Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"I can understand that. Is this a compliment to me?

"Uh..." As soon as Zhu Xianxun said this from the bottom of his heart, he knew that he had made some mistakes. Although he did think so, it was still inappropriate to compare the throne to a bomb.

"Anyway, just understand what I mean. You see, there are only a few of us here, and I'm worried about the consequences of saying the wrong thing. Do you understand this atmosphere?"

Shangluo nodded.

"Then I'll wait for you here with my hands down."

Shangluo, like before, reached out to open the door of the small shrine.

Suddenly, Phaethon grabbed his hand from behind.

"Don't go. It's dangerous. Do you know how scary it was just now? You disappeared from my sight all of a sudden."

"By the way, how long did it take me to come out just now?"

"About 5 seconds. But do you know how I got here in those 5 seconds? I was ready to go back with your hair and make another clone of you."

“????” Shangluo was shocked by the fierce words, “Why?”

"No reason. Anyway, I can make such a decision in five seconds. Can you understand this atmosphere?"

[These two people, one by one, why is it so oppressive! ]

"Anyway, I understand." Shangluo nodded, "I will pay attention to safety."

"let's go together!"

"No, I just made the decision in 3 seconds. I think it's better for you to stay outside, because you know everything about me. I don't like to say 'what if'. Anyway, do you understand this atmosphere?"

Phaethon sighed and could only nod.

"But there is one important thing." Phaethon said, "Leave Victoria behind."

"Ah! I would have forgotten if you hadn't told me."

"No!" Victoria made a sharp explosion from her pocket, "I want to be with Shangluo! I want to be with him!"

"What on earth are you thinking about!" Phaethon couldn't bear it any longer. "Stop making trouble! If you and Shangluo are lost together, our world will be ruined! I can't clone both of you and raise them up!"

"No! No! I just want to stay here. If I'm locked in, it'll just be me and him. This atmosphere is annoying."

"I can't understand it! Get out of here! Don't cause trouble for him! And don't cause trouble for me anymore!"

"Ok."

Victoria crawled out from the baggage in Shangluo's chest like Sadako - or like an alien, and performed a miracle in front of the unsuspecting Zhu Xianxun.

Phaethon caught her outside, pulled her out like a bamboo shoot, and placed her steadily on the ground.

Zhu Xianxin was completely stunned. He and Victoria looked at each other in bewilderment. The two giants actually met in such a place without any preparation.

"Ciao (yo)." Somehow, Victoria suddenly came up with an irregular slang that only Roman high school students would say, because it was a line from a popular movie called "The Bankruptcy of Belisarius."

"Yo," Zhu Xianxun awkwardly raised his hand in greeting. Although he didn't know what "ciao" meant, and thought the pronunciation of "ciao" was strangely similar to some Jinling dialect, he could fully understand its meaning based on the context.

When you want to say hello but don't know what to say, you will subconsciously say "Yo".

The two of them couldn't talk to each other, because they were both wearing cocoon-like shackles and couldn't say a single wrong word. When the two of them stood together, they couldn't do anything else except "stand".

Perhaps because of the embarrassment that made the air around them become warmer, Fu Yuanshan stood between them, smiled at each of them in turn, blocking their sight.

"Well, I'll be back soon." Finally, he patted Phaethon's head, stretched out his hand and opened the door of the shrine -

The ancestral tablet inside the door was revealed.

"." Shangluo was stunned for a moment.

【Ah, why? 】

"Shangluo, you may have forgotten one thing." Phaethon said, "For Xu Fu, the business between you is over. So he closed your door."

"This old guy is waiting for me here. So, he actually has such a plan, right?"

Shang Luo took out the elixir Xu Fu had given him just now and said, "We have been searching for so long and only found this entrance. It seems that if we want to go in and overturn the table with him now, this is the only way."

"Hey, hey, Shangluo." Phaethon reminded, "Is this a trick of that old guy?"

"Who knows? Maybe he left a warning to prevent me from knocking on his door. He wanted me to know that if I want to go in again, I can only use the door he gave me."

He thought for a moment, then took out a small lottery tube from his bosom, which contained five tokens. There was nothing on the tokens except the simple word "Ling", but at a glance, one could see the overwhelming sword intent from the word "Ling".

"This is the token that Lu Zu gave me. I'll leave it to you first. If I don't come out within 5 seconds, you should shake this lottery box hard to shake Lu Zu over to you."

"Understood." Phaethon nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll be right back."

The familiar tower, the familiar Moon Palace and Moon Sea. He returned to this white jade palace again, but this time there were no immortals standing in a crowd, only Xu Fu stood in front of him.

"What are you doing here? Aren't things already done? Or do you have a new business to discuss with me?"

"Hand over the emperor."

"Oh, that's the deal. Okay, I'll be frank, the emperor is indeed with me. But what price do you want?"

"I won't offer you a price. Hand over the emperor."

"Aiya, you Kunlun people are still the same as before, never following the rules. If you take something from here, you should give me something. Isn't this common sense?"

"Son of Heaven, you are a piece of shit! Human trafficking is illegal! You are kidnapping! If you hand him over now, it will be considered a minor offense and you will be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 5 years but not more than 10 years. If you refuse to repent and still want to resist, there is no upper limit to your sentence!"

"Oh, this." Xu Fu was shocked by the law he brought up - because it was indeed a rule. What he didn't know was that he had already lost a debate with Shangluo using legal provisions before, because Xu Fu didn't know the content of the Ming Dynasty law at all.

“But this is a business after all.”

"The emperor was forced to sign the agreement in order to save his life. This is an emergency avoidance. Therefore, a contract signed under duress is not only not protected by the law, but will make you more guilty."

"."

"Be smart and hand it over within 5 seconds. You know, we in Kunlun like to call people. If I don't go out within 5 seconds, who knows who will come."

Chapter 1232 Dinner

"Five seconds?" Xu Fu sneered, "You may not know, 'Nostalgia is empty reciting poems when hearing the flute, and when I return to my hometown, I feel like a person who has lost himself in the past.' My Lord, you don't want to go out and see the world change, right? You don't want to go out and see everyone you know turn into dust, right? We in Penglai are quite good at this."

"This is called the Vulcan Core." Shang Luo directly took out a golden movement. "It can synchronize with the Pharos Lighthouse in Alexandria and calibrate the clock to be flush with the lighthouse. So the 5 seconds I mentioned is 5 seconds. Besides, isn't it just speeding up? Do you think I can't do it?"

"Wait. You have one too?"

"Believe it or not, I will also open my own cave inside your cave, and then superimpose 365 times the flow rate on top of each other."

"Wait! Don't do that! It will collapse! I want to tell you, this won't be good for either of us!"

"Of course." Shang Luo still held up the movement, "So, I think it would be better for you to reconsider my proposal. Your behavior has violated the criminal law. It is not too late to hand over the emperor you kidnapped. I can consider sentencing you to a fixed-term imprisonment without destroying your skills."

"Why should I obey your laws, after all?"

"Oh!" Shang Luo nodded, "So you don't want to abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty. That's simple - there's nothing to talk about with the barbarians. You came from under the First Emperor, so you should know how the Celestial Empire will treat the barbarians, right? Besides, the matter of the First Emperor is not over yet."

"That matter is over!"

"No, not at all. You took two emperors and gave two pills. This is the business of this dynasty. You haven't finished settling the accounts of defrauding the First Emperor yet."

"Why do you care about this!"

"Because according to the territorial principle, the imperial court will be in charge of anything that happens on this land! You should hand over the pill!"

"Then you must first prove that you are the successor of the First Emperor."

"Don't forget what you said at the beginning - you said you would only give it to the heir of the First Emperor. Now that you have given the pill to me, it means you recognize this kind of inheritance, and that you recognize the Son of Heaven."

"These are clearly two separate things!" Xu Fu drew his sword. "I'm fed up with all this red tape! You guys from Kunlun are too lawless! Aren't you afraid of divine punishment?"

"It's you who should be punished by God, old thief Xu! If you hadn't defrauded the First Emperor, would you still be alive today?"

"Ridiculous! I want to duel with you! I want to let you see the fighting skills of the Qi people!"

"Who wants to duel with you!" Shang Luo held up the golden movement, "You don't have much time left, so why bother arguing with me? Wait until I get someone over here, and when the lights are blown out and the candles are removed, it will be too late for you to say anything - in other words, if you don't want to be decent, I will help you be decent!"

After saying that, he moved the second hand of the Vulcan core forward one tick - time passed for one second. Everything around moved with it. Although the passage of time was only a short second, it was enough to shock a master like Xu Fu. He could clearly sense that in this second, he had lost control of this world.

"." Xu Fu looked up at the sky, "Okay. You win. Kunlun, you are still as tough as before."

"Thank you. Since you are one of us and you are willing to negotiate, I can keep your request in mind and not execute it for the time being. Now, return the emperor to me."

"Okay." Xu Fu glanced into the empty space and made a decision - he snapped his fingers.

Rabbits came rushing over. Moon rabbits from all over the Moon Palace came slowly and leisurely from all directions. Some carried trays, some held pestles, and some held small wooden hammers. They came rushing over and stood quietly in front of Shangluo. Each one looked exactly the same.

"I have summoned him. Take him away."

"?"

The moon rabbits are arranged in neat rows, their big ears flickering, which is interesting and cute. But these moon rabbits look almost the same except for the things they hold.

[Sure enough! That old guy Xu Fu, the duel only begins when he admits defeat! As soon as he admits defeat, he starts practicing Tai Chi!]

"3 seconds." Shangluo moved the clock of the Vulcan core forward one more tick.

"I've given you the rabbit, what else do you want?"

"1 second." Shangluo dialed another space.

"Why not 2 seconds?!"

"I didn't agree to only dial one grid at a time. You still have one last chance! I won't play catch with you, just hand over the emperor!"

"*Daqin Yayan*, I'm sorry I won't accompany you!" Suddenly, Xu Fu lowered his body and his robe fell to the ground. Three moon rabbits ran out from his robe and mixed in with the huge group of rabbits.

"You've offended me and you still want to run away!" Shang Luo put away the timer. "You said Kunlun doesn't follow the rules? Today I'll show you what it means to really break the rules! Ah hum! Come out!"

He untied the bundle, and it unfolded into a painting. The painting followed the wind of ignorance and rose straight up to the sky. It unfolded into a picture of mountains, rivers, and the country, covering the sky and the moon. In the world of the painting, a black dog soared into the sky, slowly getting bigger in the painting, gradually occupying the entire painting, until its head was like Mount Tai, its waist was like a steep mountain, its eyes were like lightning, and its mouth was like a blood basin.

A giant dog fell from the sky, and the huge monster that stood tall and straight landed on the moon sea, which was just above the knees.

The giant dog's four legs splashed a tsunami of mercury in the moon sea. However, before the tsunami hit the moon palace, the giant dog raised its head to the sky and howled, then plunged its mouth into the moon sea, opened its mouth wide and took a big bite of the moon's surface.

As it raised its head, fragments of the moon and the remnants of the lunar sea fell from between its teeth, and more of it was stuffed into its mouth.

The giant dog's eyes lit up - the moon was more delicious than he had imagined, and his tail wagged even more happily.

The giant dog raised its head and chewed the moon whole, then took a second bite. The two bites left a big hole in the moon sea, and the tsunami that had just spread immediately flowed into the big hole and gathered into a basin. This was exactly what the giant dog wanted, so it put its entire mouth into the basin and sucked hard.

The storm swept in, and its huge suction force caused the lunar sea to flow backwards. The sea level of the entire world was dropping. Even the pool in the Moon Palace was blown up to the sky by the storm and gathered into the big mouth of destruction.

The moon rabbits stood there quietly, gazing into the distance, witnessing the destruction of the world, but they remained silent. Only the three moon rabbits that had just escaped got back into the clothes, rolled on the ground, and turned into a disheveled Taoist with his hands in his trouser legs and his feet sticking out of his sleeves:

"Shang Tianjun! Please put away your magical powers! I know I was wrong! I will return the emperor to you right now! This fairyland is a treasure that I have cultivated for 2000 years. You can't just leave it like this."

"It's too late!" Shang Luo said sternly, "The Heavenly Court never negotiates. The initial notification is an ultimatum, and the initial conditions are the most favorable conditions. If you don't believe me when I talk nicely, don't blame me for flipping the table - ah hum, can you finish eating?"

"Woo~~" From the distance, there came an ambiguous reply like thunder, as if the person was not full yet.

[It's OK when it's dry. But it's a bit bloated because it's too watery. ]

"Okay. Aha! You come out too!"

An identical giant dog fell from the sky—

"Stop eating! Stop eating!" Xu Fu rolled on the ground anxiously, "Stop eating, I'll hand it over right away!"

"Rolling around? Rolling around also counts as time! Qiuqiu! You come out too, it's time for dinner! Let's eat here!"

Chapter 1233 Swear

"That's right. Those are the two." Xu Fu held two moon rabbits in his hands and handed them to Shangluo.

Behind them, three giant beasts big enough to move mountains and seas were still munching away.

"I want the emperor, not a rabbit."

"That's all. This is what the emperor looks like after taking the elixir."

"I'll say it again, I don't care what kind of elixirs you have, and I don't care how these things of yours work. There are three people going in, and I want three people to come out. I don't care about anything else, I just want people."

Shangluo has already understood that discussing the rules with these Penglai immortals will only make them retreat in order to advance. If the talks fail, it will be fine. If the talks reach the point where they give in, that will be the real beginning of the game. Because they will shrink like cotton to a position where they cannot be hit, and then they will hide a needle somewhere to pull you back to the negotiation table.

"You really don't want it?"