Mystery: Time Travelers of the Fourth Era

Chapter 336 Gun and Yu Control the Floods, and the Eternal Diversion of the Stream

Chapter 336 Gun and Yu Control the Floods, and the Eternal Diversion of the Stream

"We are not immortals; to approach them is to die."

Si raised a very practical question: this is no ordinary river; it is the River of Eternal Darkness, and to touch it is to die—this is no joke.

"Therefore, we will use the Breath Soil and Azure Wood (soil and trees that have been contaminated with the power of the Mother Nest) of Wuchao Mountain (Mother Nest) to cut off the main branch of the river, create multiple tributaries, and then use the tributaries to control the main stream, so as to help our immortal ancestors quell this flood."

Si Gun proposed a very constructive plan.

Those who approach the main stream of the River of Eternal Darkness will die, and their souls will uncontrollably return to their homeland. However, if some tributaries are artificially created, the attraction of these tributaries to the souls will weaken.

"Recognized by the Gonggong clan."

Gonggong did not raise any objections. Controlling the floods was for the purpose of ascending to immortality, which was the common interest of all clans. As long as Gun was truly capable of leading them to control the floods, they were willing to follow Gun's command.

The Gonggong clan, the strongest outside of the Si clan, recognized Si as the leader of the temporary alliance, and other smaller clans also recognized Si as such.

"Let's begin then."

"The first step in flood control is to address the weak waters."

Following Si Gun's instructions, several nearby tribes began to move.

They began collecting rocks and trees from Wuchao Mountain to reinforce the riverbed and build barriers to stop the river from spreading to both banks. This step was necessary; without using materials from Wuchao Mountain to pave the road and without the protection of the Mother Nest's power, it would be impossible for life to even approach the River of Eternal Darkness, let alone control the flood.

Si Gun's initial plan was to use the resources of Wuchao Mountain to fill in the River of Eternal Darkness.

This illusory river stretches across the middle of the western continent. It's terrible. Who has ever experienced the feeling of death living right at their doorstep?

Mortals without immortal blood or extraordinary powers are indirectly affected by the River of Eternal Darkness and have little desire to live. If the distance between life and death is too close, then fate is just a single-threaded repetition of the same process, with few possibilities and changes.

"Filling up" this illusory river will truly transform the River of Eternal Darkness into the Yellow River, the mother river of the Western Continent.

The sediment deposited in the river is the life force that encapsulates death. The power of the Mother Nest reduces the influence of the River of Eternal Darkness as a symbol of death, but the price is the Yellow River's breaching of its banks once every few hundred years. This is a disaster that will inevitably occur when the power conflict between the Mother Nest and the River of Eternal Darkness accumulates to a certain degree.

But it was all worth it.

Si was so determined that he even personally carried a large amount of materials into the River of Eternal Darkness. Using his extraordinary abilities, he artificially created small earthquakes to amplify the "soil erosion" of the Loess Plateau, causing a large amount of silt to be deposited in the River of Eternal Darkness, and the river water became more and more turbid day by day.

The Si clan tribal alliance also mobilized a large number of people to build barriers in the watershed near the River of Eternal Darkness using earth and wood collected from Wuchao Mountain to resist the invasion of death. Before the danger of the River of Eternal Darkness decreased, expanding the safe area of ​​activity was the greatest achievement.

The Si clan tribal alliance persisted in this method of building dikes to block water and moving mountains to fill water for a full ninety years.

Over the past century, through the efforts of several generations, the River of Eternal Darkness has undergone a transformation. The river now carries a large amount of silt, creating a spectacular sight as it passes through various gorges.

The soil erosion on the Loess Plateau where "Wuchao Mountain" is located over the past century has greatly improved the environment of the Eternal Dark River. The illusory river has gradually become a real river, and the overflowing river water irrigates the surrounding fields. The dead river has also given birth to life.

He was already very old. Even though he was an extraordinary being of the Earth Path, whose lifespan was far beyond the average person's hundred years, his long-term activities in the River of Eternal Darkness meant that he was getting closer and closer to death, and his life was constantly slipping away at an accelerated pace.

When the River of Eternal Darkness and the Mother Nest clashed once again, Si met the end of his life. Like all the ancestors born on this land, he was born from Wuchao Mountain and died by the Yellow River. His soul returned to his homeland and sank into the surging river.

However, after being branded with death and sinking into the River of Eternal Darkness, Si did not completely lose her vitality, transforming into a projection waiting to decay.

Although the River of Eternal Darkness is as insurmountable as the Weak Water, it filled the riverbed with too much life-giving soil. Now, it has turned into a seed buried in the silt accumulated at the bottom of the river. It has died a worthy death. Perhaps one day it will be able to understand the mystery of being unstained by mud and unblemished by clear water.

After Gun died, his son Yu crawled out of a snake egg. The silly Taotie, who had been incubating the egg, quickly moved its rear end away, worried about crushing its master, while excitedly shouting, "Great Yu!"

"Yu the Great!"

"Shut up!"

As the Taotie thrashed about, Si Yu's newborn body was shaken by the earth's tremors and he tumbled over. He let out a somewhat annoyed shout.

At this moment, he truly felt that letting such a silly bird advance to demigod status and become an immortal in the Western Continent was an incredibly wrong decision.

The clan leaders who had once eagerly anticipated the opportunity to become immortals only lived for a decade or two before passing away without ever seeing it.

Si Gun worked his whole life but never saw it.

Perhaps there was an opportunity at the beginning, but Si and others performed better on the front line, so the matter of promoting them naturally came to nothing. Instead, some of the tribe's less capable workers were promoted to immortals and thrown into the formation as consumables to fill in the lines.

No one explained to these leaders, and they dared not question their immortal ancestors. In the end, the consensus among them was that their efforts had created an opportunity for the younger generations of their respective clans, and those with higher bloodline concentrations were basically closely related to these leaders.

The one who ascended to heaven from the Xia Dynasty of the Si clan was this silly bird that wandered around the front line without doing any work.

Because I was so foolish, I survived until now, avoiding the repeated tremors of the Mother Nest and the River of Eternal Darkness.

Si Yu ate his own eggshell and quickly returned to the fifth level of the sequence. The leader of the Feng Hou clan and the shaman returned. With the support of the prayer machine, Si Yu was able to continue to steer the flood control work and begin to implement the second step of the flood control plan, dividing the vast River of Eternal Darkness into small tributaries.

Riding on the back of a Taotie, he expounded his strategies to the leaders and shamans of other clans: "High and low, dredging rivers and channeling stagnation, filling waterways with abundant harvests..."

The foundation laid in the early Si era was utilized in the era of Si Yu. The barriers built to block the water were destroyed and dredged, and the paths opened up when transporting materials were transformed into new waterways, and tributaries of the Yellow River were opened up one by one.

The power of the eternally dark river is dispersed; by controlling the tributaries and managing the main stream, the floods can be resolved.