kingnovel Chapter 513 Zheng Gu Yanjun
Chapter 513 Zheng Gu Yanjun
Seeing that the Blood Moon Demon Emperor was willing to surrender and reveal the truth in exchange for his return to the Demon Realm.
The Demon King came over and patted Yama, comforting the distraught and devastated ruler of the underworld.
"Okay, as long as you tell the truth, we'll let you go back to the Demon Realm."
The Blood Moon Demon Emperor glanced at the Demon King, shook his head, and said, "Demon King, you can only represent your Demon Mountain. I need the human race and the Underworld to jointly guarantee and swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao."
"If I tell you how I learned about the Lingxiao Treasure Vault and how I know how to summon the otherworldly demon god, you must release me. Otherwise, your three races will be wiped out."
When Blood Moon Demon Emperor said that, Elder Hongguang didn't react much, but Yan Jun and the other two Great Perfection humans from Tianxuan Sect had already changed their expressions.
In the Three Realms Continent, swearing an oath before the Heavenly Dao is to have the Heavenly Dao supervise and fulfill the oath.
If the Blood Moon Demon Emperor is truly open and honest, then the three races must release him back to the Demon Realm; otherwise, the three races must keep their oath.
Seeing the grim expressions on the faces of Yama and several humans at the Great Perfection stage, the Blood Moon Demon Emperor continued, "The Demon race has suffered a great loss of strength this time. Six of the ten Demon Emperors have been eliminated, leaving only four Demon Emperors. The Demon race is no longer a threat to your three races."
If I am able to return to the Demon Realm, I will join the other three Demon Emperors in shrinking the Demon Realm and defending our territory.
You can rest assured that the demon race has been severely weakened by this battle. It will take them thousands or even tens of thousands of years to recover. You can rest assured as well.
Chen Shengyuan, the leader of the Tianxuan Sect and a Great Perfection cultivator, looked at Zhou Fuzhi of the Confucian school. Seeing him nod slightly, he said to Yan Jun, "We must know the cause and effect of how the demon race summoned the demon gods from other worlds, otherwise we will never be able to prevent it."
In fact, King Yama understood this principle, but he just couldn't swallow his anger.
He took another deep breath, suppressing his resentment and anger, and said, "Fine, I, the Underworld, am willing to swear to the Heavenly Dao that as long as you tell us the truth about what we want to know, the Underworld will let you return to the Demon Realm. Otherwise, the Heavenly Dao will keep its oath, and the Underworld will cease to exist."
After saying that, King Yama continued angrily, "And you? If what you said is false, so what?"
The Blood Moon Demon Emperor immediately said solemnly, "I, the Blood Moon Demon Emperor, swear to the Heavenly Dao that if what I have said to the three races today is false, may I perish immediately and the Demon Race be destroyed."
Seeing that the Blood Moon Demon Emperor spoke so frankly, the Demon King also spoke directly:
"My Demon Mountain is the same. I swear to the Heavenly Dao that as long as the Blood Moon Demon Emperor keeps his word and answers the truth without any deception, Demon Mountain will let you return to the Demon Realm. Otherwise, the Demon Race will be destroyed."
Chen Shengyuan looked at Elder Hongguang. He was the oldest among them and a Buddhist master, so only he could make this vow.
Elder Hongguang shook his head helplessly, first chanting a Buddhist prayer, and then making an oath on behalf of the human race.
Seeing that all three races had sworn an oath to the Heavenly Dao, the Blood Moon Demon Emperor finally felt at ease.
He put away the demonic weapon in his hand, thought for a moment, and then said, "About 1,500 years ago, the leader of my demon race, the Demon Emperor Wusheng, secretly came to the Underworld. At that time, His Majesty Yama was not the one we know now."
After the Blood Moon Demon Emperor finished speaking, he glanced at Yama.
The King of Hell serves a term of two hundred years, and upon leaving office, he must immediately be reincarnated.
This current Yama King has only been in power for a few decades. If we count from over 1,500 years, then he is the seventh Yama King before him.
Yama thought for a moment and said, "At that time, Zheng Gu was in the position of Yama. Hmm, please continue."
The Blood Moon Demon Emperor nodded and continued, "At that time, the Lifeless Demon Emperor did not go on his own initiative; it was Zheng Gu Yama who invited him."
At that time, he was about to step down and be reincarnated, but he was reluctant to give up the immense power of the underworld, so he thought about how to stay in office. He even wanted to change the rule that the King of Hell had to be replaced every two hundred years, and he wanted to guard the underworld forever.
Humans would definitely not agree to this, and the demon race goes without saying.
The judges all have the potential to succeed the five great ghost emperors of the underworld, or even the ghost king, and it is impossible for them to let him remain in his post.
Therefore, King Yama Zheng Gu dispatched his trusted confidant to contact the Demon Emperor Wusheng, offering the exchange that the Underworld help the Demon Clan cultivate the Human Race and annihilate the Monster Clan in exchange for the Demon Clan and the Underworld jointly ruling the Three Realms, with King Yama never to be replaced.
When the Blood Moon Demon Emperor said this, Yama King blurted out, "Impossible, absolutely impossible. Yama King Zheng Gu has no intention of holding the position of Yama King for long."
After serving as Yama for less than two hundred years, he grew impatient with the daily grind and, before his term was over, personally selected a successor, the Ghost Emperor. On the day of the handover, he drank the Meng Po soup and went to be reincarnated.
When he stepped down, he had only been the King of Hell for 180 years. He was the only King of Hell in history to voluntarily resign and be reincarnated before the end of his term.
"If you were talking about any other Yama King, I wouldn't have anything to say, but there's no way he would covet the position and collude with the demons."
Distracted by Yama, the Blood Moon Demon Emperor stopped talking.
Elder Hongguang patted Yama, and a faint Buddhist light gently brushed across Yama's body.
The King of Hell's anxious and angry mood calmed down considerably, and he said no more.
Then Elder Hongguang gestured for the Blood Moon Demon Emperor to continue speaking.
The Blood Moon Demon Emperor then continued, "The human race, the demon race, the underworld, and the demon race have been fighting for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible for the Lifeless Demon Emperor to believe Zheng Gu Yanjun based on just a few words."
In order to gain the trust of the Demon Emperor Wusheng, it was Zheng Gu Yanjun who told the Demon Emperor that the Lingxiao Treasure Vault was the passage from the Three Realms Continent to another world.
The Unborn Demon Emperor first sent his subordinates, led by King Yama Zheng Gu, into the Lingxiao Treasure Vault. The subordinates witnessed firsthand the wonders of the connection between the treasure vault and the interdimensional passage.
After the subordinate returned to the Demon Realm and told the Demon Emperor Wusheng everything he had seen, the Demon Emperor personally went to the Underworld and saw with his own eyes the connecting passage between the Lingxiao Treasure Vault and the other world.
Then, the Demon Emperor Wusheng and King Yama Zheng Gu began discussing how to join forces to destroy Demon Mountain, eliminate the high-ranking human cultivators, and then control the human race.