The Great Flood of the End of Time: Female Neighbor Comes to Borrow Food

Chapter 720 Ancient Myths and Reality

Liang Yuan glanced at Ling Yurong and could roughly understand her current thoughts.

She felt that since she was in such a miserable state, her former nemesis should naturally be in just as bad a state as well.

That's why she's working so hard. Of course, she can't afford not to work hard; under the control of the detention talisman, she can't disobey her orders.

Liang Yuan's spiritual power gathered, and the Soul Restraint Talisman condensed and crashed into Di Quan Ke, who was trapped in the spiritual cage.

Bang!
Di Quan Ke was no match for Liang Yuan's spiritual power; he had just awakened and was at his weakest.

Almost instantly, they were enslaved by the soul-binding talisman.

The next moment, Liang Yuan directly felt that he had absolute control over Di Quan Ke's soul.

With just a single thought, one can reduce the other party to ashes in an instant.

Liang Yuan released the mental cage, and the Di Quan Ke's spiritual body inside trembled violently. It had been hit by the Soul Restraint Talisman and was still in excruciating pain.

"It's done!"

Liang Yuan smiled faintly.

Ling Yurong, who was standing to the side, burst into laughter: "Diquan Ke, I never thought that after so many years, we would meet again in this way."

Di Quanke finally recovered, then glared angrily at Ling Yurong and cursed, "You wretch, I'll kill you!"

He was about to retaliate in anger when he heard a cold snort.

"Humph!"

In an instant, Di Quanke trembled all over, and his spiritual body was immediately unable to move.

Liang Yuan sneered, "What, you're still not convinced?"

Di Quan Ke lowered his head; at this moment, facing Liang Yuan, he had no will to resist.

"Master, I dare not."

Liang Yuan said calmly, "Both of you are now my servants. From now on, neither of you is allowed to fight amongst yourselves."

The two dared not disobey, bowing their heads and eyes, appearing ready to accept their fate.

Liang Yuan asked, "Di Quan Ke, tell me, what's going on? Why did this skeleton appear in that underground tomb?"

Di Quanke's voice was deep. He glanced at the blood pool and saw a skeleton with only a thin layer of flesh growing on it. He said helplessly, "Reporting to my master, I have been active in the flood world from ancient times until the time of King Yu."

"At that time, King Yu was determined to control the floods, open up the nine provinces, and establish the order of the world."

"The world has been wiped out by the first flood, and as far as I can remember, this is the second time."

“This is the third time!” Ling Yurong reminded him with a sneer.

"the third time?"

"That's right, this is the third time. The first time, the sky split open and an endless flood poured into the world. Ancient supernatural beings were trying their best to fill this gap."

"Later, Nuwa, the top earth-attribute ability user, joined forces with Gonggong, the water-attribute ability user, Zhurong, the fire-attribute ability user, and the Donghai Aowang, the ice-attribute ability user, to plug the gap in the sky that caused the flood."

"That's how we stopped this natural disaster."

"The second time was during the war between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, when the flood destroyed the world again, which led to three generations of human emperors controlling the flood."

"But that flood control effort was unsuccessful. What was originally a single continent was split into many pieces by the flood."

Di Quanke disagreed with this statement, retorting, "That's just a legend. Nuwa, the East Sea Ao King, Gonggong, and Zhurong are all legends from the previous flood world, and they may not be credible."

"Some say that the Emperor of Man controlled the floods, which was the flood that Nuwa and her people had not been able to completely stop back then."

Ling Yurong sneered: "What a joke! Did Yu the Great really succeed in controlling the floods?"

"Wasn't the world still submerged by the flood and split into the Nine Provinces and several continents?"

"At least humanity didn't go extinct; it survived," Di Quanke sneered.

Ling Yurong said, "So what? King Yu still couldn't solve the root cause of the flood. Thousands of years later, didn't the flood reappear?"

"Unless we find the source of the flood in the sky at its root, everything is just a temporary fix, a mere attempt to prolong our lives."

The two began to argue fiercely, leaving Liang Yuan dumbfounded.

Ancient myths were actually like this?
He had certainly heard of Nuwa mending the sky and Yu the Great controlling the floods.

But how come both of them said that the flood control efforts had failed?
He immediately stopped the two from arguing and asked, "Wait, stop arguing!"

"Has this flood always appeared so abruptly in the sky?"

Ling Yurong and Di Quanke dared not argue any longer and nodded in agreement.

"Yes, several times the world was destroyed by floods, all of which suddenly appeared in the sky."

"That flood, like a rainbow, hangs in the sky, constantly gushing out large amounts of water. If we cannot find its source and only use our supernatural abilities to block its outlet, sooner or later it will flood the world again."

Di Quanke said in a deep voice, "Find the source? It's not that simple. In ancient times, among so many powerful masters, who could really find the end of that torrent?"

"We're lucky to have survived this long enough to barely cling to life."

"There are many people who, even with the secret to immortality, cannot live a second life."

"Faced with such a cataclysmic disaster, we are nothing more than ants."

Ling Yurong sneered: "You are an ant, but I am not. I have long ago sworn to follow in the footsteps of the ancient superhumans and I am determined to go to the end of that torrent to find out what is going on!"

As they talked, they started arguing again.

Liang Yuan frowned and reprimanded the two of them again.

"stop fighting!"

"You mean that in ancient times, mythological figures like Nuwa and Zhurong were just superhumans?"

Ling Yurong nodded and said, "Of course, they can't really be like the gods that mortals think they are, right?"

"Although I also call myself the Goddess of Ice, I know in my heart that I am just an ice-attribute ability user."

She readily admitted that she was not a deity. Facing Liang Yuan now, she naturally dared not put on any more divine airs.

Di Quanke also said, "Master, the so-called gods and Buddhas in the sky are just figments of ordinary people's imaginations after seeing our methods."

"Humans tend to romanticize things they cannot understand."

"In fact, later on, after the torrent in the sky disappeared, the supernatural energy in the world also disappeared rapidly."

"The human world is gradually entering the Dharma-ending Age, and there will be no more people with supernatural abilities."

"Among the younger generation, fewer and fewer people are able to awaken their special abilities."

"We old folks can only rely on methods of immortality to try to fall into a deep sleep and wait for the next flood to destroy the world so that spiritual energy can be restored."

"However, the method of achieving immortality is not something that can be used by just anyone, and the success rate is not 100%."

"Because once the spiritual fragments are integrated into the genes and passed on to offspring, over countless generations, no one can guarantee that any of their descendants will be able to awaken superpowers."

"If one cannot awaken superpowers, it is highly likely that one's mental splitting will also be unable to be activated."

"Therefore, many people prepared a body in advance that could be preserved to this day, and stored their spiritual fragments within it. In this way, when the opportunity was right, they could awaken the spiritual fragments within the corpse through certain methods and be reborn."

"Is this how you wait for recovery?" Liang Yuan asked immediately.

Di Quanke nodded: "Yes, but I took a shortcut and did not choose humans as the genetic material, but instead chose merfolk and mermaids."

"I implanted the idea into the bloodline genes of these mermaids and merfolk, so that they would come to my corpse and offer their blood as a sacrifice."

"And my own mental fragments are hiding in this skeleton."

"Of course, just in case, I didn't put all my mental energy into this skeleton. I also passed on a portion of my mental energy to the merman's offspring who are also gifted with superpowers."

"As long as some of my descendants awaken the supernatural abilities of merfolk, my spiritual fragments may still be able to revive."

Liang Yuan realized that these ancient superhumans actually had so many backup plans.

He suddenly remembered that the underwater shelter built by Guan Yue and others in the Mirage Serpent Space was full of merfolk and mermaid-transformed superhumans.

Thinking of this, a thought struck him; it had been a while since he had visited the Mirage Serpent Space.

Could it be that some of Di Quan Ke's spiritual thoughts are stored inside Guan Yue, Ji Xiaoyu, and the others?
Thinking of this, Liang Yuan's expression darkened, and he immediately said, "You come with me right now."

Di Quanke was taken aback, then asked, "Are we just going to leave like this? Can I merge into my body first before leaving?"

Liang Yuan asked, "Let me ask you, if you were to encounter the object of your hidden mental activity again now, could you immediately recognize it?"

"of course can."

"Do you have any way to absorb your own mental fragments?"

"Well, that depends on the current strength of my spiritual fragment. If the fragment is stronger than me now, it will be absorbed by me."

"But no matter which method I use, in the end my memories will simply merge, and I will still be me."

Upon hearing this, Liang Yuan recalled the process of Ling Yu Rong's split consciousness merging with her original body.

Once they merge, they will be controlled by their own soul-binding talisman.

He immediately said, "Alright, come with me right now. There's no rush to fuse your body."

With that, Liang Yuan led Di Quanke and Ling Yurong away from the Sumeru Space.

Ling Yurong asked, "What's the matter, Master? Why are you in such a hurry?"

Liang Yuan said, "I have a group of merfolk and mermaid-type ability users under my command. I'm a little worried about them and need the two of you to go and take a look."

Both of them felt a jolt in their hearts. Di Quanke said, "You suspect that there might be a mental fragment of both of us inside those people?"

Liang Yuan glanced at the two of them indifferently: "If it really exists, you know what to do, right?"

The two nodded helplessly, naturally knowing what Liang Yuan was going to do.

The three quickly left Yangshan and flew swiftly into the Mirage Serpent Space.

The Mirage Serpent Space has undergone tremendous changes after so much development.

The floodwaters inside the Mirage Serpent Space have receded considerably after Li Qinghua used the spatial rift to release them.

Of course, it still hasn't completely faded away.

The Mirage Serpent Space is like a spatial box that floats on the water's surface, with part of the box submerged underwater.

As the island's lord, Li Qinghua could open spatial rifts, but he couldn't open the underwater spatial rifts, as that would only allow water to flow back in.

Therefore, only the floodwaters level with the water surface can be discharged.

Even so, the water level in the Mirage Serpent Space has already dropped significantly.

The water level is now less than ten meters.

Most of the floors are above water, with only the floors below the third floor still submerged.

Many people travel by means of transportation such as small boats.

As for the higher-lying areas, they have been completely exposed above the water and are perfectly suitable for growing crops.

Moreover, because there is no light inside the Mirage Serpent Space, it is filled with mutated sunflowers, which resemble twinkling stars and illuminate the Mirage Serpent Space.

At this moment, Liang Yuan and the other two had already arrived in the Mirage Serpent Space.

Currently, the people in charge here are Huang Han, Kong Sheng, Wang Xiaoya, Zhou Qingming, and others.

Aside from Huang Han, who was the first to follow Liang Yuan, Wang Xiaoya and Kong Sheng joined Yangshan later.

Zhou Qingming was Li Qinghua's right-hand man. Li Qinghua was sent by Liang Yuan to guard the Yellow Earth Divine Plain, while Zhou Qingming was left behind by Li Qinghua to take care of the Mirage Serpent Space.

Liang Yuan didn't inform the people here, and went directly to Xiaomaoshan.

Today, Xiaomaoshan has long been developed into the core location of the Mirage Serpent Space.

All the important departments and material storage are located here, making it the de facto center of the Mirage Serpent Space.

(End of this chapter)