Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 680 - 580: Chaos-Eyed Qiu Dragon, Human Banquet Recipe

Chapter 680: Chapter 580: Chaos-Eyed Qiu Dragon, Human Banquet Recipe

July 22, evening.

In Huai State, Guangling Prefecture, the Heavenly Capital of Tianjing City.

The colossal city swallowed mountains and rivers; one of the most important Water Dragon Veins in Divine Land, the Heavenly Barrier River, encircled the city.

"Zhongshan cradles the Stone City, its dominance once soared. Heaven opened for the Emperor to reside; the sea’s hue reflected upon the palace gates.

Masses of peaks chased like deer, rushing and racing abruptly. Water of the river in nine paths comes, in the clouds, it fades away distantly!"

Nearly three hundred years ago,

this city was where the Great Yan Ancestor began his dragon’s rise, starting a military campaign from here, achieving what was in all the ages of Red County Shenzhou the only south-to-north unification by a Dynasty.

At the nation’s founding, this Heavenly Capital was even made the Imperial Capital for a time.

It was a premier imperial enterprise and one of the most critical Dragon Energy nodes within the "Mountain and River Country Formation."

The four Green Seal Strange Immortals, who crossed realms to arrive, were determined to help the Ming King establish the "Clothes and Crowned Beast Dynasty."

They were willing to unleash a great war, execute saints, and ruin morality in the Mortal World, even at the cost of their lives.

Though the great war began and ended swiftly, the number one hero, Xie Tianke, was not executed.

Yet, at least at the start of the "Pointing at a Deer and Calling it a Horse," after a round of "turning black into white,"

No-Life Buddha’s "Clothes and Crowned Beast Dynasty" was thoroughly established upon forty prefectures of Huai State as its foundation.

At the beginning of the lantern lighting,

the former Heavenly Palace, after extensive renovations, became the palace of the present ruler of Huai State, the Ming King.

Yet, within the brilliant lights, one could not see any grandeur appropriate for a burgeoning royal authority or unmatched determination, just a pervasive, nausea-inducing miasma.

"Cackle cackle cackle, today Huai State is entirely in the grasp of my Ming King Army; pending the troops striking out in all directions, seizing the neighboring Jiangzhou, Qiongzhou, Junzhou is within easy reach."

"Ming King Your Highness, born with the ’Innate Strange Phenomena · Red Light Surrounding Room,’ is destined to be the King of all under heaven!

Peach God Tao, Heavenly Eye Dao, Yellow Heaven Righteous Dao, Yangchuan Lushi, Ningyin Hou ... intellectuals and warriors from all directions cherish the King’s kindness and vie to pledge allegiance.

Moreover, with the natural defense of the Heavenly Barrier River, half the kingdom is within easy reach."

"To Ming King Your Highness!"

Clad in various clothes and crowned beasts’ official robes, civil servants, military generals, and scholarly officials filled the grand hall; their shrill or cold toasts were a noisy clamor.

One might seriously doubt if this was indeed the nerve center of a vassal king, or rather a mountainous bandit stronghold.

No, not a stronghold, but a fiendish den, a Demon Palace.

If one observed carefully, under the flickering candlelight, the shadows cast by those officials all revealed claws, pointy ears, feathers, tails...

Clearly, the room was full of "Clothes and Crowned Beasts!"

And looking at the garment worn by the leading minister at the highest position, the patches there were not any kind typically found among the "Clothes and Crowned Beasts."

Instead, a sly, smirking fox and a smug, grey-haired rat adorned it.

The patches featured a fox and a rat both dressed in official robes, sitting on the judge’s bench as if human, with various beasts and dogs lined up on either side.

Also, the fox and rat on the official robe had patches depicting the same images of themselves.

These nested patches of the fox and rat seemed to perpetuate indefinitely.

This official robe was the very Deceit Object, the "Official Robe · City Fox Country Rat," which Wang Yuan and his party failed to find after annihilating the Xue family (Chapter 221).

Origin: Transformed from a Great Scholar Scholar who had cultivated the "Climbing Dragon Art in the Literary Field," who became utterly disappointed and even abhorred the corruption in the government upon dying.

It retained part of its ability to use the "Sacrificial Technique."

[Taboo: Among the twelve characteristics of "City Fox Country Rat" including fawning, flattery, lying, cheating, double-dealing, oppression, bullying, lawlessness, greed, lust...

If an official embodies any three of them, after kneeling to the official robe or the superior wearing it, the robe will steal the Dragon Energy and Official Energy, gradually corrupting them.

They will transform into genuine demons—City Fox Country Rat, Clothes and Crowned Beasts!]

Evidently, this Deceit Object had fallen into the hands of the Ming King after its disappearance.

Its pairing with the numerously "Innate Evil" beings dominating his "Clothes and Crowned Beast Dynasty" was indeed a perfect match.

"To Ming King Your Highness, may you ascend to the great throne soon!"

A hall full of civil servants, military generals, and clothes and crowned beasts all raised their cups of suspiciously crimson liquid, toasting to the two young kings in regal robes at the head.

They appeared to be of ordinary human form.

Yet, in the eyes of all the demons, they shimmered like two radiant suns, possessing an unmatched presence almost filling the entire grand hall.

Their divine might was like a prison, inadvertently revealing a hidden bloodlust and madness, sending a deep chill akin to being in a dragon’s lair or a tiger’s den.

Even those unruly Clothes and Crowned Beasts involuntarily displayed a submissive demeanor in front of them now.

Perhaps this realm was governed by a different, more direct rule: might makes right!

"My ministers, drink to victory!"

The two kings, solemn and taciturn, also raised their cups.

After the Great Fate had extinguished [No-Life Buddha], the surviving humanity reincarnated.

To carry his incarnations, Empress Dowager Su Yuru, who had an affair with Xue Jiexi, and the last Emperor Zhou Jingliang’s concubines gave birth together.

If Su Guyun had the [Three True Dharma Body] and Wang Yuan the [Three Cave Dharma Body], then what No-Life Buddha cultivated was the highest order [Three Eras Dharma Body].

Representing the past, present, and future.

Initially, the White Lotus Avatar that was deployed and devoured by Wang Yuan also lost the [Three Yang Ruyi] to him.

Zhou Wenrui’s Green Lotus Avatar, who attempted to use the [Defamation Technique] to stop Huang Wu’s ascension, was annihilated together with his spouse by the collapsing Life Plate of the four pillars.