Chapter 1070: Rooting out

"Cao Da, how have you prepared over the years?"

Li Zhirui looked at the middle-aged man with slightly white hair in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

Today, he has been in the Dafeng Dynasty for ten years.

And Cao Da, who was originally only in his thirties, is now in his forties.

And after these ten years of hiding, his whole temperament has changed drastically. It is completely impossible to tell that he is a farm man. Instead, he gives people a cold and cold feeling, as if he is being secretly targeted by a poisonous snake.

What Li Zhirui asked about was the chess game he started many years ago to overthrow the Dafeng Dynasty.

These "living ghosts" like Cao Da and others, whose families or themselves offended the Liu family's children, had their wives and children separated and their families destroyed, have expanded greatly in recent years, exceeding 400,000 people!

If the territory of the Dafeng Dynasty had not been large enough and they had done a good job on the surface to win over the people, and if Li Zhirui had made them hide, otherwise the overwhelming resentment of these people would have been enough to shake the foundation of luck.

In addition, Li Zhirui himself also mentored many civilian Confucian students in the past ten years, most of whom became Jinshi.

It's a pity that because of their background, their official career has not been very smooth, and it can even be said to be very bumpy. So far, they don't even have a fifth-grade official.

But this approach of the Dafeng Dynasty is falling into Li Zhirui’s arms!

Officials, whether out of greed for money, sincere service to the people, or to express their ambitions, all need a higher official position to have a chance to realize it.

But the rulers of the Dafeng Dynasty didn't care about this at all. Not only did they fail to bridge the conflicts between Liu's children and other officials, they even continued to intensify under Liu Bairui's instigation.

As an outsider in the chess game, Li Zhirui could see clearly that Liu Bairui was not willing to just be a king without much real power. He had strong ambitions!

It was precisely because of the many conflicts among the ruling class of the dynasty that they were unable to continue to expand their borders and were blocked by the monks in Wanzhu Prefecture, and the situation became increasingly worse.

Originally relying on human luck to suppress the strength of the monks, the soldiers of the Dafeng Dynasty not only sacrificed fewer people, but also often won victories.

However, due to the declining luck of the dynasty, they can no longer use secret techniques to suppress the monks on a large scale.

In this way, it is naturally easy for the monks to find flaws and lose on the battlefield. All the territory taken away from Wanzhu Prefecture in the past few years has now been returned.

As for the internal and external troubles that anyone with a discerning eye can see, the Liu family still continues to fight among themselves!

Many people in the Liu clan have long been dissatisfied with Liu Bairui. After all, he was an ambitious and capable king who stole a lot of power from them.

"Sir, the poisons you gave me have been delivered to those families." Cao Da's eyes, as calm as dead water, now showed excitement.

"Okay, then don't interfere in the next thing. Let everyone evacuate the capital and leave this place where chaos is about to happen." Li Zhirui nodded and left the dark room.

In the past ten years, although he was in the capital of Dafeng, he had not fallen behind in his practice.

The rich spiritual energy in the space can fully satisfy Li Zhirui's cultivation, but he rarely goes there in recent years, spending more time and energy on deducing the eighth-level elixir formula and studying the humane method.

The poison Cao Da mentioned was one of Li Zhirui's research results over the years.

The king is protected by the luck of the dynasty and is immune to all attacks and all evils retreat. However, Li Zhirui's poison was able to avoid these and made him truly poisoned.

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"Master, do you really want to use it?"

At night, similar words rang out in the secret rooms of several deep houses in the capital.

Their target is also obvious, that is Liu Bairui!

It has to be said that Liu Bairui's ability is very powerful. Even when he is half ignored, he can still find the right time to continuously gain more power.

"This poison appeared so suddenly that we can't find out who sent it. Maybe those monks want to use our hands to cause chaos in the dynasty. By then, the Humane Law Network will definitely be affected, and we probably won't be able to do it either." What a happy ending!"

"Yes, please think twice before taking action!"

Several family elders quickly persuaded him.

Unexpectedly, the head of the family suddenly opened his eyes and said in a sinister tone: "You are loyal to that boy Liu Bairui, but do you know that he will take action against us soon?"

"Do you really think that he has not fully controlled the military power that he took away a few years ago? They are deliberately putting on a show for us!"

"If I hadn't accidentally discovered that two armies were setting off some time ago, and their destination was the capital, I might have kept it in the dark until my death!"

In fact, it was not the head of the family who discovered it, but Li Zhirui's group of secret agents who discovered it, and they just let them know through the undercover agents lurking in their home.

Although the two armies were very cautious, traveling day and night, and moving dispersedly, they still left many traces, and with a little judgement, their purpose was known.

Precisely because he discovered that Liu Bairui planned to overturn the table, Li Zhirui also felt that the time was almost up, and this was the best opportunity. After all, in the face of their own life and death, those people did not care about the survival of the Dafeng Dynasty at all.

"What!"

The family elders were immediately shocked. Those who had originally persuaded them all nodded in agreement with the family leader's approach, and couldn't wait to urge him, hoping that he would act as soon as possible.

Otherwise, after the army enters the capital, they will be like fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others!

"Don't worry, you will hear good news tomorrow!" A sinister look appeared on the face of the head of the family.

The elders were horrified, especially those who had persuaded them before. They were sweating profusely at this time and hurriedly expressed their loyalty. It was not until they said that they would give up power and part of their wealth that the head of the family nodded and let it go.

That night.

Liu Bairui, who has always been diligent in his work, was reviewing memorials at his desk. A wisp of fragrance in the hall made his drowsy mind sober up a lot. He asked, "What kind of fragrance is this? It actually has the effect of refreshing the mind."

"Reporting to your majesty, this is the new fragrance made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"Well, not bad, reward!"

After that, he continued to review the memorials until late at night before going to bed.

That night, a group of waiters and palace maids came to a corner at the same time and left this place of right and wrong through the tunnel.

Before they left, they left behind a little inconspicuous spark and some dead branches and leaves in this magnificent palace with red bricks and green tiles.

Dong Dong Dong——

The next morning, the alarm clock rang throughout the palace.

But Liu Bairui, who always woke up when the bell rang, did not open his eyes for a long time.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

The palace servants outside called several times in a row, but did not see any response from him. They felt something was wrong and tremblingly stepped forward to check, but found that his skin was blue, his whole body was cold, and he had already stopped breathing!

"Ah! It's not good! Your Majesty has passed away!"

A group of panicked and bewildered palace servants shouted and ran towards the harem, where there was the only legitimate master in the palace - the queen.

"Dead?!"

"Who did it?"

The spies lurking in the palace were startled and quickly turned around to inform their real masters.

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"Dead."

Li Zhirui, who had left the capital and was living in an inn ten miles outside the city, felt something in his heart and looked up in the direction of the palace. In the sight of the Dharma Eye, a bright yellow four-clawed dragon was roaring to the sky with its fangs and claws bared. It seemed to want to make some attacks, but unfortunately it was powerless and was soon sucked away by a black hole filled with yin energy.

"What a pity."

Li Zhirui sighed slightly and asked Cao Da and others to leave this place of trouble.

The king passed away, and his descendants are only twelve or thirteen years old now, the contradictions within the Liu family, various ambitious people, and the two armies that are coming.

The entire dynasty will enter a state of disintegration, and the capital, where all kinds of monsters and demons gather, is the most dangerous place!

Now that the humanitarian law network has dissipated a lot, many remote counties may even be collapsing, and the suppression effect on Li Zhirui is not that strong. He does not have to worry about his own safety, but there is no need to stay.

Moreover, Li Zhirui had to arrange for his family members to take over the territory of the Dafeng Dynasty, and he needed a place where he could use his magic power without restrictions.

The group walked westward for a few days. After Li Zhirui completely got out of the humanitarian law net, he left quietly that night.

As the humanitarian law net for the dynasty to maintain its rule and control the local area, it collapsed on a large scale in just a few days. Now only the capital area still has some.

The fall of the Dafeng Dynasty is imminent. Li Zhirui's mission has been completed, so he naturally doesn't need to mix with ordinary people anymore.

As for Cao Da and others who have worked for him over the years, their clansmen have arranged their places, so he doesn't need to worry about it.

The next day, Cao Da and others knew that Li Zhirui was missing, and they were silent for a moment, and then continued to move forward according to his previous instructions.

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"Rui Zu!"

The Li family, who had been paying close attention to the Dafeng Dynasty and waiting to take over the territory, greeted Li Zhirui when they saw him coming.

"Let's get started."

After a pause, Li Zhirui warned: "Don't be greedy. Just bring the three or four thousand miles of land in the east under the family's rule. If it's farther away, the family will find it difficult to control."

"Of course, the thousands of miles of land in the west cannot be missed. Give it to those vassal forces and the family can own it in name."

The Dafeng Dynasty began to expand from Shajiaozhou. Over the past 100 years, its territory has expanded several times, and it is a long and narrow land from east to west. If they continue to develop, they may really be able to be upgraded to a human dynasty!

Of course, this possibility is not great. After all, there are too many contradictions within the Dafeng Dynasty. Li Zhirui was able to solve them in just ten years with the help of these.

"Yes!"

Everyone nodded and then took action.

While receiving the border land, they notified the scattered cultivation families and sects in Shanhaizhou who had no spiritual veins to let them go to the west thousands of miles away to establish their own clan land and mountain gate.

This also includes several forces that blocked the way for Li's Shanhaizhou to connect with the east of Dafeng.

After all, these thousands of miles of territory are to be directly ruled by the family. Even if these forces all surrender to the family, it is still an obstacle.

Of course, the Li family still has to save face, so there are some compensations for these families, such as occupying one more spiritual vein and expanding the territory.

The Liu clan members who were fighting for power in the capital were completely unaware of the Li family's actions. It was not until the army of cultivators sent by the Li family arrived outside the capital that they realized that something was wrong. The Dafeng Dynasty that their ancestors had worked so hard to create was about to be destroyed in their hands.

"It's over!"

The Liu clan members lamented, feeling extremely regretful in their hearts. They were blinded by power and only wanted to control the world, but they forgot that all around the dynasty were the immortal forces that were eyeing them!

"I am so ashamed of my ancestors! I cannot see them again after my death!"

Many old people collapsed to the ground and cried bitterly.

Li Zhirui, who was standing at the front of the Li family, watched their performance with cold eyes and said: "Let's do it, deal with this group of Liu clan members, and restore local rule as soon as possible."

After saying that, Li Zhirui took the lead, and a bolt of thunder fell from the sky, easily shattering the humane legal net that shrouded the capital.

At this time, the Dafeng Dynasty had already lost the support of the people and lost a lot of territory. If the Li family hadn't taken over the territory quickly enough, who knows how much chaos would have arisen.

The grievances and various causes and effects in the hearts of countless mortals are all weighed on the precarious fate of the dynasty, which has long been fragile.

Li Zhirui's thunderbolt gave it the final blow.

Woo——

Liu's Dafeng took the red bird as a totem. When the last humane legal net was shattered, the red bird, whose luck had changed, screamed and became even weaker, its whole body flickering on and off, and it was almost impossible to maintain its own appearance.

"Even if I die, I still have to support a few people!"

Seeing the fierce attack of the Li family monks, several Liu clan members tried to fight back.

It's a pity that their humanistic cultivation methods are closely related to their humanistic luck, but now that their luck is gone, and the legal net that can suppress the monks' strength has been destroyed, how can this group of people who have only been practicing for twenty or thirty years become this group of practitioners? The opponent of the virtual monk!

Li Zhirui was flying in the air without taking any action, but he activated his Dharma Eye and seemed to be looking for something.

"found it."

Soon, he appeared in a dilapidated hut outside the city.

A pair of old men who were taking care of the baby shuddered and quickly knelt down to spare their lives.

"Don't worry, I will protect those who hurt him, but some things would be better to disappear completely."

As Li Zhirui said this, he stepped forward, stretched out his right hand and pointed it at the center of the baby's brow. He pulled out a small golden dragon and sealed it into a jade bead that had been prepared.

Just as he was about to run away, he saw a flash of spiritual light in his dantian, and he couldn't help but frown, and murmured: "I'll keep you alive, but I can't leave any hidden dangers behind!"

I saw him reaching out to the baby's Dantian, and the bright spiritual light was drawn out and merged into the previous jade beads.

"As for you, just pretend you have never seen me."

Two flashes of light entered the minds of the old couple and erased this memory. (End of chapter)