The Secret History of Xuanmen

Chapter 383 Heaven Dou
  Looking at the dragon-binding lock in Liu Bowen's hand, Zhu Biao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that he was worrying too much, and Liu Bowen had no intention of harming him.

As for Liu Bowen's dragon slaying, Zhu Biao had also heard about it. This happened about ten years ago. Although Zhu Biao was less than ten years old at that time, Liu Ji's slaying of the dragon was widely spread, so he naturally knew it.

It is said that Liu Bowen followed Zhu Yuanzhang's order and traveled to many famous mountains and rivers across the country, driving dragon-slaying nails on major dragon veins and destroying the dragon veins in order to prevent future generations from having emperors and to protect the Zhu family and the Ming Dynasty forever.

When he learned the news at that time, the young Zhu Biao asked Zhu Yuanzhang whether it was true or not, but Zhu Yuanzhang scolded him and told him not to believe the rumors.

But now this matter was told by Liu Bowen himself, which naturally surprised Zhu Biao.

Fortunately, Liu Bowen didn't seem to kill the dragon for the Zhu family, but to raise the dragon here, which at least made Zhu Biao less guilty.

So Zhu Biao immediately asked Liu Bowen: "Liu Gong, why do you insist on raising dragons here? What secrets are hidden here that made you risk your reputation and slay dragons back then?"

Zhu Biao was not just lying. The act of slaying the dragon did have a great negative impact on Liu Bowen. After all, destroying the dragon's veins hurts the destiny of the world and destroys the foundation of humanity.

If it were not for Liu Bowen's great prestige, this matter would have been suppressed by the imperial court and left alone. If it had been anyone else, he would have been questioned and executed to appease the people.

Liu Bowen smiled indifferently and said: "What is a name? Preface and posthumous name are not important to me. I, Liu Ji, am just a speck of dust in the long river of history. If I, this speck of dust, can contribute to the world before it returns to dust, What do many human beings do, even if they bear a lifetime of infamy, what does it matter?"

After listening to Liu Bowen's words, Zhu Biao sincerely admired him. He knew that Liu Bowen was not pretending to be righteous. He must have really thought so. The world must have encountered a catastrophe before he would perform this act of slaying the dragon.

Sure enough, Liu Bowen soon continued to say to Zhu Biao: "Those ninety-nine and eighty-one dragon veins, I did not kill them completely, but took the dragon essence and gathered them in this dragon-binding lock."

"If I hadn't done this back then, the Yanxia Dragon Vein would have reached its peak in that year. The human world, which had been dormant for a long time, would usher in an unprecedented period of prosperity. Humanity's destiny would be so great that it is rare in history."

Hearing this, Zhu Biao was confused. He subconsciously said: "Mr. Liu, isn't this a good thing when humanity is prosperous? Wouldn't it be beautiful if our Ming Dynasty could establish a prosperous dynasty?"

Liu Bowen looked up at the sky and said meaningfully: "Do you really think that this superficial prosperity will really belong to humanity? The fate of humanity has long been out of our hands, and there are gods and men fishing slowly!" "If that day really comes, Heaven will no longer be the same as heaven, and humans will no longer be human! For us mortals, this is not beauty, but disaster, and even destruction!"

Hearing this, Zhu Biao shuddered.

When the ghost fairy Zhu Biao told me this, I also shuddered, because I understood what disaster Liu Bowen was referring to, which was the apocalypse.

In Thousand Machines City, I came into contact with the secret of Apocalypse from Mo Chen. In the past of Mozi and Gongshu Ban, I once learned that the murals left by the sage Laozi did predict the apocalypse.

In that mural, although the apocalypse finally appeared in this era, it did almost appear in the timeline of the Ming Dynasty, but was eventually overcome.

Now it seems that an unknown and spectacular event happened in the Ming Dynasty, that is, Liu Bowen's actions of slaying and raising dragons, which delayed the apocalypse from the Ming Dynasty for a thousand years!

I really didn’t expect that behind the legend about Liu Bowen slaying the dragon vein, it was not the selfish desires in unofficial history records, but the real righteousness.

And I also believe that this is definitely not something that Liu Bowen can do alone. There must be a real expert guiding him behind him.

And that expert is me, my previous life, Holy Lord Zhao Dengtang.

……

Putting away my thoughts, I continued to listen to Zhu Biao telling about that unknown past event that changed the future of humanity.

Liu Bowen moved his gaze from the night sky to Zhu Biao and asked, "Are you willing to be the emperor who defends the immortality of humanity and dares to fight against heaven?"

(End of this chapter)