This is so dishonest!

Chapter 422 Xuan Qing: Fellow Daoist, you're playing quite the trick!

"If you don't work hard, you'll be afraid of the unpredictable rise and fall of fortunes; if you don't work hard, your youth will be fleeting."

"Without engaging in activities, one cannot transcend suffering; without engaging in activities, all actions lack vitality."

[Zeus] The First Dragon hummed a little tune as he began his daily preparations for battle.

As a founding member of Taiweiyuan, how could his method of self-rescue be legitimate?
The gods of Taiwei are most serious when they are doing something unorthodox!
“Sister Hera, I suddenly remembered that our father has treasured many treasures.”

"There must be a lot of good stuff in here, maybe even the treasure to defeat the Titan. Would you like to come in and take a look with me?"

Zeus, the first dragon, extended an invitation to the goddess Hera.

Hera readily agreed when she heard that it was such a formal invitation.

This truly delighted the First Emperor!
~~~
On the other side, in the Primordial True Realm.

The moment the Ancestral Dragon's [Reverse Cause and Effect] power takes effect.

"Suiyao? He really didn't die. Wait, how dare you insult me!"

[Fire Star Supreme] Yuan Huang laughed in anger: "Fine, fine, you just wait!"

Some gods are better off dead than alive!
"Water Star, Ancestral Dragon? Wait, the aura of this universe feels somewhat familiar!" [Jupiter Supreme] Fuxi pondered.

With his extraordinary abilities, he actually sensed a strong barrier from the Great Dao.

"The Chaos God, huh? Interesting." Fuxi made a blind shot.

In the Moon Palace, Wangshu, who had just returned to the celestial realm, received "congratulations" from the First Emperor.

"To be without a husband for life?" Wang Shu narrowed her eyes slightly.

At Wuzhuang Temple, a Taoist priest in red robes is watering a strange "white lotus".

Faintly, the lotus flower could also emanate bursts of profound Daoist sounds.

"The Unborn Mother, the Vast Homeland~~~"

Suddenly, the flowers swayed.

The eerie aura of the "white lotus" dissipated, and a Taoist priest with a calm and composed demeanor emerged.

"Were you kicked out?" Hongyun looked at Zhen Yuanzi in surprise.

The other party attempted to access a bizarre world.

I got into the zone just as I was getting into it, and then I quit.

"Some immoral deity is cursing me!" Zhen Yuanzi gritted his teeth.

"A despicable god? Who?"

Hongyun asked curiously, "Could it be Venerable Xuyao?"

Zhen Yuanzi shook his head: "No, it's Shuiyao!"

"No way! He actually called me a drama queen! I'll turn him into a potted plant and hide him away!"

Hongyun couldn't stop smiling when she heard this.

The gods of Taiwei not only cooperate, but also betray each other.

He also knew it.

The coast of the East China Sea.

Taishang rode a green ox, traveling from east to west and then from west to east, traversing countless Dao domains and making a great circle in the primordial human world.

Ultimately, they settled in the ancestral land of the human race.

Here, he shed his divine form, transformed into a human, and practiced the Way under the name of Li Er.

He consulted the elderly, discussed philosophy with the wise, preached to the young and strong, and played with children.

In ten years, the name of Li Er, a member of the human race, spread throughout the major tribes along the coast of the East China Sea.

He was already considered a sage and saint in the hearts of the human race.

On this day, Taishang came to Nuwa's palace.

This is the place where the human race pays homage to Nuwa.

The Youchao clan, who were stationed in the ancestral land of the human race, led the elders of the human race to personally welcome them.

"Welcome, Holy One!"

Taiyi dismounted from the blue ox, and the boy leading it quickly helped him up, saying, "Master..."

"Xuan Du?"

Youchao was overjoyed to see the boy.

Xuandu was the first human race in the primordial era!

To be favored by a sage is truly a great blessing!

Youchao was genuinely happy for Xuandu.

"Greetings, Chief!"

Xuan Du smiled憨厚ly, and as he helped his master up, he introduced him to the people from the ancestral land.

"This is the leader of Youchao, this is the patriarch of the Daotian clan, this is the king of the Great Kingdom, this is..."

The Supreme Lord was very patient; he listened quietly.

"May I ask, Your Majesty, that you have come to this ancestral land to spread the Way to the human race?" Youchao asked cautiously, suppressing his excitement.

The Supreme Lord shook his head and said, "I have come here to preach the Way, and also to preach virtue."

Although the crowd did not understand its meaning, they were still delighted upon hearing it.

Therefore, the Supreme Lord preached morality and the virtues of humanity here!

The Supreme Being recounted what he had seen, heard, and gained from observing the Dao among the human race over the past ten years.

He elaborated on the ways of human survival, reproduction, and growth, from near to far, from small to large, one by one.

It also provides answers within the scope of human ethics to the questions of humanity raised by the ancestors of mankind, the sages of the human race, the wise men of various tribes, and many other human races.

This lecture lasted for nine days.

During the nine days, people come and go, and everyone can ask questions, and every question will be answered. The Supreme Being treats people with utmost sincerity, practices the Way consistently, and has the heart of a sage, therefore he is a sage.

The highest way is to be tranquil and inactive, to nourish things silently, to be free and natural, and to be extremely simple and pure.

The Tao he spoke of was as clear as water, representing the highest virtue. It was most suitable for humanity, which lacked the foundation of Tao and was like a blank sheet of paper.

Because the way he passed down is the way of nature and the way of humanity. Even if the human race learns it, the human race will still be the human race.

This was also the deal that Taishang made with Nuwa.

And it ended on the ninth day of the Supreme Lord's sermon.

He suddenly paused.

[Well, Shuiyao, you actually doubt the quality of my pills? Looks like I'll have to prove myself.]

The Supreme Lord smiled broadly: "Xuan Du!"

"The disciple is here!"

Xuandu looked at his master with a puzzled expression.

"Take my treasured Yin-Yang Swords, I want to extract the profound essence of the Great Dao from them and refine a batch of the Nine-Turn Rejuvenating Pill!"

"okay!"

Sea of ​​blood.

Styx looked puzzled: "Why is Shuiyao cursing me?"

Send a blessing of "good luck" to a god who is usually unlucky.

This could be considered a curse.

Xuanqing smiled.

“It’s alright, He’s just saving himself.”

"Oh!" Styx remembered that he had used this method before.

After all, among all the gods of Taiwei, he was the one who loved adventure the most.

Every year, they need someone else to bail them out.

And more than once.

He knows him very well. "Where is he? Let's go rescue him right now!"

Styx carried two killing swords, their blades gleaming coldly and exuding a terrifying aura.

"No rush, no rush."

Xuan Qing smiled and said, "We'll have to wait for the right opportunity."

"Okay! I'll wait a bit."

Styx readily agreed.

It just so happens that he needs to make arrangements for the Asura clan.

"Hmm, we can consider letting them spread their branches and branches throughout the myriad worlds!" Styx thought to himself.

~~~
Meanwhile, the [Wise Demon God], who was paying attention to the Olympian mythology universe, felt unprecedented pressure.

While the Taiwei gods were being invoked by the First Emperor.

They also paid attention to this being who separated the two worlds.

Although the [Wisdom Demon God] possesses artifacts including the Artifact of Destiny and numerous other demonic artifacts, no one can immediately discern her identity.

However, the necessary attention has already been given.

Just waiting for an opportunity.

"Wait a minute, this isn't right!!"

【The Wise Demon God】 gently bit down with her pearly teeth, her fingers gripping the clay tablet of fate until they turned white without her noticing.

She was sweating profusely.

She boasted that she could stop one of the First Emperors.

But if all the gods of Taiwei were to arrive...
Should I run away?

She's a little hesitant now.

Anyway, it's not like this is the first time they've run away.

~~~
Mount Olympus.

This day.

[Zeus] After successfully consolidating internal forces and making ample strategic preparations for the upcoming Titan War, the First Dragon [Zeus]

On a whim, he took his sister Hera to inspect the private treasury left behind by his "good father" Cronus.

He wanted to see just how many good things this second-generation god-king, who had ruled the universe for countless years, had amassed.

However, just as he pushed open the treasure vault door, forged from chaotic divine metal and sealed for countless years, his gaze swept over the mountain of rare treasures, shimmering with various divine lights.

An old bronze mirror that looked ordinary and even a bit worn instantly captured his full attention.

The mirror's frame was engraved with countless twisted and bizarre runes, seemingly formed from nightmares and fear.

Its mirror surface is not smooth, but rather presents a bottomless, pitch-black color, like a chaotic vortex!

Just one glance is enough to feel as if it can completely suck in one's entire soul!
Who was Zeus, the progenitor of the dragons?
He instantly sensed the extraordinary nature and danger of this mirror!

However, it stems from absolute confidence in one's own strength, or perhaps from a strong possessive desire for "unknown treasures" that originates deep within the bloodline of the "Dragon Clan".

As if possessed, he reached out and touched the eerie mirror.

Om-! ! !
The instant his fingertips touched the cold mirror surface!
The entire mirror surface instantly came to life, and a strange black light that could devour all light and distort all reason suddenly burst forth from the pitch-black surface!

The black light surged like a tide, instantly engulfing the entire Zeus, the ancestral dragon, as well as Poseidon, Hades, Hera, and all the other Olympian gods who had come to protect him!

The next moment, when they opened their eyes again, they were horrified to find themselves in a bizarre illusion filled with endless "fear" and "despair"!
This illusion seems to be a manifestation of all the "negative emotions" deep in their hearts!
Here, they saw what they feared most and least wanted to face!
Poseidon saw that the vast ocean he cherished had completely dried up and withered, turning into a desolate desert!

Hades saw that the order of the underworld he ruled had completely collapsed, and countless evil spirits and ghosts crawled out from the depths of hell, tearing him, the "King of the Underworld," to pieces!

Hera, on the other hand, witnessed her most cherished "marriage and family" being ruthlessly betrayed and trampled upon, ultimately becoming a laughingstock of the entire divine realm!
As the Olympian gods' fear and despair—the fear of losing the "War of the Titans" and the fear of losing the power and honor they had just gained—were constantly amplified and extracted by this illusion.

Suddenly, the sky above the illusionary realm was filled with a sudden change in weather!
The sky, which was originally just an empty, pitch-black expanse, began to churn and writhe violently, like boiling asphalt!
One after another, enormous Titans, large enough to blot out the sky and exuding terrifying auras, began to slowly coalesce from the rolling darkness!
Their appearance is exactly the same as that of the Titans in the real world, who are sharpening their swords and preparing to fight the Olympian gods to the death!
There was Atlas, who carried the entire sky on his shoulders, with bulging muscles and an aura of boundless power!
There was that one who wielded a giant scythe, whose eyes shimmered with the light of time, and who seemed capable of reaping all life—Cronus!
There was Hyperion, whose body was engulfed in the blazing fire of the sun god, radiating boundless light, as if he were about to burn the entire world to ashes!

There was a man of wisdom as vast as the sea, with deep, penetrating eyes that seemed to see through all conspiracies and schemes—Koeus!

……

However, unlike the true Titans, these "mysterious Titans" formed from fear and despair do not exude the majestic aura of "order" and "law" that belongs to innate deities.

Instead, it is a bizarre atmosphere filled with "distortion", "madness", "chaos" and pure "malice"!

Their eyes no longer shone with divine brilliance, but were two bottomless voids from which a thick, black liquid constantly flowed!
Invisible threads pulled the corners of their mouths upwards, stretching them into an exaggerated, chilling arc, revealing an eternal, mocking... eerie smile!
On their bodies, indescribable tentacles and tumors, seemingly composed of nightmares and delirium, kept growing!

"Ha ha ha ha ha……"

Are you... afraid of us?

Are you... worried... that you will be defeated by us?

A series of eerie laughs and whispers, filled with overlapping echoes and seemingly capable of penetrating the depths of the soul and evoking all negative emotions, slowly emanated from the mouths of these "eerie titans".

"Come on... join us..."

"Abandon that futile resistance and embrace the deepest fear within your hearts!"

"Failure...is your ultimate, and only...destiny!"

As the seductive whispers rang out, the “monster titans” born of fear no longer hesitated!
With heavy strides that could shatter the earth and massive arms that could tear the sky apart, they launched a fierce attack on the Olympian gods, whose minds were already gripped by fear, with an overwhelming and world-destroying power!

As the "instigator" of all this, [Zeus] the First Dragon is now facing the most terrifying inner demon tribulation of his life!

In this bizarre illusion, he discovered that his proud power had been suppressed to the extreme!

And deep within him, all the human weaknesses that belonged to his identity as "Zeus" and that he had forcibly suppressed—greed, lust, selfishness, self-interest, and the fear of "failure"—were magnified infinitely at this moment!
He saw himself, who, out of greed, tried to devour the entire universe, but was ultimately devoured by the will of the universe and turned to ashes!
He saw himself in the image of a man who, because of his lust, was betrayed by countless "illegitimate children" born from him, and was ultimately nailed to the throne of the god-king!

He saw himself reflected in them, how his selfishness led to alienation and isolation, and how he was ultimately pushed off his pedestal by those "ants" he once despised!
What he feared most and was most terrified of was being completely and without a doubt overthrown and replaced by a "god" who was the complete opposite of him, full of "light," "selflessness," "universal love," and "holiness," and who was so perfect that there was no flaw in him!

"No--!!!!"

[Zeus] The First Dragon let out a roar filled with resentment and fear!

At this moment, his aspect as the ancestral dragon was suppressed, and Zeus's divine nature shone brightly.

"Well, that's right!"

"now it's right!"

In the void beyond the heavens, the [Wise Demon God], who was packing his things and preparing to flee, breathed a sigh of relief.

Having just been targeted by numerous wills, she even considered taking the wills of the Chaos Gods with her and running away.

It now appears that things can still turn around.

"That's the artifact of the [Fear Demon God]? Hmm, let's observe it further. If we can take him away in one fell swoop, then..." The [Wisdom Demon God] thought for a moment and took out a gray cloak.

Mount Olympus, the First Dragon was furious.

Zeus is me, and so is the First Dragon!

[You wretched demon, how dare you play the splitting trick on me!]

My path to Taiyi is eternal and unique; how could you possibly destroy it?!

Zu Long abandoned his playful attitude and began to seriously deal with this strange power.

He absolutely would not allow his rule to be overthrown by such a false, non-existent "fantasy"!

However, the most terrifying aspect of this eerie illusion is that it can turn your deepest fears into reality!
Just as the thought of "fear" of the ancestral dragon Zeus reached its peak!

The sky of the entire eerie illusion was suddenly torn apart!

A divine light, filled with supreme brightness, boundless majesty, and the spirit of selflessness and universal love for all beings, poured down from the crack like the first ray of dawn at the beginning of creation!

Amidst the divine light, a deity dressed in a black imperial robe emerged.

He wore a flat crown, and although his face was blurred, the aura of "brightness and majesty, and radiant virtue" emanating from him was enough to purify and subjugate the entire illusion.

His appearance was both so sudden and so natural!

It's as if He was meant to be the ruler of this universe!
He is the ultimate manifestation of the "perfect god" that Zeus, the ancestral dragon, feared most deep within his heart!

"Fellow Daoist, you're playing quite the game!"

Xuan Qing looked at Zu Long with a mocking expression.

"Tell me, what kind of ending do you want?"

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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