After executing this demon general, Long Tian immediately eradicated the forces behind him. None of the guilty ones could escape, and Long Tian would not kill innocent people indiscriminately.
Long Tian's move made the laws of the demon clan, which had been trampled upon to the point of losing credibility, regain recognition from the people of the demon country. It also accelerated the outbreak of hidden dangers within the demon country.
After being frightened by Long Tian, the demon generals guarding the border of the demon country could no longer sit still. They had a lot of discussions in private and wanted to unite to overthrow Long Tian's rule.
However, because they were suspicious of each other and could not reach an agreement on the distribution of interests, after many secret negotiations, the matter still came to nothing.
Long Tian was also secretly winning over some demon generals and instigating some demon ministers, making it impossible for these demons with ulterior motives to unite.
In this way, Long Tian can find an opportunity to defeat them one by one.
In just thirty years, Long Tian took the opportunity to eliminate many of his biggest enemies, uprooted the forces they had spent hundreds of years building, and swept away all resources from illegal sources to replenish the national treasury.
At the age of 496, Long Tian had personally eliminated more than 20 demon generals. Even those forces that he had won over could not help but panic, fearing that Long Tian would abandon them in the future and eliminate them as well.
The first rebellion in the history of the Demon Kingdom finally broke out. Several demon generals who commanded tens of thousands of demon soldiers united and attacked the capital of the Demon Kingdom directly, trying to force Long Tian to abdicate or execute him on the spot.
Fortunately, Long Tian had anticipated this and ambushed his troops in advance, annihilating all the rebels and quelling the unrest within two hours.
Long Tian showed no mercy to these traitors and executed them all on the spot as a warning to the world.
As for the descendants of these traitors, Long Tian was also very worried and wanted to get rid of them all to prevent future troubles. However, under Zhenzhen's persuasion, he still gave them a way to live, but destroyed their cultivation, so that they would never make any waves in their lifetime.
In the following decades, Long Tian continued to strictly enforce the law. Anyone who dared to violate the laws of the demon clan would pay the price with his life.
During this period, many forces that had only sought personal gain and did not dare to resist Long Tian's rule were forced to rebel, and were eventually suppressed and killed by Long Tian, meeting a miserable end.
Although Long Tian did this for the long-term development of the Demon Kingdom, when the people of the Demon Kingdom saw that those ministers who had fought for him to conquer the world died one after another at his hands, they couldn't help but criticize him.
Even Long Tian's descendants felt that Long Tian was becoming increasingly cold-blooded, and subconsciously distanced themselves from him.
Only Zhenzhen still treats him the same as before, without any taboos, saying whatever needs to be said, so that Long Tian's lonely heart always retains a trace of warmth.
For the next hundred years, Long Tian continued to work hard to eliminate the troubles within the demon country.
He could feel that he was aging rapidly and becoming increasingly powerless, so he became more anxious, fearing that before he could eradicate all the cancer within the demon kingdom, his life would run out and he would end up in the grave.
But being too hasty makes it easy to miscontrol the scale. Some things are done too much, causing Long Tian to make countless enemies in the Demon Country and have foes everywhere.
Long Tian was not afraid of them, but his descendants who went out to gain experience were in great trouble and were harmed in various ways.
During the past hundred years, 227 of Long Tian's great-grandchildren and 41 of his grandchildren died. Even five of his sons and daughters died while he was away.
Long Tian was heartbroken and ordered a search for the murderers who had murdered his family and to execute them all without leaving a single one alive.
Many murderers have been found, but the pain of losing loved ones is hard to erase.
Long Tian is lonely by nature and doesn't communicate much with his children. They only have simple reunions during festivals and holidays to enjoy a brief moment of family happiness.
But now, even this brief warmth has left him.
After experiencing this kind of thing, Long Tian became more and more ruthless. In the past, he would only order the execution of demons who committed serious sins, but now, any demon clan that was slightly affected would be beheaded at the very least, and the entire clan would be exterminated at the worst.
If Zhenzhen had not threatened to die and awakened his reason, he would probably have become a tyrant of the Demon Country in his later years and been despised by the people of the Demon Country.
After going through these dark years, Long Tian couldn't help feeling a little tired.
He has killed so many of his own kind over the past few hundred years, and the sins of killing he has accumulated will probably never be washed away even after several reincarnations.
Perhaps, he was too sensitive and too pessimistic about the situation?
Perhaps, the current Demon Kingdom has been cleaned up by him, and there are no more people who abuse their power for personal gain and bend the law, nor are there any cancers that will harm the development of the entire demon race.
Everything is thriving and there is a lot of work to be done. Perhaps Long Tian only needs to sit quietly and see the Demon Kingdom gradually emerge from chaos, return to its former peak, or even surpass it.
On his 600th birthday, Long Tian called all the family members he could, even the sons who had stayed in the ocean to develop the sea snake clan, took time out to go ashore and celebrate their father's birthday.
Zhenzhen was extremely happy. Looking at her sons whom she had not seen for hundreds of years, she couldn't help but burst into tears.
Long Tian was as excited as Zhenzhen, but as a demon king, he had to consider his dignity, so he tried hard to control his emotions and always maintained the calmness and composure that belonged to a king.
Kings are always lonely, and the older Long Tian gets, the more deeply he feels this.
This is a rare time for Long Tian to reunite with his descendants and enjoy family happiness.
But just at this moment, someone broke in and reported that one of Long Tian's sons-in-law was corrupt and committed abuse of power, using his own life as a guarantee. The evidence was piled up in a box, and any one of them was a capital crime!
It was not until this moment that Long Tiancai suddenly woke up. The demon country that he thought was booming was actually still full of crises and disasters.
The reason why Long Tian did not discover the hidden danger was because someone was blinding his vision.
And this person turned out to be his son-in-law!
After many years, Long Tian's eyes once again burst out with a murderous intent so cold that it made people tremble. Looking at the charges against his son-in-law, his face was gloomy and he did not speak for a long time.
Long Tian's daughter and son-in-law quickly knelt down and kowtowed to beg for mercy, knocking the hard stone slab loudly, their foreheads bloodshot.
His sons also begged Long Tian to show mercy and spare his son-in-law's life, and not to get angry about such things on his birthday.
Zhenzhen also persuaded Long Tian that even if he wanted to deal with his son-in-law, he should wait until after his birthday, and not kill him in front of his children.
However, at this time, Long Tian was so angry that he would not listen to anyone's advice. He grabbed a long sword and threw it in front of his son-in-law, forcing him to commit suicide in front of everyone to apologize.
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