Chapter 220 Ancient Humans and Modern Humans

Since the capital was established in Shouyang Mountain, the Heavenly Court has begun to carry out various major renovations here:

Wild grass, loose soil, broken stumps and pillars, these ancient "cultural relics" must of course all be cleared away, and the influence of the activities of monks and mortals since the end of the law on this place must also be eradicated.

For example, "someone visited here", "someone paid homage to the old ruins of the Emperor of Heaven here", "Xuandu is a jerk, destroying my heaven" and so on...

The old needs to be removed so that the new can be built.

As the capital of heaven, Shouyang Mountain had to undergo extensive renovations. Jin Bing even drew a map of the old heavenly palace according to his memory and asked the celestial officials to restore its ancient appearance according to the map.

The prisoner-of-war camp, the Hall of Reincarnation, the Witch City, the Demon City, the Creation Land, the Chief's Mailbox... everything, no matter whether it has practical significance or not, must be restored to its original state, otherwise it will not be the same.

This would inevitably require digging the ground and mountains. After all, the world is no longer the same as it was in ancient times, and the proportions of various terrains are out of balance, so if you want to rebuild, you have to engage in large-scale construction.

The workload was certainly huge, but there were so many immortals in heaven that Jingxin volunteered to lead a group of immortals to start the project.

As soon as the work started, problems arose...

"Are you sure this is the remains of a human?"

Xue Xuan looked stunned, pointing at the ancient immortal's bones that Jing Xin had just dug out from the ancient tomb in Shouyang Mountain, and asked Jin Bing.

Jin Bing was also very stunned, but he looked at the tombstone of the immortal tomb and recalled it for a while before he confirmed:

"I know this [Wei Ziyan]. He was a human general under my command. He was a Golden Immortal during his lifetime and died in the Battle of the Eastern Wasteland. He was a relatively high-level general. After the war, I held a funeral for a group of Golden Immortals who died in the battle, and Wei Ziyan was one of them."

"The human race returned to the Shouyang Mountain to be buried. According to the changes in the direction, it is in this area..."

After hearing Jin Bing's confirmation, Xue Xuan stared blankly at the corpse again:

Only a skeleton was left of the immortal corpse, and the bones were dark gold in color. This was due to the magical power of the Golden Immortal. Because of the "immortal gold nature", theoretically the bones could remain forever.

Even in the Dharma Ending Age, it is still as hard as before. With just a simple refinement of this bone, at worst it can become a post-natal spiritual treasure. Killing a Xuanxian may not be easy, but killing a Tianxian is as easy as killing a chicken!
However, what puzzled Xue Xuan was not the strength of the bone, but the shape of the bone... It couldn't be called the shape, anyway... it was just weird.

After practicing Taoism for dozens of epochs, Xue Xuan was certainly extremely familiar with the human body. He knew every bone, muscle, and meridian like the back of his hand.

Although the ancient human immortal bone in front of him looked exactly the same as that of modern humans, the meaning it exuded was completely different from that of modern humans.

Xue Xuan can definitely say this:
This is the immortal bone of an alien race that looks exactly like that of humans!
However, the pirated Jin Bing could also confirm that this man was indeed a human general under his command during his lifetime.

The problem suddenly became confusing...

[You can't help but wonder, could it be that the human race has "evolved" over the long years? Are we two different species from the ancients? ]

[Or maybe, this ancient immortal is not a human at all, but a spy of some extraterritorial demon lurking in the prehistoric world? ]

[Your mind is full of random thoughts, but none of them are really reliable. As you think about them, you inexplicably think of the witch and monster tribes that disappeared in the long river of history...]

[A bold idea came into your mind: Is it possible that the witch tribe and the demon tribe have merged into the human race? ]

[You are familiar with ancient mythology, so you will know that the bloodline of the ancient human race was extremely domineering. It is said that if the human race intermarried with other races, the offspring born would definitely be human! ]

[Although you don’t know the reasoning, you can guess: the witch and demon tribes probably perished in the endless intermarriage with humans...]

[In this way, not only can the demise of the witch and demon tribes be explained, but even the differences between ancient and modern humans can be explained by intermarriage: because there is too much interbreeding, so there is mutation...]

"what?!"

Seeing Xue Xuan's bold guess, Zhao Si couldn't help but widen his eyes:

"Half-blood is gone?"

is it possible?

If Zhao Si had not seen Jin Bing's three reincarnations, he would have really thought it was possible.

But Zhao Si has seen it, and Jin Bing has also seen it!
In his previous two lives, the method that Di Jun used to guide the public opinion of the demon race and maliciously exclude the human race was to use this propaganda.

They said that the human race would eventually intermarry with the demon race and destroy them, and tried to instill the following idea into the demon race:
The human race is lowly and abstract, but has extremely strong fertility and extremely overbearing blood...the whole image is like a "goblin"!
It can be said that Jin Bing fell into this malicious propaganda method in his first two lives. The "extreme exclusion" and "racial crisis" consciousness created by Di Jun really harmed people.

That’s why Jin Bing worked so hard to improve the quality of the human race in the third world. He worked so hard to promote civilization and equality, wasn’t it to prevent Emperor Jun from playing the “racial threat card”? And with such a full vaccination at the beginning, how could the human race annex the lich?
Where do you place Jin Bing’s efforts!
Anyway, Zhao Si did not support Xue Xuan's seemingly logically self-consistent inference:
"It is absolutely impossible that the wizards and liches merged into the human race. It was impossible before the Dharma Ending Age, and it is even more impossible after the Dharma Ending Age. Rather than believing that the races have completely merged, it is better to believe that the two races have perished in the changes of heaven and earth."

After thinking about it, in order to prevent Xue Xuan from falling into a misunderstanding, Zhao Si directly used the active command opportunity that could only be used three times in the entire game:

"Give him instructions, the conjecture of fusion is not realistic!"

[Ding! You have issued an active command. The number of commands remaining in this game: two! ]

[You are thinking that your logic is coherent, but suddenly your mind stops and the active instructions from "your other self" make you a little confused: Isn't that right? ]

[Although I don’t quite understand it, this is a supreme order after all. You have no way to object. Besides, there is no need for you to object. Even if you go the wrong way, there is “another self” to take the responsibility. He is fully responsible...]

【OK! 】

[The clues were forcibly interrupted, and you have no choice but to explore elsewhere. ]

[But not long after, another corpse of an ancient immortal was dug out. Jin Bing knew this person. He died in the Wu Clan's Northern Wilderness Massacre and was also a Golden Immortal.]

[You went to take a look: Sure enough, although its body shape is the same as that of modern people, its Qi is wrong. It is definitely two different species! ]

[Next, as the Jingxin construction team progressed, these ancient tombs were discovered one after another...]

[These ancient tombs, after being certified by Jin Bing, are all tombs of the human race, and he even helped preside over many of their funerals. Some died in the Battle of the East Wasteland, some died in the North Wasteland Massacre, and some died in the Zhongzhou Counterattack, the Four Wasteland Seesaw Battle, the Buzhou Mountain Battle... and so on.]

[Jin Bing has seen many of them with his own eyes, so the more he sees them, the more nostalgic he becomes... This makes you even more confused, how come this guy looks like the real thing...]

[Most of these ancient tombs have been robbed. They were probably robbed by Eastern Wasteland monks who had gone crazy with poverty since the end of the law. The tomb-protecting formations were basically scrapped after the spiritual energy faded, and they could not stop the living at all.]

[So, every time they come across an intact ancient tomb, Jingxin would be very excited, and then the demolition team would turn into an archaeological team on the spot to carry out rescue excavations of the ancient tomb. Over time, Jingxin and his team would all become professional talents...]

[All the cultural relics excavated from the tomb are specially displayed in the newly built "Ancient Heaven Museum", allowing mortals and monks to visit and experience the cultural customs of the ancients. ]

[After you have specially studied his remains, Jin Bing will rebury them at a new location: the burial system and burial utensils are all in accordance with ancient customs, and even the person who presided over the funeral is still Jin Bing!]

[In short, everything is the same as before... except that things and people have changed. Jin Bing is no longer the powerful Jin Tiandi of the past, but a thing that even you can't tell what he is...]

[You have examined all their remains. To be on the safe side, you even brought in a bunch of pirated ancient people and had them examine them one by one.]

[Their verification results are the same as yours, they all believe that these skeletons are not of the same race as modern people, but they have different opinions on the reasons for this. ]

[Some say "evolution", some say "degeneration", some say "foreign spies"... Anyway, it's pretty much what you guessed. ]

[Especially Di Jun, he always sneered and looked disdainful: Look! What did I say? I said that the human race would sooner or later pollute all the demon races, but you didn't believe it. Jin Bing, the dog thief, came to trick and attack, and drove me off the throne...]

[I know this is a born evil human kid! ]

【Jin Bing: ……】

[Di Jun said that after a long time, Jin Bing also lost his confidence. He often sat alone on the steps next to the museum, falling into a state of self-doubt: Could it be that my efforts are really useless? ]

[We have been calling for equality for a lifetime, but in the end, we were cruelly taught a lesson by reality. Not only did the human race overwhelm other races in power and status, but they also polluted other races in their bloodlines, causing the demon race and the witch race to perish...]

[“How is that possible? Marriage is not mandatory, and the aesthetic tastes of each race are different. Moreover, the numbers are relatively balanced. How could they all be mixed in with the human race…”]

[Jin Bing began to doubt himself. Xuandu, Huanglong and other people who had followed the great cause of the Equal Heaven Court in the past also began to become jealous. In short, it was difficult for them to accept this unrealistic reality...]

[Seeing these pirates worrying about the legitimate owners' concerns, you always feel weird, like an actor in a play who can't tell the difference between the inside and outside of the play.]

[But then again, you also began to doubt their identities: First of all, these people are definitely not genuine, because their bodies, cultivation, and memories are very different from the genuine ones, and are completely unrelated.]

[But if you say they are fake, it turns out that some of their memories are quite detailed, and there is even someone like Jin Bing who has a very high degree of self-identity...]

[What happened at the junction of the ancient times and the present world to cause such a confusing change?! ]

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(End of this chapter)