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

The old demon emperor stopped talking and threw it on the ground, where it rolled away like a ball for an unknown distance.

"Perhaps you were right before, I was too lenient with those old nobles..." the old Demon Emperor said, his face as black as if he came from Africa.

Xue Dinglu silently put away his words, knowing he might need them later.

The two left and continued towards the great tomb.

"I didn't completely purge all the nobles of other races back then. Instead, I scattered them and imprisoned their wives and children in my capital... Except for those who were particularly aggressive, I have been very merciful to the others..." the old demon emperor said, as the blood dragon slowly gathered and flew into the sky again.

"And her family was part of this group. I killed all the adults in her family, leaving only the young members, and then took them to the capital. Later, she became my youngest son's fiancée, which I didn't care about at the time..."

The old Demon King said, "Did I do something wrong?"

Xue's Law: "..."

Isn't that obvious?

He covered his face immediately. Xue Dinglu really didn't know how to comment on what the old demon emperor had done. You mean you killed someone's whole family, raised her, and even made her your youngest son's fiancée?

Dude, how can you be so careless?

Could it be that your youngest son's betrayal of your plans was partly due to this guy whispering in your ear?

You can either kill them all, or leave them alone. You could even cripple her entire family and separate them, so you can say, "Miss, you don't want your family to..."

In this way, you can completely control her and even make her do anything you want. She can only grit her teeth and do it with tears in her eyes because all her family members are in your hands.

To put it bluntly, if Xue Zhiqian were in the position of the old Demon Emperor, he could have manipulated her into becoming a Hakimi.

How did you manage to kill her entire family and then, after she had no more attachments, still dare to let her become your daughter-in-law?

No, are you sick in the head?

Xue's Law is speechless. Hesitating, indecisive, and wishy-washy, wanting to make an example of others while also wanting to spare other races and prevent their extinction... Where in the world is there such a good thing?

He was speechless for a long time before finally saying, "You used to be so long-winded..."

"Yes, it's too fussy..." the old demon emperor said. He looked at the gray sky and saw the vampire head that still had a sickly red blush. His spine seemed to bend even more.

"You know the First Emperor of my world, right?"

Blood Dragon soared through the sky once more, this time at a slower pace to avoid another crash. They also began chatting inside the protective shield.

"Know……"

"Although the First Emperor's empire perished in many ways, the main reason was that the First Emperor was too kind," Xue Dinglu said.

His opinion differed from others; he felt that Ying Zheng was far too fussy and indecisive.

Are the nobles of the six states not going to be investigated and punished?

Are traitors not being punished either?

He could understand not settling scores when they first occupied the territory, but why not when he was about to die?

If Xue Zhiqian were in power, he would have done everything in his power to purge all the nobles of the six kingdoms before his health deteriorated, leaving no one alive. Wouldn't it be possible to dissolve them in water? Even the emperor of the Ming Dynasty could dissolve in water, so why couldn't you make all the nobles of the six kingdoms dissolve in water?

They were indecisive and hesitant, wanting to kill but not daring to, and even allowing the nobles of the six states to remain on their original territories...

The old Demon King made the same mistake.

Xue Dinglu could understand his previous thoughts. It was like the vampire clan. If the old demon emperor had killed her entire family, then the vampire clan would have been wiped out from the world, which would be equivalent to the extinction of an entire race.

The old Demon Emperor probably didn't want to commit genocide directly, so he spared a few of them.

However, his approach was far too fussy and abstract...

"So, is it possible that we'll run into your youngest son again this time?" Xue Dinglu asked.

The old Demon Emperor remained silent, but the way he clenched his fists proved that he had also considered this possibility.

If his daughter-in-law can become a vampire and part of the undead scourge, what about his youngest son, his former subordinates who betrayed him, and his other sons?

The old Demon Emperor didn't know, but he had already figured it out: whoever became an undead...

He killed his own son without any remorse!

Chapter 423 No Regrets for Killing My Son!

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 assassinated his father, the Demon King, when the Demon King was most exhausted and relaxed.

Once Old Deng is dead, the entire empire will 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...