Three days after Chu Chou and Zhao Zhishui, the master and apprentice, left the Divine Emperor City, a piece of news spread wildly throughout the Northern Wilderness and all over the world.

At that time, an unknown killer appeared directly in the imperial study, only a few steps away from the Son of Heaven of the Northern Wilderness Empire!

There are also more than a dozen court bigwigs in the Divine Emperor City who have been killed, shaking the world.

The monks of Bezhou heard that among them, there were three super sects involved! But in the end, it still ended in failure!

At that time, there were several sect monks at the peak of the eighth rank who wanted to break into the palace, but they were all stopped, only the killer who was good at hiding himself successfully entered the palace gate, and the rest of the great grandmasters did not even set foot in the palace gate!

This made the Jianghu monks in Kyushu even more afraid of the empire's heritage and strength, prompting many sects or dynasties that were still hesitant to submit. In the eyes of other empires, this could not be better. But for the Son of Heaven of the Northern Wilderness Empire, it really can't be considered good.

In the imperial study of the Imperial Palace of the Divine Emperor City.

"None of the monks in the eight-rank realm or the eight-rank peak realm on the other side are left?" a cloth-clothed man looked at the city guards, palace guards, and several civil and military officials who were bent down very deep in front of him.

"Back to Your Majesty. On the opposite side, there are thirteen eighth-rank realm grandmasters, as well as four eighth-rank peak grandmasters, and dozens of seventh-grade realms and seventh-grade peaks...... We can only defend the palace. A big eunuch in a red eunuch python robe replied softly.

"What did the white-clothed Divine Emperor Army do this time?!" the cloth-clothed man shifted his gaze to a general in white iron armor and asked.

The white-armored general cleared his throat, and then replied with some bitterness: "Back to Your Majesty, the streets in the Divine Emperor City are criss-crossed, and they are not too wide for the wilderness plains, which is not conducive to the impact of the iron cavalry of my white-clothed Divine Emperor army. Most of our armor soldiers can only guard the four gates of the city, east, west, north and south, and standing still has reduced our combat power, and the supreme formation must be combined with extremely fast impact to play a real level. Moreover, those Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters have no intention of fighting with our white-clothed God Emperor Army, they are bent on leaving, and we can't stay at all if we don't have the right time, place, and people. ”

"Your Majesty, the list of their assassinations this time is here. Shangshu of the Criminal Department took out a blank piece of paper with words from his sleeve and handed it to the man in cloth.

The cloth-clothed man squinted at the white paper in his hand, then raised his head and said to the Shangshu of the Criminal Department and the general of the white-clothed Divine Emperor Army: "You two, join forces to behead those big families who have rebellious behaviors! ”

"Yes!" the two men ordered, and then retreated.

"A few of you, let's make another patrol in the city to see if there are any fish that have slipped through the net. If there is, you will not be killed. The man in the cloth commanded.

"Yes!" several city guards and palace guards clenched their fists and bent down to receive their orders.

After everyone went out, the man in cloth crushed the white paper full of black letters in his hand, but his calm eyes were full of murderous intent.

"Shadow, you go and kill some of the inner disciples of the Ice God Palace and the Fire God Temple who are training outside. Don't touch those descendant disciples just yet. The man in the cloth said flatly.

"Command!" the shadow nodded, then vanished into thin air.

"Those who stand in my way, those who oppose me, will die!" said the man in cloth, and continued to sit on the extremely precious purple gold dragon pattern sandalwood chair, and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

A remote and impoverished county town in the Northern Wilderness Empire, named Tuzhu City.

In any dynasty, there will be many impoverished state towns, county seats, county seats, small towns, villages, and poor families.

Empire is no exception. Tuzhu City is a very poor county town in the Northern Wilderness Empire and even in the entire Northern Wilderness. The people don't have enough to eat every day, some people starve to death every day, and once there is any natural disaster, there are even more corpses all over the field.

It's not that the county town above has not been managed, but the heart is more than enough but the strength is insufficient, the land here is barren, the population is dense, the mountains and fields are numerous, and the bandits are difficult to clear, if there is not a small river here, then there will be no one living here.

For the poor and destitute people who can't even eat enough, once they have taken root, wanting to leave again is tantamount to a fool's dream.

The most important thing is that the officials here are not upright, they only know how to whip the people and squeeze the people, and the first local sect is also in collusion with the government, so that these people can't have any idea of resisting at all, and can only be bullied like an old cow.

In the earthen city, there are no people coming and going, and the streets of Quancheng are all land and stone roads, except for the streets in the center of the county town where the powerful and rich live.

In the east of the city, there is a small private school in the open air, an old man is reciting the four books and five classics of Confucianism, and there are more than a dozen students who look like teenagers shaking their heads and reading with the old master.

"The gentleman moves and the world is the way of the world, the world is the law of the world, and the world is the rule of the world. ”

"Born to know, or to learn to know, or to be sleepy to know: and to know it, one also." ”

"A gentleman is introspective and not guilty, and he is not evil. What a gentleman cannot reach, he cannot see......"

The sound of books is refreshing.

Chu Chou and Zhao Zhishui looked at the reading teenagers in the dilapidated courtyard in front of them, and they all felt an invisible aura in their hearts.

After the old master finished his lecture, Chu Chou took Zhao Zhishui to visit.

After some small talk, Chu Chou knew the past of the old man in front of him. And the old man also knew that Chu Chou was a chivalrous man who had walked the rivers and lakes for many years.

This old man, named Fei Nande, used to be a lifter, but because he offended a certain fourth-grade official in the capital, his career in this life was hopeless. And he just wanted to go home and marry his childhood sweetheart's woman. The woman's family was extremely poor, so she didn't pick and choose, after all, the old man was half a scholarly family when he was young, and he had some savings at home, otherwise he couldn't afford to read at all.

The two naturally got married, but they have no children and no daughters later, and after several natural disasters, the family's savings have been spent, and the two have become hungry people every day. When the old man was young, he could only read and write, and he had no other skills, so the two lived very poorly.

Later, in a natural disaster, man-made disasters finally appeared, that natural disaster was the most serious natural disaster in a hundred years of earth-built cities, the only river in the city dried up, not a drop of rain fell for two whole years, and half of the people died of hunger and thirst.

The old man's childhood sweetheart didn't survive in the end.

Only in times of disaster and calamity will people know that "the world is light, and life is a blessing." ".

"I don't blame anyone, if you want to blame, blame the hearts of this world......" The old man drank the wine that Chu Chou handed him, and said with a faint smile.

It's just that I don't know if it's because the wine tastes good enough or what's wrong, the old man's smile is obviously slightly bitter.

"The world is always getting better and better. One day, where will there be no sound of books in the world?" Chu Chou said as he raised his head and squinted at the eternal sun in the sky.

"However, the world of our time is not good!" the old man sighed.

Chu Chou nodded and said calmly: "I will make this world a little better." ”

Then Chu Chou said something that the old man didn't understand the meaning, but he understood the state of mind.

"Not only for the sake of morality in my heart, but also for her, I want to sing to this world for once. ”