However, although Su Yong was eager for revenge, he still stayed on Tianzhu Mountain for more than a month. This period was mainly spent hunting and eating, and recovering his physical strength and vital energy.
It was not until his body had fully recovered, his vital energy was abundant, and his cultivation had stabilized at the late stage of Martial Saint that he left Tianzhu Mountain, began to understand the changes in the world over the past five years, and delved into the past events of the Zhenbei Marquis case.
After all, his cultivation had already reached the late stage of Martial Saint.
He could easily obtain many clues and files that ordinary people could not access or obtain.
Coupled with the five years of dormancy, he had become calm enough.
And meticulous enough.
Therefore, after a period of investigation, although he still found no conclusive evidence, he could basically conclude that the suspicion of the Northern Frontier Imperial Court was relatively low, whether it was his father's death or the entire Zhenbei Marquis lineage being framed and executed. The real suspect was the Imperial family.
It was Emperor Zhang Tai himself.
To verify his guess, Su Yong specifically chose a good day and secretly infiltrated Yuwen Tian's mansion.
He sealed all of Yuwen Tian's true essence meridians.
And subjected him to severe torture.
Then, he obtained a lot of information quite unexpectedly.
The reason he chose to interrogate Yuwen Tian was not because he knew that his family's case and his father's death were related to Yuwen Tian. It was mainly because Yuwen Tian's position was always to handle dirty work for the emperor. Therefore, if his family's annihilation was indeed related to Emperor Zhang Tai,
Then Yuwen Tian must have known.
And as it turned out, he was right.
Although Yuwen Tian did not know Emperor Zhang Tai's purpose, whether it was poisoning the Zhenbei Marquis, leading a group of Grandmasters to surround the poisoned Zhenbei Marquis, or bringing back the Zhenbei Marquis's corpse, it was all orchestrated by him.
Therefore, when Yuwen Tian could no longer bear the torment of Su Yong, even though he knew that his father's killer would absolutely not let him go, he could only helplessly tell Su Yong all the information he knew, and repeatedly stated that he was just following orders, hoping Su Yong would give him a quick death and stop torturing him.
And Su Yong did as he wished.
He instantly froze him into an ice sculpture and shattered it.
Although doing so might alert the enemy, his current cultivation technique's attributes were vastly different from the Seven Killings Technique. It was not an exaggeration to say they were completely unrelated. Furthermore, Yuwen Tian had offended countless people by doing dirty deeds for Emperor Zhang Tai, and his wounds did not carry the aura of the Seven Killings Technique. Who could suspect him?
Suspect him, a "dead person."
Even if the enemy was alerted.
No one would suspect him in connection with the Zhenbei Marquis.
After knowing that the real culprit was Emperor Zhang Tai, Su Yong did not impulsively assassinate the emperor immediately.
He chose to continue lurking.
While diligently cultivating, he also collected more evidence of the dirty deeds Emperor Zhang Tai had committed in private. Besides, he had not forgotten to investigate Emperor Zhang Tai's reason for dealing with his family.
In the world, many things, once done.
Will inevitably leave traces.
Even though Emperor Zhang Tai had deliberately erased all traces, and even killed those who did his bidding to silence them.
Yet, some clues still remained.
However, in order to disgrace Emperor Zhang Tai while killing him, to make him infamous for generations, and to clear his father's name of treason, even though he had guessed the general situation, Su Yong did not do anything immediately. Instead, he continued to lurk and improve his cultivation, and also contacted the survivors of Emperor Zhang Tai's dirty deeds, and even the meager forces left by his father.
Uniting them, they would accumulate strength together.
And wait for the opportune moment.
...
Time flew by, and another fifteen years passed.
Including the previous five years.
Ding Yun had descended into this world for twenty years.
In this year, her son successfully stepped into the realm of half-step Martial God, and the disciples of Tianjiao Valley also fulfilled the expectations of everyone when they named Tianjiao Valley. All of them graduated within ten to fifteen years of their admission, graduating at the Martial Saint realm.
Starting ten years ago, the top ten of the Martial World Young Prodigy Ranking were all disciples of Tianjiao Valley.
And they have never left the rankings since.
The rankings basically alternated within Tianjiao Valley.
The martial arts world unanimously acknowledged Tianjiao Valley as the new holy land of martial arts, and moreover, it was superior to Kunlun Holy Land and Yaochi Holy Land, and was the foremost holy land of martial arts in the world.
With this foundation, Ding Yun finally felt at ease and began to expand her influence with great strides.
What she wanted to do was actually very simple.
It was only two things.
The first was to break through to Martial God and invite all the holy lands, sects, imperial families, noble families, and influential families to attend the celebration ceremony.
The second was to promote the Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice and the universal practice of martial arts.
Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice was cultivated by Ding Yun and was the most suitable rice for promotion. It not only did not pick the land, but could grow by absorbing the essence of the sun and moon and a small amount of soil fertility.
And its yield was very high.
The average yield per mu exceeded three thousand catties.
Even after the universal practice of martial arts, when everyone's appetite increased, the abundant energy contained in Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice, its satiety, and its yield would be enough to fill everyone's hunger after practicing martial arts, preventing a great famine.
The reason Ding Yun did not promote it for these twenty years was mainly to save more seeds, and also to let Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice gradually become famous throughout the world. Even ordinary people knew the magical properties and high value of this rice, so the resistance to universal promotion would be much smaller.
Most people would be very willing to plant it.
Because Ding Yun's preparation was sufficient, both of these matters proceeded very smoothly. The breakthrough to Martial God and the grand ceremony would be enough to make her famous throughout the martial arts world. Except for those in seclusion, almost everyone else knew this news before the ceremony.
The matter of comprehensively promoting Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice made her reputation spread wildly among ordinary people.
However, because the seeds had just been promoted.
And had not yet been harvested.
So the influence was not enough to engrave the imprint for the time being.
But Ding Yun did not worry at all, because she knew very well that as soon as the first batch of Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice ripened and was harvested, and with the media she had set up in recent years working a bit harder,
The influence would surely come rolling in.
And during the few months Ding Yun was waiting for Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice to sprout and be harvested, another major event occurred in the world. Su Yong, at the realm of half-step Martial God, broke into the imperial palace, not only killing two Imperial clan Martial Saints who blocked him, but also capturing Emperor Zhang Tai.
And obtained evidence through interrogating Emperor Zhang Tai.
Then, he carried Emperor Zhang Tai to the Chaoyang Gate city wall of the imperial palace. In front of the civil and military officials who came to rescue the emperor and some citizens of the capital, he read out Emperor Zhang Tai's evil deeds and related evidence over the years, including but not limited to framing his father, and sending a hundred thousand troops to their deaths.
The extermination of his entire Zhenbei Marquis Su family.
And the seizure of their family's luck.
After reading out these crimes and scattering all the evidence for the officials below to see,
Su Yong struck Emperor Zhang Tai to death with a palm.
After that, he also killed all the officials who had participated in the extermination of the Zhenbei Marquis lineage and the slander of their Zhenbei Marquis lineage as traitors.
Then he gracefully left.
Originally, he did not want to be so direct. He wanted to force Emperor Zhang Tai to reveal himself through public opinion, and then act. But unfortunately, Ding Yun suddenly launched a comprehensive promotion of Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice, and it was said that the yield of this rice was extremely high, three thousand catties per mu, which was undoubtedly a feat comparable to Shen Nong.
Although this merit should be attributed to Ding Yun.
Yet, such an unprecedented event occurring during Emperor Zhang Tai's reign could wash away all his sins.
This was clearly something Su Yong was unwilling to see.
So he had to be more direct. First, he broke into the imperial palace and killed Martial Saints, controlled Emperor Zhang Tai, and then found evidence to release it. Even if the effect might not be as expected, it was better than acting after the Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice yield came out.
With the death of Emperor Zhang Tai and the fall of two Imperial clan Martial Saints, leaving only one old and weak Martial Saint survivor, many aristocratic families with two or even three Martial Saints began to stir, and directly caused a disturbance in the capital. The aristocratic families accused the Imperial clan of harboring Emperor Zhang Tai's wickedness and being unworthy to rule the people.
The Imperial clan, while proclaiming their legitimacy, bestowed a posthumous title of infamy upon Emperor Zhang Tai and contacted other sects and aristocratic families that had not yet expressed their stance, hoping to gain their help.
For this, they were even willing to cede a lot of power.
However, before their struggle ended, the Gu Ben Pei Yuan Rice was harvested. All the common people fell into a state of ecstatic joy. Many common people even set up temples to worship Ding Yun. Within a few days, Ding Yun successfully obtained enough influence and engraved the imprint.
Originally, the matter would have ended here. Ding Yun only planned to give her son a few more instructions before pretending to ascend.
But who knew, Su Yong saw that the Imperial clan had gradually won over enough forces to support them and stabilize their position, and he was extremely displeased. So he took the opportunity to stir up trouble, using the forces he had accumulated over the years to widely spread the message that Ding Yun was Shen Nong reincarnated, with merits comparable to the ancient Sage Emperor, and that the current Imperial clan was unworthy to be emperor and should abdicate to the Valley Master of Tianjiao Yunlei Valley.
The common people also agreed, thinking it was reasonable.
The related rumors spread more and more widely, and eventually, even the aristocratic families and sects that supported the Imperial clan began to murmur, suspecting that Ding Yun had released this news. And Ding Yun, the only person in thousands of years to successfully ascend to Martial God, was someone they could not afford to offend.
So in the end, those sects and aristocratic families simply joined forces and abolished the Imperial family.
Then, they made a grand gesture, sending people to Tianjiao Yunlei Valley to invite Ding Yun to the capital to ascend the throne.
Ding Yun, who had just engraved the imprint and was planning to leave more things for her son, had been in seclusion preparing. She did not know about this until the large entourage sent to welcome her to the capital to ascend the throne arrived outside Tianjiao Valley, beating gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers.
She certainly couldn't stay to be emperor.
After all, she had already delayed here for twenty years, and being an emperor was not as profitable in terms of world origin essence as other endeavors.
Ding Yun really didn't want to clean up this mess, so she simply called her son back, used the Reality Editor and her own full true essence to forcefully elevate her son to the Martial God realm, and then let her son ascend the throne.
As for herself, she ascended on the same day her son ascended the throne, just in time to boost her son's momentum before leaving.
From then on, he had a celestial mother looking out for him.
Below, he had over a hundred Martial Saint level senior and junior disciples, as well as a half-step Martial God flood dragon and over a hundred Martial Saint level flood dragon descendants as his enforcers.
At the same time, he himself was a Martial God.
This imperial throne could be said to be the most stable.
In this way, Ding Yun could naturally be completely at ease and genuinely pretend to ascend and leave this world without any worries.