Chapter 22: The River Chart and the Luo Book

  He Tu and Luo Shu

  In the beginning of chaos, before the formation of the universe, there was a vast expanse of grayness between heaven and earth. Amidst this, a lotus flower bloomed with 36 petals, representing the number of great perfection. Later, a lotus seed formed within it. After billions of years, the lotus seed came into being, named Pangu. He later obtained the Heaven-Opening Axe and enlightened to open up the sky.

  But in the midst of chaos, there were 3,000 gods and demons. When Pangu opened up the sky, they were blinded by the Great Way and recklessly tried to stop him. However, Pangu, who had grasped the destructive way of the Heaven-Cleaving Axe, struck down 49 times, killing most of the chaotic gods and demons, and merging them into the Desolate World.

  The sky was successfully opened, but due to the integration of the Chaos Demon God, the Honghuang world was even larger than Pangu had imagined. This caused the Honghuang world's Heavenly Way to become unstable, and the heavens and earth were about to merge. Pangu used his body to hold up the sky and support the heavens and earth.

  Finally, Pangu was tired and fell, but the creative way he gained from the primordial lotus in the chaos turned into a creative gas that spread out, his body transformed into the vast expanse of the universe, and every place in the universe is Pangu.

  The aura of creation fills the vast expanse, and under its transformative power, the primordial spirits, physical bodies, and magical treasures of those Chaotic Demons that were previously killed transform into the first humans, innate magical treasures, and terrestrial treasures of the Vast Expanse.

  The primordial inhabitants of the Desolate Era were the living spirits that thrived in the Desolate Era after the creation of the world, such as dragons, phoenixes, and tortoises. Their inherited memories were formed by the combination of the Chaos Demon God's soul fragments and Pangu's original spirit. Most of the Pre-Heavenly Spirit Treasures became the innate spirit treasures of these primordial inhabitants. The most famous ones are the two stupid birds on the Sun Star that always perch on top of each other, the Chaos Bell. There are also others, such as Nüwa's Red Thread Ball, Fuxi's Fuxi Zither, and the Five-Colored Flag of the Five Directions.

  The He Tu and Luo Shu of later civilizations were formed in this way. They were originally one, forged by the primordial demon god for who knows how many years. In that great war where Pangu was ambushed, the primordial demon god who cultivated water-based Taoist magic was chopped to death with an axe, his yuan Shen scattered, and his magical artifact was also split into two pieces.

  In the Primordial Spirit, two larger pieces transformed into the two living spirits of the Desolate Expanse, known as Hebo and Luoshen, who were siblings. Together, they controlled the domain of river waters in the Desolate Expanse. The halved divine artifact combined with the aura of creation to form two pre-heavenly spiritual treasures, which became the congenital spiritual treasures of Hebo and Luoshen, known as the Hetu and the Luoshu.

  At this time, He Bo and Luo Shen were concentrating on collecting their own congenital spiritual treasures.

  "Big brother, I've seen my birth treasure!" Luo Shen saw her birth treasure and was like a little kid, not having the elegant demeanor she had before, but rather like a mischievous little girl.

  "I see," He Bo looked at his sister's happy appearance, and he also felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart. Although he didn't say it out loud, He Bo still knew about his sister's longing for the congenital spiritual treasure.

  Both of them noticed their congenital spiritual treasures. Hebo's congenital spiritual treasure was called the Hetu, a golden brown square beast skin with black and white dots drawn on it, mysterious and extraordinary. Luoshen's congenital spiritual treasure was a round turtle shell, with three horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines forming a natural and harmonious pattern.

  "Ah——" Luoshen, who was absorbing the spiritual treasure's information, suddenly let out a sharp cry. Indeed, women are always like this, their cries are forever frightening. They won't change no matter how much the environment or space changes.

  "What's wrong?" He Bo asked with concern.

  "Big brother, I know why our congenital spiritual treasures awakened later than us." Luo Shen said to He Bo with surprise.

  "Why?" He Bo asked in puzzlement.

  "You see our congenital spiritual treasure, and then look at the heaven and earth of Honghuang, and our congenital spiritual treasure has such a great golden merit as soon as it was born." Luoshen reminded.

  "What's the big deal?" He Bo muttered.

  "What's so special about your treasure?" Luo Shen said with a hint of disappointment.

  "My treasure is the River Chart, which uses ten black and white dots to represent yin-yang, five elements, and four symbols. It is a square chart with:

  North - one white dot inside, six black dots outside, representing Xuanwu star symbol, element of Water.

  East - three white dots inside, eight black dots outside, representing Qinglong star symbol, element of Wood.

  South - two black dots inside, seven white dots outside, representing Zhuque star symbol, element of Fire.

  West - four black dots inside, nine white dots outside, representing Baihu star symbol, element of Metal.

  Center - five white dots inside, ten black dots outside, representing Time-Space Wonder Point, element of Earth."

  "Halt!" Luo Shen shouted.

  "What's wrong?" He Bo asked in puzzlement.

  "Haven't you figured it out yet?" Luo Shen said, like a teacher.

  He Bo fell silent and carefully looked at the River Map, then looked at the Luo Book. His expression was serious as if he had thought of something.

  "How is it?" Luo Shen asked cautiously.

  "Still can't see it, little sister, you tell me." He Bao begged.

  Luoshen was thoroughly disappointed, looking at the weird big brother, and said carefully, "You see that your Hetu reflects the five elements, four images, yin and yang. My Luoshu reflects variation, harmony and balance. Moreover, our companion Lingbao's previous life is earlier than the formation of Hongyuan, so I suspect that the Hongyuan continent was planned according to our Lingbao."

  "What?" He Bo exclaimed in surprise.

  "Even if it's not entirely according to our Lingbao plan, it's still the mutual transformation of the two. The Hetu and Luoshu transformed the Hongyuan world, and the Hongyuan world also transformed the Hetu and Luoshu. This can also explain why the Lingbao in our inherited memories has changed its appearance, and its emergence is later than our awakening."

  Looking at the River Chart, it seems more and more like what Luoshen said. The river lord's face was solemn, looking at Luoshen, seriously saying: "Little sister, hurry up and put away the Luoshu, we're going back to the Water Mansion."

  "Why?" Luo Shen asked in puzzlement, looking at his big brother's serious expression that didn't seem like a joke, and a bad premonition also rose up in his heart.

  "Big brother, what's wrong?"

  "Look at the golden light of merit on the River Chart and the Luo Book. If your guess is correct, then a treasure will be born, and soon there will be more merit bestowed, completing the treasure of pre-heavenly merit. At that time, the Primordial Chaos may have a powerful being coming to snatch it away, and the bad premonition in my heart might just come true." As he spoke, he also hastened to speed up collecting his own River Chart.

  At this moment, the sky suddenly changed, a large cloud of golden merit descended from the sky and fell into the boundary space of River Earl and Luo God.

  "Sister, let's go quickly!" The two siblings who received the treasure hurried away.

  "Clang... Clang, Dong... Dong......" Suddenly a bell sound rang out in the void, freezing the boundary space of the two siblings.

  "Brother, what's going on?" Luo Shen asked He Bo with concern.

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  And outside the boundary, two ducks were talking excitedly.

  "Big brother, there really is treasure, I've already locked down this space."

  "Alright. You continue to lock down this space, we'll go in and retrieve the treasure." Emperor Jyun was also very excited, his own magic treasure had finally found a use.

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  Nameless Great Mountain, Shen Long's lecture location. Shen Long said it was a lecture on visualization techniques, but in reality, he was lecturing on his own faith, with some suspicion of hanging sheep heads and selling dog meat.

  However, all the living beings in the great mountain were immersed in the enlightenment of the Great Way. The idea of wanting to stay by Shen Long's side had also disappeared, because the Eastern King in their hearts gave them a better way - the method of visualization.

  When Shen Long finished speaking the Great Way, all living beings on the great mountain were immersed in the realization of the Great Way.

  The heavens and earth underwent a great transformation, as a golden aura of merit descended, falling into Shen Long's Dragon Pearl.

  "That's okay too." Shen Long said with a strange expression.

  Then patted the nine-colored divine cow's head lying beside him and rode the divine cow away.

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  (Today's second update, thank you for everyone's support, seeking recommendations and collections)

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