King of Creation
Chapter 845 - 832 Difficult Choices

Chapter 845: Chapter 832 Difficult Choices

Without a doubt, Ye Zhen absolutely had to enter the trial of the Martial Arts Inheritance of the Earth Core Fire Commander, that fearsome existence from tens of thousands of years ago.

A martial artist who doesn’t want to enter is certainly not a true martial artist with a heart inclined towards the martial path.

After all, thousands of years ago was the era when martial arts reached divine communication.

None of this was surprising, what surprised Ye Zhen was that the first trial of the Earth Core Fire Commander’s Martial Arts Inheritance was actually listening to a story!

That’s right, listening to a story!

The story was about the emotional entanglements of the senior referred to as the Earth Core Fire Commander throughout his life.

According to the residual Spirit Shadow, the Earth Core Fire Commander was dashing and attractive in his lifetime, with beauties all over the world. Yet, he was deeply emotional, spending his last hundred years in life in suffering each day.

Every day was spent alone, every day in recalling past romantic ties, ultimately dying from lovesickness, coughing blood relentlessly.

His first trial was precisely the emotional dilemma of the senior Earth Core Fire Commander.

Throughout his life, the Earth Core Fire Commander had emotional entanglements with hundreds of women in the Jianghu, but he valued and prioritized only three romantic ties.

And in the end, it was these three romantic ties that caused him to die, coughing up blood.

His first romantic interest was his junior sister, who accompanied him daily. Affection developed secretly between the two of them, they pledged their lives to each other and vowed to stay together forever, making it the Earth Core Fire Commander’s first love, with deeply invested emotions.

Originally, the Earth Core Fire Commander was to grow old with his junior sister, however, after stepping into the Jianghu, before achieving fame, he dramatically met a girl named Huoo Wu.

The Earth Core Fire Commander cultivated Fire Element Techniques, and Huoo Wu also cultivated Fire Element Techniques. The two of them, due to their similar needs, accidentally entered the Heart Fire Demon Prison.

The Heart Fire Demon Prison was incredibly perilous, with dangers of death at every turn. The Earth Core Fire Commander and Huoo Wu faced numerous life-and-death situations, and by risking their lives for each other, they fought their way out of the Heart Fire Demon Prison, taking over five years!

While their cultivation techniques improved significantly, they grew close along the way and an unspoken bond formed, and by that time, the junior sister had been searching for the missing Earth Core Fire Commander for over five years.

In her efforts to find him, she disregarded everything and rose to fame in the Jianghu as Su Shouluocha, causing rivers of blood to flow in the martial world.

On one side was the junior sister who privately pledged her life to him, on the other was Huoo Wu, who was bonded to him through life and death, carrying his child; the Earth Core Fire Commander was caught in a dilemma, deeply emotional and unwilling to hurt anyone’s heart.

Thus, he deceived both sides, trying to please both, living in constant fear and anxiety every day.

However, the truth could not remain hidden, and when the girl Huoo Wu bore for him was a year and a half old, both the junior sister and Huoo Wu discovered the secrets the Earth Core Fire Commander had been concealing. Seeing that he even had a child with someone, the junior sister couldn’t handle the shock and went insane.

She became something of a mad woman, adding another Mad Rakshasa to the Jianghu.

Torn with heartache, the Earth Core Fire Commander traversed dangerous lands, found three stalks of Heart Calming Grass, and, after much effort, managed to subdue the maddened Rakshasa, feeding the junior sister the three stalks of Heart Calming Grass to restore her sanity.

But new problems cropped up swiftly; he couldn’t bear to let go of either the junior sister or Huoo Wu, caught in a rough spot between both ends, until finally, the junior sister left in anger to return to the mountain, and Huoo Wu vanished with the child.

The Earth Core Fire Commander grew increasingly despondent, feeling tragic; in a fit of anger, he marched to the Human Demon Battlefield, joining the grand army resisting the Demon Clan.

This departure lasted for decades.

Upon entering the Human Demon Battlefield, with his cultivation at a low level, the Earth Core Fire Commander frequently fell into danger, once even captured by the Demon Clan. If not for being saved by a princess of the Demon Race, skilled in Fire Element Techniques within the Demon Clan’s reinforcements, he probably would have been turned into a Soul of the Demon Weapon.

The reason being, ten years prior, this princess was just a Fire Feather Bird he had spared under his sword.

At that time, he was actually collecting Fire Feathers to weave a Fire Feather Crown for his junior sister; he plucked only one Fire Feather, then released the little bird, never expecting that release would save his life, forming his third lifelong romantic entanglement with this Demon Princess.

In those decades on the Human Demon Battlefield, were decades of his entanglement with the Demon Princess. The Demon Princess saved him at great risk multiple times, even betraying her own clan’s military secrets to save him, finally leading her to be hunted by her entire clan!

Afterwards, the Earth Core Fire Commander fled the Human Demon Battlefield with the Demon Princess.

Perhaps it was the decades-long disappearance, but both the junior sister and Huoo Wu came to terms and no longer minded as much. Even when the Earth Core Fire Commander brought another beauty with him, the three of them lived together for a time.

But his three beloved confidants were all proud and arrogant individuals; living together long led to constant friction and disputes, ultimately causing the three confidants to issue a final ultimatum.

Within three days, they demanded he choose one of them to remain by his side for life.

If he chose someone, he was to place the unique Five Fire Profound Pearl in her room, and within three days, whoever did not receive the Five Fire Profound Pearl would leave voluntarily without grievance.

Those three days were absolutely like purgatory, the most terrifying three days in the Earth Core Fire Commander’s life!

There was only one Five Fire Profound Pearl, yet he had three beloved confidants, none of whom he wanted to give up, causing him excruciating indecision and suffering for three days. In that time, he even pulled out his own hair, unable to decide who to choose, who to forsake.

The vows with his junior sister, formed since childhood, resounded in his ears, Huoo Wu’s life-and-death reliance, mutual understanding, and love, coupled with her giving birth to his beloved daughter, were also impossible to abandon.

And the Demon Princess, who had given up everything for him, had become ostracized by her own people; he couldn’t bear to let go of her either.

After three days and nights of agonizing contemplation, faced with the harsh reality, he finally made a decision, intending to first keep one, whoever it was.

But when he went to place the Five Fire Profound Pearl, he found that there was no one left in the room; not only was his temporarily chosen one gone, all three beloved confidants had left.

When calculating the time, it turns out that when he made his choice, the deadline had already exceeded three days. The three women all thought he had chosen someone else and parted heartbreakingly.

He desperately sent out Talisman Communications, but each one sank like a stone into the sea, as if the three women had vanished. No matter how hard he searched, he couldn’t find them.

This time, it was Earth Core Fire Commander who almost went mad.

In his rage, Earth Core Fire Commander once again charged into the Human Demon Battlefield. This time, he turned his longing for the three women into endless slaughter, finally achieving unmatched feats on the battlefield, establishing his prestige as Earth Core Fire Commander, and acquiring a high position.

But upon returning to Jianghu, even using the strength of the Royal Dynasty, he couldn’t find the three women.

After that, nearly every twenty years, Earth Core Fire Commander would leave the Human Demon Battlefield to search across the world for the whereabouts of the three women. After years of fruitless searching, he would return to the battlefield once more!

Thus, after nearly a thousand years, Earth Core Fire Commander was nearly in despair.

Grieved, he abandoned his high position and left the Human Demon Battlefield. After pondering fruitlessly, he mourned daily to the point of coughing blood, realizing he didn’t have much time left and lamenting that his Martial Arts would be left without succession. He then expended great effort to build the Ground Fire Heart Palace to use for martial inheritance.

These are the messages left by the remnants of Earth Core Fire Commander which are in front of us now. As for why, for nearly ten thousand years, Earth Core Fire Commander has always been searching for a suitable inheritor, Ye Zhen is unclear.

It should be greatly related to the Ground Fire Heart Palace being buried deep underground.

After saying all this, the remnant of Earth Core Fire Commander presented Ye Zhen with the first Martial Arts inheritance test, which was precisely the painful challenge Earth Core Fire Commander had once faced.

"If you were me back then, regarding my dear companions, who would you choose? Answer correctly, and you can proceed to the second Martial Arts inheritance test."

This question surprised Ye Zhen a lot, but it also explained why Earth Core Fire Commander wanted to recount his previous emotional entanglements.

Ye Zhen did not answer immediately but asked a question: "What if I answer incorrectly?"

"Incorrect? I’ve been plagued by emotions for millennia, but I’m not a man of bloodthirst. If wrong, I would send you away!"

"You have an hour to consider the answer. Remember, there is only one opportunity for this test. The grand formation here can remember your Innate Divine Soul aura. Once you visit, no matter how you try to knock or enter here again, it won’t be possible!" said the remnant of Earth Core Fire Commander.

Of course, rather than speaking, it was more like a mode.

This remnant is most likely a Divine Soul Puppet Earth Core Fire Commander specially refined with a unique mode of action, merely bearing the appearance of Earth Core Fire Commander.

However, these are not what Ye Zhen needs to consider. What Ye Zhen needs to consider is whom to choose, which room to place the Five Fire Profound Pearl.

Junior Sister?

Huoo Wu?

Demon Race Princess?

Indeed, it is an extremely troubling issue. It’s not just about making a decision, merely thinking about it can make Ye Zhen feel his head is about to burst.

At this moment, Ye Zhen even felt sympathy for Earth Core Fire Commander. How did he endure those extremely painful and conflicting three days and nights?

Probably every second felt like Purgatory.

Moreover, what troubled Ye Zhen was that the test posed by Earth Core Fire Commander inexplicably made him substitute Caiyi, Luluo, and Fengh Qingyue into these three people, and even Hu Qingtong’s figure emerged.

At this thought, Ye Zhen suddenly felt an extreme fear.

If one day Caiyi, Luluo, Fengh Qingyue, or even Hu Qingtong gathered together and asked Ye Zhen to make such a choice, what would Ye Zhen do?

Who to abandon, who to keep?

In an instant, Ye Zhen felt as if his heart was being twisted by a knife; he completely grasped Earth Core Fire Commander’s pain back then.

That kind of pain is simply indescribable......

This substitution for oneself, and being faced with four people, all kinds of thoughts surged and rolled in Ye Zhen’s mind, making Ye Zhen endure an unspeakable agony prematurely.

This moment felt like an eternity, yet time flew like an arrow.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the voice of Earth Core Fire Commander’s remnant rang out, the hour of consideration time had been reached.

"Young man, have you made your decision? Within ten breaths, make your choice. If no choice is made within ten breaths, it constitutes one itself! Of course, it can only end in failure like me......"

As soon as the voice sounded, Ye Zhen’s brow instantly furrowed deeply, while the countdown voice from the remnant also sounded.

Ten!

Nine!

Eight!

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