Jealousy...
Zuo Qiu Wu said nothing.
He thought that he had indeed envied Sima Heng!
Who could help envying a person like that?
Forever wielding his pen like iron, forever refusing to look back, forever unchanged by any person or any event—he gripped the History Knife and carved open the entire New Calendar. Across every corner of The Present World, one could see the ancient and know the present; from the present, one could see the recent ancient, the middle ancient, the high ancient, and the distant ancient.
From Sui Ren lighting the first fire and Cangjie creating writing, the past of the Human Race had been recorded in books for tens of thousands of years to this day.
Sima Heng had yet to achieve Transcendence, yet he was already universally acknowledged as the foremost historian!
With the writing of History Knife Chisels the Sea, history gained a tangible shape. With Sima Heng in the world, historians had their representative figure.
Everything else was merely everything else.
In the field of historical study, Chen Pu, who wrote Seeking Ancient Meanings Today, and he himself, who wrote Treatise on the Architectural History of the Ages, were both among that "everything else."
He truly had envied him!
Dark-green flames danced over his Confucian robe, like children in groups during a day off, laughing amid a hillside blanketed in wildflowers.
"But if there were no Sima Heng in this world, those truths no one picked up would be far too lonely!" Zuo Qiu Wu murmured amid the firelight.
"What?" The Sacred Demon had not heard clearly.
As he spoke, his steps abruptly halted! For without his noticing, Zuo Qiu Wu had already been pushed to the end of the [Heaven-and-Earth Time Furnace].
Clang!
Zuo Qiu Wu's body crashed into the furnace wall, actually