Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 240 Myth, Immortality, and the Eternal God?

"you?"

Zhu Jinzhen glanced at Bai Zhantang and Tong Boda, who were kneeling on the ground trembling, and then glanced at Yan Yimei, who immediately turned her head away, pretending that nothing had happened.

"Okay, get up."

"Your Highness, should I... perhaps I should remain kneeling?" Tong Boda said cautiously, not daring to raise his head. Just now, when Yan Yimei's killing intent erupted, he felt as if the entire world had turned blood red, and all things in the vast world were filled with the smell of death.

Tong Boda roamed the martial arts world for decades, establishing the Longmen Escort Agency. He traveled all over the country and met all kinds of masters.

But the first time he saw it, even just a wisp of killing intent, he felt as if he were about to fall straight into the underworld.

That fierce power, even if only for a moment, frightened him.

Even Bai Zhantang was swallowing hard.

He knew that his own secret guard, Deputy Commander Yan, was incredibly powerful, but he had always thought that he was just a Grandmaster of Celestial Phenomena, at most a terrestrial immortal who was slightly higher than him.

Only today did I realize that I was like a frog in a well.

"This isn't a terrestrial immortal, it's a terrestrial celestial being!" Bai Zhantang lamented inwardly. He had once dreamed that if he broke through to the terrestrial immortal realm, he might have a chance to advance further in the secret guard.

Now it seems that he is overthinking.

Although he was a top-tier celestial master, in the eyes of Yan Yimei, the deputy commander, he was no different from a lowly henchman in the ninth rank of martial arts.

"Hmm?" Zhu Jinzhen frowned.

Upon hearing this slightly disgruntled voice, Tong Boda, whose legs had just gone weak, instantly tensed up and stood up.

Bai Zhantang also quickly got up.

"Alright, let's leave it at that."

"Whether it's Zhou Huai'an, or Yang Yuxuan's children, or those who secretly follow them."

As Zhu Jinzhen spoke, he looked at Bai Zhantang and said, "Since you're here, I'll entrust this task to you. I'll have Yimei allocate some secret guards to you later, or you can go to the secret guard branch to ask for people yourself."

"I have only one request: bring the person back."

Originally, Zhu Jinzhen wanted Yan Yimei to handle this matter, but Bai Zhantang just happened to run into the crossfire.

"Yes, I will take care of it immediately." Bai Zhantang bowed and accepted the order. He was already very familiar with the secret guard missions and had no objections whatsoever.

"Well, we'll talk about that later."

"Continuing our previous topic, what were those people actually hiding and escorting?"

"Your Highness, it was a group of tomb raiders who stole half a scroll of celestial scripture from the Qin King's tomb, as well as... fragments of celestial stars that are suspected to be related to the celestial stars existing in the First Emperor's mausoleum."

Qin King's Tomb?
Zhu Jinzhen's eyebrows twitched violently, almost thinking he had misheard: "You mean, among the things those people were escorting, there were fragments of the celestial star that exist in the First Emperor's mausoleum?"

To be honest, the so-called "celestial star" is actually just something Zhu Jinzhen made up by combining the meteorite that fell in Dongjun in the 36th year of Qin Shi Huang's reign with the plot of a certain time-travel drama.

The purpose was simply to make the First Emperor's Mausoleum more mysterious and to make the matter of the Heavenly Sword more believable to outsiders.

So now Bai Zhantang is telling him that there really is such a thing as Tianxing??

"wrong."

Zhu Jinzhen suddenly realized something and thought to himself, "I was wrong. There really were such things as celestial stars in history. Meteorites falling from the sky, Mars guarding the heart of the planet, the Longmen Escort Agency might be transporting fragments of the real Mars Stone?"

As for the Qin King's tomb?
After calming down, Zhu Jinzhen realized that it couldn't possibly be the First Emperor's mausoleum.

Otherwise, Bai Zhantang would have directly stated that it was the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, not the Tomb of the King of Qin. He guessed that it was either the mausoleum of the successive rulers of the Qin state, or the tomb of Ying Ziying, the King of Qin. Zhu Jinzhen was more inclined to believe the latter.

"Where's the stuff?"

Zhu Jinzhen looked at Bai Zhantang with curiosity.

"Your Highness, they are outside."

When the two men came to pay their respects, they had nothing of value. This was partly out of respect, and partly because the Heavenly Star Fragment was a bit strange, making Bai Zhantang hesitant to bring it to Zhu Jinzhen for fear of causing any misunderstanding.

"Bring them in." Zhu Jinzhen glanced at Yan Yimei beside him, who understood and immediately transmitted her voice to the Cangyun soldiers outside to bring in the two brocade boxes that Bai Zhantang had temporarily left outside.

Two brocade boxes, one containing a patch, and the other containing...

Zhu Jinzhen flashed and appeared in front of the stone that had mysteriously floated up on its own as the brocade box was opened. He reached out and grabbed it, his face as strange as could be.

This strange stone, the "Fragment of the Celestial Star" mentioned by Bai Zhantang, contains extremely rich and powerful energy.

Or rather... a glimmer of hope!
"How is this possible? Could it be... that Yi Xiaochuan exists in the Qin Dynasty of this martial arts world?" A scene flashed through Zhu Jinzhen's mind: the scene of a meteorite falling from the sky in a time-travel drama called "Myth," and Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao, who lived from the Qin Dynasty to the present day thanks to the meteorite's immortality.

However, these are just suspicions.

After all, even the First Emperor of the Martial Arts World launched a nationwide campaign against Heaven. It was highly unlikely that two transmigrators, Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao, could stir up trouble and achieve immortality in an era that was almost like the Immortal Qin Dynasty.

"Perhaps I'm overthinking it." Zhu Jinzhen chuckled self-deprecatingly. Ever since the bizarre and strange backgrounds of this martial arts world were incorporated into his life, and even the appearance of transmigrators, he had become somewhat paranoid.

"Your Highness, is there something strange about this thing?" Yan Yimei asked worriedly.

"It's nothing." Zhu Jinzhen shook his head, released his hand, and the strange stone piece seemed to have lost all its power as he easily put it into the brocade box.

He continued to reach into the second brocade box and took out the contents.

This is the half-scroll of heavenly book that Bai Zhantang mentioned.

"The Heavenly Mending Technique?" The words Zhu Jinzhen murmured made Yan Yimei's pupils shrink, and she subconsciously turned her gaze to the tattered scroll in Zhu Jinzhen's hand that resembled neither jade nor bamboo.

The Qin Dynasty's Small Seal script was not difficult for Zhu Jinzhen to understand.

He had synchronized his martial arts cultivation and strength with Tong Chi, and his knowledge was also included.

The contents of this half-scroll of 'heavenly book' opened Zhu Jinzhen's eyes to a whole new world.

Transforming into the heavens, repairing the earth, altering celestial phenomena, and determining the course of mountains and rivers, even amidst worldly changes and the transformation of the sea into mulberry fields, all is but a thought away. Ultimately, one can transform into the unchanging heavens, embodying the Dao of Heaven, repairing the earth, manipulating creation, and uniting the three souls of heaven, earth, and humanity to achieve an eternal and indestructible god.

"That's quite a boast." Zhu Jinzhen neither confirmed nor denied it. Most of the contents of this half-scroll of 'heavenly book' were true, but the wording was somewhat exaggerated.

The so-called transformation of the body into the cosmos is nothing more than the unity of man and nature.

One can cultivate to the terrestrial celestial realm, easily altering celestial phenomena and changing the course of mountains and rivers. Any celestial being can live for thousands of years, witnessing the changing of the world, the rise and fall of dynasties, and the transformation of life.

As for what later transformed into the unchanging heavens, mending the world and manipulating creation.

Due to missing information, Zhu Jinzhen could not make any inferences, and it would take a considerable amount of time to deduce the truth.

On the contrary, it was the fragment in the last half of the Heavenly Book that mentioned gathering the three souls of Heaven, Earth, and Man to create an eternal and indestructible god, which made Zhu Jinzhen's eyes light up. The so-called eternal and indestructible god was not a deity, but a spirit.

A god who cultivates his own three souls and seven spirits into a primordial spirit.

It is similar to the Dragon God Technique cultivated by Tong Chi, the difference being that one has an immortal physical body while the other has an immortal soul.

"If the two are combined..." Zhu Jinzhen's eyes gleamed with anticipation. The thirteen layers of Dragon God Technique and the immortal body he obtained from Tong Chi already made his physical body indestructible. If he were to cultivate the 'Heavenly Mending Divine Technique', he would be completely without any weaknesses.

(End of this chapter)