The Will of the Former King Can Finally Be Fulfilled

Qin Yi didn't know what Li Qingjun had seen, but he knew what kind of horse could make Li Qingjun so serious.

Someone informed Xiao King that Li Qingjun possessed a Startling Dragon Jade Pendant, which had a special attack bonus against demons. Therefore, Xiao King planned to seize it to fight against Cheng Cheng.

This abruptly led to the destruction of Southern Li.

Li Qingjun, carrying Li Wuxian, broke through the encirclement and fled to the Great Qian Dynasty.

Li Qingjun followed her ancestors and completely broke free from the Southern Li. Qin Yi took Li Wuxian to Dragon Abyss City, laying the foundation for today's imperial path.

At the time, everyone was puzzled by the reason why Xiao King suddenly attacked Southern Li. Qin Yi asked Humble Origins to investigate and said that what came to Xiao King was a horse.

If... that horse was sent by Li Wuxian...

Qin Yi stopped in his tracks and shivered.

Clearly, Li Qingjun had also thought of this, and her expression was one of the most chilling Qin Yi had ever seen.

Li Wuxian finally spoke, "Aunt, do you think that I summoned the Demon King and destroyed Southern Li myself in order to pave the way for seizing the Great Qian Dynasty today?"

Li Qingjun stared coldly at her without replying, but everyone could tell from her expression that this was the meaning behind her words.

Li Wuxian sighed, "The horses were sent by me."

Upon hearing this, Li Qingjun's hand gripping the gun clenched so tightly that the veins bulged. "What else do you have to say? Say it all at once."

Li Wuxian, "Auntie, believe it or not, my eyes can occasionally see fragments of the future."

Li Qingjun did not answer.

You can believe in it, but then what?

"If there had been no intervention, it would have taken about another month for Chenghuang to destroy the two kingdoms and unify the Demon City. The scattered remnants of the demons would have fled the valley, causing chaos in Southern Li. Although they managed to hold out in the end, it was reduced to ruins." Li Wuxian said in a low voice, "Southern Li is too small and too weak. It can't withstand even the slightest storm."

"We held on! Without the Xiao King's personal guards, they were just a few scattered monsters; we wouldn't have wiped them out!" Li Qingjun roared. "But what about now?!"

"Now?" Li Wuxian smiled. "Isn't Southern Li now?"

Li Qingjun was taken aback.

"If Southern Li hadn't perished back then, Aunt, you wouldn't have gone to seek immortality, would you? Even if the Sword Pavilion had come knocking on your door, you wouldn't have gone, would you?"

Li Qingjun tacitly agreed.

"But what's the point of you staying in Southern Li? It's your constraint, your shackles, binding you to a life where you can never step out of the path of immortality." Li Wuxian said in a low voice, her eyes somewhat strange. "Master is forever young on the path of immortality, while you will grow old in just a few years... You will regret it, Aunt."

Li Qingjun stared blankly at her, utterly at a loss for words. "So, according to you, you're still doing this for me?"

"I'm doing this for myself too," Li Wuxian said calmly. "Clinging to Southern Li is a pointless predicament. Even if you toil for decades and die young, allowing me to rule the Nanli King, it's just a cycle of a thousand years. What's the value of governing several counties in Southern Li? The achievements the late king desired were more than this, and this isn't what I want either."

Li Qingjun said with some difficulty, "So you destroyed Southern Li with your own hands!"

Li Wuxian repeated, "Southern Li still here."

"Whether Southern Li is here or not, don't you know that if the Xiao King leaves the valley, we simply can't hold him off, and we might die?"

"I spread the news to the White Kingdom. Chenghuang will know that Xiao King has come up. Given her connection with Master and Ye Ling, they won't sit idly by. We'll have a chance to escape." Li Wuxian said calmly, "And even if Chenghuang doesn't come to our aid, Master will be in Da Qian at that time—well, I didn't see it myself, Ma told me—in short, the opportunity is only a few days. If something happens to us then, Master will know immediately and come south to rescue us. I can go to Master for help, and you'll be free."

Li Qingjun calmed down, looked at her for a long time, and then said, "Even if you didn't see any fragments of the future, you would still do this."

"Yes, in fact, the so-called future fragments are unreliable. They are just one of countless possibilities in the future. At most, they strengthen my determination to act, but they are not the main reason."

"The main reason is that you wanted to steal the throne back then?"

Li Wuxian was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, revealing her cute tiger teeth. "Auntie, do you really think I'm a goddess? How could I have known about such distant changes back then?"

Li Qingjun stared at her coldly, completely unmoved by her cuteness.

Li Wuxian turned to look at Qin Yi, who was listening to the conversation between his aunt and nephew not far away, and said in a low voice, "I didn't think that far ahead. I wasn't very smart back then. I just wanted to see my master... whether it was to cultivate with my master or something else... I would do whatever my master said."

Qin Yi tilted his head.

Li Wuxian, "But Master asked me if I wanted to go to Daqian. I suddenly had an idea. Since there is a demon monk causing trouble in Daqian, things might change in a few years... Heroes rise in chaotic times, isn't this the time? I'm so young, no one will care about me. Even Master doesn't know that I'm sensible. Others will only treat me as a little kid who needs diaper changing. There might be a lot of things I can do... So I told Master that I wanted to go to Daqian."

And that's how we got to where we are today.

"Auntie, look..." Li Wuxian pointed to the plains outside the city.

After all this commotion, the sun has already set, and the western horizon is ablaze with red clouds, illuminating the distant, lonely city.

"That's the border city of Xiliang, our last obstacle. Within ten days, we can sweep it down, unify the world, and this Great Qian will no longer be Great Qian." Li Wuxian pointed again to the Nanming Lihuo Army outside the city. "This King, and the country is named Li. You tell me every day to inherit the Late King's Legacy, but now I tell you, the Will of the Former King can be fulfilled!"

Li Qingjun couldn't say a word.

She turned to look at Qin Yi, and Qin Yi was looking at her too.

Both of them looked as if they had been punched, so tense that they couldn't move.

Qin Yi traveled through time to the late autumn of the thirteenth year of the calendar.

Nanli King Li Wuxian personally led an expedition to the Western Liang. Facing interference and pressure from the immortals, he risked his life to communicate with the Divine Palace, block Taiyi, repel the Witch God, and restore order to the human world's struggle for supremacy.

Then he led his army westward and conquered Xiliang in ten days. The Liang King fled and was beheaded by his personal guards and presented to the emperor. Xiliang was thus pacified.

Soon, a proclamation will be sent throughout the land, the southeast will bow down, the mountains will change their flags, and the land will be at peace.

When Li Wuxian returned to the capital in triumph, his ministers submitted memorials urging him to ascend the throne. Li Wuxian did not feign reluctance or offer to resign three times; instead, he went directly to the capital and formally became emperor.

In fact, the true remnants of the Great Qian Dynasty's National Luck had long since vanished with Meng Qingying. Li Wuxian was merely a wisp of the Da Qian Kingdom, which she herself had condensed into a completely new national National Luck. She was not a true Princess of the Qian Dynasty, and it would be far too easy for her to shake off this legal principle now.

She is not Xianning Princess, she is the King of Southern Li.

The tide has turned, the world bows down, and no one can stop it anymore.

Therefore, the Da Qian National Title was abolished, and the country was established as Li.

A brand new emperor reigns supreme over the land.

When Li Huang ascended the throne, he posthumously conferred the title of emperor upon all previous kings. Li Duanxuan, the king of the Southern Li Kingdom, was also given the title of emperor, and it was a very long one.

The late King Li Qinglin was posthumously honored as Martial Emperor.

Even Zhaoyang Empress Li Qingjun, who had never been a king, was forcibly given the title of Empress Zhaoyang. Everyone knew it was against the rules, but no one dared to object.

The first step in bestowing titles upon his officials was puzzling.

The abbot of Hidden Dragon Temple, Lingxu, was bestowed the title of Deputy National Teacher. No one could remember the long list of illustrious titles that followed; all that was memorable was the strange word "Vice," and no one knew why Lingxu had no objection whatsoever.

The true Imperial Preceptor didn't even have a name; he was only known as the Holy National Teacher of the Southern Li Qingwei Enlightening and Sacred National Teacher.

Of course, anyone who has studied the new emperor's background and has a bit of a clue knows who this nameless Imperial Preceptor is.

Qin Yi, the true Imperial Preceptor of Southern Li position had been vacant for a long time.

Because he firmly denied it, Li Wuxian had no choice but to conceal his name, which led to his current state.

Qin Yi and Li Qingjun stood on the clouds, watching the officials bowing and shouting "Long live the Emperor!" during the enthronement ceremony. No matter how complicated their feelings were about this event, they couldn't help but think of the fire that Southern Li.

Like a rebirth.

The young empress, Flying Dragon in the Sky.

The Will of the Former King has been fulfilled.