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Chapter 59: A Promise That Must Be Kept!

Blood splattered everywhere. Blood covered the blankets and ground. It was a shocking sight!

“Big Brother, Father!” Outside the door, Zhaoyang shouted worriedly when she heard the commotion.

This shout made Li Yuanqing sigh and his heart softened!

“Don’t worry, I will protect the Northern Li Clan for a hundred years and not let the unfilial descendants of the Li Clan break the inheritance of the founding Martial Saint…”

Li Yuanqing’s words made Li Huanjun, who was already out of breath from coughing, feel completely relieved. His grip on Li Yuanqing’s hand loosened.

“Let Zhaoyang in, cough cough cough!”

Li Huanjun finally let go of Li Yuanqing’s hand. Li Yuanqing let Zhaoyang in. Then, ministers from the court were summoned in. The people who came and went bowed to Li Yuanqing in awe.

In the end, Li Yuanqing was annoyed and simply avoided everyone. When Li Huanjun stopped breathing, he heard the bell of the palace ring.

The bell rang twelve times in a row.

The Imperial City was filled with cries and white everywhere. It was not winter yet, but some people’s houses had even hung up the white ribbons.

His father was living in the hearts of the common people in the Northern Kingdom. This made Li Yuanqing, who had promised his father to protect the Northern Kingdom, firm his resolve.

No matter how indifferent he was to kinship, a promise must be kept. Since he had promised, he should not change his mind so easily.

So be it. There was no end to cultivation. To him, a hundred years might pass easily! After all, a Martial Saint’s lifespan was about five hundred years if they didn’t die by accident!

If he used a hundred years to protect the Northern Kingdom, he still had four hundred years to use. Moreover, he would not interfere in every small matter.

He would only take action when the Northern Kingdom was in danger. Moreover, he had to let the Li Clan of the Northern Kingdom grow quickly so that they could face all kinds of storms on their own in the next hundred years instead of relying on him as a guardian!

Even if Li Huanjun’s funeral was simple according to his wishes, it had already been forty-nine days since his death. Furthermore, he had allowed the people of the Northern Kingdom to pay their respects. The entire Imperial City was filled with cries these days.

Fortunately, less than ten days after the late Emperor’s death, Princess Zhaoyang ascended the throne under the protection of the officials and became the first Great Empress of the Northern Kingdom.

What was surprising was that Princess Zhaoyang’s title after her ascension to the throne was also Zhaoyang. She even issued a decree to reward the members of the Li clan’s royal family and announced that regardless of gender, the royal family would have the right to inherit the throne in the future!

This made the original Li clan, who were worried that the Northern Kingdom would change hands in the future and the Li Clan would decline after the Great Empress passed away, heaved a sigh of relief.

Li Yuanqing stayed in the Imperial City for forty nine days. He saw Zhaoyang ascend the throne and become the Great Empress of the Northern Kingdom. He saw his father being buried in his bedroom, where the coffin of the Second Emperor of the Northern Kingdom was.

Princess Zhaoyang had come to see Li Yuanqing once before she ascended the throne. She had sent him a wooden box that she had found on the patriarch of the Ba Serpent Clan. It was about the secret of providing for the Ba Serpent.

In the end, the Ba Serpent clan was devoured by the Ba Serpent and their entire clan was destroyed. Zhaoyang felt that it was a little troublesome to leave this in her hands, so she gave it to Li Yuanqing and let him handle it.

Li Yuanqing left the Imperial City and returned to the valley in the Wilderness. Hu Jiujiu was injured and returned to her original form. She turned into a fiery red little fox. She was furry and cute.

Not long after Hu Jiujiu was beaten back to her original form, the Qilin Beast disappeared. Li Yuanqing did not care where it went.

Cow felt that it was very useless after the Ba-Serpent calamity, so it followed behind Li Yuanqing and started cultivating.

Occasionally, Li Yuanqing would throw a few pills that he had no use for to Hu Jiujiu, but if Hu Jiujiu didn’t like them, he would throw them to Cow.

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.