Chapter 789: A Group of Lunatics

A Guangdong zombie?

Yuan Qinghua got goosebumps all over.

He couldn’t believe that Ji Shang was a time-traveling Guangdong native.

They had previously speculated about many ancient people ascending, especially mysterious figures from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties across five millennia. For instance, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was said to speak fluent Cantonese in Avici Hell. Now, surprisingly, they had encountered a truly living ancient person here?

“Brother Xing, I am from Fujian, you Guangdong folks love to eat us,” Yuan Qinghua said with a serious expression in broken Cantonese.

Ji Shang looked utterly bewildered.

He gave a look of bewildered pity, as if he were looking at an idiot, then turned and led Li Li away, stepping into the Sun Temple.

Yuan Qinghua watched their retreating backs and mumbled, “Unlike modern tastes, he had no reaction. So, he really is a time-traveling Guangdong native from ancient times, isn't he?”

The more he thought about it, the more horrifying it seemed, so he quickly took a screenshot and posted it online.

“Shocking! Is Ji Shang an ancient time-traveler? His accent is full of local flavor!”

After posting, he didn't even check the comments, immediately hurrying forward into the golden hall. “Brother Xing, wait for me!”

Online, a new storm was brewing, and the community instantly fractured.

“What the heck?!”

“Shocking!! A confirmed time-traveler?!”

“Oh my god! He might have traveled in the flesh, carrying our cancerous cells—wait, no, our race's incomplete immortal transcendent bloodline, the zombie lineage—into another world, which is why zombies appeared there!”

“The progenitor of zombies is actually an Earthling!”

“Speaking of which, legends of zombies appearing in Guangdong have circulated since ancient times!”

“Perhaps a zombie, sleeping in a spiritual energy-depleted graveyard in Guangdong, coincidentally traveled to another realm? (Confirmed)”

The entire forum entered a state of extreme tension and panic.

Now, looking back and pondering it, they suddenly felt it was incredible, truly horrifying to think about.

If the zombie bloodline truly originated from Earthlings, then it would be the third system.

Buddhism, Taoism, and zombies.

The immortal zombie bloodline—essentially, immortal cancer cells?

And zombies fear Buddha, just as cancer cells fear radiation, like hospital radiotherapy...

Silence!

Stillness!

A deathly calm.

Their worldview had completely collapsed.

They hadn't thought of it before, but they really should have. After all, ancient zombies were easily associated with immortality.

And now, looking at the symptoms, they were identical to zombie characteristics.

Akina's Speed, a well-known reviewer, spoke up again: “Gentlemen, this is another step in humanity's understanding of ancient civilizations. We can now imagine the grandeur of those ancient civilizations!”

“What was ancient times like? Please envision this as I speak: The atmosphere outside a planet was filled with Sun Reflecting Mirrors, the land was full of blessed lands and grotto-heavens, countless cultivators existed, and the three major Chinese systems—Buddhism, Taoism, and Zombie—competed. It was a magnificent mythical golden age.”

Everyone looked on with longing, imagining that grand mythical era, feeling it was an unprecedented super-flourishing civilization, with peerless heroes emerging one after another.

“As these different paths contended, and cultivators’ greedy exploitation of the blessed lands and grotto-heavens damaged the planet’s atmosphere, a great war broke out. Gonggong angered Mount Buzhou. What was Mount Buzhou? Look at the mythical records: it was said to be the only path from the human realm to the celestial realm. So, if you didn’t understand before, do you understand now?”

“Mount Buzhou was the only way to the heavens, much like another application of the Sun Reflecting Mirror we see now—expanding the laser’s range to form an elemental channel. Mount Buzhou was this planet’s massive beam elemental channel. The ancient Gonggong very likely collapsed the largest elemental channel, the largest Sun Reflecting Mirror.”

It truly was so!

Everyone gasped.

Previously, the matter of Gonggong had been unexplainable to them.

It was only now, witnessing another application of the Sun Reflecting Mirror which could serve as an elemental bridge or channel, that they understood.

Look at the historical records:

“Gonggong contended with Zhuanxu for emperorship, and in a rage, struck Mount Buzhou, breaking the pillar of heaven and severing the cords of earth. Thus, the sky tilted to the northwest, and the sun, moon, and stars shifted there; the land became incomplete in the southeast, so all rivers and waters flowed there.”

Wasn't the catastrophe described precisely a mythical apocalypse caused by a planetary ozone layer hole?

Indeed, knowledge is power.

Akina's Speed continued, “So, when Gonggong collapsed the largest Sun Reflecting Mirror, what happened next?”

Nüwa mended the sky!

That phrase violently flashed in everyone's minds, sending shivers down their spines!

Their minds were filled with nothing but horror!

Akina's Speed: “Since you mention Nüwa mending the sky, I’ll share my hypothesis. What was Nüwa mending the sky? The records state she used five-colored stones and the severed legs of a giant tortoise to mend the sky. I personally believe the five-colored stones were the material, and the giant tortoise was a super monster, perhaps as massive as a giant octopus, that cultivated true qi. After it was killed, the true qi from its body was used to repair the atmosphere!”

True qi mending the sky.

Replenishing the ozone layer hole—is that possible?

Could an ancient lineage of cultivators who practiced true qi really repair a planet's atmosphere?

Many people looked surprised and thought it unlikely.

They began to feel that Akina's Speed was talking nonsense, and many found it hard to believe.

But the next second, Akina's Speed decisively proved them wrong: “What is ozone? As everyone knows, O3! What is the internal circulation of true qi? O2 (oxygen) and CO2 (carbon dioxide). These two can absolutely be converted into ozone! And what are the five-colored stones? They are the catalyst for this ozone-generating chemical reaction!”

Logical and well-founded!

At this point, no one could refute him.

Now that they thought about it, the oxygen within the tortoise, combined with the five-colored stone catalyst, would be the material to repair the ozone layer? Perhaps it was true; it perfectly matched.

And that wasn't all; Akina's Speed continued relentlessly, dropping even more bombshells!

“What about other ancient tales? For example, Hou Yi shooting down the suns, with nine suns scorching the earth—were they really nine suns? Perhaps it was similar to a second world war on this planet, a celestial weapon battle. The Sun Reflecting Mirror mythical weapon is like a golden sun, so wouldn't nine of them in the sky be quite plausible? And scorching the earth would then make even more sense! Therefore, when Hou Yi shot down the suns, he was shooting down nine divine mirrors in the sky!”

Everyone's minds went completely blank.

Was this guy really not just messing with them?

Was this well-reasoned ancient historical deduction?

Akina's Speed: “As for many other mythical tales, they all seem explainable. Chang’e flying to the moon, ascending on moonlight—what was that scene actually? It's easily imagined! Then there's Jingwei, daughter of the Sun God, filling the sea, and Kuafu chasing the sun. Just let your imaginations run wild.”

Phew—

Everyone was thoroughly panting, their minds buzzing as if their brains had exploded.

Every myth could be deeply pondered, extending into a vast amount of content.

It was as if, in that moment, a perfect, magnificent tableau of mythical China, with its mountains, rivers, sun, and moon, unfolded completely before their eyes—their super-cosmic mythical civilization, their use of celestial phenomena as weapons, the traces they left on the planet...

Akina's Speed: “As for the mending of the sky, what era did it happen in? It’s still a historical mystery, but I personally believe it was over 13,000 years ago, during the legendary prehistoric Great Flood!

At that time, floods raged, and Nüwa mended the sky.

As for whether the prehistoric Great Flood existed?

I personally believe it did.

At that time, ancient tribal civilizations across various continents had records of this period from ten thousand years ago: Sumerian, Aztec, Mayan, Chinese civilizations—there are over 600 legends worldwide, distributed everywhere. Tell me, if major continents, without communicating, all have similar accounts, did the Great Flood happen or not? It definitely happened!”

Everyone nodded, like chickens pecking at rice.

Prehistoric mythical civilization!

After the great destruction, once the planet was repaired, the ancients felt they couldn't continue like this and thus ascended.

The historical myths were completely unveiled.

Akina's Speed: “Don't worry, everyone, regarding the Great Flood, there's another one besides this! The Great Flood that caused the extinction of dinosaurs! If it really happened during that period, then ancient human civilization already existed during the dinosaur era! During that great war, Nüwa mended the sky, and life was ravaged, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs!”

Everyone's expressions immediately turned solemn.

They felt this was also a very mysterious and ancient conjecture. After all, if ancient mythical civilizations were confirmed to have truly existed, their presence during that specific period on Earth would be incredibly difficult to verify!

“You guys are insane.”

At this moment, Xu Zhi, observing in secret, saw their excited faces and couldn't help but frown. “What are they even discussing? Weren't they researching time-travelers at first? They've completely gone off track to this extent, yet they're all so enthusiastic, as if everything suddenly makes sense.”