[Saint King Zhao Tianji was furious, and once again sent angels to summon the dukes to suppress the Red Flame Zhou Dingtian. They accepted the orders on the spot but did not act.]
[As soon as the angels pressed them, these dukes and city lords would casually inform the angels of Zhou Dingtian's location, urging them to quickly suppress him.]
[Of course, the angels did not dare proceed and instead sought the help of the Elder Sword Leader of the Martial Arts Hall, who fell gravely ill overnight, bedridden with not much time left.]
[The angels then requested the True Martial General, who was suppressing the fierce beasts of the Hundred Thousand Mountains. That day, the earth shook, beasts rioted, and the True Martial General returned severely injured, claiming he was powerless.]
[Mr. at the Martial Arts Hall informed Chu Shenfeng of these events and returned the Spiritual Weapon Flame Sparrow to her.]
[Chu Shenfeng was stunned.]
[I don't understand. Saint King Zhao Tianji merely lost a battle, so why does it seem like the entire world has turned against him?]
[At twenty-two, the Moon Worshiping Demon People, under my name and self-titled as "Red Flame Demon", began spreading the Red Flame technique of consuming the "Human Spirit Seed".]
[They called it the Red Flame Holy Sect, and countless responded to the call.]
[I was furious, waging war everywhere, killing the Moon Worshiping Demon People. Chu Shenfeng witnessed the plight of the lower class and the brutality of the Moon Worshiping Demons, which improved her attitude towards me, and she became my deputy.]
[We fought from the south to the north, eradicating the Moon Worshiping Demon People and restoring the nation.]
[At twenty-five, the Black Mountain Goat Race, Rabbit Buddha Race, and Celestial Fox Race joined forces to attack, and twenty-eight cities fell. I led the army to suppress them, breaking through to the Melting Furnace Realm on the battlefield and slaying eighteen Great Demons of the same rank, reversing the dire situation.]
[In March, the Black Mountain Goat Race was destroyed.]
[During the war against the Rabbit Buddha Race, I caught a distant glimpse of my younger brother Zhou Qingshan in the army. He had broken through to the rank of Martial Artist and had healed without medicine. He even led the soldiers to repel the Rabbit Buddha Race's Great Demon and was appointed as the lord of a city.]
[In October, the Rabbit Buddha Race was destroyed.]
[The following year, the Fox Race's Demon God awoke, commanding three hundred thousand remnants, including the Moon Worshiping Demon People.]
[I led an army of one hundred thousand to battle, fighting fiercely for three hundred rounds, severely injuring the Demon God, but was covered in blood, fallen to the ground, my fate uncertain.]
[Chu Shenfeng shattered her Lifebound Spiritual Soldier Flame Sparrow, using the "Crimson Flame Phoenix" to severely wound the Fox Race's Demon God again. The Red Flame soldiers protected my body with their lives, breaking out of the siege.]
[Chu Shenfeng returned to the Martial Arts Hall, begging the Elder Sword Leader in the True Martial Realm to save me. Chu Shenfeng used her own Phoenix blood to refine the Creation Spirit Pill, the "Phoenix Nirvana Pill".]
[I was reborn through fire. Yet Chu Shenfeng's hair turned white overnight, and she, now old and weak, refused to see me.]
[I waited outside for three days.]
[Chu Shenfeng had someone entrust the broken Spiritual Weapon Flame Sparrow to me, along with a message, "As long as the spear is intact, so am I."]
[I carefully kept the broken spear close to me and resolutely turned to reorganize the Red Flame Army.]
[The following year, Chu Shenfeng passed away in meditation; she did not live to see me drive away the Demon God and restore the land.]
[I sat alone in the mountains for three days, merging my heart with the heavens and the earth, stepping into the True Martial Realm, going down the mountain to overturn the Fox Race's Demon God, the Celestial Fox Race was wiped out, and I returned victorious.]
[After recuperating for three months, Master Gu appeared before me in armor, leading three thousand veteran Red Flame soldiers.]
"Saint King Zhao Tianji is a Moon Worshiping Demon, the leader of the Holy Sect, and has colluded with alien races, leading armies to cause the land to shatter. Everything was his doing, sacrificing anything for the Creation Spirit Pill, "Elixir of Immortality."
"The Human King has long been decayed, yet he relies on the "Divine Martial Celestial Mandate" to act recklessly. You should emerge by destiny, breaking this shackle for all generations."
"The 'Divine Martial Celestial Mandate' was forged by the then third Human King Zhao Shenwu of Zhao Country and founding heroes using their Lifebound Spiritual Soldiers to suppress the Celestial Destiny God "Moon of Eternal Daylight." This is the origin of the 'demon people' and 'human ghosts' in the dense fog."
This matter.
I must not shirk.
"The previous Red Flame Commander had the Seven Red Flame Veins to help, also possessing one hundred thousand Red Flame soldiers to fight against the predecessors' "Divine Martial Celestial Mandate," yet still failed."
"Afterwards, Saint King Zhao Tianji dismissed it with an "alliance with alien races" excuse. The Elder Sword Leader and the True Martial General had to endure for the greater good at that time."
"If the Human Race's True Martial Lord and the Divine Martial Celestial Mandate perished together, this country would be destroyed, and the clans on this continent would become slaves to alien races."
"Though unwilling, we now must consent."
"We cannot allow Zhao Tianji to sacrifice the nation's fortune to the Moon of Eternal Daylight!"
Master Gu spoke the truth,
then smiled at me, saying, "And now, you only have me as the last Red Flame Commander to assist you.
This mission, for Master, retrieved the Elder Sword Leader's Celestial Sword, yet less than thirty percent certain."
What thirty percent? A full hundred percent!!
I already had great courage, laughing boldly, "Since our predecessors did not accomplish it, let us, the future generations, do it."
Before setting out.
Master Gu and I entered the Martial Arts Hall to pay respects to the ancient ancestors.
The Human Race struggled in the Great Desolation for a hundred thousand years, giving rise to the Three Ancestors, Six Emperors, and Hundred Saints, establishing the six eternal countries. This place is too far from the Six Continents of the Human Race, and only the statues of the three Human Emperors have the power to respond.
The will of the First Generation Human Emperor manifested first, his face full of relief, "People of later generations, you have done very well."
"I will lend you a helping hand."
Martial Artists of the Third Heaven have a lifespan of only five hundred years, striving for transient glory. The First Generation Human Emperor's flesh had long decayed, but his will is indestructible, forever imprinted in heaven and earth, suppressing the Celestial Destiny God for the tribe.
The Red Flame Army received the "Three Emperors' Blessing," their spirits roused.
"The heavens are dead! The Red Heaven shall reign!"
Behind me, a hundred thousand in the Red Flame Army shouted in unison.
Their voices transcended history, as a single thread of will from the "Flame Ancestor" awoke, manifesting from the past, understanding the purpose of this Red Flame journey, and filled with tears of warmth.
Sensing the fate upon me, endowed with the Human Race's Celestial Mandate, I have become—the Red Flame Celestial Mandate!!!
"We shall overthrow Zhao Country! Establish a greater nation."
"The Seventh Human Emperor of the Human Race!"
I commanded the hundred thousand Red Flame Army to the capital of Zhao Country. As we passed through each place, city lords and citizens emerged to send us off, the will of the Red Flame spread across Zhao Country's one hundred thirty-seven cities.
The capital.
Saint King Zhao Tianji had long awaited, a massive golden Great Sun hung high above the sky, illuminating layers of mist, known as "Divine Martial Celestial Mandate" pressed upon the Red Flame.
Holding the "Great Sage Equal to Heaven," I transformed into a hundred-zhang Divine Monkey, looking up, my figure still appeared so small beneath the golden Great Sun.
But, what of it?
Boom—!!!
The Divine Monkey leapt upward, battling the golden Great Sun, the world at this moment transformed into eternity.
Dust dispersed.
Mountain!
Mountain!
Great Mountain!
Deafening shouts resonated as a towering great mountain rose skyward.
A crimson bird perched atop the peak, accompanying.
Buzz!
A colossal entity slowly ascended, shadowing the Great Sun, with an eerie silver-white radiance spilling over, weak snakes and insects from before transformed into giant beasts roaring defiantly.
Mist surged like tides, engulfing everything.
Celestial Destiny God—the Thirteenth Moon of Eternal Daylight arrived.
The world at this moment knew no night.
The will of "Zhou Dingtian" gazed toward the distant Black Cloud City where a poised young man in black armor led soldiers to fight the remaining Rabbit Race, forging Lifebound Spiritual Soldiers—the Sun-Shooting Bow. He suddenly felt an echo in his heart, gazed upon the heavens, his eyes emitted divine light.
A voice reached his ears.
"If the ancestors failed to achieve, let us descendants pursue."
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"Puff!"
Ning Xunqiu hadn't yet carefully read the final segment of the Celestial Derivation Volume, only to see those words suddenly leap from the page, transforming into a burst of golden flames, rapidly burning to nothing.
The Celestial Derivation Volume instantly turned into a book radiating brilliant gold, extraordinarily splendid.
"What is happening?!" Ning Xunqiu exclaimed.
He found himself on the Celestial Derivation Volume, unable to inscribe the words "Returning Void Heaven."
"Am I... directly fast-tracking through Returning Void Heaven?!"
Soon after, a prompt sounded by his ear.
[Zhou Dingtian has established Returning Void Heaven as reality, unable to rewrite.]
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Ding Dong.
[Congratulations, your turbulent life is appraised as Golden Life "Red Flame Celestial King": You forged unparalleled spiritual soldiers "Great Sage Equal to Heaven" using great battles as Heaven and Earth Melting Furnace, golden awakening, silver body, and with the triad and septenary souls as fuel, an indomitable will as fire.
Thus, you became Returning Void Heaven's three hundred seventy-ninth—Daoist Master of Soldiers!
Your life was a tale of southern and northern conquests, fighting across the lands, exterminating demon people, slaying demon gods, annihilating three races, shattering celestial mandates, single-handedly supporting the sky, reshaping mountains and rivers.
Zhou Dingtian became the first "Red Flame Celestial Mandate," ascended to the Third Heaven, [Lifebound Spiritual Soldier: Great Sage Equal to Heaven] transformed into an earth-shattering Tongtian Mountain, eternal will forever engraved upon the world, you shared nineteen points of fortune.
Zhou Dingtian in the Martial Arts Hall "to be the pioneer of the world"—"First Sage," eternally worshiped by the seven continents of the Desolate Human Race.
You obtained Returning Void Heaven's "Three Emperors' Blessing," personal fortune increased by eight points.
Acquired a golden achievement reward.]
[Would you like to immediately claim the golden achievement reward?]
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