The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 334 Success or Failure

As the owner of the earthly paradise in the eastern land, the Taoist Immortal Court had maintained the order for thousands of years. The cultivators in the Immortal Court regarded themselves as immortals and treated mortals as ants.

The strength of the two sides was vastly different and not at the same level. The immortal never thought that their dignity would be challenged by the mortal and that their lives would be threatened by the mortal one day.

Neither did Huang Jingyuan.

So he felt ridiculous about what Li Ye said.

In normal times, he would laugh. He would laugh loudly at Li Ye, just like what Chen Jizhen did previously, but he couldn’t do that now, because Li Ye took out his Luke Sword after saying those words.

Seeing the Luke Sword, Huang Jingyuan’s expression changed immediately. In terms of class-ranking, the Luke Sword was just a mortal magic tool, which couldn’t be compared with the immortal magic treasure. But the Luke Sword wasn’t a common mortal magic tool but an emperor’s sword.

The Emperor was in charge of the world with both kindness and majesty, and people were willing to submit, so it could gather people’s Luck.

The so-called “kindness” was the policy of benevolence, and the so-called “majesty” was violence. Only with both literary and military capacity could the emperor rule the world for a long time. The literary capacity could gather ministers’ and ordinary people’s Luck, which could raise the power of Dragon Qi. The power of Dragon Qi could suppress the world’s Luck and help the emperor control the country in reverse.

The most precious part of the emperor’s sword was its perfect match with Dragon Qi. The mutual benefit of the two could maximize the emperor’s fighting ability.

It was said that the emperor, who could really rule the world, would have Dragon Qi inside his body, which could absorb people’s Luck and improve the emperor’s cultivation realm, and he would also have the Luke Sword to gather the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth and to improve the emperor’s fighting ability. If the two fused with each other, the emperor would have the hope of achieving the emperor’s top realm—invincible in heaven and earth.

But it was just a rumor. Since ancient times, none of the emperors could achieve invincible in heaven and earth. They were invincible on the earth at best.

But there were also a few emperors who nearly approached that realm. With that realm, they could subvert and recreate the order of heaven and earth because they were invincible in heaven and earth.

For example, the first emperor, Ying Zheng.

When the five major Taoist sects were popular in the human world and the cultivators of the Taoist sect were in charge of the Immortal Court, the first emperor in the human world, Ying Zheng didn’t respect the Taoist sect but believed in Legalists and the Way of Emperor.

The first emperor not only unified the six states of Shandong but also expanded the borders by thousands of meters on four sides. He brought countless uncivilized people into the rule of Huaxia. Few people could compare with him in terms of the education of barbarians and the spread of Huaxia’s civilization.

In terms of gathering people’s Luck, who could compare with him?

When the Qin Empire unified the world, Legalists was popular in the world, and the Taoist Immortal Court fell into decay because of the reduction of the mortals’ offerings and power of belief, he had the chance to achieve the emperor’s top realm and to subvert and recreate the order of heaven and earth.

Since the Taoist Sect had become the most trusted among the people, cultivators of the Taoist sect captured the Immortal Court from the demon clan and became the ruler of heaven and earth. The order of heaven and earth hadn’t changed for thousands of years.

Huang Jingyuan suddenly felt a pain in his eyes and brought back his mind.

The pain in his eyes was caused by the glow of the Luke Sword.

Like a flame, the light rose several hundred meters straight up to the blue sky, forming a towering peak.

Under the light of the cyan and white flaming mountain, Huang Jingyuan had to squint.

Huang Jingyuan had seen many such powerful Sword Qis. There were many Great Cultivators in the Immortal Court, so there were more powerful Sword Qis than this.

But at this moment, Huang Jingyuan felt very shocked.

He felt an invincible, domineering, and indomitable spirit in the Sword Qi.

The knowledgeable Huang Jingyuan clenched his fists to restrain his arms from trembling.

That was Tao.

That was Li Ye’s own Tao.

Although he was just in the Spiritual Master Realm, he succeeded in comprehending Tao and forming his own Tao!

It was far more than that.

Huang Jingyuan and Chen Jizhen looked at each other and saw each other’s shock in their eyes. So both Huang Jingyuan and Chen Jizhen understood that the Tao in Li Ye’s Sword Qi was the Way of Emperor!

The Way of Emperor in heaven and earth!

Recognizing this, Huang Jingyuan and Chen Jizhen couldn’t help trembling, because they and the whole Immortal Court wouldn’t forget that there was a man who broke the order of heaven and earth and brought great disaster to the Taoist Immortal Court in the Way of Emperor a thousand years ago.

That was the first emperor, Ying Zheng!

Regardless of the discomfort in his eyes, Huang Jingyuan stared at Li Ye. Now he finally understood why he would be so careless that he was absorbed into the picture by Li Ye a moment ago.

Whether or not a mortal could find his own life purpose determined his life direction and achievements. Whether or not a cultivator could form his own Tao determined whether or not he could enter the Immortal Realm.

That was a qualitative change.

Huang Jingyuan said to Chen Jizhen word by word, “Li Ye is unusual, far more than what we see! It’s a false impression that he is only in his thirties and that he has no cultivation before twenty! Now he has already comprehended the Way of Emperor. Although he’s just in the preliminary stage with sharp aggressiveness, we can’t take him lightly! We can’t let another Ying Zheng appear in the land of Jiuzhou again!”

At this point, Huang Jingyuan no longer had any reservations. The eight trigrams plate with vicissitudes and aggressiveness suddenly rose to the sky above his head and changed into 300 meters in diameter. While it was rotating, beams of brass light fell down like a waterfall and covered them in it.

Narrowing his eyes, Chen Jizhen was still angry. He thought Li Ye was acting like an ant provoking an elephant with threatening gestures. He looked down on Li Ye with contempt and thought he could kill Li Ye at any time. He felt very unhappy as he heard Huang Jingyuan’s words and saw Huang Jingyuan’s actions.

Li Ye was only a drop in the ocean compared with 72 Earth Devils, and he couldn’t be mentioned in the same breath with the Immortal Court.

How could an ant turn against the sky?

Staring at Li Ye, Chen Jizhen gnashed his teeth. “You’re just a Yang Spiritual Master. Do you really think that you’re very powerful? How can the light of a firefly match up to the splendor of the bright moon?”

Then, he looked at Holy Child and the others. “You demons. Our Immortal Court is magnanimous and didn’t kill you all so that you can survive. How dare you try to oppose the Immortal Court in collusion with a mortal! You’re overconfident. You’re hopelessly stupid!”

After that, a black flag flew out Chen Jizhen’s sleeve and he waved it in the sky.

In the sky, black clouds rolled, lightning flashed, and thundered. Purple electric dragons emerged from the clouds.

At this point, Li Ye chopped down his sword.

Holy Child and the others spared no efforts to launch techniques with no reservation at the same time. All kinds of waves of Spiritual Qi went straight to Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan.

First, Li Ye chopped down a cyan and white light column with a sword. Turning into a cyan dragon, it cut into the light shield of the eight trigrams inch by inch, like cutting tofu. Then, various techniques of the Great Cultivators of the demon clan fell into the light shield like a meteor shower, causing boundless waves.

Instantly, the light shield of the eight trigrams plate shone brightly with spiritual waves rolling. All kinds of techniques were interwoven and turned up and down. It wasn’t visible to the naked eye.

However, a tornado suddenly rose out of thin air and soared to the sky from the chaos, sweeping and scattering the wind and clouds all around.

Tornadoes rose one after another, and the blue sky soon recovered from the chaos.

The tornadoes came from Chen Jizhen’s flag.

Li Ye and the cultivators of the demon clan vomited blood and flew backward in succession.

When they stabilized their bodies, they had already stepped back more than 600 meters.

All of them were seriously injured.

Under the light shield of the eight trigrams plate, Chen Jizhen was standing uprightly with a flag in his hand, and Huang Jingyuan was making a seal. With pale faces and unsteady breaths, they looked like more seriously injured. But their momentum increased abnormally, like a dragon or a tiger.

Li Ye, Holy Child, and the cultivators in the Immortal Realm of the demon clan looked solemn.

They all felt the pressure and the gravity of the situation.

Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan looked cold as well.

The fight between the two sides turned out to be evenly matched.

Relying on the magic treasure of the Immortal Court, Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan were almost invincible.

But they were incompetent to hurt Li Ye and the others.

Under the advantage, Li Ye and the others were also unable to kill Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan.