The Unparalleled Sword Emperor Chapter 3039 - 3014: Blood of the Struggle for Succession

Lin Bai saw the text on the cultivation credits and couldn’t help but feel a chill run down his spine.

"The Immortals of the Western Continent, the Sword Cultivators of the Northern Continent, the powers of the Eastern Continent, the clans of the Southern Continent, that contest for the throne actually involved so many powerful forces!"

"The Western Buddha Land actually sent tens of thousands of Buddhas to the Imperial Palace of the Holy Kingdom, chanting scriptures daily!"

"The Northern Continent Sword God Family actually dispatched over fifty strong ones of Great Perfection of the Wending Realm to the Holy Kingdom to sit in command!"

"And the Eastern Continent, even the East Continent Academy and the Four Hidden World Families, Nine Domains, Ten Dynasties, all support the Seventh Imperial Prince!"

"And the Southern Continent, the Emperor Tribe and Sword Pavilion Clan both support the Seventh Imperial Prince!"

"It truly is a contest for the throne that will shake the entire Barbaric Ancient Continent!"

Lin Bai looked at the text on the cultivation credits, feeling shocked.

Then, Lin Bai continued reading.

The cultivation credits read: "Such a huge disparity in strength, even though the Daogu Tribe tried their best, using all their foundation and strong ones, all their puppets and talisman soldiers, they still couldn’t contend against the Seventh Imperial Prince’s power!"

"The Crown Prince lost, the Seventh Imperial Prince seized the imperial throne in the end!"

"The day after the Seventh Imperial Prince ascended the throne, the Crown Prince was executed for treason!"

"All the forces that aided the Seventh Imperial Prince, whether it’s the Wealth God Clan, Sword God Family, East Continent Academy, Western Buddha Land, any power that aided the Seventh Imperial Prince, received abundant rewards!"

"But what about the forces that aided the Crown Prince..."

"The Ji’en Temple of the Western Continent, within one night, declared it was possessed by a Heart Demon, the abbot died under the Heart Demon, then many Buddhist temples in the Western Continent entered the Ji’en Temple under the guise of eliminating demons, within half a month, this temple with a legacy of one hundred thousand years vanished among the thousands of Buddhas in the Western Continent, almost all monks inside were eliminated under the guise of demon elimination!"

"The Murong Family of the Northern Continent was annihilated by experts overnight!"

"More than a hundred large territories like Eastern Hundred Domains, Fish Dragon Domain, and Nine Heavens Domain were occupied by the Demon Sect, led by East Continent Academy, within three months, almost all the strong ones in these more than a hundred large territories were wiped out by East Continent Academy, and the land of these territories was absorbed into the Nine Great Domains and Ten Dynasties!"

"When the Daogu Tribe learned of these events, they knew that soon it would be their turn!"

"Indeed, nothing can remain intact under a collapsed nest!"

"On the earth of the Southern Continent, forces that once supported the Crown Prince like the Dragon Tiger Tribe and Sky Silkworm Tribe were sentenced one after another, exterminated jointly by the Emperor Tribe and Sword Pavilion Clan!"

"The Daogu Tribe is more powerful than these forces, and the Daogu Tribe possesses talisman soldiers and puppets, even if the Sword Pavilion Clan and Emperor Tribe join forces, they might not be able to annihilate the Daogu Tribe!"

"At that time, the Daogu Tribe had already petitioned the new Emperor for mercy!"

"But what came in return was a decree of guilt from the new Emperor!"

"The first decree issued by the Seventh Imperial Prince after ascension targeted the Daogu Tribe!"

"The decree of guilt stated... The Daogu Tribe used living people to refine talisman soldiers, incurred the wrath of heaven and people, the Holy Kingdom ordered Southern Continent Martial Artists to go for extermination!"

"After the Emperor Tribe and Sword Pavilion Clan received the order, they immediately exaggerated the situation, and soon, millions of martial artists from the Southern Continent responded and surrounded the Daogu Tribe!"

"Even though the Daogu Tribe’s puppets were strong, even though their talisman soldiers defied the heavens, ultimately they couldn’t oppose the entire Southern Continent, couldn’t oppose all Under Heaven!"

"In the end, we realized that the Daogu Tribe couldn’t escape this disaster!"

"Therefore, the Daogu Tribe petitioned the new Emperor, willing to sever their foundation, pleaded for the new Emperor’s mercy for the difficult survival of all living beings Under Heaven, hoping to preserve a trace of the tribe’s fire seed!"

"The new Emperor agreed!"

"Following this, the Daogu Tribe sealed the Ancestral Land, sealed all puppet secret skills in the mouth of the Dragon Corpse!"

"The Daogu Tribe strong ones involved in the contest for the throne, either killed themselves or went to the Central Holy Nation as slaves for eternity!"

"Thus, the Daogu Tribe retained a trace of the fire seed!"

"..."

Seeing this, Lin Bai felt a sudden realization and said softly: "So, the rumor back then on the Southern Continent that the Daogu Tribe used living people to refine talisman soldiers was merely an excuse for the Central Holy Nation to deal with the Daogu Tribe!"

"Haha."

Lin Bai chuckled and shook his head bitterly.

He continued reading.

The cultivation credits stated: "The puppets and talisman soldiers of the Daogu Tribe were all refined from Divine Iron and soil, although there are humanoid talisman soldiers and puppets, they were only used after the warriors died!"

"Moreover, the humanoid puppets and talisman soldiers were mostly made with the permission of our Daogu Tribe strong ones after reaching their life’s limit, only then would we refine their corpses into puppets and talisman soldiers!"

"Even if we want to use living people to refine, this method is extremely difficult firstly, it requires the permission of the living person, during the refining process, the warrior can’t have any resistance or fluctuation of will, otherwise, even a hint of unwilling thought would lead to refining failure!"

"Therefore, not a single talisman soldier in the Daogu Tribe was ever refined from living people!"

"The Central Holy Nation used the claim of refining living people to eradicate the Daogu Tribe, simply because we aided the Holy Kingdom’s Crown Prince back then!"

"I leave these words hoping that if the Ancestral Land of the Daogu Tribe is reopened someday, my descendants of the Daogu Tribe, no matter what, must never involve themselves in the throne contest of the Holy Kingdom!"

"I hope, descendants remember!"

This book of cultivation credits ended here.

After Lin Bai read the text on the cultivation credits, his eyes flashed, he closed the cultivation credits but did not place it in the Treasure Box, instead he put it into the Storage Bag, saying: "Throne contest..."

"I remember previously at the Monarch’s Birthday Celebration of the Venerable Lord of Thousands Treasures, Shangguan Cun also once said, one hundred thousand years ago, the War God Palace as it shone in high noon, also vanished overnight from the Barbaric Ancient Continent because of the throne contest!"

"And now, the Daogu Tribe that I have come to is also because of the throne contest, willingly sealing their Taoist inheritance, begging for a trace of life."

"But indeed, the Central Holy Nation is the sole hegemony power on the Barbaric Ancient Continent, ruling the Five Continents, countless strong ones bow beneath the Imperial Palace, the holy decree issued, who dares defy Under Heaven?"

"Who doesn’t want to be the Emperor of the Holy Kingdom?"

Lin Bai chuckled bitterly once more, looking around, there was nothing else here.

Finally, Lin Bai regained his focus and said calmly: "The cultivation credits recorded, back then the strong ones of the Daogu Tribe sealed all puppet secret skills within the mouth of the Dragon Corpse!"

"Where exactly is this Dragon Corpse?"

"It seems I guessed right after all, this place is not the true treasure vault of the Daogu Tribe!"

"Surely there’s another location, where the treasures of the Daogu Tribe are stored, that Dragon Corpse, those puppet skills, and other treasures!"

"Where is this place?"

Lin Bai’s eyes flashed, falling into deep thought.