Chapter 684: The Heavens and Myriad Worlds, Taboo History

Brother Qian Chen rode the green ox, swaying as he traveled west. Yan Shu had already returned to Shaoqing. If there were no accidents, Junior Sister Ning would catch up later to accompany Brother Qian Chen into the Return to Ruins to seek that thread of opportunity.

Wang Longxiang remained silent. He didn't seem to recognize Brother Qian Chen, only giving him a deep look before leaving to find Ao Bing for trouble!

Brother Qian Chen parted ways with the Shaoqing Sect's cloud flying boat halfway, traveling alone, riding the green ox to trek overseas.

Brother Qian Chen leaned on the ox's back, holding the silver mirror, waiting for the Taiyin star to gradually rise...

"Master, you certainly put on quite a show. In my memory, it's been a long time since anyone dared to provoke that group of muddy loaches! Now it's done, you've laid out a plan to kill so many of them, I'm afraid that old Dragon King will be jumping with rage... That is the East Sea Dragon King after all!" The green ox muttered while chewing its cud, its words actually carrying a hint of lingering fear.

Brother Qian Chen glanced at it and put down the silver mirror: "Do you know that before you came, an old dragon once boasted wildly, saying that their True Dragon Clan was the king of divine beasts, and that green oxen and white deer were all not to be feared!"

The green ox was furious: "That muddy loach dared to say that? I'd knock him dead with one hoof!"

"What does it matter if their Ancestral Dragon was glorious? He died long ago! Now the Dragon Clan is just clinging to this bit of legacy to survive, without the prestige of the king of scales of the past. My green ox's ancestor was Meng Zhang, one of the Four Symbols! The mount of the Supreme Dao Ancestor. What is the Dragon Clan now? A broken family, and they dare to climb up to us green oxen?"

The green ox said with mockery and disdain.

Brother Qian Chen teased it jokingly: "Then why did you act like you saw a ghost when you saw the East Sea Dragon King, hiding behind!"

The green ox fell silent for a long time before muttering: "It's hard to say! Anyway, I've lived for ten thousand years, and the East Sea Dragon King hasn't changed! Who knows if the previous East Sea Dragon Kings were all the same person!"

Brother Qian Chen suddenly flipped up from the ox's back, surprised: "You mean, this East Sea Dragon King is still the same East Sea Dragon King from back then?"

"Isn't the East Sea Dragon King a divine position passed down through the Dragon Clan?"

"That's hard to say!" The green ox was somewhat uneasy: "Anyway, in the ten thousand years I've lived, the East Sea Dragon King hasn't changed! Who knows if the previous East Sea Dragon Kings were all the same person!"

"The East Sea Dragon King has been granted a title since the Heavenly Zhou Divine Dynasty millions of years ago!" Brother Qian Chen raised an eyebrow: "If the Hong Hong Sihai Dragon Kings have never changed... wouldn't they have been around for millions of years? Wouldn't their cultivation be chasing after Dao Lords?"

"Maybe they changed less frequently..." The green ox also felt it was impossible. Millions of years of cultivation, yet slashed apart by his master, who had only cultivated for a few decades, with one sword—how useless must the Hong Hong Sihai Dragon Kings be?

The key was that the Dragon Clan was famous for being naturally tyrannical and having high aptitude. Relying on their ten-thousand-year lifespan, they basically became Soul Transformation experts naturally before they died of old age!

This was after the Supreme Dao Ancestor merged with the Dao and changed the heavens, slashing their bloodline. Before that, relying on their ancestors' shade, the Dragon Clan could become immortals upon adulthood...

The green ox sighed gloomily: "To speak of the Dragon Clan's ancestors, they were truly wealthy. They were one of the Five Great Demon Emperors of the primordial era!"

"When were the Primordial Five Emperors Demon Emperors!" Brother Qian Chen was dissatisfied: "My human race's Ying Emperor and Yuan Emperor were both among the Five Emperors, how could they be called Demon Emperors!"

"But the human race was once a demon race too!"

"The demon is the one who defies heaven! It is the general term for the myriad races that did not submit to the gods in the past!"

The green ox felt wronged: "In the past, there were five categories in the Zhou Tian: the naked, the scaled, the hairy, the feathered, and the insectoid. Those who rebelled against the gods became demons! Your human race is the leader of the naked race. The original Ying Emperor was also called the 'Luo Emperor', the head of all creatures without hair or scales. His status was noble, but later generations felt 'Luo' was unrefined, so it was borrowed as 'Ying'!"

"The Yuan Emperor inherited the Qilin and was the leader of the hairy race, and even the walking beasts. The human race's ancestors led the two races of the Zhou Tian and were the nobles among the demons! The leaders of the rebellion against heaven and gods!"

"In the past, among the five categories of the Zhou Tian, the Dragon Clan was the leader of the scaled race, the Phoenix was the leader of the feathered race, and the Qilin was the leader of the hairy race and even the walking beasts. Then the three races rebelled against heaven and gods one after another, and the three ancestors all died. Only then did it come to the Yuan Emperor of the ancient ape race, who inherited the Qilin Emperor's position as the leader of walking beasts and also died in the rebellion against heaven! Then the naked ape race had the Ying Emperor succeed to the throne, establishing the division of the five races, inheriting the will of the Five Emperors, and raising an army in the primordial era to rebel against the gods, only to be torn apart by chariots!"

Brother Qian Chen slapped the green ox's board horn and shouted: "Tell me something I don't know!"

"Oh!"

The old ox felt wronged and slapped its own butt with its tail, making a "pop-pop" sound, before remembering a secret rumor in its inherited memory: "After the Ying Emperor, your human race produced two earth-shattering figures. One was the half-god Lady Gongsun, and the other was the leader of the Lieshan clan, Chi!"

"Lady Gongsun was the grandson of the God Emperor, hence the name Lady Gongsun!"

"He was the beloved son of the Ying Emperor and the God Emperor's daughter. After the Ying Emperor died, he was adopted by the God Emperor as the leader of the half-gods, responsible for conquering the acquired living beings. He slaughtered countless acquired living beings, deeply hated by the five races, so they refused to acknowledge him as the Ying Emperor's son. After the Ying Emperor died, he held the Emperor's daughter's remains in his mouth, and his head transformed into a mountain. After ten thousand years, the sacred mountain was struck by lightning and split open, and a god-man was born from it—this was the Lieshan clan! He was the leader supported by the human race and the myriad acquired races, continuing to lead the acquired living beings to resist the divine court!"

"Lady Gongsun conquered the myriad races for the God Emperor, achieving great merit. However, he did not know his own background. It was Lieshan who couldn't bear it and secretly sneaked into the divine court to inform him!"

"Lady Gongsun questioned the God Emperor in anger and was struck down into the Nine Heavens, where countless demon gods devoured his body, almost dying. It was Lieshan and many good friends who sneaked into the Nine Heavens to save him. The two brothers recognized each other in the Nine Heavens, and together they called upon the five categories of myriad races and many half-gods to rebel against heaven and gods, finally beheading the God Emperor and severing the imperial mandate!"

"As for what happened later, Master should know!"

The green ox spoke gloomily, recounting the primordial era: "Lady Gongsun succeeded to the throne as the Huang Di, opening the precedent of the Five Emperors. Later, the Lieshan clan wanted to abolish the divine court and make the myriad races of the primordial era equal. But he was stopped by the Huang Di. The Huang Di believed that without a divine court to manage the myriad living beings, there would inevitably be chaos, with the myriad races constantly conquering each other, which would eventually lead to disaster. Therefore, the human race could inherit the position of the divine court and transform the innate divine court into a human divine court."

"The Lieshan clan, however, thought that in the past, the innate gods had disparaged the acquired myriad races as insects, so the primordial Five Emperors called themselves the Insect Emperors! The myriad races of the Zhou Tian called themselves the Insect Race, taking the spirit that although insects are small, gathering their strength could also cover the sky and sun! He said that the human race leading the myriad races to overthrow the divine court was for the sake of equality among the myriad races, so how could they usurp the divine court and continue to be high and mighty?"

"Wouldn't that just be overthrowing one divine court only to establish another one above them!"

"The Huang Di only said: If the myriad races are equal, what will the various races eat?"

"The Flame Emperor Lieshan clan was speechless, but just flicked his sleeves and left, saying: 'If the divine court is high and mighty, one day, they will no longer be human! Humans stand tall between heaven and earth! When the human race in the sky forgets their own origins, how will their actions be any different from the innate gods of the past?'"

"The Huang Di was silent. From then on, the Flame and Yellow split!"

"The Flame Emperor abdicated in the primordial era and led the five races and the human race that supported him to carve out a territory in the primordial era, not paying homage to the divine court, calling themselves the Nine Li."

"At this time, more leaders of the myriad races supported the Huang Di, so the Huang Di conferred titles of gods upon his generals—the Dragon Clan's Yinglong, the God Clan's Nvba, the Phoenix Clan's Lingguang, the Turtle Clan's Zhiming, the Tiger Clan's Jianbing, the Horse Clan's Xiangtu, and even the human race's Feng Hou, Yong Fu, Hai Zuo, Gong Gu, Huo Di, Yi, Yi Mou, and others!"

Brother Qian Chen sighed deeply: "And then the human divine court had the Five Emperors, establishing the Five Elements orthodoxy. The Five Emperors rotated, and finally one day, the human divine court forgot that they were also human, calling themselves the Five-Colored God Race. Once again, they forced the myriad races to rebel. From then on, the myriad races rebelled against heaven again. Those relatives of the Five-Colored God Race in the primordial era neither enjoyed the high and mighty status of the Five-Colored God Race, nor did they constantly resist like the Nine Li God Race, and were not valued by the myriad races.

"Therefore, after the Myriad Demon Heavenly Court was established, those Five-Colored God Race members, although they fell from their divine positions, were still able to hide and transform into various Five Emperor families. The Nine Li God Race also enjoyed the fruits of battle and became part of the Demon Court. Only the ordinary human race suffered the deep suffering accumulated by the myriad races..."

"From then on, the myriad races were demons, and the human race was human! Even though the dark era of the Myriad Ancient Demon Court passed, the human race always remembered that 'humans and demons cannot coexist'! Until the rise of the Supreme!"

Brother Qian Chen's tone was indifferent, but it made the old ox beneath him tremble with fear. It thought: "When the ancestor carried the Supreme Dao Ancestor and walked gloomily into that dark era, was the Supreme Dao Ancestor also in this tone?"

In its inherited memory, there were some taboos.

That was the years before the Supreme Dao Ancestor attained the Dao, when he was called the Xuanzhen Taiyi Emperor, and later his hands were stained with the blood of countless myriad races, even his pure Emperor Dao body was shrouded in blood. At this time, because the human race had once been a god race, their spiritual qi was the heaviest, making them the food, trading goods, equivalent value, and cultivation materials of the myriad races.

The Supreme Dao Ancestor stained his hands with countless blood in that era, killing the myriad races until they were terrified, but he was also besieged several times, reincarnated several times!

He was called Xuanzhen Taiyi, Eastern Emperor, Donghua, Xuanzhen Taiyi Emperor, Xuanzhen Taiyi Dao Ancestor, and finally killed until his disciples and friends thought he had become a demon! Abandoned by everyone, he fell into the Nine Heavens and transformed into the Xuanzhen Taiyi Demon Ancestor!

That was a stirring great era. The Supreme Dao Ancestor experienced countless tribulations, died several times, reincarnated several times, and was even soul-searched, his bloodline slaughtered, and he was forced into the Nine Heavens to become a demon.

Unexpectedly, he encountered the greatest turning point of his life in the Demon Realm, turning the myriad worlds from the dark era of the human race into the dark era of the entire myriad worlds!

Legend has it that the ten thousand races were once born with wisdom, courage, integrity, and benevolence, but these were shaved away by the Supreme One. From then on, the creatures of heaven and earth could no longer be born with innate wisdom; even the true dragons and divine beasts could only sprout wisdom after cultivation. Before the Supreme One became the current Dao Ancestor, his shadow once shrouded a long era—an era when the Demon Path rose and shrouded the three realms!

Nowadays, when the names of the two ancestors of the Nine Heavens are mentioned, those who don't know might think they are the two useless people of the Nine Heavens Blood Sea of the Demon Dao today, but those who truly lived through that era would tremble and be unable to sleep for fear!

The Dao Sect was once the Demon Dao!

This secret was incomparably taboo. The green ox inherited the inherited memory of Meng Zhang God Lord, and for millions of years, the green ox clan had been very taboo about this, and had not opened their mouths even to their original master, Tao Yuanming.

In the past, the three great heavenly dynasties of the Earth Immortal Realm—the Tianxia Divine Dynasty, the Tianshang Divine Dynasty, and the Tianzhou Divine Dynasty—were all figures who rebelled against the Heavenly Realm from the Earth Immortal Realm and established the Heavenly Court themselves.

At that time, the myriad worlds had already been swept by the dark era, and the Supreme had already merged with the Dao. The Demon Court that unified the Heavenly Realm had long since perished, so those remnants of the divine path supported the Tianxia human race, worshiping gods and witches, and fought from the Earth Immortal Realm to establish the Heavenly Court in the Heavenly Realm.

Later, the Primordial Dao Ancestor finally suppressed the remnants of the many Demon Courts, Innate Divine Courts, and Five-Colored Divine Courts, and finally had the time to clean up the Earth Immortal Realm. Seeing the barbarism of the Tianxia Divine Dynasty, he ordered Emperor Ku to establish Tianshang, rebelling against heaven again from the Earth Immortal Realm, and severed the Shenxia Heavenly Court.

Later, the most primitive Dao Sect of the Tianshang Divine Dynasty was mixed with too many traces of Demon Dao and Witch Dao, which led to the Primordial Dao Ancestor's disciple, Guangchengzi, descending to the lower realm to support the Tianzhou Divine Dynasty, clearing the remnants of the Demon Dao and Witch Dao from the Dao Sect.

This formed the Demon Dao of today!

And the Buddhist Sect also took this opportunity to flourish in the world...

"Speaking of which, the Dragon Clan can also be considered to have a noble background. In the past, they were the leaders of the Five Emperors of the primordial era, and Yinglong followed the Huang Di to rebel against heaven, joining the Five-Colored Divine Court. Even in the past Myriad Demon Heavenly Court, the Dragon Clan likely had a share. They have controlled the four seas for generations, until the Supreme descended. Speaking of which, they also have a deep ancestral shade, no wonder the Supreme did not exterminate this clan!" Brother Qian Chen nodded slightly.

The green ox whispered: "Speaking of which, the races that jumped the highest in the Myriad Demon Heavenly Court were all exterminated in the war between humans and demons! At the most tragic time, the name of Xuanzhen Taiyi Demon Ancestor could stop the children of the myriad races from crying. The Dragon Clan really wasn't the most evil among them, and couldn't even be called great evil, which is why the Supreme Master left them a life!"

"Oh, this can't even be called great evil?" Brother Qian Chen sneered: "Looking at the Dragon Clan's behavior now, they were probably a hundred times more arrogant during the Myriad Demon Heavenly Court, and eating humans was just a common occurrence! How does the Dragon Clan's evil compare to the Five-Colored God Race?"

The green ox thought for a while and shook its head: "Not counted. Eating humans was the consensus of the demon races of that era! If we were to settle accounts based on this, we would have to slaughter all the acquired living beings in the entire world... Of course, even if the Supreme Master didn't do that, it was about the same!"

"However, compared to the Five-Colored God Race..." The green ox sighed: "The Dragon Clan likely didn't even reach one-hundredth of them!"

"Oh?" Even Brother Qian Chen was somewhat surprised!

The Dragon Clan of the Myriad Demon Heavenly Court was a hundred times more arrogant than today, and the Five-Colored God Race was a hundred times more arrogant than the Myriad Demon Heavenly Court. In this way, the Dragon Clan's evil didn't even reach one-ten-thousandth of those who were high and mighty in the human race in the past. No wonder the Myriad Demon Heavenly Court was established and carried out such a liquidation of the human race!

However, the Five-Colored God Race oppressed the myriad races and likely wouldn't have viewed the human race as the same race. The myriad races were bullied, so didn't the human race suffer too?

He said indifferently: "After the dark era, there is no right or wrong between humans and demons, only a difference in stance!"

It was clear that this inherited memory of the green ox had many differences from the history recorded by the human race. Which one was the truth depended on which one Brother Qian Chen was willing to believe.

And by saying this, his own stance was naturally self-evident... ===== CHAPTER 685 =====