You are already cultivating immortality, who would fight with you alone?

Chapter 352: No prosperous times in sight.

"What a great example of influence being greater than right or wrong!" Along with this powerful shout, the voice came from afar like a huge bell before the figure appeared.

Liu Yuntian inside the house heard the voice and stood up slowly. After tidying up his clothes, he bowed respectfully towards the outside of the house and said, "Father, you are back."

Not long after, Liu Ziqing's figure was seen approaching from afar and slowly appeared outside the door.

He was still wearing the familiar long gown, and his figure was still as straight as a pine tree, but time had left its mark on him after all - his originally jet-black hair and beard had turned a lot grayer in just a few short years.

Liu Yuntian was also very familiar with the person who came with Liu Ziqing. This person was Xiang Bo, who often delivered fresh vegetables to the Liu Mansion.

In fact, as early as when Liu Yuntian grafted his arm and mobilized the power of the Void Refining Stage, he had already seen through Xiang Bo's true identity.

But for the sake of his mother's face, he did not expose the matter on the spot, but pretended not to know and continued to play dumb.

But if you want to pretend, you have to pretend to the end. It is unreasonable for a vegetable farmer and the former Liang Guocheng to appear in the same window.

Seeing that Uncle Xiang had come with his father, Liu Yuntian knew what was going on, but he remained calm. He smiled and asked, "Is Uncle Xiang coming to deliver vegetables to the mansion again today? How could it be such a coincidence that he came with my father?"

In response to Liu Yuntian's question, Xiang Bo did not give any verbal response.

He just bowed slightly with a humble and ingratiating smile on his face, looking just like an honest old farmer.

However, at this moment, a hint of obvious displeasure appeared on Liu Ziqing's originally calm face.

He frowned slightly and snorted coldly: "Humph! You ask even though you already know the answer!"

When Liu Yuntian, who was standing aside, heard this cold snort, the smile on his face seemed to be frozen in an instant.

For a moment, the whole scene fell into an extremely awkward atmosphere.

Liu Yuntian couldn't help but think to himself: Are you not going to pretend anymore?

Ready for a showdown?

But if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to understand. After all, my mother has now revealed her true form and is recuperating in the room in the backyard.

Now that things have come to this, it is probably impossible to continue hiding it.

And with my father's intelligence, he must have seen through the fact that I was playing dumb.

"As soon as we entered the northern border, the bandits under your command kept following us. They followed us closely all the way. Could it be that you were completely unaware of this?!"

Faced with his father's stern questioning, Liu Yuntian couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

How come the elites that I carefully cultivated and trained became bandits in my father's mouth?

"What are you talking about, father? They are just doing their duty."

But Liu Ziqing obviously didn't buy it. He shook his sleeves vigorously and shouted angrily, "Performing duties? Humph! According to what you said, those dirty deeds they did were also instructed by you?"

Liu Yuntian knew very well what his father was talking about.

While he and the Holy Land were competing against each other in secret, the situation in Liang State was actually not calm.

Those officials who have been in the officialdom for a long time and live a stable life, gradually develop ambitious ideas in their hearts.

They formed cliques, protected each other's descendants, and never stopped fighting openly and secretly in the court.

What's worse, relying on the fact that Liang State was in its heyday of rapid development and needed a large number of people, they thought that the country could not do without them, and thus became more and more arrogant and looked down on others.

Of course, Liu Yuntian knew all of this.

After all, the mission of the Jinyiwei was to closely monitor and control these situations.

Liu Yuntian knew everything clearly, including the private gatherings held by officials in the court, the power struggles planned in secret, and even such private matters as which lady they would sleep with tonight.

What made Liu Yuntian most angry was that before he died, this group of officials had already begun secretly planning to divide power.

Liu Yuntian is a person who cannot tolerate even a grain of sand in his eyes. He certainly cannot sit idly by and do nothing about these behaviors that are like flies scurrying around and like wild dogs doing whatever it takes to pursue personal gain.

It is no exaggeration to say that being an official in the court has now become a high-risk job!

"Yes, this was indeed arranged by me. I have already mentioned to you before that in troubled times, strict laws should be used to govern the country!"

Liu Yuntian admitted it calmly.

"Strict laws... hehe," Liu Ziqing sneered, and then said: "Do you think that strict laws and punishments alone can be used to govern?"

He shook his head, a look of disappointment on his face. "When huge benefits are in front of them, their attraction far outweighs the fear and worry about their own safety. At that time, life and death become insignificant in their eyes."

"Can we solve the problem by killing?"

"Hmph! Can you kill them all?!" Liu Ziqing asked in a raised voice.

"Of course they will all be killed. After all, there are always people who don't want to die." Liu Yuntian's face turned cold and he said sinisterly.

"In troubled times, what should you do in prosperous times?"

Liu Ziqing looked at his son with a cold face, "It is right to govern in troubled times with strict laws, and it is inevitable to govern in prosperous times with courtesy, law and morality!"

"Your mistake is that you shouldn't do these things yourself!"

"When the prosperous times come, that group of so-called 'saints' will emerge overnight, using this evidence from your past to poke your spine again and again!"

"Is this what you, a ruler, should do?!"

"At that time, will you continue to kill?!"

"If you continue to kill, then what will become of the prosperity you worked so hard to create?!"

Liu Yuntian was stunned for a moment. His father was right. The establishment of a regime would inevitably involve blood and gore.

But as a ruler, your hands must be clean!

He did these dirty things himself and his hands were stained with blood, so he would inevitably be criticized.

This is also human nature.

But my father didn’t know that he had no intention of governing a prosperous era.

Because there’s no time...

The cheating technique "Divine Body Refining" can allow you to gain something without any effort.

But the relative cost is also very heavy.

Now that he had only grafted a hand and a leg, he could already clearly feel the horror of losing his own vitality.

To the extent that Liu Yuntian now doesn't dare to graft limbs at will.

Therefore, he is determined to ascend to heaven!

One must break the shackles of heaven, escape from this world, and go to a higher world in order to solve the problem of one's own lifespan.