Chapter 251: Yellow Emperor and Chi You

"So this is the Great Deity!"

Mu Yi sensed the water veins around Kunlun Mountain and let out a long sigh.

Just leaking a trivial amount from his own fingertips was, to him, no different from a pie falling from the sky.

Originally, with Kunlun Mountain's stature, placing it in a normal Jiuzhou world, anyone below the fifth or sixth rank dreaming of seizing this place would be dreaming.

However, the Yellow River water vein was extraordinary, and with the main world just in its nascent stage, it let Mu Yi pick up a huge bargain for free.

He doesn't even have to worry about the water veins; they will grow on their own here, and Mu Yi can simply lie down to become stronger.

Mu Yi extended his hand, and the river water flowing over the riverbed twisted into various shapes like light silk, obeying his will.

"Do it! Rather than hesitating, it's better to face the difficulty head‑on!"

After experiencing an ancient Trial, Mu Yi finally had a sense of the difficulty—hard indeed—but it was not in vain and was worth trying.

Zongwang Prompt: Teleporting… Teleportation successful, you have entered Chi You's Trial Ground.

Opening his eyes, Mu Yi found himself in a maple forest.

The maple leaves were fiery red like blood, exuding an aura of solemn killing.

Before Mu Yi could discern his surroundings, the heavens and earth flipped, and he immediately found himself inside a palace.

"Mu… Yi?"

At the palace's center, a majestic middle‑aged man radiating imperial aura was scrutinizing Mu Yi from head to toe.

"The Great Dao fifty, Tianyan forty‑nine, humanity escapes one… Who would have thought that with such preparation, an accident could still occur!"

Cold sweat beaded on Mu Yi's forehead; he had already guessed who stood before him.

The chief of the Five Emperors, one of the Three Founding Ancestors of China, the Yellow Emperor.

He was intercepted by the Yellow Emperor on the way to meet Chi You.

What to do? Waiting online, quite urgent.

"Carrying the burden of reincarnation, being a Military Family Descendant, and suddenly appearing in this hidden place… you really make one worry that it will resurface again!"

The Yellow Emperor examined Mu Yi; although he was just a youngster who hadn't attained immortality, his tangled karmic threads were terrifying, no wonder he got swept into such a massive vortex.

The breath of the Later Earth, the origin of reincarnation, fragments of the Ghost Gate, divine seats of the Underworld and Heavenly Court, the legacy of future emperor‑kings, the aura of the brothers Shen Tu and Yu Lei, and the recent gifts from Gong Gong…

Seeing each item one by one, the Yellow Emperor felt a headache forming.

If it were someone else, he would have simply turned a blind eye, for after all, Chi You, in the final verdict, is also one of the Three Founding Ancestors, and sometimes passing on a legacy to later generations is quite beneficial.

But Mu Yi's situation was truly too special.

"Junior Mu Yi, I have seen the Yellow Emperor!"

Mu Yi bowed respectfully before the Yellow Emperor; after all, this figure was essentially his own ancestral sovereign, so a bow was no problem.

"Never mind, I overthought it!" the Yellow Emperor shook his head.

As a Great Deity, the Yellow Emperor, like Gong Gong, naturally knew the future causality; he understood Mu Yi better than Mu Yi himself.

"The way of the Military Strategist, I have also dabbled in; seeing you lack proper tools, I will pass you the method of drumcraft, so you may use it yourself later!"

The Yellow Emperor flicked his sleeve, and Mu Yi once again felt the world spin; the next moment he was back in the maple forest.

Zongwang Prompt: You have received the Yellow Emperor's approval, you have obtained the Military Technique – Drumcraft!

【Military Technique – Drumcraft】

Type: Profession‑limited / Inheritance

Cost: Small amount of Inner Qi (for generals), specific rare materials (permanent crafting requires, can be substituted with Zongwang Disaster Coins, formula as follows: ……)

Military Technique Mastery Level: 1 (unlocks mastery level, can be upgraded by spending Universal Experience or self‑training).

Description:

After a standard action, the character can create a temporary or permanent battlefield drum imbued with special power.

The battlefield drum can attract surrounding heaven‑earth essence, thereby activating a strong enhancement effect (based on the material's grade and attributes).

A temporary battlefield drum can be used at most once.

A permanent battlefield drum made this way can have its attributes enhanced repeatedly by releasing this mastery‑level technique.

The drum is an ancient percussion instrument, and among Military Strategists it is one of the most commonly used tools; in pure cold‑weapon warfare, a commander's voice cannot travel far, so drumbeats often guide the army.

Ancient records attribute the drum's origin to the Yellow Emperor's legend of using Kui hide to craft a drum.

Kui, a mythic beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Great Wilderness Eastern Classic: "It looks like a cow, with a blue body and no horns, one foot; when it enters water, wind and rain follow, its light like sun and moon, its sound like thunder, named Kui."

The Yellow Emperor's drum made from Kui hide performed excellently, playing a great role in the battle against Chi You.

Mu Yi silently sensed the complex information in his mind.

The Hundred Schools he currently recruits are too weak to match his combat level, so he can only teach and preach in the main world.

He himself is also not adept at crafting Military Techniques; he once was eager to brew various decoctions, but later realized he was merely smashing bricks with brute force, wasting materials.

Many materials refined into pills are at least three times more effective than his haphazard attempts.

When his blood‑circulating soup was completely outclassed by others' blood‑circulating pills in both effect and yield, Mu Yi gave up the wasteful practice.

Thinking about it, alchemists value pharmacology and synergy.

He simply tossed ingredients together and relied on sheer will, which, though it could produce output by brute force, yielded nothing sensible.

However this time, with the Yellow Emperor's hand‑passed method, his crafting spirit reignited.

After all, drums seem applicable in many scenarios.

But where to find the materials for making drums?

Should I hunt a mountain beast with Kui bloodline?

"Dragging your feet, what are you doing?" a slightly irritable voice startled Mu Yi awake.

The next second, Mu Yi was pulled deep into the maple forest.

Mu Yi covered his head; compared with Gong Gong's and Yellow Emperor's spatial teleportation methods, Chi You's technique was brutally terrifying, and the nauseating dizziness from the composite net's transmission reverberated inside Mu Yi's body.

After Mu Yi steadied his mind, a presence that looked extraordinary stood before him.

Though outwardly just a rough‑mannered middle‑aged man, the moment Mu Yi saw him his heart skipped a beat, and in a daze Mu Yi seemed to glimpse a magnificent figure: a face like a bull's head, wings sprouting from the back, three heads and six arms standing upon the Jiuzhou lands.

"What did Xuan Yuan pass on to you?" Chi You asked, looking at Mu Yi.

"I have met…," Mu Yi bowed low. The other was also an ancient ancestor, but as the words reached his mouth he suddenly didn't know how to address him.

"Chi" is a derogatory term; the *Six Scripts Correct and False* says: "All the ignorant are named 'Chi'."

"Just call me Chi You. All the past has vanished like smoke; this name is already nailed down!" Chi You glared at Mu Yi, saw through his thoughts, and said offhand.

"I have met the commander! Yellow Emperor told me the Drum‑making Technique!" In a flash of wit Mu Yi found a suitable title.

"That Xuan Yuan fellow is really stingy!" Chi You sized Mu Yi up and complained.

Mu Yi played dead; he couldn't interject in the clash of big‑shots, and those elders were all senior and willing to help him, so Mu Yi naturally would not rashly meddle behind their backs.

"Your coming here is the will of Heaven; I originally intended to teach you the metallurgy method, but…" Chi You shook his head.

Mu Yi's mouth twitched, but there was nothing he could do—weaklings have no rights.

"What weapon are you proficient with?" Chi You didn't mind Mu Yi's silence and kept asking.

"A blade!" Mu Yi frowned; he keenly sensed that Chi You was in a particularly sealed state.

Logically, a big‑shot should see through a weakling like him with a single glance.

"Oh?" Chi You showed interest. "Show me, let's see!"

Mu Yi reached into the barrier and drew out an Asura Blade, then exerted all his strength to let the blade's intent permeate his body.

With just one slash, the Asura Blade was rebounded by the blade‑intent's force and shattered outright.

At this level of quality, even now it was hard for Mu Yi's full power output to bear.

"…" Chi You silently watched the blade scar Mu Yi cut in the void.

"Interesting… cutting the shackles of fate?"

After a long while Chi You slowly opened his mouth.

"Bound by Heaven's decree, I cannot give you much. I now offer three choices: the first is a divine art, the second is bloodline, the third is a weapon!"

"I want the divine art!" Mu Yi said after a moment's thought.

He had other ways to purify or revert the bloodline, and weapons could be sourced elsewhere; only this divine art was something you could meet but not seek.

Whether it is the Heaven‑and‑Earth Technique, the Three Heads Six Arms, or Spitting Smoke and Exhaling Mist… Chi You's famed divine arts are harder to find than a lantern in the dark; miss this village and the shop is gone.

"Go then!"

A spark of spirit light flashed from Chi You's forehead; with that single motion the surrounding chains surged, and at that moment Mu Yi realized the massive Maple Forest was a huge sealed barrier.

At the sealed center lay Chi You's skull.

The spirit light entered Mu Yi's mind, and immediately the composite net teleported Mu Yi away.

"Chi You!" Yellow Emperor's figure appeared before Chi You.

"That's against the rules! You really have such confidence in him?" Yellow Emperor's expression was oddly unsettled.

Regarding his old rival, Yellow Emperor truly admired him; at his prime, together with Shen Nong, Nv Ba, Ying Long, Jiu Tian Xuan Nu… a whole host of supreme divine arts fought a hard battle to barely subdue the opponent, costing many lives.

The opponent became an ancient war god not by bragging but by actual slashing; only the ancient ten‑thousand tribes that escaped Chi You's extermination could be called great clans. Too many tribes, some without even a name, were uprooted by Chi You.

That is why, back then, when he faced Chi You, it seemed the whole world was on his side.

There was no way; aside from the Human Clan, other races were utterly desperate about Chi You's rise to power.

No one dared gamble that Chi You might change after taking the throne; they feared a great purge after Chi You unified the Human Clan, and all chose to help Yellow Emperor without hesitation.

Still, even so, Yellow Emperor and Chi You had tacitly set a trap for those races back then; nine battles, nine defeats, and only Chi You knows how much Yellow Emperor watered his own game.

"Nonsense rules! Anyone with an opinion, let him come find me!" Chi You sneered at Yellow Emperor's words.

Yellow Emperor looked at Chi You with some helplessness; the Human Clan had endured the Three Sovereigns' rule, now counted as the foremost ancient barbarian clan, but internal unification was still shaky, and external beasts, deities, and the myriad living beings of the ten‑thousand tribes were eyeing them hungrily.

Even though Yellow Emperor now defeated Chi You to become Human Emperor, calamities still plagued his realm.

Honestly, although unification was achieved, the Human Clan's strength was at its weakest point in recorded history.

Nv Ba was dazed, Ying Long crossed time and space to help Da Yu with flood control, Yellow Emperor himself was gravely wounded…

To safely pass this weak period, Yellow Emperor would certainly settle scores later, but chaos must not be allowed now, so Yellow Emperor personally guarded Chi You's sealed site.

After all, the ancient ten‑thousand tribes' fear of Chi You had long reached its peak; if any problem arose on Chi You's side, those tribes might exploit it, leading again to widespread devastation of living beings.

"Hmph!" Seeing Yellow Emperor's sour expression, Chi You let out a cold snort and said nothing more.

He and Yellow Emperor contested the Human Emperor's throne; though his methods were brutal, he also cared about the Jiu Li Tribe's people.

Now that he was defeated, Yellow Emperor did not involve others, but instead pursued the merger of Yan Huang and Jiu Li into one.

Chi You naturally would not, for his own selfish reasons, push the tribal people into the abyss.

"Aren't you short of allies? He will become a capable commander under you! Then give him the Tiger Soul Blade!"

After a brief silence, Chi You spoke to Yellow Emperor.

"You really have such confidence in him?" Yellow Emperor was truly shocked this time.

"At least he won't be worse than Xing Tian under Yan Emperor's command!"

Chi You glanced at Yellow Emperor's ribs, where several deep, bone‑visible wounds were flaring, one of them the newest.

Hearing the name Xing Tian, Yellow Emperor's face darkened; the turmoil of unification affected many aspects, and behind the Xing Tian affair, countless living beings of the ten‑thousand tribes were stirring.

There's also the matter of Yan Emperor's daughter Jing Wei… case by case, he will eventually have to settle the score.

Back then, forced by helplessness, he could only slay her; invisibly it was like cutting off his own arm.

"Only this once; it must never continue. You should know how many are watching you!" Yellow Emperor sighed helplessly.

On the ancient earth, it isn't just Bai Ze and Di Ting that know everything; many races are eyeing the situation, ready to exploit any opening.

Yellow Emperor sealed Chi You rather than fully slaying him, essentially adopting a nuclear‑deterrence stance.

Pressed into a corner, he let Chi You out; everyone, let's have a fish die and the net break—let's see who ends up dying more miserably.