Chapter 472

Chapter 472: Tomorrow’s End, the Fall of the Emperor

“You are quite calm. If you have no last words, then prepare to die.”

Yun Ye smiled, and a rainbow of colors appeared around him.

“Last words? I have so much to say. Why not sit and chat, Shui Changdong? If I’m not mistaken, you want to resist Dongwang, don’t you?”

Shui Zhenjing showed only fatigue in her expression, feeling no fear of her impending death.

“Let’s say so, after all, not resisting means death.”

Yun Ye replied.

“Hehehe, then perhaps I can tell you some things that will help you understand this path better. Would you like to hear?”

“If what you say is true.”

“Of course it’s the truth. How could I possibly deceive your Spiritual Eye? It’s unwise to play tricks in front of Spiritual Law practitioners.”

Shui Zhenjing shook her head and began her tale.

“There is a kind of secret technique that can leave memories and knowledge within the bloodline. The stories of the past thus come to my knowledge, as if I personally experienced that history.”

“Two hundred years ago, this land was called Lozhou, and the ruling power was the Luo Dynasty. They called themselves practitioners, chasing the path of eternal life and becoming True Immortals…”

“At that time, the Luo Dynasty faced an insurmountable enemy. The Lord of Luo ordered the construction of ‘East City’ to experiment with methods against this great foe. Our ancestors became the managers of East City during that time.”

“When our ancestors learned about the knowledge they were to research, they were ecstatic, working day and night, hoping to reach the peak of power. But for fifty years, their research yielded no results. The Lord of Luo continually poured resources into the endeavor, seeking a power equal to that of the enemy nation.”

“In that year, instead of results, he heard the sacred song that resonated throughout the world. For thirty days, heaven and earth celebrated, for a ruler ascended to the heavens and became a path, his might overshadowing all, and none dared resist, even the world rejoiced at his birth.”

“In the same year, the decree from the venerable one came from the Celestial Empire, and the Luo Dynasty welcomed it, bowing to the decree and accepting the enfeoffment from the Celestial Empire.”

“Shortly after, the Lord of Luo wielded the venerable’s decree and struck the enemy nation with the power of the Celestial decree, unifying the three provinces of the Luo Dynasty.”

“Next, what should have been an era of prosperity lasting thousands, or even tens of thousands of years was abruptly interrupted just a few years later. Calamities struck. Overnight, millions of ordinary beings transformed into undead beings, violently attacking all living things. Some weak practitioners died and turned into monsters, gaining strength far beyond what they once possessed, causing great upheaval in the Luo Dynasty.”

“Afterward, the Lord of Luo and other practitioners countered these undead beings with absolute power. They breathed a sigh of relief, thinking the problem was resolved, and the Luo Dynasty returned to a long-standing peace. But this peace was shattered in the tenth year, when something even more terrifying occurred.”

“After a tremendous roar that echoed through the Red Heaven realm, the emperor of the Celestial Empire suddenly fell, his power spilling across the Red Heaven realm, forming an unending darkness.”

“After that, not only humans, but even monsters began to exhibit cases of undead, rapidly expanding.”

“These disaster beasts did not specially target humans; they simply killed everything in sight, acting in a madness that was difficult to comprehend. Even the powerful monsters sensed something was wrong and took action to eradicate them.”

“Yet, everything moved toward the point of no return. These monsters suddenly gained the power to grow stronger through slaughter, and as they killed one another, both monsters and practitioners rose in cultivation levels. Initially, those with cultivation could resist the Calamities, but it soon escalated to the point where even in the law realms, they could not fight the disaster beasts for long, requiring them to stop and purge their own corruption from the Calamities.”

“Simultaneously, some practitioners discovered that slaying these monsters would enhance their cultivation. In their ecstasy, they called it merit, a gift from the heavens, and began to compete for monster resources.”

“The unrestrained result of this desire was the birth of nation-level monsters. These monsters were so powerful that even the Lord of Luo was not their match, eliminating every True Immortal practitioner, and even nine out of ten in the Mystic Realm perished.”

“In hindsight, our ancestors had become the strongest among them. The next part of the story is simple: our ancestors dubbed themselves Dongwang, launching a massive slaughter that nearly extinguished all practitioners, hoarding all knowledge and becoming the kings of this land.”

“For the next hundred years, they used the perfectly built city created by the Lord of Luo, which had consumed countless resources, as an incubator, repeatedly harvesting living beings and gaining immeasurable strength. In fact, even to acquire even greater power, they did not hide the truth of their harvesting, letting others resist.”

“If you want to resist, you must strive to grow stronger, right? Over the past century, many geniuses tried desperately to grow stronger, hoping to kill the king and take their place, but they all failed miserably, not even knowing where Dongwang hid, thus becoming the resentful souls under the black tide, perfectly ending their role as fuel.”

As she finished her pot of tea, Shui Zhenjing also completed her story. “Sigh, it really is a very ordinary tale, so ordinary that I don’t even want to know the outcome, whether a new king will rise to overthrow Dongwang or if darkness will forever engulf us; it is all so meaningless. The world that once was cannot return.”

“Alright, my story is over. I won’t live much longer anyway. Let’s say this is a gift of power for a potential new king!”

She yawned, giving up on suppressing the Calamities within her body. After holding back for too long, the dense and tangible demonic patterns emerged, writhing like snakes and insects throughout her body.

In the next moment, Yun Ye unleashed a punch, and most of Shui Zhenjing’s body turned to ash, leaving only her head behind. Yun Ye extracted her soul and began to read her memories on a grand scale.

At the same time, his physique, soul, and magic power surged again, rising from around the third turn in law realms to the sixth turn.

His power grew more and more monstrous.

Now, without employing great techniques, his magic intensity had already reached the level of the sixth turn of the great method. This was power forcibly enhanced through slaughter, not through cultivation levels.

In terms of magic power alone, he already possessed such strength. Once the great method completed its enhancement nine times, it would be unimaginable…

Even though, due to the uniqueness of the Infinite Circle Complete Law, Yun Ye could not truly achieve the Ninth Turn unification, at this moment, he had already surpassed his former self.

Rough calculations indicated that his previous life’s foundation power in Ethereal Law was 1,000, and the enhancement post-Ninth Turn would be merely 256 times, totaling around 250,000.

By establishing his self-Mystic Heaven, the quality of his magic power would be refined and enhanced. The total amount would also see a great leap, allowing practitioners to use various methods without burdens.

The Mystic Heaven has four major grades, each with significant differences!

When entering the yellow grade, one could increase their total magic by about twenty times. With each minor realm advancement, the total would continue to skyrocket.

In his past life, Yun Ye was in the black grade of Mystic Heaven, roughly multiplying his total magic by fifty times and increasing quality by five times. So, calculating it out, he would possess around 64 million in power by the fifth life.

And in this life, just in terms of law realms, it was already incalculable…