Chapter 322: The Future of Yongle City is Bright

Jin Yan did not offer any resistance. Of course, in his extremely weak state, he could not resist even if he wanted to.

Jin Yan was not afraid of death. When he was at his wit's end, he did not do anything ugly but just quietly closed his eyes and waited for death.

The black energy enveloped his entire body and corroded him in an instant, leaving no trace of his body.

In the end, only a fist-sized ball of eternal blood was left on the spot, with a little white light on it.

Although Jin Yan didn't say it, he still had a last wish in his heart.

Watching his old friend die in front of him, Yu Feng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he collapsed to the ground as if he had lost all strength, and his eyes became straight.

Shen Cheng looked back at him: "I thought you would roar and then pounce on me."

"What's the point of doing that, other than bringing humiliation upon yourself?"

The corners of Yu Feng's mouth twitched, his eyes still staring at the place where Jin Yan died, as if he could not accept the reality.

Shen Cheng ignored him, bent down to pick up the Eternal Blood on the ground, and read Jin Yan's memory at the same time.

There is nothing particularly important in Jin Yan’s memory. The only thing that can be considered valuable is the relationship between the three major forces.

The three major forces have been separated for many years, and have long formed very serious gaps between them. In addition, there are irreconcilable contradictions in the economy, trade, politics, military and other aspects.

And Yu Feng is not the only one in Yongle City who advocates launching a war. It can be said that most of Yongle City are in favor of war and have long clamored to use war to resolve the conflict between Baiye Kingdom and Qin Wangling.

Only Jin Yan knew that the three major forces were evenly matched. Once the war started, it would be impossible to end it in the short term and would inevitably lead to a war of attrition in which the country's national strength was tested.

A war of attrition will plunge the entire Eternal Empire into chaos until the three parties are exhausted and can no longer fight, and in the end there will be no winner.

Unfortunately, only a few people share Jin Yan's idea. He also relies on his own strength and prestige to suppress the war maniacs who are ready to stir up trouble inside Yongle City.

The reason why Yu Feng was able to infiltrate the military so easily was not only because he was a duke himself, but also because he had a large number of pro-war factions secretly supporting him.

After reading Jin Yan's memories, Shen Cheng finally understood why Ji Chan had always said that civil war was inevitable.

There were originally many conflicts among the three major forces, but the war had not broken out because they were suppressed by the three blood kings.

But contradictions will not disappear out of thin air. New contradictions will only arise in the continuous accumulation. After years of accumulation, they have reached a critical point that can no longer be reconciled.

According to the intelligence Jin Yan obtained, both the Qinwang Territory and the Baiye Kingdom have been quietly mobilizing for war recently.

If Yongle City does not want to be invaded without any preparation, then even if Jin Yan is unwilling to go to war, he must start mobilizing.

It was precisely because of this information that Yu Feng took action to seize power at the entertainment celebration.

In this situation, unless the Eternal Emperor or the three Blood Kings come forward, it will be possible to continue to suppress the outbreak of war.

Otherwise, when the Baiye Kingdom or the King of Qin completes their mobilization, the conflicts accumulated over the years will burst out all at once.

Fortunately, Ji Chan’s request was to end the chaos in the Eternal Empire, not to maintain the status quo.

If the goal is to maintain the status quo, Shen Cheng simply cannot do it, because the current situation of the Eternal Empire is equivalent to a building whose load-bearing walls have been destroyed and is already shaking in the wind. Shen Cheng, who only has a hammer in his hand, cannot repair the building or keep it stable.

The only thing he could do was to kick the building, causing it to collapse completely, and then rebuild a more solid building on the original site.

Finally, it was Jin Yan's last wish. Shen Cheng originally thought that Jin Yan would hope that Jin Xing would wake up, or that Yongle City would not be involved in the war.

Unexpectedly, Jin Yan’s last wish was to conquer the Baiye Kingdom and the Qin King’s Territory and re-unify the Eternal Empire, which was exactly the same as Yu Feng’s ambition.

The only difference is that Jin Yan hopes that Jin Xing can unify the Eternal Empire, while Yu Feng hopes to do it himself.

Of course, Shen Cheng couldn't fulfill such a last wish for him.

After putting away the Eternal Blood, Shen Cheng turned around and looked at Yu Feng again.

Yu Feng looked distraught, sitting on the ground in a daze.

Shen Cheng opened his mouth to expose him: "Don't pretend anymore. Your emotions contain only hatred and sadness, without even a trace of self-abandonment."

After his mind magic was upgraded to five stars, Shen Cheng could already clearly feel the emotions emanating from Yu Feng.

Most of his emotions were hatred towards Shen Cheng, and a small part was sadness over Jin Yan's passing, nothing else.

Therefore, his current look of being deeply hurt and giving up on himself was completely an act.

Seeing that his disguise was exposed, Yu Feng slowly raised his head with an extremely cold look in his eyes: "What exactly are you going to do?"

Shen Cheng squatted down and patted Yu Feng on the shoulder: "Don't be so hostile to me, I will fulfill your wish."

"Grant my wish?"

Yu Feng was slightly stunned, and soon he understood what Shen Cheng was going to do. His cold eyes instantly turned into rage: "Are you going to destroy the entire Yongle City?"

There is no doubt that Yu Feng's wish or ambition is to start a war and conquer the Baiye Kingdom and the Qin King's Territory.

Since Shen Cheng said he would fulfill his wish, there is no doubt that he was referring to this matter.

Shen Cheng laughed: "So you also know that Yongle City will be destroyed after launching a war?"

Yu Feng growled, "This is totally different!"

Can a war led by him and a war led by an enemy of unknown origin be the same?

Yu Feng could almost foresee that under the leadership of Shen Cheng, Yongle City would move step by step towards the abyss in the future.

"It is indeed different, because under your leadership, Yongle City will only suffer, but under my leadership, Yongle City's future is bright."

Shen Cheng stood up and looked down at Yu Feng: "Be thankful, I still need to use your identity to do something, otherwise you can only go down to accompany Jin Yan now."

Yu Feng looked up at him and sneered, "Do you think that by impersonating me, you can make the entire Yongle City obey you?"

"It doesn't matter. I won't get pregnant if I try. Even if I fail, I won't suffer any loss."

As Shen Cheng spoke, he began to transform his body using alchemy.

Alchemy can control and modify matter, making it easy to use it to change one's own body.

In Yu Feng's astonished eyes, Shen Cheng quickly changed into his appearance. Because he had Yu Feng in front of him as a template, Shen Cheng's appearance after the change was exactly the same as his. Even the most difficult expressions and momentum to imitate, relying on the precise grasp of emotions by mind magic, were imitated extremely perfectly.

At this moment, even Yu Feng himself couldn't tell the real Shen Cheng in front of him, let alone other people.

He suddenly growled hysterically, "Who are you?!"

Why is there such a powerful enemy? They had never heard of it before. It was as if it suddenly fell from the sky.

“I don’t know who I am.”

Shen Cheng sighed, then stretched out his hand and stabbed it into Yu Feng's chest.

Unlike Jin Yan who calmly faced death after recognizing the reality, Yu Feng subconsciously wanted to resist, but was restrained by Shen Cheng's telekinesis.

After a while, Shen Cheng found the eternal blood in Yu Feng's body and grabbed it out.

After losing the Eternal Blood, the already extremely weak Yu Feng nearly died on the spot, and his strength dropped drastically. He soon fell below the Ace and became a Master.

Without the restriction of telekinesis, Yu Feng, whose face was pale, couldn't even sit still and fell directly on his back.

Shen Cheng has now had a nearly perfect start, and Yu Feng provided the greatest help. Without his attempt to seize power, Shen Cheng would never have been able to capture Jin Yan and Yu Feng at the same time.

But Shen Cheng still maintained a trace of respect for Jin Yan. He was very disgusted with Yu Feng who colluded with outsiders, and his attitude towards him was naturally worse.

After obtaining the Eternal Blood, Shen Cheng raised his hand and pointed it at Yu Feng, who was dying on the ground. He used alchemy to create a layer of special metal, which wrapped up Yu Feng completely.

Next, Shen Cheng wants to use Yu Feng's identity to control the entire Yongle City, so Yu Feng cannot die, otherwise his servants will die with him. Shen Cheng alone cannot control Yongle City.

As for Yu Feng himself, he would have no choice but to continue living in this place.

After wrapping up Yu Feng, Shen Cheng took him back to the top of the pyramid and came to the sleeping Jin Xing.

According to Du Tianming, Jin Xing's soul and half of his body have entered the parallel world, and the remaining half of his body remains outside.

The eternal blood in this half of the body was specially left by Du Tianming for Shen Cheng.

Shen Cheng is now skeptical about Du Tianming's words, and is also worried about whether he will do anything to Jin Xing's body.

Fortunately, Shen Cheng cannot absorb the eternal blood after getting it now. He needs the same amount of dragon blood to use it together. Even if Du Tianming tampered with the eternal blood, it would be fine for the time being.

After knowing that the Jin Xing in front of him was just a body without a soul, Shen Cheng was no longer polite. He had been coveting this body for a long time and wanted to get to know it better.

In this deserted underground space, Shen Cheng acted as a forensic doctor, completely dismembered Jin Xing's body, and carefully studied it from the inside out.

Fortunately, Yu Feng had been wrapped in metal by Shen Cheng, otherwise if he saw Shen Cheng humiliating Jin Xing like this, he would be so angry that he would jump up and fight him to the death.

After Shen Cheng's research, he found that Jin Xing's body was different from that of ordinary people. Although he looked like a human on the outside, he had no organs inside, no bones, internal organs, muscles, etc., only blood.

It's like a human-shaped balloon filled with blood.

It is not known whether this strange situation is unique to Jin Xing or is the same for the three blood kings.

Shen Cheng is more inclined to the latter, because the three blood kings are infertile, after all, they can't even give birth to tadpoles. If they can give birth, I'm afraid we have to check the color of the hats on their heads carefully.

It’s no wonder that Bai Jun and Du Tianming were able to attract the attention of Qin Hao and Jin Xing with just Xiao Qingque. I’m afraid they couldn’t figure out how Bai Jun gave birth to offspring.

After the autopsy, Shen Cheng took the Eternal Blood out of Jin Xing's body.

This was the largest amount of eternal blood he had ever harvested, weighing about five kilograms, which was more than the blood content in a normal adult's body.

Du Tianming said that half of Jin Xing's body is here, which means that Jin Xing has ten kilograms of eternal blood.

The three blood kings possess almost the same amount of eternal blood. Even if there is more or less, the error will be very small.

The three of them together weigh thirty kilograms, plus the lost ones and those left as rewards for subordinates, the total amount of Eternal Blood is probably around fifty to sixty kilograms.

Could the Eternal Emperor be a fat man? Otherwise, how could he have so much Eternal Blood?

The total amount of Eternal Blood that Shen Cheng now possesses is about 8 kilograms, which is almost catching up with the amount possessed by a Blood King.

But this is still not enough to break the source blood curse, even with the addition of dragon blood, because the amount of source blood in Shen Cheng's body is greater, and at least 35 kilograms of eternal blood is needed to completely replace the source blood.

This number is not much different from the 70% calculated by Du Tianming, and most of the remaining eternal blood is in the bodies of the other two blood kings, making it almost impossible to snatch it away openly.

In the end, he still has to follow the path planned by Du Tianming - to become the true eternal emperor.

Shen Cheng collected all the eternal blood, then dug a deep hole inside the pyramid and hid Yu Feng, who was wrapped in metal like a ball, inside.

At the same time, he also left a clone of himself here. As long as Yu Feng's strength recovered, the clone would beat Yu Feng back to his original form, keeping him in an extremely weak state all the time. As long as he didn't die, it would be fine.

At the same time, leaving the split body here can also prevent others from accidentally breaking in and letting Yu Feng go.

Shen Cheng would probably have to live as Yu Feng for a long time to come, so he couldn't let this original body run around.

After settling Yu Feng, Shen Cheng left this underground space.

The entire Yongle City must be in chaos now, and he is urgently needed to go out and save the situation.

……

Shen Cheng was not wrong in his guess. The entire Yongle City was indeed in chaos.

Under Lao Wang's orders, his servants and loyal followers, together with the security department, cooperated with Lao Wang and others to create unrest throughout Yongle City.

These actions, including helping Lao Wang assassinate the fake Jin Xing, were all done to attract Jin Yan's attention and keep him outside to restore order, so that Yu Feng would have the opportunity to sneak into the underground space of the toy city and steal Jin Xing's eternal blood.

As a result, Jin Yan saw through Yu Feng's conspiracy at a glance, and followed him into the underground space to block Yu Feng, and no longer cared about the situation outside.

Yongle City is a mature political system after all, and Yu Feng’s people don’t really want to destroy everything, so the chaos didn’t last long before it gradually showed signs of calming down.

Unexpectedly, Jin Yan and Yu Feng had to fight in the sky above Yongle City for fear of destroying the underground space.

The infighting between the two dukes was seen by countless people in Yongle City. The order that had been gradually restored was suddenly disrupted again, and Jin Yan and Yu Feng's subordinates were forced to start a new round of melee.

(End of this chapter)