"Palace, surname Wu…"
Ye Ning suddenly thought of something and asked.
"Are you from the Heaven Slaying Army?"
The Heaven Slaying Army was an army personally created by Taizu.
This army only had one label, and that was to be invincible!
Ye Ning had checked the files of the Overwatch Council, and there was such a record.
In February of the year of Gengzi, Juechen Sect rebelled and led 800 evil spirits from other places to Baimei Mountain. Taizu was furious and sent a sentry to take the flag of Shengtian Army out of the array. When the flag arrived, the enemy naturally collapsed.
It was such a simple sentence, but it contained terrifying information that made people dumbfounded.
The Jue Chen Sect was not some small sect, and was definitely considered above average among the immortal sects.
Although they submitted to the Great Zhou on the surface, they secretly wanted to do something big. Therefore, they entangled with the Extraterritorial Demons and tried to cause trouble in the Great Zhou.
In the end, it was just a sentry who carried the flag of the Heaven Slaying Army and walked around, and they collapsed without fighting.
This was the prestige of the Heaven Slaying Army of that era.
They had suppressed an era.
The steel saber was stained with the blood of the immortal sect, and the flag was planted all over the immortal sect.
The Heaven Slaying Army was synonymous with the Grim Reaper.
However, just like the Overwatch Council, the Heaven Slaying Army had also declined.
This legendary army had long disappeared in the long river of history.
Many people said that if the imperial family had not lost the method to train the Heaven Slaying Army, the Celestial Gate would not have been so arrogant.
Everyone in this army had the surname Wu. They were originally made up of orphans who had no parents. Taizu gave them their surnames so that they would always remember the spirit of martial arts.
Wu Sansi's surname was Wu, and he came from the palace. This made Ye Ning think about it.
Although the Heaven Slaying Army was gone, their descendants had been passed down from generation to generation. They had remained in the palace as the most loyal guards of the emperor.
The so-called Royal Guards.
"My ancestors were from the Heaven Slaying Army, but I am not.”
At the mention of the Heaven Slaying Army, Wu Sansi subconsciously straightened his back. There was a hint of regret in his eyes as he spoke.
"If possible, I also want to become a member of the Heaven Slaying Army and follow Taizu to conquer the Nine Regions.”
"Unfortunately, I was born too late. When I was young, I received training from the royal family.”
"They instilled in me the idea of loyalty to the emperor and the country, and made me familiar with the court etiquette. Later, I was appointed as the head of the royal guards, responsible for protecting the palace, protecting the emperor, and maintaining the law and discipline of the palace.”
The head of the Royal Guards?
Ye Ning thought about Wu Sansi's age and asked.
"The Emperor you are talking about is?"
"It's the previous emperor."
Wu Sansi had a complicated look in his eyes.
At the mention of the former emperor, he thought of a past that he could not bear to recall.
" That day, I was patrolling the palace as usual, but I suddenly heard a cry for help. I walked over and found a disciple of the Starry Sky Sect insulting a beautiful girl. The beautiful girl refused to obey and was tortured to death by him.”
"Why are the people from the Starry Sky Sect in the palace?”
Ye Ning frowned.
The Starry Sky Sect was one of the thirteen sects of the Celestial Sect.
He was famous and very powerful.
However, this sect's mountain gate was high above the sea of clouds and rarely walked around in the human world.
This made Ye Ning feel a little strange.
What was the Starry Sky Sect doing in the palace?
He didn't find it strange that the disciples of the immortal sects had insulted the young ladies.
One should not think that cultivators were clean.
The so-called cultivators were actually just ordinary people with great power. Their seven emotions and six desires were stronger than ordinary people.
This was because ordinary people lacked strength and would restrain themselves.
But they didn't need it.
"It was the day of tribute."
Wu Sansi revealed a look of humiliation.
Pay tribute.
So that was the case.
Ye Ning's gaze was deep.
The current Great Zhou had to pay tribute to the immortal sects. More than 90% of the annual taxes, spirit stones, spirit medicines, and precious refining materials produced every year had to be handed over to the immortal sects.
Since it was the day of tribute, it was not strange for the people of the Starry Sky Sect to come to the palace.
"You stopped him after that?"
Ye Ning asked.
"No, I killed him!"
Wu Sansi's eyes flashed with a fierce light.
"You killed him directly?"
"Yes, disturbing the palace and insulting a beautiful woman are all capital crimes. As the head of the Royal Guards, I naturally have to uphold the law. According to the laws of the Great Zhou, this kind of situation should be killed without mercy!”
"But he is a disciple of an immortal sect."
"Someone told me the same thing back then.”
"Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble?"
"But this is my duty. If I'm afraid of trouble, won't the royal guards become decorations?”
Ye Ning sighed.
Wu Sansi was right. He was right.
However, this world never cared about right or wrong.
He could already imagine what would happen next.
"What happened after that?"
" Later on, the people from the Starry Sky Sect made trouble. The former emperor was furious and whipped me a hundred times in public, crippling my martial cultivation. He was also forced by the Starry Sky Sect to compensate me. That year, the tribute was increased by ten percent!”
When Wu Sansi mentioned this, all the memories that he could not bear to recall surged up.
It caused his body to tremble.
The flying sword in the sword box sensed its owner's pain and vibrated.
"And then?"
Ye Ning was silent for a moment.
"After that, the late emperor reprimanded me. He said that I was brainless and didn't know how to think twice before acting.”
Wu Sansi revealed a self-deprecating smile. This was the reason why he changed his name from Wu Zhan to Wu Sansi.
"He also said that I was the one who caused the Great Zhou's tribute to increase by 10% compared to previous years. I was the sinner of the Great Zhou.”
"He expelled me from the Royal Guards and told me that I would never be allowed to enter the Imperial Palace.”
" So I was sent to the Overwatch Council, where I would rot and rot for the rest of my life.”
Ye Ning looked at him with pity.
No wonder Wu Sansi didn't want to talk about it.
He was only doing what he should do.
He protected the dignity of a king.
In the end, he was abandoned by the king he was protecting.
"Since then, you have fallen.”
Ye Ning felt that everything made sense.
However, Wu Sansi laughed at himself and said.
" No, what really made me feel that the world was hopeless, that the Great Zhou was hopeless, and that I was walking down the path of self-destruction was something else. On the third day after I was sent to the Overwatch Council, the late Emperor issued an imperial edict.”
"The content of the imperial edict is that it is not illegal for immortal sect disciples to kill people!”
"From then on, I was in complete despair.”
It was not against the law for immortal sect disciples to kill people!
Ye Ning frowned. A ball of fire ignited in his dantian and seemed to spread throughout his body.
"Is there a more ridiculous law in the world?”
What a good way to say that it was not illegal for immortal sect disciples to kill people!
Originally, he thought that this dog emperor was already muddle-headed enough. He did not expect her father to be even more skilled!
If such an imperial edict was issued, would there be any reason left in the world?
Such a huge empire had lost all its glory just like that.
"The resources of the Great Zhou, the favor of the Immortal Sect! Shameful!"
Ye Ning gritted his teeth.
Such a humiliating history was a huge blow to a patriotic person.
No wonder Wu Sansi was injured even more.
His experience was different from Wei Wentong, Niu Jinxi, and the others.
At most, they would be ostracized by their superiors and colleagues.
But what about Wu Sansi?
He had personally witnessed the cowardice of an empire's leader.
How could there be hope for such a country?
"Then where did your sword cultivation come from?”
Ye Ning didn't mention this matter anymore.
Wu Sansi felt pain every time he saw this.
He was just a mere governor, yet he still had the courage to wield his saber against the immortal sect.
However, as the Son of Heaven, the previous Emperor had already surrendered.
This kind of blow was indescribable, no less than national humiliation.
" I've sat in the Overwatch Council for decades. Every time I close my eyes, I think of that matter…So I needed to find something to do. I happened to find a sword cultivation method, so I began to practice.”
Wu Sansi said casually.
But Ye Ning knew that this meant a lot.
Wu Sansi was probably a genius in the way of the sword!
His martial path was crippled and he switched to the sword path. In just sixty years, he actually became a true person.
Wait a minute!
Ye Ning asked.
"Is your cultivation level a True Human?"
Wu Sansi said with uncertainty.
"Probably. I've never left the capital.”
The capital was suppressed by a great formation.
Therefore, after a cultivator broke through to the Perfected Being Realm, they had to leave the city if they wanted to advance to a new realm.
Although he could cultivate in the city, he could not determine his cultivation level.
He was not sure if his cultivation level was still acceptable.
Ye Ning strongly suspected that Wu Sansi was not just a real person.
This old fellow was something.
He had to be wary of him in the future.
His Backstab attribute was already maxed out.
Wu Sansi did not feel relieved even after he told him about it.
Instead, it became even heavier.
To him, reminiscing and recounting was equivalent to hurting him twice.
Ye Ning couldn't help but make a promise as he looked at his gloomy face.
"Old Wu, I'll get back at you for the humiliation you've suffered one day!”
……
It was already late at night.
It was still that dark and desolate street.
It was still that dry well.
The killer of Spring Breeze Building, Mr. Mu, knelt beside the dry well with his head drooping and a dejected look on his face.
Standing in front of him was a middle-aged man whose face could not be seen clearly.
He held a bloodstained whip in his hand.
"Are you convinced by the fifty lashes this lord will give you?”
"Mr. Mu," he said with a trembling voice.
"Mu Yun is convinced.”
The person standing in front of him was the leader of the Misty Rain Tower's branch in the capital.
He was also his superior.
Mu Yun's fear of this person had already penetrated deep into his bones, and he didn't even dare to raise his head.
"Hmph, this lord has long said that the lord will go to the capital to inspect the branch. During this period of time, all those who belong to the capital's Spring Breeze Building are not allowed to act rashly and follow this lord out of the city to welcome the lord!”
"But you actually dared to accept that Weiwu Marquis's order in private. Did you treat my words as a deaf ear?”
"The most infuriating thing is that you accepted the order, but you actually failed the assassination. After the failure, you were so angry that you overstepped your authority to gather assassins. In the end, most of them were killed!”
The Branch Leader's voice was cold and stern.
"If not for your past contributions, I would have killed you right now!”
Mu Yun hurriedly kowtowed and said in fear.
"This subordinate knows his mistake. This subordinate won't dare to act rashly again.”
The Branch Leader glanced at him coldly.
He turned around and looked in the direction of the city center.
"Did you hear that? The entire city was cheering. The Ye Ning they worshipped, was he your target?”
Mu Yun nodded. At the mention of Ye Ning, his eyes were filled with hatred.
"This person doesn't have much ability, but he has a powerful little girl guarding him!”
The Chapter Leader sneered.
"No ability? This person's ability was extremely great. Because of him, the Great Zhou Imperial Court welcomed a major reshuffle. The entire populace was cheering because of him.”
Mu Yun was as silent as a cicada in winter, not daring to make a sound.
"However, no matter how famous he is, he shouldn't have killed the people of my Misty Rain Tower…So many assassins, no matter how useless they are, died in his courtyard. He must pay for this blood debt!”
The Chapter Leader said gloomily.
Hearing this.
Mu Yun was ecstatic.
From the looks of it, the Branch Leader was going to personally take action.
Didn't that mean that Ye Ning would definitely die?
"Chapter Leader, when do we make our move?"
Mu Yun couldn't wait any longer.
"We'll talk about it after we receive the Lord." When the Branch Leader mentioned this matter, he couldn't help but frown."Logically speaking, Master should have arrived in the capital long ago, but I've left the city several times and no one responded to my secret signal every time.”
"Could it be that Master encountered a tough person blocking his way?”
"But how is that possible? With His Lord's strength, who could stop him?”
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