It was completely dark and Xianyang city was much quieter. In Ying Zheng's inner study, the two of them continued to chat.
Ying Zheng looked at the Xuanyuan Sword and said, "What a coincidence. Today I just asked Jing Fan to make a replica of the Xuanyuan Sword for Princess Hu Yu. Now I just need to make an extra one."
Li Si shook his head slightly and said, "Weichen's intention is not to imitate Xuanyuan Sword."
"Oh? Why?" Ying Zheng asked.
"It is said that this Xuanyuan Sword was made by the Yellow Emperor in gratitude to Yaizhen, so it was cast with Yaizhen's totem. So how could Yaizhen not be familiar with this Xuanyuan Sword? Even if the imitation is very similar, it will inevitably have flaws, and if If Yaizhen thinks that the king is perfunctory with him, it will be counterproductive." Li Si said calmly.
"What should we do?" Ying Zheng asked.
Li Si said: "Wei Chen means that the king only needs to imitate the Yellow Emperor's approach and make a sword with his totem on it to show his respect. I believe it will be happy."
"Is this appropriate?" Ying Zheng asked without confidence.
"Your Majesty," Li Si said, "Don't forget that you are also a Heavenly Successor. Although you are far younger in age and seniority, your status is noble after all. To say that this Yaizhen is actually an envoy from Jiuyou, I would not dare to It’s disrespectful to the king. As for the style of the sword, the king can design it himself.”
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "So that's it. In addition to making a sword, what else do you need to prepare?"
"As for what other preferences he has, I don't know, but I don't think he will make any too difficult requests."
Ying Zheng was silent for a moment and then asked: "Mr. Cai mentioned age just now, and this Xuanyuan Sword was made for him, so how old is Yaizhen?"
Li Si smiled and said: "I don't know whether the current Yaizhen is still the same as the Yellow Emperor, but I don't know, but the lifespan of the dragon clan is very long, which is true, and the memory can be passed on, so this point There’s no need to worry.”
Ying Zheng nodded calmly on the surface, but his heart was churning.
Even if you live for such a long time, your memories can actually be passed down.
"Sir, what kind of place is that Nine Netherlands?" Ying Zheng couldn't help but asked out of curiosity.
Li Si looked at Ying Zheng, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Now is the time to talk to the king about the relevant matters. I believe the king has been mentally prepared during this period."
Ying Zheng nodded vigorously and said, "Sir, go ahead."
List paused for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty already knows that the land we live in and the ocean in the distance are actually on the surface of a sphere, right?"
"I know this," Ying Zheng replied.
"If you want to give an example, this sphere is like a peach." Li Si said, "A peach has a peach skin, a peach flesh, and a peach core. And we live on the surface of the peach skin, but this peach The skin also has an inner side that is close to the peach flesh. The inner side and the outer side are the inner and outer sides of each other and are consistent with each other. If you press a pit on the peach with your hands, the inner side of the peach skin will bulge accordingly. "
Ying Zheng blinked and thought carefully about what Li Si said.
"The inside of the peach skin is equivalent to the Nine Netherlands, and the peach flesh is its living space. The innermost peach core is a luminous object like the sun, supplying the Nine Netherlands. Light energy, and maintains the operating rules of the entire star." Li Si said.
"In other words..." Ying Zheng said, "There is another world under the land we are on?"
Li Si nodded slowly and said: "That is a completely opposite world to ours. The mountains here are the sea there, and the sea here is the mountains there. Moreover, there are no four seasons and there is always a constant temperature. It is the most suitable residence for egg creatures."
"Mountains are opposite to the sea..." Ying Zheng muttered to himself, imagining pressing the peach skin into a pit, because he had never seen the sea, let alone the entire planet, so it was certainly difficult to imagine. What a situation.
Seeing that Ying Zheng was a little hard to understand, Li Si continued to explain: "As long as it is a living creature, it cannot survive without water. Of course, there is a lot of water in Jiuyou Land, but it is three-thirds seawater and seventy-fourths land. The seawater there It uses fresh water as a medium to transform into the sea water here."
Ying Zheng scratched his head and seemed to be getting more confused as he listened.
Li Si saw that Ying Zheng was a little unclear, so he said: "Your Majesty, it's better to behave as usual."
Ying Zheng smiled bitterly and nodded.
List paused for a moment and then asked: "Does your Majesty understand the so-called 'water flows to lower places'?"
Ying Zheng said with some embarrassment: "All babies who have just learned to talk know this truth."
"This seems to be a simple natural law, but it actually has a profound meaning." Li Si said, "Your Majesty, water comes from He again?"
"Of course water comes from the sky." Ying Zheng answered directly without thinking.
Li Si shook his head and said: "The king is talking about rain, which is just a natural landscape seen by human eyes. The king can think about it, how much rain would need to continue to form such a vast ocean?" Rain, in fact, the big rivers that continuously flow into the ocean are the real source of sea water.”
Ying Zheng said with some understanding: "Rivers merge into the sea, and rivers are fed into by several streams, and streams are gathered by several mountain springs."
Li Si smiled and said: "Springs gather into streams, streams gather into rivers, and rivers gather into oceans. This is also a natural principle of common sense, but the question is, since water flows to lower places, where does the highest mountain spring come from? Come? And the rivers merge into the ocean, but they have not caused the sea level to rise and submerge more land. What is the reason for this? "
"This..." Li Si's question stumped Ying Zheng.
Water flows downward, so where does the spring water from the source flow up...
Rivers merge into the ocean but do not cause the sea level to rise, which means that the total amount of sea water remains unchanged. So where does the excess sea water go?
"Wei Chen said before that our Jiuxiao and Jiuyou are the inside and outside of each other. The sea here is the mountain there, so our sea water goes to the top of the mountain through a special channel. In the process of crossing the land, It was filtered into fresh water, thus forming mountain spring water, which gathered into streams and rivers in the Nine Netherlands and finally merged into the ocean there," Li Si said.
Ying Zheng thought about it and said, "The seawater there also passes through specific channels, is filtered into fresh water, passes through the land, and is squeezed out in the mountains, forming the mountain spring here."
"That's right." Li Si smiled, "The whole process is a big circulation process, just like the blood in our body, which is continuously circulated throughout the body through the squeeze of the heart."
"Where is the 'heart' that keeps the water circulating?" Ying Zheng asked.
Li Si shook his head slightly and said: "I don't know about this little minister. Maybe the king will have a chance to see him in the future. After all, the king will definitely go to the Nine Netherland in the future."
Thinking about going to such a mysterious place in the future, Ying Zheng felt a little frightened and unconsciously looked at the silver piece in front of him.
"Senior said that these silver tablets are called "The Book of Mountains and Seas", which are records of the experiences and experiences of the Nine Netherworld by previous generations of Heavenly Successors, but I don't know what is recorded in them." Ying Zheng said in a low voice.
"It depends on when the king will get back the last volume of the "Book of Changes"." Li Si said thoughtfully, "But the name of the "Book of Mountains and Seas" reminds us that it has something to do with the king's responsibilities. , The reason why Wei Chen took the ocean as an example is precisely because Tian Cheng needs to control water."
"Then we can only translate it after we get the last volume back." Ying Zheng murmured.
"Records like this remind Wei Chen of some Western legends," Li Si said.
"The West?" Ying Zheng asked, "Is it the Qiang land? What legend is it?"
Li Si smiled and shook his head, and said: "The west that Wei Chen refers to is farther away. It is the western end of the continent, which is on both sides of the entire continent from here."
"Oh? What kind of place is there?" Ying Zheng became even more interested.
Li Si said: "It is also a fertile land and has a long civilization, and this legend is about the third great flood. The ancient book similar to the "Book of Mountains and Seas" is called the "Holy Book".
"Tell me quickly," Ying Zheng said eagerly.
Li Si cleared his throat and said: "Before the Third Flood, it was called the Ancient Era. The civilization of that era was thousands of times stronger than it is now. People at that time were very united and they had a common wish. That It was to find their ancestors, the beings who were called 'gods' at the time, because they were unwilling to be abandoned."
"This little man once heard from his predecessors that they built many towers and wanted to use these towers to realize their wishes." Ying Zheng said.
Li Si nodded and continued: "Those towers are called 'Holy Towers'. It is said that some of them still exist in this world. The western realm that Wei Chen mentioned is called 'Atlantis' according to our language here." '."
"Art...Landis?" Ying Zheng muttered, "What a strange name."
"This is just for the convenience of the king's understanding of the pronunciation." Li Si said, "Master should also have said that the Dragon Clan was so angry that it caused a flood in the Nine Netherlands, thus destroying the ancient civilization."
Ying Zheng nodded.
"Did Master say how the dragon clan caused the flood?" Li Si asked.
This time, Ying Zheng shook his head.
Li Si sighed softly and said: "Legend has it that the Dragon Clan used the power of the Nine Netherworlds to change the landscape, causing the land to continue to sink. When the ground shook, all the buildings were destroyed. Later, the land finally fell below On the sea surface, sea water poured in crazily, eventually submerging this place and forming a vast ocean. "
Hearing this, Ying Zheng's expression was a little painful. He was silent for a moment and then asked: "Is this how that era ended?"
Li Si nodded and said: "That place is still an ocean. Because it was formed by the sinking of the continent, later generations called it the Mediterranean Sea. If the king has a chance, you can go there and take a look." "
Ying Zheng just nodded slightly, not yet getting over his sadness.
Li Si continued: "The Dragon Clan has done this at a considerable cost. They have sunk the land, which means that in the Jiuyou Land, the corresponding sea area needs to rise to become land or a mountain, and the sea water It also needed to be dealt with, so the Dragon Clan chose another barren land in Jiuyou, and also made it sink, forming a huge trench. And the place where Jiuyou land sank formed a huge mountain range in our Jiuxiao land. . This mountain range is not far from us. The mountains of Kawachi are the remnants of it, and further to the southwest of Kawachi is the largest mountain range in the world, known as the Himalayas. "
Ying Zheng's mood eased a lot, and he said in a deep voice: "I have heard of this big mountain range. After the Kunlun Mountains, to the southwest are the continuous snow-capped mountains. But sir, you said that the Dragon Clan was destroyed by this move. Is it really necessary?"
"No one knows the specific reason." Li Si's tone seemed quite calm. "Later, the human race accepted God's will and took the contract to the Jiuyou Land to negotiate peace with the Dragon Clan. The envoy who went there was the original A man of heavenly inheritance. It is said that after the agreement was finally reached, the Dragon Clan stopped changing the terrain."
Ying Zheng thought about it and said: "The content of this agreement, my predecessors have mentioned before, is that the human race is not allowed to build anything similar to the Holy Tower, and then the human race is divided into many tribes, each tribe has its own unique language, making them Not so united anymore.”
Li Si nodded and said: "It should be more than that. There are also some legends related to that contract. It is said that the Dragon Clan asked the Human Clan to build a large ship and rescue all the eggs of the drowned chickens, ducks, snakes and insects there and transport them to the land. As for the cats, dogs, bears, and leopards, the fetal beasts were not allowed to be rescued. One can imagine how much the human race at that time hated the dragon race. Until now, the descendants there still hate the dragon race very much, but because they dare not provoke the dragon race anymore, they He concealed the truth and only left the legend of 'Noah's Ark' for future generations."
Ying Zheng frowned and said bitterly: "The Dragon Clan is indeed going too far. They destroy people's homes and are not allowed to rescue them."
"Actually, that's not all that was concealed. After the disaster, civilization was destroyed and mankind returned to its most primitive state. Almost all relevant records were erased, and the "Holy Bible" was missing. Later there Along the coast of this sea area, some tribes sorted out some scattered memories and compiled them into volumes to replace the original "Holy Scripture". So when Wei Chen saw this "Book of Mountains and Seas", he remembered these long-standing legends. ." Li Si said.
After Li Si's story was finished, Ying Zheng stayed there, speechless for a long time.
