Chapter 146 A Century-Long Conspiracy

Inside the attribute panel of Lingjing Xingzhe, the moral value had disappeared, as if it had never existed. This change caused violent fluctuations in the five Emperor Law Aspects, nearly collapsing their Dao hearts.

Since the birth of the Lingjing, batches of Lingjing Xingzhe have appeared, and the stable human order and the ability of human governments to maintain control is not actually due to how powerful the Lawful faction is.

Admittedly, the Lawful faction, acting as official organizations, does effectively curb the number of Lingjing Xingzhe crimes, but what truly restrains the evil organizations is not the official organizations, but moral values!

Moral value is a knife hanging over the heads of all Lingjing Xingzhe, the cornerstone of order and stability.

If there were no moral values, if they disappeared, the evil factions would have no qualms about murder, arson, and looting, and the Lawful professions would be even more unscrupulous in oppressing the people and plundering their wealth.

Now that moral values are gone, the whole world will fall into chaos. Ling Tu's smile became even more rampant, "That item is called the 'Merit Board.' It is one of the core items that make up the Lingjing, a unique karma-related item that records the good and evil deeds of every Lingjing Xingzhe and embodies them as merit points."

"Since the twenty-first century, the Free Faction has endured bitterly under the constraints of moral values. The Overlord demigods dared not easily start wars, and the Free Alliance overturned the Church but could only hand over the fruits of victory, helplessly watching you govern the world. All this is related to the existence of moral values."

"Do you know why the Night Wanderer profession is so important? Because the Merit Board is a Night Wanderer profession item, governed by the Sun. With the Sun without a master, I use the Taiyin to obscure the Merit Board, eliminating the moral values of the Lingjing Xingzhe. No one can restrain me. Back then, I threw out the Compass of Light, accelerating the development of the Night Wanderer profession, painstakingly cultivating me to become the Lord of Taiyin. All the plans were for this day. Great chaos will arise, order will collapse, and freedom will reign supreme!"

Ring ring ring. The landline in Fu Jiawan's study emitted a piercing ring, interrupting Fu Qingyang's work.

He put down the document he was reading and picked up the receiver. The hurried voice of Senior Executive "High Mountain Flowing Water" came from his ear: "Fu Yilao is in trouble! The Global Financial Building, the Taian Shopping Mall, Songhe Building, and the security bureaus in various districts have all been attacked by evil professions. These guys are crazy! They kill anyone they see, poisoning on a large scale, releasing Gu worms, and using mental strikes in crowded places. They're crazy! They've all gone crazy!" His voice even trembled at the end.

Fu Qingyang was stunned. With his mind, he was still reacting to the news, but he remained calm: "How many rioters are there? Are there any signs of them being manipulated? Have preliminary statistics been done on the casualties among ordinary people?"

"There are many rioters, acting in groups, and we can't determine if they are being manipulated. As for ordinary people, there are massive casualties."

Gao Shan Liushui gritted his teeth and said, "A massacre, deaths and injuries everywhere."

A massacre meant that there were too many victims, and the number of people could not be estimated.

After listening, Fu Qingyang immediately suspected the possibility of manipulation.

Rather than believe Gao Shan Liushui’s incredible story, he preferred to believe that Gao Shan Liushui was being manipulated by the evil faction, calling him to provoke him.

The evil faction wouldn't have enough moral values to squander if they dared to carry out a massacre. Moreover, these mortals were like pigs and dogs in the eyes of the evil faction, and no one would pay the price of clearing their moral values for the sake of slaughtering mortals.

He had not received any wanted notices from the Lingjing. Thinking this, Fu Qingyang opened his attribute interface. Suddenly, he was stunned.

Moral value...disappeared. Qian Gongzi, who remained unchanged even when a mountain collapsed in front of him, was stunned for a moment. He sat up blankly, hearing a "ding-dong" notification from his mailbox.

The Five Elements Alliance headquarters sent an email: Lingjing malfunction, moral values have disappeared, all members enter a Level 1 combat readiness state!

You have entered the third floor of the museum.

[Reward: 30 points]

[Main Quest: Please rush to the Pantheon as soon as possible to start the God War, destroy the enemy god or survive for three hours.]

After walking up the long flight of stairs, Zhang Yuanqing heard the Lingjing prompt in his ear. Unlike the modern-style office building on the second floor, the layout of the third floor was rough and simple. The walls and ground were built from huge stones, like an ancient fortress.

They were in a corridor, a dozen meters wide. The top was also more than fifty meters high, like a giant's residence. On the side of the wall stood knight statues.

Wearing armor and holding a long spear, each statue had a torch next to it, the roaring flames bringing a warm glow.

"God War?" Alicia frowned. In the Lingjing world, "god" was a very sensitive word.

The end of the Lingjing Xingzhe was only a demigod. The "Pantheon" and "God War" gave people a sense of suffocation just from the description.

Rush to the Pantheon as soon as possible. Zhang Yuanqing felt a sense of urgency from the mission description.

The five people walked quickly, running between the statues. After walking for a while, Beast King Qingzhu twitched his nose and said in a deep voice, "Not good, there's a bloody smell!"

Everyone slowed down and cautiously moved forward. After turning two corners, they saw the source of the bloody smell.

A corpse was lying on the side of the corridor ahead. The part of his body below the waist had been torn apart, as if he had been cut in half, and blood had gathered into a pool.

Zhang Yuanqing took a closer look and was shocked. "Osmon!"

Alicia also screamed, "Osmon!"

That person was the peak Saint of Heaven's Punishment, the siren Osmon that Zhang Yuanqing had beaten.

Hearing the movement, Osmon, who originally had no breath, moved his eyelids and opened his eyes. He tried his best to look over, "Alicia."

Osmon's pale and cracked lips moved. Alicia quickly leaned over, squatted down beside him, took out a life source liquid injection, and asked anxiously, "What happened? Who hurt you?"

Osmon possessed the Ocean Heart fragment, like a walking ocean. Everywhere was his home field.

He was also a top powerhouse among the peak Saints. Such a person should have been a contender for the Overlord position. He never expected to be damaged here.

Zhang Yuanqing had long run out of life source liquid. He took out the Mountain God Scepter, letting the gem at the top emit a green glow to enhance Osmon's cell activity.

Alicia injected two consecutive tubes of life source liquid, but still could not completely heal him.

Seeing her take out the third tube, Osmon waved his hand weakly, "Enough, it's meaningless! Alicia, this killing dungeon, the Lawful faction has no hope of winning. Saving me will only prolong my life for a while."

Qingzhu glanced at Yuan Shi Tianzun beside him, then asked unconvinced, "Why?"

The arrogant siren ignored him. Alicia said softly, "Osmon, what exactly happened?"

"It was the Sleeping Dragon Duke who injured me!" Osmon said intermittently, "I encountered him in the Pantheon and then escaped here. He's too strong, so strong that it's despairing."

The warm flames reflected on his face, and the arrogant siren's eyes revealed fear and despair.

"How is that possible!" Alicia couldn't accept it. "No matter how strong the Sleeping Dragon Duke is, he's still a Saint. He's on the same level as Fu Qingyang, weaker than Yuan Shi Tianzun. You don't even submit to Yuan Shi Tianzun, let alone him."

Defeating Osmon was understandable, but what Alicia couldn't accept was that he could make the arrogant siren so afraid.

Osmon smiled miserably, "You haven't been to the Pantheon, you don't know the mechanism of the killing dungeon! The core mechanism of the museum dungeon is to collect as many cultural relics as possible, and to reach the Pantheon on the first and second floors as quickly as possible."

He explained while panting; "The Pantheon has the Divine Aspects of the gods. Each Divine Aspect corresponds to a profession. Whoever can reach the Pantheon early and fuse with the Divine Aspect can destroy the Divine Aspect of other professions, so the speed of clearance is one of the core mechanisms."

"The more cultural relics you collect, the stronger the power of the Divine Aspect. This is the second core mechanism. When I arrived at the Pantheon, the Sleeping Dragon Duke had already destroyed all the Lawful profession Divine Aspects, leaving only the Scholar profession!"

"My clearance speed was already very fast, but I didn't expect the Sleeping Dragon Duke to be even faster than me. He was the first to arrive!"

Now even Zhang Yuanqing's expression changed. The Sleeping Dragon Duke not only arrived at the Pantheon first, but also collected the most cultural relics. He occupied all the core mechanisms of the museum.

Osmon took a few breaths and gritted his teeth. "I'm not convinced. I always feel that something is wrong. The Sleeping Dragon Duke's performance doesn't match his previous abilities. He's just a lucky bitter cultivator who happened to obtain the 'Night Nerve.' The spells left by the ancient psychic are indeed stronger than mine, but he's not as good as me at clearing dungeons, but the facts are in front of me, so I can only accept it."

Speaking of this, he looked at his colleague and said, "Alicia, you guys are late."

Alicia's face was full of despair as she listened: "We wasted too much time on the first and second floors."

Yes! In the exhibition hall on the first floor, because they were worried about Xiao Yuan and the others, they didn't take the time to collect those low-level cultural relics. On the second level, they accidentally opened the Hell mode and wasted too much time. But even if they collected as many cultural relics as possible on the first floor, it would be meaningless, because it would waste a lot of time. By the time they reached the third floor, the Divine Aspect would have been destroyed long ago. They really lost unconvinced.

The sudden fusion of the first and second districts, and the Sleeping Dragon Duke becoming the strongest with an overwhelming advantage, all of this was too unreasonable.

As an excellent Star Official, Zhang Yuanqing smelled a conspiracy.

The fusion of the first and second districts was to kill me?

The Sleeping Dragon Duke possessed some kind of special ability to gain an advantage in the dungeon. In that case, Ling Tu must have known the content of the killing dungeon in advance to act rampantly. But the Lingjing was randomly generated. He could even calculate this? He was the Lord of Taiyin, not the Lord of Stars.

Zhang Yuanqing said with a myriad of thoughts, "If the Sleeping Dragon Duke has become so strong that he can't be stopped, you wouldn't be lying here waiting to die."

The arrogant siren then turned his attention to Zhang Yuanqing and the others. He had ignored these Lingjing Xingzhe from the second district the entire time.

"A nameless Scholar just happened to fuse with the Divine Aspect. But he can't be the Sleeping Dragon Duke's opponent. The two of you joined forces in the Pantheon and are struggling to survive," Osmon said.

The nameless Scholar he was referring to must be Xiahou Aotian. As expected of the protagonist, he was taking on the heavy responsibility at a critical moment. Zhang Yuanqing felt somewhat gratified, but also felt extremely棘手 (jí shǒu - thorny, troublesome).

He didn't know the extent of the Sleeping Dragon Duke's current strength, and didn't know if there was any hope of turning the tables. He needed to get to the Pantheon to understand the situation before making a decision.

Thinking of this, he felt a sense of urgency and urged his companions not to waste time and go to the Pantheon first.