Despite his unattractive appearance, the haggard old man actually has a lot of background.
He was once the emperor of a dynasty nearly a thousand years ago.
However, as an emperor, he did not think about how to govern the country well, but only pursued immortality.
Ordinarily, it is not impossible to pursue immortality in the world of immortality.
Cultivate, become a cultivator, and break through one realm after another, you can increase your life span a lot.
If one could reach the level of the Golden elixir, it would not be a problem to live for eighteen hundred years.
But this emperor had no spiritual roots, so his path to immortality was cut off.
However, ordinary people also have ways to prolong their lives, and elixirs are one of them.
If you can obtain the fifth-grade elixir, the life-prolonging elixir, a mortal can also extend his life by several decades, and there will be no problem in living over a hundred years old.
For ordinary people, a fifth-grade elixir may be too much to hope for, but for the emperor, it is not difficult to obtain one.
However, what the emperor wants is not decades, nor eighteen hundred years.
What he longs for is eternal life!
It is the same longevity as the heaven and the earth, the same brightness as the sun and the moon!
At that time, many ministers were secretly discussing;
"Our emperor ignores state affairs every day and thinks about eternal life. Isn't this nonsense?"
"Eternal life? There are cultivators who have lived for thousands of years, but even the most powerful cultivators have never heard of anyone who can live forever. What is he, a mortal without spiritual roots, thinking about?"
"That's right, why doesn't he go to heaven..."
The ministers have also been grudges for a long time, and they no longer regard the emperor as a human being.
An ordinary foolish king can still have treacherous ministers below him who make a lot of money.
And this emperor who seeks eternal life is so good that he will not let go of all the princes, nobles, or ministers of aristocratic families.
The search was done over and over again, and if someone wanted to pay less, it would be like a stipulated bowl. If you didn't fill it up, the house would be ransacked and the pot would be taken away.
Why are you so frantic? It's because the people at the bottom have already plundered so much that they can't squeeze out any more money.
As a result, everyone in the country, except for those aristocratic families and sects who cultivated immortality, were in panic.
It can be seen from this that how much resources are consumed by mortals seeking immortality.
It is said that the situation has developed to this point. If no one has rebelled yet, it would be a bit unreasonable.
No, the rebels are coming.
Some people who could no longer survive rebelled following a down-and-out feudal king.
The rebels attacked fiercely, and the royal army was already disorganized. They quickly reached the outside of the palace wall.
The palace was surrounded and besieged on all sides.
At this point, normally it would be time to change the dynasty.
But the moment the palace door was knocked open, the rebels were dumbfounded.
There is not a single person in this huge palace, but... all are densely packed with thousands of tentacled insects!
It turned out that the emperor had studied countless methods for more than ten years, but he had not found a way that could truly allow mortals to live forever.
Just when the emperor was feeling disheartened, a Gu master advised him that he had discovered a kind of insect whose lifespan would never end as long as it was not eaten by natural enemies. This was true immortality.
The basis is that when this bug first hatches, it is only the size of a grain of rice, and its growth rate is very slow. It takes hundreds of years to grow to the thickness of a finger.
Among the bugs discovered, there are already some as thick as a water tank. I can't imagine how many years it will take for it to grow to such a big size.
Moreover, such a huge insect still shows no sign of aging and is still growing slowly, so it is inferred that the lifespan of this kind of insect is endless. This kind of insect is called Thousand Antennae.
The emperor was very happy after hearing this and immediately asked the Gu Master to bring the Thousand Tentacles into the palace.
After a period of inspection, it was discovered that the various characteristics of the Thousand Antennae were exactly as the Gu Master said.
Finally, the object of immortality was found, and the emperor began to continue research.
But if insects are immortal, how can they be transferred to the human body?
So, the emperor issued an order to first send all the prisoners on death row from all over the country to the palace.
Without the death row prisoners, the next thing will be the ordinary prisoners, and then there will be the common people at the bottom, who will find any reason to arrest people at will.
Didn't the rebels rebel later? The cities were captured one by one, and soon there was no one left to arrest the emperor.
But his so-called "Eternal Insect Skill" had not yet been perfected, so he turned his attention to the people in the palace.
Palace maids, eunuchs, concubines, guards, etc., no one was spared...
After a bloody battle with numerous Thousand Tentacles, the rebels finally reached the palace hall at a heavy cost.
But there was still no sign of the emperor on the dragon chair.
Later, after a careful search, they found a secret door hidden somewhere in the palace.
The secret door led directly to the underground, very deep. Finally, in a space underground, they saw the emperor who had become half human and half insect.
The rebel army was completely wiped out, and after the Human Insect Emperor came out, he regarded the thousands of Thousand Antennae as his subjects and allowed them to devour humans wantonly.
It was only then that the immortal cultivating families and sects in this dynasty realized that they could no longer stand by and watch.
On this day, a powerful cultivator came to the sky above the palace with a pagoda magic weapon.
The powerful cultivator displayed his magical powers and took the entire palace into the pagoda magic weapon, intending to refine the human insect emperor and all the thousand tentacles.
But I never thought that there were some cultivators with evil intentions who didn't want the Human Insect Emperor to die like this.
Even those cultivators want to continue the research on the Human Insect Emperor, and they also want to gain eternal life through this.
The powerful cultivator was attacked by surprise. Although he killed many young people with his superb cultivation, he was also seriously injured.
In the end, the powerful cultivator disappeared without a trace, and the pagoda magic weapon was only encountered by the founder of the Yuxu Sect in a mountain range in Jiangnan Prefecture hundreds of years later.
It's just that hundreds of years have passed, and the founder of the Yuxu Sect doesn't know the origin of this pagoda's magic weapon. He only feels that this pagoda is extraordinary.
Later, the Yuxu Sect was established, and the pagoda was opened every few decades. Practitioners below the level of Dan Jie could enter it and find some opportunities more or less.
As a result, this pagoda slowly became what the Yuxu Sect called the "Trial Tower".
But no one knows that in the eighth floor, which no one has ever broken into, the human-insect emperor is still alive.
The endless waters that were meant to refine him have instead become his hiding place.
For nearly a thousand years, the Human Insect Emperor has been hiding in a secret space beneath the palace, continuing to study the immortality insect technique.
He believed that once he succeeded in his insect power, he would not only gain eternal life, but also break the prison-like seal of the tower.
He must regain his freedom and lead thousands of insect people to conquer the world again!
Just when the Human Insect Emperor felt that he was about to achieve success, he met Wang Liang and Ling Yuyan...
These are the memories that Wang Liang used to search for the old man's memories when he was dying.
"Junior brother...you, are you still okay..."
Ling Yuyan's slightly panting voice came from behind, and Wang Liang quickly opened the corpse of the old man and took out a beast core.
"Sister, I'm here."
Taking the beast core and running back to Ling Yuyan, Wang Liang gave a thumbs up and said;
"Senior sister, you were really powerful just now. Looking at the quality of this beast's core, it is even better than the previous Snow Mountain Lion Luan. This human-insect monster is probably just one step away from being able to successfully form a core."
"But no matter how powerful it was, it was still killed by Senior Sister with one blow. The strong wind swept through the twelve sharp blades, and no matter how many tentacles it had, they were all chopped into pieces."
"Now that I think about the scene just now, I still feel shocked. Senior sister, you..."
Wang Liang wanted to say something more, but Ling Yuyan interrupted him and said;
"Junior brother... don't say any more. Just now I just felt that there were countless energies rushing through my body, which were completely out of my control. That's why I used that blow..."
"Now that feeling is coming again. My whole body is so bloated and hot... Is it because of the pills you gave me?"
"What kind of pills are those..."
Hearing what Ling Yuyan said, Wang Liang looked embarrassed and then changed the topic;
"Senior sister, you'd better quickly use the energy of this beast core to try to break through the core formation realm."
"Perhaps when you reach the Dan Formation realm, your current situation will be better. I will help you protect the law and you can make a breakthrough with peace of mind."
Ling Yuyan looked at the beast core handed over by Wang Liang and nodded with a flushed face;
"This is the only way right now. Next time... don't give me medicine casually, turn around!"
After Wang Liang handed the beast core to Ling Yuyan, he turned around quickly and thought to himself;
'You must never make elixirs casually in the future. Now think about it... the handful of elixirs I gave her before had that kind of medicinal effect...'
'But it's really not my fault. I was really just curious at the beginning. I just refined one or two of those pills, but they both failed.'
'Failed elixirs can be effective, who can I ask to explain, so it's definitely not my fault, well, it's not my problem...'
Half an hour later, Ling Yuyan successfully broke through to the Dan Formation Realm.
However, she still looked a little uncomfortable, her face was still flushed, her whole body was still hot, and she was looking at Wang Liang strangely.
But Wang Liang just wanted to go over, but she stopped him: "Don't come over! You go out... I want to rest here alone for a while."
Wang Liang thought for a moment, nodded, and walked out of the secret room.
After passing through several passages, he came to another secret room. Wang Liang lay on the wall, tapping here and there, and listening carefully with his ears from time to time.
"From the memory of the human-insect emperor, I found the hiding place of some treasures, which should be here."
"This is the wealth of a dynasty thousands of years ago. If we find it and collect it all, we will have no worries about food and drink for the rest of our lives."
While chanting, Wang Liang happened to knock on a place with echo, and he immediately smashed the wall open.
Wow——!
When the wall fell down, a lot of golden things appeared in front of you.
"Hehe, I did it, I really did it this time..."
Wang Liang's eyes were shining, his consciousness was spread out, and Najie was opened to put it inside.
Although most of them are gold, silver and jewelry, many practitioners may look down upon them.
But Wang Liang is still not immune to these things.
However, he was too busy loading up on gold, silver and jewelry that he didn't notice.
In the deepest part of the room, in a dark place, there seemed to be a living creature, slowly moving in his direction...