Celestial Emperor 2
Ch. 603 - This is Not the Real World!

“Does of the Demon Heart.” Qin Shan observed the four words and he felt his heart tremble.

The four words floating above the prayer mat emitted energy from the indescribable Laws of Heaven and Earth. Others might not notice it, but Qin Shan clearly sensed that these four words contained the energy of the Dao of The Heavens that was churning within there. In addition, he could also feel the fluctuations of ancient energy that made him very confident that this place had existed since countless times.

Qin Shan tried to calm himself down and began to spread his Spiritual Will. However, he was shocked when his Spiritual Will could not be released in this place. An absolute rule seemed to limit his movements in this place.

“What exactly is this place?” Qin Shan swept his gaze across the entire island and did not find a single strangeness. Apparently, in this place he was forced to meditate on the giant prayer mat.

There is no other choice, going back is not possible. From the beginning of entering the floating island, Qin Shan realized that the formation array in this place had already been activated automatically. In other words, he could not get out of this place before finishing the final exam.

Qin Shan walked carefully as he approached the prayer mat and sat right in the middle of it. As soon as he sat in the lotus position, he could feel a strand of mysterious energy start to approach his body and stimulate a dao that he cultivated.

Qin Shan's Heart Dao trembled as that mysterious energy entered his body. For so many years, his Dao Heart had never trembled this intensely and his Heartpeace had already reached the threshold of level 4.

Keep in mind, the cultivation of the Heart Dao is also one of the concepts of cultivation. As far as Qin Shan was concerned, there were three cultivation concepts he had heard before. It was a Lotus Cultivator, a Meridian Cultivator, and a Heartpeace Cultivator. Among all these cultivation paths or concepts, the one Qin Shan met the least was the Heartpeace Cultivator.

Over the years, Qin Shan had only known two people who had once undergone the Heartpeace cultivation path. That person was Jiuhua and himself. However, neither Jiuhua nor Qin Shan had any deep knowledge of this one cultivation concept. That was the reason why all this time he had not experienced the slightest improvement in his Dao of Heart.

Heartpeace Qin Shan had been at level 4 for many years ago and had not experienced any improvement at all. Apparently, the Heaven and Earth Laws present in the Three Realm restricted the Heartpeace Cultivator Path to only the fourth stage. Nevertheless, Level 4 Heartpeace alone was already extremely powerful and terrifying. Qin Shan himself would not be able to imagine how much power a fifth stage Heartpeace Cultivator possessed.

“Something strange churned within my sea of consciousness. This is a kind of breakthrough.”.

The mysterious energy fluctuations that entered into Qin Shan's body caused a huge commotion inside there. Qin Shan's sea of consciousness that was originally just a void void now had a faint glimmer of mysterious-looking light.

Qin Shan was overjoyed when he realized that he would experience an increase in the Heart Dao. He had truly never expected such an event before, it seemed that this place was truly a sacred territory.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, Qin Shan was able to see a faint light that over time became increasingly bright. Time continued to pass and the mysterious energy from the place still invaded Qin Shan crazily. In just a few hours, an explosion occurred within his Spiritual Ocean.

*pufft!* The explosion in his Ocean of Consciousness left Qin Shan shocked and staggered backwards. The intense pain caused him to roll around on the prayer mat like a madman. His eyes were red and began to bleed, his mouth, nose, and ears were as well. His entire body that had a hole continued to bleed out as explosion after explosion occurred in his Ocean of Consciousness.

Although from the outside nothing seems to be happening, Qin Shan is actually dying. The explosions that formed in his Ocean of Consciousness nearly destroyed his Spirit Core and he became dead. If not for his Heartpeace cultivation already reaching the fourth stage, then Qin Shan's Spirit Core would have been completely destroyed and his True Soul disappeared throughout the entire Universe.

After a few more explosions, Qin Shan fell down and fainted on his stomach. Even though he had 'fainted', yet he still felt the tremendous pain of his Ocean of Consciousness. In addition without Qin Shan noticing, his Heartpeace cultivation had been forcefully pushed to reach the fifth stage.

When this happened, the Dao of The Heavens started to rampage in the place and charged towards Qin Shan with an extremely terrifying and majestic energy. The Demon Heart Dao Tribulation had begun.

Just when his misery began, Qin Shan had been forcefully drawn into a world of illusions that he would never be aware of.

Qin Shan woke up from his stomach position and he felt his headache begin to subside. He examined his entire body and realized that there was not the slightest severe damage. However, he was very surprised when he realized that he had woken up in a different place.

This place was a noble house that looked luxurious and spacious. This house was inhabited by a mortal family that did not cultivate and went down the dao path. Qin Shan observed further and he then realized that he was also just an ordinary human being. A mortal being that had nothing to do with cultivation and the dao path.

“Where is this?” Qin Shan seemed to have awakened from his dream and he began to walk into the house with a feeling of pleasure. The servants and family members in the house were very pleased with Qin Shan's arrival and they held a party to greet him.

“Young Master has arrived.”

“Kakak has been traveling for many years and never returned home. Father and Mother will definitely be very happy because of your arrival.”

This is the Devil Heart World. A world in which memories and longings of a person never disappear in his heart. This is the story of his past life and is re-imagined in an illusionary world, where he will not be able to awaken back to the real world if he is unaware of the oddities within it.

In this world, the twenties-year-old Qin Shan looked extremely handsome and charismatic. He is a good man who is always coveted by the girls in the city.

Qin Shan's life in this world was very peaceful and happy, he had a complete family and good friends. He has a Father, a Mother, and a Sister. In this world he had all the happiness he had once felt in such a short time.

Entering the demon sect which then made it even stronger, Qin Shan was invincible now. But the bad side of his actions was the destruction of his family. For the sake of achieving greater strength, he was even willing to sacrifice his believers.

Then for the sake of leveling up to become an Immortal, Qin Shan performed forbidden techniques and slaughtered the countless humans in his world of origin. The betrayal and cruelty he had committed, no one could escape his grasp.

The cries of the little boy, the moaning sounds of the women, and the cries of the people in the world can be heard in Qin Shan's ears. His Demon Dao became stronger because of this and made him even more eager to commit crimes.

The corpses of countless humans and cultivators formed mountains of terrifying corpses, on top of which Qin Shan stood haughtily and arrogantly, “You are all just useless ordinary humans, you are all useless, but your death will probably be something useful to me–”

“Enough!”

Qin Shan's face in the Demon Heart World changed when a faint voice appeared in his mind. Yet he did not care and continued to carry out countless massacres.

If someone asks him why he did such a cruel deed, then Qin Shan will answer that he did it for no reason. Sometimes he felt bored enough and went out of meditation to kill some races and tribes. And if he were to get angry, the entire continent would become a terrifying pool of blood.

Many years had passed, this was the 60,000th year since Qin Shan underwent the Demon Heart Dao Tribulation. At this moment, he was a Spiritual God working on a God Emperor in the Heaven Realm. He had long since abandoned his crimes in the mortal world and had now set foot into even worse things.

“Said to be ENOUGH!” a person's voice again sounded in Qin Shan's mind which was a Spiritual God. Compared to many years ago, this time the voice became clearer and Qin Shan was able to hear it.

“Who are you?” spiritual God Qin Shan.

“I am you, we are the same person. I just want to say WAKE UP!” the voice became very emotional and sounded angry. “We must rise from the shadow of the terrible past and return to a new path. Remember, our world is not here!”

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The Demon Heart World began to collapse as Qin Shan's Heart Dao trembled with great energy fluctuations. Upon waking back up to the real world, he vomited blood and a deathly pale expression.

Now, having undergone the Demon Heart Dao Tribulation perfectly, Heartpeace Qin Shan had officially been at the fifth stage. Then, the mysterious energy that had been enveloping his body also began to fade.

“I can finally get out of that damned place. Damn it, I remember my dark past.” Qin Shan clucked in annoyance and he closed his eyes full of sadness. He really did not want to remember his horrible past, but he did not expect the day would come when he would return to live his horrible life for the second time.

Qin Shan's Heart Dao trembled violently and his dao foundation began to waver. It was fortunate that thanks to his Heartpeace that had already reached the fifth stage, he was able to control his emotions slowly.

“Master!! What happened to you!” inside Lotus Island, Ji Zhufei cried out hysterically and he seemed to be in a bad mood.

“It's okay, I only remember things that I should have forgotten.” Qin Shan replied briefly. Although he said that he was okay, he understood that he might not be able to wake up from the Devil Heart World anymore and his body in the real world would rot over time.

The world of the Demon Heart was something extremely terrifying. This world is filled with things you enjoy and yearn for, no regrets when someone enters the Demon Heart World. Actually this is the reason why someone will be very difficult to wake up from the world.

Qin Shan had a level 5 Heartpeace and had quite a bit of life experience, 60 thousand years might not be a short time, either, but it was quite a fast time considering how weak he was within the Heart Dao.

The world of the Heart of Demons is a terrible world. And actually, the true enemy of a cultivator was the Devil in his own heart. If one could not overcome it, then he would lose and die in endless despair. Qin Shan was extremely lucky to have survived this toughest Tribulation of his.

Inside Lotus Island, Qin Shan's followers looked extremely stressed and their eyes grew red upon hearing Qin Shan's words. Yu Qingzun was one of Qin Shan's followers who looked extremely depressed and his face was deathly pale, he said in a very emotional voice.

“What do you mean 'nothing'?! You don't know how anxious we were when we saw you lying dying for two hundred years!”

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“Your greatest enemy is the Devil that is in your heart”