"Forget it, I shall do the virtuous deed to the end."
"Zhao Gao, present the Sword of the Qin Emperor. I will take custody of it for now and pass it on to the First Emperor on your behalf in the future." Fan Li said so with an impatient expression on his face.
Zhao Gao was overjoyed and quickly presented the Sword of the Qin Emperor with both hands.
Fan Li took the sword, maintaining his impatient appearance. But when he grasped the sword hilt, he suddenly felt a subtle connection between himself and the twelve golden men.
The first special effect of the Sword of the Qin Emperor was control over the twelve golden men. The twelve golden men had all reached the Unity Realm in cultivation level. It was just that without wisdom and unable to grasp secret arts of treasures, their combat strength could only rank at the bottom among those at the Unity Realm.
‘It really is a good treasure, pity I promised Cao Cao and the others.’
Although regretful, Fan Li was not greedy. After all, they had staked their lives in the beginning to cooperate with him and surround and kill the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler.
‘This trip wasn't wasted for me either, I obtained the treasure Epang Palace and can use it as a safe house for splitsoul cultivation in the future.’
Just as Fan Li was thinking this, he saw Zhao Gao with a pitiful appearance, waiting for him to alter the imperial edict.
"Writing brush and ink."
"Your servant obeys!"
Zhao Gao was overjoyed, as if by magic he took out writing brushes and ink stones early prepared and enthusiastically ground the ink for Fan Li.
But Fan Li still wasn't certain of success by writing on the First Emperor's imperial edict. What if he failed and Zhao Gao flew into a rage in humiliation, killing both him and Princess Chang Le?
Fan Li didn't harbor any illusions about his own abilities. As for Princess Chang Le, although she was a peerless genius, she still shouldn't be able to leap across realms and kill the Unity Realm's Zhao Gao, right?
"Don't worry, I once looked up texts in the Brahma Sound Pure Land and know that imperial edicts are exclusive to the Son of Heaven. As long as it's written by the hand of a true Dragon Son, it will definitely take effect." Princess Chang Le whispered by Fan Li's ear.
Fan Li looked at her in surprise. "Isn't the Brahma Sound Pure Land a sacred land of cultivators, transcending the mundane world? How can there still be secret texts about mundane dynasties?"
At this time, Princess Chang Le pretended to nestle closely against him as empress.
The princess lightly laughed. "The realm is bustling, all for profit's sake. The realm is hustling, all to pursue gain. Even I don't believe that the Brahma Sound Pure Land can really transcend the mundane. Why would you believe it?"
Fan Li was left speechless. Fine, when even the bell ringer doesn't believe in Buddha, what more can be said by someone who eats meat?
The princess whispered again. "Even the true Dragon Son of that time wouldn't be able to casually write an imperial edict to overturn the First Emperor's. Yet somehow, the First Emperor's edict remains with faded ink, allowing you to simply rewrite it to alter its intent."
Fan Li nodded and cautiously took up the brush. "Zhao Gao, I will write now."
"Your servant will act as your writing desk!" Zhao Gao knelt sideways, using his back to prop up the First Emperor's edict. The edict lay flat in the air without any wind.
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Fan Li gazed at the First Emperor's edict that persisted through tens of thousands of years, feeling a profound feeling well up!
He suddenly loudly recited, "I, by the Mandate of Heaven, of eternal prosperity and fortune, am the true Dragon Son!"
As the words left his mouth, astonishing anomalies manifested between heaven and earth. Within the Mirror Immortal Palace, faint dragon roars and tiger howls sounded. In the boundless ocean of clouds, supreme golden radiance flashed.
"This is the aura of the Son of Heaven, ah ah ah!"
"Your Majesty is indeed the First Emperor's descendant by blood, the anomalies triggered contend with the First Emperor back then!"
Zhao Gao only felt alarmed, his kneeling posture increasingly humble and deferent.
Princess Chang Le also looked at Fan Li in surprise. ‘The destiny pattern of the Son of Heaven is merely a chance to ascend the throne. How can he have such an aura? Simply like that of a great unifier who founded the dynasty!’
A hint of jealousy and wariness even rose unknowingly in the princess's heart. How could Fan Li have expected that his casual attempt to encourage himself would trigger anomalies of heaven and earth?
He still lingered on feeling the Son of Heaven's might. With his emotions roused, his mouth couldn't stop.
"Under all heaven, nowhere does not belong to the royal court. At the borders of every land, none do not belong to the royal court's vassals. The words of the Son of Heaven are no jest, what is said will enter the annals of history."
As Fan Li's voice fell, enormous apparitions emerged one after another in the immortal realm's skies.
Fan Li was occupied with venting, he didn't see, but Princess Chang Le saw everything clearly.
"This is the manifestation of sage monarchs of past ages? The shoulder-length ears, the hands reaching below the knees, could this be my founding ancestor of the Liu clan manifesting?"
"Bees clustered in the nose and eyes, long eye sockets, auspicious birds on the chest, the other figure is actually the First Emperor?!"
"Why are there three exceptionally grand Son of Heaven apparitions, even faintly surpassing all other sage monarchs?"
"The ancient texts record the legend of the Three Saintly Emperors of Heaven, Earth and Man. In antiquity during chaos, they led the human tribes to battle the myriad races, the humans finally prevailed and became the leader of all living spirits! Due to this, the Three Saintly Emperors accrued boundless merits, the primeval ancestors of all sage monarchs through the ages!"
Princess Chang Le looked at Fan Li in astonishment.
How did he accomplish this?
Texts of the Brahma Sound Pure Land's collections recorded that the birth of sage monarchs was often accompanied by anomalies of heaven and earth. For example things like purple qi arriving from the east, red light suffusing the skies, appearances of dragons and phoenixes, and so on. No matter how grandly they boasted, she still hadn't seen anomalies like Fan Li's.
Founding emperors of dynasties manifesting?
The three human emperors manifesting?
Merely to flatter Fan Li?
Was his prestige that great???
Fan Li did not know how astonished Princess Chang Le was. He had already written, rewriting the contents of the First Emperor's edict.
"Minister of the Palace Chariot Bureau Zhao Gao, pointing at deer and calling them horse, deceiving the ruler and controlling power, damaging Our imperial successor; his crimes pierce the heavens. We now decree to sever his immortal path, cut off his reincarnation, confine him to the mortal realm, guard Our mausoleum for one thousand years."
The ink of the 'ten thousand years' originally written had already faded, leaving essentially a blank space.
Fan Li writing 'one thousand years' did not seem at all abrupt.
Fan Li only wrote two characters, but strangely felt a pressure lifted in his heart. He must have written while bearing that pressure, hence the feeling of relief after completion.
"The First Emperor shouldn't come make trouble for me right." Fan Li thought to himself.
He had only casually thought about it and didn't take it seriously at first. But suddenly, it was as if Fan Li heard someone whisper by his ear.
"We have not conferred with Your Majesty before. Why has Your Majesty altered Our edict?"
"We currently have no time to descend to the mortal realm. What happened today shall be noted down for now."
"In the future when Your Majesty ascends the Immortal Realm, you had best take the initiative to come to the Great Qin Divine Court and explain the reasons to Us."
Fan Li frightened out a body full of cold sweat.
It wasn't possible right?
Was that the First Emperor speaking to him earlier?
Great Qin Divine Court?
He was now tied by karma to the Great Qin Heavenly Emperor!?
Fan Li looked at Zhao Gao kneeling before him, then at Princess Chang Le nestled closely in his arms, then weighed the treasure Epang Palace and the Qin Emperor's Sword.
Hmm... it didn't seem worth it.
To offend a Heavenly Emperor for the sake of these few items?
Fan Li regretted deeply, even considering wiping off his own handwriting from the edict. But, in the next moment, a sudden beam of white light descended from the sky, landing on Zhao Gao.
"Ah!!!" Zhao Gao screamed, yet his voice was filled with joy and happiness.
The once dried-up corpse of Zhao Gao had suddenly transformed back into a living person in an instant. He appeared to be a handsome scholar in his thirties, with fair cheeks and no beard...