I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 537 Opening the Historian Library
At dusk, the drums of Tai Academy sounded, and students of Tai Academy walked out of the library in groups. Only three people stayed in the library.

Gao Wencan held a small brass seal that was three fingers wide, with the word "Collection" engraved in seal script on the bottom of the seal. On his right was Wei Shaoan from the God-Slaying Division, and on his left was Meng Boqian, a third-rank associate lecturer at the Imperial Academy. The other man majored in Confucianism and chose to minor in history as a seventh-rank self-cultivator. Therefore, he did not enter the court, but stayed in the Confucius Academy to teach. This time he was sent here by Li Kegong.

The reason why they chose to enter at this time was because Zhang Shizhong came out of the Simin Mansion and went to the Pingzhang Palace to pay homage to the Queen Mother, and negotiated with her the terms of the exchange of the items in the Taixue Academy library.

After all, although Gao Wencan got the job done, he acted first and reported later, and he will always have to pay the price later. Only when they are sure that Zhang Shizhong and Dong Xingshu in the library will not change this time, can they feel at ease to enter the library and take out what they need.

According to Meng Boqian's original words, in the Shijia Library, as long as Dong Xingshu and Zhang Shizhong did not stop him, he could resist even the first-rank officials. But if Dong Xingshu and Zhang Shizhong fought for the control of the library, he would most likely lose control of the situation with just a library seal.

Gao Wencan stroked the small brass seal in his hand and whispered, "Investigating the case by imperial decree."

He used the imperial edict of Daxia to establish a direct connection between himself and the official seal through the destiny of Daxia, thereby temporarily gaining control of the official seal.

The bright yellow destiny of the country gathered at his fingertips and poured into the official seal. In an instant, Gao Wencan suddenly saw a pair of eyes, with the supreme will, falling from a very high place, falling on him, tacitly agreeing to the matter.

But this moment was extremely short, so short that Gao Wencan had an illusion.

The national destiny is the aggregation of Daxia's fortune, which includes three kinds of changes: human fortune, land fortune and heaven fortune. The people's support, the mountains and rivers, and the weather will all affect the strength of the national destiny.

This is the meaning of national destiny that Gao Wencan knows, so even the Emperor of Daxia is only the maintainer and coordinator of national destiny, not the national destiny itself. But just for a moment, Gao Wencan had an illusion that the current Emperor of Daxia is the national destiny itself.

The fate of the Great Xia nation comes down to one.

Is this the path for an emperor to become a saint?
In the past, the emperors of Daxia in all dynasties were incomplete, so they could only serve as maintainers and coordinators?
Gao Wencan gained a lot of information in a short time. He understood that this was because he was allowed to obtain such important information at the critical moment when the Great Xia Emperor was promoted to the second rank. This was almost equivalent to mastering part of the secret of the Great Xia Emperor's condition. Thinking of this, even Gao Wencan felt a chill on his back.

Wei Shaoan next to him was very surprised. "What? Is there a problem?"

Gao Wencan quickly calmed down and shook his head, "No, I'm just familiarizing myself with the authority of this official seal."

He made a pretext, and then used the official seal to open a path. This path passed through rows of bookshelves, extending from the front row of classics, famous articles, and newly published newspapers and periodicals to the innermost library, where there were piles of historical fragments and historical anecdotes. Most of the time, even the students of Tai Academy would not go to the innermost history library to look for things.

The three of them quickly walked through rows of bookshelves, but in a trance, they walked through more and more bookshelves, and the surroundings seemed inexplicably deep and quiet, as if it was the flowing history.

At this time, the clouds outside had stopped raining and the moon was bright. Suddenly, a breeze blew, as if it had come in from outside the door, or as if it had come in between the three people's breaths. The sound of the wind was extremely obvious in the silent darkness of history, causing the pages of a book to turn, alerting the people in the library that an outsider had broken in.

The second grade of Miscellaneous School is Xiaoyaoyou, which allows you to travel around the world by taking advantage of the breath of all things in heaven and earth.

Meng Boqian and the other two remained calm. Meng Boqian sneered, "Ju Zidan, your pseudo-learning is finally mixed with the evil spirits. We really did nothing wrong in the past!"

As Meng Boqian spoke, the rustling of book pages around him became more and more intense. On the rows of unclear bookshelves, it seemed as if countless books were flipping violently. The rustling sound of flipping books stirred the silent darkness around him, making the darkness flow in an instant.

In the moment when darkness flowed, time shuttled, but this time it did not flow forward normally, but amid the sound of countless history books, time quickly shuttled towards the sun, making all the surrounding matter flicker like flowing light, and no one could be hidden anymore.

In the fierce changes of time, Ju Zidan, a second-grade miscellaneous artisan who was wearing linen clothes, holding a bamboo stick, and had his beard tied in a pigtail, could no longer easily borrow the breath of all things in the world, because all the breath was changing rapidly, from death to life, and from life to nothingness. This was the great power of historical regression.

The moment Meng Boqian spoke, Gao Wencan and Wei Shaoan took out a treasure they had prepared.

The treasure was a thin cicada shell, but unlike ordinary cicada shells which were withered yellow, the cicada shells in their hands were half withered yellow and half fresh green. Not only was it intertwined with the power of life and death, it also contained the power of the changes of spring and autumn.

The heaven and earth have virtual fish that symbolize the way of space, and naturally there are also strange creatures that symbolize the way of time.

There is a cicada in the Master's courtyard. It has spring at five hundred years and autumn at five hundred years. It sheds its shell once every one thousand years. The shell remains unchanged for a thousand years.

The thin cicada shell formed three fetal membranes, covering Gao Wencan and the other two. The time of the three people was instantly fixed in the fetal membranes. Even though the time around them was rapidly changing backwards, there was still no change in themselves.

Wei Shaoan saw that everything around him was still changing like flowing light, and he couldn't make out the whole story. He only felt a sense of terror that he would never be able to escape if he fell into it.

He finally understood why Meng Boqian was confident that he could resist the first-grade masters in the historian's library. In this method of time change, ordinary third-grade masters, no matter how many there are, will be of no use in this library, even if they are second-grade masters... He looked at Ju Zidan opposite him. The gray beard of this second-grade master of the miscellaneous family turned black again at a speed visible to the naked eye, but this was not a good thing, because while gradually getting "younger", the aura of this second-grade master of the miscellaneous family also gradually declined, and he was about to fall from the second-grade to the state of his youth.

As far as he knew, even though the Miscellaneous School had a certain ability to live forever because they were good at the methods of changing the universe, the person in front of him was definitely not a thousand years old. That was the era when the Holy Emperor was alive!
If it cannot exist in that era, it will be directly erased in this library where time goes back and disappear completely in the historical records.

Ju Zidan glanced at the three people covered by the cicada shell. He did not choose to confront the library directly. His mission was to sneak in and provide support, and to seize the connection with the outside world that had not been completely severed. Ju Zidan's body turned into a gust of wind again and flew out of the library silently.

Ju Zidan turned into wind and left, but the people he brought in did not leave.

Among the countless changing streams of light, there were four figures shrouded in light. Meng Boqian looked over solemnly, and saw that three of them were mighty and majestic, and the light they shone in the darkness was like a rising sun. Even though the surrounding scenery kept retreating like the stream of light, it could not affect these three people at all.

The other person, on the other hand, became weaker as he recalled the historian's method, and his aura almost disappeared.

Meng Boqian calculated in his mind. He had just gone back in time at least three hundred years. Even Ju Zidan could not resist the changes caused by the time going backwards. However, the three gods in front of him did not change at all. In other words, they had maintained the same state during these three hundred years.

How can this be? !
Meng Boqian was shocked. These three hundred years were the three hundred years that Daxia had suppressed the gods. Even if these gods had lived for more than three hundred years, they would decline during such a long period of change...

Unless the other party is a first-class Shintoist like the Northern Black Tortoise or the Phantom Priest!
But this is totally inconsistent with the strength of the three gods in front of him, because although these three gods have powerful auras, they are only the third rank of Shinto, not even the second rank gods. Meng Boqian is very sure of this.

What’s more important is that even after mobilizing the power of the entire historians’ library, Meng Boqian was unable to find the names of these three gods. This is the most incredible thing.

Most of the power of gods comes from the knowledge of believers. If the other party has no record in the three hundred years of history, where does he get his power from?

The three Kuishen people do not gain their power from the cognition of their believers, at least not directly from the cognition of their believers.

Their divine positions and duties did not come entirely from themselves. After the Taiyi Jade Disc was condensed, the duties of all the gods under Zhou Tieyi were actually gathered on the Taiyi Jade Disc. The duties of Kuishen and the other two gods were nominal godheads, and the original power was still on the Taiyi Jade Disc.

At the same time, outside the History Library of Taixue Academy, Ju Zidan reappeared holding a bamboo stick. His black beard turned gray again, but his body was tense, because the moment he appeared in the outside world, a sharp gaze fell from the bright moon in the sky. Even he, a second-rank official, felt as weak as a child in the moonlight that illuminated thousands of miles.

This is the gaze of the Queen of Heaven. On Mount Yujing, the bright moon is equivalent to the Queen of Heaven.

However, before the Queen Mother of Heaven could bring down the thunderous punishment, a long golden rainbow was seen coming from the southeast. Above the rainbow, all the immortals were guarding it. Green lotuses were blooming, holding up infant human immortals. The female priest in the lead had an unparalleled grace and beauty, which was in no way inferior to the bright moon in the sky.

The golden rainbow partially blocked the bright moonlight, so that the moonlight could not completely shine on Ju Zidan. Ju Zidan bowed slightly and bowed to Zhou Yulong above the rainbow to express his will.

Zhou Yulong also sensed Ju Zidan's aura and nodded in return, but he did not stay over the Tai Academy. Instead, he rode the long rainbow and landed directly on the white jade square outside the twelfth floor sign.

The golden rainbow landed on the ground and immediately transformed into two huge yin and yang fish. The yin and yang fish were connected head to tail and kept swimming. The ground veins on the white jade square spread out like water waves and gave birth to dark yellow lotus flowers.

The Queen of Heaven is not only the moon of Yujing Mountain, but after she merged with the earth veins, her authority also spread to the earth veins.

So the Tai Chi Yin Yang bracelet fell to the ground and turned into a Yin Yang fish to suppress the earth veins and divert the Queen Mother's attention.

In the Pingzhang Palace, Zhang Yuesong from the Zongheng family had more advanced cultivation than Gao Wencan and was already at the fourth level, so he immediately noticed the terrifying changes on Yujing Mountain at this time.

He looked at the Queen Mother in shock and worry, wondering why the historians' library had never been easily opened for so many years, even though successive emperors of Daxia knew that it contained many secrets.

Because the historians' libraries not only involve the present, but also the past, and involve secrets hidden for hundreds and thousands of years, and the top people in the world are all keeping a close eye on these secrets.

Moreover, Zhou Tieyi's reaction was also very big. If the Queen Mother, the Emperor, officially broke with Zhou Tieyi tonight, the Queen Mother would indeed have the ability to suppress a peerless divine weapon. But after suppressing a peerless divine weapon that symbolized the destiny of the creation of heaven and earth, how much energy would the Queen Mother have left to deal with other changes?

The other nine ancient gods and Yuan Meng will not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, even if not for Zhou Tieyi, but for the things in the library.

The Queen Mother's expression remained calm as she said to the eunuch beside her, "The Protector of the Nation Zixu Zhenjun and many Taoist Zhenren are waiting outside the palace gate. Go and call her in."

The chief eunuch of the Pingzhang Palace did not dare to neglect the matter, and even ignored the court etiquette. He trotted to the north gate and shouted to the soldiers on the tower who were waiting in full battle array, "The Queen Mother has ordered that the Protector of the Nation Zixu Zhenjun and the Taoist group of Zhenren enter the palace."

The palace gate that had been closed only after sunset was reopened, and the chief eunuch hurried out, holding a dustpan in his hand. He looked fearfully at the black and white lotus pond blooming on the white jade square, and then smiled, "True Lord, the Queen of Heaven summons you."

Zhou Yulong nodded slightly, stretched out his hand, and the huge black and white yin-yang fish that covered the entire white jade square turned into a stream of light, condensed into a chaotic round bracelet and fell into her hand. Then he returned the greeting, "Thank you."

Seeing Zhou Yulong put away the Tai Chi Yin-Yang Bracelet, countless gazes were withdrawn. Some of these gazes turned worry into relief, some were gloating over other people's misfortune, and of course some were anxious for the world to be in chaos.

If Zhou Yulong really had a conflict with the Queen Mother on Yujing Mountain, even if they knew it would be beneficial to Zhou Tieyi, the many gods who were already ready to fight would immediately take action, because this could directly lead to a break between Zhou Tieyi and Daxia, and plunge the entire world into chaos.

Above the clouds in the illusory world of Taixu, the gods were arguing endlessly about Zhou Tieyi's Five Immortal Methods. In the eyes of the old stubborn people in Confucius Courtyard and Xuandu Mountain, Zhou Tieyi's Five Immortal Methods were a way for the gods to take the place of the dead and be reborn. Even if it had a thousand good points, as long as there was this one bad point, it must not be promoted.

But in the eyes of the gods in the Taixu Illusion Realm, the Five Immortals' method of letting the Shinto take the place of the dead is not entirely a good thing. The most important thing is what Zhou Tieyi preached, "There is a god within the body and an incarnation outside the body." This ultimately still makes the immortal way higher than the Shinto, and makes the Shinto take responsibility instead of the immortal way. This is the difference between the gods and the immortal way.

(End of this chapter)