Chapter 690 Indeed, That's Very Reasonable (7800, Seeking Monthly Tickets at the End of the Month!)

The Earth-Sealing Universe, in a sense, is isolated from the sealed multiverse directly influenced by the Great Existences.

To draw an analogy, the Earth-Sealing Universe is like the bottle cap at the very top of the Great Sealing Multiverse. The water or beverage in the bottle is the multiverse influenced by the Great Existences. The bottle cap is separated from the sealed multiverse by a considerable amount of void most of the time.

And here, the air isolating the beverage and the bottle cap is the Great Seal itself.

To pass through this void, one can only depart from the Earth Universe along the fissures of the Great Seal, embarking on a one-way trip, or utilize the power of the 'Celestial Scale' (Tianshen Kedou), a fragment of the seal.

Su Zhou is now located on the dividing line between the 'beverage' and the 'air'. Further ahead lies the manifested essence of the Great Seal's power, that is, the area surrounding the Earth-Sealing Universe, while retreating will return him to the sealed multiverse.

But he stopped.

Because an old friend he hadn't seen in a long time was visiting a certain serpent spirit.

[Chaos, it's been so many years, long time no see.]

It was a cheerful voice that sounded a bit old, but was full of vigor and vitality: [Last time I saw you in the Aion World, you didn't even say hello to me, which really made this old man feel like an outsider.]

[How about staying this time and having a cup of tea with me and the Great Dao? We have a lot of things we want to talk about.]

Greenish-blue纹路 (wenlu), forming a tree-like network, overlapped with a series of twelve greenish-blue light spots on the other side, sandwiching the crimson serpent spirit.

"Haha, World Tree, who would have thought you were awake back then? I just thought you were sleeping!"

One could vaguely hear Yala's equally hearty reply: "But we have things to do now, let's chat next time we meet!"

As He said this, the crimson serpent spirit seemed to want to run away, trying to squeeze out from between the two divine tree phantoms.

[Don't be in such a hurry.]

But at the same time, another voice, seemingly uttered with a smile, could be heard. The Great Dao Tree said softly: [Thanks to the two of you, I was able to reposition the World Tree and awaken it from the void... Although you may have forgotten, you did complete my commission.]

He took a step forward, blocking the serpent spirit's retreat.

"Don't include me, I didn't do anything. The main credit goes to my contractee. If you want to thank someone, thank him!"

Yala obviously didn't want to get tangled up with the two divine trees about these things, but clearly, things didn't go as He wished. He was forcibly taken away to have tea.

And the young man sat aside, happily enjoying the show.

Time rewinds to a period earlier.

Just as Su Zhou left the empty void surrounding the Twilight World Group, returned to the normal multiverse, and was about to go home along the orbit of the Celestial Scale.

He suddenly sensed familiar chanting voices coming from the void, transmitted from the distant end of the multiverse.

The sacred guidance, echoing through the myriad realms and star seas, shook the heavens and constellations, and the void also blossomed with light.

Generally, the chants originating from ordinary dependents and clans can spread clearly and loudly within a few surrounding worlds. However, this kind of chant that even traversed the sealed multiverse could only be achieved by the will of a Great Existence.

And which Great Existence would chant praises to itself?

The answer is the Divine Trees!

[—Foundation of the Myriad Realms, Head of All Living Beings!]

[—Beginning of Heavenly Principles, Source of All Fruits!]

[—Existing Eternally, Never Ceasing!]

[—Praise the Divine Tree, the Fruit of All Causes!]

The Great Dao Tree and the World Tree chanted in harmony, one leading the chant, the other providing a secondary chant, one in the high register, one in the low register, creating a harmony.

The two Great Existences alternated, and in this way, with endless vitality, descended beside Su Zhou and Yala.

Although it sounded a bit funny, Su Zhou couldn't laugh at that time.

Because as the wills of these two Divine Tree-type Great Existences swept across the multiverse, countless dead worlds gained life and light from it.

Subtle fragments, undetectable even by immortals and gods, were present in the chanting voices, which although recited by himself, contained the most sincere praise from countless dependents and clans. An invisible wave spread with the will of the Great Existences.

In the young man's gaze, countless lifeless and silent worlds lit up with brilliant light of vitality, as if a dark room was illuminated by candlelight.

For worlds that had not yet fully gestated, the Divine Trees helped them complete.

For worlds that had fully gestated but lacked the conditions for life to be born, the Divine Trees helped them coordinate.

For worlds that had the conditions for life to be born, but had not yet had time to gestate, the Divine Trees helped them accelerate.

For worlds where life existed, but was not thriving and was in danger of collapse, the Divine Trees helped them stabilize.

And for worlds that had already flourished and were extremely prosperous, the Divine Trees blessed their future.

Two rays of greenish-blue light alternated and spread throughout each world. Wherever they passed, the silent became noisy, the noisy became grand, the dark became bright, and the bright became dazzling.

[Existence] and [Continuation].

Everything that already existed, everything that would exist in the future, everything that had existed in the past, all validated the correctness of this.

Because life existed at the source of the 'past', its descendants could nurture even grander things, develop even more brilliant wisdom and civilization, exist in the 'present', and ultimately achieve the greatest existence in the 'future', whether distant or not.

Praise the existence and continuation of all things, because they are the creators of the past, the masters of the present, and the creators of the future!

"Stop narrating yourself!"

Yala couldn't help but expose this point, and immediately raised His tail and pointed: "Why do you like repeating the rainbow farts that your dependents wrote for you so much?"

Then, two voices answered with a smile in turn.

Great Dao: [Because they are right.]

World: [And you don't.]

Great Dao: [Thinking carefully, the dependents of the Chaos lineage all have a strong spirit of resistance. Everyone likes to argue with their superiors. This is the norm.]

World: [Indeed, that's very reasonable.]

Great Dao: [Speaking of which, there are a lot of guys who subvert their superiors in your world.]

World: [Of course. In the Aion World, the Chaos dependents often backstab each other.]

Great Dao: [Envious?]

World: [It seems I am indeed envious.]

This series of moves naturally froze the serpent spirit in place, temporarily unable to speak.

But before He could open His mouth to refute, such as saying that He also had very kind and friendly dependents, the two divine trees came to His side, literally carrying Him away, one on each arm.

The World Tree and the Great Dao Tree didn't have any malice, they just wanted to chat with an old friend, but clearly, Yala was very unaccustomed to this kind of chatting.

Can a talk show host have a back-and-forth with a crosstalk duo? Obviously not.

While the three Great Existences were communicating their feelings and reminiscing about the time in the Great Seal, and discussing the topic of 'Why is Twilight more withdrawn than before?', Su Zhou also received a message from the 'World Tree'.

[Thank you, Su Zhou.]

This old but cheerful voice rang out, reaching directly into Su Zhou's soul: [The re-resurrection of the Divine Tree awakened me, who was immersed in nothingness. Otherwise, I would probably have to wait a long time with Twilight before I could awaken.]

[The waiting in slumber leads life into silence, unable to create a future, unable to continue smoothly. Although the light of Twilight does exist, it does not yearn for it, nor does it continue it. It is silent nothingness.]

[And you choose to bless. This is a choice worthy of praise.]

"It's what I should do. I will do this, and I will only do this."

Su Zhou couldn't help but glance at the symbolic totems of the two Divine Trees in front of him… Unlike the Precursor, Destiny, and Silent Lord, who had more obvious characteristics, the symbolic totems of the Great Dao and World Tree were very free. Although they did have characteristics such as the 'Twelve Star紋 (wen)' and 'Tree Diagram紋 (wen)', the details shown each time had slight differences.

And this different light was illuminating the entire sealed multiverse.

He couldn't help but admire in his heart: As expected of the Great Existences who, according to legends, could contend with Twilight when working together… If Twilight was the most extreme pole of correctness, then the dual Divine Trees were the other pole at the other end of that extreme.

They were naturally correct without any suspense.

[Because existence is not bound by form, and continuation is the same.]

Noticing Su Zhou's thoughts, the World Tree responded softly, like an old man imparting knowledge: [The body, soul, spirit, will, memory, supernatural powers… are all forms of existence.]

[Leaving behind bloodlines, leaving behind fighting spirit, leaving behind beliefs, leaving behind inheritance, are all ways of continuation.]

[There is no high or low, all things are reasonable, and all things are as they should be.]

At this point, the World Tree laughed heartily: [You helped me, so I should reciprocate.]

[Su Zhou, the Great Dao has been watching you, the Divine Tree has been watching you. You already have your own light, your own correct beliefs, and you are gradually moving upwards on the path… Therefore, we will not do anything to hinder your own 'existence and continuation'. We will only 'bless' you.]

[—Wishing, wishing you a future journey, that it will be on your path, and that your actions will all prove your love and faith.]

As the voice fell, a round of deep cyan light descended from the distant end and fell from Su Zhou's forehead.

It did not contain any real power, merely a blessing.

But blessings do not need any substantial power; they are merely actions that represent the most sincere intentions.

And the sincere blessing of the Divine Tree, merely by existing, holds real power.

Of course, Su Zhou couldn't feel anything yet, and the World Tree's voice sounded leisurely: [Life is bound to be connected to other lives… Su Zhou is also Yala's contractee, and is even more of an innovator. We bless you because of this.]

After all, having spent a long time with Yala, Su Zhou could easily deduce the true meaning from the World Tree's words: The power of this blessing can only be exerted when there are other lives and people involved.

The dual Divine Trees were exchanging what they had seen and heard in the Twilight World Group with Yala.

The information about 'monsters' that Yala and Su Zhou had analyzed before was naturally also told to the dual Divine Trees, which undoubtedly made them quite alert.

As the main force in the war between the Great Existences and monsters in the past, the dual Divine Trees knew better than anyone what the guys who intended to create 'monsters' in the sealed multiverse were thinking… To unlock the power shackles belonging to other Great Existences that were wrapped around all the Great Existences in this multiverse, monsters were almost the only choice.

But the Divine Trees had different opinions.

[Sealing is also a form of existence.] The World Tree said, revealing the Divine Tree lineage's common indifferent attitude: [We are sealed, that's very reasonable.]

And the Great Dao Tree also seemed to be nodding: [The continuation of the seal is also a form of inheritance. It's quite correct.]

[Anyway, as long as we exist until the end of eternity, the Great Seal will naturally break apart—it's already broken quite a bit now.]

Su Zhou/Yala: ?

Good heavens, one believed in existence and continuation, and the other believed in Twilight and nothingness. Although completely opposite, they both expressed almost the same attitude towards the Great Seal.

Just 'wait' and everything will be fine!

Although the information about 'monsters' in the Twilight World was important, there were no more related clues.

After all, Su Zhou was not a Great Existence, so he naturally didn't participate in the battle against the monsters like the dual Divine Trees and Yala, so when these three Great Existences were seriously discussing related topics, he could only watch.

It was at this time that Su Zhou contacted his little sister and guided her to control his body.

And just as Su Zhou was taking care of things on the Earth Universe side, the conversation of the Great Existences came to an end.

“[Return to One] [Creation] and [Termination] all participated in the creation of this 'monster'.”

Yala frowned: "[Destiny] also has a bit of a shadow, but it's not very certain."

“[Precursor]? Do you think it's possible that Precursor…”

Although Precursor sealed himself in the Great Seal, this also made Him the biggest beneficiary of the Great Seal's unsealing.

[No possibility.]

Unexpectedly, the dual Divine Trees, who had always been very objective in both their words and attitudes, directly denied this possibility: [Only Precursor is impossible.]

Noticing the serpent spirit's and Su Zhou's confusion, the dual Divine Trees also revealed a message to the two of them.

After a considerable period of trial, the Great Dao Tree contacted the 'Precursor Space' and actively introduced the power of the Precursor Space into all the worlds dominated by the power of the Divine Tree.

[The exploration of the Precursor will naturally bring about an infinitely long existence and continuation. Wherever they pass, even the unknown distance will have the inheritance of existence left behind. Even if these explorers no longer look back or set foot in the worlds they have pioneered, merely the act of exploration causes the origin of life to emerge because of it.]

The above rather cryptic explanation was stated by the World Tree. He might have spent a little too much time accompanying Twilight in 'waiting', so he had a lot to say now.

And the Great Dao Tree explained it this way: [A trace of the Divine Tree's protective power will become standard equipment for future advanced adventurers, preventing them from being instantly annihilated by any attack and giving the Precursor Space a chance to save them.]

Su Zhou wasn't surprised that the Nine Worlds Tree, as the representative of the World Tree, would be gnawed down by the black dragon Nidhogg, and that the Tree of Wisdom, the representative of the Great Dao Tree, would be related to the ancient serpent Satan.

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The dual Divine Trees were still elaborating.

[In short, conversely, our power can also be expanded by the power of the Precursor's exploration. This is a mutually beneficial thing.]

[Just like when we allied with you, the union of all existences can exert a power greater than one plus one.]

If that was the case, then it made sense.

Although Yala was still muttering, He accepted the reality that [Precursor] could not be the mastermind.

The dual Divine Trees had no need to lie or conceal anything. Rather, the arrogance of all Great Existences made them disdain to do things like lying, which would 'distort their correctness'.

Every Great Existence was a fellow who firmly believed that what they did, what they thought, was correct.

The alliance between the dual Divine Trees and Precursor even took special care of Su Zhou, allowing the young man to see the current situation in the Divine Tree World.

Divine Tree World.

The Banyan Undying Tree had not yet been fully activated to transform the entire Earth into its protected area because of its agreement with Su Zhou.

But even so, on the planet that had been completely soaked by the Divine Tree's Qi, it was no longer possible for cultivators above the Innate level to appear, except for those who cultivated Wood-type cultivation methods.

A few years had passed since Su Zhou's last return. As Zhou Buyi made up his mind and, following Su Zhou's advice, led humanity to colonize the moon to avoid the Banyan Undying Tree's 'erosion', which could also be called 'loving embrace', a large number of Precursor adventurers began to appear in the Divine Tree World.

The subtle difference between adventurers and explorers was that adventurers mostly tended to solve some existing problems, such as killing the Demon King of the local world, resolving the problems of ancient seals, and allowing the future to move towards a completely new path.

Explorers tended to explore the distant places of unknown worlds, often exploring a world that had not yet been fully developed.

So, the question was, who was the most like the Demon King on the planets ruled by the Celestial Alliance in the Divine Tree World?

Of course, it was the Director of the Demon Subduing Bureau, the dark giant hand hidden behind the officialdom, the undying person who influenced the development of the entire civilization, the strongest person in this world who had killed the evil dragon in the past and had now become an 'evil dragon' himself, Martial Saint Zhou Buyi!

Merely because of his background, Zhou Buyi, who was defaulted to be the Demon King and regarded as hindering the Divine Tree World from moving towards the future, said: ?

——Mastermind? That Demon Subduing Martial Saint hidden behind me, Lord of Kunlun, the Candle Sun of this world, Su Zhou, wouldn't he be an even more mastermind than me?

Why didn't these people go and crusade against Su Zhou?

These were Zhou Buyi's original words to himself at that time.

Su Zhou, who saw this: ???

But thinking carefully, the performances of various Candle Suns in many worlds were worthy of the title of Boss.

Therefore, during that time, Zhou Buyi had to face assassinations and crusades from adventurers from various worlds and local adventurers every day, which annoyed him so much that he simply recruited a group of adventurers himself to form the 'Celestial Alliance Official Adventurer Squad' to compete with those wild Precursor dependents. Only then did things quiet down for a while.

And after he officially launched the lunar exploration project, there were fewer adventurers, and a large number of explorers began to emerge.

In fact, many forces in the worlds had noticed the existence of the Precursor Space, and they naturally wanted to explore this mysterious space, but the Precursor Space had a very strong level of protection for its dependents. This could be seen from the fact that they had joined forces with the Divine Tree before in order to protect their dependents.

Therefore, most of the forces that intended to explore using violent means didn't have good endings. The Precursor dependents might not have much power themselves, but they had the Precursor Space with countless resources behind them, and it was easy for them to subvert one or two forces.

Most of the forces cooperated while engaging in open and secret struggles with the Precursor dependents.

Relying on the power of the explorers, Zhou Buyi had already established a Divine Tree ecosystem on the moon with the Continuing Divine Tree as the main body.

He was now working hard to use other technologies to replace the Divine Tree, ensuring that human martial artists could advance to the Commander level on the moon, and even above the Celestial Martial Saint level, a realm that Zhou Buyi himself had only barely touched the edge of.

Even he himself, because of the appearance of the Precursor Space, had emerged with the thought of 'wanting to go to distant places to see what kind of different knowledge there is that can allow me to guide the Celestial Alliance to the correct path'.

In Su Zhou's view, this was completely up to the standard of a Precursor. Ms. Funia of the Aion World had only had this realization at the end.

And the dual Divine Trees smiled at everything about the Precursor Space's blatant operation of snatching people in their own world.

Why? Because everything was two-way. As the cooperation between the two sides of the Divine Tree deepened, those worlds that only the Precursor could develop in the past would also be used by the Divine Tree.

And the universality of existence and continuation was still higher than the Precursor's correctness.

[The most important thing is that the Precursor took a step back.]

The Great Dao Tree's grass and wood totem light spots flashed: [He himself gave up on escaping from the Great Seal, which made all the disputes over interests move away from Him.]

[Taking a step back leads to a broader world. Since that's the case, we are naturally willing to cooperate with Him and also take a step back.]

The World Tree's tree diagram紋 (wenlu) swayed slightly, as if in affirmation.

Life and continuation.

In order to continue, life needs to be better than others, or suitable enough, adaptable enough to the times.

In any case, life is always in competition with each other.

Continuation must also have existence as a support, so competition is also an unchanging theme, and 'dispute' is also one of the Great Existences.

And the places where different lives are better than others are representatives of various 'correctness', which are also the origins of countless disputes.

Therefore, even if they knew that taking a step back would lead to a broader world, very few people were willing to take a step back.

The alliance between Precursor and the Divine Tree was based on this point.

After this exchange, the dual Divine Trees and Su Zhou gradually separated.

Both sides knew the information they wanted, achieved their respective goals, and were very satisfied.

As for Su Zhou's doubts about why the World Tree would fight with Twilight, they were also explained.

[It was mainly because we had just left the seal and thought we were still fighting.]

The World Tree explained it this way at that time: [When we raised our heads, we saw the target we were fighting before we were sealed. No matter who it was, we would attack first, at least to get away from Him, right?]

[That's very reasonable.]

Indeed, that was indeed very reasonable.

And it was only reasonable that the World Tree was beaten down alone.

The World Tree's battle with Twilight was completely at a disadvantage due to insufficient information. He was just fighting Twilight in the usual way, but halfway through the battle, he realized that the Great Dao Tree, which should have been fighting alongside him to jointly respond to the enemy, was gone.

Good heavens, suddenly fighting alone!

It wasn't until He was defeated by Twilight and fell into nothingness to wait that He understood that someone had shielded the information flow around the Twilight World Group.

In other places in the multiverse, it was absolutely impossible to shield a Great Existence, even a little bit of its remnant sense… But the Twilight World Group was different. The empty darkness surrounding the entire Twilight World Group was part of Twilight's essence.

And Twilight happened to be one of the strongest Great Existences. The dual Divine Trees needed to join forces to contend with Him, so a single entity naturally couldn't break through the shielding with a mastermind involved.

“…It seems that we really need to go to the Precursor Space for a trip.”

Watching the re-complete dual Divine Tree combination disappear into the distant end of the void, Su Zhou couldn't help but sigh: “The Celestial Scale is indeed precisely positioned, but the number is still too small… I've known this for a long time.”

“But now it seems that the Precursor's step back is indeed a brilliant move. He still has the strength, but He has shown goodwill, so Great Existences like the Divine Tree are willing to reciprocate the goodwill and cooperate with Him.”

As for the Silent Lord, a social butterfly, Su Zhou had long known that the other party was related to the Precursor. Now, there was just more evidence to confirm it.

Originally, Su Zhou planned to be more cautious and wait until his strength became stronger before exploring the Precursor Space.

But now it seemed that his strength was already quite good.

Even as a soul, he could fight back and forth with the Solar Emperor, who was not weak even among the Celestial Immortals, and who had the trump card power of a Great Celestial Venerable, and even grind the other party to ashes. This proved that Su Zhou's strength had reached a threshold.

As long as his body also became equally powerful, then the soul and body would combine, and with his increasingly mature combat skills, Su Zhou could soon move towards the peak of the Celestial Immortal level, and even the threshold of the Celestial Venerable.

“It's about time to start preparing to explore the Precursor Space… The many backhands and materials I've prepared should also come into play.”

Controlling the Celestial Scale to turn around and fly towards the Earth-Sealing Universe, Su Zhou reached out and touched the 'Watch' in his arms, which represented the symbol of Precursor guidance, and couldn't help but nod: “After returning to Earth and resolving the Void Cult that group of bastards, we should start exploring.”

Silver light flew through the void.

At the same time, in the Earth Universe.

Candle Sun Body · Judgement Death Star.

After ending the battle with the Void Parasite Demon Fleet in the Isolated Planetary System, the Death Star Dragon transformed back into its original Death Star form to conserve energy.

This time, the Judgement Death Star had a big feast. The Parasite Demons were very nutritious, with both high-quality cosmic alloys and a very thick psionic core. As for the 'Twilight elements' that ordinary people feared and regarded as poison, it was a great tonic for Su Zhou's body, who knew more about Twilight than anyone.

Tang Yuan had no envy or jealousy towards Shao Shuangyue's achievements. Instead, he showed an expression of 'finally being liberated'—the moment Shao Shuangyue showed the Candle Sun controller, he immediately stated that the entire Earth United Fleet's battle command and the Judgement Death Star's control were all handed over to Shao Shuangyue, while he only held the nominal position of captain of the Earth United Fleet's flagship.

At first, Shao Shuangyue was wondering why Tang Yuan could so easily hand over such great power… But after she was also brainwashed by the Candle Sun's body's various error messages and notifications in her daily life, she finally understood.

For example, "XX area is starting to perform self-checks," "XX function needs to be updated. Please decide whether to restart in half an hour or immediately," "You need to reactivate the control panel immediately. Please enter the controller key in the relevant operation interface," and other messy things…

Innovation, updating is also innovation. Perhaps only an innovator like Su Zhou could tolerate this kind of combat body that was constantly prompting updates.

After figuring out the truth of all this, Shao Shuangyue, who had rashly agreed, was now regretting it, very regretting it.

As for Tang Yuan?

A certain secretary who had worked overtime for more than two years and did not want to reveal his last name said that he was very happy now, very happy.

He was now like an ultimate wage slave who had been on a long vacation. After getting the vacation, he didn't want to do anything and just happily collapsed on the captain's seat, watching the starry sky with joy.

In contrast, Shao Shuangyue, who was now crying, had to face such a situation.

That was the almost daily Twilight Fleet raid.

Yes, every day, at random times, there would be related Twilight Fleets launching nearly suicidal harassment attacks against the Death Star.

There might be only one a day, or as many as four or five, but there would never be a gap for people to rest peacefully.

After taking over, Shao Shuangyue, who realized the intensity of Tang Yuan's work in the past, almost completely collapsed in her heart—she also completely understood why Tang Yuan's mentality when controlling the Death Star had become so insincere.

Being raided three or four times a day was like having breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Who could stand it!

Just now, Shao Shuangyue had manipulated the Death Star to eliminate a fleet of carbon-based Void Cult members.

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"Sister Shuangyue!"

At this moment, the lonely girl in the cockpit heard the hurried transmission from her companion, the dragonborn少年 (shaonian): "It's bad! The nineteenth Twilight Fleet raid of this week is here again!"

"Huh?! Again?!"

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