The Heavens: From Film and Mythology to Conquering Myriad Realms

Xianyang, the training room of the Lu family mansion.

Lu Yao sat cross-legged on the futon, sensing the Haotian Pearl within his body.

With Lu Yao's intervention, the mythological world has gradually deviated from the original work, and the timeline has become unrecognizable.

Through his perception, Lu Yao realized that the Haotian Pearl already contained more than 50% of the world's origin.

This ratio represents the current volume of the Haotian Pearl. Due to unknown reasons, the Haotian Pearl is not in perfect condition.

However, ever since Lu Yao came to the mythical world, he has been constantly collecting the world's origins, and the space storing the world's origins has been continuously expanding, undergoing self-repair.

Without hesitation, Lu Yao consumed 30% of the world's origin within the Haotian Pearl to strengthen himself.

The Haotian Pearl slowly emitted milky white ripples, which rippled around Lu Yao and enveloped him.

Lu Yao felt a warm current flow from the inside out, filling his entire body and making him feel very warm.

After an unknown amount of time, the milky white ripples surrounding Lu Yao gradually dissipated, revealing Lu Yao's figure.

At this moment, Lu Yao closed his eyes and carefully sensed the changes brought about by this source enhancement.

In Lu Yao's perception, the blood in his body was like a surging yellow dragon, raging and churning wildly, but under Lu Yao's control, it was unusually docile.

With Lu Yao's control, a blood-red aura swirled around him.

Lu Yao found this quite interesting. As Lu Yao continued to strengthen the circulation of qi and blood within his body, more and more blood-colored energy surrounded him.

"Have I developed internal energy?"

Lu Yao wasn't sure what this crimson energy was, but it resembled the internal force described in some movies and books.

Lu Yao stopped only when he felt exhausted; by then, he was enveloped in a blood-red aura.

Lu Yao could clearly sense that he could freely control this blood energy, as if it were an extension of his own body.

"With such strength, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him the best in the world."

Looking at the crimson energy in his hand, Lu Yao couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Lu Yao's heart stirred, and the crimson energy around him dissipated.

Lu Yao stood up, walked out of the training room, and came to a rockery in a courtyard.

Lu Yao's heart stirred, and a blood-red energy suddenly appeared out of thin air, slashing towards the artificial mountain like a sharp blade.

With a crisp sound, the artificial mountain, which was more than ten meters high, was cut in half, but the break was very smooth and clean.

"Clean this place up."

Lu Yao nodded in satisfaction, gave an instruction, and then turned to leave.

Two figures appeared instantly beside the artificial hill, both looking at Lu Yao's work with shocked expressions.

The two exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with even greater adoration and fanaticism.

In the study room.

Looking at the letter in his hand, which was the intelligence sent by Lu Ji, Lu Yao couldn't help but smile slightly after burning the letter.

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Daze Township.

Countless laborers were notified to stop building the canal and were herded by Qin officials to assemble in the square beside the canal.

Many people were dressed in rags and looked emaciated. Clearly, building the irrigation canal was not an easy job, and there was no such thing as a good salary. It was already a blessing to have food to eat.

The laborers in the square were very uneasy, wondering why the supervisor had gathered them together. Many of them had their own guesses based on recent rumors, and their faces were very grim.

"Are you really going to drag us to build a palace? I don't want to go."

"I heard that seven or eight out of ten people who went to Xianyang to build palaces never came back."

"God help us, please don't send us to Xianyang."

Many laborers, when talking to people they knew, became increasingly afraid.

"quiet!"

A group of Qin soldiers came up to the platform. After a brief exchange with the supervising official, the official shouted at the laborers in the square.

There were thousands of people in the square, and under the long-standing authority of the supervising official, they all wisely kept quiet.

"By imperial decree, the construction of the Daze irrigation canal is to be temporarily halted. The corvée laborers here will be transferred to Xianyang for other purposes. You are to return and prepare for the relocation, and depart on a chosen date."

After the scene quieted down, a military officer loudly read out the edict of the Qin Emperor.

The previously quiet square suddenly erupted into a murmur of discussion.

"Just as I thought, it's all over."

"Fate is unfair!"

Countless laborers cried out in agony.

"What's going on? It's as if these laborers knew about the imperial edict in advance?"

The general on the platform, seeing this, was puzzled and looked at the supervising official beside him with some doubt.

"Ahem, General, you may not know this, but a few days ago there were rumors circulating during the corvée labor that we were to go to Xianyang to repair the main hall of the palace. I never thought it would actually be true."

The supervising official dared not conceal the truth and hurriedly explained to the general who was proclaiming the imperial edict.

"It's alright, just make the arrangements as soon as possible, don't delay."

The officer who proclaimed the imperial edict frowned, but said nothing. They were just a bunch of laborers; even if they knew in advance, what trouble could they cause?

"I obey your orders."

The supervising official accepted the imperial edict with clasped hands.

Just as the general was about to leave after announcing the imperial edict, he was suddenly stopped by a corvée in the crowd. The Qin soldiers maintaining order were caught off guard and failed to stop him.

"My lord, please wait! Our term of corvée labor has expired. We wonder if we can avoid going to Xianyang?"

An old man with white hair and a face full of wrinkles lay on the ground, crying to the general who was proclaiming the imperial edict.

He didn't want to ask under these circumstances, but he was afraid that if he didn't ask now, he wouldn't have the chance later and wouldn't be able to see the supervising official at all.

The general who was proclaiming the imperial edict narrowed his eyes as he looked at the old man blocking his way.

"You don't want to build a palace for His Majesty?"

The words of the general announcing the imperial edict were like a chilling wind, making the elderly laborers tremble.

Without giving the old man a chance to explain, the officer drew his whip.

"Snapped!"

The whip cracked through the air and, with a whooshing sound, struck the old man hard.

"Ah! Your Honor, spare me! I'll go, I'll go!"

The old man had a bloody gash on his back, and he was in so much pain that he kept rolling on the ground.

Hidden in the crowd, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang exchanged a glance and nodded.

"Going or not going, we'll all die! Qin is not giving us a way out!"

A voice suddenly rang out from among the laborers, shouting loudly.

"Exactly! Building a palace in Xianyang is a life-or-death endeavor, I'm not going!"

"The Qin Emperor is tyrannical, shows no compassion for the people, and has harmed us. I'm going to risk everything and rebel against Qin!"

As voices rang out from among the laborers, the laborers in the square began to look at each other with suspicion.

"You bastards! Do you want to rebel? Get back here!"

The general who proclaimed the imperial edict was furious and brandished his horsewhip, striking the nearby laborers.

His actions thoroughly enraged the group of laborers, who glared at him angrily.

The person who spoke up during the forced labor was naturally one of the men arranged by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, precisely to stir up their emotions.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang no longer hid their identities.

"The Qin state is tyrannical and shows no compassion for its people. It endlessly conscripts labor and levies exorbitant taxes, which increase year by year. We cannot survive! We have rebelled against the Qin state!"

Chen Sheng jumped onto the stage and shouted loudly to the laborers below.

"Rebellion! Rebellion against Qin! Kill Huhai!"

"Defeat the tyrannical Qin dynasty and kill Huhai!"

Wu Guang and others, who were hiding in the crowd, responded one after another.

Driven by their emotions, countless laborers, their eyes red, shouted loudly in unison.

They began to charge the Qin army guarding the area, but there were only a few dozen Qin soldiers and officials present, and they were no match for them.

Chen Sheng strode forward and, seeing the terrified look on the face of the general announcing the imperial edict, beheaded him with a short sword.

"The prince and general Xiangning is kind!"

With Chen Sheng's furious roar while holding up the general's head, the resistance of the laborers in Dazexiang was completely ignited.

Besides the thousands of people present at the time, tens of thousands of people in Dazexiang who were forced into labor were also coerced into starting an uprising against the Qin Dynasty under the leadership of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.