Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 479 Impersonation
The decision to wait and see what happens is not because Wang Luo is being too aggressive, but a very rational decision.

At this moment, his perception of the outside world was no more than a hundred meters away, so he had no idea what was happening in the middle of the lake. In this case, if you choose to walk away blindly, the risks far outweigh the benefits.

On the one hand, he couldn't decide where to go. He returned to the Immortal League the same way. How could he know that there was no ambush on the road? What’s the benefit of continuing deeper into the southwest compared to staying where you are?
In the final analysis, the center of the storm is not here, and rash actions may only cause trouble.

On the other hand, it is too arbitrary to judge whether a true immortal is present based on energy levels alone.

Not to mention that this place is already close to the New Heng Dynasty, and as the testing ground where Tianting has been captive for thousands of years, Xin Heng may not be able to possess some explosive methods comparable to those of the real immortals, just like the Immortal Alliance. A storm broke out in the middle of the lake, maybe they were just adjusting their new weapons...

The Crazy Lake itself actually contains unimaginable power of heaven and earth. If it is detonated in the right way, it can also roll up a true immortal-level spiritual energy storm.

Therefore, he may not be a true immortal in heaven, let alone be in trouble.

After making a decision in his heart, Wang Luo silently used his magic weapon to protect himself and stayed motionless in place, letting time pass by bit by bit.

Around midnight, the storm gradually subsided. Standing by the lake, Wang Luo could clearly feel the tranquility of the entire lake. The strange beasts that were obviously frightened and restless in the storm either moved away or hibernated, making the huge lake seem dead.

However, the more this time comes, the more we cannot let down our guard. Standing quietly, Wang Luo carefully expanded his perception little by little, gradually expanding the range of perception from one hundred meters to two hundred or three hundred meters... Then he was surprised to hear the sound of water.

It was also at this time that Wang Luo noticed strangely that his oral cavity was in very good condition. His teeth, gums, tongue, upper and lower jaws were almost pink and intact! In sharp contrast, almost all the skin on the man's body was burned away, and his limbs and even half of his internal organs were lost in the lake water.

It was as if someone was swimming in the thick lake, and the sound of weak limbs beating against the water waves came from far to near, clearly approaching in his direction!

The shores of Crazy Lake are obviously not within the borders of the New Heng Dynasty.

He had just used the Mo Lin Qixiang to drive away a strange beast that was at least a combined level, and the direction in which the strange beast left happened to be on the path of the man in the lake. When the two encounter each other, the latter's strength is far inferior to that of the alien beast, and he should have died without a doubt, but he actually possesses a magic weapon that can destroy the world. Under the stimulation, the strange beasts were wiped out, and the people in the lake were also exhausted.

He had obviously seen Wang Luo a long time ago and the candlelight lit beside him. His perception was broader than Wang Luo's, so he had been deliberately approaching Wang Luo from a very early stage. However, when the distance between the two sides was finally less than fifty meters, he stopped.

Because he no longer had an arm capable of paddling, the last half of his stump left his body along with an oncoming subtle wave. And almost at the same time, the chaotically beating heart in the chest shriveled up unwillingly. Obviously, no matter how solid the foundation of physical training is, it cannot withstand such a fatal injury. And without the support of his physical body, his remaining soul would be even more difficult to survive.

The distance of a few hundred meters was quickly reached. When the candle beside him was still half full, Wang Luo saw the people swimming in the lake.

As the distance between the two people continued to shrink, the people in the water became slower and slower.

The man in the lake raised his head hard and tried to ask Wang Luo for help with his eyes. There was only fifty meters between them. Even in the dangerous night wilderness, Wang Luo had enough methods and confidence to fish him out of the water.

There are some shadows of the old Immortal Calendar era, but not much. Instead, the characteristics of the Immortal Alliance are revealed everywhere. Although it is impossible to be completely sure just by looking at the body from a distance, these characteristics are too distinct, so it is almost certain that this is a cultivator from the New Heng Dynasty in Mingzhou.

But all of this failed to stop the sound of the water getting closer and closer. On the contrary, the people in the water seemed to have received some encouragement and began to speed up.

Wang Luo's heart trembled, and he immediately stopped the expansion of his perception, and then slowly used his spiritual consciousness to penetrate into the treasure bag, and took out the talismans and magic weapons that were powerful enough to carry a true immortal. And that priceless Mo Lin candle was lit violently early, and the fragrance was thick and mist.

But Wang Luo didn't move, he just stood quietly on the shore, as if he didn't care about the life and death of the people in the lake.

This was a young genius who even in the old immortal calendar era would have made most of the decent old men from well-known families nod their heads in approval. However, what Wang Luo cared about more than his talent for cultivation was his specious broken Dao foundation.

This is obviously intentional.

As a result, the eyes wrapped in the charred face gradually dimmed and lost their luster little by little... until finally, like a flashback, he tried to open his eyes wide and used the last remaining strength to open his mouth.

That... can hardly be called a human anymore. He is like a charred corpse dug out of the rubble of a fire. Most of his body below the waist is mutilated, with only two dark arms of different lengths. , still trying its best to swing and stir the lake water. And with every movement, tiny fragments would fall off from his arm and dissolve into the lake water.

A Xinheng person who has gone abroad? Why did he swim in the lake of blood? What was it that caused such serious injuries? What does the storm just now have to do with him?
With full vigilance and growing curiosity, Wang Luo waited quietly for the man to swim ashore, while trying to trace back to the source the remaining poison and aura on his body, and soon came up with an order. A ridiculous conclusion.

This person... I'm afraid he was indirectly harmed by Wang Luo.

However, before he turned into a charred corpse, he should have been a very powerful master. Even though the eight extraordinary meridians had been burned and all the true energy in his body was almost drained, the remaining parts still showed an extremely solid foundation of practice.

It's a pity that Wang Luo couldn't wait for the next prompt. The man in the lake opened his mouth and then died, leaving only a pink mouth, as if he was flirting with people and throwing out temptations.

Wang Luo was indeed curious, but he was not tempted at all. He just stood silently by the lake, letting the corpses in the lake float up and down with the water waves. Every time they floated, parts of the corpses in the water were obviously missing, as if there was some invisible food in the water. The rotten are feasting. Or maybe Mad Lake itself is the scavenger. But Wang Luo didn't mind at all. Even if an undoubtedly important clue was about to be broken in front of his eyes, he didn't take it to heart.

Wang Luo waited until dawn, when the whole world turned from yin to yang, before finally taking steps towards the lake. In the early morning, Crazy Lake seemed to be purified by the morning light cast by Lingshan Mountain, and became a little clearer, but the too calm lake surface was undoubtedly an unabashed disguise. A true immortal-level storm broke out in the middle of the lake last night, but now no trace remains.

Except for half a head floating quietly on the lake.

That was the only part left of the person who swam in the lake last night... The upper part of the head had melted into the water, leaving only the part related to the mouth, and this part was still pink and tender.

It was only at this moment that Wang Luo finally put away the many talisman arrays around him with confidence, stepped onto the lake, calmly walked to the head, reached into the open mouth, and took out an invisible gem.

The jade was round and flawless, with cold tentacles. The moment it fell into Wang Luo's palm, the head floating on the lake melted instantly, leaving not even a trace of residue or color remaining, becoming part of the blood in the lake.

And in Baoyu, a young voice came faintly.

"Dear Immortal Messenger, I'm sorry that I can only talk to you in such an unseemly way. I understand your caution at night, but I also implore you to be aware of the situation as soon as possible when you get this jade in the morning. The seriousness of the situation... The Queen Mother and the general were stubborn and insisted on going their own way. They set a trap in the court while the imperial adviser was out, and imprisoned and sealed him when he returned, in an attempt to usurp the position of the star. Now that the new Heng Dynasty is in danger, please ask the immortal to help him. Please take this Seal Star Jewel and return to the Eastern Capital as soon as possible to bring order to the chaos!"

By the end, Baoyu's voice had become inaudible. Obviously, these were just the last words left by the man in the lake when he was dying, and they did not contain any power.

However, the amount of information in the last words itself is the greatest power.

Immortal envoy, Queen Mother, General, Seal Star Baoyu... For a time, many words were connected in Wang Luo's mind, making the truth ready to come out.

This is also thanks to the Hunyuan Immortal who surrendered to the Immortal Alliance. Although he lost most of the memories about Heaven in his mind when he crossed the Dinghuang Barrier, the memory of the New Heng Dynasty is still intact.

As the immortal officials of the Ming and Mo states, those seven people had frequent contacts with the New Heng Dynasty. If not, it would be difficult for Zhang Jincheng to persuade them to abandon the Heavenly Court and submit to the Immortal Alliance.

These heavenly officials are limited to the constraints of the Immortal Law and cannot interfere too deeply in mortal affairs. But on the other hand, as the managers of such a large testing ground, they will at least have a general understanding of the New Heng Dynasty, and these understandings have become a required course for Wang Luo before setting off.

It is known that the New Heng Dynasty is a fairly standard feudal monarchy. The royal family controls the most fertile and fertile plains in the heart of Mingzhou, and many princes and lords guard the surrounding areas... For hundreds of years, wars continued and peace was rare.

As a testing ground specially selected by Heaven, New Heng Dynasty should have no foreign enemies in the wasteland. But precisely for the purpose of experiment, in order to imitate the situation of the Immortal Alliance, the Heavenly Court deliberately set up a large number of foreign enemies for the New Heng Dynasty-those roaring wasteland beasts that wanted to destroy Xin Heng almost all the time, and the New Heng Dynasty The Heng people do not have the Immortal Alliance's Dinghuang barrier to ensure the overall peace of the border. Therefore, if they want to survive for a long time, the new Heng people have to become rich in martial virtue.

For hundreds of years, although Xinheng's imperial power was supreme, the royal family actively promoted centralization. However, families with powerful military power often appear on the border. In this regard, the royal family not only wants to cherish its power, but also be wary of its ambitions, so it often uses various means to win over them. Among them, marriage is one of the most common means.

It is also one of the most common means of taking off.

Now the Queen Mother of the New Heng Dynasty was born in the Northern Territory of New Heng. She was the queen of the famous Duke Wei, and her reputation was far-reaching both inside and outside the court. The general in charge of the royal military power in the court was also a relative of hers and regarded her as his mother... Such an unreasonable combination of powerful forces created the Queen Mother's almost abnormal monopoly in the court. At least at this point when Zhang Jincheng persuaded him to surrender, two of the Seven Immortal Officials could not name Emperor Xinheng, but everyone knew that Xinheng had a queen mother who was very difficult to mess with...

Therefore, according to what the people in the lake said, the Queen Mother and the General of the New Heng Dynasty have joined forces to oppose the surrender plan of the Imperial Army, and even went as far as to imprison and seal it in a way that was close to a mutiny. Then, according to common sense, it can be declared that Zhang Jincheng's surrender plan was aborted.

Two of the most powerful people in the country are against you, so why should you win?
The answer is: because he is a national teacher.

The national advisor of Xinheng is different from the general national advisor. The authority and reputation of a state advisor does not come from how much political power he holds, how much trust he has in the royal family, or how superb his wisdom is, but from He monopolized the channels of communication with heaven.

Xinheng Guoshi is the only mortal who can directly talk to the immortal officials in heaven. Or to put it conversely, Heaven will select one person from the New Heng Dynasty to serve as the only communication bridge between the immortal and mortal worlds, and the scientific name of this bridge is Guoshi.

The influence of the National Advisor in the court is unparalleled, because a combination of generals as powerful as the Queen Mother must also be reasonable, both political and military. We should not kill meritorious ministers indiscriminately, but we should treat sages and wise teachers with humility... but this is not the case for state teachers. All human principles are meaningless to him. He only needs to be responsible to the immortal officials in heaven, and the immortal officials will crush all principles. In the more than 600-year history of the New Heng Dynasty, there were not a few powerful officials and famous generals who turned against the imperial master and were eventually turned into powder by a heavenly thunder. There were even examples of physical dethronement of the emperor.

As long as you can make good friends with the immortal officials in heaven, the huge Xinheng is just a plaything in the hands of the national master. In a sense, the national master almost controls the power of the immortal level.

The only check and balance the imperial court has on the imperial advisor is that the imperial advisor must show actual performance and report to the emperor... If the immortal power is abused, it will eventually disturb the New Heng Dynasty and make it difficult to achieve the experimental purpose of the heaven... Then once Being liquidated by the immortal officials, the immortal's methods are enough to make people unable to survive or die.

The reason why Zhang Jincheng dared to single-handedly represent Xinheng and submit a letter of surrender to the Immortal Alliance was that when the Imperial Master really insisted on having his own way, no one except the Immortal Officials could stop him.

From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with Zhang Jincheng's radicalism, but the problem is that during the actual implementation process, there was a flaw in the cooperation between the imperial master and the immortal official.

Before Zhang Jincheng could fully control the government and suppress the powerful combination of the Queen Mother and the General, the immortal officials had already merged into one and took the first step to become a rich man in Zhou Guo!

This immediately put Zhang Jincheng into a passive position. What kind of national advisor would he be without the support of an immortal official?
"... No way, the immortal official can't be invited. It seems that I, the immortal envoy, will be the only one to support you."

(End of this chapter)