The whole world is cultivating qi, only I am cultivating the body

These people were escorted here by the guards of the City Defense Department. When they saw Emperor Kang, their faces turned ugly. Although they had felt the tremendous pressure before, they still had some hope in their hearts before they actually saw him. But when they really saw Emperor Kang sitting on the empty Flame Throne in front of them, their hearts sank.

Of course, the purge of Andong City was not just about these people. There were also people in the City Defense Department who supported Li Chengzhong. They were also escorted to the outside of the City Lord's Mansion. Suddenly, there were dense crowds of people everywhere outside the City Lord's Mansion. They all knelt in front of Emperor Kang's seat, kowtowed to him continuously, and begged for his forgiveness.

Noisy cries for mercy continued to ring out, and Emperor Kang looked at these people begging for mercy with a lack of interest. He waited until the City Defense Department brought everyone here before he stood up from the Flame Throne and looked at the people below who were kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Now that we are all here, let's go together."

Emperor Kang gently patted the flaming throne behind him, and the flaming throne suddenly dispersed and turned into countless small sparks, igniting the kneeling sinners. For a moment, the entire city lord's mansion was filled with screams, thick black smoke continued to rise, and the smell of burning continued to float in the air.

The flames burned for the entire afternoon, and by dusk, only a pile of charred corpses remained in front of the City Lord's Mansion.

Emperor Kang did not burn these people to ashes. What he wanted was to burn these traitors into charcoal, while preserving the pain they felt when being burned by the flames. These charcoals were finally arranged by Emperor Kang around Andong City to remind and shock every person in Andong City, letting them know the consequences of betrayal.

Among all the betrayers, only Li Chengzhong and the ancestors of those families were not killed on the spot by Emperor Kang. Emperor Kang could not kill these people on the spot like he did to others.

"To show my mercy, you decide for yourself what to do. Make your own choice."

The old ancestors looked at each other, then looked at each other, and finally set their sights on Li Chengzhong in front of them.

Li Chengzhong never knelt down to Emperor Kang from beginning to end. He knew that as the mastermind of this incident, Emperor Kang would never let him go, but it would not be in Andong City. After all, he had already reached the great perfection of the realm of consciousness, and he would eventually be taken to the Sky Prison in the Central Imperial City and imprisoned.

But at this time Li Chengzhong had to consider the family ancestors who followed him. He was the leader of this matter. Even if it has failed now, he cannot ignore others.

"Emperor Kang, I will let you deal with them as you wish, but they all made this choice because they listened to me. If you want to punish them, why not make my crime more severe?"

"This is the first time I've heard of someone bargaining on something like this. Do you think you can erase their sins by taking them on yourself? I let them choose for themselves so that they can atone for their sins, not for you to take the blame!"

Hearing what Emperor Kang said, Li Chengzhong knew that he was determined. If the others did not pay the price, Emperor Kang would strike them with thunder. He turned to look at the aging ancestors of the various families and sighed deeply: "In this case, can we use their family property to exchange for the lives of the remaining people?"

"That's right."

Following Emperor Kang's "OK", the figures of the ancestors of various families in the square disappeared one by one. Half an hour later, they returned with boxes containing land deeds in their hands, and their family properties were dragged behind them with spiritual energy.

Emperor Kang took a look at the treasures they took out, and with a wave of his hand, the boxes flew into his storage ring. "I know that many of you have reservations, but I won't argue with you about them. I just hope that you can remember the lesson this time. Before you rebel in the future, think more and look more. Oh, and keep the reason why I came here in your heart."

After saying these words, Emperor Kang pointed at the city lord's seal in Li Pingping's hand, and a stream of spiritual energy was poured into the city lord's seal. After doing this, he turned around and took Li Chengzhong into the teleportation array, and his figure disappeared with the light of the teleportation array.

Seeing his father being taken away by Emperor Kang, Li Pingping sighed. From now on, all matters in Andong City would depend on him. Although his cultivation was very low, because he was the acting city lord appointed by Emperor Kang, no one in the entire Andong City dared to resist him, even the families who had just been punished. Looking at the city lord seal in Li Pingping's hand, they could only choose to honestly provide Li Pingping's orders.

After the matter was settled, Zeng Wenyu took Li Shengnan and Huang Quan and said something to Li Pingping before leaving. It depended on how Li Pingping would arrange the affairs of Andong City. Zeng Wenyu was not good at this, and Li Pingping had the city lord's seal infused with spiritual energy by Emperor Kang in his hand. Not to mention that someone wanted to harm him, it was already a good thing that he didn't use the city lord's seal to smash to death those powerful people in the consciousness realm. Who would dare to resist at this time?

Zeng Wenyu took Li Shengnan and Huang Quan to the Lan family first. The Lan family and the Hua family did not show up from beginning to end. Zeng Wenyu did not know why the two families were unwilling to show up, but Li Pingping did not let the people from the City Defense Department touch the Lan family and the Hua family. I believe that the heads of these two families will need to thank him in person in the future. And what about Zeng Wenyu? He came to the Lan family for only one reason, to introduce Lan Shuang and Zhang Qing to his senior sister.

The door of the Lan family was closed. Zeng Wenyu saw the housekeeper Uncle Lan at the door. The moment he saw Zeng Wenyu, Uncle Lan pointed in the direction of the Hua family and said, "Son-in-law, the young lady and Miss Zhang are at the Hua family. Something happened at the Hua family, and the young lady and Miss Zhang went there to help."

After thanking Uncle Lan, before Li Shengnan asked any questions, Zeng Wenyu took her and Huang Quan towards the Hua family. He walked very quickly, so Li Shengnan could only put the question aside for the time being.

When he arrived outside the Hua family's gate, Zeng Wenyu heard the sound of fighting coming from the Hua Mansion. He wanted to go in directly, but the injuries on his body made him cough a few more times.

"Master, let Huang Quan go and find out the truth first."

"Okay, but Huang Quan, you must be careful!"

Huang Quan nodded, jumped onto the wall next to the Hua Mansion, and disappeared on the other side of the wall.

Taking this opportunity, Li Shengnan looked at Zeng Wenyu and said, "Junior brother, what's going on with the son-in-law thing? It's only been a few days since we last met, and you've already become the son-in-law of the Lan family in Andong City?"

"Senior Sister... this matter is not easy to explain... How about I explain it to you in detail after we have resolved the matter in the Hua Mansion?"

"Okay."

Li Shengnan looked at Zeng Wenyu with a half-smile, but she still poured out a pill from the gourd hanging on her waist: "Since you want to help, you have to heal your injuries quickly. Come, swallow this pill."

Without any doubt, Zeng Wenyu took the pill from Li Shengnan and swallowed it. He knew that the pills in the gourd on his third senior sister's waist were the kind that she would not usually take out.

Zeng Wenyu immediately sat cross-legged and began to regulate his breathing. The injuries in his body were quickly healed by Li Shengnan's medicine.