Chapter 326: A Dragon and a Snake

When Hao Ren saw the red peach and plum fruits in front of him, he did not wave his hands like Tang Seng did. He knew that although they looked evil, they should be good things.

Zhou Tieyi did not stop him. Except for the twenty fruits on the top of the tree, which he would not let Tao Du Weng use at will, it was normal for Tao Du Weng to use some of the rest of the fruits. After all, the fruits were grown by others.

Taodu Weng has self-awareness and the right to socialize.

Zhou Tieyi looked at Hao Ren and said with a smile, "Just take it. This fruit can enhance physical talent. When you go back, you can set up a formation to receive sacrifices and I will give it to you directly."

Upon hearing that it could enhance physical endowment, Zhou Tiege's eyes instantly lit up. He looked at the tree full of peach and plum fruits, and then at Tao Du Weng. His gaze was so eager that Tao Du Weng didn't even go up to greet him immediately.

Zhou Tieyi knew what his elder brother was thinking, and said, "Even at best, the fruits on this tree cannot enhance your talent. At most, they can enhance the talent of ordinary soldiers. Even if they can enhance the talent of your personal guards, I only have twenty peach and plum fruits of this level."

Zhou Tiege's eyes immediately locked onto the twenty peach and plum fruits at the top. "Twenty, that's enough. It should be able to bear fruit every year, right?"

Zhou Tiege pointed at Taodu Weng, and then realized that Taodu Weng was not a tree but had self-awareness, so he clasped his fists and said, "I am Zhou Tiege, nice to meet you, sir."

Tao Du Weng then regained his confidence from Zhou Tiege's enthusiastic gaze, and also stretched out a branch. Under Zhou Tieyi's gaze, he took two fruits from the top twenty, one red and one white.

He knew that Zhou Tiege was Zhou Tieyi's biological elder brother, so he tried to entertain his friend with better things.

Zhou Tieyi found it funny when he saw this scene.

As expected, once a human heart is possessed, even a tree will be able to observe words and expressions and act accordingly.

Zhou Tieyi did not stop him, so Tao Du Weng became even bolder and placed two fruits in Zhou Tiege's palms, saying hello, "My name is Tao Du Weng, this is the name given to me by Father God."

God the Father.

Zhou Tiege and Hao Ren couldn't help but turn their eyes slightly towards Zhou Tieyi. Although they understood that Zhou Tieyi had embarked on the 'road of no return' of Shinto when Zhou Tieyi bestowed them with the Shinto talisman, they didn't know how early Zhou Tieyi had embarked on this path, to the point that he already had his own sub-god in front of him.

Zhou Tieyi interrupted the two people's speculation, looked at his elder brother, and said, "Brother, can you give a little life to dead things?"

Compared to Zhou Tieyi, Zhou Tiege, who was practicing the true meaning of life and death, found it easier to understand the meaning of the word "active".

He asked carefully, "Are you talking about the 'spirituality' bestowed by forged weapons?"

The fifth level of military strategists is "Weapon Forging", and the top weapons that can be forged have spirituality. Last time when Zhou Tiege was forging the embryo of the peerless divine weapon of the Five Emperors, he fell into this state of enlightenment and had this experience.

Therefore, compared with other ordinary fifth-grade military strategists, his probability of success is higher.

Zhou Tieyi said directly, "Going a step further, turning death into life, this may involve the curse on our Zhou family's bloodline."

This time Zhou Tiege was silent for a while before he spoke, "I'll try, but the result may not be as good as you think. I will definitely create a monster in the end."

interesting.

Zhou Tieyi understood the meaning of his brother's words, which was that there must be one person in every generation of the Zhou family who mastered this ability and inherited most of the power of the Zhou family's ancestral temple curse.

This generation is Zhou Tiege.

Thinking of the spirit-planting talent that he had never seen his brother use, Zhou Tieyi connected all the information together.

Zhou Tiege’s spirit-growing talent was the same as his own. It was not a simple attack-type talent, but a more complex top-level talent.

My own [Ding Gu Innovation] involves the Yi Dao, and my brother's talent should involve the transformation of life and death.

However, this kind of talent should be extremely harmful and difficult to control, so the elder brother only experimented with it in private, but never showed it in public, and did not even tell his younger brother.

Seeing Zhou Tieyi's speculative eyes, Zhou Tiege looked at the surrounding environment again. His brother had hidden a lot of secrets, and now he had basically told him all of them, so there was nothing left for him to hide.

He thought for a moment, and a terrifying aura appeared with the help of the Shinto talisman that descended from the air.

The Tianyi Jade Disc trembled slightly, and the clouds and mist surrounding the jade disc changed. It no longer formed a distinct [Cloud Talisman], but was frightened by some force and could not fully manifest. It just turned into scattered clouds. Even Zhou Tieyi felt vaguely that the Shinto talisman that maintained Zhou Tiege's arrival could not fully withstand the huge force, and he felt faintly being swallowed by the darkness.

This is because Zhou Tiege himself cannot grasp the source of this power!
Zhou Tieyi stretched out his palm, with a misty emptiness in his palm, and grasped the Tianyi Jade Disc, creating a separation between the Jade Disc and the darkness so that it would not be swallowed by it.

In just a short while, a terrifying giant snake appeared behind Zhou Tiege.

The snake's head was held high, its outline vaguely blending with the surrounding space, and it was impossible to see the body spreading behind it. Only the pair of vertical pupils like lanterns looked greedily at Zhou Tieyi and Zhou Tiege.

Even if you just look at it from a distance, it makes you feel like your spirit is approaching death.

Hao Ren was shocked when Zhou Tiege revealed his talent. It was a snake, not a tiger!

The Zhou family's title is 'Tiger Power', so people in Tianjing have always been accustomed to calling the Zhou family members tigers. Even because the Zhou family members have the same personalities as tigers and practice military tactics, no one has ever thought that the true heir of each generation of the Zhou family would be a snake, not a tiger!

Everyone in the world has seen it wrong.

In the past, it was said that the Zhou family gave birth to a dog and a tiger, but in fact, the Zhou family gave birth to a dragon and a snake!
Zhou Tieyi was stared at by this gaze and chuckled, "No wonder he is the Emperor of Life and Death, it turns out his true form is a snake."

The snake itself is a symbol of the cycle of life and death. Whether it is shedding its skin or hibernating, it is a manifestation of this kind of symbolism.

Zhou Tiege sighed, "It seems that you have guessed it. The bloodline of our Zhou family comes from the Emperor of Life and Death, one of the nine ancient gods."

Zhou Tieyi asked curiously, "Daxia was so committed to destroying Shinto, why did they leave our Zhou family behind?"

Zhou Tiege shook his head slightly. "I don't know about that. Maybe it's because our great-grandfather followed Taizu to conquer the world when Taizu was just starting to gain power. Maybe there are other secrets. Maybe only the head of each generation of Zhou family knows it, and he won't even tell the younger generations in advance."

"But this bloodline is not a good thing for us, but a curse. The power of the Emperor of Life and Death will increase as I age, and will eventually turn me into a complete living dead."

Zhou Tieyi pondered for a few moments. No wonder his mother wanted to demolish the Zhou family ancestral hall. No wonder when his mother taught him, she asked him to give in to his elder brother and not compete with him for military power.

"Like the dumb old man?"

There was only one living dead person Zhou Tieyi had ever seen, and that was the mute old man.

"My great-grandfather had the strongest control over the power of the Emperor of Life and Death, so he used his talent to transform the mute old man into the state of the living dead."

"If you achieve the third rank of military strategist, can you control the bloodline?"

"That's the theory, but there is a prerequisite, which is that I don't use the power of the Emperor of Life and Death in battle."

Speaking of this, Zhou Tiege smiled bitterly.

Zhou Tieyi could also fully understand why his brother showed such a bitter smile. There was no doubt that the power of the Nine Ancient Gods was extremely terrifying, especially for the inheritors of this kind of bloodline. As long as they were willing to fight to the death, the power of the Nine Ancient Gods was enough to turn the tables in a battle at the middle or even upper third level.

In the battle of Tingchao Tower, the reason why Zhou Tiege was able to open the real Yellow Spring Netherworld with his fifth-grade strength so easily was because he took advantage of the talents of the Nine Ancient Gods. This was under the premise that Zhou Tiege exercised restraint and used a small amount of strength. If he ignored it, he could have directly dragged the third-grade novelist Hong Shigui into the real Yellow Spring River, but the speed at which he would be eroded would be unimaginable.

Zhou Tieyi kept smiling, "How many times have you used it?"

"Five times."

Zhou Tiege said honestly, "According to our ancestors' records, every generation of 'Yellow Springs Snake' bloodline inheritors can safely use this power nine times before reaching the third level. Of course, it must be used in a controlled manner, not a full-blown burst."

"Don't resist."

While Zhou Tieyi was speaking to Zhou Tiege, he reached out to grab the illusory Hades Snake that was outlined in space through the connection established by Zhou Tiege.

Supernatural power [usurpation of gods].

The horrible feeling of separation and tearing made Zhou Tiege's expression twisted and painful, but his descending mental power still clenched his teeth and did not speak.

When Zhou Tieyi saw Zhou Tiege's expression, he knew that brute force would not work.

He withdrew his hand, his expression solemn.

Before, when he stole theocracy, he didn’t care about the feelings of the person whose power was stolen, or even whether the person whose power was stolen could continue to survive. But Zhou Tiege was different, because he was his own elder brother.

Zhou Tieyi estimated that the Zhou family's bloodline should also be a type of divine fetus. From the time the baby was still a baby, the essence and blood of the Yellow Springs Underworld Snake was transformed into a fetus through some kind of causal relationship.

Zhou Tiege is this drop of essence and blood itself, and also the authority itself. If one steals and tears apart this authority, one is actually tearing apart Zhou Tiege himself.

Maybe we should start from other aspects.

After putting down his hands, Zhou Tieyi thought of Guan Guan. Only she knew more secrets about the Nine Ancient Gods. Even if she did not understand the secrets of the Emperor of Life and Death in depth, she must know the people who held the other powers of the Emperor of Life and Death.

He doesn't need to steal his brother's authority. He just needs to steal enough authority from other people. Then he can be like the Blood God Son and cover his brother's authority from top to bottom.

Thinking of this, Zhou Tieyi looked at Zhou Tiege and took out a piece of inkstone. "Put this question aside for now. Try to see if you can activate the messy spirit on it."

(End of this chapter)