His breathing gradually steadied. With Ji Chang's brilliant plan in hand, Zi Shou finally enjoyed a rare good night's sleep.
With enough Foolishness Value, he could do anything.
He even drifted into a comfortable dream, where he vaguely glimpsed three people through an extremely blurry haze.
He could just make out something about the First Emperor being a virtuous, sagely king, all within the four seas submitting to him, the myriad people singing his praises, his merit being boundless, and how gratifying it was for the Human Race to have such an emperor...
Zi Shou grew frightened. What occupied the mind by day returned in dreams at night. He had finally obtained Ji Chang's brilliant plan, yet even his dreams refused to give him peace.
As he listened further, the voices grew muffled too, as though he had twenty-diopter nearsightedness coupled with severe deafness.
Fuxi manifested the eight trigrams around his body in a burst of radiance.
Xuanyuan asked, "Imperial elder brother, have you divined something?"
Fuxi said solemnly, "The First Emperor has pacified the barbarians on all four sides, and the Human Race's fortune has risen again. Drawing upon that fortune for my divination, I did indeed discover a few things."
Shennong said, "Could it be..."
Fuxi said, "A great tribulation of heaven and earth is inevitable."
Xuanyuan sighed deeply. "No matter how peacefully the present First Emperor governs the world, the myriad people cannot escape being plunged into misery, nor can the tribulation of slaughter be avoided. Our people will be displaced by war, perish in the fighting, and become instruments through which immortals weather their tribulation. We have long known this. Sadly, we are powerless to stop it."
Fuxi looked at Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. After a long while, he said, "Are you and I not also members