Chapter 1681: The Legend of Nüwa

Ma Xiaoling's sharp gaze landed on Su Xuan's face.

Kuang Tianyou was also looking at Su Xuan earnestly.

When he first met Su Xuan at Jiajia Building, he knew that Su Xuan was no ordinary person.

The other party had immediately identified his identity as a zombie and had even given him an extremely special gift.

Later, he learned that Su Xuan was a director of the Tiandao Group, and that the Tiandao Group had some connection to the supernatural world. Now, it seemed that Su Xuan's true identity was not that simple; he had another identity.

That was it.

At the Four Nations Building, Ma Xiaoling had been helpless against the activated Great Blood Swastika Curse, yet Su Xuan had merely held a peach wood sword and swung it once, and the Great Blood Swastika Curse, which claimed it could destroy the entire world, was instantly broken.

Could such strength be possessed by an ordinary person?

Su Xuan felt Ma Xiaoling's gaze and remained silent for a moment, then suddenly, a faint smile appeared at the corners of his mouth. He first spoke sixteen characters.

"At the beginning of time, who taught the Dao? The world calls me Taishang; I am the Dao Ancestor!"

"Just as Riley was once the First Emperor, I also had a name in the ancient times, titled Taishang. Because I once taught the path of cultivation to all living beings during the age of ignorance, those divine immortals and Buddhas gave me another honorary title, calling me the Dao Ancestor."

"Of course, those are all things of the past. After all, the ancient times have passed. Now, the Three Realms stand together, and many divine immortals and Buddhas have either vanished with the passage of time or exist within the Heavenly Realm or the Underworld. In the vast human world, people of the supernatural world are few and far between; this title is also insignificant."

Su Xuan appeared nonchalant.

Although he said so, to Ma Xiaoling's ears, she could not be as calm as Su Xuan.

"Your background is truly extraordinary!"

"The Ancestor who taught the Dao, the Taishang Dao Ancestor—I truly cannot imagine how many years you have lived in this mortal world. No wonder you knew about Jiang Chen. For an existence of your level, knowing about Jiang Chen is not surprising."

Su Xuan's face still wore that calm smile.

Ma Xiaoling added: "Then what about this time? Why are you helping us?"

"For you, having lived in the mortal world for so long, everything in the red dust should have been taken lightly, right? Even if the Great Blood Swastika Curse were successfully activated, it shouldn't affect you. Why go to such great lengths to help us deal with the Great Blood Swastika Curse?"

First searching for the traces of the Soul-Hooking Messenger on the internet, and then coming from Hong Kong to this island nation, Ma Xiaoling did not know what Su Xuan was aiming for.

If Su Xuan were just a young man with some mysterious abilities, it could be understood as having a warm heart.

But knowing that Su Xuan was an old monster who had lived for who knows how many years, from an era before the divine immortals and Buddhas had attained the Dao until today, Su Xuan's motives made one suspicious.

Not to mention, earlier, he had deliberately reminded Kuang Tianyou that Jiang Chen had appeared in Hong Kong.

Su Xuan said: "Even if the Great Blood Swastika Curse were successfully activated, it truly could not affect me. Furthermore, its power is not as formidable as imagined; it is fundamentally impossible for it to destroy the world."

"The activation of the Great Blood Swastika Curse this time is merely a game played in advance by the person behind the scenes."

"However, even if it is a game, I do not want it to succeed, because if it does, many people will die. Therefore, I chose to step in and help you. Besides that, it is to create an opportunity for Riley to settle the grievances between him and Kino."

"But this still doesn't explain your reason for helping us!"

Ma Xiaoling did not believe this explanation from Su Xuan.

Su Xuan knew that it would be difficult to convince Ma Xiaoling with just this explanation, so he asked her a question: "How much do you know about Nüwa?"

Upon hearing this question, Kuang Tianyou, Ma Xiaoling, and even Riley all became solemn.

After a moment of silence, Ma Xiaoling answered Su Xuan's question: "Nüwa, also known as the Empress Wa, is the ancestor of Chinese humanity and a righteous deity who blesses the nation. Legend has it that Nüwa created humans; she transformed seventy times in one day, using yellow clay to mold humans in her own image, creating human society and establishing the marriage system. Because the heavens collapsed and the earth sank, she melted colorful stones to mend the sky and cut off the legs of a giant turtle to support the four poles, leaving behind the myth of Nüwa mending the sky."

Su Xuan said: "This is indeed the Nüwa of legend. The Nüwa of reality is similar to the legend, but that is not the whole story."

Under the curious gazes of Ma Xiaoling, Kuang Tianyou, and Riley, Su Xuan spoke of an event from the ancient times: "I don't know how many years ago, when heaven and earth first opened, Nüwa, as an Innate Deity, was born from the world. As an Innate Deity, she held the power of creation and could create all things. Because of this powerful force, she aroused the wariness of the legendary Pangu Clan, so the Pangu Clan sent someone to monitor her. Later, with the help of the Pangu Clan, Nüwa created humans."

"After humans were born, the desolate earth was filled with vitality, and Nüwa fell into a deep sleep because of the creation of humans. However, no one expected that not many years later, she would wake up from her sleep."

"The reason she woke up was a great battle between the Human King and the Mother of Yaochi. The Human King and the Mother of Yaochi were originally a couple destined by heaven, but they turned against each other for some reason. Their battle caused disasters to arise everywhere in the human world, and that battle even shattered Mount Buzhou, which served as the pillar of heaven, causing torrential floods to pour down, turning the human world into an ocean."

"Besides that, Nüwa also discovered that during her sleep, the humans she had created had developed various base traits, which made her very disappointed in humanity."

"But at that time, Nüwa still pitied the world. She decided to give humanity one more chance, so she extracted five base traits from humans: confusion, infatuation, jealousy, power, and resentment. These five base traits corresponded to five colors; this is the origin of the Five-Colored Stones."

"With the help of the Five-Colored Stones formed from human base traits, Nüwa successfully mended the blue sky. It was also at this time that the battle between the Mother of Yaochi and the Human King came to an end. Under the interference of a certain force, the Mother of Yaochi was sealed."

"After mending the sky, Nüwa fell into extreme weakness. She could only exile herself in hopes of recovering during this process. At the same time, before leaving, she made a decision: if, when she returned, the base traits of humanity had emerged again, she would personally destroy this world."

"After she left, the duty of guarding the human world was entrusted by her to the Five-Colored Messengers formed from the Five-Colored Stones, and to the person whom the Pangu Clan had originally sent to monitor her, but who had become her good friend."

"This person, you are all familiar with. He is... Jiang Chen!" ===== CHAPTER 1683 =====