On the Avenue.

Chapter 504: The Three Generations of the Chen Family, Chen Tang is the Weakest

Since the disaster, the imperial court has existed in name only. After the disaster, Chen Shi used thundering means to kill the Yan family, causing the twelve noble families including Xia, Li, and Zhang to act much more cautiously. To this day, Xijing has not been rebuilt.

Officials in the court, if they were not dead, were scattered among the countryside.

Chen Tang contacted the capable officials in the court everywhere, but he saw that the people's livelihood in each province was in decline, and there were even many rebellious forces who occupied the mountains and oppressed the people. The people's lives were not much better than before the disaster.

"Your Highness is right. This chaos must be ended as soon as possible."

He came to Li County, Wanzhou Province, looking for several officials of the Dali Temple. Hongshan Hall inquired about the news and learned that several minor officials of the Dali Temple lived in Li County, and he only needed to visit them.

He came to a tea shop outside the county, ordered a pot of tea, and said to the old tea seller: "Elder, I want to ask about someone. Is there a man named Shen Zhou here? He is about 40 years old. He used to be an official in Xijing, but returned home when the disaster happened."

As soon as he said this, everyone in the tea shop looked at him.

The old man selling tea laughed and said, "Why is Lord Chen asking about Shen Zhou? Shen Zhou is not an official, but a ninth-rank official. Is it necessary for Lord Chen to make a personal trip?"

Chen Tang raised his eyebrows, looked at the people in the tea shop, and said, "Huzhou Fei family?"

The old tea seller carried a copper teapot and poured tea for him personally, saying with a smile, "Huzhou and Wanzhou are not far away, both are provinces near the Great Lakes. Mr. Chen has been running around these days, doing his best to win over court officials for the traitor Chen Shi. Now that he has come to Wanzhou, as a neighbor, how can my Fei family not treat him with care? Otherwise, people will say he is impolite."

Chen Tang looked at the old man selling tea and asked, "Which elder of the Fei family are you from?"

"Fei Xi."

The old man selling tea sat opposite him and said with a smile, "I am an old man of humble talent, but I am honored to be the former patriarch of the Fei family."

Chen Tang was a little confused: "In order to deal with me, has the Fei family already sent out the former clan leader?"

Fei Xi picked up the teacup and said with a smile, "Master Chen, your son wants to be the real king, and you are the emperor emeritus of the rebels. It is not excessive to arrest the emperor emeritus and send out the former leader. We are not here to oppose Master Chen, but to ask Master Chen to give us a way to live."

Chen Tang picked up the tea but didn't drink it. He said, "The Fei family is one of the thirteen aristocratic families. They are wealthy and powerful. They own eighteen levels of hell in the underworld and control countless armies of ghosts and gods. Why do they need me to give them a way out?"

Fei Xi said sincerely, "My Fei family does not want to fight the Chen family to the death. What the Fei family wants is not the true king. The Fei family can support Chen Shi as the true king, and can support the Chen family as the royal family or even the imperial family! Even more, my Fei family can support the Chen family, attack other families, and help the Chen family unify the world! My Fei family's children, and even the millions of ghosts and gods in the underworld, can all be used by the Chen family. The Fei family only asks for one thing."

He drank the tea in the cup, put down the tea bowl, and said with an almost flattering smile: "This matter is to keep the current status of my Fei family, no increase or decrease. Sir Chen, this request is too low, right?"

In the tea shop, the Fei family masters looked angry and sad. The Fei family was a high and mighty family of the thirteenth generation, how could they have ever been so humble?
Using the lives of countless clansmen and the Fei family's accumulation of thousands of years to help Chen Shi achieve hegemony without asking for anything in return was already a great humiliation for the Fei family.

Chen Tang looked at the tea in the tea bowl with a smile in his eyes: "I refuse."

Fei Xi was slightly startled.

The Fei family masters in the tea shop were furious and stood up one after another with murderous intent.

Fei Yu raised his hand to stop them, stared into Chen Tang's eyes, and asked, "Why?"

"The purpose of our uprising is to overthrow you. Now that you have surrendered, who are we going to fight?"

Chen Tang smiled and said, "The purpose of starting a rebellion is not to discuss business, nor to invite guests for dinner or tea. It is to get rid of the parasites that are sucking blood from the common people, to pull down those who are high and mighty, and to vent the anger of the people. If you surrender, how can you comfort the people of the world?"

Fei Xi sighed and smiled, "When your father caused a big disturbance in Xijing, the Thirteenth Family stepped forward to stop him. I was the first person to defeat him. We, the Thirteenth Family, let him see the world. When he turned around, he could see the gods of the upper world staring at him."

He stared at Chen Tang: "Your father didn't tell you about this, did he?"

Chen Tang said: "Now my father is safe and sound, where is the upper world?"

Fei Xi slapped with his palm, and an arc of light appeared behind his head. The tremendous magic power instantly enveloped Chen Tang's body!

The moment his Taoism burst out, Chen Tang's void realm had already transformed into the Xuanwei Sword, blocking Fei Xi's tremendous magic power!
At the same time, his other hand took out a box from the void, and with a flick of his five fingers, the box opened. Rag dolls flew out of the box one by one, and transformed into a group of Fu Shen Tianji in the air, looking like gods, with eight arms and majestic appearance.

The secrets of thirty-seven gods of talismans fell, and the thirty-seven realms of ghosts and gods overlapped, suppressing everything!
Dozens of Fei family masters in the tea shop had just formed a formation when they were suppressed by the ghost and god realm. They were unable to mobilize any of their magic power and were horrified.

Even someone like Fei Xing, who had reached the peak of the Mahayana realm, felt that his power was severely suppressed!

Chen Tang's Xuanwei sword pierced through his palm with a hissing sound, and the tip of the sword pointed at his throat.

At this moment, the earth shook violently, and the area within hundreds of miles of Li County was pulled into darkness by a tremendous force. The next moment, the entire Li County fell into the underworld!

"Chen Tang!"

All around, extremely thick arms emerged from the depths of the earth and climbed up with all their might. They were countless ghosts and gods crawling from hell to the underworld!

Those ghosts and gods revealed their figures, their aura burst out, and broke through the suppression of the thirty-seven talisman gods.

They are too powerful. Over thousands of years, they have attracted the worship of countless ghosts and gods. Some of the ghosts and gods of the Fei family have cultivated divine powers far beyond that of the Mahayana!

Among them, Yin Shuai and Panguan can already be ranked alongside the strongest Mahayana.

This was a trap set against Chen Tang, in order to capture the Chen family's emperor and make Chen Shi afraid to act rashly. Fei Xi immediately took the opportunity to move sideways, avoiding Chen Tang's Xuanwei Sword, and the sword light left a bloody mark on his neck.

Chen Tang turned his palm, and the Xuanwei Sword cut off half of his palm. The sword light trembled, and the next moment everyone was surrounded by the sword light of the Xuanwei Sword. The area within a hundred miles was like a vast ocean of sword energy!
He practiced the Xuanwei Sword Sutra, one of the Ten Books of Cultivation, and seldom dabbled in other techniques. However, he developed the power of this technique to the extreme!

Although he was surrounded, he remained extremely calm, as if it was not him but the Fei family who fell into the encirclement.

Everyone panicked and rushed to fight against the sword energy coming from all directions, while Chen Tang stepped forward with a sword and fought Fei Xi in close combat!

The two sides fought fast, and in an instant, Fei Xi retreated thousands of miles and passed under the bodies of ghosts and gods. Those ghosts and gods were in a panic and tried to grab Chen Tang but collided with the sword lights, and were afraid of hurting Fei Xi.

Chen Tang's sword intent was like the tide, surging and turbulent. He moved forward courageously, advancing a thousand miles. He suddenly retracted his sword, and with a flash of sword light, he tore the void apart, passed through the crack, and returned to the world of the living before the ghosts and gods of the underworld could surround him.

The thirty-seven Talisman Gods had already killed all the other Fei family masters at this moment, and rushed over quickly, sinking into the cracks one after another.

Fei Xi steadied his body and was about to stop him from escaping, but suddenly his expression changed slightly, and a sword energy burst out of his body and tore his chest apart.

Before he could come to his senses, he saw sword energy flying out from his chest, back, limbs and bones. In an instant, his body and soul became riddled with holes!

Fei Xing turned into a bloody man, standing there with a hideous face.

"What a fast sword! Chen Tang, you have surpassed Chen Yindu at that time!"

He froze there, not daring to move.

Because if he moves, he will be torn into pieces!

In such a short time, Chen Tang's strength is truly terrifying as he was able to injure this great master to such an extent.

The ghosts of the Fei family rushed over, but they only saw Fei Yu standing still. They wanted to stop Chen Tang again, but it was too late.

"Don't touch me!"

Fei Xing was covered in blood, but his forehead was covered in sweat. He widened his eyes and shouted, "Help me to control my injuries. I can't control them any more!"

If it cannot be suppressed, it will explode and die!

The ghosts and gods immediately used their divine power to heal his injuries.

Fei Xi breathed a sigh of relief and said silently: "Chen Tang of the Chen family is no weaker than the old devil Chen Yindu!"

In the mortal world, several more Fei family masters chased after him, but failed to stop Chen Tang. They exchanged a few moves with him and avoided his sword moves. When they looked again, Chen Tang had already disappeared into the distance.

They looked at it from afar, each of them was shocked.

"Among the three generations of the Chen family, Chen Tang is the weakest, but he should not be underestimated!"

After Chen Tang escaped, he no longer dared to go empty-handed. Instead, he carried a wooden box with him and never let it go wherever he went.

He searched everywhere for capable ministers and generals, and was hunted down several times by other families. He was in danger everywhere. Fortunately, he saw the opportunity early and escaped quickly, so he did not fall into the encirclement.

September 8, autumn of the 6648th year of the Jiajing reign.

Chen Tang returned to Xinxiang and came to the provincial capital of Xinxiang.

This place has been renamed the Imperial Capital.

Back in the days of the True King, the provincial capital of Xinxiang was called the Imperial City, because the capital of Xiniu Xinzhou was originally built here, but was later abandoned due to a natural disaster.

There are rumors that the source of the disaster was that the cultivators at that time dug out an immortal from the underground cave, and the immortal immediately became evil when he came into contact with the outside world. There are also rumors that at that time a fairy was undergoing a tribulation here, which attracted many people to watch. As a result, the fairy became evil during the tribulation and turned into a natural disaster, which caused tens of thousands of cultivators in the imperial capital to also become evil, causing countless deaths and injuries, and the True King had to move the capital.

However, the relocation of the capital is so ancient that no one knows the specific reason.

But today, the imperial capital is decorated with lights and full of joy.

Chen Tang entered the gate of the imperial capital, but saw chrysanthemums piled on both sides of the road. They were bright yellow and orange, and the walls and corners were also decorated with chrysanthemums.

Suddenly, a line of ancient poetry came into his mind. He chanted it in his throat and gradually turned it into a deep voice, flying out of his mouth.

"Wait till September 8th in autumn!

When my flower blooms, all other flowers will die!

The fragrance of incense permeates Chang'an!
The whole city is covered with golden armor!"

"The sky, which has not changed in the past sixteen thousand years, is about to change!"

(End of this chapter)