With a conclusion in his mind, Cao Zhe slightly adjusted his next arrangements.
Since you can't complete the horizontal push in a short period of time, you can slow down and observe and learn more.
I'd also like to see if the 'specialness' in this world will help with martial arts practice and the next step.
Now that he has such an identity, he can also use the power of the Tang Dynasty to collect more information about this world, which saves a lot of time for Cao Zhe to collect on his own.
And the most important point.
His current identity is the 'World Protagonist'.
In other words, before the end of the original main story line, he should still have a 'destiny' that he needs to inherit.
No matter what he does specifically, the main line of destiny will not change much until he exceeds the limits of the world.
Just like Yang Guo in the world of divine eagles, no matter how depraved he is, his own strength is not too high. It's just bad luck that he met Cao Zhe, who was just beginning to show his sage...
"If you want us to help you track down the real murderer, you should at least be honest with each other first." Cao Zhe said to Cui Jiuliang.
Cui Jiuliang is naturally not stupid, and he will tell the truth to a person he meets for the first time without any scruples.
However, under the pressure of Cao Zhe, he would always choose between lies and truth... preferring to tell the truth.
Cao Zhe cannot influence the entire world now, but it is easy to influence just Cui Jiuliang.
"Five years ago, evil poured into the Jinghe River, infecting the Jinghe River. Five hundred years ago, the body of the Jinghe Dragon Lord fell from the sky and turned into an evil dragon. To cause trouble, he took care of the evil water and went straight to Chang'an City. Come."
"Wei Zheng, Mr. Wei, wielded his sword to slay the evil dragon on the Jinghe River, but the water of the Jinghe River was still polluted and became turbid and unusable."
"Many of the evil spirits flowed from the Jing River into underground undercurrents, passed through the Jiuzhou Cauldron blockade, and followed the undercurrents into Chang'an City."
"Several ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government received secret orders from His Majesty to investigate the undercurrent and were ordered to block the Eye of the Evil Spring."
"It's just that now, these ministers have been cursed to death one after another, and they have turned into evil corpses after death."
At this point, Cui Jiuliang seemed to pause for a moment, as if there was a lot of hesitation, but then he continued: "There is news from the palace that Your Majesty is also disturbed by evil spirits, and has often acted crazy. Although there are two generals, , guarding outside His Majesty's chamber day and night, but they can still only delay it temporarily and cannot completely solve it."
"The bad commander ordered us and the Nine Guards of Yinchuan to solve the case within ten days, otherwise they will be punished, and the leaders of each team must die to apologize."
"We have successively traced the causes of death of Liu Shen, the head of the Household Department, and Bai Tao, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple. We found that before their deaths, they both went to the Hiyue Tower in Pingkangfang. However, just two days ago, there was a fire in the Hiyue Tower. Burnt to a white ground.”
"There were a total of one hundred and twelve girls in the Moon-covering Tower, including thirteen old women, twenty-seven maids, fifteen young men, and one old madam. They all died in the fire."
Cao Zhe asked: "Where is the body?"
"How do you confirm that these corpses are the real owners?"
Cui Jiuliang said: "The body was handled by Xu Zhongxuan, the Qipinlang of your body-carrying body."
"Before disposing of the corpses, we invited carvers and sculptors to conduct verifications and confirmed the identities of these people."
"You guys are staying at Wang Shilang's Mansion, waiting for Wang Shilang's corpse to transform... If his corpse changes, what are you going to do?" Cao Zhe asked.
Cui Jiuliang said: "Mr. Wei once said that evil corpses are not 'dead corpses', but the birth of new life. They are born from human corpses in a way that is different from any ordinary creatures."
"But these evil corpses still have a maternal origin."
"That source is like the umbilical cord connecting their lifeblood."
"The evil corpse transformed by Wang Shilang is very likely to find the source of the curse. As long as the source is cut off, the curse will be lifted immediately."
At this time, Li Canglang said angrily: "You want to wait for the evil corpse to return to its nest?"
"You also know that the newly born evil corpse will not return to its nest until it has eaten more than a hundred people."
"You are betting on the safety of Chang'an City and the lives of the people of Chang'an."
"A hundred infected evil corpses, no matter how timely they are dealt with, what a big disturbance will they cause?"
Cui Jiuliang said: "This matter concerns Your Majesty, we have no choice but to do it."
"The area around the Wang Shilang's residence has been cleared by us. At the same time, a hundred death row prisoners have been prepared. Even if there is an emergency... it is for the sake of the stability of the country."
"Your Majesty is bound by the Nine Cauldrons. If Your Majesty is good or bad, and the power of the Nine Cauldrons drops again, the Tang Dynasty will be overthrown."
As we all know, the Nine Cauldrons, the holy weapon of humanity, held the country and resisted evil spirits, which allowed the Tang Dynasty to survive for five hundred years.
That was the strategy for ruling the country formulated by the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty five hundred years ago.
However, with the decline of the country and the spread of evil energy, the humane energy accumulated by Jiuding has been almost exhausted, but it has never been fully replenished.
Often every few decades, a large number of common people will form a "sacrifice team", and then a large number of corpse carriers will escort them to the points where the Jiuding is separated to perform sacrifices.
Every 'offering' trip is a catastrophe.
Often a team of hundreds of thousands of people would reach their destination with less than 100,000 people left.
And those who were responsible for escorting the corpses never came back nine times out of ten.
Carrying corpses is the safest practice method from 500 years ago to now.
The 'evil bones' hidden in the body can self-destruct and be removed at any time.
Once the person carrying the corpse feels that he is about to lose control, he will destroy himself and die together with the enemy.
This is also the 'honor' that the corpse-bearers have always believed in.
It is precisely because of this that the former owner's father, Chen Guangrui, not only did not self-destruct, but was turned into an evil corpse. After the news came back, many people who carried the corpse were angry.
The political resources left to 'Chen Xuanzang' are so mediocre.
Otherwise, if Chen Guangrui is not a failure in life, he can always have a few colleagues who are friends and will give Chen Xuanzang some care.
I won't let Chief Xie bully me like that.
In addition to 'sending sacrifices' to replenish Jiuding's humane energy.
Furthermore, the stability of the imperial power and the long-term peace and order of the country can also reduce the consumption of humane energy.
Whether it is the change of dynasties or the change of emperors, the remaining humane energy in Jiuding will be greatly consumed.
So for five hundred years, even though the Tang Dynasty had leaks everywhere, no major rebel force had ever appeared.
Moreover, emperors have always prioritized 'longevity' and 'life preservation'.
For every Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, there is an extremely important indicator to evaluate whether he is a 'wise emperor'... that is whether he lived a long life.
A short-lived emperor is undoubtedly a foolish emperor.
As for guiding the emperor to practice, this is even more impossible!
Because since the change of heaven and earth five hundred years ago, practice has not only failed to lead to longevity, but has actually been a very detrimental thing to longevity.
Often, the higher one's cultivation is, the more difficult it is to walk the tightrope between life and death.
Wei Zheng, who killed the evil dragon a few years ago, directly held a funeral ceremony alive after that, asked the emperor to grant him a posthumous title, and then sealed himself in the mausoleum.
If there is no danger of overthrowing the country, the tomb cannot be opened and this famous official of the Tang Dynasty can be invited out.
There are many famous officials and generals of the Tang Dynasty who were in the same situation.
There are too many living dead buried within the Qinling Mountains.
Once they are born again, they will only have the power to fight. After blooming to their final glory, they may transform into more vicious existences.
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