Keyboard Immortal - Chapter 2975

Chapter 1488 True God’s Twilight

He Jin, having been summoned by the Empress Dowager to discuss the young emperor, went straight to the palace.

As a true god of immortality, he naturally knew of He Jin’s fate in history, but he didn’t believe that the few followers of the current sect would dare to attack a true god.

Moreover, even if they did, they would be nothing more than laughable ants before a true god.

As for the god of pleasure and desire, he was now a loyal ally.

Of course, he didn’t completely trust the god of pleasure and desire, but believed that the other party wasn’t so foolish as to dare to turn against him with the Immortal Ancestor of Annihilation watching from the outside. They were both true gods, and the palace couldn’t hold him.

Once he escaped the palace, knowing that He Jin controlled seven or eight tenths of the army in the world, he would have a legitimate reason to eliminate all opponents inside and outside the palace.

Right now, he was most wary of Yuan Shao. The god of chaos and mystery behind him was clearly restless, having previously planned to bring Dong Zhuo into the army to force him to eliminate the eunuch group.

Everyone knows this part of history and is well aware of the danger of Dong Zhuo’s army’s advance. The madman, the Ancestor of Annihilation, has grown incredibly powerful in recent years, so he and the God of Joy and Desire will join forces to stop it.

He has already decided that after discussing with the God of Joy and Desire in the palace, he will eliminate the eunuch faction, silencing the aristocratic group led by Yuan Shao.

Then he will slowly deal with Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly stopped.

He sensed something amiss in the palace; the ground beneath his feet trembled slightly, and golden light seeped from the cracks in the bluestone bricks—the power of heaven and earth gathered when the great formation was in operation.

He Jin looked up and saw countless talismans floating in the air above the palace walls. The entire palace seemed like a living cosmic beast, its terrifying pressure emanating from all directions.

“The Great Formation of National Protection!”

He Jin recognized the formation, his pupils contracting slightly.

This is the highest-level trapping and killing formation in the world, based on the entire imperial palace and drawing upon the four-hundred-year national fortune of the Han Dynasty. It can suppress everything.

“Have they all gone mad!” He Jin was both shocked and furious. He knew that this great formation would only be activated at the last moment when the empire was in dire straits, because the price was extremely high.

First, half of the emperor’s jade seal and half of his own life essence would be consumed, and the person controlling the formation would have half of their lifespan instantly drained.

Second, as the formation operated, it would continuously drain lifespan. If the caster was not strong enough or there were not enough people, they would probably have their lifespan drained before they even had a chance to launch the formation’s attack.

But the greatest cost was that it would consume an astronomical amount of national fortune. Regardless of the outcome, the entire empire’s national fortune would be almost depleted.

Because of these terrifying costs, he never expected anyone to activate this great formation.

“General, how have you been…”

A sinister, shrill voice rang out from ahead.

Zhang Rang led over ten eunuchs and other powerful eunuchs out of the palace in single file. They were all deathly pale and emaciated, yet surrounded by a faint, blood-red aura—the aura of the True God of Reproduction! If

they weren’t experts in reproduction, they wouldn’t be able to withstand the terrifying drain on the power of the National Protection Array.

“What the hell are you doing!” He Jin, not seeing the True God of Pleasure and Desire, secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Without the True God’s involvement, things weren’t at their worst.

Zhang Rang raised his head, a strange smile spreading across his wrinkled face, radiating an indescribable madness: “Weren’t you about to enter the palace and kill us? We’re almost dead, what’s the fate of the Han Dynasty? What’s half a lifespan?”

He didn’t waste any more words, as the array was constantly draining their lifespan. As he finished speaking, a blinding beam of light emanated from each eunuch.

The National Protection Array was activated at full power.

He Jin felt a sudden heaviness around him, as if the weight of the entire universe was pressing down on him. His source of immortality trembled violently under the impact of this force, and his previously flowing divine power suddenly stagnated, as if bound tightly by countless chains.

“How dare you!”

He Jin roared, not even having time to be shocked at how his opponent knew his plan. A bright green light shone around him.

The source power of the True God of Immortality erupted without reservation at this moment, and the green light condensed into the phantom of a towering ancient tree, its roots embedded in the earth and its branches reaching towards the sky.

That was the divine form of the True God of Immortality—the Evergreen Tree.

The moment the phantom of the ancient tree appeared, the operation of the imperial palace’s grand formation noticeably slowed down for a moment.

Although suppressed by the laws of this world and even the national-level protective formation, a True God was still a True God.

He Jin seized this momentary opportunity, his large hand reaching forward, the green light transforming into a giant palm, striking directly towards the direction where Zhang Rang and the others were.

However, Zhang Rang and the others did not retreat but advanced instead.

More than ten eunuchs simultaneously bit their tongues, spitting out mouthfuls of blood.

The troops controlled by the eunuchs in the palace, who had been overseeing various formations, also paled drastically, almost instantly exploding into clouds of blood mist.

All the blood mist intertwined in the air, forming a vast crimson net, covered with countless runes. Each rune contained the power of reproduction—the ultimate expression of life’s propagation, and also the ultimate consumption of life force.

The National Protection Formation amplified this reproductive power, which even contained the power of pleasure and desire!

The blood net covered the entire palace, the golden and crimson phantom of the palace colliding with the giant green hand.

The entire city of Luoyang—no, the entire world—trembled violently, as if an earth dragon had overturned, with bottomless cracks appearing everywhere.

Mountains collapsed, houses crumbled, and screams and the cries of children filled the air.

Countless ferocious beasts surged forth from the mountains, attacking human settlements; countless black wisps seeped from the cracks in the ground; swarms of flies and locusts filled the sky—a

scene of utter devastation. The Han Dynasty’s fate was exhausted; this was a sign of widespread chaos and impending doom.

In the palace, He Jin felt a strange power seeping through the blood-red web, frantically devouring his life essence.

Zhang Rang and his ilk were using their own blood essence as a conduit to connect his longevity power with the Great Array of Nation Protection, meaning that the array was also draining his lifespan and life essence.

Of course, this came at a price. Most of the eunuchs and the remaining palace attendants exploded into a cloud of blood mist on the spot,

leaving only the strongest: Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, and Guo Sheng.

But even they were now emaciated, like frail, elderly figures, ready to perish at any moment.

“Have you all gone mad?” He Jin’s expression finally changed. How many years had it been since he became a true god that he had felt fear?

You have to understand that these guys on the other side originally only used up half of their lifespan, but now they are almost trading their entire lifespan for his.

“Mad?” A trickle of black blood spilled from Zhang Rang’s mouth, but his smile grew even more manic. “Since you won’t let us live, then nobody will live either! To exchange this worthless life for the fall of a true god, we’ve struck gold!”

Before he finished speaking, the other eunuchs simultaneously let out shrill, maniacal laughter.

The blood net suddenly expanded, completely enveloping the illusory image of the ancient evergreen tree.

The Divine Image Ancient Tree trembled violently under the erosion of the blood net, its branches and leaves withering, its roots loosening.

The Great Array that protected the nation, combined with the suppression of the blood net, weakened He Jin’s power to the extreme.

“You ants dare to dream of killing a god?”

He Jin gritted his teeth, his hands unleashing profound techniques. At this moment, he deliberately ignited his source of longevity, transforming it into a world-destroying force, crashing into the weakest point of the blood net.

Boom—

a deafening roar shook the heavens.

A gap was forcibly torn in the blood net, and Zhao Zhong and Xia Yun exploded on the spot, while Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng both coughed up blood, their auras extremely weak.

He Jin was not faring much better; the emerald light around him had dimmed considerably, many of the ancient tree phantoms had shattered, and his flesh was covered in terrifying cracks.

But he was, after all, one of the supreme true gods, and even with his origin damaged, he still had the strength to escape.

With a flash, he transformed into a streak of azure light, bursting out from the gap in the blood net and instantly escaping the palace’s perimeter. Thus, the national defense formation could no longer affect him.

Hearing the unwilling roars of Zhang Rang and the others behind him, He Jin couldn’t help but smile. The trap they had prepared had failed to kill him; now the situation had completely reversed. He only needed to find a secluded place to repair his origin, then gather his troops and slaughter those eunuchs!

“General, what happened to you? You’re in such a sorry state,” a sigh came from the side.

He Jin was startled and turned to see a short, wiry figure standing there silently, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

“Mengde, you’ve come at the right time! Quickly gather the capital’s troops and march into the palace to kill the eunuchs!”

Cao Cao didn’t move, instead revealing a strange expression: “General, it seems you’ve forgotten that I also come from the eunuch family you mentioned.”

He Jin’s heart sank: “You orchestrated all of this?”

Cao Cao chuckled: “If it weren’t for my help, how could a few traitorous followers have wielded such power?”