I just reached the maximum level, and you want me to be a puppet emperor?

Chapter 126 You have your rules, I have my understanding! (Please subscribe, please vote)

"Do you know why His Majesty assigned you the position of vanguard deputy general?" said the head of the Liu family with a serious expression.

"I should be warned against Xu Zifeng, the prince of Zhennan. Once this guy has made military achievements and has a certain prestige in the north, he will most likely not obey orders to return to the imperial capital." Liu Hao answered seriously.

"That's right. So what you need to do is to find a way to grab his credit and gain control of the vanguard troops. Only in this way can you live up to His Majesty's cultivation of you."

"But father, grabbing credit for something like this can easily cause chaos in the vanguard, and everyone will be dissatisfied."

"Don't worry, I'm not asking you to cause trouble. Under normal circumstances, you should focus on the overall situation. The Northern Expedition is almost over, so just do as I say. General Guo is eager for you to grab it."

According to the head of the Liu family, when the war just started, Liu Hao needed to cooperate with Xu Zifeng in the battle. If he lost the battle because he tried to steal the credit, it would be a big trouble.

Moreover, Xu Zifeng's combat ability is second to none in the Tiance Dynasty, and he also performed very well in the battles with the southern countries. Liu Hao has always lived in the imperial capital, so he is definitely not as good as him in this respect.

The head of the Liu family asked Liu Hao to recognize his own abilities and learn from Xu Zifeng when necessary.

Then, when the battle is about to end, when victory is certain, Liu Hao can go to Guo Poyun to accuse Xu Zifeng of all kinds, even if it is false, and report that he intends to keep the army to himself.

In this way, Guo Poyun will find a way to deprive Xu Zifeng of his military power.

Guo Poyun doesn't care whether Xu Zifeng really wants to lead his own army. What he wants is someone to support Xu Zifeng.

Then Xu Zifeng would be escorted to the imperial capital. This was the plan of the head of the Liu family, and Liu Hao also said that he understood it.

It seemed like a foolproof plan, but they still underestimated the power of the Son of Destiny.

Recently, not only Xu Zifeng and Liu Hao have made breakthrough progress, but Wu Qi has also achieved certain success.

At No. 7 Changqing Street, Wu Qi returned to the house with a happy face.

"Aunt, I completed the task assigned to me by the Minister of War perfectly last time, and then he promoted me to work in the grain and fodder department. That's a good job. Maybe I can even go to the front line. I really have to thank Liu Hao. He finally helped me a lot!"

Seeing Wu Qi's smug expression, Wu Nanzhi had no intention of telling him the truth.

Liu Hao does have some background and ability, but he is still far from being able to gain the respect of those with real power in the Ministry of War.

Wu Nanzhi knew that it must be Li Chen who was helping. Wu Qi was promoted to a regular employee as soon as he spoke to Li Chen, and was also transferred to a very critical department. Isn't it equivalent to giving all the credit to Wu Qi?

Wu Nanzhi felt very bitter, this was all caused by your aunt working naked in the woods!
But she couldn't say that, so she could only encourage Wu Qi to work hard and strive to get a certain official position. As long as he could enter the center of power, the Wu family would not only not replace him, but would also build around him.

For a long time afterwards, Liu Hao couldn't figure out why, despite his many military achievements, his promotion was not as fast as Wu Qi's.

That’s because he really didn’t have the chance to introduce his cousin to Li Chen.

Xiao Ming is an exception. He relies on his extraordinary ability to handle cases to climb up step by step.

Early the next morning, Wu Qi went to the Ministry of War to work. He was full of confidence today.

Not long after he left, Li Chen came to his house.

There weren't many things going on in the court these days, so Li Chen went to help Li Si Ning get the materials for a breakthrough, and then went to Tianyan Divine Sect.

By the time he returns, the war in the North will probably have already begun.

If necessary, you can also go to the north to check the war situation.

According to normal walking speed, it would take two days to reach the mission location, Luoxing Mountain. With the Holy Tiger, it would probably take less than a day.

As soon as Li Chen arrived here, he saw that Wu Nanzhi was already ready to travel.

"How is it, has Shenghu listened to you recently?"

"It can respond to me now, but I don't understand tiger language and I don't know what it is saying."

The two chatted and arrived outside the imperial capital.

This was the first time Wu Nanzhi took the initiative to summon the Holy Tiger. After taking off her clothes, she handed them to Li Chen.

And he warned: "You can't throw my clothes aside again this time! Otherwise I won't go!"

After Li Chen said it was okay, Wu Nanzhi summoned the Holy Tiger.

In an instant, a huge monster appeared among the woods.

Shenghu knew that he would be Li Chen's mount this time. In order to avoid being beaten again, he lay down beside Li Chen after coming out.

When Li Chen rode on it, the holy tiger began to move and let out a howl.

Wu Nanzhi inside the Holy Tiger felt that the Holy Tiger seemed to be expressing something, but she did not understand the Holy Tiger.

But Li Chen knew that Shenghu was asking him whether to speed up or go slowly.

Because when the holy tiger roared, it accelerated and then slowed down, which was a hint.

"It can be done faster."

After receiving Li Chen's order, the Holy Tiger suddenly exerted strength with its limbs and rushed towards Luoxing Mountain like an arrow.

The holy tiger ran, and wherever it passed, the grass and trees swayed, and the dust flew, forming a golden storm that swept past.

As dusk approached, Li Chen finally arrived near the Falling Star Mountain as indicated by the system.

After canceling the transformation, Wu Nanzhi came directly over to get the clothes.

It seemed that Li Chen had seen her too much, so she didn't even bother to cover herself. There was no one near where the Holy Tiger was parked.

"I'm so hungry. Can we go find something to eat first?" Wu Nanzhi's stomach started growling as soon as he put on his clothes.

Because her cultivation level was not very high, she could only cope with the consumption of the Holy Tiger by replenishing her food.

"Okay, I checked the map when I got here. There's a small town nearby, and a few villages. Let's go to the town and get something to eat first."

Even though it was just a small task, Li Chen still did some homework symbolically.

Otherwise, it will be like the first time you do the task, and you will have to run it several times before completing it.

There is a small mountain range nearby, and Li Chen doesn’t know which one it is, so it is difficult to find a demon spirit here.

According to Li Chen's understanding of the system, if the system determines that he came here in the late stage of Kaimai Realm, it will probably leave some clues nearby for him to find, so there is no need to search all over the mountains.

The previous tasks were relatively simple, and Li Chen was very curious about what his final task would be.

Judging from the difficulty of the system, once Li Si Ning is promoted to the Saint Realm, his own task will not be easy.

Just as Li Chen and Wu Nanzhi were on their way to the town, the air around them suddenly became heavy and turbid, as if shrouded by an invisible haze, since they stepped into this area.

An ominous black air quietly rose from the dense woods on the roadside, accompanied by waves of disgusting corpse stench.

It seems to be warning people who come here that something dangerous is about to happen.

Wu Nanzhi seemed to be observing carefully. As someone from Huju City, she could judge that there might be evil things here.

Li Chen didn't care, he was just thinking about what to eat next.

As they went deeper and deeper, the surrounding scene became more and more bizarre.

There were many new graves on both sides of the road, as if many people had died nearby.

Just then, a fierce fighting sound came from not far away, breaking the silence around.

Li Chen and Wu Nanzhi looked in the direction of the sound and saw a pale corpse with rotten skin fighting with two hunters not far away in the woods.

The corpse ghost's eyes were bloodshot and it let out bursts of roars from its mouth. Every time it swung its claws, it brought with it a sharp gust of wind that was chilling.

One of the hunters had been scratched, his clothes were stained with blood, and black gas was coming out of the wound. While dodging the attacks of the zombies, he kept applying medicine on his body to the wound to avoid being hurt by the zombie gas.

Judging from his appearance, he came prepared.

In order to protect his companion, the other hunter kept swinging the long knife in his hand, chopping the vital points of the corpse.

But the corpse seemed to have skin of iron and steel, and even though the knife was almost blunt, it still couldn't break its defense.

"Do you need my help?" Li Chen's voice sounded at this time.

Li Chen had to know what they were doing first before he could decide whether to help.

If you end up ruining the other party's plans after taking action, it would be a thankless task.

His appearance brought hope to the two hunters.

"Brother, come and help me, let's work together! This monster has skin of steel and bones. If you can find a way to stick this talisman on his forehead, you can immobilize him. Or you can attract him and I will stick it." A hunter shouted anxiously and threw out a yellow talisman.

Another hunter added: "Be careful, buddy. This monster's claws have corpse poison."

Li Chen smiled and said, "It doesn't have to be that complicated."

After saying that, he only needed to snap his fingers, and a dazzling light appeared in front of the hunter without any warning. The corpse ghost didn't even have time to react and was instantly reduced to ashes.

The two hunters were stunned by this scene and were speechless. Huh? What the hell? Just a snap of the fingers and it was gone?

After they were sure that the corpse ghost in front of them had been killed, they looked at Li Chen in disbelief, whimpering and unable to speak.

In the darkness of Luoxing Mountain, a pair of eyes slowly opened, filled with blood.

"Interesting, someone actually broke my ghoul?"

Having said that, he stood up and left the place where he was practicing, ready to see who was so blind as to dare to disturb his practice!
If he were caught, he would definitely turn this person into a puppet!
Outside the town, Wu Nanzhi approached the two hunters and asked them what had happened here, and they slowly told him the story.

According to them, there is a mountain nearby called Luoxing Mountain, where there are many ghosts.

But they are just some small monsters, and hunters of their level can easily kill them.

But for some reason, recently there have been people walking into the mountains as if they had lost their minds, and when they were hunting, they found dead bodies one after another.

This is also the origin of the new graves around.

As the local masters, they were sent by the mayor to check what dangers existed in Luoxing Mountain.

Who would have thought that not long after leaving the town, we would encounter a corpse ghost with iron skin and bones.

The level of this corpse is "very high", which is indeed high for them, so the two of them fought with the corpse here.

One of them was caught accidentally. Fortunately, he was prepared, otherwise he would have almost died here.

Then he met Li Chen, and the corpse ghost was killed instantly by Li Chen.

Hearing this, Wu Nanzhi was eager to try. Now that she could summon the holy tiger, she was not afraid of any corpse ghosts.

Li Chen also understood what was happening. It was normal that there were monsters and ghosts nearby. After all, they were everywhere in the world.

Normally, these townspeople can deal with it, but the problem is the appearance of evil spirits. The evil spirits have strengthened all the monsters and ghosts in an area, making them difficult to deal with. The system wants Li Chen to solve the problem here.

These two hunters are the key intelligence sources. We should be able to find some clues by following them.

Remember that the time given by the system this time is 90 days, which means that this is a relatively complicated task.

The demons will lean over humans to hide their identities and make them difficult to find.

Li Chen already understood the general situation, but he had his own way of thinking.

Just when Wu Nanzhi was asking about the corpse ghosts, Li Chen came over and said to a hunter casually: "Where is Luoxing Mountain? Point me in the direction."

When the hunter heard Li Chen say this, he thought he wanted him to lead the way.

In his opinion, Li Chen is a good man with strong capabilities, who will definitely be able to help this town solve its problems.

This is a rare thigh!
He had also been to Falling Star Mountain and knew where the place was.

After passing through the cemetery, walking over two hills and crossing a river, you will be able to see Luoxing Mountain.

Yu seemed to point in a direction and said, "Brother, the location of Falling Star Mountain is over there."

Li Chen continued to ask: "Are there any villages or people over there?"

The hunter replied: "No, it's very dangerous over there, there can't be anyone there."

Just when everyone thought that Li Chen was going to lead the team to Luoxing Mountain to resolve the ghost crisis.

The next second, they felt that they were too narrow-minded.

Going to Luoxing Mountain?

nonexistent!

Why should I go if I know where it is?
Li Chen just pointed his finger at the place where the hunter had just pointed.

boom!
A dazzling golden light burst out from Li Chen's fingertips.

It all happened too suddenly, and the powerful energy made everyone nearby fly backwards.

Wu Nanzhi and the two hunters next to him even rolled on the ground several times, grabbing onto nearby tree trunks with their hands to avoid being blown away.

All the trees around Li Chen had collapsed, and some trees were even blown hundreds of meters away before stopping.

The golden light shot a thousand meters away and exploded in an instant with a roar like the collapse of heaven and earth.

The sky moves strangely, and the mountains and rivers tremble!
Wherever the golden light of heaven reached, it turned into scorched earth, leaving behind a deep ravine.

The explosion caused by this bombardment alone can cause the earth to begin to crack.

The powerful shock wave and the roar that resounded throughout the universe frightened everyone in the nearby town.

Many residents of the town lay on the ground in fear, shouting words like "God, please calm down."

In their view, this is God showing his power!

Some practitioners in the small town were so terrified that they couldn't express it in words. What level of energy was this?

After a while, Wu Nanzhi and the two hunters next to him finally came to their senses, all of them covered in dust and dirt.

At this moment, they looked in the direction Li Chen pointed.

A huge hole appeared before my eyes, stretching for thousands of meters.

The earth split in two, and the crack was bottomless.

The two hunters looked at each other. They knew that the man in front of them was very strong, but now his strength was completely beyond their understanding.

It's like the villagers who were hunting in the novice village and saw the big boss who had reached the maximum level coming back.

Thousands of meters away, the Falling Star Mountain, a terrifying and eerie mountain full of ghosts, was razed to the ground.

This made the two hunters' scalps tingle. According to the script, shouldn't you go on the adventure with us? Then the three of us will go through many difficulties and finally find the hiding place of the monster.

In the end, they fought with wits and courage, solved the monsters together, overcame the difficulties, and forged a deep friendship!
But why did you start the map cannon directly?

As for the man on Luoxing Mountain who had just walked out and was possessed by the evil spirit, he probably didn't even know how he died.

They were not even qualified to see Li Chen. A flash of light appeared before their eyes, and then he disappeared!
At this time, Li Chen had already seen the system prompt.

【Congratulations on completing the task. 】

In other words, he was right.

At first, Li Chen thought that the evil spirit was hiding in the town, which would take a lot of time, and the system also gave a lot of time.

But after listening to the two hunters' explanations, Li Chen understood that this monster outbreak had just begun, and it was only the Falling Star Mountain that had experienced the abnormality.

Why not just bomb Luoxing Mountain directly?

System, you post your tasks, and I have my own way of playing at the Saint level.

No matter how I understand it, the task is to complete it. I am too lazy to look for it slowly.

If the demon knew that the system's task for Li Chen was to deal with him, he would definitely curse: What a rubbish system! What kind of heaven-defying opponent matching mechanism, letting a Saint Realm person fight me? Do you have any shame! ?
Originally, the system arranged for Li Chen to eliminate the evil spirit. The strength of the evil spirit must be higher than that of Li Chen, who was in the late stage of Kaimai Realm. This was a test of life and death and a training for advancement.

But Li Chen directly gave the demon spirit an epic strength, delivering a devastating blow.

When Li Chen took Wu Nanzhi away, the two hunters still stood there like stones, unable to believe what was happening before their eyes.

In the town's restaurant, Wu Nanzhi, who was showing off eight plates of meat, said as he ate, "We agreed to fight the extraterritorial demons together, but you ended up fighting them all by yourself. Humph!"

Because on the way here, Wu Nanzhi asked Li Chen what he was doing just now, and he said that he noticed there was an extraterritorial demon over there and killed it instantly.

That's why Wu Nanzhi said that.

She was really unwilling to accept that the chance to see the 'Demon from Beyond' was gone just like that.

"It's just to finish work early. I'll take you there next time when I have the chance." Li Chen replied, asking her to eat slowly so she wouldn't choke.

In this way, Li Chen was able to complete a task that would have taken at least ten days to complete on the same day.

At the mayor's house, the old mayor looked at the two crazy hunters and asked in confusion: "You two have been talking for a long time, which means that the noise just now was not the anger of God, but a handsome young man who could break the sky and the earth with a casual finger. Do you think I am old and confused? If you two don't dare to go, I will find someone else, don't make such excuses!"

The uninjured hunter said anxiously, "Mayor, you have to believe me. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought someone was crazy if he said that to me!"

Another hunter also spoke up, "Mayor, you see we grew up in this town, don't you know how brave we are? And look at my injuries. I've fought with zombies before. There was a handsome young man passing by, and he snapped his fingers and the zombies disappeared. He raised his hand and Falling Star Mountain collapsed!"

They explained for a long time, but the mayor didn't believe them. They were so anxious that they had to drag the mayor out to see.

When the mayor took a group of people out to check, they finally saw the mess before their eyes. When they wanted to look for the young man who saved their town, the young man had already returned to the imperial capital.

(End of this chapter)