"Brother, you are finally back. If you hadn't come back, we would have thought you were dead!"
At the Lingxiao Jianmu Square, a group of Lingxiao Palace high-level officials gathered there, and Chen Siqi said excitedly.
"I think you're the only one who thinks I'm dead?" Li Mu gave Chen Siqi a displeased look. 80 billion years had passed, and this girl still couldn't control her words.
That’s right, this time Li Mu broke through the Hongmeng ancestor’s retreat, which lasted for a terrifying 80 billion years.
"Who said that? The speculation that you are dead has been spreading in our Lingxiao Palace for many years. Many people think that you are in danger." Chen Siqi said unconvinced. In order to increase credibility, she even said to Zhang Jingxuan: "Zhang Jingxuan, tell me, have you ever said such a thing in front of me?"
Zhang Jingxuan was startled when he heard this, and immediately retorted: "Palace Master, you can't say that nonsense, I definitely didn't think so!"
"Hmm~?" Li Mu raised his eyebrows.
"Ah~? Palace Master, Jingxuan was wrong. It was Deputy Palace Master Chen who asked us to call her Palace Master!" The cold sweat on Zhang Jingxuan's forehead suddenly fell like raindrops as big as beans.
"Tell me, what happened?" Li Mu looked at Chen Siqi and said calmly.
"This palace... uh... I, I... it's inconvenient to call the deputy palace master and the main palace master with one more word. I see you are not here..." Chen Siqi explained guiltily.
“Mu’er, don’t make things difficult for her. Siqi has had a hard time these years. If it weren’t for her holding up Lingxiao Palace, who knows what kind of problems would have happened!” said Li Mu’s mother Chen Xiuhua.
Li Mu's father Li Mingxuan and his children Li Yunqing and Li Yunxi also echoed.
Li Mu frowned when he heard this, and his heart moved. All the things that happened in Lingxiao Universe in recent years flashed through his mind in an instant.
It turned out that during his retreat, Lingxiao Palace almost fell apart.
The composition of these palace members is really too complicated, there are all kinds of people. They come from different forces, and some forces even have irreconcilable conflicts. When Li Mu was here, since everyone was loyal to Li Mu, they could still live in peace. But as Li Mu's retreat time became longer and longer, one by one they began to become restless, formed gangs and suppressed each other, and later it even evolved into fighting for power.
According to Li Mu's original idea, if he was not there, the entire Lingxiao Universe would be jointly governed by Li Yunqing and Li Yunxi, but his breakthrough came too sudden, and he went into seclusion before anything was arranged, and this seclusion lasted for 200 billion years.
When he was in seclusion, Li Yunqing and Li Yunxi were still in the fairyland and Earth respectively, and their cultivation was only the 5th level of Hongmeng Immortal Ancestor. In addition, they had not participated in the affairs of Lingxiao Palace for a long time, and they were unable to form enough influence in Lingxiao Palace.
So Li Mu's parents and others discussed and selected a temporary palace to stabilize the overall situation in a legitimate way.
The candidates were naturally Li Yunqing and Li Yunxi, but their identities were too special. Li Mu was not dead yet, and they, as legitimate heirs, were vying to be the temporary palace master? Both of them felt that it was very inappropriate, and neither of them wanted to be the one.
So the two of them proposed to let Ji Feibai come out to take charge of the situation. After all, Ji Feibai is the first deputy hall master of Lingxiao Hall, and the only Hongmeng Immortal Ancestor at the 9th level of peak power besides Li Mu in Lingxiao Hall. He also once managed the Qiongzu Universe. From any perspective, Ji Feibai is the most suitable candidate.
But because of this, Ji Feibai was even more worried. If he became the temporary hall master, what would the hall members of Lingxiao Hall think? What would Li Mu think when he came back? So he flatly refused to serve as the temporary hall master.
So, after much deliberation, everyone finally decided that this glorious task fell on Chen Siqi. The main reason for her to serve as the temporary master of Lingxiao Palace was based on three considerations:
First, Chen Siqi is the deputy hall master with the largest number of troops under the command of Lingxiao Hall. She has nearly 20 million soldiers under her command, which fully accounts for one tenth of the Lingxiao Army. Even the members of Lingxiao Hall who are not under her command have more or less had contact with her surrender army. Those senior leaders have basically been tortured by her using the 100 tortures of Lingqiong, which is definitely a certain deterrent effect;
Secondly, Chen Siqi and Li Mu are relatives, but not close relatives, so even the people under the temporary palace master would not think too much about it;
Thirdly, Chen Siqi does not have so many cunning ideas. To put it simply, her brain is not very bright. Even if she is allowed to control Lingxiao Palace, she will not harbor any ulterior motives and plot conspiracies within Lingxiao Palace to eliminate dissidents.
Due to Chen Siqi's own advantages, and with the support of Li Yunqing, Li Yunxi and Ji Feibai, Chen Siqi, who became the temporary palace master, quickly calmed down the chaos in Lingxiao Palace.
After learning all this, Li Mu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. After all this time, it turned out that Chen Siqi was just a puppet.
"Brother, it seems you also know it, right? I had no choice but to be the temporary hall master. You don't know how tired I have been over the years!" Chen Siqi said with a look of grievance.
"Then have you ever thought that I will disappear, go to another place, and never come back?" Li Mu smiled faintly.
"No, absolutely not!" Chen Siqi shook her head repeatedly, "At most, I just wanted you to disappear for tens of trillions of years so that I could indulge in the urge to be the Palace Master a little longer!"
Li Mu shook his head and ignored Chen Siqi.
This time he was in seclusion for too long, 80 billion years. You know, even if he is a cultivator who created a small universe, if he can't get the opportunity to achieve enlightenment, his lifespan will only be 100 billion years at most!
During the time he was away, many problems were indeed exposed inside Lingxiao Palace. Although Lingxiao Palace had gained some peace on the surface under the suppression of Chen Siqi and others, there were still undercurrents and endless fighting between the various camps in private. If he had not returned in time, I am afraid that Lingxiao Palace would be in chaos again in a short time.
Although the loyalty of the members of Lingxiao Palace to Li Mu is unquestionable, due to its too barbaric development, most of the people recruited are of mixed character. It is okay to use them in emergencies, but if it is not corrected in time, sooner or later the Lingxiao Universe will be messed up by them and become a new "Qiongzu Universe".
Therefore, in the next tens of thousands of years, Li Mu, in addition to practicing, used tough tactics to clean up those restless palace members of Lingxiao Palace, and slowly restored order to the atmosphere of Lingxiao Palace.
When the time was almost right, Li Mu opened the barrier between the area designated for the living of the Lingxiao Palace members and other areas of the Lingxiao Universe, and there were no longer any restrictions on the living beings in the entire Lingxiao Universe.
Although the cultivation level of the members of the Lingxiao Palace has an overwhelming advantage over the native creatures of the Lingxiao Universe, and lifting the restrictions will inevitably have an impact on the native cultivators, there is no way around it. The development of the cultivation civilization requires communication. If the local cultivators are allowed to remain complacent, their cultivation civilization will become weaker and weaker.
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