THE REVENGE BEGAN 1

It was beyond all expectations Zhu Yunwen ever imagined, that his Politics of Xuefan had beaten a sleeping dragon which would never wake up under normal circumstances. But now the dragon had woken up, and he was awakened in a state of immense wrath due to a very hard thump. This infuriated dragon was ready to spit tremendous flames from his mouth to destroy Yingtian Palace. Demanding the destruction of that young, inexperienced emperor's throne.

Indeed, under ordinary circumstances, Zhu Su would never want to fight for the throne. For him, being enthroned as Zhou Wang was a fabulous blessing and he must be grateful for it. And, by yearning to be the Ming Emperor then he had become a greedy person. He did not want to be like that, because he understood, desire did not recognize the word of "enough" and "grateful". That was Zhu Su's life principle - under ordinary circumstances. But now, all had changed. His second son slandered him, his nephew imprisoned and tried to kill him and his eldest son and moreover, had killed his wife. His wife died lamentably in prison.

His depression peaked, then transformed. Transforming into wrath - the wrath full of evil and cruelty.

Zhu Su was so furious, also malicious, to those who had taken away his happiness. All this time he had exerted his best to be a righteous man, to take the noble path by dedicating himself to humanity. But it seemed that Heaven did not appreciate his kindness. First reason, his own father sent him into exiled. However, although he was very angry and kept great hatred towards his father, but finally he was willing to change his angry mind. Finally he managed to let go of his hatred. He wanted to follow the Buddha's principle - Letting Go. Life was Dukkha, and the way to get out of Dukkha was by Letting Go. Removing hatred. Releasing greed. He focused on dedicating himself to people's welfare, that was why he created Team of Wellbeing and completed Xiu Zhen Fang - something no other princes from any Chinese dynasties could ever do because the process would drag someone away from luxury and get fatigued instead. But what did he get? Was Heaven touched with him? Heaven instead sent him an apostate son who threw him into a den of death - and the den was knitted by his own nephew!

Zhu Yunwen, who had been so cruel, was destined by Heaven to be the emperor!

He, his wife, and his eldest son, who even though had tried their best to be good people, were instead persecuted by this excruciating punishment!

Then why did he still have to keep being a good person? While Heaven only defended those evil and cruel people?

Heaven apparently defended the evil and ruthless people!

Therefore, he had been fixed with that decision - he would become a cruel person.

"... You are now a Fan Wang... but later, after this, you can be an Emperor, right? Why not... You have a great chance to become the Ming Emperor!"

"... To reach that Throne of Dragon, you surely need to step on hundreds, or even thousands of human skulls."

"... I will do everything, in order to overthrow Zhu Yunwen from his throne!"

Totally correct. At all cost, he must usurp the throne. And getting his turn to torture those who had made him, his wife and his son suffer. He would do everything, even though he must deviate from the path of kindness. If in the past he always implemented The Principle of Wang Dao - by being a gentle-hearted leader, then now, he would perform The Principle of Ba Dao - by becoming a despotic leader who would do anything for power. He did not care about some bullshit like The Righteousness anymore. Once he was in power, he would become The Righteousness.

Even though he had murdered and tortured hundreds, or thousands of people, he would still be respected as The Righteous Leader.

"... If a king dislikes someone, kills him, then labels him as a traitor to the country, is he really a traitor? No. It can be that, it's the "traitor" who is right, and it's the king who is wrong. But because he is the king, then the perception of right and wrong gets reversed. The wrong becomes right, and the right becomes wrong."

Liu Ku was correct. Absolutely correct. It was true that he despised Liu Ku's principles in the past. He labeled him as a heartless Fangshi, even thought that he was a bit crazy. His main purpose of creating Liu Ku as his follower was just to cut off Xie Wang's strength, and besides, Liu Ku had cured his father as well. He himself never thought about Liu Ku's advice even the slightest, he did not want to pass through The Way of Ba Dao anyway. That was why Liu Ku labeled him as a naïve prince.

However, Liu Ku said, the Fangshi wanted to see whether he would continue to maintain this naïve principle in the future... it meant, Liu Ku already knew. Liu Ku had predicted this disaster. And also predicted that later he would change his Principle of Wang Dao.

"... You have a great chance to become the Ming Emperor!"

Maybe Liu Ku had also predicted that he would manage to seize the Throne of Yingtian?

He was really eager to overthrow all of them from their comfortable thrones right now.

For that reason, then he was willing to follow all of Liu Ku's strategy wholeheartedly - even including the cruelest part.