My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 180 The Dream World: Nuwa in Ancient Mythology!

Li Kang gave Chu Zhu a deep look and said, "Legend has it that the giant steel bird was a divine messenger of the goddess Nuwa."

"The goddess Nuwa, who now resides in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, once commanded her iron-clad divine retinue during the mythological era to quell disasters, wage war against ferocious beasts and demons, and annihilate wild monsters, thus opening up a homeland for the ancient people to survive—"

"Yes, this primordial land is the very place of the Imperial Capital... It is the land where Nuwa looked down upon us, and it is also the original root of our Great Qian human race."

Li Kang's eyes held a profound depth, and his words revealed an inexplicable emotion.

"...Wait a minute!" Chu Zhu frowned, propping himself up with an unprecedentedly serious expression: "Ancient legends...what ancient legends?"

Upon first hearing the earlier parts, Chu Zhu thought that the origin of this myth lay in a pre-civilization era—

It's even possible that this myth is a variant of one where close friends manipulated Company C to fight against Skynet... As for why it's said that Nuwa controlled it, instead of Z... it's probably because too much time has passed, and the information revealed in the excavated ruins, such as the murals, is incomplete...

Even putting that aside, the fusion and grafting of gods and mythologies is common knowledge! The mythologies of various countries in the real world… aren't they just a case of you copying me, and me copying you?!
But as Chu Zhu listened, she sensed something was amiss… To reclaim the homeland of the ancient ancestors! The Imperial Capital was the origin of the Great Qian human race. Meanwhile, Nuwa, riding her steel-clad beings, hunted ferocious beasts…

This is clearly the point in time when the previous civilization collapsed and the dream civilization began to emerge.

And Nuwa's steel retinue—

If all goes as expected, these should be robotic dogs, drones, and other unmanned machines left over from the real world!
The question is, are the ferocious beasts being hunted just ordinary wild animals... or corrupted monsters?
Chu Zhu was more inclined to believe it was a monster. Because Li Kang said something very interesting… war! This was enough to prove that the other side, facing the steel torrent, had the power to resist… and perhaps even in the early stages of the battle, Nuwa suffered a great loss!
Ordinary wild beasts... don't have that kind of confidence!

"Don't you know?" Li Kang looked at Chu Zhu with some surprise. "It's the Heavenly Court in Taoist legends."

“I know a bit about the mythology,” Chu Zhu said expressionlessly, “but the problem is, I don’t know the mythology of the extraordinary world!”

"More or less, right?" Li Kang's words were somewhat uncertain. He closed his eyes, pondered for a long time, and then carefully said, "The goddess Nuwa, in Taoist mythology... isn't she the creator of humankind? And the ancient Heavenly Court was the abode of all the gods! The goddess Nuwa, in mythology, was one of the ancient emperors of the Heavenly Court. She was revered as Empress Nuwa!"

After a brief pause, Li Kang's voice was filled with emotion: "If she weren't the great goddess Nuwa, perhaps the ancestor and mother of humankind, how could she have resided in the Imperial Ancestral Temple for so long?"

Chu Zhu: "..."

He had indeed studied and learned about mythology in the past, but his understanding was not deep.

On the one hand, the real world already had myths about the Heavenly Court, but at that time he only regarded this world as a dream and only glanced at the myths.

After all, he dropped out of high school in the dream world and didn't learn much formal knowledge about the dream world... Most of his knowledge comes from the real world.

In the dream, he simply practiced a whole bunch of outrageous skills...

Of course, the main reason is that he looks down on the knowledge in dreams... The breadth of knowledge in high school in the real world is already greater than that in university in this world!

No, if we set aside the rigid, formulaic essays in the humanities... and just consider knowledge in subjects like physics, chemistry, and mathematics, the universities in this world are quite a stretch compared to junior high schools in the real world!
Of course, the rigid, formulaic essays in university required far higher levels of literary skill than those in the real world…

This was normal in feudal times!

On the other hand, the mythological system of the dream world is extremely chaotic and complex. At least, the school textbooks Chu Zhu was reading at the time were very disorganized and baffling...

"Huh? Nuwa is the creator of humankind?" Bi Xuan was completely bewildered. "Isn't it said that the God of the God Worshipping Society is the true creator of humankind?"

Yes, like this... Chu Zhu's eyebrows twitched slightly as she watched silently. Li Kang's expression froze, then he narrowed his eyes and stared intently at Bi Xuan, making Bi Xuan sweat profusely. He put his hands behind his back and gave an embarrassed smile.

But then again...

"Nuwa, the Heavenly Court... the Steel Clan... mythology..."

At this moment, Chu Zhu began to ponder a very serious question: Could it be that... in ancient times, there was actually a group of people who survived that desperate apocalypse and descended to the beginning of the Dream Era civilization, and subsequently created the earliest human civilization?

These ancient descendants established the Heavenly Court! They reclaimed the homeland of humanity...

That sounds pretty reasonable!
But if all of this is true...

"And what was the Heavenly Court's final decision?" Chu Zhu murmured. Even if that were the case, he was almost certain that these early inhabitants were practically all dead!
Otherwise, the world would definitely not be like this.

At the very least, if those people were alive today, or even held high positions in the Great Qian Dynasty... at the very least, the language of the Great Qian Dynasty would have to be the Chinese language of the real world, right?

Chu Zhu didn't believe that these early people would be so bored as to create a new writing system and language—from this perspective, they probably died quite early! Perhaps when they died, the early people hadn't even formed the most basic civilization.

Of course, it's also possible that the early inhabitants had already developed a basic civilization, with writing and language, so they couldn't teach or promote Chinese...

Regardless of the possibility, it's almost certain that they died before they could promote the knowledge they brought from the real world...

And about this...

"I don't know!" Li Kang said matter-of-factly.

Chu Zhu: "?"

"It probably cracked! Who knows? Anyway, there's no organization called Heavenly Court anymore! I've never heard of any Heavenly Court gods descending... or the only one I've ever heard of is the goddess Nuwa?" Li Kang shrugged.

Then he sighed and said, "Actually, if it weren't for the fact that the goddess Nuwa is real, I wouldn't believe that it was a real Heavenly Court! After all, textbooks keep saying that it's just a myth! Just a myth."

"The problem is, doesn't the God Worshipping Society worship a God? From this perspective, shouldn't they be considered remnants of the Heavenly Court... Sorry, I was wrong!" Bi Xuan was halfway through arguing when he noticed the cold and sharp gaze, and instantly realized what he had said, sliding to his knees at lightning speed.

Li Kang took a few deep breaths, patted his cheeks, and forcibly suppressed his urge to continue his education by lecturing. He guessed, "Of course, it could also be because it involves some kind of pollution issue..."

"After all, even information about the extraordinary cannot be leaked, let alone about the gods! If other gods besides Nuwa really exist... information about the gods! Tsk." Li Kang paused, then looked at Chu Zhu with some surprise. "Why are you so serious! And why are you suddenly asking so many questions?"

"It's nothing." Chu Zhu was silent for a long time, then suddenly laughed: "It's just that I've suddenly become interested in the mythology of the Great Qian Dynasty and its earliest history! Besides, what you said was too general! I'm thinking of finding some books to read later..."

"However, I'm not quite sure which books to read right now... Dreams, the myths of our world, seem to be something anyone can create, and there's no concrete framework for them... Ultimately, they're just too complicated and too chaotic."

“I see! That makes sense, the myths of different religions are slightly different…” Li Kang pondered for a moment, “Well, let me recommend a few to you… The Commandery has recommended mythological readings… I think these are a bit more reliable than you searching for a needle in a haystack by looking at the myths produced by various religions.”

"Alright." Chu Zhu nodded thoughtfully. He felt that the Commandant's special recommendation... seemed to have a hidden meaning.

(End of this chapter)