From the end of the world

Chapter 461 Open the skylight and speak frankly

I followed the advice of Gua Tianshi and Lu Chan. In order to avoid being seen by Liu Shuying, I arranged for Ma Zao to go to Xianshui City first. After Liu Shuying came to my house, considering the historical perception that the senior Great Impermanence should have, I did not bring him into the mansion, but found a place outside to talk.

We sat down in a newly opened cafe outside the Luoshan headquarters. From my superficial understanding, Luoshan people generally drink tea more, and coffee is an imported product. However, as Luoshan absorbs modern social culture, some foreign fast food restaurants and cafes have also opened up outside the headquarters in a low-key manner, and this is one of them. Compared with the quaint traditional and elegant atmosphere, I am more adapted to this youthful space. And it is also close to the mansion.

I guess it's not just me. Liu Shuying also didn't want to attract attention, so the staff and customers around her were chatting with each other as if they didn't recognize Da Wuchang. The staff who asked us for our order also treated us without any abnormality, as if he was receiving ordinary customers.

Not long after, the waiter brought two cups of steaming coffee to us.

I observed the shadows of the willow trees carefully.

It was this man, known as the "prophet," who predicted the end of the world.

"I've heard that you're here to talk to me about the two yin and yang of mountains." I said, "So, what exactly do you want to talk about the two yin and yang of mountains?"

Liu Shuying corrected: "To be precise, it's not just Shan Liangyi, it also includes the Lord of Taoyuan Township. And in the following topic, the Lord of Taoyuan Township is the character we need to actually face."

"—'we'?" I asked.

"Yes." Willow Shadow responded.

"What do you want to do to the Lord of Taoyuan?" I asked this question first.

"To put it bluntly, I want to kill Shan Liangyi, and the Lord of Taoyuan Township is the person most likely to be Shan Liangyi at this stage." Liu Shuying's attitude was very direct.

This is surprising to me. Although I don't know if Liu Shuying is the Mountain Yin and Yang, I am sure that he is not the descendant of the Yin and Yang. For a true descendant of the Yin and Yang, all his talents will be transformed into a mode corresponding to the power seed. If he is the contemporary descendant of the White Tiger or the Azure Dragon, then his power will be the power of gold and killing, or the power of wood and cultivation.

Although I am not sure in what specific form the power of wood and cultivation will manifest itself, in my mind the person who possesses this power is most likely the Lord of Taoyuan. At the same time, referring to the historical materials that I asked Lu Chan to collect before, the descendants of Qinglong have never shown attributes related to "foresight", while Willow Shadow can not only foresee the future, but also seems to be a versatile Great Impermanence.

As for what kind of talent it is, it is not clear. It is too difficult to collect information related to Liu Shuying.

The reason why the old fist god killed Shan Liangyi in the past, and the reason why I and the water master Xuanwu are now enemies of Shan Liangyi, is all because there is an irreconcilable contradiction between us and Shan Liangyi, that is, the power seed in our bodies that will be snatched away by Shan Liangyi sooner or later. Liu Shuying is not like us, why would he have the intention to kill Shan Liangyi?
"I'm sorry, I can't explain to you why I want to kill Shan Liangyi."

Liu Shuying seemed to be able to predict my thoughts and gave the answer first: "This is my personal privacy, I hope you can understand. Now I can only say one thing, that is, there is an irreconcilable relationship between Shan Liangyi and me. I must kill him."

"Okay, then I won't ask any more questions," I said, "but you should at least tell me why you want to talk to me about this matter? What does this matter have to do with me?"

"Let's be frank about this, Zhuang Cheng," said Liu Shuying. "I know you are the Suzaku among the descendants of Liang Yi. For matters of this magnitude, the other Great Impermanence can understand them by analyzing the properties of the traces of your power that remain in various places. You should agree with me on the matter of 'being irreconcilable with Shan Liang Yi'."

He had indeed known this beforehand.

"I admit that I am the descendant of Suzaku."

I didn't intend to argue this, and quickly moved on to the next question, "So, why do you think Taoyuan Township Master is Shan Liangyi?"

"Is it because the weirdos and the Seed of Heart in the Humane Department made you think of the descendants of Liangyi and the Seed of Power, and then thought that the Taoyuan Township Lord, who was the source of the Seed of Heart, was Shan Liangyi himself? But in my opinion, he is more like the descendant of Qinglong.

"In fact, I also fought with his incarnation a few days ago. He used the power of thunder and lightning, and in the theory of the Four Symbols and Five Elements, thunder and lightning belong to the power of the wood element."

"Just as you said, thunder and lightning are the power of the Azure Dragon." Willow Shadow nodded, "Since ancient times, dragons have been regarded as mythical beasts that control rainfall in Chinese culture, and thunder and lightning often appear at the same time as rainfall.

"But the fact that Taoyuan Township Master can control lightning does not mean that he is definitely not Shan Liangyi."

I asked, "Why is that? You're not going to say that because the Yellow Dragon of the Earth Element corresponding to the Mountain is also a dragon, it makes sense that he can exert the power of lightning and thunder, right?"

"That's also a line of reasoning, but that's not what I want to talk about." Liu Shuying seemed to be choosing an angle to approach, "Where should I start to explain...

"Yes, I got it. Zhuang Cheng, have you ever had this question... Why do the Yellow Dragon and the Blue Dragon appear at the same time in the Four Symbols and Five Elements system?
"It is obvious that the four sacred beasts are not repeated among each other, but the sacred beast that symbolizes the central earth is a dragon, which is suspected of being repeated. Instead of this, it would be better to replace the yellow dragon with another sacred beast, the Qilin, which also symbolizes the central earth. This would be more aesthetically pleasing... right?" "I have indeed thought about this," I said.

"When something is out of the ordinary, there must be something fishy going on. The Great Impermanence has been with human civilization since ancient times, just like Gua Tianshi, Xuanming, and the ancient Great Impermanence like Shan Liangyi. Our mythological culture actually reflects the footprints of the early activities of the Great Impermanence to a large extent." Willow Shadow said slowly, "Although the strange world and the common sense world were separated by the power of the divine seal in the past, the power of the divine seal has not been doing this since the birth of mankind.

"In the mythological era, there was no distinction between the strange world and the common sense world. In other words, the existence of strange things was part of people's common sense at the time, and gods also existed with people. The theory of the Four Symbols and Five Elements was one of the knowledge summarized by ordinary people at the time from observing the activities of the Great Impermanence, which contained the historical imprint of the two yin and yang of the mountain.

"The reason why the Yellow Dragon and the Blue Dragon are repeated in the Five Divine Beasts is because sometimes they really are 'repetitive'."

Perhaps it was because Liu Shuying was the Great Impermanence who only appeared four years ago, his tone was more in line with the stance of a modern person, and his words, which sounded strange, opened up a whole new line of thought for me.

"You mean... Shan Liangyi sometimes directly reincarnates as the descendant of Azure Dragon, using the body of Yellow Dragon to occupy the position of Azure Dragon?" I thought, "Yes, the wood power held by the descendant of Azure Dragon can restrain the earth power of Yellow Dragon. Since it is such a troublesome object, it is better not to let it be born from the beginning...

"No, if that's the case, then wouldn't it be better for him not to differentiate the Azure Dragon Seed from the beginning?
"We should change our thinking. It's not that Shan Liangyi occupied the position of Azure Dragon from the beginning, but that he killed the Azure Dragon's descendant and took away his seed... and then disguised himself as the Azure Dragon's descendant?"

"That's right." Willow Shadow said affirmatively, "The Azure Dragon is sometimes called the leader of the Four Symbols. This is because among the descendants of the Two Symbols, the Azure Dragon is most likely to defeat the Yellow Dragon.

"And Shan Liangyi couldn't do what you said and prevent the birth of the Azure Dragon's descendant from the beginning. There would definitely be a nemesis among the Four Symbols' descendants. You can understand this as the risk he must take when accumulating power in this evil way. Therefore, in many cases, Shan Liangyi would first kill the Azure Dragon's descendant who had not yet fully grown.

“If the Azure Dragon descendant who was killed had not had time to confirm his identity with the other Liangyi descendants, then Shan Liangyi would choose to use the Azure Dragon Seed that he had snatched and disguise himself as the Azure Dragon descendant - this would be a piece of cake for him as the source of power.

"The purpose of doing this is to gain the trust of other descendants of the Two Principles, and to observe their growth progress closely while cultivating them. When they bloom and bear fruit, the Mountain Two Principles will kill them all and reclaim their power seeds.

"After this practice happened so many times, the descendants of Liang Yi knew the pros and cons and no longer trusted the descendants of Qing Long... But that was a long, long time ago.

"As long as Shan Liangyi doesn't want people in later generations to know, similar records will gradually be lost. In the end, the only thing that can be passed down is the knowledge of the Five Divine Beasts System, which people who don't know the inside story will at most be confused about. You probably can't find similar records. Is this the first time you heard that Shan Liangyi might disguise himself as the descendant of Azure Dragon? When the records are lost to this extent, Shan Liangyi may resort to the same old trick again."

"I see……"

I couldn't find any fault with it, so I could only nod. Willow Shadow smiled and took a sip of coffee.

Liu Shuying didn't say that Si Shan Liang Yi was the Taoyuan Township Lord, but in this way, all the clues in the past were connected. In the past, I was always hesitant about whether Taoyuan Township Lord was Shan Liang Yi or the holder of the Azure Dragon Seed, but now I finally have a reasoning that can take both directions into account at the same time.

However, I am not so naive as to believe everything he says.

Because his theory did not dispel the suspicious smell around him.

"I have a question. Since the records have been lost to the point where Shan Liangyi thinks he can use the same trick again, why do you know this secret?" I asked.

"I have my own method." Liu Shuying said, "You may have heard that I have the power of foresight. For some things, I can know them directly without any channels."

"Really? But I have a more reasonable guess. In a detective story, only the criminal can know the truth of the case from the beginning." I said, "Even if you ignore this, your foresight is suspicious enough.

"You can predict the end of the world, which even the Heavenly Master cannot predict. As far as I know, the only one who can do this is Shan Liangyi, who can reincarnate into the past and the future at will.

"Also, I also heard from Gua Tianshi that you had lost your power of foresight last year. Now you come to tell me that you relied on your power of foresight to obtain information related to the Mountain and the Two Yin and Yang out of thin air. Isn't this a bit contradictory?"

Liu Shuying's eyes narrowed and she put the coffee cup on the table.

"What exactly are you going to say?" he asked.

"It's your turn to speak frankly now, Willow Shadow." I said straight to the point, "You are Shan Liangyi, right?"

(End of this chapter)