Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me-Chapter 1353: September 18, Red Emperor

Liu Xiu’s luck was comparable only to Jiang Chen.

At the Dragon Transformation Pool, Jiang Chen obtained the bloodline of both the Ancestral Dragon and the Ancestral Phoenix at the same time; Liu Xiu was just a bit inferior to him.

After obtaining the blood of the Ancestral Dragon and the Phoenix, with the covert aid of the Red Emperor, Liu Xiu successfully merged these two bloodlines, thereby evolving into the body of the Dragon Phoenix.

It was with this powerful body of the Dragon Phoenix that Liu Xiu marched through battles, defeated various heroes, and ultimately won the world.

This was the Prehistoric World, and as a founder of a dynasty, how could one command respect and ascend to the supreme throne without the power to suppress all directions?

Even without the augmentation of fate, Liu Xiu’s true strength was no less than that of a Heavenly Immortal. With the addition of fate, not even a Great Luo Golden Immortal could be his match.

"Too weak!"

"The era has ultimately changed!"

Watching the remnant essence of the Dragon Phoenix suddenly appear before him, Jiang Chen couldn’t help but shake his head.

Speaking of the Dragon Phoenix’s strength, from the current perspective, it truly wasn’t weak; even ordinary Great Luo Golden Immortals would not be its match.

Liu Xiu left behind this remnant essence which, if nothing went wrong, was enough to extend a trace of fate for the Eastern Han and allow it to linger on for a while.

But unfortunately, in front of Jiang Chen, this remnant essence, whose strength was comparable to a Great Luo Golden Immortal, was just too weak, utterly no match for him.

A dynasty’s founder whose strength was only that of a Great Luo Golden Immortal was a great irony for the Human Race.

How could the Human Race have fallen to such a state?

Not to mention before the Han Dynasty, when the First Emperor dominated the world, making even Great Divine Transcendents avoid his sharpness.

Consider the era during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period. With hundreds of feudal states, each ruler was merely a local feudal lord, yet even an Innate Dao Monarch had to treat them with utmost civility, daring not to show any disrespect.

Going further back, during the Zhou Dynasty, although their rulers self-styled as sons of Heaven, each one bearing the mandate of Heaven had a status comparable to an Innate Dao Sovereign.

And the Zhou Dynasty’s ruler, King Wen, who interpreted the I Ching and created the Later Heaven Eight Diagrams, possessed such high talent that even Saints would marvel at him.

Further back during the Shang Dynasty, it was even more formidable as a destabilizer among the generations of the Human Race; the rulers of the Shang self-styled as emperors – the emperor of the Heavenly Emperor!

Even the high and mighty immortals had to go to the Great Shang to serve as officials and generals, which showed the splendor of the Shang.

The ruler of Shang, King Cheng Tang, was even more a king among men. Back in Ancient Times, he had already attained Quasi-Sainthood.

Although the Xia Dynasty was not as powerful as the Shang, it produced two Human Kings, the son of Yu the Great, Xia Qi, and his descendants.

These were all beings whose strength was comparable to a Quasi-Saint. Compared to them, the founders of the two Han Dynasties were really nothing.

Whether it was Liu Bang of the Western Han or Liu Xiu of the Eastern Han, neither amassed enough fate to become a Human King. Hence, both of them died!

Only the Heavenly Emperor was immortal and everlasting, enduring in this world.

In the vast Prehistoric World, there was only one emperor who could endure eternally, and that was the Heavenly Emperor.

Others, even the Four Royals or Human Emperors, could not govern Heaven and Earth for long and had to abdicate within a specific period. Otherwise, they would suffer the backlash of Heaven and Earth and perish.

The Four Royals served as deputies to the Heavenly Emperor and held their positions for a relatively long time, up to fifty-six million years.

As for Human Emperors, even the strongest, Heavenly Emperor Fuxi, only held his position for 1.2 million years before he began to struggle against the backlash of Heaven and Earth.

And the Earth Emperors and Human Emperors, including the later Five Emperors, all held their positions for one million years before they abdicated in favor of the worthy.

From this, it can be seen that if a Human Emperor cannot progress further and become a Heavenly Emperor, the longest they could reign is 1.2 million years.

A Human Emperor can only reign for a maximum of 1.2 million years, and Human Kings fare even worse; they can only reign for at most 120,000 years, like Xia Qi.

And King Cheng Tang, he only reigned for 100,000 years before he could no longer withstand the backlash of Heaven and Earth.

Among the rulers below a Human King, the emperors of the Shang were the most powerful. Apart from the founding King Cheng Tang and the last King Zhou, the rest of the rulers reigned for ten thousand years before they fell.

Yes, fell!

For any emperor, if they could not attain the position of Human King, no matter how powerful they were, they could only live for ten thousand years at most. Once ten thousand years passed, they would die immediately from the backlash of Heaven and Earth, and even early abdication couldn’t save them from the backlash.

The so-called era of ten thousand years comes from this.

Although the emperors of the Shang could only live for ten thousand years, ten thousand years could still be considered a long life. Moreover, if we really calculate it, ten thousand years in Ancient Times are at least equivalent to 3.6 million years now.

3.6 million years! We don’t even know if it has been three million years since Ancient Times ended.

The lifespan of the Zhou Dynasty’s sons of Heaven was the same as the Shang’s emperors—they also ended their lives after ten thousand years. But during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, this situation changed; the longest-living rulers of the states lived only a thousand years.

By the time of the Han Dynasty, things changed again; a mighty ruler of a country had a lifespan barely different from that of mortals.

Even Liu Bang and Liu Xiu, although their realms were that of Great Luo Golden Immortals, only lived a few decades longer than mortals before they died under the backlash of Heaven and Earth.

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"You died with no injustice!"

"Looking at the three dynasties, even the weakest Zhou had co-rulers who could match the Innate Dao Sovereign."

"And you two, only comparable to Great Luo Golden Immortals—so lacking in strength—how could you possess the longevity of ten thousand years?"

Staring at the Dragon Phoenix before him, Jiang Chen couldn’t help but shake his head.

The co-rulers of the three dynasties, comparable to the Innate Dao Sovereign, also had a lifespan of only ten thousand years. They were merely Great Luo Golden Immortals yet managed to live a hundred years, which was already quite commendable. After all, in terms of strength alone, they were lacking far more than just a hundredfold.