Chapter 1994: Chapter 1994: The Five Great Cataclysms

An endless yellow city wall.

One side like heaven, the other like hell.

It seems to divide Yin and Yang.

Outside the city wall, the dull yellow sky and cracked earth were stained with dark red bloodstains that could not be washed away no matter what. A breeze blew, lifting not yellow sand, but blood-stained gravel.

Inside the city wall, there were shady green trees in the back, and in the front, clusters of flowers with golden-patterned fawns strolling through the blooms.

Lu Chang’sheng was sitting in the garden at that moment, with Nuwa sitting opposite him, a chessboard placed between them.

Lu Chang’sheng placed a white piece on the side corner and said, "Five white pieces, you lost."

Nuwa was both crying and laughing, "What kind of chess are you playing?"

"Five-in-a-row, aren’t you familiar with it?"

Lu Chang’sheng almost wanted to call her an amateur, but considering Nuwa’s stature in ancient Chinese culture, he decided to show a little more respect.

Nuwa shook her head, "Then let’s follow your rules for another round."

Lu Chang’sheng glanced down, the look seemed to penetrate the earth, his gaze directed somewhere unknown. Then he scrambled the newly set chessboard, saying, "Why are we still playing when the situation below is like this?"

Nuwa sighed helplessly, "Weren’t you saying you didn’t care for the trials of your group of disciples?"

Lu Chang’sheng snorted lightly, "They’ve all been beaten so badly, they’re almost getting beaten to death."

Nuwa chuckled quietly, "Still duplicity as always..."

"What did you say?"

"I praised how handsome you are."

Lu Chang’sheng coughed lightly, "Say something others don’t know."

Nuwa: "...This is the best opportunity for your disciples to experience and grow. Just keep calm, don’t take action unless absolutely necessary. If they can’t pass this trial, how can they face those in the Outer Heaven?"

Lu Chang’sheng questioned, "Are those people very strong?"

Nuwa nodded, her expression slightly serious, "Stronger than you can imagine."

Lu Chang’sheng rolled his eyes, "Then why bother going to that hellish Outer Heaven? It’s not like we have to go. What do they have that we don’t?"

Nuwa thought for a moment, "A better cultivation environment."

Lu Chang’sheng said, "Then let’s go back and improve the Spirit Gathering Array? Make a hundred or eighty more medicinal pills, and there are plenty of formations."

Nuwa: "..."

Can we even have a proper conversation?

"Anyway, think about the experiences your disciples have had before. Do you think they can avoid going to the Outer Heaven?"

Lu Chang’sheng almost ground his teeth to dust, "...Speak properly, don’t break my defenses."

"Alright, alright. Weren’t you always curious about where we come from and why every move you make is within our plan?"

Lu Chang’sheng shook his head decisively, "I don’t want to hear it."

"???" This left Nuwa confused, "Weren’t you investigating us before?"

"I was too young back then, reckless and inexperienced."

Too young...

Lu Chang’sheng pursed his lips, "Hearing it will likely involve a major cause and effect again."

Nuwa laughed, "Whether you hear it or not, you can’t escape this; it’s destiny."

Lu Chang’sheng suddenly felt a curse forming in his mind.

"You should know, we all originate from Earth; it’s just that the Earth you reside on is different from ours."

"Different?" Lu Chang’sheng’s interest was piqued.

Nuwa waved her sleeve over the chessboard, and the pieces turned into towering mountains, cities, and forests, where countless luminous beings, akin to gods, stood in the sky.

"In the ancient times, Earth’s spiritual energy was extremely abundant. There were countless Great Powers, which are the same people now passed down as mythical figures in later generations.

Events like the Great Opening of Heaven, the Initial Calamities of Dragons and Hans, battles between witches and demons, the Human Emperor, and the Battle of the Deification of Gods, all truly happened... But what happened afterward did not pass down to later generations."

Were there more disasters after the five major calamities?

"The Battle of the Deification of Gods caused such a big stir that it opened up a passage between Earth and the outside realm. At that time, the Dao Ancestor took the gods to the outside realm, which is the Outer Heaven, establishing a large territory belonging to our Earth."

Nuwa waved her hand again, changing the scene on the chessboard to a limitless space where the gods confronted another group bathed in holy light.

"However, there’s a force in the Outer Heaven that rules over the entire World Tree."

"The World Tree?" Lu Chang’sheng asked, puzzled.

Nuwa explained, "The World Tree is the trunk, and each world is a fruit borne by the World Tree. Earth is the same."

"And this power is called the Holy Court."

"The Holy Court holds absolute control in the Outer Heaven. At that time, the Heavenly Court established by the Dao Ancestor was the only force that could rival the Holy Court, which gave the Holy Court the desire to eliminate us."

Hearing this, Lu Chang’sheng felt a bit alarmed.

Unexpectedly, the Earth of ancient times was this remarkable?

"But back then, didn’t the Heavenly Court lose?" Lu Chang’sheng guessed the following events, saying, "And then you were suppressed here?"

Nuwa was taken aback, "How did you know?"

Lu Chang’sheng rolled his eyes, "Every novel writes it like this."

Nuwa coughed and continued, "Exactly, the Heavenly Court was defeated, the dead were dead, the wounded were gone, and to cut off the possibility of the Heavenly Court’s rise, the Holy Court suppressed us here and completely cut off Earth’s spiritual energy."

Lu Chang’sheng smirked, "Those who write about the revival of spiritual energy in novels sure are a bunch of prophets?"

Without addressing this comment, Nuwa continued, "As for the Immortal Realm, it was originally sent by the Holy Court to monitor this world. It’s just that when the Dao Ancestor scattered his way with his body, he concealed this world’s heavenly secrets, and coupled with our sealing of this world, it escaped the Holy Court’s watch."

Lu Chang’sheng asked, puzzled, "With so many worlds, why focus on monitoring here? Or why not directly monitor Earth?"

Nuwa gave a helpless smile, "The place connected to Earth is this world, also the realm you are in, the Wilderness Realm. The reason the martial arts civilization of the Wilderness Realm declined so much before is because the Holy Court cut off the luck dragon vein of the Wilderness Realm, which was controlled by the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chang’sheng suddenly understood.

Everything connected.

Why dragons and phoenixes became extinct.

Presumably, the calamity of dragons and phoenixes in this world was also orchestrated by the Holy Court.

"So..."

Before Nuwa could finish, Lu Chang’sheng picked up the conversation, "So I’m the hope for the revival of the Heavenly Court?"

Nuwa nodded seriously, "Yes, you are the only person in recent years who has the opportunity to revive the Heavenly Court."

Lu Chang’sheng waved it off, "I’m not doing it."

Nuwa got anxious, "You..."

"Alright, let me speak with him. Unless we reveal something new, he won’t be motivated."

At this moment.

A familiar yet distant voice reached Lu Chang’sheng.

Lu Chang’sheng snapped his head around, stared for a while before saying, "Old man, I thought you had reincarnated and passed on by now..."

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