Wang Lu left.
When everyone, no matter if they were ignorant, or if they were excited by the performance of the officials in the city, or if they were bureaucrats who gained confidence from the constantly improving data, they all thought that the general trend was set, Wang Lu actually left.
He single-handedly ran out of the city, leaving all the guards and subordinates behind him. When the guards found that there was no one in the house the next morning, Wang Lu had already left the city hundreds of miles away.
At this time, even the onlookers outside the Gate of All Living Things didn't understand. Where was he going? Not long after, the answer was revealed, and many people's jaws dropped.
Wang Lu actually went straight to the Devil Cult's Headquarter! He changed his appearance, disguised as a wandering Taoist, walked directly to the guards outside the Headquarter, and introduced himself.
"I am Taoist Ju Yang, this time I came to visit your Deputy Cult Leader."
"Taoist Ju Yang!?"
The guard was very surprised, looked up and down at Wang Lu, and then revealed a hideous smile, black smoke rose from his hand: "Where did this reckless …"
Before his voice died away, a cold light appeared in front of his forehead. Wang Lu's Sword of Mount Kun was not very powerful when it came to killing, but it was not something a small guard could resist.
The soldier said unyieldingly: "Even if you kill me, I will …"
"I won't kill you, go back and tell your Deputy Cult Leader that Taoist Ju Yang asked to see him, he will naturally know. We are all civilized people, there is no need to fight and kill each other when we meet. "
The soldier fled back in embarrassment.
Not long after, dozens of Devil Cult's monster cultivators came from all directions, surrounding Wang Lu, but no one dared to make a move. After a while, a stooped old man appeared in the Headquarter, gave Wang Lu a look, telling him to follow.
Wang Lu smiled, followed the old man into the Devil Cult's Headquarter without fear, as if in front of him was not a dragon's pool or a tiger's den.
Speaking of which, Wang Lu's timing was just right. At this time, the Cult Leader of the Evil Cult was out with two Deputy Cult Leaders and a large number of confidants, leaving only one Deputy Cult Leader to guard the headquarters. It was the most empty time, but Wang Lu didn't show any hostility at all. Moreover, Taoist Ju Yang's identity seemed to have been approved by the vice leader. Under the circumstance that they had no intention to provoke a dispute, the Evil Cult didn't immediately make a move. And under the guidance of the stooped old man, Wang Lu soon met the target of this trip in a secret chamber, a sturdy and huge man, who was also the Evil Cult's vice leader who was ranked the lowest.
"Daoist Ju Yang? Do you think there's no one in my Divine Sect, City Lord Wang Lu? "
Wang Lu didn't care at all that his identity had been exposed. Instead, he retorted, "I disguised myself to give you face. Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing to come here with my real body. I didn't expect you to fail to appreciate my kindness."
"Humph!" The huge man was angry, but in his heart, he was somewhat glad.
For this City Lord, who had suppressed the spread of the poison in Yunfeng City in just a few days, the Evil Cult could be said to hate him to the bone. What he had done in Yunfeng City not only solved the crisis of Yunfeng City, but also popularized it as an advanced experience in the Black Country, making the Evil Cult's plans in several other cities have little effect. If it weren't for the fact that there was still no cure for the poison, and the number of walking corpses was still increasing, the Evil Cult's great plan would have been completely ruined. Now that the initiator had walked into the trap, it was simply a meritorious deed delivered to the door. This Deputy Cult Leader couldn't help but feel that his luck had turned for the better.
As long as he accepted his head, his position among the three Deputy Cult Leaders of the Evil Cult could be moved forward.
"In any case, since you've come, then don't leave."
While speaking, the Deputy Cult Leader revealed a ferocious smile.
However, with just one sentence from Wang Lu, the Deputy Cult Leader's expression changed dramatically, and he stopped moving.
"I've already got the antidote, you have no chance."
"What!?"
Seeing Wang Lu's calm face, the Deputy Cult Leader was shocked and uncertain. The poison was accumulated by the Evil Cult for decades, and was developed in one day. How could it be so easy to cure? But the other side was so confident, it didn't seem like a bluff … Nonsense, how could there be a reason to risk his life to come here and bluff? Was he sick?
Wang Lu said, "I know you don't believe it, so I'll prove it to you … Do you recognize this?"
Wang Lu shook a bottle of thick black liquid in his hand. The Deputy Cult Leader naturally recognized that it was a highly concentrated poison, enough to turn hundreds of people into walking corpses in an instant. Thinking of this, the Deputy Cult Leader's expression changed. If this guy broke the bottle, could the formation here suppress it? If the poison spread rapidly in the main altar, it would be troublesome … But that would be a suicidal move. With this kind of concentrated poison, even the Evil Cult's special antidote couldn't save lives. What's more, the antidote was a highly confidential resource of the Evil Cult. The whereabouts of every copy was recorded. There was no news of the antidote disappearing recently, so he had no reason to get it!
However, the next moment, what Wang Lu did surprised the Vice Sect Leader even more than directly breaking the bottle to spread the insect poison.
He actually directly opened the cork and swallowed the thick black liquid!
With a confident swallow, there was not a drop of poison left.
"You …" The Deputy Cult Leader was stunned for a long time, completely speechless. Then he quietly activated the formation, ready to fight against a reckless but powerful walking corpse.
Even with the Cult Leader's cultivation of King Pill, even if he took the antidote, swallowing such a bottle of concentrated poison would be a dead end …
However, under the Deputy Cult Leader's shocked and uncertain gaze, Wang Lu's smile did not change, and he even said, "This taste reminds me of a friend's cooking."
The young man in front of him looked at ease, without even the slightest bit of pain, let alone being eroded by the poison … The Deputy Cult Leader's heart was filled with bitterness, but he had to believe his words. Indeed, there was no more powerful proof than this. The other side had obtained the antidote, moreover, it was a better antidote than the Evil Cult's.
At the same time, outside the Gate of All Living Things, a group of Ten Thousand Arts Sect cultivators frowned.
When did Wang Lu get the antidote? They had never seen it before, let alone when did Wang Lu have the time to develop the antidote? The poison in this illusion world would be different every time it was activated. Even if he had witnessed the whole process of developing the antidote, it wouldn't save him much time. Unless he had a very high attainment in the path of poison, so that he could deduce the formula at a glance. But...
This group of academic cultivators naturally couldn't guess that Wang Lu simply used a brute force method to break the poison, relying on his Non-Phase Method to resist the poison! In the past, the black tide on the Western Mountain was far more insidious than this poison, but it still couldn't do anything to Wang Lu. Thus, swallowing the poison was indeed not a problem.
However, this move had scared the people inside and outside the illusion world.
It took a long time for the Deputy Cult Leader to calm down his inner agitation. With great difficulty, he opened his mouth to confirm for the last time, "Did you really get the antidote?"
Wang Lu said with a smile, "What else do you think? Don't you know the power of your own poison? "
"..." The Deputy Cult Leader once again fell into silence. "So, what exactly do you want to do here?"
"There's no need to play dumb. I brought such a domineering trump card to your Evil Cult's headquarter, how could you not guess what I want to do?"
"Do you want to persuade me to surrender? Whimsical! " The Deputy Cult Leader resolutely said, "You want to deceive me with this kind of flowery speech, you underestimate me too much …"
"Shut up, idiot!" Wang Lu mercilessly interrupted the other side. Facing the Deputy Cult Leader's anger, his eyes became gloomy, "Flowery speech? In this poison crisis, your Evil Cult's defeat is certain. Don't you know whether it's flowery speech or not? Although your poison is powerful, as long as it is effectively prevented and targeted, it won't really cause an uncontrollable situation, not to mention that I still have the antidote. The turmoil in the Black Country will soon end. At that time, facing our national revenge, how long can you hold on? "
The Deputy Cult Leader wanted to say a few tough words, but when the words came to his mouth, he couldn't say it. He was not a fool, it was difficult to deceive himself.
So he returned to the old question, "What do you want?"
"..."
Wang Lu's cold and mocking eyes made the Deputy Cult Leader's heart cold and tired. The stooped old man in the Deputy Cult Leader's secret room was silent. He was his confidant, so there was no need to avoid some words.
"You shouldn't look for me for enlistment. I have no right to make the decision."
Wang Lu sneered: "So since I'm looking for you, it's not for enlistment. I can't afford to enlist people like you Evil Cult's people."
"Then what are you doing here?" The Deputy Cult Leader was somewhat flustered and exasperated.
Wang Lu was silent for a moment, but his eyes became even more contemptuous: "In fact, as long as you put yourself in my shoes, it's not difficult to think of my reason. I am the biggest contributor to the resolution of this poison crisis. Whether it's the early prevention and response, or the current antidote development, it can be said that I saved millions of people in the Black Country, right?"
The Deputy Cult Leader coldly snorted and didn't answer.
Wang Lu continued: "I will become a hero, like the sun at high noon, a savior-like hero. Poets will sing praises of me, ignorant people will worship me, young women will regard me as an idol and dream lover, and jealous men will have no choice but to bow their heads under my light!"
"Are you showing off?"
"No, I just want to ask, if you were the Black Country's King, facing such a hero, how would you feel?"
The Evil Cult's Deputy Cult Leader was stunned for a moment, then he guessed the purpose of Wang Lu's trip. For a moment, he only felt that it was incomparably absurd!
Well, if you knew that today's achievements would shock the King, why did you act in such a high-profile manner, playing the role of some savior? Now that you've had enough of being a hero, you came here to complain to your opponent. Don't you think it's ridiculous?
Seeing through the Deputy Cult Leader's thoughts, Wang Lu sneered: "I'm not here to seek sympathy or comfort. In fact, you don't have the qualifications to sympathize with me. Even if the King is afraid of me, he won't dare to do anything to me. I am this country's hero! But you guys are in a precarious situation! "
The Deputy Cult Leader snorted: "What the hell do you want?"
"It's very simple. Three days later, I will invite His Majesty to my Cloud Peak City. At that time, you will have a chance to take action. I will give you the information. You should know how to tempt the Cult Leader. Take action. "
The Deputy Cult Leader was not surprised, but he felt that it was ridiculous: "And then? We will help you get rid of the King, then you will uproot us, and then you will step on everyone's bones to become the new Cult Leader!? "
Wang Lu was about to laugh out loud: "Your brain seems to be a mess. The ones who will be uprooted will be the Cult Leader and his most loyal Deputy Cult Leaders. As for you, after this disaster, you will integrate the Evil Cult and become the new Cult Leader …"
"And your dog." The Deputy Cult Leader said coldly: "Although I'm not that smart, I'm not stupid either."
"Since you're not stupid, you should know that being my dog is better than being a dead man. You know my biggest secret. You and I will live and die together. This is the only chance you can grasp."
"Or I can make you stay here forever. If we lose you, we may still have a chance."
Wang Lu sneered: "Since I dared to come, do you think I will worry about your tricks? If I want to leave, even if your Cult Leader comes, he can't stop me. "
As he spoke, he took a step back, and the whole secret room shook. The formation that the Deputy Cult Leader had arranged here was destroyed by a brutal force!
"You …" The Deputy Cult Leader stared at him as if he had seen a ghost. It seemed that this Cloud Peak City Lord's cultivation was only at the Qi Cultivating Stage, but his ability to break the formation seemed to be a bit stronger than his Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation!?
But he didn't know that Wang Lu had no patience to analyze the formation, nor did he study the way to break it. He just inserted the Innate Formless Sword Qi into the demonic power circulation of the formation under his feet, and then … the formation collapsed on its own.
Seeing that all the means were useless, the Deputy Cult Leader weighed the pros and cons, and finally made a decision: "Okay, I promise you."
"A wise choice." Wang Lu nodded, "Remember, the one who came today is Daoist Ju Yang, an old friend of yours … control the mouths of the people below."
— —
Three days later, the Black Country's King came to Cloud Peak City, enthusiastically praised the City Lord Wang Lu's outstanding contribution, and delivered a passionate speech in the city. Then, despite Wang Lu's dissuasion, he went to the suburbs to visit the victims of the disaster area, which made countless victims' eyes filled with tears.
Naturally, the knowledgeable people only sneered. When the outbreak of the insect poison was at its most intense, His Majesty the King was shivering in the capital. Now that the order in Cloud Peak City had been stabilized, he came to the frontline to buy people's hearts! However, since ancient times, whether it was a king or a minister, their style of doing things was the same, so there was no surprise. When the King had enough fun here and bought people's hearts, he would leave.
But then, an accident happened.
On the way back to the capital, the King was ambushed. The Cult Leader of the Devil Cult suddenly led a large number of subordinates to kill the King's guards in a valley.
If Cloud Peak City Lord Wang Lu hadn't led the army to rescue the King in time, this would have been a massacre without suspense. After this battle, the Cult Leader of the Devil Cult and his generals all died, while the Black Country's Immortal Protector and the Guard Captain were also unfortunately killed. His Majesty the King was seriously injured and died three days after returning to the capital. His only son, who was only three years old, inherited the throne, and Wang Lu became the Regent, ruling over all the power.
The change in the Black Country's royal power was like the rise of a hare and the fall of a falcon, catching people off guard. But few people knew that before the King died, he had a secret talk with Wang Lu.
Wang Lu didn't leave any evidence of colluding with the Devil Cult to assassinate the King, but a dying man didn't need evidence. In the face of the King's doubts, Wang Lu was very calm, and put forward a condition that the dying man couldn't refuse.
"I will not marry a wife in my life, have no children, leave no descendants, and only ask for a lifetime of royal power. This is the Great Heart Demon Oath, you don't have to worry that I won't keep it. "
In the face of a City Lord who was at the peak of his power, the King had no other choice.
At this point, this illusion seemed to be coming to an end. Outside the Gate of All Living Things, the Elders were amazed. In the past experience, it wasn't that no one had reached the throne, but very few people could change the Black Country's ruler in such a short period of time, and so smoothly!
"Then, according to the established rules, as long as the last Gu in this illusion is eliminated, Wang Lu's victory can be declared." Yuan Chaonian sighed, he didn't know what to say. Originally, he wanted to use this immortal treasure to deter the Lingjian School, but the result was that he was the one who was deterred.
But after a while, looking at the development of the illusion, Yuan Chaonian opened his mouth wide, and found that he still underestimated Wang Lu.
In the illusion, Wang Lu has successfully established his authority within the Black Country. The three years old new king was just like a puppet that he could casually fiddle with, and the severely damaged Devil Sect could only drag out an ignoble existence. As for the insect poison crisis that nearly affected the whole country?
Now, the only remaining Gu patient in the whole country was bound by a special formation by Wang Lu, and kept in the Black Country's capital museum, so that people would never forget that crisis.
That undead had an endless supply of fresh meat every day, and there were many people who were proficient in spells to maintain its body. As the host of the Gu poison, it unexpectedly lived a comfortable and comfortable life!
But the spectators outside the Gate of All Living Things could not be at ease. Wang Lu, this kid, dragged out the illusion without ending, what exactly did he want to do?
At this time, in the Black Country's palace, the Regent had finished the day's court meeting. On the way back to his bedroom, he suddenly asked his guard a question.
"Xiao Li, if I were to tell you that everything you know and see right now is an illusory dream, what would you think?"
The loyal and dull guard was stunned by the question. He thought for a long time: "I don't know …"
Wang Lu smiled: "It doesn't matter, you will know."
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