dognovel Chapter 258 Return!
Chapter 258 Return!
Hengdao Mountain, Corpse Killing Conference!
The old man's words shocked everyone present.
"Really? Why would the World Alliance do this?"
"Is it really worth making such a fuss just to humiliate a dead man?"
Is there some explanation behind this?
There's a lot of discussion!
The old man picked up his teacup, took a sip, and sneered, "What do you know?"
"This plan is a sure-kill method!"
"Think about it, the remnants of the War Alliance and the Eternal Life Alliance are using Li Lan's name. Now that Li Lan's body is about to be slaughtered and his relatives and friends are about to be killed, can these remnants just sit idly by? Can that dog just stand by and watch?"
"If they come, it will be exactly what we want, and the World Alliance can annihilate them in one fell swoop. If they dare not come, they will become a laughing stock and will never be able to accomplish anything again!"
Inside the restaurant, everyone suddenly realized what was going on.
"Indeed, it's a dilemma for those remaining rebels: either be completely annihilated or have their spirit destroyed!"
"In my opinion, those remnants would never dare to come."
"That's right, if they dare not come, they will only lose popular support and face. But if they do come, they will surely be wiped out!"
As the group discussed the matter, one of them asked the old man, "Senior, in your opinion, do you think those remnants would dare to come?"
The old man put down his teacup and said, "He will come."
"Why do you say that, senior?" The others were even more puzzled.
"Firstly, the fact that the War Alliance and the Longevity Alliance dare to oppose the World Alliance at this time is enough to prove that they are not cowards at all. Secondly... hehe, Li Lan's corpse has not been completely extinguished, which means that as long as they seize it, they may be able to revive Li Lan!"
The old man said leisurely, "Therefore, they will definitely come."
Everyone nodded in agreement!
"A brilliant plan. I've long heard that the new master of reincarnation is incredibly resourceful, and now it seems that it's true."
"How could someone capable of unifying the world be an ordinary person?"
"Lin Ruoxue...is truly exceptionally intelligent."
A chorus of sighs and lamentations filled the restaurant.
"Hehe, this is just using their own methods against them."
At this moment, another person spoke up, saying, "Back when Li Lan was in the Immortal Realm, he used this method to deal with the people of the Immortal Court. Now Lin Ruoxue is using his scheme to deal with those who are loyal to him. It can truly be said that retribution is swift."
"So, the two previous Lords of Reincarnation knew each other in their early years?" someone immediately asked.
"Ha, don't you know? Lin Ruoxue was once engaged to Li Lan, and they were husband and wife in their early years."
Upon hearing this, another gasp rippled through the restaurant...
Li Lan got up and left.
Everything that followed was of no value.
"What a gruesome corpse-slaughtering event."
As Li Lan walked out of the restaurant, he began to ponder. Just as the people in the restaurant had said, the scheme Lin Ruoxue used was exactly the same as the "Corpse Slaughtering Assembly" that Li Lan had used on the Immortal Realm's Human Dao Mountain. Both were open schemes.
Even if it's an obvious trap, the opponent has no choice but to jump in.
Big Black Dog, Shangguan Xiaoxiao, and the others will most likely come.
Li Lan must go!
Although the big black dog and others were plotted to die, Lin Ruoxue would never have imagined that Li Lan was actually still alive... In Li Lan's eyes, this situation was actually a good opportunity!
After all, Li Lan is still in a soul state and lacks a physical body, which will affect his combat power and prevent him from exerting his full strength.
If the other party hadn't willingly offered up their physical body, it wouldn't have been so easy for him to take it back!
He immediately headed towards the direction of Hengdao Mountain!
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"The Corpse-Slaying Ceremony is about to be held at Hengdao Mountain!"
Sure enough, the news soon spread throughout the Eternal Immortal City.
"At the Corpse-Mutilation Ceremony, Li Lan's corpse will be whipped and his head displayed to the public. Furthermore, his relatives and friends will be beheaded to inform the world!"
The order caused alarm to all sides.
"A new emperor brings a new court. How glorious Li Lan was back then, maneuvering and strategizing, uniting the three million troops of the ten major alliances. Now the country has changed, power has been handed over to others, and he himself has become a victor and a vanquished!"
"This empress truly has remarkable methods!"
"Now that the world is at peace, only the Black Emperor and the Ninth Emperor remain as potential threats. The Empress intends to force them out and then annihilate them all!"
There's a lot of discussion going on!
Three days later.
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Today is the Corpse Slaughtering Ceremony!
All the major powers in the world, under the decree of the World Alliance, sent their people to witness the ceremony.
Many of them were acquaintances of Li Lan.
For example, Qin Juan, the leader of the Wind and Thunder Alliance, was lucky enough to survive the battle in the Realm of Truth. He has now been appointed as the head of the Wind and Thunder Hall of the World Alliance, responsible for maintaining order in the arena.
Tian Changqing, the leader of the Immortal Alliance, was supported by Lin Ruoxue in the past. Now he has been appointed as the Right Envoy of the World Alliance, holding a superior position. He looked at the scene with a smile and indifference.
The Grand Elder of the Alien Alliance, Yi Qing, and the Elder of the War Alliance, Chen Ling, among others, all waited with indifferent expressions.
"Bring in the corpses of sinners and criminals!"
A loud shout rang out, and several prison carts, escorted by numerous skilled guards, slowly drove up.
On the first prison van was a corpse!
Li Lan's body!
The corpse's eyes were closed, and it was bound and secured with a copper cross. Although it was not breathing, its face was rosy, as if it were not dead.
--When Li Lan’s soul left his body, Lin Ruoxue did not let his body lose its vitality in order to obtain the reincarnation authority within him. Now, in order to lure the big black dog and others out, she is still nourishing it with various precious medicines.
"He was a man of his generation, but it's a pity he ended up like this!"
"If you have to blame someone, it's fate. In the battle at the True Realm, the village's expert intervened and suppressed everything. Reincarnation ultimately wasn't meant for Li Lan..."
"It was a glorious period, I suppose."
Many people sighed.
Just a few months ago, Li Lan was a powerful figure who had united the world and commanded an army of three million. Now, however, his body has become a prison corpse, and he is to suffer the torment of whipping and the punishment of slow slicing.
In the prison cart that followed closely behind, Li Lan indeed saw many old friends from the immortal realm!
Bai Ruoling, once the princess of the White Tiger Clan, was innocent and lovely. Today, however, she is dressed in prison clothes, her face is pale, her eyes are closed, and her face is full of despair and pain!
Jin Muyun, the holy maiden of the Golden-Winged Roc clan, who only sought to become stronger in her life, now had her beautiful face filled with hatred. She did not close her eyes, but stared intently at the corpse on the prison cart in front of her, as if she wanted to imprint Li Lan's face into her soul.
Her gaze swept across the faces of the people around her, more like needles pricking them, making them instinctively afraid to look at her.
When she heard the news of Li Lan's death, her heart died with him, leaving only endless flames of hatred.
Li Lan watched the two women from afar, and couldn't help but be moved.
Back then, when Jin Muyun and Bai Ruoling married Li Lan, they didn't have much affection for each other. However, later, when Princess Zhuiyue and ten other women abandoned Li Lan, they resolutely stayed and went through thick and thin with him.
They... are all Li Lan's wives!
Even now, when everyone in the world knows that Li Lan is dead, they still did not let him down. In the battle against the gray mist that attacked the immortal realm, they fought to the death and, even after being captured, never begged for mercy or surrendered.
Besides Jin Muyun and Bai Ruoling, Yuanzu Li Yue, Zhu Xianchou, and others were also among them.
Li Yue has been studying under Li Lan since the time of the Great Li Dynasty in the Abyss Realm, and is considered Li Lan's only disciple in the world.
Zhu Xianchou, who once shared a deep bond with Li Lan, will never forget the title of "fellow Daoist" he received!
Other old friends such as Liu Ziwen and Jian Yinyue were also included.
"The Abyss Clan..."
Li Lan felt both gratified and saddened.
He was gratified that these people remained unchanged even after his death. To have such a wife, such a disciple, and such sincere friends... he had enough for this life.
Tragically, how much despair and pain must they endure during the time I'm gone?
"We can begin."
At this moment, Tian Changqing, the former leader of the Immortal Alliance and now the Right Envoy of the World Alliance, calmly stepped forward and personally presided over the ceremony, loudly proclaiming: "The sinful corpse Li Lan, in his lifetime, usurped the power of reincarnation, was disloyal, unjust, greedy, cruel, insidious, and vicious, and his crimes are beyond description!"
"Therefore, those who live should suffer the torment of soul refining, and those who die should suffer the punishment of slow slicing!"
"His wives, Bai Ruoling and Jin Muyun, should be skinned alive and imprisoned; his disciples and friends should all be beheaded!"
He waved his hand and shouted, "Execute them—"
Li Lan's body, along with Bai Ruoling, Jin Muyun, and others, had already been transported from the prison cart to the execution platform on the mountain. One by one, the executioners stepped forward, ready to strike—
"Who dares to insult the Lord of Reincarnation!"
Suddenly, a delicate shout rang out from the void!
A young girl appeared, moving with incredible speed, heading straight for the execution ground.
"Shangguan Xiaoxiao!"
Tian Changqing sneered and said, "You've finally shown up. Take him down!"
Several experts were already surrounding Shangguan Xiaoxiao and attacking her, but Shangguan Xiaoxiao was extremely fast and had amazing power. In the blink of an eye, the experts who rushed towards her fell to the ground, and she approached the execution ground.
"A mere Grand Luo Golden Immortal dares to act so arrogantly!"
An elder from the Tianxia Alliance's Yin Hall immediately made a move, sweeping his hand towards Shangguan Xiaoxiao. He was already a master of the Confused Realm!
But as soon as he made his move, a terrifying wing appeared in the sky above Hengdao Mountain, blotting out the sun and sweeping across the area, bringing wind and fire that burned everything in its path!
Dark Phoenix!
"War Alliance Demon Heaven, come to protect our Alliance Leader! Anyone who dares to insult our Alliance Leader will be killed without mercy!"
"Kuxia of the Eternal Life Alliance, come and fight! You traitors of the world, cease your arrogance!"
"I am here to slay your dreams, I only ask for a battle!"
As soon as Shangguan Xiaoxiao and Mingfeng appeared, a group of people including Motian, Kuxia, Zhanmeng, and Chixue also showed up!
The arena erupted into chaos.
"Heh heh, you remnants, you really did come. Today, you'll all be buried with this bastard Li Lan!"
Tian Changqing sneered, and with a wave of his hand, countless experts appeared.
They were all elites from the former top ten alliances, and they had already surrounded Shangguan Xiaoxiao, Ming Feng, and others.
The World Alliance came prepared and outnumbered the enemy, far outnumbering the experts from the War Alliance and the Longevity Alliance. For a time, Shangguan Xiaoxiao and the others were all caught in a fierce battle.
"Woof! Do you really think I don't exist?"
With a deafening bark, a terrifying black dog descended upon the scene. With a single suck, it devoured hundreds of experts.
"Black Emperor, you've finally arrived—"
At that moment, an aged voice also appeared!
The Old Man of Heavenly Secrets!
He appeared in the scene, holding a hammer, and smashed it directly at the big black dog.
--During the battle at the Realm of Truth, he was unable to escape and was captured by Yang Yi. Left with no other choice, he has already surrendered to Yang Yi.
Upon seeing this, the big black dog's eyes widened in shock, because it recognized the hammer in the old man's hand as coming from that small mountain village, the place where its master had lived.
"What are we waiting for? Kill him! Woof woof woof!"
The big black dog roared, and suddenly, a sword appeared from the sky, stabbing at the old man from behind.
Xia Jingmo, the Lord of All Demons, has made his move!
At the same time, a vast golden light appeared, shining down like the sun, scattering countless strange creatures, and the Ninth Emperor also descended.
They were powerful, but their bodies were still covered in wounds. In just three months, the Ninth Emperor had completely lost his imperial majesty, his body covered in white bones, while Xia Jingmo's body was withered on one side, making him look extremely ferocious.
--Back then, in the battle at the Realm of Truth, they were injured by the Yang energy of the bronze mirror, and it was too difficult for them to recover!
The dog in the best condition was actually the big black dog; it had incredibly high resistance, but it also looked a bit old and walked with a limp.
"Hurry! They must have another plan. Take Li Lan away!"
The big black dog transmitted a message to Shangguan Xiaoxiao, and with its help, Shangguan Xiaoxiao rushed into the execution ground in the blink of an eye, knocked the executioner away, and unlocked Li Lan's chains.
"Want to go?"
Tian Changqing sneered, then suddenly took out a chessboard and activated it on the spot!
Black and white chess lines emerged from the void, crisscrossing and overwhelming, sealing off everything in the arena.
This is a trapped situation!
"not good!"
The big black dog's eyes grew increasingly angry and resentful. This was the chessboard its former owner had used, but Yang Yi had modified it into an array, making it impossible for ordinary people to break through.
They were all beings who had crossed the threshold of "Dongzhen," but now they were trapped.
Xia Jingmo's sword energy was terrifying, but it could not destroy the chessboard. Instead, the chessboard pierced through his body, causing him to cough up blood. The yellow pus on the Ninth Emperor's body became more and more severe, making it almost impossible for him to walk.
They were already severely injured and their combat strength was greatly reduced. This time they risked their lives to fight, and now they can hardly protect themselves.
The big black dog frantically resisted the black and white chess lines, but couldn't free up any moves!
"Either kneel down and surrender, or die!"
The old man of heavenly secrets had already picked up a hammer and spoke in a cold voice!
The big black dog, the Ninth Emperor, and Xia Jingmo were all trapped, and now they were in his hands.
"Despicable person..."
The Ninth Emperor roared, "To be your friend is a disgrace to me!"
Upon hearing this, the Old Man of Heavenly Secrets sneered, "What are you? You're nothing but a ghost from the underworld. Do you even deserve to be my friend?"
"Fine, since you're so angry, I'll send you on your way first!"
He approached the Ninth Emperor, raising the hammer in his hand, ready to smash it down!
The Ninth Emperor, still recovering from his severe injuries and now trapped, was utterly unable to fight back and was on the verge of death.
"A soul of the living world, yet enslaved by ghosts of the dead—such scum, how dare they be so arrogant?"
At that moment, a voice suddenly rang out softly!
Upon hearing this, everyone in the room was shocked and turned their heads in unison.
Where everyone's eyes were focused, on the execution platform, Li Lan's body, bound to the bronze pillar... had opened its eyes!
"what?!"
The old man of the heavenly secrets exclaimed in disbelief, his pupils contracted, and his eyes were filled with disbelief!
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