Chapter 39 Wretched

Bai Ze's speed wasn't particularly fast, but he was certainly flexible.

After writing "The Bai Ze Compendium of Spirits and Monsters" and recording the dark histories of over ten thousand ghosts and gods, he still managed to happily spend thousands of years in the Great Wilderness. Bai Ze had long since maxed out his skills in hiding, dodging, and sneaking.

After dodging here and there, he stared at the bustling street.

He transformed into a thirty-year-old man with a modern outfit and an elite aura.

He wore a sharp suit and had handsome features.

However, his dead-fish eyes, eye bags, and the aura of a good-for-nothing that he exuded all betrayed him.

Bai Ze ignored the glances from those around him.

He raised his head and frowned.

He lost them.

The Xuan Yuan Sword Qi was too fast.

He wasted time being tied up by Shi Yi and couldn't catch up. By the time he reached this point, it was too late. Even Bai Ze, who was close to knowing everything, couldn't sense the traces of the Xuan Yuan Sword Qi. He frowned.

He stopped a person and said, "Excuse me."

Bai Ze was polite and courteous: "If I want to look up some information, where should I go?"

The person was stunned for a moment, seemingly playing a game on their phone.

Then, they subconsciously pointed to a building ahead.

Bai Ze thanked them and went there, looking up to see two large characters written above.

Internet Cafe.

Very good.

Bai Ze nodded and, using his own abilities and Shi Yi's friendly assistance, he managed to turn on the computer and initiate a search – "Emperors of Shenzhou."

He pressed enter.

A large amount of text data appeared instantly.

Bai Ze's lips twitched: "So many?"

How many people who qualified for the title of Emperor had appeared in Shenzhou over the years?

So many?

He thought for a moment and searched again: "Most honorable, wise emperors of Shenzhou."

This time, the search results were much fewer.

Finally, after adding Mount Tai, the number of targets decreased even further. In the end, Bai Ze locked onto the only one, the first emperor, and muttered to himself: "Surpassing the Three Sovereigns in merit and the Five Emperors in virtue, the origin of the term 'Emperor,' very good, it's him…"

"First, write this down. This is very likely."

"No, this is extremely likely."

"This thigh might be as thick as Xuan Yuan’s."

Bai Ze thought for a moment, wanting to search for more information about the First Emperor of Shenzhou.

He clicked enter and quickly browsed the information.

Until he saw a post, and then subconsciously read it out:

"Qin Shi Huang, your people are your greatest strength. You unified Shenzhou, and people from all over the world come to admire the Great Wall and the towering wonders. Your people work hard and will soon build the most breathtaking buildings in the world."

"May they never have blisters on their hands. Protect your people well, and you will be remembered forever."

"Uh…"

"Civilization 6?"

Bai Ze pondered.

He paused for three seconds.

Looking at the rather tempting game content, which seemed much better than those amusing things in the Great Wilderness cities, he thought that he now had his own goals and tasks. He needed to find the emperor recognized by the Xuan Yuan Sword. He wanted to find a new backer for himself.

With the aura of a Human Emperor, wielding the Xuan Yuan Sword.

Then, he would let this powerful emperor be his support while he lazed around as an accessory.

He needed…

There were countless legitimate reasons for him to make a decision immediately.

But…

He was a slacker.

As a good-for-nothing, Bai Ze happily made his choice.

"This is necessary information."

He clicked on the game.

He opened Civilization.

He glanced at the reviews, "Civilization is a game that nourishes the liver, I open it at 12 o'clock, and finish playing at 12:01."

Very good, it doesn't seem too difficult.

After finishing a game, he would go look for traces of the Xuan Yuan Sword.

……………………

Human Realm - Kunlun Mountain.

Wei Yuan stepped into the mystic realm, with Taotie following closely behind, his face full of gratitude.

"This is really great, if it weren't for you."

"I would definitely be finished."

The white-haired swordsman said calmly: "It's just a transaction, don't forget to bring me the materials I want, otherwise, I will end you myself."

His eyes were fixed on Taotie.

Taotie felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.

He felt that the white-haired swordsman in front of him had a distant and cold aura, as if Kunlun Mountain had transformed into an unmatched divine sword, and would slash down with a resolute killing intent at any moment. Taotie subconsciously shrank his neck.

"Don't worry, don't worry."

"I'll definitely get it back for you."

Wei Yuan withdrew his gaze and said lightly: "You can stay in Kunlun to recover for this period of time."

Taotie was stunned, and then said: "Can't I go out?"

"No."

"Why? We're allies… hiss… okay, okay, calm down, calm down."

Taotie only said half a sentence before that cold gaze fell again, causing him to take half a step back.

Wei Yuan's tone was indifferent: "Because you eat people."

Taotie was silent.

Then he raised his head and asked Wei Yuan: "... I know, you definitely won't believe me if I say I don't eat people."

Taotie's lips twitched: "I just wanted to ask."

"A very simple question, if I eat people…"

"Then how could the people who saw me eating people possibly get out alive?"

"Instead of being eaten by me?"

"I can't waste food."

Taotie raised his claws and said, "Come on, one more point."

"Old Chen, let me give you an account."

"A person can raise pigs, raise cows, and even build houses, and can make all kinds of things. These things can all be eaten, and a person is just this small, and a house is even bigger. They also grow wheat and hunt."

"They also have children, and their children will also grow food and hunt."

"To build houses, to find the opposite sex, and then have children, grow food, and hunt."

"People beget children, and children beget grandchildren."

"In this way, there are countless things to eat. One is so many different flavors of food, and the other is just so many people."

Wei Yuan: "…………"

Taotie silently looked at Wei Yuan, and said faintly:

"The difference between one full meal and having meals every day."

"I can still tell the difference."

"And the third point..."

Taotie, in his small beast form, raised his head and said:

"Why do people think that their meat tastes better than delicacies from mountains and seas?"

Wei Yuan: "…………"

Good question.

But you wanted to eat me before.

Taotie said with emotion:

"In short, I'm actually not that bad compared to the other three of the Four Fiends. I just eat some wheat, eat some of the pigs, cows, and sheep they raise, and I'll even leave them some for breeding. At most, I'll eat some houses to help with digestion. As for people, I don't have an appetite."

"The only ones I want to eat are Old Die, Xuan Yuan, and that cook of Yu's."

Naturally, all failed.

Wei Yuan's lips twitched. He recalled the rumors he had heard from the residents of the Northern Mountain Realm. If Taotie wasn't lying, he seemed to be piecing together what happened back then, although he wasn't sure if it was true, and there was no corroborating evidence, but it was very likely –

First of all, Taotie went to a certain place.

He ate the food and livestock in that place, and gnawed on the houses.

He might have even ran into someone's house.

Without doing anything else, he ate all their food.

Forcing that country to flee en masse.

Although with the existence of mountain gods, these people could be transferred.

But correspondingly.

They definitely couldn't live in the same place anymore, they had to hide far away.

And at this time, people from other villages and cities came here to visit friends.

As a result, they saw a scene of ruins and rubble, their friends disappeared, and Taotie was lying there alone, bulging, picking his teeth with a tree branch, and patting his stomach, saying that he had eaten so well. What would that person think?

There's nothing to think about.

This is obviously eating people.

And Wei Yuan also thought of the records of Taotie in later generations, the "Records of the Grand Historian: The Basic Annals of the Five Emperors" records: "The Jinyun clan had an untalented son, who was greedy for food and covetous of wealth. The world called him Taotie. That is to say, this was the son of the Jinyun clan, who was gluttonous and liked all kinds of things, which was actually also eating."

The world called him the nickname Taotie.

Tao is gluttony, Tie is greed.

Is it a fallacy?

Like the nine-tailed fox eating people.

Nü Jiao certainly didn't eat people, but what Wei Yuan wrote back then meant that this guy was fiercer than a tigress. When she got angry, it was as if she was going to eat people. After being bullied on a certain day, month, and year, he deliberately wrote it down in secret. People at that time understood the customs of the Tu Shan clan, and at most, they would just laugh it off.

But later, it gradually became distorted.

As for eating it without being poisoned.

There weren't that many words in that era.

Eating is the same as raising, the general meaning is that as long as you raise a nine-tailed fox, you won't be poisoned.

As for why?

You've survived even the bewitchment of a nine-tailed fox spirit, what are you afraid of?

Playing with the nine-tailed fox every day, eating the food made by the nine-tailed fox, and even getting into bed with the nine-tailed fox.

Charm? Poison?

Even if a curse was cast to capture them, it was estimated that there would only be one reaction.

Let me go, I want to go home.

Wei Yuan pondered and stared at Taotie: "Why did you previously claim that you eat people?"

Taotie said: "... Can I not say it?"

Wei Yuan raised his sword.

Taotie said simply and neatly: "Because if I say that, I can mix with Qiongqi and the other two… it's more, have that position, you understand? Just…"

Wei Yuan was thoughtful.

The "Zuo Zhuan" says.

Greedy for food and covetous of wealth.

The people of the world compare him to the three fiends, calling him Taotie.

Indeed, this guy was later pieced together with the three fiends… a loafer.

Wei Yuan said calmly: "... Stay in Kunlun."

Taotie's lips twitched: "But I'm hungry, I have to recover my magic power, so I have to eat!"

The white-haired swordsman said coldly: "I'll make it for you."

Taotie was silent.

Taotie said: "Then I'm not hungry anymore."

Wei Yuan: "…………"

……………………

In the end, under Wei Yuan's coercion, Taotie obediently stayed under Kunlun's confinement.

Finally, he repeatedly told him not to tell anyone about this.

Especially not to tell the person who wrote the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Otherwise, his hard-earned reputation as one of the Four Fiends for so many years would be gone.

The white-haired swordsman rarely made a promise.

Don't worry.

What happened today is known only to you and me, and I will never tell a third person.

Only then was Taotie satisfied and closed himself up in seclusion with gratitude.

And Wei Yuan didn't completely trust Taotie. He still locked Taotie up directly and returned to the quiet room of the Kunlun Mountain God. He pondered for a while, thinking about the current situation. Now, gods from the Great Wilderness and Kunlun are appearing in the human world, targeting the human Kunlun Mountain.

In addition to the conflict between the Great Wilderness and Gonggong, there were undercurrents.

Wei Yuan barely maintained the current situation, preventing the conflict from completely erupting.

But this was ultimately a temporary solution.

Afterwards, he would go to Qingqiu to send Yi Ri Yue's true spirit to Nü Jiao.

He also had to think about the secret beneath Qingqiu.

'Chiyou ascended to the Nine Marshes to attack Kongsang, and the Yellow Emperor killed him in Qingqiu.'

Beneath Qingqiu may be the true body of one of the Five Great Evildoers of ancient times.

Perhaps it was a possible way to break the situation…

In any case, the common people, the descendants of Yan and Huang, Chiyou of the Jiuli, who represented the origin of the term "common people", was also a god of war of the Shenzhou Huaxia side. Well, after all, they had dealt with each other in dreams and illusions, so they wouldn't just come at him with an axe first, would they?

Probably not...

However, Wei Yuan was relieved to have manipulated today's situation, playing two roles at the same time.

While simultaneously restraining the situation on all sides.

Hearing Bai Ze's praise and the reactions of the other gods.

The corners of Wei Yuan's mouth curled up slightly, and he whispered happily:

"I see..."

"As long as the truth isn't seen."

"As long as Nü Jiao doesn't know."

"This kind of experience is still very pleasant."

"Hoo… I finally understand Nü Jiao's happiness."

Wei Yuan murmured and leaned back slightly. A Kunlun God brought tea.

Wei Yuan thought for a moment, exuded the aura of the Kunlun Mountain God, and said calmly:

"What happened today must not be spread."

"Especially not to Tu Shan of Qingqiu."

The Kunlun God nodded, but didn't answer.

A stifled laugh that couldn't be held back came.

"Huh??"

Wei Yuan was slightly surprised and turned his head subconsciously.

What are you laug…

Then he saw a green light emanating from the Kunlun God's brow, transforming into an ancient whip. Seeing her slightly raise her eyes, the expression on her face changed, transforming into a beautiful woman with red eyeshadow, white hair, and brown pupils. The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, it was Nü Jiao.

The white-haired fox woman had a playful smile, and said with a smile:

"You're back, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"Also, what can't you tell me?"

"Huh?"

Wei Yuan: "…………"

Heart stopped.

Nü Jiao, I understand your happiness.

Nü Jiao: No, you don't.

Damn it!