Lecture on Ancient Times

  A heaven-shaking and earth-shattering war has come to an end, the native forces of the film world have finally achieved their goal, repelling the invading enemy, but more than half of the gods and great demons who participated in the war also fell, it can be said that it was a miserable victory.

  The few survivors who barely made it out alive were all severely wounded and had no choice but to retreat and recover in hiding. As of today, the calm surface of this land is only a temporary lull after the previous batch of external enemies was repelled, and it's uncertain when the invaders will launch another wave of attacks, at which point no one will be able to remain unscathed.

  "Ah! You say the earth under our feet is flat?"

  Even if the sky falls, there will always be someone bigger to hold it up. This is Lin Xu's consistent survival philosophy. For something as big as the rise and fall of the world, he feels that he doesn't have the qualifications to worry about it yet. Instead, some details in Huang Shiren's story triggered a strong reaction from Lin Xu.

  In response to Lin Xu's questioning voice, the narrator Huang Shiran remained calm and composed, stroking his long beard slowly as he said:

  "The theory of the round heaven and square earth is not entirely false. In my younger years, I was also full of vigor and made a bet with someone to run all the way to the edge of the sky and sea. I have personally seen the vast ocean waters flowing straight down from the cliff edges at the boundary between the heavens and the earth, falling endlessly into the deep abyss. The grandeur and magnificence of this scene is something rarely seen in my lifetime!"

  At this moment, Lin Xu's expression was so gloomy that he couldn't help but wish he could squat at the foot of the wall and draw circles.

  Huang Shiren, who was standing aside, listened curiously and heard Lin Xu muttering to himself in a low voice.

  "Overturned! Completely overturned! I should have thought of it earlier, truth also has prerequisites, the truth of one world cannot be copied to another world as is......"

  After finishing the ancient lecture, Lin Xu no longer had any reason to delay. Having obtained Huang Shiren's strong guarantee, he immediately handed over the oath plan for him to implement, and Lin Xu turned to devote himself to another major event that had been planned for a long time. It was called a big deal because Lin Xu planned to establish a town in Huo Mountain to ensure a stable source of incense for future generations. Although the promotion plan for the oath was good, any new thing needs a very long time to be widely accepted, you can't expect to rely on this trick to eat all over the sky!

  Fortunately, in the world outside the mountains at this time, it is the end of the dynasty, and the upper class is extravagant and corrupt. The middle and lower classes are greedy and corrupt, they collude with each other to exploit the common people, sucking their marrow and bleeding them dry for their own benefit.

  The entire Qin Empire, both north and south, was plagued by either natural disasters or bandits as numerous as the hairs on an ox. On the roads, one could see refugees fleeing their homes everywhere. Although there were those who had been forced to flee due to floods, droughts, locusts, and epidemics, more people were driven to desperation by the cruel government, which was more ferocious than a tiger, leaving them with nowhere to turn to heaven or earth.

  In theory, it's easy to win people's hearts by distributing a few baskets of steamed buns to disaster victims in such difficult times. However, putting this into practice is not as simple as just talking about it. For example, where should the settlement for the large number of refugees be located? This area is full of bandits and monsters, how can the safety of the migrants be guaranteed? Where will the oxen and farm tools needed for land reclamation come from? How will food supplies be solved before next year's harvest? Can't rely solely on transporting everything from outside the mountain!

  This involves all sorts of tricky issues, and it's not something that can be easily solved by one person, no, not even a god.

  After discussing the cooperation with Huang Shiren, Lin Xu retrieved the excess spiritual consciousness from his disguise and only kept a thread of spiritual consciousness to maintain this disguise as a wandering doctor in Jiangjia Village. Every day, he wandered around the streets. Next, he focused on the preparation work for the new city plan.

  "Good baby, ex-boyfriend really saved a lot of family property!"

  He treasured the black iron whip that looked dull and unremarkable, like a piece of rough iron, and Lin Xu couldn't help but sigh.

  "Mountain Whip" this treasure has an unimaginably great power, just as its name suggests. As long as the user outputs enough divine energy, this treasure can make some corrections to the terrain.

  In ancient legend, after Emperor Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he still felt unsatisfied. In order to expand his territory and open up new land, he ordered the alchemists to seek out this treasure from overseas immortals, and then began the great project of moving mountains and filling seas, continuously filling in the large mountains near the coast into the sea to create new land. Later on, Emperor Qin Shi Huang's endless ambition for land caused panic among the East Sea Dragon Clan, who feared that he would eventually fill up the entire East Sea. Therefore, the dragon clan used a very old but effective trick - they sent a beautiful and peerless dragon girl to the seaside palace to bewitch Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

  It seems that the old saying "heroes are helpless against beauty" is indeed true. Even a generation of powerful masters who can swallow mountains and rivers cannot help but fall under the spell of a beautiful woman, and as a result, he was confused and had the "Mountain Driving Whip" stolen from his hands by the Dragon Girl.

  Thus, the great cause of the First Emperor's moving mountains and filling seas was abandoned halfway, leaving behind a legendary story of twists and turns for future generations.

  Lin Xu couldn't guess how this treasure had fallen into the hands of the previous Mount Hua God, but he was delighted. Even if this "Mountain Driving Whip" itself didn't have any lethal power and wasn't convenient to use against enemies, just the fact that it could freely change the terrain's shape and appearance was enough to make one admire its extraordinary might.

  The majestic and steep Hoshan Mountain stretches for thousands of miles in an east-west direction, spanning the three provinces of Jing, Yang, and Yu. The area is home to numerous peaks, dense original forests that block out the sky and sunlight, and even after walking continuously for a month, one cannot see the edge.

  In such a deep mountain and old forest where tigers and leopards roam, monsters occupy the mountains and kings, finding a large piece of flat land suitable for human farming and living is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

  If it's just a matter of building small villages with a population of several hundred, it would be no problem to build thousands at once. Mount Hoshan is vast, but if you want to build a city like Lin Xu imagined, with a population of over one million, and the surrounding villages that can provide enough food for this city, without relying on the power of "Hurry up and change the sky", then someone, now already known as a certain god, would probably only be able to discuss with that foolish old man, generation after generation, for hundreds of years, day after day, tirelessly digging at the mountain, the great spirit of moving mountains.

  Lin Xu rummaged through the vast knowledge imparted by the previous mountain god in the sea of consciousness, and after half a day's effort, he found the few spells that drove the "Mountain Whip".

  After everything was ready, Lin Xu pinched his fingers together in a gesture, muttered to himself, and pointed the "Mountain Whip" at the vast mountains in front of him, shouting loudly:

  "Soldiers, hasten like the law! Decree!"

  Rumble...

  Accompanied by a deafening roar, the flying dust instantly blocked out the sunlight, and the rocks tumbling down from the mountain were like raindrops falling down. The ground beneath was wildly shaking as if it might split in two at any moment.

  Suddenly, birds and beasts in the nearby mountains cried out and fled in all directions, as if the end of the world was about to arrive.

  Under Lin Xu's stern command, the mountain peaks rumbled and slowly moved. The originally continuous high mountains were cut off in the middle into several segments, and the broken peaks cleverly followed the instructions to move outwards in all directions. The positions that collapsed on the ground were quickly filled with surging underground water and surface runoff, soon forming many turbid ponds and lakes.

  In the vast and boundless Huo Mountain, building a new city from scratch is a grand idea, but the difficulty of implementing it is no less than recommending Feng Jie, a beauty with both talent and looks, to participate in the Miss World pageant.

  In a memory that seemed to be from another world, Lin Xu vaguely remembered an advertisement slogan that said "Calcium supplements, absorption is the key". When it comes to acquiring knowledge, the principle is the same. There's basically no shortcut to take in this kind of thing. Any attempt to achieve instant success seems to always end up with a greater loss in the end. The rough and forced way of imparting knowledge by his predecessor, Huo Shan, was also unlikely to make Lin Xu, the inheritor, become an expert in a particular field overnight, at most saving some tedious memorization efforts.

  Learning is a gradual process of proficiency, only when truly understanding the stereotyped knowledge written in books and integrating it into reality can one achieve mastery. Without reaching this step, it cannot be considered as having learned a skill.

  City planning and construction have been a long-standing discipline, which also existed in ancient China. When the Zhou Dynasty built Luoyang, Duke Zhou personally went to the Yellow River bank to survey the geography, and the common name for ancient city planning was "Kan Yu".

  Feng shui is a discipline closely related to Chinese culture, although it can only be considered as a side branch derived from the original classics of I Ching and Bagua. However, when applied properly, it can have a remarkable effect. Don't look at things like Feng Shui treasure land, which sounds mysterious when spoken by Feng Shui masters, but actually, tracing back to its roots, it's based on nothing more than mountains surrounding water, hiding wind and gathering gas, a set of theories derived from these eight characters.

  This time Lin Xu went to great lengths to change the mountains and rivers, not to create a flat land, but to tailor-make a feng shui for the future city.

  Man follows the Earth, the Earth follows Heaven, Heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows Nature. What is called the creation of the divine and the mysterious can create all sorts of wonders beyond human comprehension.

  Although Lin Xu's efforts to change the feng shui landscape are impressive, they cannot compare to a truly natural and perfect feng shui treasure land. At best, it can only be considered a knockoff version. Nevertheless, this "Nine Stars Embracing the Moon" feng shui layout is still an unimaginable wonder. Despite its grand appearance, the basic principle is not complicated: whether man-made or naturally formed, as long as nine mountain peaks with characteristics corresponding to Greedy Wolf, Giant Gate, Lucky Store, Literary Star, Honest and Virtuous, Military Star, Broken Net, Left Assistant, and Right Protector are gathered in the same area and arranged in sequence, they will form a Nine Stars layout when aligned with the celestial stars.

  The water body located in the central position, used to absorb the spiritual energy of mountains and rivers, belongs to Taiyin, which is called the moon. All these elements add up to the "Nine Star Array".

  Nine majestic and steep peaks form a barrier around, playing the role of gathering wind and accumulating air. In the middle of the surrounding peaks, through the deepened and widened pool by Lin Xuan, as well as the many streams and ponds flowing between the peaks and the pool, just like the blood vessels in the human body, circulating endlessly, together forming this extremely rare Feng Shui pattern.

  It is rare because under natural circumstances, these nine mountains with typical significance in Feng Shui can never gather together, let alone be arranged in the correct order.

  If Lin Xu didn't have the "Mountain Whip" cheat that could easily change the original terrain, the Heavenly Court should have long since abandoned this trivial matter and stopped interfering with those who broke the rules. I believe that within the scope of this piece of land, there is no place to find the "Nine Stars Holding the Moon", a treasure trove of good fortune.