Chapter 449 God personally planted the seeds of his own downfall

Lin Du successfully opened the teleportation array, and as soon as Chu Guanmeng entered it, he was furious.

"What is this?!"

This is undoubtedly a cave, but there are thousands of pottery pieces densely placed on both sides of the cave, and the contents painted on them are chilling.

Wei Zhi lit a lamp, and Lin Du looked up and saw the contents of the mural clearly, "The Hell Transformation Picture."

Chu Guanmeng was stunned for a moment, still clinging to Lin Du's shoulders, "How do you know everything?"

Lin Du said, "You don't know if you don't paint. My Seventh Senior Sister once asked me to copy a lot of pictures. This mural should be the most primitive picture of the transformation of hell."

Chu Guanmeng shuddered, "Was the world in ancient times a purgatory?"

Although there is no blood in the picture, there are only images and backgrounds formed by the dark side and the light side. There is no visible process of murder or execution, only the painful and distorted appearance of people and creatures. Every person's body is twisted and terrified, their faces are hideous, and the characters are deformed and weird, which makes people shudder.

If an ordinary person saw it, he would probably be sweating profusely and his hair would stand on end.

Lin Du's eyes remained calm. "This painting is only meant to make people fear sin and do good. Don't be afraid."

Chu Guanmeng still held Lin Du tightly, "Why aren't you afraid?"

Lin Du subconsciously rubbed the relic on his wrist and said, "I have a clear conscience and I will kill him if I have to."

Wei Zhi stood behind Lin Du and said, "No wonder there are so few words on this stone tablet. This is not the original ancient god, but a god derived after the beginning of chaos."

Several people walked inside, but they did not notice that some of the immortals who followed in had been trapped by the Hell Transformation Diagram. They were standing in front of countless distorted human faces, stamping their feet and howling, very ashamed, and some even fled in panic.

Going further ahead, we have arrived at the Fairy Picture.

Lin Du looked all the way, from chaos to the creation of the world, wind, cloud, thunder, sun, moon, mountains, rivers, and plants, all evolving in sequence, to the creation of the Eight Trigrams and the system of the Five Elements, writing, fishing and hunting appearing in sequence, and then to rituals and music, marriage, grains, markets, bows and cloth, car manufacturing, gods, ghosts, humans, and monsters, the world took shape.

"This is... ancient history?" Chu Guanmeng's eyes widened. "Ancient times?"

Lin Du said nothing, but took a look at the ancient images from the early period, and felt something vaguely.

A few immortals followed behind and whispered, "Whose ancient god's ruins are these? Why can't we tell?"

Chu Guanmeng pulled Lin Du and asked, "Do you know?"

Lin Du nodded, "I have a guess, it may not be correct."

Chu Guanmeng lay down quietly, which meant he must have guessed it, and he felt relieved.

They walked along this stone path for a long time, so long that Baimaotuanzi began to feel drowsy. Lin Du suddenly stopped and said, "No."

Chu Guanmeng was so frightened that he almost slipped off her shoulder, "Ah? What's wrong? What happened? Is there a conspiracy?!"

Wei Zhi was alert for a moment, "What's wrong?"

"Even the water god is included, and the deeds of every ancient god are included. It even depicts the gods' feelings and their return to heaven. What about Hou Tu..." Lin Du turned around and asked again, "Why isn't Hou Tu here?"

This is an ancient relic, how could it have the work of later generations?

After Lin Du finished speaking, the immortals behind him suddenly heard a crisp sound of shattering, and a piercing and sinister aura suddenly spread under their feet, like a maggot in the tarsal bone, ignoring the magical treasures and robes they were wearing, and directly penetrated deep into people's bone marrow.

It was a sinister resentment that came from the bottom of my heart.

The fairies took off at the same time, but heard the sound of breaking all around. It seemed that all the pottery along the way was swept to the ground by their movements. The scene was in a mess and chaos, like... the collapse of an ancient civilization.

"Oh no, I remember I didn't touch it!!"

"No! It's a scam!!! I really didn't do that!"

The sound of pottery is not as crisp as today's glass and porcelain, but the sound it makes when it falls to the ground is heavier and hits the heart directly.

Amidst the chaos, only Lin Du and Wei Zhi stood steadily.

Lin Du lowered his eyes and calmly watched the faint resentment climbing up. He raised his hands to form a seal, and the golden divine ring shone brightly, easily crushing the resentment.

The next moment, the stone road shook, the space changed, and shattered. Countless pairs of dark hands dragged them underground, and a shrine for worship appeared before them.

The plaque on it was inscribed with ancient characters. Lin Du took a look and said, "It's the Hou Tu Shrine."

"Hou Tu, who can rule the nine states, is the god of the five lands, and is therefore worshipped as the god of the community." Lin Du looked up at the pottery jar painting on the wall, which was created by the same person as the ones on the stone path in front of him. It tells the story of Hou Tu. [Note 1]

"This is a shrine that was used for worship in ancient times, but the incense in the back is clearly from after the ancient god fell."

Lin Du guessed that after the gods who mastered the rules completely evolved the world, they returned to the rules of heaven, the ancient times ended, and the three thousand worlds evolved again, dividing into the current thirty-three heavens and three thousand worlds, and re-evolved the natural gods.

Hou Tu is the central god, in charge of the underworld.

"Because there are people who believe in it, Hou Tu will exist forever."

Lin Du looked at the offerings and incense piled up in front of the shrine, which were obviously from different periods, and said, "After the pacification of Kyushu, he became the community god and was worshipped by the people. All the ancient gods fell, and the world evolved and changed, but people always worshipped the earth god. The earth god reappeared under the power of people's thoughts and sacrifices."

"And before, Kaiyang said that Hou Tu originated from the wishes and incense of all living beings. Her true form is soil, and she later became spirits."

Lin Du looked at the entire shrine, turned around and returned to the center. "This body was originally made of yellow clay, but it has a soul because of the wishes of the people."

"My master once found traces of the ancient god's efforts to prevent himself from returning to heaven in the ancient god's tomb. Perhaps Hou Tu also wants to live."

Wei Zhi looked at this original shrine thoughtfully, "You wouldn't want..."

Lin Du walked past the altar and went straight to the yellow clay statue.

In an instant, the ghosts in the shrine roared loudly, and the place that was not too dark was covered by the thick three poisons.

Chu Guanmeng screamed, "There's something dirty!"

Wei Zhi looked at the thick mist in front of him, which was like a demon fetus, and suddenly thought of the moment when he sank into the origin of the demonic energy.

Heavy, sticky, and resentful like a raging fire, the air was filled with a deep heat.

There was clearly no fire, but I was in a sea of ​​magma and fire.

"Please! Please wake up! Please come back to life! Please!"

"Empress Hou Tu, please wake up!"

“Save me…save me…”

"Why didn't you save my son!!!"

"Goddess Hou Tu, please give me a child, please!"

"Please, God of the Earth, let food grow, no more droughts... and no more floods..."

Wei Zhi heard it, and Lin Du heard it too.

The inside of the shrine was like purgatory, making it difficult to move.

Lin Du was still moving forward. Countless pairs of dark hands tried to pull her down and stop her, but Lin Du didn't care.

She walked across the darkness and her slender hand fell on the clay statue.

The next moment, the red rope glowed with golden light, almost emitting golden flames, which burned Lin Du's wrist and made it tremble slightly.

But the clay statue began to tremble wildly.

Just like... Qi Zhen felt dizzy when he was touched by Lin Du for the first time.

The solid yellow mud kept shaking, oozing out dark bitter water, and then quickly melted under Lin Du's palm, turning into a pool of rotten mud.

The next moment, there was another yellow clay statue. The heat from countless black hands burned the yellow clay into a clay statue.

Lin Du felt that there were thousands of obstacles on her hands, but she still picked up the clay statue firmly.

Blah.

There was a dull sound of a clay statue breaking.

The ghost disappeared in an instant.

You can hear a pin drop inside the shrine.

Wei Zhi held the lantern close to him, and his voice was calm and yet sad, "Three Poison Seals."

Lin Du closed his eyes and said, "Sure enough."

The clay paintings around the shrine also trembled for a moment, and then the remaining divine power from ancient times gathered together.

A mournful female voice from ancient times rang out.

“This is the seal of all living beings.”

"If one day my people gather together and call out, I will descend upon the world again."

Wei Zhi lowered his eyes and looked at the golden seal. It was indeed exactly the same.

After the gods fell, as people wished, Hou Tu returned to the human world.

Was that left by Hou Tu as a way out for herself?

Wei Zhi thought, probably not.

Hou Tu probably sincerely wanted to protect her countless people for thousands of years.

How could the ancient divine seal become the three poison seals?

Lin Du lowered his eyes and also looked at the divine seal.

She looked at it for a long time, then suddenly raised her head and looked at Wei Zhi, "So, how did you know about the Three Poison Seals in the lower world?"

Wei Zhi paused for a long time before answering, "It is inherited from the royal family and is the collection of the Posa royal family."

This answer was within Lin Du's expectations.

Wei Zhi continued to recall slowly, "The Three Poison Seals are a forbidden technique. Although I don't know why it was passed down, the prohibition in the book is like this. It can gather the greatest emotions in the world. Greed, anger, and stupidity will lead to resentment, and resentment will lead to poison. Those who sow the seeds will destroy themselves."

"At that time, I planted it on Qianyu because I wanted to verify something."

"If it is a demon seed, what will happen if the three poison seals are planted on it?"

Wei Zhi made no secret of the fact that the purpose of his original experiment was just a bit of mischief, "You saw the result afterwards."

Lin Du lowered his eyes, "If the divine seal itself is used to collect the wishes of all living beings, then..."

"The strong desire has brewed the three poisons, causing this divine seal to lose its original meaning and become a forbidden technique." Wei Zhi continued, "At least that was not the original intention."

The two fell silent again, and the golden light of the divine seal began to slowly fade, as if on the verge of death.

Chu Guanmeng also understood and remained silent, which was unusual for him.

It also looked at the divine seal, "Then, if...if everything started out with good intentions, how could it have ended up like this?"

"Yin Huaitian is not the first person to die for this..."

As it was talking, it suddenly realized a more terrifying fact, "So Hou Tu is the first god to die tragically because of the resentment of all living beings?"

Lin Du continued to recall, "The incense and fire way of the gods also originated from this. No wonder... after the death of the fallen angel, the incense and fire way of the gods completely disappeared."

It should be extinct.

It’s like an invention that was originally intended to save lives and benefit the world, but ended up destroying everything.

That was not the original intention of the inventor.

How sad it is that God himself planted the seeds of degeneration.

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[Note 1]: Adapted from "Sacrificial Rituals"