Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 724: Li's decision, Ao Bing returns to the world
"My lady, let's start the battle."

An old dragon god suggested.

Under the three edicts of the Human Emperor, the dragon clan had only two choices - surrender or fight.

The price to pay for going to war with the Human Emperor, or just resisting the pressure from the Human Emperor, is unimaginable for ordinary people.

But for the dragon clan, no matter what the cost, it is better than surrendering to the Human Emperor.

The Human Emperor's decree was not only issued to the Four Rivers Dragon Courts, but the dragons in the four seas also received the decree from the Human Emperor.

Meanwhile, among the four seas, some of the true dragons have proposed to side with the Emperor of Heaven and use the existence of the Emperor of Heaven to support the pressure from the Emperor of Man.

The envoys of the Emperor of Heaven have also traveled to and fro in the four seas many times.

The dragon clan, which wields the power to call the wind and rain, has a huge influence on the human race.

In this era when the human race is extremely powerful, both the Emperor of Heaven and the Emperor of Man have considered taking action against the Dragon Clan, and neither intends to let the Dragon Clan continue to wander around.

Especially the First Emperor, who had an unimaginable desire for control.

It will never allow the storms that belong to the human race to be controlled by beings other than the human race.

In fact, in the four seas, the game between the Emperor of Heaven and the Emperor of Man had already begun.

The dragons of the four seas have long become the chessboard for games.

As for the Four Rivers Dragon Court, because of the existence of Ao Bing and Li Nu, they had always been excluded from the disputes. But now, the First Emperor, who had freed up his hands, no longer planned to let the dragon gods of the Four Rivers Dragon Court continue to wander around.

"If we had known this earlier, we should have accepted Xiong Ba's invitation and blocked the Xiang River to stop the Qin army." Another dragon god said, and between his words, he beat his chest and stamped his feet in regret.

“Who could have thought that the Human Emperor would be such an ungrateful person?” The Dragon Gods in the hall all smiled bitterly.

What they are talking about is an old story.

Before the demise of the State of Chu, it also thought about saving itself - so at that time, Xiong Ba came to Huaiting in person and asked the Dragon Clan to take action to cut off the Xiang River, so as to buy breathing time and a chance for the State of Chu to live in peace.

That is, when Xiong Ba was the envoy, the envoy from the Qin State also came to Longting.

Compared to what Chu offered when asking the Dragon Clan for help, the condition offered by Qin was to help Long Ting regain the Huai River - and all Long Ting had to do was to remain neutral in this war and not help either side.

The temptation to regain the Huai River, coupled with the fact that Longting had no intention of interfering in human disputes.

So, Longting reached an agreement with the State of Qin.

The agreement was witnessed in the name of Lord Yilong - at that time, Xiong Ba was also alert and said that Qin was a country that broke its promises and the agreement with Qin could not be trusted.

But Long Ting did not take this seriously.

After all, the agreement with other people is one thing, and the agreement made with Long Ting in the name of Lord Yilong is another thing.

But——Xiong Ba’s words came true.

After conquering the State of Chu, the State of Qin really broke its promise.

The envoy made an agreement with Long Ting in the name of Qin, but Qin did not recognize it and only said that the envoy had stolen Qin's famous weapon. On the eve of Long Ting's confrontation in Xianyang, the envoy committed suicide.

After that, the relationship between Longting and Qin State became increasingly tense.

The Qin State's actions of hunting and killing real dragons to strengthen its royal aura became increasingly blatant.

After a moment, all the Dragon Gods in the Dragon Court fell silent. Each of them remained silent and only secretly glanced towards Li Nu.

The agreement was made in Ao Bing's Dragon Court under the witness of Ao Bing - but in the end, the entire Dragon Court was fooled by the Qin State.

For Long Ting, this was a great shame, and for Li Nu, this was not only a shame, but also a great humiliation.

Similarly, this also made Li Nu realize another thing.

That is, Ao Bing's journey to Daluo will not be so smooth.

What Ao Bing wants to build is faith and trust - but faith and trust are different from the law.

Those who violate the rules of heaven will be punished by the power of heaven.

But what about breach of trust?
Are there any consequences for this?

No!

Since there are no consequences, how can Ao Bing restrain others and make all living beings between heaven and earth abide by his faith and integrity?

For example, what was happening in the Qin State at that time.

Ao Bing couldn't even control the "betrayal of the mortals" of the Qin State, and was powerless to do anything about it. What about those immortals and gods, those Daluo?

If this problem cannot be solved, even if Ao Bing completes his journey and rebuilds his faith and integrity, the faith and integrity he has rebuilt will surely become a tool to produce an unprecedented fruit between heaven and earth - and in the end, it will be picked by others in a treacherously way.

And by that time, Ao Bing's existence will become a sacrifice of this faith and faith.

So, after thinking about it, Li Nu had already made a decision.

"How are Xiong Ba and the others doing now?" Li Nu asked.

Under this question, the face of a dragon god also became embarrassed.

After the fall of the State of Chu, most of the royal family members of Chu were killed, and the several demon gods of Chu were naturally hunted down and besieged. During the encirclement and suppression, it was this Dragon God who secretly took action and hid the demon gods of Chu in a dark abyss.

"Of course the Queen knows." Another Dragon God named Ao Lin also smiled and said, "Ao Xun, do you think that if the Queen hadn't covered your tracks for you, you would have been able to escape the pursuit of those alchemists of the Qin State with Xiong Ba?"

The Qin State's alchemists were also a very special group of beings between heaven and earth - they should be considered as human immortals.

They themselves do not seek magical powers, but only seek the various methods and techniques studied by practitioners.

For ordinary immortals and gods, being proficient in one magic is enough to be proud of. However, many alchemists are like Ao Bing, who are proficient in many magics. They are even better at using magic to leverage magic, and through the stacking and reaction of magics, they can increase the power of one magic to an extremely powerful level.

However, the peculiarity of the alchemists is that they are human immortals who find it difficult to achieve immortality - what they study are techniques and methods, not Taoism or magical powers, but what they pursue is immortality.

It is to achieve immortality through techniques and methods after abandoning magic power and the great way.

An incredible road that goes in two different directions but does not necessarily lead to the same destination.

The most incredible thing is that, according to some immortals and gods, some great alchemists in the alchemist group have already touched upon the possibility of achieving immortality through techniques and methods, and have grasped the essence of the "art of immortality."

Being able to abandon magic power and control the power of techniques and laws, and even achieve immortality through them, one can imagine the attainments of those alchemists in techniques and laws.

It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to escape from the pursuit of these sorcerers. "Although we have escaped the pursuit of those sorcerers, the Human Emperor will not dispel his suspicion of the Dragon Clan - cooperating with the decree of the Iron Eagle Tower is the Human Emperor's response."

"Everyone, when facing the Human Emperor, you must reverse your past perceptions."

"If the Human King wants us, the Dragon Clan, to give an explanation, he needs solid evidence."

"But the Emperor only needs to doubt!"

"It's not that the Emperor wants evidence to prove what we did, but we need to come up with evidence ourselves to prove what we didn't do."

"Your Majesty, do you mean to hand over Xiongba and the others?" The dragon god named Ao Xun, who took in Xiongba and the others, spoke.

"No, we want to cooperate with Xiongba." Li Nu said.

"Although the First Emperor reunited the human race, how could a division of more than 10,000 years be easily mended? Not to mention, the way the First Emperor unified the world was quite criticized."

"Xiong Ba is the head of the Chu State, so he must have news about the Chu royal family."

"And the Chu people who passed by did not recognize the identity of the Qin people."

"Tell Xiong Ba, tell those Chu royal family members that we, the Four Du Dragon Court, are willing to support them in rebuilding the Chu State."

Obviously, under the ultimatum given by the Human Emperor, Li Nu has made her choice.

However, being an enemy of the Human Emperor is not an easy task - if one fights the Human Emperor as a dragon, it will only accelerate the Qin State's stabilization of people's hearts and make the Qin Dynasty's position more stable.

After all, the traditions of the human race are here. When people outside the human race appear, no matter how big the conflicts within the human race are, they can be put aside first.

Therefore, even if the Dragon Clan wants to fight back against the Human Emperor, they must choose the right method - that is, they can only take action from within the human race and keep this dispute confined to the human race.

"The envoy of the First Emperor outside the palace..."

"Tell him that without the handwritten letter of the First Emperor, the imperial edict of the First Emperor, and the imperial decree issued by all officials of the Qin Emperor's court, I do not believe in his identity."

"Come here, drive the person pretending to be the envoy of Emperor Qin out of the Dragon Court!"

“Obey the Queen’s order!” Seven or eight dragon gods stood up in succession - the envoy of Emperor Qin was none other than the immortal god of the Huai League.

Long Ting’s old enemy.

……

"It seems that it is time for Brother Ao to return to heaven and earth." In the vast river of time and space, a Taoist priest was half lying lazily against a black tiger with a smile on his face.

It was none other than the Shangqing sect's True Lord of Dragon and Tiger Xuantan, the God of Wealth Zhao Gongming!
This God of Wealth, who had been in seclusion in the Ministry of Finance many years ago to accomplish something big, has already completed his plan, successfully picked the Tao fruit, and ascended to the position of Daluo.

"If the faith and trust between heaven and man, and between humans, completely collapse, then there is no need for the faith and trust between Daluo to exist anymore."

"Daoyou, please return to the heaven and earth first."

“When you have dealt with the trust and loyalty in this human world, come and keep your appointment with me.” Zhao Gongming swung his sleeves.

The time and space in front of him began to distort.

Then, Ao Bing's figure returned to the Pangu world from the long river of time and space, from the whirlpool of time and space.

Over the past ten thousand years, everything that happened in Pangu's universe was influenced by the rising Azure Dragon Qi and the induction of Yun Zhongjun, and fell into Ao Bing's consciousness.

The deviation of rituals caused by the collapse of faith and trust in the world fell directly on Ao Bing the moment he returned to the Emperor of Heaven.

This ritual is originally an extremely heavy burden.

And now, this burden has increased tenfold and a hundredfold.

The bones and flesh in Ao Bing's body were wailing under this immense pressure.

The magical power in his body, which was almost as strong as that of the Great Luo, was almost completely blocked by the pressure of this ritual - less than one tenth of it could be used safely.

Any other magical power exceeding this amount, when activated, would cause bursts of pain in Ao Bing's body.

"Has the situation in the world become so dangerous?" Ao Bing felt the severe pain caused by the flow of magic power in his body.

If I had to use one word to describe his current condition, it would be terminally ill!
The ritual leading to Daluo was already shaky and was about to fall down at any time, crushing him into dust.

This is the flaw in the ritual method.

Every ritual, whether it is the ritual leading to Daluo or the ritual for ordinary immortals to achieve Taiyi, is connected with the life of the immortals.

——Ao Bing's Tao seed is a 'seed', and this ritual is the root that spreads out from the Tao seed, which provides the Tao seed with infinite nutrients, allowing the Tao seed to break out of the shell and turn into fruit.

But now, there is a problem with the roots of this seed - or rather, there is a problem with the 'nutrients' absorbed by the roots.

Under the influence of this ritual, countless "toxins" fell into Ao Bing's Tao seed and "polluted" it.

And this pollution is the ultimate reflection of the dangerous situation in the world.

"Is that so?" Ao Bing pondered - the reflection from the Azure Dragon's Qi and the news from Yun Zhongjun allowed Ao Bing to quickly digest all the changes that had taken place in the human world over the past ten thousand years.

Then, Ao Bing realized the ultimate source of the "poison".

It was none other than the current Emperor of Man, the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty!

This First Emperor, through deception, cunning, and betrayal, destroyed the six kingdoms, unified the human race and became the Emperor of Mankind, becoming the most supreme being among the human race and even in the universe.

No matter what his original intention was to unify the human race, and no matter what the environment of the human race was like at the time, this treacherous means, this deceitful and deceptive method, not only did not have any tragic consequences, but instead obtained the greatest benefit between heaven and earth.

However, those princes who abided by the agreement and were willing to try to "trust" the Qin State, lost their families and countries one by one.

Such a contrast is a devastating blow to the "faith and trustworthiness" of heaven and earth.

Of course, it was not just the First Emperor of this generation who caused the collapse of human trust, but also other people.

But there is no doubt that if this situation of collapsed trust and loyalty is likened to a disease suffered by Ao Bing and the heaven and earth, then there is no doubt that the first emperor of the human race is the focus of the disease.

As long as he is still here, the words "faith" and "loyalty" will have no meaning in the world.

This is because the most supreme being in the world achieved his supremacy by betraying faith and loyalty.

"This is really troublesome!" Ao Bing couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

It's more than just trouble!
It's just despair!
(End of this chapter)