Jackie Chan Adventures: I, the Mirror God, Master of Fear

Chapter 123 Burning Rank
Russia.

Lin Luo stood with his hands tucked in his pockets, gazing at the sky.

Within his sleeve, hundreds of black sheep were resting, and a heart-shaped aura swirled around them.

This is the succubus vessel that Lin Luo found.

There are two types in total, one of which is the human race.

Lin Luo can continuously select highly charismatic human individuals and implant succubus seeds into them.

These seeds can cause them to become lewd and depraved, eventually gaining the power to alter their genes through desire, growing ram horns, bat wings, and tails, and ultimately becoming a transcendent race: succubi.

This approach has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that these succubi possess considerable supernatural power the moment they successfully transform.

They can reproduce by mating with humans, whether it's female succubi giving birth or male succubi giving birth, thus expanding the size of the race.

The downsides are also obvious: such unruly development makes them easy targets for righteous mages, and they are difficult to control. If they are caught again, they will need to be trained again.

The second one is these goats.

These goats will directly give birth to succubus cubs, who are the first generation of succubi, similar to mermaids.

The advantage is that they are easy to control, and after a period of baptism by the Water of Life, they may become the first race accepted by the human race.

They opened brothels under an official guise, relying on the growth of the human race to gradually multiply and expand.

The downside is that it takes some time.

However, since Daolong and Yi Liu could try to accelerate the growth rate, Lin Luo chose the goat.

Look at the mess these demons are making! We finally have a few new races; don't let them all be wiped out.
Look back.

Xi Mu is definitely not that strong; in fact, he is pitifully weak. Without being crowned, even Jackie Chan, who has never trained, almost pushed him back to hell with his bare hands.

Ximu, at this level, is unworthy of being crowned; or rather, the demon is no longer qualified to be crowned.

Moreover, the demons' mischief has little to do with him.

He wouldn't care as long as the human race wasn't wiped out.

Hands tucked in, I approached a city shrouded in black fog.

Lin Luo tried to go inside.

However, it was repelled by the black mist, clearly indicating that the master of this place did not welcome the arrival of the evil god.

Lin Luo looked up.

Now, not everyone has the right to refuse him.

The tassels on his crown swayed slightly, and the 20 solid beads emitted a faint aura. Lin Luo's scarlet eyes were fixed on one spot through the darkness.

Although it didn't unleash a particularly strong aura, the vast darkness around it still dispersed slightly after a brief hesitation.

Lin Luo drifted into the mist.

The surrounding view suddenly widened.

Against a somber black backdrop, the film features screams and gore as its themes.

The city is dying rapidly, and some alienated people are tearing at and cannibalizing their own kind like zombies.

The dead, trembling, either shed their tattered flesh and ignite the fire of their souls, rising as skeletons.

Or perhaps they rise up with their flesh and blood and begin attacking their former kind.

These are the most basic units of the Necromancer: skeletons and zombies.

Lin Luo ignored these tragedies. The evil god did have some humanity, but he was mostly divine.

His humanity allows him to ensure that even if he becomes a god of all races or even a conceptual god, he can preserve the human race's flame forever, but he won't be like a nanny who takes care of everything.

He is more inclined to gain something from it.

Lin Luo raised his hand and grabbed at a ghoul.

But then, a wizard dressed in tattered black robes and wielding a skull wand appeared.

A being whose face was hidden in a hood and black mist, with a soul flame flickering slightly, appeared in front of Lin Luo.

Haven't spoken yet.

Outside, the demonic aura surpassed the highest intensity ever seen during the Cursed Blue arc.

In the dim light, the two seemed to see a figure sitting high atop a celestial palace, looking down upon all things in the world, silently observing them.

This aura belongs to the former ruler of the Heavenly Palace.
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The Kingdom of Shadows.

"Father."

The little devil dragon hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

The Uncle Ba he saw this time was somewhat different from what he had expected.

He looked up and saw a powerful aura that he could feel across dimensions. Although it was somewhat beyond his comprehension, it was still in line with his expectations.

Now, in his eyes, demons should be that powerful.

But Ximu had been somewhat confused by his conversations with Shendu. Such a powerful demon, yet he was relinquishing his authority and stripping himself of his status.

All of this sounds so incredible.

The Holy Lord, lost in thought, looked up with a complex expression. Xi Mu's aura was still rising. But only his aura was rising.
What can't you understand?

Although the Holy Lord's tone was complex, it was mostly gentle. He always showed greater tolerance for his own children and was happy to answer some questions for the little demon dragon.

"I can't understand anything about Ximu. In your words, he seems terrible, but I can sense a power in him comparable to Zhou Lan, and you've always held Zhou Lan in high esteem."

The little demon dragon immediately asked, "And why would he give up everything, even his own life, to offer it to you?"

The Holy Lord paused for a moment before explaining, "Xi Mu suffered a severe depletion of his essence during his battle with the Undying God. After spending tens of thousands of years in Hell, his current true strength is less than half of yours."

The little demon dragon froze, staring incredulously at the surging, restless energy that even the shadows seemed to be stirring.

How could such an immense aura be possible?

The Holy Lord knew what the Demon Dragon was thinking and began to explain. Although he should have told him these things before, the Demon Dragon hadn't been so obedient back then, and most likely the words went in one ear and out the other.

Now that the glorious empire's support is gone, and with the overwhelming power of the Cursed Blue, his own child is willing to listen to him, so he's happy to repeat himself a few more times.

“Strong people generally possess three things: status, authority, and strength. These three are complementary, but they are also different.”

“Strength is the broadest concept, and it also includes the other two. As long as you are strong enough, your rank will not be low, and you will definitely be able to control power.”

"And authority is the rule, like our fire, you should understand that."

"Finally, there is the rank, which is also the most complex thing. The most essential rank comes from the level of life, the status rank comes from the dimension of destiny, and the destiny rank comes from the blessing of the world. These three ranks make up the true rank of a strong person."

"The level of one's life is generally determined by strength. Every leap in a being's strength brings about a transformation in their life level, and this transformation elevates a person's status."

“The position of destiny depends on your status. Every choice you make will increase this position. The greater the impact of your choices on the surrounding creatures and the world, the faster this position will grow. Just like those mortal emperors, who generally have a higher position than peasants.”

"If the first two ranks are high enough, then you can obtain the rank given by destiny. These ranks will make your cultivation twice as effective, turn danger into safety, and bring you good fortune."

"In essence, Zhou Lan uses his own position to enhance the position of destiny, forcibly activating the position of destiny, connecting the positions that he could influence back then, leveraging the blessing of the entire era, restoring himself while bearing the desires of that era, and ultimately using the world order as a supplement and everything about himself as an anchor point to position the two eras and start an era confrontation."

It's only because of his powerful position that this kind of confrontation could have been formed, and you've seen the price he paid.”

The Holy Lord offered a somewhat complicated explanation.

Zhou Lan has consumed the destiny of that era, and now no one can be crowned. Even if someone stronger and of higher rank than Zhou Lan appears later, they will not be able to do the same thing.

Firstly, the influence of the Cursed Blue on the fate of all living beings in that era was unparalleled. Secondly, the fate of that era had already been exhausted.

That was also the price of the era's attempt to revive.
If Zhou Lan wins, the old will rise again, and the seeds in the world will no longer be limited to the six Lin Luo possesses, but will be fully restored within a balanced framework.
A strange light gleamed in the eyes of the little demon dragon. He could vaguely recall some of this knowledge, but now it was much clearer.

He was eager to ask something, and the scene truly resembled a loving father and son.

Rasu, listening from the side, was already feeling a bit dizzy. What was all this? He couldn't understand it at all.

Do things like personalities and such really exist?
Is it really not something from a novel?
"What about Ximu?"

The Holy Lord returned to his stronghold with the demon dragon, handed Rasu over to Hanbing to watch over, and then looked out the window.

He could see that the bats in the void were dancing more and more gracefully, like a journey of a strong person from weakness to strength, full of hardships but rising straight up to the heavens.

"He is burning his own destiny, using the overwhelming force of fate to attack his own destiny, and ultimately destroying his own essence!"

"what?"

The little demon dragon was shocked: "How could this be? According to you, if the essence is destroyed, then the level of life will decrease. Will a demon still be a demon?"

The Holy Lord gazed silently at the heavens.

He said calmly, "He said that only in this way can the demon live."

"He's wrong!"

The little devil dragon made its assessment without hesitation.

In his understanding, demons are fighting against the times. Ximu's approach is like handing over your gun in a war, hoping that the enemy will treat the prisoners well, or even give them an official position.

That's simply unrealistic.
"Yes! He's wrong, demons shouldn't do this!"

The Holy Lord nodded, his tone certain.

How glorious was the era when demons ruled! How could demons have fallen so low?

The little demon dragon hesitated for a moment: "You said that a strong person has three things: rank, authority, and strength."

"Since Ximu has destroyed his own position and is extremely weak, Father, do you still want his authority?"

The Holy Lord remained silent.

He watched the figure soar higher and higher, feeling the dark era that temporarily belonged to Ximu.

A struggle between righteous energy and dark energy is erupting in the East.

In the northeastern part of the region, the black energy grew increasingly vast. Although it might seem slightly weaker compared to Ximu's current aura, it appeared to be the strongest black energy force in the world.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yes, why not?"

"Seventy percent of my anger was extinguished in hell, so I must make up for it. Let's prepare the materials."

(End of this chapter)