Chapter 900: The Avenue of Creation
Chapter 900: The Avenue of Creation
Above the Great Dike of Mount Tai, Wen Rui stood in the air with his feet on auspicious clouds, frowning as he looked at the bottomless abyss.
The name Taishan Dadigou sounds a bit rustic, but there is some truth to it.
The deepest natural trench on Earth is the Mariana Trench, which is more than 11,000 meters deep.
Mount Tai was originally a high mountain, but after the invasion of demon worms, tunnel worms dug deep pits into it, which were then filled with a large amount of blood and water, turning it into the Mount Tai Blood Pool Abyss.
Wen Rui raised the Sun and Moon Pearls in the abyss, radiating the primordial light and triggering an annihilation-level explosion. While evaporating the blood and water, it also blew up a giant tiankeng with a depth of 20,000 meters.
This tiankeng became the deepest gully in the ancient land. It was named Taishan Trench after the Mariana Trench, which is quite consistent with the logic of nomenclature.
Wen Rui had conducted in-depth research on the Heavenly Merit System and summarized many rules for increasing or deducting merit. Among them, destroying the primitive land is one of the ten evil deeds that greatly damage merit.
Destroying the wild land can also be divided into multiple categories, such as knocking down pillars, cutting off rivers, polluting fertile soil...
Among them, digging a hole and not filling it is the evil deed that will cause the highest deduction in merit.
This super-large pit on the original site of Mount Tai is so deep that it reaches the magma layer of the earth's veins. Even if sand, stone and soil are continuously added into it, it will fall into the mantle magma lake 20,000 meters below and turn into lava and flow away, and cannot be filled.
Ordinary means can no longer repair the scars on the land. If they remain here without being dealt with, they will be much more serious than the geological disaster on the Flaming Mountain caused by the fall of Laozi's alchemy furnace. Every year, a large amount of Wen Rui's merits will be deducted continuously.
Wen Rui raised his palm, and a ball of dark yellow mud that kept changing its shape was suspended in his palm.
Nine-day Xiran.
This seemingly insignificant piece of soil is actually a magical weapon of extremely high grade, reaching the level of a treasure of innate merit.
Legend has it that this magic weapon originally belonged to Nuwa, who used the mud ball differentiated from this treasure to shape human dolls and give them life, thus achieving the great merit of creating human beings.
Later, the five-colored stones used to repair the sky were also calcined and refined from the Jiutian Xirang.
It can be said that the Jiutian Xirang is Nuwa's magic weapon for achieving enlightenment, just like the ancient Buddha Rāhula who shouted in ecstasy "My path is complete!" after obtaining the Dinghai Pearl. After Nuwa obtained the Xirang, she probably had the same realization in her heart.
However, after Nuwa became a saint and achieved the great way, she severed her connection with this treasure and gave it to the Emperor of Mankind, Yu the Great. Yu the Great used the Xiran to control floods and achieved the title of One of the Three Sovereigns.
Eventually, this treasure somehow fell into the hands of the Jade Emperor, but now Wen Rui has defrauded it by using the excuse of rebuilding the Heavenly Protection Array, obtaining it without any effort.
As for why it was so easy to trick, Wen Rui also felt strange at first. The Jade Emperor was obviously not that stupid.
Xirang itself is indeed a top-level defensive magic weapon with similar functions and grades to the Innate Merit Golden Lotus, the Mysterious Tower of Heaven and Earth, and the Map of Mountains and Rivers. Wen Rui lied that using it to repair the Heavenly Array can ensure the eternal stability of Heaven, which is also credible.
But a god of the Jade Emperor's level must have a very high passive talent for seeking benefits, avoiding harm, and predicting fortune and misfortune. Wouldn't he have some kind of enlightenment and figure out that Wen Rui was lying to him?
Although Wen Rui now has a dominant position in the Heavenly Court, and the Jade Emperor is more wary of him than Emperor Xian of Han was of Cao Cao, the Jade Emperor is still the Jade Emperor after all. If Wen Rui fails to get it, he will not snatch it away by force. If he refuses to give it to him, Wen Rui can do nothing about it.
After much thought, the most reasonable explanation Wen Rui could come up with was that he asked for Xirang without any selfish motives, but wanted to use Xirang to repair the ancient land.
Nuwa mending the sky was a great deed, enough to make her a saint. Then Wenrui mending the earth was probably also a good deed recognized by the heavens.
The Jade Emperor probably sensed a vague message of Heaven's approval, and thought that his claim of using the Xirang to repair the Heavenly Protection Array was approved by Heaven, so he believed his lies and gladly lent him the Xirang.
The treasure Xiran is the concrete embodiment of the original power of the primeval earth. It is the supreme magic weapon of the earth element among the five elements and represents the origin of earth.
During the time that Wen Rui had obtained Xirang, he had been comprehending it for a long time and had basically mastered its metaphysical uses.
For example, if Wen Rui was attacked now, he could use the Xirang to form a thick earth barrier at any time. Any magical powers would be blocked by this thick earth barrier. Even if the opponent's magical powers were extremely sharp and eventually broke through the barrier, it would consume a huge amount of fairy energy and the rhythm of the attack would be seriously slowed down, which would be enough to give Wen Rui ample time to react.
The treasure is indeed a good treasure, but Wen Rui has no intention of taking it for himself. The saying in the ancient times, "The greatest treasures of heaven and earth belong to those with virtue", is just a slogan shouted before robbery for ordinary magic weapons, similar to "This road is mine".
But for the innate treasures of merit, there are absolute rules and regulations, just like Nuwa achieved enlightenment with the Xirang, but gave it to Dayu without hesitation when the opportunity came.
After Dayu successfully controlled the flood, he handed over the Xiran to the Emperor of Heaven without hesitation, thus severing his connection with this treasure.
Heaven allowed the Jade Emperor to hand over Xirang to him, there must be a reason for that. After the damaged prehistoric land is repaired, if Wen Rui dares to possess Xirang again, heaven's punishment will be on the way.
Assisting Wen Zhong in launching an anti-corruption storm was a man-made retribution, but being punished by heaven for greedily occupying Xiran was the real retribution.
Wen Rui, who has always been self-aware, does have this knowledge.
In line with the basic principle of unscrupulous businessmen who take advantage of passing geese, Wen Rui, who temporarily holds Xirang, cannot avoid some experimental analysis and research. What attracts Wen Rui the most is the efficient mass-energy conversion effect produced by Xirang after being catalyzed by the fairy spirit.
Generally speaking, the conversion of mass into energy is easy to achieve from a scientific point of view.
But converting energy into mass, and doing it on a large scale, is very difficult.
Only in large hadron collider experiments, with the consumption of huge amounts of energy, can extremely tiny masses of matter be produced.
Although the energy density of the fairy spirit is high, it is not outrageously high. Wen Rui has accurately calculated that the energy released by a base amount of fairy spirit is equivalent to the explosion equivalent of one ton of TNT.
But a basic amount of immortal spirit energy used to refine the soil can produce a cubic meter of soil out of thin air.
The soil produced is not an illusion of magic, and will not disappear when the magic power that maintains its existence disappears. It is real soil.
If the mass and energy of one cubic meter of soil are completely converted, the energy generated will be equivalent to the explosion equivalent of 32.3 tons of TNT.
It can be seen how ridiculously high the mass-energy conversion efficiency of this magic weapon is.
If we can study the metaphysics or scientific principles behind it and apply them to other situations, it will not be as simple as creating soil out of thin air.
Recreate the earth, fire, water and wind, create all things, and remake the world... pointing directly to the road of creation!
(End of this chapter)