“Old turtle! Rotten turtle!”

“A lifetime spent fighting with its own tail, you good-for-nothing!”

“Walking turtle jelly! Damn it!”

In the Land of Myriad Laws' End, Fuxi, with his gentle temperament and handsome face, had been cursing for a full hour by Wei Yuan's reckoning, switching between more than three hundred different languages, and involving concepts that might not even exist, such as the mother and father of the Emperor of the North Sea.

He also declared that he would completely ruin the Heavenly Dao of the North Sea.

“Uh… would you like some water?”

Wei Yuan conjured a cup of water and handed it over.

“Good.”

Fuxi gasped for breath, finally quieting down. Wei Yuan's mouth twitched as he looked at his ancestor, now raging impotently, unsure of what to say. He had thought Fuxi would just slap Yuqiang into oblivion, but apparently, he couldn't.

“Aaaaah, why can’t I get out, damn it!”

“Nüwa, Nüwa!”

Wei Yuan's mouth twitched again as he watched Fuxi hug his cyan snake tail and roll around in the Land of Myriad Laws' End, gnashing his teeth in anger and falling silent. “Are you really not afraid of your dark history being exposed…”

“Exposed? Why would it be exposed?”

Fuxi lay flat, puzzled. “Why do you think you’ll retain any memory of this when you leave here?”

“What gives you that confidence?”

Wei Yuan: “…………”

My bad, I got too cocky…

Even Ye Ming's memories here were erased. Strictly speaking, if Wei Yuan and Ye Ming were both in the strongest echelon below the Ten Overlords, then Ye Ming would be among the top few, while Museum Head Wei was at the bottom, having only gotten in by "ganging up to defeat a not-fully-powered Gonggong" and passing the make-up exam.

If Ye Ming couldn't withstand Fuxi's brainwashing, Wei Yuan naturally couldn't either.

The only things that could withstand it were the Hetu and Luoshu.

Or rather, the shattered Hetu and Luoshu were completely outside Fuxi's consideration.

Wei Yuan sighed helplessly, thought for a moment, and said, "So, you can't get out? Nüwa… well, is she considered your wife?"

"Wife? Of course not."

Fuxi answered as a matter of course, puzzled:

"Why would you think that?"

Wei Yuan was stunned. He was about to answer "mythological legends" when he suddenly remembered that this wasn't mythology at all. The legend of Fuxi and Nüwa being husband and wife seemed to come from a book, *San Huang Bu Ji* (Supplement to the Records of the Three Sovereigns), that someone wanted to use to supplement Sima Qian's *Records of the Grand Historian*, and it had been widely circulated.

Continuing to extrapolate from this point in time, it seemed to coincide with the period when the Nine-Tailed Fox was demonized.

Wait, wait, *San Huang Bu Ji*, author Sima Zhen.

Zhen, from the Qian hexagram – yuan, heng, li, zhen (primal, flourishing, beneficial, firm).

Qian represents Heaven; Zhen represents the trunk of affairs.

The combination of the two is Tiangan, Heavenly Stems, Heavenly Stems.

Ten Heavenly Stems, sitting to see the ten directions…

Damn it!

In Wei Yuan's mind, the image appeared of a handsome young man with purple eyes who liked to eat candied haws, standing with his hands behind his back and a smug smile on his face: "Foolish, foolish…"

Wei Yuan's mouth twitched—

Kai Ming…

Again?!

Wei Yuan's scalp went numb, and all the muscles in his body reacted instinctively.

His right fist slammed out.

Directly hitting Emperor Shu's left eye socket.

Accompanied by a scream, Emperor Shu was directly knocked away, spinning three and a half times in place before flying out with a whoosh. The force was so great that his sleeve shattered the space, tearing out viscous clouds, looking like a supersonic missile as he slammed flat with a thud.

"Huff, huff, huff…"

"That scared me."

Wei Yuan was pale with fright. Shu floated on the water, his left eye socket successfully turning black and blue.

"Hahahaha, kid, you're finally awake."

Emperor Hu jumped beside Wei Yuan, patting him on the shoulder and laughing heartily. Shu was also obviously not angry, just laughing and joking without any seriousness, asking him what had just happened. Wei Yuan exhaled and didn't know how to explain. He turned his head and saw the white-clothed girl, who was asleep in Zhao Yang's arms. Zhao Yang put a finger to his lips, signaling silence.

Wei Yuan nodded and went with the two Emperors, Shu and Hu, to another island on this outer sea to explain in detail.

"She is…"

"Earlier, the Heavenly Dao of the Northern Region suppressed her. Nüwa seemed to feel guilt in her heart. Even though she had lost her memories, she didn't resist and allowed the Heavenly Dao shackles to fall upon her, causing her serious injuries. On top of that, she used too much of her origin energy to heal you, so she fainted." Emperor Shu sighed.

Heavenly Dao shackles, borne upon her body…

Wei Yuan murmured these words, looked at the two Emperors, Shu and Hu, and said, "Old gentlemen, do you know any way to lure Yuqiang to search for us using his Heavenly Secrets?" Shu and Hu exchanged a look, and said, "This, we don't know. With Yuqiang's personality, having just suffered a great loss, he definitely won't act rashly at this time."

"However, I think if we can steal his treasures, it might work?"

"Didn't you control that Xuanwu? Can you get him to secretly help?"

The two old gentlemen with the hairstyles that Chiyou loved most shook their heads repeatedly. "Impossible. We only stimulated and gave Xuanwu a self-personality. At this time, this self-personality should already be starting to doubt itself again, and it will soon dissipate. If you ask him to do something like stealing the treasures of his main body, it will definitely stimulate him to shatter directly."

"It won't work…"

Wei Yuan pondered, pressing his fingers against his eyebrows: "Treasures, treasures…"

"If it were A-Liang, if it were Qi, if it were Nü Jiao, what would they do…"

Wei Yuan thought frantically, his thoughts gradually becoming clearer.

"I have an idea."

"What?"

"Shu, Hu, old gentlemen, do you know Xuanwu's current location? After all, you left your mythological concepts on him."

The two Emperors, Shu and Hu, nodded.

Wei Yuan exhaled and murmured to himself: "The North Sea is also in the outer sea region, within the scope of Guixu; and for the Northern Emperor, the most important treasure is only one, and that is Xuanwu's incarnation, one of the Four Spirits… What I want is naturally to steal Xuanwu and lure Yuqiang."

The two Emperors, Shu and Hu, subconsciously retorted: "How will you do it?!"

Then they saw Wei Yuan take out the core jade pendant from Guixu, the foundation that represented enough qualifications to recruit people into a small world.

Wei Yuan said slowly: "I want to let him leave on his own!"

……………………

North Sea, seabed.

Xuanwu closed his eyes. In the past, when he had no self-awareness, he would only be naturally silent.

He didn't know what time or years were, and he didn't know the flow and changes of all things.

But now, he only felt irritable in his heart. Thoughts that shouldn't have appeared in the past kept emerging. Who am I? Where am I? Why must I obey that guy named Yuqiang? Why do I have to…

He took a deep breath, knowing that these distracting thoughts were gradually disappearing and that his mixed self was gradually collapsing.

Soon, he would return to the same state as in the past.

But at this moment, a strange force suddenly fell.

It came from Guixu.

Xuanwu immediately recognized it, and then he was about to tear apart this weak force of traction, but at this moment, a vast and ancient voice rang in his ears, solidifying his thoughts, slowing his movements, and finally he didn't shatter this aura—

"Do you want to understand the meaning of life?"

"Do you want to truly live?"

ps: Second update today…