I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 628 Distortion
As the Netherworld Dragon God roared, an illusory long banner emerged. The banner was snow-white and had seven tails, symbolizing the seven souls.

The second-grade Shinto "Yi Xuan Ji" can change the rules of heaven and earth to a limited extent and realize wishes. When the two gods of Huaihe and Qishui were resurrected, they once condensed their own worn-out artifacts. The Netherworld Dragon God has mastered the [Fallen Banner] for tens of thousands of years, so he can naturally summon the phantom of the [Fallen Banner] from history.

As the [Fallen Banner] appeared, countless resentments and deathly auras condensed, the grey wronged souls formed a long river, and the snow-white bones piled up into a bank, which was about to transform into a complete Fallen Array, binding Zhou Tiege and the other two inside.

However, Zhou Tiege at this time is completely different from what he was then. With the blood of the Emperor of Life and Death and the help of Zhou Tieyi, he has completely subdued the two Yellow Springs Snake Fish under his seat, which symbolize life and death.

Two Yellow Spring snake fish, one black and one white, emerged like dragons from the sea. The black and white scissors cut again. No matter whether it was an illusory wronged soul or a real skeleton, they all turned into ashes under the pure power of life and death.

Zhou Tiege seized the opportunity, explored the surrounding space, and used the authority bestowed by the Emperor of Life and Death to directly open the portal here, leading to the outside world.

Then he did not continue fighting with the Netherworld Dragon God, but directly drove the Green Emperor's chariot, like a big green sun, through the space portal, and went out of the Youde Palace.

"Go away!"

This closed space was opened, and the Netherworld Dragon God was both surprised and happy. He had been mostly devoured by the Hanba, and both his body and will had been merged with the Hanba. Only a small amount of independent consciousness remained, just like the wronged souls bound in some cruel Horcruxes.

But I don’t know what happened today. The will of the drought demon has weakened and has not interfered with him until now. Now that this closed space has been opened, his will to survive has greatly increased, and he can’t wait to follow Zhou Tiege and leave.

So on the one hand, He shouted "Don't go", but on the other hand, He did not interfere with Zhou Tiege. Instead, He hovered and chased after him like a flowing cloud.

When circles of dragon bodies swam out from the vast ocean of black placenta, bringing up a large black tide, after the tide receded, the true situation inside was naturally revealed.

In the center of the ocean, sat an emperor dressed in royal robes. He wore a Great Xia-style imperial crown and a gorgeous twelve-chapter robe, but the twelve chapters on his body had undergone horrific changes.

The sun fell, the moon was broken, the mountains collapsed, the rivers and seas flowed backwards...

He seemed like a collection of all distortions. A pair of dragon horns grew on his already gaunt face, making his facial bones look even more rugged. A layer of fine dragon scales covered his skin, but red fuzz grew between the scales. The fuzz itself looked like a twisted dragon seal, but each seal was incomplete, representing extreme chaos, which would make people lose their minds at a glance.

Under him, the body of the Netherworld Dragon God had merged with him, just like his throne, so when the Netherworld Dragon God swam away, he naturally took the body of Hanba with him.

But at this moment, golden chains suddenly appeared in the void. These chains were forged with the purest destiny of the Great Xia nation. They also sprang out from Hanba's body and connected with the surrounding space, locking Hanba's body in this Netherworld Palace.

This was one of the backup plans made by the Great Xia court at the time, because the chain of national destiny itself is one of the sources of power for Hanba, so no matter how Hanba struggles, it is equivalent to wrestling with itself. Without the help of outsiders, it will never be able to destroy the chain of national destiny.

The Netherworld Dragon God pulled Hanba's body outward, which naturally attracted the attention of Hanba's will in the dream world.

The moment Zhou Tiege opened the sealed bone pillar, it had actually helped Hanba complete an important step in escaping, but it itself did not expect it to be so easy.

But at this moment, it didn't care whether Zhou Tiege's actions were a fraud. For a monster that had been imprisoned for hundreds of years, escaping was its only ideal, and the price it could pay was even far beyond other people's imagination!

"That body is for you. This body is all I need! Help me take this body!"

In the sky, Deng Zhenquan, who was confronting the Ghost Emperor Naraku, suddenly had a mouth on his left cheek and roared in the direction of the Ghost Emperor Naraku, saying that he wanted to complete a deal with the Ghost Emperor Mianlong.

It obtained Deng Zhenquan's body, and the Sleeping Dragon Ghost Emperor obtained the body of the Hanba!

At this time, because Zhou Tiege opened the seal, Deng Zhenquan had already understood from Emperor Gaozong's explanation that the real root cause was Zhou Tiege, but it was too late now. The opportunity for Hanba to be born was becoming more and more obvious, and he was getting further and further away from the state of "making merit". On the contrary, because the Confucian secret method suffered backlash, he could no longer suppress the will of Hanba itself.

But at this moment, Monk Huineng fell from reality into a dream. The place he chose to land was directly near Deng Zhenquan. He flew out the white Yin De lotus in his hand and said, "If you want to be liberated, you can become a Buddha, why become a demon!"

A six-meter-tall golden body of an Arhat appeared behind him. At this time, the golden body changed from light gold to red gold. The light was so red that even the Arhat's golden body seemed to be about to burn and melt. Countless golden lights of merit directly fell on Deng Zhenquan's body.

The fifth level of Buddhist practice is "universal salvation". At this time, Monk Huineng will try to save the drought demon with his merits as an arhat.

If it was a complete Hanba, he certainly wouldn't have this ability, but the current situation is that Hanba only has will, and this will has been integrated and cleansed by the great Confucian scholar Deng Zhenquan.

Sure enough, when the golden light of merit shone on Deng Zhenquan's body at this time, with the help of Buddhist merit, Deng Zhenquan had a slight advantage. He subconsciously took the Yin De lotus in his hand, and the white lotus bloomed in his palm, and pure vitality merged into his body.

This vitality is like a seed. Even if it is buried in rotten soil, it can grow stronger and stronger. Under the influence of this vitality, the will of Hanba itself began to transform, from death to rebirth, allowing the humanity in Hanba, that is, the will of Emperor Gaozong, to prevail.

"It's the Zhou family's bloodline!"

Emperor Gaozong's voice came from Deng Zhenquan's left cheek, "Sure enough, the Emperor of Life and Death finally gave the power to the Zhou family, allowing them to not only transform the living dead, but also to be reborn from the dead. He predicted it well."

The distortion on Deng Zhenquan's face faded. The Emperor Gaozong's humanity revived, which greatly reduced his mental exhaustion. With his thoughts turning rapidly, Deng Zhenquan blurted out, "If Emperor Gaozong could be resurrected, the situation in the world would surely be stabilized now."

If Emperor Gaozong were to be resurrected at this time, he would take advantage of the fact that this generation of the Great Xia emperor was lost in the Buddha's dream, and entrust the previous king to take power, and depose the Great Xia emperor who did not want to be the emperor. Confucianism is also very familiar with this theory.

Unfortunately, this was just a sudden thought. Emperor Gaozong sneered, "Resurrection? How? Resurrection with the magical power of a fifth-rank Emperor of Life and Death? And you seem to have forgotten the nature of Hanba..."

As he said this, he used Deng Zhenquan's eyes to look at Monk Huineng, who was still burning, and said, "I can only help you up to this point."

"Life is short, born in the morning and die in the evening, how sad it is."

As soon as he finished speaking, the kindness in human nature shrank rapidly, and finally even disappeared.

Instead, Hanba's almost crazy will took over. "It would be great if he could save me, but unfortunately he can't! Don't you want him to save you? I'll show you the result of being saved by the Buddha!"

With his twisted will, Deng Zhenquan felt that the Buddha's light, which had originally felt extremely warm, now felt like someone had poured boiling water on him. He felt extremely painful, as if he was being tormented all the time.

What's even more terrifying is that his body was actively absorbing Buddhist merits, and using this Buddhist merit to start practicing Buddhism. A wisp of Buddha nature was growing in his body, and the growth of Buddha nature was definitely not a good thing for Deng Zhenquan, because he was a third-rank Confucian scholar and already had his own foundation. It was fine for him to listen to Buddhist scriptures at ordinary times, but at this time his body actually began to cultivate Buddha nature, which could only lead to one consequence.

Conflict of doctrines!

His own righteous spirit began to conflict with the Buddhist virtues. The conflict between the two traditions could directly lead to death. The righteous spirit of Confucianism began to backfire. The subtleties of Buddhism collided with Confucian classics in Deng Zhenquan's heart. Under the direct torture of the two different traditions, Deng Zhenquan's spirit began to fall into pain.

In his pain, he instantly understood the meaning of Emperor Gaozong's last words.

What does Hanba symbolize?
Everything in the world has its own way, even the most evil and wicked existence like Hanba.

The Hanba itself does not symbolize destruction. Destruction is just the result it causes. The Hanba itself symbolizes distortion and the misinterpretation of the rules.

This is a body that should have been dead, but it walks around in the world as if it were alive. Therefore, the power of Hanba is the power of distortion. Wherever it is, the rules will be distorted and misinterpreted.

Under the influence of its Taoism, I unknowingly thought of the idea of ​​integrating the will of heaven and earth here, because this itself is a kind of distortion. When two different consciousnesses are integrated into a person's body, from this moment on, the power of Hanba has been completely engraved into this body.

Even if he were to be converted by Buddhism, it would only exacerbate the distortion, just like now. Although Monk Huineng's power was intended to save Hanba's will and eliminate the evil thoughts within it, the conflict between Buddhism and righteousness made Deng Zhenquan suffer while increasing Hanba's own power.

Unless a true saint is born, because a saint can tolerate the contradictions between right and wrong, even distortions can be tolerated under the saint's teachings, that is the way to get rid of the drought demon.

That is why Emperor Gaozong said that relying solely on the bloodline of a fifth-rank Emperor of Life and Death is not enough to get rid of the drought demon. If one wants to get rid of the drought demon, only the Emperor of Life and Death can come in person and reverse life and death, or simply destroy the drought demon that should not exist in the first place!

Deng Zhenquan's will was completely suppressed, but Huineng still ignored it and continued to recite Buddhist scriptures in the air.

Hanba stretched out his hand and grabbed Monk Huineng, "Little monk, since you like chanting sutras so much, why don't you chant sutras in my stomach?"

After saying this, the open mouth on the left side of his body merged with Deng Zhenquan's original mouth, forming a huge mouth that was split to the earlobes. As the mouth opened, its snow-white teeth bit towards Monk Huineng and actually began to devour his flesh and blood bit by bit.

The great Confucian scholar swallowed alive a golden arhat!
This horrifying scene now passed through the dreams that spread throughout the Fourth Yama Palace and entered the hearts of everyone who came here to explore. It was more horrifying and terrifying than all the dangers they had just encountered.

Qin Jiangxue and other middle-grade people hid in the Youde Hall in the dream. Even someone like Qin Jiangxue who practiced the secret art of the sea of ​​blood and used human blood as his own nourishment had his mind distorted after seeing this scene. This was a distortion of common sense, far exceeding the evil of murder.

While Hanba was feasting, it actually gave up control of its body, so that the will of the Sleeping Dragon Ghost Emperor would not interfere with it.

Therefore, in the real body of Hanba, the will of the Sleeping Dragon Ghost Emperor prevailed. He opened his eyes, and the sky changed in an instant. The entire real Youde Palace became bright, just like the sky in the dream world that became bright and glorious because of the war!
The Sleeping Dragon Ghost Emperor wants to pull Zhou Tiege and others back into the dream world. Only in the dream world is He the most powerful, and the dream world is where His true divine home is.

Even though Zhou Tiege was riding on the Green Emperor's chariot, he was not of the true Green Emperor's bloodline, and his strength was several levels lower than that of the Sleeping Dragon Ghost Emperor. Even though the chariot tried hard to emit a blue sun-like brilliance, it was gradually dragged into the dream.

However, Zhou Tiege was not afraid at all. He had already anticipated this situation when he discussed with Huineng. With their strength, they could not fight against the real first-grade, and they needed external help. This was why they tried to find the old man in the mountains in the beginning.

"Since you want to dream so much, just dream on!"

Zhou Tiege reached out and grabbed the pillar next to him, and the pillar opened under the influence of his bloodline as the Emperor of Life and Death.

The Sleeping Dragon Ghost Emperor opened his eyes in anger. He tried to compete with Zhou Tiege for control of the pillar and wanted to close the pillar and prevent it from opening.

However, at this time, Zhou Tiege used all his strength to exert his bloodline, and a huge, greedy snake head appeared behind him again. This snake head was so huge that in the underworld, even the Sleeping Dragon Ghost Emperor who had merged with the body of the drought demon was only about the same size as the upright yellow pupil in front of this snake head.

There was a playful expression in the snake's eyes, as if he was watching a play that he had already selected. No matter how hard the actors in the stands performed, no matter how ups and downs the plot was, the result must be what he expected, because the final stroke of the entire play was written by him.

With the power of the Emperor of Life and Death unlimitedly open to Zhou Tiege, the pillar corresponding to the dark valley was finally opened. A strong wind suddenly blew up from the Mountain and Sea Scroll in Li Jianhu's hand, blowing the entire dream woven by the Sleeping Dragon Ghost Emperor into the space and time behind the pillar.

(End of this chapter)