It’s not like the youth travel (7)
When the world was first created, only one god was born between heaven and earth. She fell asleep along with heaven and earth until humans woke her up.
Who could have imagined that the once dead and silent continent would give birth to such miraculous creatures as humans? They built their own kingdoms, created unique cultures, and roamed freely across the heavens and earth. This baffled and captivated the gods who sat eternally in the clouds.
Finally, after several hundred years, she no longer had to be trapped in heaven to maintain stability between heaven and earth. She came down to earth, intending to experience the world in the human world.
But an accident happened.
The heart of a god is the purest place in the world, but excessive purity means fragility. She is unknowingly involved in the fate of others one after another, weaving the destinies of all beings together with one plea after another, creating the original tree of destiny.
"You've never told me these things," Yue Jinhuan interrupted, her tone thick with sourness. Li Zhaoyue moved closer to her and said deliberately, "Doesn't that mean I don't know you? Didn't I tell you now?"
Yue Jinhuan was still unhappy and said, "Go on."
Li Zhaoyue laughed again and said seriously, "My original intention in creating the Tree of Destiny was to fulfill the wishes of believers and allow them to take control of their own lives. Feng Shui also appeared at that time. As long as you obtain the compass infused with my power, you can enter the Tree of Destiny and change your own destiny."
"Human greed is endless." Xie Feng added coldly. Li Zhaoyue glanced at him, her smile a little sad: "Yes, human greed is endless."
The gods of that time were simple-minded, never anticipating humanity's misuse of feng shui. The human race she had witnessed in the heavens was rapidly fading because of feng shui. Their vibrant culture vanished, replaced by laziness, disease, and slaughter. Everyone could control their own destiny through feng shui, yet no one seemed to be able to do so.
She was momentarily thrown into confusion. And then, she appeared. Sprouting from Li Zhaoyue's pain, she was born with all the opposite characteristics of Li Zhaoyue.
"She is my dark side." Li Zhaoyue really didn't want to talk about his past, and said in an obscure tone.
"No wonder she knows you so well." Yue Jinhuan said.
Xu Xing covered her hand, squeezed it tightly, and said softly, "She is she, you are you, I can always tell the difference."
This was said deliberately and in a corny way.
"You're talking like no one can tell. How capable are you?" Yue Jinhuan tutted and rolled her eyes at Xu Xing. Xu Xing smiled, a brilliant smile that showed his fangs. "I just think I'm capable. After all, not everyone is like you, Miss Yue, so careless that you don't even notice when the person next to you has changed his mind?"
Xu Xing was talking about the Lou Yao incident. At that time, Yue Jinhuan had just absorbed some of Li Zhaoyue's power. He was extremely weak and always fell into a deep sleep. Naturally, he had no idea what was happening outside.
Yue Jinhuan was in the wrong and stammered, falling silent. Xu Xing, with a faint smile on his face, whispered, "And then?"
His gaze was so gentle that it instantly soothed the sadness and panic Li Zhaoyue felt at the memory. She took a deep breath and continued, "She practically embodied all the resentment and anger in my heart. She loved to pretend to be me to deceive humans. At first, it was just a prank, but later, it was murder."
"What right do you have to discipline me? I was born because of you. I am the malice that you dare not face. In your eyes, my mistakes are all your own fault!" She was tied to the tree of destiny by Li Zhaoyue and screamed.
Li Zhaoyue punched the tree trunk with trembling hands. The blood quickly flowed into the sea of stars, and the Tree of Destiny began to drop its leaves.
"You say I have no right to discipline you?" She sneered, "As long as I'm in this world, don't even think about messing around."
"You can't stop me. I am your destined dark side, and you can't escape it no matter what!"
Humanity ultimately fell deeper and deeper into the vortex of greed, ultimately annihilated by endless war. To contain her, Li Zhaoyue had to fall into a deep sleep. Before slumbering, she preserved the seeds of civilization and sowed them across heaven and earth, hoping that during her centuries of slumber, humanity would rekindle hope.
Things change and time flies by quickly. When I wake up again, it is spring. There is a huge pear tree next to me. The breeze blows gently through the treetops, and a rain of flowers with fragrance falls.
Like it's snowing.
Li Zhaoyue had never seen snow before, so she straightened her body, which was covered by the mud, and stepped into the mortal world again.
The seeds she sowed had borne fruit, and now the world was flourishing. She had taken risks, pursued her ambitions, and made many close friends. But compared to the universe, the lifespan of a mortal is fleeting. In just a hundred years, she had experienced countless deaths and separations, birth, aging, sickness, and death.
Every night, when everyone is asleep, Li Zhaoyue is always awakened by the unwilling looks in her friends' eyes before they die. Then she will appear, her resentful voice constantly lingering in her ears: "The more you enter the mortal world, the stronger I will become. One day, I will truly replace you and use your hands to kill and burn people."
Li Zhaoyue was very confident in his own strength. After all, he was the only god at the birth of the world. But the newly born people did not seem to believe in the power of the gods. Those pure emotions were buried in the interests of the self, and instead those shameful dark sides became more powerful.
Li Zhaoyue could no longer control her dark side. Ever since she discovered that the man could unconsciously influence her emotions and behavior, she began to look for a way to completely kill him.
Finally, she found this method.
"I thought of the Tree of Destiny, but it doesn't seem to be a good idea now." Li Zhaoyue said helplessly.
She adjusted her posture, propped up her head, and whispered, "I found my own destiny and then changed it."
The end result of mortals tampering with their fate is destruction, but what about gods?
She remembered the ground suddenly cracking, and inexplicable undercurrents of space and time appeared in many places. Volcanoes rose one after another, and lava flowed everywhere. People screamed and fled, but were lost under the impact of the undercurrents of space and time. Every step led to an unknown place, which might be safe land, or a steaming pool of magma.
The whole world was torn apart. It was in such an environment that Li Zhaoyue pushed her into the magma and set a curse, depriving her of the right to exist.
"Li Zhaoyue!" The man's skin was cracked all over, and his bloodshot eyes were filled with resentment and unwillingness. "I'll wait."
"Wait for the day when you will be bitten back."
Even after she was dealt with, the calamity on earth didn't end; instead, it intensified. The creatures she once loved so much lost their vitality under the torment of the heatwave. The land of freedom she once longed for had become a complete hell on earth.
Burning in the raging fire, she gradually lost consciousness, staring numbly and hopelessly at a world engulfed in flames and thick smoke. Then, the tree of destiny, growing in the center of the world, suddenly grew. From its towering canopy, countless branches of destiny descended, catching her from the flames.
Li Zhaoyue was exhausted both physically and mentally, with waves of fatigue surging in his heart.
She fell into a deep sleep again. But this time, she gazed at the creatures stubbornly resisting the flames and drew a circle. The flames were driven away, gathered outside the circle, and burned forever. She marked out a piece of land suitable for human reproduction.
From then on, everything was perfect, and she could fall into a deep sleep, and perhaps this sleep would last for a very long time.
Suddenly one day, she was forcibly awakened. A familiar presence reappeared, and the person's words lingered in her ears. Li Zhaoyue once again stepped into the mortal world and rescued a child named Yue Jinhuan. She suffered from a strange disease, and her body was always burning with a perpetual fire.
Li Zhaoyue immediately sensed something was wrong. She remembered the raging fire she had sealed outside the circle, and the person she had thrown into the flames. A deeply ominous feeling urged her to search for the boundaries of the circle she had drawn that year.
There, Li Zhaoyue witnessed the man crawl out of the blazing flames, disappearing into the crowd, carrying with him centuries of accumulated resentment and loneliness. While humans at the time didn't believe in gods, they were curious about the formations swirling in the sky. Naturally, seeing the undying flames at the edge of the formation brought them extraordinary excitement. Li Zhaoyue cast a spell in front of them, attempting to capture the man, but was surrounded by the curious, who hailed him as an immortal.
Unexpectedly, that person was so tenacious that even the Tree of Destiny couldn't kill her. The mortal world was so bustling at that moment, and hiding in the crowds, it really wouldn't be easy to find her. Li Zhaoyue decided to stay in the mortal world and slowly search for that person.
Time is a boring thing for Li Zhaoyue, but it is different for Yue Jinhuan. She is a mortal and will experience birth, old age, sickness and death.
Every hundred years, Li Zhaoyue would fall into a period of deep sleep. The person who came to pick her up was always called Yue Jinhuan, but his appearance and personality were very different.
But they have a strange ability that allows them to pass on their memories and show a similar calmness. Later, Li Zhaoyue learned that this ability is called recording history.
In the end, Yue Jinhuan, the last member of the Yue family, picked her up, but died with her in the man's trap.
She remembered the pain of having her blood drained from her body, the unwillingness of seeing her torso disintegrate in the mud, and the rage of having her bones pulled out and forcibly turned into an empty island.
Her soul floated in mid-air, looking at the greedy and dissatisfied smile on the face of her beloved creature, and the happy expression of the man in the distance, and let out a sharp and piercing roar.
But no one could hear it.
After the body disintegrated, her soul also began to dissipate. She felt herself merge into the river, the land, the air, the sunlight...
No more consciousness from then on.
The Tree of Destiny was connected to her spirit. She was in pain and depression, and the Tree of Destiny began to drop leaves continuously. A strange insect appeared on the transparent leaves.
The bug transformed into a strange creature, attracted by her blood, and attacked the still cheering humans.
Since then, the human world has experienced catastrophes. The gods sacrificed themselves to build floating islands and shed their blood to bestow divine power on the human race. From then on, mortals also had the ability to cultivate immortality and had the possibility of touching the highest power.
God, a word that has been vague in human history for thousands of years, was given the highest level of honor at this moment.
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