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

Chapter 54 Liu Family Ancestral Temple
"Your Majesty, the Liu brothers are dead. Do you want to go to Changsheng Village to summon the Liu family chieftain as a guide before continuing?"

Luo An, who was beside him, knelt on one knee, blood dripping from his drooped head.

"It doesn't have to be..."

Zhu Houcong shook his head.

Li Yannian on the side suddenly opened his eyes when he heard Luo An say that His Majesty was the emperor.

He quickly fell to his knees and shouted long live.

"We can't get down the mountain anymore!"

Zhu Houcong looked at the increasingly malicious sight projected from the top of the mountain as he burned down the blood worms on the Liu family path and cut down the mountain and destroyed the temple to eradicate the Blood Empress.

Even though they were so far apart, Zhu Houcong could still feel that his power was far beyond the comparison of the Blood Empress and others.

The foundation must be established as soon as possible.

Otherwise, in the face of such evil things, there is no possibility of winning.

Zhu Houcong thought in his mind.

"Your ancestor's turtle breath method is quite exquisite. Even though the magic power is weak, he did not escape. I am sincerely commendable! If you need anything, just tell me here..."

After all, the powerful Jin Yiwei died one after another.

The men and horses of the local snake Chieftain Liu also suffered heavy casualties.

Even Heavenly Master Zhang Zhengyi was seriously injured.

Zhu Houcong could feel that Li Yannian's lifespan in front of him was about to run out.

It seems that the life-saving effect of the secret technique of turtle breath to deceive ghosts and gods is not free.

It’s really not certain whether I can make it down the mountain alive.

Missing this opportunity, for Li Yannian, it is likely that he will never get it again in the future.

Seeing Li Yannian meeting the Emperor, he looked excited. When he heard the Emperor's reward, he was ecstatic at first. Then he thought of those brave guards in uniform who were not afraid of death, as well as Daochang Xu and others who came with him but were killed by the evil mouth. They couldn't stop their expressions. Became sad.

He knelt down and said with choked sobs.

"Although I was born in a barbaric land, my parents are both from Beizhili. My father, Li Tianzheng, was the chief flag officer of Yulin Qianweixiao Camp, and my mother, Xu, was a cook in the army."

"In the 14th year of Orthodoxy, the Tatars from the north invaded, and the towns on the nine sides were in panic! At that time, the empire's military strength was concentrated because Sirenfa, a descendant of the rebel Silunfa who rebelled in the southwest during the Hongwu period, launched another rebellion in Luchuan In the south, while the war in the southwest has not ended, the Miao rebellion in Huguang, Guizhou has started again! 20 imperial elites and the new prince Wang Ji are deeply trapped in the miasma of the southwest."

"But the northern border was in a critical situation, and the imperial court had no troops to mobilize. As a last resort, the emperor had to personally lead the remaining troops of the Beijing army in Beijing who had not accompanied Xinyuan Marquis on his southern expedition to the northern expedition. My father also followed Cheng Guo Gong Zhu Yong to accompany the army and serve as the vanguard. But in the battle of Yao'erling, our army suffered a disastrous defeat, and nearly all [-] soldiers were wiped out!"

"My father luckily escaped back to the capital to warn, but then he heard the bad news that Tumu Fort had been destroyed... In the early years of Hou Tianshun, the Yingzong was restored. My father failed to protect him, so the emperor went hunting in the north. The whole family was relegated to a lowly status and sent to the southwest. .”

"But my parents are not greedy for life and afraid of death, and want to survive. In fact, they are blessed by the magic of Beilu, and they come and go like the wind. Even if my father wants to fight to the death, he has nowhere to go! I hope your Majesty will learn from it!"

Everyone was silent as they listened to Li Yannian crying in front of them.

The Zhengtong Battle of Luchuan in the southwestern direction lasted for nine years.

Although it was successfully pacified in the end, the empire's elite soldiers and generals were exhausted.

Immediately afterwards came the Miao rebellion in Huguang and Guizhou, and the army was trapped in the poisonous miasma of the southwest mountains.

"..."

Zhu Houcong was silent.

"Because of his crime, he was demoted to a lowly status and sent to the southwest. He was regarded as a shame by the clan and his name was removed from the ancestral temple. My father died of grief and anger. Before his death, he prayed that his body be buried in Yao'erling to show his loyalty and filial piety. Festival, I hope the Emperor will grant me permission to take my parents’ clothes and bury them in the ancestral temple!”

Zhu Houcong nodded slightly.

Li Yannian was overjoyed to see this.

"Don't you want anything for yourself?"

Zhu Houcong asked.

Li Yannian hesitated for a moment and shook his head.

"The son of a sinner, how dare you ask for anything more."

Yes, from a humble background, it is also the lowest form of widowhood.

Now he is nearly forty years old, has not been able to get married, and has no children to take care of.

Not surprisingly, this will probably be the case in this life.

"I promise you, if you can come back alive this time, your parents' reputation will be restored and buried outside Changling, in order to keep your parents' loyal hearts."

Li Yannian, who had lost a lot of his life due to the Turtle Breathing Technique in front of him, now has pale hair and a stooped figure, shed tears and thanked him.

Zhu Houqing stood up.

He looked at Zhang Zhengyi and Li Xuan who were standing aside.

"I hope you will protect me -"

The battle just now almost razed the entire Blood Empress Temple to the ground.

Luo An and Qiu Luan found some barely complete door panels from the ruins and built a small shed.

Everyone knew that Zhu Houcong's move must have deep meaning and did not dare to delay. Zhang Zheng, Li Xuan and others sat in all directions to protect the Dharma.

Zhu Houcong took a long breath.

He took out the Foundation Establishment Pill from his storage bag.

Feeling that the calamity transformation method in the body is working well, the calamity power is approaching perfection.

The Xie family's secret foundation building technique is also ready.

Everything is ready!Feeling the vicious sight on the top of the mountain that almost ate Zhu Houcon alive, Zhu Houcong no longer hesitated.

The Foundation Establishment Pill entered the abdomen, and a stream of heat surged from the Dantian to the limbs and bones.

My whole body was tingling like pins and needles.

That's because the spiritual body in the Ming Dynasty is too thin, and the lack of spiritual energy leads to excessive squeezing of one's own potential when breaking through the foundation.

But Zhu Houcong had been prepared.

He crushed ten spiritual stones to replenish his spiritual energy, and took out a small bottle of Xuanshui spiritual liquid that he had received from Xie Baoshu when he left the mountain after hearing that he had gone down the mountain to seek the foundation building method, and drank it.

In an instant, a huge amount of inspiration poured into Zhu Houcong's body.

Zhu Houcong's whole body shone brightly.

He felt that his whole body was almost turning into light and he was no longer in this world.

I don’t know about you and me, I don’t know about all living beings, I only know that the thing in front of me is called the Great Way, just like a dream.

It can be said that "the essence of the Supreme Way is graceful and graceful, and the extreme of the Dao is dim and silent."

what is that--

Large amounts of spiritual energy are constantly transforming Zhu Houcong's body, and also repairing the hidden wounds left on Zhu Houcong's body during battles and training.

Rebuild your flawless body.

In this way, from then on, the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit are abundant and never leak out. It can be called a perfect person!

Zhu Houcong re-examined his whole body, and the growth of his physical body nourished Zhu Houcong's spiritual consciousness.

His spiritual consciousness gradually took shape, and from then on, Zhu Houcong could also kill people with his eyes.

But when he examined himself, Zhu Houcong discovered that in his consciousness there was not only a golden flame left by the True Law of the Great Sun, but also two groups of red and blue intertwined light.

The spiritual consciousness is close, and in an instant, countless battles in the past and his own martial arts experience are integrated at this moment.

"This is……"

But this light group only flashed and disappeared in Zhu Houcong's sea of ​​consciousness in an instant.

Zhu Houcong felt that his blood energy, which was already three to four times stronger than that of ordinary foundation-building monks, had doubled again.

Ten times the energy and blood power of the monks in the early stage of foundation building.

Zhu Houcong opened his eyes, his eyes full of surprise.

Nowadays, with the energy and blood all over my body, even if I have perfected my physical training, I would call it abnormal.

As the spring trembles, all the orifices in the body are now penetrated!
Zhu Houcong, the inner demon who was rumored to have killed [-]% of the foundation-building monks, was not even seen at all.

Is it because there is no such thing as inner demons in the Ming Dynasty?

If so, what about the so-called inner demons?What is it?
The qi and blood barrier has no resistance in front of the qi and blood that is comparable to that of a monk who has perfected the Foundation Establishment.

Build the foundation!Done!
At this moment, blue light flashed in the Jade Pillow Point, and Zhu Houcong's consciousness expanded several points again.

He vaguely seemed to hear a few indistinct murmurs coming from outside the world.

But in an instant, as Zhu Houcong's realm stabilized, he disappeared.

The mana is three times that of ordinary monks in the early stage of foundation building. Although it is not as much as the increase in the power of qi and blood, it is still comparable to the monks in the later stage of foundation building.

The True Dharma of the Great Sun was completely integrated into Zhu Houcong's heart. Looking inside, the entire heart turned golden, with mysterious runes engraved on it, and it continuously supplied red-gold blood to his limbs and bones.

Even the calamity-resolving method seems to have changed slightly at this time.

Feeling the surging spiritual power in his body, a smile appeared on Zhu Houcong's face.

Several people around him also saw the divine light and magic that Zhu Houcong had just emitted.

Your Majesty, it is true that a heavenly being came to this world and came to save all sentient beings——

First came Luo An, Li Yannian, then Zhang Zhengyi, Qiu Luan, Li Xuan, and the little Taoist priest.

They knelt down in front of Zhu Houcong, silently praying to the Emperor of Tomorrow to survive the disaster and save the common people of the world from fire and water as soon as possible.

"Do you still want to go with Da Zhenren? Why don't you stay here to cultivate for the time being!"

Zhu Houcong stood up. He had just made a breakthrough at this time and was not yet familiar with the control of his spiritual power. The spiritual energy all over his body was suddenly agitated, and his feather clothes moved automatically without wind, looking as if he was a fairy.

Zhu Houcong could naturally see that in the battle with the Nine Mother Ghost Infants where they could only be beaten and unable to fight back, the old Heavenly Master in front of him was already at the end of his strength.

"In order to save the common people in the southwest and end the suffering of the people from war and displacement, His Majesty did not hesitate to risk thousands of dollars to go into danger. What does this injury on my body mean?"

Zhang Zhengyi stood up and touched the head of the little Taoist boy who was still confused.

"Yongsheng will join me in conquering the barbarians with His Majesty. Your Majesty must not worry about me."

Zhu Houcong took a deep look at the boy next to Zhang Zhengyi, who was two years younger than him and looked to be no more than twelve or thirteen years old.

"Since the Heavenly Master has made up his mind, let's go together..."

Zhu Houcong said, that faint sigh hidden in the echo of the southwest mountains.

He raised his head and looked at the building on the top of the mountain where the clouds had dispersed and loomed in the white mist.

Even though the sun is high above our heads, the dark buildings in the mist still look like ferocious beasts dormant in the mountains, choosing people to eat.

It looked extraordinarily gloomy and terrifying.

Liujia Ancestral Temple——

(End of this chapter)