Chapter 132: Thirty Years of Change and Return

  Li Yuanba's departure marked the true implementation of constitutional monarchy in the Tang Dynasty, but no effects can be seen in a short period. At this time, the world situation is basically settled, and all forces need time to consolidate their occupied territories, and the chaotic situation enters a relatively calm state.

  Li Yuanba spent thirty years calming down all his sorrows, and he wandered in this vast continent like the ancient world, completely losing contact with the human world! Except for the necessary eating, drinking, and excretion, Li Yuanba only used his own two feet to walk through the boundless and endless mutated forest!

  In the heart of the energy storm, the post-war continent has become a paradise for alien beasts. The struggle between life and death and their bloody feeding habits have kept the creatures on this continent in a state of hunting and being hunted for a long time. When those violent alien beasts with strong territorial consciousness divided up their territories, the continent finally calmed down!

  Thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Li Yuanba, who has been calm and composed, finally became interested and wanted to take a good look at this changing world. Thirty years is enough time for many things to change, including the Tang Dynasty.

  One day the Son of Heaven, one day a minister. After the new emperor ascended to the throne, Li Yuan Bao had not appeared for ten years, and people's suppressed greed lifted their heads. The imperial family's monopoly on power made those with ambitions below them harbor discontent, and the pursuit of profit led them to start plotting their rise to power!

  Time can soothe the unpleasant memories of people, and nature can also make people selectively forget certain things. People exhaust their minds and resources to finally eradicate a transcendent beast, obtaining an energy crystal. This crystal allows people to finally touch the transcendent level. With this crystal, under the operation of human wisdom, more and more energy crystals are harvested by people. Under the research of these crystals, a new profession is finally developed - Inlaid Master!

  The Evolutionary Furnace was inlaid with energy crystals by these emerging professional technicians, and the high-ranking masters of the Demon Realm finally broke free from their embarrassing situation. Even a single evolutionary furnace equipped with crystals could kill a giant beast that pierced the sky! Personal martial power was collectively elevated to the highest position, and people went crazy worshipping the demons who had lost Li Yuanba.

  Before Li Yuanba left, he never attended any events or conducted so-called business activities in front of the public. It can be said that few people have seen the true face of Li Yuanba, and almost all media outlets in Datang do not have any positive information about him. Therefore, among ordinary people, Li Yuanba is a legend, an unattainable myth. However, these demons are different, as they frequently appear in various reports to calm people's minds, gathering a large following like stars of later generations.

  In such a situation, their calm heart began to boil. Those emotions that had originally disappeared reappeared, such as arrogance...

  When Li Yuanba still hadn't appeared after twenty years, these demon gods began to resent the so-called high-level constraints, and along with it, they were filled with disgust towards the Li family imperial clan. The Li family can be said that except for Li Yuange and Li Yuanba's three daughters, all the others are at most at the legendary peak, not one of them can break through the mythological level! Li Yuange's lifespan is also about to enter countdown mode. Being stuck at the mythological peak without any progress! In this way, the Li family occupies most of the cultivation resources of the Tang Dynasty, how can they be willing to give it up?! The demon gods who followed Li Yuanba on his southern and northern campaigns have basically all left the world, which also makes people wonder if the great Tang war god has also died a peaceful death in some corner of this world?!

  The towering trees grew wildly, and the satellites that lifted the Great Tang into the sky couldn't find any signs of Li Yuanba's survival. With the means to deal with the heavenly beasts constantly upgrading, Li Yuanba began to fade out of people's sight.

  Twenty years later, the prestige of the Li family imperial clan began to weaken greatly, and the Li family, which had always held the army, began to be ostracized by everyone. The strong are respected is the standard for all worlds, and in a violent organization like the military, it is even more thoroughly demonstrated!

  Talents emerge in Jiangshan, each dominating for decades! In this crazy era, a large number of young and powerful demons are born, impacting the ruling position of the Li family royal clan! Dissatisfied with the low-level cultivation of the royal clan's rule, many high-end warriors leave the army and enter the mercenary organizations established by those old-school demons, greatly weakening the army's control and losing its original deterrent power! The status of the royal family began to decline after Li Yuanba disappeared. If no one dared to confirm Li Yuanba's life or death, the Li family would have exited the historical stage.

  However, there is a time limit for this. If another ten years pass and Li Yuanba has not appeared, they will overthrow the rule of the Li family. Although it won't be to the point of extermination, becoming a symbolic imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty would still be acceptable.

  In 787, Li Yuanba had not yet appeared. At this time, the world's population was growing explosively, and the population base had increased several times! Those who took root in their second hometown began to be dissatisfied with the existing territory, and the era of opening up wasteland officially kicked off!

  The people of the great Tang Dynasty, who had not experienced the disasters of later generations, took a series of brain-damaged measures after losing Li Yuanba, this overbearing ruler. In order to show off the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, they unconditionally transported talents and technology to those backward newly established countries, causing their technological level to rise sharply, almost leveling the technological level gap of nearly two hundred years!

  A large number of warriors are involved in the pioneering work, slowly eroding the territory that originally belonged to humans, and also occupying one after another new island's land area! The vast territory of the Tang Dynasty is still far beyond the current population, so the Tang Dynasty belongs to unpaid labor force in this era, just to show the style of a big country.

  At this time, the Li family had been squeezed to the edge of the imperial court. The royal family's five vetoes per year were all maliciously deprived, and even the military was cleverly manipulated by them, establishing many new armies, but the command rights were all held by outsiders, not a single member of the Li family! Li Yuanji, the nominal commander-in-chief of the army, was deliberately ignored in the conference hall, and he couldn't bear it anymore, bursting into a loud scolding, but was stripped of his command power, replaced by a 10-year-old grandson of the Li family who took power...

  The Datang family's interest group has begun to take the stage again, sacrificing national interests for the sake of quick accumulation of family wealth and expanding their global discourse power and influence!

  Li Yuanba, who had been away from the world for thirty years, finally got rid of the negative emotions that had been accumulating in his heart for a hundred years. In that instant, he felt the call of isolation and helplessness in his blood, which was the call of his most beloved daughters!

  The forty-something Li Siyue, the second daughter, lay weakly in bed, surrounded by her elder sister and third younger sister with their husbands. The others stood outside, resisting those who wanted to rush in and capture and kill Li Siyue, the son of Grand Secretary Xu Hai!

  This is Li Yuanba's mansion. If it weren't for Li Yuanba's remaining prestige, this would have become a bloody battlefield!

  "You bunch of good-for-nothings, don't you dare put me, the great Emperor of Tang, in your eyes? Do you think you can still cause trouble in this mansion of the three princes?! I want to see who dares to rush into this arrest!" The current emperor Li Guoyun stood up, his whole body trembling with rage, and scolded loudly! However, it seems that he really couldn't intimidate these wolf-like soldiers!

  "We have come under the orders of Lord Xu to capture people! Please, Your Majesty, do not obstruct us, or we will find it difficult to complete our task!" The officer leading the troops said blandly to the emperor who was like a mere decoration.

  Listening to Xu Haigui's words, everyone in the Li family couldn't help but surge with a wave of sadness, this is a blatant insult to the Li family!

  Looking at the members of the Li family, who had already lost their power, even those soldiers couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy. These were the relatives of the great War God! But they were just small soldiers, unable to do anything about it!

  "Hmph! The Emperor breaking the law is the same as a commoner, let alone the War God who might have died in some remote corner. Even if he were standing here himself, we would still treat him equally, arresting and killing whoever deserves it! It's a great fortune for you to be favored by our Young Master Xu, yet you dare to defy the law and kill Young Master Xu? If not for Lord Xu sparing your lives out of respect for the War God, you would all have been arrested long ago! Guards, come and take them away! Anyone who dares to obstruct will be killed!" The officer gave Li Guoyun a disdainful glance before issuing the order to arrest.

  "Who dares! If you want to catch someone, first get past me!" Xue Rengui walked out of the house wearing a war evolution device.

  "Haha, I wondered who would be so bold! It's Lord Xue, but Lord Xu already knew you'd interfere! Lord Qi, isn't it time for you to take action?!" The officer sneered with a smile, speaking to Qi Zhijie who had been standing silently beside him.

  "You don't have an Energy Crystal embedded, Lord Xue. Please don't make things difficult for me!" Qi Zhijie said with a frown.

  "Has the Li family really fallen...?" Xue Rengu stood still, his heart filled with desolation!

  Hearing the conversation outside, the three women in the house were filled with indignation and sadness!

  "Father, where are you?! Your daughter is being treated like this, please come back quickly! The three girls' hearts are longing to return to their father's wings, but where is the father..."

  Li Yuanba was worried and the touch in his heart made him rush to his own mansion at the fastest speed, took a look, and almost burst his lungs!

  Only to see his own mansion was surrounded by giant mecha soldiers, the small missiles on their raised arms were all in a state of readiness! The main hall was also surrounded by soldiers, among whom two demon gods equipped with war evolution devices confronted each other, his sons and grandsons had faces full of resentment and sadness. When did this military might run wild at his own doorstep?

  A swift descent, one foot landed on the head of the demon god who was clearly disdainful of the children. "Puff! Dong!" Two indistinct sounds rang out, and the demon god inlaid with energy crystals didn't even have time to react before being trampled into a meat paste!

  "What the...?! What's going on?! Where are your sisters?! And what does this mean?! My estate actually dares to send troops to surround the city, don't they all want to live anymore?!" Li Yuanba was furious, and for those who dared to be presumptuous in his own estate, he didn't have anything good to say!