"The war against the demon race went very well. Deep inside my genes, ten thousand tactics, a hundred thousand techniques, and a million methods to produce magical equipment seemed to be hidden. Every day when I woke up from my sleep, I received new inspirations and guided and strengthened the resistance army with the inspirations. Also, the reign of the demon race had actually fallen apart. The demon emperors and the demon gods everywhere were just loose sand. I did not run into any real insurmountable obstacles. The seemingly deadly obstacles were nothing more than stimulation for me to awaken the enormous strength deep inside my genes."
In the picture before Li Yao's eyes, more and more warriors followed the Supreme Emperor, and they were stronger and stronger. Their Crystal Suit was more and more glamorous, too. Not just the super arsenal warships and the starships, there were even Colossi that were as magnificent as mountains in the resistance army. They were the ultimate weapons that the demon race could not resist in any way.
Above everything, the Supreme Emperor lunged at the dying Demon Beast Empire as if he were standing on the torrent of destruction, driving away the great darkness of thirty thousand years.
As the war was won and humanity was revived again, the voice of the grave keeper became more and more miserable and confused. "I marched forward unstoppably in the war against the demon race and secured the most glorious victory. The entire universe was under my control. But in another battlefield, things were not going so well, which was … the battlefield with myself.
"I found it harder and harder to control myself, as if countless consciousnesses and personalities were hidden deep inside my genes. They were all seething and trying to crawl out.
"At first, I thought that the war I was waging was very righteous. It was a war of revenge and resistance that was justified. I roared, waved my fists, and raised my saber for my foster parents and all the weaklings who were killed miserably in the massacre.
"But as the strength under my control grew stronger and stronger, more and more people followed me, and I won the most glorious victory ever. But I gradually lost myself in the glory, too.
"There is a voice. A voice that comes from the deepest part of my genes that often murmurs in my head at night when there is no one around. It asks me to grasp all the power tightly, kill all the disobedient people, and mobilize the resources of the entire universe to complete my … destiny.
"The scenes that have been buried for a long time — the silent and frozen battlefield in the depths of the ancient ruins, my 'embryonic life,' including the glory and escape of the ancient humans billions of years ago — flashed in my mind again.
"Troubled by the pictures and corrupted by power, I became more and more isolated, more and more irritable, and more and more sensitive. I did not intend to be an 'emperor' in the beginning. The so-called 'empire' is nothing more than an underdeveloped political form to govern a tiny continent in the planetary age. The universe is so vast. There are more heroes, experts, warriors, and disobedient and ambitious people among human beings than there are stars. How can an emperor, however wise and awesome he is, govern all mankind? No, it was not governance at all but shackles. It would only seal the creativity and pioneering spirit of the civilization of mankind, making the civilization of mankind irreversibly rigid and withered.
"If I do become an emperor from the leader of the rebels, it will merely be replacing the old 'Great Dark Age' with a new 'Great Dark Age'. I will be a ruler of demons in human skin!
"I understood the logic very well when my head was clear.
"But as I unlocked more and more training techniques, magical equipment production methods, and strategies, I seemed to be under the control of a very ancient force beyond my control.
"The force told me that, in order to fulfill my ultimate destiny, I had to return to the ancient ruins and explore all the secrets. In order to unravel the secrets of the ancient ruins, I did not have the time to develop the civilization of mankind in the Pangu universe step by step. I had to adopt the imperial system in order to make the civilization of mankind unleash the greatest potential in the shortest amount of time possible.
"In the war … against the voice, I failed miserably. Tempted by power and ambition, I walked on the path to the emperor.
"In my original plan, the brand-new civilization after the dark reign of the demon race was overthrown should not have an arbitrary, lawless emperor, and it should not even annihilate the demons. I grew up with countless demon slaves and miners since I was a child. I knew very well that demons, like human beings, were all intelligent lives with flesh and blood and feelings. Also, most of the bottom-level demons, such as the black-blood demons and the bronze-blood demons, who were at the bottom of the 'Four Pillars System', were even more oppressed than human beings.
"We did not even have reproductive isolation. We were a real brotherhood. Many of my childhood playmates and my closest comrades were hybrids. When those 'half-demons' fought against the so-called 'silver-blood demons' and 'saint-blood demons', they were as brutal as the human warriors. When they were unfortunately captured, they were all righteous and unyielding when faced with torture or the bullets of execution. They were fighting for freedom and liberation, too. How could I deprive them of their lives and even their glory?
"Besides, even if we do not consider it from the perspective of justice and evilness, a centipede will never fall down even if it is dead. The demons are deeply rooted after all. The elimination of the 'saint-blood demons' at the highest level was a major blow to the entire Pangu universe. The protracted war has lasted for a hundred years! If all the demons were to be completely annihilated, how many more years would the war have to be fought? How many more innocent human beings and demons would have to be sacrificed?
"In any case, I should not expand the targets to be eliminated and change the nature of the war.
"However …
"Right now, my head has been completely blinded by the fire of power, and my soul has been corrupted by the darkness in my heart. I need to concentrate power. I need to eliminate my dissidents. I need to suppress the other leaders of the rebels by whatever means possible in order to win the lofty prestige and ascend to the throne of the supreme sovereign!
"If I want to be a dictator, what excuse is better than 'completely suppressing the demons'?
"The demons have ruled the sea of stars for thirty thousand years. The communication between the demons and human beings is very frequent. No human being, including the most loyal human warrior, is bold enough to guarantee that they are not related to the demons in every way. Even if they are not, it is very easy for them to find some 'evidence' by making groundless accusations.
"Just like that, after a period of scheming and bloody battles, and after countless childhood playmates and comrades-in-arms collapsed one after another, I finally got what I wanted and ascended to the throne of 'Supreme Emperor'. The dark side in my heart was unprecedentedly strong, too. It was like a ferocious beast that had been lurking deep inside my genes since the primordial era, trying to swallow me completely.
"I finally got enough resources and recalled a lot of things about the primordial relics, including the coordinates of the primordial relics and the pattern of their entrances and exits in the three-dimensional universe.
"Therefore, I mobilized an entire fleet of explorers to enter the primordial relics and established the first forward base for studies.
"At that moment, I, or rather, the darkness in my heart, made a fatal mistake.
"He was too hasty and couldn't wait to get 100% independence. Or maybe he discovered that there was still something indelible deep inside my heart that was barely corroded by him. Therefore, he simply guided me to build a clone that was known as' Blood God 'and poured all my darkness, desires for slaughter, destruction, and domination into it, making me the commander of the expedition army!
"Such an approach fully unleashed the war talent and desire for destruction that originated from the primordial era deep in my genes, creating an unprecedentedly powerful 'commander'. But on the other hand, it also allowed me, who had abandoned the dark side, to regain a clear understanding of myself.
"When I looked back and realized that what I had done had turned into an irredeemable mistake, I couldn't help but feel regretful and desperate.
"I remembered that hundreds of thousands of years ago, my good friend asked me to take a look at her hometown before time froze and see what it was that she and her parents were trying to protect. However, after I came to her hometown, I made the same mistake that the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan made in the past. I almost completely destroyed the glamorous, glamorous universe that boasted infinite possibilities.
"I was very clear that my dark side, the 'Blood God', only cared about the so-called 'mission' and the mysteries deep inside the primordial relics. He did not care about all the creatures living in this place at all. If he looted the final fruits of victory, the civilization of mankind would only be caught in a catastrophe again. He would not hesitate to sacrifice all mankind in exchange for the secrets of the primordial relics!
"As I expected, the so-called 'grand expedition' was just an excuse for him to control the most elite 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 could only wait to be executed after losing most of my troops, but he greatly underestimated the strength deep inside my genes.
"The Blood God and I had a destructive battle on the capital planet. You must've seen the result of the battle, too.
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