Apocalypse I Have One More Keyword Than Others
Chapter 743 - - 549 Chaos World_3
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Containing the Heavenly Statutes in his mouth, his Daoist inheritance just came to be like this?
After all.
As soon as the first Literary Heart appeared, it meant that the setting of Literary and Martial Hearts had become reality, and there would be a second, a third Literary Heart to emerge…
And the more Literary and Martial Hearts that appeared, the more people would believe in the Human Emperor Inheritance.
Both were complementary to each other.
If the spread continued, he truly might become a Human Emperor on par with the Immortal Emperor.
In the fabricated setting of Literary and Martial Hearts, the Human Emperor was connected with the fate of the Human Race; each Literary and Martial Heart would supply him with energy, and he would likewise nourish them…
Duge no longer dared to imagine how powerful he would become one day when Literary and Martial Hearts were abundant throughout the world.
By then, he might really be able to arm-wrestle with the Daoist Ancestor himself!
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With two days left before the rankings were announced, the awakening of Zhang Ying’s Literary Heart was perfectly timed!
Without a moment’s hesitation, Duge immediately found Zhang Ying and brought him to the Capital. In front of the civil and military officials, he verified the effects of his Literary Heart, then appointed him as a Literature Master and praised him for having the presence of a Literature Saint.
The civil and military officials were green with envy.
Then, he mobilized the power of New Moon Country to package and promote Zhang Ying comprehensively and began a national tour with him…
To consolidate the effects of Containing the Heavenly Statutes.
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The Vice Minister of Rites, who had once helped Duge to forge a ruse, lived in a state of doubt and self-doubt in the days that followed, because he knew Meng Wenxuan’s Literary Heart was fake.
However, after Zhang Ying appeared with a real Literary Heart, the anxious heart of the Minister of Rites immediately settled down and he became utterly devoted to the Human Emperor.
A fake Literary Heart had lured out a real one, proving that the seal the Immortal Emperor had set upon the Human Race was loosening, and in the future, it was likely that more Literary and Martial Hearts would awaken…
Truly!
Everything the Human Emperor said was true.
As long as it was true, then all their sacrifices were worth it.
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Just as Duge had anticipated, with Zhang Ying serving as a true example of a Literary Heart and after a round of promotion, the hearts of all the hesitant people were instantly affirmed.
Throughout New Moon Country, more and more Literary Hearts emerged, and along with them, Martial Gall.
From that moment on, New Moon Country stepped onto a new, completely different path from cultivation.
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Among the Hundred Thousand Mountains, there lived a Demon King who was an enlightened Black Tiger by the name of Lin Xiaotian. Having cultivated for thousands of years, he commanded countless demons and had established his own faction within the Hundred Thousand Mountains, echoing the distant South Peak Emperor.
The Fox Demon Bai Zimei was sent by him to the Capital City to gain experience, to familiarize herself with the world of humans, just as cultivators from Cultivation Sects would occasionally enter the Hundred Thousand Mountains for trials.
This was one of the methods each side used to temper their disciples.
For many years, demons and immortals coexisted peacefully, usually without invading each other.
Occasional acts of demons consuming humans occurred, but as long as the impact was minor, neither side took much action, and it was the same with cultivators and ordinary demons falling during their trials.
Bai Zimei venturing into the human world was nothing more than routine.
However, the emergence of the Human Emperor Inheritance, involving Emperor Donghua and the appearance of True Immortals with a mass gathering of human cultivators, was sudden.
It had been a long time since humans had taken such significant action, and Bai Zimei did not dare to neglect it, sending the news back to the Demon Clan immediately.
And the Demon King scoffed at the matter of the Human Emperor.
In the records of the Demon Clan, there had never been a Human Emperor; it seemed more like a false scam, far less credible than the chaos of evil demons.
Demon King Lin Xiaotian only regretted that the evil demons had not appeared on the Demon Clan's territory, which he found quite regrettable. As a Demon King, he actually wanted to seize the opportunity to cause trouble for the Immortal Emperor.
After all, the term "evil demons" includes the character for "demon," which sounds very close to the Demon Clan.
In the great war between immortals and demons, the Demon Clan was defeated and could only retreat to the Mortal Realm, yielding the Immortal Realm's place brimming with Spiritual Energy to the Immortal Emperor. The strife between immortals and demons could not be reconciled.
Any ambitious member of the Demon Clan aspired to ascend to the Immortal Realm and carve out a territory for their development. But with the Spiritual Energy-rich Immortal Realm and the impoverished Mortal Realm, the gap between the Demon Clan and the Immortal Realm grew wider, making the likelihood of another war virtually impossible.
Without the support of the Demon Emperor, the Immortal Emperor would have descended to eradicate all demons long ago.
The Demon Clan endured humiliation and bided their time, accumulating their own power, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, which is the true reason for the peace between immortals and demons until now.
However, with True Immortals and Dragon Tiger Mountain taking part in the Human Emperor event this time, Lin Xiaotian still gave it ample attention, dispatching quite a few demons to spy in New Moon Country and Dachu Country.
At first, these demons found no evidence of the Literary Heart or Martial Gall in the grand affair of the Human Emperor Inheritance, tending to believe it was indeed a deception or perhaps disrupted by evil demons...
But when the real Literary Heart emerged, the demons could no longer remain calm, and one after another, they returned to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, reporting the tremendous changes in the Mortal Realm to Demon King Lin Xiaotian...
The appearance of the Human Emperor Inheritance that could contend with the Immortal Emperor signified that the world was about to plunge into chaos, which might also present an opportunity for the Demon Clan!
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Duge, accompanied by Zhang Ying, was on a national tour at that time.
The old emperor who was under house arrest in Jinluan Hall stood up to find the Crown Prince.
As everyone rallied to support the new Human Emperor, the surveillance over the old emperor naturally relaxed a lot. Besides, it was only natural for a father to see his son, and no one would obstruct.
Moreover, they were powerless and without troops; with the new Human Emperor having eyes and ears everywhere, could they possibly stir up any trouble?
"Father, why have you come?" the Crown Prince, He Chengyu, with bleary drunken eyes, looked at the dark-faced old emperor, rising up without proper respect, and lazily said, "Come, let me pour you a drink, and let's drink together, just the two of us!"
"Chengyu," the old emperor looked at the Crown Prince indulging in a life of drunkenness and dreams, his gaze filled with pain and regret. He sighed and said, "The Literary Heart has appeared, proving the Human Emperor Inheritance is real, the royal family has no chance of regaining power anymore."
"Isn't that the truth?" said He Chengyu with a bitter laugh, shaking his head, "How could the Human Emperor possibly be real? Isn't it good enough to be an emperor? To insist on becoming the Human Emperor, is it because you wish to die even quicker?"
"Chengyu, I am going to die," the old emperor said.
"Father, is the Human Emperor going to kill you?" He Chengyu exclaimed, sitting up abruptly and asking.
"No, I am going to die, to snitch in the Underworld," the old emperor took a deep breath, with a flicker of ruthlessness in his eyes, "The City God and Yin God are all under the South Peak Emperor's influence, and Emperor Donghua wants to use the Human Emperor to compete for power with the Immortal Emperor. In the beginning, they will definitely try to suppress the news within the Eastern Polar Continent.
I do not want to give them that opportunity. By going through the Underworld to inform the Heavenly Court about Emperor Donghua, we might have a sliver of a chance."✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦