Players’ NPC daddy

In the shadow of the golden forest is the New Underworld Kuer, and below the New Underworld Kuer is the River of Life flowing with a mixture of sweet sea water and salt sea water. The mud of life in it is a very important thing. Foreigners have collected it several times to repair the land.

Ereshkigal did not answer directly. Instead, she lay on the ground, inhaled through her nose for four seconds, held her breath for seven seconds, and then pursed her lips and exhaled like blowing a smoke ring for eight seconds.

This was obviously something I overheard from a stranger, and it’s an effective way to relieve anxiety.

This shows that this is really a big trouble.

After repeating this several times, Ereshkigal finally sat up.

"That's different."

Ereshkigal held his forehead with his hand, his expression serious.

"The salty seawater and sweet seawater there are not the original seawater, but are like the laws of nature. No, it can even be said to be the first law that appeared before the birth of the world."

"The world of death is the bottom layer of the world. Below the bottom layer is naturally a place where nothing exists. Outside the world where nothing exists, there are salty sea water and sweet sea water."

"You should have heard of the origin of the world."

Blaze nodded. Both Odin and Cyrene had said so, and he had even come into contact with them.

"Although it may sound a bit self-boasting, I think the original myth totem I belong to is probably the oldest one. The origin of other original myth totems began with the creation of heaven and earth from chaos, and the process of separating heaven and earth to create the world has gone through four generations of gods in our records."

Ereshkigal raised her fist towards Blaze, then raised her fingers one by one.

"The salty sea and the sweet sea created Lahmu and Lahamu, and Lahmu and Lahamu created the axis of the sky and the pole of the earth, and then the sky and the earth."

"Finally, the separation of the sky and the earth created a space called the world. Do you know what this means?"

Blaze was silent for a long time, then slowly said: "Only the salty sea water and the sweet sea water were squeezed out of the world."

The sky and the earth are right in front of us. The axis of the sky and the poles of the earth symbolize direction and exist everywhere in the sky and the earth. The life derived from Lahmu and Lahmu still exists in this world in another way, but the sweet sea water and the salt sea water are not in this world.

There is nothing that can be done about it. The process of creation is layer by layer inward, and there is a force that explodes from the inside out, expanding it and giving birth to the world. Things on the outside either become part of the world or can only be isolated outside the world.

Blaze sighed quietly. Although this was the original story of the world, there had been countless tragedies in human history.

[Peace is originally decided by the general, the general is not allowed to see peace]

If these events in human history were deliberate targeting of suspicion and bad nature among humans, then what happened to Tiamat in the Aral Sea was a rule.

The being that gave birth to the world cannot exist in the world.

Seeing Blaze's serious expression, Ereshkigal wanted to say something, but she had been living in the underworld, Kul, since she was born, and didn't know much about this world.

“But I don’t understand why the sweet seawater and the salty seawater are invading here.”

"I don't know that either. I only know that it is a terrifying entity that once invaded the world. I think we should call Ishtar. This self-proclaimed mistress of heaven and earth must know a lot."

"Don't you only exchange at night?" Blaze was a little confused.

Ereshkigal and Ishtar are now in a very special state of coexistence. During the day, she is Ereshkigal, and at night, she becomes Ishtar. The two are like a person and a shadow, closely connected yet independent of each other.

But you don't have to wait until nightfall in the same place. The world revolves around the sun. As long as you go to the side where there is no sun, it will be nightfall.

"Besides exchanging, there are other ways to make Ishtar appear." Ereshkigal shook her head, raised her hand and snapped her fingers, and branches of the Tree of Life grew out and formed a circle.

Then dewdrops appeared on the leaves, falling one by one and floating in the circle formed by the branches, and a water mirror appeared.

"Oh~" Blaze suddenly realized that water can reflect one's true appearance, and sometimes it can also reflect the opposite of a person.

Ereshkigal stood in front of the water mirror. The image of Ereshkigal reflected in the water mirror shook twice before coming to life.

The opposite of Ereshkigal, Ishtar, appeared.

boom--

This noble and beautiful goddess appeared by hitting her forehead against the water mirror. Her face was still very beautiful, but it was wrinkled.

"Are you humans sick? Do you like the end of the world so much?"

"You know!?"

"Nonsense!" After Ishtar hit the water mirror with her head several times, she found that there was no way to break out and strangle Blaze's neck, so she could only continue kicking with her feet in frustration.

This was the first time Blaze had seen Ishtar lose control like this, but considering the current crisis, it was normal.

"Can you tell me the whole story?"

"Tsk!" Ishtar smacked her lips with an unpleasant expression, as if to say, "Look what you've done."

"The first rule before the world was born was that the sweet sea water and the salty sea water were mixed with each other. The birth of the world squeezed out the salty sea water and the sweet sea water, forming the second rule."

"The salty sea water and the sweet sea water that gave birth to the world cannot exist in the world."

"Originally, these two rules were not in conflict and were independent of each other, but one day, a problem arose with one of the rules."

"The sweet seawater Abzu has been exhausted, and Rule One has been broken."

Chapter 1656 Disaster outside the sky

Ishtar's expression was very ugly, and Blaze could understand it. Although he didn't know what happened in the past era of the gods, it didn't prevent him from understanding Ishtar's current emotions.

This situation happens frequently nowadays and has even become a well-known routine.

A certain family, a certain hero, and a certain great wizard fought against the devil. After going through untold hardships and making countless sacrifices, they finally sealed the devil. However, hundreds of years later, humans managed to lift the seal by groping.

Of course, sometimes it is unintentional, and sometimes it is intentional, and I feel I can control it.

If you change a few elements in the story, it will happen again. Sometimes, even if the whole process doesn't change at all, it will still happen again.

The only lesson mankind has learned from history is that mankind never remembers the lessons.

But now is not the time to review and hold people accountable.

Blaze raised his own questions.

"The existence of sweet sea water and salty sea water in a world with nothing is the first rule, so they should be equal, just like the balance of yin and yang. How could Abzu, the sweet sea water, be consumed?"

What made Blaze's heart skip a beat was that Ishtar, who had been so aggressive just now, had become silent.

"Hey!"

Blaze slammed his face into the water mirror, his eyes fixed on Ishtar, whose eyes were wandering and whose face was covered with cold sweat.

"Lord Ishtar, why don't you continue to arrogantly accuse humans? The gods should be the victims in this matter, right? Hmm!?"

"Look me in the eye, Lady Ishtar, and tell me that the gods are heroes who bravely fought against the invasion of the Aral Sea, and it is the humans who have made your efforts in vain. You have absolutely nothing to do with the invasion of the Aral Sea."

"This, this..." Ishtar pursed her lips and smiled awkwardly, "Sorry..."

The answer was revealed. At the beginning, the sweet sea water and the salt sea water were in a state of balance. Even after the birth of the world, there was no impact on the sweet sea water and the salt sea water.

They exist outside the world, where there is no sense of space. It is infinitely large and infinitely small, and there is no concept of direction. Naturally, there is no feeling of being squeezed.

They are absolutely balanced. The world they created by consuming equal amounts of each other's bodies is self-sufficient and there is no need for either of them to continue consuming their own bodies.

If nothing unexpected happens, they will continue to maintain the state of mating, perhaps creating a new world, or perhaps remaining silent forever.

But an accident happened, and the gods did something, a small thing that the gods thought was no big deal.

The gods wanted to create humans, or more precisely, they wanted to create a species that was not gods to become their slaves.

This is also a normal situation for historical changes.

There are also different levels among the gods. The older, the higher the level. The gods need to obtain food from the earth. So it is natural for the higher gods to require the lower gods to work and cultivate the earth to create food.

In this situation, the lowest gods certainly couldn't stand it, so they asked the higher gods to create a new race to work on their behalf, and that new race was human beings.

But creating life is a sacred area and it is impossible to create something out of nothing, not to mention that the gods want to create slaves.

Not everyone can be a slave. It requires a strong physique, a strong vitality, and most importantly, a spirit that can make one feel happy even when being a slave.

Normally, to create a new species, it takes a long time for natural gestation, just like the sweet sea water and the salt sea water gave birth to Lahmu and Lahamu, just like Lahmu and Lahamu gave birth to the axis of the sky and the pole of the earth. Only time can create the miracle of life.

But the gods really couldn't wait any longer, so they cheated and were lazy. The wisest water god reached the deepest part of the underworld, Kur, and scooped a spoonful of water of life that was a mixture of sweet sea water and salt sea water from outside the world. He used the water of life mixed with the mud of life to create human beings.

The self-sufficient and complete world began to demand sweet sea water and salt sea water from outside the world. A race called humans appeared in the world, and as a result, a piece of sweet sea water and salt sea water outside the world was lost.

The balance is thus disturbed.

Perhaps the water of life taken away by the water god contained a little more of the sweet sea water Abzu, and after a long time, only the salty sea water Tiamat was left outside the world, and Rule One was thus broken.

Like a domino, Rule 2 was affected by the breaking of Rule 1, and was about to be broken. The result of Rule 2 being broken led to the method of breaking Rule 2, the invasion of the salt water Tiamat.

Faced with the invasion of the salty sea Tiamat, the gods rose up in resistance and finally succeeded in sending Tiamat back out of the world.

Blaze's eye twitched, looking at Ishtar's guilty look, it was clear that Ishtar was the one who agreed with the creation of humans and enjoyed being served by them.

But he didn't intend to blame the Age of Gods, let alone talk about the distant Age of Gods. What was important now was the solution.

"Did the salty sea Tiamat also crush the sky and invade at that time?"

"No, at that time, the six initial mythological totems were all born, but before the handover, the sky had not yet been connected, and there was a crack. The salt water Tiamat invaded through the crack."

"Later, the endless influx of the salt water Tiamat into this world caused a flood that was so terrible that it affected all the mythological totems. So the original mythological totems began to connect for the first time, connecting all the skies into one, and completely isolating the salt water Tiamat from outside."

Blaze covered his face. He only understood one thing, that is, the Salty Sea Tiamat was a crisis encountered by the six original mythological totems at the same time. It was a world-class crisis with six times the difficulty.

"Huh~ I don't see the point of sewing the sky together and completely isolating the salty water Tiamat. You guys put that floating island there, right?"

"That's right." Seeing that Blaze didn't take the opportunity to ride on her head, Ishtar breathed a sigh of relief. "After sewing the sky, the salt water Tiamat is still invading, but she can't invade in large numbers, so she turned into the sea of ​​clouds in the sky as her incarnation and tentacle."

"In order to stabilize the Salty Sea Tiamat, we made an island out of the remaining sweet sea water and dropped it into the sea of ​​clouds, so that her tentacles could feel themselves intertwined with the sweet sea water, thus stabilizing the Salty Sea Tiamat's main body outside the world."

Chapter 1657: Disaster for All Living Beings

Blaze took a deep breath and understood a lot of problems.

The answer to why the floating island ore can float in the sea of ​​clouds has appeared, because this appeared before the world was born, and it can even be said to be the first natural law.

The sweet sea water and the salt sea water merge with each other, and the crystals of the sweet sea water can naturally float in the sea of ​​clouds formed by the salt sea water.

The answer to where the extremely ingenious cloud ecosystem that can float in the sea of ​​clouds came from is now clear. It was born from the fusion of salty sea water and sweet sea water.

Under normal circumstances, he would have thought the answer was ingenious and would have been eager to share it with strangers, but now these answers were useless.

“So you don’t know what to do when the saltwater invades, right?”

In response to Blaze's answer, Ishtar responded with silence, but a worse answer than silence was an apology.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what to do, at least I don't know how to mend the sky."

Blaze closed his eyes, adjusted his emotions, opened his eyes, and shrugged helplessly.

"Actually, I don't hold out much hope. If you old guys leave any problems behind, they must be beyond your capabilities, or at least beyond your ability to think."

"Then this matter can only be solved by us young people on the new era stage."

"Besides, I came here just to get the seeds of life in the first place. If you feel guilty, just give me a few hundred or a few thousand more. That way, I will have exceeded my mission."

"That's the derivative of my power as the goddess of life. Do you think it's melon seeds?" Although Ishtar was complaining, the trees of life around her began to shake, and dozens of fruits from the trees of life fell down.

"How should I put it... Please work hard to find a solution. I will do my best to cooperate with you wherever you need me. I also enjoyed the meticulous offerings of humans in the past, but the problem of the old era of the salt water Tiamat has now erupted."

"Don't let the disasters of our barbaric age destroy the new era you are opening."

"That will become an ugly scar on my body that will never go away."

"Don't worry." Blaze picked up the fruits of the Tree of Life one by one, packed them up in a piece of cloth, and threw them hard on his back.

He gave Ishtar and Ereshkigal a thumbs-up.

"Then let me see the backbone of you old guys... I call you old guys, and you are not angry at all?"

“Because of this fact, I am already so old that I can’t even count on my ten fingers. It’s meaningless.” Ereshkigal waved her hand nonchalantly.

"Even though I'm an old guy, I'm still beautiful!" Ishtar raised her chin proudly, not narcissistically. In a sense, this was true.

"Then I'll leave first."

Blaze rode on the chicken's back and headed non-stop to the Sea of ​​Golden Apple Trees. As expected, the Hundred-Eyed Argus was ready.

He sat like a giant next to the apple-shaped landmark, with his hands outstretched, waiting for them to land, and in his palms there was a small package.

"It seems that you care about me very much." Blaze got off the chicken's back and opened the package in the hand of Hundred-Eyed Argus.

Inside were gleaming silver apples, and some brass-colored apples.

"The copper apple?"

"Yes, it is the product of the silver apple's lower quality, but it is still a very powerful life treasure. Let's use it as much as we can."

"Well, thanks." Blaze didn't hesitate and immediately packed the package, so he now had two packages on his back.