Emperor
That night.
Chen Ling dragging his body fully wrapped in bandages, knocked on King of Clubs' door.
"Enter."
A cold and clear voice transmitted from inside the room. Chen Ling gripped the door handle, pushing the door and entering.
The bright moonlight outside the window, sprinkled on the floor of the room, like plating a layer of white frost... A figure quietly stood under the moonlight. Black hair coiled together with a hairpin, revealing a fair neck like a swan. Her tall figure maintained a kind of posture standing there, coupling hardness with softness. Like a female general about to ascend the battlefield.
In her hands, holding a script that had already been flipped old. Single-handedly lifting it level in front of her, like currently reading.
Along with Chen Ling coming in, she faintly glanced a glance towards there, then withdrew her gaze.
"You recovered, faster than what I imagined."
What is she doing?
If it's reading a book, also wouldn't go so far as to pose into this kind of posture to read right... won't her back and hand get tired?
"Speaking for an Opera Performer, physical form is basic skill. Only integrating The Role's romantic charm into the physical form, can one deduce out the soul." King of Clubs flipped a page of the book in her hand, faintly saying, "In the future, you will understand."
"In the future?" Chen Ling blanked for a bit, didn't understand what these two words meant.
King of Clubs didn't waste time on this matter, but rather point-blank asked: "Heard, you want to see the Red King?"
"Yes."
"What matter?"
"It's regarding the Timeline Save File... I feel somewhat not quite right."
King of Clubs frowned her eyebrows, putting down the script in her hand. Both eyes gazing at Chen Ling, "In the Timeline Save File, what exactly happened?"
At that time Chen Ling's sudden exploding body, actually let the crowd on the tractor get a fright. After that Chen Ling then sank into near-death, up until now they all didn't know the reason. Only King of Clubs could guess, probably it was related to the Timeline Save File.
"I..."
Once Chen Ling opened his mouth, the things he wanted to roast were too many, for a time however didn't know where he should start from.
"The Nine Monarchs aren't quite right. Between them seemingly exists a certain kind of contradictory relationship. Moreover I still in that era encountered traces suspected of the Nine Monarchs taking action... Among them perhaps someone is able to travel through time."
"Very normal." King of Clubs unperturbedly said,
"The powerfulness of the Nine Monarchs exceeds our imagination. Since you saw it in the Save Point, explains indeed someone has gone back. Moreover between people originally there then will be conflicts on personality and ideology. The Nine Monarchs also might not necessarily be an iron plate... Does this have any problems?"
"I seemingly interfered with their exploration, getting the Red Star Fragment to explode. Having a large portion of energy drill into my body." Chen Ling followed closely saying.
"Also very normal, since you returned to that era, inevitably will trigger a series of chain reactions. Since personally participating in the exploration, being swept into it is also within expectations. However a Save Point after all is a Save Point, those energies ultimately are only fake, have no way to let you truly become the Nine Monarchs." King of Clubs calmly again lifted the script starting to flip through.
"Then I encountered another person possessing a Timeline Save File, is it also normal?"
"Timeline Save Files altogether have three copies. Between each other are all connected. You meeting other possessors there is as it should be by rights... Did you encounter the Red King or Grey King?"
"Red King and Grey King, is there someone calling himself 'We, the Emperor'?"
King of Clubs' page-flipping hand suddenly stopped in the air.
"You... said what?"
"I encountered a person." Chen Ling said in a deep voice, "He also possesses a copy of the Timeline Save File, roughly twenty-six or seven years old. Divine Path carries a kind of Aura of a monarch descending upon the world never seen before, moreover can also mobilize the Path of the Soldier's Heavenly Wolf, also possessing power suspected of the Nine Monarchs..."
King of Clubs' face slightly changed. She put down the script in her hand, frowning pondering in front of the window. This was still Chen Ling's first time seeing a "solemn" expression on her face.
She pondered for a long time, muttering to herself:
"...Path of the Sovereign?"
"What is the Path of the Sovereign?"
"The current world, altogether has Fourteen Divine Paths, but in more ancient eras, actually altogether had Eighteen Paths." King of Clubs slowly opened her mouth, "In the evolution of eras, there were four Divine Paths left behind by the world. Among them one path, was exactly the Path of the Sovereign...
What this Divine Path corresponds to, is the supreme profession overriding above all Fourteen Divine Paths, ruling the world, Emperor."
The matter of the four lost Divine Paths, Chen Ling once heard Han Meng mention before. Didn't expect he actually could one day personally encounter it... In his mind instantly recalling the countless dynastic emperors he once saw in history books before, and the vigorous and dynamic slogan of "abolishing the feudal imperial system" that ended all this.
Speaking of it, that Mysterious Figure he encountered in the Timeline Save File, indeed possessed a gust of emperor's qi... Not only because he called himself "We, the Emperor", his appearance, his actions, every gesture of his hands and feet, all emitted a kind of inexplicable imperial majesty.
"The existence of the Path of the Sovereign is extremely special. It has and only has one Path, which is Emperor. Moreover Emperor is different from the other Fourteen Divine Paths, not having a fixed Rank..."
"Doesn't have a fixed Rank?" Chen Ling doubtfully frowned, "What does it mean?"
"The meaning is, his realm is floating... The realm of the Emperor, depends on the 'faction' under his command. If he subdues a Fifth-Tier, then his own realm will be Fifth-Tier. If subduing three Fifth-Tiers, then will display out Combat Power close to Sixth Stage, and so on and so forth...
Moreover, he can commandeer the Divine Path Skills of his subordinates. Just like for example he has a Fifth-Tier Heavenly Wolf, a Sixth Stage Asura, a Fourth Order Borrowing the Moon acting as subordinates, then the Emperor himself is exactly a Sixth Stage powerhouse simultaneously possessing Heavenly Wolf, Asura, and Borrowing the Moon totalling fifteen skills. In the final analysis, the stronger the strength of the subordinates, his own Combat Power also then is stronger.
But if he is a loner, or his subordinates only have a group of Ordinary Persons, his strength then is close to nothing. Even casually coming a Second-Tier then could kill him."
Inside Chen Ling's eyes surfaced shock.
Doesn't need to nourish Spiritual Power, doesn't need to temper, doesn't need to step by step elevate the Rank... The Emperor as long as passing through subduing subordinates, then can reach the sky in a single bound. Such an existence is truly too monstrous? Then if he subdues a Nine Sovereign Tier level, wouldn't it be directly becoming Rank 9?
However this also means, as long as killing his subordinates, or not giving him the opportunity to form a faction, his own strength then is pitifully weak.
The upper limit is extremely high, the lower limit is extremely low... This, is exactly one of the four lost Divine Paths, Emperor.