The Human Race's great sage could not accept a future in which his people were shackled.
Why?
The Heavenly Court's Weak Water was ravaging Eastern Yi's mountains and rivers, yet it could still openly be used as an excuse to make us bow, compromise, and abandon our ideals and beliefs?
We should do things simply because we want to do them. We had never been forced to do anything!
Gun's speech rang out with force.
He represented the will of the Xia Hou Clan, challenged Bird Master Chong Hua's authority, provided a theoretical weapon for those mourning the dead, and shook the foundation of the peace talks.
--Did flood control necessarily mean accepting the Heavenly Court's coercion and extortion?
--I didn't think so!
--The Dragon Master had failed to control the floods, but the Human Race would never admit defeat!
--Besides controlling water with water, this world had the simplest principle of the Five Elements' mutual generation and restriction... earth restrains water!
And as luck would have it... there was an unparalleled divine object that might be able to restrain the Weak Water of the Heavenly River!
The Nine Heavens Breathing Soil!
This was a divine object that no member of the Human Race could ignore or forget.
That was because one of the most important materials in the Human Race's origin—Empress Nuwa molding earth to create humans—was precisely this!
Breathing Soil was one of the supreme divine objects of the earth element. It possessed the property of creation, could grow on its own, and would never diminish.
Using it to restrain the Weak Water that had flooded the land and brought disaster...
"It seems... feasible!"
The Human Race's people from the various Eastern Yi clans were all brimming with passion and fervor. Through grand deductions and discussions, they confirmed