Unlimited priesthood

Chapter 41: Imperial Spirit
Zhuang Zhou dreamed of butterflies, and butterflies dreamed of Zhuang Zhou.

"Ugh... ugh!"

Shen He woke up slowly, but before he could receive the original owner's memories, his stomach began to cramp violently. The excruciating pain made him kneel on the ground and vomit a lot of filth.

Not only was there filth, but there was also blood and a pungent stench, which caused his body to have a strong resistance reaction. In the end, he vomited until there was no solid matter left, only gastric juice mixed with blood.

Only then did Shen He fall down, like a man who had fallen into the water and had tried his best to finally climb onto the dry shore. He lay on the ground with his limbs spread out, gasping for breath.

At the same time, a surging torrent surged in his brain, and the huge amount of memory information made him dizzy, but fortunately, with the power of Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly, the milk and water soon merged together, and he received everything in a dreamy way.

"Yuling Continent..."

"Chapter of Valor..."

"Ancient Dragon King..."

"Li Taiyi..."

"Demon King Beast..."

Shen He held the face value with one hand, slowly sorting out his chaotic memories, and finally understood the cause and effect.

This is a strange world. Ninety percent of its area is covered by vast ocean. In the center of the ocean is a giant piece of land, which people call the Yuling Continent.

Billions of humans and countless lives live on this continent, and all lives other than humans possess powerful supernatural powers, which people call spiritual beasts.

Compared to the spiritual beasts that possess extraordinary powers, humans are so weak, at the bottom of the food chain, and have been hunted by various spiritual beasts. The fire of civilization is almost extinguished.

It was during that dark age that countless sages, after much searching, finally discovered the extraordinary powers unique to humans. They were able to control spirit beasts with the wisdom of all living things, grow with them, and gain powerful strength and a long life.

This kind of people are called spirit masters!

The appearance of the Spirit Master saved the human race from being in danger. Tribes, dynasties, and kingdoms ruled by the Spirit Master emerged one after another, and humans gradually moved from the bottom of the food chain to the masters of the Spirit Continent.

But for some unknown reason, after humans came to dominate the Yuling Continent, an extremely terrifying dark force also appeared on the continent.

This dark power can transform spiritual beasts into terrifying demon beasts, and the king of demon beasts, the demon beast, has brought terrible disasters to human countries and the Yuling Continent.

Country after country, city after city, were destroyed by the beast tide raised by the dark Demon King Beast. At the most critical moment, there were only three countries left in the entire continent, struggling to survive under the iron hoof of the Demon King Beast. The fire of human civilization was once again on the verge of extinction.

At this time, the three countries united together, and nine divine masters were born. They each possessed the most precious qualities of mankind: courage, friendship, wisdom, innocence, kindness, hope, light, justice, and protection.

These qualities endowed them with incomparably powerful destiny powers, and their spirit beasts evolved as a result, becoming destiny spirit beasts that surpassed the emperor-level spirit beasts.

In the end, several destined spirit masters and their destined spirit beasts joined forces to defeat and seal the Dark Demon Beast, allowing the Spirit Continent to return to peace and the fire of human civilization to continue.

But the Dark Demon Beast seems to be an immortal being. Even the Destiny Spirit Master can only seal it but cannot kill it completely. And every once in a while, whether it is decades or hundreds of years, the power of the Dark Demon Beast will be restored, breaking through the seal and returning to the world again.

What makes people even more desperate is that the power of the Destiny Spirit Master and the Destiny Spirit Beast to seal the Dark Demon Beast is their most precious Destiny Power. Therefore, after sealing the Dark Demon Beast, the Destiny Spirit Master is no longer a Destiny Spirit Master, and even their Destiny Spirit Beast will have its evolutionary level lowered and return to its original form.

This makes the Yuling Continent never peaceful, and it is threatened by the dark demon beast every once in a while.

Fortunately, as the power of the Dark Demon Beast recovers, the power of destiny will reappear among humans and be inherited by new spirit masters, who will become the ones destined to resist the Dark Demon Beast.

This is the Yuling Continent.

The person Shen He dreamed of this time was none other than Li Taiyi, the previous generation of Heavenly Destiny Spirit Master of the Yuling Continent and the holder of the Heavenly Destiny Artifact "Chapter of Valor"—a Heavenly Destiny Spirit Master!
The savior of the mainland!
Shen He originally thought this was a perfect start.

But after receiving the memory, he realized that this was not Tianhu, but Tianbeng.

Yes, he is the destined spirit master and the savior of the continent.

But that is now in the past.

Three years ago, he and eight other Destiny Spirit Masters joined forces to defeat the Dark Demon Beast and sealed it once again.

But for some reason, the Dark Demon King Beast was much stronger that time, and in the end he launched a desperate attack, wanting to drag all nine of them down with him.

At that critical moment, he, Li Taiyi, the holder of the Chapter of Bravery and the leader of the nine divinely-destined spirit masters, stood up without hesitation and blocked the desperate attack of the Dark Demon Beast at the cost of the divine artifact, the Chapter of Bravery and his own divinely-destined spirit beast, the "Ancient Dragon King".

Then, it is the end of destiny and the end of the legend.

The destruction of the Chapter of Bravery was nothing. After the Dark Demon Beast was sealed, the power of destiny would disappear, and the divine artifact of destiny formed by it would naturally dissipate.

What Li Taiyi could not accept was the sacrifice of the "Ancient Dragon King". This divine beast that had accompanied him all the way had given him so much help and was his best friend and most important partner.

His sacrifice dealt a huge blow to Li Taiyi, and caused devastating damage to Li Taiyi's life and future development.

Although after sealing the Dark Demon King Beast, the Destiny Master will return to its original form due to the dissipation of the power of destiny, both the level of the Spirit Master and the Destiny Beast that has evolved to the ultimate level will return to the initial level, but they will only return to the initial level.

The Destined Spirit Beast has experienced evolution. Even if it is beaten back to its original form, it can grow again based on this experience. Although it can no longer become a Destined Spirit Beast, it is not difficult for it to reach the "Emperor-level Spirit Beast".

Therefore, after sealing the Dark Demon Beast, the Destiny Masters of all generations are still the supreme Emperor-level Spirit Masters, enjoying huge prestige and power. Even if they cannot become the kings of various countries, they will be granted a large fiefdom and create a new country.

But he...

The chapter of courage is broken.

The divine beast "Ancient Dragon King" was killed.

He himself was also beaten back to his original form, from a "heavenly destiny spirit master" to a "low-level spirit master."

One can imagine how it felt to fall from the clouds into the abyss. From then on, Li Taiyi was devastated and never recovered.

But the reality didn’t stop there.

Three years after the Dark Demon King was sealed, Yin Nianyun, the princess of the Sky Kingdom and the holder of the "Chapter of Kindness" among the nine destined spirit masters, whom Li Taiyi regarded as his lifelong lover, became engaged to He Yanfeng, the prince of the Earth Kingdom and the holder of the "Chapter of Friendship".

Last night, the two countries held an engagement dinner in the holy city of the Yuling Continent. Li Taiyi, the former Destiny Yuling Master and the heroic figure of a commoner, was also invited to attend.

At the dinner party, he looked at his former friends and lovers, as well as his partners who had fought side by side with him but were now complete strangers. He drank a lot of wine and finally got drunk and passed out.

That would have been fine, but after he was sent back to his residence, he miraculously woke up, rummaged through the drawers, and found a bottle of poison.

That's right, he took poison!
Then there is no more then.

Shen He even had to be thankful that the bottle of poison was not of high grade and had probably expired after being stored for too long, otherwise he would have to go back again just after crossing here.

How can a person be so unlucky?
(End of this chapter)