After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 2701 The Rotten Sores Beneath the Magnificent Robe
Lingxu City naturally had to send its royal army to quell the rebellion, and the surrounding vassal demon kingdoms also had to join the campaign!
Back then, this is how Lingxu City dealt with the Yuan Kingdom.

He Lingchuan was already familiar with this period of history and knew that even the King of Baoshu, who sympathized with the Yuan Kingdom, had to send troops to participate in the encirclement and suppression in the end.

Once the Demon Emperor accuses the Heavenly Palace's faction of treason against the Demon King, a massive army may be sent to invade.

Without a doubt, the Lingxu King's army will fight to the death, until the Heavenly Palace Party's Demon King steps down.

This is called taking advantage of an opportunity to launch an attack.

What can the Heavenly Palace say?
The Holy Venerable Lingxu demanded the destruction of Panlong, but these demon kings refused to exert their full strength in sending troops. Therefore, Lingxu City launched a campaign against them, which was legal and lawful, and all the people of Beka witnessed it.

"Truly worthy of being called the old Demon Emperor, his methods are superb." He Lingchuan exhaled.

After this series of attacks, the Demon King of the Heavenly Palace Party had no choice but to swallow his bitterness.

Why did He Lingchuan feel that this second Demon Emperor actually cooperated with him better?
It's much better than its son.

"The old demon emperor?" Wen Daolun didn't understand. Did the general mean an old monster? The current demon emperor was indeed very old.

He Lingchuan patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be discouraged. In the long run, the two pieces of intelligence you got today are good news for Panlong."

In the short term, the pressure on Panlong will increase sharply. He didn't say much about this, but Wen Daolun already understood.

Dawn is just ahead. As long as Panlong can break through this last and deepest darkness, the war with Bega may take a turn for the better, and the people and soldiers of Panlong may be able to seize a glimmer of hope.

He suppressed his excitement and regained his rationality: "However, are the Heavenly Palace or the Heavenly Demons just going to stand by and watch the Demon Emperor deal with those few vassal demon kings?"

“Of course not. Once those demon kings fall, the imperial faction within their respective demon kingdoms will rise to power. Even if they receive blessings from the Heavenly Palace, they can use the ‘Heartbreak’ antidote to break the curse of shared life and death. In this way, the Demon Emperor can completely regain control of Bega, and the Heavenly Palace will lose its power.” He Lingchuan paused for a moment. “This has been the wish of Bega’s three, um, two Demon Emperors for many years. Of course, the Heavenly Palace cannot let it have its way, so there will definitely be new actions soon.”

Wen Daolun laughed so hard his crow's feet appeared:

"The fiercer they fight among themselves, the less they are interested in conquering the west, and the less pressure they exert on Panlong."

Regardless of how long this internal strife lasts, if the Demon Emperor ultimately wins, and Bega doesn't need the Great Pot, there's no need to conquer Panlong anymore. If Bega wants to expand his territory, there are plenty of easy targets around him; he doesn't need to go through the trouble of taking on Panlong.

Even if the Heavenly Demon and the Heavenly Palace win, Bega will inevitably suffer internal injuries. How much strength will he have left to attack Panlong?
“This is our strategic objective.” He Lingchuan gazed at Lingxu City on the sand table. “However, the Demon Emperor’s plan can only affect a few vassal demon kings, who are the human henchmen of the Heavenly Demon. If the Demon Emperor wants to regain complete control of Bega, he cannot bypass the Heavenly Palace. But so far, I have not seen any way for it to deal with the Heavenly Palace.”

Subsequent demon emperors failed to devise corresponding strategies, thus remaining in a passive position. He Lingchuan wondered what the second demon emperor would do.

"The Demon Emperor's method of dealing with the Heavenly Palace?" Wen Daolun pondered for a long time, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I have no clue at all."

"Let's wait and see," He Lingchuan said solemnly. "What we need to do is persevere and fight for Panlong until the conflict between the Heavenly Demon and the Demon Emperor fully erupts. Then Panlong will usher in a new turning point!"

Hope lies in the near future. He didn't tell Wen Daolun, but it shouldn't be more than six months.

……

Soon after, the wind picked up.

It's a trend of rumors.

Throughout Bega, including the various demon kingdoms and Lingxu City, a large number of scandals suddenly broke out involving the Heavenly Palace and its subordinate institutions!
This includes, but is not limited to, bribing local officials, luring women and children into prostitution, corruption, murder, and exploiting believers to the point of causing numerous families to be torn apart and deaths.

Even the wife of the Grand Marshal of the Qingfu Kingdom was seduced by the master of the Liushan Temple, the residence of the local Heavenly Palace, and gave birth to two daughters. The Grand Marshal was kept in the dark and raised them as his own flesh and blood.

Every time the Grand Marshal brought his family to the Liushan Temple to worship the gods in peace, while he himself was devoutly praying in the quiet room, his wife was having an affair with the temple's master in a secret room not far away. No, it should be called offering up all her spiritual and physical desires.

Even more terrifying, when his two daughters reached puberty, they also kept running to the Liushan Temple. The Grand Marshal had initially been pleased, believing they were influenced by the family atmosphere and were devout believers. However, upon learning that he had been cuckolded time and again, he went mad, with only one thought in his mind—

Damn it, they all deserve to die!

He was in charge of the military affairs of Qingfu and had a large number of men under his command. So he first killed the two bastards, then led his troops into Liushan Temple, personally beheaded the mastermind, and executed nearly a thousand temple priests and gang members on the spot!

Nearly a hundred worshippers in the temple tried to stop them, but they were all hacked to death.

In the eyes of the enraged Grand Marshal, these were all accomplices and deserved to die.

But in the eyes of the Mountain King's capital, this was an extremely serious problem.

The Liushan Temple enshrines Jialoutian, a high-ranking deity in the entire celestial realm and the Grand Marshal of the Mountain Lord Kingdom. Would he even dare to kill the mastermind under Jialoutian?
The Grand Marshal did not rebel; he simply burned down the Liushan Temple, disbanded his guards, and surrendered. After King Sanjun imprisoned him, he faced the most difficult problem:
What should we do with him?
Damaging temples and harming divine servants are punishable by severed hands or death. The Grand Marshal killed so many divine servants; he certainly deserves the death penalty, the most severe of all punishments.

But he was a devout believer, so his sudden madness was understandable. The people sympathized with him.

If he is not dealt with, how can the Heavenly Palace let this go?

Fortunately, the incident involving the Grand Marshal of Qingfu was not an isolated case. In just over twenty days, scandals involving the Heavenly Palace system in various parts of Lingxu City and the Demon Kingdom were springing up everywhere.

Such incidents have happened before, but one or two, or even eight or ten, wouldn't cause much of a stir in such a large city as Bekaa. Besides, communication wasn't well-developed, so even if it was exposed in one place, people in other cities of Bekaa wouldn't know.

Furthermore, the consensus among the officials of the Bega government for over four hundred years is that any incident involving the Heavenly Palace and the Temple is a major event and a big problem. Therefore, they always handle it discreetly, or help cover it up, thus minimizing the issue.

But this time it's a nationwide outbreak, with one act after another taking the stage, creating a dazzling spectacle that keeps even the heavens busy.

The Heavenly Palace wanted to extinguish the fire, but found itself unsure where to begin.

Wen Daolun exclaimed, "I really didn't expect the Demon Emperor to be so decisive, taking the initiative before the Heavenly Palace could make its move, and leaving the Heavenly Palace's reputation and prestige riddled with holes."