Ch 87: The Heavenly Khan Descends Upon His Loyal Second Level Heroic Spirit World!

Second Level Heroic Spirit World.

A Luxurious and Exquisite, Endless Palace Complex.

The overall layout of this palace complex bears a great resemblance to the Palace of Heavenly Purity.

Dorgon, the Heroic Spirit Awakened, stares with an icy expression at the information Zhuobu Tai sent him, watching the footage of Chu Mo’s battle that is spreading like wildfire online.

That bizarre yet familiar black fire, those forceful and overbearing methods, even though the face doesn’t match the one in his mind, every move still makes his whole body ache with phantom pain.

“Zhang Tongle!” Dorgon practically squeezes the three words out from between his teeth, with both hatred and fear.

The reason he didn’t go himself was because he saw others awakening Qi Cultivation Methods and mentioning the name Zhang Tongle, which awakened memories and cast a slight shadow over him…

However, Dorgon didn’t expect that what he thought was a sure thing, that even in the Unlimited Fighting Zone he could capture him, use a lockdown device to prevent him from logging off, and bring that person before him… would end like this.

But at the same time, a hint of relief arises in Dorgon’s heart. He realizes with sorrow… that he’s actually glad he didn’t go! Because given the current situation, going would probably only lead to another crushing defeat… his already pitiful dignity trampled by the other party.

Suddenly, an explosive sound rings out.

Dorgon abruptly looks up, then sees several figures suddenly hurtling towards him. He waves his sleeve, and a burst of energy wraps around their bodies, allowing them to float gently to the ground around him.

The palace gate shatters silently, and a familiar figure walks in unhurriedly.

“…Imperial Brother.” Dorgon says with a gloomy expression. The newcomer is Huang Taiji, the Awakened. Although he addresses him as Imperial Brother, because of Dorgon’s actions in history, the two Heroic Spirit Awakened have never gotten along.

“I didn’t come here to argue with you.” Huang Taiji says expressionlessly, “I think something’s not quite right with Zhang Tongle’s situation.”

Dorgon ponders for a long time, and after sorting out the available information, he nods, “Indeed, the Human Race Sage Emperor slaying my Demon Qing’s national fortune is already very strange, violating the original, established history. Even if there are some slight errors, it shouldn’t be this far off!”

“Once might be an accident, but twice in a row… and with the same person awakened…” Dorgon pauses for a moment, “But other than coincidence, there’s no way to explain it. It’s not like he can change history, right?”

“Some time ago, Sima Longxiang proposed a very interesting hypothesis.” Huang Taiji replies, not answering the question directly.

“That one who awakened the Sima Qian Heroic Spirit?” Dorgon is shocked. That person is definitely a top tycoon in the field of historical research.

“He communicated closely with dozens of top Sacred Domain Heroic Spirits, and even those Divine Domain adults, and confirmed that in history, there might be a strange black hand targeting humanity! He, or rather they, are deliberately controlling humanity’s fate! Treating the mortal world as a chessboard.” Huang Taiji’s tone is strange.

“You’re saying… it’s possible that Zhang Tongle’s Awakened is experiencing the real history… and we are what those special black hands, who are deliberately manipulating human history, couldn’t tolerate, and after overturning the chessboard, deliberately shaped him to be?” Dorgon is shocked.

The history that everyone recognizes is false? This is too shocking! Dorgon subconsciously wants to retort, why couldn’t Zhang Tongle’s history be false? But then he stops himself.

Those skills are the best proof! Because a massive lie can’t create the skill awakenings of tens of millions of Heroic Spirits.

“Who knows… maybe it’s a parallel world! There are too many unknowns with Heroic Spirit awakenings.” Huang Taiji shrugs.

“Imperial Brother,” Dorgon says hoarsely after a long silence, “So what exactly did you come to me for?”

“I’m willing to let the people of the Qing court under my command help you!” Huang Taiji stares sincerely at his good brother, “To see if we can capture him in the Heroic Spirit World, or find his real location offline…”

Dorgon interrupts Huang Taiji, “Good, good, good, I knew it… you’d give me a big one! Get out, I don’t want my body imprisoned in Mount Tai, and my soul eternally trapped in the Black Water Hell.”

“Just a purple Heroic Spirit who hasn’t grown up yet. His potential might have been noticed by the government, but that’s all…” Huang Taiji patiently advises.

“But don’t forget those people who are involved with him.” Dorgon sneers, “Do you really think I’m stupid? He extended the Great Ming’s life. What does the Ming Taizu in Kyoto think of him… That Taizu Emperor, known for his tyranny, was one of the first Heroic Spirits born six hundred years ago when Heroic Spirits first descended!”

If it were a place where they could fight head-on, and capture or kill that person openly, the Ming Taizu wouldn’t be able to say anything. After all, he is one of the creators of the current Heroic Spirit Awakening Management Law, and he can’t lead the way in violating it…

But… if you plot and scheme, or bully the weak, then sorry, that’s completely different from taking action in the Heroic Spirit World, where you can’t harm the fundamentals.

That Ming Taizu Awakened, known for his bad temper, really dares to, and also has the ability, to skin people alive and stuff them with straw in this era.

“Tch!” Seeing that he can’t fool Dorgon, Huang Taiji spits out a breath with some disappointment, then he says silently, “I might be entering the Final Awakening.”

Dorgon’s pupils contract abruptly, and a monstrous wave rises in his heart.

He opens his mouth, and after a long time, he says hoarsely, “Are you sure…”

“It can’t be stopped! I’ve already reported it to the government.” Huang Taiji sighs faintly, and his gaze turns deep as he recalls the previous Huang Taiji Awakened.

That one, after entering the Final Awakening, his state became… extremely bizarre!

In the end, the government paid an extremely heavy price to kill that Awakened who had grown into a tycoon of a region.

“Final Awakening, huh.” Dorgon no longer has hostility towards Huang Taiji, and he lowers his head, with only a trace of sadness and shared suffering at this moment.

Because Dorgon’s Heroic Spirit, the Final Awakening and Huang Taiji, have similar problems… that final-level, unsolvable problem that even experts in the field of Heroic Spirits can’t explain, or even determine what the situation is… a question to which no one knows the answer.

The Heroic Spirit terminal illness known as the curse—Heroic Spirit Corruption!

One’s own body’s memories and personality completely collapse after the Final Awakening, in exchange for an extreme surge in strength. Even the quality of one’s own Heroic Spirit will increase to some extent!

But no matter how strong one becomes, after corruption, it’s as if one has been possessed. If oneself is no longer oneself, what’s the point of being powerful?

Moreover, the Heroic Spirit after corruption has an instinctive malice towards humans… so the stronger it is, the higher its quality, the more of a scourge it becomes.

The most terrifying thing is that almost everyone who welcomes Heroic Spirit Corruption is a top-notch Heroic Spirit. None are below the azure level, and no one knows what the cause of this terminal illness is… there is no cure.

Even if this Heroic Spirit Awakened dies, the next one who awakens the same Heroic Spirit will also undergo Heroic Spirit Corruption at the final stage. There’s no escape!

Dorgon can only say, “Good luck!”

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At this moment.

Chu Mo returns home, closes his eyes, and cultivates, refining the Demonic Qi in his body. Wisps of black Qi permeate, and are then transformed into Righteous Qi, and his cultivation steadily improves.

Night.

Chu Mo, having finished cultivating, looks at the cultivation resources and falls into deep thought, “Intermediate Spirit Stones, one hundred Merit Points each… I can buy ninety-something right now.”

Damn it, it’s actually a hundred times the price of Basic Spirit Stones! And there’s a purchase limit! Only ten can be bought a day?!

With a twitch at the corner of his mouth, Chu Mo complains, “Nüwa, are you really sure this Merit Point currency can circulate?”

It’s so difficult to obtain Merit Points, and he only managed to buy this much after breaking all those records… What about other people?!

“Completing special limited missions from the Heroic Spirit Association will grant Merit Points.” Nüwa’s voice is icy.

The meaning is very clear, ordinary people shouldn’t expect to rely on breaking records to obtain Merit Points to buy cultivation resources.

“…I see, then never mind.” Chu Mo smiles awkwardly, but after understanding it more deeply, he also becomes thoughtful. The Merit Point system in the Heroic Spirit World is only for rewards, similar to education in his previous life, where the government invests without expecting to gain anything.

And most of these limited missions in reality are extremely dangerous, but because of that, they can grant abundant Merit Points.

“I have enough for now, so I’ll just muddle along for now.” Chu Mo thinks for a bit, and doesn’t have the idea of taking on missions from the Heroic Spirit Association. There’s no way he’s going to work, there’s no way he’ll ever work in this lifetime. He can only break records, and barely make a living like this!

“Nüwa, buy ten for me every day! Until all the Merit Points are used up!” Chu Mo waves his hand grandly.

“Due to logistical reasons, as well as the high price of goods, high-level cultivator security is required! Transport to a First-Tier District, every nine Intermediate Spirit Stones requires a transport fee of one Merit Point…”

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Chu Mo: “???”

Chu Mo immediately cancels the transaction, “What the hell… you even have a logistics fee? Then that Spirit Stone from before… okay, they paid for me over there, right?!”

“Wait, you’re saying it’s only needed for transport!” Chu Mo says thoughtfully, “Then if I go to a big city…”

“The Third Level Shangnan Province City has a Spirit Stone storage base at the Heroic Spirit Association, which can be picked up in person, with no transport fee required.”

“Fine, fine, fine!” Chu Mo’s mouth twitches. Small cities have no human rights, is that it? He sighs, and glances at the boarding date again, still two days away.

“Nüwa, can you spend money to buy me a villa to live in over in Shangnan?” Chu Mo asks curiously.

“Nüwa does not interfere with non-cultivation matters!” Nüwa’s voice is calm, and after a slight pause, she adds, “According to the detection, you already have a villa in the city district in Shangnan. You can move in at any time!”

Chu Mo: “???”

What the hell? He has a villa in another place… Chu Mo is shocked, and a brainstorm begins. He’s even thinking, could it be that his deceased parents aren’t actually dead? Are they big shots in some top organization? And they arranged houses for him in every city.

Waiting for him to rise up in the future, and there will be a day when they meet again… and then…

Looking at the familiar name Chen Baisheng, Chu Mo is silent. Good, good, good, so he was his loyal subordinate, who has already prepared everything for him! Speaking of which, how did he know that he would go to Shangnan? Or is he just casting a wide net?

“However, this also shows… that this guy should be a big shot in Shangnan? I’m really looking forward to meeting him.”

Patting his cheeks, Chu Mo doesn’t continue cultivating, but chooses to log in again. But this time, he directly uses Zhang Tongle’s account!

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Shangnan Province Initial Land.

A bunch of Heroic Spirit newbies and Awakened are looking with strange expressions, or with a hint of fear, at the existence wrapped in terrifying Demonic Qi. They can feel the killing intent emanating from this terrifying existence…

They all know that fighting and hurting people is prohibited in the Initial Land, but they’re inexplicably a little scared.

Without interacting with anyone, Chu Mo, in the state of the Heavenly Khan, directly enters the First Level Heroic Spirit World! With extremely terrifying speed, he directly leaves the spot… and arrives at a deserted wasteland.

Even in the middle of it, Chu Mo hears the Heroic Spirit World system’s prompt in his ear, “Speed can be ranked eighth on the Speed Chart, do you want to be listed!”

“…Good lord, changing accounts really allows you to re-break records.” Chu Mo glances with a strange expression at the name Zhao Mo still hanging high in the sky. He chooses not to be listed… but he silently changes his ID name to Heavenly Khan.

As everyone knows, Zhang Tongle and Zhao Mo awakened in the same person! So Zhang Tongle’s account… is naturally lent to the Heavenly Khan! Anyway, it’s almost the same.

“In the past world, the Heavenly Khan was Zhang Tongle’s alias, but now, Zhang Tongle’s account has been possessed by the Heavenly Khan. Good lord, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river!”

After complaining, Chu Mo’s gaze turns sharp.

“One Qi Transformation!”

Chu Mo exhales lightly, and half of the Demonic Qi in his body separates out at this moment. Transforming into an equally slender, ferocious figure!

Chu Mo himself then dispels the Demonic Qi, and transforms into the normal Imperial Ancestor Regent. He raises his eyebrows with interest at the Demonic Avatar, “Then it’s the same as before, I’ll have to trouble you to stir up a storm outside.”

The Heavenly Khan doesn’t speak.

Chu Mo smiles dumbly, and both simultaneously try to make the energy in their bodies break through above the First Level. A new interface naturally appears before their eyes.

“Do you want to ascend to the Second Level Heroic Spirit World?”

“Yes!”

Then…

The environment around both of them instantly undergoes earth-shattering changes.

This is a place with bustling crowds…

Other than the average aura of the people walking on the streets being stronger, it’s not much different from the First Level Heroic Spirit World?

However, at the moment the two appear, most Heroic Spirits only casually glance at them with curiosity, and at most stay a little longer on the Demonic Avatar, thinking that it’s a Yuan Dynasty Demonic Heroic Spirit…

But there are also a very small number of Heroic Spirits who realize something.

“Imperial Ancestor Regent?!” These five words, spoken with shock, immediately cause surrounding people to be shocked and look over. This name has an absurdly high level of popularity at the moment… and curious or fiery gazes are cast over.

However…

The Heavenly Khan instantly takes to the sky, emitting a terrifying and suffocating black mist, and his figure instantly tears through the void of this world, flying rapidly into the distance.

Chu Mo’s gaze turns slightly sharp. This time he didn’t choose to hide… so…

On the Speed Chart, the name Heavenly Khan rises slowly, climbing to third place on the Speed Chart at an extremely terrifying speed.

“Hmm, the record broken by the Demonic Avatar is indeed also recorded on Zhang Tongle’s account.” Chu Mo murmurs in his heart. He glances at the Merit Points that have arrived.

At the same time, in various places in the Second Level Heroic Spirit World, Ming Dynasty Heroic Spirits glance at the sky with admiration… Qing Dynasty Heroic Spirits who have broken through to the Second Level, or Yuan Dynasty Heroic Spirits who haven’t grown to their peak, and Heroic Spirits from other eras… start to look casual. But when they move their gazes away, they suddenly feel like something’s not quite right.

“Heavenly Khan… such an arrogant name?” A Tang Dynasty Heroic Spirit is completely dumbfounded. Has their Emperor Taizong come? That can’t be right, he pays close attention to that one, and Li Shimin seems to only show up frequently in very high-level Heroic Spirit Worlds!

Moreover, how could the Heavenly Khan only rank in the top three on the Speed Chart! He should at least be second, or even squeeze out the first place.

But soon, the Tang Dynasty Heroic Spirit realizes that the atmosphere around him seems a little off.

After a brief silence, voices of shock, bewilderment, or panic ring out, sweeping in all directions.

“It’s… it’s that Demonic Lord! How is that possible?!”

“When did he awaken? Why is there no news at all?!”

“Is this his first login… This, how is he like this too! Just like that Regent… He directly… No, shouldn’t he first cause a commotion in the First Level, and then come to the Second Level Heroic Spirit World? This feels even more excessive than that Regent!”

“Shut up, according to the memories I awakened… it’s generally accepted that the Regent is stronger than the Heavenly Khan! This can only mean that the Regent can definitely do what the Heavenly Khan can do, but he deliberately keeps a low profile! You’re not allowed to look down on the Regent.”

Many areas in the Second Level Heroic Spirit World are completely blown away, and countless people’s expressions change drastically.

The Heavenly Khan’s reputation in the late Ming Dynasty was more than just famous! It was enough to stop children from crying.

The Great Ming was still fine, but in those areas in Europe and Central Asia, this one was practically a combined and enhanced version of the Great Western King and Bobo!

He used Demonic Seeds to effectively depopulate and decivilize!

Chu Mo can almost visibly feel the attention of the people around him decrease, although there are still many late Ming Heroic Spirits secretly looking at him. Seeming to be struggling and hesitating whether to come up and talk to him…

Smiling silently, Chu Mo’s figure suddenly disappears from the spot.