Chapter 947 True Spirit of the Multiverse (First Update)

Long ago, Huntian was already at the center of the multiverse.

And because the concept of 'center' was constantly changing, Huntian was able to wander the entire multiverse, absorbing the essence of the Great Dao from many different world groups, exchanging what they had for what they lacked.

The 'Old Huntian' at that time must have been a world that truly conformed to the meaning of 'chaos'—the civilization of that era must have been full of the inheritance of countless worlds, where everyone could choose the inheritance they wanted, and then, through trials and tribulations, strengthen the path in their heart, and then embark on the road to the other side of the multiverse.

The so-called chaos is just that—whatever choice you make, you acknowledge it, embrace it, accept all the consequences, and then shed your skin and be reborn as a brand new self.

In theory, the inheritance of chaos, as long as one constantly chooses the future and constantly endures the suffering and responsibility that the future brings, can continue to grow, until one can bear the many worlds, time, and karma upon oneself, and be immortal.

In theory, as long as you keep shedding your skin and being reborn, you can live forever, become stronger, and never die.

But as everyone knows... no chaos goes according to plan.

So, one day.

The many powerhouses who remained in Huntian made a choice that they thought they could bear, but in reality, they couldn't bear at all.

Relying on the power of the Myriad Worlds Great Dao that had accumulated to the extreme in Huntian Realm, they prepared to carry out an unprecedented grand plan.

They...

What happened next is something no one knows.

However, Su Zhou could probably guess that the immortals and gods of the Old Huntian, in all likelihood, wanted to use Huntian as a foundation to create a small multiverse within the multiverse, or a multiverse foundation, a multiverse throne, something like that, all things above the Torrent level.

A small multiverse leans towards the absolute, a multiverse foundation leans towards the eternal, and a multiverse throne leans towards the absolute; the first is self-contained development, the second is immortal as long as the multiverse is immortal, and I remain even if the multiverse is destroyed, and the third is that it can spread the Great Dao of the strong, so that beings who are not Torrents can also have the power of Torrents.

Of course, it may have been some other plan, but that doesn't matter.

What matters is that they messed it up.

——Outside the Huntian Realm·Multiverse Void——

——True Spirit of the Multiverse.

Su Zhou fell into deep thought.

Although he guessed that the Five Supreme Sages wanted to deal with and seal that existence, the True Spirit of the Multiverse, he still found it hard to believe.

An isolated system cannot produce self-awareness, so if there is only one universe, then the universe will not have a will. Similarly, if there is only one multiverse, then the multiverse will not have a self-will.

Because of Yala and many other great existences, he had long known that outside the multiverse, there was also a 'Pan-Infinite Multiversal Derivation Axis,' which was a vast group domain that was difficult for ordinary people to understand, existing as an incomprehensible concept. In that place, there were countless multiverses, and the battlefields of great existences and monsters, as well as the Correct War, were launched there.

In such a non-isolated environment, it was not surprising that the multiverse gave birth to self-will through constant interaction with other multiverses, or even just with the Great Seal.

But...

"Why seal it?"

Su Zhou muttered to himself in confusion, "I really don't understand—why do these people think of sealing or using it every time the universe develops self-will?"

Sealing the universe is like this, and the World of Creation is also like this, as if the will of the world is a great flood, and its appearance is a great disaster!

But in reality, is the will of the world really that terrifying?

The answer is definitely 'no.'

The will of the world does not appear after the birth of the world, but is a combination of the 'pan-biosphere will' and the 'all-spiritual energy will' formed by the souls and spirituality of intelligent beings in the world—in other words, the will of the world takes into account both the will of all beings and the Gaia will. Its existence represents the comprehensive subconscious of all living and non-living things in the entire world.

Its very existence will guide the development of civilization, love nature, and guide all things to a win-win path... For example, if living beings need to develop industry, refer to Earth without the guidance of the world will, while a world with the world will will ensure from the beginning that the resources required for industrial development are not over-exploited. Trees are planted when they are cut down, and mining will also ensure that the mine can maintain the surface structure, without causing surface collapse, groundwater pollution, and other situations.

Over-exploitation will be subject to 'premonition' and 'punishment.'

Generally speaking, it won't reach the point of punishment, because that's called heavenly punishment in the cultivation world. It only appears when civilization goes astray or is even about to self-destruct. Civilizations protected by the world's will won't go crazy to the point of bringing heavenly punishment upon themselves.

The world's will is a force that forces civilization to embark on a path of 'non-self-harm' and 'sustainable development' from the beginning—if it is a cultivation world view, why does the Heavenly Dao restrict cultivators, create a lot of merit and heavenly tribulation? Why do cultivators have to ensure good weather and peace in the mortal world to accumulate merit and reduce heavenly punishment? Isn't that another way of saying sustainable development of cultivation?

In short, the world's will is a rather annoying old mother. It demands a lot, but every demand is indeed useful.

Listening to it may force you to wear autumn pants, be called to eat even when you are not hungry, add a quilt as soon as the weather starts to get cold, not allow you to stay up late, require you to take a bath every day, be serious when you work, and take care of your younger siblings... but listening to it is indeed right, you definitely won't catch a cold, your diet will be regular, and you won't have stomach problems, and your siblings will definitely be friendly and respectful when the old mother is around.

The world's will exists within the 'inner side of the world,' a rather peculiar high-level space-time. They are mainly composed of life energy of extremely high concentration, and are naturally adapted to multiple Great Daos such as 'continuation,' 'existence,' 'chaos,' 'balance,' and 'miracle.' This is also why divine trees can naturally become the world's will.

Even immortals may not be able to touch 'heaven's will' until they reach the realm of the Heavenly Emperor or even the Dao Harmonization realm, before they can truly communicate with them.

Of course, there are also some special beings who can listen to the voice of the world's will when they are weak, and then become prophets like 'saints.'

There will be no life-and-death battles between multiple world wills, where you devour me and I devour you. They will form an alliance and communicate through 'crossing,' 'space-time rifts,' or 'space-time overlap.' Even between high-energy worlds and low-energy worlds, there will be no human disdain and contempt, but a cycle of 'ascension' and 'immortal descent,' where high-magic drives low-magic, and they grow together.

As for why... the answer is simple, is it easier for a loner to continue, or a collective? The world's will has no narrow selfishness.

Su Zhou personally holds an encouraging attitude towards the emergence of the world's will. After all, their emergence basically means that the civilization in this universe will not self-destruct for some inexplicable reason, and will always be able to develop to a high-level civilization.

And if they reach a high-level civilization and still have to do things that will lead to their own destruction... then they can only say that they deserve to die, and it is better to let the world's will re-cultivate a small account.

There are supporters like Su Zhou, and naturally there are opponents. Most of the civilizations of the opposition believe that the world's will is too indulgent, causing civilizations to lose their ability to face dangers and adjust their own structures.

In other words, the existence of the world's will has turned civilizations into flowers in a greenhouse. If they encounter a powerful enemy in the future, then civilization will definitely suffer heavy losses!

Su Zhou thinks these people are talking nonsense. How many epochs has it been? They are still talking about external enemies. How many civilizations want to become flowers in a greenhouse but can't? They are now on the verge of self-destruction. Live first and then talk about the future!

"The True Spirit of the Multiverse is theoretically no exception... At most, it will change from the old parents of one world to the old parents of countless worlds and parallel space-times."

Gazing at the Huntian Realm, Su Zhou recalled the scenes he had seen: "Wu Fang Heavenly Demon... that distorted space-time of the universe, now that I think about it, does have something similar to 'Heavenly Punishment.'"

"Putting it in the immortal chivalry world, isn't that the so-called 'Chaos Thunder Tribulation'? Directly distorting space-time itself, turning all existence into a chaos between existence and non-existence, and then creating the world again. In other words, a physical format on a cosmic scale!"

Thinking of this, Su Zhou also had a guess about the 'Heavenly Demons' of the previous eras. He suddenly realized, "Chaos Gods and Demons are the 'autonomous cleaning machines' and 'white blood cells' manifested by the Great Dao of the Universe!"

"The Evil Gods and Calamity Paths seek help from the possibilities of the future, guiding the power of time to clean up the source, they are anti-virus software!"

"The rebellious parallel space-times are even simpler—no matter how hard you try to kill this virus, you can't kill it, you can only try to change the hardware... but it is locked by the true time anchor point of the Sage of Exhaustive Origins, let alone the hardware, even the software can't be changed."

"In the end, there is really no way. The 'Calamity of All Beings' is to turn off the power. The universe itself no longer supports all the physical and extraordinary phenomena within the universe... Who knew that the Immortal Saint of Holy Evolution used supreme power to slaughter many Dao Harmonizations, using the power of the Dao Harmonizations as the power source, and restarted Huntian again!"

White blood cell anti-virus, reverse time-sequence anti-virus, replace hardware, cut off the power, physical format... I have to say, even Su Zhou began to admire the Five Supreme Sages quite a bit, because these five great Heavenly Demons and Heavenly Tribulations are basically all the means that the world's will can use.

And they all withstood it. In the case of the Great Dao of the Universe rebelling, the space-time of the universe reversing, and wanting to change the hardware at any time, and not supporting various physical and extraordinary phenomena and always formatting, they forcibly reversed it and sealed the True Spirit of the Multiverse!

Amazing!

But this still cannot explain why the theoretically gentle world's will would be stimulated to the point where the five great heavenly tribulations were all released.

"Can you tell me?"

He raised his head and said to the Five Supreme Sages.

[We also want to say]

Even Qian Yuan Daozun, who had not relaxed his vigilance even though Su Zhou had stopped, said in a deep voice: [But in reality, we don't know either]

As the only Supreme Sage who had come into contact with the remnants of the Old Huntian, he had a certain understanding of the Old Huntian's past actions, but he could also be said to know nothing about this aspect: [I only know that the experiment conducted by the Old Huntian back then was not harmful to nature or reason]

[According to the remnants, they just wanted to use the Huntian Realm as the core to summon... In that case, they would completely become the true center of the multiverse, and could even become the so-called 'source world']

[Arrogant, conceited, crazy... but it can't be said to be too bad. In the final analysis, they are not big deals]

Omitting some unspeakable words, Qian Yuan Daozun frowned: [But what was summoned... immediately descended the 'Chaos God and Demon' tribulation, cleaning out the Old Huntian]

"Understood."

The other party was vague and did not say many things, but Su Zhou understood: "It seems that there was a problem from the beginning."

——The True Spirit of the Multiverse was crazy from the moment it appeared.

But nothing has no source. Why was the other party crazy? The truth of this matter is undoubtedly the key to solving this incident.

But unfortunately, the Five Supreme Sages do not think so.

[Primordial Candlelight, since you already know the seriousness of the situation, then why don't you stop?]

Extreme Star Holy Emperor opened his mouth. This heavenly god, who originated from 'Taboo' but was unwilling to destroy all living beings, had compassion in his heart. He was more like the traditional will of the world, holding a parental love for all things and all living beings.

He was both wary of Candlelight and hoped to join forces: [The power of Taboo is far beyond what we can resist. If it weren't for its unclear will and only chaotic and vague thoughts, we wouldn't even be able to deploy the seal]

[And now, everything has reached the final juncture. When Awakened One of Ignorance annihilates all the extraordinary power in Huntian and completely turns the Fifth Epoch of Huntian into a spiritless universe without miracles, Taboo will be completely sealed here, and all living beings can live in peace]

Awakened One of Ignorance chanted softly. As the source of the final seal, he would naturally self-annihilate and turn into a seal, eternally suppressing Huntian.

Not only that, but the other four Supreme Sages would also pay the price of 'staying in Huntian forever,' and even the Great Dao would shrink into Huntian as part of the seal.

In other words, not only would Awakened One of Ignorance self-annihilate, but the other four peak Dao Harmonizations would also pay the price of giving up their possibility of becoming Torrents, coexisting with the seal, and could only use the power of Torrents to protect themselves through joint efforts.

Of course, they would sacrifice—it could even be said that from the moment Qian Yuan Daozun took action when he saw injustice on the road, they had already prepared themselves to guard this place even if they died.

"There is no need to sacrifice."

But Su Zhou shook his head. He firmly said, "This is the wrong path, a fork in the road, and a shortcut... Seal? Five Supreme Sages, don't you understand? The meaning of the existence of a seal is to be broken!"

[Therefore, I need to annihilate all spiritual energy and turn Huntian into a universe without miracles]

Awakened One of Ignorance opened his mouth. His voice was calm and gentle, but full of great determination: [At that time, Huntian will be in the Dharma Ending Age. No living being will have any possibility of breaking any seal from within]

[And outside, fellow Daoists join forces to be equivalent to a Torrent, and the battle between Torrents and Torrents has no end... Just like Benefactor, even if you have other incredible inheritances and supernatural powers, you can at most surpass us, but you cannot completely defeat us]

[In this case, only a Transcendent One can break this seal... But if it is a Transcendent One, let alone Taboo, even the entire multiverse can be suppressed at will, so why bother with these small matters?]

This is theoretically a perfect seal—there is no transcendence inside and no transcendence outside, which is eternal suppression.

Even Su Zhou had to admit that if he were the True Spirit of the Multiverse, being suppressed like this, he might only be able to drink his hatred in Huntian and never be able to spread outward again.

[Fellow Daoist, if you are unwilling to help, please leave]

It was the Immortal Saint of Holy Evolution who spoke. He sighed: [If it weren't for us suppressing Taboo here, the current multiverse, all the heavens and worlds would be Huntian, and the endless calamities would spread...]

[You have not achieved enlightenment for long. Just for the sake of your past, and for the sake of receiving a trace of favor from our guarding, please leave for now]

This was considered soft talk, requesting Su Zhou not to interfere anymore.

Explaining with emotion, reasoning, and even playing the emotional card... The Five Supreme Sages are indeed not stupid. They know that Su Zhou is not a madman who only speaks dead reasoning, so they naturally do not want to fight, but solve the problem through communication.

But Su Zhou sighed deeply: "You think, why would I say that sacrifice is a shortcut? It is because finding the reason and exploring the answer to the problem is far more difficult than your sacrifice."

"A universe without miracles? When spiritual energy is cut off, which universe is not a universe without miracles? As long as miracles come, or even without miracles, just a little accident, such as a mortal in a spiritless universe, forcibly creating something from nothing, and excavating a trace of it from the past ruins, they may re-embark on the path of 'creating spiritual energy'."

He said so, his voice vibrating the void: "Most importantly, this still does not solve any problems—why will Taboo become Taboo? Without understanding the cause of the problem, there will always be one problem after another! Just like if you don't solve deforestation, there will definitely be soil erosion and desertification of forest land!"

"You have sealed this place, curbing the spread of the desert, but if one day, someone summons a new Taboo from who knows where? Don't say it's impossible, even the will of the universe can have several generations, and there can't be only one generation of Taboo!"

What Su Zhou said was exactly the World of Creation—the will of the universe in that place had two generations. The first generation perished together with the Dao Lord and the Circle of Creation, and the second generation almost fought against the Only God, causing the World of Creation to collapse and the earth to crack. The victor would become a Torrent.

The first generation was not completely destroyed either. It was just sealed inside the Seal of the End of the Universe and could not contact the World of Creation.

But the universe itself still gave birth to the second generation of the will of the universe.

And when the Five Supreme Sages completely seal 'Taboo,' the result should not be much different.

The multiverse will definitely give birth to the second generation of the True Spirit of the Multiverse.

Are the Five Supreme Sages powerful?

Very powerful.

Is the seal perfect?

Indeed perfect.

Can it solve the problem?

It cannot solve the problem.

Such a simple thing, Su Zhou doesn't think the Five Supreme Sages can't understand. They are so smart, so visionary, and even have such a spirit of sacrifice, which makes him admire them.

Therefore, Su Zhou is particularly puzzled.

[Primordial Candlelight, we understand your confusion]

The Sage of Exhaustive Origins opened his mouth at this moment. He was also the strongest among the Five Supreme Sages. If his essential Great Dao had not turned into the Tower of True Anchor Points, he might have already achieved the Torrent: [But we choose to believe—just like Qian Yuan Daozun will come to Huntian and form the first sequence of the seal, there will definitely be other Qian Yuan Daozuns in the future multiverse to take action]

[If there really is a second or third generation of Taboo, naturally there will be later generations to seal it again—the other five Torrents all agree with our plan, because this is the most 'safe' and least error-prone plan]

This scholar-like Supreme Sage stared at Su Zhou. He said seriously: [Primordial Candlelight, I know that you want to say that all of these actions are just treating the symptoms but not the root cause, but have you ever thought that treating the symptoms has no risk, while treating the root cause... may lead to the demise of the entire multiverse?]

His words were gentle, but the sentences were sharp: [To solve the problem, you have to delve into the problem. Who can guarantee that the source can be completely solved? Who can guarantee 100% success? If Taboo spreads, no one can stop it. Only by sealing it generation after generation like us can we maintain the stability of infinite space-time with the smallest cost and the smallest sacrifice!]

[Primordial Candlelight, you want to completely solve the problem, can you afford this responsibility? One mistake and the multiverse will be cleared and formatted by Taboo, and destroyed by the five great Heavenly Demons. To solve the problem, you must first bear the survival of the entire multiverse]

The Sage of Exhaustive Origins said: [The life and death of those infinite beings are all floating in your choices... Can you bear this responsibility?!]

——Believe.

Believe that in this multiverse, there will be sublime people like them who choose to sacrifice...

——Do not believe.

Do not believe that among the beings of this multiverse, there is anyone who is qualified and capable of shouldering the responsibility of the survival of all things.

Su Zhou was silent. He couldn't help but sigh: "This is really..."

"The worst belief, and the gentlest disbelief."

After sighing, he did not stop.

Su Zhou moved forward. He walked towards the Five Supreme Sages.

[What?]

Even the Five Supreme Sages could not have imagined Su Zhou's choice for a moment. They thought that the previous words could make the other party think for a while and stop, but they did not expect that the other party would resolutely continue to act: [Primordial Candlelight, don't think we are joking! Once Taboo breaks through the seal, it will really never be able to be sealed back!]

[The main body of Taboo... We can't even say its existence, let alone let it really return to its 'body'!]

They also gathered their strength, and the two Torrents confronted each other again.

Not only that.

At this moment, from all directions of the multiverse, surging Torrents have arrived.

There will be a small chapter later.