Chapter 3 Vulcan Zhurong
Looking at the boundless and deep darkness in the hall in front of him, Ouyang Xuan mustered up the courage and carefully stepped into the Temple of Light.
Suddenly, while Ouyang Xuan's first foot stepped onto the ground of the temple, two huge fireballs lit up beside him with a "huh" sound.
Immediately afterwards, like a rapidly contagious plague, countless huge fireballs ignited in turn like an explosion inside the temple.
In just a short moment, Ouyang Xuan was already surrounded by flames like the sea, as bright as daylight!
Ouyang Xuan opened his mouth in horror and looked at everything incredible in front of him: countless thick stone pillars more than one person tall stood in the huge temple, and the burning flames at the top of the stone pillars were jumping happily!
Looking forward along the giant corridor formed by the two rows of stone pillars in front of you, four sky-summiting stone pillars stood in the middle of the huge temple several meters tall, each several meters apart, silently supporting the heavy top of the temple!
In the middle of the four tall stone pillars is a huge stone platform with a length of several meters and a thick red flame emitting a thousand feet of light!
"Don't be afraid, walk forward, I'm right in front of you!" The peaceful and majestic voice suddenly appeared again!
Suddenly, Ouyang Xuan was surprised to find that this sound came from the thick red and fierce red flame in the middle of the stone platform!
Ouyang Xuan thought that this mysterious god would not have any malice to him, so he calmed down and walked towards the huge stone platform calmly!
As he got closer and closer to the stone platform, Ouyang Xuan couldn't help but be surprised by his courage and thought to himself: It seems that humans have a strong ability to accept unknown things!
In a blink of an eye, when Ouyang Xuan was two or three feet away from the four huge stone pillars, he suddenly spoke again in the flames on the stone platform: "Stop, you can't go forward any more!"
Ouyang Xuan hurriedly stopped and said respectfully: "Hello, my name is Ouyang Xuan, I am an ordinary human. I don't know what to call you?"
"Hahaha!" The peaceful and majestic voice smiled: "Do I, I don't know how long it has been since I mentioned my name! Well, I think about it! Oh, by the way, many years ago, you humans called me the Vulcan Zhurong!"
"Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire God Zhurong!!" Ouyang Xuan opened his mouth wide in shock, showing that he was not choking to death by his saliva!
This shock is no less than hearing that the gangster has become an emperor, the sparrow has become a phoenix, and it is even more than that!
"Yes, I am Zhurong!" the peaceful and majestic voice said affirmatively.
"This, this..." Ouyang Xuan's mind was blank and he thought to himself: "Oh my God, can China's previous myths be true, and there is really the God of Fire Zhurong!?"
After a while of surprise, Ouyang Xuan suddenly woke up and said incoherently: "Hello, you are really the God of Fire Zhurong!? Oh, this, what I mean is: You are also one of the ancestors of our Chinese nation, a heavenly emperor in mythology, I am really honored to see you! I, I heard the Dragon God Red Leopard say that I have my mission here, and I don't know what kind of mankind can help you?"
"Haha!" Zhu Rong smiled, with a little vicissitudes and sadness in his voice: "Did you see four huge stone pillars around my platform? There are four holy beasts on top of the four stone pillars: Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Xuanwu!"
Ouyang Xuan hurriedly looked at the four fiery red and huge stone pillars in front of him. There were indeed four strange roaring beast stone carvings on it. It seemed that he had seen similar things in some monster novels. He nodded and said, "It's true!"
"These four stone pillars all have powerful divine power, forming a cage with the holy beast, and I am the prisoner in this cage! Alas--" Zhu Rong suddenly sighed deeply, and the temple was filled with a tragic and desolate atmosphere!
"Wait!" Ouyang Xuan was shocked and said, "You are the dignified god of fire. As far as I know, you are also the most important god in mythology. Who can imprison you here!?"
"Oh, this matter is a long story. Anyway, I have been waiting for many years and don't care about this time. Let's talk to you in detail!" Zhu Rong sighed and explained the mysterious ancient strange story in detail:
When Pangu opened the world, his giant axe hit the chaos, and the sparks splashed together with the purest and pure air flow that rose into the sky, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. Over time, it formed the only spiritual fire that exists between the sky and the earth - Samadhi True Fire!
And I am the god who is conceived by "Samadhi into Fire". Other gods and people in the world call me Zhu Rong!
Although I am in charge of the fire with destructive power, my personality is very peaceful and compassionate. Shortly after I was born, I established a palace of light on Mount Buzhou, living a life without compromising the world!
Later, I went out to play occasionally and saw that the earth was still desolate. You humans were living a life like eating raw meat and drinking blood, and they didn’t know the beauty of eating cooked food at all. I had good thoughts for a moment, so I passed on a fire seed of ‘Samadhi True Fire’ to humans and taught humans how to use fire! That’s how you humans began to eat cooked food.
Because of my good intentions at this moment, you humans are very grateful to me, so I have received the highest worship of you humans and enjoy a rich tribute every year! I am also very satisfied and often go down the mountain to help humans solve some problems.
I don’t know how long this life has passed. Just when I was not fighting with the world, I suddenly offended another great god in the world - the Water God Gonggong!
Gonggong is a great god born from Pangu's blood and sweat. He lives in the water, but his temperament is very cruel, both good and evil, and he likes to play with humans for fun. If it weren't for the great god Nuwa and some of our gods' protection, I'm afraid you humans would have long become Gonggong's toys and are in pain.
Later, Gonggong heard that humans worship me because of fire, and felt very angry: He thought that people in the world were hateful, and water and fire were things that humans needed for life. Why do humans respect the God of Fire but not the God of Water!?
So, the angry Gonggong led the aquarium and launched an attack on the Guangming Temple of Buzhou Mountain where I live!
A huge flood came, countless sailors shouted and roared, and the earth suddenly became vast, with heavy casualties and heavy casualties from humans!
At this time, Nuwa traveled in the West, not in the Central Plains. For the sake of human safety and my own dignity, I had no choice but to lead the Fire Clan to launch a fierce battle with Gonggong!
Gonggong and I fought from Mount Buzhou to the bottom of the mountain, from the bottom of the mountain to the sea, and from the sea to the sky. We really killed the sky and the earth, and the sun and the moon were gone.
In the end, I gained the upper hand and Gonggong gradually lost. Gonggong, who was so angry that he could not win, was so angry that he slammed into my Buzhou Mountain!
After a loud noise like the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, Mount Buzhou collapsed! But Mount Buzhou is the pillar of heaven that supports the northwest sky. The collapse of Mount Buzhou makes the sun, moon and stars no longer return to its original position. The earth cracks in many places, floods and disasters are more frequent, causing greater disasters to humans who have already suffered!
The war between me and Gonggong alarmed the gods of heaven and earth, Huangdi, Yandi and other great gods, and Nuwa who rushed back, captured me and Gonggong, and stopped us and fought again!
Seeing that humans were about to be destroyed, Nuwa used all her magical power to repair the caves in the northwest sky with colorful spirit stones and restored the order of the human world!
But what should I do with Gonggong have caused fierce debate in the divine world. In the end, Emperor Huangdi, the emperor, took Gonggong as the culprit and ordered Gonggong to be forever imprisoned the water eye of the North Sea and would never escape the trap!
And I caused a great disaster on earth due to my unintentional mistakes. Huangdi and the gods also decided to punish me, so I ordered to be imprisoned in the Palace of Light, leaving only an old Red Leopard with me! However, Huangdi promised me: One day, when my guilt is eliminated, a human with two pupils will come to rescue me to help me return to heaven!
Your name is Ouyang Xuan, right? I have been waiting for you here for a long time. You are the one who can rescue me from this cage. This is the mission that Chi Bao mentioned!"
Ouyang Xuan opened his eyes wide and looked in disbelief. He didn't expect that the Fire God Zhurong would have such a bumpy past!
However, Ouyang Xuan was still a little confused and asked, "I generally understand your past. However, you said that Huangdi imprisoned you in the Palace of Light, and the Palace of Light is on Mount Buzhou. There are two questions here: First, didn’t Buzhou Mountain fall? Why wasn’t the Palace of Light not destroyed? Second, this should be Huashan, but what you mean is Buzhou Mountain, right? "
"Hahaha!" Zhu Rong smiled peacefully: "The Palace of Light was cast by me with my divine power, so it was not so easy to be destroyed! After Mount Buzhou fell, it was just buried underground, which is where you are standing now!
The Yin-Yang Bagua stone carving that brought you was still made by Emperor Fuxi. As the only channel between the Divine Palace of Light and the human world, the one who saved me will only be opened automatically when the disaster comes!
Another question is also very simple. After the fall of Mount Buzhou, the divine world changed the name of Mount Buzhou to be "Taihua Mountain". Later, you humans even removed the word "Tai" and directly called Mount Hua! However, among some ancient classics of your humans, there should be some places calling this place Taihua Mountain!"
"So that's it! I have also heard of this myth and legend of the war between you and Gonggong, but it is not as detailed as you said, and I don't know that the divine world has severely punished you and Gonggong!" Ouyang Xuan understood and said respectfully: "However, you fought with us humans in order to avoid the harm of the water god Gonggong, and fought bloody battles against him, and even punished by the Heavenly Court! Now, since God will arrange for me to save you from the trap, I will do my best. Please teach me how to do it!"
"This is very simple!" Zhu Rong was about to escape from the cage that had been around for thousands of years, and his voice became a little excited: "Did you see a stone carving of Yin and Yang Bagua under your feet? Bite your right index finger and drip the blood on the eight trigrams of Qian, Kun, Kan, Li, Gen, Zhen, Xun, and Dui in turn! Then the Yin and Yang Bagua diagram will run, and the holy beasts on the four stone pillars will be retracted, so that I will get out of trouble!"
"That's so simple!" Ouyang Xuan was a little unbelievable!
"Haha!" Zhu Rong smiled: "You humans can't do something too difficult, right? I designed this way because Huangdi ordered Fuxi to imprison him in the past!"
"Yes!" Ouyang Xuan smiled with shame: "You can bear it for a while, and I will rescue you immediately!"
Chapter completed!