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Chapter 686 - Chapter 686 Chapter 72 The Gospel of the Emperor in Black
Chapter 686: Chapter 72: The Gospel of the Emperor in Black Robes Chapter 686: Chapter 72: The Gospel of the Emperor in Black Robes “`
Goods are good, but one must be alive to use them.
Li Yan put away the Four Pillars Dragon Eye Fiend. Qian Wu, however, spoke up, “The double eyes are the essence of the earth’s fiends. The right eye was taken away two years ago by a woman claiming to be Taishuai, and now the left eye is in your hands. Though the Dragon Vein contains many treasures, none compare to the pair of Dragon Eyes. This Dragon Vein is ultimately tied to the sustenance of hundreds of thousands of households in Hong Kong. I trust you wouldn’t do anything as shortsighted as slaughtering the goose that lays the golden eggs by peeling the dragon’s scales or extracting its tendons.”
Learning that Taishuai had taken the Dragon Vein’s right eye two years earlier, Li Yan was startled and replied, “Mr. Wu, before his death, Jiang Sihai questioned loyalties, it seems you’re not so simple after all.”
The giant turtle opened its mouth wide and said, “Comrade Li, after the battle with Xue Wenhai that night, I had many things I wanted to get off my chest, hoping to get a chance to explain them to you, but the situation changed rapidly. Jiang Sihai accused me of hypocrisy masquerading as loyalty, which wasn’t wrong.”
“Although I haven’t known you long, Mr. Wu, I have eyes to see clearly and ears to hear. Whatever you might have done before, I will never consider you to be of the same ilk as Jiang Sihai and the others.”
Ye Shiru stood behind him, her expression changed upon hearing these words, but she remained silent.
“Listen to me, although Jiang Sihai and I come from the same mentor, we are not exactly brothers, just referred to each other as such over the years. My true identity is a member of the former National Defense Ministry’s Army Reserve Cadre Bureau, under Mr. Chiang’s command.
“On the eve of Japan’s surrender, both Jiang Sihai and I, as demobilized young military cadets, followed Mr. Chiang’s orders and accompanied the monk from Snow Grotto Temple, Taixu Monk, to search for the Dragon Vein and to learn Heavenly Marrow Feng Shui. When all was set, the Nationalist Government teetered on the brink of collapse. In 1949, the acting director of the Reserve Cadre Bureau, Jia Yibin, defected to the Communists, leaving many of us stranded on the mainland, while Jiang Sihai and I followed Mr. Chiang to Taiwan.”
“Later, upon hearing that the Righteous Pavilion was damaged amid the chaos, allowing the Dragon Vein to escape, Mr. Chiang was overjoyed. By that time, the Taixu Monk had passed away, so he sent me and Jiang Sihai to search for Dragon Veins elsewhere, with the intention of counterattacking, counterattacking… ha ha…”
Qian Wu gave a bitter smile, “Their leader dares to send his own son to the front lines; they have rules that dictate cremation after death, but what about our leader? Still indulged in loyalty and filial piety, in the outdated concepts of heaven, earth, ruler, relatives, teacher, unaware of the world’s roaring tide. They even label us as the Crown Prince’s Army, the Student Army. I used to idolize Mr. Chiang, full of zeal to follow him and fulfill my ambitions. Yet he had me learning Feng Shui, Dragon Veins? As if possessing Dragon Veins would secure an eternal legacy? If that were the case, it wouldn’t have been his surname Chiang ruling over the land!”
“Two years ago, Mr. Chiang passed away refusing to be buried, wishing his coffin to remain above ground until his death. By then, I had already lost touch with Jiang Sihai, and I felt disappointed with Mr. Chiang, deciding no longer to concern myself with national affairs. Regrettably, fate had other plans as the once in a millennium shift of the stars occurred, causing me to stumble upon the lost art of Alter Fate on Behalf of Heaven and Myriad Assembly of Humanity’s Prime. A woman claiming to be Mr. Chiang’s staff, who identified herself as Taishuai, found me. She had discovered a very rare Taiji Noble, whose fate she wanted me to steal to help her find the Dragon Vein. I agreed to help her on the condition that she would conceal the news of my continued existence so that I could live out my days in peace.”
Only then did Ye Shiru realize in shock, “So you knew the location of the Dragon Vein all along.”
“Correct, I have long known that the Dragon Vein lies beneath Da’ao Village, but I never expected it to bring forth a Heavenly Yi like you. Even less did I anticipate that Jiang Sihai harbored treacherous intentions, planning to betray Mr. Chiang and establish his own sect. During that dinner, Jiang Sihai and I avoided discussing this matter; it can only be said that that experience is not a fond memory for either him or me.”
Qian Wu looked at Ye Shiru’s transformed body and sighed, “The crane and the pelican, similar in form, only their bills differ: the crane’s is long and slender, the pelican’s is broad and large. The ancients admired the elegance of the crane and considered the pelican’s large mouth as a sign of greed. You were originally the grace of a crane, why have you transformed into a pelican?”
Ye Shiru showed a bitter smile, “My fate was never mine to choose. Aren’t you capable of Altering Fate on Behalf of Heaven? Why don’t you take my fate, turn on the TV to see who this year’s outstanding youth is, and award it to them.”
“Are you serious?”
“Either way, I’m destined to die here, what use is this damned fate to me?”
“Very well.” Having said so, Qian Wu forcefully exchanged the purple compass beneath Ye Shiru’s feet for his own.
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“Comrade Li Yan, the Ten Evils Grand Defeat that Xue Wenhai had such a hard time obtaining is now in Wenle’s hands. As the foremost of all fiends, its power is peerless when it comes to smashing through anything, and it’s essential for completing the Four Pillars Dragon Eye Fiend. You must get it back.”
Li Yan sensed the unfinished implication in Qian Wu’s words and tentatively asked, “Mr. Wu, do you have a way to survive?”
“To seek life in the face of death, I might have a thirty percent chance.”
Qian Wu spoke and then broke free from Li Yan’s Soul-forgiving Water, plunging into the boundless Ambota Volcano Bacteria spores.
“I see that skull as an object that devours its master, enhancing weakness and restraining strength, the year’s stem reveals wealth, the day’s stem consumes the body, avoid four and five, and twenty is precisely the number transitioning from prosperity to decline. Right now, outside, a master is employing the Method of Eight Specializations and Nine Uglinesses to lull this demonic being into a dream. It’s a prime opportunity for the skeleton to turn against it. By sacrificing my life for justice, you all might find a glimmer of hope.”
Qian Wu’s voice gradually weakened until it completely disappeared. Li Yan was cold and unyielding by nature, and Ye Shiru had a complicated relationship with Qian Wu. Now that Qian Wu was sacrificing himself like throwing oneself to the tiger, the two of them were unusually silent.
In the scarlet steam, occasional flashes of purple and gold light could be seen, but ultimately, they dissipated into nothingness.
On the chest of the sleeping Muni, the last white bone skull finally grew out completely. Muni believed that with twenty white bone skulls, he could immediately enter the realm of the Five Directions Elder. However, just as Qian Wu’s sharp judgment indicated, things were not as he assumed…
[Ambota Major Pollution]: Once the number of Tri-Orb Devices exceeds twenty, the activity of the Ambota Volcano Bacteria will be fully stimulated, turning most of the matter in the world into steam–that will be the true visage of the Black Robed Emperor!
Not just Muni was accomplished with twenty Tri-Orb Devices, but the Ambota Volcano Bacteria as well! The one who brought about a brightly shining Age of Steam Alloy, and was also destined to destroy it with his own hands–the Black Robed Emperor!
As if uncontrollable, the twenty-first white bone skull grew from the right side of Muni’s face, and then the twenty-second onto the sole of his foot. Twenty-three, twenty-four, all the way to twenty-eight.
This was also the extreme number deduced by Chang Yu, who had mastered the knowledge of super-ancient nature–the limit number for the Tri-Orb Devices to synergize!
The subsequent eight white bones grew in completely random locations, like parasitic tumors. What was more terrifying was that the twenty skulls arranged in a ring on Muni’s chest began to stir restlessly, actually competing to move across Muni’s body, spewing out an even denser scarlet steam.
The vast Feng Shui Realm at this moment was empty, nothing but seawater left. The Ambota eventually attached to the surface of Muni’s body, and in no time, a good portion of Muni’s already ravaged body transformed into rolling scarlet steam.
Li Yan could see with his naked eye, the surrounding scarlet steam, originally being continuously digested by the pale gastric fluid, suddenly began to churn incessantly. His field of vision started to show holes of varying sizes–those were the wounds carved out by the Ambota Volcano Bacteria corroding Muni’s stomach.
[Black Robed Emperor!]
Category: Mythical creature
The world emperor born from the Abyssal Mouth finally descended onto land, bringing the Gospel that washes away all filth.
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