Chapter 3058 Crimson Emperor
“The war against the demon race went very well. Ten thousand tactics, a hundred thousand training techniques, and a million methods of magical equipment refinement seemed to be buried deep inside my genes. Every day when I woke up from my sleep, I would receive new enlightenment and use the enlightenment to guide and strengthen the resistance. Also, the reign of the demon race had collapsed a long time ago. The demon emperors and demon G.o.ds everywhere were all loose sand. I did not encounter any real obstacles that I could not overcome. The seemingly perilous obstacles were merely stimulating me to awaken the greater strength deep inside my genes.
In the picture in front of Li Yao’s eyes, more and more warriors were following the Supreme Emperor. They were stronger and stronger, and their crystal suits were more and more glamorous. Not just the super a.r.s.enals and the s.p.a.ce mothers.h.i.+ps, even the magnificent figures of the Giant G.o.d Soldiers appeared in the rebels. They were the ultimate weapons that the demon race could not resist no matter what.
The Supreme Emperor was above everything. He seemed to be standing above the torrent of destruction as he lunged at the dying Demon Beast Empire, completely dispersing the great darkness of thirty thousand years.
With the continuous victories and the renaissance of humanity, the gravekeeper’s voice, on the other hand, was more and more sorrowful and confused. “I marched forward unstoppably in the war against the demon race and secured the most brilliant victory. The entire universe was in my hands. But in another battlefield, the progress was not as smooth, which was… my own battlefield. “I found it harder and harder to control myself. It was as if countless consciousnesses and personalities were hiding in the depths of my genes, all of which were itching to crawl out.
“In the beginning, I thought that the war I waged was just and justified. It was a war of revenge and a war of resistance. For my foster parents and all the weak people who had been killed miserably, I roared, waved my iron fists, and raised my saber. “But as the forces under my control grew stronger and stronger, more and more people followed me. I won an unprecedented glorious victory, and I gradually lost myself in the glory.
“A voice, a voice from the deepest part of my genes, often whispers in my head when there is no one around in the dark night, asking me to seize all the power and kill all the disobedient people so that I can gather all the resources in the universe to fulfill my… mission.
“The pictures that had been lost for a long time —the silent and frozen battlefield in the depths of the primeval relics, my ’embryonic life’, including the glorious escape of the ancient human beings billions of years ago, flashed in my brain again.
“Bothered by these scenes and corrupted by power, I became more and more withdrawn, more and more irascible, and more and more sensitive. At first, I didn’t want to become the so-called ‘Supreme Emperor’. The so-called ‘Empire’ was nothing more than a backward political form used to govern a continent in the era of the planets. The sea of stars was so vast that there were simply more heroes, experts, warriors, and the rebellious and ambitious among the human beings than there were stars. How could an emperor, however wise and mighty he was, rule over all of mankind? No. It was not a reign at all, but a shackle. It would only seal the creativity and pioneering spirit of the civilization of mankind, leading the civilization of mankind to an irreparable stagnation and exhaustion.
“If I really turn from the leader of the army into the emperor, I will only be replacing the old ‘Thirty-thousand-year-old Great Dark Age’ with the new ‘Thirty-thousand-year-old Great Dark Age’ and turning myself into the ruler of the demon race in human skin!
“-I understand such logic very well when my head is clear.
“But as I unlocked more and more training techniques, methods of magical equipment refinement, and strategies, I seemed to be controlled by an ancient force beyond my control.
“The power tells me that, in order to fulfill my ultimate destiny, I must return to the primeval relics and explore all the secrets. If I want to unravel the secrets of the primeval relics, I won’t have the time to develop the civilization of mankind in the Pangu Universe step by step. The imperial system must be adopted in order to maximize the potential of mankind in the shortest amount of time.
“In… the war against the voice, I suffered a crus.h.i.+ng defeat. I was truly tempted by power and ambition to walk on the path of the Supreme Emperor. “In my original plan, the new civilization after the dark reign of the demon race should not have an arbitrary, lawless emperor, nor should it exterminate the demon race. I grew up with countless slaves and miners of the demon race and knew that the demon race was an intelligent life made of flesh and blood just like human beings. Most of the low-level demons, the black-blood demons and the bronze-blood demons who were at the bottom of the ‘Four Pillars System’, suffered even more oppression than human beings did.
“We don’t even have reproductive isolation. We are a true race of brothers. Many of my childhood playmates and the closest comrades later were half-human and half-demon. When the ‘half-demons’ were fighting against the rulers, the so-called ‘silver-blood demons’ and the ‘saint-blood demons’, they were as brutal as human warriors. But when they were unfortunately captured and faced the bullets of torture and execution, they were always resolute and resolute. They were fighting for freedom and liberation, too. How could I deprive them of their life and even glory?
“Besides, even if we don’t consider it from the perspective of justice or evil, if we consider it from the perspective of strategy, the demon race is deeply rooted after all. Just the elimination of the ‘saint-blood demons’ at the highest level is already a major blow for the Pangu Universe. The protracted war has lasted for a hundred years! If we want to eliminate all the demons, how many years will it take, how many sacrifices will there be, and how many innocent human beings and demons will die?
“In any case, I should not enlarge the target of destruction and change the nature of the war.
“However…
“Right now, my head has been muddled by the fire of power, and my soul has been corrupted by the darkness inside my heart. I need to concentrate my power, I need to eliminate the dissidents, and I need to suppress the leaders of other rebels with everything I have, so that I can gain prestige and ascend to the supreme throne!
“And if you want to monopolize power, what better excuse than to completely suppress the demon clan?
“The demon race has ruled the sea of stars for thirty thousand years. The communication between the demon race and human beings is quite frequent. No human beings, including the most loyal human warriors, dare to swear that they are not inextricably linked to the demon race. Even if they are, it is not difficult to find ‘proof’ by twisting the facts.
“Just like that, after a period of scheming and b.l.o.o.d.y battles, and after countless childhood friends and loyal comrades fell one by one, I finally got what I wanted and ascended to the throne of the Supreme Emperor. The dark side of my heart was stronger than ever, too. It was like a ferocious beast that had been lurking in the depths of my genes since the ancient times, trying to swallow me completely.
“I finally got enough resources and remembered a lot of things about the primeval relics, including their coordinates and the pattern of their entrances and exits in the three-dimensional universe.
“Therefore, I summoned an entire fleet of explorers into the primeval relics and established the first forward base for research.
“At that time, I, or rather, the dark side of my heart, made a fatal mistake.
“He was too hasty and could not wait to gain 100% independence. Or maybe he discovered that there was something indelible in the depths of my heart that was difficult to be completely corrupted by him. Therefore, he simply guided me to refine a clone known as the Blood G.o.d and poured all the dark side of me, the desire to kill, destroy, and rule, into it to become the commander-in-chief of the expedition army!
“This approach brought out the war talent and the desire for destruction that originated from the primeval era deep down in my genes to the fullest, creating an unprecedentedly strong ‘Marshal’. But on the other hand, it also gave me, who had abandoned the dark side, a new understanding
“When I looked back and found that I had made an irreparable mistake, I couldn’t help but feel regretful, regretful, and desperate.
“I recalled that, hundreds of thousands of years ago, before time was frozen, my good friend asked me to visit her hometown and find out what she and her parents were trying so hard to protect. However, I came to her hometown and made the same mistake as the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan did. I was almost going to destroy the glamorous, glamorous universe that boasted endless possibilities. “I was very clear that my ‘Blood G.o.d’ on the dark side only cared about the so-called ‘mission’ and the mysteries deep inside the primeval relics. He did not care about the present at all. If he stole the final victory of all the creatures living in this place, the civilization of mankind would be plunged into disaster again. He would not hesitate to sacrifice all human beings in exchange for the activation of the mysteries of the primeval relics!
“As it turned out, the so-called ‘great expedition’ was just an excuse for him to command the best fleet of the Star Ocean Imperium and find an opportunity to unite the remnants of the demon race and the extraterrestrial devils.
“He thought that I, who had lost more than half of my military strength, could only wait to be killed, but he had greatly underestimated me—the strength deep inside my genes.
“The Blood G.o.d and I had an apocalyptic battle on Empyrean Terminus. I’m afraid you’ve seen the outcome of the battle.
“I have to stop the Blood G.o.d, or rather, the ambitions and desires deep inside my heart, from pa.s.sing through the relics of the Pangu Civilization. With the development of human civilization to this day, the imperium and the Supreme Emperor are no longer needed. Even the most brilliant imperium and the most powerful Supreme Emperor are merely pebbles that stop the march of the civilization. They must be crushed mercilessly. No matter how many achievements and crimes I have committed, let the ‘Star Ocean Imperium’ and the ‘Supreme Emperor’, two freaks that should not have appeared in the first place, be finished by my own hands!”