Chapter 1272

Su Xuan had obtained the *Dao Heart Planting Demonic Great Art* and the many inheritances of the Evil Extreme Sect. Whether he chose to cultivate it or not, to a certain extent, he could indeed call himself the Evil Emperor.

Especially after Xiang Yutian's disciples died at Su Xuan's hands, the Evil Extreme Sect had no successors, and Su Xuan's title of Evil Emperor became even more legitimate.

Originally, Su Xuan staying in Xiang Yutian's place of retreat had made Shi Qingxuan somewhat surprised.

Now that Su Xuan had come out of seclusion, according to Shi Qingxuan's guess, Su Xuan was very likely to leave this place.

"I am indeed prepared to leave here. The *Dao Heart Planting Demonic Great Art* has benefited me greatly. I have many ideas and am prepared to find a place to practice them."

Su Xuan replied to Shi Qingxuan.

Hearing Su Xuan directly mention the *Dao Heart Planting Demonic Great Art*, a strange look flashed in Shi Qingxuan's eyes: "Where are you prepared to go next?"

"Xianyang!" Su Xuan responded subconsciously, then realized that there was no Xianyang anymore, so he changed his words: "Chang'an!"

Although Chang'an was not the original Xianyang City, it was indeed built near the former Xianyang City, which is why it is said that the Han inherited the Qin system, and even the location of the capital was about the same.

Shi Qingxuan just pretended not to hear Su Xuan's slip of the tongue. After knowing that Su Xuan was prepared to go to Chang'an, her eyebrows suddenly furrowed and then relaxed again. After pondering for a while, she said to Su Xuan: "After killing these four evil villains, I don't have anything else to do for the time being, so I will accompany you on a trip to Chang'an!"

Su Xuan looked at Shi Qingxuan in surprise.

Shi Qingxuan felt Su Xuan's gaze and appeared somewhat willful: "What, is that not okay?"

Su Xuan shook his head: "It's nothing!"

Afterward, the two left the Evil Emperor Temple and first went to a mountain forest about ten miles away.

In the mountain forest, there was a quiet stone house.

This was Shi Qingxuan's temporary residence nearby. Although she was prepared to use the mechanism in the Evil Emperor Temple to eradicate Xiang Yutian's four disciples, it was impossible for her to live in the Evil Emperor Temple.

This place was not too far from the Evil Emperor Temple, and one could see the hill with the stone cave hiding many bats at a glance. Shi Qingxuan had been living here during this period.

After Su Xuan arrived here, he easily adapted to the environment here.

He rested here for a few days.

During these few days, Shi Qingxuan also discovered the strangeness of Su Xuan.

That is, Su Xuan seemed not to need to eat or drink.

Earlier in the Demon-Subduing Cave, Su Xuan had stayed for a long time, and Shi Qingxuan had thought about Su Xuan's eating and drinking problems during that time. For martial arts experts, not eating or drinking for a short time indeed had no effect, but for a long time, problems would still appear.

As a result, after leaving the Demon-Subduing Cave and coming here, Su Xuan still did not need to eat or drink.

This was an extremely strange thing.

What made Shi Qingxuan realize Su Xuan's unusualness even more was that his aura was sometimes present and sometimes absent, very weak; the other party was just like a statue in a temple.

If the other party were not truly moving in front of her, Shi Qingxuan would have thought Su Xuan was a dead person.

"Are you really a living person?"

Although she said so, on this day, Shi Qingxuan still could not suppress the curiosity in her heart and asked Su Xuan such a question.

"In your view, what is life? What is death? Is the life you see really life? The death you see may not necessarily be death!" Su Xuan answered Shi Qingxuan with a strange sentence.

Shi Qingxuan's eyebrows furrowed: "Since you are unwilling to answer, then forget it."

She herself was a person who did not contend with the world. Seeing that Su Xuan was unwilling to say, she immediately gave up pursuing the question.

Su Xuan smiled and did not say much.

After resting here for a few days, Su Xuan and Shi Qingxuan set off and headed toward Chang'an.

According to Su Xuan's original plan, his goal was to first find Shi Qingxuan, and then use Shi Qingxuan to find the whereabouts of You Niaojuan and the others.

This was also the reason why he went to Chengdu in the first place.

Because according to what he knew, Shi Qingxuan's place of seclusion was in the Bashu region, not too far from Chengdu.

Unfortunately, he gained nothing in Chengdu.

Thus, he walked along the Great River again. His luck was very good; by chance, he met Shi Qingxuan and also obtained the *Dao Heart Planting Demonic Great Art* in the Evil Emperor Temple. In this way, the existence of You Niaojuan and the others became dispensable to him.

The *Dao Heart Planting Demonic Great Art* he most wanted to obtain was already in hand. Combined with the *Longevity Secret* in his hand, Su Xuan also had some understanding of the Dao of shattering the void. As he was now, even without the *God of War Record*, he could make some attempts.

Therefore, he did not need to continue staying in this Bashu region, but was prepared to head toward Chang'an.

The reason for going to Chang'an was naturally because there was an extremely important place near Chang'an.

That was... the Lishan Imperial Mausoleum.

The Lishan Imperial Mausoleum was the mausoleum of the First Emperor. Su Xuan was prepared to do some things and had to choose a good place. Because of the Qin world, the good place he chose was exactly there.

Although choosing to be there had no other meaning, it was purely to create some sense of ritual.

Since Yang Guang ascended the throne, because he was fond of great achievements, he launched many expeditions to foreign lands, and was also extravagant, building many palaces and villas, patrolling everywhere, and imposing harsh taxes, making the people miserable, and even thieves arose everywhere. Heroes from all over the place rose up one after another, declaring themselves kings, and the world was in chaos.

However, no matter what, Yang Guang was still the Emperor, and the nominal righteousness was still on him.

Unfortunately, this scene did not last too long.

Following Yang Guang's departure from Luoyang to Jiangdu, in April of the following year, the Wagang Army led by Li Mi besieged the Eastern Capital and issued a manifesto to all counties, listing Yang Guang's ten major crimes. It was like a spark igniting a prairie fire, inciting more rebel armies.

After Wagang, rebel armies arose all over the world.

One month later, Li Yuan raised an army in Jinyang, entered Chang'an in November of the same year, and enthroned Yang You as Emperor, remotely honoring Yang Guang as the Retired Emperor.

However, Yang Guang had not sat on the position of Retired Emperor for too long when Yuwen Huaji and others in Jiangdu raised an army in rebellion. In a mutiny, Yang Guang died directly. With Yang Guang's death, the Sui Dynasty also completely entered its end.

Although the world was nominally still the Sui Dynasty, and rebel armies everywhere scrambled to support members of the Sui royal family, calling them orthodox, in reality, it had already entered a grand situation of heroes contending for the deer.

Chang'an City, in this process, also became the headquarters of the Li Clan!

Going from the Bashu region to Chang'an was not far. Not long after, Su Xuan brought Shi Qingxuan here.