Lü Huang's Advance

Similar to the plot in the novel and play, the protagonist in Lü Huang's story also has a tragic childhood.

The incident must have happened a hundred years ago, when Lü Huang was just an ordinary child.

I remember he was only about twelve years old that year. As the saying goes, children from poor families mature early. Although Lü Huang was only twelve, he had already shed his childlike innocence and started helping with chores at home.

Because his father was a rural doctor, Lü Huang began learning about various medicinal herbs from his father from a young age.

At the age of twelve, Lü Huang could identify almost all the medicinal herbs on the mountain, so his father often sent him to the mountain to collect some herbs.

This kind of life was supposed to continue until he came of age, at which point he could take over the doctor's business from his father and become the only doctor in the village.

He would then marry and have children, who would then inherit his medical skills from him.

But if things really unfolded as imagined, it wouldn't be a story.

One day, when Lü Huang had just come down the mountain after collecting herbs all day...

Before even entering the village, Lü Huang could smell a strong stench of blood.

When he rushed home, he found his house empty, but there was a lot of blood on the floor.

Following the trail of blood, Lü Huang saw countless bloodstains along the way, all of which eventually stopped abruptly in the square in the center of the village.

Looking up, a mountain of corpses stood in the center of the square, next to which was a lake of blood, the blood flowing from the mountain of corpses converging into the lake.

From the mountain of corpses, Lü Huang saw his neighbor Uncle Zhang, the village chief Grandpa Liu, the widow and her orphan next door, and of course, his own parents.

Lü Huang was devastated. He looked at his parents, who died with their eyes wide open in disbelief, and at the villagers who had been alive and well just the day before, now turned into corpses.

Ultimately Lü Huang couldn't bear the blow and fainted.

When he woke up again, he was in a magnificent bedroom.

The local official appeared at his bedside with a young man, from whom Lü Huang learned that the young man was a celestial master.

The immortal master asked him several questions, and Lü Huang answered them truthfully.

Finally, as the immortal master was about to leave, Lü Huang mustered his courage and asked who the enemy was.

He still remembers the way the immortal master looked at him, as if he were looking at a beggar asking about the price of a luminous pearl—it was the behavior of a toad.

However, the immortal master, taking pity on him, still spoke up, "Blood Asura Gate!"

From that day on, the Blood Asura Gate became Lü Huang's goal for the rest of his life.

Logically, the story should fall into a clichéd plot at this point: the protagonist is recruited by a sect, works hard to cultivate, eventually becomes a master cultivator, and then fights against the Blood Asura Gate to avenge his parents.

But Lü Huang did not make that choice, or rather, he had no choice.

In his view, becoming a peerless master capable of overthrowing the Blood Asura Gate would take too long, and he didn't believe he was a chosen one, selected by a celestial master to enter the sect. The simplest and most effective way to defeat the enemy was undoubtedly to destroy them from within.

For an ordinary person, entering the immortal sect is as difficult as ascending to heaven, even for Evil Dao sect like the Blood Asura Gate Sect.

But Lü Huang's purpose was simple. He didn't join the sect to become a cultivator. He joined the Blood Asura Gate for only one purpose: revenge.

So he set his sights on becoming a menial servant in the Blood Asura Gate Sect, a much simpler goal for an ordinary person than becoming a cultivator.

After making inquiries from various sources, Lü Huang finally learned the location of the Blood Asura Gate. So, the twelve-year-old Lü Huang traveled alone, traversing mountains and rivers, and finally arrived at the gate of the Blood Asura Gate.

Becoming a servant in the Blood Asura Gate Sect was very easy, but being a servant in such Evil Dao sect was almost like being a slave. After a year, Lü Huang lived a life of misery.

However, even with such difficulties, he did not waver in the slightest, but silently looked for his own opportunity.

Finally, by chance, he was discovered by an inner disciple because of his knowledge of herbs, and thus he became that inner disciple's follower.

And so, after following that inner disciple for two years, the inner disciple, seeing how diligently Lü Huang had worked, took him to the sect for a Spirit Root test. The result showed that he actually did possess Spirit Root, and it was even Fifth-Grade Spirit Root.

Thus, Lü Huang naturally became a disciple of the Blood Asura Gate.

After becoming formal disciple, Lü Huang did not rush to seek revenge. Instead, he carefully infiltrated the Blood Asura Gate, while doing his best to improve his strength and waiting for an opportunity.

Finally, almost fifty years after he entered the Blood Asura Gate, the Artifact Ruins Secret Realm was about to open.

The Blood Asura Gate was fortunate enough to obtain a map, and thus began a sect competition, hoping to select ten disciples who had reached the Grain Avoidance Perfection to explore the Artifact Ruins.

Although Lü Huang's strength did not stand out in the competition, after the competition, Lü Huang approached the sect leader and proposed the Blood Asura Gate's plan to dominate the Artifact Ruins.

That's right, the massacre of the righteous disciples of the Artifact Ruins the Blood Asura Gate fifty years ago was actually orchestrated by Lü Huang.

The final outcome did indeed align with Lü Huang's plan; the Blood Asura Gate's actions successfully triggered a major battle between good and evil in the Southern Frontier.

But Lü Huang never expected that this battle between good and evil would start strong but end weakly and ultimately fizzle out.

From that moment on, Lü Huang finally gained his own understanding of the Cultivation Realm.

He also realized that trying to incite other forces in the Southern Frontier to destroy the Blood Asura Gate would not work.

On the one hand, it was due to the mutual restraint among the major sects in the Southern Frontier; on the other hand, it was because the cost of dealing with a second-rate sect like the Blood Asura Gate was too high, and there were not many forces in the entire Southern Frontier that could bear it. Moreover, those first-rate forces were not something that Lü Huang could control.

So Lü Huang continued to lie low, waiting for the next opportunity.

Unexpectedly, this wait lasted for fifty years. Just a few years ago, as his strength increased, he finally learned about the Soul Star Blood Sea and the Blood Venerable.

He also realized that his true enemy was the Blood Venerable; to put it bluntly, the Blood Asura Gate was nothing more than a dog under the Blood Venerable's command.

As Lü Huang received more and more information from the other elders, he became increasingly aware that the Blood Venerable's strength was unfathomable, and his path to revenge seemed increasingly distant.

Just then, Yi Xuan's mechanical army unexpectedly attacked.

At first, Lü Huang thought the other party was out of their mind, daring to provoke the Blood Asura Gate with just Puppet Technique.

But when the three Spirit Transformation Grandmasters appeared, Lü Huang's mind began to race, as if he had seen a glimmer of hope.

The rest is history: Yi Xuan breached the Blood Asura Gate.

With a try-it-and-see attitude, Lü Huang led Yi Xuan to the Blood Venerable Hall.

Of course, he was just testing the waters. If Yi Xuan was no match for Blood Venerable, he might be able to escape in the chaos.

What if the other side really did kill Blood Venerable? Wouldn't that mean I'd finally gotten my revenge?