"False Gods?"
Yue Xiaofei frowned.
"That's right."
Ye Jincheng nodded and continued, "They have no fixed form. They can take on different appearances based on the 'perceptions' of the civilization they enter."
"In the West, they are angels and the Thunder God."
"In Eastern Japan, they are Amaterasu and Yamata no Orochi."
"They feed on the faith and fear of living beings, drawing on our world's fundamental energy to strengthen themselves."
"And the so-called 'resurgence of spiritual qi' is, in essence, a weakening of the spatial barrier between our world and their higher-dimensional space, caused by changes in the cosmic cycle. This gives them an opportunity to descend."
Yue Xiaofei's heart churned with shock.
The myths were real!
Those beings that existed only in ancient legends actually existed!
He immediately thought of his own power, Divine Sequence 003 [Black Emperor], and its Emperor Engine. Could they be connected to these beings too?
As if seeing through his thoughts, Ye Jincheng slowly unrolled the scroll to its middle section.
In the painting, a towering figure wielded a massive plow, leading countless ancestors in a brutal battle against False Gods of every shape and form.
"Our ancestors were not lambs waiting to be slaughtered."
A trace of pride entered Ye Jincheng's voice.
"In ancient times, our land also gave rise to countless powerful individuals who could stand against the False Gods. They were our true 'gods'!"
"And the greatest among them was this man-Yu the Great."
Ye Jincheng's finger settled on the scroll's final scene.
In the painting, Yu the Great gathered bronze from across the Nine Provinces and cast nine enormous Bronze Cauldrons, each with a different design.
He placed the Nine Cauldrons at nine critical nodes across the Nine Provinces to suppress them.
The moment the Nine Cauldrons descended, streams