Chapter 25: The Forced Out Murder God

  Power is one of the most fascinating original sins since ancient times, and it can almost be said to be the first in everyone's heart! Especially for those who have enjoyed the pleasure brought by power, they will hold on to their current position and look forward to even higher power!

  Li Yuanba is now the guarantee of Li Yuan's rise to power, and although he has thoughts now, it's a matter for later. There are many ways to kill a person, and for the sake of future generations, father-son relationships can also be discarded!

  When Li Yuan ascended to the throne and saw the increasingly powerful forces before him, Li Shimin's brothers also had similar thoughts!

  Li Jiancheng and others have been getting along with Li Yuanba more and more, even Li Shimin is now laughing and talking with Li Yuanba, the unpleasantness of the past seems to have been thrown out of his mind!

  Duling Yue, being a woman, also discovered the current anomaly with her meticulous heart! To know that she had not seen these brothers and sisters come to find them for a long time since marrying Li Yuanba.

  "Yuan Ba, you said there's something going on, right!? These two days I've been feeling that something is off!" Du Ling Yue doubted and whispered to Li Yuan Ba while embracing him.

  "What's wrong?" Li Yuanba was even more puzzled!

  "Haven't you noticed? Look, the number of people coming to our house is increasing, not to mention your several brothers who share the same mother, even the King of Chu and his entourage are frequent visitors. Since I came here, I've never seen them before!" Du Lingyue felt more and more suspicious as she spoke!

  "It's nothing, they just have some ideas! Hey, your husband is now a nice piece of cake!" Li Yuanba said with satisfaction.

  Du Ling Yue helplessly rolled her eyes, she really had nothing to say to her beloved!

  Li Yuanba is not a fool after all! Since the tens of thousands of troops killed the tyrant Xue Ju, his whole family has been acting strangely! This is normal, they are here to build relationships, especially since none of his brothers from the same mother are well-behaved! But Li Yuanba would never have thought that his own father had murderous intentions. Perhaps due to his personality, as long as his relatives in this life do not plot against him, he will never know how cruel the world is!

  In August, Li Yuan sent a special envoy to Liangzhou (now Wuwei, Gansu) to make peace with Li Xian. In the letter, Li Yuan deliberately addressed Li Xian as "younger brother". When Li Xian received the letter, he was overjoyed and treated the Tang envoy with great hospitality. He immediately sent his younger brother Li Mao to pay tribute. After Li Mao arrived in Chang'an, Li Yuan was also extremely delighted and appointed Li Mao as a general. He then ordered Zhang De, the vice-minister of the Ministry of Rites, to go to Liangzhou to confer upon Li Xian the title of Grand General of Liangzhou and promote him to Prince of Liang.

  In September, Tang gave the posthumous name of Emperor Yang of Sui to the deceased Emperor Yang of Sui. According to the interpretation of "Shi Fa": opposing heaven and tyrannizing the people, abandoning rituals and being distant from the masses, indulging in inner desires and being distant from propriety is called "Yang". It was obviously an "evil posthumous name".

  In the same month, Zhu Can also sent an envoy to surrender to the Eastern Capital of Huangtai, and Huangtai was sealed as King of Chu. In October, Tang's Dengzhou Governor Lu Zicang and Pacification Commissioner Ma Yuanhui launched a military campaign against Zhu Can, but due to Lu and Ma not taking advantage of their victory to pursue him, Zhu Can was able to reassemble his forces, and his military strength was greatly restored again. He proclaimed himself Emperor at Guanjun (now northwest of Deng County, Henan), with the national title of Chu, and established the Changda era. He captured Dengzhou, and Lu Zicang and Ma Yuanhui both died in defeat.

  In November, Li Ke ascended to the throne as Emperor, changing the era name to Anle. He made his son, Prince Boba, Crown Prince and appointed Chancellor Cao Zhen as Left Assistant Director of the Department of State Affairs.

  In September, Luo Cheng's father, Luo Yi, surrendered to the Tang Dynasty! His son, Luo Cheng, practiced the family's Lianyuan Huo Xin Fa and wielded a bright silver spear that shook the world. Later, he joined the Hanbing Shiblood Gate as the leader of the assassins! In October, Shan Ren came to Li Yuanba's mansion to challenge him, but was struck by a hammer that broke his weapon, causing him to spit out three liters of blood! He then defected to Li Shimin's side and sent a message: "A name is not empty, it can only be taken with wisdom, not force!"

  In November, Wang Shichong sent someone to contact Li Yuan. One of the envoys, a general, proposed a martial arts contest with Li Shimin, but Li Yuan refused. During the rest period, this person found Li Shimin strolling around, carrying a pair of eight-sided silver hammers that were not inferior to Li Shimin's large hammer, and insisted on competing in martial arts. He was knocked unconscious by Li Shimin with one slap, and after being taken back to the resting post station, he also sent a message to the Dark Shadow Gate: "Cannot be matched, kill from the side!"

  Later, all sorts of people came to challenge Li Yuanba, and the annoyed Li Yuanba started a killing spree! By spring, nearly a thousand people had been killed! However, Li Yuan seemed indifferent to this, allowing people who didn't know any better to challenge Li Yuanba, while Li Jiancheng and others began to gradually distance themselves from Li Yuanba...

  In the sixth year of Wude, the Turkic Khan was seriously injured and died. His younger brother succeeded him, called Quluo Khan, and led an army to attack Tang. Li Yuanba refused to come out and fight, so Emperor Gaozu sent someone to offer heavy gifts and send Quluo on his way back to the Turks, and Quluo withdrew his troops.

  "Yuan Ba, I've been feeling really uneasy lately! I feel like the people around me are not quite right. Look at your brother, he's not acting like himself anymore. Is it because your father has an opinion about you? I think something bad is going to happen!" Du Lingyue's sixth sense was suffocating her!

  "Hmm? Alright! I won't bother with these messy things anymore, now I have many interesting things, we can make them in the mansion, absolutely something you've never seen before!" Li Yuanba's face was full of evil intentions, thinking that if ancient times had the first bicycle, it would be a shocking thing! Remembering that he saw a wooden bicycle in Fang Shiyu before, riding it out should be cool, right?

  Li Yuan sent someone to let Li Yuanba go and resist the powerful Turks, but Li Yuanba didn't have that intention. I want to be an inventor!

  The Turks had just withdrawn, and other forces decided to join forces to solve Li Yuan's Great Tang first!

  Various forces frequently contacted each other and finally decided to send troops to attack Li Yuan in June!

  In March, Wei Zheng represented the Tang Dynasty to persuade Yuan Baozang, the general manager of Weizhou, to surrender with his subordinates. Since Yuan Baozang learned that other forces were going to unite to attack the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan actively prepared for war! However, he was even more dissatisfied with his third son, Li Yuanbiao, who disobeyed orders, and his determination to kill him became firmer!

  Until June, all parties mobilized a large army of one million to confront the Tang army at Jiuqu! All parties pushed Wang Shichong as the alliance leader, shouting slogans to kill rebels and launching a fierce battle with the Tang army! At the same time, Jianghu issued heroic posters, infiltrating Chang'an and vowing to kill the demon king Li Yuanba!

  Li Yuanba and Du Lingyue took four months to make two wooden bicycles, and Li Yuanba was so excited that he rode out for a spin every day! As a natural-born master, Du Lingyue had no trouble pedaling the wooden bicycle that ordinary people found difficult to ride.

  On this day, Du Ling Yue and Li Yuan Ba rode out of Chang'an City on a rickety bicycle with no guards following them.

  Riding to about a hundred miles away from the city, dozens of black-clothed men suddenly emerged in the vast and empty plain! Each one had the strength of a master, as if they appeared out of thin air, with sword energy flying horizontally and slashing straight at Li Yuanba and his companion!

  As soon as the black-clad man appeared, Du Lingyue knew something was wrong. One of them flashed and jumped behind Li Yuanba, tightly attached to Li Yuanba's back! Du Lingyue had long known how strong her lover's body was!

  Unfortunately, Li Yuanba didn't bring his pair of hammers today, and his defense wasn't as thorough! You know how enormous Li Yuanba's pair of hammers are - when combined, they can serve as a shield the size of an adult human!

  Li Yuanba was initially fearless, ignoring the sword energy that could split stones and cut through gold. However, when they were surrounded by four people and attacked from all sides, with most of the attacks focusing on Du Lingyue's back, Li Yuanba panicked for the first time!

  Without saying a word, silently killing Li Yuanba and the other, this is a true killer, without a shred of mercy, aiming at the enemy's weakness and not letting go until death!

  Li Yuanba heard Du Lingyue's muffled hum, and immediately hugged Du Lingyue in his arms, using all his might to propel himself forward! Boom! Li Yuanba's body shot downwards like a cannonball, smashing through several assassins at an unimaginable speed as he sprinted towards Chang'an City!

  "The target has escaped, we're retreating!" The assassin saw that he couldn't catch up and immediately retreated, even taking the few pieces of debris on the ground with him.

  Li Yuanba rushed into the mansion like a mad dog, holding the bleeding Du Lingyue. After putting down Du Lingyue, Li Yuanba fell silent...

  Duling Yue's back was split open with a huge gash, from her shoulder to her waist, and her spine was exposed in the air! She had also fallen into a deep coma, her face as white as if it had been painted with a thick layer of frost, her completely purple lips tightly closed, and her breathing grew weaker! Before Li Yuanba could call for a doctor, Duling Yue's spirit dispersed and her jade body was damaged.

  Li Yuan and other brothers who rushed to the house upon hearing the news, looked at each other in dismay, because Li Yuanba now had no expression on his face, silent like a thousand-year-old iceberg emitting cold air!

  Li Shimin was leading troops against other forces and didn't come. But it's all the same whether he comes or not!

  "I've heard that many martial forces have recently entered the city, I told you before that their target should be you! But you relied on your strength and didn't listen to advice, insisting on going out, now look what's happened! Listen to big brother..." Li Jiancheng said in a low, reproachful tone.

  "Shut up!" Li Yuanba interrupted Li Jiancheng's lecture, and a dead silence spread throughout the house: "If I don't go out, nothing will happen? Poisoning, assassination! Haha, it's really funny! I was too naive! I can guard against it for a while, but not for a lifetime! I knew early on that this group was a disaster, and unexpectedly, I lost Lingyue!"

  Li Yuan softly consoled: "Yuan Bao, you are now at the center of the storm! Some people can't wait for you to die. In this chaotic world, human life is as worthless as a blade of grass. Only when the chaos subsides can all this come to an end!"

  Li Yuanba gazed coldly at Li Yuan, his icy voice like a distant echo: "If you want to be emperor, then be one, I'll help you! Now tell me their location, and afterwards...". Li Yuanba didn't finish speaking, he wasn't an idiot! Since the past few days when Li Yuan transferred several of his guards away, Li Yuanba knew that this was a chaotic world where no familial bonds existed. Li Yuan was being cautious around him, keeping him at arm's length!

  Li Yuanba vaguely felt that Li Yuan might have the intention to kill him! However, Li Yuanba cut off this thought and decided to first calm down the chaotic world. If such a thing really happened, Li Yuanba really didn't dare think about what he could do...