Chapter 270 The True Duty of the God-Slaying Division
Half of the tiger talisman emitted a pure white glow, enveloping the people who had evolved into giant tigers that were a hundred feet long.
The moment Huang Yuquan saw the sitting figure in the center, his soul shook slightly, just like the ghost soldiers around him, and he couldn't help but want to kowtow.
This impulse of worship comes from two aspects. On the one hand, it is the cultural influence that human beings have received since childhood. Everyone knows that the Five Emperors are the ancestors of human beings. Without the Five Emperors, human beings would not be able to support the advent of the Three Saints. This spiritual imprint has been passed down for thousands of years and has been engraved in the blood, just like people will naturally feel afraid when they see a snake.
On the other hand, even if Baidi fell, the power contained in his corpse was still enough to crush everyone present.
It can even be said that without the protection of even half a tiger talisman, everyone present would be completely crushed the moment they saw Baidi's corpse.
Zhou Tieyi sighed softly, "The White Emperor is the ancestor of the human race and should be worshipped."
After saying that, he took the lead in bowing to the corpse of Baidi, and Huang Yuquan and others also bowed. It was not known whether it was due to psychological reasons, but after bowing to Baidi, everyone clearly felt that the tremor of their souls had weakened, as if they had received some kind of comfort.
But the tiger talisman in Zhou Tieyi's hand began to shake violently, trying to jump out of Zhou Tieyi's control and fly towards the direction of Baidi's corpse.
Instead, those gilded dragon seals formed shackles, preventing the tiger from coming together.
Zhou Tieyi looked at the corpse of Baidi, and saw the other half of the tiger talisman lying quietly in the left palm of the corpse, forming a strong attraction between the two.
Once he stepped forward, this trend of unity would be unstoppable. Every step forward would rapidly improve until the two tiger talismans were completely united and completely out of his control.
According to Zhou Tieyi's perception, there is another power hidden under the corpse of the White Emperor. This power has the same origin as the corpse of the White Emperor, and even the same origin as the Blood God Son controlled by Zhou Tieyi, but it is suppressed here by the corpse of the White Emperor.
The first leader of the Blood Sea to master the power of weapons.
What if the two tigers fit together?
Will the corpse of the White Emperor show some signs of revival?
I originally thought that the tiger talisman in my hand was used to mobilize the ghost soldiers in the soldiers' tomb, or at most the most core Yulin Army. But now it seems that this tiger talisman hides more secrets, and the fact that the Emperor of Great Xia gave me the tiger talisman also has more interpretations, allowing me to revive the corpse of the White Emperor at the most critical moment?
Thinking of this, Zhou Tieyi exhaled a breath of foul air and ordered, "After worshipping the White Emperor, let's leave this place first."
Inside this blood-colored tornado is the tomb of Baidi. It is a pity that this one of the five emperors of the human race is standing alone in the tomb, with no grass growing around it and no burial objects at all.
An hour later, Zhou Tieyi and many ghost soldiers returned to the Huwei Army's trap camp first.
During this period, Zhou Tieyi also roughly sorted out some ideas.
The information you already know.
In the ancient times, the ancient gods had already found a path leading directly to the level of 'Sun and Moon', so they fought against each other in order to gain more luck and power.
In this process, humans have great advantages as followers compared to other animals, so far-sighted gods began to transform humans into their followers, training them into fighting forces to help them fight for divine power.
This was also the first rise of mankind.
In this process of rise, humans were not willing to serve as a foil to the gods.
During this process, things like the Yan people stealing fire happened, reflecting the early conflicts between gods and humans.
But at that time, the battle between gods was the main conflict, and humans' "weakness" became a protective color.
Therefore, the gods, led by Phoenix Ancestor, would take the approach of giving birth to a divine fetus, that is, a half-human, half-god existence, to better control the human race.
In the eyes of humans at that time, they did not know that the gods could completely control the divine fetus at will, so they naturally thought that this was a concession made by the gods to humans, and continued to accept the control of their own main gods and fight for the gods to conquer the world.
At the end of the ancient times, the nine gods ascended to the realm of the sun and the moon one by one. However, the battles among themselves and their previous injuries made them decide to temporarily sign a covenant and recuperate with each other.
Because they left behind a 'backup plan' to control humans, the Nine Gods did not completely regard humans as their opponents during this period. After all, all of humanity's civilization at this time came from the Nine Gods.
In this world with Taoism, the fact that civilization comes from the Nine Gods means that humans will almost never be able to escape the influence of the Nine Gods.
But while they were sleeping, something strange happened.
The academy containing the knowledge of the previous world descended from the sky and brought new civilization and tradition to mankind.
The five gods' most trusted priests, the Five Emperors of humanity, began to rebel, and based on the nine gods remaining in the human world, they established the earliest five kingdoms.
According to the information obtained from Guan Guan, Chidi was originally a member of the Yanren tribe and was also the divine fetus of Fengzu.
Then, by comparing ourselves with the Five Emperors, we can make a bold assumption that the remaining four emperors are also the fetuses of the Nine Gods.
Zhou Tieyi already knew the names of the nine ancient gods, except for the most mysterious one, through the book "Tonggu Jilue" at home.
The Emperor of the Underworld who controls life and death.
The leader of the blood sea who controls weapons, flesh, and killing.
The Nine-Sky Thunder God who controls thunder and destruction.
The master of dreams, Taixuhuan.
Mother Earth who controls the earth.
The Phoenix Ancestor who controls flying birds and special flames.
The blue dragon that controls the scales and water veins. And the emperor who finally established the Heavenly Palace and made the other eight gods stop fighting, and was implicitly the leader of the nine gods.
Combined with the story between Yanrenshi and Chidi.
Zhou Tieyi can even make a simple pairing.
The Tieshou clan who made weapons, the Xuehai Zunshu who controlled weapons, and the Baidi might have a strong connection. At least, he was now very sure that the Baidi was the divine fetus created by the Xuehai Zunshu.
Sang Geng, who taught the original method of sowing, may have a strong connection with the Earth Mother, Huangdi.
Of course, the way of sowing may also be related to the Green Emperor.
However, considering my own practice of [The Five Emperors' Treasures] and the manifestation of the Five Emperors' images, the image of Huangdi is the one holding wheat ears and the baby symbol, so I am more inclined to the former guess.
The Black Emperor is definitely related to the Blue Dragon, and there is a small chance that he is related to the Emperor of the Netherworld.
He is the last Green Emperor and there is no corresponding god for the time being. Maybe he is related to the Emperor of Heaven, or maybe he is the last god whose name is unknown.
Then came the first year of modern times, when the academy was built, the Five Emperors rebelled, and they supported the first kingdom of the human race, accumulating luck and time for the Taoist Master, the Buddha, and the Confucian Sage to reach the summit.
When the nine ancient gods awakened from their slumber, an epic war ensued.
The wars in the entire recent ancient times should have been more brutal than those in the ancient period of a hundred gods, because although there were fewer forces involved, there were a total of twelve beings who had ascended to the realm of the sun and the moon, five beings who were extremely close to the realm of the sun and the moon, or there were powerful beings hidden among them that they were unaware of.
The history in between can even be said to be a gap, with no clear historical records.
All we know is that in the end, the human race paid the entirety of modern times, paid the price of the Five Emperors, Buddhas, and Confucian sages, and killed and sealed the Nine Ancient Gods one by one.
But according to the nature of the human species, after dealing with powerful external enemies, it is time to fight for power internally.
This is actually the time when the human race is at its most vulnerable and most likely to be counterattacked by Shinto.
Because the Five Emperors and Buddha died one after another, the Taoist disappeared, and the Confucian sage was seriously injured, those with ulterior motives would definitely try to seize power.
In the eyes of ambitious people, it is the power of Shinto, which has been crippled, that is worth using.
At least if I were born in that era, I would make this choice.
Therefore, in order to prevent internal strife among the human race and allow the Shintoism to revive, the Confucian sage suppressed the entire Central Plains humanity for five hundred years.
Although the human race was still in civil war during this period, at least it did not give Shinto a chance to revive.
It was not until the first year of Renhe that the Holy Emperor was born, which was the time when this world historian began to compile the "General History".
The subsequent records are traceable and even clear.
The Holy Emperor lived for five hundred years, and the Great Yan Dynasty also existed for five hundred years.
After the destruction of the Great Yan Dynasty.
During the Five Dynasties of the North and South, the State of Wei inherited the Taoist tradition of the Black Emperor and established its country, the State of Zhao inherited the Taoist tradition of the Green Emperor and established its country, the State of Yan inherited the Taoist tradition of the Yellow Emperor and established its country, the State of Chen inherited the Taoist tradition of the White Emperor and established its country, and the State of Qi inherited the Taoist tradition of the Red Emperor and established its country.
After a full thousand years, the Taoist tradition of the Five Emperors began to revive, and the entire world was plunged into another five hundred years of war.
It was not until Taizu of Daxia destroyed the four kingdoms and revive Shinto that he finally ascended to the realm of the sun and the moon in an incomplete form three hundred years ago.
There is a key message hidden in this process.
That is, the Taoist tradition of the Five Emperors, like the Nine Ancient Gods, is actually deeply bound to the human race. Even if the Confucian sages suppressed Shintoism for five hundred years, the two cannot be separated.
Because when the human race first started to rise, it did receive luck and resources from Shinto.
Human beings cannot deny the Five Emperors, and naturally they cannot deny the Nine Ancient Gods who extend from the Five Emperors.
Each round of revival of the Five Emperors' Taoism would inevitably lead to the revival of the Shintoism. Therefore, whether out of consideration for the country or because he himself was an incomplete saint, when Taizu of Daxia built the military tomb, he moved the "country" of the four countries - that is, the bones of the Five Emperors - into the military tomb and suppressed them together.
The only thing that puzzled Zhou Tieyi was that Zhao State, as the Taoist lineage of the Qing Emperor, retained its altar because of the alliance with Taizu of Daxia. This also led to the fact that the fortune of Shinto in Daxia had never died out, just like weeds that would grow again the next year.
When Taizu of Daxia made this decision, was it because of the helplessness of the current situation that forced him to make such a choice, or was there another calculation hidden behind it?
However, the only thing Zhou Tieyi was sure of was that it was difficult for the current emperor to maintain such a huge suppression. After he fell from the realm of saint, he had to release some of the suppressive power of the soldier tomb to relieve the pressure on him.
That was why when I petitioned to open the military tomb, he agreed so readily and even handed over the tiger talisman to me. He was also handing the right of choice to me, a capable minister.
This tiger talisman is the key of a prison guard.
Whoever you let go, you have to catch them back!
This is the duty of the God-Slaying Department.
(End of this chapter)