Seven days later, in the royal palace on the capital planet, the sun was blazing, and there were no clouds in the sky.
Although they had been on the ground for almost a week and were gradually used to the blue sky and white clouds, and they were no longer surprised by the scorching sun, all the representatives of the underground world, including Xu Zhicheng and Bing Bing, still felt that their heads were dizzy and blank when they were faced with the boundless square and the overwhelming crowd.
Space! Such a vast, extravagant, and almost infinite space!
It was an experience that they could never perceive in the dark, suffocating underground world.
All the representatives of the underground world seemed to have been "reincarnated" and arrived at a new world that was entirely different.
Other than space, there were also people. Millions, tens of millions, and even countless people.
The space here was already vast enough, but it seemed that no matter how vast the space was, the capital could always find enough people to fill it up. The streets, the buildings, the squares, and the VIP auditorium that floated in midair with the anti-gravity units, not to mention the warships that were tearing apart the sky and arriving from beyond the atmosphere!
The representatives of the underground world walked on the main road for more than three hours, from the night before dawn to the morning when the sun turned from red to gold, before they finally found their place. They were like tiny black spots that were embedded in the matrix made of countless black spots.
Standing on his tiptoes, he looked around. Heads were moving like a black ocean that extended to the horizon.
It was needless to say that the crowd was agitated. The big loudspeakers floating in midair that had been decorated splendidly were roaring louder and louder. Now, they were playing a passionate march, now announcing new decrees and policies, and now announcing that the coronation ceremony had begun. All the sounds collided with each other like golden torrents. It was impossible to hear them clearly at all. Instead, it made the underground people even more dizzy.
Xu Zhicheng stood on his tiptoes and looked in the direction of the Imperial City for a long time, but he couldn't see the scene of the new emperor ascending the throne on the high platform. He simply retracted his neck and flipped through the few exquisitely printed leaflets and clumsily made pamphlets in his hands again.
Although the Spiritual Nexus of the Imperium was very developed, and the news of the new emperor's coronation had been spread everywhere, there were still some places, such as the remote resource planets below the ground, the territories of the four families, and the frontline where the expedition army had just recovered, that might not be able to receive the news on the Spiritual Nexus immediately. The official leaflets were meant to make up for the shortage of the Spiritual Nexus so that the visitors who came to watch the ceremony after the coronation would bring them back to their hometowns and spread them to the tiniest nerve endings of the Imperium.
On the leaflet was the introduction of the new emperor, as well as the Divine Martial Emperor's evaluation of the new emperor, such as "Noble character, deeply resembling me, will definitely inherit the throne" and so on.
The emperor of the Imperium of True Human Beings was different from the emperors of the ancient dynasties after all.
The emperors of the ancient dynasties did not need to consider the feelings of the people or the influence of the society when they succeeded the throne. After all, the power of the emperor was bestowed by nature, and it would be fine as long as a few nobles and warlords approved of it.
However, the Imperium of True Human Beings was a modern country after all. In the past hundreds of years, the emperor had been walking on the path of a hypocrite and a constitutional monarchy. The emperor was the representative of the country and the idol of the people, not a simple and violent dictator.
Right now, the new emperor elected by the reformists was competing with "Emperor Chengwu", who was elected by the four families. Emperor Shenwu had passed away for almost a year, and the legitimacy and legitimacy of the two new emperors were somewhat questionable. Therefore, the image of the two emperors had to be built with more attention.
The exquisitely printed, extravagant leaflet described the life of the new emperor exactly as it was written. The thirteenth son of the late emperor, who intentionally lurked among the people in fear of being set up by the scoundrels, and so on were exactly what Bing Bing had told Xu Zhicheng before.
Xu Zhicheng was not interested in the leaflet, which completely represented the official position and therefore tasted like wax.
What he studied carefully was the poorly printed pamphlet.
The pamphlet also described the background of the new emperor, but the content was much more interesting. There was no telling who made it or how it got to the market. Almost every guest who attended the coronation had a copy of the pamphlet.
According to the booklet, before the late emperor passed away, there was a day when he was busy with government affairs and was sleeping soundly in the hall. When he was sleeping, he suddenly saw a golden lion with a pair of wings flying into the hall and circling him three times. Also, on the forehead of the golden lion, there was actually a glittering black star!
The black-starred lion looked at him thoughtfully, before it leaped up again and flew out of the palace, disappearing into the harem!
The late emperor woke up from his dream and received the news that his queen had given birth to his thirteenth son.
Because of the anomaly in the dream, the late emperor thought highly of the thirteenth prince and secretly decided that he would make the thirteenth prince inherit the throne.
It was a pity that the four families' accomplices were everywhere in the palace at that time. The news of the late emperor's strange dream somehow got out. Naturally, the four "fake emperors" did not allow the reincarnated black-starred lion to grow up. Therefore, they decided to take action first and planned to murder the thirteenth prince.
But as it turned out, under the protection of Blackstar the Great and the Imperium of True Human Beings, one of the assassins discovered his conscience and secretly took the thirteenth prince out of the palace. Also, considering that "the most dangerous place is always the safest place", he summoned his courage and sent the thirteenth prince to the Li family!
After that, the thirteenth prince naturally went through a series of fascinating growing-up stories. He also awakened his bloodline and identity at the critical moment. With the assistance of the Black Wind King Li Yao and Dongfang Mingyue, the president of the Association of Demon Hunters, he marched out of the Li family on an expedition to the underground world and the Seven Seas Space Zone. Eventually, he marched back to the capital and annihilated the four families. He secured the most glorious victory and took back the throne that was destined to be his!
Naturally, there were a lot of marvelous stories about Boss Bai, who had been hiding in the abyss. There were also dramas that the underground locals were influenced and the space pirate Boss Bai was subdued, which were the favorites of the hardworking people.
Xu Zhicheng did not know which expert had compiled such a pamphlet. The language was so straightforward that it was vulgar, and the content was so extravagant that it was absurd. However, it had indeed hit the most excited part of the public. After reading it, people could not help but imagine that the new emperor was born extraordinary, a young hero, and a brilliant image of a group of heroes supporting him. In a word, he was the one destined to be!
Naturally, the pamphlet did not represent the official position.
But Xu Zhicheng was not an idiot. If the authorities were truly against it, they would've banned such pamphlets a long time ago. Now, almost every guest in the coronation ceremony had a pamphlet, which was quite indicative in itself.
While Xu Zhicheng was pondering, the rumbling noises above his head were ten times more intense than before. When he raised his head, the blue sky had turned into a golden ocean. Thousands of starships tore apart the sky at the same time and arrived above the capital!
A thousand starships were perhaps nothing more than a drop in the ocean in the vacuum of space.
However, in the atmosphere, even when it was only a few hundred meters above the ground, the overwhelming aura of the flames was enough to crush everything brutally!
The sun was completely melted in the flames of the starships. The mutual interference of the gravity fields resulted in enormous swirls of spiritual energy. The sunlight, after being refracted and diffracted by the swirls, turned into colorful pieces, adding to the feeling of brilliance and splendor. It was like the most glamorous fireworks for the new emperor's coronation.
"Ahhh!"
Xu Zhicheng found it impossible to breathe at all. He could only roar together with the millions of people around him.
Even though he was not proud of his identity as a member of the Imperium in the beginning as a rebel of the underground world, at this moment, under the stimulation of the magnificent scene where thousands of starships were tearing apart the sky, an uncanny urge was flowing out of his veins.
If the new emperor was really the young man Li Jialing that he met below the ground, and he was assisted by Li Yao and the Serenity Seraph, perhaps the underground locals could really expect that they could be melted into the unparalleled, enormous force and truly become a part of the Imperium, right?
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The unexpected barrage almost made Xu Zhicheng jump to his feet in shock.
Thankfully, he remembered the procedure that the etiquette officer taught them a few days ago in time. It was indeed mentioned that there would be a salute when the new emperor ascended the throne.
As he expected, the deafening explosions did not cause any damage at all. The tens of thousands of cannons on the thousands of starships opened fire at the same time, spurting out the most dazzling exhaust flames that seemed to have paved a golden path from the sky, transmitting a certain force from the universe to the high platform in front of the royal palace! Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! Countless 3D light beams were unfolded in the sky, displaying the picture of the new emperor slowly stepping onto the high platform. The tens of millions of people who participated in the ceremony, the almost a hundred billion people in the entire capital, the capital under the control of the reformists, the newly-recovered areas, the border worlds, and even the Sectors under the control of the four families could all see it clearly.
The new emperor was a tall and handsome young man. He wore a golden ceremonial robe that dragged more than ten meters away. The ceremonial robe was embroidered with faint golden scales. At first glance, it looked like a golden dragon slowly stretching its claws. He held the Emperor's Sword that represented imperial power in one hand and stepped onto the high platform step by step.
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