Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 637 Chaos
"It is the Northern Eight Tribes that were previously swallowed up by the bursting ravine."

With a flick of his finger, the Black Emperor's Juice Light Calibration caused a floating corpse dressed in black robes to shatter, oozing out a yellowish-green liquid. In a short while, it hatched into dozens of colorful insects, which swarmed and wriggled together.

"There are no Tu people here. Emperor Tuoba, where is the Chaos Seal recorded in the Great Wilderness Classic?"

Qin Huai glanced at the corpses of the icy river soldiers, shook his head, and asked Emperor Tuoba a question.

"The Great Wilderness Classic records that the Chaos is sealed within the Chaos Ring and contained within the Yin-Yang Netherfire Pot. I wonder if Mother Bo knows the location of this Yin-Yang Netherfire Pot?"

"Yin-Yang Netherfire Pot?"

Qin Huai was startled, suddenly recalling that he had seen this object in Pimu Hill when he was examining Wusima's memories.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, and ferocious demons ran rampant. Nuwa used the five-colored divine stones of the Golden Clan to mend the crack in the sky. The remaining five-colored stones were not enough to fill the crack in the earth, so she simply mixed the remaining stones with thirty-six kinds of strange iron to forge the "Yin-Yang Netherfire Pot", which sealed all the ferocious demons and monsters and suppressed them at the bottom of the crack in the earth.

As time passed, the fissure in the earth became Pimu Hill, the most wondrous mountain in the Great Wilderness, while the Yin-Yang Netherfire Pot transformed into one of the peaks of the hill.

"Huohushan? Isn't that it?"

Upon hearing Tuoba's question, Bomu pointed into the distance, where a steep and towering mountain peak stood, its half-rising peak resembling a large, high-spouted pot.

As the snow fell heavily, the group rode the wind and flew through the air, arriving at Huohu Mountain in the blink of an eye. The cliffs were as if cut by a knife and axe, towering thousands of feet high, with only a huge boulder protruding from the mountainside, extending dozens of feet into the air.

The group settled on the peak, where snow covered everything, and nine ancient, gnarled pines stood tall and majestic, their canopies spread out like a canopy. There was nothing else there.

Qin Huai looked around for a moment, as if he had discovered something. He struck out with his palm, and a wave of snow surged and rolled out, instantly creating a snow pit about two zhang deep right next to the cliff. Inside, there was a pile of stones nearly two zhang high.

The pile of stones was entirely black, with tight crevices, resembling a giant black tortoise, and looked extremely hard and tough.

"This is Huzui Peak."

As Bo Mu talked to herself, she walked to the tomb and stomped her feet nine times. With a loud "boom", the mountains shook and the snow flew up. The stone tomb suddenly cracked open in the center, and a burst of red light shot up a raging flame that was hundreds of feet high!

Qin Huai's heart stirred. The water rippled, the firelight subsided, the falling snow swayed, and the Hengfeng Peak returned to tranquility. The pile of stones had split open a cave about half a zhang wide and a zhang high, with red light flickering and shining, like a ferocious beast crouching on the ground, opening its blood-red maw to devour people.

The Taotie clone took the lead, bringing Bo Mu and the Black Emperor in single file, while Qin Huai's main body and the Green Emperor remained outside, ready to provide support at any time.

A hot wind swept over me, making my mouth dry. The narrow, long passageway wound its way down, with dark purple dragon stone lanterns hanging from the stone walls, their red light flickering and emitting a strange fragrance, creating an atmosphere that was both tranquil and eerie.

As the Taotie continued deeper into the passage, after a while, it came to see numerous crisscrossing, densely packed engravings on the smooth, bluish-green inner wall of the spout.

“Bomu, the bronze rubbing you gave to Usma before was transferred from this, right?”

Looking at the somewhat familiar engravings on the pot wall, Taotie was certain that these pictographs were the ancient snake script that Usma had gone to great lengths to have Zhu Juanshi translate!

Since this matter concerned the prophecy of Fuxi, Taotie dared not be careless and immediately confirmed it with Bomu.

“That’s right. Usma wants to control the Yin-Yang Netherfire Pot, but she doesn’t know how to operate it. Fortunately, there are ancient snake-script inscriptions on the pot’s wall, so I made a copy and gave it to her, hoping to use this as a starting point to try it out.”

Bomu nodded, frankly admitting what he had done.

Taotie understood and followed the passage to its end. As far as the eye could see, flames danced and mist billowed, all contained within a massive cavern, a hundred feet high and nearly eighty feet in diameter. The cave walls were jagged with sharp, multicolored rocks, and a crack ran along the ceiling, presumably the lid of the Yin-Yang Netherfire Pot.

Looking down, the bottom of the cave was about ten feet deep from the spout passage. It was burning hot and red, with dozens of round holes scattered like stars, and flames flying everywhere.

In the center is an octagonal platform, from south to west, with eight patterns carved on it: “Li”, “Kun”, “Dui”, “Qian”, “Kan”, “Gen”, “Zhen”, and “Xun”. These are the Fuxi Bagua diagrams that have been passed down in the Great Wilderness since ancient times.

Legend has it that in ancient times, Fuxi pondered the mysteries of the universe for many years, observing the changes of the sun, moon, and stars, and examining the laws governing mountains and rivers. Moved by this, one day a dragon-horse leaped into the Wei River and created a secret diagram. Fuxi, who was meditating by the river at the time, gained a great understanding. From then on, he observed the celestial phenomena and examined the laws of the earth, comprehending the mysteries of heaven and earth and all things, and mastering the magical powers to communicate with gods and ghosts.

However, no ancient Chinese classics or historical texts have been able to explain the mystery of the Fuxi Bagua diagram.

"Everyone, this Yin-Yang Netherfire Pot completes a cycle in half an hour, alternating between hot and cold, and combining ice and fire. Now, the earth fire has penetrated through the bottom of the pot, forming the [Azure Nether Purple Fire], which is even more intense than lava and indestructible. Even Xuanbing Iron will be burned into molten iron. If you are to proceed, please be very careful."

Hearing Bo Mu's reminder, Taotie nodded, picked up Zhu Juanshi, surrounded himself with Qi energy to protect him, and directly broke through the raging fire to get close to the stone carving on the pot wall.

"Come on, help me translate this."

"Hmm, this character is '回' (huí), and this one is '金' (jīn)."

Upon hearing Zhu Juanshi's word-for-word translation, the progress of the Fuxi Stone Prophecy in Taotie's status bar immediately began to rise.

"What is he doing?"

Emperor Tuoba looked at Taotie, who was studying the stone carvings on the pot wall, and asked in confusion.

"Huzui Peak, also known as Siguo Peak, is said to be the sacred pot of Nuwa, a compassionate goddess who, after capturing the Chaos Beast and other ferocious demons, sealed it with the Siguo Incantation and inscribed the incantation on its walls. A thousand years later, anyone who recites this incantation before the spout can release the demons trapped within. Over thirty years ago, a man from the wilderness wreaked havoc in the ravine and pried off the Chaos Ring embedded within the pot at the summit. Only then did my son and I realize that this perilous peak was actually Nuwa's sacred pot, used to seal away the demons in ancient times. Fortunately, the Siguo Incantation was written in ancient serpentine script, which the man couldn't decipher, so he only took the Chaos Ring and left the ravine, failing to release the beasts from the pot."

Bo Mu paused for a moment and slowly explained, "He had Snake Granny translate the stone inscription, presumably to work with the Chaos Ring to unseal the ferocious beast in the pot and confirm the location of that [Chaos]."

After a full half hour, Taotie, having experienced the alternation of ice and fire, finally obtained the so-called Fuxi Stone Prophecy through Zhu Juanshi's translation. Similar to Bo Muzhi Xuanqing's explanation, this Fuxi Stone Prophecy was not some prophetic saying, but rather a technique passed down by Nuwa to unseal the three ancient and extremely fierce creatures. This also perfectly explains where the technique for unsealing the Kun fish in Wusima's possession came from.

"You have collected all the Fuxi Stone Prophecies, progress (936/936)!" When Yanfu's notification rang in his ears, Taotie nodded and called to Tuoba Di, who was also waiting inside the pot, "Let's go. Now that we have the Chaos Ring and the Repentance Technique, it's time to go out and try our luck to see if the Chaos is still in this pot."

Emperor Tuoba had no objection and immediately followed the others back the way they came.

Meanwhile, in the Fire Pot Mountain, which the people of the Great Wilderness were unaware of, an incredibly deep black hole suddenly expanded out of the void, and a baby face with a short buzz cut appeared at the other end of the black hole.

"I never thought I'd be able to return to the Great Wilderness. I really miss it."

After saying that, Li Anan, the director of Three-Eyed Global [Chaos], touched Qing Ranran's chin, walked out of the root passage, and stood directly on the Bagua platform in the center of the pot.

At the same time, upon hearing the words "Ready" transmitted from Yanfu, Taotie immediately took out the Chaos Ring and chanted incantations. A muffled thunderous tremor resounded from beneath Pimu Hill, the clouds and mist dissipated, the peaks shook, and countless ferocious birds and beasts cried out in alarm, soaring into the sky and swirling high above the group. In an instant, they obscured half the azure sky like dark clouds.

The rosy clouds in the sky vanished, and the illusion disappeared. The heroes looked down and saw rolling clouds and flames in the ravine, surging upwards like a raging torrent. Countless neon lights burst out, like sharp swords, dazzling the eyes.

"Quickly, go and disperse the troops of the three races!"

Before Emperor Tuoba finished speaking, the seven-colored sea of ​​clouds below suddenly surged upwards with a loud "boom," exploding into a dazzling display of colors. Thousands of fiery snakes and red flames soared and danced wildly, and a scorching wind swept over them. The heroes were terrified and scattered in alarm.

Amidst the roar, seven of the highest and steepest peaks of Pimu Hill, including Zhaoying Peak and Xuanwu Peak, collapsed one after another, sending up billowing smoke and dust.

The earth shook violently, the cracks widened rapidly, and then there was another thunderous roar. The ground within a radius of several miles of the hill suddenly collapsed downwards, forming a huge basin fault.

“Oooooooh!”

A burst of red light danced within the ravine, followed by a deafening roar. Everyone's minds went blank, their blood surged, and countless scouts were instantly thrown to the ground.

boom! ! !
Suddenly, the ground on the south side of Pimu Hill exploded, boulders flew everywhere, flames shot out, and the peaks collapsed, gradually raising a huge, snow-white "mountain range" with matted fur, enormous size, and even more ferocious power than the Kun fish.

Through countless fissures in the ground, one can vaguely see a huge "sphere" rapidly expanding and bulging from the depths of the ravine, causing the hills and peaks to tilt and collapse under its pressure.

The round sphere was covered with huge dragon scales, which looked like countless blinking eyes, sometimes bright yellow and sometimes fiery red. In the middle was a long slit like a giant mouth, from which countless snow-white hairs stretched out like tentacles, waving wildly.

"chaos!"

Bo Mu and the others gasped in shock, their expressions changing drastically. They no longer had any doubt about the claim that the Yin-Yang Netherfire Pot was the place where chaos was sealed.

"Enough! I beg the gods to stop immediately and seal the chaos back into the pot!"

Upon hearing Tuoba's sudden shout, Taotie nodded slightly, changed the incantation in its mouth, and the ground, which had risen like a mountain, paused for a moment, then suddenly crumbled and collapsed.
As the thunderous roar subsided, the earth-shaking tremors gradually diminished. Looking down, everyone discovered that the ferocious beast Chaos had vanished, replaced by large numbers of Tu tribe cavalrymen crushed to death by the rocks in the cracks in the ground.

It was the same Tu ethnic army that had previously claimed to mediate the Shuimu disaster, but in reality, they were hiding in Pimu Hill and had ulterior motives.

Among the many corpses, a bronze banner about six zhang long was particularly eye-catching. Next to it, in the broken bronze chariot frame, lay several corpses dressed in bright yellow luxury clothes, clearly the violent deaths of Tu ethnic nobles.

"I never imagined that Ji Shaodian, who had lived a mediocre life, would end up losing his entire fortune because of a female demon. In the end, he even lost his life in this Pimu Hill."

Seeing his former friend fall to such a state, the Azure Emperor Linggan shook his head, his tone quite sentimental.

Before he finished speaking, Taotie swooped down, its Qi energy swirling and sweeping away all the debris. From the pile of wrecked corpses, it found a brass box engraved with the words "Xirang".

【Breath Soil】: The primordial soil of the universe, is divine mud left over from when Pangu separated heaven and earth. It expands infinitely when exposed to wind; once solidified, it is harder than black iron, and no divine weapon can cleave it. When Nuwa mended the sky, she used the divine soil of Breath Soil, but later felt that this soil was too powerful and could cause endless harm if not handled carefully. Therefore, she kept only three feet square, storing it in nine brass boxes, which were hidden in the nine sacred mountains of the Tu tribe.

"Lu Hu Shen, the famine and flood in the Cold Wasteland have been resolved!"

Carrying the brass box back to the group, Taotie raised its hand to the enlightened Lu Wu and laughed loudly.

"Emperor Tuoba, now that the three most notorious villains have been confirmed to no longer cause trouble, what are your plans for the future?"

Seeing that Taotie handed over the Chaos Ring directly, Emperor Tuoba looked somewhat surprised. He obviously did not expect Qin Huai to take the initiative to hand over the key to control the Primordial Ferocious Beast. However, he did not say anything, but simply took it and put it away. He calmly replied, "Naturally, I will return to my old body and work with the Ten Witches and the Poison God to study how to solve the problem of the Fine Snow Corpse Gu, and restore peace to the Great Wilderness."

“Then you can handle this Usma. Her true form is the Heluo fish, and the Fine Snow Corpse Gu is a new Gu produced by mating with her flesh and blood, along with the Nine-Colored Corpse Worm and the Nine Nether Corpse Gu.”

Taotie pointed at Wusima, then glanced at Bomu out of the corner of his eye. After thinking for a moment, he said, "If Bomu and Yangji Zhenshen are willing to do their part for the Great Wilderness, they might as well go to Kunlun with Emperor Tuoba to help. It would be a way to atone for their sins and prevent the five tribes from gossiping about them in the future."

Gongsun Yinghou and his mother lived in seclusion in Diqiu for decades, spending their days among the most vicious insects, birds, and beasts in the Great Wilderness. They knew their natures like the back of their hand, and in terms of their Gu arts skills, few in the Great Wilderness could compare with them.

Qin Huai suggested that they follow Emperor Tuoba to develop an antidote for the Corpse Gu. This would allow them to atone for their crimes and also to show their kindness to the Great Wilderness, thus improving the reputation of the mother and son and helping them integrate back into the various tribes of the Great Wilderness more quickly. It was indeed a good suggestion.

"Now that this matter is settled, will the Heavenly God accompany us back to Kunlun?"

Emperor Tuoba looked at Taotie and probed, seemingly unintentionally.

"No, since the Great Wilderness is about to return to peace, I, a person from beyond the wilderness who sensed the will of the Great Goddess Nuwa to emerge from seclusion and save the world, should naturally inherit the cause and effect and settle those snake-descended barbarian states far overseas."

Facing the crowd, Taotie cupped his hands in greeting and said with a smile, "Gentlemen, until we meet again!"

(End of this chapter)