Chapter 545

Bai Suzhen: "You're wasting it. Thank goodness the Ancestor was here—by the way, how many people wasted their merit before this?"

Ying Zheng: "…"

Ying Zheng No. 2: "…"

Zhang Sanfeng: "…"

Xiao Mai: "【Laughter】Though none of you are speaking, I've figured it out—you either scattered your merit to enhance weapons or used it to boost your cultivation base."

Su Xiao: "【Sigh】I'm the same. I thought I'd use it to forge a Merit Huangti Body or something similar, but there wasn't enough merit. I should've never wasted it."

Spirit Sovereign: "What can you do? No one understood back then."

Nie Xiaoqian: "【Image】Luckily, the merit Lord Dao forged for me was preserved—it wasn't split up and wasted on weapons."

Hu Yifei: "Wow, please let me cling to your leg!"

Qian Qian: "Can I borrow your sword sometime?"

Nie Xiaoqian: "This is my life-bound weapon—I don't lend it out."

Li Shimin: "I've arrived in Jiangdu. Livestream's live—watch how I crush those aristocratic clans and the Cihang Pure Studio."

Su Xiao: "Wow, Emperor Taizong, you've got a lot of resentment."

Hu Yifei: "How could resentment not be high? Those aristocratic clans never stopped sabotaging Your Majesty. Now that we have absolute power, of course we'll settle the score."

Azhu: "I've finished cleaning up here—after we return, should we clean up those clans over there too?"

Li Shimin: "Of course! Once we return, I'll crush them. With transcendent power, we won't need so many officials. Smash the clans, lighten taxes and corvée, and the people's lives will improve. I aim to abolish all taxes for the common folk within a few years!"

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Watch out—you'll pull a muscle if you step too far."

Ying Zheng: "Take it slow, no rush."

Li Shimin: "Relax—I'm not Chongzhen, I've got experience!"

Zhu Youjian: "…"

Xiao Mai: "Emperor Chongzhen is getting hit even when lying down—getting kicked every single day."

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Who's to blame but his own weakness? Once the next weak emperor joins the group, he won't be used as an example anymore."

【Ding, Li Shimin has started a livestream.】

【Ding, Su Xiao has entered the livestream.】

【Ding, Zhang Taixuan has entered the livestream.】

【…】

Jiangdu.

Yang Guang was amusing himself with Lady Xiao when the sky suddenly darkened.

He looked up—and holy hell, the sky was packed with people.

Each wore armor gleaming with icy light, wielding steel spears that flashed cold blades under the sun.

"This…"

As an emperor, Yang Guang had seen much.

He'd encountered many Wu Lingaoshou.

Even the legend of shattering the void was known to him.

But even the strongest who shattered the void couldn't appear all at once like this!

The figures in the sky numbered tens of thousands.

"Your Majesty!" Lady Xiao turned pale with terror and hid behind Yang Guang.

"Don't fear, my beauty!" Yang Guang forced calm, stepped forward, and said: "Who are you?"

"Yang Guang, do you recognize me?"

One man stepped forward—handsome, with an extraordinary aura.

Yang Guang frowned: "Do I know you, sir?"

"I am Li Clan's Li Shimin!" Li Shimin declared proudly. "Not the Li Shimin of your world—but the Li Shimin of another world."

Hearing this, Yang Guang froze in shock.

"Li Shimin?"

He knew Li Shimin all too well.

Yang Guang's mother and Li Shimin's grandmother were sisters—Li Shimin was, in fact, Yang Guang's maternal cousin's son.