Chapter 109: Changes in History Congratulations on obtaining: Xihe God's Tribe...
The fireball on the sky grew larger at a speed visible to the naked eye. The dazzling red light dyed the sky red. The heat wave roared towards the ground, making people's cheeks hot and chapped. Everyone was sweating and thirsty.
Birds flapped their wings hard to fly away from the sky, cried a few times and then fell to the ground, flowers and plants spontaneously combusted and turned into ashes, the well boiled violently, and shirtless people hid in the cellar, but then jumped out in a hurry. The high temperature turned the cellar into a steamer, and people would be steamed to death if they stayed there a little longer.
"…When people were at their wits' end, two brave girls stood up."
In the 21st year of Yongxi, in the ruins of the Pudu City Pacification Office, Xin Maoqing, the historian, hung the "Picture of Jingzhen Eating Ghosts" next to the "Picture of Seated Statue of Taizu". Although the blood had dissipated, the surroundings were still filled with evil aura. In order to comfort the frightened children, Xin Maoqing told a major event in history.
It was also in this city that people experienced a thrilling survival crisis.
"...shooting the sun?"
Pingkang 60th year, in a private room of a Pudu City restaurant, the barbarian girl Ah Piao stared blankly at the homemade wooden bow in her hand: "Me?"
Swordsman Li Zhou said: "I will accompany you."
She didn't have a bow and had never practiced archery. When Ah Piao shot first, she would have to follow behind and learn.
Fortunately, she is smart and can learn anything quickly.
The brave Ah Piao looked up at the dazzling fireball that was still approaching. As if his language ability had deteriorated, he pointed at himself and repeated, "... Me? Shooting the sun?"
Li Zhou was a little annoyed. How come Ah Piu still didn't understand such a simple sentence?
Nie Hong, Xiao Lu and others were hesitant. Nie Hong, who knew Lord Swordsman best, hesitated to speak. Sir, not everyone is like you. Killing a god or shooting the sun is as easy as killing a chicken.
Even many ordinary people don’t know how to kill a chicken.
Nie Hongzheng wanted to ask the swordsman whether there was any sacrifice or ceremony required before he could shoot the sun.
If I have to choose someone, I'd better let her go. Ah Piao is still young.
Gao Congxu glanced at Li Zhou, thinking about something, and stopped Nie Hong. He said to Ah Piao, "Since Ah Ying will go with you, you can go. Don't worry."
Ah Piao's knuckles turned white as she clenched the bow. If it could help everyone, she would certainly try her best, but, but, but that was shooting the sun.
"If Aying says you can do it, then you can definitely do it." Gao Congxu covered the back of her tense hand. She felt the thick calluses on his palm, which were the marks left by years of martial arts training. She looked into Gao Congxu's eyes. Those deep eyes were full of confidence, which made people subconsciously convinced.
Ah Piao took a deep breath and nodded: "Okay."
The moment she agreed, the ordinary-looking wooden bow in her hand underwent incredible changes.
The wooden bow split into two, one was black and the other was pure white. When they were put together, they looked like a Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram.
Any practitioner with some vision can see the powerful power contained in these two bows.
Ah Pi's wrist sank and he almost lost his grip. After seeing the changes in the wooden bow, he suddenly looked up at Gao Congxu.
Gao Congxu stood behind the swordsman Li Zhou and shook his head gently at her, signaling her not to speak.
Li Zhou took the extra black bow from her hand and pretended that she was not surprised. In fact, she was very shocked. She did not expect that Ah Piu had such a powerful magical power that he could turn one bow into two. She could not make a fuss, lest she be laughed at for being unworldly.
Little did she know that Ah Piu, Xiao Lu and the others were already in turmoil. Everyone understood why Nie Hong's attitude towards Lord Swordsman was comparable to serving a god.
The swordsman wanted to go shoot the sun with Ah Piu, so the wooden bows turned into two precious bows that could shoot the sun.
What an amazing person, and what unpredictable means.
No one dared to think too much. They took a deep breath and looked at the swordsman Li Zhou with more respect.
Nie Hong had expected this, and only sighed in his heart that the swordsman was really cold-hearted. In order to take everyone's psychological endurance into consideration, he quietly used his magical powers, and no things like the abyss mouth and sword energy worms appeared.
Ah Piao put aside all his worries, held the bow and said, "Sir, where shall we go to shoot the sun?"
Having the opportunity to follow such a powerful senior is definitely a blessing that she cannot obtain in three lifetimes. She will die without regrets.
This problem did not pose a problem for Li Zhou. The sun was in the sky, so of course he had to find a commanding vantage point to shoot at it.
The swordsman Li Zhou had an idea and ordered Zhi Beiyou to fly up with the sword. The sword energy also lifted up Ah Piu and flew towards the roof of the restaurant.
Gao Congxu, Xiao Lu and others who had never seen the sword energy worm were all stunned. Looking at their expressions, Nie Hong suddenly felt relieved.
I thought they would never be able to see the swordsman's magical powers, but now they have no regrets.
"...Each of them carried a divine bow of 10,000 stones, risked being burned to death by the sun, and climbed to the highest point closest to the sun."
Xin Maoqing, the historian, looked at the children who were listening attentively, and his voice became low: "The sun sensed the danger and became angry, pouring all its heat on them. Their skin was melted and their clothes were burned. They struggled to hold on, bent their bows and drew their arrows, and aimed at the sun."
Swordsman Li Zhou raised her head and stared directly at the blazing fireball. There was indeed something wrong with the sun. There was actually an ancient and huge body dragging behind the fireball, which scared her.
There were pustules on the surface of the body, with fat white maggots running around in them. It looked like it should have rotted away long ago, but there were still ten hearts beating strongly. When Li Zhou looked carefully, he heard vague mumblings.
"It was the Celestial Lord... who tried to steal the power of the sun... and left the pollution behind... Go find the youngest... the most supreme... and bring my request... Kill the sun... Kill... the filthy sun..."
"Master Swordsman, did you hear anything?" Ah Piu asked with a trembling voice. She was not sure if it was her hallucination. A frantic and strange voice sounded in her ears. She subconsciously tried to identify the content, but could not understand what the voice was mumbling.
Her eardrums felt stinging, as if countless bats with flapping wings had entered her eardrums. The smooth touch swept across her cochlea, giving her goose bumps all over her body.
She had never been so frightened before. Her heart was beating so fast that it almost jumped out of her throat. She didn't dare to look at the sun, so she could only turn her head to look at Gongsun Jianxia, hoping to draw some courage from him.
Oh my God, what did she see? Ah Piu almost wanted to slap himself to make sure he was not dreaming. The swordsman, who was holding the magic bow and was in human form from head to toe, was looking up at the sun, emitting a terrifying aura that was much more evil than the inexplicable muttering.
This human figure contained an immense amount of information, and dizzying secrets filled Ah Piu's vision, but she didn't even know what the secret was.
She wanted to close her eyes and step back, but her body was frozen by the overwhelming fear and she couldn't move her stiff feet.
The swordsman drew his bow and arrow, aiming at the sun, his lips opening and closing as he spoke something. His brain, which was almost bursting with secrets, was completely unable to function and he could no longer understand the words he uttered.
Just when Ah Piao's mind was about to melt away, a transparent floating frame appeared in front of her. She saw blood-red words flashing in the floating frame. The dazzling red light enveloped her thoughts that were on the verge of breaking, and protected her soul that was about to explode.
Her dizzy vision gradually regained clarity, and she could barely make out these words in the blurry light. They were:
[illiterate][uninformed][unlearned][beginning to take on a human form][extremely insensitive][comprehending 10]…
Ah Pi's head buzzed and she blinked amidst a splitting headache. The floating frame and the blood-red text disappeared from her sight. She saw the swordsman again and saw her appearance at that moment.
What maintained the human form were worms huddled together, each of which represented some most mysterious ultimate secret, but she would no longer think about what that secret was.
She looked at the worms and realized that they were the embodiment of the Supreme Power. This realization came from the disappearing floating frame.
Her brain was reshaped into [Understanding 10], and she no longer wanted to delve into what the floating frame was or what the Supreme God was.
Ah Piu stopped thinking and became calm and composed. She finally heard what the swordsman was saying.
"Shoot it in the heart," said the swordsman. "Is your aim accurate?"
"Yeah." Ah Piao heard her own answer and saw herself pulling the bowstring. She didn't actually see the heart, but she already knew that this arrow would definitely hit the target.
Because Master Swordsman said it was okay.
Swordsman Li Zhou and Ah Piao released their bowstrings at the same time, and two sharp arrows flew towards the beating heart at the same time.
The maggots shuttling through the heart screamed and crawled densely all over the surface of the heart, trying to protect the soft part of this body. However, the worms attached to the sharp arrows tore the maggots apart one by one and swallowed them into their stomachs.
The maggots screamed as they oozed out fiery blood and boiling brain juice. A few drops fell from the sky and landed on the ground, instantly burning a bottomless hole in the earth.
The people hiding nearby cried out in surprise.
A faint smell of red wine... Swordsman Li Zhou frowned inwardly. The smell was too light, as if it had been diluted countless times. He wondered if the alcohol had evaporated because it had been left for too long.
No wonder she hadn't smelled it before.
Although it was as bland as drinking boiled water, Li Zhou did not dislike it. He bent his bow and drew his arrow again, aiming at the third heart, then the fourth, and the fifth...
After learning from others just now, she had completely mastered the trick of archery. She shot several arrows in one breath while Ah Piu was still not able to react.
The arrows burned to ashes in the blazing flames, and only the worms remained, chasing the maggots like white blood cells hunting down viruses.
In order to avoid waste, the moment the maggot is bitten open, another worm will suck out the blood and brain juice from below. After a while, the maggot is sucked clean, and not a drop falls to the ground.
The sun that was about to crash into the earth stopped and was pulled back to its original orbit by the invisible gravity from outside the sky. People watched it nervously as it returned to its original position, and when they were sure that it would not come closer, they cheered and danced.
No one saw, except Li Zhou, that the ancient body dragged behind the Sun had died, its ten powerfully beating hearts all shot through and filled with worms.
[Congratulations on obtaining part of the authority of Lord Xihe! ]
The simulator popped up a dialog box with fireworks on the transparent interface:
[After Tianzun stole the authority of Xihe God, the people who worshipped the sun no longer worshipped the real God. You killed the sun whose faith was stolen, but you also purified the power of Tianzun in him and helped him escape the fate of being controlled by others. In order to express his gratitude to you, he is willing to transfer this part of the authority to you! ]
【Give your sun a new name! 】
Li Zhou stared at the three characters of his new name for a while and felt that the name Xihe Shenjun was already very nice and there was no need to change it.
"Just call me Xihe." She said to the simulator in her mind, "Rather than the name, I want to know why the sun smells so bland."
Some of the worms that remained in the sun's body sneaked away. What's so good about drinking plain water? It would be better to look around to see if there is any remaining red wine.
"…The brave girls shot the sun's nine hearts. The sun, which had only one heart left, was scared and begged desperately, saying that it could return to its original position and asked not to kill it."
"The girls spared it and let it return to the sky, where it continued to rise in the east and set in the west, ruling the twelve hours of the day together with the moon."
"To this day, Xihe is still one of the gods with the most widespread belief and the most followers. Together with Taiyin, he represents the yang and yin of this world."
Xin Maoqing sat next to her sister Xin Mengqing, and together with the children, they tilted their heads upward and listened to the story they had heard since childhood.
"There was once a group of crazy scholars who insisted that the belief in Xihe God had been lost, and used this to prove the harm of hens crowing at dawn. It was also a strange thing that women were not allowed to pass the imperial examination to enter the government."
Xin Mengqing, the historian, shook his head helplessly: "I did have a nightmare. The emperor wanted to hold an imperial examination to recruit scholars, regardless of gender, but the ministers said that women could only take the examination for female officials and could not participate in the imperial examination. But who would take the nightmare seriously?"
Xin Maoqing nodded, looked at the books in the bookcase beside him, and said indignantly: "Sister, your talent in history is so outstanding. If you hadn't searched around the territory of the Inuyi based on clues, how could we have found so many scattered fragments? If you can't be a historian, it will be a great loss to the historical community."
At the same time, in a temple outside the capital of the Great Zhou, Sheng'er, who had left the entertainment industry, was studying late into the night, preparing for the Spring Examination.
She didn't know that her biggest dream was to pass the imperial examination to become a female official, and she never dared to even think about getting her name on the list of successful candidates.
History has changed, but no one knows it.
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