Du Busi felt extremely anxious.
It feels like drinking a bowl of hot ginger soup for three to nine days, which warms the body from the throat to the stomach.
He stroked his beard and laughed loudly, and his laughter returned to its usual loud volume. Most of his previous restraint disappeared with these words.
"You kid, you still have such a sweet mouth!"
"Okay, okay, we are all our own people, don't say these polite words."
"Today's battle is enough to go down in history! When I look back, I will have today's battle report written down in the historical records, so that all future generations of disciples will know how powerful you are!"
There was another round of laughter all around.
Several other people also followed suit, some slapping their thighs, some whistling, and the atmosphere was as warm as the New Year.
Ji Juechen stood in the crowd, not cheering with everyone, looking at Lu Ren, there was no trace of Envy in his eyes, only a growing fighting spirit and a clear goal.
2 Ye Guyi stood closest to Lu Ren. Her blond hair was blown a little loose by the wind, and a few strands of broken hair were stuck to her cheeks. She did not raise her hand to brush them.
The boy with white hair, blue eyes and a smiling face reflected in her pupils, making her bite her lower lip unconsciously.
Two pale pink blushes appeared on his cheeks, and the pride and joy in his eyes almost overflowed, but he still tried to keep a straight face and put on a calm expression that said "I knew he was fine".
It's a pity that the upward curve of the corners of her mouth that couldn't be suppressed gave her away.
Just after everyone celebrated and celebrated, Ye Guyi suddenly remembered something, stepped forward and asked softly, "Lu Ren, what should we do over there Xu Tianran?"
As soon as these words came out, the busy people around him stopped what they were doing.
The relaxed atmosphere in the air faded a bit, replaced by a kind of silence.
Ye Guyi continued, his brows slightly raised, and his fingers unconsciously twisting the corners of his clothes. "This time Holy Spirit Cult committed a large-scale attack. It was because he was conniving and supporting behind the scenes, and wanted to use the knife to kill people.
"Those Evil Soul Master have been able to stay in Mingdu for so many years. It would have been impossible without Imperial Family's acquiescence."
"Although we have eliminated Holy Spirit Cult this time, the root cause is still in Xu Tianran. Should we just let him go back to Mingdu? I'm afraid he will cause trouble again in the future."
After her words fell, everyone's eyes once again focused on Lu Ren.
Some people were nodding, others were frowning and thinking. Du Busi touched his chin and said nothing, but his eyes clearly meant the same thing.
To cut weeds, we must remove the roots.
Lu Ren raised his eyes and looked in the direction of Mingdu, his blue eyes narrowed slightly.
After a moment, he raised the corners of his mouth and spoke slowly, "Don't worry, let them run first."
He withdrew his gaze and flicked the dust on his cuffs casually. "A monk who can run away cannot run away from the temple. This Douluo Continent is so big. Even if he Xu Tianran hides in Mingdu and seals all Imperial Palace's defenses, he still can't escape."
When everyone heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and then they all understood.
The tense expressions on their faces relaxed, and some people even couldn't help laughing.
Yes.
If even God Official can't stop him, how can an ordinary capital city trap him?
Xu Tianran Those hurried arrangements now, in the face of absolute power, are like ants trying desperately to move clods of soil to the entrance of the cave before a heavy rain, it is futile and ridiculous.
To put it simply, Xu Tianran's so-called struggle is just like a grasshopper after autumn, it can't jump around for a few days.
Douluo Continent's world has completely changed since today.
The person standing at the top of this new world is the sixteen-year-old boy in front of him, who has just finished a day of wheel fighting and is still laughing and chatting with everyone.
"Next, everything that needs to be sorted out will be sorted out." Lu Ren turned around, faced the crowd at Spirit Pagoda, bowed slightly forward, and said in a solemn tone, "I leave all the affairs of Spirit Pagoda to you."
This time everyone can't be fooled.
Du Busi was the first to wave his hand. "Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? We are all our own people, how can we get so many etiquettes!"
Several older elders also hid aside, saying "I can't do it, I can't do it" over and over again, their faces turning red.
Obviously they want to rely on Lu Ren a lot, but instead they are bowed down by Lu Ren. Who can bear this?
But at this moment, Du Busi suddenly reacted and asked, "By the way, you Spirit Pagoda----we Body Sect can also cooperate with you, right?"
Lu Ren straightened up, smiled, and turned to Du Busi: "That's natural, Master Poison, Spirit Pagoda can establish Offering Hall, and you can be Chief Offering. The position has been reserved for you and you can take office at any time."
Du Busi was stunned, then raised his head and laughed, "Hahaha! Then I won't be polite! Chief Offering, this guy sounds very impressive!"
Others were speechless.
After all, you are also the sect leader of the Body Sect. Does this matter?
The identity of Chief Offering seems not as domineering as the identity of the Sect Master of the Body Sect, right?
"And Brother Peng, please come and join us. The spot has been reserved for you." Lu Ren looked across the crowd and landed on Zhang Peng.
Zhang Peng has been standing on the outskirts of the crowd, neither pushing forward to talk nor deliberately retreating.
When he heard Lu Ren call his name, he was stunned for a moment.
Then there was an obvious joy in those eyes, which were as bright as if someone had struck a match in the pupils.
He had long wanted to be attached to her, and now Lu Ren personally invited her, which was exactly what he wanted.
Zhang Peng took a step forward and said in a deep voice, "It is my honor to join Spirit Pagoda. After all, today, I witnessed the birth of Miracles."
"It's nothing Miracles, it's just a convenient thing." Lu Ren smiled and waved his hand, speaking in a casual tone, "Brother Peng doesn't have to be so outspoken. Spirit Pagoda has just established, and we are lacking someone like you who can take charge of your own affairs. In the future, you will have to worry about external liaison and sorting out these things in the Soul Master system."
There was another round of cheers all around.
Everyone in the crowd looked excited. The previous panic when facing Three Limit Douluo had long since disappeared, replaced by Limitless expectations for the future.
Who would have thought that in just one day, the top forces on the continent would be defeated one after another, but it was their emerging Spirit Pagoda that stepped on the remains of the old era and stood on the top of the continent.
It's just----
In the eyes of Lu Ren, except for Du Busi, Wuyun, and Zhang Peng, most of the people in front of them began to have a breath, and they were slowly integrating into Lu Ren's body----
"It's all Faith Power----"
Lu Ren couldn't help but said in his heart.
After this battle, most people present began to offer themselves Faith Power - representing their absolute trust in Lu Ren.
He even began to worship Lu Ren as a god----
"It's also a good thing."
Lu Ren smiled in his heart.
However, just when Spirit Pagoda was reorganizing and prospering, there were no accidents along the way. Xu Tianran, who returned to Mingdu safely, was filled with panic.
A few days later.
Mingdu, Imperial Palace.
Only a few candles were lit in the hall, and the dim light cast swaying shadows on the walls.
The air was filled with a faint smell of blood, seeping out from the cracks in the floor, mixed with the residual sandalwood smell in the incense burner, forming a sweetness that made people feel sick to their stomachs.
Xu Tianran sat on Dragon Throne, his whole body sunken into the chair cushion, shrinking like a quail soaked in rain.
The collar of the dragon robe was pulled loose by him, revealing a red mark under the collarbone that he had scratched.
His breathing was shallow and rapid, and his chest was rising and falling at an abnormally fast rate. Every time he took a breath, he felt like he was fighting for oxygen from something.
Now Xu Tianran has only one thought in his mind.
When will Lu Ren come?
Will that white-haired boy suddenly appear out of the air? Will there be an invisible Slashes that cuts through the dome of the hall silently and falls on top of his head?
Could it be that the next second he closed his eyes, he would never be able to open them again?
This thought was like an insect covered with barbs, crawling over and over in his mind, bringing out more fear every time it crawled.
He could hear his own heartbeat, thump thump thump, as fast as a drum being beaten crazily.
"Get out!"
"Everyone get out of here!!!"
Xu Tianran suddenly grabbed the teacup at hand and threw it hard at the entrance of the temple.
The porcelain hit the ground and exploded, with fragments flying everywhere. One of the pieces flew past the guard at the door, drawing a thin line of blood.
The guard trembled all over but did not dare to move.
"Get out of here! A bunch of useless trash!"
His voice was broken, with a broken sound at the end, and saliva flew out of the corners of his mouth and splashed on the dragon robe.
"Holy Spirit Cult said he could protect me! What happened? All dead! All dead! Are you worthy of standing here? Get out!"
"It's all useless trash! A bunch of trash!!!"
Several guards crawled out of the hall, the soles of their boots making a crunching sound when they stepped on the broken porcelain pieces.
The palace door was closed from the outside, making a dull banging sound.
Xu Tianran was breathing heavily, his chest heaving violently.
His hands were groping randomly on the Dragon Throne armrest, trying to find something to smash with, but found that he had already smashed everything that could be smashed.
The scene was strewn with debris.
Xu Tianran is now in an extremely irritable mood, and he often yells at the attendants around him.
In addition, a young eunuch's hand shook when he was serving tea, and the lid of the teacup made a soft sound on the saucer. A few drops of tea splashed on the table, soaking a small corner of the memorial.
Xu Tianran became red-eyed on the spot, picked up the jade seal on the table and smashed it over.
The square jade seal was as big as a fist and had sharp edges. It hit the little eunuch's forehead with a dull sound.
The little eunuch was hit so hard that his head was bleeding. The blood flowed down his brow bone and blinded one eye. He knelt on the ground and shivered. He didn't even dare to beg for mercy. He just kept kowtowing and his forehead hit the floor tiles with muffled sounds.
Then Xu Tianran still had people drag him out and behead him.
That's not all.
Within half a day, Xu Tianran had casually killed more than a dozen people.
And the reasons were all ridiculous. Some of them were even dragged out and executed by Xu Tianran just because their voices were too loud.
This also makes Xu Tianran look more and more like a tyrant.
Suspicious, violent, and prone to murder, Crown Prince is completely different from the previously tolerant and cautious Crown Prince.
At that time, Xu Tianran could handle it with a smile even if someone contradicted him in person, keeping the account in mind and waiting for the right time to settle the matter.
Now he doesn't even bother to pretend, or in other words, he no longer has the extra sense to maintain that layer of pretense.
Even Xu Tianran seemed to have realized his current miserable situation. After being quiet for a few seconds, he laughed softly.
The laughter rose from deep in the throat, like a night owl screaming, and like a broken bellows leaking air.
Ju Zi stood in the shadow behind Dragon Throne, making no sound from the beginning to the end.
The flickering light of the candlelight fell on her face, reflecting a pair of slightly frowned brows.
She followed Xu Tianran all the way back to the Imperial Palace.
Ju Zi has seen him strategizing in the struggle for power, and I have also seen him calmly and step by step on the Imperial Palace.
But the person in front of her felt strange to her.
Xu Tianran is disintegrating bit by bit from the inside, like a wall that has been hollowed out by termites. It still maintains a complete outline on the outside, but is full of holes inside.
But----
If Xu Tianran continues to maintain this state, it will be very detrimental to them Sun Moon Empire.
Dou Ling Empire, Tianhun and Star Luo Empire and Three Great Empires have not been solved yet, and the battle reports from the front are still piled on the desk.
This war has finally reached Heaven Dou Empire's doorstep. If Xu Tianran collapses like this, the war will be postponed for another Limitless period.
Because the key emperor is missing, how can this battle be fought?
Under this situation, even Ju Zi feels powerless.
Some things cannot be solved by just relying on your mind.
For example, with Xu Tianran now, no matter how much Ju Zi tries to comfort him, enlighten him, or give him the most rational analysis in the gentlest tone, there won't be any good results.
Every word she said that fell into Xu Tianran's ears would be twisted into other meanings by his fear and suspicion.
Comfort can be interpreted as pity, and analysis can be misinterpreted as ulterior motives.
She might even be kicked out, or worse.
She knew this man too well. Once his suspicions arose, he would regard everyone as a potential threat, including those closest to him.
In this case, the only thing Ju Zi can do is to choose silence.
She just stood there, folding her hands in front of her, breathing very lightly.
Kong Deming, standing on the other side, also understands this.
Like Ju Zi, he remained silent and allowed Xu Tianran to vent.
But the unanimous choices made by these two people were all instinctive reactions to the extreme powerlessness of the situation in front of them.
Ju Zi chose silence because she knew she couldn't speak. Kong Deming chose silence because he knew another thing better than Ju Zi.
Even if Xu Tianran calms down now, even if they all work together to come up with a perfect response plan, it will be meaningless in the face of the power of Lu Ren.
He really wanted to tell Xu Tianran that the wisest thing to do now is to surrender.
Surrender unconditionally, hand over the imperial power, and pray for the other party's life.
But he also knew that once these words were spoken, given Xu Tianran's current state, the next person to be hit wouldn't be the teacup.
I'm afraid even he would be dragged out and executed under the orders of Xu Tianran.
In Xu Tianran's current state of losing his mind, he would definitely make such a stupid choice. After all, Sun Moon Empire's strongest existence right now is Kong Deming.
As long as he doesn't want to die, who can do anything to him?
But Kong Deming still thinks Xu Tianran will do this----
Silence is silence, Kong Deming and Ju Zi both know one thing in their hearts.
Xu Tianran's time is running out.
Lu Ren will not wait, the situation on the mainland will not wait, and this seemingly impregnable Mingdu is as thin as a layer of window paper in the face of truly overwhelming power.
No matter how powerful Imperial Palace's defense is, it can't stop the White-Haired Figure that may tear open the space and fall from the sky at any time.
Once Lu Ren decides to collect this debt, no one can stop it.
Finally, under this kind of torture, Xu Tianran couldn't wait any longer.
Waiting is more torturous than death.
Death is a matter of a moment, and waiting for death is like pulling every second into a long and thin string, stretching it around your neck and sawing it back and forth.
Xu Tianran was sitting on Dragon Throne. He felt like there was a knife hanging above his head and it would fall down at any time.
So on a gloomy afternoon, he ordered all officials to be summoned to discuss matters in the main hall of the Imperial Palace.
The sky outside the temple was gray, with heavy clouds weighing low.
The air was filled with the dampness of an approaching rainstorm.
All the Soul Guidance Lamps in the hall have been lit, but these lights have no warmth at all.
The whole Imperial Palace was as cold as a sarcophagus, even breathing was cold.
Civil and military officials were lined up on both sides. No one dared to raise his head and look directly at the emperor on Dragon Throne. His chin was almost touching his chest, and his eyes were fixed on the gold bricks an inch in front of his toes.
But out of the corner of his eye, he glanced in that direction unconsciously.
Like a group of rabbits locked in a cage, they are obviously very scared, but they still can't help but smell the smell of blood in the air.
Xu Tianran was leaning on Imperial Seat, holding his forehead with one hand and trembling slightly with his fingertips on his temple.
His face was so pale that it was almost transparent, his lips were chapped and peeled, and there was a bloody mark from his bite on the corner of his mouth. Since he fled back to Mingdu from the battlefield, he looked like a frightened and trapped animal.
If anything went wrong, the thunder would be furious. In just a few days, dozens of Eunuch and his guards were killed with sticks.
There are still bloodstains on the stone steps outside Imperial Study that have not been cleaned away. The maids kneel on the ground and wash them with alkaline water every day, but the fishy smell cannot be dissipated.
Therefore, Court Officials everyone is in danger.
Before going to court, you should always hide a reassurance pill in your sleeve, for fear that your legs will become weak and you won't be able to stand steady when your name is called.
Some people practice bowing their heads and saluting three times in front of the mirror before going out. Some people put suicide notes under their pillows and update them every day. Some people start to use connections to be transferred to remote counties as foreign officials.
Even if you go to the border to eat sand, it is better than waiting to die on Mingdu's Imperial Palace.
But there are some things that cannot be postponed after all, no matter how afraid you are, you have to say them.
The empire is still running, papers are still piling up, and military reports from the front are still coming in continuously. The capital of the Heaven Dou Empire has been besieged for twenty days, and the food and grass can no longer hold it.
Someone has to talk about these things.
Finally, Prime Minister, who was at the head of the court class, took a deep breath, bravely stepped out of the queue, held the wat board in both hands, and bowed in salute. "Your Majesty, I have my own memorial."
"Say." Xu Tianran's voice was hoarse and dry, with uncontrollable irritation.
Prime Minister lowered his head and said slowly, "Nowadays, there are Spirit Pagoda outside who are watching with eager eyes. Lu Ren----The strength is unfathomable, and the foundation of the country cannot be uncertain in a day."
He paused for a moment, his Adam's apple rolling up and down. "Your Majesty has been on the throne for a long time, the harem is empty, and the emperor has not yet established an heir."
"I sincerely request your Majesty to choose a good family to fill the harem, or to marry the queen and give birth to a legitimate son as soon as possible, so as to calm the hearts of the government and the public and consolidate the foundation of the empire."