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Chapter 335 - 192 Virtuous King Xuan Guang Ge (1/3)

Chapter 335: Chapter 192 Virtuous King Xuan Guang Ge (1/3)

The discourse on Divine Mandate originated from the Huai Xu Immortal during the Arcane Ancient Years, when he was still alive.

Before the Demon Calamity, the Fate Pattern had already existed, yet at that time the number of Life Holders was far fewer than today, and there was no talk of Abnormal Fate, Miscellaneous Fate, or Lifebound Fate, only Evil Fate and Strange Mandate, and the Heavenly Mandate bestowed by Heavenly Dao.

Back then, awakening the Fate Pattern was difficult, and rather than a gift from the heavens, it was like the constitution of an Innate Taoist Body—purely a manifestation of innate talent and also the origin of many of today’s cultivation methods.

At the end of the Arcane Ancient Era, the Huai Xu Immortal concealed himself in Immortal Heaven, while his disciples established the Dao Courtyard in the Zhongheng Dao Continent to govern the world. Losing the suppression of the Huai Xu Immortal, various strange and gigantic gods and beasts, bred from the primitive energies of the Huai Xu Realm, emerged between heaven and earth, wreaking havoc across the lands.

This was the first calamity of Great Antiquity, the "Menghao Divine Calamity."

It was then that the first Divine Mandate appeared.

He was a child naturally capable of breathing out thunder and lightning, unafraid of water and fire.

Initially, everyone thought it was some extremely powerful Strange Mandate... but soon, the child grew at a stunning rate.

Without being taught by anyone, he could understand the most complex scriptures; without any practice, his naturally mastered techniques were more adept than many whose skills had taken over a decade to refine.

Moreover, unlike the Strange Mandate that only enhanced one aspect of talent, this child excelled in all manners of thunder, all manners of wind and rain, and even the paths of thunder and fire.

In his Soul and Spirit, it seemed as if a complete legacy was inherently waiting for him to inherit, quickly making him a dominant genius Cultivator of an era.

With the analysis of classical books and scriptures brought by the Huai Xu Immortal, monks of that era confirmed that the power this Life Holder possessed was extremely similar to "The Supreme Holy Thunderer of the Nine Heavens," from the mythological legends.

And the legacy within his Soul and Spirit, upon his ascension to the Primordial Spirit status, was also composed by him and became one of the highest scriptures of the Thunder Path, "Divine Thunder Supreme Dao Chief Five Thunder Scripture"!

From that point on, the name Divine Mandate began to spread widely in the world.

Latterly, as the chaos of the Menghao Giant Beasts increasingly intensified, more people awakening as Divine Mandates appeared, and many Divine Mandates and Heaven’s Chosen competed. They either competed against each other or banded together against the Menghao Giant Beasts, making the originally precarious situation improve.

People then said that a so-called Divine Mandate might be a sufficiently powerful Strange Mandate that had activated the sacred vestiges left in the blood by ancestors.

However, this was not entirely true because there were also some Divine Mandates completely unrelated to bloodlines.

But according to statistics from later generations, bloodlines indeed provided a favorable factor; if the awakened Divine Mandate was related to one’s bloodline, it might leave behind some peculiar changes.

The Ghost Shadow of Netherworld clearly understood that their True Martial Mountain Xuan family’s "Emperor’s Blood" was a classic example of a Divine Mandate combined with bloodline; the Imperial Court was also beyond the Ancestral Dragon Hall, the most proficient in this path throughout the world.

Indeed, it might have long surpassed the current Ancestral Dragon Hall!

After all, their Emperor’s Blood still held the professional duties of the "Northern Emperor," whereas the Ancestral Dragon Hall no longer had a "True Dragon."

The Menghao Divine Calamity of those years was ended by the Huai Xu Ancestral Dragon, this Heaven-sprung Divine Mandate, who with the help of Huai Xu monks, thoroughly defeated the various Divine Beasts and Giant Gods spawned by the Menghao ancestral Qi and devoured them into his belly.

Ever since, the boundless and unrestrained creative force of the Heaven and Earth Menghao Qi has been inherited by the Eight Directions Heavenly Dragon and Three Thousand True Spirits, and bound by their own bloodlines.

And this professional status of the "True Dragon" is the zenith of all bloodlines and True Spirits within this world.

However, by the end of the Great Antiquity, after the Heavenly Demon Calamity, the Ancestral Dragon perished, and the Huai Xu Heaven and Earth no longer bore a second "Ex Nihilo" Heavenly Mandate, and the True Dragon professional status has since been obscured.

Without the support of the Heavenly Mandate, even those who are of pure ’dragon’ blood in the Ancestral Dragon Hall could not be called True Dragons but are merely extremely powerful True Spirits.

[The Huai Xu Immortal, bearing one hundred and eighty thousand people, descended to the world; among them, indeed, some were the ’People of Jiuli.’]

The Ghost Shadow of Netherworld sank into deep thought: [The land of Chenli, and the northern part of the Northern Border today, was indeed where the People of Jiuli resided back then, hence the name... but this An Jing is clearly a citizen of Da Chen, with clear roots...]

That said, he did not find it strange. After all, since the creation by the Huai Xu Immortal, hundreds of thousands of years had passed; although everyone was a descendant of the original one hundred and eighty thousand people, their blood was already so mixed, it was unclear who was who anymore, who knew if An Jing’s ancestors were the People of Jiuli?

In any case, logging it as "Jiuli Commanding General" wouldn’t hurt.

He was merely pondering, "Divine Mandate differs from Strange Mandate and Lifebound Mandate, the latter needs to be enacted to continuously elevate one’s Fate Pattern until it transforms into a Divine Mandate."

"Just as the Divine Mandate often arises in response to changes between heaven and earth, just like the murky divine calamity that gave birth to the initial Divine Mandate, An Jing, this Jiuli Commanding General, perhaps was meant to confront..."

"Frost Calamity!"

Raising his head, Ghost Shadow looked towards the north of the Northern Border, in the direction of the Extreme Northern Frost Plains, "During the Heavenly Demon’s Demon Calamity in former years, the most powerful among the Exalted Great Heavenly Demons, ’Heavenly Demon Bitter Silence’, left behind Demon Soldiers!"

"Yes, it must be so, to confront the soldiers of the Demon Calamity, thus a Commanding General was born!"

"It’s precisely because he is the Commanding General that the Kanming Bell suddenly advanced, developed an affinity for An Jing, and subsequently exerted effort to assist him!"

The more he thought about it, the clearer it became, everything was starting to make sense!

As Ghost Shadow of the Netherworld thought this, he couldn’t help but look around the desolate and uninhabited Kanming City, "I wonder if the feng shui here is good or not... but at least, the Kanming Bell is fortunate"

He stepped forward, and with one step entered the Netherworld, arriving at the center of the Earth Vein Array, beside the Kanming Bell, and patted the bell’s wall, a highly pure Dragon Qi entered into it, "Little Bell, you will follow me for now."

"It just so happens that the Heavenly Martial originally belonged to me, but my unlucky brother lost it, other divine weapons are strong but just so-so, it’s better to use this one that is fortunate."

The Kanming Bell was rather dull and slow; it had obtained the wisdom of Subdue Evil not long before and hadn’t had much time to become smarter—however, its instincts told it that the approval of the person before it would determine its future fate.

Not to mention, the Dragon Qi just now was too pure, and the standing of the person before it was extraordinarily high; it simply couldn’t refuse.

It was at that very moment that the Kanming Bell turned and acknowledged the Shadow before it as master.

In the Dark Realm, a shadowy figure, portly and in a hurry, emerged from afar and hurried to the central hub of the Earth Vein in Kanming City.

It was the City Magistrate of Kanming City, Zheng Mo!

This official, whether lucky or unlucky, had just gone to the prefecture government to report on his work, feeling delightfully that he could receive an ’excellent’ evaluation, only to be shocked to learn while resting at the prefecture government that his own city had gotten embroiled in the internal vendetta of the Chenli Five Sects, with a sudden raid by the Heavenly Intent Demon Sect, nearly resulting in the destruction of the city!

If it weren’t for Head Constable Wang, who held the proxy authority, having evacuated the residents early, who knows how many would have died in the mishap!

Upon learning of this, Zheng Mo felt as if struck by thunder, his legs went weak, and he almost fainted.

But fortunately, he had quite an experience with such matters. It was just a grander version of Shu Zheng suddenly dying, and he had to face the True Demon Sect corrupting the Earth Vein—something he could handle.

With sweat drenching his back, Zheng Mo gritted his teeth and lit a stick of Dragon Fire Incense, borrowing the power of the incense, his Soul and Spirit traversed the Netherworld and returned to Kanming City!

Perhaps, he was not too late! He could still manipulate the Divine Weapon using his Soul and Spirit, employing its power to suppress those reckless Chenli people and the Heavenly Intent Demon Sect!

He was already moving fast.

But who could have anticipated, An Jing’s speed in slaying three grandmasters was even faster?

Midway back to Kanming, Zheng Mo received the news that ’everything had already ended.’ Although he didn’t know in what manner it ended, having come all this way, he couldn’t just turn back, could he? He could only grit his teeth and continue.

And now, as Zheng Mo saw the seemingly murky but actually, to the Talisman Granting Heavenly Official, crystal clear figure of the Shadow of the Netherworld, he immediately fell to his knees, "Your subordinate greets His Highness the Virtuous King!"

"Oh?"

The Netherworld Shadow, one of the Eight Directions Town Kings, the Virtuous King of the North, Xuan Guang Ge’s Incarnation of Thought, looked at Zheng Mo with interest: "You seem responsible... though you appear ordinary, your fortune isn’t bad either."

"Meeting is fate, and it seems you’re unlikely to get promoted in the Northwest. Would you be interested in working under me?"