Chapter 887 People Dreaming

Yalan once had a dream.

In his dream, far into the future, the world was no longer barren. Countless springs gushed forth from the earth, producing endless water that transformed into rivers, lakes, and seas, nourishing the land. Prairies and forests thrived, and oases and flowers were everywhere.

At that time, he was no longer a guard, not even a general, but merely an unremarkable archeology student. Even so, his life was more peaceful and happy than it was now. Although humanity in that era still had many conflicts, they didn't slaughter each other for a little water and a small oasis, filling the world with blood.

How wonderful would it be to live in such a world with the one he loved?

But when he woke up, everything was forgotten. However, every time Yalan saw Eve, his heart would flutter slightly. Her golden hair and gentle eyes stirred his soul. For her, wouldn't any time and place be happiness?

But Yalan always wondered...

He wondered, if Eve dreamed, what kind of dream would she have?

The answer was unexpectedly simple.

An unhappy dream.

For Eve, her dreams were always very vague... yet also very clear.

The events were vague, but the emotions were clear.

She could hardly remember what she encountered in her dreams, but she always felt a heavy fatigue and despair... She always felt that she wanted to get something, but it always slipped through her fingers.

She lacked happiness.

"Why?"

Although Eve was born into a royal family, she didn't have the traditional princess's arrogance. She didn't want much and wasn't capricious. Eve didn't even have the typical frailty of a princess. When faced with assassins trying to kill her or thugs disrupting her peaceful life, she would pick up a knife and fight back.

Eve felt that she was already very fortunate. She was born into a royal family, had a talent for learning miracles, and was loved by Yalan and her father... In any era, with such conditions, one should be content, especially since she was already very content, which was enough to feel happiness.

But she couldn't feel it.

"Why? I have everything I should have, but I still feel it's not enough?"

"Why? I'm clearly always pursuing the life and dreams I want, but I always feel it's impossible to succeed?"

"Why do people in this world have to fight each other? It would be good for everyone if they joined hands to develop oases, so why do some people always have to fight?"

In Eve's heart, there were always ten, a hundred, a thousand, countless whys. These whys always lingered in her heart and would persist until the end of eternity.

She often felt ashamed because of this, feeling that she was too ungrateful. She was such a good girl, even when she was worried, she would always be considerate of others.

High in the sky, someone could see the dreams of two 'mortals'.

Su Zhou stared at Yalan and Eve.

Staring at the two notes representing [Change] and [Eternity].

"What a perfect plan."

Facing the gods of the Overture Chapter who were fighting him, Zhuzhou sighed: "Only change is true eternity, so the note representing eternity can never awaken alone and become a true goddess of eternity—but even this is not absolute. If one day, with Yalan's help, Eve truly achieves all her wishes, she might be able to comprehend the highest realm of the 'Mandate Spectrum' and become the 'true protagonist' of this musical universe, thereby surpassing the God-King, achieving eternity, and even transforming into a prototype of a 'Transcender'."

"This should have been a kind of destiny, but ironically, in order to resist this destiny and seize the 'Eternal Note' represented by Eve, you gods have woven all kinds of new destinies."

"Let Eternity give up her own life, repeatedly seeking and failing, and then preferring to fall into eternal sleep rather than come into this world again, leaving behind her melody—in this way, you can seize the eternal melody left in the musical universe after Eve falls asleep."

"You stifle the dreams of mortals to seize the power they don't even know they have."

[So what?]

None of the gods cared about this. The God-King of Time even disdained it: [To be honest, even if we don't intervene, the melodies of eternity and change are always like this. They never get lasting happiness and can't change the tragedies they want to change.]

[Instead of letting them continue to yearn for eternity but not get it, we might as well get it and create an eternal paradise.]

"Even if it's not lasting happiness, you don't need to change, define, or despise it. Besides, do you really know what paradise is?"

Su Zhou didn't want to talk much. Compared with the many enemies he had fought, especially compared with the Hongshi Emperor he had fought not long ago, the gods of the musical universe were among the weaker ones. Their moral standards and goals were even the lowest. There was no need to argue with them; it was enough to just fight.

Before starting the battle again, he looked at the 'Overture Era'.

There, there was a man who once wanted to become a hero, eventually became a hero, and is still a hero, who is dreaming.

Zhou Buyi had actually been dreaming all along.

In the past, his dream was to defeat the Demon Emperor and restore peace to the world.

After defeating the Demon Emperor and creating the Tianzheng Alliance, his dream was to maintain civilization and prolong peace.

Now, his dream is to let more worlds and more people know the meaning of peace and guide everyone to jointly create a greater peace.

The dream was so clear, and the dream turned into reality again and again, that Zhou Buyi was a little unsure whether he was dreaming, writing a piece of history, or whether he was a character in someone else's dream, a character in a book.

But does that really matter?

Because from beginning to end, Zhou Buyi has been changing, and has not changed—he is always a practitioner of dreams, but his dreams have been getting bigger, more lofty, and more sincere.

The small dream of a young man in the past eventually became part of something greater and more profound.

The Super Divine Tree Fortress - Taiping (Peace) has been traveling on the Yiluo塔尔 Continent for more than half a year.

Time flowed endlessly in the Musical Universe. After initially breaking through the encirclement of many demigod heroes and divine oracle messengers, this enormous flying fortress had been flying over the vast and boundless desert, sowing seeds and spreading the seeds of the divine tree.

Wherever the warship passed, the people cheered, because lush forests and springs would gush out, bringing vitality and abundance.

However, the demigod heroes received divine decrees. They lit fires along the way, brought down lightning, and used hail, earthquakes, tornadoes, and sandstorms to eradicate the forests that made the people cheer... because all of that was the corrosion brought down by the Outer God Zhuzhou. Although it seemed to be abundance, it actually hid poison behind it.

Not to mention the many angry ordinary people after great joy and great sorrow, even the demigod heroes themselves were muttering, because with their strength, they really couldn't see what conspiracies were hidden in those forests—they weren't stupid, of course they could see what the people wanted.

But even if they could see it, it was meaningless. The divine decrees of the gods were naturally more important than public opinion.

They could only obey the gods and pull out all the forests that Zhou Buyi had brought to this land.

The strength of the demigod heroes ranged from the commander level to the overlord level. Such strength was actually impossible to stop Zhou Buyi, who was already at the Heavenly Immortal realm—but as descendants of the gods, these heroes and messengers who had received divine decrees could obtain power from the entire world. After all, they were the darlings of this era, and were very different from Zhou Buyi, who was merely an outsider.

Even if Zhou Buyi's power was comparable to a god, and he could easily defeat a dozen heroes, numerous demigods would still swarm over and block the trajectory of the fortress warship.

Moreover, among the many demigods, there were also many powerful beings whose power was comparable to gods.

Therefore, Zhou Buyi didn't intend to confront all the powerhouses in the Overture Era outside the gods alone. He just took Yalan and Eve and roamed and walked on this land.

The divine tree had the patience to fight guerrilla warfare with these people, and Yalan and Eve were also happy to continue such a journey—now, the war between the upper and lower Ailan countries had ended, although the reason was that the divine decree required the cessation of all wars in the world and the concentration of power to fight against the divine tree fortress, it was good to save lives.

But obviously, such a situation could not last forever.

On this day, when Zhou Buyi drove the divine tree fortress to a nearly withered oasis city, he saw that in the open space of the city, groups of people were kneeling on the ground and praying to him.

"Great God of the Forest!"

That was Zhou Buyi's current name on the Yiluotar Continent. Although he was under the command of an outer god, there were indeed many civilians who called Zhou Buyi a god.

They kowtowed again and again on the dry, scorching hot ground of the high-heat desert, which could almost fry eggs. Even though their knees had been burned and their heads were bleeding, they were still so pious.

The city lord, who was more than seventy years old, almost choked and said: "Please revive the oasis of our 布朗 (Bu Lang) City... The springs have dried up, and the oasis will also wither. The surrounding oases already have owners and cannot afford the needs of so many people..."

"Please save us!"

This was a desperate plea. If it were normal times, they would naturally not dare to ask an outer god for a favor, but now that people were about to die, it didn't matter whether they would be punished by the gods.

Anyway, they were going to die, so why be afraid to choose?

"I promise you."

Zhou Buyi naturally wouldn't refuse. He played the Xiao (a vertical bamboo flute), and the sound of the 叶海之音 (Ye Hai Zhi Yin, Sound of the Leaf Sea) was melodious. Immediately, new water gushed out from the springs that should have dried up, and the withered forests all revived, sprouting new leaves.

After doing all this, Zhou Buyi left this area as usual.

Subsequently, the pursuers composed of demigod heroes and divine oracle messengers who were chasing after him also arrived.

"Who exactly is the hero, and who is the Outer God?"

A divine oracle knight riding a giant dragon said in a muffled voice through his helmet. He opened his mask and shook his head in confusion: "To be honest, I really don't understand why we have to eradicate these forests—my hometown also lacks water and fields. Gods bless, can't we cooperate with these outer... gods a little bit? They are really good at planting trees."

"You think I don't want to?"

The Shazhi Titan (Sand Titan) at the head, a humanoid mountain giant made entirely of flowing sand, had a voice like thunder. Even when he spoke softly, in a calm tone, it sounded like thunder: "You think I don't want more green on me? But since the Father God has given a death order, it means that the Father God and the others must have a big plan, and these Outer Gods will disrupt the plan."

"Don't think too much, we're just completing the mission."

The principle was this principle. As demigod heroes and divine oracle messengers, one was a direct descendant of the gods, and the other was a cultivator protected by the gods, so they could only execute the orders of the gods.

Therefore, after they arrived in 布朗 (Bu Lang) City, even if they couldn't bear it, even if they felt that they shouldn't do this, they still followed the divine decree and demolished all the forests without reservation.

"Sorry, we are also very sorry."

Turning the green back into a desert, the demigods would indeed feel that their actions had nothing to do with glory and heroism, but no matter what, this was the order of the gods, and it was an absolute death order. Even if cries and desperate prayers filled the city, they couldn't possibly hold back.

They even caught a few people who took the lead in surrendering to the 'Outer God' and praying for the blessing of the evil god—these people had to be dealt with. Anyone who had communicated with the Outer God might be infected with impurity, and the gods would not allow such betrayal.

The demigods argued about this for a long time. Some people said that it was almost enough to punish them a little and make a gesture. What was the point of arguing with mortals? Others said that if loyalty was not absolute, it was absolutely not loyal. Since they dared to betray the gods for this, then they had to have the awareness to die for it.

The demigods argued until they saw the Divine Tree Fortress, which should have been far away, returning to the sky above 布朗 (Bu Lang) City.

Zhou Buyi stood at the front of his fortress, gazing remotely at the demigods who were arguing in the distance, as well as the many ordinary people who were tied up and kneeling on the ground—it was those ordinary people who, a few days ago, endured the heat wave and scorching heat that was enough to scorch human flesh, and knelt on the ground, praying for more possibilities for life.

"Why?"

He asked, just like the question that would never stop in Eve's heart: "The previous forests were fine, but this time I just revived the original water springs and oases of 布朗 (Bu Lang) City. Why do you have to tear them all down?"

"Do you have to sit back and watch your own people die?" He asked in such bewilderment.

Good question, many heroes also found it difficult to answer.

After a long time, the divine oracle knight riding his giant dragon answered loudly: "The divine decree is to destroy all the forests and grass you left behind, not even a single blade of grass can be left... I don't want to either."

The last words were almost inaudible, just a muttered complaint.

After someone took the lead, others naturally spoke up. A demigod with a longbow on his back and fiery hair said: "They have already betrayed the gods by making a deal with you, the Outer God, and traitors should have a traitor's end."

"The withering of the oasis in 布朗 (Bu Lang) City is its fate. They made a deal with you for a destined future. Such prosperity, oasis, and springs should not exist!"

Yalan and Eve, standing behind Zhou Buyi, saw the demigod reach out and point to the 'traitors' who were tied to the ground, pale, and already disheartened. Obviously, the demigod had made up his mind to kill these 'ungrateful' traitors as a prelude to this formal teaching.

"Don't look, Eve!"

When Yalan noticed this, his expression naturally changed. He reached out and wanted to block the golden-haired princess's eyes.

"Don't block."

Zhou Buyi said calmly: "Let her see—she should see."

"If you can't learn to endure pain, face the bloody reality, you will retreat when you encounter difficulties, choose to give up, choose to die yourself... Yalan, let Eve see."

"You should also take a good look, take a look at the true face of the gods in this world!"

"Take a look at the true face of so-called fate!"

Hearing this, Yalan was shocked. He slowly lowered his hand, and Eve didn't show any fear. She raised her head and stared at 布朗 (Bu Lang) City in the distance.

The former princess saw the demigod with fiery hair say a word in a low voice, and then a raging flame enveloped all those who had ever communicated with Zhou Buyi. The high-heat divine fire instantly burned these people to ashes. There was no cruel and violent bloodshed, so it was a very quick end to everything.

They all turned into ashes, just like the forests that Zhou Buyi had always wanted to plant, turning into imperceptible dust.

"Why..."

Having witnessed such atrocities, Eve clenched her fists. Pale blue blood vessels bulged on the back of the girl's fair fists. This was unprecedented doubt and anger: "I don't understand..."

In Eve's dream, happiness was not having to worry about water sources, not having to argue with each other, and a family living together harmoniously, with the elderly telling stories to the children and parents relying on and supporting each other.

People could support themselves by working, there was no exploitation or oppression, and countries did not need to start wars, but could unite into a whole. You sell sweet fruits, I provide fragrant rice, and I sit by the window singing songs, while Yalan plays the harp outside the window.

Everyone doesn't have to fight and contend, but enjoy peaceful times.

Such happiness is definitely not wrong, and Zhou Buyi can bring such happiness, at least the vast majority of it.

Zhou Buyi can bring grass and forests, can bring endless clear springs, he can bring laughter to 布朗 (Bu Lang) City, and he can bring smiles to this world.

But why, why did those demigod heroes, those hero knights who should protect the people and bring peace and laughter to everyone, have to destroy all of this?

Just because of the divine decree of the gods?

Just for the sake of so-called fate?

Couldn't figure it out.

Of course, she didn't understand.

Even Yalan didn't understand.

"In this multiverse, there are far more people and gods who only think for themselves than there are gods and people who think for the entire civilization and for the happiness of everyone."

Zhou Buyi said: "They are walking on the wrong path. As long as there are such people, sadness is a destined fate."

"This is the root of the tragedy."

The ideas of tragedy in the hearts of Yalan and Eve are probably only that two people in love cannot be together, and that they and their loved ones are separated by death. Even if they are reincarnated, they are no longer the same person after all.

They don't need to think about what countries, people, food, drinking water, and poor lives are—it may be a bit too much to say, but a royal guard and a princess, no matter how much they care about the people, they only need to think about falling in love and singing, and they will never fall into a crisis like 布朗 (Bu Lang) City, where the oasis has withered and the entire city is on the verge of destruction.

Their fate is indeed tragic.

But the real tragedy is actually this world that creates so many sorrows.

This world, in order to create their tragedy, is arbitrarily shaped by the gods as a tool for 'weaving the stage of fate'!

"I had been dreaming all along."

Putting aside the scolding and declarations of war from the demigod heroes, Zhou Buyi drew his sword from his waist.

That was a sword that was extremely similar to Su Zhou's Blade of Annihilation. The man with black hair and green eyes stroked the blade, stroked this replica of the Blade of Annihilation. He said to himself with some nostalgia: "At first, I thought that after killing the Demon Emperor, the world would be peaceful. What a beautiful and simple dream, only able to see a beginning, but unable to imagine the hardships after integrating the internal contradictions of hundreds of families."

"Later, I dreamed again. I thought that if there was an enemy, society could pour out its negative desires, wash away the evil spirit and the impact of extreme emotions, so that the Tianzheng Alliance could develop steadily... But at that time, I couldn't imagine the various aspects of people's hearts, let alone how quickly a huge alliance would become corrupt, whether there was an enemy or not, they would become corrupt and degenerate."

"I had been dreaming all along, dreaming of a better world, but I'm not dreaming now."

Because dreams will wake up.

Someone always has to wake up to change this world, and even the multiverse, that makes people want to dream.

Zhou Buyi wielded his sword. He ordered the Divine Tree Fortress to turn back and charge at full speed, charging towards the positions of the many demigod heroes.

The demigod heroes cursed and feared. It wasn't that they couldn't deal with the charging Super Divine Tree Fortress, but there was no need to fight head-on, and for some reason, Zhou Buyi's aura had skyrocketed many times at this moment. The divine power that they had once felt was 'nothing more than this' erupted, and it had actually increased to hundreds of times its original level in just a few seconds!

This was natural, after all, it was the body of the Divine Tree. The previous Zhou Buyi only used the spiritual energy that a normal human form could possess, but now, he began to truly unleash his strength as a Divine Tree.

The Super Divine Tree Fortress also obeyed the will of its master and began to transform drastically amidst the roar, turning into a humanoid giant god. Even titans were as weak as children in front of it. Even though the descendants of the Titans were constantly drawing on the power of the yellow sand under their feet, they were still unable to compete with this huge divine tree giant, and were directly knocked away with a punch, with a large hole in the center of their chest.

In an instant, Zhou Buyi defeated the joint forces of many demigod heroes on the spot.

However, after all, the many demigod heroes were the darlings of the world. The heroes who had been beaten out of the field aside, those who still remained were naturally the most powerful group of demigods in this world.

These demigods, who had become powerful because of Zhou Buyi's actions, began to entangle with Zhou Buyi and the Divine Tree Warship—the man was an unwelcome outsider in this world, surrounded and fought by thousands of demigods, just like being trapped in a swamp, making it difficult to win.

The Sand Dune Titan, who had almost been defeated, returned. With the support of the world, his body became more and more壯大 (zhuang da, strong and big). At this moment, he could compete with the Fortress Robot. Even though the descendants of the Titans were constantly drawing on the power of the yellow sand under their feet, they were still unable to compete with this huge Divine Tree Giant and were directly knocked away with a punch, with a large hole in the center of their chest.

For a time, Zhou Buyi defeated the joint forces of many demigod heroes on the spot.

However, after all, the many demigod heroes were the darlings of the world. The heroes who had been beaten out of the field aside, those who still remained were naturally the most powerful group of demigods in this world.

These demigods, who had become powerful because of Zhou Buyi's actions, began to entangle with Zhou Buyi and the Divine Tree Warship—the man was an unwelcome outsider in this world, surrounded and fought by thousands of demigods, just like being trapped in a swamp, making it difficult to win.

The sand dune titan, who had almost been defeated, returned. With the support of the world, his body became more and more powerful. At this moment, he could compete with the fortress robot; and the brilliance on the dragon knight's body shone like stars.

The battle of the strong in the desert caused shocks and aftershocks that swept across thousands of miles. Although the terrible earthquakes and storms avoided the cities as much as possible, casualties were still unavoidable.

The world changed color.

Even if Zhou Buyi repeatedly tried to maintain it, the demigods did not have this intention—in their view, dying for the gods' plan was the honor of these mortals.

"Do you still want to give up, Eve, Yalan!"

At this moment, Zhou Buyi suddenly roared: "Faced with all this suffering, do you still want to give up, want to commit suicide—just because you can't see the one you love?!"

"Forget those things—if that was your past fate, now you should choose a new one!"

This question was like a loud bell, waking up the dreaming people.

"...No."

Therefore, after a brief silence, Eve and Yalan answered in unison, their tone firm: "We want to change this world with you!"

——The established fate finally derailed here.

The golden-haired girl stood on the bridge, she personally witnessed this world that she had never seen in its entirety—the heroes and knights in the story were not really so heroic, they caused a lot of bloodshed and created many sufferings.

Their struggles were not started for the sake of happiness, but may have been only for their own selfish desires, or for unclear divine decrees.

Yes, it's time to wake up... If the previous Eve and Yalan still had an illusion, thinking that when Zhou Buyi left this world, or after successfully turning the entire world into a forest, everything would return to normal, they could still live the lives of knights and princesses as in the past.

They even fantasized that the misunderstandings between the gods and Zhuzhou would be resolved soon, and they would join hands to create a dreamlike paradise.

But now, after witnessing the truth of this world for a long time, they finally understood that these were all dreams.

Reality only has bloody resistance, it will not be so warm.

"The gods of this world do not welcome you."

Therefore, the girl looked at Zhou Buyi's back.

She seemed to see a higher and larger figure above the sky. Eve said firmly: "But we welcome you!"

This was a sincere acknowledgment.

So, it was enough.

Zhou Buyi smiled. He knew that all the forests he had planted had been burned, but the seeds had been planted.

Those ordinary people who dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, those faint notes, if they were played together, would be the most magnificent song in the world.

The man could sense layers and layers of notes and melodies beginning to surround him, some of which were the notes and melodies represented by those who were burned to death by the demigod heroes. Their souls did not choose to go to the gods' heaven, but chose to go under Zhou Buyi's command.

In the Divine Tree Warship, along with the entanglement of roots, one body after another was shaped. Those who had died were resurrected in the warship and became one of the many drivers of the Taiping (Peace) in stunned gazes.

"It's time to wake up." He said: "This world is not worth sleeping in."

The Zhuzhou not only lights up the dark room, wakes up others, but also has to light up his own dream, burn his own dream, and then wake up to face the entire dark world.

Then, reshape the world into the way it is in the dream.

——It seemed that a movement was sounding, echoing remotely.

Above the sky.

The gods drove chariots and divine mountains, colliding with the divine dragon again and again, fighting.

But suddenly a declaration sounded.

"I have already won this era."

The gods did not understand what was happening on the earth, but Su Zhou suddenly said with certainty, causing the God-King of Time, who was entangled with him, to feel puzzled.

[Where did you win... Damn it!]

But before the other party could say more, the Divine Dragon laughed and swung its long tail, shaking the God-King's chariot, even at the cost of being slashed a few more times by the gods.

"As expected of my best friend, Zhou Buyi did better than I imagined."

Smiling like this, Su Zhou lowered his head: "The seeds have been planted."

Therefore, his eyes looked to the next era.