The Emperor is Above

Chapter 517: My Time Is Running Out (Additional Update by Zhang Yu 0509 Hall Master)

"Bo means the eldest among uncles, middle uncles, and younger uncles!"

The wrinkled old man smiled and said, "Gui Bo means the elder of the dead souls, which is also the title given to me by the first emperor Xi Huang.

After all, I am the first soul in the Netherworld to regain consciousness. Besides, Emperor Xi also hopes that as the elder of the souls in the Netherworld, I can take good care of the souls of the hundreds of races who died in the battle.

After peace was restored to the human world, I saw the Human Emperor enfeoffed the gods of the four directions. They were Ju Mang, the wood god of the east, Zhu Rong, the fire god of the south, Ru Shou, the gold god of the west, and Yu Qiang, the sea god of the north.

The Four Gods serve as assistants to the Human Emperor, assisting him in governing the alliance of hundreds of races in the human world and controlling various affairs such as farming and conquest.

I saw that the method of the Human Emperor was quite effective and I got an idea. Since I am the Ghost Lord in charge of the Netherworld, I might as well enfeoff the Five Ghost Kings to help govern the entire Netherworld."

"What? The Five Ghost Kings were actually appointed by you, Uncle Ghost?" Qing Yi was shocked and asked in disbelief.
“Since the Five Ghost Kings were appointed by Ghost Lord, and they are the souls of the hundreds of races that followed you in the conquest, why would they start a war with you now?
I previously thought that the Five Ghost Kings mentioned by the Ghost King of the Styx were ghosts from another world that broke into the Netherworld. This is too hard for me to believe. "

"Boy, greed is insatiable. I just don't understand this!"

Gui Bo's old face was full of emotion, "Even human desires are endless, not to mention the souls who enter the netherworld after death without the restraint of a body.

In the beginning, the human world was governed very stably by successive emperors. In the underworld, there were five ghost kings, and the ghost generals, ghost messengers, and ghost soldiers in the ghost army were all soldiers from hundreds of races who died in battle.

At that time, whether in the human world or the underworld, all races and dead souls worked together and cherished their peaceful homes that they had regained after going through so much hardship.

Even though the ghosts from other realms were unwilling to give in and had repeatedly coveted and attempted to seize the underworld, they were defeated and fled by the armies led by me and the Five Ghost Kings.

However, ghosts and monsters cannot covet the human world, but evil gods and monsters are very difficult to deal with. They often infiltrate the human world to cause destruction and cause a lot of killings.

In order to deal with these evil gods and monsters, those human emperors left the human world one after another. At least they chose qualified successors before leaving.

The last Human Emperor was even more excessive. After conquering monsters in the Ming Sea in the far north, he disappeared without even leaving a successor.

Since the Republic of the Five Emperors in the Middle Ages, there has been no powerful person in the human world with the prestige to serve as the Emperor of Man. The Alliance of Hundred Races has gradually disintegrated, and all kinds of chaos have gradually arisen.

At that time, I was only paying attention to the changes in the human world, but ignored the abnormalities of the Five Ghost Kings in the Netherworld. Even though they were once part of the Hundred Races, they could not stand the passage of time and their mentality changed.

As part of the Hundred Races, they have lived in the human world for a few decades or a hundred years at most. For a period of time after their death in battle, they may initially identify with the Hundred Races.

However, as time passed, after existing in the Netherworld for tens of thousands of years, they had actually become an independent race and could no longer be considered as one of the Hundred Races.

Therefore, under the infiltration and beggarship of ghosts from other realms, the five ghost kings could not bear the greed in their hearts and united to return to the human world to become the five emperors and hold great power.

At that time, the alliance of hundreds of races had actually collapsed, and the various races were constantly fighting against each other, with signs of chaos looming in the world.

At this time, a very talented leader appeared in the Phoenix Feather Clan, known as the Feather King. After unifying the various tribes of the Feather Clan, he established the Phoenix Dynasty which was passed down from generation to generation, and used powerful military force to suppress all living creatures.

The Five Ghost Kings believed that the human world had fallen, and they could not accept the Feather Clan's family rule. They said they were going to liberate the oppressed tribes, but in fact, they were doing it for their own power. "When he said this, Gui Bo's face showed a self-deprecating look, "It was also my fault that I was indecisive at that time. Thinking of the friendship of fighting side by side for tens of thousands of years, I didn't expect that their hearts had already changed.

At that time, I told the Five Ghost Kings that the affairs of the human world should be handled by the hundreds of races in the human world, and the underworld only needs to maintain this world and prevent ghosts from other realms from causing trouble.

Who knew that the Five Ghost Kings had already joined forces with the ghosts from the other worlds, and used their identities to almost kill me. The originally peaceful netherworld quickly became a battlefield. "

Qing Yi was stunned when he heard Gui Bo's story: "I used to think that only humans would fight for power and profit, but I didn't expect that even the souls in the underworld are no exception."

"As long as there are living beings in this world, they will fight for power and profit. How can there be any exceptions?" Gui Bo said with a trace of sadness in his eyes.

“Due to my own indecision, I was not able to kill him in time, which led to irreversible consequences. Now the netherworld is a mess.

The Five Ghost Kings are not as strong as me, but they summoned ghosts from other realms for help without any consideration, resulting in the fact that the territory under my control in the entire Netherworld is only equivalent to 40% of the Netherworld.

The remaining 60% of the territory is occupied by the Five Ghost Kings and 30% by ghosts from other realms. Fortunately, they are now cautious of each other, so the situation in the netherworld has not deteriorated further."

Qing Yi now understood that the situation in the underworld was indeed complicated. Even if the Ghost King really defeated the Five Ghost Kings, it would be impossible for him to launch a full-scale counterattack while the ghosts from other realms were watching him covetously.

"Uncle Ghost, since the target of the ghosts from the other world is the human world, why do they have to cause chaos in the netherworld? Shouldn't they appear directly in the human world?"

Facing Qing Yi's question, Gui Bo smiled and said, "Haha, before the ancient times, ghosts from other worlds could indeed enter the human world directly.

However, with the great victory of hundreds of races in the ancient times, successive emperors and saints completely sealed those barrier passages. They could not enter the human world directly and had to go through the underworld.

Now the passage from the Netherworld to the Human World is all within the 40% of the territory that I control. They will not succeed unless they defeat me."

"Gui Bo has sacrificed too much for the human world!"

Qing Yi bowed sincerely. For countless thousands of years, Gui Bo has guarded the peace of the human world, but he has also endured the resentment and infamy of the world.

"What's the point of paying or not paying!" Gui Bo waved his hand nonchalantly, "The reason I tell you this is to let you know that I have never had any pawns in the human world.

The reason why I helped you several times was to make the power of the human world stronger. Now it seems that your growth rate is far beyond my expectations.

Alas, I really hope that you can grow faster. Only in this way can we integrate the human world as quickly as possible. I don’t have much time left—"

The words of Gui Bo's clone were still echoing in his ears, but he could no longer see the old man in front of him. Qing Yi looked at the place where he disappeared with a very complicated expression and remained silent for a long time.

"Meow--"

The cry of the mountain cat Dabao caught Qingyi's attention. Its cat paw was curiously scratching a rusty bronze mirror. Qingyi was surprised: "Isn't this the Yin-Yang bronze mirror that Gui Bo used just now?"

(End of this chapter)