doitstory Chapter 1086 - 655: Illusionary Life (Part 2) — King of the Northland_2
Chapter 1086 - 655: Illusionary Life (Part 2) — King of the Northland_2
Three years later.
Lu Lin was appointed as the General of the North, overseeing all military and political affairs in the four prefectures and twenty-eight counties of the North.
Lu Lin was granted the title of Lord of the North River, with a fief of ten thousand households.
However, the so-called fief was all in the territory of the alien races in the North; the emperor was merely drawing a big pie for Lu Lin.
Similarly, his title North River was near the extreme northern area of the North, on a perpetually ice-sealed river, which was the origin place of the prairie alien tribes.
After this event, Lu Lin became even more disillusioned with the Da Feng Dynasty.
If so, then...
Lu Lin was arming and preparing in the Northland, engaging in trade and procurement, gathering refugees, and acquiring intelligence, while infiltrating all prefectures within the Da Feng Dynasty with the Longshan Trade Team as his network.
Wealth in one hand, military force in the other.
The forces under Lu Lin grew like a snowball.
Ten years later.
At thirty-four, Lu Lin finally gathered enough supplies to execute a devastating blow to the Northland, and smoke signals erupted within the dynasty.
Thirty-six Rebel Kings, seventy-two paths of dust, assembled at the Imperial Capital of Da Feng, intending to besiege it and capture the old emperor.
Lu Lin hesitated for a moment but ultimately chose to proceed to the Northland.
Never mind the inability of that mob to conquer the Imperial Capital, even if they did, they couldn’t hold it. Loyalist troops from various places would arrive in at most one month, allowing them only to plunder before retreating.
Intelligence was constantly pouring in.
After annihilating twelve prairie tribes, Lu Lin heard news of infighting among the rebels.
They succumbed to internal strife just as they were about to breach the Imperial Capital.
This was indeed a mob.
Lu Lin no longer worried about these affairs and pressed forward, reaching the extreme northern area of the Northland.
When he saw the ice-sealed river, he felt a sense of exhilaration.
Having lived in this world for over thirty years, Lu Lin felt he’d never lived for himself.
Now, upon seeing the Ice River, Lu Lin finally felt his mind was clear and his thoughts were lucid.
Things he couldn’t understand before became clear to him.
What is virtual, what is real.
This time, spending a hundred years in this world, Lu Lin could no longer regard it as an Illusionary Realm.
The brothers who died in battle under him, the alien races slain by his knife, the weeping compatriots.
Compelled Lu Lin to finally embrace this world in his heart.
"Brothers!"
"Slaughter cattle, butcher sheep, drink wine, and carve stone to commemorate achievements."
"Tens of thousands of years!"
Lu Lin’s command was met with cheers from all thirty thousand soldiers.
In this army, Lu Lin was their unparalleled king.
Over a thousand soldiers went out to find a huge stone.
Using thousands of warhorses and human power, they dragged the huge stone over.
Among the soldiers were those who had worked as stonemasons, who gathered to cut, grind, and carve.
"In the thirty-seventh year of Sui Yue, September 26, of the Da Feng Dynasty, Commander of the Army in the North, Lu Lin, annihilated the Golden Khanate, beheaded one Kid Khan, killed three thousand five hundred and twenty-four followers, captured thirty thousand war horses and a million cattle and sheep, carving achievements on stone for posterity to know; those who offend the Da Feng Dynasty, even if distant, shall be punished."
"Commander of the Army in the North, Lu Lin, stands with thirty thousand Tiger Warriors."
This huge stone looked imposing lying on the ground, but when raised, even Lu Lin was shocked.
Its height was 20 meters and width 11 meters.
Additionally, 30 meters of its height was buried underground.
The day the stone memorial was erected, overcast clouds covered the sky, and wind and rain approached.
Many superstitious soldiers couldn’t help but frown, believing it wasn’t a good omen.
But when a bolt of lightning struck straight down from the sky, hitting the stone memorial directly, everyone panicked.
Was heaven forbidding them from doing such a thing, wanting to erase their achievements and deeds?
"Don’t panic, look quickly at the words on the stone!"
A soldier exclaimed.
Everyone raised their heads to look at the stone memorial amid the torrential rain.
The originally red letters dyed with cinnabar began to change.
The color altered.
The red fell away.
Revealing the original color of the blue stone beneath.
Then, strands of golden color began to surface.
The gold gradually increased, eventually filling all the inscriptions.
Moreover, the gold only filled the text, without affecting any other areas.
"This, this, this is..."
"The General has the appearance of an emperor."
"I saw it, the General’s name first showed gold, followed by the rest of the text."
"The General should be called emperor."
It was unknown who first shouted this slogan, but gradually, it spread throughout the entire camp.
The cold icy rain hit the faces and bodies of the thirty thousand soldiers.
Their bodies trembled.
Their lips quivered.
But their hearts were ablaze.
In the years Lu Lin came to the Northland, both the soldiers and the common people truly felt the changes in the Northland.
Even in recent years, some commoners who couldn’t survive in the Central Plains fled here.
In the past, this was an unbelievable occurrence.
The Northland was bitterly cold, everyone sought to escape this place for the warm South, not migrate from the South to the Northland.
"The General should be called emperor."
The voices grew louder, but Lu Lin didn’t say much.
Such a trick was surely concocted by the old brothers from the Longshan village.
Though the Da Feng Dynasty repelled the rebels approaching the Imperial Capital, the flames of rebellion were ignited like a dry grassland.
Da Feng Dynasty, precariously shaken.