Chapter 373: Golden Crow, Golden Flood Dragon, and the Eyeball

The sun is the most ordinary thing in this world; it rises in the east and sets in the west every day, bringing warmth and light to the earth. Therefore, legends and myths about the sun have been widely known from ancient times to the present.

Some say the sun is the eye of an ancient god; some say a luminous divine bird dwells inside the sun; others say the sun contains a golden flood dragon full of kindness.

These bizarre myths and legends have no reliable source; no one can say where the myths came from, let alone what the sun actually is.

Thus, since the New Heavenly Court launched a mass enlightenment campaign, everyone has been discussing issues related to it!

Among these, the most influential was your circumnavigation: originally everyone's worldview was 'heaven round, earth square,' but as you sailed around the world that year, ordinary people also gained for the first time a concrete understanding of the land they lived on.

Thus, 'heaven round, earth square' gradually gave way to 'the earth is a sphere'; even now, at least the populace of the Three Provinces under your rule widely accepts this knowledge, and it is precisely based on this knowledge that folks have made a globe……

But that's all there is to it.

As for the cosmic starry sky beyond the earth, no mortal can say exactly what it is.

Your understanding of this issue is also not deep—not because you can't go up, but because you're busy governing, so you have no time to look.

This time you finally have a purpose and free time, so of course you want to go up and take a close look……

You led dozens of your true gods upward to the nine heavens; gradually, a sense of weightlessness welled up in your heart…… but you were unmoved, merely continuing to fly upward.

Soon after, you appeared in outer space seated in your wheelchair; turning your head, you saw: a beautiful azure planet floating in the endless starry sky!

Compared to other giant stars, it may not be very large, but it is indeed the cradle and home of you and all beings; countless stories of the ages have taken place upon this unremarkable ancient star……

This is a small step for you, but a giant leap for mankind!

You looked around in the starry sky, searched all of space, and found no angels…… Wait! Aren't you the Lord of All Gods?

Um, in this idealistic world filled with incense divine power, materialism really isn't very usable……

Your thoughts were scattered, but you ultimately didn't dwell on these; instead you turned your head and stared directly at that blazing fireball!

"You…… what exactly are you?"

With a mix of complexity and curiosity, you muttered to yourself.

Having spoken, you ignored the gods' worries, only letting them stand guard outside to prevent any scheming Southern Province True God from barging in, then you alone headed straight toward the sun, as if unconcerned about the sun's threat to you……

In fact, there's really nothing to worry about, after all the sun emits only ordinary light and heat, which for an incense dharma form immune to physical attacks can be completely ignored!

So you approached the sun like this: the fireball looks small from afar, but up close it's truly enormous—hundreds of thousands of times larger than your home planet!

But after staring at it for a long time, you still saw no clue: 'Why does the sun keep burning? How much longer can it keep burning? What does the inside of the sun actually look like?'

Concerning future energy utilization, if you want to make good use of the sun, you must first understand it; thus, having found nothing, you decided to go inside and have a look!

However, things quickly surpassed your imagination……

As soon as you stepped near the sun, you inexplicably felt a throbbing.

You didn't know why this throbbing occurred; it merely felt as if a true god of equal rank were trying to harm you here!

In an instant, your vigilance was maxed out: 'Could someone be lying in ambush?!'

Impossible—you hadn't told outsiders about this trip; it was a completely spontaneous decision, so how could someone have set up an ambush beforehand? Yet that throbbing wasn't imaginary; surely someone intends to harm you……

"Gah-gah-gah!"

While you were on guard, accompanied by a strange 'gah-gah' cry, a colossal monster bird suddenly flew out from the sun's core and rushed straight at you!

This sight terrified you out of your wits; you had no time to ponder why a monster bird would suddenly fly out of the sun, nor to engage it, so you hurriedly pushed your wheelchair and fled the sun at full speed.

Seeing you chased out by the monster bird, the gods were somewhat taken aback, but ultimately the Blood God Son's 'Thought Steel Seal' has top priority; seeing the great Pasha in danger, over thirty people instinctively came to guard you!

More than thirty true gods surrounded the monster bird, various divine powers surging without cease! Although the monster bird's aura was strong, it was ultimately not a mechanical descent; under the absolute advantage of the righteous encirclement, the monster bird quickly fell into a disadvantage.

Seeing the situation turn bad, the monster bird tried to flee, but you certainly wouldn't give it that chance; after seeing that the monster bird's strength wasn't overpowered, you, having relaxed a bit, also grew somewhat annoyed, and thus directed the gods to jointly suppress it……

After capturing this monster bird, you finally had leisure to examine it closely: its whole body was dark black, resembling a mundane crow, yet it was entwined and spewing white-hot platinum flames, and crucially it had three legs—altogether a mythical divine beast from legend!

Thus, its name slipped from your lips: 'Three-legged Golden Crow?!' 'Is this…… isn't this the legendary solar divine beast? Does it really exist?!'

The moment you saw its form clearly, you suddenly felt your worldview shaking……

But before you could ponder further, the three-legged golden crow, forcibly subdued by the gods, cried out once more and then transformed, turning into a golden flood dragon that shot up into the sky!

"Ah?!"

Everyone stared, but they didn't delay; they hurriedly scrambled and again subdued that golden flood dragon.

"Affectionate Golden Flood Dragon……"

You dazedly uttered its name; this is a divine beast that, like the three-legged golden crow, is a solar incarnation, likewise existing only in myth and legend.

Now that the three-legged golden crow and the affectionate golden flood dragon have both been proven to exist, the remaining 'Ancient God's Left Eye……'

Before you could think further, the subdued golden flood dragon broke through the people's methods once again, transforming into a huge eyeball!

But this was useless; under absolute overwhelming force, the Ancient God's Left Eye was also subdued down, and thereafter it never changed form again……

However, no matter which mythic form it took, its surroundings were always entwined with unextinguishable flames, which seems to represent some kind of connection with the sun!

And after you completely captured it, you also, driven by curiosity, conducted a detailed study of it.

The study showed that, just as the myths say, it is indeed the source of the sun; the sun's light and heat originate from the radiation of its surface white-gold flames!

If you let it leave the sun, the original sun would gradually dissipate, while it would then form a new sun all around itself.

However, its intelligence seems not very high; it possesses only a simple instinct to seek fortune and avoid misfortune, far inferior to ordinary people.

But the above research findings are not yet the most shocking; the most shocking is that it is actually an incense true god……

You were dumbfounded at the time: after all that fuss, the 'pure natural endless energy' you had high hopes for turned out to be a product of divine power!

What mortal technology are you still developing? Divine power itself is the foundation and logic of the world!

For a moment you were silent and speechless, and suddenly felt that your persistence was worth nothing……

"No! I won't accept it!"

Unable to accept the plan's bankruptcy, you, with reddened eyes, went to the moon amidst everyone's bewilderment!

You don't believe the use of divine power is inevitable!

Thus you directly charged into the lunar star composed of cold air, but you soon despaired, because the lunar star houses a toad……

After subduing the toad again harshly, it transformed into two forms: a lunar jade rabbit and an ancient god's right eye; moreover, it is also the source of the lunar star, and the lunar star is constituted by its divine power!

"No!"

You rush again toward the Zhou Tian stars, eyes red… but the Zhou Tian stars are not formed by divine power, yet they also cannot serve as an energy source for mortals to use…

At last, you despairingly gaze at the two poor eyeballs representing the origin of yin and yang, speechless for a long while.

No matter what you say, your plan for this trip has failed: this world itself is built on the foundation of divine power, so it fundamentally cannot meet your needs.

Your beautiful wish to let mortals forever live self-sufficient, limitless lives is fragile beyond description in the face of harsh reality…

Desperate you also no longer trouble the two large eyeballs, both because they are not the "natural energy" you seek, and because the survival of all beings under heaven depends on the sun and moon, and they are vital to the sun and moon's existence—lightly meddling is unacceptable.

Thus you let them go, allowing them to vanish in a puff of smoke back to the sun and moon.

You watch their fleeing backs, your face only bitter.

Your plan can only be forced to stop, you also can only disappoint the people's expectations; facing the energy crisis that draws everyone's attention, you formally declare yourself helpless…

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(This chapter ends)