Journey to the West: Demon Emperor: Beginning as a Little Toad

Chapter 466: Human Emperor Dayu
Ruoshui asked Marshal Tianpeng:

"Tian Peng, after this battle, will I...will I return to Tianhe?"

Ruoshui's voice is soft and gentle, but it carries a hint of unspeakable melancholy.

"This……"

Marshal Tianpeng was slightly startled. He had never thought that the Weak Water Spirit would ask such a question at this critical moment when the battle was stalemate and at a critical juncture.

Marshal Tianpeng frowned, thought for a moment and then said:

"That's natural, Ruoshui. When the war is over, you can return to Tianhe safely and rest in that familiar place."

In his mind, Ruoshui was something born from the Tianhe River, and it was natural and reasonable for it to return to the Tianhe River after the war.

How could he have imagined that Ruoshui had other thoughts in her heart.

Unexpectedly, Ruoshui's beautiful eyes instantly lit up with anger when she heard this. She raised her eyebrows and angrily shouted:
"In the water of the Heavenly River of the Thirty-three Heavens, there is no life at all. It is dead silent, without even a trace of fresh air. Do you know what that feels like?"

"I have been imprisoned in this Milky Way for billions of years, facing only endless darkness and coldness every day. I have had enough of the endless loneliness and solitude of the Milky Way!"

"I don't want to go back to the Thirty-three Heavens anymore. I want to leave the Tianhe Heaven and go to the human world to explore this wonderful emotional world and experience the joys and sorrows, love and hate, and emotions of the world."

Ruoshui's voice was full of determination and desire.

Marshal Tianpeng looked at the Weak Water Spirit in front of him, who was so excited and almost crazy, and was filled with shock.

He never imagined that Ruoshui's resentment towards Tianhe was so deep, and he never expected that she had such a strong desire for the human world.

"Ruoshui, you know that the human world is not as simple as you think. There is good and evil, and conflict there. If you go there rashly and get involved in the filth and desires of the human world, you may end up in an irretrievable place."

Marshal Tianpeng was extremely anxious and tried to dissuade Ruoshui.

The Weak Water Spirit sneered, full of sarcasm and disdain:

"So what? It's better than being alone forever in this cold prison-like river."

"I've had enough of this imprisonment. Every minute and every second feels like a year. Today, I must leave, and no one can stop me!"

Ruoshui knew clearly that Marshal Tianpeng was engaged in a fierce battle with the anti-heaven army at this moment and was unable to take care of himself. This was the perfect time for her to leave Tianhe.

Opportunity is rare and will never come back. How could she miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

"Three thousand weak waters, the art of dividing water!"

As her mind moved, purple light flickered around her, and she used her magical power to divide her troops into several groups, which turned into several streams of water, like several nimble silver snakes, and quickly fled in different directions.

"Weak water!"

"come back quickly!"

Upon seeing this, Marshal Tianpeng’s face turned pale instantly and he shouted in horror.

He knew clearly in his heart that the Tianhe Weak Water was the greatest support of the Tianhe Navy. Without the Weak Water, the Tianhe Navy would be like a rootless duckweed, losing its foothold.

By then, the Tianhe navy currently in the sea of ​​fire would be defeated, and the lives of 40,000 Tianhe navy soldiers might be in danger.

The Tianhe Ruoshui defense line of the thirty-three heavens in heaven will also collapse.

Secondly, he released the Weak Water into the lower world without permission, which was a serious crime against the Heavenly Law.

Once the incident happens, he will be punished for multiple crimes and the consequences will be disastrous.

But Ruoshui rarely found this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so how could she pay attention to Marshal Tianpeng's call.

All she wanted was to escape from the Milky Way that had imprisoned her for billions of years and pursue the unknown and tempting human world.

The Ruoshui soldiers divided into several groups and rushed straight towards the lower world.

at the same time.

Meanwhile, within Emperor Donghua's anti-heaven army, Dongfang Shuo was secretly making arrangements.

The nine elders of Yingzhou were arranged in nine palaces, with the swords in their hands flashing with strange light. The sword formation covered a thousand miles of battlefield, attracting the spiritual energy of the three islands to gather continuously, constantly boosting the momentum of the east wind and the pure yang flame.

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"

At this time, the east wind blew harder and harder, like an angry beast roaring between heaven and earth.

The fire became more intense with the east wind.

Three thousand fire crows were wreaking havoc on the battlefield. They were like burning meteors, carrying scorching temperatures and destructive power, spitting fire from their mouths, and wherever they went, it instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire.

The linked warships of the Tianhe Navy were engulfed in flames. The flames were like ferocious fire dragons, licking every inch of the warships, making crackling sounds.

The Tianhe navy on the warships were in panic and fled everywhere like ants on a hot pan.

Screams and shouts of killing intertwined and resounded through the sky.

Many warships were burned to pieces, broke apart and sank one after another. The Tianhe navy suffered heavy losses, and the soldiers jumped into the water one after another, trying to escape from this horrible sea of ​​fire.

This east wind and the fire completely destroyed the Tianhe navy.

The former glory and honor of the Tianhe Navy vanished at this moment.

It is:

"The east wind blew away the dream of the Tianpeng, and the fire burned the 40,000 troops in the Milky Way."

……

This was the first battle between the anti-heaven army and the heavenly army.

Marshal Tianpeng was defeated.

The 40,000-strong Tianhe navy was almost wiped out.

The moat of the Lingxiao Palace, the Weak Water of the Weak Water Defense Line of Thirty-three Days, fled to the lower world.

The Weak Water turns into ten thousand waters; wherever it passes, water vapor fills the air and floods roll in.

……

"Thanks to 'Pangu creating the world, the Three Sovereigns ruling the world, and the Five Emperors establishing the order of things', the world was divided into four major continents: Dongsheng Shenzhou, Xiniuhezhou, Nanshanbuzhou, and Beijuluzhou."

This is the grand background drawn at the beginning of Journey to the West.

In the world of Journey to the West, there are of course the "Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors".

Among the Five Emperors, there was one named "Dayu".

In the past, Dayu inherited the will of his father Gun, formed an alliance with the heaven and the dragon clan, borrowed the power of the four seas to dredge the rivers, and in the midst of turbulent waves, he dredged the Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River and other water systems, and dug through many dangerous obstacles such as Longmen Mountain and Yique, so that the floods returned to the sea and saved the people from floods.

Sun Wukong's weapon is the "Ruyi Jingu Bang", also known as the "Dinghai Shenzhen Iron".

The purpose of this "Dinghai Shenzhen Iron" was to determine the depth of rivers and seas when Dayu was controlling floods.

In addition to his immortal achievement of "Yu the Great's flood control", Yu the Great also cast nine tripods to rule the nine provinces of the world. The bodies of the tripods were engraved with ancient beasts and talismans of mountains and rivers, which gathered the destiny of the human race into one.

The Nine Cauldrons symbolize the Nine Provinces and firmly control the destiny of the human race. They are called the "Nine Provinces Cauldron" and protect the prosperity of the human race.

……

Fuxi created the Eight Trigrams, Suiren drilled wood to make fire, Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, and Dayu controlled floods... The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors each had their own achievements and strengths.

So where did the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of the human race go during the Journey to the West era?
……

Just as the grand worldview outlined in the opening of "Journey to the West": In the beginning, heaven and earth were in chaos, like a huge chaotic cocoon, where yin and yang were not determined, and clear and turbid were blended. All things were hidden in the endless darkness and haziness, waiting for the opportunity to break out of the cocoon.

Then, Pangu, the great god, swung his giant axe with the might of creating the world, and suddenly chopped at the cocoon of chaos, which is: "Since Pangu broke through the chaos, the world has been clear and turbid."

Then, this world of Journey to the West:
"The air from the sky descends, the air from the earth rises; when the sky and the earth come together, all things come to life."

"Heaven and earth gave birth to humans, animals and birds. This is what we call 'Heaven, earth and man are the three elements in their place'."

In the world of Journey to the West, in addition to the "Way of Heaven", there is also the "Way of Earth" and the "Way of Man", which are the "Three Elements of Heaven, Earth and Man".

The Book of Changes says: "There is the Way of Heaven, the Way of Man, and the Way of Earth. Combining the three talents and dividing them into two, we get six. Six is ​​nothing but the Way of the Three Talents."

That's the truth.

When the world was first created, the three elements of heaven, earth and man were interdependent and influenced each other, and together they performed the rise and fall, honor and disgrace, and the cycle of life and death in the world.

"The laws of nature are unpredictable." The laws of nature govern the changes in celestial phenomena and the cycle of the four seasons.

With its supreme majesty, the Way of Heaven looks down upon everything in the world and formulates the rules for the operation of the universe.

"The earth carries all things." The earth nurtures the growth of all things. With its vast mind, it nurtures the growth of all things.

"Humanity is glorious", and humanity contains the wisdom, emotions and civilization of all living things.

With their unique thinking and creativity, all living things have built brilliant civilizations in this world and created countless miracles.

However, as the opening of Journey to the West states:

“Great is Qian Yuan! Great is Kun Yuan! All things are born and live in harmony with Heaven!”

The Conferred Gods have been completed, and now in the era of Journey to the West, all things must obey the will of Heaven.

Among the three ways of heaven, earth and man, the way of heaven demonstrates absolute strength.

The Heavenly Dao uses supreme power to suppress and continuously weaken the development of the Earthly Dao and the Human Dao.

The iron law of Heaven that "major trends cannot be changed" is like an invisible shackle that restricts the free development of the other two paths.

Under the oppression of this powerful heavenly law, the tunnel gradually became incomplete.

Humanity, on the other hand, is dependent on the Way of Heaven and has lost its former independence and autonomy.

Therefore, it is difficult for man to overcome nature.

Humanity is actually the way of the world and represents personal destiny.

Personal destiny cannot defeat the trend of nature.

This is because, in today's era, humanity depends on the laws of nature. It's not that people are not strong enough, but the fate of most people has already been determined by the laws of nature.

Everyone's destiny seems to be pulled by an invisible thread, and the other end of this thread is the unfathomable and irresistible way of heaven.

The earthly and human ways can only become vassals of the heavenly ways, are bound by the heavenly ways, and gradually lose their independent will.

Since the "War of the Gods", the human race has been caught in a large-scale internal strife. The smoke of war permeated the entire earth, and all lives were destroyed and the people were living in misery.

This war once again dealt a heavy blow to the destiny of humanity and further weakened the power of humanity.

At the same time, the Way of Heaven became increasingly powerful.

After the Conferred Gods Conferred War, there was no more "Human Emperor" in the human world, only the emperor who called himself "Son of Heaven".

The emperor of the lower world needs to "bow his head to heaven and call himself the son" to show his awe and obedience to the way of heaven.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of the human race, those great beings who once led the human race to glory and were revered as saints of the human race, were restricted in the "Fire Cloud Cave" by the Heavenly Dao and could no longer interfere in the affairs of the human race.

Since then.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of the human race lived in the Fire Cloud Cave and rarely appeared in the world.

They could only watch the ups and downs of the human race's fate silently in the Fire Cloud Cave, but they could no longer directly protect and guide them as they did in the past.

But although they hid in caves, they were not doing nothing.

Firstly, it is to comply with the arrangement of heaven and not to fight against it.

Secondly, it is actually to protect the destiny of the human race.

The destiny of the human race is like a long, endlessly flowing river, which concerns the rise and fall, survival and destruction of the human race.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors sat in the Fire Cloud Cave, and with their own majesty and strength, they protected this long river of fortune so that it would not dry up.

……

In this world, there is a person with a special identity, that is the Holy Erlang Zhenjun Yang Jian.

Yang Jian is the son of a human god. He is both a god and a human.

Therefore, Yang Jian actually had a very good relationship with the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of the human race.

The axe that Yang Jian used when he split the mountain to save his mother was given by the Human Emperor Dayu.

During the Conferred Gods War, the gods fought and the human race suffered.

When hundreds of thousands of human troops of the Zhou Dynasty were all poisoned by the plague god Lu Yue and almost died, Yang Jian went to Huoyun Cave to seek help from the Three Emperors of the human race.

The three emperors of the human race in Huoyun Cave took action to help Yang Jian eliminate the plague of the plague god Lu Yue.

In fact, both the Shang army and the Zhou army are descendants of the human race, and the disputes between them are nothing more than an internal competition.

Who wins or loses may not matter to the three emperors of the Huoyun Cave human race.

Even humans eat lions, birds, and crocodiles... lions, birds, and crocodiles eat humans... and eat each other. This is also the law of the jungle and the cycle of cause and effect.

However, the Jiejiao immortals used immortal and divine means to directly massacre hundreds of thousands of human beings on a large scale, which violated the taboo of the Three Emperors of Huoyun Cave.

Isn’t this treating people as not human beings?
……

Heaven, thirty-three days.

Tongming Hall.

The Haotian Mirror reflects the situation on the battlefield.

The Jade Emperor sat upright on the throne, gazing at everything in the Haotian Mirror with deep and calm eyes.

When the Jade Emperor saw Marshal Tianpeng release the Weak Water of the Milky Way to flood the anti-Heaven army, there was no fluctuation on his face.

At this moment, the natural thing is to annihilate this wave of rebellious traitors.

The rest comes second.

First there was the heaven, then there was the human world; first there was the heaven, then there were humans.

……

In the Fire Cloud Cave, there was a faint light that appeared and disappeared, and there seemed to be spiritual energy lingering around.

The cave is filled with spiritual energy, but a sense of solemnity also exists with it.

In a corner of the cave, there was a middle-aged man with a burly figure, a resolute face and bright eyes.

The man's skin was rough, a sign of his struggle with the world and his efforts for the common people; he was dressed in coarse linen clothes, which, though plain and simple, showed his return to nature.

His hands and feet are covered with calluses, each of which bears witness to the hardships he encountered in flood control; he wears a bamboo hat to hide the troubles and vicissitudes of the world.

At first glance, this man is just an ordinary fisherman, wearing coarse linen clothes and a straw hat covering his head, no different from the people who struggle to make a living by the rivers, lakes and seas.

However, the imperial aura emanating from his body is difficult to conceal; this is the majesty of having experienced many vicissitudes of life and controlling the universe. It is awe-inspiring yet awe-inspiring.

And this person is the Human Emperor "Dayu".

"Dayu" is a respectful title given to him by the world, which means "the great Yu".

Dayu's life was great for human beings.

Throughout his life, he controlled floods in the world. He passed by his home three times without entering. With his unyielding will, he finally pacified the floods in the Nine Provinces. He determined the Nine Provinces and divided the territories, laying the foundation for the prosperity and development of the human race. He stabilized the destiny of the human race, and with his own prestige and strength, he protected the rise and fall of the human race. He established the Great Xia Dynasty and ushered in a new era.

Such achievements are unparalleled in history, so he is also honored as "King Yu" and "Saint King Yu".

Beside Dayu, there stood a man with a human body and an ox's head. He was tall and sturdy, and his posture was as steady as a mountain. He looked like a simple farmer.

However, he has the majesty of a leader, and his every move reveals his dominance and decisiveness; and because he cares about the people of all nations, his eyes reveal endless compassion, which makes people feel his inner kindness and warmth.

This person is none other than Emperor Yan "Shennong".

……

The Classic of Mountains and Seas says: "The place where Shennong tasted the five grains is shaped like a sheep's head."

The "Emperors' Chronicles" also clearly records: "Emperor Yan Shennong, surnamed Jiang. He had a human body and an ox head, and grew up by the Jiang River."

In the ancient farming era, "oxen" were important animals for plowing the fields and had a very respected status.

Yan Emperor invented agricultural tools, taught people how to farm, tasted hundreds of herbs and invented medicine, and was hailed as the "God of Farming."

The mythical totem with a bull's head and a human body symbolizes the power of farming and the worship of nature.

……

In the Fire Cloud Cave.

Shennong looked at Dayu and said:

"Yu, judging from your expression, do you intend to leave this Fire Cloud Cave?"

Upon hearing this, Dayu clasped his hands and said:
"In the past, I spent many years to quell the flood in the Nine Provinces. I suppressed Wuzhiqi in the depths of the Huai River, killed the nine-headed beast Xiangliu, and opened the Dragon Gate to let the water of the Yellow River flow... After going through many hardships, I finally quelled the flood in the Nine Provinces."

Speaking of this, Dayu looked solemn, his eyes looking towards the ever-changing sky outside the cave, and said in a deep voice:
"Now, a war broke out in the heavens, causing the Weak Water to descend to the lower world."

"Weak water has the property of 'one drop turns into ten thousand drops'. Its power is so fierce that if it is allowed to flood the human world, it will surely be a disaster that destroys the world."

"My years of hard work in flood control will be destroyed in one day."

Shennong was silent for a moment, then said:
"We live in this Fire Cloud Cave, detached from the mundane world, and do not care about worldly affairs. This is to avoid the cause and effect of heaven."

"If you insist on leaving the cave now, you may offend the laws of heaven, which will not tolerate you, and you will suffer the consequences."

Dayu pondered for a long time, then raised his head, his eyes were as firm as a rock, and said:
"I understand what Emperor Yan said. But when the world is in trouble, how can I sit back and do nothing?"

"I will only send a wisp of my divine consciousness out of the cave. I think it won't cause too much consequences. I can also do my best to help alleviate the suffering of the people from the flood."

After saying that, Dayu looked into the depths of the Fire Cloud Cave.

"Not much time."

"Go quickly and come back quickly, don't stay too long."

A steady and majestic voice came from the depths of the Fire Cloud Cave. It was the voice of Holy Emperor Fuxi.

Dayu thanked him and said:

"Thank you, Holy Emperor Fuxi."

Subsequently.

Dayu looked solemn, sitting cross-legged, with his hands forming seals, a light flickering on his forehead, and a divine thought slowly separated from him.

The divine thought was like a stream of light, containing Dayu's will and power, and it was about to leave the Fire Cloud Cave.

"Yu, wait a minute!"

At this moment, the voice of Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi rang out.

Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi was dressed in a yellow imperial robe, with a majestic figure and the gait of a dragon and a tiger. He looked at Dayu with a burning gaze and said loudly:
"Yu, I'll lend you my Xuanyuan Sword."

"Take this sword and go there, and tell the Jade Emperor that this is the attitude of our Emperor Xuanyuan."

"I will never allow the descendants of Yan and Huang to suffer this disaster!"

"I will not act rashly when it comes to using humans to attack heaven, but if heaven is unfair, I, Emperor Xuanyuan, will never back down!"

After saying this, the "Xuanyuan Sword" in Emperor Xuanyuan's hand suddenly came out of its sheath.

In an instant, the sword energy on the Xuanyuan Sword crisscrossed like golden threads, illuminating the entire Fire Cloud Cave with golden light.

The Xuanyuan Sword, carrying the supreme majesty and determination of Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi, flew away into the air along with Dayu's divine thoughts.

(End of this chapter)