The earth-shattering upheaval in front of the Taiji Gate completely changed the pattern of the Great Chu Empire.

The national teacher, the crown prince and the four princes all died in this battle, and the eighth prince deservedly became the person who actually held the highest power in the Great Chu Empire.

It is said that the old emperor, who was already seriously ill and angry, died on the spot after being shocked by the bad news of the chaos in Taijimen, and the eighth prince naturally became the new monarch of the Great Chu Empire.

Of course, there are many rumors in the market that the old emperor was after the Taijimen Change, and in order to clear the last obstacles, the Eighth Emperor directly ordered his small national master Qin Baiyu and others to kill the seriously ill head of the empire. Of course, no one can tell the specific truth except for the surviving parties.

On the day when the new emperor of Chu State ascended the throne, an extremely grand enthronement ceremony was held on the Jinluan Treasure Hall in the imperial city. The Manchu Dynasty civil and military lined up two classes, and welcomed the eight princes to ascend the emperor's throne as they wished, and the year name was ...... "Longtai".

A earth-shaking upheaval made the civil and military officials of the Great Chu court also have a big blood exchange, once a member of the camp of the crown prince and the four princes and the old ministers loyal to the first emperor, were killed, exiled, and the court was empty.

And the positions of power left behind these people are basically filled by the descendants of the Eight Princes.

Qin Baiyu became the new National Teacher of the Heavenly Machine Academy, and finally removed the "small" word that violated the harmony before his name.

Lü Zhan, Tie Heng, Liu Shaoshuai, General Wu and other generals who followed the Northern Expedition of the Eight Princes and participated in the Taijimen Revolution are now all added to the rank and become the powerful ministers of the new dynasty.

The ceremony of the new emperor's enthronement was very grand: as the first hero among the generals, Lü Zhan stood in the front row of the left column, a position that was the envy of the world.

But at this time, he didn't feel the excitement and satisfaction of the completion of the work, and the young man's mood was very calm.

He watched Emperor Longtai ascend to the emperor's throne with a cold eye, and watched the civil and military officials compete for the new monarch and sing praises to the new monarch, which was naturally extremely lively, but he always felt that he was like an outsider, far away from this noisy and chaotic court.

The reason why Lu Zhan had this kind of bystander mood was mainly because when he reached the peak of his martial arts, he now had a new pursuit of his future path.

He was soberly aware of ...... The eight princes, that is, the current Emperor Longtai, have now become a generation of emperors, and even go one step further, dominating the entire Eastern Earth Continent;

Observing that these eight princes have worked hard and thought hard to ascend the throne at the cost of destroying humanity and conscience, can they really give him complete spiritual liberation?

Ever since Lu Zhan had planted a fragment of his memory in his mind after the battle for the "Floating Immortal Island", the cave cultivator "Xuanji Venerable Lord" had planted a fragment of his memory during his lifetime, his eyes had already looked straight at the more vast cave world and the nine heavens of the sea of clouds.

And the new life goal he set for himself has long gone beyond the confines of the mortal realm, but it is to travel the sky and know the brilliance of the more distant and mysterious starry sky.

Because of this, Lu Zhan didn't have any special feelings about being in an important position like this, on the contrary, he was even a little tired of it.

This young man just wants to spend more time on his own cultivation, instead of wasting a lot of time on intriguing political affairs and all kinds of entertainment.

It is said that the brave Bolu Zhan made outstanding achievements during the Northern Expedition to the Sui State, and also made great contributions to saving the driver in the Taijimen Change. After the new emperor of Longtai ascended the throne, he was given the title of marquis, called "Marquis Wen", and was given the title of the first county under the jurisdiction of Hongzhou...... Wenjun is its fiefdom, and there are as many as one million households in the mining area...... This is also the earliest fief of the ancestors of the Lu family in Yunmeng City. ...,

And Lu Zhan's deceased father was also posthumously awarded the title of Chaopin Earl, and his deceased mother was regarded as a first-class lady, and the eldest grandson left by Lü Zhan could inherit his marquis position for generations.

In this way, Lu Zhan finally fulfilled his father's last wish, and at the age of only twenty years old, he had already obtained the glory comparable to that of his ancestors, becoming the youngest marquis in the history of the Great Chu Empire.

At this time, the newly born Great Chu Empire annexed Sangyang and Dasui, two large countries in the Eastern Territory, and its territory expanded nearly four times, and it had become the first-class power on the Eastern Continent.

At the same time, Lü Zhan was also promoted to the rank of marshal in the imperial army, and was in charge of the pacification affairs of the capital of Chu.

After everything was rewarded, Lu Zhan still lived in the original "Fenyong Earl's Mansion" after returning to Chujing City, but now the Earl's Mansion has been changed to a gold-lettered signboard and officially renamed ......" and "Wenhou Mansion".

Xi Liuzi, a happy young man who returned from his master's expedition and successfully broke through to the middle stage of the Condensation Realm, started his old business again and became the head of the new Wenhou Mansion.

Although Lu Zhan served in the imperial army and had a high rank and honor, he didn't have much to deal with in the barracks in peacetime, and this Emperor Longtai and the new national teacher Qin Baiyu didn't know what to think about, and they didn't give him a position with specific real power, as if they wanted to just empty him up.

Lu Zhan faintly felt the reason for this, after all, he suppressed the national teacher in one fell swoop in the Taijimen Mutiny, and he seemed to have become the first person in the Great Chu Empire and even the surrounding countries to cultivate martial arts. Then in terms of personal strength, it posed a real threat to both Qin Baiyu and the new emperor, so that the two who were suspicious by nature had to be careful.

Fortunately, Lu Zhan himself was not keen on the struggle for power, so he was happy to be idle, and he preferred to focus his mind on cultivation. The battle with the national teacher at the beginning made his martial arts attainments rush to the peak state of the Transformation Strength Realm.

But after that, he has been deliberately concealing the fact that he has become the pinnacle of chemical strength, that is, he does not want to cause unnecessary suspicion, thus threatening the safety of Lu Fu and some other people he cares about.

For a person who is diligently seeking to improve his own strength, the level of martial arts cultivation has reached the peak of strength, and it seems that he has reached the end of the martial arts, and has reached the highest state pursued by everyone in the mortal world.

However, Lu Zhan's current vision was different, and after inheriting a trace of memory from a Lord-level Cave Mansion cultivator, he clearly knew that the Transformation Strength Realm was far from the end.

Above this vast world, there is a new realm that far surpasses the realm of transformation energy.

But how do you break through the last barrier of the Transformation Realm and enter the new realm of nothingness?

Lu Zhan doesn't have a clue about this for the time being. However, since the Eighth Emperor became the new monarch and entered the Imperial City, as the number one minister of the Son of Heaven, Lu Zhan has had many opportunities to enter the Great Inner Secret Library to inquire about relevant information, and the richness of the materials and classics hidden in this Great Inner Secret Library can be said to be the most abundant among the surrounding countries, but even so, he can't find an effective way to break through the peak of chemical strength and enter a new realm from the vast database, and most of what he has seen is just a few words of hearsay.

Lu Zhan came to the general secret workshop of the capital again, hoping to find clues about breaking through the barrier of transformation in the secret workshop, but in the end he was disappointed.

The days passed silently in his incessant quest and diligent cultivation.

Ever since Lu Zhan's womb received that "Bronze Fragment" in the Black Evil Valley, his martial arts attainments quickly entered the realm of transformation strength, and since then, he has been brave and diligent. Especially after receiving the "Wanhua Lotus Platform" on the "Floating Immortal Island", his martial arts attainments have progressed at a rapid pace, and in less than two years, he has reached a height that other powerhouses have spent decades or even hundreds of years unable to reach. ...,

However, just after he entered the peak state of the Transformation Strength Realm, he suddenly found that his internal qi could no longer be greatly enhanced, no matter how hard he cultivated, and no matter how many third-level pills he ate, he could not improve his martial arts attainments any further, as if his cultivation had hit a thick wall and there was no room for further development.

He couldn't help but think in his heart: "Could it be that I have really reached the end of the martial arts and will never improve again, as Qingyin said before? Maybe there are some other reasons that are restricting me, so that no matter how much I cultivate, I will not be able to advance an inch, let alone reach a new realm in the void?"

Lu Zhan was puzzled by this, at first, he relied on his past experience and thought that he could solve this phenomenon by eating high-grade pills, so he couldn't help but increase the amount of third-grade pills, from three pills per month to four, and then to five.

The output of that third-level pill was already extremely scarce, how could it be enough for him to consume it so desperately? Soon all the third-level pills on his body were exhausted.

So he used various means to obtain the third-level pills, according to the regulations of the Secret Fang Alliance, the third-level pills could not be traded casually, so Lu Zhan tried his best to get a lot of connections, and then relied on the way of exchanging pills with those forces who had the third-level pills (anyway, there were already a lot of treasures in the small world in his body) to collect the unavoidable third-level pills as much as possible.

This unusual move of astringent third-level pills quickly caused deep concern among his two old acquaintances.

"Wenhou, why does he want so many pills?" Emperor Longtai (that is, the former Eighth Prince), the new emperor of the Great Chu Empire, frowned, and said with some displeasure: "Now that the Royal Alchemy Room is under my care, it has already issued him three third-level pills on time every month...... Three of them. Normally, the normal consumption of a master of the Transformation Realm is one pill per month, and it stands to reason that his third-level pill should be more than enough, so why do you have to collect it everywhere and make the city full of wind and rain now?"

At this moment, he was sitting upright in the imperial study, and the huge study was like a secret room, only he and the national teacher Qin Baiyu looked at each other.

Qin Baiyu closed his eyes and shook the folding fan in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Lu Wenhou's actions are indeed a bit strange, according to his current martial arts attainments. Even if he didn't reach the peak of his strength, he was not far from the martial arts supreme realm at that step, and the absolute powerhouse at this point, the speed of martial arts attainments basically stagnated, otherwise it would be impossible for the previous generation of national teachers to spend decades of time in the late stage of transformation. So Your Majesty, could Wen Hou be using the method of swallowing a large amount of third-level pills to increase his stagnant cultivation speed?" [To be continued [This text is provided by @acd Watermelon] If you like this work, you are welcome to come ◤◢ to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation. 】