Chapter 252: Great World
One day, this little brat, the Golden Crow, didn’t know where it had shown mercy, and spawned nine little brats. It took these nine little brats to work every day; it was quite delighted.
Little did they know, if ten Golden Crows appeared together, it would be a disaster for the insignificant beings below.
The earth began to crack, lakes evaporated completely, causing many life forms to complain bitterly.
I’ve advised this little brat many times, but it won’t listen. Damn it, I’ve completely spoiled it!
With no other choice, I, the elder brother, had to secretly descend to the lower realm, transform into a young man named Hou Yi, and kill nine of them before they stopped!
This brat isn’t showing off anymore and doesn’t dare to be cocky.
It’s just that, after coming down, I married a woman. This woman knew that the thing in the sky called the moon was actually a large flatbread I hung up before. She became incredibly gluttonous, and all day long, besides sleeping, she only knew how to eat.
So, one day, an elder sister named Queen Mother of the West came from the outside world. She saw that I was a very honest person and gave me a pill, saying that if I ate it, I would become immortal and ascend on the spot. I thought, after coming down here and shooting the sun for so many years, can’t I enjoy myself a little?
So I didn’t rush to leave. I thought, since I’m already here, why not have some fun making a few children with this woman I married?
Who knew this gluttonous woman, while I was away, ate my pill. When I returned, this brat was flying towards my large flatbread.
Son, damn it! Are you still alive? They say that a couple are birds of the same forest, and when disaster strikes, they fly separately. Oh my god! I haven’t even faced disaster yet, and this brat has already flown away on its own! Damn it! Why is it so greedy? I’ll be damned.
Looking at the figure flying towards the sky, I, the elder brother, couldn’t help but sing a song I learned in some past life: “Destiny is harsh, obsession is indifferent, I bid farewell to youth, count the endless train stations, I am content with mediocrity, but unwilling to be mediocre and defeated, you are Ah Jiao, you are a free bird…”
Damn it! What is love in the world, that it makes me stare dumbfounded!
Later, I saw the situation and thought, fine, I’ll go back early. There’s nothing to be nostalgic for. So, I found something trivial to do and left.
Afterwards, floods raged, and the people lived in misery. Bored, I came down again to control the floods. An old man gave me a stick that could extend and retract. I didn’t stand on ceremony at all and put it in my pocket. Every day I carried it, and wherever I went, I would use it to poke to the bottom of the water and then pull it out to the surface to calculate the cubic meters of sand and soil needed for backfilling.
After controlling the floods, I vanished again.
After who knows how many years, the world fell into chaos, with constant wars between tribes. I came down to stop evil with killing, and unified the six states. I abolished the enfeoffment system and replaced it with the prefectural and county system, unified the currency and weights and measures of the time, implemented standardized writing and vehicle tracks, built roads radiating from the capital, and established law as the guiding principle.
After finally pacifying the land, it wasn’t long before it fell into chaos again, with warring factions engaging in conflict.
Screw it, I descended again. All day long I squatted in a thatched hut reading books, waiting for a straw-slipper seller to come with a green bean seller and a pork seller.
This guy was quite patient. The first two times I was too sleepy and didn’t bother to pay attention to them. The third time, I was just bored, so I let the straw-slipper seller in for a chat.
I discovered that this guy was quite good at deceiving people. I really liked him.
So I came out of seclusion. After all the toiling and trouble, damn it, I always encountered such troublesome people. Even though I performed incredibly well, after fighting and capturing them seven times and then releasing them seven times, and helping this straw-slipper seller carve out a territory, I still couldn’t escape the trouble caused by his stupid son.
In the end, I was so angry that I cursed, “To hell with it!” I don’t care anymore. Before leaving, I put on a show and said I was borrowing some lifespan, but I didn’t get it and left.
Actually, I just needed an excuse to leave. Cough cough cough.
Let’s say, no matter how powerful I am, I can’t lead a bunch of idiots. What kind of game is this? Every time I want to push the crystal, someone shouts for me to go back, saying my hometown is about to be destroyed. When I go back, nothing happens. Once or twice is fine, but too often, who would play with you? This is simply idiotic. It’s obvious there’s an inside agent, otherwise, we would have won long ago!
Every time that brat called me back, he called me “Dad.” If he had called me something else, I wouldn’t have bothered, but he called me Dad, and he’s the only son of my straw-slipper elder brother. How could I not come back to see?
Damn it! If his father had left later, I would have unified the world long ago. This brat doesn’t have half the courage of his father. His father was much more formidable than him. Before his father died, he avenged his brothers by leading the entire army into battle. Whether they won or lost, I won’t say, but he had that spirit.
This brat, on the other hand, has become cowardly. He’s always worried that if I win, I’ll come back and deal with him. Fool, I know astronomy and geography, and I also know the five elements, bagua, and two principles. I even know about postpartum care for sows. If I had that intention, wouldn’t I have dealt with his father long ago? Would I have waited for him? Damn it, he’s really hopeless!
Alright, I’ve left now, so I won’t say any more.
Countless years later, two giant beasts appeared in the void. They were enormous, very much like whales, but these two large whales were peculiar. One was pure white with only black eyes, and the other was pure black with white eyes.
The two large whales traveled together, entwined with each other as they swam. I couldn’t tell which one was male and which was female, but seeing them so inseparable, like a perfect whole, as if one body.
Many times, when I was bored, I would ride them around. It was fun; when I rode the white whale, the black whale was jealous and wanted me to ride it, and when I rode the black whale, the white whale was also jealous and wanted me to ride it.
Finally, these two guys fought because of me, the elder brother. The white one bit the black one’s tail, and the black one bit the white one’s tail. No matter how much I tried to persuade them, they wouldn’t let go.
These two creatures were quite special; in the end, they merged into one entity, with each within the other.
Fine, this time I directly sat on both of them at once, and they stopped fighting.
I also gave them a name, Tai Ji, because they were too impatient, always squatting at my doorstep, barking and wanting me to go out and play. I always told them, “What the hell! What are you rushing for? I haven’t even put on my underpants yet. You guys are too impatient! You’re too impatient!”
Too anxious, Tai Ji. So I gave them the name Tai Ji based on the homophone.
These two guys were very mischievous. One day, while I was away, they went down to the lower realm and caused trouble, turning it into a state of chaos again.
This made me so angry that I directly ordered them to guard this place and recreate it.
As for me, I realized that besides this world, there are many other small worlds outside. One small world forms a medium world, and a thousand medium worlds form a great world. There are a total of three thousand great worlds, so it is also called the Three Thousand Great Worlds or simply the Great World.
