It doesn't matter what the lord is.

Her voice suddenly became cold, and her blue eyes seemed even brighter in the shadows:

"It's actually very simple. The reason why all these beautiful things you see exist is because I, your mother, am sitting here. Any system will have drawbacks and flaws, so someone is needed to constantly fix those problems and reduce the entropy of society. This person must be absolutely fair, must always remain sober, and must be as cold and correct as a machine. Let the people below come up, let the people above go down, and let society always maintain a clear state... This kind of thing will involve bloodshed, and cannot be viewed from the perspective of rules. It must be treated as a war."

The woman took off her military cap and smiled gently, like an ordinary mother:

"You don't have to think about these things for now, although you will have to face these problems one day. But by then, maybe you will have your own solution... There is not only one way to the future. Think about it from another perspective. Since it is the human race as a whole that is worth loving, then as long as there are humans alive, it doesn't matter how many wars or how many destructions there are."

The little boy always remembered the conversation that day.

He didn't care about the 300,000 victims of the Tianyue Mountain disaster. He was calm when the people of Yunyang died in the civil war. When Kalpas led the Eastern Frontier Army to fight for his life, Lid did not hesitate to label him as a fame seeker.

But in fact, Reed would also feel sad for the death of the unknown succubus, and for Pingzi and Pingzi's biological mother.

Because in his eyes, ten thousand people living in a muddle are not as great as one person dying in a clear mind.

If this war can bring an opportunity for people to awaken through huge sacrifices, then everything will be worth it.

After paying tribute to the dead, Lide distributed the rewards for this battle, presided over the reconstruction of Lingyun City, and announced the various rules and regulations of the new territory. After everything was ready, he went to the Lord's Mansion and met the Lord Yunyang who had been waiting for a long time.

68. Secrets to Take to the Grave

In the lord's mansion, Lord Yunyang was sitting on a luxurious bench with disheveled hair, and saw Lid coming towards him.

Many of Yunyang's princes were also present, including Li Yi, who was sitting in a wheelchair, and Yunyang's eighth prince Li Ren. On the contrary, Li De was alone, opening the door and coming in alone, walking alone on the red carpet through the long corridor, with light steps and a smile on his face, and he had a unique aura.

Lord Yunyang raised his head and looked at him coldly with bloodshot eyes, but Reed responded with a simple smile.

Lord Yunyang looked at Lid and said:

"You've grown wings...are you planning to imitate others and kill people?"

Lid smiled and replied:

"If I really wanted to kill you, you would have died in the banquet hall two years ago. How could you be alive today?"

Lord Yunyang grinned, revealing his bloody teeth, tilted his head towards Li Yi, and said in a low voice:

"If this idiot wasn't so incompetent and always causing trouble, would you have been able to take Yunyang?!"

Lide glanced at Liyi who was sitting in a wheelchair, and Liyi also stared at him with clenched teeth. Ever since his leg became lame, Liyi had been confined to his room, and his hatred for Lide had reached a whole new level. If the situation had not been stronger than the person, he would have cursed him out long ago.

Lidd replied:

"Brother, you can speed up the destruction of Yunyang and torture the people of Yunyang for a few less days. I think it's good. Even without him, we can still take Yunyang. It's just a matter of time. Of course, you won't believe me when I say this."

Lord Yunyang sneered in response, but the next moment Lid said gently:

"But if you don't believe it...what's the point?"

Lord Yunyang slapped the armrest heavily and shouted:

"Rebellious son! What's your attitude?"

The armrest of the luxurious bench was broken by a blow. Lord Yunyang stood up from the chair, drew the long sword from his waist, and walked towards Lide step by step. Li Yi couldn't help but said loudly:

"Quick, kill him—"

Before he finished speaking, Lord Yunyang raised his sword and slashed, but Lide barely made any move, just swung his hand and pulled it out. Lord Yunyang's sword was directly knocked out, circling and piercing into the wall next to Liyi's head. The sword energy cut Liyi's ear, and blood flowed out.

A howl like a killing pig sounded.

Lid looked at Lord Yunyang who was very close to him and said in a bad tone:

"Two years... two years...! Do you know how I have been spending these past two years? Do you know!"

Lord Yunyang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly a bitter feeling welled up in his heart. Recalling the two years that Lide had been in Yuxi City, Yuxi City had indeed suffered many disasters. Except for Yunhai, which had always maintained a neutral attitude, the other three neighboring forces had attacked Yuxi City. If Lide had worked hard in Yuxi City for the past two years, then Liyi, who had been pampered, and Lord Yunyang himself, who had been deceived by the news, might not have lost unjustly...

However, the next moment, Lid laughed again, leaned close to Lord Yunyang's face, and whispered:

"For the past two years, I have been slacking off in the City Lord's Mansion every day. Now that I think about it, it still feels great."

Lord Yunyang punched him, and then Lid grabbed his arm mercilessly and threw him back to his seat, spitting blood on his chest. Lid walked slowly over there, clapped his hands, and said:

"Okay. I won't joke around anymore. Whether you accept the judgment and go to death, or find a place to live in shame, it makes no difference to me. If you are ambitious and want to do something else, I don't care. For me, letting you go is not like letting a tiger go back to the mountain. It's just giving up something as simple as killing pigs."

Lid looked into Lord Yunyang's eyes, his voice was level:

"But before that, I have some questions to ask. What happened eighteen years ago? How did my cheap mom in this world die? Why was I targeted so much when I was in Yunyang? I need an answer."

Lord Yunyang laughed loudly, then said grimly:

"You want to know?"

Lid nodded and replied:

"Yes. Because I think that although you are not as courageous as you were when you were young and have gradually become stubborn, you once stood on the side of the royal family to suppress the uprising of the Cangzhou lords. Your vision should not be that bad. Li Yi obviously does not have the ability to inherit Yunyang, but you would rather force me to be a whetstone and have never considered giving me the position of the prince. I want to know the reason behind it."

The eighth prince of Yunyang, Li Ren, also raised his head and looked at the Lord of Yunyang.

When he was in Lingyun City, Lid always looked like a dandy and fooled many people. But there are always smart people in this world, and Lid often did not hide his aura. Others might not be able to see it, but Lord Yunyang should not be unaware of it.

Reed himself knew this, so he wanted a reason.

If Lord Yunyang could give it to him, then Lide would not mind releasing Lord Yunyang and his family. At worst, he could keep them captive like Fang Lita did, and let them live out their lives as ordinary wealthy men.

Lord Yunyang obviously hesitated for a moment, and asked:

"You mean, you want to use this secret to exchange our lives?"

Reed nodded.

Lord Yunyang exhaled, his expression changing from dark to bright, but in the end the thought of staying alive dominated. He stood up again. Perhaps because he had given in, Lord Yunyang's aura was much weaker than usual, and he looked a little older. He walked towards Lid and said:

"It's very simple. Because you are not Yunyang's bloodline at all. You are actually..."

Lord Yunyang walked forward step by step, but he did not finish his words.

His jaw dropped to the floor, followed by his tongue and then all the teeth in his upper jaw.

Then come the muscles on the face, the eyeballs in the eyes, the hair on the head, and the flesh on the body.

When he was about to approach Lid and tell him the secret, Lord Yunyang gradually decayed without him noticing, and finally only a gloomy skeleton remained. The skull fell to the ground, rolled to Lid's feet, and stopped there. The empty eye sockets seemed to still be staring at Lid.

No one reacted at first.

After realizing what had happened, the already trembling Li Yi was almost completely frightened and shouted at the top of his lungs:

"There's a ghost, there's a ghost——"

Li Ren, who had calmed down, instinctively shouted to Li De:

"Lid, what did you do to father?!"

Lid completely ignored them. The tentacles behind him suddenly exploded, and the power of the ninth level of perfection burst out. The little ghost followed closely beside him. Lid raised his hand and shouted coldly:

"come out!"

The wind pressure instantly shattered all the furniture and buildings in the room, and the windows and doors shattered. At that moment, a faint black shadow seemed to flash by, and Lid chased out without hesitation, but there was nothing outside. The sky was just right, the breeze was gentle, and the soldier in charge of the alert even smiled and greeted Lid.

Reed punched the wall at the door, his eyes full of murderous intent.

This was the closest he had ever been to the truth. His life experience, Alayya's past, everything seemed to be about to become clear. But at this moment, Lord Yunyang died, and was killed in front of him by something.

Reed let out a breath, suppressed the anger in his chest, and strode out of the lord's mansion.

69. Tell others that I killed him

When Lord Yunyang fell down, he suddenly realized something.

Perhaps he had been wrong all along. He thought that the fact that no one came to pick up Lid when he was twelve years old and that he had used him as a whetstone without any retaliation meant that the men in black had given up on Lid. But perhaps that was not the case. Perhaps in the past ten years, they had never left, they had always been behind him, watching everything coldly.

Whether it is windy or rainy, whether it is night or day.

They have always been here. It's just that no one can detect their existence. How terrifying and frightening it is. That year, they warned themselves that these secrets must not be told to anyone, but the passage of time made Lord Yunyang gradually forget the fear that penetrated deep into his bones. Now before he died, he recalled it again. Even if he went to hell in the future, he would probably live in fear every day.

This matter is not a big deal or a small deal to the living people, but it is worth He Yue's special trip from Yuxi City.

"Lord Yunyang is dead?"

He Yue asked the most important question straight away. Lid nodded calmly and replied:

"He's dead, although I didn't kill him. I asked Merlin to check if there was any curse magic on him, but he found nothing. Someone killed him in front of me, and then left in front of me, and didn't cause any waves in Lingyun City afterwards."

He Yue frowned and said:

"Coming and going freely, a master of the tenth level? The only person who can kill people invisibly like this, as far as I can remember, is the commander-in-chief of Lingwu's hidden guards."

Lide didn't want to tell He Yue the details. After all, the death of Lord Yunyang was like a warning. Before he was absolutely sure, he didn't want to involve the people around him in this conspiracy. Fortunately, at present, no matter which force the other party was, they had no hostility towards Lide himself and Yuxi City behind Lide. They just didn't want the secret to be exposed when they wiped out Lord Yunyang.

Reed only replied vaguely:

"It wasn't the commander-in-chief of the Hidden Guards. Although the commander-in-chief of the Hidden Guards is skilled in assassination, he rarely uses poison. And given Lord Lingwu's character, if she was unhappy with Lord Yunyang, she would have attacked him long ago. There was no need to wait until Lord Yunyang lost before sending someone to kill him secretly. Maybe Lord Yunyang was hiding some secret, and someone didn't want him to tell it, so they killed him. It has nothing to do with us."

He Yue knew what secret Li De must be hiding, but she would not ask further questions and calmly changed the subject:

"Well. I don't really care how Lord Yunyang died, as long as you are okay. The problem is how we should announce this to the public. The death of a lord cannot be concealed, and there are many people who are concerned about his life and death."

Lid exhaled, walked to the window with his hands behind his back, looked back at He Yue, and replied calmly:

"Just tell everyone that I killed him."

He Yue's hand trembled violently, and he said:

"But this name of patricide——"

Lid smiled and said:

"If I say he crashed to death because he was depressed, or that he was stabbed to death because he did too many bad things in the past, will people believe it? Then all kinds of stigma will be put on me. Even if we take down Yunyang, there will be many people who want us to die, and the number may even increase. The dog king is one of them. At this time, it doesn't matter what I say. The Lord of Yunyang is dead and I was there. The rumormongers only need these two things to make everything sound like ironclad evidence. The public also likes conspiracy theories. You and I should know this better than anyone else."

He Yue sighed and said:

"That's better than admitting it yourself... So, there must be a reason to kill him. What crime should we charge him with?"

Lid thought for a moment and replied:

"War crimes, huh?"

After a pause, Lid raised his arm and looked at the scar on his hand. It was left when he cut his wrist and let the blood splash on the monument. Lid deliberately did not use good herbs to apply it, but chose to let the scar remain:

"He Yue, in my opinion, many sins in this world are forgivable, but there are also many that are unforgivable. When Zhao Chen attacked, Lord Yunyang severed the father-son relationship with me, which I think is forgivable. When the demons attacked, Lord Yunyang allowed Li Yi to cooperate with the demons to attack Yuxi City, which I think is unforgivable, do you understand?"

He Yue walked to Li De's side, gently held Li De's wrist, and whispered:

"Of course I understand, but the world will still think you are a cold-blooded villain, a murderer of your father, and a freak who disregards ethics and morality. By then, all the corrupt rules of this world will be your enemies, and Yuxi City will have countless potential enemies out of thin air."

Reed looked him in the eye and replied:

"He Yue, do you know what we lack the most now? It's not just talent. After taking over Yunyang, what we need is a new set of rules and let everyone know the consequences of not following the rules. We have discussed this before. Some people in our team have already started to prepare for pleasure, abuse their power for personal gain, and use their past achievements to get more things. This is a good opportunity to use this incident to tell them that here, rules are more important than personal relationships."

He Yue still didn't let go of Lid's hand, she fell into thought.

As Lide said, Lord Yunyang died in the Lord's Mansion, and Lide could never clear himself of suspicion. No matter who came out to testify, it would be useless. Even if Li Yi, who had always been at odds with Lide, came out to speak for him, others would only understand that it was the result of coercion and inducement.

Instead of doing this, it is better to take the initiative and create an image of having to sacrifice relatives for the sake of the rules. Some people may accuse Li De of seeking revenge, but it is much better than doing nothing. As long as Yuxi City can implement the new rules in the future and make the people prosperous and healthy, then today's crime will naturally be cleared slowly.

For those in power in troubled times, ability and courage are the most important. A monster who can do things is better than a waste who is arrogant and extravagant.

Thinking of this, He Yue finally let go of Lid's wrist:

"Got it. I will contact the Anbu and try to guide public opinion in the direction we want. But the name of patricide cannot be washed away no matter what. Taking down Yunyang was originally a good opportunity to clear your name, but I didn't expect this to happen again... I don't know what to say. Lide, you are now a de facto lord, do you really not care about your reputation?"

Lid scratched his back, yawned, and replied calmly:

"Lord... Lord, it doesn't matter."

70. Royal Bloodline

Huang Yan was very happy when he learned that Li De had taken over Yunyang.

The southern rebel army was a mixed bag, and constantly guiding the people to revolt helped them expand their power, but it also allowed a large number of spies from various territories and royal families to mix in. In order not to drag Lide into the mud, Huang Yan did not disclose his relationship with Lide, and the number of people in the rebel army who knew about this could be counted on one hand.

After Lid took control of the entire Yunyang Territory, Huang Yan smiled, which was rare for him, and said to Bicas beside him:

"My brother is the new lord."

Huang Yan touched the head of the little slime in his arms.

When Merlin and Anna wiped out the lava tribe in the south, they left a large number of lava tribe corpses in the Great Wilderness Mountain under Huang Yan's rule. Huang Yan temporarily left the little slime here and let it eat up the stone-hard corpses. This not only saved time for cleaning, but also helped the little slime improve his realm. It can be said that it was a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

By the end of the journey to the north, the little slime had reached the eighth level. It followed Huang Yan to the south and developed beautifully, and its realm reached the ninth level. During this period, the little slime also learned a new skill, which is to imitate the things it swallowed, just like when swallowing, it also incorporates the genes of the other party into its core, and can freely change into other shapes. Of course, this ability is currently only effective for non-human creatures, but it is no problem to change into a cat or dog in daily life.

"Beji... I am a little homesick. Do you want to go back with me?"