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Chapter 176, Section 175: [The Starry Sky Dragon's Escape from Ti Island]

The allure of a gentle life is a hero's grave, the ultimate way to erode a man's ambition and aspirations.

Chen Sheng had been reincarnated many times and thought he had seen through the illusion of lust. Who knew that Long Niang, a fourth-level cultivator of the Dao of Fate, was proficient in the Dao of flesh and blood transformation and could use her cultivation to evolve infinite mysteries, which made him somewhat unable to control himself.

During the third cultivation, every cell that constitutes the dragon bodies of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu will separate and transform into spiritual light, directly merging into their bodies. The three will become one, no longer separate from each other.

In this state, there are no secrets between the three of them, and they cannot deliberately hide their thoughts. It is as if they have awakened the Buddhist concept of telepathy, sharing joy and sorrow, and experiencing the ultimate intimacy of being one with the lives of others.

It was precisely because of this long-term cultivation that these two dragon maidens were able to advance to the fourth rank with their own bloodline over a period of more than ten years, with Chen Sheng's help.

If you want to achieve something quickly on your path of cultivation, climbing into the bed of a strong person is always the fastest shortcut.

The three were immersed in a joyful state of unity and harmony for a long time when Chen Sheng suddenly asked a question in his mind.

"When my will descended into the incubation room, it seemed that news came back. Did they find the route map of the First Emperor's tour of the world?"

Liu Bang laughed heartily a few times and hummed a few words.

"In the early period after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six states, the national situation was unstable because the remnants of the six states were scattered all over the world. Ying Zheng would often send his clones to tour the country."

This practice has been maintained for many years, and a dedicated Xunyou agency has gradually emerged.

Our spies have been operating in the Qin Palace for many years and have gradually climbed to some key positions, gaining insight into the route designated by the First Emperor for this tour.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, Ying Zheng will depart from Xianyang, passing through Hedong, Henan, Handan, Qinghe, Jibei, Jiaodong, and other prefectures, before finally heading straight for the East Sea.

The volcanic island is located in the East China Sea, so it is self-evident who the First Emperor was targeting on this tour.

This news must have been a bolt from the blue for everyone in the world.

Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, who were on the same wavelength as Chen Sheng, did not sense any fear or panic in him. They seemed to have anticipated the current situation and were confident of success.

"Just as I expected, after lying low for so many years, we finally couldn't hold back any longer."

After so many years of development, Dragon Blood Workshop has become a significant force, with strength even surpassing that of any one of the six kingdoms back then.

What appears to be a wasteland inside this fruit actually reflects the Qin Dynasty's extremely strong control over the local areas.

In the early stages of its development, Dragon Blood Workshop was able to rely on various supernatural means to conceal itself and remain undetected.

By the middle period, the Qin Dynasty must have already known about them, but they were not taken down because their strength was barely tolerable.

Now, with the Dragonblood Workshop's reputation spreading throughout the wasteland, the sharp edge of its power, like an awl in a bag, has already burst forth. How could the Qin Dynasty possibly tolerate this?
The First Emperor's so-called tour of the empire was actually a purge of the Dragon Blood Workshop, and he also took the opportunity to suppress other disloyal forces along the way.

Sensing that Chen Sheng was aware of the situation, Liu Bang said with a grin.

"Besides this bad news, I have some good news to tell Brother Chen."

Perhaps out of consideration for cultivating a future monarch, the First Emperor will bring several of his children with him.

Among them is Princess Fusu, whom you've been eyeing for a long time and who is said to have the most outstanding bloodline.

Brother Chen, should we seize this rare opportunity and bring her back?

In that instant, the dragon maidens sensed that Chen Sheng was moved.

For the sake of his own cultivation, even if the one possessing a pure water dragon vein is a princess, he is determined to kidnap her.

Now that he has confirmed that the Qin Dynasty is going to take action against him, his need for the missing Five Elements Dragon Veins has become increasingly urgent.

Perhaps Zhang Liang and his men's assassination attempt during their inspection tour was a perfect opportunity to take advantage of the chaos.

Taking advantage of the chaos during the assassination attempt, it was entirely possible to snatch Fusu, the Black Dragon Girl, from her.

After finalizing the matter, Xiang Yu, who had been silent all along, spoke again.

"More than a decade has passed since we discovered that the Qin Dynasty was setting up a massive array covering the entire country within the earth's veins, seemingly planning a one-time, large-scale destruction of the earth's veins."

Over the years, we have sent out a large number of people to survey the earth's veins, and have almost completed the geomantic maps and formation diagrams of the land.

It is said that Qin Shi Huang would carry a divine weapon with him on each of his inspection tours, and take the opportunity to set up and repair the formations in the earth's veins.

"My benefactor, do you think it's possible for us to get our hands on this divine weapon as well?"

"This is a difficult matter; I'm afraid we can only wait for an opportune moment to act."

Chen Sheng always planned carefully before acting and never fought a battle he was not confident of winning.

With his current cultivation level, it wouldn't be difficult for him to snatch a princess from the First Emperor's clone.

If Zhang Liang were to discover that the clone's strength was below the fifth rank, he would be confident in killing that clone.

However, protecting the divine weapon that is crucial to the First Emperor's great undertaking of seizing the Jambudvipa fruit pit will not be easy.

Because the First Emperor's true form must be at the fifth level of cultivation, if the opponent attacks based on the connection with the divine weapon, Chen Sheng would be powerless to deal with it.

The only hope now is that the main body of the main world can perform well and become the Thunder Emperor and Lightning Sun God as soon as possible, so that he will have the qualifications to confront the First Emperor head-on.

Many thoughts raced through Chen Sheng's mind. After analyzing the current situation for a moment, he suddenly asked a question.

"These past few days have been the annual reporting period for the Dragon Blood Workshop, and most of our fourth-tier cultivators are probably on the island."

Chen Sheng was busy with his cultivation and had no time to attend to the trivial matters on the island. These daily affairs were always handled by the two dragon maidens.

In their state of mutual understanding, the two women had already vaguely sensed his thoughts and responded obediently.

"Those fourth-tier dragon descendants who have been empowered by you over the years have indeed reported to us."

Furthermore, because I intend to spend some time on the island getting to know my colleagues, I won't be heading back to the mainland for a few days.

"That's good, it saves us the trouble of calling them back."

Upon hearing this information, Chen Sheng sighed softly.

"The First Emperor is about to attack, and I plan to temporarily avoid his advance. What do you think?"

"Your benefactor is a man of great wisdom, and Xiang Yu trusts any decision you make."

The retreat and forbearance at this time are to preserve one's useful life for the future, to overthrow the tyrannical Qin Dynasty.

"No matter where Brother Chen goes, I will follow you."

Being of one mind and body is the most ingenious way to communicate. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu sensed Chen Sheng's will and placed absolute trust in him.

Amidst the resounding cheers of support, the dragon maidens transformed into two streaks of light that separated from his body. Then, they transformed into two winding white and red dragon shadows, each over ten feet long, and soared up through the quietly opened fleshy ceiling above their heads.

hold head high--

The distant roar of a dragon echoed across the island, and everyone in the workshop immediately stopped what they were doing and flew out of the building.

Then, under their watchful eyes, Chen Sheng, transformed into a giant dragon a hundred feet long, its entire body shimmering with starlight, flew out from the ground near the crater.

Rumble!
Clusters of root-like lightning bolts struck the clear sky, and a gray-yellow gale howled across the island.

Chen Sheng, who had revealed his dragon form, swung his dragon tail, and countless water vapors rose from the sea, condensing into dark clouds in the gray sky.

Chen Sheng circled and swam among the clouds for a while, baring his teeth and brandishing his claws. Then, pillars of starlight descended from the sky, piercing through the obstruction of the dark clouds and connecting to some key nodes of his huge dragon body, evolving into a sacred phenomenon.

An ancient saying goes: "Man cannot see the wind, fish cannot see the water, ghosts cannot see the earth, and dragons cannot see all things."

Although humans cannot see air, they can survive by breathing it.

Although fish cannot see water, they can survive safely in it;
Although ghosts cannot see the earth, they can hide from the harmful sunlight within it.

The powerful dragon, as a naturally divine spirit, is even more capable of controlling all things for its own use without understanding their origin.

If ordinary dragons are like this, then a dragon king like Chen Sheng, who has grown to his youth, can naturally trigger the apocalyptic celestial phenomena without needing to activate the thousands of spirits within his body.

He stretched out his enormous body, radiating starlight, and looked down at the many dragon shadows circling below.

The closest to him were naturally the two dragons, one white and one red, who accompanied him.

Further down, there are more than a dozen strange dragons with different appearances.

"Chaofeng, Suanni, Baxia, Qiuniu, Pulao, Kuilong, Nieshou..."

"Sima Xin, Tian Rong, Wu Rui, Zhang Er, Zhao Xie, Sima Ang, Han Cheng, Wei Bao, Zang Tu, Han Guang, Ying Bu..."

These people were the subordinates whom Chen Sheng had amassed over the past decade or so, bringing them into his possession and granting them fourth-order power.

Some of them were Qin people, some were descendants of the six states, some were born into noble families, and some were commoners for generations. Just because Chen Sheng saw the destiny of kings and nobles in them, these people had the opportunity to rise to the top in one step and gain control of power that did not belong to them.

Like Zhang Liang and the other two who were still undergoing transformation, they were also Chen Sheng's pawns and a backup plan for his resurrection.

Over the past decade or so, through the spread of these descendants of dragons, who are inherently promiscuous, Chen Sheng's descendants have numbered in the thousands, which is equivalent to having thousands more lives.

His gaze lingered briefly on the group of children before shifting to the thousands of figures suspended below.

Those were soldiers hatched from modified embryos through the talent [Dragon Blood Workshop], used to maintain the operation of the volcanic island.

The warriors' infancy and growth period last only three months. After reaching adulthood, they have a lifespan of fifty years and a combat strength of the third tier. Their bloodline is engraved with an unwavering loyalty to Chen Sheng.

Strictly speaking, apart from Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, none of the other living beings on the entire island possessed any so-called free will.

Chen Sheng soared in the sky, gazing down at the numerous dragon descendants below.

No further words were needed; the descendants and warriors whose bloodlines were filled with those of the backdoor instantly understood his will.

Without asking the reason for their departure or offering any complaints, they all soared into the sky and flew towards the deeper reaches of the ocean.

Without them in the way, thousands of spirit bodies immediately flew out from Chen Sheng's body, falling to various parts of the island like shooting stars.

Rumble!
The flesh and blood on the island began to writhe like waves.

The alchemy furnace located in the crater was the first to change, wriggling and contracting into a huge, constantly beating heart.

Then the toxin production and detoxification center on the east side of the island was transformed directly into a dark green, crescent-shaped liver.

Next comes the space deep underground, a series of cavities that directly transform into digestive organs such as the stomach and intestines...

Once the internal organs of the many dragon demons were collected, the skeletons used to support the entire island spontaneously assembled into a dragon skeleton, and the flesh and blood wriggled and transformed into dragon meat and dragon scales.

It took about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn to transform the island, which spanned several dozen miles, into a colossal dragon, a hundred miles long and nearly two miles thick.

As Chen Sheng's suspended body descended and merged with the enormous creature lying below, this body truly gained a soul.

It opened its eyes, swayed its body a few times, and slowly took off into the air, flying towards the depths of the ocean without looking back.

The departure of his massive body caused a backflow of seawater, instantly submerging islands that were dozens of feet lower on the outer edges and hundreds of feet lower in the center. The volcanic crater spewing lava collided with the seawater, sending up high plumes of white steam.

The ongoing earthquakes and tsunamis have not subsided for a long time, making the already murky seawater even more turbid.

On the sea, only the fleshy lotus flower enveloping Zhang Liang, Xiao He, and Han Xin remained, floating gently and peacefully undergoing its final transformation.

Information about the First Emperor's upcoming tour had already been implanted in their minds.

This was Chen Sheng's friendly support in their assassination attempt.

……

Xianyang, Qin Palace, Ancestral Temple.

Inside the deep palace, there were countless ancestral tablets.

Although the Qin Dynasty unified the world for only a few decades, it had a history of nearly seven hundred years during the period when it was still called the Qin State.

From being enfeoffed as a vassal by the Zhou emperor to being formally enfeoffed as a feudal lord, it went through five generations of monarchs. From a regional vassal state to the First Emperor's unification of the land and the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, it had another thirty-one monarchs.

The First Emperor was able to unify the world not only because of his own great talent and strategy, but also because of the pioneering and arduous efforts of generations of ancestors who made it possible to achieve the current situation.

At this moment, the lights in the main hall of the ancestral temple flickered.

Even though Ying Zheng is over fifty years old this year, he still looks like a handsome young man with deep, unfathomable eyes.

He stood in the center of the hall, looking at the memorial tablets at the top row, which were dedicated to the five most meritorious rulers of the Qin Dynasty: Duke Xiang of Qin, Duke Mu of Qin, Duke Xiao of Qin, King Huiwen of Qin, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin, as well as the more crowded memorial tablets below.

Ying Zheng's eyes were pitch black, seemingly containing a deep, dark, and demonic quality, as he spoke softly.

"Ancestors, my Heavenly Demon Art is about to be completed. Now I need some of your insignificant lives to contribute. Are you willing to sacrifice yourselves to help me?"

"Ying Zheng, do you intend to devour your ancestors?"

Suddenly, a dignified middle-aged man appeared from an inconspicuous memorial tablet at the very bottom of the row, pointing at Ying Zheng and shouting angrily.

The memorial tablet bore the inscription "King Zhuangxiang of Qin," clearly indicating that he was Ying Zheng's father.

(End of this chapter)