Hong Yuan's gaze flickered.
He had seen similar accounts in the Book of Yin to what Yu Wuhen had described.
Those accounts concerned the achievements of Great Yin's founding emperor, but clearly the "god" Yu Wuhen spoke of was not the same person.
"In the end, the god and his subjects established a kingdom upon the ruins. The kingdom bore the same name as the god: Yu!"
"And so his subjects revered him as the Yu Emperor! The Sage Emperor!"
Yu Wuhen suddenly looked toward the Imperial Capital, fierce fury blazing in his eyes. "Yu was the first kingdom in this world. The Yun Family are merely descendants of rebels and traitors. The so-called Emperor Taizu of Yin was originally a subject of the Yu Emperor. When the Yu Emperor swept away the evil gods and vicious spirits, he slew some outright and banished others to unknown realms beyond this world. But there were certain exceptionally savage evil gods that he swallowed, using his own body to seal and suppress them."
"Hm?" Hong Yuan thought of the Hidden Treasury Pagoda where he had obtained the Nirvana Dharma Eye.
The Nirvana Dharma Eye had been hidden within the dome of the Hidden Treasury Pagoda at the Vajra Temple. On that dome was a Demon-Subduing Painting, depicting an enormous figure standing between heaven and earth, his mouth wide open as countless demon beasts, ghosts, evil gods, and spirits fell into its swirling maw.
That was the Yu Emperor?!
"Though the Yu Emperor was powerful, the evil gods and vicious spirits he swallowed were hardly weak, and there were vast numbers of them. He frequently had to suppress their backlash, so he entrusted the affairs of state to his subjects."
"But the Yu Emperor was divine and holy. He did not know that