[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-law-of-primordial-origin":3,"chapter-law-of-primordial-origin-law-of-primordial-origin-chapter-13":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Primeval Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2216035,3936,"Chapter 13: The Ancient Path of Chixian","law-of-primordial-origin-chapter-13",13,"\u003Cp>\"This ocean is the place where all the deceased of the universe return? Doesn't that mean the legendary Underworld of mythology doesn't not exist, but exists in the microscopic world?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the terror and shock, everyone expressed their own views, discussing heatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Using scientific methods, one cannot find the three souls and seven spirits within the human body; perhaps it is because the three souls and seven spirits are too minute, existing in the microscopic realm in some special state. After a person dies, the three souls and seven spirits lose their carrier and naturally return to the microscopic soul sea before our eyes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exactly! A person's soul is born in the womb. The soul must be smaller than the embryo, otherwise, how could it be contained?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone raised a question: \"Are we really on the microscopic level of Earth? Is Earth the Underworld where the souls of all living beings in the universe return? I feel that at such a microscopic level, Earth's material state actually no longer exists; we might... no longer be on Earth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or rather, we have arrived at a special interface completely distinct from the macroscopic universe. We might really be unable to go back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three words \"unable to go back\" were too despairing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It meant the future was uncertain, life and death were unpredictable, and the atmosphere became oppressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were always fierce souls roaring in the sea, and strange, thunder-like cries echoed from the deep sea from time to time, making it hard for people to settle their hearts, secretly wondering if demons inhabited the soul sea?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the bronze ship moved forward, more fierce souls flew toward it like moths to a flame, wanting to leap onto the deck, but all met their doom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power protecting the bronze ship was very strong; they couldn't break through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the only thing that brought temporary peace of mind!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the gloom and alarm, there were naturally optimists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Huan, his hand wrapped in white bandages, stood at the very front of the bow and said excitedly: \"I told you we must have fallen from the Arctic Ocean into the Underworld; do you believe me now? The Arctic Ocean is the Northern Sea of ancient times! You say, a Kunpeng thousands of miles in size couldn't stretch its body in the Arctic Ocean, but in this boundless soul sea before us, it should be able to turn the world upside down at will, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Also, do you know why there is the saying of the 'seventh day' after a person dies? Because after seven days, the soul can never return! The distance from Earth to the soul sea is seven days.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A third-year graduate student, yet extremely superstitious, spouting myths, legends, and conjectures—if it were before, everyone would surely have snickered, but now, everyone's scientific faith had collapsed, and they could only rely on such messy guesses to explain everything before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi had no interest in their groundless speculations; he would adapt to whatever came. After cultivating the extraordinary, he was no longer as lost and confused as when he first woke up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life now had a goal to pursue, motivation, longing, and a direction to strive and move forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivate the extraordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Further extraordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to know, at the end of the extraordinary, how strong could a person become? Could they, like in myths and legends, fly, burrow, move mountains, and drive the stars...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they had really come to the Underworld, the Ghost Wilderness world... so what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He and Cai Yutong took the two elderly professors who had been injured in the trampling and prepared to go to the medical tent for examination and treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the bronze ship was already very close to the stone peak pillar monument in the sea, only a few kilometers away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the elderly professors with a leg injury wiped his glasses and finally saw the four character symbols on it, exclaiming in surprise: \"These characters are completely different from the inscriptions on the bronze ship; they look very much like oracle bone script and bronze script, sharing the same origin as Chinese characters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the two of them were not professionals, they were both enthusiasts of ancient scripts and had been studying the inscriptions on the bronze ship for the past few days, attempting to decipher them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other elderly professor, who had been trampled in the chest and looked ashen, was being supported by Li Youyi. He stared at the stone peak pillar monument for a moment and said: \"It's even earlier than the period of oracle bone and bronze scripts; the evolution of characters has traces to follow, it should be possible to decipher them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The professor with the leg injury said: \"I think it's somewhat similar to the characters on the 'Cangjie Bird Track Script Monument,' perhaps existing in the same period.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Cangjie Bird Track Script Monument\" contained twenty-eight bird-track characters, which legend says were the original forms of pictographic characters created by the ancestor of civilization, \"Cangjie.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi’s heart was shaken: \"These four carved characters share the same origin as Chinese characters? Doesn't that mean that in the extremely distant past, ancient Huaxia humans arrived here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm afraid so... let's decipher them first and see exactly what the four characters are.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two elderly professors had an intense interest in the script and were in no rush to check their injuries, each taking out ancient script books, fountain pens, and notebooks from their bags to discuss and study earnestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, they reached a conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wrote four characters in the notebook—\"Ancient Path of Chixian.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ancient Path of Chixian!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were quite a few people gathered around, all confused and puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why would a stone peak pillar monument in the sea be carved with such inexplicable four characters?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bronze ship’s sails were fully unfurled, fast as a galloping horse, and it had already reached the base of the stone peak pillar monument. Viewed from close range, the oppressive feeling of the magnificent and grand peak monument was felt even more clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't know how many years it had stood in this vast soul sea, steep and precipitous, difficult for even apes and cranes to cross, so towering and eternal. In the sea, there shouldn't be such a stone peak with flat surfaces, or perhaps some great being had brought it here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The four characters carved on it were chiseled out by divine axes and heavenly blades, every stroke like a crack in the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The professor with the leg injury, while putting away his fountain pen and brown leather notebook, said: \"Chixian is not the 'county' in a city or county as you understand it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Regarding Chixian, the earliest record is in the 'Records of the Grand Historian: Biographies of Mencius and Xun Qing,' where Zou Yan called the ancient name of China 'Chixian Shenzhou'.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Legend has it that in ancient times, the land ruled by the Flame Emperor was called Chixian, and the land ruled by the Yellow Emperor was called Shenzhou. The name 'Chixian Shenzhou' for ancient Huaxia was named after this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Huan exclaimed: \"In other words, the Ancient Path of Chixian means the road leading to Chixian Shenzhou? The direction back to Earth?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi looked back at the stone peak pillar monument carved with the four characters \"Ancient Path of Chixian,\" which was receding. Further away, lead-black Ghost Clouds shrouded the sky and the sea level, as if the soul sea broke off there, and no light could shine in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bronze ship had sailed out from those black Ghost Clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi said: \"With this stone peak pillar monument, the wanderers who fell into the soul sea will be able to find the way home in the future. The Ancient Path of Chixian must be the path the bronze ship has traveled these seven days; within the Ghost Clouds, there must be many secrets we cannot know today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his mind, the scene of the Nine Infants being snatched away by a golden giant claw from the Ghost Clouds appeared, and every time he recalled it, he was filled with shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's a pity the bronze ship is not under our control; if it turned around, perhaps we could return to Earth.\" Director Yang said meaningfully, his gaze falling on Li Youyi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi sent the two professors to the medical tent, and shortly after, Zhao Meng arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Follow me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Meng, his rifle never leaving his hand, pulled Li Youyi to a secluded spot beneath a grave mound, his expression grave the entire way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing no one around, Zhao Meng said with extreme seriousness: \"After the Ghost Clouds dispersed, everyone's fantasy of returning to Earth was shattered, which means the greatest restraint—the law—has completely vanished, and some people who were itching to act no longer have any scruples. I predict that a riot will break out on the ship soon. Youyi, you must firmly remember every word I say next.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First, you are too severely injured; in the riot, I’m afraid I won't be able to protect you. Tonight, after everyone is fast asleep, collect some food, and then in the depths of the grave forest, find a grave mound and shallowly bury yourself and the food; you must hide well. By the way, don't go near the nine-story ship tower; it's very dangerous there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Second, the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish and the Huang Long Sword are buried in the grave mound where you fell onto the bronze ship. There is a string of bone wind chimes hanging on the tombstone in front of the grave; look for it carefully, it’s easy to identify.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Third, I don't know when this riot will break out, nor do I know how many people are plotting in the dark, so although I have united a group of brothers and made some arrangements, but... there is really no chance of winning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Meng grabbed Li Youyi’s right shoulder, his eyes intense and complex: \"Three days! We will set a limit of three days. Within three days, no matter what sounds or movements you hear, do not come out, even if they threaten my life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After three days, I will come to the grave forest to find you and call your name. That will mean the situation is under my control.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If after three days you don't hear me calling you, it means I am already dead! At that time, you should know that the situation is already extremely dire... but no matter how difficult the situation is, you must understand that you absolutely cannot hand over the Dao Ancestor Yin-Yang Fish. If you hand it over, you are dead for sure!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Also, don't trust anyone. Without the constraints of law and morality, in the face of survival, interests, and desire, people have no bottom line; morality, shame, and dignity may all be worthless. In the face of torture, no matter how tough a man is, there is no guarantee he can hold out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi could feel his senior brother’s concern and worry, and said: \"Is this the reason why you made a three-day agreement with me in advance? Because you are worried that you might fall into their hands and not be able to hold out under torture?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Without having experienced torture, who dares to guarantee they can hold out? If it really comes to that point, having this three-day agreement gives me at least some buffer in my heart.\" Zhao Meng gave a bitter smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi hesitated, considering whether to tell him now that his injuries had already healed and that he had cultivated the extraordinary that his master had spoken of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His senior brother was naturally trustworthy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the people around his senior brother might not be trustworthy, otherwise, he wouldn't have said \"don't trust anyone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Li Youyi decided to keep it hidden for the time being; that way, he could become a surprise force for his senior brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Meng, Brother Meng, the backup generator has been repaired, haha!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Hong came running over, dancing with joy, his body covered in oil stains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a technical staff member responsible for equipment operation on the research ship, personally interviewed and recruited by Zhao Meng; in other words, he was Zhao Meng’s absolute confidant. Li Youyi was no stranger to him, having seen him several times already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two stopped their secret discussion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi showed a look of joy: \"With electricity, doesn't that mean the cold storage can be reactivated?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s natural; now the biggest crisis is temporarily resolved. The food on the ship is enough for us to eat for at least another few months.\" Chen Hong beamed with joy, looking very sunny and optimistic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the past few days, Zhao Meng had been leading people to rush repairs on the cold storage and the generator. Because only in this way could they fundamentally prevent conflicts from breaking out due to food shortages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's go, take me to see.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gloom in Zhao Meng’s heart dissipated quite a bit, and in a great mood, he hurried with Chen Hong toward the overturned and broken research ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi watched their departing backs, a smile appearing on his face: \"In this world, there is never a lack of builders of civilization; no matter how difficult the situation, there are always people patching things up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Civilization and morality were born to restrain human nature, to allow humanity to go further. Not like in the primitive era, killing each other, enslaving the weak, and cannibalizing their own kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing adversity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kind and brave people often choose to use civilized methods to heal the common home of all, to resist the destruction of primitive human nature. Like Cai Yutong who cultivated and planted, and Zhao Meng who repaired the generator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Self-interested and ambitious people are driven by primitive human nature, mostly choosing to trample on civilization rather than build it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary people can only be followers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Youyi walked alone into the eerie and terrifying grave sea monument forest, deciding to first retrieve the Huang Long Sword and the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 14 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",2380,"2026-06-17T10:49:26.844Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","c629480534236d297b0c0b0aa3d9f97385d74e03c2bbd9c08b0ca9ad1acc34c3","law-of-primordial-origin-chapter-14","law-of-primordial-origin-chapter-12",333,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-primeval-law-cover.jpg"]