Chapter 272
But in Yan Taizu's opinion...the other princes were either as ambitious and talented as Emperor Yonghe, or they had no intention of entering politics. There really was no good choice.
In today's Great Yan Dynasty, if another mediocre emperor comes to power, it is estimated that Taizu Yan himself will not be able to force the renewal of the country.
A fourteen-year-old little emperor...at least he is more malleable.
Moreover, this little emperor is still young and somewhat youthful.
If it is younger, it will not be sensible enough, and if it is older, it will not be easy to cultivate.
This time, with him watching in person, nothing should go wrong.
"Old Ancestor..." The little emperor who was only fourteen years old did not feel any excitement about becoming an emperor. Instead, he only felt nervous:
"Why don't our ancestors become emperor themselves?" he asked, raising his head.
"We rely on our ancestors for everything, so why do we still need the Great Yan Dynasty?" Taizu Yan glared.
The little emperor froze, as if he was frightened by Taizu Yan's glare.
Seeing this, Taizu Yan could only sigh slightly, and his tone softened:
"Ancestor, I am not from this era."
"Besides, conquering a country and defending a country are two completely different things."
Taizu Yan was relatively clear-headed about his own understanding.
What the Immortal Sect is afraid of is not his personal force, but the Human King Sword at his waist.
If the so-called strongest person in ancient martial arts can really compete with immortal cultivators, why should he wait until now?
So today, he does not exist as the "Founding Emperor of Dayan", but as the contemporary King of Dayan who wields the King of People Sword.
The emperor is not suitable for fighting in battle, because if the emperor dies, the entire dynasty will be in turmoil and it will be leaderless.
So now he plans to cultivate an heir himself.
"I don't care about it at all, but I don't care about it at all, and I don't care about it at all...it's really troublesome." Taizu Yan muttered.
In the next few years, he will temporarily serve as regent, and then he will let go after the young emperor can handle political affairs on his own.
Government affairs...as long as there are no big mistakes, that's all.
After all, the root of the fight against the Immortal Sect is him, the Great Yanren King, who holds the Human King Sword.
The first thing Taizu Yan had to consider was how to increase his strength.
After losing to Qiao Mu, he had ordered Feiyuwei to go out to collect as many martial arts secrets as possible of this era and try to learn new techniques.
In the past, the martial arts families and famous sects had been wiped out by martial saints in decades. Therefore, Yan Taizu's action basically meant dealing with Wu Jihui.
In addition, it is to collect more heavenly materials and earthly treasures to quickly increase one's skills.
Before the Alien War, although the Great Yan royal family also trained a group of herbal collectors, they were mainly looking for elixirs to prolong life, not to increase one's power.
Yan Taizu's attitude toward the growth of internal energy was more Buddhist-like: he used it if he had it, and let it go if he didn't.
After all, he has already been invincible, so it is of little significance to continue to increase his inner strength, so what he seeks more is to prolong his life.
As for the Great Yan royal family's deliberate search for elixirs to increase internal energy, it actually happened in the past forty years.
As a body of medicinal spirit, krypton gold is the most effective way.
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The Great Dao Sect.
"The founding emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, who lived to be three hundred years old, used the Human King Sword to kill you, a paper man?"
The headmaster of Daodao Sect looked at Elder Qingyi in front of him, thoughtfully.
Elder Qingyi is a Nascent Soul elder in Dao Dao Sect who has an overview of mortal affairs. Negotiations with the Great Yan Dynasty are also within the scope of Qingyi's responsibilities.
"Not bad." Elder Qingyi gave a brief summary.
In fact, half of his conversation with Yan Taizu that day was to test Yan Taizu.
The Human King Sword is the weapon of national destiny of the Great Yan Dynasty, which is of no small importance.
And what kind of temperament his owner has is very important.
Elder Qing Yi used a paper man to test Yan Taizu and deliberately provoked him with words, which was considered to have gotten the information he wanted.
An obvious fact is: Yan Taizu, who holds the Human King Sword, and Emperor Yonghe, who holds the Human King Sword, are two completely different opponents.
Taizu Yan was obviously more powerful and decisive, and was not the same type of person as Emperor Yonghe.
"Two sword holders with completely different temperaments?" the headmaster pondered slightly.
The strength of the sword holder itself has little to do with it. What matters is the sword and the attitude of the sword holder.
Elder Qing Yi used a paper man to test out a lot of things, including Taizu Yan's use of the Human King Sword and his own temperament, which can be regarded as a meritorious service.
"In addition, there is one more thing." Elder Qingyi's face showed fear for the first time:
"That Human King Sword, even through the Paper Man Technique, injured my real body thousands of miles away... Although the injury was not serious, it did take away some of my Taoism."
"Can't you use tricks like paper figures to deceive the soldiers of luck? It's really tricky."
The leader of the Dao Dao Sect originally thought that he could use paper figures to look like immortal cultivators to deceive Taizu Yan and consume the power of luck in the Human King Sword. Now it seems that this method will not work.
"This information is very important. If you have made contributions to the sect, the sect will not treat you badly." The leader of the Dao Sect said solemnly.
He waved his sleeves, and two or three merit talismans flew out of them and fell into the hands of Elder Qingyi:
"Recover your losses as soon as possible. You have always been cautious and steady in your actions. You are better than Junior Brother Qingzhuo... Well, let's not mention him."
"In short, it's up to you to handle all the mundane things in this world. Just recover as soon as possible."
"Thank you, Master." Elder Qingyi nodded, stood up and left.
The nature of this incident is actually different from the incident that Elder Qingzhuo caused in the desert city.
Elder Qingzhuo suffered a great loss that time, and the matter was not settled, and a sect secret realm was destroyed.
But Elder Qingyi sat back and did not take action this time.
If it were not for the unexpected attack of the Human King Sword, Elder Qingyi would not have been injured at all, and at most he would have lost a paper man.
He also found out a lot of information about the Human King Sword and Yan Taizu, which was already a meritorious service.
"Human King Sword, human destiny... Is this a counterattack of human destiny?" The head of the Dao Sect frowned, but then relaxed:
"It is said that those who have destiny cannot live forever."
"Although Yan Taizu did not personally become the emperor, he was only a temporary regent, but if he could be fooled by such a trick, it would be too simple."
"When he returns to the world as the Great Yan Human King, it may mean that he will not live for too long."
In terms of squeezing the incense of mortals, the nine major immortal gates are of course of the same blood, so as the head of the sect, he will naturally inform other immortal gates of this news.
A new emperor and a new sword holder are of great importance, which will directly affect the attitude of the nine major immortal gates towards mortals.
"Yan Taizu has a strong temperament and is soft but not hard?" The head of the Dao Sect shook his head and wanted to laugh.
No matter how strong he is, he is still a mortal after all. In front of the immortal gate, do you still want to be soft?
If the one holding the Human King Sword was Emperor Yonghe, and King Qin's plan for the Earthly Immortal Kingdom had not been shattered, then the Nine Immortal Sects could still maintain superficial harmony with the Great Yan Dynasty.
As for now... I'm afraid they don't have the patience.
The Nine Immortal Sects might not confront Emperor Yan, who holds the Human King Sword, directly, but there are plenty of slightly roundabout ways.
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Tianranju, the teahouse in the imperial capital.
Tianranju has the background of the Jianghu power Tingchaolou, so the teahouse business has been very good in recent days, with many Jianghu people from all over the country coming here to discuss the dramatic changes in the palace a few days ago.
There are many different opinions about the dramatic changes in the palace that night.
The key is that Emperor Yan's attitude is ambiguous. He clearly announced that Qiao Jin, Qiao Shuangzhao and others from the Qiao family entered the palace to assassinate, but he immediately revoked the charges that Emperor Yonghe had put on the Minister of Rites Hai Wuya before his death.
Some people say that the Qiao family member who broke into the palace that night was a middle-aged man in his thirties, but others say that the Qiao family member is not in his thirties at the moment, but more than three hundred or six hundred years old.
Regarding the age of the Qiao family, many people don't believe it... Even the witnesses of the incident will be skeptical: the judgment of the Qiao family's age depends only on the words of Yan Taizu.
"Qiao Shuang, a descendant of the Qiao family, brazenly entered the palace to assassinate the tyrant but failed, and died? The tyrant is confused, the Qiao family's hidden thousand-year-old monster is about to be born!"
"What? Qiao Shuang failed, but his soldiers succeeded in assassinating the tyrant? Is this okay?!"
"So the Qiao family's thousand-year-old monster is out?"
Some people don't believe it at all: "What thousand-year-old monster, six-hundred-year-old monster, where are there hundreds of years old immortals in the world who look young? They are all fake, all acting!"
"I heard that this was judged by the founding emperor himself?"
"He told you that he is the founding emperor, so he is the founding emperor?" This questioner doesn't believe it at all:
"These are all fake! All fake!"
"The Taizu is also fake. There are no immortals who live for hundreds of years in this world! Both sides are just playing a double act."
"In my opinion, the Taizu in the palace is actually a fake, but this time he has taken over the palace!"
"They are all fake, only I am real... In fact, I am also an immortal!" A drinker in the teahouse burped and grinned:
"In fact, I am the Taizu of the previous dynasty, the Great Zhou, and I lived for more than 600 years."
"Now I am short of money to recruit soldiers. Give me fifty taels, and I will make you the Grand Marshal of the Army, and we will restore the Great Zhou..."
The drinker's remarks were particularly outrageous, which made everyone around him change color, and he was finally driven out by the teahouse staff.
"I also heard that the Martial Saint is alive again?"
"Hey, what kind of world is this? The founding emperor is still alive, the dead are resurrected, there is a long-lived Qiao family whose members can teleport, and the emperor is dead."
"When a country is about to fall, there must be evildoers..."
The storyteller Jiang Chen was in a teahouse box, but he listened to the many voices in the hall, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
These various opinions highlight one word: chaos, chaos, chaos.
It's unknown whether they are true or false, but they are basically very bizarre.
Jiang Chen even suspected that there were other chattering storytellers in Tingchao Tower who were also adding fuel to the fire.
But these are not the main points.
After the assassination of Emperor Yonghe, the storyteller Jiang Chen is now mainly dealing with the formulation of a new martial arts list with other storytellers.
"The Great Yan King, Yan Shen Ji, is the first on the list of strength."
"The head of the Xue family, Xue Changhe, is the second on the list of strength."
"And Qiao Jin of the Qiao family... let me see how to rank them more appropriately..."
"The regicide, Qiao Jin."
"Fifth on the list of strength, third on the list of strength, and first on the list of gods!"
"Qiao Jin has reached the super level of spiritual cultivation. It is said that his eyewitness skills are amazing, and he can even turn the virtual into the real and kill people with his eyes!"
The other storytellers were discussing fiercely, but Jiang Chen was a little absent-minded.
"Jiang Chen, what are you doing?" asked the storyteller Shunfenger.
"Just a little distracted." Jiang Chen smiled:
"Tingchaolou's list of the top four martial arts gods basically represents the highest achievers of the four martial arts."
"The first in the martial arts of refining the gods, the Taotie Devouring Heavenly Martial Saint."
"Number one in martial arts, he transforms himself into a sword to banish immortals."
"The number one in Qi Jin martial arts, the Great Yanren Wang Yanshenji."
"I'm wondering whether the 'Demon Spear' Qing Li, who is number one in Qi and Blood Martial Arts, is qualified to stand side by side with these three."
As soon as Jiang Chen said this, several storytellers who were originally discussing excitedly suddenly fell silent and looked at him with an inexplicable and complicated look.
"Uh..." Jiang Chen was a little embarrassed by so many looks, so he had to explain:
"The Martial Saint, the Sword Exorcist, and Yan Taizu can all be called peerless masters."
"The so-called peerless ones are those who are invincible in the world and have no one to stand by. They have fought against invincible opponents in different eras. They were the leaders of martial arts in their respective eras and were number one in the world."
"If you want to find someone on the power list who is most qualified to stand alongside these three, it is undoubtedly Qiao Jin of the Qiao family."