Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 113: False History, Heaven and Man Are Ants, and the First Emperor's Secret
"I don't know!"

Tong Chi shook his head solemnly, confusion showing on his face.

"When the Qin Dynasty unified the world, they seized all the records of the various kingdoms. Later, the word 'seeking truth' spread, and they began to destroy many ancient temples and massacre countless alchemists."

"Private possession of any relevant classics is prohibited."

"Either burn it or keep it."

Zhu Jinzhen was speechless. Should he say that this was the adaptability of history?

He thought it was a normal burning of books and burying of scholars, but it turned out to involve the so-called temples and alchemists left over from ancient times. He was not surprised by the latter, after all, Ying Zheng's case had been overturned in later generations. The burning of books and burying of scholars was fake, and those who were buried alive were some alchemists.

On the contrary, it was the former that made him quite curious.

Tong Chi had no idea what Zhu Jinzhen was thinking at the moment, so he continued, "In the 35th year of King Qin's reign, Ying Zheng suddenly began to prepare for war, recruiting hundreds of families. He spared no expense and brought back the military demon of our ancestor Chi You from Loulan, and collected weapons from all over the world to forge them."

"It took several years, combining the wisdom of Mohism, Gongshu, and hundreds of other schools of thought, to finally achieve something."

"Just twenty years later, Ying Zheng forged twelve golden men to suppress the four seas and eight wildernesses. Later, he led the most elite soldiers of the Qin Dynasty westward from Kunlun and led the entire nation to attack the sky."

"As for what happened, what was the situation in heaven, and why was heaven destroyed?"

"Except for Ying Zheng and those who survived the attack on the Heavenly Palace and were eventually buried in the underground palace, or those who changed their identities, no one knows. Not even Ying Zheng's eighteenth son, Hu Hai, knows."

"When the Overlord captured Xianyang, he sought the truth, but his efforts were fruitless. In the end, he set the city on fire, which further shrouded the mystery of why the First Emperor led the entire country to attack the city."

"but……"

"It was Liu Bang who entered Xianyang first. Perhaps he knows the inside story and the truth."

Tong Chi is not the only one who is unclear about this matter now.

At that time, when he was serving under Xiang Yu as Long Ju, he didn't understand anything.

The only people who might know the truth are probably Liu Bang and Zhang Liang, who suddenly disappeared for some unknown reason, and the group of people he trusted most when they followed Liu Bang to conquer the world.

"Starting from the 35th year of King Zheng of Qin, until the whole country attacked the sky, wouldn't that have taken more than 20 years?"

As Zhu Jinzhen spoke, he could not help but complain: "History is indeed a little girl, allowing people to embellish and dress up, and make up stories at will. Everyone knows that Qin Shi Huang only reigned for thirty-seven years. According to what you said, let alone thirty-seven, he couldn't stop it even for fifty-seven years."

For the first time, Zhu Jinzhen understood so clearly the sentence: "History can be recorded, but history is not reliable. Time has great power, and history will be distorted over the years."

Tong Chi was puzzled. "To enter the realm of the celestial being is to achieve great immortality. A hundred years pass in the blink of an eye. A mere twenty or thirty years. If Ying Zheng hadn't gone mad and led the entire nation to attack the heavens, with his abilities, he wouldn't have been hopeless even for thousands of years. Why are you so surprised?"

In his worldview, if one enters the realm of heaven and man, one can easily survive for hundreds of years.

It is not uncommon for the slightly more powerful ones to stay in the world for a thousand years.

Zhu Jinzhen seemed very shocked, which made him curious.

"nothing."

Since Zhu Jinzhen knew that history was unreliable, he was too lazy to pursue it further and only asked about the things that he was curious about.

"First question, what is the Emperor of Heaven? How does he compare to the celestial beings? No, how does he compare to the people you mentioned who have entered the Dao?"

This is the focus of Zhu Jinzhen's curiosity and attention.

In the world of Zongwu, even if someone has a background of gods and demons, he has accepted it calmly.

But he knew nothing about the palace in heaven, the immortal palace? The divine realm? Or what it was?

He urgently needed to understand the power of heaven.

The Emperor of Heaven has a great reputation, but its true strength is unknown. "According to that Lord Chu Nan, the Emperor of Heaven is the ruler of the heavens, a world in the immortal or divine realm, a being like the Heavenly Emperor or the Divine Lord, standing at the pinnacle of the immortals and gods."

Tong Chi slowly shook his head and smiled bitterly: "As for their strength, I don't know."

"Duke Chu Nan only mentioned one sentence. Looking at the world, among all the schools of thought, only Your Majesty can compete with them. The rest are just floating duckweed ants. Even if you are a peerless celestial being, if you take half a step into the Tao, you are just an ant on the ground."

Treating the gods and humans as ants?
Zhu Jinzhen's pupils shrank. You have to know that the pinnacle of power in the world of martial arts is the celestial being on land. Although there are various super powers in the background of gods and demons, except for his own golden finger, there is no one he can access that is above the celestial being.

But there was one thing that puzzled Zhu Jinzhen: "As you just said, the First Emperor was very powerful?"

Tong Chi nodded solemnly. "In our time, everyone knew that the Overlord of Chu was invincible in martial arts, claiming to hate the sky for not having a handle and the earth for not having a ring. But as tyrannical as he was, it was said that he didn't dare to set foot in Xianyang before the First Emperor conquered the sky."

"His way is the only imperial way throughout the ages, spanning thousands of years and truly supreme."

"No one can imagine, and no one has ever seen, Ying Zheng's true power."

"The only two times he attacked were during the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai, when he held up the sky with one hand, seemingly battling an unknown entity. With one strike, he vanished a thousand-mile sea of ​​clouds. And before defeating the sky, he subdued Kunlun Mountain with one kick."

When talking about Ying Zheng, even a being like Tong Chi is kept secret and revered as a god.

Before the Qin Dynasty launched an uprising against the Heaven, all the countries, schools of thought, and heroes in the world were afraid of the Qin Dynasty like a tiger or a wolf. They did not dare to touch its whiskers, let alone revolt. Any movement would be met with iron-blooded suppression.

As the master of the world, Ying Zheng's power is naturally unmatched.

Zhu Jinzhen couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this. The former was not so difficult, as it was not difficult to create a clear sea of ​​clouds for a thousand miles, and he could do it easily. But as for stepping on Kunlun and making it sink a hundred feet into the ground, he estimated it.

Come up with an answer.

Can't do it.

He could split Kunlun in half with one sword, but it was almost impossible for him to suppress the ground a hundred feet below.

Not to mention, one step could cause Kunlun Land to sink.

"Such power is no longer the power of heaven and man." Zhu Jinzhen said seriously.

"Yes!"

Tong Chi nodded, a flash of reminiscence in his eyes, and said with a complicated expression: "Before I faked my death and left the army, the Overlord once asked Duke Chu Nan if the gap between his achievements in tyranny and Ying Zheng had narrowed. If Ying Zheng had not been buried in the imperial mausoleum, what would have been the outcome of their battle?"

"Do you know how Lord Chu Nan answered?"

Zhu Jinzhen shook his head. How would he know where to go?
But he knew the answer, it must be outrageous, otherwise Tong Chi would not have shown such an expression.

"Mr. Chu Nan pointed at the moths flying towards the flame, then at the bright moon in the sky. He left behind a few meaningful smiles before finally drifting away."

A moth flying towards the flame, compared to the bright moon hanging high in the sky?

Although Zhu Jinzhen had guessed the answer long ago, he was still shocked. That was Xiang Yu, the King of Chu, a Xiang Yu whose background in comprehensive martial arts was even mixed with that of gods and demons and the legend of the emperor!
Even someone as powerful as Tong Chi, who was revered as a dragon god by the Tong clan and had almost one foot out of the realm of heaven and man, had to bow down before Xiang Yu.

The gap between him and Ying Zheng is like that between a moth flying into a flame and the bright moon?

What about yourself?
This thought suddenly came to Zhu Jinzhen's mind and he could never get rid of it.

Although Zhu Jinzhen entered the realm of the immortals and acquired the regular sword skills, his attainments in swordsmanship were unrivaled in ancient and modern times. He was even the one who "entered the Tao" and "attained the Tao" in Long Ju's words, surpassing the immortals. He was confident that even if the Overlord was resurrected, he would not be inferior to him in the slightest.

But Zhu Jinzhen also understood that even if he was more powerful than Xiang Yu.

Compared with that of the First Emperor, it is probably as huge as a chasm.

(End of this chapter)