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

Chapter 57 Chongyang Close
A raging fire burned before his eyes, engulfing Zhang Zhengyi's mutilated body until it was completely reduced to ashes.

"His Majesty……"

Zhang Yongxu kowtowed to Zhu Houcong.

At this time, his eyes were complicated.

"I will go back to Longhu Mountain first to explain the last words of the previous Heavenly Master. Only after I inherit the title of Longhu Mountain Master can I fully inherit the inheritance of all previous ancestors."

"Master, please... Li Jianzheng, take my token and go to Longhu Mountain with Master Zhang!"

Zhu Houcong nodded.

He handed the gold medal to Li Xuan and asked them to go together.

Zhang Yongxu knew that this was the emperor's request before the death of the previous generation of heavenly masters, so as to remove obstacles for him to return to Longhu Mountain and inherit the position of heavenly masters.

I am very grateful.

and.

"If something happens on the road, Li Jianzheng can also help you."

Looking at the backs of Li Xuan and Zhang Yongxu coming down the mountain.

All three of the mother and son of Prince Mu died.

The direct lineage of the Mu family was thus extinct.

He could only go back and ask the court to issue a decree to adopt a male from the collateral lineage to Prince Mu's Mansion to inherit the title. ,

Just as Zhu Houcong was thinking, Luo An behind him suddenly let out an exclamation.

"Your Majesty, there is something wrong with the body of Little Mu King——"

Zhu Houcong walked over quickly after hearing this.

Next to the corpses of the four members of the Mu family, there was also a mutilated corpse that had been eaten by a corpse.

Looking at the familiar gray cloth robe, Zhu Houcong sighed secretly.

It's Li Yannian.

His Turtle Breath Technique allowed him to escape from the hands of the Blood Empress, but in the end he died at the hands of several ghosts.

There was a hideous wound on the neck, and there were not many signs of struggle on the body.

There is a high probability that when the Turtle Breath Technique is used, the corpse will be eaten as a corpse and die.

"Your Majesty, look..."

Luo An pulled the arm of the woman dressed as the Mu family's cook and took the hand of the boy's corpse in her arms.

Although the boy's hands are tender, there is still a layer of calluses faintly visible on the fingertips.

Zhu Houcong touched it.

These were by no means the hands of a nobleman like Xiao Mu King who had been pampered since childhood. It felt more like the callus of a child of a servant who followed an adult to do menial work in the palace since childhood.

So...if King Xiao Mu is not dead.

So where would he go?
The Liu family's power in the ancestral temple was almost completely wiped out, and what the bloodworm monsters who devoured the Snake Empress received was also a fake.
Who has the ability to sneak away Little Mu King without anyone noticing at this time when the evil spirits are blocking the mountain?
Is it the White Lotus Sect?Other evil spirits in the mountains?Liu family survivors?Or is there a fifth force here that Zhu Houcong doesn't understand.

"Send an order to Wang Shouren and ask him to send troops to blockade Xiangxi, blockade all important roads, and search for traces of King Xiao Mu."

"Yes……"

Luo An replied.

He looked a little dazed, looking at Li Yannian's body from time to time.

"All the corpses of the Jin Yiwei who accompanied us on this trip were marked. After they came down from the mountain, let the chieftain of the Liu family send someone to collect the corpses. They have made great contributions to the world, and the court will not treat them badly."

Zhu Houcong said.

Luo An nodded in agreement.

Together with Qiu Luan, he collected the corpses and clothes of Jin Yiwei that could be found along the way.They were piled under the third large locust tree from left to right in front of the Liujia Ancestral Temple.

He dug a hole and buried the body hastily, and piled a huge boulder on top to prevent wild beasts from digging up the body and eating it after he and the others left.

After all this work, the sun was almost setting in the mountains in the distance.

"Go down the mountain..."

The three of them faced the setting sun and walked towards Changsheng Village in the distance.

...Xiangxi, Chongyang Pass.

Chongyang Pass is located in the high mountains of Nanjing Mountain and Jinlongwu in the southeast of Huguang.

It is the only way out of the mountain to the east.

Originally, due to the turmoil in the southwest, elite soldiers from all over the country were transferred to Chengdu to assist in the defense, so the defenders were sparse, but now there were large groups of officers and soldiers guarding the area. The Ming army's bows and crossbows were fired from the tower, and large groups of horses rushed out from the dense forests on the mountains on both sides. Soldiers surrounded the group of White Lotus Sect members in front of them.

"Tang Xiuying! You believe in demons! How dare you claim to be a saint! You confuse the ignorant people and gather people to cause chaos in Fujian and Zhejiang! Now the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court have arrived! Why don't you dismount and accept surrender!"

Under the escort of a large number of horse troops, the leader, an old man wearing official uniform with a second-grade golden pheasant embroidered on his body, was drinking tea in a temporary pavilion. He had obviously been waiting here for a long time.

Beside him, a tall general was wearing armor and holding a sword, speaking loudly to the White Lotus Sect members in front of the checkpoint.

Obviously, the details of this Saint of the White Lotus Sect have been revealed clearly by the Ming army in front of her.

Next to Tang Xiuying, the middle-aged man dressed as a farmer who had boxed with Luo An in Liushan saw more and more soldiers gathered around him. He immediately drank the talisman water again regardless of his already overstretched body.

"Saint! There are so many soldiers, it's impossible for everyone to leave. Let us fight for you to break out of the siege!"

The more than twenty members of the congregation who swallowed the talisman water along with him let out a painful cry, and blood flowed from the seven orifices.

His body suddenly expanded several times like a balloon, growing into a nearly three-meter-long giant with copper skin and iron bones, and rushed towards the Ming army guarding the ground in front of Chongyang Pass.

He actually wanted to break down the human wall, destroy the closed door, and open a way out.

If it were in the past, relying on Fu Shui's invulnerability, it would obviously not be impossible to break through the Ming army's formation while the opponent was caught off guard.

But..., the middle-aged man headed by him looked at these three-meter-tall monsters in front of him.

However, the Ming army, which was still in an orderly formation, felt a little uneasy in its heart.

"out!"

The distance between the two sides was only a few hundred steps.

The flag officer in the military formation in front of him took out a small flag and waved it forward.

A group of shackled death row prisoners were dragged to the front of the military formation like dead dogs by Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers.

One of the three Ming soldiers pulled the chain to force his head to rise, and the other stepped on his back and straddled the knife, ignoring the prisoner's pleas for mercy.

The swordsmen of the Ming Dynasty slashed with their swords in unison. Hundreds of heads hit the ground in an instant, and blood sprayed out.

"put!"

The last of the three Ming soldiers took out a piece of cloth, dipped it in blood, wrapped it around the arrow, raised his bow and shot.

The evil spirit formed by the resentment of hundreds of death row prisoners before their death instantly struck these White Lotus Sect members along with the rain of arrows from the Ming army.

"not good……"

The middle-aged man secretly thought something was wrong.

The first few believers were rushed by the evil spirit, and the spell was broken instantly. They couldn't help but be turned back and vomited blood by the Taoist magic. At this moment, the Ming army's bows and slaves fired rapidly, and several rounds of arrow rain came towards them, and they were immediately shot into hedgehogs. , the dead can no longer die.

The middle-aged man pulled out the arrow feathers stuck in his knees and looked around. He was the only one left among the White Lotus disciples who followed him into the battle.

At this time, the Ming army had slowly advanced in front of him.

It seemed that he was not just lucky to have survived.

Dozens of muskets filled with projectiles in the military formation were pointed at him, but the Ming army in front of him didn't seem to be in a hurry to take his life.

Six Ming soldiers walked out, pierced his limbs and spine with spears in their hands, and used sledgehammers to nail him to the muddy ground after the rain.

"Take out the 36 pictures! Spare his life!"

The Ming Army general on the hillside shouted to the bottom of the mountain again.

"Saint! Leave me alone! Hurry-"

As a powerful force hit the back of his head, the middle-aged man immediately fainted and fell to the ground.

"Lord Wang——"

I saw armored Ming troops all over the mountain, as well as dozens of corpses of backbone members of the White Lotus Sect in front of Chongyang Pass.

White Lotus Saint Tang Xiuying asked the official on the hillside who had been silently observing the battle.

She recognized this Wang Censor, who had led the Jiangxi wolf soldiers to patrol Southern Jiangxi during the lifetime of Emperor Zhengde, and almost wiped out all the White Lotus Sect's strongholds in Jiangxi and Fujian.

Looking at this extremely familiar face, my silver teeth will break.

(End of this chapter)