The righteous path punishes Heaven

Chapter 114 Demonization

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An Lushan, dressed in a long black dress, wearing black high heels and a magnificent gold headdress, walked proudly through the palace.

Her attire contrasted sharply with that of everyone else in the palace. The monks wore long robes and Taoist robes, and the soldiers wore iron armor. Only An Lushan was dressed like this, which was quite strange.

With each step, the heels of his shoes made a crisp clicking sound as they hit the floor. As if to enjoy the process, An Lushan deliberately slowed down, chuckling happily as he walked forward.

But these words, when they reached Li Lin's ears, were like needles pricking his broken heart. As the only blood relative of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, he was now a prisoner bound by iron chains, forced to helplessly accept his defeat.

When An Lushan walked up to Li Lin, he reached out and touched Li Lin's chin with a mocking expression. Although he did not say a word, this one action alone showed a strong sense of insult.

Ignoring the fierce glare from Li Lin, An Lushan turned and stepped onto the imperial platform, traversing the steps to stand before the dragon throne she had longed for for over a decade. In the end, she was the victor.

"Hahahahaha!" An Lushan laughed excitedly, turned around and sat down on the dragon throne. Looking at the Tang generals kneeling on the ground and looking up at her, she proudly raised her fair and delicate left hand, on which was wearing a large gold and jade ring.

Because her fingers were so slender, the ring could only be worn on her thumb with great difficulty to prevent it from slipping off.

In the imperial court, two rows of long tables were set up on each side, with the generals of the An Lushan-Shijiazhuang allied forces and the cultivators of the Wudang Sect seated on either side. Shi Siming and Gu Changpeng sat on the left and right of the prime ministers, respectively, waiting for An Lushan to speak.

"I really forgot that besides Li Heng, the crown prince, Li Longji also had a prince named Yong, Li Lin."

An Lushan fiddled with the gold ring on his hand and said to Li Lin, who was kneeling on the ground, with a mocking expression.

"However, even you can only unleash one percent of the power of the Human Emperor Banner. Only a true human emperor is qualified to use it at full power."

Li Lin spat out a mouthful of blood onto the floor, his eyes bloodshot. He looked down at An Lushan, who sat high on the dragon throne, and said coldly, "So what? You are just a barbarian. What right do you have to sit on this throne? What right do you have to use the Emperor's Banner?"

Upon hearing this, An Lushan suddenly burst into laughter. Seeing her reaction, Gu Changpeng, who was standing to the side, also wanted to see what An Lushan was up to.

Originally, Gu Changpeng had chosen to cooperate with An Lushan and had his eye on the Emperor's Banner. However, when he took the Emperor's Banner from Li Lin, he discovered that he was unable to use it at all, while An Lushan went to great lengths to obtain it. It seemed that there must be something fishy going on.

An Lushan extended his left hand, and the golden ring on his thumb began to glow with the spiritual power she infused into it. Then, the blood-stained Emperor's Banner was summoned and landed in front of Li Lin.

An Lushan stood up from the dragon throne and said as he walked down the steps, "Once the previous emperor dies and no new emperor steps up to succeed him, then the Emperor's Banner will be in a state of being without a master."

"Even though dynasties have changed hands and the world has been divided and united throughout history, the emperors who were able to unify the world and establish new dynasties were all heirs to the bloodlines of the Three Sovereigns of ancient times. This was all preordained by fate, and destiny made them destined to become the Human Emperor."

At this point, An Lushan took out two jade bottles from his storage bag at his waist and continued, "Unfortunately, not every emperor is brave and resourceful, and I am the one who waits for this loophole to appear so that I can deliver a fatal blow."

"The bloodline of the Human Emperor will never be severed; this is an unchangeable fact. But I do not belong to your Dao Tian Continent, so if you can sit on the throne of the Human Emperor, so can I!"

Before he finished speaking, An Lushan crushed the two jade bottles in his left and right hands. Instantly, two pools of blood splattered from the bottles and splashed onto the Emperor's Banner!

An Lushan grinned maliciously as he walked up to Li Lin, slapping her blood-stained hands hard against her cheeks, and asked in a deep voice:

"Try it...see if this tastes familiar?"

Upon hearing this, Li Lin understood everything. He abruptly raised his head, trembling all over. Although it was expected, he still found it hard to accept, and said in a trembling voice:

"You...you killed Princess Yuzhen and the Crown Prince...?"

An Lushan grabbed a corner of the Emperor's Banner, wiped his blood-stained hands, and then took out an item from his storage bag—a wooden box.

"Take another look, what is this?"

An Lushan leaned forward slightly and slowly opened the lid of the wooden box. When Li Lin saw what was inside, he finally couldn't bear it any longer, and blood mixed with vomit gushed from his mouth.

Inside the wooden box was a purplish-black heart that was slowly wriggling!

"Hahahahahahahahaha!" An Lushan stood up and stomped Li Lin's head on the ground. Then he threw the heart from the wooden box onto the Emperor's Banner. The moment the two made contact, the Emperor's Banner burst out with dazzling light.

Along with the two bottles of blood they had come into contact with earlier, and the blood of Li Lin that was on the Emperor's Banner, all of these merged together with the Emperor's Banner, causing its golden light to begin to turn green, and the golden dragon pattern on the banner to gradually distort and twist, which was quite eerie.

An Lushan turned around, bit her thumb until it bled, and blood slowly flowed from her fingertip. At the same time, she began to activate her magic with both hands, and a strange spell was cast on the Emperor's Banner.

Only when the dragon design on the banner was completely unrecognizable did An Lushan stop his spell and speak:

"There are five continents in the world, each with its own ruler. Although only the emperor of the Central Continent can use this peerless magic weapon, the magic of the Western Regions is unpredictable and deceptive; with a few tricks..."

"This banner is stained with the blood of Crown Prince Li Heng, Princess Yuzhen Li Xuanxuan, and you, Prince Yong Li Lin, as well as the heart of the Emperor, which I dissected from the corpse of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji."

"With these, even though I don't have the bloodline of the Human Emperor, I can still forcibly control the Human Emperor Banner. Finally, with the addition of my magic, this magical treasure can finally be used by me!"

The last glimmer of golden light on the Emperor's Banner was completely swallowed up by the eerie green light. All the golden dragon patterns on it disappeared and transformed into writhing, purplish-black phantoms, like human shadows, with two blood-red eyes staring intently at everything around them.

Everyone in the palace was so shocked that they couldn't speak. Even Gu Changpeng, who was at the Nascent Soul stage, had a solemn expression and couldn't believe what was happening before his eyes.

Instantly, the entire Emperor Banner burst forth with a strong, eerie green light. Black shadows began to fly through the air outside the palace gates, crashing into the phantoms on the banner one after another, accompanied by cries of pain and wails. These sounds echoed throughout the entire palace, as if the gates of hell had been opened!

It turns out that the Emperor's Banner has fallen into evil. The Taoist magic treasure that originally accumulated the power of faith of all living beings has been turned into a completely demonic weapon by An Lushan!

The dark figures that were sucked in were the spirits of soldiers who had died on the battlefield. Their souls and spirits were captured by the banner before they dissipated!

This is the Demonic Treasure, the Myriad Soul Banner!