Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 81 Zuoqiu Hongting
Inside the Illusionary Heaven Pavilion, the Illusionary Saint was still wearing a bright red dress, looking nothing like a spiritual power saint king who had cultivated for four or five hundred years, but rather like a young woman in her early twenties.

After Di Yi revealed that he had thoroughly comprehended 3,600 volumes of the Heart Realm, Huan Sheng was also surprised. After a moment's thought, she said, "The second part of the Heart Realm is not in my possession. I need to send a message back to my sect and have an expert from my sect send it over."

"Sect? Senior Sister, our lineage still has a sect?" Di Yi was surprised, as Huan Sheng had never told him about sects before.

Upon hearing this, Huan Sheng smiled and said, "Our lineage's heritage didn't come out of thin air. Of course, we have a sect's legacy. However, the sect isn't in the Eastern Region, but in the Nine Provinces of the Central Region, and it's managed by our third senior brother."

"Third Senior Brother?" Di Yi silently noted it down. Huan Sheng was the youngest disciple of Huan Hou before him, ranked ninth, but he had already lived for four or five hundred years. Before Huan Sheng, Huan Hou had eight other disciples.

Aside from his fifth senior brother, who was the head of the Northern Black Market, this was the first time Huan Sheng had mentioned his other fellow disciples.

"Senior sister, there's actually a question I've always wanted to ask you: how many of Master's disciples are still alive today?"

Huan Sheng rarely mentioned her senior brothers and sisters before, perhaps because she felt that Di Yi's cultivation was too weak and it would be of no use to know. This time, she was unusually silent for a moment, as if she had been thinking about it, and slowly said: "When I became a disciple of my master, my eldest senior brother, second senior sister, and fourth senior sister had already passed away. My sixth senior brother passed away three hundred years ago in the Southern Region, and my seventh senior brother passed away one hundred and twenty years ago at the Bodhi Temple in the Western Region. Now, the only ones still alive are my third senior brother in the Central Region and my fifth senior brother in the Northern Region."

Di Yi couldn't help but feel regretful. Those senior brothers and sisters who could be accepted as disciples by Huan Hou, one of the three empresses, must all be experts in the Holy Path. Each one was equivalent to a powerful backer.

But time is like a knife that cuts down even the most outstanding talents. Even gods cannot live forever. When their lifespan is up, even saints can only turn into a handful of dust.

He silently counted them in his mind, only to find that the eighth-ranked senior brother or sister was missing from the list of senior brothers and sisters mentioned by the Illusion Saint.

"Senior sister, are we still missing one?"

Huan Sheng's expression changed slightly, and he sighed softly, "My eighth senior sister had already perished when I first joined the sect."

Di Yi frowned slightly. When Huan Sheng mentioned the other senior brothers and sisters who had passed away, he used the word "passed away" but when he mentioned this eighth senior sister, he used the word "fallen".

Did this eighth senior sister die from an accident, rather than from exhaustion of her lifespan?

Di Yi carefully observed Huan Sheng's expression and tentatively asked, "Who killed Eighth Senior Sister?"

The Illusion Saint seemed to have been stirred by his words, and the image of the Illusion Queen appeared in his mind.

“My master once told me that among the nine disciples she took in, I could only rank fifth in terms of spiritual talent, while my eighth senior sister was first, even above my master herself.”

"Unfortunately, Eighth Senior Sister's family had too deep a connection with the Holy Ming Central Empire eight hundred years ago. They shared weal and woe. After the Holy Ming Central Empire was destroyed, she and her family resisted the Qingchi Central Empire. Later, when Empress Chi Yao established the First Central Empire, she continued to fight against the court of the First Central Empire."

"Until five hundred years ago, the Zuoqiu family was defeated by the army of the Ministry of War of the imperial court, and Eighth Senior Sister also died at the hands of the Heavenly King who led the army of the imperial court."

The fact that Eighth Senior Sister was actually a subject of the Holy Ming Central Empire was quite unexpected for Emperor Da. The fact that she persisted in resisting for three hundred years after the Holy Ming Central Empire was destroyed shows her loyalty to the Holy Ming Central Empire.

"The Zuoqiu family?"

Di Yi suddenly remembered something. The Zuoqiu family was an ancient family. Eight hundred years ago, one of the three dukes of the Holy Central Empire was the head of the Zuoqiu family.

"Last night, peach blossoms fell on the pavilion, the person is gone but the fragrance remains without a trace. Eight hundred years ago, was Zuoqiu Hongting hailed as the number one person in the Kunlun Realm with the greatest spiritual talent?"

Huan Sheng looked at him with some surprise and said, "You actually know Eighth Senior Sister's name?"

Emperor Yi naturally remembered the generation from eight hundred years ago clearly: Crown Prince Zhang Ruochen of the Holy Emperor, Princess Chi Yao of Qingchi, Kong Lanyou of Peacock Manor, Murong Yefeng of the Murong Family, Xia Han, descendant of the Evil Emperor, Zuoqiu Hongting, successor of the Illusion Empress... Princess Chi Yao has now unified the five domains and become the Great and Virtuous Holy Empress who created the first Central Empire.

Kong Lanyou inherited Peacock Manor and is now the Holy Ancestor of the Mingtang, the vanguard of the remnants of the Holy Central Empire who rebelled against the court.

Murong Yefeng is the head of the Murong family and one of the top three figures in the Eastern Region's evil sects.

As for Zhang Ruochen, he was reborn and returned as the successor of time and space, destined to become the protagonist of heaven and earth.

However, Zuoqiu Hongting, the successor of the Illusionary Empress, seemed to have vanished without a trace, leaving no memorable mark eight hundred years later.

It turns out that she died five hundred years ago.

"I was browsing through the records of Yipintang a few days ago and accidentally came across some records related to the Holy Central Empire of that time," Di Yi casually explained.

Illusionary Saint didn't delve into it further and continued, "Eighth Senior Sister, like you, is in the Purple Mansion Sea of ​​Consciousness and cultivates the Heart Realm Classics. At just over three hundred years old, her spiritual power has already reached the fifty-seventh level. Ordinary Saint Kings don't even have a chance to make a move in front of her before they are already succumbing to the illusion."

"But the one who attacked the Zuoqiu family back then was the Xue Dynasty of the First Central Empire. In the end, my eighth senior sister was no match for him and died under his fist."

The name Xue Wangchao was not unfamiliar to Di Yi.

The first war god of the Qingchi Central Empire killed Hongya, the eldest disciple of Emperor Ming, in the Yinzang Mountains.

After the establishment of the First Central Empire, he accompanied Empress Chi Yao to fight against the Demon Emperor at Tonglu Plain. Four of the ten palace masters of the Moon Worship Demon Sect died at his hands.

Later, he followed Empress Chi Yao in pacifying the Western Regions. He once chased Jinlong to Tianmo Ridge, where he was seriously injured and died in the underwater dragon palace at the bottom of the Tongming River.

Throughout his life, he was a man of great military achievements.

When Empress Chi Yao pacified the five regions and enfeoffed various kings, the Xue Dynasty ranked first among the twelve founding kings and was enfeoffed in Dingxuan Prefecture, one of the nine provinces in the Central Region, with the title of 'King Dingxuan'.

Centuries have passed, and of the twelve founding kings, some have passed away, some have retired, and only two or three still hold important positions in the court.

King Dingxuan, Xue Wangchao, is one of them. He is the second most important person in the Ministry of War of the current court, second only to the Lord of Chaos Army, and holds the seal of Minister of War.

The Lord of Chaos Army resides year-round in the Chaos Myriad Realms Mountain. Within the Kunlun Realm, King Dingxuan Xue Dynasty is the supreme commander of the First Central Empire's massive army.

Moreover, he was of extremely high seniority and held great prestige in the military. Even the Chaos Army Lord was considered a junior in front of him. It was only because his cultivation level surpassed that he became the number one leader in the Ministry of War.

"For five hundred years, our fifth senior brother has stayed in the Northern Region, cultivating like a madman, all for the day when he achieves mastery and seeks revenge against the Xue Dynasty. This is the deep-seated hatred of our lineage. Now that you know about it, junior brother, you also have a share in this grudge," Huan Sheng said solemnly.

Di Yi nodded without hesitation. He had received a lot of help from Huan Sheng and had already accepted his identity as Huan Hou's disciple, even though he had never met Huan Hou or any of his other senior brothers and sisters besides Huan Sheng.

"Alright, the Xue Dynasty is too powerful for you to handle right now. Let's leave these matters to Fifth Senior Brother, Evil Emperor, and the others who are more powerful. The reason I left Yipin Hall before was actually because of you, and it also has a lot to do with Eighth Senior Sister." Huan Sheng's tone softened as he took out an item, which turned out to be four pearls that emitted different holy lights.

"Among our ten brothers and sisters, including you, only you and Eighth Senior Sister have opened up the Purple Mansion Sea of ​​Consciousness and are able to cultivate the Mind Realm. This is the spiritual artifact [Evolutionary Four Symbols Bead] that Master collected countless divine materials from the Kunlun Realm to create for Eighth Senior Sister. It is specially designed to be used in conjunction with the Mind Realm. Now it is handed over to you. It contains Eighth Senior Sister's insights and experiences in cultivating the Mind Realm. Only you are suitable to wield this artifact."

(End of this chapter)