Chapter 486 The fog of history... What is the truth?
Jiang Yao shook her feather fan gently, "You can either save the world or yourself, but you have to save one of them. The teacher is really confident and confident in what he said."
"But if you sacrifice the common people and exhaust the luck of the dynasty, just to save yourself. Then you can go to another fairyland and feel at ease, and the road will be traceless?"
Jiang Yin's voice is like still water running deep:
"Of course I want to save the world as a master. Even Yao Fei and the few self-proclaimed saints from the Tianping Divine Sect originally wanted to save the world."
"But there is no way. It is too difficult to save the world, far more difficult than saving yourself. Even if your Ming Dynasty unifies the world, rebuilds the destiny of the dynasty, and saves the world, the probability of success is less than half."
"This less than half chance of success is the result of the joint efforts of the three of us, master and apprentice."
"But if you want to save yourself, as long as you capture half of the world, just using the luck of the dynasty is enough. There is a 100% probability that you don't even need to unify the four realms of the immortal world."
"For example, Zhengyi, with half of the world in his hands, he can control the fate of the dynasty in the fairy world, enough to sacrifice the people, open the passage to the fairy world in another dimension, and lead a very small number of people to escape."
When Jiang Yao heard Jiang Yin mention Jiang Zhengyi, his smile became even more depressed.
Sneered silently.
This cheap brother is really a destined enemy. The old man obviously has high hopes for him.
By the way, the old man also has another identity: the Supreme Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Fortunately, I did not respect him as the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, how embarrassing would it be if the Qing Emperor and the Ming Dynasty were the same person?
Jiang Yin continued: "Construction is always much harder than destruction. If you want to save the world, you must completely unify the world and truly achieve the cause of human emperor. You must also reach the ninth level of medicine. You also need...every requirement is difficult."
"There is such a huge difference in difficulty between saving the world and saving yourself. How do you choose? This choice is not difficult. Forces that hope to dominate will most likely choose to save themselves and regretfully give up saving the world."
"But my teacher has been working hard to save the world for many years, and he has worked so hard to save the world. Am I not letting the world down?"
"It is said that if you are successful, you can help the world, but if you are poor, you can only take care of yourself. If you are prepared in advance, you will fail. If you are not prepared, you will be ruined. Prepare with both hands and be in an invincible position. Is there anything wrong?"
"The Tao has yin and yang, the heart has good and evil, the sky has day and night, and the moon has its waxing and waning. This is the ultimate principle in the world. As a teacher, you save the world on the one hand, and save yourself on the other, taking into account both public and private matters. This is the only right thing to do."
"The immortal world has been deeply poisoned. If this trend continues, a catastrophe will inevitably come in thousands of years."
"If you sacrifice all sentient beings and sacrifice your destiny to save yourself, the world's catastrophe will come early. If you don't sacrifice all living beings to save yourself, it will only be thousands of years later, and you will still not be able to escape."
"Although sacrificing the common people will prevent catastrophe in advance, it can at least save yourself. If you don't sacrifice the common people, the catastrophe will still come thousands of years later, so what's the point?"
"So, if the fairy world can't save it, then it's better to break the jar and recycle the waste."
Jiang Yao touched the little snake on his sleeve, his expression was calm and calm, without any anger at all.
"Very good. Thank you teacher for being so candid. Since the teacher has taken care of both sides, there must be bias, right? Does the teacher prefer me to save the world, or Jiang Zhengyi to save himself?"
Jiang Yin smiled, "Does this need to be said? Of course Wei Shi hopes to save the world, but saving himself is just a last resort. Wei Shi was the first to discover that the immortal world was poisoned. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Shi worked hard to save the world."
"But I will not help you deal with Zhengyi, nor will I help Zhengyi deal with you."
"There are three possibilities for the world in the future. One is that the right person wins, the other is that you win, and the third is that someone else wins."
"Others may save the world, or they may save themselves. Or they may fail to save the world and save themselves."
"I have done enough as a teacher, and I cannot help anyone else. Otherwise, the cause and effect will hinder my path to immortality in the world of mortals, which will be very detrimental to me."
"The legitimate son is the son of Concubine Yao. They are members of the Self-Save Sect. As a teacher, I cannot help you deal with them."
"Similarly, you and I have been my master and apprentice for two generations, and you are also my son. I can't help Zhengyi deal with you."
"The palms and backs of your hands are all flesh, it's up to you to fight."
"Hahaha." Jiang Yao laughed when he heard this, "Okay. If you don't help Jiang Zhengyi, it's already good. I already know many things and don't need to ask you, but there are some things I still need the teacher to clarify."
Jiang Yin stroked his beard, "You want to know who poisoned the immortal world and why?"
Jiang Yao frowned and nodded: "That's right. Although I have awakened the memory of my past life, I have been thinking for a long time, but I still can't figure out the truth about the poisoning in the fairy world."
"I'm just speculating that it has something to do with the Black Abyss."
"My second life, Li Sui, once extracted the fairy spirit veins arranged by the ancient Emperor Shennong in the depths of the black abyss. However, there were nine fairy spirit veins on the seal at that time, and Li Sui only drew one. Logically speaking, there would be no impact.
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"Unless, someone else later took away the fairy spirit vein."
Jiang Yin suddenly showed a wry smile, "It turns out that the person who first took away the fairy spirit veins was your second generation Li Sui. You guessed it right. Later, someone else did take away the fairy spirit veins."
Jiang Yao couldn't help coughing, "Isn't it you, the teacher? I know that the teacher has the ability to enter the deepest part of the black abyss and have the opportunity to see the Shennong Sealing Altar."
Jiang Yin also coughed, "Ahem, you guessed it right again. It is indeed my teacher..."
Jiang Yao's expression suddenly became much uglier.
"However, I only took out one." Jiang Yin's hand twirling his beard was a little strong, "I only took out one, and there are seven more. Ordinarily, it will not affect the fate of the central mortal world. But -"
Jiang Yao sighed, "But after you, is there anyone else who extracts the fairy spirit veins from Shennong's Fengtan Altar?"
Jiang Yin's expression was a little strange, "Yes, after me, someone else did extract the immortal spirit vein. Alas, the one who started it has no descendants."
"Who is it?" Jiang Yao couldn't help but ask.
Jiang Yin chuckled, "Guess."
I guess?
Jiang Yao's expression also became strange, "Isn't it... my junior brother?"
"You guessed it right again. Who is he?" Jiang Yin was also speechless. "The person who extracted the immortal spiritual veins after me was his second incarnation, the late Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!"
"Although he was the king of the Immortal Tang Dynasty in his second life, he was still a generation of Immortal Emperors with vast supernatural powers. Of course, he could also go to the depths of the Black Abyss and see Shennong's seal."
"Ha." Jiang Yao couldn't help but patted the tree trunk, "After working for a long time, we are the three masters and disciples who took away the immortal spiritual veins?"
"That's not entirely true." Jiang Yin's expression was a little solemn, "I was a national preceptor in the late Tang Dynasty, and I know that the emperor in the late Tang Dynasty also had a fairy spirit vein taken away."
"Even if the three of us, the master and the disciple, each take one away, there will still be six left, and the fate of the central mortal world will still not be revealed."
"But I have been patrolling the Black Abyss all year round, and I found that someone later extracted the fairy spirit veins. And all the remaining six fairy spirit veins were taken away!"
"When I discovered that the Shen Nong Feng Altar in the depths of the Black Abyss didn't even have a single fairy spirit vein, I immediately understood that the person who took away the six fairy spirit veins was definitely not doing it for the fairy spirit veins, but was carrying out a conspiracy."
"But the Black Abyss is too deep and too big, and there are too few people who have the ability to enter the depths of the Black Abyss. By the time I discovered the problem, it was already too late."
"The sealing altar has collapsed, and the fate of the Central Mortal Realm has been leaked, which means that the catastrophe of the Central Mortal Realm has already come, and it is too late."
"How important is the central mortal world? It is the foundation of the immortal world and the mother of the planes. If the destiny of the central mortal realm declines greatly, the destiny of the immortal world will decline rapidly. Only when the destiny of the immortal world declines greatly will it be poisoned."
"I immediately used hexagrams to deduce, but the strange thing is that nothing can be deduced. It's as if something went wrong with the rules of heaven."
Jiang Yao nodded: "Of course you can't deduce it. The poisoner had already poisoned it at that time, and Hei Abyss was at the moment when the poison occurred. Under the poison of the rules, it's strange that you can still deduce it in Hei Abyss."
Jiang Yin sighed with emotion, "Yes, that's it. But I didn't know what the problem was at the time."
"So, the catastrophe happened so suddenly that no one could have imagined it."
Jiang Yao frowned, "The poison comes from the Black Abyss, passes through the Void Sea, and finally enters the fairy world. You have been in the Black Abyss all year round, haven't you noticed that there is poison in the Black Abyss?"
"I discovered it." Jiang Yin fell into memories, "On the day I discovered that all the fairy spiritual veins had been taken away, I discovered the strange mist a million miles away from the Xuan Ni Gate."
"The strange fog is gray, and it is very secretive in the black abyss. Moreover, the rules of the black abyss shield spiritual consciousness so much that I can't even see what is inside this strange fog."
"I can only perceive that this is an extremely powerful poison, and it is a poison of rules. Perhaps it is an evil avenue. It seems to have no poisonous domain, and it seems that its poisonous domain is everywhere.
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"With my cultivation and status at that time, there were too few things in the fairy world that could scare me. Even in a terrifying world like the Black Abyss, I was rarely afraid."
"But when I saw that strange gray fog, I felt a fear I had never experienced before. Wherever that strange gray fog went, the black abyss was corroded into decaying nothingness."
"The huge black abyss seems to be filled with this poisonous mist. The rules in the black abyss are quickly infected, poisoned, and distorted and mutated."
"I was one of the very few immortals with the strongest power in the immortal world at that time, and my magical powers of time and space were unparalleled in the world. It was by relying on the laws of time and space that I was able to escape the contamination of the strange gray mist and survive."
"Even I almost died, but those weird gray fogs are so powerful. To this day, I don't know what existence is hidden in the fog."
"The direction in which the poisonous mist drifts is the Void Sea. Its speed is ridiculously fast. In just one day, it spread from the depths of the Black Abyss to the Void Sea."
Jiang Yao was also surprised when he heard this.
Too fast!
How big is the Black Abyss?
Bigger than the fairy world!
The black abyss is not a void, but a black hole in the void. It is a unique space, the cavity of one universe, and the passage connecting other universes.
And the Gate of Xuanfei is in the deepest part of the black abyss.
At that time, the second generation Li Sui, after abdicating the throne, practiced Taoism for hundreds of years near the Xuanmen Gate in the depths of the Black Abyss, and created the great magical power "Huan", which allowed him to conceive and transform into clones.
Jiang Yao has the memory of his second life, so of course he is no stranger to the Black Abyss.
The Gate of Xuan Ni is a billion miles away from the Void Sea. With Li Sui's cultivation level, it would take more than half a month to get from the Sea of Void to the Gate of Xuan Ni.
But the gray fog arrived in one day.
Jiang Yin showed a look of regret, "It's so fast? How can it be stopped? It just passed through the Void Sea once and poisoned the Void Sea."
"When it arrived in the fairy world and refused to leave, it finally caused a catastrophe that would destroy the world."
"Under the poisoning of the immortal world, the rules mutate and suddenly kill the powerful ones with high cultivation levels. The stronger the people, the deeper the poisoning and the faster they fall. It's like heaven is erasing the immortals."
"The immortals who have not fallen at that time all have one characteristic. They are either in the Void Sea or in other special small worlds."
"It was only in the Void Sea that I didn't perish. I didn't return to the fairyland until after the great tribulation."
"The Immortal Emperor and Immortal Queen, including the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, all fell. The powerful Immortal Tang Dynasty perished. The Immortal World was poisoned and turned into the True World, and local forces rose. This started the history of the Wu family for more than 200,000 years."
"After the catastrophe, the few remaining earthly immortals tried their best to find out the truth about the poisoning in the immortal world and the mastermind behind the poisoning, but they had no clue at all. They only knew that it was related to the Black Abyss."
"Everyone has different conclusions. Some say it was done by the soul of the Six-Fingered Immortal who escaped into the Black Abyss; some say it was done by a strong man from another world; some say it was done by a mysterious existence in the Black Abyss."
"Some say it was caused by mysterious beings in the void; some say it was caused by beings in the very depths of the earth. Because both the void and the depths of the earth are connected to the black abyss by passages."
"Some people say that there was no one who poisoned it, and it was entirely the work of heaven; some even say that the poisonous mist is a monster born from the Xuan Ni Gate."
"These statements are all possible, and there is no consensus. Even I haven't found out the truth yet. Unfortunately, even I don't know what you want to know."
"But although we didn't find out the truth, we found a way to detoxify the immortal world. First, we need to restore the destiny of the central mortal world, and then establish a new immortal dynasty and control the destiny of the king... You all know these."
Jiang Yaomou thought, "What about the teacher's guess about the poisoner?"
He wanted to know what Jiang Yin was thinking to confirm his own thoughts.
Jiang Yin replied: "I was the first person to discover the poisonous fog, and I was also the one who observed the poisonous fog most clearly. Although the rules of the black abyss and the strange gray fog will block the spiritual consciousness, I can still perceive the 'similar ancientness' of the gray fog!"
Similar to ancient?
Jiang Yao was startled when he heard this. Even though he had regained his memory and was very knowledgeable, he had never heard the term "similar to ancient".
What is similar to ancient?
Could it be that it is like a fake cultural relic, deliberately made old and fake?
"Are you weird?" Jiang Yin smiled, a little weirdly. "I couldn't find the words to describe it at the time. But apart from coining the word 'similar to ancient', there really is no language to describe it."
"Let's put it this way. If I hadn't understood the basics of the laws of time and space and mastered a certain amount of magical powers of time and space, I wouldn't even be able to perceive this 'ancient-like' characteristic."
When Jiang Yao heard this, his heart suddenly jumped, as if he remembered something!
Jiang Yin saw Jiang Yao's expression and knew that he had thought of the key to the matter, "Yes, he has indeed been an Immortal Emperor. You may have guessed it."
"What is ancient? Theoretically speaking, if it is very far away from the current time, it is defined as ancient. But such a definition may not be accurate."
"Because, what is far away from the current time is not only the distant past, but also the distant future."
"The reason why it is said to be similar to ancient is that my law of time and space senses that although the poisonous mist is very ancient, it is not historical ancient, but future ancient!"
"Yes." Jiang Yao nodded, "In this case, there is indeed no more suitable word than "similar to ancient". Then, the poisonous fog may really come from the distant future."
If this is true, then the truth is even more difficult to accept. God knows what will happen in the distant future?
Or is it that the truth of time is just a ring, the highest level of reincarnation?
Jiang Yin said: "The poisonous fog coming from the distant future is just a hypothesis of mine, and the evidence is not sufficient. In fact, I am a historian, and I am still used to using historical methodology to solve questions."
"This hypothesis is not the most terrifying. But scholars must make bold assumptions and be careful to verify. The most terrifying hypothesis is... I won't mention it. Compared with this hypothesis, I would rather the truth comes from the future."
Is there a scarier hypothesis?
Jiang Yao thought about it and seemed to have captured a more terrifying hypothesis. However, this hypothesis was really a bit absurd and scary.
Jiang Yin continued:
"The poisoner may come from the distant future. He may also be a strange monster, or he may be a contemporary power with ulterior motives. There is too little historical evidence, and there is a lack of valuable information and physical evidence."
"Since we don't even know who the poisoner was, let alone the purpose and motivation of the poisoning. After so many years, it is still a huge historical mystery."
Jiang Yao suddenly remembered something, "Then who destroyed civilization? Who destroyed the four famous religions, destroyed the collection of classics and history, and caused the ancient civilization to fall apart? Isn't this an important historical clue?"
"No." Jiang Yin shook his head, "It was not the mysterious poisoners who destroyed ancient civilizations, but the charmed tapirs and the vampires. The answer is very clear."
"This is a tragedy that happened thousands of years after the fall of the Immortal Tang Dynasty. I was already asleep and feigning death at the time, without knowing it. This is what I investigated after I woke up."
"It turns out that a thousand years after the fall of the Immortal Tang Dynasty, various forces were scattered and fighting each other, and their vitality was severely damaged, which gave the Charming Tapir and the Blood Tribe an opportunity. The two tribes invaded on a large scale and occupied the four major regions."
"The Charm Tapir occupies the Divine Continent and the Demon Realm, and the Vampire Clan occupies the Demon Realm and the Witch Realm. However, the Charm Tapir and the Vampire Clan did not establish a country. Instead, they were divided into many tribes and the Holy See, ruling the four tribes."
"On the one hand, the Charmed Tapirs and the Blood Demons feed on the four tribes and rule with blood. On the other hand, the nobles of the Charmed Tapir tribes fight each other, the Blood Demon Holy See also fights with each other, and the Charmed Tapirs and the Blood Demons also conquer each other.
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"This also gives the four tribes a little breathing space, and with the large population, they will not be eaten up quickly. However, the Charm Tapir Blood Demon likes to eat those with high cultivation levels, which has caused the average cultivation level of the four tribes to drop significantly.
Lifespan is drastically reduced.”
"Although the Charming Tapir tribes and the Blood Demon Holy Sees are fighting each other endlessly, since they use the monks of the four tribes as food, of course they must destroy their civilization."
"In order to rule the four tribes and occupy the top of the food chain forever, the Charming Tapir and the Blood Demon began a planned destruction of civilization. The two tribes even stopped fighting and joined forces to destroy classics and Taoist temples."
"They have ruled the four tribes for three thousand years and completely destroyed the ancient civilization. Those who knew the history have been eaten by them long ago, and the people who came after them will no longer know the history."
"Three thousand years of bloody rule by the two tribes have completely degenerated the four major domains into a barbaric world. Even the ancient writings have disappeared. The ancient civilization has been discontinued. The four famous religions are unknown to anyone."
Jiang Yao couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "It turns out that more than a thousand years after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the fairy world was occupied by the Charming Tapir Blood Demon, which ruled for more than three thousand years. The monks of the four tribes actually worked as pigs and sheep for three thousand years and became food.
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Jiang Yin also sighed and said:
"At that time, the four tribes were pigs and sheep raised in captivity. The reason why they were not eaten was because there were too many people, and in order to sustainably eat people and eliminate resistance, the Charming Tapir Blood Demon formulated the "Blood Food Law" and slaughtered them in an orderly manner.
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"The so-called orderly slaughter and continuous cannibalism are the reasons why the four races were lucky enough not to be eaten up."
"After the four tribes overthrew the Charming Tapir and the Blood Demon, they all hated this shameful history, so they never mentioned it or recorded it. After more than 200,000 years, the four tribes have long been unaware of these three thousand years of blood and tears."
"Although they turned over, civilization has been cut off and society has greatly regressed, completing the rule of the Wu family for more than 200,000 years."
Jiang Yao asked again: "How did the four tribes overthrow the Charming Tapir and the Blood Tribe?"
Jiang Yin smiled and said, "It's just luck. The tribes of Charming Tapir and the Holy See of Blood Demon have been fighting against each other for two to three thousand years. They suffered heavy casualties and insufficient troops."
"As a result, each tribe and the Holy See slowly began to recruit obedient monks from the four tribes as servant soldiers. In the end, the number of servant troops from the four tribes increased and their status became higher and higher."
"By the time the Charming Tapir and the Blood Demon discover the problem, they will be too big to lose their tail."
"The servant armies of the four tribes realized that the Charming Tapir and the Blood Demon were going to attack them, so they simply took the initiative and launched an uprising. The monks of the four tribes responded one after another."
"However, after three thousand years of good life, the Charming Tapir and the Blood Demon have long lost their former bravery. They were unable to defeat the increasingly powerful rebel army. As a result, they were almost exterminated and had to escape from the Four Realms."
"And the generals of the servant army are the earliest nobles of the Wu family."
"They have become nobles and respect their status. Of course they have to conceal their history of serving as cannon fodder for the Charming Tapir Clan."
"This is why the history of the real world is so secretive, shrouded in mist, and unclear, and there is even no historical tradition at all."
"The destruction of the ancient civilization was the work of the Charming Tapir and the Blood Tribe. The subsequent history of Mo Lake was the work of the Wu Family of the Four Tribes. Once it comes and goes, the history is completely wiped out."
"You were able to build the Ming Dynasty Library and restore many classics and history books based on your memory. This is very good. I agree very much. It shows that you still have the heart of a scholar."
When Jiang Yin said this, he took out a ring and said, "But yours is not complete, it is far from enough. These are the history books I compiled. You can also put them in the Ming Dynasty Library."
"Thank you." Jiang Yao took the ring.
Jiang Yin stood up, "I'm leaving. This time, it may take many years to come back."
"I've done a lot to save the world, but there's still little hope. That's why I didn't oppose Zheng Hei's plan."
"Also, my master did not support Zhengyi. It was his and his mother's plan. I just didn't object, so it was regarded as acquiescence."
"I don't know who will win in the future. If you can dominate the world, I will help you save the fairy world. If the Ming Kingdom is destroyed by Zhengyi or others, it will be God's will, and I will not help you."
He took out four more rings, "These four rings, the red one is for your mother, the blue one is for Jiang Nan, the green one is for Xiucheng, and the black one is for you."
Jiang Yao nodded, but also did not refuse.
"Last question, where are my junior brother and Cui Xiuning? I know they changed history."
Jiang Yin smiled slightly, "They have completed their historical mission and are reincarnated in the central mortal world. I don't know how many years it will take before they will be born. But they are mortal immortals and will always be born again."
"The fact that you care about him means that you are really Jiang Yao, not Yang Xuanming. Otherwise, you should hate him."
As Jiang Yin spoke, his body became unreal.
By the time he finished speaking, his body had disappeared on the spot.
Jiang Yao looked at Jiang Yin's disappearing figure and couldn't help but feel a little sad.
The mood is extremely complicated.
He picked up the black ring given to him by Jiang Yin, and after scanning it with his spiritual consciousness, he couldn't help but be stunned.