I will teach you how to cultivate immortality

Chapter 499 Ancient Hero - Da Yi
Go and become one of the earliest beings! I will be waiting for you at the end of the river of time!

When that familiar voice rang in Li Xuandu's ears, he simply looked around indifferently.

Because he knew it wasn't reality, but a dream.

Almost a month has passed since Li Xuandu arrived in this era.

During this month, Li Xuan fully integrated into the lives of the mountain people and enjoyed the admiring gazes of everyone with great interest.

After all, in Li Xuandu's era, he was always the one who was taken care of.

In contrast, in this era, Li Xuandu became a divine figure who cared for and protected the mountain people.

In just one month, Li Xuandu quelled seven or eight conflicts between gods, as well as various secondary disasters that arose from them.

Of course, it is precisely because of this personality trait of liking to show off in front of others.

Li Jingshu strictly forbade him from contacting Li Family Village in the present era, lest it truly affect the future.

Not only that, even the name "Li Xuandu" cannot appear; instead, the title "descendant" is used.

In any case, Li Xuandu was indeed a descendant of the mountain people, a descendant from the future.

Unable to use his real name, Li Xuandu tacitly accepted the name that came from Xiao Gui.

At the same time, Li Xuandu finally understood why Aunt Gui always liked to call him "Xiao Yi" when he was a child.

He originally thought that was just his nickname before he got his official name.

But now it seems that the situation is far more complicated than I imagined.

Li Xuandu wasn't even sure if there were any other meanings behind this title.

After all, this dream comes from an ancient hero named "Da Yi".

Although the characters for "Da Yi" and "Hou Yi" are different, their pronunciations are almost the same, which is really hard to say whether it is a coincidence.

What do you want to show me today?

With just a slight lowering of his head, Li Xuandu indeed saw the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow in his hand.

Through his previous dreams, Li Xuan had basically learned about the first half of Yi's life, and he could roughly guess that the other party should be the former owner of the Sun-Shooting Arrow.

To be honest, Da Yi's life story is actually quite inspiring.

Da Yi was born at the end of the reign of the Heavenly Emperor Haojun, in a tribe that worshipped the ancient sun god Xihe.

Unfortunately, due to various natural and man-made disasters, only a few people remained of Da Yi's tribe, and he became a wanderer at a very young age.

However, Da Yi was exceptionally gifted, born divine, and also warm-hearted and kind.

So although he was nominally a "wanderer," Da Yi actually grew up eating food from many different families.

Relying on his strong physique and superb archery skills, he hunted tigers, leopards, wolves and insects in the mountains and fields, and helped people in the tribes to relieve disasters and beg for food.

Over time, Yi gained considerable fame among the human population of that time.

Unfortunately, that was not the age of humans, but the age of gods.

Even though Yi had a very high reputation among humans, he was ultimately just an ordinary person with a mortal body.

The path to advancement is monopolized...

The ubiquitous human sacrifices enraged Da Yi...

So, Da Yi decided to climb Mount Kunlun and ascend the long steps leading to the gods to meet the Heavenly Emperor.

In that era, ascending the divine ladder was the only way for mortals to possibly reach the Heavenly Emperor, and it was also their chance to defy fate.

Because any mortal who climbs to the top of the Ascension Staircase will receive the blessing of the Heavenly Emperor and become his representative on earth. As expected, Da Yi eventually succeeded in climbing the Ascension Staircase.

Standing at the border between the capital of the Heavenly Emperor and the mortal realm, Da Yi was bathed in divine light and received the Heavenly Emperor's blessing.

The gods watched, and all living beings looked up in awe...

Just when everyone thought that a new successor to the Heavenly Emperor was about to be born, Da Yi unexpectedly refused the Heavenly Emperor's blessing.

"I will always be myself, Yi, born among humankind."

"I came here simply to speak out for humanity, to let you, the Heavenly Emperor, know just how difficult it is for mortals under your rule to live!"

This is the first time since the birth of the Heavenly Emperor that someone has refused His grace.

Most importantly, the blessings bestowed by the Heavenly Emperor are not something that can be negotiated.

It was a forceful power, a ritual in which the will of the Heavenly Emperor Haojun descended upon mortals.

In other words, Da Yi used his unwavering belief to refuse the arrival of the Heavenly Emperor's will and refused to become the Heavenly Emperor's representative on earth.

Then, something unexpected happened.

The Heavenly Emperor Haojun, who had not descended to the mortal realm for a long time, revealed his true form and bestowed upon him the divine artifacts [Tong Gong] and [Su Zeng].

Subsequently, Da Yi became the "God of Judgment and Inspection" appointed by Hao Jun, specifically responsible for judging the usurpations of the gods and quelling disasters on earth.

During this period, Yi accomplished five great achievements and feats in the first half of his life, becoming a great hero who, despite being a mortal, rivaled the gods.

First and foremost, Yi's greatest achievement was killing Zaochi in the wilderness of Chouhua.

In the south of the land, there is a plain called "Chouhua Plain".

There, a ferocious god with teeth as long as chisels and wielding a halberd and shield fed on human flesh and sacrificed living beings, nearly causing the entire plain to become extinct.

Da Yi fought him head-on, piercing through his weak points with arrows, ending his evil deeds and restoring order to the south.

Next came Yi's second great achievement: slaying Jiuying at the Xiongshui River.

Jiuying is the ancestor of Xiangliu, the nine-headed serpent god, and is a fierce god several times more ferocious than him.

This nine-headed, serpentine demon dwells year-round in the treacherous waters of the north, capable of spewing both raging fire and icy water, and frequently comes ashore to attack groups of humans.

Therefore, Da Yi took advantage of the fact that the nine heads of the Nine-Headed Serpent were not breathing in sync. He shot several arrows through its nine heads during the intervals when it was breathing fire and exhaling, thus preventing the north from being swallowed by the disasters of water and fire.

Then there is Yi's third great achievement: shooting down a great wind in the marshes of Qingqiu.

Towards the end of the reign of the Heavenly Emperor Haojun, his control over the gods was no longer as strong as before.

So, in the Qingqiu Marshland in the east, the Wind God, Dafeng, who controls the storms, attempted to instigate a rebellion, and Da Yi was ordered to quell this "Wind God's Rebellion".

In that battle to quell the rebellion, Yi used a specially made "silk-tethered arrow" to shoot the wind and then drag it to the ground with a silk rope before wielding his halberd to kill it, thus quelling the wind disaster in the east.

After this battle, all the gods in heaven and earth realized the power of Yi.

As the most powerful sword in the hands of the Heavenly Emperor Haojun, Da Yi subdued all the gods wherever he went.

Under these circumstances, the world enjoyed a rare period of peace for several years.

Da Yi's fame spread throughout the four seas and eight wastelands, making him virtually the number one person under the Heavenly Emperor.

But to everyone's surprise, this was merely the calm before the storm; beneath the surface, an even greater crisis was brewing.

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