Chapter 1103 – The Truth About the Black King
”Heh heh heh heh heh heh ……”
Before An Qingyu and the others stepped into the hall’s door, they heard a familiar giggling sound coming from the depths of the hall.
”Cao Yuan?”
An Qingyu and the others looked at each other and quickly walked towards the hall.
Taibai Jinxing held his duster and smiled helplessly as he followed closely behind them.
After passing through the back door of the hall, it opened up in front of them, and a garden space with an immortal and ethereal aura was displayed in front of everyone’s eyes.
It was a large lake, snow-white streaming clouds drifted through the air, turquoise lotus leaves seemed to be endless, gently swaying with the breeze on the surface of the lake, and a long greenish-gray pavilion crossed the surface of the lake, leading straight to an octagonal pavilion in the center of the lake.
A few people stood at the edge of the lake, and could vaguely see that in the octagonal pavilion in the center of the lake, a familiar figure was sitting in the center of the pavilion, surrounded by a few serving maids who had a fan in their hands and seemed to be fanning him.
”Good fellow, I said why is Cao Thief missing, so he is hiding here to enjoy the service of the fairies?” Baili Chubby opened his mouth in shock.
”The situation seems a bit off, let’s go over and take a look.”
An Qingyu frowned slightly as she listened to the continuous laughter in the distance, the crowd stepped through the long pavilion and soon arrived in front of the octagonal pavilion.
”Heh heh heh heh ……”
Only after walking to the front of the octagonal pavilion did An Qingyu get a good look at Cao Yuan’s condition, only to see that Cao Yuan was sitting cross-legged on top of a snow-white futon, his eyes lax as he giggled at the distant lake scene. Wisps of black fire flared up from his skin, and before it could ignite the surrounding area, it was extinguished by the spirit wind blown by the huge green-colored fan in the hands of the surrounding maids.
”What’s wrong with Cao Yuan?” Shen Qingzhu asked with a frown.
Taibai Jinxing came slowly from the long corridor behind the crowd.
”Queen Mother has said that four of the seven predestined locks in his body have been broken, and the Black King is struggling to break through the ‘prison’, causing this little friend’s consciousness to be awake at times and chaotic at others, and whether or not he can regain control of his body still depends on his will.”
”Black King ……,” Jiang’er muttered twice and asked in confusion, “Black King, what exactly is it? Is it the Great Summer God?”
”Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe ……”
”The Black King is indeed from Da Xia, but is not a god …… To be precise, he is a mortal who failed to impact the Supreme Realm thousands of years and ages ago.”
”Mortal?!!!”
Hearing those words, the crowd present was shocked beyond belief.
”Heh heh heh heh heh heh ……”
”How could a mortal, impact the Supreme God?”
”This is also the strangest part.” Taibai Jinxing slowly said, “Generally speaking, the Supreme is the realm above the God Realm, and even if a mortal is stronger, it is extremely difficult to become a God, let alone directly cross over to become a God in a vain attempt to ascend to the Supreme in a single step …… But on the contrary, he almost succeeded.”
”After failing to impact the supreme, for some reason, this mortal began to lose his mind, reduced to a monster that only knows how to kill, known to the world as the [Black King].”
”Even after failing to impact the supreme, his power was still terrifyingly incomparable, his battle power was far above that of an average god, but because he had yet to become a god and had no laws, even if the Black King was strong, he couldn’t truly kill any of the gods.”
”Back then, when the Black King’s mind was deranged and he slaughtered all living beings, it was still Heavenly Father himself who took action and used the ‘Fate Prison Trapping Fury’, a causal Dao artifact, to seal him.”
”‘Fate Prison Trapping Fury’? What is that?” An Qingyu opened her mouth.
”The Heavenly Father’s Dao technique is not something I can understand.” Taibai Jinxing smiled helplessly, “I only heard that this Black King was ultimately sealed within a mortal with a special destiny, and then whenever the mortal carrying this Black King died, the Black King would be pinned to the Dao of Karma and automatically transfer into another mortal with a special destiny ……
Week after week, a thousand years of flow, one after another mortals carrying the Black King, has been passed down to the present.
And these successive generations of mortals carrying the power of the Black King seem to be attributed by you Nightwatchmen to a special forbidden ruin known as ‘Beneath the Gods, Above All Beings’, which seems to be called …… [Black King Decimation]?”
After listening to Taibai Jinxing’s description, the crowd simultaneously fell into silence, and within the Octagonal Pavilion, only Cao Yuan’s giggling echoed.
”So, this is the origin of [Black King Decimation] ……,” Shen Qingzhu nodded thoughtfully.
”But since the Black King is so dangerous, why didn’t the Heavenly Father just get rid of him back then, instead of sealing him?” An Qingyu pondered for a moment and asked doubtfully.
”Heavenly Father’s thoughts, we can’t guess, since he did that, he must have special intentions.”
”Then can’t Heavenly Father repair those four broken predestined locks?”
”Can’t.” Taibai Jinxing shook his head, “The predestined locks, were not made by Heavenly Father, but were extended by these mortals who carry the Black King and have special destinies on their own, it is a part of their souls, and no external object can have an effect on their destinies.”
”Heh heh heh heh ……”
An Qingyu’s eyes complexly glanced at the giggling Cao Yuan, “So, there’s no way at all?”
”Old man honestly.” Taibai Jinxing said with a straight face, “Right now, this little friend is left with only two paths to choose from …… Either, rely on your own willpower and use the only three remaining predestined locks to suppress the Black King in your body;
Either, completely by the Black King to invade the body, and finally the three predestination locks break, the Black King once again came out, and then by the Heavenly Father personally hand in another mortal’s body …… But in this case, I am afraid that the little friend will not be able to live.
Success or failure, life or death, all can only depend on this little friend’s own destiny.”
An Qingyu’s brows tightly furrowed.
”Heh heh heh heh heh heh ……”
Snap–!
Just as the atmosphere was silent and depressing, Baili Chubby, who was standing behind Cao Yuan, suddenly raised his hand and slapped Cao Yuan’s ceiling.
”I say Old Cao, we’re talking business here, can we be quiet?” Baili Chubby said with wide eyes.
An Qingyu was about to make a move to stop him when Cao Yuan’s succession of giggles suddenly stopped.
An Qingyu froze in place.
The black flames pulsating on Cao Yuan’s body seemed to have decreased a little bit, and in those empty eyes, a touch of divine splendor vaguely surfaced, and his ears moved slightly, as if he was listening to something.
”He can hear us?” A touch of joy surfaced in Shen Qingzhu’s eyes as he grabbed Cao Yuan’s shoulder and lightly shook it twice, “Old Cao! You can’t give up! Seven Nights has already half a foot in the ghost gate and still managed to hang on to his breath, you absolutely can’t die either! Do you hear me?”
In Cao Yuan’s eyes, a slight aura flickered once again, and the black fire igniting on his body became more and more rare.
”The Heavenly Father said, wanting him to fight and win against the Black King, he needs some external stimulation …… This is also the important reason for calling you all up to the Heavenly Court.” Taibai Jinxing smiled and stroked his beard, “It seems that this trick is working.”
Just as the crowd was chatting, a figure pushing a wheelchair slowly approached by stepping along the long corridor.
”Who said, I already have half a foot in the ghost gate?”