Those years of doing business in the Three Realms

Chapter 71 The Underworld

Chapter 71 The Underworld (Extra: Zhong Lei’s memories, Pluto’s life.)
The last years of Ahan.

Emperor Li Guang died. He has no heirs.

The ministers elected the 18-year-old King Li He of Xichang, who was famous for his beauty, to succeed him.

According to historical records, Li He did not go to court once during his thirty-day reign.

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Yongning Palace.

The emperor's residence.

The young man Li He was sitting on a chair bored, with the brush he used to practice calligraphy pinned to his ear. After a while, he put the brush to his mouth again.

The ministers did not allow him to go to court.

He didn't care much.

But the ministers would not let him go out.

He was a little annoyed.

If there is no freedom, what is the meaning of life?
But now he is a mortal body and cannot escape from this situation. There is no less calamity that one should suffer.

The fetus he was reborn in this life was truly tragic.

His biological mother remarried when he was two years old.

His father renews his relationship.

Pond's stepmother is more vicious than a Rakshasa.

After being beaten several times, he was hopeless, emotionally unhappy, and no longer wanted to live.

I always lament the suffering in the world.

As a result, his father passed away when he was eight years old.

He had been trained by his stepmother Pond from childhood to adulthood. Apart from a clean face, there was no good skin on his body.

He says he is a prince, but in fact he is a rich man and a poor man. When I use money, I can't even take out three coins in my pocket.

Wearing splendid clothes, living a life worse than death.

Pond's family covers the sky with one hand. He lingers in the shadows.

Later, when he saw that he was getting more and more handsome, Pang took pleasure in bullying him.

All kinds of tricks were used on him, but he avoided his face.

The vicious woman not only beat him, but also took advantage of his body overtly and covertly.

Unable to resist, he could only lie down on his back and let the person on him do dirty things.

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Even if he becomes the emperor now, his stepmother Pang and her party members are still in charge of the government. Pond's still covers the sky with one hand.

He, the emperor, is more of a decoration than a decoration.

That’s all, it’s hard to get a human body once. Experience cultivating immortality and refining alchemy from scratch.

After all, after becoming emperor, his treatment was obviously much better than before, and Pang didn't dare to blatantly pick trouble with him. After all, he is still needed as a puppet.

Whatever he wants, as long as it's not too much, the palace and the maids will prepare it for him.

Two days ago, he asked the palace people to prepare a large copper furnace weighing 200 kilograms for him.

The palace man curiously asked him what he used it for, and he lazily said: "Refining elixirs."

The palace man immediately ordered the blacksmith to cast it.

In less than seven days, a large copper furnace weighing 200 kilograms of purple gold was cast.

It was led by the Ouchi guards and sent by Zhong Lei.

Zhong Lei has a strange appearance, a dark face and a lush beard. He is a famous general throughout the country. At a young age, less than twenty, he had won nine battles at the border.

Later, he returned to the capital and resumed his duties. He was appointed by the late emperor as the commander of the Ouchi Guards, and also the commander of the capital's 300,000-feather forest guard.

He still holds military power.

He is also a figure that Pang is relatively afraid of.

Of course, Li He is not interested in these, he only cares about his alchemy furnace.

Zhong Lei bowed his head, "Your Majesty, where is the copper furnace placed?"

"Put it in front of the palace." Li He said calmly.

Zhong Lei signaled his men to put down the copper stove.

Li He nodded: "Okay."

"Okay, Your Majesty, my subordinates..."

Seeing that Zhong Lei still didn't leave, Li He showed a puzzled expression: "What's wrong?"

Although there is one emperor and one courtier. But Zhong Lei still missed the late emperor.

From the bottom of his heart, he felt that the person in front of him who was not doing his job properly was really... unworthy of sitting on the dragon throne.

"It's okay, I'm resigning!" Zhong Lei said firmly, and then resigned.

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Within three days, Li He refined an elixir called: Infinite Power Elixir.

The news spread inside the palace.

The palace maids whispered to each other: "Have you heard? Our emperor has done something wrong again."

"I know, it's spread all over the place. The Holy One has practiced the Infinite Power elixir, which is said to be Spring Pill! After taking it, it can last for three days and three nights..."

"He also distributed it to the soldiers of the Yulin Guards so that they could experience it..."

"As long as you understand, let's not talk any more. We might lose our heads if people find out that we are talking about His Majesty."

"Yeah."

Zhong Lei was not far away and heard everything clearly, his back molars were about to be broken: "You are a debauched and immoral fool!"

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When Zhong Lei rushed into the Yongning Palace, Li He was sleeping soundly.

He turned around three times in front of the bed, gritted his teeth, grabbed Li He's wrist, and pulled him up from the bed.

The cuffs were too wide, exposing his scarred arms.

On the white jade-like skin, there are old and new scars, large and small, red, purple, bruises, and cracks.

Zhong Lei was stunned, he froze on the spot.

It was rumored that the emperor never asked anyone to serve him when taking a bath. When he first heard about it, he thought Li He had some weird quirks.

did not expect……

Li He opened his sleepy eyes and was not angry. He just said calmly: "I have newly refined the recovery pill. If you eat one pill, the scar will disappear for five hours."

Speaking of the elixir, Zhong Lei remembered the purpose of his visit this time.

He said: "What kind of infinite power..."

"The elixir of infinite power. I have made so much that I can't even put it on the plate. I ordered people to put it in a big gourd and put it in the side hall. If you need it, you can get it yourself."

"I do not need……"

"Then why are you disturbing my sleep?"

Zhong Lei immediately knelt down on one knee: "I deserve to die, I hope the Holy One will forgive me."

"What do you want with me?" Li He tidied up his clothes and sat beside the bed.

"Why don't you go to court, Your Majesty?"

"You really have such a big head, you don't think about the problem, and you come here to embarrass me, an eighteen-year-old child."

"..."

"Is this the one I can go to if I want to? You are also an important figure in the capital. Why don't you have any popularity and no one tells you about the current situation in the palace?"

"Your Majesty, you have only been on the throne for less than ten days, what kind of situation can you expect?"

"I'm too lazy to tell you. If your big head doesn't grow in vain, go and find out for yourself. The palace servants who serve the dishes are smarter than you."

"Subordinate... I know this, so I'll go out and inquire."

"Ah."

"Your Majesty's injury..." "The Empress Dowager has been beating her for more than ten years."

"Is there such a thing... ah... why is the Queen Mother like this?"

"Do you think this is unreasonable?"

"..."

"Alas, when all my greed, anger, ignorance, pride and suspicion were revealed to the whole world, I actually thought that one day I would cut that dead old woman into pieces."

"Your Majesty..."

"Sure enough, within the Three Realms, human beings are the most difficult to deal with."

Zhong Lei only felt that Li He's words were inexplicable. Could it be that he has been another species?

"Wei Chen retire."

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Later, Zhong Lei verified that it was because some soldiers were not active and the married life was not harmonious, so Li Hecai refined the elixir of infinite power and called it a blessing to all directions. Increase the population of Ahan.

It's really... poisonous...

This emperor.

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Ten days later, Pang invited Zhong Lei and his family to the palace for a banquet.

The gossip spread the next day.

The palace men and maids began to whisper again.

"Have you heard? The Queen Mother is placing Commander Zhong's sixty-year-old mother and seventy-year-old father under house arrest in the palace as hostages, forcing Commander Zhong to hand over his military power."

"Can the military power be handed over?"

"Not yet."

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Three more days passed.

The palace people and maids whispered: "The Queen Mother killed Commander Zhong's father."

"The Queen Mother is so terrible. Commander Zhong has handed over his military power just to give his mother a way out."

"However, the Queen Mother did not release him as promised."

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Today is the twenty-third day of Li He's succession.

Zhong Lei's mother was sentenced to death.

Zhong Lei was imprisoned by Pang's order.

Li He went to visit Zhong Lei in prison.

Zhong Lei was seen sitting in the corner of the cell with his hair disheveled and his body covered in blood.

"Commander Zhong." Li He stood by the door.

Zhong Lei looked hopeless and ignored the other party.

"Pang is such a cunning person, how dare you give her military power. I told you before that your brain is not working well."

Zhong Lei glanced at Li He feebly and said in a hoarse voice: "Now that things have happened, what's the use of talking about this."

"I can save your family."

"Family? Haha... I'm the only one left."

"I'm afraid of trouble, so I have no interest in taking care of your family's affairs."

Zhong Lei only thought that the other party was arrogant.

"Believe it or not. I can't stay in this world for a few days. There is no need to explain so much to you. If you are willing to listen, just listen. If you don't listen, just listen."

Zhong Lei was silent.

Li He said to himself: "You owe me a favor. If there is any use for you in the future, don't refuse."

Zhong Lei sneered sadly: "Can you use me? I am a useless person now."

"You are not a useless person. You will be a high-ranking official in the underworld in the future, taking charge of a whole world. These good and evil people in the world of the world will eventually be judged by you. Those who have left some ink in your life, such as Pang and others, you will Always remember to take good care of them.”

"Your Majesty, you don't have a fever, right?"

"If I have any use for you in the future, I hope you will die without mercy."

"..."

"If I have any special circumstances in the future, or send someone to do something for you, I just need to take out the black feather token. I hope you won't refuse. Seeing the token is like seeing me."

Li He said, lifting up his collar and exposing his chest.

All the skin and flesh below the collarbone were gone, leaving only white bones.

In the dark cell, it glowed with a dull luster, making it look particularly terrifying.

And Li He's long hair hung down on his chest, and his chest was looming.

Zhong Lei was shocked and thought he had seen a ghost.

He didn't dare to take a closer look, so he turned his face sideways and squinted his eyes in half.

"I will use my own flesh and blood to exchange for the rebirth of your parents. After you go out, the family of three will live a good life. Don't let me suffer this in vain. Do you understand?"

A long while. Zhong Lei stood up slowly as if he had reacted, and asked tremblingly: "Sir, is everything you said true..."

He once wondered if he had been tortured to the point of going crazy. All this is simply unbelievable.

All that was left of the emperor's body was bones. Why can I still walk and talk like normal people?

"I'm not in the mood to lie today." Li He said.

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Zhong Lei gave Li He a butterfly-shaped jade pendant before leaving.

"This is an ancestral jade pendant from my family. I don't know how to repay Your Majesty. My house has been ransacked and I have nothing left but this. I appreciate it and will not give it away. Please accept it from Your Majesty."

Li He nodded. Hang the jade pendant around your neck.

The jade pendant swayed left and right in his empty chest like a pendulum.

Zhong Lei was grateful and a little creepy. He said to Li He: "The Holy One is unpredictable and not an ordinary person."

"You're really right."

"..."

"Remember my words, and don't forget my old love when you go to the underworld in the future."

Zhong Lei clenched his fist: "If it is true, I will enforce the law impartially. I will not let any evil person go!"

Li He smiled: "Look, you were born to do this."

"Your Majesty..."

Li He whispered a few words to Zhong Lei again, seeming to explain things.

"Weak Shui, I remember it." Zhong Lei said.

Li He sighed: "I'm leaving."