Chapter 1182
The mental devil was dazed for a long time . After it thought everything through, it was trembling as violently as Li Yao .
"It—It must a coincidence," the mental devil said in a low voice .
"If the transliterations such as 'romance' or 'logic' are coincidences, how do you explain the following words?" Li Yao said coldly . "I've fought with the federal army and the Cultivators more times than I can count . Every time we are grasped by desperation, people always use two idioms to boost the morale—'break the cooking pots and sink the boats' and 'fight with the river to our back'!
"I didn't feel too strange about those two idioms before, but on second thought, do you not feel that it is horrifying?
"Where does the idiom 'break the cooking pots and sink the boats' come from? It comes from an ancient general named Xiang Yu in the Chinese culture on Earth who smashed the cooking pots and burnt the boats, declaring to his army that there was no retreat, during the resistance against the Kingdom of Qin . Eventually, he crushed the magnificent Kingdom of Qin, thereby leaving the tale of 'breaking the cooking pots and sinking the boats'!
"As for the idiom 'fight with the river to our back', it is about another famous general named Han Xin, who deployed his army right in front of the river during a battle . It was also a method to encourage the soldiers to fight hard in the desperate situation because they had nowhere to retreat . In the end, he secured a victory, hence the idiom!
"It means that the two famous generals named Xiang Yu and Han Xin appeared on Earth first before the two idioms 'break the cooking pots and sink the boats' and 'fight with the river to our back' came into being!
"You and I boast the memories of the earthling Li Yao . So, it is not strange that we know the two idioms . But what about other people? Why are other people aware of the idioms that come from Earth?
"There are more popular idioms than 'break the cooking pots and sink the boats' and 'fight with the river to our back' in this era . For example, there are also 'taste the gall on the hay' and 'call a deer a house'… All of them are common idioms that people use on a daily basis, but they are based on the tales from Earth . Are they simply coincidences?
"Also, stocks, network, government, army… all those notions exist both on Earth and in the world of Cultivators and have the same spelling . How incredible is that?"
After hearing the words, the mental devil began to scratch its head hard .
After scratching for a long time, it suddenly slapped its thigh and declared, "It's simple . Let's go to the Spiritual Nexus, find an online dictionary, and check the etymology of the idioms such as 'break the cooking pots and sink the boats' and 'fight with the river to our back' . Let's see how they are described in the dictionaries!"
Li Yao's eyes suddenly gleamed . He immediately felt that he was foolish not to have come up with the idea earlier .
He hurried to turn on his crystal processor and looked for the most official online dictionary . He typed in 'logic' and hit 'Confirm' . The meaning of the word 'logic' immediately popped up on the light beam .
"Logic, originally meaning 'the word' or 'what is spoken', but coming to mean 'thought' or 'reason', is a subject concerned with the most general laws of truth and is now generally held to consist of the systematic study of the form of valid inference .
"There is no universal agreement as to the exact scope and subject matter of logic, but it has traditionally included the classification of arguments, the systematic exposition of the 'logical form' common to all valid arguments, the study of inference, including fallacies, and the study of semantics, including paradoxes .
"The word 'logic' originates in the ancient language 'Tianzheluo', which was spoken in the Heavenly Philosophy Great Sector fifty-five thousand years ago . It is said to be related to a certain alien civilization who communicated with each other telepathically, but the theory cannot be confirmed…"
Li Yao and the mental devil looked at each other in bewilderment .
What was the meaning of that?
According to the explanation of the dictionary, the word 'logic' was not from ancient Greek on Earth but an ancient language called Tianzheluo in the so-called Heavenly Philosophy Great Sector?
Li Yao thought for a moment and typed in the idiom 'break the cooking pots and sink the boats' and hit 'Confirm' .
"Break the cooking pots and sink the boats, a metaphor that one must secure the victory of a war without considering retreating . Cooking pot: a large piece of equipment for cooking food on or in .
"In the middle phase of the era of ancient Cultivators fifty thousand years ago, the saying 'burn the boats and break the pots' was already recorded in the 'Great Changes in the Army', one of the classics at the time, to demonstrate the spirit of fighting to the end even if it meant death, but it was not passed on as an established idiom yet .
"At the end of the era of ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago, in the middle of the first civil war of the world of Cultivators, a great battle took place in the Dawn Moon Sector and the Desolate Dragon Sector . The Dawn Moon Sector was on the winning side, and the Desolate Dragon Sector was retreating in panic . Many Cultivators fled to other lands on divine boats .
"Xiang Feitian, commander-in-chief of the seventy-two sects of the Desolate Dragon Sector, gathered all the divine boats in the Sector and burned them to the ground, after excavating the core magical equipment and crystals on the vehicles . The assets were then crafted into new weapons . Eventually, the magnificent enemy was defeated!
"Henceforth, the tale 'break the cooking pots and sink the boats' gradually spread out!"
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