Li Deyang stood on the fifth suspended stone slab. He raised his head and looked at the palace above his head. Endless vicissitudes of life appeared on his face. Countless dusty memories poured out from the depths of his soul. His eyes were full of pain and entanglement.
"Oh it's you……
It was you who controlled the six paths of reincarnation and allowed me to be born in Anta County, which is the closest place to here;
After falling asleep every night, it is you who calls my name and brings me back to Anta County;
It was you who took me to the abandoned forest farm, witnessed the appearance of the worker ant with my own eyes, and applied to the higher-ups for rescue...
In the primeval forest, you were the one who hinted me and them to move on. Even after entering Fengdu, you guided me all the way to this palace...
My life has always been under your influence."
He slowly stepped forward and stepped on the sixth stone slab.
Buzz——!!
A hum echoed in the sky outside the palace.
In Li Deyang's eyes, the meaning of vicissitudes of life became a little stronger.
"Does it have to be like this..." he murmured to himself.
"I just want to guard the border quietly, buy a house for my father to retire in, find a reliable son-in-law for my daughter, give them a happy life...and then die like a soldier in front of thousands of people."
"
"Your responsibility and your road are too heavy for me."
"Being you...am I still Li Deyang?"
His voice was very soft, as if he was asking himself or someone else.
He stepped forward and stepped on the sixth stone slab.
The trembling sound sounded again, like a dull thunder, echoing in the sky above Fengdu.
Those fragmentary memories that did not belong to him surged out from the deepest part of his soul and poured into his mind...
In a daze, he heard the prayers of those ghosts again.
"Please, save us!!"
"...If this continues, I will turn into a ghost!"
"You can obviously do it, why? Why?!"
"Please...even if it's just my child, please..."
"…"
He opened his eyes in astonishment and looked back behind him. He stood on the suspended stone slab, looking down at the desolate ghost town below him.
Under his feet is a city housing countless ghosts.
They have been waiting here for a hundred years.
"That's it, that's what you mean..." He looked down at the ghost city at his feet, a light slowly blooming in his eyes, as if he had figured something out, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
He opened his arms as if to embrace this ghost town.
"They... are also tens of thousands of people!"
Li Deyang took out a shiny medal from his pocket and carefully wiped its surface with his thumb. Looking at the three words "Li Deyang" neatly engraved on it, a look of reluctance appeared on his face.
He put his thumb under the medal and flicked it.
Ding--!!
This medal, which had accompanied him for twenty years and symbolized honor and responsibility, was bounced into the air by him and spun rapidly. The surface of the medal clearly reflected the ghost town at his feet and Li Deyang's calm face...
Then he fell into the ghost town at his feet and disappeared.
"If the dark night comes to an end, I will stand in front of thousands of people..."
Li Deyang watched the medal fall and murmured to himself,
"Today, even if I, Li Deyang, die for these tens of millions of people... so what?"
He turned around and stepped towards the seventh stone slab.
Then without any hesitation, he stepped onto the eighth, ninth, and tenth blocks!
Dong dong dong dong——!!
Four consecutive loud noises exploded over Fengdu like thunder, instantly attracting the attention of all the ghosts. They looked up at the sky at the same time, looking at the palace they had been watching for a hundred years...
In the house, the ghost who had communicated with Lin Qiye stared blankly at the figure standing in front of the palace, his lips trembling uncontrollably, his legs bent, and he fell to the ground with tears in his eyes!
"Welcome the Emperor to return!!"
Behind it, its wife and daughter were also kneeling on the ground, kowtowing heavily to the figure.
Throughout Fengdu, all the ghosts who still had humanity fell to the ground, excitedly looking at the figure in front of the palace, and silently shouted:
"——Congratulations on the return of the Emperor!!"
No one can hear this voice, but Li Deyang can.
He stood on the last stone slab, looking down at the worshiping ghosts at his feet. The entanglements, doubts, and hesitations on his face all disappeared, replaced by an unprecedented calmness.
"From now on, there will be no more night watchman Li Deyang in the world..."
I am,
Emperor Fengdu!"
boom--!!
The palace door behind him suddenly opened, and the large black imperial robe flew out from it, hovering around Li Deyang, as if he was jumping for joy!
When Li Deyang saw the familiar emperor's robe, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and with a slight movement of his hand, the emperor's robe was draped on his body, automatically without wind, the golden lines shone with unprecedented light, and a tyrannical imperial power suddenly appeared.
Arrive.
In the imperial palace behind, Lin Qiye and four others stood behind the door. Looking at the scene in front of them, their mouths opened wide in shock...
"Li, Uncle Li, this is..." Baili Pangpang felt the breath coming from Li Deyang and the billowing imperial robe, and he couldn't even say a complete sentence.
Lin Qiye stared at Li Deyang's back. Although he was equally surprised, it was better than the other two.
"He is the reincarnation of Emperor Fengdu."
Lin Qiye spoke slowly, "Actually, I should have thought of it a long time ago. Fengdu is the legendary kingdom of the dead. How could its gate be opened to you casually?"
"But, but...how could he be the Emperor of Fengdu?" Baili Pangpang still couldn't believe it, "He is obviously an ordinary kind-hearted uncle, how can he have the temperament of an emperor?"
"Before the memory of reincarnation awakened, he was just Li Deyang." Cao Yuan let out a long sigh and said with some emotion, "But now... that's not necessarily the case."
Outside the palace.
Li Deyang wore the imperial robe, slowly closed his eyes, and his realm rose rapidly.
The "pool" realm, the "sichuan" realm, the "sea" realm, "boundless", "Klein"... When the last shackles of "Klein" were easily broken away, his whole person's temperament seemed to
It seems to have sublimated and entered a mysterious realm.
Then, his breath stopped in place.
He frowned slightly, looked down at his hands, and shook his head helplessly, "Is this the only way to recover..."
At this moment, he seemed to notice something. He suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky in Fengdu, his expression gradually becoming serious.
I saw the dark dome suddenly and strangely filled with bright red ripples, and an extremely gloomy aura suddenly descended on Fengdu. All the ghosts were under this aura, and their bodies were trembling uncontrollably.
Within the bright red ripples, a black palm suddenly stretched out, followed by arms, shoulders, heads, and bodies...
He emerged from the ripples and floated quietly in the air.