At the sight of this realm bead, Xia Pingan became spirited. He had read the information about this realm bead before. This realm bead was the most important realm bead for summoners to master water-based summoning skills. Water-based summoning skills were like water, ever-changing. The essence of water-based summoning skills depended on one's will. This realm bead was the foundation of water-based summoning skills.
The death rate of fusing with this realm bead was very low; however, the success rate was very high. Therefore, this realm bead was very popular among summoners. It was one of the most popular realm beads.
However, no one had ever heard of a perfect fusion with this realm bead of Yu The Great since ancient times.
After putting down this realm bead and taking a look at that grey realm bead, Xia Pingan didn't know whether he should cry or laugh. That grey realm bead was a "turncoat strike" which could summon slave soldiers. He had already fused with it.
As this realm bead was useless to him now, he could only deal with it in the future.
After checking the realm bead, Xia Pingan opened another smaller box.
After opening the box, Zhang Tie saw a pure gold badge in the shape of a pentagram.
The words "87th Legion" were written below the pure gold badge. In the middle of the badge, there was a symbol of two crossed swords clamping a soul-calming banner. This badge was the symbol of the priest of the 87th Legion.
As long as he wore it, all the others would know that he was the priest of the 87th Legion.
Xia Pingan had experienced many things today and there should be nothing else for him to do now. Xia Pingan thought about it and took out the World Pearl that Yu the Great had used to control the flood and started to fuse with it.
...
Thunders flashed across the sky like dragons while heavy rain poured down from the sky. The moment Xia Pingan opened his eyes, he found that he was standing on the top of a mountain. He had been drenched all over. The world below the mountain had been flooded. As far as the eye could see, it was drizzling and foggy.
Numerous Hua youths were standing behind Zhang Tie from one mountain top to another. All of them looked sorrowful and hopeless.
In addition to those Chinese youths, there were also giants standing behind him, whose faces were also filled with despair.
Other than the giants, there were also countless strange beasts controlled by humans on the mountain.
Amidst the silence, there was some movement at the foot of the mountain.
There was a man standing on the back of a strange beast that looked like an ox or a flood dragon. He was not afraid of the sea at all. He cut through the waves and directly crossed the water from afar. When he reached the foot of the mountain, he jumped off the strange beast in the water. He held a jade token high above his head and rushed to the top of the mountain as fast as lightning.
The crowd began to stir.
"The emissary of Emperor Shun is here …"
"The emissary of Emperor Shun is here …"
The crowd exclaimed and looked at the newcomer in awe.
Wherever that person went, the countless youths and giants standing behind Xia Pingan made way for him.
That person rushed straight to where Xia Pingan was before stopping.
"Yu, receive the order!"
As soon as that person opened his mouth, his voice was majestic and thunderous. The entire crowd on the mountain top and the hillside all knelt down. The giant also knelt down, and the strange beasts also knelt down one by one.
Xia Pingan also knelt down.
"Yu, your father, Marquis Chong, had been trying to control the flood for nine years. He had spent a lot of effort, but it was all in vain. Today, the embankments collapsed and the rivers flooded. The Central Plains became a swamp country. Countless creatures were killed. Marquis Chong's crime is unforgivable. He has been sentenced to death by Emperor Shun on Feather Mountain. Emperor Shun orders you to continue to control the flood. Don't let down the people in the world …"
"Yu, receive the order!" Xia Pingan raised both of his hands and took over the jade token.
The emissary of Emperor Shun then left. When he reached the foot of the mountain, he stood on the back of the strange beast that looked like an ox or flood dragon and crossed the water, disappearing into the vast swamp country.
…
Although the emissary of Emperor Shun had left, the flood-control army on the mountain was still in a gloomy mood.
They had been trying so hard to control the flood for nine years. But in the end, all their efforts were in vain. Many people looked at the vast swamp country and felt a bit desperate. They didn't know how to stop the flood.
Xia Pingan was standing on a huge rock at the top of the mountain, holding the token of Emperor Shun high. Looking at those flood-control army, he used all of his strength to roar in the storm.
"Fifteen years. Give me another fifteen years. I will definitely find a way to quell this flood. Today, I swear to the heavens and earth that if I can't quell this flood within fifteen years, I will kill myself by slamming my head into the mountain as an apology to the people of the world!"
Among the crowd, people remained silent. Then, someone roared. "Stop the flood!"
"Stop the flood!"
"Even if we have to die, we will stop the flood!"
Slowly, one voice turned into ten voices, then into a hundred voices. In the end, only one voice resounded across the entire mountain. "Stop the flood!"
This voice completely covered the thunder in the sky.
At this moment, a golden snake swooped down from the sky and was about to land on Xia Pingan's head. However, a guard beside Xia Pingan with a huge axe suddenly leaped up and chopped that golden snake into pieces. Then, that guard landed steadily on the ground.
No one was surprised by this.
Xia Pingan swallowed his saliva. Suppressing the shock in his heart, he continued loudly, "We used wrong methods to stop the flood. We wanted to stop the flood. But think about it. Can we stop the flood? We've been trying to stop the flood for nine years. It rains every year. If we stop the flood, the more it rains, the more water we can stop. It's like a bowl of water. When the bowl is full, you keep adding more water. How can the water not overflow …"
Hearing this simple logic, everybody understood it at once.
"If we can't stop the flood, what should we do?" Someone asked at once.
"I've observed over the past few years. The further west we go, the higher the terrain. The further east we go, the lower the terrain. There's the sea in the east, and the water will flow from the higher ground to the lower ground. As long as we can connect the rivers and mountains and let the water flow to the lower ground and into the sea, we can completely solve the flood problem …"
The golden snake danced wildly in the sky, but it couldn't drown out Xia Pingan's voice.
More and more people's eyes lit up. Their expressions became resolute.
"Not only do we have to stop the flood so that our descendants won't have to suffer from the flood, but we also have to find a way to turn the flood into a benefit for the common people …"
"Stop the flood …"
Xia Pingan looked at the torrential flood at the foot of the mountain. His mind was still in the clouds.
People only knew that Yu The Great stopped the flood by diverting the water into the sea and stopping the flood in Huaxia. However, they didn't know that Yu The Great's way of stopping the flood might not be so simple.
Xia Pingan had studied history for many years in his previous life. After all kinds of research, he always had a bold guess in his heart. Yu The Great led countless ancestors and talented people of Huaxia to do great things when the world was flooded. In China, Yu The Great used the heaven and earth as his Taoist field, the mountains and lakes as his chess pieces, and the ability to change the heaven and earth. He used the flood to set up a peerless Feng Shui formation to protect the descendants of Huaxia for generations.
Yu The Great used Hongze Lake as the Vermilion Bird, Taihu Lake as the Xuanwu, Dongting Lake as the Azure Dragon, and Panyang Lake as the White Tiger. He turned the four lakes into the four sacred beasts. He used the Feng Shui formation of the four sacred beasts and the Nine Cauldrons to protect Huaxia.
The person who fused with this Realm Pearl might be able to divert the water into the sea and stop the flood, but they would never be able to recreate Yu The Great's true power. This was why no one had ever been able to perfectly fuse with this Realm Pearl.
If his previous guess and research were correct, then if he followed that train of thought to stop the flood, other than diverting the water into the sea, he would also have to set up the Feng Shui formation of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu in the four lakes of Huaxia to turn the flood into benefits. Only then would he be able to perfectly fuse with this Realm Pearl.
The legend of the great flood in human history was not just a legend.
The story of Yu The Great's flood control was also not a story. Many myths were not myths …
…
Time flew by. Two months had passed since Xia Pingan became the Legion Priest of the 87th Legion.
In the past two months, several major events had happened in Yizhou Province. One was the exposure of the Gao family. The Gao family's assets such as mines and companies were confiscated by the Yizhou Provincial Military Control Committee, which caused quite a stir in Yizhou Province.
The Gao family, which had once been famous in the Yizhou province, had completely come to an end after the strange murder case. The entire family had vanished into thin air in just a few days and was torn apart.
In such a tense situation, the Gao Family's misfortune was quickly forgotten except for some rumors. This was because in this era, more important things were happening one after another. It was too much for people to deal with. The Gao Family's misfortune was just a small wave in the Country of Great Yan at most.
The second thing that happened in Yizhou Province was that two new permanent space cracks appeared in Qianlong Mountain Range. One of them was in the underground rock cave of Qianlong Mountain Range.
Inside and outside Yizhou Province, the situation in and outside Yizhou Province in the Great Fire Country didn't improve at all. Instead, it rapidly deteriorated. The rapidly deteriorating situation made the governments and military of various countries unable to cope with it. The situation in various places was becoming increasingly difficult to control.
In Asia, as an island country, the space invasion in Japan was completely out of control. A national refugee tide had already appeared in Japan. All the ships and planes leaving Japan were filled with refugees.
In Africa, numerous magic fire spiders and magic liquid spiders rushed out of the Sahara Desert. More and more African countries were completely out of control and entered a state of anarchy.
In Europe, the magic spirit tide surged in the British Isles again. On September 27th, due to the situation in Paris being out of control, the French government had to withdraw from Paris and prepare to move to the Doomsday Bunker in France.
Due to the leak of the evacuation plan, when the French government and personnel were evacuated from Paris, they were stopped by the protestors in Paris. Millions of angry Parisians flooded the highways and airports, causing all the airports and highways in and out of Paris to be paralyzed. Finally, a fierce conflict broke out between them and the French military and police forces that maintained order in Paris, resulting in a tragedy. The conflict caused thousands of casualties …
There was also a shocking piece of news that spread around the world. It was said that on the evening of August 15th, when the Russian military was attacked by fire meteorites in various Russian cities, they had already launched several missiles carrying hydrogen warheads into the space cracks above the Eurasian Continent.
The moment the hydrogen warheads entered the space cracks, they detonated, but it didn't seem to have any effect …
Regardless of whether this news was true or not, it was still frightening.
In various parts of the Southern Light Continent, due to the outbreak of the zombie virus brought by the Demon Rats, millions of refugees from various countries broke through the Fire Country's border control in order to avoid the disaster and space invasion, all of them surging into the Fire Country …..
In the Yi Province, the number of invading creatures coming out of the Thousand Dragon Mountain Range was increasing. Every part of the Yi Province didn't stop. Coupled with the increase in the number of sudden spatial invasions, the gunshots and cannons inside and outside Xinchuan City started ringing again at the beginning of September. Every day, more and more invading creatures rushed out of the two permanent spatial rifts in Xinchuan City.
The pressure on the 87th Legion was increasing …
The water and electricity supply in Xinchuan City slowly became tense. There were frequent power outages in the city, and long queues started to form at the water supply places. Even with the implementation of military control, panic buying continued to break out in Xinchuan City, and the public security situation became more and more severe.
The recruits were undergoing intensive training, and the militia was established. There were more and more people carrying guns on the streets, and the control of guns was further relaxed. As long as one was a citizen of the Fire Country and didn't have a criminal record, one could now purchase hunting rifles, pistols, and other self-defense weapons from the military's gun shops …
The city became more and more dangerous, and the resources in the city became more and more scarce. Under these circumstances, many residents who originally lived in the city left Xinchuan City in large batches with the tacit approval and support of the military control committee. They drove off-road caravans or pickup trucks, and brought seeds, food, wilderness survival tools, and hunting rifles to take refuge in the sparsely populated areas.
The Fire Country was vast and sparsely populated. At this time, leaving the city became a wise choice for many people.
Mo Yanshao, Tu Polu, Cao Xinghua, and Lv Na were conscripted into the Yi Province Demon Suppression Guard and transferred to Xinchuan. They only had a quick meeting with Xia Pingan before they began to carry out the missions given by the 87th Legion. They worked with the military's special forces to eliminate the invading creatures in the Thousand Dragon Mountain Range.
Xia Pingan, who had become the chief priest of the 87th Division, did not relax for many days in this position. From the end of August onwards, the requiem ceremonies he presided over became more and more frequent. By the middle of September, it had become once every two days.
Why was it held every two days? Because as the battle became more and more intense, more and more soldiers were sacrificed. The mortuary of the hospitals and mortuaries in Xinchuan City could only hold a limited number of bodies. After two days, there would be no more space in the mortuary, and the bodies would have to be cremated. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a place to put the new bodies and they would rot.
Under these circumstances, Xia Pingan's divine power was rapidly depleted. He used at least 32 points of divine power each time to requiem the souls of at least several hundred soldiers.
After Xia Pingan's divine power was completely depleted, he could only rely on the rank one Shenli Dan provided by the legion to maintain his requiem ceremonies.
As Xia Pingan held more and more requiem ceremonies, Xia Pingan's great name finally spread throughout the entire Yi Province in a short one or two months.
Almost everyone in Yi Province knew that the 87th Legion had a priest called Xia Pingan whose requiem ceremonies were very powerful and had extraordinary effects.
Every time Xia Pingan performed a requiem ceremony, many soldiers from the 87th Legion would come to the stadium to bid farewell to their comrades with Xia Pingan. Every time Xia Pingan finished his requiem ceremony, everyone present would feel shocked from the depths of their hearts. It seemed that the souls of the sacrificed soldiers could really enter heaven during his requiem ceremony.
In the eyes of the 87th Legion's soldiers, Xia Pingan had already become the most powerful and most respected summoner in Yi Province. Xia Pingan was the guardian of the 87th Legion's soldiers.
Due to the rapid deterioration of the situation, all parties hastened their actions.
On the evening of the 26th of October, Xia Pingan received news that his sister, Xia Ning, had already entered the first batch of evacuees from Xianghe City. She would be evacuated from Xianghe City on the evening of the 27th and enter Doomsday Bunker, codenamed Tianshou.
Two days before that, the first batch of people from Xinchuan City who entered Doomsday Bunker had already evacuated.
On the 27th, Xia Pingan took some time to return to Xianghe City from Xinchuan City to bid farewell to Xia Ning …
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