mtl008 Chapter 162 What Happened in the Central Plains?
Chapter 162 What Happened in the Central Plains?
This time, he didn't go too far before Li Muyang felt his sword pierce something!
When I got to the end, wow! There was a stack of chaotic earth... This thing looks like a mountain, doesn't it?
Yes, if I'm not mistaken, it should be a mountain, but this mountain has now been transformed into chaotic soil.
Just as Li Muyang was about to go and search for the existence that Shennong Beast had mentioned, a voice suddenly rang in Li Muyang's mind.
"Human?! Where did you come from?! And you're from the Central Plains? How is that possible! How did you manage to escape the Chaos Mist's engulfment? Did you not return from outside? That's not right! Your age doesn't match! You shouldn't still have such a pure aura after all these years..."
"Forget it! Don't resist! I'll pull you in! It's too dangerous outside!"
Li Muyang blinked in confusion, thought for a moment but still did not resist. He felt a blur before his eyes and seemed to have entered a cave.
Before Li Muyang stood a gigantic, energy-formed dragon-like creature, gazing intently at him.
"Young man, it's a pleasure to meet you!" The dragon-shaped creature greeted Li Muyang eagerly as soon as it saw him. "After all these years, I'm so glad to finally see a living person!"
"Oh! I'm sorry, I was a bit rude! Please forgive me! It's just that I've been holding back for so many years, and apart from a few old friends, I haven't seen any other living creatures I can talk to. I'm really excited!"
"Let me introduce myself. I am from the Taishan Dragon Vein! You can call me Ao Tai."
"Uh... Hello, senior, my name is Li Muyang." Li Muyang scratched his head a little awkwardly and introduced himself, "Senior, can you tell me what happened in the Central Plains?"
Upon hearing this, Ao Tai replied frankly, "Of course, no problem! I know this best!"
Then Ao Tai began to tell a story.
What happened in the Central Plains of this world?
Well, it all started with Liu Bowen severing the dragon vein!
Back then, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, nominally carried out the "severing of the connection between heaven and earth" initiative led by Emperor Zhuanxu, and ordered Liu Bowen to sever the dragon veins, in order to completely cut off the path for mortals to become immortals and also to interrupt the opportunity for immortals to interfere with mortals.
Unfortunately, this is only in name.
In reality, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to use the power gained from severing the dragon vein to create his own immortal Ming Dynasty!
At first, the dragon veins were unaware of this and were completely fooled by Liu Bowen! They even thought they could truly stop the immortals from interfering with mortal life! In the future, they, the dragon veins, could become true dragons!
However, nothing stays hidden forever. Moreover, once this plan is officially implemented, the Dragon Veins will surely see through Liu Bowen's empty promises!
The problem was that Liu Bowen, through special means, coupled with Zhu Yuanzhang's influence on the founding fortune of the entire Ming Dynasty, forcibly pushed for the elimination of the dragon veins. The dragon veins were simply unable to resist, and when they tried to negotiate, neither of them accepted peace talks.
Therefore, with Liu Bowen and Zhu Yuanzhang continuing to act willfully and wanting to exterminate them all, the dragon veins collectively erupted!
They... exploded!
Rather than sit and wait to be slaughtered one by one, let's go all out and smash the chessboard!
The explosion of the dragon veins created a gaping hole in the Central Plains! Just like when Gonggong angrily struck Buzhou Mountain, opening a gap in both the sky and the ground.
That time, the goddess Nuwa mended the sky, but this time there isn't one!
At first, only subterranean fires erupted from the ground, but Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen turned a blind eye, deliberately delaying the process, concealing the extent of the disaster, and even continuing their plans for a divine dynasty.
As a result, the breach was not patched up in time. Soon, the hole blasted into the earth by the dragon vein grew larger and deeper, until even chaotic energy poured in!
At this point, it was completely too late to remedy the situation! Wherever the chaotic energy reached, everything vanished!
Although Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen's plan was not simply to sever the connection between heaven and earth, it still had an effect. After the dragon vein self-destructed, even the immortals of the Earthly Immortal Realm found it difficult to intervene directly, and it was too late to stop the two.
Finally, to prevent the chaotic energy from affecting the Earthly Immortal Realm, the immortals above directly shut down the Earthly Immortal Realm along with the mortal immortal path!
This is also to ensure that Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen, and the self-destructing dragon veins deserve their fate!
They brought this trouble upon themselves, and now they're suffering the consequences! It's just a pity that the people of the Central Plains and other living beings have suffered so much.
Fortunately, there were immortals who did their best to save people. Therefore, before the Central Plains was completely swallowed by the chaotic fog, most of the surviving mortals and living beings were brought into the Earthly Immortal Realm.
In the end, only Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen remained, along with their dream of a divine dynasty, which was completely swallowed up by the fog of chaos!
The dragon veins themselves depend on the mountains and rivers of the mortal world for their existence; they have no way to leave. Moreover, they are one of the culprits who caused the Central Plains to be swallowed by the chaotic mist, so the immortals cannot help them leave.
Fortunately, the influence of the chaotic energy on mountains and rivers was limited, so the dragon veins were not completely devoured in the blink of an eye like the Ming Dynasty. However, they only died slowly. After more than 500 years, there are only six dragon veins left that are still alive, including the one in front of Li Muyang.
These are the Five Sacred Mountains' dragon veins and the Kunlun Mountains' dragon vein; the six of them are relatively much stronger.
Rivers and lakes are more easily assimilated by chaotic energy than mountains and rivers. The so-called chaotic mist is actually formed after chaotic energy enters the material world and transforms.
The reason it didn't spread further was because the world's consciousness intervened in time, controlling the impact to the Central Plains.
After learning this information from Ao Tai, the task system promptly issued the rewards, finally eliminating the need for Li Muyang to directly urge them.
What puzzled Li Muyang was why Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen were so obsessed with establishing a divine dynasty. It didn't seem like something they would do! Even if they were from other worlds, they wouldn't be so ruthless, would they?
We can't all follow Zhu Yunwen's example and relentlessly weaken the power of the princes, can we? Is this a continuation of the same old practice?
Goose quietly spoke up, "Well... to be honest, I'm not really surprised, because this is indeed a possible development path. As for the reasons... I estimate there are several aspects."
"First of all, you should be able to sense that this world's lifespan is not long. This is not a secret to the immortals in this world, otherwise there would be no Earthly Immortal Realm. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen probably knew about this as well."
"If the two of them were to establish a divine dynasty in order to prolong the life of the world, that's not impossible. Even if they failed, given the current situation, there are immortals from the Earthly Immortal Realm to cover for them and take all the beings of the Central Plains to the Earthly Immortal Realm! You know, they couldn't have entered the Earthly Immortal Realm so easily before!"
Wow… what Boss Goose said made everything clear to Li Muyang! It makes sense!
But I still feel that what the two of them did was not fair!
The world's lifespan is relatively short; it can still last for at least another thousand years. The two of them insisted on causing this mess in their own era, leading to the premature destruction of the Central Plains. Their faults certainly outweighed their merits!
It's not that the two of them were unwilling to sit and wait for their deaths, but Li Muyang was certainly unwilling to implement such an extreme method! He would rather run away with his people and start the Wandering Earth project than sacrifice innocent people! Especially when they clearly had other options, they insisted on making the Dragon Vein sacrifice themselves.
Ultimately, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen certainly had their own selfish motives, and selfish motives probably made up the majority of their motivations.
Not to mention whether this method will even work at all! Did Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen really believe their plan would succeed? What if cutting off all the dragon veins still wasn't enough? They wanted to wipe them out completely! Didn't they consider the possibility that the dragon veins might overturn the table?
Of course, the dragon veins did something inhumane, blasting the earth open! But from their perspective, this was the only way they could resist. It can only be said that neither Zhu Yuanzhang nor Liu Bowen considered this point, which led to this outcome.
Goose continued to complain: "Actually, their plan wasn't too bad, it's just that the success rate was too low and the risk was extremely high! Plus, the two of them in this world might have gone mad! In general, when a world is nearing destruction, the desire for destruction might take over."
"Once the destructive consciousness takes over, it can easily cause rampant calamity! Their obsession is probably largely related to this! They also missed a more reliable method. According to the cases recorded by the Administration Bureau, if they had just talked to the dragon veins, the success rate would have been higher."
"Among the Bureau's successful cases, the most common development trend has one thing in common: when Liu Bowen cut off all the dragon veins in the world, the dragon regretted its actions and spared one dragon vein for various reasons! Even if they cannot completely solve the world's destruction crisis afterward, they can extend the world's life by many years!"
"It's a pity that they seem to be going down a dead-end path in this world," Goose quipped meaningfully.
"The existence of dragon veins is very special. Generally, a region that can gather dragon veins, even if the dragon vein is severed, after a period of time, there is a high probability that a new dragon vein will gather again. Although it is not the rebirth of the former, it can be regarded as the continuation of the former's life. Well, it is equivalent to father and son."
"Logically speaking, even if all the dragon veins self-destructed at once, they shouldn't be able to blast a hole in the earth. The fact that it has developed to this point is also related to the world's destructive consciousness. It's as if some kind of consciousness is secretly driving its development. Just like Gonggong's angry collision with Buzhou Mountain, in theory, he alone couldn't have broken the pillar of heaven, Buzhou Mountain. This was just interference from the world's destructive consciousness!"
Goose retorted with a helpless tone, "In every world there is a self-destructive consciousness. In its eyes, everything in the world is evil and should be destroyed and restarted!"