Behind him, the Minister of Revenue, the Minister of Personnel, Xuan Xue, and others were also staring intently at the late Emperor.
Everyone was silent, and the scene was eerily quiet.
In the depths of the earth, the Red Sand Cult Leader was still recording everything.
On the surface, the late Emperor, standing there dumbfounded, had no idea that from the moment he emerged from seclusion, he had been participating in a large-scale live reality show.
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Chapter 240: The Late Emperor's Confession
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My name is Xuan Ce.
I am the previous Emperor of the Divine Xuan Dynasty.
A year ago, I practiced a secret technique, feigning death to enter seclusion, in order to break through to the Divine Demon realm, which no one in Southern Continent had reached for thousands of years.
Then, I succeeded!
Feeling the powerful might of the Divine Demon realm.
Recalling the various events of a year ago, my heart was filled with emotion, and I was preparing to return to the dynasty and reclaim the throne that belonged to me.
However, it was precisely at this moment.
My nightmare began.
I stood on the old site of the Tongxuan Mountains. In my memory, this place should have been a vast mountain range, but now, it had become a plain. This environment, which did not match my memory, made me feel a little dazed, and at the same time, it made me notice the rich spiritual energy in the world.
This shocked me.
You must know that before I feigned death, the laws of Southern Continent were withering, and the spiritual energy was thin, not even one-thousandth of the current concentration. These two huge changes made me frown, realizing that things might not be as simple as I had imagined.
So, I dismissed the idea of flying directly to the imperial capital.
Instead, I prepared to find someone on the spot to ask what had happened during my feigned death.
I left the place of my feigned death and walked towards the outside world. After taking a few steps, I saw a commoner, and I was about to go forward to ask, but suddenly, my eyes narrowed, because I could see the other party's realm, the pinnacle of the Saint realm. This was the realm I possessed when I entered seclusion a year ago.
A commoner? Able to possess the realm that only the current Emperor had a year ago!
Is this possible? Is this reasonable?
Obviously impossible, and unreasonable.
Therefore, I immediately concluded that this person might have a major plot, wanting to endanger the dynasty.
So, I leaned over and talked to him.
Preparing to ask about the secret of this person lurking in the dynasty.
But I found that I was wrong.
He was just an ordinary villager!
From his mouth, I vaguely learned about an extremely terrifying village, with Divine Demons as village chiefs and the pinnacle of the Saint realm as villagers. At that time, my chest heaved violently, thinking that I had discovered a terrifying hidden village in Southern Continent.
However, in the following conversation.
I realized that such villages were just a common phenomenon.
Other villages were even more awesome than this one.
It would be fine if the village chief was a Divine Demon, but who could imagine that behind names like Brother Wang, Sister Li, and Aunt Lin, which sounded like everyday family matters, were actually Divine Demons?
I felt extremely shocked. I didn't think this was my Southern Continent.
I might have left Southern Continent incorrectly because of my wrong posture when I emerged from seclusion, going to a strange but extremely terrifying place. However, when I raised this suspicion, reality ruthlessly shattered my fantasy. This was Southern Continent.
The identity card of the Divine Xuan Dynasty even came out.
Could I doubt that it wasn't Southern Continent?
But?
Is this really Southern Continent?
I asked myself!
I didn't dare to say too much, for fear that my identity and disjointed memories would touch any taboos. So, I pretended to be an outsider and followed this villager to his village to see and understand what had happened during my feigned death!
Afterwards, I successfully arrived at Li Family Village.
What I saw and heard shocked me.
I had seen this village in the Tongxuan Mountains before my feigned death. Although I didn't pay much attention to it, the memory of the Saint realm allowed me to remember some of the house layouts. Everything in this Li Family Village was not much different from what I remembered. This was the only place since I emerged from seclusion where my memory matched.
However, every villager in it was at the pinnacle of the Saint realm, which was vastly different from everything in my memory.
With shock, confusion, unknown, or a complex mood of discomfort, I sat blankly on the table, waiting for the villager to call his village chief.
Afterwards, I saw the village chief of Li Family Village. He was very old, and seemed to have barely broken through to the Divine Demon realm in his twilight years, with traces of time still remaining on his body. If it weren't for the Divine Demon aura on him, I wouldn't have believed that this could be a Divine Demon!
Thinking back to those years, those who were qualified to sit in front of me had to be at least the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, but now, a small village chief of the dynasty could sit opposite me. The gap made me feel inexplicably melancholic.
But I knew that something earth-shattering must have happened in Southern Continent during my feigned death. I had already lost the qualification to once rule the world.
This forced me to restrain my restless heart and talk to the village chief of Li Family Village as an ordinary person.
The village chief of Li Family Village seemed to like talking about the majesty of the dynasty to outsiders, which made me happy. The so-called 'the more you say, the more likely you are to make mistakes.' Being able to only listen and not ask questions undoubtedly suited my current situation.
So, from the mouth of the village chief of Li Family Village, I learned what kind of terrifying achievements the current dynasty had. In the Divine Demon realm, there were divisions of Earth God, Sky God, and Ancient God. The Ancient God was the pinnacle realm of this world. Cultivating into an Ancient God could be equal to the heavens and live as long as the earth.
This was an unattainable dream in the eyes of a Divine Demon who had just broken through to the Earth God realm. However, even the Ancient Gods were vassals of the Divine Xuan Dynasty. As for the territory, the dynasty had recently conquered the entire Sky Void Realm.
And the most ridiculous thing was that I didn't even know what the Sky Void Realm was.
I was at a loss, shocked, melancholic, disparate, inconceivable, unbelievable, feeling that all the emotions in the world had passed through my heart. To be honest, I was a little scared.
Once I broke through to the Divine Demon realm, I didn't even have time to be happy.
But I found that I was in a completely strange world.
The Divine Demon realm, which I was so proud of and had painstakingly broken through, was only the most ordinary level in this world. I panicked.
And this made me once suspect whether I had slept for a year or ten thousand years.
After all, there was nothing more than this that could describe the changes of the world and the alienation of people.
So, I pretended to inquire about the years of inheritance of the dynasty. I thought I would hear a very long time, but the answer from the village chief of Li Family Village made me lose my composure.
One year!
Yes, I didn't remember wrongly.
I did feign death for a year, and within this year, the Divine Xuan Dynasty developed to this extent.
I opened my mouth, and countless questions and doubts surged in my throat, but in the end, I didn't say anything. All of this was seriously disconnected from my memory and beyond my comprehension.
And I have now left Li Family Village.
Because the teacup I just crushed was a Saint-level artifact. I had just awakened, and I didn't have any money to compensate, so I was driven out of Li Family Village......
"Who can tell me what exactly happened!"
The late Emperor walked on the road to Nanjian City, lost and dejected, sighing towards the sky.
In the void, everyone watched.
Underground, the Red Sand Cult Leader kept inputting audio.
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Chapter 241: Xuan Ming: Father, actually we were Divine Demons a long time ago, we were just acting with you.
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The late Emperor came all the way to Nanjian City!
A powerful martial artist who broke through to the Divine Demon realm by his own strength.
At this moment, he walked weakly, and there was no longer the heroic spirit and imperial majesty of a generation of emperors between his brows.
On the street, people came and went, bustling with activity.
Hawkers, and the cries of shops on both sides were endless.
A scene of prosperity.
But the only difference from the mortal world was.
All the people seen in the city were Divine Demons.
"In one year, can a country without even a Divine Demon really be built into a dynasty based on Divine Demons?" The late Emperor muttered to himself in a trance.
He staggered forward.
Aimlessly.
Not knowing where to return.
Walking and walking.
The late Emperor's footsteps stopped subconsciously.
He unknowingly walked into a narrow alley.
There was no one around, and the noise of Nanjian City and the shouts of hawkers began to be faint, until finally, they completely disappeared.
The late Emperor rubbed his eyes, and before he could react.
The surrounding scenes began to retreat rapidly.
His body suddenly appeared in an inn.
"Father, long time no see!"
Just as the late Emperor was shocked by the changes in front of him, a voice made his pupils shrink.
His body paused, and he slowly turned his head, only to see Xuan Xue, Xuan Yun'er, and other Earth Gods sitting at a table, cupping their hands slightly towards the late Emperor.
"Xiao Xue, Yun'er?" The late Emperor opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything, because even his two daughters' cultivation was far stronger than his at this moment.
