"Master Li said it well, what's the harm in killing that Mongols dog!"
The one who spoke up in support of Li Xiu was the rescued survivor Abbess Miejue. She looked pale and thin, and her steps were unstable, clearly having suffered a lot of abuse and torture. It was not an easy task for her to have survived.
"Now that people have been killed, our six major sects have already formed a deadly feud with the court, and there is no longer any possibility of reconciliation. So let's form an alliance to fight against the court and take back the Han dynasty!"
"This..."
The attitude of not daring to provoke the court was prevalent before, but now everyone realized that the death of Prince of Ruyang in the combined attack of Ming Cult and Five Sects is a fact, and since it can't be reversed, they might as well oppose the court.
"Division leads to defeat, unity leads to victory! I, Wudang, support the proposal to wipe out the enemy."
Master Zhang Sanfeng stood up slowly and sternly waved his sleeve as he spoke.
Zhang Sanfeng's words naturally had no objections from Song Yuanqiao, the elders of Mount Hua and Kongwen followed in support, He Zudao and Guan Neng also agreed. It was also for the sake of self-preservation for the martial arts sect.
After Li Xiu's cold gaze scanned the crowd, he spoke: "Since this is the case, our alliance will include the Emei sect and together we will fight against the Mongol Yuan dynasty!"
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Three days later, a huge news spread throughout the martial arts world. The six major righteous sects and the Ming Cult formed an alliance to eradicate the Yuan dynasty, and together they raised a flag to call on all heroes to resist the court.
And what shocked the world even more was that the army's Grand General of the court Prince of Ruyang with thousands of Yuan soldiers were all killed on the top of the Bright Summit of the Ming Cult.
This outcome was announced, and the righteous people who opposed the Yuan dynasty throughout the world were all greatly inspired and thousands of Ming Cult members increased overnight. Furthermore, many more people who were known for their opposition to the Yuan dynasty joined in succession.
In the following months, many martial artists in the martial arts world also joined the alliance to eradicate the Yuan dynasty because of the sense of danger and urgency, and even more people directly joined the Ming Cult, which greatly increased its strength and dominance. At that time, the Ming Cult alone dominated the alliance to eradicate the Yuan dynasty, and the other sects became like its subsidiary.
It is worth mentioning that during this time, the leader of the Ming Cult, Li Xiu, had taken action to help Miejue, his martial sister, kill the traitor Zhou Zhiruo and retake control of the Emei sect.
Unfortunately, in the subsequent conflicts and wars with the Yuan dynasty, the five elders of the Kongtong sect were killed by the Yuan soldiers and the Kongtong sect, without a leader, was incorporated into the Ming Cult and became the Kongtong flag.
In the short two years following, the alliance to eradicate the Yuan dynasty, due to the gathering of almost all the power of the martial arts world, wherever they went, they had the momentum of breaking through the stronghold and ultimately they overthrew the Yuan dynasty court, pushing all the way to the capital.
The leader of the Ming Cult, Li Xiu, was placed on the throne and became emperor, with the era name being "Qian" and the capital being in Beijing.
The followers who had joined him in his early years were also given various titles, some were appointed as regional lords or general-in-chief, with Zhang Sanfeng of Wudang being appointed as the Great Master of National Protection.
In the next three years, under the Qian dynasty, the government policies were open and taxes were reduced, leading to peace and prosperity for the people without any wars.
Emperor Qian Li Xiu as the founding emperor, also was very different from all the previous emperors, he was closely watched and discussed by the common people.
First of all, after the country's stability, Li Xiu not only did not clean up his early supporters, but also casually delegated power to his subordinates, as if he was not worried about anyone trying to seize power and rebel.
Furthermore, he is still young, but he spends all day immersed in alchemy and cultivation, leaving most of the military and political affairs to be handled by scholars, hiding in the palace to practice alchemy.
In a bright and magnificent palace, Li Xiu, dressed in a black and mysterious nine dragon robe, sat on a large chair and played with a white and yellow pill in his hand, exhaling deeply and showing a hint of disappointment in his eyes.
"This improved and advanced Large Returning Pill has lost its effectiveness, it seems it's time for me to leave this world."
Since he became emperor, the first private matter that he ordered all over the world to handle was not to select concubines, but to summon famous doctors and alchemists from all over the world to the palace to improve the formula for the Large Returning Pill.
When Li Xiu was still the leader of the Anti Yuan Alliance, he actually obtained the formula for the Large Returning Pill, and when he asked Kongwen for it, Kongwen also did not hide it at all and handed it to him.
The formula for the Large Returning Pill is not highly valued in the Shaolin Temple because it is not very useful.
The formula lists several rare and precious ingredients that are difficult to find in the world, even the large and powerful Shaolin Temple can only barely make a few of them every hundred years.
After Li Xiu became emperor, he had access to everything he wanted, and he asked someone to make several batches of large Returning Pills and has been taking them ever since, pushing his Azure Jade Sutra to the fourth level. But after that, the effects became very minimal.
So he exhausted all means to change, summoned famous doctors and alchemists from all over the world to improve the formula for the Large Returning Pill, and successfully improved it twice, further pushing his Azure Jade Sutra to the fifth level.
Unfortunately, even today it is useless, the alchemy laboratory he set up specifically for this purpose has not sent any news in half a year. Li Xiu knows that this formula is already the peak of ordinary medicine and ordinary wisdom, and trying to go further may be difficult to reach the sky.
It's better to seek another way.
Li Xiu raised his hand and looked at the ink-colored umbrella-shaped tattoo on his wrist. His expression was no longer confused and doubtful, because he had known the root of this object long ago, and he understood why he was brought to this world by this object.
That day, it didn't feel special, but it was actually the moment when this world's plot was supposed to end, the umbrella-shaped tattoo suddenly shone and vaguely let him see its origin.
In ancient times, in a dense and tall primitive forest.
Dark clouds loom overhead, accompanied by a heavy downpour of raindrops that are occasionally punctuated by loud thunderclaps that echo across the sky.
Seven or eight ancient apes stand huddled under a large tree that's several dozen meters tall, trying to escape the rain.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning splits the sky, striking a tall tree close to a group of the apes. The tree is immediately marked by a deep and frightening scar, and after the blinding light of the bolt, it begins to burn with intense heat and a loud explosion.
The apes are startled and frightened by this series of events, their bodies trembling and screams piercing the air as they are overcome with fear and anxiety.
Among them, a smaller ancient ape is being held in the arms of its mother. Although its eyes are filled with fear, it also has a strange spirituality, setting it apart from the others.
Although it is not aware of it, it has a vague sense that there is a powerful and great being in the gray clouds.
It doesn't understand the specific meaning of the word "god", but it imagines a "god" that exists beyond the physical world.
Under the fiery glow of the giant tree burning wildly, the ape and its mental image of a "god" are both unique and precedent-setting.
This passage suggests that the idea of gods is not something that comes from the divine but is instead created by people as a way of understanding and making sense of the world around them. Instead of reality being created by a god, people create gods in their imagination as a way of understanding the "reality beyond" the one that can be perceived.
It is possible that the birth of "God" originated from vague and low-intelligence fantasies, and it does not have high intelligence.
However, "God" relied on its first-born advantage and continuously absorbed weaker gods that were born later, until it eventually became the only one in the illusion.
To some extent, "God" is an illusion, and the illusion represents "God".
The world beyond reality is an illusion, and the world beyond reality is also "God".
However, with the development of human civilization, the virtual world was born.
Just as people can imagine creating gods, people can also jointly recognize and imagine a world to create a virtual world.
It is not easy to make the virtual world collapse, and it is necessary to shake the foundation on which it exists.
At first, it was fine. People's fantasies were not as rich, and it was not as easy to spread.
"God" could still cope, and even left behind a few weak virtual worlds for "God" to play in.
However, in modern times, the birth of several forms of art indirectly destroyed "God".
The virtual worlds in the illusions grew at an unimaginable speed, and the newly born virtual worlds were becoming more and more realistic, and the concentration of thoughts and consciousness were becoming greater.
"God" was weakened as it was unable to produce enough copies of itself, and the illusions began to be occupied by countless virtual worlds.
"God" is like a person who is constantly having parts of their organs removed, the virtual worlds are constantly invading and pushing it out, it is struggling to survive and is too weak to move.
"God" has exhausted all its possibilities and wants to rely on external forces.
As the first being born, it is special and has the ability to move between illusions and reality. It wants to give this power to humans and have them help eliminate the virtual worlds.