The second day of preparation for the Hundred Fortresses Hegemony Tournament.
When Bei Li was on the sofa watching movies with Lu Wu, her face suddenly tensed up. She then took out a small notebook from her pocket and ran through it thoroughly.
Lu Wu sensed Bei Li’s mood change, so he could not hold back his curiosity and asked her, “What happened?”
“Someone wants to rebel against us!” Bei Li answered seriously after a few moments of silence.
“Rebel? What do you mean!?” Lu Wu was dumbfounded.
“Wu, since you have started cultivating, you need to know some things as well. Do you know what is up there in the sky?” asked Bei Li while raising her hand and pointing upward.
“Stars? Moon? Sun?”
Bei Li picked Lu Wu up from the sofa and pressed her fingers unto him in a way that seemed to be a rather intense massage, “So mischievous~ So mischievous~”
The cultivated Lu Wu stood his hair up and leaped, escaping Bei Li’s hug. He relayed his force on the sofa and jumped onto her head before giving her a nice slap with his claws,
“Did you already forget that you’re no match for me?”
This slap brought tears to Bei Li’s eyes, “I forgot!”
“Say it, what is happening exactly!?” Lu Wu asked with superiority after regaining the upper hand.
Bei Li ruffled her head and spoke with a slightly solemn tone,
“Do you remember what you promised me on the first day we met?”
Lu Wu began recollecting. After intricately recalling the incidents on that day, he smiled awkwardly, “Are you referring to the matter in which I borrowed an army from Emperor Qin Shihuang to invade the underworld?”
Bei Li looked enraged upon hearing this. Just when she raised her hand to grab Lu Wu, she suddenly thought of something and kept her hands back bitterly, “You told me, ‘Do you want to help me out and become my right hand-man? We will conquer heaven after the underworld and we shall rule all three worlds!’”
Lu Wu became more uneasy after listening.
This was obviously a joke. He did not take it seriously back then and had forgotten about it after such a long time. Little did he know that Bei Li would still remember every detail of it.
“Could it be heaven?” Lu Wu questioned inquisitively.
Bei Li nodded fervently, “Since there is an underworld and there are cultivators in the human world, then there is of course a world of the immortals in heaven!”
“Do you still remember back then when you’ve asked me where the Earthly Deities of the human world went and I pointed above my head? Actually, I meant heaven.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Wu put on a solemn expression, “Then what do you mean by rebelling? Somebody wants to invade heaven?”
Bei Li shook her head, “I’m not sure of his intentions nor his identity. But he activated the Yin Talisman! That means he has become one of the Anti-Heaven Alliance!”
Listening to Bei Li’s explanation, Lu Wu widened his eyes. Son of a bitch, this looks like the time when I received the Yin Talisman which allowed me to go in and out of the underworld.
“Am I part of the Anti-Heaven Alliance, too?” Lu Wu could not stay still anymore.
“Of course you’re not. Your Yin Talisman had already been engraved into the artifact, so naturally you won’t have the symbol of the Anti-Heaven Alliance.”
“Phew!” Lu Wu let out a long sigh. He almost thought he was starting a war with the Deities and the Gods.
“But your ancestor was part of the Anti-Heaven Alliance,” Bei Li’s eyes squinted into crescent shapes as she said while grinning.
Lu Wu opened his eyes wide again, “Why did my ancestor join such a notorious group?”
“Because heaven is unfair!”
Lu Wu quickly replied, “What does that mean?”
“A few million years ago, heaven, the human world, and the underworld, were the three main worlds that coexisted. Among them, the human world was the strongest. Every hundred years, there would be gifted geniuses who managed to cultivate and become Earthly Deities. There were also a few kings who suppressed and overlooked the world!”
“That was the true era of cultivation. Everyone in the human world was in high spirits. Nurtured by the soul energy of the world, they were the most powerful world among the three worlds!”
“But do you know why the human world nowadays lacks soul energy and cultivation is so hard?”
Dumbfounded, Lu Wu shook his head.
“It was because those deities knew that if they don’t limit the human world’s progress, one day the human world would be leading the three worlds. So they did a despicable move by letting a powerhouse into the underworld to stop the flow of soul energy from the underworld to the world of the living through the Six Doors of Reincarnation!”
“The soul energy of the world was getting thinner, which alerted most Earthly Deities in the human world. So they visited the underworld themselves to investigate! However the cunning deities were ready for them for a long time. They disguised themselves as powerhouses from the underworld to stop the investigation from the human world, and even massacred the Earthly Deities in the underworld.”
“What happened during this period was complicated, so I won’t go into the details with you. Anyway, it was what triggered an earth-shattering war between the human world and the underworld! This battle nearly broke the underworld into pieces. If the Great Emperors of the Underworld did not unite under the Six Doors of Reincarnation, this war would have just made the underworld disappear!”
“The mistake was made but discovered too late. The deities in the world of the immortals then were like chess players, calculating every step they made. However, it was at this time when the true evil backstage manipulator appeared. The very first thing they did was to break the Heavenly Gate, cutting the other source of soul energy to the human world!”
“Until this stage, the schemes of the world of the immortals no longer mattered. After the war between the human world and the underworld, the human world was facing combat power deprivation, so there was no way they could fight against the world of the immortals again. Moreover, the world of the immortals had also gotten rid of their last hope to regain their power through cultivation as both sources of soul energy were cut off. The human world could never regain the golden era of cultivation they used to have, nor could they give birth to another invincible being like the emperors of old!”
“After that, the soul energy in the human world withered. Countless fights over sources were happening frequently. Cultivation had finally come to its end and faded out of humans’ sight with time!”
Hearing Bei Li’s explanation, Lu Wu frowned, “Then why did you say the Earthly Deities went up to the sky?”
“Living under the fear of soul energy extinction, some Earthly Deities chose to betray humans and entered heaven, becoming the underdogs of heaven! The other Earthly Deities who refused to give in left the domain in search for an opportunity to revive the humans’ glory days.”
“What about the human emperors? Weren’t they immortal as well? Where did they go?”
Bei Li shook her head, “I told you everything I could tell you. You should not know more than this. You won’t gain any benefit by listening to more of this because your soul is too weak, hence it is impossible for you to keep this secret…. nonetheless, let me tell you something. If you want to be the ruler, then behind the world of the immortals…”
Out of the blue, Lu Wu quivered while listening. He then bent over on the sofa and moaned painfully.
It was because he felt his soul throbbing with pain, as if a spiky brush was combing his body over and over again.
Seeing this, Bei Li quickly took a few pieces of the spiritual rice from the artifact, crushed them, and fed them into Lu Wu’s mouth.
Soul energy charged within his body and suffused throughout. The sharp pain ceased and Lu Wu slowly opened his bloodshot eyes.
Lu Wu’s face was plastered with fear, but doubts still filled his heart to the brim.
He knew he could not listen anymore. Bei Li did not lie to him. Knowing too much would really get himself killed.
The second day of preparation for the Hundred Fortresses Hegemony Tournament.
When Bei Li was on the sofa watching movies with Lu Wu, her face suddenly tensed up. She then took out a small notebook from her pocket and ran through it thoroughly.
Lu Wu sensed Bei Li’s mood change, so he could not hold back his curiosity and asked her, “What happened?”
“Someone wants to rebel against us!” Bei Li answered seriously after a few moments of silence.
“Rebel? What do you mean!?” Lu Wu was dumbfounded.
“Wu, since you have started cultivating, you need to know some things as well. Do you know what is up there in the sky?” asked Bei Li while raising her hand and pointing upward.
“Stars? Moon? Sun?”
Bei Li picked Lu Wu up from the sofa and pressed her fingers unto him in a way that seemed to be a rather intense massage, “So mischievous~ So mischievous~”
The cultivated Lu Wu stood his hair up and leaped, escaping Bei Li’s hug. He relayed his force on the sofa and jumped onto her head before giving her a nice slap with his claws,
“Did you already forget that you’re no match for me?”
This slap brought tears to Bei Li’s eyes, “I forgot!”
“Say it, what is happening exactly!?” Lu Wu asked with superiority after regaining the upper hand.
Bei Li ruffled her head and spoke with a slightly solemn tone,
“Do you remember what you promised me on the first day we met?”
Lu Wu began recollecting. After intricately recalling the incidents on that day, he smiled awkwardly, “Are you referring to the matter in which I borrowed an army from Emperor Qin Shihuang to invade the underworld?”
Bei Li looked enraged upon hearing this. Just when she raised her hand to grab Lu Wu, she suddenly thought of something and kept her hands back bitterly, “You told me, ‘Do you want to help me out and become my right hand-man? We will conquer heaven after the underworld and we shall rule all three worlds!’”
Lu Wu became more uneasy after listening.
This was obviously a joke. He did not take it seriously back then and had forgotten about it after such a long time. Little did he know that Bei Li would still remember every detail of it.
“Could it be heaven?” Lu Wu questioned inquisitively.
Bei Li nodded fervently, “Since there is an underworld and there are cultivators in the human world, then there is of course a world of the immortals in heaven!”
“Do you still remember back then when you’ve asked me where the Earthly Deities of the human world went and I pointed above my head? Actually, I meant heaven.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Wu put on a solemn expression, “Then what do you mean by rebelling? Somebody wants to invade heaven?”
Bei Li shook her head, “I’m not sure of his intentions nor his identity. But he activated the Yin Talisman! That means he has become one of the Anti-Heaven Alliance!”
Listening to Bei Li’s explanation, Lu Wu widened his eyes. Son of a bitch, this looks like the time when I received the Yin Talisman which allowed me to go in and out of the underworld.
“Am I part of the Anti-Heaven Alliance, too?” Lu Wu could not stay still anymore.
“Of course you’re not. Your Yin Talisman had already been engraved into the artifact, so naturally you won’t have the symbol of the Anti-Heaven Alliance.”
“Phew!” Lu Wu let out a long sigh. He almost thought he was starting a war with the Deities and the Gods.
“But your ancestor was part of the Anti-Heaven Alliance,” Bei Li’s eyes squinted into crescent shapes as she said while grinning.
Lu Wu opened his eyes wide again, “Why did my ancestor join such a notorious group?”
“Because heaven is unfair!”
Lu Wu quickly replied, “What does that mean?”
“A few million years ago, heaven, the human world, and the underworld, were the three main worlds that coexisted. Among them, the human world was the strongest. Every hundred years, there would be gifted geniuses who managed to cultivate and become Earthly Deities. There were also a few kings who suppressed and overlooked the world!”
“That was the true era of cultivation. Everyone in the human world was in high spirits. Nurtured by the soul energy of the world, they were the most powerful world among the three worlds!”
“But do you know why the human world nowadays lacks soul energy and cultivation is so hard?”
Dumbfounded, Lu Wu shook his head.
“It was because those deities knew that if they don’t limit the human world’s progress, one day the human world would be leading the three worlds. So they did a despicable move by letting a powerhouse into the underworld to stop the flow of soul energy from the underworld to the world of the living through the Six Doors of Reincarnation!”
“The soul energy of the world was getting thinner, which alerted most Earthly Deities in the human world. So they visited the underworld themselves to investigate! However the cunning deities were ready for them for a long time. They disguised themselves as powerhouses from the underworld to stop the investigation from the human world, and even massacred the Earthly Deities in the underworld.”
“What happened during this period was complicated, so I won’t go into the details with you. Anyway, it was what triggered an earth-shattering war between the human world and the underworld! This battle nearly broke the underworld into pieces. If the Great Emperors of the Underworld did not unite under the Six Doors of Reincarnation, this war would have just made the underworld disappear!”
“The mistake was made but discovered too late. The deities in the world of the immortals then were like chess players, calculating every step they made. However, it was at this time when the true evil backstage manipulator appeared. The very first thing they did was to break the Heavenly Gate, cutting the other source of soul energy to the human world!”
“Until this stage, the schemes of the world of the immortals no longer mattered. After the war between the human world and the underworld, the human world was facing combat power deprivation, so there was no way they could fight against the world of the immortals again. Moreover, the world of the immortals had also gotten rid of their last hope to regain their power through cultivation as both sources of soul energy were cut off. The human world could never regain the golden era of cultivation they used to have, nor could they give birth to another invincible being like the emperors of old!”
“After that, the soul energy in the human world withered. Countless fights over sources were happening frequently. Cultivation had finally come to its end and faded out of humans’ sight with time!”
Hearing Bei Li’s explanation, Lu Wu frowned, “Then why did you say the Earthly Deities went up to the sky?”
“Living under the fear of soul energy extinction, some Earthly Deities chose to betray humans and entered heaven, becoming the underdogs of heaven! The other Earthly Deities who refused to give in left the domain in search for an opportunity to revive the humans’ glory days.”
“What about the human emperors? Weren’t they immortal as well? Where did they go?”
Bei Li shook her head, “I told you everything I could tell you. You should not know more than this. You won’t gain any benefit by listening to more of this because your soul is too weak, hence it is impossible for you to keep this secret…. nonetheless, let me tell you something. If you want to be the ruler, then behind the world of the immortals…”
Out of the blue, Lu Wu quivered while listening. He then bent over on the sofa and moaned painfully.
It was because he felt his soul throbbing with pain, as if a spiky brush was combing his body over and over again.
Seeing this, Bei Li quickly took a few pieces of the spiritual rice from the artifact, crushed them, and fed them into Lu Wu’s mouth.
Soul energy charged within his body and suffused throughout. The sharp pain ceased and Lu Wu slowly opened his bloodshot eyes.
Lu Wu’s face was plastered with fear, but doubts still filled his heart to the brim.
He knew he could not listen anymore. Bei Li did not lie to him. Knowing too much would really get himself killed.
