Chapter 1157

"I cannot use the Creation Dao Fruit, but are you at your peak?"

Xu Fu's remaining head rolled around on the ground, but he still sneered: "During the Battle of Yinghuo Guarding the Heart, your physical body was executed by Wang He Jian with the Bingxian Dao Fruit, your spirit was destroyed by the Great Heavenly Demon Li Si, and finally, even your Dao Fruit was suppressed by His Majesty with the Emperor Dao Fruit into the Yu Yu Jiuyou!"

"Now, although you have been resurrected by the Jade Emperor shining the Eternal Immortal Light down."

"Your Dao Fruit is still in destruction. If you had returned to the Heavenly Court to recuperate early, spending ten thousand years, it would not have been difficult to wash it out of the Destruction Dao Fruit, but now you dare to stay in His Majesty's mausoleum..."

"You must know that once you die, your Primordial Spirit will return to the Dao Fruit and continue to sink into destruction."

"This Eternal Immortal Light, incomparably precious in the cosmic realms, is going to be wasted by you!"

The Red Emperor said indifferently: "Xu Fu, you are still so afraid of death! Back then, the four great alchemists who besieged me—the Mohist leader broke the star fate on me, Ouyezi suppressed the Chixiao Sword, and Lu Buwei even temporarily stripped my Red Emperor status with the Heavenly Principle Dao Fruit."

"Only you, the Creation Dao Fruit, among the seven great Dao Fruits of your creation, is the closest to creation. But you only dared to attack the immortals and divine generals accompanying me..."

"From that moment on, I saw through your essence of being fierce in appearance but weak in reality; you are too afraid of death! Xu Fu! Life and death can already shake the essence of your Dao Fruit."

"In order to kill me, or rather..."

"In order to resist the might of the Heavenly Court, Wang He Jian abandoned the War Dao Fruit, which was incomparably important to him, and instead found the true spirit of the Primordial Vermilion Ape Great Sage, fusing his own small-success War Dao Fruit with the partial Disaster Dao Fruit that the Vermilion Ape had once attained, actively demoting himself from the War Dao Fruit to the Bingxian Dao Fruit representing the disasters of the military family!"

"Only then did he forcibly cultivate a great-success Dao Fruit."

"He also gave the War Dao Fruit to Meng Tian, allowing the fifth Dao Lord of the military family to be born, creating the illusion that he was still suppressing the situation in the Earth Immortal Realm."

"But his essence does not match the Bingxian Dao Fruit; in the future, he will inevitably be backlashed by that part of the Vermilion Ape's Disaster Dao Fruit!"

"Therefore, the Kingly Dao Fruit of my Chixiao Sword slashed part of the backlash of the Emperor Dao Fruit onto his Dao Fruit; he will inevitably die before Ying Zheng..."

"Backlashed by the Way of the Emperor, for the rest of his life, he can only self-defile to resist the backlash of his Dao Fruit."

"Not to mention Li Si!"

"The Great Heavenly Demon status was calculated by him from Bai Qi, which is also the reason he plotted against Han Fei."

"But the Great Heavenly Demon status is an incomparably taboo power, so I actively sent my spirit to him to be destroyed, strengthening the power of the Great Heavenly Demon status. Ying Zheng can naturally control a mere Great Heavenly Demon, but he is about to die. After he dies? No matter who the Emperor Dao Fruit is passed to, they will not trust a Great Heavenly Demon who can control Dao Fruits and Dao Lords!"

"Wang Ben, who attained the Military Formation Dao Fruit, is merely picking up the scraps of Feng Hou's formation Dao Fruit, far inferior to his father!"

"Of course, there is also you, Xu Fu!"

"I couldn't do much at that time. I slashed him once with the flaw in Wang He Jian's great-success Dao Fruit, leaving behind an indelible Dao wound; plotting against Li Si and manipulating the transfer of the Great Heavenly Demon status from him already exhausted ten layers of my energy!"

"With the remaining bit of light, I could only notice you, this waste who is afraid of death!"

The Red Emperor stepped on Xu Fu's head and said slowly, as if piercing his heart: "In order to embody the Red Emperor status, I had to slash out the perfect-level Kingly Dao Fruit to attain the lower position of Fire Virtue, the Yinghuo Dao Fruit."

"Only then did you four great alchemists work together to suppress Chixiao, allowing Ying Zheng and the others to find an opening and forcibly kill me!"

"But the power of the Yinghuo Dao Fruit can also manipulate a person's original heart, and even shift the nature of a Primordial Spirit True Immortal that would not have been shifted. Among all people, your nature is the least firm, so I only needed to give a light push before I died, causing you, a dignified Qin Dynasty great alchemist, to have your original heart shaken, determining the outcome that you would inevitably betray me in the future!"

"For us, death is never the most important thing."

The Red Emperor said eerily: "You mortals will never realize this point!"

"To kill me, you paid too much, but even if I sank into destruction, I laid the groundwork for the destruction of your little Qin before I died!"

"This is—Heavenly Mandate!"

He looked at the jade in the Ear Dao God's hand and laughed, looking up: "Back then, Ying Zheng tried to peek at the Heavenly Mandate, or rather, the Heavenly Mandate actively manifested, allowing him to peek. He did not accept his fate, but what was the result?"

"You Qin Dynasty people never struggled out of fate. Even though I died, when the day of the Heavenly Mandate arrived, didn't I resurrect in the world?"

Xu Fu's hair and beard stood on end, and he said angrily: "Zhuxiang!"

"You ghost of the old heaven, you traitor to your father..."

Dao Lord battles are always difficult to decide in a moment, so tearing each other's old foundations and exposing each other's dark history before the battle is an old tradition!

"When the Yan and Huang split, you betrayed your father, Lieshan, and stood on the side of the Five-Colored Divine Court."

"Although you inherited the name of Red Emperor, everyone knows that the true primordial Red Emperor is forever that Lieshan with an unyielding spine! Even Nine Li Chiyou would not be you, the eldest son of Lieshan, Emperor Son Kui!"

The Red Emperor snorted coldly: "Shut up, I am Emperor Kui, I haven't been Emperor Son Kui for a long time!"

This Heavenly Court Red Emperor was unexpectedly like Zhushu, the eldest son of the primordial Five Emperors, the eldest son of the Flame Emperor, Emperor Kui.

Back when Lieshan and Lady Gongsun split, he led his tribe to walk down from the Heavenly Realm, transforming into the Nine Li God Clan.

But his tribe did not all follow him away; a portion remained in the Five-Colored Divine Court, led by Lieshan's eldest son, Emperor Kui. He had also been appointed Red Emperor and had been the leader of the Five-Colored Divine Court, but in the end, the Fire Virtue representing continuation, resistance, inheritance, and burning only served one person.

That was the true primordial Red Emperor—Lieshan Shennong!

Of the primordial Five Emperors, Shennong was the first to fall, yet in the Yu Yu Jiuyou, he still ignited the unceasing flame of resistance.

Xu Fu's head was stepped on by the Red Emperor, but he still laughed uncontrollably: "Emperor Kui, that's right, you haven't been worthy of being called Emperor Kui for a long time!"

"You have been abandoned by the Supreme, and there is no place for you in the new heaven!"

"So you five ghosts of the old heaven can only wag your tails and beg for mercy from a junior, a mere Jade Emperor, asking him to appoint you as the five emperors of the new heaven. Bah! Chiyou has been dead for billions of years and is still the Master of Soldiers, while you, you died once, and you are no longer the Heavenly Court Red Emperor!"

The Red Emperor frowned slightly and said: "What do you mean I am no longer..."

He fell silent when he reached this point, raised his head bit by bit, and said coldly: "The Yinghuo Dao Fruit sank into the Yu Yu Jiuyou, but it was originally condensed by the star fate the Jade Emperor gave me for the sake of the fake Red Emperor position."

"As long as the Chixiao Sword is here, I will always be the Heavenly Court Red Emperor! Even if that kid borrowed my status for a while and left me a position as ridiculous as the Black Emperor, as long as I return, he is the one who is the Black Emperor."

"Chixiao!" The Red Emperor reached out and summoned, and that shout rolled through the void.

Yet there was no response at all.

The Red Emperor frowned tightly and shouted again: "Chixiao!"

The Kingly Dao Fruit he slashed, although it could not operate the Fire Virtue of the old heaven, he had falsely held the imperial position for so many years; he had not attained the status of Emperor or Sovereign, but calling himself 'King' was absolutely no problem.

And he was the first King.

Upholding the Heavenly Mandate and operating the Great Dao is the Kingly Way.

The Five Emperors rebelled against heaven, defeating Haotian's incarnation, making that truly selfless Haotian, who was as indifferent as the Heavenly Dao, realize that his incarnation and many innate gods had been polluted by human greed, fear, and resentment!

Therefore, he used the Yellow Emperor to slash this incarnation, returning to the ruthlessness of the Heavenly Dao.

And after the Yellow Emperor followed the Heavenly Mandate, he was appointed by Haotian to ascend to the throne as Emperor.

Attaining the Heavenly Mandate to ascend to the Divine Court, destroying the era of innate gods, and opening the Heavenly Court for acquired living beings—this is the Heavenly Mandate, the great trend, the Kingly Way!

He, Emperor Kui, upheld the Kingly Way and led the Five-Colored God Clan to rule the world again; was it not reasonable?

Why?

Why follow his father, who was completely blinded by anger, still stuck in the previous era of resistance, and refused to change, abandoning the great responsibility bestowed by heaven, ignoring the countless acquired living beings of the three realms, betraying the Heavenly Dao, and going to the Primordial Wilderness to be a group of savages?

The Red Emperor was certain that the Dao Fruit he slashed could not betray him.

The collapse of the Five-Colored Divine Court back then was the result of the transfer of the Heavenly Mandate and the arrogance of the human race; and the Supreme slashing Haotian was a deeper change and replacement of the Heavenly Dao.

The Kingly Way was not wrong; it was heaven that had changed!

After the new heaven, the Supreme's will was the Heavenly Mandate. He painstakingly comprehended the Heavenly Mandate, finally saw through fate, and re-attained the Kingly Dao Fruit. As the three kings circulated, he was for a time one of the Four Mountains, assisting Xia Qi; for a time a minister of Shang Tang, guarding the Shang Dynasty; for a time the Son of Heaven of Zhou, a minister of the Jade Emperor, Nangong Kuo, ascending to heaven with the Jade Emperor...

Only then did the Kingly Dao Fruit reach great success.

When he met the Jade Emperor as a ghost of the Yu Yu Jiuyou, he knew that the Kingly Dao Fruit was feared by the Jade Emperor.

After all, the Kingly Way is the first Dao Fruit to follow heaven and respond to the mandate, governing the world on behalf of heaven. Back then, the Heavenly Emperor was 'Heaven', so the Kingly Way was under the Heavenly Emperor and should naturally have no taboos.

But now, the Supreme and Primordial are Heaven, the Heavenly Emperor inherits the Heavenly Dao, and the Divine Way establishes teachings to govern the world.

Although the Heavenly Emperor is still called Emperor, he has long since lost that supreme 'Emperor' position, turning instead to operate the Kingly Way and execute the will of the Primordial Dao Ancestor.

He and the Jade Emperor constituted a conflict of ecological niches.

Therefore, he took the opportunity of the Jade Emperor granting him the Yinghuo Heavenly Mandate to slash the Kingly Dao Fruit, using the copper of Mount Shou and the bones of the Dragon Emperor to cast the Chixiao Sword, entrusting the Dao Fruit, and turning back to re-condense the Yinghuo Dao Fruit, using the partial Dao Fruit of Fire Virtue to usurp the status of Red Emperor.

Therefore, Emperor Kui had never looked down on the Yinghuo Dao Fruit, nor was he anxious about his Dao Fruit being entangled by destruction.

As long as Chixiao returned to its position, he could restore ninety percent of his power...

But as Chixiao did not respond for a long time, Emperor Kui finally became anxious!

"In the name of my Southern Heaven Red Emperor, Chixiao Sword, come..."

Emperor Kui used his divine name to summon, and with a shout, the Divine Way laws such as the Prestige Dao Fruit, the Communication Dao Fruit, and the Law Dao Fruit all operated together, transmitting the various authorities and majesty in this shout to the four directions of heaven and earth.

He wanted to pry open the Red Emperor status and summon the Chixiao Sword back!

But as the Divine Way laws operated, this shout spread far and wide, yet there was no echo, disappearing without a sound.

At this time, Cui Dan cautiously reminded: "Your Majesty, there is already a Heavenly Court Red Emperor. Why not try using Ye Guangji?"

The Red Emperor's face turned bright red, and looking at the unresponsive Divine Way laws, he could only shout: "I, Ye Guangji..."

This sound echoed in the void, immediately setting off boundless waves.

The Divine Way laws responded immediately, the Prestige Dao Fruit was added to his body, and endless divine generals, heavenly maidens, and various divine powers took shape, while the heaven and earth primordial qi and laws seemed to transform into heavenly soldiers and generals, responding in an instant.

"Obeying the Supreme's order..."

Emperor Kui's face first turned bright red, worthy of the name Red Emperor, and then black, like a true Black Emperor.

He gritted his teeth and cursed: "Rebellious son! Truly a rebellious son!"

For a time, his hatred for a certain unfilial son had exceeded that of the few great alchemists of the Qin Dynasty, second only to the Jade Emperor.

Xu Fu sneered from the side: "That's right! There has long been a Red Emperor, and now you are the Heavenly Court Black Emperor, by the name of Ye Guangji... Hahaha! You even lost your Chixiao Sword! It seems that cheap son of yours is indeed extraordinary. His aptitude might not be inferior to Ying Zheng's, he is just more slippery than him. You took his slipperiness for something easy to manipulate... Hahaha! Emperor Kui, you thought you had mastered the Heavenly Mandate, but now that the Heavenly Mandate is before you, do you still recognize it?"

"Hahaha!" Xu Fu laughed wildly at the sky, so much so that even the two hearts divided into double pupils were about to laugh themselves shut!

This proved that even Xu Fu, who feared life and death, was laughing wildly at this moment.

The Red Emperor... no, the Black Emperor's expression was incomparably ugly.

"Liu Bang... Liu Bang..." The Black Emperor wanted to slash wildly with his sword, but when he reached for his waist, he found the sword was gone!

The sword of the Kingly Way betrayed its master, and the spirit treasure entrusted with his perfect Dao Fruit betrayed him.

This only meant that someone had gone a step further on the Kingly Way, beyond his perfect Dao Fruit, and their grasp of the Kingly Way surpassed his, covering his Dao Fruit.

At this moment, the Black Emperor was truly broken.

He had understood the Heavenly Mandate through the Kingly Dao Fruit, meticulously planned to slash the Heavenly Mandate of the Qin Dynasty, and then gave birth to a son to replace it. For this, he spared no effort, transforming his own bloodline into a Wang Chilong, cuckolding a rural farmer, and giving birth to a Son of Heavenly Mandate.

But he didn't expect this Son of Heavenly Mandate to be so shameless!

At this time, someone was restless!

Xia Hou Xu climbed up, patted the dust off his body, and laughed thoughtfully: "If a Dao Lord loses their Dao Fruit, they seem to be just a Primordial Spirit, right?"

Xu Fu's mouth twitched: "A Dao Lord without a Dao Fruit is still not something a Primordial Spirit True Immortal can peek at."

"Moreover, the Black Emperor position of the Heavenly Court is also equivalent to a Dao Lord status; holding it, one can soon attain the Chenxing Dao Fruit."

Li Zhong weakly reminded from the side: "The Chenxing Dao Fruit has been vacant for too long; it seems to have been quietly swallowed by the True Dragon Dao Fruit!"

The Black Emperor was speechless for a moment, only murmuring: "My Chixiao Sword..."

He was heartbroken: "Ancestral Dragon Pearl, you led me to find the remains of the Primordial Dragon Emperor, did you calculate it to this step? Using the Dragon Emperor's remains to cast the sword, and the Chixiao Sword defecting to my unfilial son—the Dragon Clan must have contributed to this scheme."

"No... back then, I used the power of the Ancestor Dao Fruit on the Dragon Emperor's bones to refine my bloodline and transform into a Wang Chilong..."

"That unfilial son not only has my Flame Emperor bloodline but also the Dragon Clan blood of the Dragon Emperor!"

"Dragon Emperor... could it be that you were plotting behind the scenes?"

"You plotted the bloodline inheritance of the Han Dynasty, plotted the possibility of me using the Ancestor Dao Fruit to restrict that unfilial son, plotted the monstrous luck of the Han Dynasty, and even plotted away my Chenxing..."

The Black Emperor, with an empty position and empty sleeves, cursed at the sky: "I was killed by Ying Zheng and the others—wasn't that also your scheme?"