Chapter 1505
Time flies like an arrow and years pass like a shuttle. In this year, the biggest news under the sky was none other than the death of Emperor Li Zili of Great Wei!
Li Zili rose to power in a small village, then rose and fell, and finally defeated the various warlords to establish the Great Wei Dynasty with the Southern Li Kingdom at its core.
He was a worthy hero of his generation and the son of destiny.
During his 20-year reign, the territory of Great Wei continued to expand outward, the country grew stronger and stronger, and its prestige was unmatched.
The founding emperor of Great Wei was actually not very old, and he was a natural-born martial artist. His sudden fall shocked countless people.
Wang Chen, who was far away in Tianyun City in Yunmeng Daze, received the news seven days after Li Zili’s death.
There was nothing he could do about it. The communication system in the mortal world was very primitive. Even if a message was sent by hawk, it would take several days to reach thousands of miles to the north or south鈥攚hich was actually considered very fast.
Wang Chen was also a little surprised.
The last time he saw the Great Wei emperor in Changyi, he didn’t see any signs of decline, and he didn’t think it would be a problem for Li Zili to live another twenty or thirty years.
Now, only ten years have passed, and this is really a bit abnormal.
In the next few months, more and more news came from Changyi to Tianyun City.
Li Zili’s sudden death had a great impact on the originally stable and prosperous situation of Great Wei.
Since Li Zili had never established a crown prince, several princes of equal strength began a fierce battle, which also affected Changyi and caused extremely heavy casualties.
When the princes were exhausted from fighting each other, the ninth prince, Li Yuanhao, who was in the Western Regions fighting the barbarians, secretly returned to Changyi and led 5,000 cavalry to crush all his opponents.
In the end, this young and brave prince, with the support of the old ministers and many generals, ascended the throne and became emperor.
The name of the dynasty: Hongwu.
The situation in the Wei court and country was thus pacified.
Wang Chen was not interested in who became the emperor, he was just curious about the reason why Li Zili died.
The answer was not revealed until a year later by someone who knew the secret.
Li Zili was in the process of reaching the level of grandmaster when he accidentally went astray and caused his lower abdomen to self-destruct and his meridians to break. He finally gasped for air in agony for three days before he died.
It is said that before he died, the emperor of Great Wei appointed a crown prince, but at this time he was already unable to control the situation.
Wang Chen was speechless after learning the answer.
Li Zili was the ruler of a country. He was the source of the dragon’s energy of Great Wei, carrying the huge fortune of the country. Reaching the realm of innate talent was already the limit, and it was simply impossible to break through to the next level.
Li Zili’s assault on the grandmaster was undoubtedly acting against the heavens, and it was inevitable that he would suffer a backlash!
It can only be said that unrestrained power blinded his reason, making him think that he was omnipotent, and as a result he lost his life.
This can also be considered the cycle of heaven and earth and the retribution of karma.
In the third year of Hongwu, Wang Chen welcomed his first grandchild.
Wang Chen had a total of nine children, five sons and four daughters, from one wife and two concubines, and never had any more children after that.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t, but he felt that he had had enough.
In the next ten years, Wang Chen’s children, except for Wang Zhenzhen, all got married and started their own families, and the size and influence of the family continued to expand as a result.
As for his beloved eldest daughter Wang Zhenzhen, she had vowed to the heavens never to marry after her first failed attempt to reach the level of grandmaster, and then set off on a journey alone to find the spiritual opportunity to break through.
In the 15th year of Hongwu, Wang Zhenzhen returned to Tianyun City.
She was already a supreme grandmaster!
Then she continued to cultivate in seclusion with Wang Chen.
In the same year, Wang Chen saw his father-in-law Ye Xiangming off.
On the day of Ye Xiangming’s funeral, the entire city mourned in white, and the Hongwu emperor even sent an envoy to bid him farewell.
And starting in the 15th year of the Hongwu reign, the Great Wei dynasty stopped expanding.
After years of continuous foreign attacks, the power of the Great Wei dynasty had reached its limit, and the territory it had swallowed up was dozens of times larger than that of the Nanli kingdom back then, and the vastness of its territory was unprecedented.
Under these circumstances, Emperor Hongwu wisely suppressed his territorial ambitions and instead focused on recuperating and restoring the country’s strength.
By the 20th year of his reign, the Great Wei had basically resolved its internal problems and entered a period of comprehensive development.
In the 21st year of his reign, Wang Chen suddenly received a secret report from Changyi.
The Great Wei Dynasty had a grandmaster!
His name was Huo Wuji.
This name evoked Wang Chen’s memory, reminding him that he had given the secret manual of the 鈥淣ine Yang Divine Skill鈥� to a young boy back then.
Unexpectedly, this young boy had entered the realm of the supreme grandmaster.
He was worthy of being the son of fate born in the midst of calamity, and had actually broken through the extreme realm with an abridged version of the manual.
Although Wang Chen didn’t care about this, he felt that this guy would still be involved with him.
Wang Chen’s intuition was not wrong. Three years later, in the 24th year of Hongwu, he received another secret report from Changyi.
Emperor Hongwu was determined to send 300,000 elite troops to conquer Yunmeng Daze, and the appointed commander was Huo Wuji.
In addition, Huo Wuji was no longer the only grandmaster in Great Wei. The other grandmaster came from the palace and would participate in the conquest of Yunmeng Daze together.
As for the reason why Emperor Hongwu conquered Yunmeng Daze, it is said to be the last wish of Li Zili!
After learning about the situation, Wang Chen handed over this piece of information to Wang Zhenzhen: 鈥淶hen’er, what do you think?鈥�
Although thirty years have passed, Wang Zhenzhen is now in her forties, but her appearance is still that of a young girl, except that her temperament has become cold, and she no longer has the innocence and naivety of the beginning.
Facing the threat of the 300,000 elite soldiers of Great Wei and the two grandmasters, Wang Zhenzhen said indifferently, 鈥淔ather, I think we should teach the Li family a lesson, so that they don’t keep thinking about it.鈥�
Wang Chen laughed, 鈥淚f you were in charge of this matter, how would you solve it?鈥�
Wang Zhenzhen thought for a moment and replied, 鈥淢y daughter will go to Changyi once and solve the problem by killing the culprit.鈥�
鈥淣o good.鈥�
Wang Chen shook his head: 鈥榊ou still have to reach the final limit of martial arts. If you kill Li Yuanhao, you will definitely be counterattacked by the Dawei country’s luck, and the losses will outweigh the gains.鈥�
鈥漈hen kill Huo Wuji and the other grandmaster.”
Wang Zhenzhen said without hesitation: 鈥業f you can’t kill him directly, then cut off his hands and feet!鈥�
Of course, she had not forgotten Huo Wuji. After all, this young man from the past had left a shadow in her heart.
But that shadow quickly faded at the time, and now it is just a name.
鈥淰ery good.鈥�
Wang Chen asked, 鈥淒o you want your father to accompany you?鈥�
鈥淣o.鈥�
Wang Zhenzhen held her head high, her eyes as calm as stardust: 鈥淢y daughter is enough.鈥�
At this moment, Wang Zhenzhen is like a long-forgotten sword that has suddenly revealed its peerless sharpness.