Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 1033 - 751 King Yu Begin Huang_2

Chapter 1033: 751 King Yu Begin Huang_2

And Chiyou, with the full support of the Witch Clan, would not have persisted in beating Xuanyuan, the Human Emperor. Even with the combined help of the Chan Teaching and the Heaven Court, they were still no match for Chiyou.

It is said that after Chiyou’s defeat, Xing Tian, a grand shaman of the Witch Clan, sealed his inheritance and the treasures supporting him from the Witch Clan in a secret location, known as the Armament Master’s Treasury, waiting for someone destined to find it.

The inheritance of Chiyou that the First Emperor acquired was not from the Armament Master’s Treasury but a practice of Witchcraft. Although also precious, it had no resources.

And the legacy of Great Shang, all the most valuable treasures of Great Shang were in the Great Shang Treasury. The so-called legacy of Great Shang was just the treasury of some Shang Emperor, and it too, came with limited resources.

As for the inheritance of Emperor Xi, the First Emperor only received a stone tablet that recorded all of Emperor Xi’s inheritances.

As for resources, weren’t the Emperor Xi’s inheritances enough? What more resources would you need? The inheritance from Emperor Xi alone outweighed countless resources.

The three great inheritances, although they granted the First Emperor numerous Divine Abilities, they did not bring him many resources, which was quite frustrating.

The Armament Master’s Treasury and the Great Shang Treasury, had the First Emperor obtained either of them, he might have evaded the Heavenly Curse. Unfortunately, both treasuries were beyond his reach.

"Feeding the twelve gold men with the essence blood of fierce beasts is indeed one approach,"

Jiang Chen concluded that the First Emperor must have been desperate to think of using such a method, going to the seal left by King Yu to extract the essence blood and Sha Qi from the fierce beasts within.

After the Investiture Calamity, it wasn’t just Nine States that became barren but the entire Chaos World as well. And yet, to fully empower the twelve gold men, a vast amount of resources was needed.

Finding such resources in the impoverished land was easier said than done. Thus, the fierce beast sealed by King Yu became the best option for the First Emperor.

However, Jiang Chen always felt something was amiss.

"Strange, why do I feel like the treasures of this world are all avoiding the First Emperor?"

"Having already acquired the inheritance from Chiyou and the legacy of Great Shang, following the clues, it shouldn’t be hard to locate the Armament Master’s Treasury and the Great Shang Treasury, yet, the First Emperor just couldn’t find them..."

"This is very odd."

The more Jiang Chen thought about it, the more unsettling it seemed. There were already clues indicating the First Emperor was destined for these two treasuries. With dedication, they should not be difficult to find.

Yet throughout his life, the First Emperor never glimpsed these two treasuries—this was highly irregular. To say that the First Emperor didn’t search for the treasuries and didn’t find them would be normal, but after unifying the world, he continued his search for these two treasuries.

The so-called obsession of the First Emperor with immortality in his later years, often sending sorcerers on quests for elixirs of life, was actually a rumor, the real purpose was still to find the Armament Master’s Treasury and the Great Shang Treasury.

"Also, the Nine Tripods seemed to avoid the First Emperor as well, never once obtained by him."

Jiang Chen’s gaze suddenly deepened, countless runes flowing and intertwining into the shadow of the Eight Diagrams. He was deducing whether this matter was as he suspected—that all treasures were avoiding the First Emperor.

Upon closer reflection, the life of the First Emperor indeed had many issues. Not to mention those major treasures avoiding him, just take the simplest one, the issue of lifespan—that was extremely odd.

The lifespan of the First Emperor was very short, fading under the Heavenly Curse in less than ten thousand years.

This was the most unsettling aspect, even if the First Emperor wanted to defy Heaven and become an emperor, which Heaven and Earth disapproved, he wouldn’t fall under the Heavenly Curse within ten thousand years. At the very least, he should have been given several hundred thousand years to truly garner the great backing of the Human Emperor, confirm his defying intentions, and put them into action before the Heavenly Dao could justly issue the Heavenly Curse.

Just like King Yu, who had been reigning for nearly one million years, about to achieve complete merit and realize the Human Emperor path. Heaven repeatedly urged and ordered King Yu to abdicate, which he completely ignored, forcing Heaven to finally issue the Heavenly Curse.

This is the normal procedure. The Heavenly Curse is a major matter—how could it be issued lightly? Merely harboring intentions against the heavens is not enough, one must actually act upon such intentions and achieve a certain result to attract the Heavenly Curse.

The First Emperor indeed had extraordinary talents and the ambition to become the Human Emperor, but truthfully, he was still far from achieving it, having only unified one of the four great continents, with foreign races still a looming threat.

To become the Human Emperor, the First Emperor had a long way to go. But suddenly, the Heavenly Dao inflicted the Heavenly Curse. How should one put it—it felt extremely impatient, as if the Heavenly Dao couldn’t wait to kill the First Emperor.

That was too hasty, not following the rules!

...

"An unlucky person?"

"A man forsaken by Heaven?"

"Accused by Heaven?"

After a while, Jiang Chen, pale-faced, concluded the deduction.

The death of the First Emperor involved the Heavenly Dao, and thus unraveling his circumstances was exceedingly difficult, even with Jiang Chen’s current strength, and came at a great cost, yielding only a minuscule clue.

An eerie clue!

In Jiang Chen’s deductions, the First Emperor was an ominous figure who had offended Heaven, loathed by Heaven and Earth.

This was absurd, for anyone linked to any of these three terms would struggle to survive into adulthood, typically indicative of an untimely death. Becoming a monarch and unifying the Human Race would seem utterly impossible.

No matter what, these three terms should have no connection with the First Emperor. Yet Jiang Chen had mastered the true teachings of Emperor Xi, making it impossible for him to err.

"There’s an issue with the First Emperor’s identity, he must be a reincarnation of some significant figure despised by Heaven and Earth, else it could never be like this."

Soon, Jiang Chen grasped the essence of the matter. The only explanation was that there was an issue with the First Emperor’s past life, likely a mighty figure who had committed grave errors.

Otherwise, he would not have been targeted so persistently by the Heavenly Dao and managed to break his own destined trajectory to achieve unparalleled success.

"Who could it be?"

Jiang Chen filtered through the possibilities, and the first suspect was none other than King Yu!

A great figure who had offended the Heavenly Dao—wasn’t that King Yu? Moreover, King Yu had cultivated the Path of Water, able to transform into a black dragon. The First Emperor, born with the virtue of water, bore the image of a black dragon.

If King Yu was the First Emperor, everything made sense.

King Yu perished under a Heavenly Curse, and to the Heavenly Dao, he was a dead man. If he were to appear before the Heavenly Dao again, he was destined to be targeted, facing constant disasters.

No wonder the Nine Tripods dared not approach him—controlling the Fate of the Nine States, they would surely be shunned by the Heavenly Dao if they got close to King Yu, thus affecting the Fate of the Nine States. Hence, even the Divine Artifact crafted by King Yu himself dared not approach him.

This also explained why the Heavenly Dao was so eager to execute the First Emperor. The cost of offending the Heavenly Dao was unimaginable.

The First Emperor indeed resembled Yu the Great, but the problem was, Yu the Great had perished under a Heavenly Curse. Logically, he should have no life force left; how could he have reincarnated as the First Emperor?

"This matter is mostly true!"

Jiang Chen felt somewhat emotional. Now that he harbored such suspicions, it was almost certainly true.

At his level of cultivation, intuition was as good as an answer. Without doubts, once doubted, it was mostly the truth.

"The Human Race harbors many secrets!"

Without a doubt, King Yu’s survival under a Heavenly Curse must have involved the upper echelons of the Human Race. Similarly, rescuing someone from under a Heavenly Curse would have cost the Human Race dearly.

Suddenly, Jiang Chen grew curious about the First Emperor’s treasury. If the First Emperor was indeed King Yu, then what he left behind in his treasury would indeed be intriguing.

If the First Emperor was truly the reincarnation of King Yu, it was almost certain that there were no treasures on him, as the Heavenly Dao would not permit it. Since there were no treasures, what exactly was hidden in the First Emperor’s treasury?

There were ghosts in this!

The news of the First Emperor’s treasury, who knows who leaked it.

...

"This is getting more and more interesting!"

With an expectant smile, Jiang Chen turned his gaze towards the dying second generation Fierce Beast.

Although it was near death, it had not yet died. A beast of this level was obviously more valuable alive than dead.

Suddenly, Jiang Chen reached out and reenacted the treatment of the Nine-horned Desolate Dragon on it.

A Quasi-Saint at the Great Perfection level, its Innate Indestructible True Spirit was enough to cultivate a supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure, which should not be wasted.

ps: 14000-4000=10000

Still need ten thousand!