Chapter 499: The Battle for Water
I immediately shouted, "What!?" Are you saying that the person I'm looking for is your daughter? "However, then I thought that there didn't seem to be anything strange about this, it was just a little unexpected, because a person agreed to a stranger to take his daughter, which felt a little ridiculous after all, but if Elder Yan didn't lie, then there must be something hidden in this. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
He replied, "What you are looking for is indeed my daughter, but she has been sent to Bagua City as a proton, and it has been almost a year now." ”
Proton? What is this statement? I immediately asked him, "Elder Yan, if I understand correctly, this proton is the meaning of hostage, right?" ”
Elder Yan replied, "That's what it means, I'll tell you in detail about the matter of the Heavenly Punishment Land." ”
Next, Elder Yan told me the ins and outs of the matter.
The Land of Heavenly Punishment, as I have learned, is a separate space opened up by the gods in order to punish evil spirits, similar to the Kunlun Wonderland, except that one is a fairyland, and the other is hell.
There are countless horrific souls imprisoned here, and their punishment is far greater than that of the eighteen layers of hell, which, according to the underworld, does not refer to the upper and lower levels of space, but to differ in time and criminal law.
If we compare it with the time of the Yang world, the first level of hell is 3,750 years on earth, and all beings here must live here for 10,000 years, and they can't die a day early, and this 10,000 years is equivalent to 13.5 billion years in the Yang world.
And because the time and life span of hell are multiplied in turn, when you reach the eighteenth layer of hell, it is measured in trillions of years, and such a long period of torture can be said to be a veritable catastrophe, and the painful and cruel scene is unimaginable and cruel to the world.
However, the eighteen layers of hell belong to the Buddhist saying, including reincarnation, which also belongs to the Buddhist theory, but in the land of heavenly punishment, the place where evil spirits are imprisoned is called ghost prison, and there is no so-called reincarnation here, because this is only a Buddhist saying, and the land of heavenly punishment has existed for thousands of years long before Buddhism was introduced to China. The ancient gods revered the Taoist school, and Taoism has no reincarnation, and there are heavenly immortals, earth immortals, and ghosts and immortals in their immortal genealogy, that is, people can also become ghosts and immortals after death.
There are two ancient tribes guarding the ghost prison in the land of heavenly punishment, although they are thin, they have always adhered to the ancestral teachings and guarded the ghost gate.
One of the two tribes is the Fuxi clan, while the other is the Nuxi clan.
The area where the Fuxi clan lives is called the Bagua City, and the whole city is laid out with the Fuxi clan's innate gossip pattern, and what is sealed in the array is the exit of the ghost prison - the ghost gate.
The place where the Nu Xi clan lives is called the Phoenix Temple, and they are mainly responsible for guarding the entrance to the land of heavenly punishment. The two tribes have been in contact with each other for thousands of years, and have always maintained the custom of intermarriage, and they have long been indistinguishable from each other.
However, after an accident sixty years ago, the peace of the Land of Heavenly Punishment was completely shattered. The reason for this is the Jiazi natural disaster that occurs once in 60 years.
The term Jiazi natural disaster is only made up by the outside world, including when the Jiazi natural disaster occurs every sixty years, that is, the day when the ghost gate is opened, this statement is also conjectured by outsiders based on what they have seen and heard.
In fact, this Jiazi natural calamity, as Aomatsu Dao Chang had guessed, was caused by the innate formation of the Hell Gate. The Tianji Bagua Array is restarted every sixty years, just like the computer's regular system recovery, which is completely an automatic error correction function.
However, even this restart process will take 8864 days. At that point, the Eye of the Array will be temporarily moved to the side, the swampy area of Death Valley. And there is actually a part of the formation, but it belongs to the outermost part, and the power of the formation is relatively small, so that some evil spirits and ghosts and immortals who have achieved cultivation will take the opportunity to flee outward.
Although the eye of the formation was temporarily transferred, there was nothing wrong with the formation itself, and in order to prevent the evil spirits from escaping when the eye of the formation was transferred, the ancient gods laid a large array of heavenly thunder in the valley of death.
The formation of the Jiazi Natural Tribulation was caused by the leakage of energy when the Tianji Bagua Array was restarted. The reason why the natural disasters are different in each Jiazi is because this formation is restarted in the order of the five elements of yin and yang every time, and the types of natural disasters generated by the overflow energy also belong to the power of the five elements.
According to this principle, this Jiazi natural disaster should belong to the Five Elements Yang Fire, because the heavenly fire belongs to the yang, if it is yin fire, it must be the earth fire.
The last Jiazi natural disaster was supposed to be water, but because of an unexpected event, the formation was chaotic and turned into a hurricane disaster. And the impact is not only that, the underground dark river that has always been the entrance to the land of heavenly punishment has suddenly turned into extremely corrosive poisonous water.
This accident directly caused the two guardian tribes to be unable to enter and exit, and they were trapped and died in the land of heavenly punishment.
The reason for this change was that there was a problem with the formation, and someone stole the secret treasure at the foot of the Bagua Array, which caused the formation to be chaotic, causing the underground to change, causing the earth fire to melt a mineral vein, and the resulting chemical reaction polluted the underground dark river.
The two guardian tribes have always adhered to the land of heavenly punishment, although it is difficult to disobey the ancestral teachings, but they can also enter and leave freely, so most of the children of the two tribes are scattered in the outside world, and only a small number of people who do not like to contact with the outside world have always stayed in the valley.
The living resources in the land of heavenly punishment are extremely scarce, in addition to ensuring the basic living conditions, other aspects are almost in a primitive social state, although there are also occasional clansmen who come back from the outside world, and bring back some advanced daily necessities to everyone, but the customs of thousands of years can be changed overnight.
Over time, the people outside are reluctant to come back, and the people inside are becoming more and more unable to understand the outside world, and the land of heavenly punishment is even more sparsely populated.
After the events of sixty years ago, the Dark River was polluted, and the Guardians had only one entrance and exit, underwater, so they were completely cut off from the outside world.
However, not everyone is inaccessible, and there are a very small number of people who can communicate with the outside world through special means, including the leaders of the two clans.
Although the guardians of the Land of Heavenly Punishment are trapped in the valley, they can still live a normal life, but the supplies are poorer. But the biggest problem is not the lack of ordinary necessities, but the scarcity of water.
The people of both ethnic groups usually take their water from the Dark River, but after the water source is polluted, they can only rely on the mountain springs of the Liangjie Mountains to get by. This is where the problem arises.
This mountain of the two realms is not the one that suppressed Sun Wukong in the Journey to the West, but the dividing point between the Fuxi clan and the Nuxi clan.
The Land of Heavenly Punishment has been blessed by the formation layer by layer, and even the climate here is affected by the formation, and it is like spring all year round, with neither rain nor snow.
In this way, the two tribes that only rely on a spiritual spring to draw water finally caused a series of conflicts because of the competition for the right to use the water source.
From the initial quarrel to the final fight, at the beginning, the two sides still remembered each other's friendship, tried to restrain themselves to keep their sanity, just a symbolic competition of punches and kicks, but when the first injured person appeared, this balance was completely broken.
The contradictions became more and more serious, and the battle gradually escalated, and the unfortunate death of clansmen appeared on both sides one after another, and the situation began to deteriorate sharply, and it has escalated to the point where a war would start when they met in peacetime.
The leaders of the two clans didn't care at first, they just let the clansmen fight, and these guardians didn't have much entertainment anyway, so they should have fun for everyone.
But I didn't expect this to start, I couldn't hold back anymore, and after an elder in Bagua City was killed by mistake, the competition finally escalated to a full-scale war, and the two clans finally declared war because they couldn't reconcile after the contradictions intensified.
This fight lasted for decades, and after the fight, many young people didn't even want to understand the original reason, they only knew that they hated each other.
A few years ago, the two clans realized that the next restart of the formation was coming, and the two sides could not continue to fight each other like this, and they had to work together to overcome the difficulties, otherwise, if there was a big problem with the formation, everyone would be finished together.
But because of the perennial fighting, the two sides have long planted the seeds of hatred for each other, and no one can trust anyone, in order to avoid being stabbed in the back by the other party at a critical moment, the two clans agreed to exchange their respective heirs and proton each other, which solved the problem at hand, and the two sides finally put down their weapons and returned to the original state of alert. >