“What’s going on?” Wang Sheng looked at some of the people in the village crying their hearts out, baffled by the situation.
It was just too strange, one second everything was fine, the next second tears burst forth without warning, and it was not just a few isolated cases, it happened to everyone.
Without any signs, such sudden emotional outburst just happened.
Apart from him and Yue, the two showed no change—at least not outwardly.
“My heart too harbors some sorrow, but I can control it, this kind of sudden grief is abnormal, Lord Wang Sheng.”
Yue was actually affected, just not as severely.
Before long, the village chief arrived, his face a picture of mourning, tears streaming incessantly.
“Yun Sheng… what’s happening… do you know?”
Crying while speaking truly troubled the village chief.
Clearly, even the village chief sensed that something was amiss.
Human emotion normally doesn’t explode without reason, yet that was exactly what happened.
But for such matters, Wang Sheng felt powerless.
Who knew why such sudden sadness had erupted, causing tears.
But he quickly thought of something—the scene bore a striking similarity to the last time the “Human Emperor’s Decree” occurred.
Last time it was in Qingshan Village, where the “Human Emperor’s Decree” appeared in Shuzhou, the entire village knelt down, including Xu Qu, and only he was unaffected.
Although the situation was different this time, he was the only one truly unaffected, even Yue the Grandmaster felt some impact.
“The Human Emperor’s Decree” was connected to the Master of Destiny, so what about this time?
“Yue, you mentioned that when the Master of Destiny passes, there will be anomalies, right?”
Yue was stunned into silence by the question.
Then, she quickly entered into a state—the state of using her Stargazing Skill.
After a long while, Yue opened her eyes and said, “I can now predict information about the Imperial Family of the Great Zhou…”
“Couldn’t you do that before?”
“No, with the Master of Destiny’s protection, everything within the palace was unpredictable, especially the Emperor. If I had tried to predict before, I would have suffered great backlash. Now there’s none of that, there’s only one possibility—the Master of Destiny has passed away!”
Wang Sheng and Yue simultaneously turned their eyes toward the direction of the Imperial City.
The acts of Master of Destiny Zhou Cang had not yet spread, so for Wang Sheng and Yue, this event was quite sudden.
Although they were expecting it, they did not anticipate it would come so swiftly, the Master of Destiny who had suppressed the realm for 500 years had just vanished.
The death of the Master of Destiny was a good thing for the vast majority, but not necessarily for many!
However, Wang Sheng quickly gathered his thoughts.
“Why am I thinking these things, for most people, it might be a good thing!”
The Great Zhou Dynasty, like many late dynasties, imposed harsh taxes and monopolized lands; extorting and plundering, it did it all.
Life for the common folk was anything but easy.
If it hadn’t been for the strong Martial Artists suppressing them and the situation not yet reaching its limit, uprisings would have occurred everywhere by now.
Shuzhou was actually one of the better places, the River King didn’t compete with the people for profit, as long as the required taxes were paid, generally, one could survive, even fairly well by standards of the common folk.
As long as the local officials were somewhat decent, there wouldn’t be such miserable conditions.
In such times, most officials were corrupt, but there were still a few that were decent.
It was also because of this that the River King held a fair amount of goodwill among the people of Shuzhou, King Yong Nian’s attack on Shuzhou directly lost the hearts of commoners and Martial Artists, even within Qingshan Village there were curses against King Yong Nian.
But even so, once disaster struck, the River King would not care, the taxes had to be paid, and the common people suffered greatly during those times.
If Shuzhou was like this, one could only imagine what it was like in other areas.
Perhaps many commoners had been wishing for a way to overthrow the Great Zhou.
It was a conflagration waiting to happen!
Just a single spark was needed to ignite this fire, and that would set the Great Zhou ablaze.
And those playing the game, they certainly would not mind lighting this fire, the more chaos, the better for them.
It was just uncertain where the start would come from; generally, the backward and impoverished areas went first, with the Imperial City likely being the last.
As long as the Great Zhou didn’t truly collapse completely, the Imperial City would maintain its basic dignity.
The key was, there likely weren’t many people who would dare to attack the Imperial Family outright.
The coalition against Dong Zhuo in the Three Kingdoms period, though ultimately a failure, indicated one thing.
Before openly breaking ties, attacking the official royal family would just make one a target, confronted by everyone in the name of righteousness.
“Just don’t know where it will start, it won’t be Shuzhou, will it?”
…
Meanwhile, various powers had naturally become aware of this event.
Such as Spirit Sword Valley and Heavenly Saber City, which had recently executed a Great Grandmaster.
The two had not undergone significant changes due to the Great Grandmaster’s death, even going so far as to immediately appoint new Valley Masters and City Lords with the same names.
The new Valley Master of Spirit Sword Valley, Wu Qingfeng, learned of his subordinates’ wailing and sneered, “The old man can’t find peace even in death, just around our Spirit Sword Valley, dozens have died from crying, better to have died outright than to take so many with him to death.”
“Not at all, without such, we wouldn’t have known of his demise, Valley Master, there’s no need for rage.” A man stepped forward; this was Mo Xiao, the strategist of Spirit Sword Valley.