The Librarian's Record of Encounters with an Evil God (2)

As Zhu Ping left the small courtyard, he glanced into the distance, then headed north.

News of Poison Gentleman gradually reached him as well.

That fellow had actually become embroiled in the struggle for the imperial throne—or rather, the struggle for the qualification to cultivate mythical martial arts.

The imperial dynasty's foundation lay in the Heavenly Source Secret Realm. Though it also had forces in the Outer Heavens, they were far fewer than those of the Three Teachings.

People born in the vast, sparsely populated Outer Heavens sometimes could not even understand the imperial dynasty's existence.

They were doing perfectly well. Why did they need an imperial dynasty to govern them?

This time, the emperor was old and had no descendants, so the throne would be inherited by a collateral branch.

This stemmed from the imperial dynasty's rule: whoever cultivated Sacrifice became emperor.

Looking across the emperors of this generation, one would find that most had no descendants. Yet once they did have descendants, those descendants were certain to become the next generation's emperors.

Those who successfully cultivated Sacrifice found it difficult to impregnate others. But if someone did become pregnant, that child would absolutely be the one most suited to the requirements of Sacrifice.

At present, only three members of the imperial dynasty were qualified to cultivate Sacrifice. The first was naturally Worthy Prince.

After him came Prince Mu and Prince He.

Among them, Prince He was the oldest, already twenty-six. Prince Mu was twenty-one, while Worthy Prince, the youngest, was twenty.

They cultivated the preliminary martial art Divine Ultimate Qi-Control Scripture, which had been simplified from Sacrifice, and had thus been confirmed to possess the ability and qualifications to cultivate Sacrifice.

To prevent multiple cultivators of mythical martial arts from appearing and contending for the path, they had