77|The Prince of the Immortal Music Chaos Returns to Earth

With a crowd of displaced people like Yongan, trying to fight against the Xianle Imperial City’s army is like hitting a stone with an egg or a mantis.

However, those who have no way to retreat have the courage to strike a stone with an egg and a mantis. After a riot, tens of thousands of Yongan people finally left the city gates, withdrew some distance, and set up camp in another place.

They just won’t go. They might die even if they walked on the road, and they would probably die if they stayed here, so what’s the difference? With the water and food issued by the lord of the country, the bark of trees, weeds, vegetable roots, insects, snakes and ants in the wild, as well as the grievances and discontent that had been pent up for many days, these people, with unimaginable tenacity, carried on with their lives. A few days later, more than a thousand people hastily gathered together with some hoes, nail rakes, stones, branches, killed back to fight.

Although this fight is a mess, losing is a defeat, more than half of the more than 1,000 people dead and wounded, but not for nothing. Lang Ying alone rushed into the city building, carrying a few large bags of rice and grain and a few bundles of weapons back, although heavily wounded, but instead of stirring up the fighting spirit of a group of desperadoes.

At this point, they were closer in nature to bandits. Once, twice, three times. The soldiers of Senna realized that these “bandits” were progressing rapidly.

The original inexperienced and disorganized attackers gradually figured out the way, and the people who came were more difficult to deal with, but the people who went back were more and more, and there was an endless stream of new waves of victims joining them to strengthen their ranks. The Xianle country was in an uproar over how to deal with these “robbers”, and after five or six of these ridiculous battles, Xie Ren could no longer stand on the sidelines and watch.

He had not reported to the Upper Heavenly Court for many days, and this time, once he returned to the Immortal Capital, he muffled his voice and went straight to the Divine Martial Hall. When he barged in, Jun Wu was sitting at the top, and a group of magistrates were all bending their heads to listen to orders, seemingly discussing important matters. If in the past, Xie Ren would have chosen another day to visit again, but now, he can’t wait any longer, single-handedly, opened his mouth and said, “Emperor, I’m going back to earth.”

All of the Magi were startled, and then they covered their mouths, not wanting to show too much emotion. Jun Wu pondered for a moment, rose from his throne, and said in a warm voice, “Xian Le, I probably know what’s going on, but calm down first.”

Xie Ren said, “Emperor, I did not come here to inquire, but to inform. My people are in deep water, so please forgive me for not being able to calm down.”

Junwu said, “Things have their own destiny. Do you know that you are violating the prohibition if you go down there?”

Xie Ren said, “If you violate the prohibition, then you violate the prohibition!”

At those words, the gods and magi changed abruptly. There really had never been a Magus who dared to say these words with a straight face and a loud voice. Even if Jun Wu had favored this Prince of Immortal Bliss, who had ascended at such a young age, he was still too bold.

Immediately, Xie Ren owed his head and bent his head, saying, ”Please be lenient and give me some time. Since the war has already begun, deaths and injuries are unavoidable, but if I can pacify the battle, let the least number of people die, and keep things to a minimum, I will definitely voluntarily come back to ask for forgiveness after the war is over, and I will be at your disposal at that time. Whether it is to crush me under the mountain for a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years! –I shall never regret it.”

When he finished speaking, he maintained his bowed head posture and retreated towards the outside of the hall. Jun Wu said, “Xian Le!”

Xie Ren’s feet lurched. Jun Wu looked at him and sighed, “You can’t save everyone.”

Xie Ren slowly straightened up and said, “Whether or not I can save everyone, I have to try before I know the answer. Even if the heavens say I must die, and that sword doesn’t pierce me through the heart and nail me to the ground unable to move, I’ll still be alive, and I’ll still fight for my breath and struggle to the end!”

This reentry was different from every other time. Xie Ren felt that something had been left behind. There was some relief and some heaviness. As a first step, he couldn’t wait to return to the palace first.

The Lord of the Land and the Empress were behind the imperial study, looking gravely tired and talking in low voices. Xie Ren came to the door, first tensed slightly for a moment, then calmed down, lifted the curtain, walked in, and said, “Father.”

The State Lord and the Empress both turned back, both stunned. A short while later, it was the Empress who stood up first and said with great joy, “Imperial son!”

She stretched out her hands and came over to meet him, and Xie Ren held her up. But the smiles had not yet receded, when suddenly the Lord of the Land sank his face and said, “What are you doing down here!”

The smile on Xie Ren’s lips froze.

Previously in the palace heard the conversation behind his parents, Xie Ren felt that his father still wanted him, and was not as opinionated about himself as he appeared to be. Originally thought that he came back, the State Lord would more or less show some happiness, in that case, he would also definitely soften his attitude. Who knows that the lord of the country is such a reaction, no good color, so, Xie Ren gas also came up, solemn said: “Why I came down, but not all because of you? Yongan has today’s chaos, you ask yourself, is it not also have some responsibility?”

The State Lord’s complexion changed drastically as he snapped, “My responsibility? This is what you should say to me?!”

He was actually so angry that he didn’t even pay attention to what he called himself. The Empress shed tears and said, “It’s all over, why are you guys still arguing?”

Xie Ren said, “It’s not arguing, it’s reasoning. Even if you are the lord of the country and my father, but if you are responsible, what can’t I say? Why don’t you try your best to provide disaster relief? Even if the disaster relief silver is swallowed by the layers, why don’t you fix the corrupt officials? If you had acted swiftly, arresting and punishing one, which moth would have dared to be greedy, would the situation not have been better than it is now?”

The State Lord’s forehead veins rippled and he slapped the case and said: ”Shut up! Do you think the national treasury is a bottomless pit, how many gaps to fill how much? If it were that easy, the king could have gotten immediate results with a single order, why have corrupt officials never been eradicated throughout the ages? What do you know, you ignorant child, come with me to talk about ruling the country!”

Xie Ren said, ”Good, I do not understand. Then even if there is no more shelter for the victims in the Imperial City, and withdrawal is inevitable, why don’t you give these victims some more coins? Why don’t you pacify them and send an army to escort them eastward?”

The State Lord’s eyes widened in anger and he pointed to the sky, “Get out. Get lost! Go back to your heaven! I’m tired of looking at you! Don’t appear again!”

Xie Ren came down full of fervor and met his parents for the first time, but he heard his father telling him to get his ass back to heaven, and without saying a word, he bowed to him and retreated. The Empress chased him out and pulled him back, saying, “Imperial son ah!”

Xie Ren said in a warm voice, “Mother, don’t worry, I’m just going to take a walk around the royal capital to see what’s going on now.”

The Empress shook her head and said, ”Imperial son, I don’t understand these matters of state, but I understand your father. How he is doing as a state lord, I can see it over the years. You can feel in your heart that he is not doing a good job, sometimes I feel the same way, I just don’t say it. But you shouldn’t say that to his face, he’s your father after all, and for you to say to his face that he doesn’t have his heart in the right place really kills it.”

Xie Ren wanted to speak. The Empress said, ”Although you are the Crown Prince, you have never been the Lord of the Country. Ruling a country is different from your cultivation. When you first entered the Imperial Extremity View, the State Master said that cultivation only cares about the heart, is that what he said?”

Xie Ren slowly nodded her head, the Empress held his hand and said, “However, there are many other things in the world, it’s useless to have only the heart, you also have to have the ability; not only do you have to be able to do it, but the people under you, all have to be able to do it; not only do you have to have the ability to do it, but you also have to be in the same line of thought as you.”

Xie Ren was silent. After a long time, he said, “Is the treasury so deflated? I don’t need temples, tell him not to build me so many temples, and those golden statues, push them all away.”

The Empress helplessly said, “You this child …… repairing the temple certainly has your father s selfishness, wanting to give you good, wanting you to wind up in heaven. However, do you know that, of the eight thousand palaces and temples, how many were really repaired by your father? You don’t know, do you.”

Xie Ren really did not know. He thought about it and said, “…… Half?”

The Empress said: ”If your father had really moved the money in the treasury to repair more than 4,000 Prince Halls, not waiting for the Yongan people to raise a ruckus, the Imperial City would have raised a ruckus first. Since the treasury is empty, where is the money to repair so many? Your father has repaired only twenty or so, the other people have followed his wind, also a flock of wind to follow the repair, want to please him, to please you, these are also to be counted on his head?”

Xie Ren said, “I ……”

The Empress whispered, “What your father did is not good enough anymore, but he …… tried his best. Just, in this world, just trying his best is not enough.”

After a pause, she added, “You are now looking at those Yongan people as pitiful, so you blame your father. But they are all his people, are we all the ones bullying them? Actually ……”

Halfway through his speech, the State Lord let out a furious voice from within the imperial study, “What are you doing talking so much nonsense with him, tell him to hurry up and get his ass back to heaven!”

The Empress turned back and sighed, “Emperor son, you …… don t come down. You’d better go back.”

Leaving the palace, Xie Ren walked along an alley on the side of Shenwu Street, just as Feng Xin and Mu Qing arrived. As soon as Mu Xiang arrived, he said incredulously, ”Your Highness! You invited yourself down to earth? You went to the Divine Martial Hall and spoke to the Emperor?”

Xie Ren said, “Uh-huh.”

Muoi said, “Why didn’t you tell me first?”

Feng Xin then wondered, “What do you mean. Do you have to explain to others beforehand what His Highness is going to do?”

Mu Qi, however, lost her temper a bit and said, “Why not? We are his people, we are tied to him now, his every move is tied to our situation, what’s wrong with me wanting to know what he plans to do?”

Feng Xin said, “Don’t we have to follow whatever His Highness does? What is he going to do, up or down, he has his own ideas, what are you afraid of?”

“You!” Muoi said, “I’m not afraid! I’m just ……”

Xie Ren waved his hand, “That’s enough. Stop it!”

Feng Xin and Mu Yi shut up immediately. At this time, a column of tour|walking procession passed through the street, and thousands of people shouted, “If Yongan is not removed, there will be no peace in the country!”

“A tumor of a chaotic nation, a bully!”

Xian Le people have never been so aggressive towards anything, but also to engage in such a sensational big tour | line, Xie Ren can not help but fishy. And Feng Xin frowned, “Why is there a female in here?”

As expected, a young girl rushed in the forefront of the touring line. That young girl has a slender figure, snow-white complexion, bright black eyes, scarlet cheeks, but not shyness, but anger, very striking. Mu Qi had adjusted her emotions by now, and coldly said, “Doesn’t your highness recognize her?”

Xie Ren said, “I don’t recognize it.”

Feng Xin, however, frowned, “Like it looks a bit familiar?”

Muoi said, “That’s one of the sources.”

Xie Ren asked, “What source?”

Mu Qi said: ”The source of the incompatibility. Previously, because there were more and more Yongan people in the imperial city, and some of them didn’t stay together properly and roamed around causing trouble, the court was discussing the expulsion matter, and the wind had spread out long ago. There was a Yongan man who wanted to stay and didn’t want to leave, so he took the risk and one night, sneaked into a rich family’s house and took that family’s daughter captive.”

When he said this, Xie Ren had not yet reacted at first hearing, “Why would you want to take the daughter of a rich family captive if you don’t want to leave?”

Mu Qi glanced at him and said, “I want to marry her. However, there won’t be any daughters of Imperial City families who are willing to marry a Yongan man if they don’t rely on forceful captivity.”

He didn’t say it explicitly, but Xie Ren also understood.

He had never imagined that it could be like this, that there could be people like this in the world, that this could actually happen, and a sudden urge to vomit surged up. Feng Xin then cursed on the spot, saying, “Disgusting!”

At this time, a group of aunts and grandmothers rush up, monkeying around trying to pull the young girl down, it looks like she ran out on her own while her family wasn’t paying attention. The girl refused, saying, “What are you afraid of? What do I have to be ashamed of? It’s not my fault!”

Feng Xin wondered, “This girl is quite strong in nature.”

Mu love said: ”Yes. On the contrary, her family is not an ordinary family, her father is an important minister in the imperial court, her mother’s family is a rich merchant in the imperial city, refusing to eat this boring loss, much less just marrying for the sake of face, and first beat that Yongan man to death, soon after, the rich merchants and celebrities of the whole city all joined together to write a petition, listing several sins of the Yongan man since he entered the city, imploring His Majesty, the Lord of the Country, to put all of these people in the prison and punish them severely. How the ministers stood, needless to say.”

After a pause, he added lightly, “I heard that this woman’s father had wanted to send her to the palace to fight for the position of the Crown Princess, Your Highness should have seen her a few times a long time ago, but I can’t believe I didn’t recognize her.”

Xie Ren finally realized that everything, was much more complicated than he had imagined.

Inside and outside the city, the two sides have long been at odds. The people are furious, just hate can’t be a net to drive out all the people, the king’s decision if still favor the Yongan people, is not in the face of their own people? Finally decided to allocate a sum of money from the dried up treasury to give them a dish to withdraw, although it looks is shabby enough, but I’m afraid it will also provoke a large number of people’s dissatisfaction.

Worse than the discontent of one’s enemies is the discontent of one’s own subjects. Although all of them were originally Xianle’s subjects, now, I’m afraid not many of them think so anymore.

He was so high up in the world that he had not known the affairs of the world for a long time, while his father was still on earth. Being the head of a country, having to use money and people, how could the position, the pressure, and the people and things to be scrupled and reconciled be the same as his? Just as the foreign Yongan people in the imperial city occupying land, clamor, theft, etc., to a temple-dwelling god of martial arts, probably are small matters, not worth it to get angry over, tolerate it and pass. But for the people of the Imperial City, it is a real, daily lingering, intolerable torment, a crisis that may erupt at any time. Think simple or insignificant, but because in that position, not him.

Xie Ren couldn’t help but think that the State Lord’s temples were even whiter than the last time he saw them. Last time, he said he wanted to dye them, but I’m afraid he no longer has the energy to do so.

When he was small, he was convinced that his father was the greatest king under the sky, the more he grew up, the more he realized that it was not so. His father, although he was the king of the country, but not to talk about the wise and unparalleled, sometimes there are some small pedantry, often make mistakes, take away that honored status, but is just a mortal.

The more he understood, the more disappointed he became, and the Lord of the Land perceived his disappointment, and so became less and less tolerant of his every disapproving look, disapproving word, and, most intolerable of all, of being seen by him to fail.

There is no father in heaven who would want his son to see him fail. A father would want that he would always be tall in front of his son. And he shows up at a time like this and rebukes his own father: you did a really bad job! So poorly that I could only come down to help you save the day – how can one’s heart feel good when hearing this, either as a lord of a kingdom or as a father?

The young girl was eventually pulled back by the servants of her family, while the rest of the people continued to march, waving flags and shouting, shouting only one thing: kill! Let’s go to war! Let the Yongan people outside the city look good!

After a long time, Mu Qi said, “Your Highness, you’d better apologize to the emperor and go back. Things have come to this point, heaven’s time, earth’s advantage, and people’s harmony, all are just lost.”

As Jun Wu said to Xie Ren at the Divine Martial Hall: the world has its own destiny. With these words, is this not telling him: your Immortal Bliss Kingdom’s destiny is over, let him go.

Even the Empress, his mother, day and night, looking forward to seeing him. But really see him, but tearfully let him go back, do not care. Xie Ren how do not know, they do not want to let him face this difficult, would rather him as a wall, live their own on the line.

But how is that possible?

“……”

Xie Ren said in a deep voice, “It won’t!”

After saying that, he took a big step out.