Chapter 221: Hunger Strike in Zhongzhou, at the Foot of Mount Buzhou

[But no matter what, you should remember these discoveries one by one in your mind: from the story of the authentic Jin Bing being imprisoned in ancient times, to the rescue of him by the Styx Saint, to the coming of the Dharma Ending Age... as well as the differences between ancient and modern human races, and the similarities and differences between authentic ancient immortals and pirated ancient immortals...]

[This series of seemingly isolated information is actually full of intricate connections, and together they form a mysterious fog with order in chaos.]

[Another line appeared in the complex fog: Buzhou Mountain. ]

[This is the only clue. Only this clue can penetrate the mystery. So you must go to Buzhou Mountain and explore it again from a completely different perspective from your previous life...]

[In the 43rd year of the human calendar, the 8th year of the 9th cycle, the Jinxuan Heavenly Court army surrounded Zhongzhou from all sides, launching the final battle to unify the five regions! ]

[In the next period, Zhongzhou was terrified. After urgent discussions, the various cave heavens decided to give up the idea of ​​fighting with eggs against rocks and instead knelt on the spot. The cave heaven masters personally went to the border of the East Wasteland to present a letter of surrender, and Zhongzhou was captured almost without bloodshed.]

[Since then, the five realms have been unified, the world is in harmony, and Jinxuan Heaven has restored the orthodox inheritance of the ancient Heaven! ]

[After conquering Zhongzhou, Emperor Jin Tian and Emperor Xuan Tian jointly issued an edict: Because the symbiotic model in Zhongzhou is actually cannibalism, it will be completely banned from now on! ]

[The monks from various caves will be appointed as heavenly officials to govern the local area for the heavenly court, while the mortals in Zhongzhou will be ordered to be self-reliant. From now on, they will no longer be able to have clothes and food provided for them. The days of being fed by the immortals will be gone forever.]

[After this decree was issued, the kneeling tribesmen in Zhongzhou were all dumbfounded: No... I am surrendering, can't I be given some privileges? And if I am killed with this stick, how can I cultivate immortality in the future? ! ]

[Under this threat, many Zhongzhou monks secretly decided to give the Heavenly Court a whole life...]

[But before they could cause any trouble, the Blood God Son of the Heavenly Emperor came to serve them one by one.]

【"loyalty!"】

[“The Emperor of Heaven’s kindness is not over yet!”]

[“There are no three suns in the sky. In my heart, there are only two suns of the Emperor of Heaven!”]

【“…”】

[That’s right…]

[You smiled with relief. Rather than trusting their spiritual loyalty, you still trust the physical loyalty of the Blood God Son. All officials in the Heavenly Court must have a Blood God Son.]

[However, monks can treat it this way, but mortals cannot. ]

[It's not that you are kindhearted, but there are too many mortals, and the reproduction rate is fast. If you and Jin Bing were to give birth to the Blood God Sons one by one, you would never be able to finish it in this lifetime! ]

[So, the mortals in Zhongzhou were very dissatisfied with the policy of the Heavenly Court: Why do we have to be self-reliant? We have everything provided for us here, and we live a more carefree life than the gods. Now you want me to go out to farm and make a living? ]

[There is no door! 】

[The ordinary people in Zhongzhou who had long been spoiled, except for a small number who were willing to be self-reliant, most people chose "non-violence and non-cooperation": it was impossible to rebel, farming was too tiring, how could they have the energy to do a business that would kill them with a 100% chance of survival?]

[So they chose to go on a hunger strike to openly defy the decree of the Heavenly Court. For a time, the people of Zhongzhou were paralyzed: this group of ruthless people were determined to return to the "utopia" life, and they didn't even care if they starved to death.]

[Everyone is destined to die anyway, they can even sell their souls to monks as resources, let alone the death of the physical body! ]

[Faced with such unruly people, the celestial officials transferred from the outer wasteland were all dumbfounded, but they were helpless: This is really a new experience, there are such unruly people in the world? ! ]

[It seems that the "pig-raising policy" of the Zhongzhou monks, who spend hundreds or thousands of yuan, is really domesticating people into beasts...]

[The mass starvation incident was quickly reported to the Heavenly Court. When you saw this absurd news, your eyes twitched. You pushed it to Jin Bing, who also couldn't hold it back after seeing it! ]

[“This is really a waste…”]

[You sigh, not knowing what to say: Angry at their lack of resistance? Sad at their misfortune?]

[They would rather starve to death than work. Besides being sad, what is even more shocking is how well the monks in Zhongzhou treat mortals: they are using the same method of raising a father to raise pigs...]

[“The law of symbiosis is good if it’s good, but bad if it’s bad… The good thing is that mortals can enjoy the ultimate bliss from birth to death, which is even more blissful than the paradise in the west! The bad thing is that this way of raising people completely turns people into domestic animals, and their vitality is gone. They are no longer human, and no longer ghosts…”]

[Jin Bing also sighed, and then looked at you with complicated eyes: "But now so many people have died..."]

【“If you die, you die.”】

[Your face is firm: At least this kind of death does not mean real death. As long as we find the root cause of the Dharma Ending Age in the future, we can eliminate the root cause and rebuild the reincarnation cycle to help them reincarnate! ]

[“Rebuilding the cycle of reincarnation…”]

【How easy is it? 】

【Jin Bing was about to speak but stopped talking: The reason why reincarnation is completely abolished is essentially because of the Dharma Ending Age. But can the Dharma Ending Age really be resolved?】

【He doesn’t know, but he is pessimistic. 】

[You said it lightly, but you know it in your heart: the cause of the Dharma Ending Age is probably related to the Saints, and it is mainly concentrated on the great battle between the Saints in the starry sky. If you want to solve the Dharma Ending Age, you have to take down the Saints...]

【The Golden Immortal beats the Saint.】

【Will it win? The answer is obvious. 】

[Therefore, the reality before you is extremely cruel: the Dharma Ending Age is basically impossible to end, and reincarnation is basically impossible to rebuild. Correspondingly, the souls of sentient beings are almost impossible to revive...]

[But as long as the soul can survive, there will be a chance to be reborn in the future. The soul itself represents opportunity.] [You went through so much trouble to destroy the immortals and save mortals, just to give them as many chances to revive as possible... So, even if the monks have ten thousand reasons to eat people, it is reactionary in nature! They are digging for the roots!]

[When the immortal path has become an evil path that undermines the roots of all living beings, it naturally has no need to exist. ]

[You will shoulder all the hopes for the rebirth of all living beings, and walk step by step towards the only exit that is almost impossible to exist...]

【Will it succeed? 】

[It’s difficult, but… you are the protagonist, you have unlimited opportunities for trial and error, even if the probability is so slim that it cannot be traced, you can still increase the probability little by little until… you succeed.]

[As for why ordinary people don’t understand, and monks don’t understand either… You’re too lazy to explain, and they don’t deserve to hear it.]

[After all, the supporting characters only need to wait to be rescued, while the protagonist has many things to consider...]

【…】

[In the 43rd year of the human calendar, the people of Zhongzhou were dissatisfied with the Heavenly Court's policy of self-reliance, so they went on a hunger strike to protest against the Heavenly Court! ]

[The Heavenly Official was helpless. When the news reached Shouyang Mountain, he only received a bland and cold reply: "Let him fend for himself. Don't worry about him."]

[The Heavenly Officials looked at each other in bewilderment…]

[It is fate, the dead are everywhere, Zhongzhou, the most prosperous of the five regions, has suddenly become a ghost land, hundreds of millions of dead have been cleared by the heavenly officials, and large tracts of cities have become uninhabited areas! ]

[Countless souls were floating around Zhongzhou. There were so many of them that they even appeared in broad daylight. The mortals were so frightened that they hurriedly asked the heavenly officials to drive them away. In the end, they merged into the sea of ​​blood in a daze...]

[It was miserable, of course, but after they died, the people in Zhongzhou became normal again. Farmers worked diligently in the fields. With the blessing of heaven, the weather was good and the harvests were plentiful every year. However, within a hundred years, Zhongzhou no longer had the utopian atmosphere of the past. Only a few legends were left, which became the topic of conversation for future generations.]

【Five regions, great harmony! 】

【…】

[In the 43rd year of the human calendar, the 8th year of the 12th cycle, the reconstruction of the Tiandu on Shouyang Mountain was completed, and everything was exactly as it was in the old days. A bunch of pirated ancient people watched from afar and were filled with emotion.]

[It was at this moment that you finally stopped studying the differences between ancient and modern humans: you had planned to go to Buzhou Mountain to explore the ancient secrets, but now the time has come, so there is no need to delay any further!]

[So you led Jin Bing and others to the foot of Mount Buzhou in Zhongzhou...]

[After dozens of eons, you once again came to the foot of Buzhou Mountain, but the situation this time was completely different from the previous life. Looking up at Buzhou Mountain, you felt something inexplicably in your heart: I, Xue Xiaohei, am back again! ]

[“Your Majesty’s arrival in Zhongzhou has brought auspiciousness to the land. It is truly a blessing for us, your subjects!”]

[The celestial official who presides over this place bows and nods to you. You look at him carefully and find that he is an acquaintance: he is the last cave master you met in your previous life. At that time, he also bowed and knelt to answer your questions about Zhongtianmen.]

[It seems that the Heavenly Court has not made many changes to Zhongzhou. Most of the Heavenly Officials are transferred from the local Cave Heaven Lords. Apart from changing their identities, nothing has changed...]

[You didn't want to talk to him any more. You had already gotten all the information you could get from him in your previous life, so you dismissed him and stood at the foot of the mountain with Jin Bing, Di Jun and others.]

[“How is it? Did you remember anything?”]

【You asked them curiously.】

【"very familiar……"】

[Everyone's answers were similar. After all, as ancient masters with great supernatural powers and some memories, they were very familiar with Buzhou Mountain, the ancient sacred mountain.]

[Especially the three Heavenly Emperors, Dijun, Jinbing, and Xuandu, are naturally very familiar with their own capitals. ]

[You told them what you saw and heard in Zhongtianmen in your previous life. Of course, you concealed the things about reincarnation. They could only tell you what you had seen before, such as the powerful power of Pangu, the strange red light, the crazy monks, the conspiracy of the "immortal world", and the nutrients transported through Buzhou Mountain...]

[Every time you say something, everyone is stunned for a moment. When you are done, everyone is stunned as if they were dumbfounded.]

[“This legacy of Pangu…”]

[Jin Bing frowned and walked forward, getting a little closer to Buzhou Mountain. He was soon covered by the power of the past, and his magic power disappeared immediately... But he was not panicked at all, and left after a brief test.]

[After carefully sensing it for a moment, he shook his head and said: This legacy is too strong. We were far from being this strong back then!]

[Emperor Jun also tried it, and suddenly recalled some bad things in the past. The corner of his mouth twitched: This thing is almost as powerful as Pangu of Emperor Jiang...]

[As for the reason for the strengthening of the legacy, they couldn't say anything useful, which made you a little disappointed. ]

[But Jin Bing looked at the foot of the mountain for a moment, as if some hidden memory had been triggered, so he frowned and said, "It's underground... The place where I was imprisoned is underground!"]

【“Show the way.”】

[Your eyes lit up, and you first told Di Jun and the others to continue their research at the foot of the mountain, and then you used your magic power to roll up Jin Bing and took him underground.]

[After a while, with Jin Bing's vague memory pointing out, a narrow underground space gradually emerged...]

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(End of this chapter)