Chapter 155: Yazi
However, even Li Yunxin probably didn't understand the gravity of the situation as clearly as Yue Yunzi did.
This was the first time in nearly five hundred years that True Realm cultivators from the Daoist Orthodoxy and Sword Sect had died in battle—three at once, plus one from the Profound Realm.
And it was the first time in nearly one thousand four hundred years that an emperor's soul had been empowered by the people's will to become a Ghost Emperor.
The thing that cultivators had worried about for thousands of years had finally become a reality. Even with preparations, they still felt terrified when faced with such a tragic outcome.
But the cultivators couldn't think of a better way to solve this problem. Constrained by the social environment and productivity levels, it seemed there was no better method than having an emperor rule the world. It was precisely to avoid a terrifying event like the Li Kingdom emperor's transformation that the Daoist Orthodoxy and Sword Sect had always prevented the emergence of a more powerful, unified dynasty—the Li Kingdom was already the limit of what they could accept.
But looking at it now...
It seemed this limit had to be changed again.
But no matter how it changed, there had to be an emperor. Of course, the cultivators didn't want emperors—in fact, every human emperor was a potential terrifying demon. However, the Celestial Beings—the Celestial Beings who had passed down the Celestial Heart Orthodox Law in the beginning, had instructed the cultivators of the Daoist Orthodoxy and Sword Sect to "shepherd the myriad people and protect the way of humanity."
A long time ago, some had thought this was just high-sounding rhetoric—just like how mortal emperors demanded their officials be honest and incorruptible. So, they "tested the law with their own bodies"—out of self-interest, they caused turmoil in the world. More than ten countries were embroiled in warfare for a century, tens of millions of people were displaced, and hundreds of thousands died in the chaos.