Chapter 167 - 101: New Dynasty Daqian
Chapter 167: Chapter 101: New Dynasty Daqian
The Imperial City was in an uproar.
Just then, before the Beheading Platform and under the watchful eyes of the Imperial City’s countless citizens, the Great Zhou Black Dragon Prince received the Wind Snow Sword Immortal’s acknowledgment and became the powerful lord who would establish the New Dynasty.
BOOM!
The ground trembled.
Three hundred thousand armored soldiers marched in formation into the Imperial City. Among them, several figures held lists, going from household to household to arrest people.
"Who are you?"
"What are you trying to do...?"
"I am a Governor of this court! Even if a New Dynasty is established, your New Emperor should treat us with respect...!"
The sound of curses rang out continuously.
Figure after figure, all opulently dressed and gluttonous, were all people of high rank and great power. They were all dragged to the Beheading Platform.
The Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, as well as the twelve illustrious nobles.
Even many of the Generals of Great Liang who commanded troops were arrested.
One man among them was the most conspicuous. He had a dignified appearance and, though over fifty, was still in his prime. He wore a Crimson Robe, a sign of his unparalleled prestige.
He was the Governor.
The most powerful man in the current Imperial Court.
"That’s all of them."
"Though I used you to lure out the Wind Snow Sword Immortal, consider this my way of settling things with you."
The boy named Void was smiling.
He waved his hand.
In an instant.
Figures flashed forward, their butcher’s knives fell, and heads rolled all over the ground. Corpses paved the long street, and blood flowed like a Blood River.
"With this single purge, you’ve wiped out seventy percent of the Imperial Court."
"Were they all involved in selling people to Demon Mountain?"
Su Chen asked.
"Yes."
Void replied.
But Su Chen knew.
In Void’s eyes, whether they were guilty or not didn’t matter. What mattered was that for the New Dynasty to be established, there couldn’t be so many decaying officials.
He took today’s opportunity to include all the decaying officials in the purge and kill them all at once.
"Are you only killing Liang People?"
Su Chen asked.
"The killing is also happening in the distant Old Zhou Royal Capital."
"The slaughter there is even more brutal than here."
"The New Dynasty has been delayed for so long. It can’t be put off any longer."
Void watched Su Chen, still smiling.
It seemed that in all the world, nothing was more important than establishing the New Dynasty.
A massacre was being carried out across the lands of what were once two dynasties.
The decaying officials.
All of them had to be slaughtered!
And those deep-rooted Noble Families were all being uprooted today as well!
He had no fear of implicating the innocent.
At least, Void had no fear of implicating the innocent.
To be an Emperor, one had to be just this ruthless and cold.
The Imperial City was filled with screams and the figures of nobles fleeing and fighting for their lives.
No one dared to make a sound!
Because this decision was made by the most powerful practitioner of Mortal Cultivation in the world.
"Huzi."
"Let’s go."
"Let’s go home."
Su Chen turned away from the citywide carnage. The swirling wind and snow gathered around him as he untied Huzi’s ropes, and together they walked further and further away, leaving that place behind.
At a corner of an Imperial City Street.
The medical hall was visible in the distance.
Huzi stopped walking.
"Doctor... Xu, I want to go home and see it by myself."
Su Chen knew Huzi wanted to return to his own home—the fishing port outside the Imperial City. It had once been a warm place, but now it was shattered...
"Go on."
Su Chen didn’t stop him, nor did he follow. He just gently patted Huzi’s shoulder, just like in the old days.
A wisp of Longevity True Qi flowed into Huzi’s body, restoring his damaged meridians and his path of cultivation.
Huzi left, heading toward the city gates. But he quickly stopped, his back to Su Chen, as if suppressing something.
After a long moment.
He began to speak.
"I never would have thought that the world-famous Wind Snow Sword Immortal was right beside me all this time..."
"But... why were you with me?"
"Doctor Xu, you’re the Wind Snow Sword Immortal! There are so many places in the world that need you!"
"You’re willing to speak for the common people, to carve a path for them, but while you are close to them, you are also too far away."
"Sometimes you pity the world, your heart filled with a thousand emotions, yet other times you seem cold and merciless."
"I don’t understand you."
Huzi left.
This time, he didn’t look back.
「From then on.」
There was no longer a "Vicious Tiger" of the Cao Gang, only a fisherman in a black-canopied boat by a dilapidated hut, at the fishing port by the river outside the Imperial City.
Su Chen didn’t understand himself, either.
’I’ve been using Shifting Appearance for too long.’
’When you pretend to be someone for too long, you start to be influenced by their personality. After a while, I’ve almost forgotten what I was originally like.’
’In the end, I’m just an emotionless monster blessed with Longevity.’
’Shifting Appearance is a disguise of another person.’
’It’s ultimately not me.’
Su Chen fell silent.
Tree Whiskers stirred.
He changed back into the Imperial Physician Xu Ge and ambled toward the Imperial Palace and the Imperial Hospital.
By now, the Imperial City had been purged with blood.
Even the Imperial Palace had been taken over by soldiers.
With the Wind Snow Sword Immortal’s approval, it seemed that even the hidden masters of Great Yu in Heaven-Ascension Tower raised no objections.
And so, the transfer of power came to an end.
Amidst this snowstorm, after countless bloody battles and power struggles, the boy named Void ascended to the throne.
In the winter of the Eleventh Year of Xuanlong, he proclaimed himself Emperor.
He did not continue under the banner of Zhou and Liang.
Instead, he changed the dynasty!
"What do you think the New Dynasty should be called?"
In the Imperial Hospital, in Su Chen’s courtyard, the boy named Void had come again.
No.
Perhaps, it would be more correct to say the New Emperor, Void.
Outside the small courtyard.
Soldiers were stationed there, and a dragon carriage stood waiting—pitch-black, with shimmering crimson Dragon Patterns on it.
"When did this Xu Ge get connected with the New Emperor?"
"He’s about to hit the big time..."
"This is the third time His Majesty has visited this month, right?"
Some Medical Officers whispered among themselves, their eyes filled with unconcealed envy.
Power!
How wonderful it was.
A change of dynasty.
The world unified.
And with so many of the old nobles killed, so many positions and so much authority had been freed up. How could people not burn with ambition?