But in the eyes of Emperor Taizu Yan... .the other princes were either as ambitious but incompetent as Emperor Yonghe, or had no interest in politics, so there was really no good choice.
If a mediocre emperor came to power in the current Great Yan Dynasty, even if Emperor Taizu Yan did it himself, he would not be able to forcibly continue the dynasty.
A fourteen-year-old little emperor... at least he is more malleable.
Moreover, this little emperor is still young and has some youthful spirit.
If they are any younger, they won’t be sensible enough; if they are any older, they will be difficult to cultivate.
This time, with him personally watching over it, nothing should go wrong.
"Grandfather..." The fourteen-year-old emperor did not feel any excitement about being an emperor. Instead, he felt nervous:
"Why didn't the ancestor come to be the emperor himself?" he asked, looking up.
"If we rely on our ancestors for everything, then what's the point of the Great Yan Dynasty?" Taizu Yan said with a glare.
The little emperor froze in his tracks, as if frightened by Yan Taizu's glare.
Seeing this, Yan Taizu could only sigh slightly, and his tone softened a little:
"My dear ancestor, I am not from this era."
"Besides, conquering an empire and maintaining it are two completely different things."
Emperor Taizu Yan had a relatively clear understanding of himself.
What the immortal sect feared was not his personal martial arts ability, but the Human King Sword on his waist.
If the so-called strongest person in ancient martial arts could really compete with immortal cultivators, why would he wait until now
Therefore, he now does not exist as the "founding emperor of Great Yan", but as the contemporary Great Yan King who holds the Human King Sword.
The emperor is not suitable for fighting on the battlefield, because if the emperor dies, the entire dynasty will be in turmoil and leaderless.
So now he plans to train a successor himself.
“It’s not like I can completely control it, but it’s also not like I can completely ignore it either... It’s really troublesome.” Yan Taizu muttered.
In the next few years, he will temporarily serve as regent, and will let go when the little emperor is able to handle state affairs on his own.
State affairs... ..as long as no major mistakes are made, it will be fine.
After all, the fundamental reason for the confrontation with the Immortal Sect ultimately comes down to him, the Great Yan King who holds the Human King Sword.
The first thing Yan Taizu had to consider was how to increase his own strength.
After being defeated by Qiao Mu, he had ordered the Feiyu Guards to go out and collect as many martial arts secrets as possible from this era and try to learn some new methods.
In the past, the martial arts families and famous sects had been wiped out by the martial saints in the past few decades. So this move by Yan Taizu basically meant that he would have to deal with the Wu Ji Society.
In addition, he collected more natural treasures to quickly increase his skills.
Before the Alien War, although the Great Yan Royal Family also trained a group of herbalists, they were mainly looking for elixirs that could prolong life rather than those that could increase power.
Yan Taizu's attitude towards the growth of internal strength is more Buddhist and casual. If he has it, he will use it. If he doesn't have it, forget it.
After all, he had already been invincible, so there was little point in continuing to increase his internal strength, so he was more concerned about prolonging his life.
As for the Great Yan royal family's deliberate search for precious medicines to increase internal strength, it has actually only happened in the last forty years.
As a medicinal spirit, spending money is the most effective way.
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The Da Dao Sect.
"The founding emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, who has lived for 300 years on earth, used the Human King Sword to kill a paper figure of you?"
The head of the Da Dao Sect looked at Elder Qingyi in front of him, thoughtful.
Elder Qingyi is a Nascent Soul elder in the Da Dao Sect who has an overall view of worldly affairs. Negotiations with the Great Yan Dynasty are also within Qingyi's scope of responsibility.
"That's right." Elder Qingyi gave a brief explanation.
In fact, when he talked with Emperor Yan that day, half of his intention was to test Emperor Yan.
The Sword of the Human King is the weapon of destiny for the Great Yan Dynasty and is of great importance.
And the character of its owner is very important.
Elder Qingyi used a paper man to test Emperor Yan and deliberately used provocative words, which managed to get the information he wanted.
An obvious fact is that Emperor Yan, who holds the Human King Sword, and Emperor Yonghe, who also holds the Human King Sword, are two completely different opponents.
Emperor Taizu Yan was obviously more powerful and decisive, and was not the same type of person as Emperor Yonghe.
"Two sword-wielders with completely different personalities?" The head master pondered for a moment.
The strength of the sword holder himself does not matter much; what is important is the sword and the attitude of the sword holder.
Elder Qingyi used a paper man to find out a lot of things, including how Emperor Yan used the Human King Sword and Emperor Yan's own temperament. This can be considered a great achievement.
"Besides that, there is one more thing." Elder Qingyi showed a look of fear on his face for the first time:
"That Human King Sword even injured my real body thousands of miles away through the Paper Figure Technique... Although the injury was not serious, it did reduce some of my spiritual power."
"Can't we use some kind of magic trick like paper figurines to trick the soldiers of destiny? That's really tricky."
The head of the Da Dao Sect originally thought that he could use paper figures to transform into the appearance of immortal cultivators in order to deceive Emperor Yan Taizu and continuously consume the power of luck on the Human King Sword. Now it seems that this method is not feasible.
"This information is very important. You have made great contributions to the sect, so the sect will naturally not treat you unfairly." The head of the Da Dao Sect said solemnly.
He waved his sleeves, and two or three merit talismans flew out and landed in Elder Qingyi's hands:
"Recover your lost skills as soon as possible. You have always been cautious and steady. Compared to Junior Brother Qingzhuo... Well, let's not talk about him."
"In short, you are still responsible for the mundane affairs of the world, so just recover as soon as possible."
"Thank you, Master." Elder Qingyi nodded, stood up and left.
The nature of this incident is actually different from what Elder Qingzhuo caused in the lonely city in the desert.
Elder Qingzhuo suffered a great loss that time, and before he could finish his work, he destroyed a secret realm of the sect.
This time, Elder Qingyi sat back and did not take any action in his true form.
If the Human King Sword had not been beyond his expectations, Elder Qingyi would not have been injured at all, and at most he would have lost a paper figure.
He also found out a lot of information about Ren Wangjian and Yan Taizu, which was already a great achievement.
"Human King Sword, the destiny of the human world... Is this a counterattack from the destiny of the human world?" The head of the Da Dao Sect frowned, but then relaxed:
"It is said that those who have good fortune cannot live forever."
"Although Emperor Yan did not personally become the emperor, but was only the temporary regent, it would be too naive to think that you could get away with this little trick."
"When he returns to the world as the Great Yan King, it may mean that he will not live for too long."
When it comes to squeezing the offerings from mortals, the nine major immortal sects are of course all in the same boat, so as the head sect leader, he would naturally inform the other immortal sects of this news.
A new emperor and a new sword-wielder are of great importance and will directly affect the attitude of the nine major immortal sects towards mortals.
"Ancestor Yan has a strong personality and will respond to soft words but not hard ones?" The head of the Da Dao Sect shook his head and wanted to laugh.
No matter how powerful you are, you are still a mortal after all. Do you want to show weakness in front of the immortals
If it was Emperor Yonghe who held the Human King Sword, and if King Qin's plan for an earthly fairyland had not been shattered, then the nine great fairy gates could still maintain superficial harmony with the Great Yan Dynasty.
As for now... I'm afraid I don't have the patience anymore.
The nine great immortal sects might not confront Yan Taizu who holds the Human King Sword directly, but they have plenty of slightly roundabout ways.
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Imperial Capital Teahouse, Tianranju.
Tianranju has the background of Tingchaolou, a powerful underworld force, so the teahouse business has been very good in the past few days. Many underworld men from all over the country come here to discuss the dramatic changes in the palace a few days ago.
There are many different opinions about the dramatic changes that happened in the palace that night.
The key point is that Taizu of Dayan had an ambiguous attitude. He clearly announced that Qiao Jin, Qiao Shuangzhao and others from the Qiao family had entered the palace to assassinate, but he immediately withdrew the charges that Emperor Yonghe had put on the Minister of Rites Hai Wuya during his lifetime.
Some people say that the Qiao family member who broke into the palace that night was a middle-aged man in his thirties, but others say that the Qiao family member is not in his thirties at this moment, but over three hundred or six hundred years old.
Regarding the age of the Qiao family, many people actually don't believe it... Even the eyewitnesses of the incident are skeptical: the judgment of the Qiao family's age depends solely on the words of Yan Taizu.
"Qiao Shuang, a descendant of the Qiao family, brazenly entered the palace to assassinate the tyrant emperor but failed and died? The tyrant emperor is so confused, the Qiao family's hidden thousand-year-old monster is about to be born!"
"What? Qiao Shuangzhao failed, but his soldiers succeeded in assassinating the tyrant? Is this okay?!"
"So has the thousand-year-old monster of the Qiao family come out?"
Some people simply don't believe it: "What kind of thousand-year-old monster, six-hundred-year-old monster, how can there be immortals who are hundreds of years old in the world and look so young? They are all fake, all acting!"
"I heard that this was judged by the founding emperor himself?"
"He told you he was the founding emperor, so he must be the founding emperor?" The questioner didn't believe it at all:
"These are all fake! All fake!"
"The Great Ancestor is also fake. There is no immortal who lives for hundreds of years in this world! Both sides are just playing a double act."
"In my opinion, the Taizu in the palace is actually a fake, but this time he has taken over the palace!"
"They are all fake, only I am real... In fact, I am also an immortal!" A drinker in the teahouse burped and grinned:
"In fact, I am the great ancestor of the previous dynasty, the Great Zhou, and I lived for more than 600 years."
"Now we are short of money to recruit soldiers. Give me fifty taels, and I will make you the Grand Marshal of the Army, and we will restore the Great Zhou..."
The drunkard's remarks were particularly outrageous, causing everyone around him to change color, and he was finally kicked out by the teahouse staff.
"I also heard that the Martial Saint is alive again?"
"Hey, what kind of world is this? The founding emperor is still alive today, the dead are resurrected, there is an immortal Qiao family member who can teleport, and the emperor is dead."
"When a country is about to fall, there will be evildoers..."
The storyteller Jiang Chen was in a private room in the teahouse, but he listened attentively to the many noises in the hall, feeling neither amused nor helpless.
All these divergent opinions can be summed up in one word: chaos, chaos, chaos.
I don't know whether it's true or not, but it's basically very bizarre.
Jiang Chen even suspected that there were other chatterbox storytellers in Tingchao Tower who were also adding fuel to the fire.
But these are not the point.
After Emperor Yonghe was assassinated, the storyteller Jiang Chen is now mainly responsible for formulating a new issue of the Wulin Ranking with other storytellers.
"The Great Flame King, the Flame God Machine, number one on the Power Ranking."
"The head of the Blood Family, Blood River, ranked second on the Power Ranking."
"As for Qiao Jin of the Qiao family... I'll see how to arrange them more appropriately..."
"The Kingslayer, Jokin."
"Fifth on the Strength List, Third on the Power List, and First on the God List!"
"Qiao Jin has already reached the super level of spiritual cultivation. It is said that his eyewitness skills are amazing. He can even turn the virtual into the real and kill people with his eyes!"
The other storytellers were discussing intensely, except Jiang Chen who seemed a little absent-minded.
"Jiang Chen, what are you thinking about?" asked the storyteller Shunfenger.
"I was just a little distracted." Jiang Chen smiled.
"The four lists of strength, power and skills gods in Tingchao Tower basically represent the highest achievers in the four martial arts."
"The best in the art of refining the spirits, the Taotie-swallowing Heavenly Martial Saint."
"The best in martial arts, he turned his body into a sword and became a banished immortal."
"The best in Qi-power martial arts, the Great Flame Man King Yan Shen Ji."
"I wonder if Qing Li, the number one in Qi and Blood Martial Arts, is qualified to stand shoulder to shoulder with these three."
As soon as Jiang Chen said this, the storytellers who were originally talking excitedly suddenly became quiet and looked at him with inexplicably complicated eyes.
"Uh..." Jiang Chen felt a little nervous after being stared at by so many people, so he had to explain:
"The Martial Saint, the Sword Exiled Immortal, and the Great Ancestor Yan can all be called peerless masters."
"The so-called peerless ones are invincible in the world, with no one to stand shoulder to shoulder with them. They have been invincible in different eras, and were the leaders of martial arts in their respective eras, the best in the world."
"If we were to find someone on the power rankings who is most qualified to stand alongside these three, it would undoubtedly be Qiao Jin from the Qiao family."