Chapter 104 Mythological Concepts, Me?

"Mythological concept, me?"

Wei Yuan was stunned, then his expression gradually became strange.

Images flashed through his mind of the fierce beasts with bloodlines of the Strange Beasts of the Mountains and Seas reacting to him as if he were a cat and they were mice. Theoretically speaking, even with the experiences he had with Yu and the others back then, it shouldn't have caused such an intense reaction from the fierce beasts after so long.

After all, the experiences back then were only directed at certain beings within certain clans.

It wasn't like he had chopped up all of them and put them in a pot.

Even Yu couldn't have eaten that much stuff.

And now, these later generations of fierce beasts, separated by thousands of years, acted as if Wei Yuan had just yesterday used their friends as spring onion pancakes dipped in sauce.

Zhu Jiuyin's lips curled up, and he said, "You should thank Bai Ze for this."

"After Xuanyuan died, he hid himself, but hiding like that wasn't in line with Bai Ze's personality. Although he liked to lie flat, he didn't like being a shut-in. He liked delicacies and fine wine, but he was too lazy to make them himself. He liked to freeload, but going out would attract all sorts of crises."

"So, at this time, because he had studied military strategy with the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady for a while, he came up with a brilliant method."

Wei Yuan's lips twitched, "Shifting the blame..."

Zhu Jiuyin nodded, "Yes, but he at least waited until after your death in that life."

"Before he started widely promoting the *Classic of Mountains and Seas*. Not just humans, even fierce beasts tend to conform, they seek so-called collective solidarity. For Bai Ze, as long as there was one guy whose hatred was higher than his own to attract the target, plus he was fanning the flames on the side, he could naturally become one of his own."

"Heh... in human terms, it's like, as long as you scold someone, they're brothers from different mothers. And you, Wei Yuan, the author of the *Classic of Mountains and Seas*, are naturally the biggest target of the author of the *Bai Ze Demon Compendium*."

"After Bai Ze's thousands of years of effort, your name has spread throughout the four seas and the great wilderness. Your aura and true spirit have even integrated into the bloodline memories of generations of fierce beasts over the long years, creating a suppression of the fierce beasts from historical roots."

"As for why he could do this."

"Don't forget, Bai Ze is omniscient, plus thousands of years of propaganda."

Wei Yuan's lips twitched: "............"

Getting harder, getting harder.

His fists were getting harder.

Bai Ze, don't carve everything into other people's DNA, damn it.

He said, "Then why didn't Bai Ze just fabricate a hatred substitute?"

Zhu Jiuyin said calmly:

"You seem to have misunderstood something, Wei Yuan. Events happened first, then they turned into legends. It's not that you gain power through false propaganda. Bai Ze is just using his own abilities to let those fierce beasts who don't believe him experience the oppression of those who died unjustly back then on a spiritual level."

"After all, he is Bai Ze. Although he is not very useful, he really knows a little about everything."

Zhu Jiuyin frowned and said, "The so-called 'born knowing,' Bai Ze's talent makes it actually possible for him to reach the strongest group of gods, but unfortunately, what Heaven gives, Heaven takes away. Bai Ze has talent, but he lost patience because of his talent."

"You can think of it as if the secrets of all things in the world were once generously unfolded before Bai Ze."

"He could have dabbled in many fields."

"But he just flipped through the table of contents and lay down."

Chi You's lips curled up, revealing a hint of contemptuous disdain: "/

"You don't care about the process, only the result?"

Shennong shook his head and replied, "No, the process itself is already pregnant in this result."

"As for the rest, let's finish talking about the characteristics of the last type of mythological concept first."

Shennong nodded, Zhu Jiuyin took a sip of tea, and said unhurriedly, "And the last type is also the method that the human race has figured out. Your human race was originally weak, and even more so after Nuwa and Fuxi disappeared. It was the ancestors of the past who painstakingly searched to find a path."

"Since strength can't compare to the heavenly gods, and physical fitness can't compare to the gods."

"They had to find other 'paths' from other directions."

"Using a human body to open up unprecedented paths."

Zhu Jiuyin's voice paused slightly.

Looking at the group of unkempt old men over there, as if looking at the past when they once dominated the ages, he said, "Xuanyuan's majestic humanity."

"Shennong's medicine and poison, Chi You's Jiuli domineering, Xing Tian, is the ultimate martial art."

Xing Tian raised his hand and added, "Civil official."

Zhu Jiuyin's lips twitched slightly, and said, "Okay, it's a civil official who masters the ultimate martial arts."

"As for Da Yi, he has no Dao. What he possesses is only a skill that has been honed to the extreme. They possess wills and paths that are not inferior to those of the gods, and through various methods, they combine this mythological concept with magical weapons, so that they can use this ability, which is extremely burdensome on the body, for a longer period of time."

"That is the Xuanyuan Sword, the Xing Tian Axe, the Shennong Whip, and Chi You's Ten Great Demonic Weapons."

"It's a pity, Wei Yuan."

Zhu Jiuyin said with a smile that was not a smile:

"Your swordsmanship originally touched the realm of Da Yi when he went down the mountain, but unfortunately, that realm only existed in your last life in the Tang Dynasty. Even when you returned from Kunlun in the Wu Zhou Dynasty, you didn't have it. Only when you left Chang'an alone did you regain that realm of swordsmanship."

"Cough cough."

Da Yi coughed.

Zhu Jiuyin nodded and said, "Do you want to say something? You can."

Da Yi looked at Wei Yuan with a smile, revealing the dimples and faint tiger teeth at the corners of his mouth.

He took out a wooden sign with a person and a piece of wood drawn on it.

Wei Yuan: "............"

He fell into deep thought.

Brother, what are you saying? I don't understand...

He looked at Zhu Jiuyin.

Then he found out.

Zhu Jiuyin closed his eyes.

Wei Yuan's lips twitched.

You damn it...

Xing Tian suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Da Yi means that people and wood are different. People's hearts have joys, sorrows, and joys, and they will fluctuate because of various things. Sometimes these moods will affect your state and affect your swordsmanship realm."

Wei Yuan: "............"

He looked at Xing Tian, and then at Da Yi.

The latter nodded approvingly.

Xing Tian is right!

Wei Yuan was silent.

Wei Yuan didn't understand, but he expressed great shock.

He felt that his values had been impacted.

Xing Tian, is he really a civil official?

Xing Tian was smug about showing off his civil official qualities.

Da Yi showed a shy smile, and then opened the second page.

Xing Tian then translated, "So, when you once possessed everything, lost everything, and finally let go of everything, the sword in your hand can exert its highest power."

"All you have is pure skill."

"And what is above skill, and how much effect the same skill can have, depends on the realm—even with the same skill, a swordsman who once possessed and lost everything, and finally let go of everything and forgave himself, is stronger than a swordsman who possesses everything."

"Lose everything, let go of everything..."

Wei Yuan murmured, and the last experience of the Tang Dynasty appeared in his mind.

Finally, Da Yi patted him on the shoulder and nodded with a smile.

Xing Tian said with emotion, "He said that you can try to recall the state of the past, which may allow you to briefly climb back to your state in the Tang Dynasty, but people are not machines after all, and the peak of the state of mind often requires deliberate guidance."

"So many people choose to retreat and meditate to adjust their state of mind before fighting."

He sighed repeatedly, quite emotional.

Wei Yuan pondered in silence, and suddenly thought of one thing:

"By the way, do the Four Fiends also have mythological concepts?"

Zhu Jiuyin nodded and said, "Yes, but their mythological concept is the four poles of the earth as the luck of heaven and earth. They are the golden pillars of luck. Of course, it is impossible for them to carry the golden pillars to fight. Therefore, the Four Fiends in their respective guarded positions and the Four Fiends not in their guarded positions are two different levels."

"The difference is not as great as opening the mythological form of Chong."

"But it is also extremely huge."

Wei Yuan was thoughtful. If he thought about it carefully, he basically never fought the Four Fiends in their positions. The only Qiongqi was completely unresponsive and was stabbed straight through by the First Emperor with a clean and swift sword, dying on the spot.

Not to mention the other few.

The authority and concept of the Four Fiends come from the Four Poles.

From this point of view, Kuailin's so-called secret method is probably a combination of the second and third methods—although he himself has not reached the same path as Xuanyuan and Chi You, nor has he honed the skills of Xing Tian and Da Yi, it seems that it is possible to create a magical weapon by relying on the existing mythological concept, that is, the authority corresponding to Taowu.

But it's a very clever method.

Immediately, he thought of another existence and said, "Then Wuzhiqi..."

Wuzhiqi's fighting mode is to directly draw the Huai River of the Divine Era, which is thousands of kilometers long, as a stick.

This does not seem to be the style of traditional gods.

Zhu Jiuyin nodded: "Wuzhiqi's water stick is more inclined to the human race's creation of divine weapons."

"He actually took the path of turning the Huai River into a divine weapon after conquering it."

"So he is unique among all the water gods."

"And only he is called the Water Lord instead of the water god of a certain river."

"And only by conquering one of the four sacred rivers of the Divine Era can one be qualified to become a friend of the water god Gonggong."

His voice paused, his eyes swept over the others, and seeing them nod slightly, Zhu Jiuyin seemed to sigh, turned to look at Wei Yuan, who was in deep thought, and said in a calm tone: "The mythological concept will stop here for now. Next, there are some things you need to know."

"About the human race."

Wei Yuan hesitated: "The human race?"

Zhu Jiuyin said leisurely: "Do you think the human race is still quite powerful?"

"Even compared to the gods, there are the Five Emperors and war gods?"

"They even master mythological concepts that most gods cannot dabble in?"

Wei Yuan was surprised, and then pondered for a long time, nodding slightly: "Yes, in my memory, it seems that the human race is also very strong... So, I am actually a little surprised that Yu split the mountains and seas." Zhu Jiuyin's tone was calm: "Indeed, after all, there was Yu in your era. For example, I can understand his actions."

He said:

"Now, Wei Yuan, count the heroes of the human race who are strong enough to match the gods."

Wei Yuan thought for a while and counted, "Well, the Five Emperors must be in it. Fuxi and Nuwa can't actually be placed in the human race, and they have disappeared for a long time. In addition, Chi You, Shennong Shi Jiang Shu, Xing Tian, Da Yi, Feng Hou, Li Mu, Chang Xian, Yu, Qi, these are all."

Zhu Jiuyin said calmly: "Then do you know what their fate was?"

Wei Yuan was stunned.

Zhu Jiuyin's tone softened and said, "You don't know, or are you subconsciously ignoring it?"

"Xuanyuan, a good death."

"Li Mu died in battle, his body shattered."

"Chang Xian died early."

"Feng Hou disappeared after spying on the secrets of heaven."

"Chi You died."

"Shennong died a violent death, the reason is unknown to everyone."

"Xing Tian died in battle."

"Da Yi disappeared in the wilderness and died."

"Shun, after getting old, left the range of the human race after the separation of heaven and earth and was besieged and killed."

"Yu fought Di Jun in the wilderness, died, his soul scattered, and his sword broke."

"Qi was backlashed by the secrets of heaven, became blind and went crazy, and then disappeared."

Wei Yuan's expression slowly solidified. The magnificent heroic epic always makes people ignore the ending behind it, and his life was just an ordinary potter, active in the era when King Yu and Emperor Shun were still alive, so he naturally felt that it was okay. No matter how great the storms and dangers were, the Tushan tribe was very strong, and King Yu and Nujiao also shielded him.

His era was the golden age of ancient times.

Zhu Jiuyin's voice paused and said, "The second question."

"What were the eras in which these people were active?"

Wei Yuan slowly recalled, his expression sinking.

Zhu Jiuyin answered to himself:

"Xuanyuan, Feng Hou, Li Mu, Chang Xian, Chi You, Shennong, Xing Tian."

"They are the most brilliant era, a legendary era that is almost impossible to reproduce..."

"Then, there is Shao Hao."

"In his era, there were no heroes who could fight against the gods."

"Shao Hao, one of the Five Emperors, had to marry Feng Hongshi, who was favored by Zhurong, leaving behind the phoenix totem."

"This era has no heroes."

"The next generation, Zhuanxu, one of the Five Emperors."

"In this era, the heroes of the human race are the people transformed by Gonggong, the Xia official transformed by Zhurong, and the third-generation Xia official transformed by Chongli. There are no pure humans. After the death of Xuanyuan, the last hero in ancient times, they can even come to the human race, transform into the human race, and try to seize the path created by Xuanyuan and Chi You, as well as the final fruit, the mythological concept."

"Zhuanxu painstakingly maneuvered and completed the great array of separating heaven and earth."

"That era had no heroes."

"The next generation, Yao, Da Yi."

"Only this one person."

"The next generation, the era of Shun, is Yu."

"Only this one person."

Wei Yuan felt that with Zhu Jiuyin's words, the cruel and dark era that he had subconsciously ignored in the past because the war souls of these heroes were always together had come back to him. For hundreds of years, only one person traveled around Shenzhou, trying to protect the people from countless fierce gods. No matter how hard he tried, he was always late. Why was Da Yi always on the road of killing?

And why was only that one person fighting?

He was so oppressed that he even held his breath.

Zhu Jiuyin's tone turned gentle and said, "The last question."

"In an era where there is only one hero in almost every generation, or even no heroes."

"How is the life of the countless human races in the vast Divine Land?"

"And the dark years of disconnection between the Five Emperors... between Zhuanxu and Yao, there was no human emperor, no war god, no hero."

Zhu Jiuyin stared at Wei Yuan with deep eyes:

"How long? How was the human race in that period of time?"

A silent silence.

Ji Xuanyuan said softly:

"Has the peaceful and beautiful dream left behind by King Yu woken up?"

"Then, welcome to reality, Wei Yuan."

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