Chapter 1434

What Xin Yi described was the freedom and ease of those with great divine powers. The ancient era he painted in such flowery terms had not a single shadow of a commoner.

In any era, the common folk were invisible, ignored.

"You and I are not ordinary." He Lingchuan looked at her beautiful side profile, "If Master were in the ancient era, you could at least earn the title of a fairy."

"Then you would at least be a True Person." Sun Fuling couldn't help but laugh, "Greetings, True Person He!"

"You are too kind, Fairy."

The two were like naughty children whispering and slacking off in class; Xin Yi had already looked at them twice. Someone in the back row was dissatisfied and patted He Lingchuan on the shoulder: "Hey, can you two focus?"

He Lingchuan turned his head, which startled the man: "General, General He?"

This was a patrol guard transferred back from Yuheng City who had not only seen He Lingchuan but had also served under him, so he was a bit terrified.

He Lingchuan waved his hand at him: "Oh, sorry."

Sun Fuling made a shushing gesture toward He Lingchuan.

Xin Yi on the stage had been speaking for half an hour, and now he stopped to drink water, taking the opportunity to let the audience ask questions—

Answering questions on the spot was an old tradition of the Wenxian Terrace, which was a great test of the speaker's level.

This was the second question session, and there were at least two or three hundred people raising their hands in the audience, the atmosphere was enthusiastic.

However, Xin Yi's gaze shifted, and he actually saw He Lingchuan raising his hand too.

He was a bit surprised: "General He?"

He Lingchuan exerted his true qi to raise his volume: "Mr. Xin, you just mentioned the Black Dragon God. We have several Black Flood Dragon totems in Panlongcheng. Is there any connection between the two?"

"Good question." Xin Yi smiled, "One of my tasks in coming to Panlongcheng is to study the Black Flood Dragon totems. I have traveled to so many famous mountains, great rivers, and prosperous cities, yet I have only found the Black Flood Dragon mark in Panlongcheng."

He didn't shy away from it, and He Lingchuan raised an eyebrow.

Xin Yi's first impression was one of approachability and openness, with nothing that couldn't be said to others.

"Following what I just said, there were indeed gods in the world, but there was and only ever was one, and that is the Black Dragon God!"

There was a buzzing sound from below, and the crowd whispered.

What did that mean? Wasn't what Beijia worshipped the Heavenly Gods? Xin Yi pointed to the sky: "The so-called 'Heavenly Gods' who build temples and extract incense in the world today are all false gods; they are actually the Heavenly Demons who invaded the world three thousand years ago! After they retreated beyond the heavens, they stole the name of 'Gods' to fool the world and absorb faith. The only recognized God from ancient times to the present is the Black Dragon God, who stands above all immortals, also known as the 'Dragon God'."

"The Dragon God was born into the Fenhai Dragon Clan, which was an inconspicuous branch of the Dragon Clan. There were no strange signs when it was born; it was just an ordinary little dragon."

A listener below immediately said: "No matter how ordinary, it was still a dragon! It was born above all living beings."

"That is true. But this was never a peak legend that ordinary beings could participate in." Xin Yi smiled and spoke the cruel truth, "You weren't in the ancient era; you don't know that strong people were everywhere, and human immortals slaying dragons was not a strange occurrence."

"The Dragon God's juvenile period was also unremarkable, indistinguishable from other dragons. But after a hundred years, roughly equivalent to sixteen or seventeen for us humans, it began to stand out. By the age of two hundred, it swept through Fenhai with no rivals. Legend has it that it encountered a great opportunity and swallowed the Dragon Clan's Relic Pearl of Fenhai, which is why its cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds."

"The Black Dragon's path to godhood also opened up from then on, leaving behind many legends in the world. For example, it single-handedly destroyed the once-powerful Cangyuan Sect, an immortal sect that often committed perverse acts; or it used its supreme divine power to move mountains and divert rivers, opening up vast pure lands for humans to live and work in peace. All these things could not be finished even if spoken of for three days and three nights."

"When the Heavenly Demons invaded the human world, the Dragon God was already seven thousand years old and had long become the head of the Four Seas Dragon Clan, watching all immortals come to pay homage. That kind of majesty, looking down on all living beings, is not something we modern people can imagine. It is said that its cultivation was only one step away from being on par with the Heavenly Dao; if not for the subsequent Heavenly Demon invasion, it would have been truly as long-lived as heaven and earth, with no decline."

Someone was puzzled: "Since the Dragon God was so powerful, how did it later, uh, how did it fall?"

"It was still because of the Heavenly Demon invasion. Under the Dragon God's leadership, the Dragon Clan became the pillar of the counterattack. That was truly a tragic history of war. The Dragon Clan bore more than half of the Heavenly Demon's attacks, and the price was that the losses of other immortals and demons were not as shocking as those of the Dragon Clan." Xin Yi drank some warm water, "In the famous Battle of Peishan, the Dragon God single-handedly fought hundreds of Heavenly Demons and killed three Great Heavenly Demons on the spot, who were later known as the 'Righteous Gods'—the demon heads."

He Lingchuan couldn't help but be moved.

The so-called "Righteous Gods" were at the level of the Lingxu Saint, Miaozhantian, and Naluotian. He Lingchuan didn't know much about the Lingxu Saint, but he had experienced the terror of Miaozhantian and Naluotian.

Miaozhantian used the Dharma Eye to interrogate him, crossing the barrier between the two worlds to directly seize his soul to accept "Divine Judgment," without even needing his consent; Naluotian only sent down a clone, which almost broke through the constraints of the Great Fanghu and descended upon He Lingchuan. If not for the Red General's intervention, he would have already become someone else's skin bag.

There were one hundred thousand Heavenly Gods in the Divine Realm, but there were only thirty-six Righteous Gods, showing how powerful and arrogant they were.

Yet the Dragon God was able to kill three "Righteous Gods" in one breath, even while surrounded and interfered with by hundreds of Heavenly Demons. What kind of power and divine ability was that? "But the Dragon God was also seriously injured as a result and could not recover for many years." Xin Yi sighed, "In the final battle to expel the Heavenly Demons, the Dragon God sacrificed itself and drove them all out of the human world."

Everyone hearing this sighed.

Someone immediately asked: "Was there really such a powerful existence willing to sacrifice itself for the human world?"

The patrol guard sitting behind He Lingchuan immediately said: "Of course!"

"Besides the Dragon God, give me an example!"

"Are you from outside?" The patrol guard sneered, "The land you are standing on, this city, is the best example!"

The listeners were infected and said one after another: "Exactly!"

"Saving the people from misery, our Panlongcheng has always been like this!"

"For over ten years, how many good men of Panlongcheng have spilled their hot blood on this land!"

The area under the stage was noisy for a while.

The young boy guarding the side of the Wenxian Terrace immediately struck the chime.

Three long and loud chimes barely suppressed the noise.

He Lingchuan then continued to ask: "Then, what is the connection between our Black Flood Dragon mark and the Dragon God?"

(End of chapter)