"You...you...you aren't afraid of the punishment from the Dao Court?" Yun Qi asked in surprise.
Liu Bo said, "We are only rectifying the chaos, not rebelling. After Jian Dejun ascended the throne, he still respected Da Dao Ting as the leader. What's the difference?"
After saying this, Liu Bo placed an imperial edict in front of Yun Qi and said, "Mr. Yun Qi, please sign your seal and abdicate the throne of Crown Prince to Mr. Jian De."
"No!" Yun Qi raised his hand and threw the imperial edict to the ground, then said, "I will never seal it. I am the legitimate prince of the Jingshan Dao Kingdom."
Hearing this, a high official beside Liu Bo said coldly, "Oh? Master Yunqi, you must think carefully."
"I've thought it through clearly," Yun Qi said. "I will never sign this nonsense."
The Shangqing sneered, then waved his hand and said, "Bring him up."
The next moment, Yun Qi looked towards the door of the hall and saw a beautiful woman being escorted into the hall by soldiers.
This woman was Yunqi's beloved Lu Ling, the daughter of a high-ranking official in the neighboring country Fuliu Daoguo, and she had been in love with Yunqi for a long time.
Unfortunately, Yunqi's mother, Madam Yao Xing, did not agree with this marriage, because she believed that the daughter of a high-ranking official was not worthy of her son. She once asked Jiang E to marry Yunqi, but was flatly rejected by the Jiang family. However, Madam Yao Xing still insisted on marrying Yunqi to one of the five major families in Yujing City.
So although Lu Ling and Yun Qi loved each other, they could only be a pair of lovers with no destiny. Lu Ling also left her country and family and came to live in Jingshan Dao Country.
"Are you going to sign or not?" the Shangqing asked Yun Qi.
Yun Qi looked at Lu Ling, who looked terrified and helpless, and tears streamed down her face. After a while, Yun Qi gritted her teeth and said, "I won't sign!"
The Shangqing immediately drew his sword, walked up to Lu Ling, and thrust the sword into Lu Ling's heart. He turned around and shouted at Yun Qi, "Will you sign or not?"
Lu Ling felt weak all over, tears of fear streaming from her eyes. She opened her mouth, but could only utter four words weakly through her tears: "I want to go home..."
Yun Qi looked at the Shang Qing and shouted, "What does this have to do with a woman like her? Let her go. She has nothing to do with my Pure Good Dao Nation."
But the Shang Qing just said coldly: "Are you going to sign it or not?"
"I won't sign!" Yun Qi shouted loudly.
'Puff'
With a slight sound, the sword in Shangqing's hand pierced Lu Ling's chest directly. A stream of blood spurted out of Lu Ling's mouth, and then the light in his eyes dimmed instantly.
When the Shangqing drew out the sword, Lu Li's body was destroyed and only his soul jumped out of the body.
After Lu Li's soul jumped out of his body, he was about to escape with a look of horror, but was restrained by the power of Shang Qing. "Please spare my life!" Lu Li shouted.
But with a flash of sword light, Lu Ling's soul was shattered, and both his body and soul were destroyed.
Seeing this scene, Yun Qi collapsed to the ground, staring at Lu Ling's body with dull eyes.
At this time, the High Minister came back and said to High Minister Liu Bo, "If you hesitate to make a decision, you will suffer the consequences. This person refuses to sign. If this continues, the news will leak out. Madam Yao Xing will not sit idly by and will definitely bring the Yao family's high-level cultivators to Jingshan Dao Country. Then we will be in trouble."
Hearing this, Liu Bo Shangqing pondered for a moment, then suddenly drew out the sword of the innate spiritual treasure and said, "Let's make the decision together!"
The minister who killed Lu Ling immediately placed his blood-stained sword on top of Minister Liu Bo's sword, and then the other fourteen ministers also drew their swords and placed theirs on top.
Sixteen swords clashed together, and the crisp sound was like the oath of sixteen high ministers. Then everyone withdrew their swords. Liu Bo stepped forward and looked at Yun Qi and said, "It's fine if you don't sign. For the sake of the country, we have no choice but to do what is expedient."
Yun Qi looked at the sixteen ministers surrounding him and turned pale with fear. "What are you going to do? Are you going to kill the king?!"
Liu Bo said coldly: "You are not the Lord, Jian Dejun is the Lord."
Soon, a scream of unwillingness and terror was heard from the 'Xu Ming Palace' of the Jingshan Dao Kingdom. Then, sixteen ministers walked out of the hall side by side, holding bloody swords. The leader, Minister Liu Bo, held a bloody head in his hand, which was the head of Prince Yunqi.
The soldiers outside looked at Liu Bo and the others solemnly. Liu Bo raised the head in his hand and said, "Crown Prince Yunqi is immoral, murdered his brother, and disrupted the government. We will punish him for the sake of the country! Lord Jiande Yunzhu is a virtuous ruler with obvious virtues. He is respected by all the people and should be enthroned!"
After Liu Bo finished speaking, the fifteen ministers behind him immediately said in unison: "Welcome Jian Dejun to the throne of the country!"
The next moment, tens of thousands of soldiers inside and outside Xu Ming Palace shouted in unison: "Welcome Lord Jian De to the throne!"
The sound shook the entire capital, and could be heard clearly above the clouds and in the mountains and plains in all directions!
Soon after, the sixteen senior ministers of the Jingshan Dao Kingdom led the junior ministers, ministers and 70,000 troops, and marched towards the Qianlou in a prepared palanquin.
Three days later, outside the Taoist temple of Lord Jian De on Qianlou Mountain, the ministers and soldiers of the Jingshan Dao Kingdom knelt down and asked Lord Jian De Yunzhu to get on the carriage and return to Guangshan City to ascend the throne.
Jian Dejun Yunzhu declined, and the ministers and soldiers invited him again, declined again, invited again, declined a third time, and invited a third time...
Finally, after nine requests and nine declines, Jian Dejun Yunzhu reluctantly walked out of the dojo and said to the crowd, "I have no desire to be the ruler of the country, but now that my father has passed away, the throne of the crown prince is vacant, and the country is without a ruler, and I have received nine requests from you all, so I have no choice but to step down and take charge of state affairs temporarily. If a more suitable candidate emerges in the future, I will return to Qianlou Mountain to practice in seclusion."
After that, all the ministers and soldiers urged Jian Dejun to get on the carriage. Jian Dejun had no choice but to get on the carriage, and then he was escorted into Guangshan City and Xu Ming Palace.
Entering Xu Ming Palace and arriving in front of the main hall, Jian Dejun saw the bodies of Yun Qi and Lu Ling lying nearby. He sighed helplessly, then stepped forward to tidy up Yun Qi's clothes. He then turned around and asked, "Who killed my nephew?"
Liu Bo and sixteen other ministers came forward together and stated Yun Qi's crimes to Jian Dejun, then said that they had to kill him for the sake of the country and were willing to accept Jian Dejun's punishment.
Jian Dejun said nothing, but stood up and said, "Yunqi is my brother's son, my nephew. Even if he is guilty, his body must not be left exposed. Immediately prepare a high-quality coffin and bury him in Huangshan with the ceremony worthy of the crown prince of the Jingshan Dao Kingdom."
Huangshan is the royal tomb of the Jingshan Dao Kingdom. After the death of the kings of the Jingshan Dao Kingdom, their bodies would be buried in Huangshan.
Upon hearing this, Liu Bo and other high officials immediately bowed and said, "We will obey the order."
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