The Emperor's Ping Pu

As various thoughts popped into the netizens' minds, a new situation arose.

Boom boom boom!

Beneath a great power, the Sacred Mountain on the far side of the moon rumbled and sank, quickly losing its towering height and becoming level with the ground.

Suddenly, with another rumble, a layer of rock and soil covered the stump of the Tree of Life, instantly concealing it.

Only the towering Wisdom Tree remained in its place, along with a protruding rock formation not far from it.

After everything calmed down, the moon returned to its peaceful state, as if nothing had happened.

"Only the Wisdom Tree is left?"

Looking at the Wisdom Tree, stripped bare by the Great Flood and appearing on the verge of death, the netizens began to discuss.

"The moon is so desolate, can it still survive?"

After Su Qi's actions, the moon was a barren expanse, as desolate as could be.

Hearing the netizen above, many netizens became worried.

"It probably won't survive, right?"

"I don't know, it's a Divine Tree after all..."

Just as the netizens were lamenting the Divine Tree, a comment from one netizen suddenly caught many people's attention.

"There's only this one tree on the entire moon. It looks so lonely, quite pitiful."

This wouldn't have meant much normally, but for some people with wild imaginations and rich associative abilities, it was a fleeting spark of inspiration.

A series of astonishing ideas popped into their minds.

"Holy crap! A tree on the moon? Now that you mention it, I suddenly thought of something!"

"Shocked, +10086, I thought of it too."

"A tree on the moon, that one also known by the name of Divine Tree... the Moon Laurel?!"

"Holy crap!"

"Holy crap!"

"Damn!"

"666, I'm mind-blown!"

Following their comments, countless people were shocked.

The Moon Laurel?

The Divine Tree said to grow on the moon in legends?

"The Wisdom Tree is the Moon Laurel? Unbelievable!"

At first, they were stunned, but after a moment's thought, they looked enlightened.

The Divine Tree on the moon, so it was the Wisdom Tree?

As they were surprised, Brave Niu Niu commented, "Now that you mention the Moon Laurel, I suddenly remembered Wu Gang who chops trees."

Someone asked, confused, "What about Wu Gang?"

"Chopping trees, chopping trees. Isn't there a tree being chopped on the moon? That Tree of Life!"

"Hiss..."

The sound of sharp intakes of breath echoed across the world once again.

They were astonished by Brave Niu Niu's association.

Thinking about it, it was indeed terrifyingly plausible!

Su Qi, staring at his phone screen back home, was once again surprised by the associations they made.

"The Wisdom Tree is the Moon Laurel? The chopped Tree of Life, Wu Gang?"

He was dumbfounded, completely bewildered.

What kind of wild imagination was this? It was outrageously exaggerated!

Su Qi's lips twitched.

Especially seeing the string of comments like "666," "Great Niu Niu," "So that's how it is," with many silly netizens almost agreeing with the idea, he just wanted to tell them, "Wake up, you're overthinking it way too much!"

Finally, Su Qi's lips twitched. "You know too much, you've uncovered all the secrets. What am I supposed to do now? Silence you all?"

After the scene on the moon played for a while, the screen shifted.

Boom boom boom!

Floods were raging...

Strong winds were blowing, heavy rain was falling...

The floods were ravaging the land!

The netizens watched in silence.

On the peaks of towering mountains, the survivors, their faces etched with fear, trembled as they faced the natural disaster.

A prompt sounded.

[Time flows rapidly...]

The floodwaters gradually receded.

A magnificent, dreamlike rainbow appeared in the sky.

Smiles bloomed on the faces of the surviving humans.

[As the flood completely subsided, people descended from the mountains and other high places, spreading out to populate the surrounding areas.]

[During this process, communication between them was severed, and they gradually developed their own languages.]

Then, the netizens watched as these prehistoric humans, whose civilization had regressed due to the Great Flood, passed down the story of this world-ending catastrophe through oral tradition and other means.

"God found humans too noisy and sent down..."

"God saw that humans were greatly sinful on Earth..."

"The Heavenly God was enraged, and a monstrous flood destroyed humanity..."

The netizens were stunned. Various flood stories, some familiar and some strange, appeared before their eyes.

After watching for several tens of minutes, a familiar prompt suddenly sounded.

[Time flies by, and soon over nine thousand years pass...]

Seas change into mulberry fields, a fleeting moment!

Under the dumbfounded gaze of countless viewers, mountains flattened into plains, forests turned into deserts, and nine thousand years vanished in an instant!

[As time elapsed, the year became 405 BCE!]

With the appearance of this prompt, some people's eyes lit up.

"This year..." Professor Chen murmured, "The Warring States period?"

The netizens were astonished, finding the span of time incredibly exaggerated.

At this moment, the scene shifted, and a grand mansion appeared before their eyes.

An elder with white hair was carving something on a table. Turtle shells, animal bones, and oracle bone script were clearly visible on the table.

As the elder wrote, a prompt appeared, stating what he was currently writing.

[Strange Beast Huan: On Mount Yi Wang, there is a beast. It resembles a fox, has one eye and three tails, and is named Huan. Its cry sounds like a hundred voices, and it can ward off misfortune and cure fevers if tamed.]

"I don't understand."

"Is this the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"

They quickly realized.

After understanding what the elder was writing and recalling the strange monsters from prehistoric times, they suddenly understood.

It was indeed them!

Following this, more prompts appeared.

The complex and difficult classical Chinese text immediately stumped most netizens. Except for a small number of people, the rest understood only vaguely, until...

[...Below it lies Tang Valley. Above Tang Valley is Fusang, where the ten suns bathe. It is north of Black Teeth, situated in the water. There is a large tree; nine suns reside in the lower branches, and one sun resides in the upper branch.]

This description instantly jolted the netizens awake.

"Fusang? The Sun God Tree?"

Then, based on this description, they thought, "Good heavens, isn't this the Tree of Life?"

The prompt continued.

[Four hundred li to the southwest lies Kunlun Hill. This is truly the earthly capital of the Emperor, guarded by the divine Lu Wu.]

[Its divine form has the body of a tiger and nine tails, a human face and tiger claws; this deity guards the nine divisions of heaven and the Emperor's gardens...]

"Kunlun Mountain? Heavenly Emperor? Gardens?"

A place called Kunlun Mountain is the Heavenly Emperor's residence on Earth, with a garden above it, and a deity named Lu Wu guards this place.

Some netizens who understood the meaning immediately made a connection.

"Sacred Mountain? God?"

"Holy crap, they keep coming!"

Before they could be more shocked, the prompt continued.

[Time continues to flow, and the year becomes 219 BCE.]