Chapter 1356: Anything More?
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
These words came from Ning Yan’s mouth!
His voice echoed endlessly, forming a storm in everyone’s hearts and shaking their souls.
Xu Qing looked at Ning Yan and sighed inwardly. With his understanding of Ning Yan, he naturally saw some clues and guessed who was controlling Ning Yan.
‘No wonder he continued to stay in closed-door cultivation…’
Ning Yan took a step forward. His eyes were like sharp blades, not evading the Human Emperor’s gaze.
“Father, am I wrong?”
As he spoke, dense fluctuations of the imperial bloodline erupted from his body and rose into the air, sweeping toward the fortune of the human race, causing the power of fortune to surge at this instant.
The instant his footstep landed, a pitch-black long silk appeared out of thin air around him. After moving around him a few times, it soared into the sky.
“Today, I also have three offerings for you!”
The instant Ning Yan’s voice rang out, the long silk that rushed into the sky spread out in the sky like a black dragon. It grew larger and larger and finally… formed a scroll!
Countless scenes emerged in that scroll, depicting the suffering and wailing of the people of the human race!
One could see the miserable scenes of children being sold for food, the corpses frozen in the winter, the commoners wailing in flames, and the children suffering from anomalous substances…
Burning, killing, plundering, and the strong preying on the weak. The sorrow of all lives that happened in the mortal world because of chaos kept emerging.
Some starved to death, some were refined to death, and some were sacrificed alive not long after they were born.
Good people died because of kindness, evil people died because they were killed by even worse people, criminals wreaked havoc, and some laughed sinisterly.
The scenes… were shocking.
Xu Qing looked at these. There were many of them and he had experienced them all. Memories of his childhood surfaced in his mind.
At that time, he had been at a loss as to why the humans were like this and why the world was like this.
Why was it that the gazes of life only saw evil in this world?
Why did wanting to survive become his dream?
Where was the light…
Xu Qing remained silent.
The surroundings fell silent.
The world fell silent.
Only Ning Yan’s eyes were bloodshot as he stared fixedly at the silent Human Emperor and gritted his teeth.
“This is the Scroll of Resentment, depicting all the misery of the common people within the territory during your reign. Their cries, their pain, their confusion… Today, Human Emperor, would you care to listen to them?”
“Is this how you rule as emperor?!”
Is this how you solemnly honor our ancestors?!”
“Is this how shamelessly you take credit for accomplishments?!”
“Today, I’m not convinced. The people who have died in these 3,000 years are not convinced!”
As Ning Yan spoke, he suddenly waved his hand. Immediately, the sky rumbled. The Scroll of Resentment shook and shattered, turning into countless black spots that mixed into the fortune in all directions.
Immediately, the fortune of the human race churned unprecedentedly and finally formed a vortex that rumbled above the altar.
The fluctuations were intense and earth-shattering.
“I, Mystic War, have lived up to our ancestors and made achievements for the human race? How can you even utter such words?”
“Did the human map you offered depict the suffering of all living beings?”
“Did the heroic soul records you offered record the tragic fate of their descendants?”
“Where is the so-called good weather for the human race you offered?”
Ning Yan’s voice, equally mournful, spread across the eight directions, echoing through the sky with a resounding roar. The Sovereign Planet trembled, and even the heavenly altar shook. A tremendous pressure surged forth from within the human race’s fortune, tainted by the black spots.
The Human Emperor looked at Ning Yan calmly without saying anything.
When Ning Yan saw this, his eyes turned even redder as he took another step forward.
“Since you’re unwilling to speak, as your son, I’ll give you the second offering!”
With that, Ning Yan raised his hand and a second long scroll instantly soared into the sky.
This scroll was red and spread out in the sky, revealing countless scenes.
They were… the various official positions of the human race!
Within them were greed, sins, killings, and more, vividly displayed. Under the reign of the Human Emperor, each family committed countless sins for their own selfish interests, different stances, and various purposes.
Many of them were heinous!
This was a list of the officials’ crimes!
Its appearance caused the expressions of many of the ministers to change drastically. Their minds rumbled and they were frightened.
The feeling of uneasiness was even more intense.
“Mystic War, is this your world? Is this your empire?”
Ning Yan laughed loudly. Immediately, the long red scroll shattered, turning into countless red spots that also fused into the fortune of the human race.
The surging of the fortune reached its peak at this moment, even surpa.s.sing it, like an ancient giant roaring towards the heavenly altar.
It was as though it was questioning.
However, the Human Emperor still didn’t say a word and continued to look at Ning Yan.
Seeing this, Ning Yan took a deep breath and took out the third item!
It was a blood-red skull!
Human skull.
Moreover, it looked like it was of a child.
The blood within the body seemed to have flowed to it before death, turning it red.
Holding the skull, Ning Yan stared at the Human Emperor and gritted his teeth as he said something that caused everyone’s expressions to change again!
“Mystic War, you probably don’t recognize this bone. It’s fine, I’ll let you know today.”
After saying that, Ning Yan’s gaze swept in all directions, sweeping past Xu Qing and the others. He then looked outside the Ancient Sovereign Planet and finally stared at the vortex of fortune.
He spoke loudly.
“My ancestors, my race’s fortune, and countless humans.”
Do you know how the Human Emperor Mystic War advanced to the Ruler realm back then?!”
As soon as he said that, shock spread in all directions. This was because the Human Emperor had advanced to the Ruler realm before he succeeded the throne…
“Most outsiders think that Mystic War relied on his bloodline to break through the Soul Acc.u.mulation and step into the Ruler realm. However, in reality… he secretly sacrificed the living beings of nine counties of another region to himself and advanced.”
“This wouldn’t be a problem if it were just a foreign region. However, in the nine counties that were sacrificed, other than a large number of nonhuman races, there were also some of our own people!”
“As the Human Emperor, Mystic War is the emperor of all the humans. Although those people were of another region, they were still his citizens!”
“However, he didn’t care about the lives of his people and did such a cruel thing, enraging the heavens and people!”
“In his advancement to the Ruler Realm, there is the blood and souls of our own people.”
Ning Yan’s voice was deafening, transforming into heavenly lightning that exploded in the Imperial City.
He raised his hand and sent the blood-red skull into the human race’s fortune vortex.
“Human race’s fortune, please verify it.”
The red skull disappeared in the sky and everyone’s gaze instinctively landed on the fortune vortex. At the next moment, the dragon of fortune flew out of the vortex and roared at the Human Emperor.
Its voice was extremely heart-rending.
At this moment, everyone’s expressions changed drastically.
As for the fortune vortex, amidst the heart-rending cries of the dragon of fortune, it also sped up its rotation. A rumbling sound shook the heavens and the earth and its color also contained black and red.
As if the resentment within it had spread, and as the water that carried the boat could also capsize it, in the next instant, under thunderous booms growing louder with each pa.s.sing moment, chains of black and red iron materialized from within this fortune vortex, violently whipping downward.
There were a thousand of them.
They headed straight for the Human Emperor on the altar below. However, the Human Emperor didn’t resist at all and allowed the iron chains to fall, binding his body and dragging him to the air.
At the next instant, even more iron chains erupted from the fortune, augmenting the suppression and the punishment!
Ning Yan’s eyes shone as he glared fixedly at the Human Emperor.
“Previously, you disdained to speak. Now, do you still have nothing to say?!”
The Human Emperor’s expression was still calm.
Even though he was suppressed by the human race’s fortune and bound by the iron chains, he only looked at Ning Yan as though he was waiting for him to do something else.
This scene caused the ministers to be bewildered. Ning Yan’s heart also sank.
However, he was very confident in his preparations. Moreover, the arrow was already on the bowstring. He had to fire it!
Hence, his eyes turned even redder as he roared.
“Why aren’t you making a move?!”
These words were clearly not meant for the Human Emperor.
This was because the instant his voice rang out, a scene that caused Xu Qing’s breathing to pause appeared.
King Zhen Yan beside him… instantly disappeared!
A crack suddenly opened in the sky.
King Zhen Yan’s figure walked out. He was expressionless and emitted a monstrous aura. The power of the Soul Acc.u.mulation Eight Worlds erupted completely, as though it could suppress everything.
With a stride, his aura was like a rainbow. He raised his hand and a long saber gathered in front of him, aiming at the Human Emperor…
He slashed out with his saber!
With this strike, one could see eight large worlds shining and rumbling. They gathered in the saber light and formed a destructive power!
All of this happened too quickly and most of the people on the Ancient Sovereign Planet didn’t even have time to react. King Zhen Yan’s betrayal had exceeded everyone’s expectations.
There was a certain possibility that anyone would defect. However, in everyone’s hearts, it was absolutely impossible for King Zhen Yan, who had fought for the human race for many years and poured his heart and soul into the human race’s cause, to betray them!
But now… such an unbelievable change had actually happened!
He was actually Ning Yan’s trump card.
In an instant, the storm in the hearts of everyone became even greater and they were extremely shocked. However, they didn’t have time to think further. Seeing this ritual turn into regicide, cultivators from within and outside the Ancient Sovereign Planet instinctively rushed forward to intervene.
The fastest to appear was an aged figure that suddenly appeared in front of the Human Emperor. He was dressed in eunuch attire, as if he had always been present there, but only now revealed himself. With a swift motion, he pushed his hand towards the blade aimed at the Emperor.
The cultivation power of the nine worlds stage of the Soul Acc.u.mulation actually rose from this old eunuch.
He was a hidden expert of the human race!
At this moment, the world rumbled and wind surged as he blocked King Zhen Yan’s saber strike!
However, even with his strength of nine worlds, he was forced back a few steps and spat out a mouthful of blood.
This showed how extraordinary King Zhen Yan was!
As for the guardian cultivators rushing over from outside the Sovereign Planet, they were about to step in when the human race’s array formation erupted, blocking them outside.
Those who didn’t have the qualifications weren’t allowed to enter this planet!
As for everyone on the Ancient Sovereign Planet, although they also rushed out, they all retreated under King Zhen Yan’s powerful attacks.
However, King Zhen Yan couldn’t make any more moves and was pestered by the eunuch.
Xu Qing looked at Ning Yan.
Killing intent flashed in Ning Yan’s eyes as he headed straight for the bound Human Emperor. He grabbed the air and a spear appeared.
However, at that moment, the body of the Human Emperor, who was bound by the fortune of the human race in the air, swayed slightly. With a boom, an iron chain collapsed.
Immediately after, as the aura of the Human Emperor spread out, a terrifying intent filled the sky. The iron chains on his body couldn’t withstand it at all and they broke one after another.
During the process of collapse, the Human Emperor expressionlessly lifted his head and looked at Ning Yan, who had a gloomy expression on his face. He then spoke his first words today.
“Little Eleven, is there anything else?”