On the Avenue.

Chapter 456: Death of the True King
"The Hill of Despair is a place where there is no hope and one has to maintain the status quo. That's why it's called the Hill of Despair. Because only by maintaining the status quo can one survive."

Feng Ruotong whispered, "I have always thought that I am the same. And now, I suddenly have a glimmer of hope."

This hope is Chen Shi.

Chen Shi's Yin-Yang Dojo and Demon Dojo gave him hope!

This hope is that even if the true God dies, the Hill of Despair is destroyed, and the world is completely shrouded in evil, people can still survive!
Although the hope was slim, it gave him great encouragement and made him stop and not kill Chen Shi.

He left behind all those great kings and lords and floated away.

"Chen Shi is much more dangerous than the High Priest, but for this glimmer of hope, it's worth taking a little risk. The most urgent task now is to get rid of the High Priest and the Divine Capital! It's difficult for me to wipe out the Divine Capital alone, so I have to summon other Heavenly Daoists!"

This time he left Despair Hill and brought many Heavenly Daoists with him to search for the people in the Divine Capital. However, he was eager to get to Beilai City, so he did not join these Heavenly Daoists.

Now that he was injured, and there were indeed many masters in the Divine Capital, he had to seek help from the Heavenly Dao Walker.

Feng Ruotong's spiritual consciousness fluctuated, transmitting the summoning order to the ears of nearby heavenly listeners, who then spread the summoning order in all directions.

More than ten days later, they met in Tiandao City.

Feng Ruotong counted the number of people and frowned slightly.

There were twelve Heavenly Daoists who followed him out of Despair Hill this time, but now only seven of them are here. The whereabouts of the other five are unknown.

"Where are these five people?"

They waited for a few more days, but the five people still did not arrive.

Feng Ruotong immediately asked a Heavenly Daoist to send a disciple back to Despair Hill to check whether the five people's life lamps were lit. After some time, the disciple came back and reported: "The five uncles and aunts have returned to Despair Hill, and their life lamps are all lit."

Feng Ruotong was a little surprised when he heard this, but the Heavenly Dao Walker did not only obey his orders, so he thought that other immortals had called these five people back.

He immediately led the other seven people and mobilized the heavenly listeners from all over the place to track the whereabouts of the high priest and others, searching all the way.

Despair Hill, go to the Taoist Temple.

This is the place where those who follow the Heavenly Dao study.

The Tiandao practitioners usually live on their respective Tiandao Peaks. There are a total of 108 Tiandao Peaks on the Slope of Despair, and each of them has their own dojo on the mountain. In the dojo, immortal energy descends from the sky. Although not much, it is enough for daily practice.

This immortal energy does not contain any evil energy and is therefore extremely precious.

However, if one wants to learn various Taoist magic powers, one must come to this Taoist Academy.

In addition to magical powers and Taoism, the Daoyuan also houses a collection of various classics, covering everything.

At this time, six Heavenly Dao practitioners came to the Taoist Temple, led by Yu Changbai. The other five were the five people that Feng Ruotong had been waiting for, namely Zhang Yunhe, Zhao Xiaoyao, Qingfeng Sanren, Lin Taixu, and Tianguang Taoist.

"Find the books that record the True King as soon as possible."

Taoist Tianguang is Chen Yindu, who said quickly, "After the True King died on the Slope of Despair, the True God of Heaven opened his eyes again. There must be a connection between them!"

Yu Changbai is the Creator Xiaowu, Lin Taixu is Du Yiran, Zhang Yunhe is Sha Qiuting, Zhao Xiaoyao is Qingyang, and Qingfeng Sanren is Tianhu. They immediately split up and searched for the classics of the Taoist Academy.

Most of the books in the Taoist Temple are golden books, with the words engraved on golden paper, which will not fade even after tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.

The six people searched quickly, and soon Sha Qiutong found something and said, "Come here quickly! There are records about the True King here!"

The other five people hurried over. The book recorded the life of the True King, which was recorded by the Heavenly Listener and then sorted out by the Heavenly Walker.

The book says that the True King's original name was Zhu Gaoxun, the fourth son of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. He was sent to Xinzhou, Xiniu at the age of fourteen and was named the True King of Xinzhou.

The True King was extremely intelligent. After arriving in Xiniu New Island, he worked diligently on state affairs and quelled disasters and calamities in various places.

However, he suffered from the continuous disasters and demonic changes and moved the capital four times. Later, the True King achieved success in cultivation, the world was initially settled, and the people lived and worked in peace. The True King found that after the cultivators entered the Ascension Realm, they could not suppress the evil spirits and demonic changes occurred. Many people were killed and injured. The True King could not sleep at night, so he accepted the invitation to go to the Despair Slope.

The True King entered the Despair Slope and competed with the Heavenly Walker, shocking the Despair Slope and attracting the intervention of the Heavenly Immortal. Tianzun stopped the Heavenly Immortal and entertained the True King, explaining the truth of the evil transformation and the purpose of the Despair Slope.

The True King then pondered deeply on the Hill of Despair, and after forty-nine days, he came up with a new method.

The True King abandoned his cultivation and started practicing from the beginning. When he reached the fourth level, the True God sent down the innate Dao fetus...

When everyone read this, they were all shocked. Sha Qiutong said in a lost voice: "Xiao Shi is not the first person to get the innate Dao fetus!"

As soon as she said this, she came to her senses and looked around. Fortunately, there were not many people in Despair Hill, and there was no one else in the courtyard except them.

Du Yiran and others were also shocked.

According to the records in the biography of the True King, there was no new method in Despair Hill before the True King. The new method was created by the True King, deleting the two realms of transcending tribulation and ascending to heaven, and adding the four realms of shrine, divine fetus and divine descent, and refining emptiness!
Moreover, the True King is the first person to practice the new method, and the first person to obtain the divine fetus!
The first time the True God from outer space descended upon him, what he bestowed upon him was the innate Tao fetus!
Everyone calmed down and continued reading.

The following part tells about the True King bidding farewell to the Heavenly Lord, leaving Despair Hill, and forcibly implementing new laws with the power of the court to replace the old laws, and his struggle with the conservatives. Although the process is recorded in a simple way, it is extremely cruel.

The True King mobilized the power of the imperial court to strangle the powerful people in the Ascension Realm from all forces, and even the Semi-Immortals, no matter whether they had transformed into evil or not. If they entered the Ascension Realm, they would either have to abandon their cultivation and practice new methods, or be killed!

The biography of the True King says that the prototype of the Sanren originated at this time, and was composed of a group of monks who resisted the atrocities of the True King.

The formation of Sanren happened many years earlier than Chen Yindu and others expected!
The thirteen families also gradually grew stronger in this bloodbath.

The encirclement and suppression of the top monks of the old law and the implementation of the new law lasted for a very long time, and the fighting between the two sides continued until the day of the setting sun.

"The so-called sun-extinguishing day should refer to the day when the true god from outer space extinguishes his eyes and the disaster occurs." said Creator Xiaowu.

Everyone continued to read, and the heavenly listener faithfully recorded this catastrophe, snowstorm, extreme cold, ghosts and monsters rampant, people eating each other, and nine out of ten houses were empty...

Various human tragedies are taking place everywhere.

But because temples of Chinese gods were built everywhere, these temples supported the world in times of crisis, giving people a glimmer of hope.

"…In the autumn of the forty-third year after the sun went down, the True King led a hundred courtiers and marched to the Slope of Despair, asking to see the Heavenly Lord. The Heavenly Lord was pleased and feasted the True King. The True King disobeyed, and the Heavenly Lord was displeased. He offered sacrifices to the True King in heaven. Then the sun rose."

Everyone looked at each other, staring at the two lines of text on the last page, and read them over and over again.

There were not many words, only forty-five, which confused them at first, but when they read them carefully, they were horrified.

Qingyang murmured, "The True King led a hundred courtiers to the Despair Slope, intending to fight to the death with the Heavenly Venerable. Obviously, he knew that there was a way to make the sun shine again at the Despair Slope. So, what did the Heavenly Venerable mean by offering sacrifice to the True King?"

"Of course, sacrifice the true king to the heavens."

Du Yiran said, "The True King came to Despair Hill. The Heavenly Venerable was very happy and invited the True King to a banquet, but the True King spoke rudely at the banquet, so the Heavenly Venerable sacrificed the True King to the Heaven. Then the sun came out."

Qingyang was puzzled: "Why does the sun shine again when offering sacrifice to the True King?"

Chen Yindu said: "Probably because of the innate Dao fetus."

Everyone's heart was slightly shocked.

"Gentlemen, I am confident that I can make the true God open his eyes."

Chen Yindu said in a deep voice, "Let's go find the place where Tianzun sacrificed the True King. Once we find it, we can make the True God open his eyes! I am very familiar with Despair Hill, and there are several places that are worthy of suspicion!"

Everyone was excited and stood up. At this time, a voice came: "Uncle Yu, Uncle Zhang, Uncle Zhao, why are you here?"

They looked in the direction of the sound and saw a handsome young man walking into the library of the Taoist Academy.

The young man had a broad frame, was dressed in red, with a black python belt around his waist and a sachet of perfume hanging from his waist. He looked gentle and elegant, with the demeanor of a scholar.

He wore a purple gold crown, looking very noble, but a piece of his left earlobe was missing, probably because he had been injured.

Creator Xiaowu smiled and said, "So it's my dear nephew Wuwang. I came here with several of your uncles and aunts to look through some Taoist scriptures. These days, we have studied and developed some powerful magical powers. When we are ready, we will ask for your guidance."

"Master, you're welcome."

Zhong Wuwang is a modest gentleman and very polite.

Creator Xiaowu led the crowd away.

Zhong Wuwang watched them walk out of the Wendao Courtyard and frowned slightly.

"Master Yu is Zhuang Wujiu's master. He is in charge of dispatching the Heavenly Listeners in the Yang World. He went down the mountain some time ago in a hurry, but later he seemed to be fine. It's very strange. The other five uncles and aunts clearly followed the Fengxian Ren to the lower world, so why didn't Fengxian Ren come back, but they came back instead?"

His eyes flickered, and he felt that these people were acting suspiciously.

"They came to the Daoist Academy, definitely not to read Daoist scriptures and study magical powers, but for other purposes! What kind of books are they reading?"

Soon, Zhong Wuwang found the volume of "Biography of the True King" and read it carefully.

After he finished reading the biography of the True King, he read the last forty-five words over and over again, sat in silence for a long time, and then slowly stood up.

He seemed to remember something and immediately opened the Biography of the True King, wiped off his fingerprints page by page, and put the golden book back to its original place.

"Tianzun, what exactly are you offering to the True King?"

His face was pale and his voice was low and hoarse. "The body of the True King is buried in the True King's Tomb. If it's not the body of the True King, then what else could it be? Hehe, the innate Dao fetus, plus the True King's Yuanshen, and a hundred of the strongest cultivators..."

He clenched his teeth, grabbed the back of his head with both hands, and tried many times to open his skull and take out the innate Taoist fetus!
Zhong Wuwang's face was gloomy and he was struggling internally. After a long time, he moved his hands away from behind his head.

He walked out, thinking silently in his heart: "The next person that Tianzun sacrifices will be me, right? I have the innate Dao fetus, and I will not sit and wait for death. When I break through and cultivate to the immortal realm, it is still unknown who will win!"

(End of this chapter)