Chapter 473

"Xiao Qi, the Great Lan Dynasty is a net. If we do things on this net, we will never succeed."

"We can only burn this net!"

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In the conversations between the two in his memory, he was always impassioned, while Xiao Qi was always very calm.

"If we do it, can we really do better than the imperial court? His Majesty is wise and martial; perhaps we should try to trust him."

"No matter how wise and martial His Majesty is, can he compare to the Taizu Emperor? Do you think Taizu couldn't see the tumor of the noble families back then? Couldn't see the corruption of the officials? A structure that even he couldn't change, what can His Majesty do?"

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"Xiao Qi, this net of the Great Lan Dynasty has been woven for over five hundred years; it has become tighter and tighter, and the common people at the bottom are suffering more and more. Even if we really can't do better, at least by burning this net and starting over, the common people of the world can have another five hundred years of days better than the present!"

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After argument after argument, and even big quarrels, he had been close to persuading the other party, but it was always just a little bit off.

Until a small matter he hadn't paid much attention to happened.

That was the first year of Hongguang, shortly after the new emperor ascended the throne.

A military general who had once stood on the side of the Second Imperial Prince was convicted of colluding with the enemy, and his entire family was executed.

Qi Zhou initially wanted to find evidence, but after investigating halfway, he gave up in despair.

It was a late autumn night; when he found the other party, the other party had rarely drunk a lot of wine.

"Hey, are you okay?"

". I agree."

"What?"

"I agree with what you said, burn this net!"

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"What do you think the organization we build should be called?"

"Xiao Qi."

"I've thought about it, I want to burn this net, I want a new world, so our organization shall be called—"

"New! Heaven! Society!"

Past memories surged from the bottom of his heart, and Qiming only felt heart-wrenching pain at this moment.

When that azure star flew out from Li Fei's body, he didn't feel surprised at all.

After that failure in Lanling City, he knew that Yunshu would definitely leave means on Li Fei to target him.

Facing the azure star flying toward him at this moment, a flash of determination crossed his eyes; with a wave of his hand, a streak of ghostly green curse power flew across the sky like a long rainbow, accurately striking this star!

He had directly attacked Yunshu's power of Dao laws!

In an instant, this azure star was 'polluted' into a ghostly green color, emitting a decaying aura, and then fell from the sky.

"Damn, is he crazy?!"

Li Fei in the distance looked back and saw this scene, and was startled.

After that incident in Lanling City, he had an audience with the Emperor in the Imperial Study and met the State Preceptor Yunshu. The other party gave him the refining method for a high-grade Earth-tier flying sword and also left a power in his body in front of him, used to target Qiming.

At that time, Yunshu's original words were:

"If Qiming attacks you again in the future, he will never be able to escape."

So when he was being hunted by Qiming just now, although Li Fei felt immense danger, he was not yet desperate.

But seeing Qiming actually attack that star directly, this truly scared Li Fei.

The power left by Yunshu was only a deterrent; it was impossible to directly confront a peak powerhouse from a distance.

But now Qiming didn't care about being locked onto by Yunshu, so this deterrent naturally ceased to exist.

"Does he want to trade his life for mine? That shouldn't be necessary."

Li Fei could only desperately activate 【Hun Tian Golden Palace】 and 【No Distance】, while simultaneously activating the 【Refining Matter】 divine ability, refining blood souls to strengthen 【No Distance】.

Gaining the reinforcement of a steady stream of vitality, the maximum distance of one 【No Distance】 teleportation increased from one hundred meters to two hundred meters!

The 【Refining Matter】 divine ability was actually not a divine ability specifically used for combat; its more powerful aspect lay in support.

But in Li Fei's hands, this divine ability happened to have the effect of the finishing touch!

Using vitality as an equivalent exchange to temporarily trade for powerful strength was a very common desperate measure, and it was also the most direct way the 【Refining Matter】 divine ability was used in combat.

But where would other martial artists have so much vitality to consume?

Moreover, consuming vitality would also worsen one's own state; it might be a case of injuring the enemy by eight hundred while damaging oneself by one thousand, which was not worth the loss.

Only a freak like Li Fei, whose vitality was several times that of martial artists in the same realm and who would not be injured no matter 'how much blood' he lost, maintaining his state at the peak, could use 'refining vitality' as a routine method.

After 【No Distance】 was strengthened, the distance between him and Qiming was finally opened up again.

But he didn't have many blood souls left; having to refine blood souls into mental power while also using them to strengthen 【No Distance】, this state of teleporting 2000 meters per second could not be maintained for long.

Seeing Li Fei suddenly accelerate, Qiming couldn't help but be furious.

He didn't expect the other party to be so capable of escaping!

On the other side, although the azure star had fallen, a power in the dark 'spread' to his body along Qiming's curse power.

When Qiming attacked Li Fei directly back then but failed to kill him, Yunshu had conducted a deep analysis based on the Dao law traces left on Li Fei, which was why he had the confidence that as long as Qiming dared to attack Li Fei again, he would definitely not be able to escape.

Now, Qiming was completely locked onto by Yunshu!

There are three thousand Great Daos, and different Dao laws have different manifestations.

Qiming's curse Dao law was like a treacherous and changeable poisonous snake in a cold hell, carrying countless grievances, capable of making all things fall.

And Yunshu's analysis Dao law was like light shining down from high above; this light was neither scorching nor dazzling; it just quietly illuminated everything, letting the most fundamental appearance of all things take shape under this light.

When Qiming used the curse Dao law to make that azure star fall, his Dao law power also inevitably appeared under the 'illumination', with nowhere to hide!

Suddenly, Li Fei's chest became scorching hot again.

This time, that 'As If I Were Personally Present' golden medal flew directly out from his bosom, flying into the sky with dazzling golden light!

In an instant, this golden medal shone with ten thousand zhang of golden light, like a small sun descending into the human world.

A five-clawed golden dragon flew out from it, circling in the air, its cold eyes looking down at Qiming below.

Seeing this scene, Li Fei stopped teleporting, feeling that he should be safe now.

"Qiming, you used evil arts to confuse the common people of the five provinces, causing thousands of people to lose their lives. Now you are helping the barbarians to kill the soldiers of my Great Lan Dynasty. Your crimes are heinous; execute him immediately!"

A vast voice came from the golden dragon's mouth, resounding through the mountains, rivers, and jungles within a radius of a thousand miles.

This was the voice of the Son of Heaven of the Great Lan Dynasty!

The last four words, 'execute him immediately', each word was like a thunderbolt, making the jungle below shake, startling all birds and beasts.

The one bearing the greatest pressure was naturally Qiming.

This newly promoted 'demon' suddenly fell from the sky; for the four words 'execute him immediately', every time the golden dragon spat out a word, he dropped a segment.

After the four words were finished, he fell from a height of over five hundred meters onto the canopy of a large tree.

Boom—

Before his feet even touched the canopy, the ancient wood under his feet turned into powder, followed by the surrounding trees, various plants, and rocks.

An invisible force spread in all directions, and a large pit with a diameter of over thirty meters appeared under Qiming's feet!

At this moment, he felt as if he were being pressed by a mountain weighing billions of tons, about to be pressed into the mud!

But he forcibly stopped the trend of falling, and his feet ultimately did not touch the ground.

His whole body emitted ghostly green light, and he suddenly raised his head to look at the golden dragon in the air:

"Causing thousands of people to lose their lives? Hahahahaha—"

"If it weren't for my New Heaven Society stepping in to save them, the number of people who died in the snow disaster in the northern five provinces would be in the tens of thousands! It was my New Heaven Society that saved tens of thousands of common people for your Great Lan Dynasty!"

He retorted sternly, his voice also resounding for a thousand miles.

As for attacking the barbarian-killing army, leading to the death of the Great Lan Dynasty soldiers, he did not argue.

Reform requires bloodshed and sacrifice; everyone has different stances, so did they expect to be able to sit down and negotiate peacefully?

Killing one is a crime, killing ten thousand is a hero.

Killing one million, one should be a hero among heroes!

If he loses today, he will naturally be heinous in future history.

But if he wins and changes to a new heaven in the future, being praised by later generations, who can say that his actions today are wrong?

In the end, it is nothing more than the winner being the king and the loser being the bandit.

Qiming had formulated two plans for this escape; Boerhu's origin was damaged, and he was unwilling to let people open the protective array to block the disaster for him. Since this plan didn't work, he could only count on Qi Zhou.

As a result, Qi Zhou was actually beheaded by Li Fei!

After witnessing Qi Zhou's death with his own eyes, Qiming had already prepared to be locked onto by Yunshu and face the 'Heavenly Punishment'.

He hunted down Li Fei regardless of everything; it was both out of heartfelt anger and the courage to face life and death!

Rather than continuing to run and dragging it out, gambling on that one-in-ten-thousand chance, it was better to take advantage of the fact that he was still at his peak and fight the Emperor and Yunshu.

Since he couldn't escape, then let's fight!

The ghostly green light suddenly surged, and a power as vast and majestic as the five-clawed golden dragon in the air filled the heaven and earth.

A massive giant suddenly took shape—

Ghostly green scales, a body thousands of meters long, and streaks of scarlet patterns looked like twisted human figures.

An unimaginable giant python appeared out of thin air, confronting the five-clawed golden dragon in the air!

The giant python stood up with its upper body, reaching a height of a thousand meters, at the same height as the five-clawed golden dragon, and Qiming stood on the giant python's head.

"Roar—"

The ghostly green giant python opened its bloody mouth and hissed at the five-clawed golden dragon a thousand meters away.

A hurricane was generated as a result, blowing away the sea of clouds in the air.

That 'As If I Were Personally Present' golden medal suddenly flew toward the high sky again, truly turning into a sun hanging high in the sky.

A steady stream of national destiny surged out from it, and the majestic pressure made even Li Fei feel a sense of suffocation below.

Boom!!!

A golden thunderbolt suddenly fell from this golden medal, striking toward Qiming who was standing on the giant python's head.

This is—Heavenly Punishment!

Borrowing national destiny to launch such a 'Heavenly Punishment' from thousands of miles away, and not even within the borders of the Great Lan Dynasty.

The loss of national destiny for this is immense!

If it were another peak powerhouse, such an attack would not be fatal at all, and it would even be very difficult to kill a 'Prince-level' powerhouse.

But for Qiming, who attained the Dao by 'cursing the country', the lethality of this 'Heavenly Punishment' to him would increase more than tenfold!

He condensed Dao laws by cursing the Great Lan Dynasty; conversely, the national destiny of the Great Lan Dynasty was also the strongest curse to him.

The golden thunderbolt pierced through Qiming's body and struck the ghostly green giant python, causing scales to fly everywhere and dark black blood to fall like black rain!

In the barbarian jungle below, whether it was plants, poisonous insects, wild beasts, or exotic beasts, as long as they came into contact with this black rain, they would turn into a pool of blood in the blink of an eye, their vitality condensing into balls of light and gathering toward the giant python.

After the Heavenly Punishment, the giant python's massive body cracked everywhere, continuously flowing with black blood.

This giant python was formed by the transformation of Qiming's natal magic treasure; although cursed by national destiny, it did not collapse immediately.

Qiming stood on the giant python's head, his eyes determined.

Swish—

The giant python suddenly moved, opening its bloody mouth and pouncing toward the five-clawed golden dragon!

Boom!!!

Another golden thunderbolt struck the giant python, this time directly breaking the giant python's body into two halves!

But the upper half of the body was still flying, and in the blink of an eye, it pounced in front of the five-clawed golden dragon.

The five-clawed golden dragon's gaze was majestic; it did not dodge, and also opened its mouth to bite!

A visible white air wave spread in all directions, sweeping through the clouds for ten thousand miles.

The five-clawed golden dragon bit into the middle of the giant python, which only had half a body left, biting a huge gap in its body.

The ghostly green giant python also bit into the five-clawed golden dragon, breaking the dragon scales and then devouring its flesh and blood!

Qiming was actually actively swallowing the national destiny, which was like the most terrifying curse to him, into his own natal magic treasure!

"Using a python to swallow a dragon, what a wishful thinking; aren't you afraid of bursting yourself?"

A faint voice sounded in Qiming's ear, with a mocking tone.

"Yunshu!"

Qiming's eyes were fierce, and fresh blood spilled from the corners of his mouth. "I am currently in the territory of the Northern Barbarians; do you really think you are guaranteed to win by attacking me in a foreign country?"

"Oh? Do the Northern Barbarians count as a country?"

Yunshu's voice remained calm.

The grassland royal court in the east and the two desert countries in the south, these places were formal countries.

Although these countries had long since submitted to the Great Lan Dynasty, they were still independent.

If Yunshu were to descend national destiny to these places from a distance, the resistance encountered would be very great.

But the Northern Barbarians were different.

Since the death of the first Northern Barbarian King, for so many years, the seventeen tribes of the Northern Barbarians had been fighting on their own, and they could not be considered a unified country at all.

Therefore, when Yunshu descended national destiny from a distance, the resistance encountered was very small.

Just as he said—do the Northern Barbarians count as a country?

"Is that so? Then let's wait and see!"

Qiming sneered, continuing to control the giant python to devour the flesh and blood of the five-clawed golden dragon, looking as if he were deliberately committing suicide.

He was gambling, gambling that Boerhu would absolutely not stand by and watch!

Although the other party had previously refused to use a protective array to block the disaster for him, in the current situation, if the other party still had ambitions, he would absolutely not allow the Great Lan Dynasty to solve him just like that.

As long as there was help from the Northern Barbarians, he would not necessarily lose this game!

Although the national destiny of the Great Lan Dynasty was the most poisonous curse to him, it was also the curse most worthy of his research.

If he could conversely crack and swallow it, Qiming's curse Dao would go a step further, and perhaps he would only be half a step away from the legendary peak!

Qiming's eyes were burning, without any despair of being in a desperate situation.

In the air, the giant python and the golden dragon bit each other, engaging in the bloodiest slaughter.

Today, Qiming wants to use a python to swallow a dragon!

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