Chapter 744 - - 550 A single hair move affects the whole body_1

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“He Yan has summoned death?”

It was swift.

No sooner had Duge, who was touring outside, heard the news of the old emperor’s suicide, his cultivation level having reached the Nascent Soul Realm, that distance became essentially a non-issue.

Moreover, he had a large number of Yin Gods under his command, which allowed information to be passed very quickly.

“Your Majesty, after drinking with the Crown Prince and returning to his room, he hung himself indeed,” a messenger of the Unity Realm Stage from Dragon Tiger Mountain stood respectfully before Duge, “The old emperor’s death was somewhat strange. We questioned the Crown Prince and learned the truth about He Yan’s death. He intended to go to the Underworld to file a complaint, hoping to use the hands of the Underworld to let the Immortal Emperor know about the Human Emperor’s awakening.”

“…”

Xu Jinghui’s pupils suddenly contracted, and in an instant his hands and feet turned cold.

These days, he had been following Duge without a chance to investigate the matters of the old ancestor, but he had watched, wide-awake, as one Literary and Martial Heart after another surfaced, and the matter of the Human Emperor Inheritance became an ever-growing commotion.

With each day more harrowing than the last, he feared that any day now, Emperor Donghua or even the Immortal Emperor would come to kill them.

Unexpectedly, the old emperor had used the Underworld to lodge his complaint in a roundabout way - exactly what he had been afraid of!

Indeed, Duge’s strength had grown rapidly, but he was merely at the Unity Stage and had not yet transcended the Heavenly Tribulation.

In the ancient times, the old Human Emperor had so many strong and fierce warriors under him, yet all were slain by the Immortal Emperor. Even if Duge did receive the Human Emperor Inheritance, he would still be an emperor in his infancy, vulnerable to being crushed by the Immortal Emperor with ease.

Dead!

This time, thoroughly dead!

And yet, wherever Duge went, he insisted on bringing him and Lou Zhen along, giving him no chance to escape. By now, he could no longer gauge Duge’s cultivation level.

“Going to the Underworld to lodge a complaint?” Duge was taken aback for a moment. “He wanted to lodge a complaint, so he took his own life, but why tell the Crown Prince?”

Are you grasping the main point, old man?

The cultivator of the Unity Realm Stage held back his discomfort and said, “Your Majesty, He Yan wished for the Crown Prince to persevere, not to do anything rash because of his death, and to wait for the dawn to reclaim their rightful throne…”

“So the moment he died, his son sold him out?” Duge smirked mischievously, “How filially pious they are.”

“The royal family has been protected by the Dragon Vein for a long time, possibly underestimating our methods,” stated the Unity Realm Stage cultivator. He looked at Duge, unable to resist voicing his doubts, “Ancestor, now that He Yan’s soul is lodging complaints in the Underworld, do we not need to take any precautions?”

“What precautions? We’ll deal with whatever comes our way,” Duge sneered, waving his hand dismissively, “He Yan was a fool, too. Guarding against the mouths of others is more difficult than guarding against rivers. The matter of the Human Emperor Inheritance has already spread throughout Dachu Country; it will reach the ears of Emperor Donghua in just a few days. He should have just waited quietly, there was no need for him to die…”

Alas!

He indeed knew everything.

Xu Jinghui sighed silently and gloomily reminded him, “Ancestor, you might have forgotten that He Yan did not know Emperor Donghua is our enemy. In his heart, Emperor Donghua was the mastermind. Besides dying and lodging a complaint in the Underworld, he had no other way out.”

“I overlooked that,” Duge said with a chagrined chuckle. “It seems that He Yan was quite the warrior after all. Have someone give him a proper burial! There’s no need to spread the news of his suicide though; we don’t want others to think I, as the Human Emperor, can’t tolerate an old Heavenly Emperor!”

“…” Xu Jinghui froze. Observing Duge, he seriously wondered if it was all intentional. He pursed his lips and hesitated, “Ancestor…”

“Call me Your Majesty,” Duge corrected.

Xu Jinghui choked, holding back his frustration. “Your Majesty, He Yan’s complaint in the Underworld has a high chance of alerting the Heavenly Court. The Immortal Emperor won’t allow the revival of the Human Race…”

“What’s there to fear? If the sky falls, won’t Emperor Donghua hold it up?” Duge glanced at him, shaking his head with a smile, “Relax, you will soon understand what is meant by the trend of the times being unstoppable.”

Since entering the Alien Battlefield and becoming aware of the existence of the Immortal Court and Underworld, Duge had been extremely cautious.

In order not to alarm the Underworld, he only killed when he was sure the soul could not escape.

That way, he could ensure a person would vanish completely, leaving not a trace in this world. But when he decided to implement the Human Emperor project in New Moon Country, Duge completely let loose.

New Moon Country might be a small country, but that was relative, given the massive size of the Eastern Polar Continent.

With such a vast territory, the largest country, Great Chu, had over a billion people; even if New Moon Country was smaller, it still boasted a population in the hundreds of millions. Without such a large population, Contain the Heavenly Statutes in Mouth would not have been so easy to achieve.

With hundreds of millions of people, an untold number of them died every day.

With the spread of Literary and Martial Hearts so wide, the Underworld must have been aware long ago. It was simply impossible to hide.

Thus, from the moment he set the Human Emperor project in motion, Duge had no intention of hiding it.

In two more days, the end-of-month rankings would be published, and all he needed was a slight delay in timing.

Now armed with the trump card “Contain the Heavenly Statutes in Mouth,” Duge wished nothing more than to stir the waters into greater turbidity.

Only by amplifying his fame could he entice more people to join the fray.

The murkier the waters, the harder it is for everyone to distinguish friend from foe.

Once suspicion arises, the charges will hold.

With no intervention from the Immortal Emperor and only Emperor Donghua aware of the Human Emperor Inheritance, Duge himself possessed sufficient ability to dissolve dangers into nothingness.

But should the Immortal Emperor intervene, the mud he’d slung onto Emperor Donghua would become indelible.

With both sides in check, he would find his opportunity.

If the Underworld Emperor were influenced by the Human Emperor Inheritance and believed he should sit equal to the Immortal Emperor, then that would be even more interesting.

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