Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 440 Chapter 450: It's just starting all over again

The words of Emperor Sui exploded in Fang Xuanliang's mind, causing a wave of surprise and shock.

At this moment, he no longer cared about the dignity between the emperor and his subjects. He stood up and looked at Emperor Sui in disbelief.

"How...how is it possible? He is not from our world?!"

Emperor Li Sui turned around and sneered at Fang Xuanliang: "Huh... you are the only old guy who knows nothing."

Fang Xuanliang was surprised: "Your Majesty, do you mean that those people in the cabinet also know about this?"

"Then I don't know. But with these people jumping around like that, how could those high-ranking officials in the cabinet not notice any signs?"

Emperor Li Sui twisted his neck and moved his shoulders, his eyes becoming colder and colder: "They put me up, but they can't touch any rights. But one day, I will let these people know the price."

Fang Xuanliang was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then stated his position again.

"I am willing to follow your majesty's lead and clear the enemy ahead."

Now, all the contempt he had previously accumulated in his heart for Emperor Sui had disappeared, and what was left was only a deep fear from the other party.

Confucianism has always served the emperor since ancient times.

The current Emperor Sui is in decline, and the court is controlled by hundreds of officials. In fact, it is the officials who are usurping their power.

However, who could have imagined that the Emperor Sui before him was hiding so deeply.

The majestic and luxurious purple aura fully demonstrated that the imperial aura of the Sui emperors was stable, never lost, and even surpassed that of their ancestors.

However, the current situation of the dynasties is contrary to this strong imperial aura.

Why? What does he want to do?
Fang Xuanliang looked at the young Emperor Li Sui in front of him and felt a sense of frustration.

However, Emperor Sui did not take Fang Xuanliang's loyalty seriously and just glanced at him casually.

"You just need to continue doing your own thing as before, otherwise..."

Emperor Sui did not say the rest of the words, but his meaning was already very clear.

Fang Xuanliang did not dare to do it again and immediately expressed his loyalty.

Just at this moment, a young man suddenly walked in from outside the palace.

The man was dressed in brocade court robes, looking heroic, with long hair tied up with a red tassel, a high nose bridge, and strange facial features. A pure gold plate hung around his waist with the word "two" written in the center of the gold plate.

Fang Xuanliang was startled when he saw the visitor, and secretly glanced at Emperor Li Sui. After seeing the other person's expression, he immediately knew what was going on, so he bowed and took his leave.

Emperor Li Sui waved his hand and ignored Fang Xuanliang.

He slowly returned to the dragon throne, turned around and sat down, showing the majesty of an emperor.

If we say that when Fang Xuanliang was alive, the Emperor Li Sui lying on the desk looked like a foolish emperor in his twilight years.

At this moment, Emperor Sui showed his domineering power and was truly an emperor who possessed the ambition to unify the nine provinces.

The young man passed by Fang Xuanliang without even looking at him, and walked straight to the stage and knelt on one knee.

"Xu Song, the night watchman, greets His Majesty!"

Emperor Li Sui waved his hand indifferently and said, "Just tell me the situation!"

Xu Song seemed to have long been accustomed to the attitude of the Sui Emperor, and replied solemnly: "Your Majesty, we have already found some clues about the number of people in that world."

"Those secular princes are widely distributed, and their landing places are also different. However, according to the investigation, there are 5,700 secular princes in Shangjing, more than 13,000 in Xuanzhou, 15,000 in Longzhou, and the largest number in Shunzhou, with nearly 50,000 secular princes."

"As for the other states..."

Xu Song looked embarrassed: "It's my fault that I'm incompetent. The night watchman's current strength is not enough to penetrate."

Emperor Li Sui did not blame Xu Song, but just nodded: "You have done a good job. It is very difficult to figure out the exact number of these people."

"And they keep increasing, just like cockroaches that suddenly appear one after another. By the time we discover them, there are already so many of them in the house!"

Emperor Li Sui spoke in a calm tone, as if he was not too shocked by the large number of secular princes that appeared in previous dynasties.

"How's the situation with Jiang Qing?"

Hearing this, Xu Song's expression became serious and he reported, "Not long ago, Jiang Li received news that the Lord of Beiming Mansion had a fight with the True Lord of Evil Spirit. In the end, the Lord of Beiming Mansion successfully suppressed the Phantom Army at the cost of cutting off one of the other's hands."

"Afterwards, the Prime Minister of the Purple Goddess did not become an enemy of the Lord of the Northern Ocean and was willing to retreat..."

Emperor Li Sui's brows gradually furrowed as he listened to Xu Song's report.

"It seems that this Bei Ming Mansion Lord is also a difficult guy to deal with!"

"Just the Evil Spirit Master and the Purple Goddess were difficult to deal with, and I didn't expect that the Lord of the Northern Underworld would suddenly appear."

"How dare you call yourself a king? You really don't take me, the emperor of all dynasties, seriously!"

Emperor Li Sui sighed softly and asked, "Is he from Luozhou?"

Xu Song shook his head: "I haven't found out his specific hometown yet, but this Lord first appeared in Huangshi Village on the border between Qingzhou and Luozhou. I guess he may have escaped from Luozhou and finally gathered strength to fight back."

Hearing this, Emperor Li Sui's frown relaxed a little, and his face looked a little sad.

"I am the one who is sorry for the people of Luozhou!"

At the beginning, he tried every means to suppress all kinds of opposition voices in the court and forcibly transferred silver and money from the Ministry of Revenue to Luozhou in an attempt to save the people of Luozhou.

But who would have thought that those guys who were just sitting in their positions and doing nothing would dare to interfere in such a matter involving human lives. In the end, only some dry grass and sand were left when they arrived in Luozhou.

It was at that time that Emperor Li of Sui chose to endure, packaging himself as a foolish emperor who did not care about anything, and only accumulated his own strength in secret.

Later, when the starving ghosts broke out in Luozhou, he also sent experts to eliminate the source of the starving ghosts.

However, that person never came back after he left.

At that time, Emperor Sui did not have many powerful men under his command, and they were also being watched by the Confucian disciples in the court and cabinet, so there was no way he could send all of them to Luozhou.

In the end, they could only watch Luozhou perish on its own, with millions of people dying.

Seeing Emperor Sui like this, Xu Song could not help but worry and advised: "Your Majesty, this is not your fault. The only ones to blame are those traitors. They say that Confucian disciples serve the country and the people, but in fact they only do it for themselves!"

After a long time, the sadness on Emperor Li Sui's face gradually faded and he looked at Xu Song below.

"Do you think you can recruit the Lord of Beiming Mansion to my side?"

"..."

Xu Song was stunned. After a long silence, he spoke with difficulty: "Your Majesty, from the information sent by Jiang Li, it seems that this Lord has a big prejudice against the court. It will be difficult to recruit him."

Emperor Li Sui waved his hands: "I know that I owe Luozhou too much, it is natural that they would hate me."

"Let Jiang Li come back!"

"Now that Luozhou has a Beiming Lord, the Evil Spirit Lord and the Purple Goddess will be restrained by this Lord, and will not dare to make any big moves again."

"I need Jiang Li's strength. Our primary concern now is to clean up these scum in the court, and then send my uncles to see my father."

Emperor Li Sui was bending over the table and writing, and then handed an imperial edict to Xu Song.

"Give this to the Legalists and Yin-Yangists, and tell them about the requests they made before." "I agree!"

Xu Song carefully took the imperial edict, bowed, and left the palace without looking back.

Looking at the other person's departing back, Emperor Li Sui let out a breath, stood up from the dragon throne, and walked to the center of the hall.

The palace lanterns above his head moved slowly as he walked, and the entire roof of the hall was like a sliding door, gradually opening to both sides, revealing a brilliant starry sky.

Emperor Li Sui looked up at the endless stars, a deep light flashed in his eyes.

"Since you've given me this opportunity, I will hold him in my hands no matter where he is in this world or beyond!"

As these oath-like words fell, the stars in the sky seemed to resonate with the purple air lingering around Emperor Sui. At this moment, the purple air was brilliant and the imperial power was mighty.

The already dense purple air almost turned into tangible clouds, rolling and surging, making the sky above the entire palace look dreamy.

However, this scene was soon stopped as if it was cut off by someone, and the palace returned to peace, hidden in the dim night, as if nothing had happened.

……

"Master, where are we going next?" The Praying Rat poked out his little head and asked with his neck tilted back.

"Go back to Naju."

"Will there be another opportunity for us brothers to show off our might like we did just now?" The Praying Rat had a face full of anticipation.

Lin Beixuan smiled and said, "Yes, there will be more in the future, but your skills are still a little weak."

"I have already said hello to the Fox Spirit God. From now on, you will practice with the secular gods. When you start to invite the gods, I will let you out and follow me again."

Praying Mouse: “???”

Soon after, the other four mice also poked their heads out and stared at each other.

"Master, are you going to abandon us?" Jiang Xishu said pitifully.

Jiangxi Rat has always been the most well-behaved among the Five Rats, and Lin Beixuan likes it very much, so he patted its head.

"No, because not only you, but the entire Beiming Army will undergo special training. I want you to improve your strength as much as possible during this period of time."

"Because I have a vague feeling that it won't be long before the chaos will not only affect our states, but the entire world."

The night is filled with stars.

The twilight sky connects to the earth. Compared to the bright dawn, the combination of twilight and stars is more like the last bit of beauty before the omen of death comes.

If the stars gradually fade away and dark clouds cover everyone's heads, the disaster that sweeps across the world will not spare anyone under the sky.

Black flames were wrapped in the black night, and the eaves beasts were running on the land of Luozhou.

There was no dust raised behind it, and under its hooves there were only footprints of varying depths.

And next to the footprints, a touch of charming green seemed to prove its strength, stubbornly emerging from the wet mud.

It was already midnight when Lin Beixuan caught up with the main force.

Simple tents stand on the vast land, and many of them are even made by simply patching together bed sheets at home.

Teams of Bei Ming Army soldiers were patrolling carefully around the camp. Although the source of the starving ghosts had been eliminated, the remaining starving ghosts had not yet been completely wiped out.

At this time, more than 200,000 people gathered together, and the smell they emitted might attract hungry and thirsty ghosts, so even if they came to their own territory, the Beiming Army did not dare to take it lightly.

The bonfire illuminated the tents, like torches in the dark night, or like the stars in the sky reflected on the ground.

Looking at this scene, Lin Beixuan felt a little emotional.

It was at this time that he suddenly discovered that souls were flying out of these tents intermittently.

Most of these souls look like old people. They float unconsciously between heaven and earth. Each of them seems to be homeless, with empty and confused eyes.

"Someone died in the camp!"

Lin Beixuan looked at these souls and stretched out his hand to sense the emotions of these souls before they died.

Thankful, relieved, satisfied...

Most of these elderly people were from various counties in Qingzhou. After their hometowns were invaded by Evil Spirit Lord and Zi Gu God, they had been wandering around. Even though they finally had Anle County to rely on, they did not feel much hope.

However, when Lin Beixuan arrived with the Beiming Army, they saw with their own eyes the Phantom Army and the evil army retreating, and the hearts of these old men finally relaxed.

But people are such contradictory creatures.

When they keep their nerves tense, they can endure suffering and live longer, but once their spirits relax, they are not far from death.

The souls of these old men floated from the tents into the sky, then fell back to the ground from the sky, and finally wandered aimlessly.

"Ding-bell-dang-dang..."

However, not long after, in Lin Beixuan's vision, a black mist rose from the ground and drifted towards these wandering souls.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of iron chains like metal colliding, the ghosts in groups of three or two, fully armed and holding soul-catching chains, happened to pass by the patrolling soldiers of the Beiming Army.

One side is the Yin messenger, the other side is the Yang soldier. Both belong to Lin Beixuan's forces, but they turn a blind eye to each other.

The Yin Messenger walks on a dark path and living people are not allowed to see him.

The Yang soldiers follow military orders and do not care about life or death.

The soldiers who died in the Beiming Army will be taken into Lin Beixuan's underworld and become members of the Yincha.

But life is life, and after death, the ghosts that turn into ghosts must keep a clear distance from the living. This is the rule of the underworld.

Therefore, even if a ghost happens to meet a good friend from his previous life, he will just smile faintly and will not disturb his friend's life.

Of course, it’s not that no one in the Beiming Army is able to detect these evildoers.

For example, Xing Liang and Zhang He.

These two people used to make a living in the Laoyin Sect. They were extremely sensitive to Yin energy. With just a little magic, they could vaguely see the Yin messengers passing by them.

Although they were shocked, they did not dare to interfere. They just watched from the corner of their eyes as the ghost walked up to the wandering souls and took them away.

"Hades reopened?"

As soon as this thought came into the two people's minds, they saw that the ghost messengers seemed to have discovered something after taking the souls away, and they all bowed in one direction.

The two could not help but be surprised and looked in the direction where the ghost messenger was saluting.

On the hillside not far away, I saw Lin Beixuan walking slowly towards me, leading a beast.

The person to whom the ghost messengers were paying their respects was their Lord.

Xing Liang opened his mouth, recalling everything he had experienced after following Lin Beixuan, and suddenly reacted.

"My Lord is able to summon ghost soldiers. Previously, he changed his name to Lord of the North Sea. Lord of the North Sea... the underworld... I understand!"

Xing Liang suddenly raised his head and exclaimed in silent words: "If the world is not right, then change it. If there is no underworld to regulate the dead souls, then build an underworld. It's just starting all over again!"

(End of this chapter)