It was completely dark, Xianyang City was much quieter, and in Yingzheng's inner study, the two of them continued to chat.

Ying Zheng looked at the Xuanyuan Sword and said, "This is really a coincidence, today I just asked Jing Fan to imitate a Xuanyuan Sword for Princess Hu Yu, and now I can make one more." ”

Li Si shook his head slightly and said, "Weichen doesn't mean to imitate the Xuanyuan Sword. ”

"Oh? Why? Ying Zheng asked.

"This Xuanyuan sword, legend has it that the Yellow Emperor made it in order to be grateful to Jairus, so it has the totem of Jairus, so how can Jairus not be familiar with this Xuanyuan Sword, even if it is imitated, it will inevitably have flaws, and if Jairus thinks that the king is perfunctory to him, it will backfire." Li Si said indifferently.

"So what?" Ying Zheng asked.

Li Si said: "What Weichen means is that the king only needs to imitate the Yellow Emperor's practice and make a sword with his totem cast for Jianwei, as a sign of respect, and presumably it will be happy." ”

"Is that right?" Ying Zheng asked without confidence.

"Your Majesty." "Don't forget, you're also a Heavenly Inheritor. Although he is old and far less senior, but after all, his status is noble, and if he wants to say that this is actually the envoy of the Nine Shadows, he does not dare to be disrespectful to the king, as for the style of the sword, the king personally designed it. ”

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "So that's the case, so what else do you need to prepare besides making a sword?" ”

"As for what other preferences he has, Weichen doesn't know, but I don't think he will make any too difficult requests."

Ying Zheng was silent for a moment, and then asked: "Mr. Fang Cai said that he was old, and this Xuanyuan Sword was made for him, so what is the age of this Jianyuan?" ”

Li Si smiled and said: "Today's Jianxi is still not the one of the Yellow Emperor, and Weichen doesn't know, but the life span of the dragon clan is very long, which is true, and the memory can be inherited, so there is no need to worry about this." “

Ying Zheng nodded indifferently on the surface, but his heart churned.

Even if you live for so long, memories can be passed on.

"Sir, what kind of place is that Nine Secluded Land?" Ying Zheng couldn't help but be curious and asked.

Li Si looked at Ying Zheng, breathed a sigh of relief gently, and said: "Now is also the time to tell the king about the relevant things, presumably during this time, the king has been prepared enough." “

Ying Zheng nodded vigorously and said, "Sir, let's talk about it." “

Liston paused for a moment before he said, "The king already knows that the land we live in, as well as the distant ocean, is actually on the surface of a sphere, right?" “

"This widow knows." Ying Zheng replied.

"If you take an example, this sphere is like a peach." "Peaches have peach skin, peach flesh, and peach pits. And we live on the surface of the peach skin of this peach, but this peach skin also has a side next to the peach flesh, and the inner surface and the surface are commensurate with each other, if you press a pit on the peach with your hand, then the inner surface of the peach skin will be raised accordingly. “

Ying Zheng blinked, seriously thinking about what Li Si said.

"The inner surface of the peach skin is equivalent to the land of the nine secluded places, and the peach flesh is the space where it lives, and the innermost peach pit is a luminous object like the sun, supplying the light energy of the nine secluded lands and maintaining the operation of the entire star." Lees said.

"In other words......" Ying Zheng said, "is there another world under the land where we are?" “

Li Si nodded slowly and said: "That is the opposite of the world we have here, our mountains here are the seas there, and the sea here is the mountains there, and there are no four seasons there, the temperature is always constant, and it is the most suitable place for egg creatures." “

"Mountains and seas are opposite......" Ying Zheng muttered to himself, imagining the scene of pressing the peach skin down a pit, because he had never seen the sea, let alone the whole planet, and of course it was hard to imagine what it would be like.

Seeing that Yingzheng was a little incomprehensible, Li Si then explained: "As long as it is a living thing, it is inseparable from water to live, of course, there is a lot of water in the Nine Secluded Land, but it is three parts of sea water and seven points of land, and the sea water there and the sea water here here are converted to each other with fresh water as the medium. “

Ying Zheng scratched his head, and seemed to be more and more confused the more he listened.

Li Si saw that Yingzheng was a little unclear, so he said: "Your Majesty, it's better to follow the old rules." “

Ying Zheng smiled bitterly and nodded.

Liston paused for a moment before asking, "The so-called 'water flows to a low place', does the king understand this truth?" “

Ying Zheng said with some embarrassment: "This truth, the dolls who can just speak know it." ”

"This seems to be a simple law of nature, but in fact it has a profound meaning." Li Si said, "Your Majesty, the water comes from harmony again? ”

"Of course the water comes from heaven." Ying Zheng didn't think about it, and replied directly.

Li Si shook his head and said: "The king is talking about rain, it is just the natural landscape that the human eye sees, the king can think about it, if you want to gather into such an ocean, how much rain will need to keep falling, in fact, the great rivers that continue to flow into the ocean are the real source of seawater." ”

Ying Zheng said with a little understanding: "The river flows into the sea, and the river is joined by several streams, and the streams are gathered by several mountain springs. ”

Li Si smiled and said, "Springs converge into streams, streams converge into rivers, and rivers merge into the ocean. This is also the natural principle of common sense, but the question is, since the water flows to the lower place, where does the highest mountain spring come from? And what is the reason why rivers flow into the ocean, but they do not let the sea rise and flood more land? ”

"This ......" Li Si's question stumped Yingzheng.

If the water flows to a lower place, where does the spring water from the source flow up......

The fact that the rivers flow into the ocean but do not raise the sea level means that the total amount of sea water remains the same, so where does the excess sea water go?

"Wei Chen said before, our nine heavens and nine shades are each other's surface, our sea here is the mountain there, so our sea water through a special channel, to the top of the mountain there, in the process of crossing the land, was filtered into fresh water, thus forming a mountain spring water, in the nine secluded land converged into streams and rivers and finally into the ocean there." Lees said.

Ying Zheng pondered for a while and said: "And the sea water there is also filtered into fresh water through a specific channel, passing through the land, and being squeezed out in the mountains, forming our mountain spring here. ”

"Not bad." Li Si smiled, "The whole process is a big circulation, just like the blood in our body, through the squeeze of the heart, constantly circulating throughout the body. ”

"Where is the 'heart' that keeps water circulating?" Ying Zheng asked.

Li Si shook his head lightly and said: "I don't know this Weichen, maybe the king will have the opportunity to see it in the future, after all, the nine secluded places, the king will definitely go in the future." ”

Thinking that he was going to such a mysterious place in the future, Ying Zheng felt a little furious in his heart, and unconsciously looked at the silver piece in front of him.

"The predecessors said that these silver pieces are called the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which is the record of the nine shadows of the previous generations of heavenly inheritors, but I don't know what is recorded in it." Ying Zheng said in a low voice.

"It depends on when the king gets back the last volume of the Book of Changes." Li Si said thoughtfully, "However, the name of this "Classic of Mountains and Seas" suggests that it is not unrelated to the responsibility of the king, and the reason why Weichen takes the ocean as an example is precisely because the Heavenly Inheritor needs to control the water. ”

"Then we can only translate it when we get the last volume back." Ying Zheng muttered.

"Records like this remind Weichen of some Western legends." Lees said.

"The West?" Ying Zheng asked, "Is it Qiangdi, what kind of legend is it?" ”

Li Si shook his head with a smile and said, "The west that Weichen is talking about is farther away, the western end of this continent, and it is separated from us on both sides of the entire continent. ”

"Oh? What kind of place is there. "Ying Zheng's interest is even stronger.

"It is also a fertile land, and there is also a long civilization, and this legend is about the time of the Third Great Flood, and the ancient book similar to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is called the "Holy Scripture," said Lis. ”

"Tell the widow." Ying Zheng said with some eagerness.

Li Si cleared his throat and said, "Before the third great flood, it was called the ancient era, and the civilization of that era was far stronger than it is now. The people of that time were very united, and they had a common desire to find their ancestors, who were then called 'gods', because they were not willing to be abandoned. ”

"This widow has heard from his predecessors that they have built many towers and want to fulfill their wishes through these towers." Ying Zheng said.

Li Si nodded and continued: "Those towers, called 'Holy Towers', are said to have survived in the present world. The Western realm that Wechen is talking about is called 'Atlantis' in our language here. “

"Art...... Landis? Ying Zheng said in a low voice, "What a strange name." “

"This is just to make it easier for the king to understand, to interpret the pronunciation." Li Si said, "Master Venerable should have also said that later the dragon clan was furious because of this, and caused a flood in the land of the Nine Secluded Places, thus destroying the ancient civilization. “

Ying Zheng nodded.

"Did the master say how the dragon clan caused the flood?" Lees asked.

This time, Ying Zheng shook his head.

Li Si sighed lightly and said: "Legend has it that the dragon clan used the power of the Nine Shadows to change the landform, causing the land to continue to subside, and when the earth shook and the mountains shook, all the buildings were destroyed, and then the land was finally lower than the sea level, and the sea water poured in wildly, and finally flooded this place, forming an ocean. “

Hearing this, Ying Zheng's expression was a little painful, and he was silent for a moment before he asked, "That's how that era ended?" “

Li Si nodded and said: "That place is still an ocean, because it is an ocean formed by the sinking of the continent, so later generations call it the sea in the earth, if the king has the opportunity, he can go there to take a look." “

Ying Zheng just nodded slightly, and he hadn't come out of his sad mood yet.

Li Si continued: "The dragon clan did this, and its own price was not small, they sank that land, which means that in the land of the Nine Shadows, the corresponding sea area needs to rise to become land or mountain peaks, and the sea water also needs to be treated, so the dragon clan chose a barren land of the Nine Shadows, which also made it sink down, forming a huge sea trench, and the place where the Nine Shadows subsided, and formed a huge mountain range in our Nine Heavens. This mountain range is not far from us, the mountains of Sichuan are the remnants there, and the southwest direction of Sichuan is the largest mountain range in the world, known as the Himalayas. “

Ying Zheng's mood eased a lot, and he said in a deep voice: "This big mountain range, the widow has heard of it, after Kunlun Mountain, and then to the southwest is the continuous snow-capped mountains. But sir, did you say that the dragon clan's trick was really necessary at that time? “

"No one knows why." Li Si's tone was quite peaceful, "Later, the human race accepted the will of the gods and went to the land of the Nine Shadows with the contract to negotiate peace with the dragon clan, and the messenger who went was the original Heavenly Inheritance. It is said that it was only after an agreement was reached that the dragons stopped changing the terrain. ”

Ying Zheng pondered and said: "The content of this agreement, which the predecessors once mentioned, is that the human race is not allowed to create anything like the Holy Tower, and then the human race is divided into many tribes, each with its own unique language, so that they are no longer so united. ”

Li Si nodded, said: "There should be more than these, there are some legends related to that contract, it is said that the dragon clan asked the human race to build a big ship, and the flooded chickens, ducks, snakes, insects and other eggs were rescued and transported to land, as for the cats, dogs, bears and leopards, the fetal beasts are not allowed to rescue, it is conceivable how much the human race hated the dragon clan at that time, until now, the descendants there still hate the dragon clan very much, but because they dare not provoke the dragon clan again, they conceal the truth, only leaving the legend of 'Noah's Ark' for future generations." ”

Ying Zheng frowned, and said hatefully: "The dragon clan is indeed excessive, destroying people's homes, and they are not allowed to rescue them. ”

In fact, there is more than that, after the catastrophe, civilization was destroyed, mankind returned to its most primitive state, and all relevant records were almost erased, and the Holy Scripture was nowhere to be found. Later, along the coast of that sea, some tribes scattered some memories and compiled them into a book, replacing the original "Holy Scripture". So when Weichen saw this "Classic of Mountains and Seas", he remembered these ancient legends. Lees said.

After Li Si's story was told, Yingzheng stayed there and was speechless for a long time.