The Severing of Heaven and Earth: Zhuanxu Takes the Blame for Me

Reborn as an ancient sacrificial offering, I turned around and impersonated the Celestial Emperor to fleece the masses! Qu Zhou suffers from hyperthyroidism, but at Sanxingdui, he was overcome by dizziness when he resonated with a mask with protruding eyes. When he opened his eyes again, the Chishui River was filled with the bodies of drowned children, the Wumeng Mountains crawled with enslaved miners, and false gods sat high upon their altars, taxing humanity’s spiritual energy! Yuxu Palace harvested the Three Realms, while Emperor Zhuanxu looked on with cold indifference. The Chongli priest held up a tribute plate. “This is the Heavenly Dao. Those who pay their taxes shall live!” A Miaojiang witch sobbed as she made her accusation. “Believe in the gods? They only want our souls!” But I saw through it all! My bulging eyes, a symptom of hyperthyroidism, mutated into [Heaven-Seeing Eyes]: One glance exposed the false gods’ fatal weaknesses: Shiyi the Soul-Devourer feared shamanic script, while the Crimson Chi’s reverse scales were hidden beneath the cauldron! I communed with the remnant roots of the Jianmu Tree, intercepted the divine tree’s spiritual energy, and refused to pay Yuxu Palace’s exorbitant taxes! I unlocked the forbidden art of the Salt-Bearers’ Soul Stele. Three thousand salt workers who had drowned charged alongside me: “Our bodies may sink beneath the river, but our souls will pay no tribute!” When it turned out that the so-called Celestial Emperor Zhuanxu was Yuxu Palace’s chief agent... I donned a battered mask with protruding eyes and climbed to the summit of the Jianmu Tree: “From this day forward, I am Zhuanxu!” I tricked the Leizhi Yi cavalry into launching an aerial assault on the Divine Court! I commanded the Chiwen to flood the priests’ stronghold! I taught the witch to use corpse-honey to poison the rain and eat through the divine light of Yuqing! Until the final battle, when the Ruins of Kunlun unleashed the [Shadow of the Primordial] I burned my soul to detonate the Nine-Turn Spiritual Extraction Array, plunging heaven and earth into darkness! When I opened my eyes again, a thousand years had passed. The ancestral temple was thriving with incense, and the people bowed before a statue of “Saint King Zhuanxu.” On the statue’s face was my mask with protruding eyes. The inscription read: “Zhuanxu severed the connection between heaven and earth, ending the chaos between gods and men.” I lowered my head and smiled, swallowing my last breath. The Celestial Emperor could keep that blame! At last, humanity’s flame would no longer have to pay taxes.