Chapter 761 Happy, Tell Me Everything (6400)

The pitch-black hall was vast and boundless. Simple, rocky pillars like the arms of titanic giants supported a dome whose end could not be seen. On the smooth floor, layers of shimmering crystalline patterns flickered on and off, extending and releasing a cyan light before disappearing into the darkness. It was the only light in this space.

This was a magnificent hall that could house celestial stars. It was built for the gods, a place of glory for the most ancient lineage of the Ten Heavenly Gods, the Yuheng Dao.

It was once magnificent and brilliant, where thousands of gods communicated, discussed Dao, fulfilled their righteousness, observed the trends of the entire world, and formulated plans that could change the universe.

But now, everything had disappeared.

The hall was silent, dark, cold, and dead, without any vitality.

A god clad in a black-gray robe knelt before a wide high platform. He tightly grasped the hilt of a large sword broken in two, with the broken sword resting on the ground. The jagged break dragged streaks across the gleaming floor.

The god had his eyes tightly closed. His long silver hair reflected a hazy halo of light in the glow of the crystalline patterns. His figure was well-proportioned, his hands slender, at least in comparison to the great sword he held, which could be described as delicate. But his aura was like a reef in the cold tide: stubborn, cold, resolute, and utterly without weakness.

But that aura vanished when he opened his eyes.

The god opened his eyes, his violet-golden pupils surveying his surroundings, revealing a look of confusion and pain on his handsome face.

Black.

Pitch black.

The pitch-black silence filled the hall, filling even the core of the world.

Perhaps the gods of the past had strayed from the path, or perhaps the truths of the past had been abandoned, so the light had dimmed and prosperity had ceased.

The solemn statues and emblems were covered in dust, just like the glory of the Yuheng Dao.

Kastellaro had thought he could change all of this, but after thousands of years, he painfully realized that all his efforts were in vain. No matter how hard he tried to save it, he couldn't even begin the first step, and could only be trapped in place.

The high platform before him was so majestic and grand, but the Concordance Armament, the Truth Arbiter, which was once placed here, was no longer in its original position. Those colleagues and comrades who thought they were correct, but had strayed from the path of balance, had taken everything away, and at the same time abandoned all past memories and glories, as if they had never believed.

The great sword in the god's hand, its guard in the shape of a 'scales', if anyone had ever been fortunate enough to see the form of the Yuheng Dao's Concordance Armament, then he would realize that the guard of the great sword in Kastellaro's hand was identical to that of the Truth Arbiter.

This sword was called 'Hengqi' (Balancer), and it was the symbol of the Yuheng Dao's three great Concordance Chosen, the 'Balance Bearers', and also the preliminary selection for the next 'Master of the Heavenly Balance'.

But now, this power, which meant authority above ten thousand gods under one god, was broken in the middle. This artifact, which could shatter even the star's core, was damaged to such an extent that only another artifact of the same level could achieve this result with a full-force clash.

[All things follow the principle of balance, and we must guard the responsibility of balance]

[Apply judgment to sins, and grant rewards to good deeds]

[Treat courtesy with sincerity, love with truth, evil with anger, and wickedness with annihilation]

Gazing at the empty high platform, Kastellaro murmured to himself, the handsome god reciting the rules of the past and the hymns of praise of the Yuheng Dao gods.

[--The principle of all ages, the beginning of all principles; the balance of all realms, the standard of all balance--]

[--Granting names to all that exists, weighing heaven and earth with the heart; cause and effect are determined, and sins are constantly judged--]

[--Praise balance!--]

[--Illuminating the stars, the tool of heavenly balance; spanning ancient and modern times, the foundation of eternal existence!--]

Remembering the prayer, he recited it in a low voice, from the heart, full of sincerity.

With the prayer, cyan-golden light shone from the high platform, and the smooth, mirror-like floor shimmered like water waves, reflecting the brilliant divine light, as if to condense into a sacred totem emblem in the center of the hall.

But, just as the light was overflowing to the point of reaching its limit, it finally collapsed.

The prayer of one god could not stimulate the divine power of the hall, even if this god was a strong among the Creation Machine Gods, and its future master was also the same.

This was also balance.

[Balance]

The truth and correctness upheld by the Yuheng Dao.

In the beginning when everything was first born, the world as perceived by all things was a world unique to themselves.

The same color, some people call it 'black' in their hearts, some people consider it 'red' in their hearts, some people think there is nothing there, nothing at all, and some people think that the color is too turbid, with many colors mixed together and cannot be named.

They are all correct.

And between different races, because of the different electromagnetic waves they receive, because of the different spiritual energy frequencies they sense, it is clearly the same red apple, but they can see dozens, hundreds, or even countless different colors and shapes. Moreover, some people think it is delicious, some think it is poisonous, some think it is inedible and unabsorbable garbage, and some think it is a terrifying invasive species.

They are also all correct.

So, how can this disparate myriad of realms and races, these completely different cognitions and logics, this perhaps impossible to understand or communicate, this tragic barrier, be broken?

How should these beings, who are clearly staring at the same world (truth), but can come to countless different correct answers, communicate their thoughts and let one heart understand other hearts?

The answer is balance.

It is to give names to all things.

With balance, two completely different hearts will seek common ground while reserving differences.

With balance, two extreme thoughts can grasp the origin of mutual understanding.

With balance, born in the compromise of all living beings, the minds of all living beings give up directly describing the world with their own minds, but choose to create language to define a thing, an existence, a truth with a third-party objective and subjective method.

Then, give it a name that can be accepted by everyone.

Then, everything begins.

Balance judges the cognition of all living beings, the definition of all things, gives names to heaven and earth, and measures the standards of all things, so that the existing lives can communicate with each other and allow their respective wills to communicate with each other.

Only in this way can it be determined who is right and who is wrong.

Because of balance, everything has meaning.

If you are unwilling to join this balance and still stay in the 'world of self', then you are neither wrong nor correct existence—they are correct for themselves, but not necessarily for others, but they will not communicate with other lives, so it doesn't matter.

And if you not only unwilling to join this balance, and still stay in the 'world of self', but also want to destroy the foundation of all this, and forcibly make others accept your own ideas, instead of compromising with others to achieve balance... then you are a 'monster'.

The light that had been lit up with the prayer gradually surged, and the god stood up.

He tightly grasped the hilt of the broken sword in his hand, and walked in the hall, time and space twisted under his feet, crossing a long distance.

He came to the entrance of the hall, in front of a calm pool of time and space. The pool was calm, but the undercurrents surged within, and countless lights and shadows intertwined in it, reflecting a corner of the fragments of thousands of time and space, as if mapping out the entire universe.

[The Lord of Balance suppresses the source of the universe. The silent shadows of 'Jingyuan' (Still Abyss) no longer spread, but the fiery destruction of 'Dongting' (Moving Court) is still constantly expanding... The clusters of cosmic star beasts are becoming more and more huge and radical. If they are not stopped, the catastrophe of the past End Calamity will definitely repeat itself]

[The Ten Heavenly Gods and the Four Forbidden Zones all know about this. They all have their own plans, but they are only for their own correctness, and have never thought about working together to solve the essence of the problem—my poor former comrades, thought they had found the key, but were eroded by the truth itself and became slaves of the truth]

Gazing at the pool of time and space, the god could not help but sigh: [How can I save you, and how can I save those comrades who are沉沦 (chénlún - sinking) in the hazy illusion?]

At this moment, he could not help but think of the 'Explorer' he had met near the pulsar.

——Someone from the other side of distant time and space, who traveled with Suojindao (Dao of Exhaustion) all the way, if, if the 'unknown' you are pursuing can also find opportunities in such a desperate situation...

[Forget it, forget it, how is that possible, the scales have already tilted, all I can do is leave this place, retain this body, and not let others get the authority on my body]

Thinking like this, suddenly.

The god sensed a message from the other side of distant time and space.

Sensing it slightly, Kastellaro understood that it was the enthusiastic Pioneer Explorer he knew, the visitor from another world.

He had promised and made a contract that he would bring a turning point and give him a beacon that could leave this Creation Realm and go to the Pioneer Space—although he doubted whether an Ascended God could obtain a beacon sufficient to allow him, a strong among the Creation Machine Gods, to escape, but other than that, he had no other choice.

After being blocked by his former comrades from all channels, being only able to travel in a few specific silent star regions, and being hunted by countless star beasts and Mech God armies once discovered, Kastellaro could not even show his most powerful 'Mech God form', and could only act in the weakest human form.

But even so, he could not go to other regions for help and find a chance to break through the predicament.

He could only believe in the contract, believing that there were still people in the world who upheld the truth.

So, the god listened to the message from his half-friend.

Then, his eyes widened.

[What?!]

Kastellaro, who was originally颓废 (tuífèi - decadent) and茫然 (mángrán - lost), and only had exhaustion besides confusion, his violet-golden eyes were full of shock. He subconsciously repeated: [They used the Concordance Armament?!]

[Those, those guys, those damned heretics, actually use the Concordance Armament to break the balance——!!]

The god's chest rose and fell with anger, and he originally thought that he had already seen the worst situation and could accept anything calmly—but now, he had really never seen this situation!

He could not accept it!

The Concordance Armament was the real manifestation of the Great Dao of a Concordance expert. The Concordance Armament itself meant Concordance-level combat power. Even if a Concordance expert was restrained by other Concordance experts, the Concordance Armament could protect the Fundamental God Court from being raided.

In the distant past, the Ten Heavenly Gods and the Four Forbidden Zones had made a contract of 'not using the Concordance Armament first'. If one party violated it, then the entire group would not be bound, and the chaotic world of divine wars that had finally ended would probably start again.

Endless disputes would descend because of this, and everything was actually broken by the 'Yuheng Dao' of 'Balance', the host of that truce contract, who took the lead in using their Concordance Armament...

How sad, how ridiculous!

For a time, Kastellaro was extremely angry, and the hand holding the sword was shaking violently. This was more than just trampling on the glory of the Yuheng Dao, it was simply scattering their past glory as garbage at will!

But soon, he calmed down and obtained information from Dechimus's message.

[He invited the most powerful expert from his mother world and mother civilization, a Venerable Lord at the peak of the Creation Machine God, to help me? This is really some unbelievable good news...]

[Because they eliminated the heretical Star Beast herd, they were attacked by the heretics using the Concordance Armament—no, I must help them!]

Kastellaro was actually very clear that a peak Venerable Lord could not solve his and the Yuheng Dao's current predicament.

But he was also very clear how prosperous it was for a single civilization to be able to nurture a Creation expert!

You must know that the gods of the cosmic god system were accumulated by countless civilizations over hundreds of millions of years. Apart from civilizations with Concordance experts, how many civilizations in the Creation Realm dare to say that they are stronger than them?

But after all, what he had to face was not a one-on-one fair duel.

Without hesitation, the god thought for a while and told Dechimus the key to the time-space pool.

Of course, he would also suspect whether this was a play acted by those heretics in collusion with this Pioneer Explorer... but sometimes, you can only choose to believe.

Now was that time—for the Pioneer Space that could allow him to escape the predicament, and for Dechimus, he could only believe.

On the other side of time and space, the aura of the Concordance Armament overflowed. Even though it was far away from the hall and the time-space pool, the thick pressure still spanned the cosmic vacuum, intending to break the ancient sky.

Kastellaro was originally thinking about whether the Venerable Lord from another world could get rid of the capture of the Concordance Armament—you must know that the power of the Truth Arbiter could be said to be second to none among the many Concordance Armaments, and had even separated an entire galaxy that was about to collide.

With such power, capturing a Venerable Lord at the peak, although it could not be said to be easy, it was just a normal operation.

However, something unexpected happened.

In Kastellaro's perception, the powerful Venerable Lord from another world was unexpectedly unaffected at all. He directly broke free from the capture of the Concordance Armament, and then penetrated through the layers of subspace all the way... then, following the time-space key, he came towards the direction where he was.

[What...]

Even before he could be shocked, the god showed a dazed expression again: [Do those heretics even know how to use the Concordance Armament? How can they not even stop the footsteps of a Venerable Lord at all?]

He thought it was the heretics who had made an operational error and failed to exert the power of their supreme artifact.

But there was no time to think about it.

Soon, the calm time-space pool surged, and two battleships suddenly rose from the pool, which was as wide as a world, without bringing up a single drop of water.

"Interesting, the aura here is very authentic balance aura... and there is also the smell of the Concordance Armament before! Could it be that the Concordance Armament was placed here for a period of time before? Or is it that this is where the Concordance Armament was originally supposed to be?"

It could be heard that such a voice sounded. The owner of this voice spoke in his native language, but because of his powerful soul, everyone could understand what he wanted to say.

"Hello, god from another world, I am very happy to meet you, and I am very grateful for your help."

Soon, the Venerable Lord from another world cast his gaze on Kastellaro, and the god also saw that a black-haired humanoid youth walked out of the leading battleship. His eyes were bright, his appearance was perfect, but unexpectedly, he did not have any inhuman abnormalities. Instead, there was a kind of 'perfection' that any race could understand and appreciate.

Looking at himself, the Venerable Lord from another world smiled and said: "Although I don't know what difficulties you are currently facing, Dechimus is also an acquaintance of mine. He made a contract with you, and I will share a part for him. If you have any problems, you can entrust them to me. Feel free to speak, and I will definitely do my best to help."

Very enthusiastic.

Very sincere.

Also, very annoying.

Although he knew that the other party was well-intentioned, Kastellaro could not help but feel a trace of annoyance in his heart.

——Daring to make promises to help without knowing anything... ha, precisely because you don't know anything, you can be so enthusiastic.

If they really knew the predicament that this universe was facing today, would these visitors from another world dare to stay here for a long time?

Thinking like this, Kastellaro just shook his head and responded rather coldly: [Those who are enemies with those distorted heretics are my friends]

[As for the others... it is not something you can get involved in, so don't pay too much attention to it. Just rest here in peace. There are still many reserves here, enough for you to use]

His attitude was indeed very cold, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became silent.

But in reality, Su Zhou was muttering in his heart something that would definitely make the other party angry if he knew about it.

"...This Kastellaro, why does he look like a Tsundere?"

"Because he feels that things are too difficult and troublesome, so he doesn't want us to participate and deliberately suppresses his enthusiasm with a cold tone—interesting, I am even more interested in what the Yuheng Dao has encountered!"

"Uh." In the soul channel, Jiu Ming, who was communicating with Su Zhou about the next action plan, twitched the corner of his mouth. The Dragonborn youth euphemistically proposed a possibility: "Zhou-ge, is it possible that the other party really thinks that we are not worthy to participate? After all, the grievances and entanglements of the Ten Heavenly Gods are really unrelated to us visitors from another world."

"I'm not worthy? I advise you to be careful with your words and think carefully about what you just said." The Multiverse Police Su Zhou glanced at him, causing Jiu Ming to raise his hand and surrender on the spot. The youth shook his head: "Of course, you are right. It can indeed be said that we don't even have a Concordance Armament, how can we participate in the highest-level disputes in this world?"

"But in fact, this guy really feels that since he is going to leave this world anyway, it is best not to let others touch this mess."

"A member of the Balance, he still has this sense of responsibility, but this hypocritical appearance is too classic."

Thinking like this in his heart, in reality, Su Zhou did not remain silent for too long. He laughed loudly and said: "In any case, let's talk about it first—isn't it like being afraid before the battle even starts if we don't say anything? It's better to be afraid after listening than not listening at all!"

"Venerable Lord Kastellaro, please tell us everything, perhaps I can just solve this problem."

"Oh, by the way, my name is Su Zhou, you can also call me Zhu Zhou."

Kastellaro was so angry that he almost laughed. His long silver hair trembled, like water waves.

Solve it?

The enemy was so powerful and also held a Concordance Armament. Even he did not dare to make such a big statement, let alone that this matter itself was not just a matter of the Yuheng Dao god system, but also other hidden real masterminds, those abnormal origins in the Ten Heavenly Gods.

The Creation Hand of the Founding Dao was enough to cover the ancient starry sky, the Myriad Truth Talisman of the Enlightenment Dao that determined the origin of time and space, the Myriad Elephants Burial Ground that could bury even Concordance experts... and the Yuheng Dao body that adjudicated the truth and balanced the Heavenly Dao.

How ridiculous, facing so many powerful enemies and such a huge army, probably none of the Ten Heavenly Gods or the Four Forbidden Lands dared to rashly say that they could solve it, right? Even if he had inherited the authority of the Balance Holy Palace, so that the heretics holding the Concordance Armament were helpless, but what about now? He was just a fugitive in a turtle shell, only wanting to leave this universe with all his heart.

A visitor from another world, who didn't know anything and didn't understand anything, dared to make such wild claims, it was simply absurd!

Up until now, Kastellaro could not even find the direction to work hard. He had been traveling around and fighting the heretics hundreds of times, but he had not achieved anything at all.

Since that was the case, it was better to give up sooner.

[Don't make rash claims]

Of course, in order to maintain the superficial etiquette and not let the anger that arose from his ignorance burn on others, the god turned his head and forced himself to calm down and said: [This is an internal matter of our Yuheng Dao and has nothing to do with you outsiders. For the sake of your lives and the civilizations you bear, don't delve into this topic anymore!]

[Instead of this, why don't you talk about the purpose of your coming to this world? If possible, I might be able to help a little]

His tone was firm, as clangorous as swords colliding, but the level of shifting the topic was very low, even inferior to Leng Xiaxia.

At least Leng Xiaxia would say 'Ehehe' (teehee) once.

"Oh?"

In response, Su Zhou raised his eyebrows. He noticed that as soon as Kastellaro finished speaking, the Pioneer Space's communication came from his Prajna book.

He looked at it and then smiled in his heart: "Although he says he doesn't want to ask for help, he actually wants to help in his heart—this Tsundere is too classic, right? That guy Jin Qiong is not as hypocritical as this Venerable Lord."

He had actually known for a long time that Jin Qiong was respectful to him on the surface, but secretly complained about him behind his back.

The Pioneer Space's communication was even simpler.

[Optional World Mission: The Fall of Heavenly Balance]

[The Yuheng Dao is deeply divided. The last God Venerable Lord who firmly guards the Dao of Balance, the Balance Bearer Kastellaro, has issued a mission to you to solve the internal division problem of the Yuheng Dao, explain the truth of the fall of most of the Yuheng Dao gods, and obtain a special supreme inheritance reward, a level SSS Pioneering Authority, depending on the degree of completion]

[Branch Mission - Origin Assistance: Rescue the Yuheng Dao Balance Lord, the Concordance expert Kara, who is deeply陷于 (xiàn yú - trapped in) the 'Origin of the Universe']

[Branch Mission - Dongjing Tingyuan: Curb the changes in 'Jingyuan' (Still Abyss) and 'Dongting' (Moving Court) on the inner side of the world]

Raising his head, Su Zhou looked at the Yuheng Dao Venerable Lord with a indifferent face and a kind of iceberg beauty feeling, and the corner of his mouth curled up: "What difficulties does this universe have? What is the coming End Calamity? How interesting, Venerable Lord Kastellaro, the problem you are facing is actually related to the origin of the universe? I really can't guess."

[You, how do you know?!]

Faced with the god who widened his violet-golden eyes and stared at himself with a handsome face in astonishment, the youth revealed a smile: "As expected, 乐了 (lèle - happy)."

"细说 (xì shuō - tell me everything)."

Woke up a little late today.