i think it only now hit me just how insane the cave of 10 000 gods is.
and no, not from a "it's weird to spend 800 years carving 10 000 statues of a dude who doesn't even know you exist" angle, but from the SHEER SCALE?????
10 000. in 800 years. that's 100 statues every 8 years. and we're talking life-sized, incredibly lifelike and accurate statues. (for the most part. in the later years especially)
to put it in perspective, carving a statue like that out of marble takes, on average, several weeks or even months to create. for ONE statue.
if we add all recorded and attributed sculptures, and i mean all of them, Michelangelo created 60 sculptures over a period of SEVENTY THREE YEARS. that's, on average, 0,82 sculptures done per year. this goes down DRASTICALLY if we only count the confirmed sculptures since there's only 45 of those.
Hua Cheng's average per year is TWELVE AND A HALF.
TO REITERATE: HUA CHENG WAS, EVERY 8 YEARS, CARVING MORE THAN TWICE THE AMMOUNT OF STATUES MICHELANGELO WAS CONFIRMED TO HAVE MADE OVER THE COURSE OF HIS ENTIRE LIFE.
and! that's not even all! because he was carving the statues OUT OF A VOLCANO. that means either a) shitty, porous rocks that crack like glass, or b) rocks like granite
granite has a hardness between 6-7. marble? 3-4
that's not even mentioning the GIGANTIC FUCKING STATUE he made INSIDE THE LITERAL VOLCANO
i can't remember, was there light in the Kiln??? or was he just carving it in complete goddamn darkness, entirely by touch?? for something on a scale that CAN RIVAL AN ENTIRE CITY??????
and he carved that, out of the goddamn volcano, in TWO YEARS, while undergoing some sort of trial in there.
which is a theme that continues, because Hua Cheng was keeping pace with that 12,5 average for 800 years while:
participating in a fucking ghost battle royale and WINNING
casually learning an entire dead language on the side. yknow like you do. from just the writings left behind, too
^ those two in 8 years bc he spent 2 inside the Kiln
learning everything about every single thing in existance to become Dianxia's personal wikipedia, and also to win against however many civil gods there were among the 33 he fought
running an entire city, because while he does have Yin Yu, he wasn't always there and besides a guy and his assistant is not nearly enough staff to run a city
running a very successful casino
getting richer than the actual realm of heaven off said successful casino
staying on top of a missing person case, chasing down every single rumour that could even remotely be about Xie Lian
hunting Qi Rong for sport
tearing down and rebuilding his huge-ass house
AND painting all those murals and paintings
fucking hell what kind of meth was he on and where can i get some??? like i get it he's a ghost, he doesn't need to sleep or eat so he does have more hours in a day but to get SO MUCH done??? at this point i'm convinced he had to have had clones running around for at least SOME of those tasks because how the fuck do you have the time for all of that while churning out beautifully carved, life-sized statues faster than a goddamned shein factory
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