Chapter 18: The Succession Storm (Ask for Collection Support)
By the time the funeral of the Spirit King was completely completed, it was already nearly evening. Although it was cloudy today, looking up at this time, the dark clouds on the horizon were rolling, dark as thick ink, and it should be a heavy rain.
After crying in front of the tomb for a long time, everyone also went back one after another, and Lingnian and Lingmiaoqing wanted to guard the tomb for the Lingwang for one night. Lin Qitian also went back with the others.
After Teng Hongyuan and the others saluted Lin Qitian, they were just about to speak when they were interrupted by him, "Everyone is tired these days, go back and have a good rest, and if there is anything to discuss in three days." Then he turned and left.
Since the death of King Ling, Teng Hongyuan and others have been busy with today's funeral, and at this time, they are afraid that they are in great pain and their bodies are exhausted. Lin Qitian also guessed that they were probably going to discuss the succession with themselves, but what else were they discussing in this state, several people stood together, and there was a whole sad and sad atmosphere, who still had the heart to discuss things? It is better to let them rest well, and wait until their hearts are calm.
Within three days, Lin Qitian had not left his room an inch, and when he hit the Spirit Gathering Realm, the two elements failed to mix, and he had to try to master his thunder element. Although you can't mix the two elements, it's good to use the thunder element as a killer feature, and the mixed use of the province is felt.
He could have turned into ice as well, so he also tried to transform into thunder, but found that the source power consumed was greater than using ice, and it was not very powerful. I tried other forms of attack, and found that the consumption of thunder was large, and the effect was obviously not good. This is very uncomfortable, if this is the case, then the thunder element can not be cultivated at all, what else is this cultivating? It is worse than the ice element!
"What are you doing?" Lu Wu's voice interrupted his depression.
"This thunder element is not good, I feel that the aggressiveness is not as good as the ice element, what else do you want this thing to do?" Lin Qitian said sullenly.
"I'm afraid you're not a fool?!" Lu Wu hated that iron could not be made of steel, "Formed by thunder?!You are also a peerless person!The thunder element is originally a large-scale attack, you have to compress it into a small area?!A large-scale attack has already consumed source power, and you still reduce the use of source power?!I'm really convinced!"
Lu Wu pressed the green tendons on his forehead, "The source power is like dry firewood and hay, and the elements are like the source of fire, and only when the two are coordinated can a raging fire be ignited." The thunder element is like a big fire, you have to burn it with grass, don't you criticize something? You have to add firewood!
Lin Qitian looked half-aware.
Lu Wu had no choice but to be patient, "I'll teach you how to use the thunder attribute purely, let you feel the power, and then find the exercises in the future." ”
Lin Qitian squeezed all the forty percent of the source power in his body into his hands as Lu Wu said, and he felt that something seemed to be slowly passing in his body.
The lightning on his hands quickly formed the size of a ball, and occasionally a trace of uncontrolled lightning turned into a long blue whip, directly smashing the table next to him. His hands became hotter and hotter, and when he couldn't bear the heat anymore, he threw himself to the ground with all his might.
With a bang, the spherical lightning hit the ground like a meteor, smashing out a large crater with a radius of about ten meters, and even half of the stone chamber was destroyed. The force of the shock also made Lin Qitian take several steps back.
Lin Qitian settled down, he looked at the stone room that was only half left and the dark pit on the ground, and his heart was horrified. He only used forty percent of his source power, and if he used all his strength, I am afraid that he would be affected within fifty meters of the surroundings.
The house where Zhan Shi lived was closest to Lin Qitian, and after a loud noise, he was the fastest to react and rush to the scene.
Zhan Shi looked at the big pit that had been blown out somehow, his face turned pale, our previous Spirit King had just left, and this one had not yet ascended the throne, so he was gone? The Great Commander also told me that we must ensure the safety of this new Spirit King! My God, what can I do!
Just as Zhan Shi was so anxious that he stomped his feet, Lin Qitian walked from the room, except for the hem of his clothes, which looked fine. Zhan Shi hurriedly stepped forward and carefully touched Lin Qitianzai, before he breathed a sigh of relief, scared to death, fortunately it was fine......
Lin Qitian, who was forcibly touched: ............
Soon, everyone else heard a loud noise and gathered.
Seeing the bombed stone chamber, everyone: ............
Seeing Zhan Shi touching Lin Qitian, everyone: ???!!!
Lin Qitian saw their subtle expressions, and the corners of his mouth began to twitch wildly............
Teng Hongyuan stepped forward and saluted, "What's wrong with you?"
Lin Qitian waved his hand, "There was an accident." ”
He found a slightly higher place and sat down on the spot, "I know that your hearts are grieving, but the living should inherit the will of the dead. Now that three days have passed, it's time for us to discuss what to do next. ”
Li Rouhuai lowered her eyes and hugged her fists, "I respectfully ask the king to succeed to the throne." There was no hint of respect in his tone.
Li Rouhuai originally had no opinion on Lin Qitian, and when the Spirit King was dying, he told him that he must assist him well, in fact, he was ready to assist an incompetent person in his heart, if Lin Qitian's decision in the future was harmful to the Spirit Clan, even if he was sorry for the Spirit King, he would have to kill this kid.
On the day of the funeral, it seemed that Lin Qitian was still a little cohesive, which made Li Rouhuai feel a lot more at ease, but today he was obviously in a hurry to succeed to the throne, although he did want to discuss the succession with him, but it was very unpleasant when this came out of his mouth!
Everyone looked at each other, but no one agreed.
Lin Qitian chuckled, "I know that you don't obey me, and there are three reasons for this. ”
He paused, glanced at everyone in the audience, and then slowly spoke, "One, I have no spirit bloodline, and my succession is unprecedented. Second, my strength is too poor to be able to take on a big job. Third, I am too young to be deeply involved in the world and cannot reconcile civil strife. From these three points, I should not be the successor, otherwise it will speed up the fall of the Spirit Race. ”
Lin Qitian raised his eyebrows, "Li Rouhuai, I don't know if what I said is right?"
Li Rouhuai looked directly at Lin Qitian, her face calm, "Yes, I don't know why the Old Spirit King wants you to succeed to the throne." In my opinion, if you succeed to the throne, it will only be harmful to my spirit race. But we have already promised the old spirit king, we will definitely not regret it, you just need to sit in that seat, and we will handle all the affairs of the spirit clan. ”
Lin Qitian looked at Li Rouhuai a little provocatively, "What's the matter, I haven't succeeded to the throne yet, and you are going to be regent?"
Li Rouhuai's face changed again and again when he heard this, and the smell of gunpowder between the two became stronger and stronger.
Lin Qitian stopped arguing with her, stood up, patted the dust on his clothes, stepped forward with his hands, and stared at Li Rouhuai, "Can you represent all the Spirit Clan people behind you?"
"Of course. ”
"Then we'll make a bet, a bet between me and all of you. ”
"What do you mean?" Li Rouhuai was slightly surprised.
"I will make a bet with you, that if I win, you will obey my commands, and there shall be no doubt, and if I lose, I will give up the throne of the King of Spirits, and whoever you love will be in charge. ”
Lin Qitian knew that in fact, they were all dissatisfied with him in their hearts, if they didn't come to make it bigger, these people's hearts would not be towards him, and even if he was the nominal Spirit King, he would be like a puppet, at their mercy. He wants to seize this opportunity to make them truly submit to him.
Li Rouhuai thought for a moment, "Bet on what?"
"I heard that the Spirit Clan has split into several factions, so I bet that I can get rid of one of them without bloodshed, and the time limit is one month. If I fail to destroy a faction within a month, even if I lose, if I do, then I win. But within this month, I have the right to mobilize you, of course, I will tell you what to do, how to do it, why you do it, and when the time comes, you can decide for yourself whether to do it or not. ”
"Good. ”
The two high-fived as an oath, and the bet contract was completed.
Then Lin Qitian asked them to change their room, take a shower, change their clothes, and lie on the bed to prepare for sleep.
"Boy, can you do it? How can you make such a bet? This thing that the Spirit King can't accomplish, can you accomplish?" Lu Wu felt that Lin Qitian was definitely floating......
"Those people don't obey me at all, and if I succeed to the throne directly, I will definitely not be able to adjust them. If I can't get them to help me sincerely, then what's the use of me being the Spirit King? Besides, even if we lose, if we can't fight, we will get out of the Spirit Clan, and we will have nothing to lose. ”
"Then why did you go to bed so early?"
"Be calm, recuperate, and prepare for tomorrow. ”
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On the morning of the first day, after Lin Qitian had eaten, he summoned Li Rouhuai and Teng Hongyuan and asked them about the specific situation of the internal strife in the Spirit Clan.
It turned out that the origin of the civil strife was an old man ---with a relatively high prestige in the Spirit Clan, Kong Hongmao, who had a daughter under his knee who had secretly run out of the Spirit Clan, was obsessed with the outside world and lingered on the outside world.
When the Spirit King learned of this, he sent someone to arrest her and gathered a crowd to interrogate her, so that the woman would admit her mistake and promise to follow the ancestral teachings and not leave the Spirit Clan for the rest of her life.
The woman felt that the spirit king's thinking was old, and the spirit clan had been hiding from the world for a long time, and it had already become a legend in the outside world, and we should go out of the spirit realm, integrate into the outside world, and fight against the outer demons with them.
But when the Spirit King heard this, he was furious and ordered her to be imprisoned forever.
The next day, when someone else delivered food, they found out that the woman had committed suicide.
This greatly exacerbated the contradiction between the Spirit King and Kong Hongmao, who pointed at the Spirit King's nose and scolded for a long time before leaving here with some of the people who supported the birth of the Spirit Race and went to live elsewhere again.
Later, there were two people with bad intentions - Fan Qing and Xiang Ding, who specially coaxed people who didn't know, saying that Kong Hongmao just wanted to avenge the woman, not really want the spirit clan to be born, so he deceived many people to follow, and left to find a new place to set up camp.
In this way, the spirit clan is officially divided into three factions, and there are several small factions that are dissatisfied with the discipline of the three major factions and come out of a single independent household.
According to preliminary statistics, there are about 600 people in the Lingwang faction, about 500 in Kong Hongmao's faction, about 700 in Fan Qing and Xiang Ding's faction, and about 300 people in other fragmentary factions.
Lin Qitian nodded, gently rubbed his lower lip with his right hand, and began to think about how to start.
Li Rouhuai glanced at him, in fact, even if Lin Qitian eliminated a small faction without blood, she would do her best to assist him in the future, and she would discuss everything with him.
Lin Qitian seemed to suddenly think of something, slapped his thigh, and the corners of his eyes curled slightly, "I'm going to do the biggest!"