eurekapd Chapter 564 The Template of the Chosen One
Chapter 564 The Template of the Chosen One
"To be buried together in the imperial mausoleum, leveling the forbidden land, so that the world will be less turbulent...?"
The morning sunlight filtered through the sparse branches and leaves, casting dappled patterns on a slightly dilapidated courtyard.
A handsome young man dressed in black was sitting quietly in an old rocking chair.
He held a slightly worn bamboo scroll in his hand, and softly recited the famous line recorded on the scroll that had been passed down for ten thousand years on the ancient road to the stars.
The young man put down the bamboo slips in his hand, looked over the courtyard wall and up at the clear blue sky above. A smile involuntarily appeared on his lips.
He was none other than the very person described in this poem, which has been sung and revered as a god by countless cultivators throughout the ages.
The supreme being who, hundreds of thousands of years ago, single-handedly leveled the Taiyin Imperial Mausoleum and single-handedly intimidated the seven forbidden zones of life for a full 100,000 years—the Emperor of Time, Lin Hanzhou.
A gentle breeze swept through the courtyard, swirling up a few withered yellow leaves.
Lin Hanzhou slowly closed his eyes, and the memories that had been sealed in his mind for hundreds of thousands of years surged into his heart like a tide.
In that battle, the full power of the Taiyin Imperial Mausoleum was revealed, with six ancient supreme beings who were once invincible in an era joining forces to besiege it.
Having lost the blessing of the Heavenly Heart Mark, Lin Hanzhou was almost engaging in the most brutal collision between his Imperial Origin and the Law of Time.
That battle caused the stars to turn upside down, the Great Dao to be obliterated, and even the small world where the Taiyin Emperor's Mausoleum was located was shattered into pieces.
The cultivators outside, including the other supreme beings from forbidden zones who were hiding in the shadows and trembling with fear, all thought that Lin Hanzhou had completely died and vanished after exhausting his last bit of life force and taking the six supreme beings down with him.
However, how could the world know the true trump card of the Emperor of Time?
Lin Hanzhou successfully reincarnated after death thanks to his red talent, [Nine Reincarnations].
When he awoke again, Lin Hanzhou discovered that he had been reincarnated as the young master of a family in a remote city.
On the surface, this seems to be a perfectly normal reincarnation story.
However, after Lin Hanzhou sorted through the memories of this body over the past eighteen years, even his usually calm and composed imperial state of mind couldn't help but be slightly disturbed.
This family happens to have the surname Xiao.
In this life, his name is still Xiao Yan.
Moreover, his experiences in this life gave Lin Hanzhou a sense of déjà vu.
In this remote little town called Wulan, the name Xiao Yan was once an incredibly dazzling presence.
According to my memory, this body displayed astonishing talent for cultivation.
In the world of cultivation, the first secret realm of the human body is called the "Sea of Wheels Realm".
The Wheel of Life is a collective term for the Wheel of Life and the Sea of Suffering.
For ordinary cultivators to cultivate their own life spring in the sea of suffering, it often takes several years or even more than ten years of arduous effort.
Xiao Yan, at the age of ten, successfully opened the Sea of Bitterness and went straight to the peak of the Sea of Wheels Realm, shocking the entire city of Wulan.
At the age of fifteen, he made even greater strides, breaking through the shackles of the Sea of Wheels Realm, successfully opening up the five internal organs within his body, and stepping into the second great secret realm—the Dao Palace Realm!
A fifteen-year-old Dao Palace Realm cultivator!
Such talent, let alone in this small city of Wulan, would absolutely qualify as a once-in-a-century genius even in the capital of the Great Li Dynasty that governs this territory.
At that time, Xiao Yan was the undisputed young patriarch of the Xiao family, the hope for the future in everyone's eyes, enjoying endless flowers, applause and preferential treatment of resources.
However, fate seemed to play a cruel joke on this genius when he was fifteen years old.
Shortly after he broke through to the Dao Palace Realm, Xiao Yan's cultivation level, for some unknown reason, began to regress in a strange way.
Initially, only the five internal organs deities that had just been conceived within the Dao Palace became dim and lifeless. Then, the Dao Palace secret realm, which was filled with vast spiritual energy, began to gradually wither and collapse.
No matter how desperately Xiao Yan absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, or how many precious pills his family bestowed upon him, he could not stop the rate at which his cultivation level was being lost.
Once that spiritual energy entered his body, it vanished without a trace, as if a bottomless black hole was hidden deep within him.
At sixteen, his cultivation level plummeted back to the peak of the Sea of Wheels Realm, his Life Spring dried up, and his Divine Bridge broke.
At seventeen, his sea of suffering began to shrink; the once vast ocean of spiritual energy turned into a dried-up riverbed.
This year, when he turned eighteen, nine-tenths of his once extraordinary cultivation had vanished, leaving only a weak level of the first stage of the Sea of Wheels realm. This was the result of his day and night hard work and desperate efforts to maintain it, equivalent to a beginner who had just embarked on the path of cultivation.
In just three short years, the once brilliant genius fell from grace and became a good-for-nothing who was not even as good as an ordinary member of the family.
This enormous gap is enough to destroy the mind of any teenager.
What followed was a complete 360-degree turn in the attitudes of those around him.
Those family elders who had once flattered him began to treat him coldly;
Those clansmen who used to call him "Young Clan Chief" and fawn over him began to ridicule him behind his back and even humiliate him to his face.
Even the servants who had once treated him with utmost respect now looked at him with undisguised contempt.
No one knew the reason for his decline in cultivation, and in this remote little town, hardly anyone cared about the reason.
People only care about the results, and the result is that the genius of the Xiao family has fallen and is now just a good-for-nothing who wastes the family's resources.
Not long ago, this body experienced the darkest moment of its life.
At the age of fifteen, when he displayed amazing talent and was at the height of his fame, an elder from a powerful sect in the Great Li Dynasty saw his potential and took the initiative to visit him, betrothing his beloved granddaughter to Xiao Yan and setting up a marriage contract.
However, when a wall falls, everyone pushes it down.
As news of Xiao Yan's transformation into a useless person spread, the sect was clearly unwilling to let its proud daughter marry a good-for-nothing with no future.
So, just a few days ago, the fiancée, accompanied by the elders of the sect, came to the Xiao family hall with her head held high. In front of all the Xiao family elders and disciples, she ruthlessly proposed to annul the engagement, leaving behind a string of extremely humiliating words, and tore the marriage certificate that once symbolized glory to shreds.
At that moment, the original owner of Xiao Yan's spirit was completely shattered. Overwhelmed by immense humiliation and despair, he suffered a stroke and fainted.
It was at this moment that Lin Hanzhou, the Emperor of Time, who had been sleeping deep within his soul for hundreds of thousands of years, finally awakened his memories of his past life and took over this body.
"A genius falls from grace, three years of being a good-for-nothing, subjected to cold shoulders, and his fiancée comes to break off the engagement..."
Sitting in the rocking chair, Lin Hanzhou recalled the series of experiences this body had gone through. Instead of feeling any anger or humiliation, he couldn't help but chuckle.
He didn't panic at all.
As a former Great Emperor who once stood at the pinnacle of all paths in the universe, Lin Hanzhou possessed an incredibly broad range of knowledge.
The moment he awakened his memories, Lin Hanzhou understood the true meaning of the phrase "blessed by good fortune" described by the red talent.
"His surname is Xiao, his name is Xiao Yan, and he has such a typical story of a genius turning into a useless person and then being jilted at the altar."
"With such a background and such experiences, he is definitely a chosen one destined by heaven."