Rewrite the myth and become the Taoist!

Chapter 316 No matter how peerless you are, you can't defy the destiny of eight hundred years!
Upon hearing this, Luo Yi...

[By choosing not to meet with Princess Hathaway, he made his stance clear: he would not participate in the war between humans and the Star-Moon race.]

With combat power surpassing that of a Warlord, Bodhisattva, or God Realm expert, Luo Yi had escaped unscathed from the clutches of the "Killing Heart Bodhisattva" and no longer needed to care about the opinions of others.

Upon seeing this, the young man surnamed Gu immediately took out three superior-grade true skill seeds.

【"Red Ape Subduing Demons: Divine Intent Combat Technique", "Eight Desolate Dragon Elephant Suppressing Prison Force", "Four Fiends and Nine Tribulations: Undying Body"】

At the very least, superior martial arts skills can forge a "superior spiritual weapon," while unparalleled spiritual weapons require mastering the strengths and compensating for the weaknesses, creating a true martial art that reflects one's own will!

Even if one starts with only inferior skills, one can gradually progress to the ultimate level.

These warlords who embarked on the path of "proving the Dao" represent the pinnacle of human power in the Land of Return to the Void.

Luo Yi learned about the path ahead from a young man surnamed Gu from the Martial Arts Hall.

Human martial arts have only three levels.

[The first level: Warriors, Brave Warriors, and Samurai.]

[The Second Heaven: Raising an Army, The Forge, True Martial Arts.]

[The Third Heaven, Proving the Dao.]

[Those who raise troops become warlords, and the Warlord of the Forge corresponds to a great demon from another race.]

The nine-headed serpent Xiang Liu and the Black Cloud City Lord are both at the Furnace Realm.

[The True Martial Master, whose will and heart are in harmony with heaven and earth, can forcibly separate the mist within the fog, creating a great spiritual realm. However, those who cultivate to the True Martial level will be targeted by the fog.]

[Ferocious beasts of the wilderness, forbidden corpses fallen in the mist, those fallen gods, bodhisattvas, Buddhas, saints...]

If the Zhao Kingdom were to unify the great continent, establish an eternal dynasty lasting over ten thousand years, connect with the human race's martial arts hall, raise the great sun high, and create its own world, illuminating this place from the eternal fog of mystery.

At that time, even the God of Destiny of the Void Sea will come knocking!

[Victory, the seventh emperor of the human race, the eternal human emperor.]

[Defeat. Humanity disintegrated, reduced to the status of pigs and dogs.]

[The God of Destiny?]

Luo Yi seemed lost in thought.

[Captain Anya mentioned that the human race crossed the sea from afar, and the founding human king severely injured the fox demon god with his life. His descendants and heroes forged the "Divine Martial Mandate" in a bloody battle, suppressing the moon on the World Tree of the Star Moon Ancestral Land.]

That was the deity of destiny worshipped after the stars and moon fell into the Land of Return to Emptiness.

Its name is the thirteenth month, the month of eternal day.

Under His illumination, strange beasts will evolve into ferocious monsters, and the corpses of the dead will awaken.

[He is the source of humans and demons, He gives birth to everything, He is the thirteenth month that abolished the twelve months of humanity!]

He hung above the mist, where only daylight existed. The Zhao state immediately mobilized all its forces.

Human heroes came to this place to establish their kingdoms, receiving gifts from other eternal human emperors, including the legacy left by the Dao-proving War Lord, an unparalleled divine weapon, and a crimson battle spirit inheriting the will of the human emperors… ultimately suppressing the thirteenth month.

But Luo Yi knew that was only the version circulating within the human race.

[In the Star-Moon Clan's version, humanity, despite its best efforts, was unable to defeat the Thirteenth Moon. A humanoid swordsman emerged from the depths of the mist, leaving behind a black sword to help humanity seal the Thirteenth Moon.]

[The Black Sword—it is the Heavenly Sword wielded by the old Sword Master of the Martial Arts Hall.]

[This was also the sword intent that caused Master Yanwu to sever Xiang Liu's head. The black sword is a sword of absolute will, and only a True Martial Master can wield it.]

【therefore.】

Logically, with the rise of the third generation of humanity, they should be capable of unifying the world.

However, in the past century, only the "Black Dragon" has expanded the human race's territory. Luo Yi speculates that the human race is also afraid of the God of Destiny, which is why they have been hesitant to unify the world.

[The young man surnamed Gu recounted the history of the human race, explaining that the "sages" of the Martial Arts Hall served as the inheritors of human traditions, recording the human race's struggles for ten thousand years in the Land of Return to Emptiness.]

Luo Yi was very interested in the "Third Heaven - Dao-Proving Soldier Master" because the True Martial Soldier Master's maximum lifespan was eight hundred years, which naturally surprised him. Putting aside everything else, with his current physical strength, he was already close to immortality.

How could one die of old age?

Those human warriors who were stronger than him... they're all dead? All of them died in battle?

The young man surnamed Gu remained silent for a long while.

[There's a legend recorded by the first Human Emperor. In the earliest days of humanity, they migrated from their ancestral lands along the Mother River into the Misty Wilderness. But humans were utterly powerless, and faced with the myriad races of the Misty Wilderness, they were nothing more than pigs and dogs.]

Humans are merely a superior race of beings capable of enhancing their "intelligence."

During the darkest three hundred years, humanity had an ancestor who tasted hundreds of medicines, ingesting poisons and herbs to create secret elixirs, and invented a method to condense "source blood." Over the next eight hundred years, twelve Martial Ancestors were born, finally perfecting the martial arts.

This is the origin of the First Heaven.

However, human warriors are inherently weak. Even with perfect internal organs and the power to uproot mountains, they cannot contend with supernatural arts, ferocious beasts, or great demons, let alone demon gods or gods of destiny.

The wild tribes mocked the humans, delighted to see them gather "Source Blood," because the "Human Spirit Seed" forged from human warriors possessed extraordinary effects.

A century later, humanity gave birth to another Martial Ancestor, who, having absorbed all the wisdom of his predecessors, single-handedly created the Second Heaven—the Rise of an Army!

He was the last Martial Ancestor of the human race, the thirteenth Martial Ancestor, whose name was—Flame Ancestor!

After Yan Zu raised his army, he devoted his life to passing on the martial arts, and created the Furnace Soldier Master and True Martial Soldier Master to suppress and kill powerful alien demons. In just three hundred years, the human race flourished, becoming one of the top ten in the Mist. The alien demon gods realized this and joined forces to try to destroy the human martial arts.

[The Yan Ancestor clan was torn apart, yet he fought countless battles against powerful demons of other races, finally achieving the pinnacle of his will, ascending to the third heaven, and forging an unparalleled divine weapon!]

With the Flame Ancestor's life-or-death techniques and his supreme divine weapon, he was more than capable of carrying three alien demon gods to their doom.

[The demon god's lifespan is endless, and no one is willing to perish together with the Flame Ancestor.]

The two sides are locked in a stalemate.

Afterwards, Yan Zu's three thousand disciples spread throughout the various spiritual realms, disseminating the true art of raising armies to all human tribes. Meanwhile, Yan Zu, wielding his divine weapon, sat in meditation atop Mount Tongtian, intimidating the alien demon gods.

[A hundred years ago, a peerless human king emerged, desiring to unify the world and establish an eternal kingdom. On that day, ten gods of destiny rose from the depths of the void sea. Ultimately, the Flame Ancestor could not defy destiny and vanished into ashes at the age of eight hundred.]

From that time onward, humanity suffered the envy of the heavens. No matter how exceptionally talented or brilliant one might be, how much willpower one possessed that rivaled that of ancient sages, or how many supreme divine weapons one wielded that allowed one to roam the eight wastelands, even demons and gods would retreat in fear, none could withstand the swift passage of eight hundred years of destiny.

The Lord of War wields the power to shatter mountains and split seas, yet his lifespan is even shorter than that of a Star Moon Clan member at the Black Iron Realm.

[But the greatest aspiration of all sentient beings in their practice is to attain immortality!]

[—Only the human race, regardless of the martial arts they employ, cannot achieve immortality.] [Once one cultivates the source bloodline, they are inherently repelled by the magical power and other magical abilities of other races. Moreover, even if a human hybrid cultivates a different race's inheritance, they cannot achieve immortality unless someone steps forward and shatters the eight hundred years of destiny that hang over humanity's head.]

"Immortality?"

Luo Yi seemed somewhat dazed.

"Ten thousand years is too long, we seize the day!"

[This is what the young man surnamed Gu said.]

Throughout history, only three hundred martial ancestors, human emperors, and sages have been revered by all nations of the human race, while countless heroes and valiant figures have made a splash and left their mark outside the Hall of Martial Arts.

However, after the clan became powerful, some rulers neglected the well-being of their people and instead began to pursue the "illusory" path of immortality...

[Beginning the pursuit of eternal glory...]

The young man surnamed Gu is none other than Zhao Tianji, the current king of the Zhao state.

Luo Yi could actually understand the current King of Zhao. His mind had changed too quickly along the way, and the alien demons and demon gods had already achieved immortality, seemingly within reach.

Perhaps one day, he too will pursue the so-called "immortality."

[After that long conversation, the young man surnamed Gu stayed in Cuiyu Territory for some time.]

Luo Yi cultivated three superior inherited true skills from the "Crimson Ape Demon-Subduing Divine Intent Combat Technique," reaching the pinnacle of warrior cultivation. He had already secretly collected a hundred jin of mithril by plundering the Rabbit Clan's spiritual realm, yet he delayed forging a weapon, determined to forge an unparalleled spiritual weapon!

Only when a spiritual weapon is sublimated into an unparalleled spiritual weapon does one have even a slim chance of attaining enlightenment.

But mithril and adamantite are treasures in any race!

[Luo Yi doesn't necessarily need to become a Dao-proving Soldier Master; he only needs to become a True Martial Soldier Master, and even the dominant clans will have to give way.]

Of the three hundred heroes who followed the King of Zhao, only three rose to become True Martial Warriors. Two of them commanded vast armies, suppressing the dominant clans of this great state and protecting the human race for three hundred years.

[After becoming a second-level Heavenly Soldier Master, there are three paths.]

[The path to becoming a king is one of shared destiny with the nation, upholding the great sun to protect all people, forging the destiny of our human race, and illuminating it for ten thousand years!]

[The second path is that of a divine general, commanding an army of 100,000, battling heaven and earth, their will integrated into their battle spirit, capable of suppressing demon gods.]

[The third path leads to sainthood; this is the path of the sovereign, whose immense power is forged into an unparalleled divine weapon. He wields this sword to slay evil dragons for the world, and to intimidate foreign demons and gods. He should be a saint!]

The Crimson Flame Army of Zhao is a legacy of battle spirit left behind by a Dao-proving divine general.

[The Zhao state forged its divine mandate; before setting out to explore the wilderness, the will of a warrior in the martial arts hall inspired the sage, and he gained the approval of an unparalleled divine weapon.]

[Within the mist, the divine beasts are all forged from the "will of man," serving as sharp weapons against the gods of destiny and ferocious beasts. Among them, the "Crimson Ape Demon-Subduing Divine Will Battle Technique" even originates from the first human emperor of ancient times.]

[During the most prosperous period of the six eternal kingdoms of the human race, the three Dao-proving war masters lived in the same era. Above the mist, the great sun of human destiny hung high, illuminating the divine generals who had transformed into heaven-reaching battle spirits, wielding supreme divine weapons obtained by saints through their Dao-proving.]

[Facing that colossal human god who had shattered mountains and rivers.]

Even the most powerful gods can fall!

[Luo Yi is a tyrant who has comprehended a superior inherited technique. He saw a scene left behind by the first Human Emperor—a giant god wreathed in flames, wielding a great axe, cleaving down the God of Destiny!]

A surge of pride rose within Luo Yi; he was determined to forge an unparalleled divine weapon!

In October, the peerless spiritual weapon, the Black Dragon, decisively defeated the combined forces of the Rabbit Clan and the Hundred Wilderness Tribes. One Rabbit Clan Bodhisattva perished, and the Fox Clan's Grand Mage, along with representatives from the three great divine realms of the Morning Star Empire, all returned wounded, their whereabouts unknown as they ventured deep into the mist.

This is a trap set by the Lord of Black Cloud City and the martial arts instructors. He is feigning weakness to secure victory in this decisive battle!

Of course, no one knows whether the Lord of Black Cloud City was actually injured. However, after that, he rarely left his post and no longer personally led the Black Dragon Army in battles.

[Meng Zhan, the military lord under Black Cloud City, led the human army on a long march, conquering the ancestral spiritual realm of the Morning Star Empire, one of the largest spiritual realms in the continent. He seized the third-tier spiritual seed, Jianmu, and established a new Black Cloud City there!]

Three months later, the Morning Star Empire collapsed.

All Star-Moon Elves have been enslaved by humans. Those at the Gold Realm or above will be killed without exception. The Star-Moon race's script has been burned, and the use of the Elven language is forbidden. Those who cannot learn the human language will also be killed without exception.

[The only exception is the Star-Moon Elves of Emerald Whisper Territory.]

Luo Yi allowed his friend Anya to shelter the commoner elves of the Star-Moon Clan.

[Because the White Rainbow Sword Saint had not achieved any merit, yet received a Great Spirit Realm and was addressed as the White Rainbow City Lord by Meng Zhan, the current commander of the Black Dragon Army, the human warriors and generals of Black Cloud City were all unruly and dissatisfied with this.]

[Below the Black Cloud City Lord are twenty-four county lords. Even the fiefdom of the City Lord's beloved general, the Military Master Meng Zhan, is only that of a county lord. So why can the White Rainbow Sword Saint carve out a territory and call himself a city lord?]

However, this matter was decided by the master of the Martial Arts Hall and personally ordered by the Lord of Black Cloud City; no one dared to disobey.

The samurai generals and commanders, secretly dissatisfied, came to challenge him.

[But the White Rainbow Sword Saint merely raised his eyes and drew his sword—very few could withstand Luo Yi's single strike.]

Soon after, the fleeing Divine Realm of the Morning Star Empire learned of the empire's demise. He summoned the monstrous beasts of the Sunset Mountains to teach humanity a bloody lesson. Coincidentally, Cuiyu was caught in the crossfire, and Luo Yi used the peerless spiritual weapon "Heavenly Punishment Blade" to force the beasts back.

Although the ferocious beast was not a cub of the Heavenly Destiny God, the fact that Bai Hong Sword Saint single-handedly repelled it demonstrates that his combat strength is second only to the Black Cloud City Lord.

After that, the human generals never mentioned the matter again.

Under Luo Yi's instructions, Miss Delilah adopted orphans affected by the war and trained them as soldiers.

[Baihong City, situated in the west, suppressed the remnants of the Rabbit Clan and the wilderness alien tribes, gradually becoming a major power.]

Having witnessed the cruelty between races, Luo Yi stayed in the Emerald Whisper Territory, devoting himself to cultivation, observing the changing winds and clouds with his sword, silently awaiting the fall of the Augu Empire into the Land of Return to Nothingness.

This wait lasted twenty years.

[During the past twenty years, internal turmoil has gripped the human race. The Crimson Flame Army, which once suppressed the three races, has collapsed, and its once-immortal battle banner has been destroyed in demonic flames. Afterwards, the Moon-Worshipping Demons openly wreak havoc across the eight directions of the spiritual realms.]

[And the young man surnamed Gu who became acquainted with Luo Yi has now shed his naiveté.]

He was originally the chief disciple of the martial arts academy, but joined the army after fulfilling his master's orders.

Now the leader of the Crimson Flame Army's Furnace Soldiers, clad in armor and wielding a spear, he led a remnant force across eight hundred miles of mist to Black Cloud City.

Under the arrangement of the Black Cloud City Lord, the young man surnamed Gu became Master Gu, determined to kill the Holy King Zhao Tianji and overthrow the dynasty.

Master Gu must unite all forces.

However, the Black Cloud City Lord, severely injured years ago, fought a life-or-death battle with five Bodhisattvas and Divine Realm level figures. Although he won, his foundation was damaged, and he was no longer able to lead the Black Dragon Army. At this time, Master Gu remembered a sword and personally went to the Spirit Realm White Rainbow City.

Luo Yi received news from his "old friend" and left the pass to meet him.

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(End of this chapter)