Chapter 2218 - 14: Reunion with Qing Yu Zi, Historical Book Worm Calamity!

Chapter 2218: Chapter 14: Reunion with Qing Yu Zi, Historical Book Worm Calamity!

After Zhao Xing left Venerable Bomeng’s territory.

Peng Yue, clutching her books, hurried over to bid farewell, only to have missed Zhao Xing’s departure.

"Venerable, has Minister of Agriculture Zhao left?"

"Just left." Bomeng nodded, "He left in a hurry, as if there was something urgent."

"Alas." Peng Yue felt a bit of regret; she had hoped to let Zhao Xing take a look at an essay on magic theory she had just written.

This missed opportunity left her uncertain when she would see him again.

Feeling depressed, Peng Yue returned to her study hanging her head.

She carefully placed a stack of books on the bookshelf; among them were classics annotated by Zhao Xing, which she regarded as treasures.

Then, Peng Yue cautiously closed the door and left.

"Rustle~"

Just after she left, a very secretive sound of paper rustling came from the corner of the bookshelf.

...

In the Void River, the White Jade Five Tombs Boat swiftly sailed through.

Zhao Xing arrived at Wei Tianchen’s library, browsing through Wei Tianchen’s notes.

The method of Heaven and Earth Dao must certainly have goals and methods.

For instance, Wei Tianchen’s goal was to kill the God Realm, and the method was the ’Heaven Repairing Technique.’ By killing the God Realm, returning their origin to the universe, thereby earning rewards from the universe’s origin for himself.

If Gu Tiangyang’s Taichu Grassman Skill is a method of Heaven and Earth Dao, what is its goal?

Zhao Xing searched through the library for a long time and finally found the original notes he had read before, which were Wei Tianchen’s reviews on various Grassman Skills.

[...The method created by Gu Tiangyang, until the step of the Void Grassman, still had some genuine substance; the Taichu Grassman was pure wishful thinking.]

[The Gai brothers are all madmen, always dreaming unrealistic dreams. Guluo River is like this, so is Gu Tiangyang.]

[...Gu Tiangyang died, and then a disciple named Zuo Qiyu inherited his method, and Guluo River became one of the founders of the Primordial Realm.]

[Time flies; in the Yu Emperor Ancestral Land, a powerful nation, the Red Star Empire, was established.]

[However, I always feel that Gu Tiangyang did not die in the Black Heaven Realm; if it’s true, this little guy’s heart is really dark...]

"On what basis did Wei Tianchen draw this conclusion?" Zhao Xing closed the notebook and began to search extensively in his notes for content regarding ’Grassman Skill.’

Due to the vastness of Wei Tianchen’s library, even using a filtration search method, Zhao Xing spent half a year reading through the selected books and notes.

Eventually, Zhao Xing put a few books he found useful at his side.

"Due to the confusion of space and time, the order of the Five Emperors Era also has various claims, but it can be confirmed that Emperor Luo was the last Divine Emperor."

"Many ancient texts have mentioned, during the era of the Five Divine Emperors, powerful Grassman Skills appeared."

"But at that time, Grassman Skill was not classified into Minister of Agriculture Magic but was categorized under the Sacrificial Technique."

"However, the most flourishing was during the Li Emperor Era because the Li Emperor abolished the common life Sacrificial Technique everywhere, replacing it with straw man sacrifices."

"To endow the straw man with the same sacrificial power, the Grassman Skill could not be too weak; otherwise, it could not fulfill the requirements of the sacrifice."

"Thus, during the Li Emperor Era, a large number of Grassman Skills began to appear."

"At this time, however, Grassman Skill was still in the hands of the priests, regarded as a Sacrificial Technique. Many gods who received offerings were still putting on a show, just like the Qi Fortune Free God, obeying in appearance but defying in spirit."

"Ostensibly replacing life sacrifices with Grassman Skill, yet the material sources for the grassman still used life’s flesh and blood, soul, leading to many evil Grassman Skills, such as those devouring souls, devouring flesh, and even Grassman Skills devouring the origin of the great Dao."

"In Wei Tianchen’s notes, it was mentioned that at the time of Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, there were twelve dark and evil Grassman Skills, having the worst influence, and were the most secretive methods at the time, referred to as ’Twelve Gods Sacrifice.’

Zhao Xing looked at these books in front of him, continuously sorting through the threads.

"In the later period of the Li Emperor Era, these twelve powerful evil gods were eradicated by the Li Emperor by eight, but four escaped, whereabouts unknown."

"Afterwards, Grassman Skill was no longer categorized under the Sacrificial Path but was classified into Minister of Agriculture Magic, controlled by the Minister of Agriculture God."

Looking at these ancient texts, Zhao Xing, though lacking any power, still sensed a turbulent storm.

The dispute over orthodoxy has never been a trivial matter; transferring a major type of magic from the Sacrificial Path to the Minister of Agriculture Dao must have encountered a tremendously large-scale struggle.

"Priests in this era are weak, but during the Five Emperors Period, they were undoubtedly the foremost Dao." Zhao Xing mused. After all, all five emperors had during the Sealing, paying sacrifices to heaven and earth, which must have required powerful Priest Gods. The demand’s size determines the prosperity of the orthodoxy.

If the Five Emperors Era environment was relatively stable, then it would indeed be difficult for the Minister of Agriculture to compete against the priests.

"Twelve Gods Sacrifice... Could it be that the Grassman Skill created by Gu Tiangyang actually belongs to the Sacrificial Technique? A wolf in sheep’s clothing?" Zhao Xing pondered in his mind. "Guluo River believed his brother was on his side; Gu Tiangyang’s Grassman Skill was never banned; rather, it was continuously passed down, consistently nurturing successors like Zuo Qiyu, Jin Yan, and myself."

Zhao Xing found it very possible because he discovered after Jin Yan’s death, less than thirty percent of the power was absorbed by himself and Zuo Qiyu, and the rest vanished. If it were not for his breakthrough, where the True Spirit reached the twelfth level, he might not have been able to see it.