Ning Tao followed the goddess of wisdom Himya out of the palace, out of the city, and into the suburbs.
It was a long road. Along the way, Ning Tao was watching and thinking. Occasionally he would reach out to touch someone he passed by, and then his hand would pass through a shadow. This is true for people, as well as trees and houses. But the strange thing is that he clearly feels that these people and the houses here are real.
It would be fine if he was just an ordinary person, or a scumbag immortal, or a scumbag little god. He would not be strong enough to see through the truth, but he is a master-level creator. He is the person chosen by God, and he is an existence on an equal footing with all. , but even he can't see through it, which is really unreasonable.
However, no matter how curious and surprised he was, Ning Tao did not ask the goddess of wisdom Xemia again.
It's not that he can't afford to lose face, but he believes that even if he asks, the goddess of wisdom will tell him in that tone that everything here cannot be explained and he needs to find the answer himself. If you know this is the result, why ask
Unknowingly, I came to a mountain. There was a temple standing on the mountain. It looked very simple, almost like a Taoist temple in the mortal world.
Himea, the goddess of wisdom, stepped on the stone steps leading to the temple on the top of the mountain and climbed up step by step. Her tail stretched out from the golden divine armor, and the golden tail hair was so bright and eye-catching.
For some reason, Ning Tao wanted to grab her tail to see if she was also a shadow. But he didn't do it in the end, because he knew that the tail of a celestial being cannot be touched, especially that of a woman. Only her husband can touch the tail of a celestial woman, because the tail of a celestial woman is almost the same as two key points and one center. exist.
"Whose temple is this temple on the mountain?" Ning Tao broke the silence between the two. He thought it was the Temple of the Sky, or it might be the Temple of the Supreme Sky, but he didn't think it was. At this period, Himea was not even an immortal, so there was no goddess of wisdom or a temple in the sky.
Himya, the goddess of wisdom, looked back at Ning Tao, and then said: "That is the Temple of the Son of Heaven."
Just saying this, she continued to climb up.
"Temple of the Son of Heaven? Is the Son of Heaven also the god of your heavenly beings?" Ning Tao heard this for the first time and was very curious. He has killed thousands of puppet gods. If there really is an emperor god, he may have killed him, or he may have been pulled into ramen noodles in the cracks in space, and then ground into the sand of reality.
The goddess of wisdom walked forward for a short distance before saying, "Ning Tao, haven't you seen it yet? What time and space is this?"
Ning Tao was stunned for a moment and suddenly understood.
It is true that this is the past time and space, but this is not what he could have imagined - the past time and space of the Linggu era!
If he wants to intervene in this time and space, he will need a large amount of energy left over from the ancient spirit era, related items, etc., and that is almost impossible to find. That's why Himea, the goddess of wisdom, opened a door for him and let him come here. Otherwise, with the low-level magic tools he possesses such as the Time Tower, the Tree Board and the Cloud Ore, he would not be able to come to the past time and space of the Linggu Era, let alone come here accurately to meet the Goddess of Wisdom Himia. Meet.
The goddess of wisdom walked up and said, "There are no gods in the Temple of the Emperor, only the Emperor."
"Are you the emperor of heavenly beings?" Ning Tao asked again.
The goddess of wisdom turned back and smiled: "You will know just by looking at it."
Ning Tao stopped asking and followed her. He wants her to crawl
Faster, but she always walked neither fast nor slow, not looking in a hurry.
Finally we arrived at the so-called Temple of the Emperor at the top of the mountain.
It is indeed a simple place similar to a small Taoist temple, with only one main hall and a few residential houses behind it. A group of children were playing in the open space in front of the temple, chasing each other and laughing constantly. There are children of gods, children of immortals, children of demons and spirit beasts, and children suspected of being aliens. The young faces with different colors and facial features give people the feeling that this is a cosmic kindergarten. Outstanding children from different spaces, different planets, and different races in the universe have been selected and come here to attend kindergarten.
The goddesses of wisdom, Himya and Ning Tao, were standing next to the open space, but the large group of children seemed to be unable to see the two gods and were still chasing and playing.
Ning Tao's eyes fell on a little celestial girl among the children. He looked at her face and the temperament between her eyebrows. After a few glances, he suddenly moved his eyes to the goddess of wisdom, Himya, and said in surprise: "That little celestial girl is... is it you?"
A faint smile appeared on the corner of the mouth of the goddess of wisdom Himya, and there was a hint of sigh in her voice: "That's me."
Ning Tao suddenly remembered something and strode to the door of the temple. He raised his eyes to look at the statues enshrined in the temple.
There is a statue of a god standing in the temple. It is a thin old man with white hair and white beard, and a kind smile on his face.
This statue is made of Bai Xuzi, which is Wu’s “home version” of the statue.
Ning Tao looked back at the children again, and he understood that the so-called emperor was not the king of heaven and man as he thought, but the chosen son of heaven. The heaven here is not the heaven he believes in, but Wu, which claims to represent heaven.
"What I said is right. Look, you can understand it just by looking at it." The goddess of wisdom, Himya, said.
Ning Tao said: "The children here are the so-called emperors, right? Are you all unselected children?"
Himya, the goddess of wisdom, said: "Yes, you saw so many children, and only one survived in the end."
Ning Tao's eyes fell on the little Tianren girl among the children again: "You are the only one among these children who survived, so you will become Wu's daughter, right?"
The goddess of wisdom, Himya, nodded slightly, with a little sadness in her voice: "These children are all my friends. We eat and live together, play together, and grow up together. But every year some people disappear. , I was still young at that time and didn’t know what happened. I later found out that they were all dead.”
"Killed by Wu?" Ning Tao asked.
Himea, the goddess of wisdom, did not answer. She entered the hall and then walked to a door at the end of the hall.
Ning Tao followed her towards the door.
He was used to this pattern, he asked a question and she took him to see the answer.
At the beginning, he found this very troublesome, but now he prefers this mode. What you hear is what others tell you, but what you see is what you see with your own eyes.
Walking out of that door, you are greeted by a backyard. At the end of the courtyard is a row of small tile-roofed houses and a clock tower with a big yellow bell hanging on it.
"What did you bring me here to see?" Ning Tao was very curious.
Himea, the goddess of wisdom, did not answer.
Suddenly, no one rang the big yellow bell on the bell tower, but
A loud bell sounded.
when!
Ning Tao moved his eyes to the bright yellow bell. He saw the flickering runes and captured the familiar divine energy. The bell was actually made of the best divine stone.
when!
when!
The big bell rang three times, and the children who were playing outside came back. They rushed in through the door one by one and stood in the yard.
The ground shook, and golden boxes emerged from the ground in front of the children. Those boxes stood upright and looked like a dormant chamber in a science fiction novel. If you want to think of it as a vampire's coffin, that's fine too.
One child has a box, one has no more and one has less.
Ning Tao's eyes moved to those boxes. Those boxes were also made of top-grade sacred stones, and runes flashed on each box. He was curious about what was about to happen, but he didn't ask, he just watched.
Soon, those boxes were opened, and the moment the lids were lifted, there was a golden light. There are runes hidden in every ray of golden light, but they are not the runes Ning Tao is familiar with, but 0s and 1s.
At this moment, Ning Tao seemed to understand something, but he couldn't tell what it was.
One by one the children walked into the box.
The lid of the box closed automatically and the golden light disappeared.
The box was submerged into the ground again, and the ground was flat and flat, not even a trace was left.
Now, Ning Tao couldn't understand, so he asked: "What's going on with those children and boxes, where are they going?"
The goddess of wisdom, Himya, said: "Those children, including me, are all sons of heaven, the best children in the universe chosen by no one. Those boxes took those children to the supreme temple of no one to accept his Selection. It is a very cruel process, with breaking formations, fighting, and sometimes even literary tests. The last person will be retained by him anyway. Never seen each other again."
In the past, Ning Tao didn't believe that the goddess of wisdom, Xemiah, was Wu's daughter. He always thought that she was trying to put money on his face and scare others, but now it seems that this is true. She is really Wu's daughter. A child raised by one hand.
Himya, the goddess of wisdom, waved her hand, and the disappeared boxes came back. The lids of the boxes opened, and children walked out one by one. However, there is already one less child.
Himya, the goddess of wisdom, waved her hand.
The images here suddenly accelerated. The children entered the room to rest, came out to play, and then practiced and studied. When the bell sounded, they entered the box and went to the Supreme Temple of Wu. The children came and went, becoming fewer and fewer in number, until only Himea, the goddess of wisdom, remained.
When there was only the last box left, the goddess of wisdom Himya was already a tall and graceful girl, tall and long-legged, and there was meat where there should be meat. It was no longer a flat airport.
Himya, the goddess of wisdom, said: "I was chosen and became the daughter of Wu. As you can see, I was the only one left in the end. From this moment on, my life..."
She didn't say anything, but raised her head and looked at the sky.
Ning Tao didn't urge her, he just waited for her to say it.
"Haha." The goddess of wisdom Himya suddenly laughed, "You can see what I look like now, so why bother to tell me."
Ning Tao suddenly felt pitiful for her.