooked buildings and partitions. Even at this point, the human group was still fighting amongst themselves.

"The former empire? There's not much to say. I've told you before that because of my incompetence, many of my empire's policies are no longer suitable for this world, or even applicable. For example, I once stipulated that marriage between people of the same race was not allowed, and that people could only marry people of different races..."

The old demon king puffed on his cigarette, perhaps only nicotine could keep him calm and allow him to recount his past stories in a joking tone.

"Looking back now, it was a truly idiotic policy. It's amazing that those people could tolerate it for 14 years before overthrowing me..." He seemed to be joking as he finished another cigarette and asked Xue Dinglu for a third one.

“I once told you that my world is full of races, unlike your world where the only difference between races is skin color. Here, the petite dwarves are about 1.2 meters tall, while the tall demons are mostly over 3 meters tall.”

"Furthermore, the demons all have terrifying appearances with scales and exoskeletons, and there are also tree spirits, a species that is closest to the aesthetics of your King-type humans... It can be said that the differences between different races in the world are like the differences between humans and dogs in your world."

"Back then, I actually managed to unite these strange and wonderful creatures solely through force, and even forced them to intermarry between different species. What I never expected was that in this era, there are basically no longer any distinctions between races..."

The old Demon Emperor spoke with a half-smile, surrounded by swirling smoke. It was unclear whether he was lamenting or mocking how unreliable his policies had been back then, as if they were some failed art student who had come up with some crazy idea on a whim.

Xue's Law: "..."

"So now, have they become a unified species?" Xue asked.

"I'd say that's a stretch, because this generation was born when my empire was flourishing. Those before them either died of old age or were exploited to the point of near death. The people now are those born after my racial intermarriage system was implemented..."

"They no longer have racial barriers; basically, everyone has the blood of two or more races. We used to distinguish between different races and ethnic groups, but now there are no distinctions at all; everyone is crammed together..."

"Oh right, because I collected and burned all the unique cultures and customs of each race. After all, the things of these remnants are not conducive to rule and have no reference value. So after losing the cultural and customary soil, naturally only what I taught them remained, so naturally they huddled together." The old demon emperor even began to talk to himself.

Xue's Law: "..."

He couldn't comment on the mess the old Demon Emperor had made, but he could say that there was a real reason why he was overthrown by those old men. He burned everything they owned and didn't even settle scores with them. The old Demon Emperor really did something inhuman. Let's just say, you know Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, right?

The old Demon Emperor was ten times more outrageous than Yang Guang. He did things that would take many generations and many years to have an effect, but these things completely harmed the interests of people in the present. It was a case of taking too big a step and tearing your own balls.

The old Demon Emperor did something far more outrageous than Yang Guang, and he even managed to last for 14 years. This can only mean that his strength truly overwhelmed everyone else at the time, leaving them all battered and bruised, which is why he was able to achieve such an effect.

Even if he received just one less slap, Xue Law estimated that other races would not have been able to tolerate it.

But now, seeing that his past policies have actually played a huge role in the future, and that the world is no longer divided by race but by class, he doesn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Perhaps without the undead, the world would still be in a state of warlordism like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Eventually, it would be unified, but that would be many years from now. How many people would be left by then?

After all, everyone who survived in this world is a master of "being human," even these guys from the small settlement in front of us, they've all eaten people...

It's even said that in big cities, "people" have long been nothing more than a dish that can be served on the table.

However, the current situation in this world, especially between the living and the dead, is actually much better than I had imagined.

The undead now occupy only about a third of the continent, because in this world, the number of low-level undead is really useless to those big cities that control violence.

Because of the involution magic, the mages in this world all control spells with far greater destructive power than their peers. Even ordinary people can squeeze out their life force to enhance their own power.

Under such powerful attacks, the undead army could not gather in numbers, or perhaps the mastermind behind the undead army prevented the army from fully assembling to avoid being wiped out by a large-scale AOE attack that suddenly appeared. Instead, the undead in this world mostly presented a strategy of small-scale, attrition warfare.

As for humanity, they can only be said to be roughly united now. According to the people of this settlement, although there are all sorts of different names in the world, they are all warlords. These warlords now occupy the best lands and have established their own countries, all insisting that they are the legitimate rulers of the empire.

After all, it was only after the empire fell that everyone began to praise its goodness and insist that they were the rightful heirs.

Only the old Demon Emperor understood that his youngest son had killed all his other children, leaving him with no descendants, and now, in his soul form, it was even less likely that he would have any descendants.

Although they are now united, there are still opportunities within their ranks to sabotage each other, and they will certainly not hold back.

As for the overall situation...

Just as the old Demon Emperor said, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was chaotic and disorderly. Eating people and being eaten by others were almost just a change in status. The old man told a story about how the king and his entire family of a small country not far from here were attacked and all the members of the royal family were stewed in one pot.

Xue's Law doesn't even know how to evaluate this. Perhaps it's a case of "Are kings and nobles born with a special destiny?" The winners eat meat, and the losers are eaten?

"Actually, looking on the bright side, the situation here is actually better than we thought. Before I came, I thought this world had completely become a backyard for the dead," Xue Dinglu thought to himself.

He never imagined that the undead would one day be unable to employ human wave tactics, and could only rely on small groups of troops to relentlessly grind down the existing warlords' health.

These war-mongers were ruthless enough that, in order to prevent the undead from controlling the corpses, they chose to chop them up and eat them directly from within...

All I can say is, that's ruthless!

This is simply a case of doing good with bad intentions.

From this perspective, the matter is quite clear.

"Old Deng, let's just find the undead's lair and wipe them out in one fell swoop. For us, we can now simply rush into the Lich King's lair and kill it. A Lich King of this level is no longer qualified to breathe on us."

After roughly understanding the intelligence, Xue Lude concluded that the strength of the undead side was weak for him at the moment, and that the strongest of them was probably only at the same level as the old Demon Emperor.

Even if Xue's Law cannot use the Destruction Colossus of Genesis, it can still crush it by manipulating the Divine Tree.

He can now even cosplay as Hashirama Senju amidst an army of the dead, manipulating the Divine Tree to create a forest in an instant.

However, this entire forest is an extension of the divine tree. If they are not killed, they will eventually become new divine trees, leading to endless troubles.