Chapter 479: Transcendence
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In 210 BC, a great ruler in history, the emperor Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng, died in the sand dunes on his way to the east.
In the same year, a few months ago, Ying Zheng's imperial physician and also the imperial alchemist, Xu Fu, under the order of the Qin Emperor, led three thousand boys and girls to take a mirage boat, set out from Shandong, crossing the east along the coast, trying to find three immortal mountains, Penglai, Fang Abbot, and Yingzhou, to find the medicine for immortality for Ying Zheng.
However, Ying Zheng did not wait until Xu Fu returned, and after Xu Fu went to sea, he disappeared in history and had no trace.
Some people say that the mirage ship was submerged in the waves of the sea, some people say that he gained nothing after going out to sea, and returned to Shandong a few years later, leaving behind descendants in Laoshan. Some people say that Xu Fu crossed to Japan and established himself as king there, becoming the ancestor of contemporary Japanese. Some people say that he found a fairyland, was attached to the beauty of the fairyland, and stayed there.
There are many different opinions, and no one knows which one is the real history.
But one thing is common. No matter which statement it is, it is believed that Xu Fu has never returned to the Central Plains since he went to sea, let alone returned to Xianyang City.
After all, three years after the death of Emperor Qin, the huge Qin Empire fell apart and was destroyed by Xiang Yu.
Two thousand years of time have gone away like flowing water. I don’t know how many dark secrets are buried in history.
And now, on the holy platform of Shambalah, another hidden scroll of history has been unveiled in front of me.
My grandfather is also my ancestor. Zhao Tianxing was originally the son of the head of the imperial alchemist in the palace. His family was originally from Zhao State and was one of the descendants of Zhao She, a famous general of Zhao State.
Later, because of the incident between Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng, Emperor Shi was furious and burned books and buryed scholars, saying that they were burying scholars. In fact, most of the people they cheated were alchemists, and their ancestors Zhao Tianxing's family were also implicated and their whole family died, leaving only Zhao Tianxing to escape.
Later, Zhao Tianxing and Lu Sheng planned to plot and mingled into the palace, using fake death medicine to create the illusion of the First Emperor's death on the Eastern Tour. Then Zhao Tianxing stabbed a dagger into Qin Shihuang's chest in the Mausoleum of Mount Li, and used the blood of the ancestor dragon to cut off the fortune of the Qin Dynasty, but because it was contaminated with the blood of Ying Zheng, he was stained with the dragon-slaying blood curse.
These are some of the things I have heard from Diao Laojin.
But there are some things I don't know.
Shortly after Ying Zheng's death, one person returned to Xianyang, and that person was Xu Fu, who everyone thought he had disappeared overseas.
That's right, Xu Fu has not been gone forever. Not only did he return to Xianyang, but he actually brought back the legendary elixir of immortality.
No one knows what he had overseas, and the only thing he could know was that the fleet suffered heavy losses. Although he brought back the immortal medicine, he was the only one who could come back. He was riding on a small boat and drifting to the coast of Shandong where the starting point, and happened to be rescued by Zhao Tianxing, who was still stuck in the sand dunes.
Unfortunately, Ying Zheng was one step too late and could not wait for Xu Fu's return. Even when Xu Fu returned to Xianyang, Ying Zheng, who was pretending to die, had not been buried.
What Xu Fu had to face when he came back was the second generation of Qin, Hu Hai, who was famous for his cruelty and incompetence.
Xu Fu is one of the few smart people. He knew that even if he brought back the elixir of immortality, facing Hu Hai and Li Si and Zhao Gao, he might have ended up cooking the elixir of birds and dogs. So he entrusted the elixir of immortality he brought back to Zhao Tianxing.
There were four tablets of immortality medicine he brought back, but they could only be taken for two of them.
As Xu Fu said, taking two of these four immortal medicines can lead to immortality. Taking one alone will result in one pill. If you don’t take the second pill in one day, it will be a poison that can make people live worse than death.
Zhao Tianxing did all this just to cut off the lifeline of the Great Qin Dynasty, how could Hu Hai get immortality? So he came up with a way to take one of the pills himself first, and then go to the palace with another identity and present the remaining three pills to Hu Hai.
Sure enough, Hu Hai got three immortal medicines and asked Zhao Tianxing to test the medicine.
Zhao Tianxing, who was nearly forty years old, took the second pill, not only without any damage, but also refreshed, as if he was only thirty years old.
Hu Hai was overjoyed and rewarded Zhao Tianxing heavily, and then took another pill. After a day, he was in pain and fainted.
At that time, Hu Hai had not ascended the throne. In order to obtain the throne, he conspired with Zhao Gao and Li Si to fake the will and ordered the prince Fusu, who was originally supposed to be the crown prince, to commit suicide.
Li Si and Zhao Gao, who were beside Hu Hai, knew that he had been trapped. While treating Hu Hai, he sent a will to eliminate Fusu quickly to prevent Hu Hai from becoming poisoned and Fusu ascended the throne after he died.
The one who was sent with the will was another remaining immortal medicine.
At that time, Li Si and Zhao Gao had already used this medicine as a poison, so he just used it, allowing Fusu to commit suicide by taking poison.
After that, Fusu was indeed trapped and took the second immortal medicine and died suddenly the next day.
Zhao Tianxing originally thought that he would use this plan to get rid of Hu Hai, but Hu Hai actually came back magically again.
He found Xu Fu again and realized that the path to immortality is divided into immortality of souls and immortality of body. The four immortal medicines can make the human body immortal. If he only takes one, he can only separate the soul and flesh, which is indeed worse than death.
Zhao Tianxing only realized his mistake at this time. Hu Hai did not die. Instead, he took half of the immortality medicine and obtained half of the immortality. Even if the soul and flesh are separated, it would be a matter of the future.
The last remaining immortal medicine was determined by the imperial doctor in the palace to be a poison containing lead and mercury, but by accident it was used as a drug to prevent the body from rotting, and was stuffed into the mouth of Qin Shihuang who was pretending to die.
Later, Zhao Tianxing assassinated Ying Zheng in the imperial tomb. Before Ying Zheng died, he melted the fourth immortal medicine in his mouth and swallowed it into his stomach.
As I imagined, Qin Hai, the immortal medicine taken by Hu Hai, can make the human body immortal but cannot live forever. Therefore, for thousands of years, he must make up for the exhaustion of the soul and essence of the living person and remain immortal.
The remaining immortal medicine made Qin Shihuang, who was stabbed to death by his ancestor Zhao Tianxing, die in his body, but his soul is eternal.
As Lu Sheng said, Qin Shihuang was the reincarnation of Li Long, the ancestor of human dragons. He was born to bear the fortune of the Chinese dragon vein and was a man of heaven.
However, he was killed by Zhao Tianxing. His luck and dragon power, coupled with the effect of the immortal medicine, made his soul merge with the power of the Great Qin Dragon Vein cut off by the blood of the ancestor dragon underground, turning into an unprecedented terrifying existence, the Nether Dragon.
After hundreds of years, Ying Zheng, who turned into a dark dragon, finally broke free from the dragon-slaying dagger and left Mount Li with a huge ferocious aura.
At that time, it was the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The dragon vein is Ying Zheng, who was born in response to heaven and earth, and merged with the dragon vein to transform into the dark dragon. Its power is hard to understand.
At that time, Zhao Tianxing, who had also been walking in the world for hundreds of years and had changed countless identities and was immortal, perhaps because of the Dragon-slaying Blood Curse on his body, also felt Ying Zheng's return.
The existence of the Nether Dragon itself is an anomaly between heaven and earth. At that time, the Emperor of Fengdu, who was the master of the underworld, also felt that the Nether Dragon was born.
The Emperor of Fengdu is the Lord of the Dead, integrating the origin of the soul between Luofeng Mountain and the Dead Sea, so he can command the ghosts, and at the same time, he can use the power of the original to suppress the foul and turbid air of Luofeng Mountain.
Qing Jia, who felt that the birth of the Nether Dragon, took action personally and wanted to suppress the Nether Dragon at the foot of Luofeng Mountain. However, the power of the Nether Dragon Ying Zheng was beyond imagination. Not only did he fail to suppress it, but Qing Jia himself was severely injured. Most of the power of the soul source was taken away by him, and he could no longer maintain order in the underworld. The entire Luofeng Mountain had been suppressed for countless years and was about to explode.
Qing Jia himself, without the power of the soul source, was also eroded by the foul air and turbid air, and was about to lose his mind.
Therefore, at the last moment before losing his mind, Qing Jia used his last power to transfer the entire Fengdu Palace on the top of the mountain to the Kunlun Mountains thousands of miles away, hoping to use the power of the thousands of miles of ice to suppress the filthy aura that was about to explode.
On the other hand, the Nether Dragon Ying Zheng, who had obtained the power of the soul source, was even more unstoppable. The evil ghost Luosha in Luofeng Mountain was also influenced by the Nether Dragon Ying Zheng, who had controlled the power of the soul source, and became violent and cruel.
After that, the era of the ghosts in Luofeng Mountain was born, the ghost commanders of the six heavenly ghosts and turtles, and the ghosts were rampant in the world, the yin and yang were in chaos, and the lives were in trouble.
Among them, the Minglong Ying Zheng absorbed the increasingly inflated evil and turbid air in the world, and his power became stronger and stronger.
At this time, Ying Zheng was already an existence that cannot be tolerated by heaven and earth.
Since the birth of heaven and earth in Hongmeng, order has existed forever. This order can be called "God" or "Tao". It protects sentient beings in the dark, and perhaps "Tao" itself is the will of sentient beings.
If such an existence that cannot be tolerated by heaven and earth is born, the power of "Tao" will naturally appear and restore order, because order itself is what sentient beings yearn for.
This power to eliminate chaos and restore order may be a person, a group, or even a natural disaster or an accident, guiding sentient beings in the dark.
After hundreds of years of walking in the world, Zhao Tianxing has already understood this.
Therefore, he began to search for opportunities manifested by this "Tao".
And this opportunity finally emerged.
It is wrong, his name is Zhang Daoling!
It was not until this time that I clearly recalled it.
The dream I had on the way to Yunnan.
That is exactly the way a generation of celestial masters, facing the demons in the sky, moving forward.
As a person, Zhang Daoling's strength is a bit incredible.
Grandpa Zhao Tianxing said that from ancient times to the present, in the past two thousand years, he has never seen a person who can achieve the same magic power as Zhang Daoling as one or two.
This is probably because Zhang Daoling's appearance itself is an opportunity created by the heaven and earth to eliminate the disaster of the Nether Dragon.
Zhao Tianxing and Zhang Daoling made friends, and finally, watched him suppress the six-day ghosts and gods, the demons in Qingcheng Mountain, and the most powerful dark dragon Ying Zheng.
Even the Nether Dragon, who was so powerful that the Lord of the Underworld could not match, was eventually defeated before the power of "Tao".
Since Zhao Tianxing assassinated Ying Zheng in the tomb of Mount Li and was contaminated with dragon blood, there has been a looming sense between the two. Therefore, Zhao Tianxing can feel the birth of the Nether Dragon and look for opportunities to fight.
And Ying Zheng also understood what Zhao Tianxing understood.
No matter how powerful he is, he cannot fight against "Tao".
Therefore, if he wants to make a comeback, he has only one choice.
That is to become an existence that transcends the "Tao".
That kind of existence has a name called the Inanimate Man.
Chapter completed!