Chapter 263 Xuanwu Becomes Zhenwu From Now On
Nuwa is also a saint. The other seven saints are more or less trying to save the world, so she naturally has a responsibility as well.
The goddess summoned the huge object that looked like a furnace and a cauldron. The predecessor of this huge object was the Creation Furnace, her most precious treasure for proving her way. After obtaining the Qiankun Cauldron, Nuwa had a sudden idea and integrated the Qiankun Cauldron into the Creation Furnace. The two were perfectly integrated together and became one, and finally turned into this object. Nuwa named it: Heaven and Earth Baking Furnace.
Without any movement by Nuwa, a wisp of divine fire of creation ignited under the furnace of heaven and earth. The divine fire burned, but there was no feeling of heat at all. Instead, it gave off a faint fragrance of life. The aroma was refreshing and filled the ground. Anyone who smelled it felt admiration for life in their hearts.
As the divine fire of creation ignited, the furnace of heaven and earth gradually turned red, but Nuwa was neither anxious nor slow, and still waited patiently. The other saints naturally continued to support the sky and eliminate disasters.
When the furnace of heaven and earth turned completely red, Nuwa Niangniang sacrificed the map of mountains, rivers and the country. An unreachable treasure map with paintings of all the sacred mountains on the prehistoric continent flew out. As soon as this treasure map appeared, the book of earth in Zhen Yuanzi's hand spontaneously resonated with it, as if there was a great connection between the two.
Zhen Yuanzi's face changed slightly, and he quickly suppressed the resonance of the Earth Book, fearing that it would arouse some bad thoughts from Nuwa.
Fortunately, Nuwa did not care about these trivial matters. She picked up the map of mountains, rivers, and the country, shook it at the furnace of heaven and earth, and suddenly 36,502 five-colored stones flew out in succession.
More than 30,000 pieces of five-colored stones illuminate the endless earth with brilliance, and there is an unusual sense of agility accumulated within them, making them appear particularly strange.
Seeing these five-colored stones, the hearts of Cundi Buddha and Jie Yin Taoist were slightly shocked, as if there were things in these colored stones that had a great connection with them.
Seeing these five-colored stones being turned into pools of liquid by the furnace of heaven and earth, Zhunti Buddha could no longer suppress his excitement and asked, "May I ask Sister Nuwa, what is so magical about these five-colored stones that they can repair the sky?"
As Nuwa melted the five-colored stones, she smiled and explained, "These five-colored stones are not rare, they are just some chaotic stones. My map of mountains, rivers, and states contains infinite spiritual energy, and it also records the directions and locations of all the sacred mountains in the prehistoric world. So I collected some chaotic stones and refined them into the images of many sacred mountains in the map. I just wanted to relieve my boredom. Somehow, I got some fate from the earth. The sky and the earth attract each other, and the clear and turbid are in harmony. The sky is broken. Apart from the clear air, the turbid air is the best thing to repair it. Since the clear air cannot repair the sky, I just use these five-colored stones to fill it."
While Nuwa was talking, her hands were moving non-stop, and in just a few moments, she had refined 36,500 five-colored stones, turning them into a five-colored liquid like a lake or sea, rising and falling in the furnace of heaven and earth.
When Nuwa picked up another five-colored stone, she found that the five-colored liquid was enough to repair the sky, so she threw away the remaining two five-colored stones. Zhunti Buddha looked up quickly, but found that the two five-colored stones had gone to overseas.
One piece fell into a blessed place called Huaguo Mountain in the East China Sea, and the other fell into the North Sea.
The North Sea and the South Sea are both within the sphere of influence of the Xuanjiao sect. The Buddha Cundi immediately excluded the five-colored stone that fell into the North Sea and instead focused on the one that fell into the Flower-Fruit Mountain.
The Buddha Cundi thought about it, and under the cover of the Taoist Jie Yin, he calmly plucked a leaf from the Seven Treasures Tree and threw it into the East China Sea as well.
"This stone can actually attract the spiritual insights of me and my senior brother. It must have a great affinity with the West. In this case, we cannot let it get damaged. I will send a clone to protect it and teach it some skills. Maybe it can split a bit of overseas luck. I am the incarnation of the Bodhi tree. My clone will be called Bodhi Patriarch."
However, their actions could be concealed from other saints, but not from Master Hengming and Nuwa, who were well prepared.
The two of them looked at each other without leaving a trace, and both saw the smile in each other's eyes.
However, Nuwa's face was still as dignified as ever, and the leader of the Hengming Sect was still trying to calm the raging Milky Way, as if nothing had happened.
Nuwa goddess brewed for a moment, then opened the lid of the furnace. She saw a stream of five-colored liquid rising into the sky, with a faint earth essence released, and it was not as huge as before.
This does not mean that the power of the five-colored stone has been weakened. On the contrary, it means that the power of the five-colored stone has been completely restrained and will not leak out again, so such a performance will occur.
Compared with the unimaginably huge hole, this five-colored liquid was inconspicuous, but as the five-colored liquid gradually merged, the gap was also healing rapidly, until finally, the sky had been completely renewed, without any sign of a hole at all.
As the floods on the ground lost the support of the Heavenly River in the sky, they were all taken away by many saints and gods in just a few hours, thus quelling the disaster.
The flood was stopped, but the damage it caused would not disappear. The whole prehistoric world was already wailing. Only one out of ten creatures survived. Except for some highly skilled people who took away their races, the weaker races were almost destroyed in this disaster. It can be seen how terrible this disaster was. It was just a little bit away from destroying all the creatures in the prehistoric world. Seeing that the flood had dissipated, the five saints Hengming, Taishang Laojun, Tongtian Jiaozhu, Zhunti Buddha, and Jieyin Taoist stopped all of them, leaving only Yuanshi Tianzun still supporting the whole world.
The disaster of Tianhe was eliminated, but the attraction between heaven and earth continued. Buzhou collapsed, and the primitive world lacked support, so it naturally had to be attracted again and turned into chaos.
Yuanshi Tianzun held the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi in his hands, and the three lights of Fu, Lu and Shou stood upright, barely trying to stop the attraction between heaven and earth. However, the consumption was too great. Even though he was a saint and had unlimited power with the help of the way of heaven, the speed of expenditure was greater than the speed of recovery. Over time, he would naturally feel a loss in his body.
But after seeing this, the other saints could only help Yuanshi Tianzun to shoulder the responsibility of being the pillar of heaven and earth. Only Nuwa Niangniang still stood there, thinking about what to use to replace the role of Mount Buzhou.
Just when the queen was worried, a voice suddenly came from a distance: "Queen, I am here."
Several saints were startled by the voice and looked towards the place where the voice came from, only to find that it came from above the North Sea.
The shape of an enormous black turtle gradually emerged from the originally calm North Sea. The ancient world was majestic, with countless gods, many of whom had huge bodies. However, compared with the size of this black turtle, even the resurrected Twelve Ancestral Witches would feel inferior after seeing it.
The black tortoise has lowered his head slightly at this moment, because his head has touched the boundary between the primitive world and chaos. If he raises his head completely, he is afraid that he will step into the chaos.
And his four huge limbs and feet were deeply inserted into the bottom of the North Sea, approaching the Eye of the Four Seas. Even the stirring of the boundless sea water could not shake him at all. His broad body directly covered the entire North Sea.
At this moment, all the creatures in the North Sea looked up, but could not see any trace of the sun, moon, and stars. There was only a tortoise shell with no visible boundaries standing above them. Such a horrifying shape must be the body of a black tortoise. Apart from the Northern Black Tortoise Zhiming God, who else could have such a true body?
Xuanwu God left the North Pole and called out to the distant Goddess Nuwa: "Please free me from this stinking body. As long as the sky and the earth can no longer merge, I will have no regrets even if I die."
The words of the Xuanwu God spread throughout the entire prehistoric world, and the voice of great compassion and mercy contained in it made countless sentient beings kneel on the ground, shouting for the God to have mercy and be willing to liberate themselves for them.
The other four gods also left their guarding places and saluted to the God of Xuanwu from afar to express their admiration.
After all, they all have their own concerns, so how could they give up their own lives to help all living beings in the world?
Although they all said when they swore that they were willing to sacrifice their lives for the prehistoric world, when it really came to this point, everyone stayed indoors, thinking that there was someone taller to hold up the sky if it collapsed, and they hoped that the saint would help, but were unwilling to do their own work.
In the end, only the Black Tortoise God was willing to sacrifice his own life for the benefit of all living beings.
Nuwa was also grateful for Xuanwu God's kindness, and said solemnly: "Zhiming, since you are willing to give up your own body to create a pillar of heaven for the prehistoric world and divide heaven and earth, I will not let you down. Humanity is the most important. I, Nuwa, will establish a great religion here, called: Yao. All the demons in the world are followers of the Yao religion. Unless you are willing to leave the name of the demon clan, you cannot leave the Yao religion. I will use the Mountain and River Map and the Red Hydrangea to suppress your destiny."
As soon as the saint finished speaking, the great way followed. As Nuwa Niangniang spoke, nine kinds of vibrations suddenly occurred in the entire prehistoric world. Endless fairy light and rainbows spread from the sky. Two spiritual treasures, a picture and a ball, pressed down from the air, shocking out supreme divine power.
Moreover, a precious banner flew out. This banner was four zhang and five inches high, as big as the main beam of the palace. The banner was fluttering, and the sky above it was hazy, as if there were two kinds of black and white air. In the two kinds of black and white air, there were emerald green tadpoles swimming back and forth. It was the banner that summoned demons.
The demon flag was raised, and all demons surrendered. The few remaining demons knelt on the ground and shouted: "Nuwa is merciful and compassionate, please protect the demon race!"
The Lord Xuanwu also flew out his soul and entered the demon-summoning banner.
As the soul entered, several green tadpoles flew over instantly and formed the two words "Zhi Ming". They immediately flew to a higher place on the banner, passing by countless names in succession, and finally stopped at the top. Among them, only two people could stay here, namely Kunpeng and Bai Ze.
Nuwa said, "I am the first leader of the demon cult. After I step down, Zhiming, you will be the second leader of the demon cult. However, the North Pole cannot be left unguarded, so you will create an avatar to take my place. You will still use the name Zhiming Xuanwu, and I will change your name. As the saying goes, the more complicated you get rid of, the truer you will be. From now on, you will be called Zhenwu."
(End of this chapter)