Really back.
Xu Tianran stared at the face in the mirror that was less than twenty years old and not yet mature, and fell into a trance.
Is it the reincarnation of the previous life, or just a dream?
Comparing the memories of the past few days and the subtle resilience brought by his soul's wandering for decades, Xu Tianran felt that it should be a rebirth.
When he was about to reach the peak of his life and the heyday of his empire, he died at the hands of two descendants of God.
His soul accidentally left his body and wandered around the continent for decades, watching the child replace him and ascend the throne. The queen, who had always played the role of a good wife, turned out to have been secretly having an affair with the Shrek genius and got pregnant.
In the end, the empire that had invested everything was forced to change its name and return its territory by the extremely hypocritical gods.
The glory that he had worked hard to build for half his life was reduced to ashes in front of the almighty god because of the ridiculous punishment bestowed by his daughter.
Xu Tianran stood tall, standing in front of the window, looking into the distance at the palace which had not yet been stained with blood.
Tomorrow is his twentieth birthday ceremony, and also the ceremony for him, the eldest prince of the emperor, to be conferred the title of Crown Prince.
The old emperor of the Sun-Moon Empire is in poor health and his personality is not strong enough. It is almost foreseeable that he will take over the power of regent after becoming the crown prince.
With him being less than twenty years old at this time, yet already possessing the cultivation talent of the peak Soul Emperor level; and due to his maternal relationship with the number one Soul Master, Kong Deming, it can be said that those imperial uncles and brothers completely missed out on that position.
A few hours later, a bloody palace coup will take place here, which will affect his character for the rest of his life.
He successfully suppressed the counterattack, but the price was the loss of his legs and fertility.
But not anymore.
The person standing in front of the window now is only the second emperor in the history of the Sun-Moon Empire who swept across the Heavenly Soul, stepped on the Dou Spirit, surrounded Shrek with troops, and expanded the empire's national strength and military power to the extreme.
Some people may call him a dictatorial butcher and tyrant, but thousands of years later, the name Xu Tianran will only be engraved on the monument of the cornerstone of civilization.
The glory of human civilization will shine forever along with the stars in the universe, and the prosperous era will be brilliant.
The status of gods and humans will be overturned and will quietly change at this moment.
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The hour hand of the clock in the bedroom ticked past twelve o'clock, and a ball of ice crystal cannon exploded behind the window frame. The time was exactly the same as in memory, and the moves were no different from the previous life.
"Your Highness, the Third Prince and his men are here." The captain of the guards' voice was still serious. He was Xu Tianran's most loyal guard, a peak-level eight-ringed Soul Douluo.
Xu Tianran released his mental power slightly and sensed dozens of strong breaths outside the palace. They were all soul masters or soul instructors coming towards his palace.
There was no change in his expression. At this moment, the sound of a crossbow being strung came from outside the door. Six black-clad warriors broke through the door of the palace study and shouted that they would take his head and offer a reward of 100 million gold soul coins.
Then, his whole body of bones was crushed by the pressure released by the three seven-ring soul saints in the guard team.
"Southeast corner." As soon as Xu Tianran finished speaking, the leader of the guards of his good third brother released his martial soul, the purple-scaled giant python, which really crushed the Diao Po Tu Feng and rushed out from the southeast corner. He was also a Soul Douluo. Unless he was the crown prince, the ordinary guards of the prince only had the cultivation level of Soul Douluo at most.
Xu Tianran's deceased mother brought Gao Ming, a peak Soul Douluo, from the family and a disciple personally taught by Kong Deming.
His third brother's maternal side came from the military, so he also had Contra guards.
However, he was much worse than Gao Ming. In his previous life, because of Xu Tianran's concerns, he did not allow him to rush out in time and get rid of the Soul Douluo, which led to him being surrounded later.
This time, Gao Ming turned around with a bang, and the pressure of the peak Soul Douluo's cultivation poured towards the southeast corner like a flood, and his martial soul's true form, the violent King Kong Bear, suddenly appeared.
He is not a pure production-type soul engineer, but rather a melee soul master and melee soul engineer who is extremely good at close combat and protection.
In the Sun and Moon Palace, the proportion of soul masters is higher than in the outside world. After all, as guards and servants, they don't need to be proficient in making soul guides, they just need to be good at using them.
Gao Ming crushed the Purple Scaled Python Soul Douluo to death without much effort, and returned to Xu Tianran covered in blood. The other guards rushed forward to deal with the other small fry.
At this moment, a scarlet signal bomb suddenly rose outside the hall.
The rebels who rushed into the palace saw the final contribution of their tragically killed comrades and rushed towards Xu Tianran like crazy.
These rebels were part of the imperial guard commanded by a prince of the royal family.
The plot to assassinate him, which would have prevented him from being crowned the crown prince tomorrow, was orchestrated by his two good brothers and an uncle.
He is the eldest son of the emperor and also the eldest legitimate son. What it means once he comes of age is self-evident.
Three hundred rebels broke open the palace gate and rushed towards the inner hall of the East Palace like a tide.
Only when all the soldiers rushed into the square in front of the inner hall did Xu Tianran withdraw his indifferent gaze.
"Closing the net." He said lightly.
Behind him, the captain of the guards, Gao Ming, bowed, and twelve soul-guided barriers rose from the ground, covering and sealing the entire square.
More soldiers rushed out frantically, surrounding the rebels in the "slaughterhouse" in front of the hall, which was twenty meters square.
Now that he's back, how could he allow the pain of his previous life to happen again?
As long as this premeditated abdication was known in advance, the initiative could be taken. The authority of the Sun and Moon royal family was as high as heaven in this empire.
He didn't need to mobilize troops himself, he just had to notify the neutral leader of the Imperial Guard. The old emperor was bedridden, and as the de facto eldest son, he had already begun to get involved in state affairs.
Within half an hour, the entire square in front of the East Palace turned into a sea of blood and corpses. The elite guards who were supposed to be loyal to the country turned into cold corpses.
Politics is always so cruel.
Xu Tianran ignored the fact that his uncle's right arm was cut off, and the second and third princes' legs were crushed by the chaotic soldiers while they were howling, and led them to his father's bedroom.
The old emperor of the Sun and Moon Empire, his father, also fought on the battlefield and drank blood and horses in his youth. Unfortunately, he was seriously injured in the battle for the throne and became much less courageous.
Now it has actually fallen to the point where it wants to negotiate peace with the three kingdoms to which it formerly belonged.
Xu Tianran's two brothers and one uncle have passed away, and he stands in front of the current emperor of the Sun and Moon Empire.
His father closed his eyes in pain.
After a violent cough, he murmured to himself: "Tianran, why is it so... why is it so..."
Xu Tianran knew that he knew these things, and the emperor also knew that Xu Tianran knew these things.
Xu Tianran was too radical, and with Kong Deming, the number one soul mentor, behind him, he was a deterrent to both the prince and his uncle, as well as to him, the emperor.
The emperor knew a little about the plans of his second and third sons, and had strictly ordered the prince of the royal family not to harm the life of his eldest son, and at most to imprison him, and then he acquiesced to their actions.
But he felt guilty all night long towards his eldest son who had never made any mistakes. The intensely conflicting emotions tormented his already broken body.
After the emperor coughed, he collapsed on the bed.
The Taiji Palace bedroom was silent. Xu Tianran, who was not stained with a drop of blood, withdrew his extremely disappointed look from his father.
Even after returning, he still held a little hope for his father, the hope of family affection.
His mother died young, and the tall image of his father when he was young was always imprinted in his mind.
Because he lost his mother at a young age, his father was weak, his brothers were scheming, and he lost both legs, his psychology became extremely extreme at one time.
Now that he had seen through his father, and with his legs still intact, he was surprisingly calm.
This might be a good thing. In his previous life, he was a little emotional. Whether he attacked Shrek or surrounded and killed Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, he felt a little regretful after doing it. In this life, he must understand everything clearly and kill them with one blow.
Xu Tianran looked at his father, the Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, and said coldly:
"Abdicate, I will ascend the throne, and you will go to Daming Palace to be the emperor."
The emperor looked up dejectedly, his sickly pale eyes filled with emptiness.
He numbly agreed.
What else can I do now that I only have this one son?
Xu Tianran turned and left the palace.
He still has thirteen years to grind those sons of God into dust.