Chapter 259: A Brief History of the Ancient World (Part )
Linshuixuan Fengyue Pavilion.

This is the best private courtyard of Linshuixuan. The lake water introduced from Xuanwu Lake surrounds the pavilion on three sides. The weather is very good today. Looking out at the sparkling lake, you can even see the faint shadow of a sail on the Luo River in the distance.

Zhou Tieyi drank some wine and listened to some music, and the fatigue from dealing with official documents for the day quickly subsided.

After playing a song, Guan Guan lazily sat beside Zhou Tieyi, also quietly looking at the sunset, and said with a smile, "I find that you are actually quite childish."

Zhou Tieyi shook his wine glass, "Are you trying to say that I'm narrow-minded?"

Guan Guan turned his head and looked at Zhou Tieyi's face seriously. He thought for a while and said, "All of them."

Zhou Tieyi turned his head and said, "How do you know this is not my plan? They only thought that I came here to humiliate Li Can today, but they didn't know that my real purpose behind humiliating Li Can was to find you. The cause and effect are reversed, and it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood. This is how foolish people are."

Guan Guan smiled, "You make me more and more curious."

"What are you curious about?"

"Everyone says you've been hiding for seventeen years, but you and I both know that your change really began after that night of hangover."

Guan Guan's palm gently brushed the evening breeze, preventing her conversation with Zhou Tieyi from being transmitted, and it remained only between the two of them.

"So where do you think this change came from?"

Zhou Tieyi said calmly, not afraid at all that Guan Guan would reveal his identity. He was Zhou Tieyi now, and no one could reveal it.

When a person perfectly inherits the body, memory, social relationships and even part of the personality, then it is not the same.

"At first, I also thought that the Buddhists were trying to cover up the truth and let a monk reincarnate. After all, when your mother was destined to be reborn, it was the Buddhists who opened the Yellow Spring Road. They had a certain chance of success. Of course, for a monk to reincarnate, he would have to be reincarnated into the belly of a Taoist fish dragon, and it would also have to be confirmed that it was the second child. The chance of success is too small, probably about the same as the chance of raising a saint, so I ruled out this answer."

"What about the second answer?"

Guan Guan did not say it directly, but grabbed a book from thin air, opened a page and started reading.

"In ancient times, there were the Yan people, who lived on Taizhang Hill, under the Fusang tree. They were followers of the Phoenix Ancestor. The Yan people stole the Phoenix Ancestor's fire and passed it on to the human tribes..."

Hearing this, Zhou Tieyi frowned slightly.

It's not that the story told by Guan Guan "slandered" the three ancestors of humanity, saying that the Yan people stole fire instead of drilling fire.

After all, he had heard from his mother that before the Taoist priests, Buddhas, and Confucian saints came into the world, the five emperors of the human race established their country and obtained their first pot of gold from gods, which was in line with the actual situation at that time.

Just like the liberation of the people in the colonies, they first needed to obtain advanced production technology from the invaders.

The key point is why Yanrenshi stole fire instead of drilling fire. There is a huge difference between the two in the way of cultivation.

Zhou Tieyi listened patiently as Guan Guan continued reading.

"The Phoenix Ancestor was furious, and the fire lasted for three months. The daughter of the Yan people sensed the fire and gave birth to the Red Emperor. The Red Emperor killed the Yan people in the Dongyi tribe."

Zhou Tieyi's brows furrowed even deeper.

Guan Guan put down the book and said with a smile, "Why? You heard about how the human race started and how the Five Emperors and Sages actually killed the Three Ancestors of Humanity, so you are unhappy?"

Zhou Tieyi relaxed his brows, "Am I so childish in your eyes? If I can't even accept this, how can I fight those people in the court?"

Guan Guan smiled and waited for Zhou Tieyi to ask questions.

Zhou Tieyi asked first, "Is Phoenix Ancestor the source of all flames?"

"No."

Guan Guan said affirmatively, she raised her hand and pointed at the setting sun in the distance, "The Mohists and Gongshuists said that He is not even the God of the Sun."

Zhou Tieyi nodded. The people in this world already have a complete view of the universe. To be honest, this planet cannot contain the source of all fire. This is not an existence at the level of the sun and the moon in the sky, but an existence at the level of the pillars of the universe.

"So the flame stolen by Yanren clan is not a flame in the conventional sense, but a special kind of flame? Do you know what this kind of flame is?"

Guan Guan raised his hand and said, "It's too far away. It's not recorded in the books."

Zhou Tieyi had a speechless expression. Guan Guan must have her own guess, but this guess must be hiding some top-secret information. This information concerns the Nine Ancient Gods, so she is unwilling to share it with him for no reason.

However, the information I know is indeed not enough. Once I get the book from Guan Guan, maybe I can see more information.

He then analyzed the second paragraph.

"The Scarlet Emperor was born from the induction of the daughter of the Yanren clan..."

He could accept this, after all, his mother was most likely born in the same way. However, there was a slight difference between Chidi and his mother.

"Can the Scarlet Emperor be considered the son of Phoenix Ancestor?"

Guan Guan smiled and said, "Isn't this very obvious? Although Phoenix Ancestor hated the Yanren Clan for stealing fire, at that time, hundreds of gods were fighting for the power of heaven and earth, and the Nine Ancient Gods had not yet ascended to the throne, like the sun and the moon soaring in the sky, so Phoenix Ancestor needed the human clan's followers. He couldn't kill all the Yanren Clan, as that would only further weaken his own strength and put himself in greater danger in the war."

"So He gave birth to a son out of gratitude. This child was born half-human and half-god, a natural bond between the gods and the human race, able to repair the trust between Phoenix Ancestor and the Yan people. So the Red Emperor's final killing of the Yan people who stole the fire was an acceptable result for both parties. It was also because of this that when Phoenix Ancestor ascended to the Sun and Moon Realm and because the Covenant of the Gods fell asleep, the Red Emperor was able to take over the Yan people and obtain the foundation for the establishment of the Five Nations of the human race."

Zhou Tieyi laughed and said, "That Phoenix Ancestor is really stupid. He was betrayed twice, and he didn't even have a backup plan."

Guan Guan asked back, "How do you know that Feng Zu didn't leave any backup plan on Chi Di?"

"What back-up plan?"

Guan Guan looked at Zhou Tieyi seriously, "These half-human, half-god beings born out of gratitude are the incarnations of gods walking in the human world. If necessary, they are equivalent to the gods themselves. Of course, they need to be activated at the critical moment."

Zhou Tieyi pondered Guan Guan's words, then pointed at himself with a smile, "What's your second guess? Do you think I was also born from the induction of a god?"

Guan Guan did not answer, but just smiled and said nothing.

Zhou Tieyi's smile faded and he changed the subject, "But the Scarlet Emperor still betrayed Phoenix Ancestor. He was indeed stupid enough to even betray himself."

Guan Guan replied, "It's not necessarily that he is stupid. It's also possible that he didn't have time to activate his backup plan, and his plan was ruined by others."

"Who ruined the plot?"

"The nine ancient gods whose names we don't know, or the Daoist Lord, the two of them are most likely to be the ones, and of course the possibility of Yuanshi Tiandi is also not small."

Zhou Tieyi poured himself a glass of wine, shook the clear wine, and digested the information Guan Guan had just given him. He then poured a glass of wine for Guan Guan as well. After drinking the wine himself, he asked.

"Before being activated, the incarnation created by the god's induction is an independent individual?"

Guan Guan picked up the wine glass and drank it all. "Yes, this can deceive most of the detection methods in the world, especially in the late ancient times and the early ancient times. This is still a very 'novel' method that has never appeared before. Most of the human race would not think of it in this way."

Zhou Tieyi put down his wine glass and asked, "Will the Shinto invade the Bingzhong this time also use this method?"

The main reason he came to find Guan Guan this time was to know how the arrangements on the Shinto side were going. Guan Guan also knew the purpose of his visit, so she told him such an informative story.

Guan Guan smiled charmingly, "How can it be called an invasion? I'm just taking back some things that belong to me."

She stopped smiling and looked in the direction of Yujing Mountain. "If the Great Xia Emperor was still in the Sun and Moon Realm, he would have the ability to investigate. Every time someone entered the Tomb of the Soldiers, they would have gone through a round of investigation like this. But he doesn't have that ability now."

Zhou Tieyi shook his head, "But he still agreed to open the military tomb."

The hidden meaning behind what he said was that the Emperor of Daxia was still capable of controlling the overall situation, at least he believed that he was capable of controlling the overall situation.

It can't be possible that His Majesty the Great Xia thinks he has the ability to control the overall situation among a bunch of first-grade people, right?
"Is this a trap?"

Guan Guan's expression rarely became serious. "Some traps have to be stepped on. Only in this way can we know how deep the trap is and whether it can kill people."

"Who are the people that Shinto is going to send to take action?"

Zhou Tieyi asked curiously.

Guan Guan asked back, "Do you think that the Shinto community is friendly and respectful to each other, and that they can communicate openly about everything?"

Zhou Tieyi said embarrassedly, "Of course not. After all, before the human race gained unification, the hatred between the nine ancient gods within the Shinto was probably no less than that between them and the human race. They even united now, not because they hated the human race more, but because this was the only way to survive."

"You don't need to know who those idiots are going to send. The only thing I want to remind you is that the priest of the Great Illusionary Lord, whom we call the Illusion Priest, will also take action this time. So when I was contacting people, I didn't encounter any major obstacles. This is the result of his tacit consent." "Even you can't guess his arrangement? Not at all?"

Guan Guan's expression changed naturally, and she suddenly showed shyness like a young girl, "I'm young, it's normal that you can't guess."

Zhou Tieyi was talking about serious matters and was thinking about how to compete with the world's top group of people in a battle of wits and courage. He was suddenly speechless after being pestered by Guan Guan.

"You're too young to guess?"

"Of course." Guan Guan returned to normal, "Do you know how long the Illusion Priest has lived? The Great Illusionary Realm was established two hundred and fifty years ago. Before that, the Illusion Priest had already escaped unscathed from the siege of two top-grade masters. To be frank, he has existed longer than the entire Great Xia. Even if he funded the Great Xia's great ancestor and left a corresponding backup plan, I would not be surprised."

Zhou Tieyi thought about it carefully based on his own layout and nodded subconsciously.

Indeed, living longer is an advantage.

The Lord of Daming Palace once said that the world is like a chess game. As long as people live long enough, many problems will no longer be problems.

I could have made my moves at will three hundred or four hundred years ago, and I wouldn't have noticed any changes to many of the pieces when I placed them, let alone the enemies.

But if you just wait a few hundred years, many chess pieces will undergo sufficiently miraculous changes on their own. As long as you activate the backhand at this time and connect the chess pieces together, you may be able to produce an unexpected stroke of genius.

Suddenly, he changed his mind.

Feng Zu must have thought similarly at the beginning, so he did not rush to activate Chi Di's back-up plan. Unfortunately, this stroke of genius was seen through by others, so it immediately became a hopelessly stupid move.

"What do you suggest?"

Guan Guan said seriously, "Before you have enough strength, don't interfere with their layout. As long as you don't interfere with their layout, they will only consider opponents of the same level when making moves, and will not specifically target you..."

At this point, Guan Guan smiled and said, "Of course, if you can suppress the Phantom Priest in one fell swoop and then seize the throne of Da Xia, Guan Guan will be even happier."

"How can we act without considering their layout and without interfering with their layout?"

Guan Guan smiled and said, "Just go with the flow."

“No matter how they plan, they cannot avoid many basic rules. For example, a closed small world needs to be connected inside and outside to break the barrier. Only when the barrier is broken, the Phantom Priest will take action. In that way, even if he fails, if the Emperor of Daxia is not a saint, he can ensure his own safety.”

Zhou Tieyi interrupted thoughtfully, "The Soldiers' Tomb is a closed little world."

He was not entirely surprised by the news.

"The Tomb of Soldiers contains part of the power of the Nine Ancient Gods?"

The Nine Ancient Gods are almost in harmony with the Tao and are difficult to kill completely, so sealing and suppression are the most commonly used means.

"Of course, otherwise how can I convince the people in the Grand Illusionary Realm to take action?"

"So the third-grade god who entered the Tomb of Soldiers with the Divine Embryo method this time is our target. To break the internal and external connection of a small world, we must attack from the weakest places in the world. This is related to the secret of the Tomb of Soldiers. There are probably less than a handful of people in the world who know about it. The Illusion Priest probably knows it, but I don't. But you know it. As long as we know these weak points, we will have mastered the key objective laws, and we can follow the trend whether it is to kill or to seize treasures."

After analyzing this sentence, Zhou Tieyi had to admit that Guan Guan was right.

Zhou Tieyi looked at Guan Guan and asked tentatively, "You won't take action?"

Guan Guan did not answer directly.

Zhou Tieyi thought of the half tiger talisman in his hand that could open the soldier's tomb, and he had already made up his mind.

He asked again, "Is the soldier's tomb in the Yellow Spring under Yujing Mountain?"

Guan Guan nodded in affirmation.

Then, as if he remembered something, he walked back to the piano and began to play.

The sound of the piano is melodious and plaintive.

Just when Zhou Tieyi was trying to get more information indirectly, a beautiful singing voice suddenly came from a distance.

Zhou Tieyi looked at Guan Guan. Since Guan Guan had taken action, the space where the two of them were should be sealed off from inside and outside.

If the singing could be heard now, it would mean that Guan Guan intended to end today's topic. It was even possible that she had prepared this in advance and was ending the whole conversation in this natural way.

Guan Guan stopped playing the piano and asked, "Is this song nice?"

Zhou Tieyi looked in the direction of the singing, and saw a 'lotus picker' in green picking lotus flowers from the lake and singing leisurely on the crimson lake.

Uniform what?

Zhou Tieyi understood instantly that this was the advanced way of playing in Linshuixuan. Although it was a common way of playing in his era, it was still very novel in this era.

Especially for those dignitaries who claim to be elegant and are used to the bright lights and feasting, they are used to seeing gorgeous clothes and golden hairpins on weekdays, and suddenly seeing a "lotus picking girl" will give them a sense of freshness, as if they are an old man but still young.

Zhou Tieyi did not answer. He only saw the lotus boat approach the shore. The lotus-picking girl took the opportunity to go up to the waterside pavilion and bowed slightly. "Sir, I just heard Sister Guan Guan playing the piano, so I couldn't help but sing along. I hope I didn't disturb your interest?"

She held a bunch of lotus flowers and bowed, revealing a large area of ​​snow-white skin, but her whole body was half-hidden in the lotus flowers. While the ripples of the water were rippling, there was a sense of shyness of a beautiful girl next door.

Out of habit, Zhou Tieyi first looked at the luck above Cai Lian's head.

Pink lingers, men and women are in love.

Oh my goodness, so you are in Linshuixuan!
No wonder she dared to plot against me in the illusory world of Taixu. If she didn't have a long-term and stable identity that could get in touch with me, the possibility of success for a woman who suddenly appeared and approached me would be too small.

Zhou Tieyi hooked his finger, "Look up, what's your name?"

The lotus-picking girl looked up shyly, "My stage name is Shanyin."

Zhou Tieyi looked at Guan Guan beside him, "This Miss Shanyin sings beautifully..."

Guan Guan played the strings of the zither just right, and a few sad notes fell, and he sighed, "The youth has faded, and the new music has started. Who knows the oath we made in the past?"

Zhou Tieyi laughed and patted Guan Guan's hand, "After listening to the piano music today, I shouldn't listen to new music. It's my fault, it's my fault."

Just when Shanyin thought that this opportunity was not good enough and that Zhou Tieyi might scold her, Zhou Tieyi suddenly gave Shanyin a look and said with a sigh, "You are beautiful, but your tea art is a little inferior."

Shanyin was stunned. Tea art?
I didn't even pour the tea, so why are we talking about tea art?
For a moment, she couldn't follow Zhou Tieyi's thoughts, and only felt that Zhou Tieyi's words were indeed as profound as the rumors said.

But no matter how profound it is, isn't it just about lusting after beauty?

This romantic celebrity cannot avoid it, and Zhou Tieyi, the peerless jester, naturally cannot avoid it either.

Shanyin confirmed her thoughts in her heart.

Zhou Tieyi continued, "You should learn the art of tea from Guan Guan. Guan Guan's tea art is very advanced. It's getting late today, and I have official business to attend to, so I won't stay here overnight."

Shanyin understood this sentence.

This was considered a preliminary acceptance of her, but she needed to be reviewed by Guan Guan first. She quickly said, "I will definitely learn from Sister Guan Guan. When you come to Linshui Pavilion next time, please try my tea art."

Zhou Tieyi smiled even more happily and nodded, "I will definitely try your tea art."

After Zhou Tieyi left, Shanyin bowed to Guan Guan, "Sister Guan Guan."

Guan Guan snorted coldly, "Who asked you to come?"

Shanyin was not afraid of Guanguan's cold snort at all, she just smiled without answering. Even though Guanguan was now the manager of Linshuixuan, she was not afraid, because if she came at this time, the other managers of Linshuixuan would be happy to see it.

Guan Guan suddenly sighed, "Let me give you some advice."

"Sister, please speak."

"He is not someone you can control. You are just like a moth flying into a flame."

(End of this chapter)