Chapter 115

A hundred years have passed since the era of Emperor Zong. That was an era when talents emerged one after another and the world was in chaos to contend for supremacy. The internal strife in the Zong clan, the mutual conflicts between each sect, the demonic cultivators of core theft were killing constantly, and everyone was at risk. Two ancient divine treasures have been buried for millions of years, which emerged suddenly along with the Supreme Demon of the generation and overpowered Jiuzhou. Finally, ending with Zong Zi Xiao being devoured instead by his own infinitely expanding ambitions.

In those stormy years, The internecine strife between Zong Zi Heng and Zong Zi Xiao was the center of a long and drawn-out storm. Both of them have supreme talents, but one was suffering from neglect and the other being highly favored, yet suddenly one day, fate reversed. Zong Zi Xiao was reduced to being the illegitimate child of a core thief, while Zong Zi Heng concealed his strengths and bid his time* and moved to usurp the throne. If it’s not because of their lust for power, how could they have gone from being friendly and respectful as brothers to pointing swords at each other? People can’t avoid saying with sorrow: It’s a pity to be born in an imperial family.

From authentic histories, wild histories and folk tales, there are thousands of stories about the two brothers. Even after a century has passed, they are still widely circulated.

Like the majority, Xie Bi An grew up together with their stories. How could that legendary figure have anything to do with himself?

But the Three Life Stones could not display his destiny. He saw a bloodbath on the Eight Trigrams Platform. In his dream he became an emperor, and had a younger brother called Xiao Jiu, who was close to him when he was young, but hated him to the bone when he grew up. The memories of his past life repeatedly harassed him, making him feel that there’s a jumbled jigsaw puzzle in front of him, and that "Gutuo" is a very important piece of this puzzle. The moment it returns to its place, although it is still not enough to recover the whole picture, it has already given him a glimpse of the truth.

How could he accept that he might be the reincarnation of the Human Emperor, and that in his previous life he had been related … related to the Supreme Demon Zong Zi Xiao in a way that was contrary to human decency?!

He subconsciously put his hand over his abdomen. The golden core that was revolving inside his dantian and condensing his lifelong cultivation, might be the culprit of this fight. It is the thing that Qi Meng Sheng wants to dig out alive!

Fan Wu She looked at Xie Bi An's changing expression, his gaze incessantly malicious. When he knew that Xie Bi An had touched his memories of his past life on the Eight Trigrams Platform and would dream sporadically, he had been prepared for this day to come, but it was sooner than he thought. He watched as Xie Bi An was retrieving Zong Zi Heng's memories little by little, but was unable to do anything about it, and at the same time was caught in a contradiction.

Li Bu Yu said grimly, "If it was offered to the Emperor, why did it return to your hands? You are ruthless, fickle and harboring evil intentions. It is evident."

"The Emperor passed away, so I have to leave it to you guys who are the ravenous wolves* who divided the Zong Clan?" Qi Meng Sheng said sharply, "Do you dare to tell those who are present, what made Wuliang Sect the number one Immortal Sect in the world, and how you became the head of the Immortal Alliance?”

"Zong Zi Xiao was tyrannical and lawless, and the Emperor had effectively become his puppet. Under his control, the entire immortal cultivation world was plundered and oppressed by the Zong Clan. When the Zong Clan was overthrown, everyone naturally wanted to get back what was theirs." Li Bu Yu said disdainfully, "So only your Cangyu Sect became righteous alone?"

"Cangyu Sect did not raid the Zong Clan's treasure trove, nor did the Cangyu Sect drive the Zong Clan's people to extinction, nor did the Cangyu Sect ban the Zongxuan Sword Technique, leaving the Wuliang Sword to shine alone."

A series of gazes drifted towards Li Bu Yu, both explicitly and implicitly. Li Bu Yu's expression was extremely unsightly as he gritted his teeth and said, "What the Wuliang Sect has done is to completely remove the remaining poison of the Supreme Demon and save the people."

Qi Meng Sheng let out a sneer, "Then you ate Zong Ming He's human core, shed your mortal body and changed your bones. Was it also for the sake of people in the world?”

This statement shocked everyone.

Li Bu Yu's loosely hanging eyelids were instantly propped up, his clothes fluttering in the cold wind slightly concealing the trembling of his body, but his expression still betrayed him, "You ... you ..."

Zhong Kui, his disciples, Zhao Wen and several Chunyang Sect elders were also shocked. Before Xu Zhi Nan passed away, they had just analyzed that the walking corpse sealed by Li Bu Yu at Diancang Peak was Emperor Ning Hua, Zong Ming He, and that Zong Ming He's missing golden core was also most likely dug up by Li Bu Yu, but they didn't expect Qi Meng Sheng to know about it earlier and even confirmed it herself in front of the entire Immortal Alliance.

"You want to ask me, how did I know about it?" Qi Meng Sheng looked at him grimly, "If you don’t want people to know, then you don't do it yourself. You think that after a hundred years, when all the old people have died, no one will remember that you, Li Bu Yu, originally had mediocre qualifications? You hate the Zong Clan to the bone, but your cultivation, your status, your merits that bring honor to your ancestors, were all given to you by the Zong Clan."

"Qi Meng Sheng, do you think you can turn right and wrong upside down just because you experienced the era of Emperor Zong with me?" Li Bu Yu's loss of composure was fleeting, and by now he had regained his composure, "That’s right, if compared to the Emperor, I, Li Bu Yu, am indeed of mediocre qualifications. What kind of roots did the Emperor have to let you betray and not hesitate to make enemies in the world just to seize the top qualifications? I have not been lazy in my cultivation for a single day in my life. Heaven rewards the diligent, and only today have I achieved something. You are making false accusations in order to achieve your own ambitions. Who will believe a demonic woman like you who has Qi deviated!?"

Song Chun Gui felt indignant and injustice, "Master, disciple sees this demonic woman is obviously stalling for time. Master's virtue is obvious to all, so how can we tolerate this demonic woman to tarnish you!?"

The others echoed, "That’s right, how could Immortal Alliance Li eat a human core, plus the core from Emperor Ning Hua? It is simply making a mockery of the world. Who in this world doesn't know that Emperor Ning Hua was killed by his own son's hand on the Eight Trigrams Platform?"

Qi Meng Sheng laughed coldly, "Who in this world knows that a walking corpse, whose core was dug out, was sealed by the Big Dipper Zhengji Demon Binding Formation at Diancang Peak, and that walking corpse was Zong Ming He?"

This time, not only Zhong Kui, his disciples and the elders of Chunyang Sect, who knew the inside story, but all those who had been at Li Bu Yu's birthday party became silent.

The walking corpse at Diancang Peak, the Big Dipper Zhengji Demon Binding Formation, the mere evil spirit that almost killed the two Impermanence Immortals, and Li Bu Yu's use of the Thunder Ancestor's Treasure Grant to "silence" it, were all things they had seen with their own eyes. If that person is Zong Ming He, all these will make sense.

Fan Wu She only felt his mind in a mess. Unlike the people present who were concerned about whether Li Bu Yu had really eaten Zong Ming He's core, what he wanted to know was who had killed Zong Ming He.

If it was true as everyone knew, that Zong Zi Heng had killed his father the emperor on the Eight Trigrams Platform, it would have been impossible for Li Bu Yu to eat Zong Ming He's golden core, because once a person died, his spiritual energy would have dissipated and his core would become useless, but according to their speculation and Li Bu Yu's reaction, he had indeed eaten Zong Ming He's core, and Zong Ming He must have been alive when the core was dug out.

His feelings towards Zong Ming He were very complicated. He hated Zong Ming He, but Zong Ming He had doted on him for fourteen years, so how could he forget this father-son love? Compared to Zong Ming He, he hated Zong Zi Heng and Lu Zhao Feng even more. When he heard that Zong Zi Heng had killed Zong Ming He and usurped the throne, he felt that Zong Zi Heng had killed both his parents.

But what is the truth? A hundred years later, the closer he got to everything related to Emperor Zong’s era, the more he felt that there were still many things about Zong Zi Heng that he was unaware of at the time.

Li Bu Yu said in a stern voice: "The walking corpse at Diancang Peak which had the Chunyang Sect’s ability to regenerate limbs is not Zong Ming He at all. His true identity is unknown to everyone. Qi Meng Sheng, you are simply heartless!"

If not for the difference between the enemy and themselves at this time, Zhong Kui would have exposed Li Bu Yu on the spot, but now, no matter what, they had to join forces to defeat Qi Meng Sheng first.

"Master, she must be stalling for time and trying to mess with your mind. You must not fall for her trick." Song Chun Gui raised his sword, his eyes raging with anger.

Li Bu Yu took a deep breath: "That’s right, slandering me will not let your ambitions have its way. Demonic woman, be executed." He bellowed and attacked Qi Meng Sheng.

A great battle began.

There were thousands and millions of confusions in Xie Bi An’s mind, but he had no choice but to let them go at this point. He flew to help Zhong Kui, and Fan Wu She followed him.

They looked at each other and both saw deep concern in each other's eyes.

Xie Bi An had told Fan Wu She almost everything about his dream, except for the unspeakable acts he had done with Xiao Jiu.

He had no time to think about what Fan Wu She would think. The most important thing at the moment was to stop Qi Meng Sheng.

Under Qi Meng Sheng's command were several elders, the Flying Plume Ambassadors and a group of high-ranking cultivators, each of whom used cold ice magic to create feathery wings, treating the sky as if it was flat. With a mere two dozen people, they did not show any weakness when meeting the hundred or so people of the Immortal Alliance. It seemed that as long as there were snow and ice crystals, their strength would skyrocket.

Zhong Kui and Li Bu Yu joined forces against Qi Meng Sheng. The ice jade was embedded in her longbow, and the arrow was as powerful as shooting the sun. The snow jade gave her the wings of a snowy owl on her back. Like a god descending from heaven, her power was unstoppable.

Zhong Kui used a normal sword to coordinate Li Bu Yu's Wuliang Sword, attacking left and right to block Qi Meng Sheng, but the sword was shattered to pieces by Qi Meng Sheng after several rounds of attacks.

Li Bu Yu summoned the Thunder Ancestor's Treasure Grant to bring down the heavenly thunder. This heavenly thunder was so powerful that neither man nor ghost dared to receive it. Qi Meng Sheng was also very scared and no longer attacked aggressively, but flew in between the mountains to avoid it.

It had been a hundred years since the battle between Zong Zi Xiao and Great Emperor Beiyin on Mount Luofeng. Those who are present were high achievers, each displaying their own divine powers, and the rampant spiritual pressure gradually filled the mountain.

Suddenly, in an unremarkable mountain depression, there was a tremendous sound, and as the earth and mountains shook, a golden light, like a pillar, shot up into the sky.

Zhong Kui suddenly awakened and his expression changed dramatically, "No good, we've been trapped!"

Several people in the scene understood.

Qi Meng Sheng had deliberately lured them up the mountain to fight with her. The Luo Shui Jade Armor could calculate the approximate location of the Golden Trunk Jade Policy, but could not anchor it. The Great Emperor Dongyue had placed a boundary for the Golden Trunk Jade Policy, causing it to be hidden and invisible in the mountain. It will only react when it is attacked. A chaotic battle unleashed a huge amount of spiritual energy, as well as Li Bu Yu's heavenly thunder, which finally touched the Golden Trunk Jade Policy’s boundary, allowing Qi Meng Sheng to find it!

Xie Bi An's eyes widened as the golden light plunged straight into the clouds and shrinking slightly into two tiny pillars of light in his pupils, occupying his field of vision and left nothing else in his eyes.

He felt a vague pain in his dantian. A voice, like the whisper of a god or ghost, told him that what was in his belly was the source of all evil.

The Golden Trunk Jade Policy was born!

 

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concealed his strengths and bid his time*[韬光养晦]--- to hide one's light under a bushel

ravenous wolves*[豺狼]----evil person

 

Edited on 20 Apr. 21 (Emzie)

 

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