In the dilapidated mountain village.
Old Dog Tianji’s face was pale, and a pool of Origin essence blood on the ground, with an evil vitality, slowly surged and flowed.
“Damn Bloodthirsty Demon Emperor!”
His frail, aged body trembled slightly.
Just now, an Origin Clone was devoured, and his Origin was significantly damaged.
Coupled with Chu Nan’s death.
The power of Luck supplied by the Three Fortunes Yi Dao Method decreased, and the contamination from the Evil Demonic Qi within his body became even more severe.
Old Dog Tianji’s face was filled with rage as he murmured, “It’s a pity I’ve been plotting and planning for so many years, only to return to square one in a single day…”
He sighed continuously in his heart.
After the Dark Ages.
His body was severely corroded by Evil Demonic Qi. First, he spent over a hundred thousand years comprehending and independently creating the Three Fortunes Yi Dao Method, solely to use the power of Luck to resist the Evil Demonic Qi.
Then he spent tens of thousands of years searching for individuals with great Luck.
Gu Xinde of the Heavenly Dao Academy was one of them.
However, the Myriad Domains of the Heavens were broken and desolate before, and the “individuals with great Luck” he found were all quite weak, so the power of Luck he stripped from them using the Three Fortunes Yi Dao Method was very faint.
Later, tens of thousands of years passed, and he gained nothing.
Until the Golden Great Era was about to emerge.
He finally found three true individuals with great Luck after painstakingly spending several thousand years.
How many years had it been since then?
Today, one of them died directly, and a Bloodthirsty Demon Emperor, who suddenly appeared, devoured one of his Origin Clones.
“That’s not right!?”
Old Dog Tianji’s brows furrowed tightly, and green Xuan runes swirled and surged around his body.
“My divinations showed… I shouldn’t have encountered this calamity? What kind of variable has occurred?”
No sooner had he spoken.
He then shook his head with a bitter smile.
If his divination techniques could calculate everything, wouldn’t he have already ascended to the peak of the endless Universe?
“Also… what’s gotten into Empress Hongye? Why did she suddenly destroy my Heavenly Dao Academy? It doesn’t make sense!”
“Could it be that my secret method for peeking at Luck was discovered by her? But it shouldn’t be that serious, should it?”
“Hmm? Li Hongtai is dead? Could it be that the Jiang Clan discovered Lin Chen’s matter from back then?”
“That’s not right, I was extremely secretive about it back then, how could this happen?”
“What exactly is going on!?”
“What a pity for my many years of planning…”
Old Dog Tianji’s face was full of sorrow, his heart brimming with questions.
He had indeed secretly caused some trouble for the Jiang Clan.
Both for the justice of the Heavens!
And for personal vendetta!
It must be known that the Myriad Domains of the Heavens needed balance.
If the Jiang Clan were to rule the Heavens in the future, given his understanding of Su Hongye’s ambition and ruthless nature, she would definitely extend her reach beyond the Heavens!
At that time, all living beings in the entire endless Universe would suffer, and it might even lead to another great calamity!
Additionally, about ten thousand years after the end of the Dark Ages war, he had found a great Opportunity, an entire large pool of good fortune immortal liquid!
This item was a divine treasure that seized the good fortune of Heaven and Earth!
Extremely precious!
But unexpectedly, Empress Hongye suddenly arrived halfway through and snatched it without a word.
Old Dog Tianji’s combat power was already weak, and he was severely injured back then, so he naturally dared not compete with her for even a bit.
But because of this incident, he held a grudge against Su Hongye.
“This was a great Opportunity!”
“If I had obtained this divine item back then, I wouldn’t have lived like a ghost for the past two hundred thousand years! I might even have advanced further!”
The wrinkles on Old Dog Tianji’s aged face deepened, and he was extremely frustrated in his heart.
He really wanted to release another Clone to the Heavenly Domain to question Empress Hongye.
After all, in the matter back then, he had not clashed with her, but rather had “quite sensibly” yielded to her.
On the surface, there was no enmity between them.
But how could he not know Empress Hongye’s temper?
He was afraid that she would cut down another one of his Origin Clones.
He released his Divine Thought again and inquired about information regarding the Heavenly Dao Academy.
“Gu Xinde attacked Jiang Ye, the Empress’s son!?”
In an instant, Old Dog Tianji’s head buzzed, his face full of questions.
He had some understanding of Gu Xinde in the past; he was short-tempered and arrogant, but he never expected him to dare to bully the young and attack Jiang Ye!
“Something’s not right…”
Old Dog Tianji frowned tightly and once again activated his divination techniques to calculate.
Pfft!!
“Ah! Ahhh~”
He violently spat out another mouthful of essence blood, his own Origin once again damaged.
“Why would I suffer an unwarranted backlash when calculating a junior!?”
“When did the Jiang Clan acquire such a supreme treasure? And give it to a junior? Calculating him actually caused me such a severe backlash?”
Clearly, Old Dog Tianji believed that Jiang Ye was protected by a supreme treasure.
After all, he was a Great Emperor, and he did not believe that Jiang Ye, a junior, could have any means to backlash his divination techniques.
“I had planned to gather three individuals with great Luck, and in a few thousand more years, I would at least be able to get rid of half of the Evil Demonic Qi contamination…”
“Now it’s troublesome… I must enter a self-balancing state.”
“What an unwarranted disaster!”
“Could it be that the Three Fortunes Yi Dao Method still has imperfections? Leading me to suffer a backlash of misfortune?”
“As things stand, I can only first restore my own Origin; I can’t do anything else.”
“I must Awaken before the Golden Great Era begins; I still have many things to do…”
“The Divine Son of the Jiang Clan is just a junior; the Eternal Immortal Body is nothing to fear…”
“Lin Chen, Ye Qingxuan, you two are also individuals with great Luck; don’t die like Chu Nan!”
“You still need to provide me with a continuous stream of Luck power!”
“Alas!”
“What a sin, what a sin!”
“It is the Heavenly Dao to let a Fellow Daoist die rather than myself!”
“Huh? Something’s not right? Why is one portion of Luck power missing?”
“Lin Chen!? Why hasn’t he Cultivated the Three Lives Art? This is a top-tier Imperial Cultivation Technique! How could he resist it? Could the problem have been discovered?”
“This is troublesome now…”
Old Dog Tianji shook his head with a bitter smile, only able to reluctantly take out some of his hidden treasures and use them to suppress the Evil Demonic Qi.
His heart was extremely aggrieved… Yu Chen Dao Domain.
The Sacred Forest Land had been exceptionally lively these past few days, with many Cultivators from various forces arriving one after another.
Among them were even people from some immortal Dao Lineages.
These people successively sought out the head of Cloud Top Academy, asking about Wang Hongtu.
“Head Wang, it has spread throughout the Various Great Dao Lineages these days that the Bloodthirsty Demon Emperor suddenly appeared at the foot of your Cloud Top Academy mountain. Have you discovered his whereabouts?”
“The person who received the Bloodthirsty Demon Emperor’s Legacy is named Shen Lian; the recorded image has been fully exposed, and he was once an Inner Sect Disciple of your Cloud Top Academy!”
“Please explain, Head Wang, why a person of the Demonic Path appeared within the Academy. The responsibility for oversight…”
Wang Hongtu’s face was filled with helplessness.
One by one, they were all people from major forces, so he could only keep explaining and distancing himself.
How would he know?
Originally, Shen Lian was just an evil Cultivator; how did he suddenly become the Bloodthirsty Demon Emperor’s successor?
And the culprit, Jiang Ye.
At this moment, he was enjoying a performance on the pavilion balcony, carefree and at ease.
In his mind, a beautiful voice kept broadcasting.
【Ding! Protagonist of Destiny Chu Nan was harmed by the host, his mentality exploded, his Dao Heart shattered, and his Luck value decreased by 800 points!】
【Villain value + 800!】
【Ding! Protagonist of Destiny Chu Nan died due to the host, his Luck value was cleared, decreasing by 500 points!】
【Villain value + 500!】
【Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully killing Protagonist of Destiny Chu Nan! Gained 6000 Villain value!】
【Recycling all items of Protagonist of Destiny Chu Nan: Tianji Ziwei Mirror…】
【Recycling complete! Gained 3500 Villain value!】
【Ding! Protagonist of Destiny Shen Lian was tricked by the host and attacked Chu Nan, his Luck suffered a Heavenly Dao backlash, and his Luck value decreased by 1300 points!】
【Villain value + 1300!】
【Ding! Protagonist of Destiny Shen Lian was severely injured by Old Dog Tianji and fled, his Luck value decreased by 1500 points!】
【Villain value + 1500!】
【Ding! Protagonist of Destiny Shen Lian became a person of the Demonic Path and was exposed by the host, his reputation ruined, reviled by all, and hunted down by various Dao Lineage forces, his Luck value decreased by 2000 points!】
【Villain value + 2000!】
Seeing that his account was only 50 points short of thirty thousand Villain value.
Jiang Ye’s heart instantly rejoiced.
This wave of 'leeks' came in without him even needing to act, just a small trick brought them flocking.
The only regrettable thing was that Chu Nan was too poor; he had no treasures at all.
One must know that Lin Hongyan’s recycled items at the time were 8900!
“Old Dog Tianji is too wicked; look how he harmed Chu Nan, making him utterly destitute…”
While thinking, Jiang Yi’s report then came in.