Mythology Returns! Starting with Folklore and Strange Tales

Chapter 127 The Calamity of Chaos, First Encounter with the Golden Man

"What are you thinking? Under the rule of the Five Elders, although the Buddhas of Mount Ling are a bit greedy, they are not bad." The prospective master interrupted Zhang Wei's wandering thoughts: "But unfortunately, the laws of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths have gone wrong. Whether it is the Buddha or us, we have all been burdened by power and divine positions, and have been forced to dismantle some things to avoid being harmed by the Three Corpses and the Six Thieves."

"The Later Jin dynasty has only just begun to understand the basics, and even if there is some negative influence, it is not serious."

"When you finally reach the Grassland Empire, that's when the era of rampant demons will begin. All sorts of monsters, evil spirits, and fallen immortals will be everywhere. Even the living will be poisoned by them, rarely appearing normal. Even those who are normal will be kept in captivity, serving as material for them to absorb desires and continue to distort the laws of nature. If we had known this calamity would come, we should have first abandoned those ancient demons of the Six Heavens and those blood-devouring evil gods during the Han and Tang dynasties, and wiped out all those extraterrestrial demons, so as not to be dragged down by them..."

As he thought this, the prospective master abruptly stopped speaking.

Zhang Wei still had doubts, and considering the previous instructions to be free of taboos, he asked, "Why were I implicated? And what is this 'legal principle'?"

"Children are born of parents, people need to eat when they are hungry, and crops need to be planted in the ground. Common sense in the understanding of all living beings in the world is the rule, and the rule is the law."

Whether gods or Buddhas, they are both executors and upholders of the law. But what if one day these established perceptions change? What will become of the world, where grain grows in the sky and the offspring spring from stones?

"The initial anomaly was that those extraterrestrial demons were unwilling to accept the end of the Age of Gods and did not want to perish themselves."

They tried every means to delay their death, and after trying various methods, they turned their attention to the law, using the method of arousing the desire for life to overturn their inevitable end.

Then the news of the altered ending spread like wildfire. Those abandoned Six Heavens Demons secretly learned similar methods, but by the time they were discovered, it was too late to reverse the situation. This collapse of law and order, this endless calamity of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths collapsing into one place, was already a foregone conclusion.

"We are providing aid, but it's not just in the ancient land of Yan and Huang; we also have to shoulder the responsibility beyond our borders... Alas!"

After sighing, the prospective master disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Wei was left standing there, his mind replaying the long speech he had just delivered.

He understood the mystery of the six days.

But the demons beyond the realm... you're not referring to the mythological systems of the various nations in the modern world, are you?

If you really understand it that way, then it does make sense.

After all, for gods and Buddhas who have no useless members, and for the Yanhuang people who want to be worshipped and respected, they must have some function. The abstract appearances of the other countries' pantheons are no different from demons.

Although he didn't know what bad things the other pantheons had done to make his prospective master, and even the gods and Buddhas of Yanhuang, so angry they were itching to bite him.

However, the principles of law are distorted, and even gods and Buddhas are forced to heal their wounds.

Apart from Yanhuang, most of the history has become bizarre and terrifying myths... Most of the Yanhuang's followers initially started with the blessing of the idols, but in the world of the few normal gods, how did their followers survive from those even more bizarre silhouettes?

Just thinking about it sends chills down my spine...

Feeling the weight on his shoulder and something rough but warm rubbing against his face, Zhang Wei, snapping out of his daze, saw the golden tiger on his shoulder looking at him with concern: "It's alright, Afu, it's alright, I'm fine!"

It's not his place to worry about things upstream yet.

In such a troublesome situation, the fact that the prospective master could still spare the time to enlighten him and escort him for a while proves that the situation is at least not so bad that he can just lie there and wait to die. All he can do is take each step well and steadily move forward until he is able to see these things, and then talk about other things.

As for the present situation...

Seeing the few members of the Feast Society still muttering and praising the Buddha and the Buddha Kingdom, Zhang Wei swept his hand across them, shattering their brains. The swirling Blood Fiend, after disintegrating these deeply poisoned members, also destroyed the stalls behind them.

Derivatives of unknown evil spirits must not be left behind.

That rice meat is even more disgusting than the so-called "Tai Sui meat".

Rice meat, or meat that grows up eating rice, is the same as the white meat that humans and demons talk about, only the name is more ancient and sounds more elegant.

After doing all this, he turned around and looked at the group of starving people dozens of meters behind him.

Ignoring the regret and fear on their faces, Zhang Wei carefully examined them.

Compared to other starving people, these people had better complexions and looked almost like normal people, provided that one ignored their bodies, which were much thinner than the starving people and were completely skin and bones, as well as their bulging bellies.

From the perspective of Yazi Fayan, each of these swollen bellies conceals a bloody fetus.

The fetuses looked almost exactly like the originals, and Zhang Wei was also quite familiar with the scent emanating from them!

He now understood why those members of the Feast Club had said they were going to enter the Buddhist Kingdom together.

The derivative of evil spirits gathers the souls within a person to form this embryo. Once the human soul is fully condensed, the other party will naturally come to reap the rewards and offer them to the evil spirits.

They mistook evil spirits for Buddhas. So when a soul goes to meet an evil spirit, how can it not be entering the Buddha's realm?

And that's when he checked the status of these people.

Suddenly, a commotion arose from the city gate not far away, and then a group of people dressed in sergeant's clothes ran out of the city gate first.

Following closely behind were a group of anthropomorphic creatures dressed in what appeared to be monk robes, with shaved heads, but whose scent was the same as that of the few members of the Feast Society that Zhang Wei had destroyed.

These creatures, though still resembling humans, have had their flesh and blood transformed into a jelly-like substance similar to the Tai Sui. Through their flesh and blood, one can even see their skeletons encased in the jelly. With each step they take, they tremble like jelly, making one worry for them, fearing that if they take the next step too violently, their jelly-like flesh and blood will scatter all over the ground.

But they still think they're perfectly normal.

This is not over yet.

Following these two groups, dozens of soldiers with boar bodies and eagle heads, wearing spiked armor and pointed helmets, ran out of the city gate.

Looking at the scene before him—a table full of people who were neither human nor animals, evil spirits and demons—Zhang Wei's lips twitched.

It seems he doesn't have to wait until the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhang Wei has already seen the consequences of the distortion of the law in the current situation of the Later Jin.

"You audacious heretic! How dare you use evil magic to harm living people outside my city! Hand over your magic tablet and surrender immediately!"