My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 40
Zhu Houcong knew that this guy was probably targeting him!
In the subsequent duel, Zhu Houcong met several Qi Perfect monks from the Murong family. In order not to stand out too much, he had to deal with each other and finally won by chance with his extremely high fighting qualities.

But despite this, Zhu Houcong's consecutive defeats of many geniuses who had perfected their Qi training also attracted the attention of many sect elders present.

"I believe that after today, the name of Qingshan Sect Zhu Houcong will be resounding throughout the Wuzhou Kingdom! Lingyun, I heard that the Xie family arranged for you to take him to the sword trial meeting. I wonder if you can recommend him?"

"Yes! Yes! We want to get to know each other too!"

He listened to the little sisters from various sects in his ears unabashedly curious about Zhu Houcong.

Xie Lingyun felt a little sour in her heart for some reason.

She raised her eyes again and looked at the ring. Once again, she saw the high-spirited young man who had cleanly defeated the Murong family's talented cultivator, Qi Perfection Cultivator.

His eyes are full of complexity.

She once thought about taking Zhu Houcong under her command, but now she thinks about how overestimated she was at that time.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help laughing at herself.

Now Zhu Houcong is in no mood to care about the opinions of Xie Lingyun and the audience below.

After all, in the next scene, he will face the eccentric Murong Zong head-on.

In the competition just now, Zhu Houcong discovered that Murong Zong was just like him, silently observing each opponent's competition.

"Your fighting instincts are terrifyingly strong. Are you interested in joining my Murong family? We, the Murong family, can double what the Xie family can give you."

The two looked at each other, and Murong Zong was the first to speak.

He didn't care about Zhu Houcong's cultivation and age, but praised Zhu Houcong's superb combat intuition.

"I'm joking. Your intuition and prediction are the only ones I've ever seen in my life. The Xie family is pretty good to me, and I have no plans to change my family for the time being."

"Is that so..."

After hearing Zhu Houcong's words, Murong Zong was thoughtful.

"That's work."

Just say it, the two of them got close to each other, using no spells, only fists and feet.

But it still made everyone in the audience watch with bated breath, not daring to take a breath.

This is such an exquisite martial art that only the most profound body-refining monks in this way can understand it.

Under the stage, some body-refining warriors sat on the ground and cried loudly as they watched.

He shouted that he thought he had achieved little in the past few decades, but today when he saw Zhu Houcong and Murong Zong fighting, he realized that he was the frog in the well.

On the stage, Zhu Houcong became more and more excited as he fought.

Nowadays, monks below the level of Foundation Establishment can rarely let him throw a second punch.

Murong Brown, who was opposite him, also had a flash of surprise in his eyes.

Just when Zhu Houcong was about to go all out, Murong Zong in front of him suddenly jumped away.

"It's a pity that my dear brother doesn't want to join my Murong family... I regret meeting you too late, so I will give up my position as the leader of this sword test tournament to my dear brother."

After saying that, he floated off the field.

What a weirdo——

Zhu Houcong thought.

but……

He looked at the scrap of sawdust he had just caught in the fight.

Thoughts tumbling in my heart.

In this way, the sword trial meeting came to an end.

Everyone cheered for Zhu Houcong's victory.

In the audience, Xie Lingyun was equally excited.

Everyone knows that the name of Zhu Houcong of the Qingshan Sect will be resounding throughout the land of Wuzhou after today because of his record of defeating many geniuses in Wuzhou and defeating the son of the head of the Qingshan Sect.

……

Return to the world of Ming Dynasty, Qianqing Palace.

Exactly three days have passed.

Zhu Houcong played with the Xuanjun Token in his hand.Take out the Foundation Establishment Pill from the storage bag.

Sure enough, he was still being watched.

Back at the sect, after Xie Baoshu heard that Zhu Houcong had won the championship, Xie Baoshu readily took out a foundation-building pill and a book of alchemy tips in exchange for the Xuanshui spirit liquid in Zhu Houcong's hand.

As one of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, the value of alchemy is even higher than that of foundation-building pills.

After obtaining the foundation building resources, Zhu Houcong used the excuse to go down the mountain to practice and break through the foundation building.

When we reached Heifeng Ridge, we felt some spiritual consciousness spying on us.

He could only escape by relying on Xuanjun's token to conceal his aura.

Zhu Houcong opened the book of alchemy tips in his hand.

Most of them are some basic common sense and some elixir recipes from the Qi training stage to the foundation building stage.

His consciousness scanned the spiritual plants and rare animals in the storage bag.

Spiritual root transplantation, spiritual beast hybridization and other topics will also be put on the agenda.

"Is there any result from the Sanfa Division?"

Zhu Houcong put away the storage bag, summoned Huang Jin, Lu Fang and other eunuchs and asked calmly.

"Your Majesty, the chief officials of the Three Law Departments have been kneeling outside the door all night, waiting to ask to see Your Majesty."

When Huang Jin saw Zhu Houcong summoned him this time, his majesty became more intense, and he quickly reported back.

"Now that there is a result, the Ministry of Punishment will arrest people from Dali Temple and kneel in front of my door all night. What does that mean?"

Zhu Houcong sneered.

"Who is the mastermind?"

"I heard that they are from Shouning Hou's house. Empress Dowager Zhang in the palace sent eunuchs and eunuchs to protect her because there was insufficient evidence, and it was difficult for the Sanfa Department to take action..."

Huang Jin had no taboos about Empress Dowager Zhang and truthfully explained the current situation to Zhu Houcong.

Shouning Hou Zhang Heling——

"There was only one Queen Mother in the current dynasty, and that was the former Princess Jiang of Xingxian. Where did the Queen Mother Zhang come from!"

Zhu Houcong closed his eyes and then quickly opened them.

"Lu Fang, go and pass the order and ask Luo An to rush into Shouning Houhou Mansion with the royal guards. Anyone related to the palace fire case will be thrown directly into the imperial prison and await interrogation!"

The imperial edict prison in the Ming Dynasty was a special kind of prison, which was specially used to imprison high-ranking officials from the six ministries and nine ministers. The imperial edict must be issued by the emperor himself before he could be imprisoned.For example, the Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty was a type of imperial edict, which was "originally created by the Ming Dynasty and not based on the ancient system."

When everyone heard Zhu Houcong's words, their expressions were stern.

Your Majesty, I am afraid that this time I really want to take this opportunity to attack the Zhang family.

"Let the people from the Three Law Departments outside the palace go back where they should! Who are they showing off to? Those who don't know how much injustice they have suffered, do they think they come to me to complain? A group of people who don't even dare to What a waste! They just bully and bully the powerless common people! Let them go back and think carefully, make up for what they have done, and write resignations if they can’t. There are many talented people every year who have worked hard and have no chance of promotion. I The Ming Dynasty has never fostered mediocre people who can only live without food!"

Listening to Zhu Houcong's strange aura above his head, everyone below was even more silent.

Presumably, after the imperial palace's forbidden army and the 26 guards of the emperor's personal army, the Sanfa Division, the central prison system of the Ming Dynasty, will also usher in a major purge.

"What are you waiting for! Let's do it quickly!"

After hearing Lu Fang's words, everyone stood up in a hurry and went to deliver the order.

The palace was empty except for Lu Fang and Huang Jin.

"Your Majesty will be in court today!"

Lu Fang asked. Because of the fire in the palace, Zhu Houcong only went to court symbolically on the day he ascended the throne and accepted the worship of all civil and military officials.

He never went to morning again.

"What's going on in the DPRK recently?"

Listening to Zhu Houcong's question, Lu Fang and Huang Jin looked at each other.

"In addition to the more than [-] spies in the pro-army discovered by the Jinyi Guards who need to be dealt with personally by Your Majesty, there are only the Southwest soldiers who invaded Chengdu yesterday, and there are also the heroes who contributed to quelling King Ning's rebellion who were not rewarded by the late Emperor while he was still waiting to be rewarded by Your Majesty. "

In the chaos in Southwest China, there is still...Wang Shouren?
Zhu Houcong thought to himself as he listened to Lu Fang's report.

(End of this chapter)