Ming Dynasty: Emperor Wanshou is cultivating immortality!

"What a beast, how dare you speak so arrogantly!"

Seeing that Zhu Youjian was in such a miserable state, he still did not know how to repent. He even dared to speak wildly, mocking himself, his father, his grandfather, and even the emperor.

For a moment, Zhu Changluo's face suddenly darkened, and there was a faint spiritual power wrapped around his blood-stained belt.

At this moment, he had already decided to kill.

Such an unrepentant, self-righteous beast will be a disaster if he is kept around, no matter how cunning and scheming he is.

It is better to take this opportunity to get rid of him as soon as possible to avoid ruining the palace's plans in the future.

Because of this beast's selfish desire to rebuild Confucianism, the possibility of the royal palace competing for the throne in the future was ruined, and from then on he fled away from the Ming Dynasty in disgrace and headed for the deep space outside the domain.

Moreover, his grandfather, Prince Yu Zhu Zaigui, is likely to die in the future because of this.

Was I blind or bewildered to regard this stupid, self-willed, useless idiot as the leader of my lineage?

Of course, at this moment, looking at Zhu Youjian who was so stubborn, stupid and self-willed, Zhu Yijun, like Zhu Changluo, felt doubtful and couldn't help but question his own vision.

As for Prince Yu, although he had heard of Zhu Youjian, he did not pay much attention to him. After all, the power of the palace had always been in the hands of Zhu Yijun. In fact, Prince Yu was more optimistic about Zhu Youxiao, who was always gentle and elegant, and always planned before doing anything.

However, Zhu Changluo said that Zhu Youxiao was only interested in studying the "Records of Immortal Craftsmen" and science and technology, and lacked the ruthlessness and calculating heart of a superior.

Now it seems that I was right. Zhu Youxiao is the one who is most suitable to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the palace in the future. As for Zhu Youjian, he is indeed very capable in terms of scheming and cunning.

After all, none of them had expected who would be behind this plot, and what would be the purpose?
But this self-righteousness is real.

If the ruler is a powerful ruler, it is not a problem if he is stubborn and self-willed, at least he can control the people below him, such as Emperor Taizu Gao.

However, Zhu Youjian's various behaviors and his obsession with the Donglin Party are obviously not what a great leader should be like. Instead, he is like a useless weakling who is trapped in paranoia and cannot extricate himself.

His performance was a complete disgrace to the Zhu family.

"Tap Tap!"

Just at this moment, hurried footsteps were heard outside the palace hall, and Zhu Youxiao rushed in.

Looking at his miserable fifth brother lying on the ground, a trace of pity flashed in Zhu Youxiao's eyes.

He knew that he had to stand up and stop his father, grandfather and great grandfather at this time, otherwise, his fifth brother, who had always been close to him, would not be able to survive today.

"Father, grandfather, great grandfather, please show mercy and spare my fifth brother's life!" Zhu Youxiao said as he knelt on the ground, opened his arms, and protected Zhu Youjian behind him.

"Get out of here!" Zhu Changluo was so furious that he also took his anger out on his eldest son Zhu Youxiao.

"You think this matter has nothing to do with you?" Zhu Changluo pointed at Zhu Youxiao angrily and cursed:
"I handed your brothers over to you to take care of, but you always protected and condoned them."

"You know that this beast has committed an unforgivable sin and is going to drag down the entire palace, but you still want to protect him!"

"Father!" However, upon hearing this, Zhu Youxiao shouted, "I am not trying to indulge my fifth brother!"

After saying this, he knew what kind of temper his father Zhu Changluo had. He immediately clasped his fists and said to his grandfather Zhu Yijun and his great grandfather Prince Yu:
"Now that things have come to this, if I execute my fifth brother today, how will people in the world view my Prince Yu's Mansion?"

"How will the royal grandfather view my Prince Yu's Mansion?"

"As the saying goes, family disgrace should not be made public! There are no problems that cannot be solved between family members behind closed doors, and there are no problems that cannot be solved!"

"But if I execute my fifth brother today, then in Youxiao's opinion, it would be a complete loss of face for Prince Yu's Mansion."

"I will never stand in the world again!"

"Then how will others view my Prince Yu's Mansion?"

Zhu Youxiao stared at the three people present with his eyes wide open, and said sincerely:
"Others will say that our Prince Yu's Mansion is a mess! They will think that the Prince Yu's Mansion is in chaos and that they can't even control their own people!"

"What do those officials and soldiers who have sworn to follow my Prince Yu's Mansion think?"

"Why should a palace where brothers are not friendly, brothers are not respectful, fathers are not kind, and sons are not filial allow others to follow us?"

“How can we be worthy of others’ following?”

"Yes, now that my great grandfather has been appointed as the crown prince, the world will follow us no matter what, and no one will dare to laugh at us, but is this really the case?"

"Family members know their own business."

"In fact, who among the six ministries, the cabinet and other senior officials does not know what the future will be like?"

As he spoke, Zhu Youxiao looked at his grandfather Zhu Yijun again and said, "Grandpa, you are talking to Zhang Ge Lao today. Are you trying to win over this extraordinary talent?"

"I think we will have to accept more talents in the future, but how can we give these people a sense of security in a palace that is internally disunited, divided, and has made countless jokes?"

"How can we make them willingly join the palace and feel that there is a future for them in the palace?"

"We win over these people to let them see that even if our Prince Yu's Mansion falls into decline one day in the future, it would be the best choice for them to join the palace!"

"Instead of telling everyone that this incident was the result of a misjudgment within Prince Yu's Mansion, the superiors had no prior knowledge of the behavior of their descendants, which led to today. By mistake, the Grand Master was canonized as the Crown Prince!"

"We want to tell the world that the crown prince today belongs to my Yu Palace. I planned this all by myself."

"We must tell the world and let them know that the position of Crown Prince is not something that Prince Yu's Mansion desires!"

"From the beginning to the end, the plan of our Prince Yu's Mansion was to stay away from the court and find a more magnificent path full of infinite possibilities!"

Zhu Youxiao said this with his arms outstretched and an excited expression.

At this moment, his previous gentle and elegant demeanor, which showed that he was only interested in studying the "art of immortality", had long disappeared, and was replaced by the bearing of a king.

"Knowing your mistakes and correcting them, but not admitting them," Zhu Youxiao said in a deep voice, "There are some things that even if we know we are wrong, we absolutely cannot admit to the outside world."

"We have to continue the mistake on the surface to confuse everyone and stabilize the morale of the troops!"

Looking at Zhu Youxiao at this moment, Prince Yu, Zhu Yijun and Zhu Changluo, the three generations of grandfather and grandson, were dazed for a moment.

The anger in his heart caused by Zhu Youjian's unrepentant and self-willed attitude gradually subsided.

Because they found someone better!

At this moment, they finally understood that Zhu Youxiao had been hiding his abilities from the beginning to the end!
Of course, the person who was most touched at this moment was Zhu Youjian, who was protected by Zhu Youxiao with open arms behind his back, with his body covered in blood and torn flesh.

Looking at his good brother who was protecting him at this moment, he felt both moved and shocked.

What touched me was that at this time, the only one in the family who was willing to protect his relatives was his eldest brother!
I didn't trust this elder brother wrongly. He has always cared for me and his love for me is not fake.

What shocked him was that he had never thought that his elder brother Zhu Youxiao, who had never been interested in power struggles and only loved to study "immortal things" and advocated science. He was a gentleman, and actually had such a domineering side.

Especially his elder brother's remarks at this time, which showed his arrogance, vision and political tactics, made him feel that all his previous calculations were so petty.

My previous self-righteous intelligence and submission in front of this big brother were so childish and ridiculous!
People often use the metaphor of "the bright moon and the light of fireflies" to describe the gap between two people. Before this, he never cared about it because he thought he was the light of the bright moon.

But it was not until this moment that he realized that compared with his elder brother, he was the ridiculous firefly.

Suddenly, a word inexplicably emerged in Zhu Youjian's mind, "grand avenue"!
A sense of shame spread all over his body. At this moment, Zhu Youjian felt that when he faced his elder brother, he was like a worm in the gutter that had never seen the sun, and it felt itchy all over when it was illuminated by the light!

Finally, under the calm gazes of his great-grandfather Prince Yu, his grandfather Zhu Yijun, and his father Zhu Changluo, Zhu Youjian lowered his self-righteous and inexplicably proud head.

He knew that he had escaped a disaster today.

From the gradually calming emotions of his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father, he sensed that he was being ignored.

From now on, he will no longer be valued, and no one will care about his future. Naturally, everything that once belonged to him will be taken back.

His ideals, his ambitions, and his plan to rebuild the Confucian world were completely stillborn from this moment on!
All kinds of emotions surged into Zhu Youjian's mind, and his consciousness went dark. He fainted, and a magic circle flowed on the floor, healing him.

"Forget it, drag this beast away..." Prince Yu waved his hand somewhat boredly, threw away the blood-stained golden belt in his hand, turned around and left the hall.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Yijun and Zhu Changluo looked at Zhu Youxiao deeply, threw away the bloodstained golden belt, and turned away.

Seeing this, Feng Bao, who was standing by, quickly asked people to help Zhu Youxiao carry Zhu Youjian away, and then clean up the hall.

Naturally, no one in the outside world knew what happened in Prince Yu’s Mansion.

Originally, the Ming world, which had been in an uproar because of the natal plague and Zhang Juzheng's proposal to abolish the natal cultivation system, suddenly began to die down.

Especially on the spiritual network, overnight, it seemed that all discussions were overshadowed by the fact that Prince Yu was named Crown Prince.

Not only that, there are also some now popular anchors on Lingwang, scandals with writers, and public opinion about the spontaneous combustion of some Feisuo company products that caused countless deaths and injuries.

The public's attention was quickly diverted.

As for the abolition of the innate cultivation body that is closely related to every cultivator, this rumor has been refuted by people from major universities and colleges, and various interpretations have been given.

In short, this is just a proposal, and the reality will not appear overnight. Zhang Ge Lao's proposal was not accepted by the cabinet, and the emperor did not agree.

As for the natal plague that appeared in a certain star world outside the domain, it was just a plague unique to that star world and had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. These plagues were not harmful to the cultivators of the Ming Dynasty at all.

Even scientists from the Ming Academy of Sciences came forward and released several experimental videos.

Well, Ming Academy of Science was established after Ming Dynasty decided to develop the path of combining science and technology with cultivation.

It was not until the scientific and technological achievements of the "Ming Yu" Protoss were completely absorbed and digested by the Ming Dynasty that the "Ming Academy of Science" gradually appeared in the public eye.

Through the images released by the "Ming Academy of Science", people discovered that even if the monks of the Ming Dynasty lived in the same room, ate and ate with monks infected with the plague, it would not be affected.

At this point, the rumors that the imperial court was going to abolish the innate cultivation system and was using a strange plague for experiments were self-defeating.

In addition, various major events broke out frequently, whether it was the shuttle collision and spontaneous combustion incident of a shuttle company, or the various rumors about a certain novelist, the public's attention was quickly distracted.

Everything calmed down.

One month later, on the first day of December in the 170th year of the Jiajing reign, Prince Yu was formally canonized as the Crown Prince in the Fengtian Hall.

The Crown Prince Zhu Yijun was canonized as the Grandson and moved into the Ciqing Palace, also known as the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace, together with the Crown Prince.

Afterwards, Jiajing announced a seclusion. From the 171st year of Jiajing, the crown prince acted as regent, with the cabinet providing assistance.

As for Prince Jing, Prince Gong, Prince An, Prince Ning and other kings, they were all ordered to return to their fiefdoms.

For a time, the power of Prince Yu's Mansion, no, the Prince's Eastern Palace, was at its peak.

No one, whether from the six ministries or the families in the cabinet, dared to come into conflict with the prince's faction over official politics or family business.

The princelings were rampant in the Ming Dynasty, and wherever they went, there was silence.

After seeing this scene, some people who did not know the truth laughed out loud and sighed that the position of the crown prince had been decided and the world could be at peace.

From then on, there were no more factional disputes in the court, and everyone knew that Prince Yu had always been kind. In this way, there was only one voice in the court, and the world would surely be a better place.

After the crown prince became regent, just as everyone had expected, a series of benevolent measures began to be promulgated, all of which were beneficial to ordinary monks, civilians and businesses.

Then, the prestige of Crown Prince Zhu Zaigui began to flourish.

Just like this, in the Ming world, in the cognition of some sober people, a strange calm is maintained, while the war in the world of immortal cultivation is also spreading madly.

Arcturus and Dakang Star, as many forces outside the domain came to the fore, the flames of war unsurprisingly spread throughout the entire Eastern Azure Dragon Domain, and more and more forces appeared one after another.

Afterwards, the three major star fields of Suzaku, White Tiger and Black Tortoise were also dragged into it, and the Twenty-Eight Constellations field was completely reduced to a battlefield.

However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is not the end.

As this massive war that engulfed the entire world of immortal cultivation was going on, Daming's native weapon also began to emerge.

It continues to wreak havoc in one corner after another that is not taken seriously by those powerful forces, and then slowly grows stronger.

Time passed in this way, in the two worlds of movement and stillness. In a blink of an eye, three hundred years had passed in the Ming Dynasty.

……

Ming Dynasty, Jiajing lasted for three hundred years.

During these three hundred years, the entire Xiuxian world, the Twenty-Eight Star Regions, the Northern Dipper, the Southern Dipper, the Three Enclosures Star Regions...

Now, the war has begun!
The immortal cultivation worlds of Arcturus and Dakang, which were previously ruled by Confucianism, had long since changed beyond all recognition. Some of the surrounding star group worlds were even destroyed one after another.

Afterwards, the same thing happened to the star group worlds such as Fang, Xin, Di, Di, and Ji, which were ruled by Taoism and Buddhism.

Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism all belong to the Eastern Azure Dragon Realm within the Twenty-Eight Constellations, which is also the starting point of the war in the entire world of immortal cultivation.

The most powerful forces in the entire world of cultivation, such as the Ziwei Star Region of the Three Enclosures, are full of dynasties and ancient dynasties are on the march;

Then there is the Taiwei star field, where ancient clans appear and have amazing heritage.

There is also the Tianshi star region, which is a place for business, with various chambers of commerce, amazing resources, and an extremely terrifying foundation.

Of course, these are not the main points, because nowadays, for all living beings in the world of immortal cultivation, what is more terrifying than the flames of war is the strange plague that has been sweeping across the world of immortal cultivation since no one knows when.

A plague specifically targeting the monks' own destiny.

Once infected, one will either die or be transformed into something strange and die a miserable death.

In the past three hundred years, countless sects have been destroyed and countless monks have died tragically.

Some of the larger forces tacitly agreed to stop fighting immediately.

Everyone realized that something more terrifying than this war was quietly approaching in the entire world of cultivation.

If they fail to do this properly, it is very likely that the entire world of immortal cultivation will be completely destroyed and the inheritance will be cut off. However, by the time they realized it, it was already too late.

Nowadays, the protagonist of the world of immortal cultivation is weird!

"..." (End of this chapter)