Painting 8: The Great War Of The Three Realms

"Your highness! Your highness! Please wake up!"

*Open my eyes*

Huh? Who is this girl and why is she calling me as if I'm some type of royalty?

"Thank goodness that you are still alive! I thought that you were dead!"

Alive? Dead? All I did was faint due to a headache. How the hell can I die from that?

"Li Wu Bai has betray us and join side with the gods. He had stab you with a sword containing the world deadliest poison! Thank goodness that you survived!"

Wait who is this Li Wu Bai dude and why am I the enemy of the gods?

"Ahem, I...uh...can you tell me who am I?"

She gave me a confuse look

"Your name is Li Wu Qing are the king of demons and the gods wants you dead because of the forbidden artifact that is sealed inside your body. Li Wu Bai is your younger brother.", She explained.

"Ok, I must be studying too hard. I should definitely stop reading reincarnation manhua.", I mumbled.

"Listen pretty girl, this has been a nice dream, but I need to wake up so slap me.", I smiled.

"Your highness, I wouldn't dare.", She replied.

"Come on. Slap me so I could wake up and get back to class.", I repeated.

"I...I...I", She struggled as she raise her hand.

*Slap in the face*

"Ow! That hurt!", I screamed. "That actually hurt! So this isn't a dream!?"

"I'm sorry your majesty. Please spare my life.", She begged. "I'm just your personal housemaid."

"First of all, its not your fault because I'm the one that asked you to slap me.", I began. "Second, slavery don't exist in my time so just think of me as your friend from now on."

"I...I wouldn't dare.", She replied. "This housemaid can't accept such blessing from your highness."

"Fine...I order you to treat me as if I'm your friend from now on. Got it?", I ordered. "We've been talking for a while now and I didn't get your name. What's your name?"

"My name is Li Mei Mei.", she answered. "I have been your personal housemaid ever since you were little prince."

"Uh huh...so we are basically childhood friends?", I continued.

"I...I wouldn't dare think of your highness as my friend.", Mei Mei replied in a shy voice.

"Hey, what did I tell you earlier.", I said with a frown on my face. "I told you that we are friends right?"

She nodded her head.

"Well, if being my friend is a little too hard for you to accept.", I thought. "Maybe you could be my first wife and start my harem!"

Hahahahahaha! I finally get to have my own row of harem!

*Insane laughter*

"W...w...w...wife!?", She blushed. "Although, I do adore his majesty for a while now...I."

"Well if you like me then it's settle!", I continued to laugh. "You'll be my first wife."

Hold on a bit...this is the first time I'm meeting her, but why do I feel like I've seen her somewhere before?

"Hey Mei, let down your hair and smile.", I requested. "Now, form a heart with both of your arms like this."

This is the first time that I asked a girl, who I just met to do something this awkward, but she really look like someone I know.

Without saying anything she let down her hair and form a heart with her hands.

"Holy crap, you look exactly like my wife, Jane.", I yelled. "No, you don't just look like her...you are her!"

"Jane? Which royalty family is she from?", Mei Mei asked. "Do you want me to find her for you?"

I shook my head and sighed. Just what is going on here!

"No, you just look like someone I know.", I replied. "Now, catch me up on what's going with this world?"

"Like I mention earlier you are the King of the Demon Realm and your younger brother has betrayed you to join the gods from the heaven realm.", She began. "They wanted the relic that is sealed inside of your body."

"Ok? What is this relic and am I in the Underworld?", I interrupted. "Cause this place look like its in ruin."

"The Underworld, where souls of the dead went to after they died, is part of the Demon Realm in which you currently rule over.", She replied. "You are the one that governs over this world and grant judgement to the souls that enters here."

"The relic inside of you is called the Stone Of Yin Yang Destruction.", Mei Mei continued.

Mei Mei than explained to me that this stone act as the source of powers that grant me the ability to absorb both Yin and Yang Qi to raise my cultivation and it also contain different Divine Grade Cultivation Technique and Martial Arts sealed inside of it.

No wonder why everyone wants to kill me. This item is like a "hacking" ability that could grant you unlimited power.

I then asked her if a pair of reapers called Black and White Impermanence exist in this world and what do they look like.

Mei Mei replied that she haven't heard of "Black and White Impermanence" before, but I do have a right-hand man and left-hand man. These two acts as temporarily rulers if I am not present and grant judgement to souls in my place. Based on Mei Mei description, these two people are definitely The Black and White Impermanence in mythology, but why aren't they refer to as this. Last thing that confuse me is that, if I am king than who the hell was that God Of Hell?

I quickly get up and ask Mei Mei where is the palace's library at. They should've records of all of the past events there. Maybe, I could find some cultivation techniques that I can use to gain back the powers that I've lost after being poisoned.

Mei Mei than lead me to a tower outside of the palace.

Holy shit! This isn't a library. This is an enterprise building! How can something modern exist in ancient time?

"Hey Mei Mei, why does the library look like this?"

She gave me a confused look and told me that I was the one who came up with the design for this building.

I came up with this building? This could only means that before this life, I have another life in modern time then got reincarnated here!

She went over the type of books, records, and documentations that each floors contain. Floor 1-3 contains histories of the Demon Realm, 4 to 7 contains Basic Cultivation and Martial Arts books, 8 to 12 have the more Advance Cultivations Techniques and even Divine Grade Technique, books on floor 13 to 16 are mainly about Formations and Spells, and floor 17 to 20 are only accessible to the Demon King. Inside floor 17 to 20 are books and documentations about Forbidden Cultivation Techniques, Formations, and Martial Arts.

Looks like I'll have to read the books, records, and documentations in floor one to three if I want to know more about this body and the Demon Realm.

I went inside the tower and read everything inside floor one to three, but none of them contains the informations about the Demon King or why he was here. All I got from those books are how the Demon King got here and how he rebel against all of the previous kings and unite the Demon Realm and become its King.Before the Demon Realm was united, it was split into 12 nations that each were ruled by a different king. When he first came into this world, he was in the weakest nation, Dark Flames Nation. He than meet a half-demon and half-human during his adventures and became sworn brothers. They fought their way to take over the nations and then eventually decides to unite all of them into one. When it's time to choose a the King Of The Demon Realm, 80% of the people voted for him instead of his sworn brother. Although his brother looks like he agrees with this decision, the Demon King could sense a feeling of envy and unwillingness from his brother. A prophet then show him a prophecy that he will be betrayed by his brother and wife. He refuse to accept this prophecy and told the prophet that his brother would never betray him no matter what. Unfortunately, all of his trust and love for his brother were lost when he poisoned him by working with the queen to put a deadly poison, without an antidote, into the soup that was served to the Demon King. Those two then joins the gods and humans to rebel against him and thus starts the Great War Of The Three Realms. All of the pages after that were blank and has nothing on it. This book is huge, but only one third of the books were written. I'm guessing that the blank pages are for the events that will happen in the future. It's better that I keep this book with me. Now, let's head to the other floors to get some books that contain cultivation techniques and martial arts.

I made my way up each floor and choose books that matches my current cultivation stage. That poison damage my body and knock my cultivation stages back down to Demonic Qi-Gathering Stage, 1st layer so I'll need to start over.

After choosing the books from all of the floors, I stopped at floor 16 to reads all of the books. I have a photographic memory and can memorize anything by just looking at it once. To be honest, I never thought that I'll be using this to learn cultivation techniques, martial arts, formations, and spells.

After memorizing everything, I head to floor 17 to see the forbidden techniques. When I reach the end of the stairs, the entrance to the floor was block with a magic barrier. If this is only accessible to the Demon King, then I'm guessing that this magic barrier can be broken with the king's blood.

I bit my finger to get some blood out and shoot it at the barrier. As expected, the barrier began to fade. When I was about to open the door, a voice whispered to me from behind.

"It's too early for you to continue. It's time to go back"

*Fainted*

When I finally regain consciousness and open my eyes, I was lying on the bed in the nurse's office. So all of that was a dream?

"Welcome back, my king. What you just saw is a fragment of the memories that was taken from you.", A man with a pale face, dressed in black suit, smiled.

Who the hell is this...