Longevity Chronicles
Chapter 410 - 288: Taizong of the Zhu Dynasty is carved up, Duobao dares not call me master

Ancestor God Treasure, the Mountain and River Map.

Tao Qian had snatched this item from the hands of Prince Zhao, Zhu Qi, and the great warlord Zhang Jiudeng, refining it with the Source Qi fortune he possessed, yet it wasn't until the very last moment that he truly refined this treasure for his own use.

It was in that instant that he and the Artifact Spirit of the treasure jointly decided to destroy it, all to accomplish one grand affair.

As the master, Tao Qian could actually sense the "Ancestor Spirit's" excitement at that moment.

This was only normal. If anyone else in the world, especially the common mortals, were to learn of what Tao Qian was about to do, they would find it crazily ambitious, grandiose, and utterly unbelievable.

Taking control of the current Emperor, personally revealing the Alchemist's secrets, abolishing the national title, and ending the monarchy.

The system that had continued for over two thousand years, since the Ancestor Emperor's time, had finally come to an end.

Abrupt!

Shocking!

But, it was worth it.

Tao Qian watched with his own eyes as the Mountain and River Map disintegrated, its projection spreading across the seventy-two provinces.

That moment, the fishing hook and line also crumbled, giving birth to a Record: [Completely exempt from the contamination of the Immortal Fish Heavenly Dao Power!]

From this point on, Tao Qian would no longer have to endure the annoying voice of the Immortal Fish Technique's master.

What reached his ears was now only the tumult within Yang Sui City.

An earth-shattering event that shocked the billions of the nation had occurred in Yang Sui, and the city was plunged into restlessness and panic.

At the same moment, just as he had escaped from Prince Ning Mansion, Tao Qian began to experience an upheaval within his body.

"Heavenly Venerate above!"

"Disciple, has broken through the third tribulation."

Tao Qian knew this was not the Cultivation Tribulation Technique.

In a sense, it was like recklessly inflating the tribulation to the size of a gigantic bubble, then forcibly bursting it.

The risk was terrifying, but the profits were tremendously astounding.

However, Tao Qian hardly had time to feel the harvest within his body, his eyes reflecting the scene unfolding on the Ascension Platform.

All over the vast Yang Sui were the people of the Xiu Family.

They could have done something before the upheaval occurred.

But because the one replacing Thirteenth Prince Zhu Quan was his own father, Heavenly Destiny Emperor Zhu Yong, who was also an ally of the Xiu Family, they did nothing and let Zhu Yong step forward.

Thus, they also brewed a major mistake.

When the Power of the Mountain and River Map revealed itself and the great change materialized, the Xiu Family people came to their senses, their figures dashing towards Zhu Yong.

At the same time, numerous messages resounded in Zhu Yong's ears:

"Zhu Yong, have you gone mad? To tear off the façade, forcefully overturn the table, though it can severely damage the Alchemists, but a centipede dies but never falls; we too will face significant troubles."

"This is not in line with the plan, the Xiu Family will not acknowledge this."

"Capture you, then negotiate with the Alchemists."

The betrayal of the Xiu Family was within Tao Qian's expectations.

Thus, at this moment, he willed Zhu Yong to make a new move.

The Heavenly Destiny Emperor's body, after all, had been nurtured by the Taishang Dao Immortal Pill. Although it had suffered significant damage, it still held extraordinary power.

The entire city could see the blazing burst of glazed light from within Zhu Yong's body, the last Emperor of the Longevity Heavenly Dynasty, destined to be written in history books, disregarding the approaching Xiu Family members. While there were still some Fragments of the Mountain and River Map that hadn't disintegrated, he could still project some images.

Zhu Yong suddenly acted as if he had gone mad, and he burst out laughing:

"People of Longevity, I, Zhu Yong, am a sinner, awakened much too late."

"First coerced into evil by Emperor Taizhong, and then after feigning death, I was deceived by the millennium-old Xiu Family, conceding half of the land, thirty-six provinces to this clan... I, am ashamed of this country and these people, will now commit suicide as atonement. I hope that all virtuous people in the world will come forward, and return to this land and these people a bright and clear world."

As soon as the words were spoken, the Heavenly Destiny Emperor's Glazed Dao Body violently collapsed, turning into countless sparkling fragments, dying thoroughly and swiftly.

All that was left were the Xiu Family members on the Ascension Platform, their faces filled with confusion and looking immensely unsightly.

This time, the Xiu Family had tried to steal a chicken only to lose the rice.

Being trapped by the Heavenly Destiny Emperor in such a way, from today onwards, not only would the Xiu Family be seen as the epitome of shamelessness in the eyes of the world, but they would also have to deal with "Alchemists" as a troublesome adversary.

...

However, the Xiu Family had no idea that, at this moment, the entire Alchemist faction was under tremendous shock.

Throughout the territories of the Longevity Heavenly Dynasty were gigantic and parasytic-like entities, within which were distorted, terrifying Secret Realms.

These Secret Realms connected to the Mortal World in many ways, with the most commonly used points being the Imperial Mausoleums of the dynasties.

Each Secret Realm extended countless thick, sickening blood vessels, sinking into every corner of the Longevity Heavenly Dynasty.

Along with the silent "gurgle gurgle" sounds, a vast amount of Source Qi flowed like a river into these Secret Realms.

They were bloodsucking!

Relying on the Longevity Heavenly Dynasty, continuously drawing nourishment.

For more than two thousand years, it had always been this way.

Until that moment, that cataclysm occurred.

Across the vast territory, the fortune generated by the turmoil of the seventy-two provinces was like the sharpest blade in the world, slicing in an instant across the vast blood vessels that spread into every corner.

Burst!

Exhausted!

In an instant, all the Secret Realms began to tremble madly, screams of pain echoing throughout.

In total, thirteen exceedingly distorted and indescribable figures surged out of the Secret Realms.

They squirmed, using the Alchemists' internal pathways, and rushed frantically to the fourteenth space, a Secret Realm completely filled with rotting flesh, greedy faces, and bloated tentacles.

Even during this process, these figures were continuously weakened.

As if out of thin air, fearsome blades sliced down, cutting off large chunks of bloated flesh that were rich in Transcendent sustenance and heavenly Source Qi, turning the contamination back into their bodies, while the remaining Source Qi returned to the Mortal World.