Chapter 265: Walking down at the Altar of Zhong Shengming (2/2)

”Zhong Shengming is unbeatable in his entire life; he happily settled the debt of grat.i.tude and grudge. However, he never walked on the right path. Whenever he wanted something, he simply s.n.a.t.c.hed it away. When he saw something not pleasing to his eyes, he would simply kill it. In the immortal path, even the firmament of the ninth heaven could not restrict him, let alone ethics and morality of the mortal world. Someone who looks down on ethics and morality is naturally a demon. The fierceness of Bai Li’s Sword Demon was ill.u.s.trious. When Zhong Shengming was still alive, countless of people trembled at his name.”

w.a.n.g Lu could only stare dumbfoundedly. This account was completely different than what was written in Bai Li Ascension Biography, so much that it was the complete opposite! Although after more than ten thousand years, there were bound to be omissions in history books, an error this big was very rare! A peerless devil that terrorized the whole Nine Region was actually not recorded in the history book, this...

”In his entire life, Zhong Shengming always did whatever he pleased. However, his desires are almost wholly concentrated on the path of the sword, and not that much in the worldly affairs. Therefore, regardless whether he was evil or not, at least he was good enough to remain in the history books.”

w.a.n.g Lu nodded, expressing his understanding. Bai Li Ascension Biography recorded the cultivators who managed to ascend or were very close to in the span of more than tens of thousands of years. The thick book was equally divided between each cultivator, and the length of each part was actually very limited. Moreover, most of it was spent on describing the cultivation method of the cultivator. As for the life deed, naturally, only one or two were chosen as the representative.

As for Zhong Shengming… in fact, in the original text, there was almost no story about his life. In addition to spending a lot of time to describe all kinds of inconceivable power of the Primal Chaos Heaven Splitting Sword, the rest was spent on Zhong Shengming’s heroic feat of ‘splitting the heaven and earth apart’ and ‘penetrating the heavenly calamity of Bai Li Region’ just before he died. As for his deeds during his thousand years of cultivation, no matter how evil they were, compared with his earth-shattering feat just before he died, they were not worth mentioning...

Wait a minute, then that means...

Thinking to this, w.a.n.g Lu thought of something. ”Could it be that the so-called Bai Li’s Sword G.o.d was just a misinformation?”

Sword Demon lightly smiled. ”Compared with the great merit of opening up the road to immortality, everything else in Zhong Shengming’s life is insignificant. Based on merit theory, being called ‘G.o.d’ is more appropriate than ‘Demon’.”

w.a.n.g Lu said, ”So that’s how it is. But that is only the misunderstanding of the world and Zhong Shengming should not be affected by external things. Regardless of whether people praise or blame him, it has nothing to do with him. He couldn’t possibly turn into a sage just because people said he has tremendous merit.”

”How couldn’t it be? If you hear everyone accuse you of something you’re not, aren’t you going to get sick to death? There’s power in the popular opinion. Perhaps the popular opinion of the common people is weak, but it’s different with cultivators who walked on the path of immortality. A tyrannical king could still have his throne even while being cursed by millions of people, but no cultivator can withstand the unanimous rebuke from thousands of cultivators. Likewise, when all cultivators thought that Zhong Shengming of Bai Li who had benefited the people was the Sword G.o.d, it was no longer important if he himself was ‘G.o.d’ or ‘Demon’.”

Zhong Shengming’s smile turned somewhat ironic. ”When Zhong Shengming managed to challenge the four in nine divine tribulations, he received no small measure of contraflow of heavenly calamity. His primordial spirit was routed, his sword lost its acute spirit, and the upper part of his body was polluted by the power of the wish of all living beings, so he couldn’t help but become ‘G.o.d’. Zhong Shengming chose to use his power to resist the divine tribulations without ever considering his life and death, but he didn’t want to die in such an unclear situation.”

w.a.n.g Lu nodded, expressing his understanding. ”At least in times of death, the body must be pure.”

”But at the time, he was already wounded and dying, unable to root out the power of the will. Instead, the power of the will continued to erode him, and his primordial spirit gradually became not his own…”

Things seemed to have come to light; w.a.n.g Lu continued with his own reasoning, ”So he dispersed his primordial spirit, established the yin and yang factions division, then used the ten thousand years of life or death transformation to filter and purify the primordial spirit to then reconstruct the ‘G.o.d’ and ‘Demon’, two bodies, using them to investigate the origin?”

This reasoning seemed smoother. Although w.a.n.g Lu vaguely still felt that there were some missing parts, most of the mystery about the original existence of the Sword G.o.d has already been solved.

The only problem was...

”After you raised yourself back from death, why did you involve the outsiders? At least, Sword G.o.d did not have the need to introduce foreign aid. After ten thousand years, he has already occupied the legitimate position and firmly suppressed you, so why the need to introduce uncertain factors just to trouble yourself?”

Sword Demon said, ”As early as more than ten thousand years ago, Zhong Shengming has already antic.i.p.ated that change might happen. Before he died, his primordial spirit has already been corroded more than half by the power of the will, and the ‘owner’ and the ‘guest’ position has already long been exchanged. Extrapolating from this, more than ten thousand years later, naturally, Sword G.o.d would be the stronger one. Therefore, he made the rule that the two parts of him, Sword G.o.d and Sword Demon, must not directly contact with each other, so even if one of them wants to kill the other, he must use the hand of outsiders; Because this is my only chance.”

”I believe you have also seen that there’s nothing special about Sword G.o.d except the might of his primordial spirit. If he confronted me directly, I will have no chance. However, once outside variables are introduced, his odds will plummet.”

w.a.n.g Lu said, ”Yes, I have a feeling that he seems clumsier.”

”Because he’s just a child.” Sword Demon coldly said, ”He was only born when Zhong Shengming was contaminated by the power of the will and about to die. His conscious time has not exceeded more than a month, so naturally, he’s clumsy.”

”In other words, we just had a desperate fight against a baby?”

”Although he was just a baby, after all, he inherited the memory of Zhong Shengming and more than half of his primordial spirit. Although his conduct with people seemed clumsy, he was not an idiot. In time, he would be more difficult to deal with.”

”So that’s why… Then, could you answer my question, since he was not a fool, why did he forcefully possess Zhu s.h.i.+yao? Why did he even deliberately destroy her contact lenses to deceive her vision?

”Mm, you finally get to the point.”

Sword Demon nodded and then stood up.

”Because the matter of possession is something that is bound to happen. If he failed to remove her gla.s.ses, she would soon be able to see, thus she no longer could be controlled as a p.a.w.n.

”Then I believe you have also guessed it. Not only Sword G.o.d needed to take possession of someone, I also need it. Now that the struggle between the ‘G.o.d’ and ‘Demon’ is over, my primordial spirit has become whole, and the next thing to do is to find a matching body to carry this primordial spirit, and you are the one that I choose.”

w.a.n.g Lu was silent for a moment. ”Didn’t you say that after the Unity Stage, primordial spirit and body could transform into each other? Wouldn’t that mean you don’t need a body to possess?”

”It is indeed not necessary, but if I don’t use the unprecedented Void Spirit Root and just the barely pa.s.sable primordial spirit transformation, wouldn’t that be a waste?”

As soon as he said that, demonic qi overflowed out of his body and his killing intent was no longer restrained anymore!

Sword Demon Zhong Shengming was a person that did whatever he pleased—when he like something, he took it; when he dislike something, he eliminated it!