Chapter 1568: Chapter One Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy-Six: The False King

"A true King may not enter..."

Qin Jiujie squinted slightly as he stared at the single character that had changed on the stone stele, saying: "You went through all this trouble just to add a single character to the 'Heaven King's Edict'?"

"Do you think the 'Heaven King's Edict' is so easy to alter? Even though we obtained the 'Heaven King Talisman', to change the rules on the stone stele, we still need the tacit approval of the original master of this 'Heaven King's Edict'. Otherwise, relying solely on the 'Heaven King Talisman', we couldn't even add this one character, unless a true Heaven King descended in person to act." The Spirit Eye Nether King said.

"Moreover, only our Guiyi Society has the ability to add this character. After all, the power of the Three-Pupiled Dark-Fetus Great Demon King cannot penetrate the Boundary River. If we don't help, it can only watch helplessly as this strange calamity is repelled."

The Spirit Eye Nether King raised his head to admire the five-character edict on the stone stele, saying: "The Heaven King Talisman will lend it a hand, allowing it to use this as a medium to project even more power."

Qin Jiujie nodded slightly. This added character seemed simple, but in reality, it altered the rules contained within the Black Rain.

Originally, the upper limit of power permitted within the Black Rain was the Top Marquis. But now, the Top Marquis is no longer the ultimate; the true ultimate will be...

A False King.

Resembling a King yet not a King, this is called a False King.

Strictly speaking, this is not a realm, but an achievement. However, throughout the ages, those who have achieved the False King achievement are even rarer than those who have achieved the true King realm.

If the Top Marquis is the extreme of the Marquis Realm, then the False King is the extreme among Top Marquises.

For those who wish to obtain the False King achievement, there is only one evaluation in heaven and earth: the so-called "Six Ten-Pillars, Three Nine-Pillars"!

When you have forged six Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms, and simultaneously forged three Nine-Pillar Marquis Platforms, the power possessed by this realm has already far surpassed the so-called Upper Ninth Grade. But strictly speaking, it still has not broken through to the King realm. Therefore, those who can achieve this step will receive the reputation of "False King".

This is an extremely rare achievement, because those who can forge six Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms are only one step away from the "Peerless Marquis". Such a person must be astonishingly talented and unrivaled in gift. Therefore, even if they have to exhaust everything, they would likely attempt to forge that seventh Ten-Pillar Golden Platform and become a Peerless Marquis.

For such unrivaled prodigies, the False King is not an honor; on the contrary, it is a symbol of failure.

Precisely because of this, the False King is even rarer than the true King.

Based on the intelligence Qin Jiujie knew, on this Outer Shenzhou today, one probably cannot find a single False King.

The ones closest to this realm now are probably Li Luo and Jiang Qing'e, these two unrivaled Sixth Grades. But even so, compared to a False King, they still lack the foundation of three Nine-Pillar Marquis Platforms.

As Qin Jiujie's thoughts churned, he suddenly sensed an extremely astonishing wave of malice emanating from the depths of the bottomless pitch-black rift in the earth ahead. His gaze looked over, and he saw Ninth Grade True Demons walking out from the darkness everywhere, then they began a bloody, cruel mutual devouring.

Shattered limbs, shrill howls, constantly flying about.

With the change in the rules of the Heaven King's Edict, the strange beings here also began, under the will of the Three-Pupiled Dark-Fetus Great Demon King, to catalyze and fuse a new power that conformed to its rules.

That is, a power comparable to a False King.

Such fusion is somewhat inconceivable for other living beings, but for strange beings, erosion and devouring are simply their instinct.

Although the False King strange beings produced by such devouring and fusion will not exist for long, in the current situation, they possess a decisive role in establishing victory.

Qin Jiujie could even imagine that when these False King strange beings appear on the battlefield, the three great Heaven King lineages, which had been breaking through with unstoppable momentum during this period, would suffer what a ferocious head-on blow.

Their soaring morale during this period will also plummet along with it.

The Spirit Eye Nether King and Qin Jiujie waited here for two days. Two days later, the eerie howls from within the pitch-black abyss rift abruptly ceased. Then, they sensed the birth of an obscure and terrifying wave of malice.

They stared into the abyss, where the sound of flesh and blood mud flowing came, then rolling blood plasma roared out like a flood. Within the blood plasma, a massive flesh ball floated up and down unsteadily.

The flesh ball was covered with ghastly, twisted runes, resembling eerie, agonized human faces. The next moment, cracks appeared on the flesh ball, and a pale, emaciated hand stretched out from within, casually tearing the flesh ball apart.

As the flesh ball was torn apart, a naked figure emerged from within. It was a slender-bodied woman, almost no different from an ordinary woman, the only distinction being a pair of white feathered wings growing from her back.

There was an inexplicable sense of sanctity.

But when the wings spread, one could discover that they were clearly "finger-wings" formed by the accumulation of countless fingers, bloated and pale from being soaked in liquid. A chilling fluctuation emanated along with it.

The Spirit Eye Nether King and Qin Jiujie could clearly perceive that the wave of malice emanating from within this "finger-winged" woman strange being before them was far more formidable than those Ninth Grade True Demons before.

This is, a False King strange being has been born.

And at this moment, the newly born "finger-winged" woman raised her head to look in the direction of the two. A bewitching smile appeared on her pale, delicate face. The instinct of a strange being made her want to obliterate the two before her.

However, just as she was about to lift her foot to walk over, it seemed some command came from the unseen, causing her to suppress her instinct. Then the "finger-wings" on her back spread, her figure shot straight up into the sky, and she directly swept toward the distant horizon.

As this "finger-winged" woman departed, a chilling wind suddenly swept across heaven and earth, followed by Black Rain beginning to pour down.

Between heaven and earth, the Black Rain poured like a waterfall, filled with an aura of destruction and death.

Qin Jiujie stretched out his hand and caught a drop of Black Rain. The Black Rain hovered in his palm. His gaze condensed slightly, because he discovered that this Black Rain was somewhat different from before.

Within that single raindrop, it seemed there were countless invisible eerie ashes, slowly swimming within like worms.

"The Black Rain has strengthened."

Qin Jiujie said softly. Clearly, the strengthening of the Black Rain was due to the "Heaven King Talisman" they provided; this object caused the Three-Pupiled Dark-Fetus Great Demon King to project even more power.

And facing the strengthened Black Rain, whether it is the "Spring Rain Transforming Evil Array" of the Qin Li Tianwang lineage, or the "Light Divine Crystal Demonic-Slaying Array" put together by the Li Li Tianwang lineage, both will likely be affected quite significantly.

"The three great Heaven King lineages have had it smooth for too long; it's time to bring them a little surprise." The Spirit Eye Nether King beside him laughed hoarsely.

"Good. The more powerful experts they lose, the more mature the 'Life Fruits' we harvest this time will be."