Chapter 192 Three Possible Suspects

Wei Yuan and Zhu Jiuyin stared intently at each other.

Wu Zhiqi was slightly better off.

Kua Fu, on the other hand, felt his scalp tingling, and his head was buzzing.

He asked?

He just asked it so directly?

Did he not understand what subtlety was?!

Zhu Jiuyin held his teacup, tilted his head slightly, took a sip, and said calmly, "Why do you ask such a question?"

"You must have a reason."

Wei Yuan's eyes were fixed on Zhu Jiuyin: "Tell me first, was it you?"

Zhu Jiuyin shook his head and said in a flat tone, "It wasn't me."

"My power is limited to the Nine Abyss. It consumes a lot of energy in the outside world. What's more, my main body needs to guard the Nine Abyss, and it is impossible to go out. Therefore, you can believe me on this matter. After all, if I wanted to deal with you, why wouldn't I just drag you into the Nine Abyss and imprison you?"

"Instead of just erasing thirty years of your time and memory?"

Wei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

If the opponent was Zhu Jiuyin, then the pressure would be too great.

"Yeah, I knew it wasn't you."

Wei Yuan said without changing his expression.

When he picked up the teacup, his movements paused. He suddenly thought of Zhu Jiuyin's place in the lower levels of the Nine Abyss, that place that was densely closed like a prison, filled with ingredients and cooking utensils. How did it seem, maybe, it was very suitable for imprisoning a chef?

Wei Yuan's face stiffened slightly, and he said, "Also, Zhu Jiuyin, you were joking about dragging me into the Nine Abyss, right? Ha, haha..."

Zhu Jiuyin raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes ancient.

This ancient god, with a detached expression and rarely showing emotions, looked at Wei Yuan and suddenly smiled without saying a word.

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

At this time, he should face it with a smile.

Smile...

He couldn't smile.

Zhu Jiuyin's smile instantly disappeared. He took a sip of tea and said lightly:

"Forget it, tell me, how did you know about this?"

Wei Yuan shrugged his shoulders, and under Kua Fu's wide-eyed gaze, he impolitely snatched the teapot from Zhu Jiuyin's hand, poured himself a cup, complained about how bland the taste was, then downed it in one gulp, smacked his lips, and said:

"I saw Xi Wangmu."

Zhu Jiuyin's eyes narrowed slightly: "Oh?"

Seeming to have resolved a huge confusion and worry in his heart, Wei Yuan relaxed and smiled: "Yes, that graceful and luxurious Xi Wangmu, but when I met her, she transformed into an ordinary mortal girl, about sixteen years old, about this tall."

Wei Yuan reached out and gestured, and said:

"Compared to what I had in mind, she looked more like a girl, not so dignified..."

Zhu Jiuyin raised his fingers, made a fist, and coughed, pressing it against his lips.

"Ahem."

Wei Yuan explained: "Probably because my lifespan was about to end at that time, so she asked me if I had any regrets, but I didn't answer, and instead asked her if she would regret it... It's just a pity that she couldn't give me a definite answer about my memory loss, but she did say that such a situation was definitely not caused by Kunlun."

"It is a bit of a pity."

Kua Fu seemed to have choked while drinking tea and coughed violently a few times.

Wei Yuan said: "However, I didn't know why I did that at the time."

"I was quite open-minded at the time, and didn't really treat Xi Wangmu as that heavenly god..."

"Maybe it was because my lifespan was coming to an end?"

"Xi Wangmu looked like a little girl at that time."

Wu Zhiqi crushed the phone screen and coughed violently several times.

Wei Yuan looked at these people in confusion and said, "...What's wrong with you?"

"I keep coughing even in my dreams, could it be..."

A gentle hand gently landed on the top of Wei Yuan's head.

Just like it had landed on Xing Tian's head in those days.

The smile on Wei Yuan's face froze.

How could there be other people in his dream?

He turned his head stiffly and saw a smiling, beautiful face that seemed a little familiar, but for some reason, he couldn't remember it for a moment. Wei Yuan swallowed and forced a smile, "...This, may I ask who you are?"

The Jiutian Xuannv, who concealed the secrets of heaven, smiled so gently that it seemed to intoxicate people's limbs:

"From Western Kunlun."

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

He turned his head to look at Zhu Jiuyin.

Zhu Jiuyin was silent for a moment, then slowly closed his eyes.

"Leave him some breath."

......................

A moment later, Wei Yuan, who had been beaten black and blue in his own dream, sat silently on a stool with a cup of tea in his hand. Even at this time, he didn't know who this beautiful woman was. Of course, he had resisted just now, but he couldn't use the Xing Tian Axe in a dream.

When using the sword, because the other party was likely an ancient existence.

So he subconsciously used the swordsmanship of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan.

Then,

Then he was gone.

The sword moves and styles were completely countered.

It was impossible to really use the Absolute Kill Sword Intent, so in the end, he suffered the same fate as Xing Tian without his axe.

Kua Fu gave him a silent look.

'I warned you.'

Wu Zhiqi was quite happy.

Wei Yuan rubbed his left eye socket, stiffly steered the topic away from Xi Wangmu, and tried to bring it back on track, saying, "Ahem, enough small talk, enough small talk. However, if it wasn't you, Zhu Jiuyin, then who else could have such power to change and manipulate the passage of time?"

"I've even forgotten where Yinglong went, and he was especially disheveled when he came back."

"Covered in injuries."

Zhu Jiuyin's eyes narrowed slightly, and after thinking for a long time, he said:

"...There are, and there are three possibilities."

"You died early in that life, and after your death, the rest of the Classic of Mountains and Seas was completed by Yu."

"Most of the world you know is only in the Western Mountain Scripture, Eastern Mountain Scripture, or the scope of overseas countries, while the more desolate and distant Great Wilderness and overseas places were personally surveyed by King Yu. All three of these possibilities are in these areas."

"The first is Shu and Hu."

"In ancient China, shu-hu was used as the shortest unit of time. The phrase 'between shu-hu' itself represents the gods who control the passage of time. They are ancient gods far beyond the overseas countries."

"The Emperor of the South Sea is Shu, the Emperor of the North Sea is Hu, and the Emperor of the Center is Hundun."

"This Hundun is not the same as the chaos you know. Shu and Hu control time. They can even stop time and apply this effect to the gods, carving seven orifices into Hundun. But unfortunately, after spending one day carving one orifice, after seven days all seven orifices were carved out, time began flowing again, but Hundun died immediately. These two gods felt remorse and pain in their hearts and moved far away from the center."

Zhu Jiuyin retracted a finger: "They felt that they had let Hundun down, so they exiled themselves."

"Moreover, it is impossible for you to directly reach the ocean beyond the overseas countries."

"So, this possibility can be put aside for the time being, it's too low."

"The second possibility is Xi He."

When Kua Fu heard this name, his pupils contracted slightly. The aura of this powerful but gentle ancient hero became violent for a moment, and then, with a sigh, he finally calmed down. Kua Fu died chasing the Great Sun, and Xi He was the mother of those ten Great Suns.

Wei Yuan said slowly: "Classic of Mountains and Seas, Great Wilderness Southern Classic, outside the Southeast Sea, between the Gan waters, there is the country of Xi He. There is a woman named Xi He, who bathes the sun in the Gan Abyss. Xi He is the wife of Dijun and gave birth to ten suns."

"She rules the sun and moon, controls their rising and setting, and brings about darkness and light."

"Looking up at the heavens above, one bright and one dim."

"She controls the four seasons!"

Yes, Xi He, the wife of Dijun, is a truly existent deity in legends, a deity of the Great Wilderness lineage of the Mountain and Sea Realm, in charge of the cycle of the four seasons, with extremely high status. Her ten children caused Kua Fu's death, and the goddess Nv Chou, who was close to the human race, was scorched to death by the ten Great Suns, and her resentment after death transformed into a dangerous place.

Wei Yuan and Kua Lin encountered danger in Nv Chou Mountain back then.

And this heavenly god, who drives six dragons and takes her children to circle the sky, acts willfully.

No one could stop her.

And this ultimately led to the war between the human race and the Great Wilderness.

It also represents the rise of Yi, the God of War of the human race.

According to legend, Yi's mother took him to the mountains and forests, and then did not bring him back.

She said that when she wanted to bring her child back, the entire mountain forest and the heavens and earth were furious, and the cicadas chirped incessantly, like thunder. Yi was raised by the mountains and forests and all things, and he was usually gentle.

It was just that his killing intent, after slaying the Sun Gods, could no longer be restrained. This God of War of the human race, although gradually mixed with Hou Yi, the monarch of the Youqiong Kingdom in the Xia Dynasty, his legend in that era represented the most sharp and most domineering and bloody power of the human race.

Hou Yi of the Xia Dynasty took the name Yi because he admired the legendary hero.

For such a hero, once the sword is drawn, it cannot be sheathed.

Shoot down ten suns?

How could that be enough...

He traveled all the way.

In the Central Plains, he killed Yayu, a god with the power of Nuwa and the body of a human-faced snake.

In the Mulberry Forest, he killed Feng Yu.

In the northern region, he killed Jiuying.

In Yunmeng Marsh, he killed Xiu She.

In Chouhua Field, he killed Zaochi.

In the Qingqiu Marsh, he killed Feng Bo Da Feng.

Compared to King Yu's grandeur, this was almost a killing god of that era. Anything that threatened humanity, whether it was a fierce god, a heavenly god, or a demon beast, was directly slaughtered from the south to the north, with an abundance of martial virtue.

There was even a saying that Emperor Yao ruled the world because he and Yi were friends.

Therefore, there was the saying that with Da Yi alone, the world would be at peace.

His legend, if compared, only the Greek hero Heracles is slightly comparable.

It's just that Heracles' trials were arranged by the gods.

And Da Yi's enemies were the gods, even the heavenly gods, including the Sun God.

There were only two types of heroes in the Greek pantheon, Heracles and other heroes.

At that time, there were only two types of heroes in China, Yi and other people.

This situation continued until Da Yi disappeared and King Yu was born.

Wei Yuan slowly exhaled a breath:

"...If it is Xi He, she has enough reason."

"But, did she do it? The Great Wilderness gods of Xi He's lineage don't have a very good relationship with the Kunlun pantheon. Would she appear in Kunlun? Moreover, with her hatred for the human race, if she really secretly attacked me, I probably wouldn't have been able to leave Kunlun at all."

Zhu Jiuyin's lips curled slightly and said, "I also don't think it's her. Although the God of the Four Seasons has a lot to do with the passage of time, it's still a little short."

"Then, there is the third choice."

His expression slowly became serious: "This is also the text that Yu later recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Within the Seas Classic: Gonggong gave birth to Houtu, Houtu gave birth to Yeming, Yeming gave birth to Sui with twelve. This birth is naturally not the pregnancy of a living being, but the meaning of the creation of heaven and earth."

"In the beginning, the authority of the Water God was extremely powerful. Water even covered most of the ground. Later, Gonggong retreated and the earth emerged. This is the so-called 'Gonggong gave birth to Houtu.' Their status is actually equal, and that Yeming that was born was later recorded in the Great Wilderness Western Classic."

"Located in the westernmost region, to carry out the order of the sun, moon, and stars."

"Under his command is a person named Shi Yi, located in the northwest corner, to oversee the length of the sun and moon."

"And most importantly, is the phrase 'Yeming gave birth to Sui with twelve'."

Wei Yuan's expression slowly became serious.

Zhu Jiuyin said calmly: "That is to say, Yeming gave birth to twelve descendants."

"Those are the Twelve Tai Sui, or the Twelve Yuanchen, the origin of the Chinese zodiac in the human world. China uses the twelve zodiac animals to refer to them, but they are not those mundane things, and they do not even have the shape of beasts, but are true Mountain and Sea gods."

"Some step on snakes, some ride dragons, and they control the power of the year in the passage of time. To some extent, they are descendants of the great god Houtu. With the Twelve Yuanchen as a cycle, if they form a formation, with just one rotation, they can shave off twelve years of the lives of mortals and even gods."

"Rotating repeatedly, without end."

"Until the seas run dry and the rocks crumble, until the world changes, until the gods are reduced to ashes."

The Mountain and Sea Great Wilderness pantheon, Xi He, controls the four seasons.

The ancient gods from overseas, Shu and Hu, control the instant.

And, the descendants of the great god Houtu, who control the days, months, and years.

Wei Yuan suddenly realized that in Chinese mythology, all those who were related to time and years seemed to be no easier to get along with than the Zhu Jiuyin in front of him. The power of time was simply terrifyingly strong. He slowly exhaled a breath and sighed:

"Xi He, Shu and Hu, and the descendants of Mother Houtu, so that's how it is..."

"They are all too powerful, too terrifying, each one more ruthless than the other, no, more ruthless gods, I don't want to run into them."

"But, this Twelve Yuanchen Formation reduces twelve years of life with each rotation, but I only lost thirty years of life."

"The time doesn't match, right? It should be thirty-six years."

When he said this, his voice paused slightly.

He seemed to understand something.

The others, Kua Fu, were packing up their fishing gear, and Jiutian Xuannv was playing with a short sword in her hand, and both were thinking about other possibilities.

Wu Zhiqi was playing a game.

Hearing this, he muttered, "Yeah, one is thirty-six years, and the other is thirty years, a difference of six whole years."

"Doesn't match."

Zhu Jiuyin said calmly: "Actually, it's very simple, I can give an example..."

"For example, just for example."

"When the Twelve Yuanchen Formation is running."

"Someone suddenly rises up."

"Within three feet, in the space of a breath, with unparalleled sharpness, they instantly killed two of the Yuanchen, and at this moment, the Twelve Yuanchen Formation ran three times, and then collapsed without being attacked, simply because two were missing, and the formation was incomplete, only reducing thirty years..."

"Then, Wei Yuan..."

Zhu Jiuyin's voice was calm: "Who do you think killed two innate gods in the space of a breath?"

In the dream, there was no sound for a moment.

ps: Today's first update...four thousand two hundred words.

Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty: Hou Yi of Youqiong admired Yi's archery, so he was named this name.

The Emperor of the South Sea is Shu, the Emperor of the North Sea is Hu, and the Emperor of the Center is Hundun. Shu and Hu often met in the land of Hundun, and Hundun treated them very well. Shu and Hu planned to repay Hundun's kindness by carving one orifice every day, and Hundun died after seven days. - Zhuangzi, Emperor Ying