The spirit behind the gods

Even if Tang Sanzang has been living in seclusion in Chang'an City for the past 10 years, his news is not ill-informed.

Naturally, I know that as early as 10 years ago, not long after the Strange Sutra fell into the hands of Emperor Shakti, there were rumors in the Heavenly Realm that the Heavenly Protector Rulai had escaped from the Heavenly Realm with the Strange Sutra.

Now 10 years have passed, and the heavens are still looking for the whereabouts of Rulai and the Strange Sutra, which is enough to prove that most of the news that Rulai stole the Strange Sutra is true.

Tang Sanzang could not believe in the original Monkey King, but now even Rulai, one of the two protectors of the heavens, has chosen to take the risk of taking away the Wonder Sutra, and Sun Wukong's choice back then was probably not some kind of impulse and rebellion.

But the thousands of heavenly gods couldn't find Rulai, and Tang Sanzang was also not sure if he could find the missing Wonder Scripture.

"Don't worry, I know the whereabouts of the Wonder Scripture, she is safer than anyone else now, and the heavens can't find her trace for the time being! Haven't you thought about why?"

Not giving Tang Sanzang time to calm down at all, Sun You turned around and threw out another question, and even this question is the key to everything now.

"Shakti... Is there a problem?" Tang Sanzang forced himself to calm down, holding his chin in one hand, thinking about what kind of problem this Heavenly Palace Lord would have, "Could it be... Shakti has some kind of ambition, he wants to use the power of the Sutra to unify the Three Realms?"

This speculation was already the biggest possibility that Tang Sanzang could think of, but unfortunately he still couldn't find the core of the problem.

Sun You shook the fingers of his right hand and shook his head at Tang Sanzang again and again, "It's not really simple... Master, have you ever thought about the possibility that the current Lord of the Heavenly Palace, Emperor Shakti, he... It could already be a dark soul!"

"Shakti, dark soul? impossible! Shakti is..."

Tang Sanzang just wanted to say that Emperor Shakti was the Lord of the Heavenly Palace and the leader of the gods, but he was quickly stunned.

In fact, it is not impossible for the Emperor Shakti to be a dark soul, but the probability is a little smaller.

However, if the hypothesis that Shakti is a dark soul is deduced as the starting point, then many of the things that have happened around Shakti over the years have a reasonable explanation.

The question is, why did Shakti become a dark spirit, and who could make the lord of the Heavenly Palace fall?

In order to explain this troublesome question, Sun You simply found a place in the room and sat down, starting from the beginning like a storyteller, explaining what he knew.

The origin of the dark soul can be traced back to the three gods of creation - Daode Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun and Yuan Shi Tianzun.

The three gods represent neutrality, good, and evil respectively, because the purposes of Lingbao Tianzhen and Yuan Shi Tianzun are in opposition, and the first generation of heavenly beings originally created were completely destroyed because of the battle between the two.

Daode Tianzun took advantage of the destruction of the first generation of Celestials to restrain the Lingbao Celestial Beings and the Yuan Shi Celestial Venerable, and after creating the second generation of Celestials, he designated the Emperor Shakti as the leader, and then the three of them fell into a deep sleep together.

"Shakti is a qualified leader, and there is nothing wrong with that, otherwise the three gods of creation would not have chosen him in the first place!"

At this point in the story, Tang Sanzang nodded from time to time, the three gods of creation mentioned here were close to some of the rumors he had heard.

Hundreds of years ago, Emperor Shakti led the Celestial Beings to crusade against the Asuras, but unfortunately the Emperor Shakti overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Celestial Beings, and the Celestial Beings were defeated in that battle, and even the Emperor Shakti was wounded by the Mad King Rahu, and his sword was lost on the battlefield.

"What's the problem? The Great War was hundreds of years ago, and you wouldn't want to say... Shakti had failed once, causing him to fall into a dark ghost! The perfect Lord of the Heavenly Palace!"

Tang Sanzang was not an admirer of the Emperor, but this did not prevent him from having a very high opinion of the Emperor, and never thought that the Emperor's mind would be so fragile.

"That's right, under normal circumstances, it is indeed unlikely that Shakti would become a dark spirit... But what if in the battle of Rahu, the Emperor not only lost the Sword of the Heavenly Emperor, but even a part of his soul was cut off, making the original soul of the Emperor incomplete?"

Sun You's rhetorical question made Tang Sanzang hesitate a little.

In the westward plane, the power of the heavens, asuras, monsters, human races, and dragons all comes from the soul, people have souls, demons have demon souls, dragonmen have dragon souls, and gods naturally have divine souls.

Once there is a problem with the soul, it is not impossible to lose the strength at least and change the temperament at the worst.

"But I still think that the possibility of Shakti becoming a dark soul is too low, just a failure, and the shattering of his soul, he can still ..."

"What if it's the temptation of the Dark Soul Ancestor Yuan Shi Tianzun?"

Tang Sanzang, who still wanted to refute, was quickly shut up by Sun You's words, and he couldn't even believe what he heard - Yuan Shi Tianzun.

"One of the legendary Three Qings? He made a move against the Emperor? How do you know?"

"Regardless of how I know the answer, tell me what you think Shakti still can't become a dark soul?"

This time Tang Sanzang honestly closed his mouth, if there was really a Yuan Shi Tianzun who personally took action, not to mention that Emperor Shakti would become a dark soul, even if someone suddenly told him one day that the entire Heavenly Palace would become a Shadow Heavenly Palace, Tang Sanzang would not have any accidents.

When Tang Sanzang heard this, he already had more and more headaches about saving Sun Wukong, and the more he knew, the more desperate he felt about the situation.

"Even the Emperor Shakti has become a dark spirit, isn't it that if we act, the whole world will be the enemy!"

Contrary to Tang Sanzang's thoughts, Sun You felt that this was their opportunity, "Shadow Emperor Shi Tian is only one person after all, he can rule the Heavenly Realm with great righteousness, but the people in the Heavenly Realm who will be pulled into the Dark Soul by him are only a few after all, the Four Heavenly Kings and the Twelve Divine Generals will not become Dark Souls with him, as long as his true colors are revealed, everything will have a turn! And the key to all this... On the Heavenly Emperor Divine Sword, it belongs to the original soul fragment of Emperor Shakti!"

In the original work, it was not until Rulai recovered from his injuries in the later period that the relationship between the real Emperor Shakti and the Shadow Emperor Shakti was revealed, and what Sun You wanted to do was to plan in advance.