Eternal Life: My Millennia in the Jiaofang Division

Zhou Yu Niang stretched out her hand, and the flaming red lotus in Zhao Mu's palm fell into her hands.

She wrapped her mind with magic power, probed into the flaming red lotus to check, and frowned immediately: "It is actually made of karma, it is really vicious."

She hurriedly used her mind to check the situation in her body, but only found a trace of karma.

"Well, there was indeed a red lotus pulling mechanism hidden in my body, but it was actively cleared by the power of the Tao fruit when it was fused with the Heavenly Fate Dao Fruit."

"Unfortunately, my mind was completely immersed in the fusion of the Tao fruit at that time, so I didn't notice the process of it being cleared."

Zhou Yu Niang thought for a while and asked: "Master, when did you find that there was a red lotus pulling mechanism hidden in your body?"

"It was in Lieyang City, when I blocked the first move of the Eternal Saint Lord."

Zhao Mu replied.

At that time, he activated the Jingmen Immortal Ban, and used the incense peach wood branches with a radius of one million miles to trigger the huge power of heaven and earth to self-destruct.

The peach wood branches within that range were all destroyed in the self-destruction.

However, it was also the destruction of the peach wood branch that allowed the hidden Red Lotus Pulling Machine Hidden to emerge.

At that time, Zhao Mu's mind was transferred to the peach wood branch a million miles away, but he found that a flaming red lotus followed closely and also entered the peach wood branch to hide.

When Zhao Mu deduced the God Lord and the Shenyue Saint Clan in his early years, he had seen this kind of poison appear in their past, so he knew something about it.

This Red Lotus Pulling Machine Hidden can trigger karma and use it to control others. It can also trigger the Red Lotus Karma Fire, which can burn people to death. It can be said to be very domineering.

But in Zhao Mu's opinion, the most powerful part of this poison is actually its concealment.

Once this poison enters the body, even the master cannot detect it before the poisoner activates it.

Of course, the master is different from ordinary cultivators.

Because although the master cannot detect the Red Lotus Pulling Machine Hidden, their powerful strength determines that even if the poisoner activates the toxicity of the Red Lotus Pulling Machine Hidden, they can easily break it.

So this poison is actually not a threat to the master.

…

Three months passed in a hurry.

Lieyang City, the Imperial Palace.

The civil and military officials who had just finished the court walked out of the Council Hall in groups of two or three.

“What do you think the Duke of Zhenguo is thinking? Why hasn’t he removed the Chu family from the throne?”

“Maybe he is concerned about the people’s hearts. After all, the Chu family has ruled the Lieyang Empire for ten thousand years. Even if they are unpopular, they are still the orthodox.”

“But in my opinion, the Chu family can’t stay on the throne for too long. After all, the Duke of Zhenguo is already supreme in the Southern Region. It’s only a matter of time before he ascends the throne to become the emperor.”

“Haha, I think the Chu family is not at ease now that they are on the throne. I heard someone say yesterday that many Chu family members are privately afraid that the Duke of Zhenguo will directly exterminate them one day.”

The officials whispered.

Three full months have passed since the end of the Domination War.

When Zhou Yu Niang returned to Lieyang City, many people thought that she would immediately remove the Chu family from the throne and ascend the throne to become the emperor herself.

But unexpectedly, as soon as Zhou Yu Niang returned to Lieyang City, she announced to the public that she wanted to hone her skills, so she went into seclusion in the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion and did not show up for three consecutive months.

This made the entire court uneasy.

The Chu royal family!

Civil and military officials!

Common people!

Everyone knew that Zhou Yu Niang would ascend the throne sooner or later.

But no one knew when Zhou Yu Niang would really take action?

This feeling of a sword always hanging over one's head really makes people feel uneasy.

But if Zhou Yu Niang did not take action, the court would still have to operate.

So in the past three months, civil and military officials still went to court to handle official business, and the emperor still sat on the dragon throne and accepted the worship of all officials.

But all officials had long lost respect for the emperor in their hearts.

These three months were considered court, but in fact, the officials who had the final say in court affairs were all officials from the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion.

When the officials discussed government affairs in the court, they often acted as if the emperor did not exist and did not bother to pay attention to him.

The emperor himself, sitting on the dragon throne, seemed to have a needle in his buttocks. He was only worried every day and had no time to pay attention to government affairs.

However, while the court and the public were uneasy, an undercurrent began to accumulate in secret.

In recent days, there has been a sudden upsurge of people denouncing the crimes of the Chu family.

The rule of the Chu royal family has caused the decline of the immortal way in the southern region and the suffering of the people;

The extravagance of the Chu royal family has led to corruption among the powerful and wealthy in the court, and they often extort the people's fat to satisfy their selfish desires;

The Chu royal family controls the national destiny, and every once in a while, they will use the national destiny to extract the potential and luck of major domestic forces to maintain their own rule.

In fact, similar discussions have always existed in the Lieyang Empire.

It's just that the original Chu royal family has Chu Jinghong sitting in the throne, so such discussions can't cause any big waves and will be suppressed soon.

Anyone who dares to make such a discussion in private will be sentenced to death if discovered.

But now, this discussion has become a trend in the entire Lieyang Empire in just a few days, and it is getting more and more intense.

Whether it is officials and dignitaries or ordinary people, they are all listing the crimes of the Chu family.

Of course, someone is secretly fanning the flames.

Anyone with a little bit of brains can guess that this is the action of the people from the Zhenguo Mansion.

Obviously, after three months of calm, Zhou Yu Niang finally began to prepare for her rightful ascension to the throne.

Zhenguogong Mansion.

In the quiet room, the space suddenly began to surge with invisible waves, and branches and leaves stretched out from the waves, extending to every corner of the room.

Suddenly, one of the branches twisted gently, revealing a Taoist in black clothes, Zhao Mu.

Zhao Mu raised his hand and flicked another branch beside him, smiling: "Haha, finally, my hard work was not in vain, and I finally returned to Lieyang City."

Since the end of the Domination War that day, the original body in the Hanhai Continent temporarily put aside cultivation and used all his energy to restore the incense peach wood.

After all, the scarred incense peach wood could not support Zhao Mu's incarnation to appear anywhere in the southern region at will.

Hard work pays off.

After three months of full efforts, the peach wood branches from the Hanhai Continent to Lieyang City finally grew again today, and once again covered the outer space of this world.

"It's good to be able to return to Lieyang City. After all, there are a lot of things to do here. As for the branches and leaves in other places, there is no need to be so anxious."

Zhao Mu raised his hand, and the branches and leaves in the room slowly disappeared into the void.

He walked slowly to the window and stretched out his hand to push the window open.

The Zhenguo Mansion was very calm, as if it could not feel the cold and turbulent undercurrent in Lieyang City at all.

Suddenly, a figure appeared silently behind Zhao Mu: "Master, you are back?"