Chapter 13

The nine layers of the sky are lofty, including the Taihe Sky, Taoming Sky, Taimeng Sky, Taizhuo Sky, Taichang Sky, Taiyuan Sky, Taowei Sky, Taichen Sky, and Taichi Sky. These nine layers of clear and ethereal clouds form the core domain of the Heavenly Court.

The Great Sage Fan Guang Tian Di, the Dragon King, resides in the supreme imperial palace above the nine layers of the sky. This is the supreme imperial era of the dragon clan, where each dragon deity supports their own clan's Heavenly Emperor, ruling over the nine layers of clouds. They manage the boundless beings of the three realms, nine states, and ten directions of the universe.

The sound of the heavens resonates through the nine layers, and divine light illuminates all.

In a mysterious palace, coiled dragon pillars stand tall, adorned with various human organs and limbs, including ears, bones, palms, and hearts.

A young dragon boy, dressed as a child attendant, yawned and swayed his tail, idly guarding the grand hall.

Suddenly, the heart sealed in one of the golden pillars beat twice. The young dragon boy quickly put down the book he was reading and rubbed his sleepy eyes: "Did I see it wrong? This heart actually moved?" Just as he was about to inspect it further, two divine generals appeared at the door, carrying a jade tray.

These two divine generals wore red armor and had a dragon horn on their heads.

"Jinming, quickly seal these to prevent the human deities from discovering them!" The divine general hurriedly placed the jade tray on the coiled dragon pillar. Seeing Jinming inspecting a coiled dragon pillar with a delicate heart, he asked curiously, "What are you doing? Are you trying to steal and eat them?"

"No," Jinming quickly waved his hands, "These things carry the aura of humans. If I steal and eat them, the adults will surely notice and punish me. I just saw this heart seem to beat a few times, so I came to check it out."

"The divine prohibition the adults have placed isolates all external sensations. How can this heart still move?" The divine general was unconvinced. "Quickly seal these things to avoid any trouble."

Jinming, the child attendant, looked closely and saw that the two divine generals had brought a pair of eyeballs and two leg bones.

"These eyes..." Jinming examined closely and found that the pupils of the eyeballs were both double pupils.

"Humanity regards double pupils as divine. I wonder which human ancestor's bloodline this is? Yu Shun or Xiang Wang?"

"Guess further back."

"Before Yu Shun?" Jinming thought for a moment. "Shi Huang Shi?"

"Correct. Among the descendants of Shi Huang Cang Jie, there was someone born with double pupils. He could walk at seven days old and speak at one month. He was wise even as a child." The divine general grinned, revealing two rows of sharp teeth. "To prevent humanity from producing another great sage like Cang Jie, I had a demon spirit dig out his eyeballs."

Jinming was accustomed to the divine general's actions and cast a spell to seal the divine eyes with double pupils. "Did the human deities not notice?"

"The evidence has been erased. Even if they suspect, they have no proof pointing to us." The other divine general also presented two leg bones.

Jinming identified them: "These are Yuming divine bones?"

"Correct. A human woman was born with divine bones. I broke her legs and dug out the two bones."

"Cutting the grass without removing the roots will lead to future troubles." Jinming said, "Why not kill her outright?" He carved spells on the two bones and inserted them into the coiled dragon pillar to isolate them from external sensations.

"That woman seemed to have awakened the bloodline of the Yellow Emperor." The divine general shook his head. "As a descendant of the Heavenly Emperor, I dare not kill her lightly."

Jinming, the child attendant, said disdainfully, "The Yellow Emperor himself has been dead for thousands of years. The human race has already had two imperial eras, which is already a great fortune. Now, in our Dragon God Imperial Era, their power has declined. It would be best to kill her to prevent the imperial bloodline from continuing."

The divine general clearly lacked Jinming's ruthlessness. "After all, humanity has produced two Heavenly Emperors and their direct descendants. If we target the imperial bloodline, the great deities of the Xuanyuan family may become angry. I just threw her into the mountains to let her perish on her own. As long as the Xuanyuan family doesn't notice, she will starve to death in the valley."

"That's true. Letting her perish on her own won't lead back to us." Jinming, the child attendant, completed the sealing and looked at the hundreds of coiled dragon pillars in the palace. Many of the pillars still had fresh blood flowing, as if expressing the human race's defiance. These organs and limbs were from the most elite of humanity, now secretly suppressed by the dragon clan. Their blood and tears are not known to outsiders.

Jinming smiled brightly. "Our efforts over the years have not been in vain. As long as no great sage is born among the humans, in this era of the Yellow Emperor's collapse and the rise of our Dragon Emperor, our dragon clan can smoothly defeat the remaining human forces and become the rulers of heaven and earth."

...

Xun Yi was rescued by Bai Fu and others. A gentle breeze blew through the dense forest, and the two stood on the treetops, facing each other.

One of the men spoke, his voice deep: "What was that Xuanhuang Arrow just now?"

"It doesn't seem to be a deity, but the Xuanhuang aura carries the divine light of the Heavenly Gate. It doesn't look like an ordinary person." The woman on the opposite side said softly, "It's not the attribute of any of the deities in the city. It seems our Qinglong City has another deity from the Heavenly Realm."

Under the shadow of the dense trees, they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, but they felt uneasy because of the sudden appearance of this deity from the Heavenly Realm.

The man thought to himself, "Could this deity from the Heavenly Realm be here to seek our clan's Sacred Spirit Stone? But the dragon clan is currently powerful in the Heavenly Realm. Why would they target our clan instead of the humans? Could they be planning to eliminate all the descendants of the Heavenly Emperors at once?"

The woman was also worried. "It shouldn't be me, right? I just stole a peach from the Heavenly Court. It doesn't seem like they would come for me." She tentatively asked, "Do you think this person is targeting the young master?"

Hearing this, the man became alert. "The Sacred Spirit Stone is our clan's greatest treasure. How can we let an evil spirit touch it?"

"That's why you gave the young master the basic incantation of the Sacred Spirit Stone to repel the evil deity?"

"Of course. If the Sacred Spirit Stone wasn't in his body, I wouldn't care if he lived or died!"

"I hope so." The woman seemed to see through the man's insincerity and changed the topic. "This Sacred Spirit Stone is indeed mysterious. It can suppress the divine consciousness of a high-ranking evil deity. It seems its divine power reserve is around the fifth layer of the sky. But why couldn't it help the young master reshape his heart back then?"

"Didn't you know about the young master's heart reshaping?"

"I went to hunt the wolf demon and retrieve the delicate heart. When I returned, the young master was already revived." The woman was a bit puzzled. When Xun Yi was seven, he had an accident, and she immediately went to kill the wolf demon. However, someone else had already acted before her, not only destroying the wolf demon but also making the heart disappear.

After hearing this, the man said, "You should know that our clan has a special origin and it's difficult to bear children. Later, a wise person created two types of sacred stones, one for refining the soul and one for nurturing life. The soul stone governs yang energy, and the life stone governs yin energy. The Sacred Spirit Stone in the young master's body is formed from the creative energy and innate yin energy, also known as the Nüwa Spirit Stone, which can only be controlled by women."

"Then how did it end up in the young master's body?"

"Not the young master, but the young lady." The man smiled bitterly. "The true owner of this stone is Miss Xun Tan. The young lady used the Sacred Spirit Stone to revive the young master and used a piece of her heart to stabilize the young master's heart, making him appear normal. He has a heartbeat and vitality. But after this incident, the young lady probably sensed that her brother was in trouble and will return home soon."

"Miss Tan?" The woman pondered, "Could this be related to the young lady's birth..."

"Exactly. If the young master were a girl, he could have controlled the Sacred Spirit Stone to revive himself and even transform his body. But now, the Xuanyuan bloodline in the young master's body is gradually awakening under the stimulation of the Sacred Spirit Stone, causing a collision between two different forces. This is why you need to brew medicine to suppress the young master's bloodline, to prevent the two different imperial bloodlines from rejecting each other."

"Using the life stone instead of the soul stone is probably because the soul stone's imperial bloodline conflicts more with the young master's own bloodline?"

The man shook his head. "As a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, Maode Gong follows the path of wood virtue, which is not very different from the Fuxi bloodline inherited by the soul stone. However, our clan only had one life stone left after a great turmoil, so how could we let outsiders use our clan's soul stone? It's Xun Yi's good fortune to have obtained the life stone by chance and be reborn. The soul stone? Our clan's soul stone is deeply buried in the spirit soul. How could outsiders get it?"

"Now it's useless to talk about these things." The man changed the subject. "The imperial bloodline in Xun Yi's body is beginning to awaken. Hehe, the conflict with the other imperial bloodline in the Sacred Spirit Stone is becoming more intense. Soon, it won't be just a bowl of medicine that can suppress it!"

"When that happens, the imperial bloodline conflict will cause Xun Yi to die suddenly, and I can smoothly retrieve the Sacred Spirit Stone and return to our clan. As for you..."

"Is there no other way?" The woman couldn't help but ask, "Can't we find a way to suppress the imperial bloodline in the young master's body?"

"There is one way, which you proposed before."

"Change the heart?"

"Remove the Sacred Spirit Stone and give the young master a new heart, or find his lost delicate heart."

As they discussed Xun Yi's condition, they suddenly felt a divine force from the city god sweeping over the entire Qinglong City. They looked at each other and vanished in a flash of light.

...

As they had expected, when Xun Yi was in trouble, his sister Xun Tan, far away overseas, immediately sensed it.

Xun Tan was clearing the battlefield with a group of fellow disciples when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her chest and instinctively clutched it.

"Junior sister?" A few female disciples quickly came to support Xun Tan.

Xun Tan, in pain, frowned. "Is something wrong with my brother?" She caught a glimpse of a Dulan swordsman trying to escape in the distance.

"Sumei Ningsnow." Her delicate fingers moved slightly, and a pure, cold plum blossom pierced through the swordsman's body. Snowflakes then fell, and the distant foreign warriors were eliminated by the young lady in one move.

"These are the last ones. The Dulan Empire will likely be stable for a few years after losing control of Mutu Island." Xun Tan looked up at the sky, where the divine power of the Heavenly Court covered Mutu Island, gradually dispersing the power of the foreign deities of Dulan.

"Mutu Island will be peaceful for a while. I need to go home. Please help me ask Lady Siming for leave." After saying this, Xun Tan turned into a fragrant breeze and left the battlefield. She went to the altar of the Sinao deity and asked the Sinao deity to cast a spell to return to Zhongzhou. Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotia.net

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