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Divine Emperor of Death
Author: Stardust_Breaker
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Tian Long, an orphan without much of a life in both his thirty year long life and lifespan! To him, a single opportunity was displayed to transmigrate into another world with his Death Book! "What's this? Is this the body of a three year old? Davis? Is this my name from now on?" Finding himself possessing a small child, he becomes inwardly conflicted before he faces the truth and his reality! Young Davis finds himself as the legal heir, the Crown Prince of the Loret Empire in the Grand Sea Continent, becoming a powerful cultivator in a short time... However, is that all? Follow his journey as Young Davis becomes a full fledged death's advocate while embodying into the Divine Emperor of Death in the world of cultivation! "Mn? The route to become the Emperor is a given? Nah, I still don't want it..." "Oh? I'm courting death you say? Unfortunately for you, death is already my woman..." ======= Almost 200,000 words (Around 170 Chapters) available for free! What to expect (Updated June 2026) : -Male protagonist who is trying to find who he is in the beginning and increasingly becomes level-headed and ruthless to enemies. Divine Emperor of Death is his calamity title the world gave him and not his personality, so don’t expect MC to be utterly black-hearted here. -Growth style from young to old, a epic adventure that takes itself seriously as the chapter and volumes advances -Harem. Slow-burn romance for the first two hundred chapters and it increases in pace once MC takes on second wife. Harem is treated extremely important here with their own personalities and flaws. No trophy wives. MC doesn’t abandon harem members to go off on a solo adventure. -Character-driven story with long-term growth. MC makes a few mistakes in the beginning and works to rectify. -Logical cultivation system with nearly no mistakes in terms of power leveling battles. -Unique blend of many types of architecture and eastern fantasy, but mostly latter since this is a cultivation novel. -Quick battles, no-nonsense approach to most enemies, and epic battles, tribulations and actions with lasting consequences. -Magical beast, calamities, strange lifeforms and locations. -The main character is not overpowered at the beginning, he'll have to climb his way up. And his treasure is simply dangerous to use, which makes it extremely challenging for him to survive. -Growth arc, adventure arcs, revenge arcs, romance arcs, epic tribulation arcs, family arcs and many more. -Regular updates (2 chapters/day) + bonus chapters and mass releases when possible ======= Some words from author: English isn't my main language, so please bear with it if you found some mistakes. The first few hundred chapters do have grammar mistakes since I was a beginner at that time. Please bear with me until the grammar and the content gets fleshed out. This is an epic (long form story) instead of a quick wish-fulfillment novel as we follow the story of Davis from the start, so it's bound to be slow but steady. There are epic moments at certain points which my readers have praised repeatedly. Also, the [best harem novel] in the entire Webnovel according to my readers in Discord. ======= Want to see more official art of the story and discuss the story with others? Join the Discord! Discord and support links https://discord.gg/xcqXR6p https://www.patreon.com/stardust_breaker == Power Stones Ranking (Updated : 29th September 2022) 16th so far Golden Ticket Ranking: 11th so far
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Volume 0 :Auxiliary Volume
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2025-01-12 20:55
The Nine Transformations of Life and Death was a cultivation technique. It was said to be the strongest cultivation technique created by the Undying Bird Clan. It was similar to the Phoenix Clan's Nirvana. Every cycle of life and death was equivalent to Nirvana rebirth, making the cultivator's strength stronger and stronger. The Nine Revolutions Life and Death Chant was considered the number one cultivation technique for low-level cultivators to defy the heavens and change their fate. Le was a low-born demon wolf half-human cultivator. He had changed his fate and became a God Realm expert by cultivating the Nine Cycle Life and Death Chant. The Nine Revolutions Life-Death Chant had many revolutions, and each revolution had different realms and characteristics. The first transformation was life and death. The cultivator needed to disperse their cultivation and break the seven meridians and eight meridians of their entire body, causing the true qi in their bodies to dissipate. The second transformation was worse than death. The cultivator's body was like a terminally ill person, and his entire body was like a dead person. The third transformation was the rebirth of death. The cultivator would regain their youth, which was equivalent to the initial stage of the emperor level. The fourth cycle was neither life nor death. The cultivator could not feel any life, but he did not die. He was already at the monarch level. The Nine Turn Life and Death Chant had also appeared in some novels and anime works, and was described as having great power.
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2026-07-08 11:48
After a person died, their nerve activity would stop and their muscle tension would be lost. The muscles of the whole body would relax and become soft, so their hands would also become soft. After 12 hours, the microorganisms in the body would begin to break down the muscles, and the corpse would slowly become soft.
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2026-07-09 01:04
The bending of a person's hand after death was mainly related to the physiological changes after death. After a person died, their muscles would become loose and soft without innervation for tens of minutes. However, after tens of minutes to a few hours, they would slowly appear as a corpse. It usually occurred within 1 - 3 hours after death, and after 4 - 6 hours, it would develop throughout the body. It would reach its peak in 12 - 15 hours. During the process of corpse stiffening, all the muscles in the body would stiffen and the joints would gradually become fixed, which would cause the hands to bend. Moreover, the deceased would be allowed to hold something in their hands when they were buried, and their hands would be kept bent. In addition, different causes of death might also affect the state of the hands after death. Most of them were bent.
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There might be the following reasons why a person's hand would move after death: First, during the decomposition process of the corpse, mummification would gradually dry up and contract the ligaments, which would affect the movement of the limbs and cause the arm to move. Even if the person had been declared dead, before the ligaments were decomposed, changes in environmental conditions would cause the ligaments to contract, which might cause the hand to move. The second was that the motor neurons might have some reaction when an external force entered, but this was not a real resurrection of a person, but the probability of this happening was very small.
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