Chapter 449 God personally planted the seeds of his own fall

Lin Du successfully opened the teleportation array, and as soon as he entered it, Chu Guanmeng 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 Transformation of Hell."

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

Lin Du said, "You wouldn't know if you haven't been exposed to painting. My seventh senior sister has asked me to copy many pictures. This mural should be the most primitive Transformation of Hell."

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

Although there was no blood on the picture, there were only images and the entire background formed by the dark side and the bright side, and there was no process of murder or execution, only the painful and twisted appearance of people and creatures. Everyone's body was twisted and panicked, their faces were grim, and the characters were deformed and weird, which made people shudder.

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

Lin Du's eyes were still calm, "This painting is only 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, "If you have a clear conscience, you should kill."

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

Several people walked inside, but did not realize that some of the immortals who followed in had been trapped in the Hell Transformation Picture. Standing in front of countless distorted human faces, they fell and cried, ashamed, and even fled.

Going further, they had already reached the Immortal Picture.

Lin Du looked all the way, from the creation of the world from chaos, to the evolution of wind, cloud, thunder, sun, moon, mountains, rivers, and plants, to the creation of the Eight Trigrams, the establishment of the Five Elements, the emergence of writing, fishing, and music, marriage, grains, markets, bows and cloth, car manufacturing, gods, ghosts, humans, and monsters, the world took shape.

"Is this... ancient history?" Chu Guanmeng's eyes widened, "Ancient times?"

Lin Du didn't say anything, but took a look at the ancient images of the early period, and felt something.

A few immortals followed behind, whispering, "Which ancient god's ruins are these, why can't we tell?"

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

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

Chu Guanmeng lay down peacefully, so he must have guessed it, and he felt relieved.

They walked on this stone path for a long time, so long that the white-haired ball began to feel drowsy. Lin Du suddenly stopped, "Something is wrong." Chu

Guanmeng was so scared that she 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 there, and the deeds of every ancient god are there. There are even paintings of the gods feeling something and returning to the way of heaven. What about Hou Tu..." Lin Du turned his head and asked again, "Why is Hou Tu not here?"

This is an ancient relic, how could there be 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 on the tarsal bone, ignoring the magical treasures and robes worn by those who wear them, and directly penetrated deep into people's bones.

It was a sinister resentment from the heart.

All the immortals took off at the same time, but heard the sound of breaking all around. The pottery along the way seemed to be swept to the ground by their movements. It was a mess and hasty, like... the collapse of ancient civilization.

"No, I remember I didn't touch it!!"

"No! It hit the porcelain!!! I really didn't!"

The sound of pottery was not as crisp as today's colored glaze and porcelain, but the sound of falling to the ground was heavier and hit people's hearts directly.

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

Lin Du lowered his eyes and quietly looked at the faint resentment that climbed up, raised his hands to form a seal, and the golden divine ring shone brightly, easily crushing the resentment.

The next moment, the stone path shook, the space changed, and as it broke apart, countless dark hands dragged them underground, and a shrine for worship appeared before them.

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

"Hou Tu, the god of the five lands, can rule the nine states, so she is worshipped as the god of the shrine." Lin Du looked up at the pottery painting on the wall, which was made by the same person as the stone paths in front of him. It was about the story of Hou Tu. [Note 1]

"This is a shrine for worship in ancient times, but the incense in the back is clearly from after the ancient gods 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-evolving the natural gods.

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

"Because people believe in her, 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, she 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 people's thoughts and sacrifices."

"And before, Kaiyang said that Hou Tu originated from the wishes and incense of all living beings. Her original form was earth, and then she became a spirit."

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

"My master once found traces of the ancient god's efforts to stop 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 don't want..."

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

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

Chu Guanmeng screamed, "There is something dirty!"

Wei Zhi looked at the thick fog 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 violent fire, the air was full of deep heat.

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

"Please! Please wake up! Please revive! Please!"

"Hou Tu Niangniang, please wake up!"

"Save me...save me..."

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

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

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

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

The shrine was like purgatory, and it was difficult to move.

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

She passed through the darkness, and her slender hands fell on the clay statue.

The next moment, the red rope glowed with golden light, and golden flames almost came out, burning Lin Du's wrist and making it tremble slightly.

But the clay statue began to tremble crazily.

Just like... Qi Zhen, who was dizzy when Lin Du touched it 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 mud statue, and the temperature of countless black hands was boiling, burning the yellow mud into a clay statue.

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

Bang.

A dull sound of the clay statue breaking rang out.

The ghost disappeared in an instant.

You could hear a pin drop in the shrine.

Wei Zhi landed in front of him with a lantern, his voice was calm and sad, "Three Poison Seals."

Lin Du closed his eyes, "As expected."

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

A sad female voice from ancient times rang out.

"This is the Seal of All Living Things."

"If one day, my people gather together and call, I will return to the world." Wei

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

After the gods fell, Hou Tu returned to the world as all living beings wished.

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

Wei Zhi thought, probably not.

Hou Tu probably really wanted to protect countless people again for thousands of years.

How could the ancient divine seal become the Three Poison Seals?

Lin Du lowered her 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's inherited from the royal family, the Posha royal family's collection of books."

This answer was within Lin Du's expectations.

Wei Zhi continued to recall slowly, "The Three Poison Seal is a forbidden technique. Although I don't know why it was passed down, the ban in the book is like this. It can gather the greatest emotions in the world. Greed, anger and ignorance will give rise to resentment, and resentment will give rise to poison. The one who plants it will destroy himself."

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

"If it was a demon seed, what would happen if the Three Poison Seal was planted."

Wei Zhi made no secret of the fact that the purpose of his experiment was a bit of bad taste. "You saw the results afterwards."

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

"The strong wishes 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, dying.

Chu Guanmeng also understood, and was unusually silent.

It also looked at the divine seal, "Then, if...if everything was done with good intentions in the beginning, how could it lead to...the final outcome?"

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

It was talking, and 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 derived from this, no wonder...after the death of the fallen god, the incense and fire way of the gods completely disappeared."

It should be extinct.

It's like an invention, which was originally intended to save lives and benefit the entire world, but in the end it became something that destroyed the world.

That was not the original intention of the inventor.

The gods planted the seeds of depravity for themselves with their own hands, how sad.

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[Note 1]: Adapted from "Sacrifice"