Chapter 873: Extra Chapter — Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Dawn of Xia Qi!

Dong!

Dong!

Dong!

Xuanyuan has arrived, and the clear sky is here!

Dong!

Dong!

Dong!

Xuanyuan has arrived, and Honghuang is at peace!

Dong!

……

Every shout is accompanied by a few drumbeats.

Before the Fire Cloud Cave, the Kui Niu Divine Drum that once commanded wind and cloud and shook the world was struck, shaking the ten directions of heaven and earth, the eight wildernesses and six unions.

This drum, having long completed its mission after the war ended, was placed here, originally meant to be a leisurely retirement of eating dust.

What can be done?

The tree wants calm, but the wind won't stop.

Such a flashy divine drum is inevitably destined to be struck; when the mountains and rivers of Honghuang had just begun to recover and adjust, not yet having enjoyed long peace, people came and beat it, shaking the mountains and rivers.

Beat the drum!

Cry out injustice!

Of course.

The visitor is very restrained, not immediately causing a blood-soaked uproar—I offer my blood to Xuanyuan.

If they're really that ruthless, they might as well kick up a fuss in the heavenly palace!

After all, Haotian is no pushover—is Xuanyuan really just a nice guy?!

Guess why this lord etched the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, plants and trees, recorded the arts of farming and nurturing, and the strategy of unifying the four seas—why carve it onto a sword?!

Wouldn't it be better to carve it on a stele?

The secret propaganda of the Feng clan's Wind Lady, who does not wish to reveal her name, is intended so that when reasoning with people, they can see that this Huangdi Majesty's vehicle of reason is clear, and not act like a rogue when he wishes to reason.

Otherwise… if you drive Xuanyuan to desperation and he plays the rogue, blood will splatter on his sword, covering the inscriptions, and he will no longer speak reason.

Therefore, the visitor is very restrained.

He lifted high the majestic image of Huangdi, focused his gaze, then with a wave of his hand a coffin appeared; he walked behind it, knelt before the Fire Cloud Cave, and wailed loudly, tears pouring like rain.

Waaah waaah waaah……

The momentum is as great as possible, the crying as loud as possible.

The sound of sorrowful weeping shakes the mountains and rivers.

This is destined to be a matter of great influence.

It is too serious in nature.

By analogy, like a mortal kingdom, kneeling and wailing at the imperial column in the capital, crying out injustice without end… even drawing fire to burn oneself, enough to shock the nation; for many years it has remained a taboo.

At this moment, a great divine being cries to heaven and earth; though the genuine feeling may be slight, the performance is overly spot-on.

Following the weeping, there is June snow, mountains and rivers weeping blood…… lights and music all in place, leaving the human emperor in the Fire Cloud Cave unable to just sit and watch.

Kunpeng!

Fengxi walked out of the Fire Cloud Cave, a blue mark faintly appearing on his brow, his eye sockets slightly swollen…… his appearance somewhat disheveled, yet his heroic spirit undiminished.

Now that things have come to this, the truth is revealed, he no longer needs to hide anything.

However, his fate is fraught, and Mister Feng thus suffered a brutal beating…… just now.

He was in the Fire Cloud Cave, eating hot pot, humming a song; although his daily work is extremely burdensome, he can still find joy in hardship.

If……

Without a 'swish', a masked male-female duo of villains descended from the sky, pressing him down for a sudden stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat…… that would be even better!

In the end, he is even more tragic than a certain Wa!

Haotian's Dao fruit was severed, leaving him as a lone Pangu; how could he withstand the torment of two ruthless people?

And those two are also utterly unscrupulous.

They didn't make him lose an arm or a leg, or drop two parts; the lethal force isn't strong, but the humiliation is too high!

Everyone says don't hit the face when beating someone, but those two specialize in hitting the face!

Fengxi knows he's in the wrong, closes his eyes, endures and it will pass.

But his mood is therefore not pleasant.

When he saw the returning cry-for-justice petitioner, forced to come out with wounds to handle affairs…… the fierce aura spread over heaven and earth, shocking the mortal realm.

What are you doing?!

Beating the drum?

Are you here to cry out injustice?

Where is there any injustice! Ah? Who dares to have injustice!

Fengxi's killing intent surged, leaving Kunpeng stunned.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a little regret, thinking he had been hasty.

He regretted not having initially hopped left and right, ultimately planting today's bitter fruit.

"Siblings, the Black Manor pits people to death!"

"You lot, if either side could win big…… what's the result?"

Endless counter-kills, desperate counterattacks—finally it's impossible to tell which side actually won the great victory!

Say Nüwa lost? She actually broke Fuxi's hegemony.

Say Fuxi lost? What the heck is that Haotian in the Heavenly Court?!

With this draw of yours, how are you two-faced traitors supposed to survive?

We didn't put all our eggs in one basket, and yet both baskets broke!

You've trapped the Kunpeng!

The Kunpeng Great Sage let out a long sigh from the depths of his heart.

Two-faced traitor, spy among spies, fence-sitter—this looks like you're involved with both sides, with plenty of retreat routes… but maybe you're not involved with either, and later we'll settle the score!

Quite unfortunate.

The Kunpeng Great Sage met with an "accident".

How handsome he looked when he previously presented the River Chart and Luo Book to the Azure Emperor, and how disheveled he became when Nüwa came back slaughtering.

Fortunately, Fuxi came through, looking after his underlings who ran errands for him, so he didn't constantly suffer "accidental" disasters when going out, losing ingredients like Kunpeng heads and Peng wings.

But this wasn't entirely without cost.

At this very moment, representing the will of a certain group, I charge forward to probe the heart of the Holy Emperor who controls the human Dao in this new era!

This requires a strong enough mighty one; at the very least, don't get intercepted by the Yinglong Great Sage guarding the gate of the Fire Cloud Cave.

However, that's only the first level.

Only when we truly meet the Yellow Emperor does the real feast begin!

"Your Majesty!"

"Tiānwú bears a grievance!"

The Kunpeng Great Sage shouted loudly.

——The one crying injustice is Tiānwú; what does that have to do with my Kunpeng?

Nowadays, among those powerful cultivators mixing in the world, who doesn't have three or five identities?

The demon master Kunpeng and the ancestral Wu Tiānwú have no vested interest…… Don't falsely accuse innocent people!

As he spoke, the Kunpeng Great Sage gained confidence——I'm here to claim lawful and just compensation; I'm not saying I'll get rich from this, but at least settle the relocation fees, okay?

I, the ancestral Wu Tiānwú, have shed my head and spilled my blood for the Wu army of humanity for so many years—how could I wake up to find the era turned over and I've been completely wiped out?!

"Your Majesty, the Yellow Emperor!"

"Tiānwú's bones are not yet cold, and he dies with unclosed eyes!"

The Kunpeng Great Sage twitched his nose, his tear glands stirred, and tears poured down like rain.

He pried open the coffin behind him, and lo and behold, Tiānwú was buried inside, having died a miserable death!

It's hard to say, but this wasn't when he was a two-faced traitor switching sides, being finished off casually by the all-conquering Nüwa…… Fortunately, it didn't affect the Tuba's main body, and he survived intact into the new era.

"I have shed blood for humanity!"

"I have been loyal to the organization!"

"But these actually don't amount to much."

"We ancestral Wu, with our noble personal virtues, what's so great about a little honor and reward?"

"But Your Majesty, now my subordinates and my people, in the freezing cold wind, lack food and clothing, economic development and construction are stalled…… I feel ashamed before the countless soldiers who have followed me to this day!"

Having said that, the Kunpeng Great Sage shed old tears in torrents, unable to stop his sobbing.

The Yellow Emperor looked at him, his mouth twitching, but he also couldn't well refute the words of this old salted fish.

"That's indeed a problem; we can't let the soldiers' hearts grow cold."

"To stabilize the fortune of humanity, to establish the heart of the human Dao—merit is supreme, virtue shines for a thousand years."

Fengxi nodded, "I shall naturally be the progenitor of this line, enjoying the incense of future generations for myriad ages."

"Your feedback has been received here; I will soon implement the related work."

"At the same time..."

"I also understand the noble virtue of the old comrade Tiānwú…… As represented by you, the ancestral Wu seek neither fame nor profit, do not covet vanity, and wholeheartedly serve the masses and contribute to the human Dao."

"This is something worthy of commendation."

Fengxi's eyes flickered slightly, "Later, I will hold a conference of the Five Heavenly Emperors to discuss this matter."

"Old comrade, please go rest and recuperate for a while."

He said that, then summoned Yinglong, and had this old-timer who leans on his age taken off to rest.

"Ah…… I don't need it……" the Kunpeng Great Sage struggled.

"No, you do need it." Fengxi spoke gently, but the force he exerted in secret was truly great.

The Kunpeng Great Sage is very strong.

But Fengxi is even stronger!

In the end, the Kunpeng Great Sage was sent away unwillingly and resentfully.

"My lord, do you really want to comply with their wishes?" Yinglong took the Kunpeng Great Sage to a side hall of the Fire Cloud Cave, leaving him with no way to heaven or earth.

"As they wish? Hah!" Fengxi chuckled, "They pretend to be foolish before me, so I'll pretend to be foolish in return."

"Do they not know what I aim to achieve?"

"Now they actually kidnap civilians, coerce clans, and come to bargain with me…… tsk!"

"However, the specific details of the Wu Clan must eventually be handled…… After retirement, their treatment must not be inferior; we need to set a benchmark."

"The positions of the ancestral Wu, the great Wu, and the small Wu are completely different; we cannot simply condemn the Wu Clan wholesale—we must analyze case by case."

"Crack down on monopolistic oligarchs, support mid-sized and small clans, with central governance over the four directions…… let the gods govern the gods, and let people govern people."

Fengxi said this, then fell into contemplation.

The Five Direction Heavenly Emperors are not enough.

This system of law can govern gods, but it cannot govern people.

We need two sets of teams.

Otherwise, severing earth and heavenly connection would likely become an illusory bubble.

He made his decision.

Two sets of teams…… feasible? The Five Direction Heavenly Emperors hold the ultimate power and ultimate authority! Yinglong analyzed seriously, full of doubt, "Creating heaven, transformation, one clan, the myriad beings, and the Heavenly Dao can awe the gods, making them dare not even step half a foot beyond the thunder pool, only daring to engage in minor skirmishes."

But what could another set of teams match up to it with? Moreover, what should be established as its guiding principle?

Governance of people must not be worse than governance of gods…… otherwise, over time, people's hearts may change.

I understand the reasoning." Fengxi picked up a pen, scribbled, and quickly had a draft.

In the new era, humanity may not necessarily worship gods, but will surely revere ancestors.

The reasons are also ample.

With ancestors come descendants; this is boundless hidden virtue.

As for the gods, good and evil are still uncertain, let alone discussing their contributions.

To govern the gods, there are the Five Direction Heavenly Emperors.

Then to govern people, there should be…… the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors!

Based on the magnitude of their contributions to humanity, their status is established; they are honored as the common ancestors of humanity, worshipped for all ages…… and upon becoming the sovereigns of gods, they surpass the ancient gods!

Fengxi settled on the general framework.

This matter also requires Báizé to make a trip.

We few Pangu will trim the history of the era, engaging in warfare during the Witch-Demon era.

Speaking, he laughed, "Once, to achieve success in the Human Dao and have spiritual freedom, we exhausted our efforts, yet we were adding to the Witch-Demon era, threading through the ages, inserting an epoch of the Five Direction Heavenly Emperors, overlapping and stacking."

Who would have thought that now we must be busy, doing a subtraction, carving out a prosperous age for humanity, determining this era's theme, striving for Honghuang to develop prosperously and flourish, with material and spirit reaching new heights.

That…… Dragon Ancestor, no, Gonggong…… isn't he terribly unfortunate?" Yinglong's brain circuits were odd, yet he thought of another matter.

In the Witch-Demon era, he will crash into a mountain, serving as the final act to end the Witch-Demon era.

In the Human era, he will also crash into a mountain, becoming a stepping stone for humanity to ascend to ancestor veneration?

The sky collapsed; it was the human ancestors who went to mend it.

The waters flooded; it was the forebears who went to divert them.

This…… how pitiful!

Yinglong sighed with emotion.

Fengxi was speechless.

Indeed……

The Dragon Ancestor is somewhat tragic.

This new era has just begun, yet the Dragon Ancestor must toil a bit, serving as the background scapegoat.

The problem is not serious.

Fengxi held back for a while before responding somewhat guiltily, "Cang is now sleeping, recovering from the injuries of the previous era; I suppose he won't have much objection to our approach."

Furthermore……

The capable bear more work!

Officially appointing him as the mountain‑crasher shows our high regard, is a honing and cultivation of his personal ability…… only through enduring hardship can there be a bright future.

Moreover……

The one who crashes the mountain is Gonggong; what does that have to do with Dragon Ancestor?

Fengxi convinced his own conscience.

Yinglong nodded vigorously beside him.

Exactly!

That's exactly it!

Unknowingly, I too have become a wind guide." Fengxi chuckled, "It's rather interesting."

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors will all take the stage in this grand drama…… but this is not really a big deal.

The key point is merely to give those little witches who once fought blood‑soaked a final verdict…… the witches are the enlightenment of humanity's ignorant age!

With this legitimacy, their deeds will be transmitted for tens of thousands of years, engraved in the bones and blood of every human.

At the same time…… it is also part of the united front against the Demon Race, reconstructing the grand unity of the Human Dao with humanity as the core and totems as the bond.

Incense never ceases, hidden virtue is boundless, within reincarnation there is a fragrant name…… thereafter, whether entering the Heavenly Court as a god, or the netherworld as a ghost‑god, or being reborn into myriad realms with heavenly mandate, becoming a lord of a world…… all are considered a good destination.

Fengxi sighed.

He will store weapons and release horses to the southern mountains.

But in the end, it did not shortchange the gains of those little witches who fought blood‑soaked.

After dealing with these, the Human Dao should also emerge from the blood and fire of the previous era…… then, it will be a brand‑new beginning!

A brand‑new divine dynasty, ushering in a new era!

Fengxi stood at the edge of the Suiyue Changhe, gazing toward the future.

Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Xia Qi era!

(End of chapter)