The Spirit World

Chapter 494 The Passing God

That god is called Yilongzhi.

He said he was in charge of the knowledge and culture of the [royal family].

He joked that he was just a folk song collector, and whether he was a god or not was just an empty title.

I don't understand what "collector" means... but he said he is in charge of knowledge and culture, so I understand a little bit of it. Because Zhang Xiaohu is cultured... only with knowledge can there be power! I feel more and more that Zhang Xiaohu is amazing, although he has shortcomings, but he is more real.

I like to say that he is a cunning person, but I guess it's just a special kind of jealousy of the fact that he has read so many books and can still put them to use.

That god was a handsome guy, much more handsome than the three of us who were running around day and night. He also had a circular light behind him. We were curious and wanted to touch it, but we found out that we couldn’t touch that thing…

Okay, we're not being disrespectful, we're just...genuinely curious.

Because when he didn't say he was a god, I thought he was just a person with an iron ring on his back.

He was picking flowers... recording the growth of this kind of flower, which was named plum blossom... It was snowy white, but not beautiful in my opinion... It was snowing at that time, and we hid under Xiaozhi's umbrella to keep out the cold. We saw him, and he was really kind-hearted. Xiaozhi's rain and snowproof umbrella was like a small house, with wheels for moving, just like a movable small house... and it could be shrunk and carried around.

We wanted to pull him under the umbrella to hide from the snow...so we called him for a long time...

The snow is so heavy that it can bury people. It would be unreasonable for us not to help when we encounter it. We met so many people who helped us along the way. If we don’t help others when we can, then our conscience would be really rotten.

Yilongzhi turned around, glanced at us, and sat under our umbrella.

His explanation to us was that he couldn't let your kindness go to waste, and he also wanted to take a break.

The four of us sat together, and we really didn't dare to touch him even a little bit as ordinary people... But he didn't care, and squeezed in with us, greeting us with a smile, and was very happy.

We asked him what he was doing, and he said he was collecting knowledge from other ethnic groups for the royal family, which he called collecting folk songs.

He said that the other two gods of the royal family, one is in charge of the royal family's life, including the picking of food, the making of clothes, the use of utensils and other necessities of survival, the god's name is Chang Yufeng, this is also the god I mentioned last time who personally went to the fields to work with the leaders. The other is in charge of order and law, including laws, livelihoods, systems, rules and other strict tasks that cannot have the slightest deviation, the god's name is Xun Huangying.

He is in charge of culture, that is, the transmission of knowledge about local culture, such as the teaching of some stories. He mentioned a word, which is "history."

He said that history is a very wonderful thing, and what he did was also related to it. First he recorded, then he selected the true and false, then he verified the truth, and then he told it.

He said this was very offensive because he could basically see the good and bad things that everyone had done, including what the gods had done. The gods would not allow themselves to have any stains, so some of the things he wrote might never be recorded in his lifetime. He also said that as long as people and gods were alive, even things could make mistakes. In his eyes, this was not a big problem. Admitting a mistake was a virtue, and punishment was another matter.

I don’t quite understand it, but I guess I understand it.

It is really difficult to end so many right and wrongs with a simple punishment. I have seen a lot of strange ideas. When others have different ideas from me, I can't always put myself in their shoes, including Zhang Xiaohu and Niu Er, who also have disagreements with me. In other words, making small mistakes is not terrible, but making big mistakes is terrible.

People should not and cannot make big mistakes, otherwise it will be like falling into a well, and there will always be people who will kick you when you are down.

I think Yilongzhi is more open-minded than Zhang Xiaohu, and he can even talk about many principles at will. He is gentle and polite, but he is indeed a man who is as quiet as a virgin but as agile as a rabbit. When Zhang Xiaohu chats with him, the two idiots, Niu Er and I, benefit the most. Many things and principles do need someone to enlighten us, and Zhang Xiaohu is such a person. Zhang Xiaohu and he discuss a lot, from astronomy to geography, and then to ethics and morality, money and profit. Yilongzhi and Zhang Xiaohu both have unique insights.

Especially this part, let me tell you about it.

Zhang Xiaohu said that everything in the world has a law to follow, such as water generally flows to the lower place, and the sun generally rises from the east. This law reminds me of whether there is a fixed number for life and death. For example, how one person will die and how another person will die, is it already predetermined? Then, no matter how a person thinks or does in life, he cannot escape this law. So he lacks the motivation to live on his own.

This was so profound that Niu Er and I frowned and scratched our heads, looking at Yi Longzhi's answer.

Yi Longzhi smiled and said that this law is nothing more than an appearance. Water does generally flow to lower places, and the sun does generally rise from the east. However, to compare this with the law of life and death of human beings, perhaps it is too superficial. Water flow, no matter from where you look at it, in rivers, seas, and rivers, is tangible and predictable. If the east is high and the west is low, then it is very normal for water to flow westward. If the terrain from east to west is uneven, with crisscrossing hooks and deep pits, then the branches of the water flow and the direction of flow will also present different states at the level below the water flow. What you think of as water flowing westward is nothing but an undetectable phenomenon. It is just the real situation of the terrain. Each subtle change of the terrain corresponds to the change of the upper and lower layers of the water flow. This is completely different from the general flow direction of the water. If you change one of them, the water flow will be very different. The direction of east and west is just a change of direction. If you change this direction, the reason for the change will also change. The law of the sun is not so easy for you to understand. The sun's consistency also applies to the disappearance and change of the non-existence of time. Compared with the course of life, looking at death from life is also superficial... Why can't the tiny details ignored here change a person's life? The changes and influences a person receives are also the same, and why not just this?

I could actually understand a little bit, but the prerequisite was that I had learned to read and write before, otherwise it would be really hard for me to understand... However, despite this, such profound things should be left to Zhang Xiaohu and Yi Longzhi to discuss.

The more they talked, the more Zhang Xiaohu admired Yilongzhi.

No matter what, I admire this god even more. As expected, people who can read and write do give people a different feeling to a great extent. Although I cannot agree that everyone is the same on the moral level, the least we can understand is that knowing how to read and write is very important.

When the snow stopped, he and we used Xiaozhi's equipment to travel together. I really didn't expect that one day I would be able to travel with a god. He was so approachable that I almost mistook him for an ordinary person.

He explained a lot of things to us, and when we said we wanted to go to the underworld, he said he was going there too, so we went together.

Well, actually we were the ones who kept pestering him. We only knew that he was going to the Netherworld, so, it was just on the way, you know.

I really didn't expect that there would be such an ordinary... such a good god in this world. He is almost too good to us, so much so that we began to question whether he is a real god, because at best he is an advanced version of Zhang Xiaohu.

Someone is better looking than Zhang Xiaohu, someone has a better personality than Zhang Xiaohu, someone is smarter than Zhang Xiaohu.

In this way, it is not just an advanced version of Zhang Xiaohu, but more like a real god that I worship more. With the company of gods, we feel more at ease? In other words, we are more restrained, more quiet and thoughtful...Thinking before doing things makes us appear more "smart". I can't believe what the royal family is like. In this trip, I didn't meet any royal family members, which is indeed a pity.

To be honest, Yi Longzhi never puts on airs, nor does he claim to be a god. He doesn't need to eat when we're not hungry, and he doesn't need to change his clothes. His clothes are always clean and tidy...

The royal family is so nice...

They are blessed to have these three gods to guide them.

I am not deifying him as a dragon, because he is indeed like that. It sounds a bit unbelievable, but he does behave more "ordinary". A wise man is reserved, but his wisdom can still be seen from his manners and upbringing.

He is quiet and elegant, and can be called my second favorite god. I like both the King of Tianyu's Kind Heart and the King of Kongyu's Peerless World.

They are not my gods though.

But they are good enough. According to the dragon, they also have shortcomings, but they are more restrained. In the royal family, everyone knows that their own King Tianyu Renxin is good, but because he is too good, everyone feels that he can be bullied, and he seems a little cowardly, or even has no opinion. And the Supreme King, because he is in charge of order and law, seems not so humane, and he seems very violent, even above order and law, too strong, and even self-willed. Although he has learned a lot of knowledge from other countries, and even proficient in culture, theory and music, he seems too theoretical when it comes to formal problem solving and countermeasure implementation, and has no ability to do big things.

Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages of these three gods are very obvious. Fortunately, they are all correcting themselves and even governing the royal family together and working together, so that the royal people can enjoy good weather and good harvests.

I admire the three of them even more, and this is not groundless. Most people are more or less hypocritical when they review their own shortcomings, especially when they say them in front of others. The degree of covering up the shortcomings will be even greater, and the phenomenon of trying to cover up will become more obvious. I have no way to evaluate the personalities and morals of the three of them. It is not because of Long Zhi's one-sided words, but because Long Zhi has indeed achieved the unity of words and deeds. The three of them have basically achieved the unity of words and deeds.

Whether they are true or false, at least what they say and what they do are the same, and they try hard enough to suppress their shortcomings and make their strengths shine more.

I also want to find my shortcomings. Maybe my shortcomings are that I am too indecisive, or too easily satisfied, and have a sense of just getting by.

My evaluation of Zhang Xiaohu is that although Zhang Xiaohu is smart, he seems a little aloof, so much so that he always leaves words unsaid, or keeps us in suspense. He doesn't care much about our opinions and seems to be looking down on us.

Niu Er is simple and honest, but being too simple and honest makes him seem stupid, even lazy, which causes him to be slow in doing many things and seem not so smart. In fact, he is smarter than anyone else when it comes to eating, but people generally do not regard being smart in eating as smart.

I can't tell you too much about Yi Longzhi, a big part of the reason is that Zhang Xiaohu and Yi Longzhi have been together for a longer time, and my acquaintance with Yi Longzhi may not be so concerned. The gods of the royal family are called kings, and the seven leaders of the royal family are also called kings, which can be regarded as the blessing brought by the good governance of the three gods.

When we arrived at the Netherworld, we were originally planning to go our separate ways because we couldn't bear to leave, until we explained our purpose to Yilongzhi.

Yilongzhi said that the Nether Kingdom was sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye. Xunhuangying sent a leader to check it out, and he was going to fight with him. We said we were going to the Nether Ravine to find the Heart of the Mountains, and this kind king gave us a little bit of his power, which is called [Spiritual Power]. Well, actually Yilongzhi liked Zhang Xiaohu, who had the power of thinking, so he gave us the power of the three royal families, because Yilongzhi must know that the Nether Ravine is bottomless.

This is something unique to royal families.

I feel that spiritual power not only strengthens my body, but also gives my mind an unprecedented liberation. I feel that my whole body is immersed in the source of power.

We jumped higher, walked faster, and even sensed more. We were full of confidence and headed to the underworld with many thanks.

In Huangquan, there are two rivers, one of life and one of death... It sounds scary, but when you actually see it, it is just two rivers of different colors intertwined together, clearly separated.

But if you look closely, you will see that there are many boats similar to bamboo rafts floating on the River of Life. On those boats, there are many illusory shadows, called shadows of souls, floating by. On the River of Death, there are only red flames and white bones.

I was scared... To be honest, I couldn't understand the principle behind it. Zhang Xiaohu said that where there is life, there is death, and this is the key to the existence of the Netherworld.

Later, someone told me a word, reincarnation, and I understood it roughly.

In order to cross the Yellow Springs, we must not be carried away by the two terrifying rivers of Life and Death with different flow rates. We held each other's hands tightly and passed through the bones and the boats. The spiritual power in our bodies took effect, so that we really withstood the huge threat of the Yellow Springs of Life and Death.

The process was not friendly... because we underestimated the flow rate of the two rivers in Huangquan. The seemingly calm rivers were actually flowing at an astonishing speed. We became old and childish at times. In the end, we made it through. If we hadn't made it through, we would have absolutely no idea what would have happened... and we didn't want to know. Even for someone as knowledgeable as Zhang Xiaohu.

Now that we have arrived at the Netherworld Stream, perhaps we can take a break. We were very surprised. It definitely took us more than a month to reach the Netherworld Stream. We spent a full three months. Therefore, we concluded that Yu Zhi did not come here.

But if you think about it carefully, we stopped for a while and walked for a while, walked for a while and stopped for a while before we got here, and Yu Zhi brought the team with him along the way, and they even had a carriage, so Yu Zhi's words are still credible. The month we mentioned is actually not really a full month, but just about a month. As a farmer, I didn't have a clear grasp of the months at that time. Maybe Zhang Xiaohu remembered the date, so what Zhang Xiaohu said, that Yu Zhi did come to Youmingjian, is correct.

Netherworld Gorge is a canyon with many wild beasts around. We are not too afraid. We are just afraid that it is dark and difficult to find things in Netherworld Gorge...

Especially the Heart of the Mountains.

We thought, if it is a canyon, it must have an absolute depth. As long as we are not afraid of death, we can go down to the bottom of the canyon and reach the bottom. With the claw gun made by Xiaozhi for us, Xiaozhi called it so, we can definitely come up.

With this idea in mind, we embarked on an unprecedented and bold action.

We want to explore the Netherworld Gorge.

(End of this chapter)