Chapter 331 - It’s You, Li! (1/2)

Why is the Jade Emperor so fast this time?

This is not like the Heavenly Courts. This is not like the Heavenly Courts at all.

Normally, it would take dozens of years to form a decree. The process of the Deity Position promotion would last for more than ten to twenty years. Ordinary Heavenly Generals would have to work for two to three days just to get out of the Heaven Gate!

Even if eliminating the remnants of the previous dynasty is the priority, there should be a process for Hua Ritian to mobilize his troops, right?

The Sun is...o...b..ting in outer s.p.a.ce. Moreover, the sun is setting in the west now. It would take some time to bring troops from the Heavenly Courts over, right?

Not to mention, the Jade Emperor’s incarnation still has to hide his whereabouts, wait for an opportunity to attack, and prepare some backup plans that would definitely kill Lu Ya… Why did it seem like the Jade Emperor was about to attack?

Fortunately, judging from the Jade Emperor’s reaction, he had stopped the Jade Emperor at the crucial moment…

In the Lingxiao Hall, Li Changshou waited quietly. His face was full of confusion.

Hardcore confusion.

The Jade Emperor closed his eyes and focused. His attention landed on the sun in the sky. He led the troops and left the extremely magnificent Sun.

The Sun was formed by Pangu’s left eyeball and the Yang Spring of Heaven and Earth.

Before the Heavenly Dao was completed, the Sun had once been driven by the G.o.ddess of Imperial Sun, Xi He. Every day, it would go from east to west, back and forth.

In the ancient times, the Golden Crow Clan, which was born on the Sun, entered its peak. After Xi He became a demon, the Demon Emperor Jun built the Golden Crow Palace and lived in the residence of Xi He and the Tenth Prince.

Since then, the operation of the Sun had been taken over by the Heavenly Dao.

At the end of the Great Magi-Demon War during the end of ancient times, the human army struck the Demon Court and the Demon Emperor died.

Another million human immortals attacked the Golden Crow Palace. Xi He committed suicide, and most of the Golden Crow Palace was destroyed.

Now, he stood outside the Sun and looked inside. Behind the natural Li Fire array, he could see ruins. Countless precious materials had turned into resplendent and solid waste under the roasting of the Sun Real Fire.

Originally, the group of soldiers that Hua Ritian had brought had already pa.s.sed through the outer Li Fire Array on the Sun Planet.

Li Changshou reported in time that the Jade Emperor had changed his mind. Hua Ritian sent a voice transmission everywhere, saying that there might be an ambush here and that they would retreat temporarily.

The Heavenly Generals that he had brought immediately perked up. They did not panic and retreated in an orderly manner.

At the same time… in the deepest part of the ruins, in a hall that had mostly collapsed, there was an old Daoist priest sitting in the corner of the ruins, surrounded by layers of barriers.

His face was a little pale, and his aura was trembling. His Daoist robe was covered in blood. From the direction of the blood flow and shape of the bloodstains, it seemed to have been… spat out.

The hall was very cool as if there was an array formation that isolated the heat waves from the Sun.

The blood that spurted out in front of the old Daoist priest formed a stream that surrounded him.

If others saw this, they would definitely think that he was up to something…

The old Daoist priest did not notice that the Heavenly Generals were already in a terrible state.

Why? Why is this happening?

The old Daoist priest opened his listless eyes. His aura started to tremble again. He had no choice but to close his eyes again to calm down.

The first injury came from his precious treasure, the Immortal-Slaying Flying Saber.

When he was refining the Immortal-Slaying Flying Saber, the spirit of the flying saber suddenly awakened and almost killed him.

That made the old Daoist priest have no choice but to temporarily seal the Immortal-Slaying Flying Saber and quickly recuperate…

However, following that… It was just a simple meditation, but it could attract mental demons.

However, after carefully comprehending his own Dao, he suffered the tremors of the Great Dao that he had not encountered in ten thousand years or even a hundred thousand years. His Dao was injured by the Great Dao…

He had wanted to find a pill to treat his injuries, but he had actually taken the wrong storage Dharma treasure. He had lost his mind and swallowed a poisonous pill…

*Coughs*

The old Daoist priest endured the urge to vomit blood and opened his eyes again. This time, he carefully took out a porcelain bottle from his chest pocket. He confirmed again and again that it was the porcelain bottle that contained the healing pills.

The old Daoist priest smiled. However, after opening the restrictions on the bottle, his smile stiffened.

He fell outwards and a pile of pills landed in his hand. The last bit of medicinal properties on it quietly dissipated…

The pill shattered?!

Although there was indeed such a saying that if the medicinal efficacy in the pill went out of control, the pill would indeed shatter but… but this!

The old Daoist priest’s lips trembled, and two drops of tears slowly rolled down his face…

What is going on?

In fact, when that happened, the old Daoist priest was immediately alarmed. The first thing he thought of was…

Could it be that I lost my luck?

However, the old Daoist priest carefully pinched his fingers and deduced that he realized that the luck that he should have had was still there. The remnant luck of the demons had also turned into revitalization and gathered on him.

Or do I owe merit?

The old Daoist priest took out his second Dharma treasure and looked at it carefully.

It was a curse book that was refined by an expert of the Demon Court back then. The overall idea was proposed by the Demon Master Kun Peng as a secret technique for the Demon Court to punish those demons who caused trouble.

The book was called the Seven Arrows Book. It announced to the outside world that one only needed to know the name and birth characters of a spirit to cause it to die.

In reality, it was just a disguise. It was very difficult to use the Seven Arrows technique.

Firstly, one had to have a wisp of essence soul and a wisp of aura from the cursed spirit. Both of them could not be missing. Then, he had to inject the essence soul and aura into the book. Then, he had to pay respects and shoot arrows every day.

The price of using the Seven Arrows Book was extremely huge. Most importantly, it would either damage merit or luck. If he was halfway through casting the spell, his merit or destiny would not be able to continue. The caster would suffer a backlash and turn into blood…

When the Demon Court was at its peak, it naturally did not lack merit. The Seven Arrows Book was also a hidden arrow that hung above the heads of the demons.

However, to the old Daoist priest, who was also Daoist Lu Ya, that book was…

It was just a memento.

The enemies that he could defeat in fights naturally did not need that treasure. If he could not win in technical fights and did not have that much merit and luck, it would be tantamount to mutual destruction if he cursed such an expert to death.

At first, when he confirmed that it was not the item that had caused the bad luck, Daoist Lu Ya was even more puzzled.

Even until today, his injuries had not improved. His Dao base was on the verge of collapse, and his situation was even more tragic…

Could it be that the heavens want me dead?

Daoist Lu Ya looked up at the sky and saw the tattered roof of the hall and the sky formed by the flames outside.

He smiled bitterly and stood up shakily. He picked up the huge gourd beside him and carried it on his back. With his back hunched, he stumbled towards the depths of the hall.

It was only a few hundred feet. He fell a few times and vomited blood a few times. His mental demons were stirring, and his strength seemed to have been drained.

The old Daoist priest went to a corner of the hall and barely tapped out a wisp of immortal power. He activated the array formation there and fell inside.

In the next moment, he disappeared before appearing again in the core of the Sun.

The array formation suddenly deviated. In an instant…

It burnt.

In the core of the star, a small hall was hidden in the colorful Sun Real Flames.

Daoist Lu Ya’s figure fell in front of the hall. Flames surrounded him and he turned into a three-legged Golden Crow. Then, he turned into a handsome young man in a brocade robe. He dragged the huge gourd and staggered into the hall.

The hall was empty except for a crystal coffin.

There was clearly a hot spring outside, but there was a wisp of coldness that was similar to the core of the moon.

That wisp of chilliness wrapped around the crystal coffin. A beautiful woman in white lay in the crystal coffin. She seemed to be asleep, and she was still emitting a faint pressure.

The young man in the brocade robe walked to the woman in three steps. He bent his legs and knelt down. He took a deep breath and said sadly, “Mother… please tell me what I did wrong again. The heavens want me to die…”

The woman was just a corpse. She did not have any spirit. Naturally, she did not have any reaction.

Lu Ya smiled bitterly. Realizing that his injuries were about to relapse, he stood up and slowly walked to the side of the crystal coffin. He leaned against his mother and sat down.

He gradually closed his eyes. His entire body was filled with tragic words as he hummed the song from back then…

“From the place where the sun rises, I swam all over the sky… and returned to the place where the sun sets, bathing in the sweet abyss…”

“Ah.”

Suddenly, he heard a sigh coming from the side. Daoist Lu Ya’s mind jolted. He muttered the word “G.o.ddess” and a white figure flashed past. Lu Ya’s figure disappeared.

At the same time, in a valley at the border between the South Continent and the East Continent, the black leopard, who was leading his wife to “pray out of leisure” suddenly growled. It rolled its eyes and slowly collapsed. The words on the wooden sign with the name ‘Daoist Lu Ya’ disappeared.

“Husband! Husband, what’s wrong!?!”

The Water Demon Miao Miao shouted anxiously.