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Chapter 177, Section 176: [The Demon Emperor Qin Shi Huang]

"Father, who are you talking to?"

Do you know that standing before you is the First Emperor, who swept across the six kingdoms, forged the Nine Tripods, standardized the written language, ruled the Black Dragon, and whose destiny was ordained by Heaven? He was the first emperor to create an unprecedentedly great empire in this world.

I am no longer the young child you had with a dancer when you were a hostage in Zhao, whom you then carelessly abandoned.

How dare you speak to me like that?

"Then I am also your father."

King Zhuangxiang of Qin looked extremely grim as he walked step by step toward Ying Zheng, seemingly wanting to teach his son a lesson.

Ying Zheng looked intently at his father, who was all bluster and no substance. The shadow cast on the ground by the candlelight writhed rapidly and instantly rose from behind him, transforming into a jet-black dragon head made of dense darkness, which opened its mouth and inhaled.

call!
King Zhuangxiang of Qin's fragile Yin spirit was powerless against a fifth-level cultivator.

It only had time to let out a strange cry of despair before it was pulled into a long stream of air and swallowed into the dragon's mouth.

After swallowing the man whole with a "gulp," the dragon's eyes continued to greedily scan the remaining memorial tablets.

"Bone-Illuminating Mirror, did you bewitch my descendant, causing him to commit the act of devouring his ancestors?"

With a sigh of age, an ethereal old man emerged from a memorial tablet bearing the name Ying Fei in a corner.

As soon as he appeared, he looked at a bronze mirror hanging on Ying Zheng's waist and sighed.

"Ever since I found you seven hundred years ago, my Ying family has embarked on the road to prosperity."

With your help, I stood out because of my excellent horse-raising skills and was enfeoffed by the Zhou emperor in the Qin region, becoming a 'vassal' ruler with a fiefdom of less than fifty li.

After more than a hundred years of hard work and planning, in the sixth generation, he became a regional lord in one fell swoop due to his merits.

Over the next few centuries, through more than thirty monarchs, our clan has supported each other through generations, and finally reached this day.

During this time, we gained a powerful nation, and you got what you wanted.

Why the sudden falling out?

Upon hearing his ancestor's words, Ying Zheng picked up the mirror at his waist and sneered.

"What bewitching power of the Bone-Illuminating Mirror? Devouring you was clearly my own choice."

"Yes, yes, how could the wise and mighty First Emperor be bewitched by a mere mirror like mine?"

Your ancestors have been dead for far too long, absorbing too much demonic energy containing the dark side of human nature in their memorial tablets, always habitually speculating about others with unfounded malice.

A dark, magical light appeared in the bronze mirror, transforming into an abstract set of features resembling a funhouse mirror, fawningly flattering Ying Zheng.

"My descendants, never listen to anything it says."

Ying Fei said anxiously.

"As its first owner, I know all too well how this mirror works. It can silently distort people's minds, making them unknowingly controlled."

This ability is certainly the best tactic when facing enemies, but if it turns against its master, it is also the best way to retaliate.

Because of the dragon's aura surrounding him, the human ruler is unable to cultivate the magic transmitted by this mirror, while the Bone-Illuminating Mirror can mysteriously bypass the dragon's aura protection, allowing you to harbor demonic thoughts without realizing it.

Wake up! Think carefully about every thought and idea that's popping into your head right now. Are they truly your own?

From the mirror, a voice full of treacherous flattery came.

"Hahaha, how could an old fogey like you, who is out of touch with reality, possibly understand His Majesty's greatness?"

His Majesty is a born demon king. Since he cultivated the Black Dragon bloodline to the fifth level many years ago, he has bypassed the limitations of dragon energy and has been painstakingly cultivating magic.

Today, he has cultivated magic to the fifth level and become the [Emperor Demon Sun God].

Now that he holds the rank of Demon King among the Heavenly Demons, how could he possibly be bewitched by me?

"What? How is this possible? It must be a lie!"

Ying Fei looked at Ying Zheng with even greater anxiety, but the other party's eyes, as black as an abyss, seemed to grow larger and larger in his vision, while a distant voice came to his ear.

"It's true that you can't talk about ice with a summer insect. This kind of stubborn and unyielding old man is actually consuming the demonic energy generated by our dynasty. It's a complete waste."

I say: You should willingly throw yourself into my dragon's mouth and end your life, which should have ended long ago.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ying Fei felt a strange sense of agreement with Ying Zheng's words and actually walked towards him, only to be swallowed whole by the shadow dragon behind him.

[Heavenly Demon]: The Heavenly Demon race was born near the roots of the Jambudvipa tree, nurtured from the withered, dead, and fallen remains of numerous fruits. They are naturally inclined to invade various Jambudvipa fruits, taking it upon themselves to destroy the world.

All sentient beings in Jambudvipa can transform their race through cultivation and become members of the Heavenly Demon Clan.

The Heavenly Demon is one of the many Heavenly Demons in Jambudvipa. He is extremely intelligent, arrogant, sensitive and easily angered, stubborn and self-willed, yet humble and receptive to advice. He has a contradictory personality and is extremely self-centered.

He laughs loudly when happy, blames others when he fails, is always self-centered, and always greedily wants to possess everything. He has a deep demonic nature that desires to bring all living beings under his rule.

This demon can penetrate the depths of a living being's mind through the seven emotions and six desires in people's hearts, tamper with the living being's thinking, and control all living beings as puppets.

The reason why Ying Fei willingly allowed himself to be devoured by Ying Zheng was because the difference in their cultivation levels was too great, and the idea of ​​being willing to be devoured was silently planted in his mind.

As Ying Zheng savored the rich demonic energy within the ancestral spirit, the figure in the Bone-Illuminating Mirror smiled brightly.

As a boundary-breaking artifact specially made by the Heavenly Demon Clan, its mission is to successfully cultivate various Demon Kings inside the fruit.

Hundreds of years ago, the demons slaughtered a fruit full of dragon demons on a branch of the nearby Yama tree, and used a secret technique to throw the dead dragon corpses into nearby fruits to create chaos in those worlds.

Having successfully smuggled himself into this realm, Zhao Gu Jing has been diligently plotting after choosing Ying Fei as his support.

First, he constantly tempted Ying Fei to launch wars, using the negative thoughts of resentment, pain, unwillingness, and despair that he caused to create demonic energy for Ying Fei to cultivate.

Is Ying Fei a good-for-nothing?

It doesn't matter. They will always be passed down to the next generation. Through generations of bloodline optimization, adjustment and inheritance, the descendants of the Ying family will become more and more outstanding, and there will always be a day when they will bear fruit.

Those who cultivate the method of destiny altered by the Heavenly Demon can master supernatural powers ahead of time at the second stage, but this will greatly reduce their lifespan.
It's okay.

By extracting the souls of the deceased supporters and helping them convert to magic, they will be brought back to life and continue to contribute to the great cause of Qin.

As for the fact that the lord will no longer be able to control the dragon energy after practicing magic, that's a good thing too.

When a ruler with low training value dies, it's a legitimate reason to change the training target and try to train the next one.

The Bone-Illuminating Mirror has painstakingly spent hundreds of years creating this masterpiece, nurturing Ying Zheng, a born demon king. As for the Qin rulers residing in the ancestral temple, they are all its failed creations, useless pieces of trash, and keeping them would only waste its hard-won demonic energy.

Ying Zheng ate them; it was a form of waste recycling, allowing him to extract the demonic energy that had accumulated in their spirits over the years.

Following Ying Zheng's wishes, the Bone-Illuminating Mirror rose into the air and shone upon the numerous memorial tablets before him.

call--

A thick, eerie wind swept through, and more than thirty figures dressed in the crowns of emperors from various periods of the Qin Dynasty emerged from the memorial tablets.

Judging from their cultivation levels, most of them are at the fourth rank, with only a few having been in power for a short time and being at the third rank.

As the successive rulers of Qin appeared together, a huge, jet-black dragon aura that had been soaring over Xianyang began to roar.

The dragon's tail pierced through the top of the ancestral temple and landed on Ying Zheng's head, while the dragon's head turned around to look at its previous masters.

At this moment, more than thirty Qin Dynasty kings all had solemn expressions as they addressed Ying Zheng before them.

“We are your ancestors. Without our pioneering efforts, there would be no Qin Dynasty today. Do you really want to do something so ungrateful to your ancestors?”

After cultivating into the Heavenly Demon Yang God, Ying Zheng was no longer human in essence, and his mind was no longer bound by human morality.

Upon hearing this, he merely smiled coldly and spoke with absolute certainty.

"I say: You should all voluntarily throw yourselves into my dragon's mouth and end your lives."

Boom! The sky was filled with turbulent winds and clouds.

These thirty-odd people uttered only one harsh word before transforming into streaks of dark light and scattering in all directions.

Facing a cultivator who had mastered both body and spirit at the fifth level, they had absolutely no chance of winning and could only hope to escape this place by sheer luck.

But the Heavenly Demon's methods were so strange that most of them had only flown a short distance when some not-so-sudden thoughts arose in their minds, and they seemed to think that Ying Zheng's suggestion to end their lives was not bad.

It immediately flew back through the air, making a series of sharp turns, and with a big smile on its face, flew swiftly into the dragon's mouth behind Ying Zheng.

Only a few rulers with the highest cultivation, such as Duke Xiang of Qin, Duke Mu of Qin, Duke Xiao of Qin, King Huiwen of Qin, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin, barely suppressed the desire rising from the bottom of their hearts and gritted their teeth to continue flying outwards.

But as they saw the twelve golden figures, each a hundred feet tall, standing around Xianyang City with their arms raised, forming a massive barrier, they couldn't help but feel despair.

After trying various methods but still failing to break through the barrier blocking their path, they could no longer suppress their thoughts of death and turned to fly towards the Qin King's Palace, which was like a dragon's den and a tiger's lair.

Moments later, it followed in the footsteps of all the kings.

Gulu gulu!

The dragon shadow behind Ying Zheng showed uneven undulations, as if it had swallowed the demonic energy created by Qin's centuries of war and was suffering from indigestion.

As he completely claimed the concept of "King" of the Qin Dynasty for himself, the ominous thoughts of pain, despair, resentment and other evil thoughts that surged towards the dragon aura of the entire Dragon Blood Wasteland no longer needed to be absorbed by the Bone-Illuminating Mirror. Instead, they directly flowed into the dragon aura, were transformed, and then turned into demonic energy that poured into his Yang Spirit.

Judging from his behavior, if this continues, it seems that he is turning the dragon energy into a demonic dragon.

After a while, Ying Zheng seemed to have adapted to the changes in the dragon energy and the difficult digestion behind him. Suddenly, he opened his eyes and looked at the Bone-Illuminating Mirror and said.

"Magic mirror, magic mirror, why has it swallowed up the ancestors of the Qin Kingdom, yet my cultivation is still so slow?"

The Bone-Revealing Mirror, suspended in front of him, swayed like a loyal lackey.

"Your Majesty, your current cultivation speed has already been accelerated by demonic energy."

It should be understood that the fifth rank is the realm of immortals. If one relies solely on absorbing demonic energy and making small comprehensions about the world, the speed of progress will be extremely slow.

Taking Your Majesty's current initial stage of Yang God realm as an example, if you were trapped within a realm, it would probably take tens of thousands of years before you could advance to the intermediate stage.

Given your lifespan, I'm afraid you'll never have a chance to break through to the sixth level in this lifetime.

Ying Zheng frowned, clearly dissatisfied with this method, and continued speaking.

"I remember you said many years ago that the Jambudvipa fruit contains a seed, and if an ordinary person obtains it, he can become the ruler of a world and enjoy the great freedom of living as long as the heavens."

However, because Jambudvipa is a fruit tree and the Heavenly Demon is a pest on the tree, I am destined not to entrust my life to any Jambudvipa fruit pit.

It seems I now have only one path left to take.

"That's great, that's great, you should have made this decision a long time ago."

The bone-revealing mirror jumped and hopped around happily.

"The Heavenly Demons are beings born from the Way of Destruction in the universe. The existence of all Heavenly Demons symbolizes the end and the finality, and they pursue the destruction of the Great Dao of the Jambudvipa and the return of all things to nothingness!"

In accordance with this destiny, the Heavenly Demon only needs to break the world membrane of the Jambudvipa fruit core and let it fall and rot under the Jambudvipa tree to receive the natural reward of the Great Dao.

My humble estimate is that, given the size of this fruit, if you successfully destroy it, the power bestowed by the Path of the End will surely allow you to directly reach the peak of the fifth tier.

"Yes, I understand."

Ying Zheng grabbed the haphazardly flying mirror and hung it back on his waist.

Afterwards, he casually stroked the Tai'a sword that was also hanging at his waist, his heart filled with eagerness to try out the various heavens of Jambudvipa as described in the Bone Mirror, and he couldn't wait to start his wonderful journey.

"It'll be here soon, it'll be here soon. This world is so boring."

"As long as I patiently wait for the boundary-breaking array I've been setting up over the years to complete, I can pinpoint the location of the Yama Fruit core, then personally destroy this world and achieve a better version of myself."

As he said this, Ying Zheng flicked his finger, causing a wisp of black demonic energy to separate from his body and wriggle into a new version of himself.

He handed a small seal hanging from his waist to his clone and gave him instructions.

"Go, take the Imperial Seal and complete the last remaining part of the great formation."

By the way, in recent years, a force called Dragon Blood Workshop has emerged in the East China Sea, causing quite a stir. Let's take care of it while we're at it.

"We are of one mind and one heart, why bother with all this nonsense!"

The clone smirked and vanished in a streak of black light.

After arranging everything, Ying Zheng closed his eyes and immersed himself in digesting the demonic energy.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.

This generous support from his ancestors will save him at least a hundred years of arduous cultivation...

(End of this chapter)