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Chapter 1717 The Most Vicious
Zhou Shiyue is now extremely annoyed by the people behind the scenes.
Weng Songzhi also sighed, "I wonder just how many people are in the way of the Great Zhou Dynasty."
“The most vicious thing about them is,” Yin Changxing said solemnly, “that they want to seize your country, and they will stop at nothing to save you. They don’t care about the deaths of ordinary people, nor do they regret the sacrifices of their soldiers, and they have no respect or concern for the fate of the nation or its destiny.”
If such people were allowed to succeed and hold power, the world would certainly change drastically.
"They're willing to do anything to destroy the current stability."
Zhou Shiyue also discovered the other party's ruthlessness. The reason they rose up in rebellion in the past was because the world was too chaotic at that time, with bandits and thieves everywhere, and frequent outbreaks of burning, killing and looting. The previous emperor was incompetent, hesitant and indecisive, and dared not take drastic measures. He bullied the weak and feared the strong, and dared not suppress the bandits and thieves. Instead, he kept increasing taxes and recruiting Latin troops.
At that time, many families had men as young as thirteen or as old as forty who were conscripted into the army. The elderly, weak, sick, and disabled women in the family had to save up some food and money to send to them from time to time, otherwise they would not have enough to eat or wear in the army.
The court was corrupt and incompetent, and the taxes collected were exploited at every level to fund the pleasures of the powerful.
A hundred voices wept, yet the dances in Shengjing never ceased.
Therefore, the Zhou family was led to rebellion by a group of insightful people, and the First Mystic Sect foresaw their fate and rose up accordingly.
All they wanted was for peace and for the people to have a way to survive.
With the help of the Xuanmen sect, they entered Shengjing and established the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Zhou Shiyue's grandfather truly devoted his life to the cause of the people, recruiting many talented and virtuous individuals, formulating numerous policies for the country and its people, and employing various means to lead his soldiers in their efforts to quell the banditry and severely punish those who caused chaos in the world. At that time, many bandits and villains were beheaded in various places, with people being beheaded almost every day.
Under suppression, the world was cleansed.
Meanwhile, the Xuanmen sect was secretly responsible for capturing those extraordinary adversaries, demons, and monsters. At that time, many mysterious events occurred frequently in various places, and members of the Xuanmen sect were busy running around, clearing them out.
However, the early period of the Great Zhou Dynasty was too chaotic, really too chaotic. Even with the help of the Xuanmen, the country was still in turmoil. After all, many policies take time to take effect.
During that period, a mysterious person appeared. This person was interested in mountains and rivers and different customs and cultures, so he traveled all over the world.
He was knowledgeable and possessed a mysterious talent, able to foresee potential calamities in any place, and upon discovering such a calamity, he would write a book and pass it on to the First Mystic Sect.
At first, the First Mystic Sect didn't quite believe that this person had such powerful abilities, so they tried to divine his fate and related matters. However, when they tried to divine, they found that the other party's destiny and location were both shrouded in mystery and they couldn't calculate them no matter what they did, so they believed it.
From then on, both the Great Zhou court and the Xuanmen sect took his letters as their guide, and wherever the letters pointed, they went to quell the chaos and eliminate evil.
Therefore, they prevented many disasters in advance and saved many people. As a result, the Zhou royal family accumulated more and more prestige and popular support.
Later, something happened to the Xuanmen sect, and the letter arrived late.
However, there are still some inside stories about those matters that Zhou Shiyue has not yet investigated.
Zhou Shiyue now vaguely felt that perhaps the Great Zhou royal family and the Xuanmen had suppressed some people or evil spirits back then, sowing deep hatred. At that time, they did not completely eliminate them, and now that they have the opportunity to make a comeback, they are so ruthless and cruel, wanting to completely annihilate the Great Zhou Dynasty.
They even wanted to replace the First Mystic Sect, which is why so many evil cultivators emerged.
Zhou Shiyue felt that the descendants of the previous dynasty were here to overthrow the Great Zhou and seize the throne, while those evil cultivators were from another organization and wanted to shroud the world in dark clouds, let evil spirits run rampant, and break the clear sky.
Neither of these methods are permitted.
Therefore, there must be a huge mastermind hiding in the capital, and the mastermind must have a very powerful evil cultivator by their side, or perhaps they themselves are an evil cultivator.
“No matter what they try to do, they can’t succeed,” Zhou Shiyue said calmly.
Yin Changxing nodded and said, "That's for sure, the Zhou family's fate is not yet over."
Yin Yunting and Weng Songzhi, however, sensed a hint of coldness in his words.
As expected, Yin Changxing continued, "However, now that the First Xuanmen has withered away, there are only a few of us left. If the Great Zhou royal family wants us to devote all our efforts to helping and assisting them, it will probably be difficult."
“You should establish a new Xuanmen, or make the army more powerful. You can’t rely on just a few of us, especially Xiao Ling’er. Xiao Ling’er has already helped enough. She should be allowed to have some easy and carefree days.”
In short, Yin Changxing was unwilling to let Lu Zhaoling go all out to help him.
He always said that, and Zhou Shiyue wanted to know even more what Lu Zhaoling had gone through in the past that made her master so worried about her now, afraid that something might happen to her.
“Master, I will also protect A-Ling.”
Zhou Shiyue said, "You have to believe me, just like you, I don't want anything to happen to her."
Yin Changxing nodded and said, "It's best if you think that way."
Fearing that they might continue talking about the conflict between the Great Zhou Dynasty and Xiao Ling'er's personal safety, Weng Songzhi quickly said, "Your Highness should go back and rest. We can talk about these things tomorrow."
“Yes, let’s rest first.” Yin Yunting said to Zhou Shiyue, “Senior Sister should be asleep by now, right? Let her get some rest too. Being a bride these past two days must have been tiring.”
The implication was that they couldn't "make trouble" anymore after they went back.
Zhou Shiyue understood his meaning and paused for a moment.
He stood up. "I'll head back now. You all should rest too."
He turned and walked out, and Yin Changxing watched his retreating figure, lost in thought.
"Father, is something you've remembered?" Yin Yunting asked.
Because they were already so familiar with each other, but just now Yin Changxing's gaze as he looked at Zhou Shiyue's back was a little inquisitive.
Because of the Soul-Stripping Technique, Yin Changxing did not remember every detail of his time at the First Mystic Gate.
What he remembered most clearly was always related to Lu Zhaoling, and the focus was on the days leading up to his death and the day of his death.
But going back further, to things like the events before Lu Zhaoling appeared, he still needed to calm down and think carefully about the other matters of the First Mystic Sect.
That's why Yin Yunting asked that question.
"For some reason, when he said he would protect Xiao Ling'er just now, I vaguely felt that I had heard someone say the same thing before."
"Who?" Yin Yunting asked.
"Let me think about it." Yin Changxing rubbed his temples. "I can't remember right now."