Dominating Martial King

Chapter 1778 - 569: Holy Emperor

After eighty breaths, you will be slain by Chu Ming."What is there left to say between us?"

Chu Ming let out a cold laugh, filled with self-mockery: "You want me to stop? Earlier I also begged you when you buried me alive. I pleaded with you then, begged you, implored you, hoping you would stop.

But how did you respond, Your Majesty? You still placed me in a coffin, hammering so many nails. At that time, I was in so much pain, so desperate, do you understand?"

Emperor Jianyuan’s heart sank once more.

Indeed, Chu Ming had preserved all her memories before her death.

Every word she uttered was filled with the utmost kill intent, the utmost resentment, the utmost malice, chilling his five internal organs and six hollow organs.

Thoughts whirled in Emperor Jianyuan’s mind.

As he struggled to fend off her attacks, he sighed lightly: "Fortunately, Ming’er, you managed to preserve your memories. This must be Heaven’s Will showing mercy, completing you. Ming’er, can you not stop? How have our uncle-nephew ties come to this, come to this?

Ming’er, you must understand, your uncle was helping you. Didn’t you want revenge against Chu Xisheng? But you know his cultivation and his combat ability are exceptionally high. He’s a one-in-a-million genius within our Human Clan, his natural talent and comprehension are unmatched; his power grows with each passing day. Ming’er, without sufficient strength, how would you avenge your mother and brother?

But now there’s hope. Now your combat power is a hundred times stronger than before, and no one is your match below the Gods. You’ve gained the strength to contend with Chu Xisheng now. You have been resurrected, your will hard as steel, enduring the erosion of Corpse Energy and Killing Power, retaining all your memories. Clearly, Heaven is protecting you and me, we have succeeded."

"Ha ha!"

Yet Chu Ming burst out laughing wildly, laced with derision and sarcasm: "I did want revenge against him, but it’s truly unfortunate, he was always one step ahead. You disregarded blood ties, went to great lengths to refine me into a corpse puppet, yet in the end, all of it benefited him.

I am now under his control, every move, every word is subject to his restraint, I must follow his intent. How can I strike back against him?"

Hearing this, Emperor Jianyuan felt like he was being hammered several times in his mind, leaving him in a daze, unable to react for a long time.

All of it benefited him, benefiting Chu Xisheng? What the hell is going on?

How did he manage that? What method did he use to tamper with the corpse refining ceremony?

This blow to Emperor Jianyuan’s mind was far heavier than Chu Ming’s Divine Intent Saber, much heavier!

For a moment, he even forgot to resist, only instinctively swinging his sword, as countless wounds were inflicted by Chu Ming.

Looking at the crimson blood gushing from him, Chu Ming could not help but recall her own pale face, the black, sharp nails, the hidden fangs inside her mouth, the corpse hair that could grow without notice; her whole body laden with corpse flesh like salted fish, and the Corpse Energy and black blood flowing through her flesh.

Though stronger than the low-rank evil corpses, she was only slightly stronger.

—She was already a corpse now, and no longer the true Chu Ming.

The real Chu Ming had already died, this was merely her corpse, combined with a grudge that refused to be appeased, and part of her residual soul. The resulting monster was repelled by Heaven and Earth’s rules governing life and death.

The clash between the Killing Power within and the Undying Yang Flame within her made her writhe in pain.

Emperor Jianyuan, in pursuit of extreme battle power, had arranged for her to cultivate the ’Undying Yang Flame Saber’.

However, this ’Undying Yang Flame Saber’ fundamentally conflicted with her current Extreme Yin Physique.

Unless one day, she could manage Yin to Yang transformation.

She was an evil corpse, not a Poison Corpse, unlike the four Ancestor Corpses infected by the Heavenly Gaze.

Chu Ming’s path to Yin to Yang transformation was tenfold more difficult than the four Ancestor Corpses.

Beneath the four Ancestor Corpses, not a single evil corpse managed Yang Transformation or broke through to Eternal Rank.

Thus, it would have been better not to use the ’Undying Yang Flame Saber’; using it brought extreme suffering.

"Succeeded? Hehe, you succeeded—yet, for me, wouldn’t living be better?"

Chu Ming glared at Emperor Jianyuan, her hair fluttering in all directions, her eyes not only crimson but also with numerous veins extending from the corners.

She looked like a malevolent ghost.

"Retaining my memory was not due to some will that resisted Corpse Energy’s Killing Power. In fact, it was you and Yu Kunlun’s forbidden magic, aiming to completely erase my memories, ensuring this corpse puppet would serve better, am I right?

It was my master who showed pity on me—no, this could be his Secret Rite of Vengeance. He wants me to remember all these, to keep these memories while being his corpse puppet."

Chu Ming sneered again, the tone dripping with boundless resentment: "So I knew all along, when you used the Secret Technique to bestow me with the ’Vengeful Bloodline’, your intentions were malicious. You began scheming then, wanting to refine me into your corpse puppet and seize my Divine Intent Touch Death Blade’s legacy, isn’t that so?

Thus, the root of tragedy for my mother, my brother, my entire family was you; all stemmed from you and that State Preceptor. If it weren’t for you, Chu Xisheng’s parents wouldn’t have died, Chu Xisheng wouldn’t have been buried alive, my brother and mother wouldn’t have faced his revenge, and I wouldn’t have ended up like this!"