I Possess a Scroll of Demon-Subduing Records

It seems that Lan Yu's statement was somewhat inaccurate. As a protector, he must have some teammates.

Although the world has fallen on hard times, it's not to the point that there isn't a single person willing to step forward.

"Is it alright for the flower girl to know, she's just a mortal?"

"It may be now, but it may not be in the future. The young lady is still young. If you can tap into her potential, she can become your capable assistant."

Zhang Jiao's confident demeanor made Lin Yi hesitant to say anything more, so he simply asked, "Miss Zhang, are you also skilled in divination and able to predict the future?"

This question was merely a test.

Lin Yi always harbored suspicion towards those who could predict the secrets of heaven, a suspicion that only arose after Yan Qingqiu plotted against him.

When Lin Yi interacts with such shrewd people again, he can't help but wonder whether their intentions are good or bad, and whether he is being used as a pawn.

Just like Yan Qingqiu, if she hadn't let Lin Yi go several times and helped him at crucial moments, Lin Yi wouldn't have trusted her so easily.

Throughout his life, Lin Yi has never been one to be seduced by beauty.

But he was completely captivated by Yan Qingqiu, and quite deeply so.

Even though Yan Qingqiu had schemed against him, he still found a way to forgive her and even still thought about her.

It is truly terrifying.

In general, Lin Yi now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

When encountering similar people again, one naturally becomes more wary.

Moreover, Zhang Jiao's script is almost identical to Yan Qingqiu's.

They were both leaders of opposing forces, but this leader had shown him goodwill, even offering him benefits, and now he was providing crucial information.

This information made her seem very mysterious, which aroused my curiosity.

If I follow these curiosityes and explore further, will I end up getting caught up in it like I did with Yan Qingqiu?

Lin Yi was secretly on guard, but he didn't show it. He simply asked a question casually.

Zhang Jiao replied simply, "I can indeed glimpse some secrets of heaven, but those are useless things. The secrets of heaven now are a mess, and the clear lines of fate have become blurred."

Do you know who's responsible for all of this?

"I?"

"Yes."

"Wait, explain to me first what '伐天' means. My head hurts!"

Lin Yi and Zhang Jiao chatted as if no one else was around. Although Hua Nianrou was also confused, she was obedient and docile and did not interrupt.

Upon hearing the words "slaying the heavens," Qianhuan Guiji felt a tremor in her heart, as if a switch had been flipped, and the babbling around her became increasingly frantic.

What used to be just one fly buzzing around my ear has now become a room full of flies buzzing around my ear.

She couldn't hear anything clearly, and all she felt was a splitting headache.

Seeing that things were not going well, Zero quickly seized control of his body, which allowed him to interrupt the two.

Lingyi knew that it was mostly the influence of the words "fighting against the heavens" that was causing her pain. To resolve this painful rambling, she had to start with the words "fighting against the heavens."

Of course, the more she knows, the more serious her condition may become, but it may also completely resolve her delirium.

Lingyi's personality is different from Lingling's; she is braver and more willing to take a gamble in such situations.

At worst, my head will just hurt even more!

Seeing that her condition was not right, Zhang Jiao casually cast a talisman, which was the Lin character secret talisman among the nine heavenly-grade talismans.

The Linzi Secret Manual primarily functions to calm the mind, soothe the soul, and bring blessings; it is a supplementary secret manual.

Having learned nine secret manuals, Lin Yi could naturally recognize them at a glance.

However, he noticed that although both were golden talismans, the secret talismans used by Zhang Jiao had a distinctly different charm.

Lin Yi had a feeling that her individual secret techniques were no weaker than immortal arts.

Lin Yi needs to skillfully utilize the nine secret manuals to rival immortal techniques.

It is evident that Zhang Jiao's understanding of the Nine Scrolls True Explanation was much deeper than his. It was also because he did not seek a thorough understanding after learning it, but only considered it as something he knew, without deeply comprehending the power of the Nine Scrolls.

Only after seeing Zhang Jiao use it did I realize that I had been possessing a great treasure all along.

Of course, he knew before that the Nine Scriptures True Scripture was a great treasure, but he thought it was only a first-grade treasure.

When Lin Yi's cultivation reached this level and he comprehended immortal techniques, he inevitably began to look down on mortal magic.

There are still many profound meanings waiting to be discovered within the Nine Registers True Explanation.

Zhang Jiao showed off her skills, which improved Ling Yi's condition considerably. She then comforted him, saying, "Don't worry, I'll tell you everything I know about the matter of Fa Tian slowly."

She mainly answered Lingyi's questions, and incidentally, she also let Hua Nianrou listen in.

The information she shared about the Battle of Heaven was all known to Lin Yi; he was simply learning about the Battle of Heaven from a different perspective.

What I learned from Master Zi was that the struggle for destiny was ordained by Heaven. When the human world's fortune was ripe, the immortals would come to reap the benefits.

From Blue Rain's perspective, it is the lofty immortal realm that ruthlessly plunders the already impoverished mortal realm. The mortal realm is pitiful, but has no possibility of resistance.

When he reached the edge of the shadows, he presented Lin Yi with a different kind of battle against the heavens.

In fact, the Immortal Realm almost lost the war, but somehow managed to regain victory through some despicable means.

As for whether the human realm can win now, Jueying did not mention it.

The different perspectives from various parties have gradually woven together a long-forgotten historical image.

Zhang Jiao's perspective is quite strange. She objectively describes the course and outcome of the war between King Zhou of Shang and Qin against Heaven, just like a dry record in a historical book.

In xxx BC, King Di Xin of the Shang Dynasty...

In xxx BC, Emperor Zheng of Qin...

Zhang Jiao's description, devoid of any emotional coloring, allowed Lin Yi to understand more directly what had happened back then.

In fact, from a human perspective, Di Xin was not entirely a positive character.

In order to strengthen the Shang Dynasty, he waged wars everywhere, annexing the surrounding tribes, large and small.

The process was certainly not gentle; some stubborn tribes were even wiped out.

For example, the Yuezhi.

This foreshadowed the later Shang-Zhou war and laid the groundwork for the war against Heaven.

This part happens to match Jiang Linglong's dream exactly.

During the war against the heavens, Di Xin also caused trouble. He shattered the sky with a single sword strike, breaking through space and connecting with the dark side of the world, which is the Demon Realm.

Before that, the demons had always existed, but they could not communicate with this world because the two worlds had always been in opposition.

The pure air resides here, while the turbid air resides in the shadows; the two are clearly separated and do not interact.

But after that sword strike, the clear and the turbid, the light and the dark, became mixed together, and the two worlds were like the yin and yang fish in the Tai Chi diagram.

From then on, there was purity within impurity, and impurity within purity. Many great demons poured in from the demon realm, and all beings, whether immortals, gods, humans, demons, ghosts, or monsters, were corrupted by demonic energy.

From then on, the mortal realm had its demonic path, and the celestial realm had its demon gods.

It was precisely because of the existence of these demons that the gods of the celestial realm were restrained. So much so that just when the gods and immortals thought that Di Xin was the last one to fight against the heavens, another emperor, the First Emperor, suddenly appeared.

Although the result was the same, the celestial realm suffered heavy losses once again.

However, Emperor Xin's sword strike was not entirely beneficial to the human world. The human world originally only had the celestial realm pressing down on it, but now it also has the demon realm pressing down on it.

The invasion of turbid air has led to a decline in the quality of pure air, making it difficult for spiritual herbs to grow. The scarcity of cultivation resources has resulted in the strength of cultivators in the mortal world declining generation after generation, and some lineages have even been severed as a result.

With the rampant inner demons adding another hurdle to the cultivation process, the overall strength of human cultivators has been further weakened.

During the reign of Emperor Xin, he could still muster an army of immortals, but by the time of Qin Shi Huang, he could only forge divine weapons and gather the military energy of the world to gather twelve divine beings.

Of course, the main reason for the overall weakening of the strength of human cultivators is the damage to their fortune, but it is also related to the sword strike from Emperor Xin.

Lin Yi was deep in thought while listening to the story.

But while Zero listened to the story, tears kept flowing.

Especially when he heard that Di Xin died in battle and his body was cut into many pieces, some of which were used to refine pills, some were made into magical artifacts, some were eaten by divine beasts, and some parts disappeared, Ling Yi felt a sharp pain in his heart.

"Are you alright...?"

Seeing how uncomfortable she looked, Lin Yi finally asked her with concern.

"I do not know."

While wiping away her tears, Zero One said blankly, "I don't know why, it seems to be a natural reaction of this body."

Lin Yi understood.

Qianhuan Guiji was King Zhou's sister-in-law in her previous life, and she seemed to admire her brother-in-law quite a bit. Knowing that her brother-in-law died so tragically, she must have been very sad.

Even though she remembers nothing now, and the memories of this part deep in her soul are sealed and broken, she will still shed tears when she hears about related things.

"It's alright, it's all over now."

Lin Yi offered a simple word of comfort, but it couldn't dispel the sadness in her heart, because this was not something that Lingling and Lingyi could decide.

So Lin Yi simply let her cry.

For girls, crying often is actually good for their physical and mental health!

Lin Yi and Lingyi focused their attention on the story of King Zhou, thinking about his affairs and neglecting much about the First Emperor.

After all, although he launched a war against the heavens, the process was not very interesting, and the final result was a natural failure. Lin Yi and Zero One would not pay much attention to him.

But Hua Nianrou is different. She doesn't have as much information as Lin Yi, so she doesn't pay special attention to anyone.

This was the first time she had heard the story of the War of the Conqueror of Heaven. After Zhang Jiao finished telling the story, she admired the Qin Emperor even more.

The mortal realm has been defeated for eight thousand years, and the puppet supported by the immortal realm has ruled this world for eight thousand years. Very few people in the mortal realm know about the conflict between immortals and mortals. He could have easily submitted to the immortal realm, become his own emperor, and lived a carefree life.

But he launched a war against the heavens with his mortal body. Regardless of the outcome, his courage alone is enough to earn admiration.

As Hua Nianrou gradually pieced together his story, she also noticed something amiss.

Eight thousand years later, how did the Qin Emperor know that the immortal realm would reap the benefits of destiny in the future? And how did he know how to deal with it?

There will always be someone who enlightens him and tells him the truth about the world, right?