Bodhisattva, please help me in my spiritual practice!

Chapter 169 The Fall of Shennong

This year's Spring Equinox coincides with the Lunar New Year's Dragon Head Raising Festival.

Therefore, the second day of the second lunar month this year is a time of great vitality and the sprouting of all things.

At this special time, many folk rituals receive an extra boost.

Ao Peng has personally presided over two folk ceremonies, so he has a deeper understanding of the blessing effect of the calendar on the ceremony.

Around March 10th, the Bureau of Investigation notified Ao Peng to immediately go to the Longji Rice Terraces; an opportunity was already brewing.

After arriving at the Longji Rice Terraces, Ao Peng learned that the Empire was going to hold a large-scale agricultural festival there this year, scheduled for the second day of the second lunar month. Xiao, an old acquaintance from the Logistics Department, also happened to be there.

Ao Peng quickly stepped forward to inquire, "Now you should tell me what exactly happened, right?"

It should be noted that after Ao Peng made great contributions, although the logistics department promised him the Twelve Chapters of Inner Landscape Map, the time, place, and process were all unknown.

They even told him it would be around April, without giving him a specific date.

Upon hearing Ao Peng's question, Manager Xiao first dismissed those around him, then earnestly asked Ao Peng, "Do you have a method to shield yourself from heavenly secrets?"

He knew Ao Peng had this method, and Ao Peng's expression became slightly more serious. He released Little Chaos, created the Xuanming Sea, and enveloped him and Manager Xiao. "Please speak."

"You know that our Chinese civilization regards Yan and Huang as our ancestors. Of course, Chi You is also one of our ancestors. However, apart from state sacrifices, ordinary people still keep their distance from this fierce ancestor."

Ao Peng nodded slightly.

Supervisor Xiao continued, "The Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum can consistently produce twelve chapters of interior landscape maps. Did you find that the Yan Emperor's Mausoleum also produces twelve chapters of interior landscape maps when you were exchanging them at the Logistics Department?"

Ao Peng's pupils contracted slightly; he hadn't thought about this question before!

The people of the empire revere the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, so the Yan Emperor's Mausoleum should theoretically produce top-quality interior paintings, but he didn't see anything like that in the exchange list!

Even among the lights in the ancestral temple, he did not see the Yan Emperor's lamp!

Ao Peng's spiritual attribute had already surpassed nine, and with the assistance of [Taiyin Tongyou], he received a crucial piece of information that immediately led him to a conclusion: "The Flame Emperor has fallen?"

This fall is not only because Emperor Yan, as a human, fell in the real world five thousand years ago, but also because Emperor Yan, as a god, fell once.

How did you know?

Manager Xiao's expression was solemn, and his voice even carried a hint of questioning, because this matter was of such great importance that the Empire had been trying to conceal it as much as possible after discovering the problem.

"I only have some guesses—information I got from some of my divine friends."

Upon hearing Ao Peng's use of the phrase "divine friend," Manager Xiao's serious expression faltered, and he said with a wry smile, "Do you have more accurate information? If you report it to the Empire, you will naturally receive corresponding merit."

Ao Peng nodded and shared some of the clues he knew.

"According to the information I have now, around the Ming and Qing dynasties, the second separation of heaven and earth occurred in the real world. This period caused myths and legends to disappear from this world, and also gave ordinary people more room for development, giving rise to modern science."

"This time, the severing of the heavens and the earth was extremely tragic. Although the gods of China did not lose completely, they were besieged by many other pantheons and lost a lot of authority, such as the most important Twelve Yuan Chen Calendar."

Ao Peng paused here, explaining that the Twelve Earthly Branches are related to the lunar calendar, and the character "农" (farm) in them explains everything.

In addition, he learned from the system notification that only after the original deity perished would their power be lost to the river of history and inherited by later generations in the form of physical gods.

This explains some of the things that happened to him.

In the Second Great Battle of Separation of Heaven and Earth, top-tier Chinese ancestral gods such as Shennong and Jiutian Xuannü were killed in battle, and it is estimated that even more foreign gods died, and many pantheons were even wiped out.

As the connection between the two worlds was gradually unlocked, the will of the real world and the will of the intermediate realm transformed into the original code of the Old Earth. Each pantheon wanted to revive its fallen gods, or at least choose a new successor to take over the divine power and prevent it from being taken away by others. Thus, the Old Earth Game was created, as well as the cultivation system of "Nourishing the Gods," and the outcome was decided once again in the Old Earth Game.

Ao Peng exhaled a breath of turbid air. "The lunar calendar must be one of Shennong's most important powers. If the old man had no problems, then the lunar calendar would not have suffered such a major loss of the twelve earthly branches."

Manager Xiao's expression turned serious again. "Your guess roughly matches our intelligence. Because we have a lot of data, we've discovered a phenomenon: Creation-level gods are unique, possessing exclusivity. 'Creation' here roughly means being born and nurtured by nature."

Ao Peng was slightly taken aback and asked, "By the way, supervisor, besides the Creation level, what other levels are there for the gods nurtured by game players?"

This really touched on a blind spot in Ao Peng's knowledge.

The three divine beings he cultivated were all born from the combination of the twelve chapters of inner vision with top-level rules such as cause and effect, dragon veins, and yin and yang. They were all at the Creation level. He had never really studied how to classify gods below the Creation level, and no one on the forum shared such private information.

Manager Xiao was slightly taken aback by Ao Peng's question, then his face fell. If he weren't outmatched, he would have definitely called out his own divine power to give Ao Peng a good beating.

This is too Versailles, and it's fucking humiliating!

What is meant by gods below the Creation level, and how are they classified?

So you've never raised a god below the Creation level before?

Manager Xiao coughed a few times to control his emotions, and then said, "A god's potential depends on two aspects: the seed of supernatural power and the inner vision diagram."

"The Creation level is unique, followed by the Main God level, which is roughly equivalent to having absolute authority in one's own domain, but can be replaced, such as the Thunder Gods. Below the Main God level is the Subordinate God level, then the Righteous God level, Miscellaneous God level, and Wild God level."

"In order to quickly raise their spirit, many players in Japan create a bunch of wild god-level monsters. For example, the Yuki-onna from their country would never be worshipped as a god here, unless a top-level demon god emerges from among the Yuki-onna. Therefore, there will be overlaps among gods below the Creation level."

Ao Peng nodded slightly.

Then Manager Xiao continued, "The reason we're certain Emperor Yan might be in trouble is not only because our big data analysis revealed the unique characteristics of Creation-level gods, but also because one player has already nurtured a new Shennong. This opportunity arose because of him."

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