The video takes us to ancient times; Li Er transforms into the Tongtian Emperor of Shu Han.

[The First Emperor, Ying Zheng, has successfully completed the challenge.]

At his personal request, he exchanged his reward for this challenge with Xiang Yu.

Ying Zheng's reward: 25 years of lifespan, and 15 years of favorable weather for his dynasty.

With the help of Xiang Yu, who had gathered enough opportunities to challenge, he sent her and Yu Ji back to the former Chu state.

The timing was to be chosen freely by Xiang Yu.

Lines of text appeared.

"Tsk, I never expected that the First Emperor would be such a sentimental person."

"That's over twenty years of lifespan, you're just going to give it up like that?"

"Isn't he still obsessed with achieving immortality?"

Old Zhu smacked his lips, somewhat incredulous.

"The First Emperor wanted immortality, mostly because he wanted the Qin Dynasty to prosper for ten thousand generations. Now that he has found the best successor, immortality is something that is dispensable to him."

"Especially since he also knew that living too long might not be a good thing for the Great Qin."

The mere mention of the name "First Emperor" was enough to make the nobles of the six former kingdoms unable to raise their heads, and to make the civil and military officials in the court tremble with fear at the mere mention of it.

But things will inevitably turn into their opposites when they reach their extremes.

Being under such high pressure all the time, who knows when a big problem might occur!

Furthermore, high pressure is by no means a good policy for governing a country; a balance between strictness and leniency is necessary.

However, Ying Zheng already had a fixed impression of himself in everyone's mind, and it would be extremely difficult for him to make changes.

That's why he said during the challenge that he had found a better reward.

A perfect successor is the best reward the immortal could give him, bar none!

But after the subtitles slowly faded away, the sky also disappeared.

"Huh? The list of tyrannical emperors is over?"

"Could it be that the immortal was merely using his divine power to give us some pointers?"

"It's a pity that many people didn't even have a chance to participate in the challenge before it ended like this."

Old Zhu felt a pang of sadness and regret.

He didn't even have a chance to earn some more life for Biao'er!

"It shouldn't be that simple, Chongba. Look at the sky, your words can still be heard."

"The immortal's divine power must not have disappeared yet!"

Empress Ma tugged at Zhu Yuanzhang's sleeve.

"I was terrified! I thought he was gone just like that. It seems that even immortals need to make some preparations for the list of wise rulers."

Many people were startled by the disappearance of the sky.

But the fact that everyone's voices could still appear in the sky at least proved that the immortals' divine power had not yet dissipated.

In other words, there is still hope that a list of wise rulers will be published!

"I suppose the immortal is pondering how to rank the wise rulers. After all, there have been countless wise and foolish rulers throughout thousands of years of history, and it is indeed difficult to choose ten from them."

Li Er, however, felt he could understand.

Let alone the several dynasties that follow him, even if there are none.

He started planning from the beginning.

First Emperor, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperors Wen and Jing, Emperor Wu, Emperors Zhao and Xuan, Emperor Guangwu, and so on...

That already accounts for more than half.

In addition, there was Emperor Wen of Sui, who was related to him by blood.

If we were to really list ten wise rulers, I reckon most of the rulers who made some achievements and maintained the status quo would be excluded.

Those who make the list must either be equally skilled in both civil and military affairs, or have made tremendous contributions.

Just like those emperors on the list of incompetent rulers who made great contributions to the downfall of their countries.

"Of course, the immortals' thoughts may differ from ours, and they may also consider moral character..."

As he spoke, Li Er's face turned green.

He believed that he was second to none in both civil and military affairs.

But moral character...

It seems that there are very few wise rulers who can be compared to him.

Damn it, I meant to hurt someone else, but the boomerang ended up hurting myself instead!

"Let's forget about moral character. Immortals shouldn't consider such useless things. Otherwise, let alone us, even Emperor Gaozu might not have been able to ascend to the throne."

Even Liu Bang was still burdened with the reputation of breaking the Chu-Han alliance and being a traitor!

These days, how many people who aspire to great things have a clean conscience?

"Putting aside everything else, just look at what's happened to us."

Moral character?

If such a thing existed, it would be impossible to rule the world.

"...Old Zhu, that's enough! We've already exposed all your secrets. This canopy isn't just something a few of us can see; people from all over the past thousand years have been watching!"

Li Er quickly stopped him.

Old Zhu is so outspoken; if he keeps talking, it'll be his turn to speak.

"We were just saying it casually, and you don't think that if we don't tell, no one will know what you've done, do you?"

“Li Er, you’re not one to cover things up. If you wanted to, you could have just had the historians change it.”

Old Zhu didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

If you want people not to know, unless you do it yourself.

In any case, he never thought of covering up the killings he had caused, and even wanted people to publicize them.

So that all the officials of the Ming Dynasty can see the consequences of corruption!

Li Er: "..."

He didn't want to talk to this scoundrel anymore.

This guy is just giving up on himself and taking the opportunity to expose the secrets of anyone he can find.

However, this also made him even more curious.

How exactly did Lao Zhu start his business?

From being unable to afford pants to becoming the emperor of a country, if he didn't have the confidence to be selected for the list of wise rulers with such achievements, then what absurd things did he do later in his life?

"Old Zhu, may I ask why you feel that you have no chance of being selected for the list of wise rulers?"

Zhao Kuangyin, acting as Li Er's online mouthpiece, directly asked the question.

"We've almost wiped out the imperial court, and countless officials of all ranks have been killed across the country. My girlfriend says that if we keep killing like this, we'll soon be on the list of the most tyrannical emperors."

Two words can sum up all the sins he committed.

Bloodshed!

His sins of killing were so numerous that during his reign, Hongwu, no one wanted to become an official.

In most dynasties, it was said that a prefect could amass a fortune of 100,000 taels of silver in ten years.

In the Ming Dynasty, let alone 100,000 taels of silver, if you had more than 100 taels of silver in your home and it was discovered, you would be skinned alive and hung in the execution ground the next day as a warning to the public.

Zhu Yuanzhang had been driven to the brink of death by corrupt officials, and after gaining power, he naturally hated corrupt officials the most.

Zhao Kuangyin: "..."

"To be honest, it's quite unexpected that you, Old Zhu, didn't make the list of incompetent rulers."

They practically wiped out the entire imperial court, not even counting the officials of all ranks across the country.

How many people would have to be killed?

No matter what mistakes they made, they shouldn't have been killed like this!

"But we don't regret it. If they come back to life, we'll have to kill them all again."

"Corrupt officials and scoundrels who suck the blood of ordinary people deserve to die!"

Has Lao Zhu reflected on his actions?

I have reflected on my actions!

But all he ever reflects on is that he didn't kill them cleanly enough, and that they didn't suffer enough pain!

When it comes to corrupt officials, all he will do is to exterminate them completely!