Jie teaches the Immortal Sweeping Heaven’s Cultivation of All Heavens

The golden light chased the black mist into the village and pounced on the sorceress.

The sorceress was horrified: "Good deeds protect you, but the curse backfires!"

How could a tyrant like Emperor Qianming have a son who is protected by merit?

unfair! So unfair!
The sorceress coughed up blood and collapsed, her face full of resentment.

Her eyes were wide open, unable to close.

The others were terrified, not knowing what had happened, and no one even touched the body.

They didn't see that after the golden light of merit left, black mist emerged from the sorceress's corpse, a remnant of the curse.

These dark energies dared not cause trouble for Liu Dong anymore, so they picked on the weak and entangled themselves with the people in the village.

These people sought the help of a shaman, which inherently linked them to a curse.

How could they possibly let the curse backfire?

The sorceress died, the curse disappeared, and the young princes awoke one after another.

The Fifth Prince breathed a sigh of relief.

If all these princes were to die, some might suspect that he had driven them to extermination.

He doesn't want to take the blame for this.

The Fifth Prince's performance during his regency was quite remarkable.

The ministers discovered that the Fifth Prince's abilities were no less than those of the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince, and far superior to those of the First Prince.

Therefore, after confirming that Emperor Qianming was indeed dead, the ministers knelt down and requested that the fifth prince ascend the throne.

Thus, the fifth prince rightfully became emperor.

Song Xuelan became empress, which made the Song family extremely happy.

This time, their gamble paid off.

After Emperor Qianming discovered that Consort Gui had used a curse on him, he took his anger out on Consort Gui's family.

Those were tough times for the Song family; the Duke of Song and several members of the Song family had their official positions stripped away.

If the title of Duke were not hereditary and not easily revoked, the Song family would have long since become a commoner family.

The collateral branches of the Song family complained about the main branch, with Song Xuelan's biological father being the most vocal.

Duke Song was not a good-natured person; he had previously considered teaching Song Xuelan's father a lesson.

But this guy didn't learn his lesson and still showed up whenever something happened.

Isn't it just because he's the biological father of Song Xuelan, the princess consort?

Little did they know that Song Xuelan had been taught by the Duchess since childhood and had a deeper affection for the Duchess's branch of the family.

Song Xuelan despises her carefree but brainless biological father and has no feelings for him whatsoever.

Duke Song made his move again, this time directly taking the life of Song Xuelan's biological father.

The Duke of Song also carried out sweeping reforms of the Song family.

Didn't the collateral branches complain that the direct line was dragging them down?
The Duke of Song simply separated from these collateral branches.

Didn't you say that being a member of the Song family would affect your future?

Then don't be a member of the Song family.

Now, the Song family is the new emperor's confidant and the empress's family, and has suddenly become powerful again, making those clansmen who were driven out of the Song family regret their actions.

They wanted to return to the Song family, but why would the Song family accept them again?

As for Song Xuelan's biological mother and her family.

Song Xuelan's biological mother only gave birth to her; the rest were born out of wedlock and did not share the same mother.

Her half-brothers wanted to obtain titles by virtue of their relationship with Song Xuelan, but Song Xuelan did not recognize them at all, and only recognized her brothers from the direct line as brothers.

Song Xuelan had her own mother brought out and sent to the estate that was part of her dowry, where she was to be well cared for.

As for his several half-brothers, the Duke of Song forcibly sent them back to their hometown.

After the fifth prince ascended the throne, he began to implement reforms step by step.

He developed things that benefit the country and its people, such as glass and cement.

The Fifth Prince only remembered the general idea of ​​how to make cement for glass cups; he didn't know the formula or anything like that.

But now, all he has to do is issue an order, and there are plenty of people to study it.

Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.

Leaving aside glass and cement, even soaps and perfumes were researched and made by ancient craftsmen.

Based on the fifth prince's description, the craftsmen also made many convenient farming tools.

The nation's strength has grown stronger thanks to these convenient tools and measures. Harvests in the fields have increased by fifty percent compared to previous years.

Although the Fifth Prince did not find potato or corn seeds, he sent people to the Western Regions to bring back pumpkin and cotton seeds.

Pumpkins can also yield thousands of kilograms per mu (a Chinese unit of area, approximately 0.165 acres), and they can also fill a person's stomach.

Cotton, on the other hand, can be used to weave cloth and provide warmth.

The fifth prince distributed the two kinds of seeds.

Initially, it was not valued by farmers, who preferred to grow wheat and rice.

Moreover, the yields of these two crops increased so much under the so-called "scientific farming" promoted by the emperor.

They certainly grow wheat and rice.

Who knows what will happen when those unknown seeds grow?

Some common people, however, believed that what the emperor brought out must be of high quality.

Just like the "scientific farming" method we taught them before.

So these people cleared out half an acre of land to grow pumpkins.

When the pumpkins ripened, the people were stunned to see that one pumpkin weighed dozens of kilograms.

Once the pumpkin harvest was announced, the people, without any prompting from the government, began planting pumpkins one after another.

Of course, pumpkin cannot be eaten as a meal.

They only set aside a small plot of land from each household to grow pumpkins.

They also had high hopes for cotton.

The ripe cotton did not disappoint them.

Cotton cloth is much softer than linen and warmer than wood wadding.

People have taken a big step forward in terms of having enough to eat and wear.

The people were very grateful, and every household set up a longevity tablet for the fifth prince.

The country is prosperous and the people are safe.

The next step is to improve the strength of the military.

The fifth prince ordered people to research explosives and cannons.

Explosives have been developed, but cannons...

The fifth prince eventually gave up.

With explosives as their weapon, the Fifth Prince's army brought all the surrounding countries under the rule of the Great Qian Dynasty.

He also established the Six Doors, specifically to manage affairs of the martial arts world.

You say that people in the martial arts world rely on their skills and are very unruly?

It's alright, the officers from the Six Doors are all equipped with thunderbolts.

A single thunderbolt could injure even a second-rate expert.

Throwing hundreds or thousands of thunderbolts at them would take away half the life of even a grandmaster.

When the Six Doors used Thunderclap to wipe out a sect that refused to submit to the imperial court's jurisdiction, whose disciples acted recklessly and killed many innocent people, the entire martial arts world was terrified.

People in the martial arts world have become more well-behaved and dare not fight casually in restaurants, inns, teahouses, and other places, lest they affect the business of the owners.

I dare not kill innocent passersby again when things don't go my way.

They dared not collect protection money from the people around their sect anymore.

Don't dare...

The martial arts world has calmed down.

Even the grandmasters dared not show their faces.

They were also wary of the thunderbolt.

The Fifth Prince wasn't so pleased; he was still preoccupied with the fact that Emperor Qianming had died without any apparent reason.

The Fifth Prince was determined to find the person behind it all.

Unfortunately, apart from discovering that a palace maid serving Emperor Qianming and the imperial physician who accompanied the imperial physician that day had died suddenly, no other clues could be found.

The Fifth Prince could not find peace of mind as he could not uncover the person behind it all.

Living in constant fear can negatively impact lifespan.

Therefore, this guy only lived to be sixty years old before he passed away.

Then came another battle for the throne. (End of Chapter)