I am already immortal, why should I ascend to become an immortal?

After Tongtian's death.

The supreme halo on this hand became even stronger.

But after a few breaths, everything returned to normal.

When it flew past Ying Lou, it stayed for a few seconds and then continued to fly towards the Central Plains of the lower world.

huh~~~
After breaking up the cage constructed by "passing on the country" and "commanding the army".

Ying Lou lowered his head and looked at the body that was gradually melting and separating.

"Who could it be? Cang Tian, ​​Nan Tian, ​​Buddhism, the underworld, Yao Chi, Kunlun, or Tushita, or Ling Xiao?"

Obviously, it is not difficult to guess from Tongtian’s words before his death that this must have been done by a supreme being from some party.

But Ying Lou had no idea who it was.

Although the possibility of Nuwa is not very high, as the first emperor, Ying Lou would not rule her out based on his intuition.

Return to Linzi.

At this time, Qinling Mountains, Dujiang Mountains, Taihang Mountains, Longmen Mountains and Changbai Mountains have returned to their original positions, as if they had never left.

The Great Wall also stood in its original place, rooted in the soil.

"Everyone, Jiulong Island has been destroyed. The Qin Dynasty won this battle!"

Ying Lou’s loud shouts echoed throughout the wilderness.

Let every soldier participating in this war against heaven hear it clearly.

After a while of silence.

The soldiers, who had just come to their senses, instantly burst into thunderous applause.

"Long live your majesty, long live the Qin Dynasty."

Everyone was celebrating and rejoicing.

The entire battlefield was filled with excited voices.

"Boy, something happened!"

Bai Longju and Xuannv came to Ying Lou and said with frowning faces.

"what happened?"

Ying Lou asked, speaking much faster than usual.

It was not because he was nervous, but because he needed to quickly return to the black coffin and enter the underground palace to isolate himself from the backlash of the country's bad luck.

"The bodies of the immortals from Jiulong Island are gone!"

Just at the end of the battle between Ying Lou and Tong Tian.

On the battlefield in the Central Plains, countless shriveled and rotten arms suddenly appeared and dragged the corpses of the immortals from Jiulong Island into the ground.

Not even a piece of skin or meat was left.

Even the blood was wiped away.

"Is it the underworld?"

Ying Lou couldn't think of anyone else but the underworld to cause such a strange scene and method.

"Ninety-nine percent of the time, I always feel that this underworld is up to no good, and may be planning something big."

Ever since Tang Qianyan died and was taken to the underworld, Bai Longju has been full of hostility towards this underworld which has always been low-key and rarely shows up.

"Don't worry about it, just think of it as cleaning up the battlefield"

Ying Lou waved his hand and wanted to continue saying something, but ominous black lines suddenly appeared on the surface of his body like bamboo shoots after rain.

Just like in the North Sea, I aged instantly.

The two bodies were gradually separating.

The aura of immortality that was comparable to the highest level also began to dissipate.

"Hold on, kid. I'll take you back to the underground palace right now."

Bai Longju hugged Ying Lou, who was almost fainting, and brought him back to the underground palace of the imperial mausoleum as quickly as possible.

"This kid won't wake up for a while. He said that the affairs of the court will be handed over to you and a Si or Su."

Come to the underground palace.

Bai Longju immediately stuffed the old and split Ying Lou into the black coffin, and then threw it onto the river suspended in the air made of mercury.

"Oh, right? This guy also said that we must not stop building the Great Wall and digging the river to divert water. Even if the world disapproves, we must complete it within six years."

On the way back to Xianyang, Bai Longju explained Ying Lou's instructions while thinking about how he should improve his strength to face the real heavenly palace's guidance.

Although they won the battle against Jiulong Island this time, he and Xuannv both knew that the background and strength of Jiufang Heavenly Palace were far more than that.

Moreover, Jiulong Island is the Jiufang Heavenly Palace, where the number of immortals is relatively small and their strength is relatively weakest.

In addition, the Buddhist Golden Cicada severely injured "Tongtian" in advance, chopped off the heads of the Four Saints, and broke the three flowers of the Ten Absolute Heavenly Monarchs Formation.
No wonder the Buddhist Golden Cicada said before that Ying Lou should be given a soft persimmon to squeeze first.

After returning to Xianyang.

Xiao Luoyang first asked Bai Longju to wait in the courtyard for a while, and she went to the palace without stopping. She and her teacher Li Si called the Crown Prince "Su" and drafted an imperial edict in the name of the Crown Prince of Qin.

Let the Qin army far away in Linzi and other places return immediately to prepare for subsequent matters.

Veterans over the age of 45 were also allowed to retire from the army, and large-scale conscription and labor service continued across the country.

This will speed up the construction of the Great Wall in Taihu Lake and Jialing Lake and the digging of rivers to divert water.

It is imperative to connect the seven places of national destiny end to end within six years, and to introduce the rivers of Taihu Lake, Longmen, Dujiang and Jialing into several main rivers in the Central Plains.

"Big White Horse, please go to Linzi again and bring Shiwu back."

"By the way, give this imperial edict to General Meng Tian."

Xiao Luoyang handed forward the imperial edict with the prince's seal.

But for some reason, Xiao Luoyang, who had always been calm and composed, always had a few clouds of worry between his brows after returning from the imperial mausoleum.

"it is good!"

Bai Longju didn't ask any questions and didn't stop. He just took off into the air and flew towards Linzi.

August, the sixteenth year of Emperor Qin Shihuang’s reign.

In the first Qin war against heaven, the Qin army lost more than 400,000 lives and destroyed Jiulong Island, one of the Nine Palaces of Heaven, thus declaring victory.

This is also the largest war against heaven since the birth of mankind.

Even during the Middle Wilderness period, "Huang" and Lin Yao could not compare with him.

After this battle.

The rumor about the First Emperor's killing of immortals quickly spread throughout the Central Plains.

Although some people applauded and said that the first emperor was the bravest in the world and unparalleled in history.

But more people cried foul, saying that slaughtering the immortals was a heinous crime and that the Qin Dynasty would not survive more than two generations before being destroyed by heaven's punishment.

At that time, natural disasters occurred frequently and the people suffered greatly.

In particular, some scholars and students among the Hundred Schools of Thought were even more outrageous. They actually wanted Ying Lou to kneel on the top of Mount Tai on the third day of the third year, offer sacrifices to heaven to admit his mistakes, swear that the Qin Dynasty would always be loyal to heaven, acknowledge that Ying Lou's throne was granted by heaven, and pray for forgiveness from the immortals.

After learning about this, Crown Prince Su directly sent troops to suppress it and killed several leading students in various places, but he failed to curb the momentum.

Instead, it aroused more resentment among students.

They even used the name of righteousness to deceive many people who had long held grudges and joined the team to denounce Ying Lou.

It’s just that although these scholars and students were having a lot of fun, they were ultimately just idiots who could only write and talk.

The seventeenth year of Emperor Qin Shihuang, early February.

In the underground palace of the imperial mausoleum hundreds of miles east of Xianyang City, Ying Lou broke out of the coffin.

"After all, they are other people's three corpses. They are not as useful as your own!"

Ying Lou glanced at his own slender and lively fingers, then opened his thin lips and murmured to himself.

Taking one step forward, Ying Lou arrived at the Afang Palace.

It is just past the Mao hour.

In the East Palace, Crown Prince Su had already gotten up, wearing a black cloak, sitting at the desk, reviewing the pile of memorials.

The candle next to it was shaking in the cold wind.

The untouched snacks on the table had frozen solid, and the warm soup had long since lost its temperature.

"Come on, go out with me!"

The door was suddenly pushed open.

The eunuchs and guards around, seeing that the person coming was the First Emperor Ying Lou, knelt down and kowtowed.

"Father, I have some urgent memorials to submit. Can you please wait for a moment?"

It’s not that Prince Su is unwilling to go out with Ying Lou, but some recent events have seriously affected the basic operation of Daqin.

Since the national treasury, the world's money houses and the world's granaries have been emptied, it is now difficult to carry out conscription and labor.

Even the construction of the Great Wall and the progress of digging rivers to divert water were slowed down a lot.

Even the construction of the imperial mausoleum was temporarily put on hold.

"Come on, I will teach you one more thing today!"

Ying Lou raised his hand and waved lightly, and a wisp of national destiny lifted up Prince Su.

The two of them flew into the air and headed south of the Central Plains to Yingcheng, the former capital of the Chu State.

A corner of the sun appeared in the sky.

At this time, Yingcheng was brightly lit.

The people got up early and gathered at the gate of the city guard's mansion.

"My fellow countrymen, Ying Lou disobeyed the will of heaven and committed the evil act of killing an immortal. One day, Qin will be punished by heaven, and law-abiding people like us will be implicated and even our families will be destroyed. Ying Lou is not worthy of being the common ruler of the world!"

The leading few people held torches, stood at the front of the crowd, and spoke passionately.

Facing the officers and soldiers of the City Defense Office, he was not afraid but continued to incite public opinion.

The gentry and nobles who were moving among the crowd secretly ordered their servants to instigate the common people around them to rush to the front.

Because the Qin treasury was in financial difficulty in recent years, Crown Prince Su raised taxes on the wealthy across the country and abolished some of their previous privileges.

This also caused the gentry entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River to become dissatisfied.

The reason why scholars and students were vocal in attacking Ying Lou was mostly because these people were supporting and causing chaos behind the scenes.

In addition, most of the Qin army was training near the Qinling Mountains, preparing for the arrival of the Heavenly Palace in a few years.

It was rumored that Ying Lou was seriously injured and in critical condition.

This is why these guys came forward one after another and tried to put pressure on Prince Su of Xianyang.

But these wealthy gentry are quite smart.

They never thought that the rebellion would be successful. They just wanted to use the deaths of these civilians to allow Crown Prince Su, who was governing the country in Xianyang, to exempt the country from taxes in the south of the Yangtze River.

Let’s take a step back 10,000 steps.

Even if the Qin army came to suppress the rebellion, these people could stay out of it by spending a little money, and the only ones who would die would be ordinary people.

"Think about it, everyone. Haven't our lives become increasingly difficult these years? Taxes have been increasing. After working hard for a year, how much can we get in the end?"

"It was the Qin Shi Huangdi who was so ambitious that he built the Great Wall and dug the Taihu Lake, wasting all our hard-earned money!"

"Now, he dares to disobey the immortal. If he does not resist and show the heavens that we ordinary people have no intention of rebelling, he will be annihilated within a year!"

A handsome young man dressed in coarse linen clothes, looking down and out but with delicate skin and callous-free fingers, suddenly stood up and raised his arms and shouted.

And the people of Yingcheng heard this.

The anger in their hearts was ignited once again, and every word was like a hammer hitting everyone's heart.

But they forgot.

Although Yinglou imposed labor, conscripted soldiers, built the Great Wall, and dug rivers.

But every household received copper coins and even received food subsidies.

The ones who had their taxes raised were almost all the wealthy families.

Many people did die in the battle against Kowloon Island last year, but compared with the casualties before the unification of the Central Plains, it was just the tip of the iceberg.

Even though many people died while building the Great Wall, most of them were slaves from the Western Regions, Northern Di, and the Maurya Empire.

"That's right. My husband went to build the Great Wall and never came back. He must have died of exhaustion there!"

"We pay taxes to support the government, but what does the government give us?"

Hear people's complaints.

Several young and strong men were overwhelmed by their emotions.

They clenched their fists, held the worn-out hoes tightly in their hands, raised them high, and prepared to smash them against the door.

The gentry and nobles, however, were hiding deep in the crowd, their eyes cunning and vicious.

Their servants took advantage of the chaos and secretly poured cans of kerosene onto the vermilion lacquered gate of the castle.

A pungent smell spread instantly.

Then, these servants pretended to mingle with the people and shouted at the top of their voices: "Fellow villagers, if they don't give us an explanation, we will rush in and seek justice from that bastard official! Today we are fighting for our own lives, don't be afraid!"

The officers and soldiers of the City Defense Office held spears and formed a square formation. They looked nervous but did not dare to act rashly.

The orders they received were to maintain order and not to hurt anyone easily, but the surging crowd before them made their palms sweat and their guns tremble slightly.

at this time.

The sky was turning pale, and the sun struggled to penetrate the clouds and shine on this chaotic land.

suddenly.

A bolt of thunder split the semi-dark sky.

The scholar in the crowd, who was wearing coarse linen clothes but had delicate skin and good eloquence, was chopped into a ball of charcoal.

Ying Lou and Prince Su slowly descended from the air.

The national destiny that was brought with it turned into a small dark cloud, which brought rain and put out the fire in the city defense mansion.

Although most of the people here did not know Ying Lou, they did not know that the two people in front of them were the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty and the Crown Prince of the Qin Dynasty.

But the imperial majesty that emanated from Ying Lou still made everyone tremble in fear, not daring to look directly at him. They could not help but lower their heads to steady their sore and weak thighs.

"A bunch of people who can only flaunt their writing and talking!"

Ying Lou pulled out the fish belly from his waist, and without even a second's hesitation, he swung it forward lightly.

Dozens of students who were hiding in the crowd and causing chaos didn't even have time to open their mouths to explain themselves before their heads were chopped off.

Smelly water and dozens of headless corpses.

The people were instantly in an uproar.

The blood that was full of enthusiasm a second ago suddenly turned cold and they all turned around and ran away.

I'm afraid that if I'm a step late, I'll end up like these foul-mouthed guys.

"Did I let you move?"

Although there was no trace of murderous intent in Ying Lou's voice, it made everyone present feel as if they were falling into an ice cellar.

"He, he is the emperor. His Majesty!"

"Wasn't he seriously injured in the battle of Linzi?"

The head of the Jiangnan aristocratic family, formerly a royal family of the Chu Kingdom, the patriarch of the Mi clan was so frightened that cold sweats broke out and his legs were shaking.

These former nobles of the six kingdoms were all afraid of the First Emperor who unified the Central Plains with an iron fist.

the other side.

Ying Lou waved his hand and asked the late-coming Yingcheng prefect to leave.

He said to the Crown Prince Su beside him in an indifferent tone: "I will teach you one more thing today."

"Since blood must be shed, then do not be timid or hesitant. For those who have evil intentions, just kill them. There is no need to justify it!" (End of this chapter)