87: Cultivating immortals is a conspiracy of the devil!
At this moment, Bai Yang was full of questions.
The historical records regarding the Qin Dynasty, it now seems, were mostly fabricated.
What kind of terrifying force could fabricate such a non-existent yet flawless history, and erase the truth completely?
As Bai Yang poured out the doubts in his heart, Ying Zheng's pupils trembled slightly, seemingly understanding something.
"This matter is a long story."
Ying Zheng sighed, gently tapped Bai Yang's forehead with his index finger, and poured a vast amount of memories into him.
While Bai Yang was digesting these memories, Ying Zheng quietly took the smartphone from Bai Yang's hand and began to browse Douyin with great interest.
The girls of this era, although their faces were covered in rouge, had a unique charm!
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During the Immortal Qin Era.
Spiritual Qi was abundant.
The Huaxia Continent was divided among seven warring states.
The trend of Cultivating Immortals was very popular on this continent.
From high-ranking officials to common people, besides three meals, labor, and sleep, all their remaining time was spent Cultivating the Immortal Dao.
The Immortal Dao Cultivation Technique that everyone Cultivated was passed down three hundred years ago by a Red-haired Golden-horned Alien who tore through the sky, pitying the ignorance of all living beings.
According to the Immortal, this method was called the "Mortal Ascension Art," which absorbed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into one's body, and by Cultivating to the Peak, one could Ascend to Immortality and reach the Upper Realm!
On that day, the Immortal's voice spread across Blue Star, but only in Huaxia was the Cultivation Method passed down, causing panic among the nations of Blue Star, who mistakenly thought they were hallucinating.
Ying Zheng was seven years old at the time, not yet reaching the extreme number of nine stipulated by the Mortal Ascension Art, and had not yet begun to Cultivate.
By chance, a Tribulation Transcendence Cultivator passing through the State of Zhao discovered Ying Zheng's excellent bone structure and took him as a Personal Disciple, keeping him by his side to temper his Physical Body.
Day after day, year after year.
Ying Zheng was about to turn nine, and his Revered Master was only one step away from Daylight Ascension.
On that day, his Revered Master left Ying Zheng a jade pendant and decided to Ascend to the Upper Realm; the grandeur of his Ascension caused myriad abnormal phenomena in the sky, drawing the envy of countless people.
Just as Ying Zheng was filled with longing, two lines of bloody characters appeared on the jade pendant, which then turned into dust and dissipated between Heaven and Earth.
It read—
Cultivating Immortals is a conspiracy of evildoers!
The Upper Realm uses those who Ascend as a great medicine!
From that day on, Ying Zheng lived in fear; every time he saw common people Cultivating the Immortal Dao, those two lines of bloody characters would appear in his mind.
However, Ying Zheng was a person blessed with great Luck.
On his ninth birthday.
Ying Zheng received a Cultivation Method from a Revered Master in his dream, who imparted the The Devilish Mark Nine Revolutions Divine Skill and a large number of Demonic Path Cultivation Techniques to Ying Zheng, instructing him to promote them.
Ying Zheng awoke from his dream and, following the operational method of the The Devilish Mark Nine Revolutions Divine Skill, absorbed Spiritual Qi into his body, which indeed transformed into another form of Devilish Qi!
Besides Ying Zheng, General Meng Tian, Bai Qi, Li Xin, Wang Jian, and others also received Cultivation Methods from Revered Masters in their dreams, all of whom later became famous generals under Ying Zheng.
Decades later, Ying Zheng led his Great Army of Devil Cultivators, successively sweeping across the six states of Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, and Qi; the Immortal Cultivator Great Army of the six states simply could not resist the Qin Army, who were all Devil Cultivators!
Unable to defeat Qin in a frontal assault, the State of Yan dispatched Jing Ke, a Soul Transformation Great Perfection expert, to secretly assassinate Ying Zheng.
However, he was knocked unconscious in the main hall by a jar thrown by the Devil Doctor Xia Wuju, and his plan failed.
After unifying Huaxia, Ying Zheng proclaimed himself the First Emperor, changed the country's name to Immortal Qin, unified writing and measurements, stipulated Spirit Stones as currency,
and forbade the common people from Cultivating the Mortal Ascension Art, requiring everyone to Cultivate the The Devilish Mark Nine Revolutions Divine Skill.
However, the common people had been Cultivating the Immortal Dao for nearly three hundred years, and the concept of Immortal Cultivation as the orthodox path was deeply rooted in their hearts.
The scholars of the world were quite dissatisfied with the Qin Emperor's actions, believing he was suppressing the Confucian Dao, and, unrepentant, they extensively promoted the Cultivation Method among the populace.
This act enraged the Qin Emperor, who ordered all Cultivation Techniques related to Immortal Cultivation in thefolk to be collected and thrown into a pit to be burned to ashes!
On the day of the book burning, hundreds of scholars tightly embraced the Immortal Cultivation Techniques, refusing to let them be burned, but Bai Qi kicked them one by one into the pit and set them on fire.
The more Ying Zheng prohibited it, the more those ignorant people believed that Immortal Cultivation offered immense benefits, and they secretly Cultivated Immortals at home.
These people were primarily rebellious.
The common people repeatedly refused to change, and Ying Zheng, furious, ordered the Qin Army to arrest all those who were secretly Cultivating Immortals at home and send them to the border to build the Great Wall!
Days passed, and Ying Zheng and the various famous generals' Demonic Path Cultivation rapidly improved, but the Luck of Huaxia was not unified, making it impossible to condense into a National Luck Demon Dragon.
At this time, there were rumors that there was an Immortal medicine in the East Sea that could aid in the Formation of the National Luck Demon Dragon, so Xu Fu volunteered, and Ying Zheng allowed him to go.
Little did he know, Xu Fu's departure didn't lead to finding the Immortal medicine, but rather to finding the nation of Wa (Japan).
Although Wa was not large, it had no Cultivation Method. Xu Fu led his subordinates to act unscrupulously, capturing local residents to refine medicine, cultivating beautiful women into Dual Cultivation Cauldrons, gradually transforming from Devil Cultivators to Evil Cultivators.
Later, Xu Fu ordered his Evil Cultivator subordinates to go to the mainland to capture people, but General Meng Tian pierced him through with a spear, and he no longer spoke of capturing people for refining medicine or Cultivation.
Until that day...
Demons filled the sky, descending over Huaxia. The leader of the demonic beings was precisely the Red-haired Golden-horned Alien who had passed down the Cultivation Method three hundred years ago!
The Great Demon stood above the sky, circulated his Spiritual Qi, and formed a hand seal. The Spiritual Qi within countless Immortal Cultivators' bodies was immediately sealed, leaving only their powerful Physical Bodies.
A colossal hand, covering the sky and earth, reached down towards the ground, grabbing the powerful Immortal Cultivators whose Spiritual Qi was sealed, like catching little chicks, clenching them in its palm and throwing them into a cloth bag tied to its waist.
The world was terrified. Dozens of Tribulation Transcendence Cultivators united and launched an attack on the giant hand, but with only Physical Body strength, they were no match for the Great Demon's Divine Ability.
It was at this moment that the Qin Army emerged.
Accompanied by shouts of "Great Wind," Ying Zheng swung his sword at the sky, repelling the sky-covering hand with a single strike.
Bai Qi, General Meng Tian, Li Xin, and many other fierce generals, with the blessing of the military Formation formed by a million Devil Cultivator Qin Army soldiers, could barely reach the strength of a Mixed-World Demon King First Order, and engaged in battle with the multitude of Great Demons.
Ying Zheng, as the only Mixed World Devil Realm expert present, drew the Qin King Dangtian Sword and fought fiercely with the Red-haired Golden-horned Alien, but was defeated at light speed within a single move.
At this precise moment, a black and gold Country's Fortune Dragon burst forth from the ground and violently rushed into Ying Zheng's body, temporarily elevating his Realm to that of a Devil Emperor.
The two fought for a long time without a decisive outcome. Ying Zheng, running out of strength, fled into the Void Realm with his remaining generals. Before leaving, he set up a Feng Tian Lock Earth Great Formation, sealing off the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
The Red-haired Golden-horned Alien, while a skilled fighter, was not as proficient in Formations as Ying Zheng.
After a fit of impotent rage, the Red-haired Golden-horned Alien slaughtered all the Devil Cultivators in the world, and the high-grade Immortal Cultivators were harvested by the Great Demon as great medicine.
After handling everything, the Otherworldly Being altered the memories of Blue Star's inhabitants, leaving behind a false history.
After the great battle, Spiritual Qi was sealed, Blue Star shrank ten thousand times, entering an era of spiritual scarcity and the End of Dharma.
All Devil Cultivators in the world died, and the profound black Dragon scales of the Luck Dragon quietly faded, transforming into a Country's Fortune Dragon.
As time passed, Blue Star's Spiritual Qi gradually disappeared, and the remaining low-grade Immortal Cultivators barely survived, opening Immortal Caves to hide.