Ch 86: The Terrifying Waves Stirred by the Late Ming Dynasty Memories! Sun Chengzong and Sun Hu! Western Europe and North America

After scanning his surroundings to ensure no one would bother him, Chu Mo sighed with some regret. With a thought, he logged out of the Heroic Spirit World.

However, the storm Chu Mo had stirred up was only beginning to sweep through the First and even Second Level Heroic Spirit Worlds.

One by one, Heroic Spirits puzzled by Chu Mo’s sudden appearance in the top five of the battle power rankings searched the Heroic Spirit Net. They were shocked to find a third-person perspective video of Chu Mo facing numerous Qing Dynasty Heroic Spirits.

“What… This! You can fight like that?!”

“Fighting one against a thousand and winning… No, aren’t several hundred of them all First Level Tenth Grade? The three hundred Demonic Soldiers are basically all Second Level or higher, suppressed to the First Level. That’s still the peak of First Level, and they even formed a battle formation… Even someone as strong as Second Level Second or Third Grade couldn’t easily defeat them in formation.”

“Indeed, battle formations are almost invincible in the lower-level Heroic Spirit Worlds! Even Grandmaster Sun Hu has said that below the Third Level Heroic Spirit World, only battle formations can counter battle formations… How did he do it? And so easily?!”

Shock, confusion, fear, bewilderment.

Soon, a trending topic rapidly rose to the top of the Heroic Spirit Net charts.

《Another Lost History? The Imperial Ancestor Regent of the Late Ming Dynasty!》

This was clearly written by a Heroic Spirit Awakened within the late Ming court, in a hurry. Although much was glossed over and there were many grammatical errors… it still allowed people to vaguely grasp the great achievements of that regent.

A few paragraphs were enough to summarize it: First, he saved the Great Ming, then he saved the world!

Countless Heroic Spirits who saw this were dumbfounded, even suspecting it was some kind of novel.

But when countless other late Ming Heroic Spirits all liked and commented, saying that was indeed the case, and even adding many extra details, everyone was stunned.

“Is that… really how history was? I may not be well-read, but you can’t just lie to me like that! Could this be another collective lie like the Star Wars in ’99?!”

Of course, this news quickly spread from the First Level Heroic Spirit World to the Second Level, similarly stirring up terrifying waves…

The number of people in the Second Level Heroic Spirit World was naturally much smaller than in the First Level, but there were a large number of Ming Dynasty Heroic Spirits who had grown up there.

They had their own networks, and when they had confusion or doubts, they would directly privately message their late Ming Dynasty Heroic Spirit friends to ask.

Then… it exploded!

The explosion was far more terrifying and thorough than the group of Qing Dynasty Heroic Spirits in the First Level Heroic Spirit World, who could only be dumbfounded and question whether it was true.

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Heavenly Realm City.

Located east of Kyoto World City, it was the front line against the invasion of the Primordial Sea.

On the border city wall, a man in battle armor stood calmly, his gaze deep. Suddenly sensing something, he gently tapped his ear. A Heroic Spirit login device projected a virtual image before him.

“Oh, it’s that little devil Shi Mang!” The man chuckled. This could be considered a friendship that transcended generations. The Heroic Spirit that little devil Shi Mang had awakened was Shi Kefa, who had made great contributions in the Southern Ming. This made him, also a Heroic Spirit from the late Ming, feel some goodwill towards him…

Later, transcending the limitations of age, cultivation, and status, it became a gentleman’s friendship, faint as water, yet continuous.

The man clicked to connect, and finally saw a large, round face plastered against the screen. The man’s brow furrowed instantly, sensing that the person on the other side of the communicator was emotionally unstable, his eyes red and his expression dazed.

“What happened?!” The man’s voice became serious and deep.

“Mr. Sun, Sun Hu!” Shi Mang suddenly woke up, quickly wiping the corners of his eyes, and said with difficulty, “Do… do you have some extra memories?”

“?? What’s that?” Sun Hu was at a loss.

As one of the eight Divine Generals guarding Heavenly Realm City, who had awakened as the Sun Chengzong Heroic Spirit for three hundred years, he often felt disconnected from young people. What kind of meme was this again?

Then… he heard the other side utter a title, a person’s name…

“Imperial Ancestor Regent, Zhang Tongle!”

Sun Hu’s body stiffened. He felt a burst of pain in his brain, and strands of memory seemed to be rising.

He seemed to recall the scene of that young man in a dragon robe smiling and patting him on the shoulder, chatting and laughing with him. He tasted a trace of Sun Chengzong’s fervent and devout support for that person.

He also remembered that day, that night… after the sun and moon lost their light, a huge change occurred in Sun Chengzong’s life.

He lost the only goal he was loyal to, he lost the sun in his life. In his gray life, he became obsessed, even demonic…

In order to complete that lord’s orders, in order to make Great Ming… rise again! No matter how much he had to pay, it would be worth it!

The last scene that flashed through his mind was Sun Chengzong standing in the imperial court, sternly rebuking in a cold voice.

“The lord once said that we should pluck the most abundant fruit of the Demonic Empire! The lord said it would be twenty years, but I think now, after ten years, we should start preparing… You rebuke me, unwilling to spend the massive military expenses on building an army! But if we miss the lord’s order, if we miss the only opportunity to pluck that abundant fruit, who will save the national fortune of our Great Ming!!!”

“Today, I will push forward at all costs… the remilitarization of Great Ming! We cannot lose our martial virtue because of peace and tranquility—”

“Under the gaze of the Sage Regent, our Great Ming will be invincible… Long live Great Ming! Long live the Imperial Ancestor Regent!”

Sun Hu gazed at the distant, surging Primordial Sea in a daze. After a long silence, he said with a slightly hoarse voice, “Yes, I remember…”

“But…”

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“No! This isn’t right!” Sun Hu held his head in his hands. He seemed to be talking to himself, and also to Shi Xiaogui, “That’s not right… When did Great Ming attack Europe! When could the late Ming remilitarize? What about Chongzhen… Didn’t that guy’s butt get stuck to the throne during court meetings and couldn’t get up?!”

“What is the Demonic Empire… I seem to remember, a vast country that almost conquered the known world??? Is there… Before today, I had never heard of it! True? False? What is real, what is fake?!!”

The conflicting memories made Sun Hu’s head ache. His head had been severely injured in his early years, and his soul already had flaws.

“But, the Imperial Ancestor Regent Awakened has already appeared.” Shi Mang stared at Sun Hu seriously. As a friend that transcended generations, he naturally knew his old brother’s old problems… He certainly wasn’t here to cause trouble for his old brother.

Sun Hu’s body stiffened slightly. It was clearly just an ordinary piece of news, and that Awakened one shouldn’t have anything to do with him. Heroic Spirit matters should all belong to Heroic Spirits… But Sun Hu inexplicably felt his heart calm down.

The newly added demonic memories actually stopped being manic, violent, and uneasy, and became peaceful.

“…It’s truly hard to imagine what kind of person it would take to tame a tiger like Sun Chengzong so well.” Sun Hu sighed faintly. After hesitating again and again, he made a decision, “Shi kid, go and meet this Regent for me!”

“I really want to meet him… but I’m too busy right now… I can’t spare any time at all! I can only hope that after you interact with him, and he agrees, you can use a video to let me meet him…”

“Old Sun, do you know… the Qi Cultivation Method?!” Shi Mang suddenly said with a strange expression.

“Huh? Ah?!” Sun Hu was stunned at first, then seemed to realize something. But before he could sort out the memories that had sprung up out of nowhere, he was dumbfounded to discover that he had gained an orange skill.

【Qi Cultivation Method】（Orange）: Slightly improves the quality of Qi.

Sun Hu inexplicably sensed that the overall quality of the Qi in his body had increased by half a percent. This made his hair stand on end…

At his age, at his realm, how could he possibly continue to grow? He had already polished it to the point where he couldn’t improve any further!

“What is this… I have the memories, but…” Sun Hu was incoherent. He could recall fragments of memories, scenes of himself cultivating the Qi Cultivation Method. But how did this pop up out of nowhere… Why hadn’t it appeared before?!

However, to Sun Hu’s surprise, he didn’t have a headache this time.

“I can only say that it’s finally our turn to get a cheat.” Shi Mang smiled wryly, “Old man, you don’t know… the Qing Dynasty Heroic Spirits were actually strengthened once overall in the late Qianlong era… Basically, two or three out of every ten Heroic Spirits who awakened after the late Qianlong era gained an extra skill.”

“I scanned around and found that according to the statistics around me… the proportion of us late Ming Dynasty Heroic Spirits awakening this skill might even be a bit higher than theirs, probably three or four out of ten… Although this data might be wrong because I’m only doing statistics around me!”

After a brief silence, Sun Hu’s eyes became sharp and determined, “I understand… Shi kid, focus on that one! It’s best to also protect the person who caused the Qing era awakening… They’re very special, this kind of overall increase in our national strength might trigger the killing intent of those who are hostile to the Divine Province…”

“Is there a possibility!” Shi Mang interrupted Sun Hu, his expression becoming extremely subtle, “That they’re actually the same person?”

“…Ah?!”

The silence was terrifying.

One could only vaguely hear the terrifying roar of the chaotic waves of the Primordial Sea crashing against the boundary city made of boundary bricks, as if the world was collapsing.

Sun Hu took a deep breath, more serious than ever before, “I’ll communicate with the higher-ups about this… I understand what you mean!”

Hanging up the communication, Sun Hu was still the only one on the city wall. His brow was furrowed, and he stared into the distance, “This world… is really getting harder and harder to understand! A variable? Fortunately, this time the variable is developing in a good direction…”

“But, if there really is such a Demonic Empire… then there’s no reason for it to only affect our Divine Province! In other words…”

Sun Hu looked towards the west and north, his expression becoming strange. That side wouldn’t… cough cough.

Moreover… in his memory, that Regent seemed to have made arrangements in the Americas? But the memories of that were very few… Sun Hu racked his brains, and could only roughly confirm that there should indeed be such a thing…

“Perhaps I should consider using all ten days of vacation I’ve accumulated over the past twenty years… to meet the Imperial Ancestor?”

Sun Hu was stunned for a moment, then smiled wryly again. Had he unconsciously used an honorific? This obsession… had never been influenced so deeply before! But, it might not be a bad thing…

Meeting him, fulfilling the Heroic Spirit’s obsession, might allow him to touch a further opportunity. The number of cases like this in the past wasn’t small…

Patting his cheeks, Sun Hu suddenly sensed something, and his eyes became sharp and gloomy.

“A Primordial Beast siege? Damn it, they actually chose this time!”

Sun Hu was furious, soaring into the air. A terrifying aura that was hard to describe in words erupted at this moment, piercing through the sky and earth.

“You wouldn’t even let me have ten days of vacation? You beasts!”