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Chapter 502 Cultivate oneself, manage one’s family, govern the country and bring peace to the world

The night was deep
The moon in the sky was covered by a dark cloud, and in an instant, the whole world was plunged into darkness.

Only in the bandit's den in Pingnan Mountain, flashes of white light occasionally appeared.

That was Jiang Shang wielding his long sword.

Li Zhongren did not make a move along the way.

Because his kung fu moves are quite loud.

The saying goes, "Eliminate evil completely."

These bandits who roam the deep mountains, not one of them is human.

In fact, under Li Zhongren's powerful spiritual perception...

This was the first time he had ever witnessed the true chaos of this era in this world.

Humans are just like cattle and sheep, humans are just like fish and turtles.

This is not an adjective, but a physical description.

To be honest, if an ordinary person saw that scene in the kitchen, they would probably have a lifelong psychological trauma.

Therefore, Li Zhongren and Jiang Shang decided to wipe out everyone in the mountain stronghold, not even sparing the dogs.
Fortunately, although the legendary bandit leader Tang Long was said to be very powerful, most of his subordinates were ordinary people, and a few of them possessed some special powers. In front of Jiang Shang, who had returned to his peak, he was nothing more than a sword.

So, when the moon peeked out from behind the clouds once again...

The entire village fell silent; not even a breath could be heard.

Or rather, only a few breaths remained.

They were all in the largest room in the stronghold, which was Tang Long's room.

As for his sister, she really wasn't in the mountain village.

how to say.

Although Tang Long was not human, he was truly devoted to his sister. Therefore, he learned from the steward who was killed by Jiang Shang that his sister had never lived in the mountain stronghold since childhood, and naturally did not know what kind of terrifying existence her brother was.

Of course, Jiang Shangke wouldn't let that woman go just because of this.

That's just how some things are.

Otherwise, why would ancient feudal society have invented punishments such as exterminating nine generations or three generations of relatives?

In fact, he had already sent Tang Long's sister down before he arrived here.

"Hu~~"

After a massacre, Jiang Shang almost wiped out the mountain stronghold of several hundred people.

He was only slightly tired.

He took a few deep breaths and recovered.

This is how superhumans crush ordinary people. In this era where technology is not yet advanced, superhumans still have the ability to suppress an entire region.

"Come out, Tang Long!"

Then, Jiang Shang performed a sword flourish.

Suddenly a loud shout rang out.

"The sword energy I left in those bodies has dissipated. You can't not smell the blood of hundreds of people, can you?"

"Squeak~~"

A moment later, the door opened.

A shirtless man carrying a sword walked out.

When he saw Jiang Shang, he was first stunned because he recognized Jiang Shang. However, the other party seemed to have become young again, and his eyes were filled with extreme madness and excitement, without the slightest fear.

"Old man, I never knew you had such a good thing hidden away. It should belong to me!!"

"Clang!!"

Accompanied by a harsh friction sound.

Tang Long's battle blade drew dazzling sparks on the ground, and then, with a huge arc, it slashed directly at Jiang Shang.

"The 'dragging knife' tactic?"

In the distance, Li Zhongren stood with his arms crossed, not moving.

This was Jiang Shang's request. He wasn't unaware of the benefits of fighting side by side, but he hated his enemy so much that he wanted to kill him with his own hands. Perhaps this was a characteristic of martial artists in this era.

Moreover, looking at the present situation...

Although Tang Long lived up to his name, possessing considerable skill in both physical attributes and extraordinary techniques, he was still no match for Jiang Shang, who had returned to his peak.

The reason he didn't lose later was entirely because this guy was too arrogant.

Yes, his arrogance was ingrained in his very being.

But it was precisely this arrogance that forged a unique mindset in him.

Unfortunately, the boost that comes from this mindset has its limits.

Therefore, it is visible to the naked eye.

As time goes by.

Tang Long's combat power is also gradually declining.

His steps were unsteady, his breathing rapid, and his face contorted in a ferocious expression. In the end, Jiang Shang slit his throat with a single sword stroke.
Completely in disbelief, he collapsed to the ground.
Congratulations!

The Jiang family home was decorated with lanterns and colorful streamers.

However, it wasn't Grandpa Jiang's son who got married, but Grandpa Jiang himself.

I heard that Grandpa Jiang's skills improved greatly, and he married twelve wives in one go.
They were all beautiful.
His good fortune with women is so great that everyone who knows about it wants to call him a shameless old man.

Unfortunately, everyone knows that if they had that ability, they would have done it themselves.

The wedding and banquet lasted for three days and three nights.

Everything finally settled.

"Brother, you look a bit tired."

"hehe."

Rejuvenated, Jiang Shang picked up the teacup with trembling hands. Inside, instead of tea leaves, were ginseng and goji berries.
"By the way, brother, I came here to say goodbye."

"Aren't you going to stay a few more days?"

Jiang Shang put down his teacup, his eyes filled with emotion.

The future of the Jiang family was changed because of this person in front of him.

"No, I want to continue searching for my own path."

"Bon Voyage."

Jiang Shang cupped his hands in greeting and stopped trying to stop him.

He himself was also an extraordinary being, so he naturally knew that people of this era could not be stopped. Once upon a time, wasn't he himself the same? Otherwise, how could he have obtained that nameless sword technique?
However, he only returned to his family after he started a family and established his career.
"Also, brother, your family should stop making preserved corpses from now on."

"I'm awake."

Jiang Shang nodded.

The Jiang family has long since completed its initial accumulation and no longer cares so much about the art of corpse resurrection. Moreover, Li Zhongren even performed a corpse resurrection for them, and the corpses hidden in the underground secret chamber of the Jiang family actually began to resurrect.

Fortunately, Li Zhongren had made preparations in advance, and thus used the so-called "blood and smoke" to turn all the dried corpses into ashes.

Otherwise, if it were him, even if he didn't die, he would be half-dead.

"The general's tomb should be here."

After leaving the Jiang family, Li Zhongren went to search for the general's tomb.

In the original story, there is a flying corpse here.

Actually, the body was buried perfectly underground, but tomb raiders disturbed it, exposing the corpse to human presence and causing it to mutate completely due to the power it had accumulated over thousands of years.

Even the young Jiang Shang could only say that it was a 50/50 chance against that thing.

Moreover, the flying corpses can continuously increase their power over time.

Therefore, Li Zhongren intends to completely eliminate the hidden danger.

In any case, the consciousness that has evolved within this flying corpse's body over thousands of years is the most delicious food.
In three days, Li Zhongren found the general's tomb.

The good news is that the zombie outbreak hasn't started yet.

The bad news is that the tomb raiders have already started digging.

In response, Li Zhongren killed all the tomb raiders, then jumped down and crawled into the tomb chamber through the tunnel.

It is said to be the tomb of a general, but the tomb chamber is only about 20 square meters in size, which is very small. However, although it is small, it has all the essential parts. There are quite a few burial objects, especially a bronze coffin in the very center.

It stands there quietly.

Because Li Zhongren used his internal energy to seal all the acupoints in his body, he was unable to activate the zombie that had been silently absorbing spiritual energy for a thousand years.

"boom!!"

The next moment, Li Zhongren slammed his hand on the bronze coffin. His vital energy surged wildly into the coffin.

If this coffin originally nurtured this thousand-year-old zombie, then now, it has become the zombie's true burial place.
The dust has settled
Having destroyed the flying zombie and devoured its spirit, Li Zhongren embarked on his journey once again.

However, this journey was their return.

Although this flying zombie was confused, it provided Li Zhongren with a massive amount of power. While this power could not directly provide him with the most powerful abilities, it continued to nourish his soul and enhance his logical thinking ability.

Thus, he combined the Jiang family's secret art of removing corpses, the feng shui secret art obtained from the Liu family, and the secret art of manipulating the five-star wheel.

Li Zhongren felt that his idea of ​​creating a zombie army was gradually coming to life on paper.
Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Ten years have passed.

There is no change of the world.

There was no change in the world.

Even the entire Central Plains remained largely unchanged.

It was still a time of warlord infighting, and the people were suffering terribly.

It looked as if someone had pressed the button to stop time.

But in reality, this is true all over the world.

It's not just the Central Plains.

The whole world is engulfed in an endless battle.

However, it makes sense inexplicably, after all, who made this world possess extraordinary power?
This means that the future direction of this world can only be determined by itself.

However, Li Zhongren developed the idea of ​​changing it.

Nothing particularly provoked him.

It is exactly the idea that "cultivating oneself, regulating one's family, governing the state, and bringing peace to the world" is almost etched into the bones of the vast majority of men in the Central Plains.

No special guidance is required.

When you get to that point, it will happen naturally.

Ten years later, the outside world is still embroiled in conflict.

But Li Zhongren used these ten years to thoroughly refine his ideas about the zombie army.

Of course, nowadays, the term "zombie army" is no longer appropriate to describe it.

Thanks to the Five Elements Wheel, the special oil and wax provided by the Jiang family's corpse-removing secret technique, and the Liu family's feng shui secret technique.

Li Zhongren successfully created a man-made product.

That is, robots from the fantasy side.

The skeleton was made of metal.

The body is soil.

Blood is water.

Hair is associated with wood.

The blood in the blood vessels is actually fire encased in oil and wax.

Finally, by manipulating it with feng shui secrets, it can draw power from the earth's veins.

It was a perfect obedience to him, without any element of terror in it.

The truth is, these so-called robots look like stick figures and are not scary at all; on the contrary, they are quite humorous.

However, if anyone dares to underestimate it, then they probably know what real humor is.

The fighting power of these stick figures can be measured in terms of zombie levels.

From the initial walking corpses to flying corpses.

Given time, everything will fall into place naturally.

In fact, this is why Li Zhongren has been in seclusion for ten years.

Over the course of ten years, he practically emptied the underground of Renjia Village and continuously used his abilities to expand the network of earth veins, cultivating a total of 100,000 "Matchstick Army" soldiers!

One unit consists of 10,000 units, and each unit is equipped with a stick figure of the flying corpse level.

The remaining stick figures were all at the same level as Ren Fa's father back then.

In particular, these stick figures can also form military formations based on feng shui principles!

To put it bluntly, it was thanks to the army of 100,000 matchsticks.

Li Zhongren knew that no one in the entire Central Plains would be his match.

Therefore, he decided to begin his plan: to sweep across the world and save all living beings.
Lin Jiu didn't know what to say.

Everything happened right under his nose.

A terrifying, extraordinary army.

To put it bluntly, the moment Lin Jiu saw the 100,000-strong Match Army, he knew that even if the Maoshan Sect concentrated all its strength, it would be no match for the Match Army unless the gates of hell were opened wide, allowing Maoshan's true strength to emerge from the underworld.

However, doing so would come at the cost of turmoil in the underworld, which is the last foundation of Maoshan, and even then, victory is not guaranteed.
After all, the formation consisting of 100,000 hairy zombies and 10 celestial corpses is beyond terrifying.
Fortunately, he was familiar with Li Zhongren and knew that he was not the kind of person who would cause such devastation to the world.

So, after a conversation, he took his two apprentices and went back to Maoshan.

The purpose was to discuss this matter with my senior martial brothers.

Let's discuss how the Maoshan School should face the new world in the future.

Fighting is out of the question.

Even without utilizing the resources of the underworld, the Maoshan Sect, united as one, is no match for Li Zhongren.

It just goes to show that life is unpredictable.

But then again.

Lin Jiu also felt that if Li Zhongren could unify the country, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
The year 1958 in the Gregorian calendar.

Li Zhongren rises to power.

Using the pretext of world strife and the suffering of the people.

The troops were dispatched starting from Renjia Village in the southwest.

With the force of thunder, it swept across the world.

Wherever he went, he killed all warlords, landlords, feudal remnants, powerful families, wandering martial arts practitioners, and extraordinary sects.

All of them submitted to its feet.

Then, based on people's most basic moral values, these people were thoroughly investigated and judged.

The result, naturally, was a massacre of heads.

It cannot be said that all of the above deserved to die.

However, in each territory he entered, Li Zhongren would conduct a trial, and at least 90% of them would die.

Only about 10% remain, enough to survive.

Of course, the price of such killings is that in this era of extremely low cultural literacy, it is almost impossible to find anyone to govern.

Li Zhongren's solution was to use the Five Elements Grand Array to continue creating artificial humans.

Then, using the earth's veins and the core Five Elements Wheel, he constructed a honeycomb network, and the network's server was naturally his soul.

After all, with his constant killing, his soul was strengthening at an astonishing speed.
All androids can contact him and use his soul to provide computing power to solve all problems.

After a period of testing.

Under the foundation laid by Li Zhongren, the rule of man, a management method that had been passed down for thousands of years, was completely abolished.

In his territory, the word "official" had become a thing of the past.

People under his rule can consult these androids for any problems they encounter.

Meanwhile, the ubiquitous androids are also monitoring his territory like a surveillance camera.
Anyone who commits a crime is usually caught on the spot.
The year 1968 in the Gregorian calendar.

The Central Plains were unified.

Li Zhongren established the Five Elements Kingdom.

He was honorary emperor.

But there was only one emperor.

From him downwards, all military, political, economic, and administrative affairs were handed over to the geomantic network that encompassed the entire Central Plains.

From this point on, the Central Plains entered a new era.

It cannot be said that there is no longer any evil or conflict.

After all, the human heart is inherently capable of either good or evil thoughts.

However, at least all the people living here will enjoy one concept.

Fairness, fairness, fucking fairness.

(End of this chapter)