Chapter 2528: The Emperor Rules

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From the day it was established, Heavenly Capital City was proclaimed “eternal”!

This is the most prosperous city from ancient times to the present, and also the most majestic fortress in the vast current world.

It is like a heart pumping fresh blood into the central empire, like a flag displaying the majesty of the central empire.

In the three thousand nine hundred and thirty years since its establishment, no power has been able to shake it. The Ten Thousand Demons Gate, suppressed by it, is silent and without sound, and the greatest evil Zen from ancient times until now, sealed by it, is gradually ethereal. Below heaven's center, all directions come to court.

But today, it shakes!

It only shook a total of three times, but it almost shook the hearts of everyone in the central great hall!

What happened?

Those who were quarreling didn't care about quarreling, those who were taking sides didn't care about taking sides, and those who were watching the show couldn't even watch.

The crowd of great officials in the hall were all on alert.

No matter how fierce the usual infighting, once this giant ship of the central empire sinks, everyone on the ship will drown!

“There is no need for the various ministers to be tense.”

The Emperor's voice said: “The shaking is indeed of this heaven and earth, but not Heavenly Capital City — it is this seat of the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong.”

Rumbling!

The restriction on everyone by the Great Jing Imperial Palace was withdrawn.

The vision outside the central great hall became clear.

The roaring airflow drifted like tail feathers, and the sinking cloud layers seemed like low mountains, as if all this scenery was cleared and settled.

Only then did the crowd of Heavenly Capital officials realize that this most majestic palace in the present world was actually already flying horizontally in the high sky. It lifted and rose high along with the line of sight of the Great Jing Tianzi.

How vast is the sky, how vast are the mountains and rivers.

Heavenly Capital City was instantly far below, like a small mud pill on the fertile fields of the central domain — other cities didn't even count as mud pills, they could only be counted as mud dots.

The sound of armor colliding earlier, the continuous miserable calls, and the fear that occasionally seeped into the crowd's ears were not just the central Tianzi purging the palace guards. It was the army assembling, the palace guards solemnly arraying, and the entire magnificent imperial palace beginning its pre-performance!

The Emperor only cleared out those people who were not safe in key positions.

The former body of the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong, "Great Vast Empty Heaven," ranked second among the ten great grotto-heavens. But as a grotto-heaven treasure, it was very likely already the first under heaven!

Because the state system represents this current era, the central empire represents the state system, and it in turn represents the Jingguo!

With the momentum of tilting the entire heaven to support it, it naturally also had the power to tilt the entire heaven.

Throughout the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong, army lines roamed and gathered, and soldier fiends soared into the clouds.

Command flags shuttled, and embroidered objects seemed to have spirits and displayed themselves.

Imperial edict!

Dispelling evil!

The central eight armies numbered two hundred thousand strong, all filling into this palace!

Two branches of the eight strong armies had already merged their arrays, like two long knives returning to the waist of this fierce general named "Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong." With a brave warrior wielding the knife, what under heaven could withstand?

The Great Jing palace guards were all solemn, filling the passes within the vast palace complex with grand soldier fiends, like scattered pieces of armor protecting the joints of the brave one.

The various court ministers looked at each other. Except for the very few who were informed, all were uneasy, not knowing what the intention of the Jing Tianzi was.

Even the "Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong," as a treasure of the state and people, had not moved for several thousand years. The last time it moved was during the period of Jing Wen Emperor, attacking Chu in the south, and colliding hard with Zhanghua Terrace, directly smashing that seat, a top three grotto-heaven treasure under heaven, into a detached palace, which has not been completely repaired for several thousand years and has always been unable to be installed in Ying City.

Jing Wen Emperor always said that Zhanghua Terrace was unmatched under heaven, not inferior to the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong, and that he suppressed Chu Taizu, only to strike Zhanghua Terrace broken.

Chu Taizu then always said that the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong was the first grotto-heaven treasure from ancient times to the present, supported by the central empire's momentum of tilting the country, far surpassing various treasures, and that he was also stronger than Jing Wen Emperor, Zhanghua Terrace only broke but did not destroy, and even pushed the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong back to the north bank of the Chang River.

Time has passed to the present, perhaps the two of them have already decided the victor, but which of the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong and the peak Zhanghua Terrace was stronger has become a historical public case, capable of triggering many debates every time — perhaps only waiting for the future.

A treasure of the state and people does not move lightly, yet the central Tianzi has boldly started today. What is this for?

The Jing Tianzi gave the answer.

He sat there calmly, like a sculpture condensed with power. In the eyes of the various people in the hall, he emitted a gentle voice close to eternal—

“Witch Heavenly Master is correct, the central escape Zen, the central has lost its responsibility.”

“Zong Zheng is my closest relative, Heavenly Master is the pillar of the Dao Country, all the Honored Ones are my elders, and also the ministers and people of the Dao Country. Your quarrels pain my heart. This is not the responsibility of any one of you. Transcending responsibility is not something Yan Dao can bear. The filth under heaven is not something the ministers and people should carry.”

“No excuse can be found. The three pulses hostile Zen to the central, through three thousand nine hundred and thirty years, has not shifted, yet it shakes today. This is my responsibility too!”

He said: “I will bear it, I will face it.”

The central escape Zen is a long process. It began to sprout during the period of Jing Taizu, was supported by the Cangtu God during the period of Jing Qin Emperor, led by the God Envoy Minhal, and there were successive attempts and frequent impacts in the middle, until this time, Zong Dezhen assassinated with a true shed, and the Jing Tianzi was directly pulled into a life and death battlefield. He escaped at the key moment when one True in the empire's great cover and the central Tianzi were wounded!

Including Witch Daoyou himself, it is clear that it is truly difficult to say it is Ji Fengzhou's responsibility.

Even his own responsibility as Witch Heavenly Master should be considered more serious than Ji Fengzhou's.

This emperor is already in that position and has done his best – even if he knew everything and started over after the dust settled, it would be very difficult to do better. It is also almost beyond the imagination of people like Witch Daoyou if they were in his place.

But Ji Fengzhou said, this is his own responsibility.

And how will he bear it?

Witch Daoyou's double eyes hidden in the wrinkled abyss looked at the emperor just like that.

The emperor calmly said: “I should personally conquer.”

It was like thunder rising from flat ground.

This sentence shocked people's hearts even more than thinking about moving Heavenly Capital earlier!

This... how can he personally conquer?

The Tianzi has already conquered one Transcendence, and he is still going to conquer another Transcendence?

The vast Great Jing, the country's momentum is vast, although it can bear the conquest of two Transcendence, two Transcendence level great wars in a short time... can the Tianzi himself still bear it?

“Your Majesty—” Vice Prime Minister Shi Zichan raised his head in shock.

Ying Jianghong even stood up directly. As for the war that would tilt the country, he, the South Heavenly Master who guards the heaven gate, was here to bear it for the country. How could the Tianzi be lightly moved? And the Tianzi's wound has not yet healed!

The Emperor only continued to say: “According to the Jing law, if a prisoner escapes from prison, it is nothing more than capturing him, punishing him, and killing him. The greatest evil Zen from ancient times until now, Heavenly Capital cannot suppress, the three Honored Ones cannot execute, no one in the whole world can lock it, ten thousand armies cannot surround it, I should personally conquer and seize it!”

“To be the ruler of the world that the world cannot do, to kill the peaceful Tianzi that the world cannot kill.”

“The central heavenly prison escape Zen is a first-class major matter of the state, and it is true as the Witch Heavenly Master said, it cannot be concealed, and it should not be delayed. But the reason I allowed this news not to be published in a timely manner is because the escape Zen has already happened. And I do not plan to admit it — I am preparing for war.”

The Emperor seemed to be sitting on the clouds, his voice echoing in everyone's ears: “War cannot happen in Heavenly Capital City.”

He appeared so distant, and yet so close to everyone: “Although the Tianzi's majesty is heavy, it is not heavier than the billion common people within Heavenly Capital City. The families of the various ministers, their lifetime honor and disgrace, are all within it. I am also like this!”

The main body of the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong that soared away from the capital, the rear palace's six courtyards, still remain in Heavenly Capital City.

And Lu Prince Manor, Rui Prince Manor, and Changyang Princess Manor are all built outside the imperial palace.

The Emperor's determination has already been made clear: “Not a single brick or tile of Heavenly Capital can be buried with common men. Every rope and law of the Jing law, I must hold the sword to measure!”

The Great Jing Tianzi is to drive the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong, leave Heavenly Capital City, and even leave the Jingguo to go to war — to chase and kill that one Transcendence who escaped from the depths of the central heavenly prison!

“Your Majesty!” Even the Zong Zheng Temple Minister Ji Yumin turned back to advise: “The Tianzi should not move lightly for the country. This journey is long and the water is far. One must know that people's hearts are hard to fathom, let alone that heaven's intent is like a knife!”

As a founding era figure of the Jingguo, a strong one who followed Jing Taizu to build the country that year, Ji Yumin was a witness to the matter of shifting Zen that year. He completely understood what responsibility the central empire bore, and also roughly knew what kind of existence was sealed under the central heavenly prison.

Even the three Honored Ones were unable to truly exterminate it, only able to seal and suppress it, entrusting it to the most peak power of the state system to suppress it, using the flood of the era to wear it down, and endless time to exile it.

Just like this, it still escaped!

The Tianzi is to drive the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong to conquer that generation. Where will the killing ultimately lead?

How many mountains and rivers will this road cross, and whose borders will it horizontally cross?

Whether the country's momentum can support it, whether the emperor can support it, is another matter entirely.

Spies under heaven have long been watching the central!

Are they not afraid that after both sides are defeated and injured, someone will step in with a knife?

Although there is a consensus among hegemon countries not to conquer each other, in the face of a huge harvest that is close at hand, how can they hope that others will observe the so-called "consensus"?

In such a great struggle for the world, rites and righteousness are already a piece of waste paper. Alliances can be torn, oaths can be betrayed, what does consensus count for! What does tacit understanding count for!

This is precisely "people's hearts are hard to fathom."

As for "heaven's intent is like a knife," it is a more implicit reminder from him that he is emphasizing the means of that one Transcendence who escaped from the heavenly prison.

The various collisions in the court hall today did not receive influence from some kind of will in the dark.

People's hearts are arbitrary, often led by heaven's intent.

The Tianzi's rash movement is not just for it to take advantage.

But even if one does not know the means of that evil Zen, just listening to Ji Yumin's sentence is a steady and weighty word from an elder.

For a time, a large group of officials knelt down, all earnestly pleading: “Your Majesty, think thrice!”

Jin Prince Ji Xuanzhen put his hands together and bowed, saying: “If the armor and weapons under heaven follow Your Majesty's move of the palace, then what will the ten thousand people rely on? If the country's sharp edge all depends on the Tianzi, then who will hold the handle?”

“The ruler is the superior ruler, not brave for the inferior inferior.”

“I am also a common man, willing to conquer for Your Majesty. Though I die, I have no regrets!”

If the emperor must give the three pulses an explanation, and must show his attitude in the matter of the central escape Zen, rather die than ask the former Tianzi from the current Tianzi, greatly damaging his prestige, and repeating the mistake of Qin Emperor. Then Jin Prince is willing to come forward to express this attitude, and even willing to become the price of this attitude.

He, Ji Xuanzhen, replaced the country and conquered, no one can say that the imperial family was perfunctory in this matter. He, Ji Xuanzhen, died for the country, and the three pulses can perhaps relax.

The Emperor looked at him deeply, and his gaze spread from him to the hundred officials.

Finally, he said: “The various ministers love the country, hence they have good advice.”

“But I bear the world, how can I shirk responsibility?”

He waved his big sleeve: “My intention is already decided!”

“First, Zong Dezhen drove a true shed, and then the central escape Zen. Indeed, heaven's heart is unfathomable, wanting to test my edge again — why should I not comply with its wish!”

He stood up, walked down the jade steps, and walked among the hundred officials who were standing in the central great hall. His body was like a mountain supporting the sky, his thinness like a sword cutting the ground: “Mountains and rivers, the great earth, all are from my command. Ten thousand ancient dynasties, submit to my will.”

His steps were large and majestic: “To let the so-called heaven's heart know, who is actually in charge of this present world!”

Rumbling!

The Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong flew high, shaking the entire present world.

Fighting this battle after leaving Heavenly Capital City further demonstrated the emperor's determination. Just like he chose to go hunting in the suburbs earlier, Zong Dezhen's assassination also chose the time when he left the palace — that was because Zong Dezhen had the heart to replace the country and was also reluctant to smash Heavenly Capital City.

That one who escaped from the depths of the central heavenly prison may not cherish these. Under prepared circumstances, Heavenly Capital City can perhaps protect itself, but the matter of escape Zen happened suddenly, and there was fundamentally no time to respond steadily for a time.

Transcendent might cannot be controlled mutually. Throwing the rat and fearing the vessel, this war must be lost.

Waiting for that escaped convict to leave Heavenly Capital City, then going up to chase and kill, then there are no more scruples, and full force can be displayed!

Witch Daoyou was silent for a while.

His original intention was also to advise the emperor a few sentences. At this stage, it is not good for either side if the emperor has an accident. What he is contending for are the interests of Da Luo Mountain, his own interests, and he does not want to contend for Ji Fengzhou's life.

But how could Ji Fengzhou be a broken pot thrown away, a spirited and brave person?

What confidence does this emperor have?

How in such a short time, has a true shed been controlled by him? Can he drive a true shed and tilt the country?

Or can Ji Yumin drive a true shed, and the Tianzi tilt the country, thus becoming the war force of two Honored Transcendence?

But Ji Yumin's advice does not seem like acting...

Witch Daoyou knows that this emperor's mind is like a deep sea, and he can never see through it. But he also never thought that the emperor leaving the palace and capital would still be so bewildered.

The Emperor was still pacing in the huge hall, walking among the hundred officials' gaze and guard, saying as he walked: “Xian Nan Kui! I order you to guard Heavenly Capital City with the divine strategy!”

The great commander with a date-red face responded loudly, pushed out of the crowd, stepped out of the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong, and flew down to Heavenly Capital City.

The Emperor again ordered: “Kuang Ming! Chunyu Gui! I order you two to each lead an army, gather in one place, offer the country with the army's momentum, and wait for my command at any time!”

The newly appointed Heavenly Capital Grand Marshal Kuang Ming, and the newly appointed Imperial Edict Vice Commander Chunyu Gui, simultaneously bowed, walked out of the central great hall one after another, each returned to their arrays, and each led a great army.

The Emperor again ordered: “Appoint Jin Prince to guard Heavenly Capital City!”

He paused slightly: “If this conquest of mine has no merit, then it must have no fortune. The state and the people cannot suffer loss. Qing Nu, Bai Nian, Jian Rong, choose one who can succeed! Jin Prince shall act on the occasion, not like me in hesitation.”

He added: “If the state is in danger, and the younger generation is not up to the task, Jin Prince shall take it himself!”

Ji Xuanzhen, who had already bowed down, was startled and stood up again: “Your Majesty—”

At this time, the Emperor had already walked to the door of the great hall. All the officials in the central great hall followed him, turning from the head of the team to the tail of the team.

Jin Prince was at the end of the hundred officials.

The Emperor did not turn back, only waved his sleeve: “This is the ruler's command! Speak no more! With the rivers and mountains as heavy!”

Ji Xuanzhen again bowed down like a mountain: “I must guard the state and the people for the Tianzi. As long as I do not die, Heavenly Capital City will not shake!”

He just walked away with big strides like this.

The Emperor again ordered: “South Heavenly Master! Jin Prince uses politics, Heavenly Master uses the army. With me outside, the state has a reliance!”

Ying Jianghong originally had a thousand words and ten thousand phrases, but the ruler's command had already been given, and the army order had been issued. He spoke no more, only performed a solemn ritual, left the hall and went.

The Emperor stepped onto the door, gazing ten thousand li into the distance, and only said: “The rivers and mountains are still here, the state and the people do not move. I conquer for the world — with the three great Heavenly Masters and Zong Zheng following me to conquer, it is enough.”

He waved his sleeve: “All withdraw!”

All the hundred officials bowed. Except for those who needed to assist and support the operation of the Sanqing Xuandu Zizhigong, they all fell down to Heavenly Capital City together.

In this bright blue sky and white day, one saw the hundred officials falling like stars, and the imperial palace rising like the moon.

The present world rumbled, the divine land shook!

This is the last plot. The final volume will definitely add more bursts and improve the reading experience.

But today, it cannot be added. The war has just begun, and the next content needs to be rewritten.

Just finished writing about the execution of the nameless one and the abdication of Chu Emperor. My brain is not enough, and my energy is not keeping up. I hope you understand.