Unparalleled Evildoer

Chapter 220: Innate Soul
Darkness, endless darkness.

Loneliness, endless loneliness.

There is no time, no space, no perception, no emotion, not a trace of consciousness.

I always want to remember something, yet it seems so familiar.

……

"Silence!...Silence!..." The voice came from somewhere. Who is calling? Calling whom?

A pair of eyes, the most beautiful pair of eyes, with tears.

A sword, a black sword, bleeding.

……

"I will die and your three disasters will not be destroyed."

These are fragments of memory, sporadic words.

……

"Little Master..., Little Master..." Wuzhan gradually regained consciousness and heard the calls of Jinxingzi and Lingkongzi.

"I'm already dead, how could I hear their calls?" Wuzhan remembered the scene when he was stabbed to death by Qin Moyao.

He slowly opened his eyes and found that he was still alive. There were three people standing in front of him, Luo, Jinxingzi and Lingkongzi, and his whole body was soaked in a large vat full of sticky black mud. Only his head was exposed. He smelled fishy and salty. He wanted to speak, but his mouth was dry and he couldn't make a sound. He had no feeling in his body and couldn't move.

"The young master is really awake. This mud of the immortal master is really magical. Even if he is broken into pieces and turned into meat paste, he can be saved!" Jinxingzi and Lingkongzi said happily.

Luo said proudly: "Who is your immortal master? I told you long ago that this guardian does not accept disciples. I want you to serve the emperor. Why don't you take the medicine and feed it to the emperor!"

This is a cave with ancient texts carved on the walls. There are stone beds, stone tables, and stone benches. It is very simple. There are two oil lamps lit on both sides of the jar, making the space flicker.

After Jin Xingzi and Ling Kongzi fed him the medicine, Wuzhan's throat felt much cooler, and he asked urgently, "Where is Wanjiao?"

Ling Kongzi said: "I saw her being taken away by a big firebird. I don't know where she went!"

Wuzhan felt relieved after hearing this. Fortunately, he was not caught by Ye Yi. However, he was more worried about why the big firebird took Wanjiao away, where she went, and whether she was dead or alive.

Luo lamented, "If the Emperor hadn't ordered Jin Xingzi to lead Luo away, how could the Emperor be suffering so much now? When we arrived, the Emperor had already fallen from the cliff into the pool. Fortunately, Lingkongzi found the Emperor. If it was too late, Luo couldn't save the Emperor even if he risked his life. Oh, it's also my fault. I didn't explain it clearly, which made the Emperor doubt. Maybe this is fate."

Wuzhan asked softly: "I was already dead, why am I…"

Ling Kongzi smiled and said, "The Immortal Master has pulled out the Demon Sealing Nail, and has also reconnected my little master's bones and tendons, and rebuilt his meridians. My little master will not die!"

Wuzhan said: "Thank you for saving me again!"

"Your Majesty, please speak as little as possible. I'm sure you have many questions. Now I will explain the whole story to you. We have to start from the beginning!" Luo sat down slowly and squinted his eyes, as if he had returned to that era, ten thousand years ago.

"The Emperor's previous life was named Jiemie. He possessed an innate soul. Before he was three hundred years old, he had cultivated the magic power of the twenty-fourth heaven. During the long years of the war between wizards and liches, he founded the True Religion, built Liberty City, and took in the survivors like us who had fled from the disaster. The Emperor preached that there was no distinction between the ways of the Tao, that it was a return to the original nature, that all beings were equal, and that it was a rule of inaction. That was the happiest time we had. Regardless of race or sect, everyone was respected and helped. Liberty City was our sacred home."

Jin Xingzi chuckled and said, "No wonder we admired the little master as soon as we saw him. It turns out that the little master was a leader in his previous life!"

Ling Kongzi pushed Jin Xingzi and scolded him, "Don't interrupt me, just listen to what the Immortal Master is saying!"

Luo glanced at Wuzhan who seemed to be listening quietly, and continued: "However, less than ten years after the establishment of Liberty City, it was hated and excluded by many powerful tribes and sects. The ideas preached by the Emperor were contrary to their Taoism, and the strength of Liberty City threatened them. They attacked Liberty City on the pretext that we were fleeing to Liberty City. The Emperor led us in bloody battles and defeated wave after wave of enemy troops. Liberty City was in flames every day, and we never surrendered. Every battle was fought to the fullest and beautifully, until Haotian issued an order to the world and led a hundred powerful tribes to attack. Liberty City was outnumbered and was defeated. The city was razed to the ground, but the Emperor was still there. Holding the Dawn in his hand, the Emperor broke through the ten great killing arrays, leaving the enemy helpless. The Emperor's roar startled thousands of people, a leap made thousands of people flee, and a sword killed hundreds of people. Even if there were millions of enemy troops, they dared not approach within a hundred feet, and finally had to flee. The Emperor chased Haotian for 100,000 miles until he chased him into a cave and dared not come out. The Emperor returned. The Emperor said: "Since the Free City is destroyed, we have no choice but to make the world a Free City!" From then on, the Emperor led us to annex various tribes, fight north and south, and various sects and powerful tribes were terrified. The world was terrified and called our sect the Demon Sect and the Emperor the "Demon Emperor."

Ling Kongzi's eyes widened and he said, "Oh my god, Master's past life was so powerful, it's exciting to hear about it..." Jin Xingzi pushed Ling Kongzi and said, "Shut up, who wouldn't be excited to hear about it? You didn't let me get a word in before, and now you're pretending to be dead!"

Luo looked at the two demons and said excitedly, "I only gave a general idea. It would take a year to finish explaining the details!"

Jin Xingzi said with a grin, "Master, please continue!"

"Later, Haotian invited the three great religious leaders to help him in his final counterattack. These three religious leaders were Sanqing of the Taiqing Sect, Miaodao of the Xuanling Sect, and Taidou of the Tianhua Sect. At that time, they all had the magic power of the 28th Heaven, which was four levels higher than the magic power of the Emperor. They trapped the Emperor in a magic array for a year, thinking that the Emperor would surely die. Who would have thought that the Emperor would suddenly realize the fourth Heaven in the array, break the magic array, and defeat the three religious leaders. From then on, they had no choice but to hide in the cave and remain in seclusion. All races and sects on the entire continent had to submit to the Emperor."

Jin Xingzi asked, "Master, you were so powerful in your previous life, why did you die, and why can't you even practice in this life?"

"Yeah, yeah, I want to ask too?"

Luo glanced at Wuzhan again and found that Wuzhan had closed his eyes at some point. He shook his head and said to the two demons, "Although the Emperor is invincible, he has no ambition. He just wants to live a free and easy life. He lets us take care of all the affairs of the sect. He travels around every day and doesn't practice. Until he met Xuanbingqian of the Phoenix clan, who is the Nine Heavens Mysterious Girl you have seen, he fell in love with her at first sight. Who knew that this was a beauty trap set up by Haotian. He didn't know how he could detect the weakness of the Emperor. On the wedding night, Xuanbingqian used the Emperor's "Dawn" to kill the Emperor. That night, Haotian led the three major sects into Xiaoyao Palace, the Benzhen Sect was destroyed, and Xiaoyao Palace was destroyed!" As he spoke, he wiped away his tears, and the scene at that time was vivid in his mind.

Upon hearing this, Jin Xingzi and Ling Kongzi looked at each other in bewilderment. They could not believe that the invincible leader of their generation would die at the hands of a woman. Jin Xingzi asked, "How is this possible? So many powerful people could not be killed, so how could Xuan Bingqian be able to kill him?"

Luo sighed, "I don't know the specific details. We were still celebrating when Haotian and his men came in to kill us. I hurried to report it. When we found the Emperor, his heart had been pierced and he fell in a pool of blood. His soul was dissipating. The Emperor's life stone, the five-colored stone, was shattered. In a hurry, I picked up one of the broken stones to collect the soul, but I only collected a wisp. At that time, Haotian had surrounded the harem. I fought my way out with the broken stone and saved the soul."

"I hid my cultivation, struggled to survive, and sought a way to revive the Emperor, but after ten thousand years, I still failed. Forty years ago, I found a group of immortals setting up a magic circle in Changping. When they were about to refine two hundred thousand wronged souls, they were killed by four masters who broke in. The four masters used another four pieces of rubble to absorb the wronged souls into them, but the wronged souls lost control, and the four people fell into the devil's way and died. Inspired by this, I planted the Emperor's soul into the wronged souls and used the wronged souls to cultivate the Emperor's soul. This is how the black flame you saw was formed, but I cannot control that flame, and I cannot predict what it will evolve into. I really have no other way. My life is coming to an end, and I can only do this."

"What I didn't expect was that the Emperor's Life Stone was re-fused, and the Emperor's dissipated soul was re-condensed after ten thousand years of drifting, and has appeared in the world as a human. However, because the soul is incomplete and has not yet awakened, the Emperor's body is strange and in a state of suspended death. After learning that the Emperor has appeared in the world, Luo expected the Emperor to go to Changping, absorb the soul that I retained, and awaken the innate soul."

Jin Xingzi asked, "Then why don't you just take the young master with you?"

"Of course I can't wait to take the Emperor with me, but when the five-colored stones were reunited, Xuanbing Qian began to monitor the Emperor. If I do that, I will not escape her eyes. Moreover, it is unknown when the Emperor's innate soul will awaken!"

Jin Xingzi said: "So you don't know what 'the secret of heaven cannot be revealed' means!"

Luo Luo smiled and said, "You can say that."

Ling Kongzi asked: "What is the innate soul?"

"Before the beginning of chaos, there was a kind of dark matter, infinite and formless. Once this nothingness became conscious, it formed the innate soul. If one comprehends the mystery, one can create the world or destroy it, but the soul will dissipate. It will take a long time for them to reunite. Legend has it that Pangu is this kind of soul, and the soul bred after the chaos was separated is the acquired soul, which has birth and death. Only by practicing and overcoming the three disasters can one escape from life and death. The emperor's soul is the innate soul. Although it has dissipated, it will reunite in time."

Jin Xingzi asked, "Since it's so powerful, and the souls can be reunited after being scattered, then what is there to worry about?"

“That being said, how could Haotian and those sect leaders allow the Emperor to be resurrected so easily? Even if he is resurrected, everything needs to start from scratch. If we are not careful, the soul will dissipate again. This time, we almost failed. Fortunately, that sword awakened the Emperor’s innate soul. Life and death are really just a thin line apart.”

Ling Kongzi asked: "So, that sword did save my little master!"

"The Emperor died from a sword and was born from a sword. I can't explain the mystery of this." Turning to Wuzhan, he said, "Emperor, do you understand your life experience now? Do you believe in Luo?"

Wuzhan opened his eyes and whispered, "You missed one thing. Xuanbingqian didn't kill me. Instead, he used the magic nail to suppress the demonic nature in my body, which restored my sanity."

Luo said awkwardly: "Nothing can escape the eyes of the Emperor, it is true, but the Emperor must remember, she killed you once, you must not trust her again, maybe she has other intentions."

Wuzhan remained silent, and Luo continued, "She must have seen the Emperor being stabbed to death. She must have left and returned to report."

Wuzhan said: "I am not Jiemie, I hope you will not call me Emperor anymore!"

"Does the Emperor still not believe what Luo said?"

"It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that Nirvana is dead. I am myself. If I am alive, I should walk my own path in life. It has nothing to do with Nirvana."

(End of this chapter)