Chapter 942 Wufang Tianmo (8000)

Many people, perhaps at some point in their lives, will feel doubt about the terrible reality and develop a great sense of mission.

Perhaps when they are fourteen and going through their rebellious phase.

Perhaps when they are seventeen and in their second year of high school.

Or even when they are twenty and in their second year of college.

Even, in middle age, when they awaken from the boredom of work and look out the window; when they are overwhelmed by the sorrowful and uninteresting reality, they can't help but want to rush into the rain and roar at the sky.

Life will have such a time, such a moment.

They will feel that this world is terrible and it would be better to destroy it.

Yes, many people will think so. But it is just a thought, just a fantasy. They will control themselves after a moment of impulse. This is not a mistake.

What's more... apart from this group of people.

There is another kind of fantasy, although less common, that also exists in the hearts of many people.

At that time, they will think.

——How cool would it be if they sacrificed themselves to do something to save the world.

At that time, they may have just been scolded by their parents, or were enduring the pressure of school, or were about to face the fear of society, or were even bearing the burden of society.

They are gradually growing up, knowing that they are no longer children, that they must face the crossroads of their lives, that they must enter the real human world, and even see through the darkness of the future.

Of course, they will have that kind of thought at that time.

If—if.

If necessary, they would choose to sacrifice themselves, die in a grand scene, and then save the entire world, let the darkness recede, and let the light shine on the sky.

How cool would that be!

Their lives would no longer be sad and empty, but would have absolute meaning.

Their ordinary lives would be extremely valuable, and their deeds would be passed down by future generations.

Such a great ending, which seems to surpass the possibilities of their entire lives, does not seem unacceptable?

Why not sacrifice? One person dies, and one hundred million trillion people can be saved. Why not do it? What are those who oppose it opposing? If they really encounter that kind of crisis, is there still room and time to hesitate about whether to sacrifice one person?

"People are going to die anyway. If I can really choose, isn't it a great thing for my life to be sacrificed and dedicated to the future of all mankind?"

They always think so. Some people hope that others will sacrifice, but they hope to sacrifice themselves.

They think it's really possible.

Although it is just the fantasy of rebellious teens, high schoolers, college students, or even middle-aged old guys, this kind of thinking always exists.

Just.

No matter what, it is just a shortcut.

Just ask, 'What if it was your family, your friends, your lover who was sacrificed, and you had to choose'... Everyone would hesitate, right?

Everyone will understand that sacrifice is not the right thing, because it is not something that can make people admit it from the bottom of their hearts, without hesitation.

After all, whether it is voluntary or involuntary; whether it is necessary or unnecessary.

Sacrifice is a shortcut.

"...These are the pains that Hongshi once suffered?"

Coexisting with the soul of Yuan Cangmeng, in the Asu Luodao island airspace, Su Zhou stared at everything in front of him, watching the vast fleet of Dharma Protector Buddhist troops, watching those shining glories.

He couldn't help but sigh: "Before I arrived, everything was already a foregone conclusion, and at the moment of my arrival, many sufferings had also ended."

"Even in the future, after I arrive, I may not be able to save everyone—what a huge sense of powerlessness and frustration, it's as terrifying as the Infinite Force."

"No wonder Hongshi was so decadent, so desperate, so unforgettable, and unable to let go."

But Su Zhou did not stop because of this.

He just turned his head and looked at Yuan Cangmeng, who was in a daze.

At this moment, the Divine Wood Candlelight was dumbfounded by the blazing light in the Hunkun Realm.

He had no doubt, and did not think otherwise. The moment Yuan Cangmeng saw this scene, what he thought was 'change all this', change this act of burning people's souls as firewood to illuminate the light.

This is enough to prove that he is a well-deserved Candlelight. Even if his body is a divine tree, even if he is practicing the Dao of Creation, he is still a pure Candlelight.

However, he who wanted to change did not know where to start.

Faced with the vast and infinite skies of the Hunkun Realm, he could only stand there dumbfounded. Even the Creator Celestial Venerable would be no different from a fool in the face of all this.

Yes.

In the final analysis, he is still very young, a young Candlelight who has not experienced too many things or too many adventures.

Most of the people Yuan Cangmeng has met in his life are good people, and the problems he has encountered are all small things that can be solved with effort. Those problems will disappear in the mutual help of friends in the chat group, and those powerful enemies who really threaten his life will retreat for the sake of the name of the Primordial Candlelight. Even if he really wants to take risks, he can rely on various methods to avoid them.

Therefore, it is only natural for him to be shocked by Hunkun.

Knowing this, Su Zhou neither encouraged nor rebuked him.

"Wake up, Candlelight." The young man just opened his mouth and called out to his later comrade: "Now is not the time to stop because of shock."

"The multiverse is endless, and you will always encounter worlds like this, even worse than Hunkun. Your hesitation will lead to countless people entering the end. We must muster the courage to face this darkness."

[...I, I know.]

Yuan Cangmeng was stimulated by Su Zhou's words and broke free from the shock. He took a slight step back, and the Divine Wood Candlelight's tone was filled with incredible fear: [But, Ancestor...]

[In the past, I thought I knew enough about most of the things in this multiverse. The many pieces of information summarized by you and other Candlelight brothers and sisters also made me know the composition of many evil camps and what beasts and monsters are.]

[I thought I was familiar with these things... but until today, after seeing these terrifying glories with my own eyes, I felt as if I was touching my body for the first time, and the fear that I felt deeply in my heart.]

He murmured: [Now I touch my body, but I only feel empty.]

[I even can't help but wonder... Is the self I thought I knew, the world and even the multiverse I thought I knew, really what I imagined in the past?]

"Don't think everything is already familiar."

Su Zhou said softly: "But at the time of death, you touch your skin and hair, and you feel doubts, asking whose body this is."

"It's a good thing that you have such confusion."

The Divine Wood Candlelight lives in the three thousand worlds of Hunkun. Next to him is the Hunkun Realm. Although he used to think that Hunkun was a bit aloof, and those Dao Harmonization experts flying around were very annoying, Yuan Cangmeng did not think they were bad people.

They did not oppress other worlds, nor did they exploit the three thousand worlds of Hunkun. They just focused on their own cultivation. Even if the Dao Harmonization experts fought each other, they would sneak into those silent timelines and fight in the past and future. For them, the residents of the 'present', there was no impact.

Yuan Cangmeng did not intend to enter the Hunkun Realm, nor did he understand it. He just naturally thought that since his world was still relatively happy, then the Hunkun Realm, which was so much stronger than his own, would definitely be happier.

It was just empathy.

Therefore, until now, when he saw the war in the Fifth Era, he felt it difficult to understand.

[Luomanto, Xijia, Xiduoluo, Jiabumen, Keluonadate...]

Staring at the void, Yuan Cangmeng murmured these names: [In addition to those masters who voluntarily sacrificed themselves, there are also many, many ordinary people who are enlightened and whose souls are annihilated.]

[I have already seen it, Ancestor. I have seen the rise and fall of those islands, the Asura crowds that have evolved between those upper cities and the wreckage of warships. I have seen the beginning and end of all this, and I know why those souls are angrily trying to transcend and break the inherent order.]

[Then... the result of becoming ammunition.]

If Yuan Cangmeng had hands, he would definitely have clenched his fists.

But no matter how solemn the sound of a tree is, it is difficult to express anger. He just heavily narrated what he had seen and heard: [I see that the souls of these ordinary people will resonate with the soul of an immortal, and turn into a ray of divine light that is enough to annihilate even Celestial Venerables and Heavenly Emperors into nothingness, and that even Dao Harmonization experts have to face directly—this is an incredible miracle, and just a Heavenly Immortal can distort the common sense of the world, but it is also the most despicable plunder and oppression, and hundreds of millions of sentient beings are therefore...]

"Yuan Cangmeng."

Su Zhou opened his mouth and interrupted the Divine Wood Candlelight's narration: "Calm down, don't use subjective perspectives like 'I thought'. Look again."

"Even if the Five Supreme Sages are stupid, they won't deliberately let people sacrifice and annihilate like this, repeating this boring malice."

[...Yes.]

Shaking his leaves, Yuan Cangmeng realized his gaffe. He calmed down and then watched the world again.

Then, with extremely complicated feelings, he said: [...Every magical power of the Heaven-Denying and World-Breaking Light Realm can suppress the Wufang Tianmo for three to five thousand years, protecting thousands of islands and worlds behind its fleet from being invaded by the Wufang Tianmo.]

[Thousands of inhabited island groups mean trillions of people. The sacrifice of a Heavenly Immortal can protect them for thousands of years. In these thousands of years, even without considering the self-cultivation of the 'Heavenly People' in the fleet group, even just among these islands, dozens or even hundreds of Heavenly Immortal seeds will emerge, who can take over the position of that Heavenly Immortal and mortal.]

[Those seeds... some will become guides, controlling warships; some will resist, trying to destroy the order established by the Buddhist army; and some will sink, let themselves rot, and no longer look at this dark, oppressive, and desperate world...]

Saying this, Yuan Cangmeng admitted that the Dharma Protector Buddhist Army's approach was undoubtedly 'effective', but precisely because of this, he gritted his teeth and said: [Unforgivable!]

[Why must there be sacrifice?! Whether it is a Heavenly Immortal or a mortal, why must life be sacrificed?!]

[What about those Dao Harmonization experts? Those Dao Harmonization experts in the void of the multiverse who stopped you from entering Hunkun, Ancestor?! They only need a casual blow to destroy the entire Asu Luodao island group and annihilate this group of Wufang Tianmo along with their source!]

Roaring almost like this, the Divine Wood Candlelight's voice gradually lowered. He obviously understood that the Dao Harmonization experts did not do this, and there must be deeper reasons that he 'could not see and could not understand'.

But even so, Yuan Cangmeng could not understand what kind of terrifying reality made those Dao Harmonization experts, and even the Five Supreme Sages, make such a 'choice'.

[Ancestor.]

He said blankly: [What exactly is the Wufang Tianmo?]

[Why are they so cautious in dealing with such a twisted spacetime?]

"...I'm sorry."

Su Zhou stared at the other side of the spacetime of the Asu Luodao island group.

His gaze could easily penetrate dozens, hundreds, and endless world groups, and easily penetrate the countless Maha karmic obstacles to trace the origin of the Wufang Tianmo.

Even if Su Zhou's incarnation had no power, his essence was still higher than all known existences and worlds, and it was fundamental to see through everything.

However, just this one glance made Su Zhou frown.

The young man had to shake his head and admit: "I don't know."

He couldn't understand it at all—whether from the perspective of Dao Harmonization or from the perspective of a flood, the essence of the Wufang Tianmo was inexplicable.

It seemed to be just a mass of activated spacetime, a world itself with its own will, now eroding other worlds.

But in fact, this was just the appearance.

The interior of the Wufang Tianmo was a collection of strange forces that did not allow any existence to interfere, and were extremely chaotic, and could not be understood at all.

It sounded like it was just pure disorder, but in reality, it was not... because the Wufang Tianmo actually had a strange 'connection' with all things, even including Su Zhou himself.

With this connection, the Wufang Tianmo could easily merge, annex, and obliterate everything.

Even the spacetime of the universe was no exception—this was also why it was initially mistaken that the Wufang Tianmo was a kind of twisted spacetime. That was just the spacetime being infected and畸変 by the essence of the Heavenly Demon. The body essence of the Wufang Tianmo was not that superficial thing at all, but something deeper.

Only the purest power of silent extinction, nothingness, and Nirvana could resist this connection and isolate its method of infecting spacetime... but this was only temporary, a temporary solution. No matter how much Nirvana light was used to sweep across spacetime, when the remaining Nirvana light disappeared, depending on the dissipation of the will of the victim's 'obsession', the Wufang Tianmo would return again.

Again and again, endlessly.

Moreover, not only that.

The volume of the Five Heavenly Demons...

"Is infinite."

Su Zhou narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "There are already 'countless island groups' that have been occupied by the Wufang Tianmo—the infinity of Hunkun is wrapped in several infinities!"

"Or, it forcibly restrained that 'infinity'!"

In Su Zhou's vision, no matter how the origin of the Wufang Tianmo was traced back, it could not be traced back to the 'beginning'. That was a past that was older than Hunkun, which could not even be defined by the 'original time point' of the Hunkun Realm—in contrast, the source of the Wufang Tianmo was even larger than the entire Hunkun, and the five 'infinite eras' established by the Five Supreme Sages could not be compared at all.

However, the wonder was here—the Hunkun Realm and the Five Supreme Sages, as well as the non-eras they created, were like five infinitely long ropes, binding the infinite entity of the Wufang Tianmo, which was much larger than them.

——Outside the Hunkun Realm, the void of the multiverse——

Su Zhou's body, which was still wrestling with the Five Supreme Sages, frowned.

Just now, he held the Extinction Blade in his backhand and inserted it into the void. Suddenly, an invisible ripple spread forward, sweeping over the spacetime ruled by the Five Supreme Sages. Wherever it passed, the many glories, magical powers, and great powers that the Five Supreme Sages had jointly burst out were all like long snakes nailed to the ground by knives. No matter how much they tossed and twisted, they were still frozen in place.

However, this damage was only for limited existences. Infinite existences were not afraid of any loss. In the next moment, even at the cost of their own bodies being broken and their magical powers being damaged, the many magical powers that were nailed down still forcibly broke free from the anchoring of the Extinction Blade, and then continued to surge towards Su Zhou's direction.

"You guys."

At this moment, Su Zhou stared at these magical powers surging towards him, and he said: "I won't even talk about time travel for now—what exactly are you doing in your own world?"

Su Zhou's gaze and expression were filled with deep hidden anger, but he endured it and said calmly: "Not only the Fifth Era, but what were you doing in the previous eras?"

The many Candlelights selected by Su Zhou did not only descend in the Fifth Era of the Unenlightened. In fact, the Candlelights of the heavens and myriad worlds, according to their own compatibility, almost descended evenly in the Five Great Eras.

And a similar situation happened in every era.

To be honest, the wars of the strong will always affect mortals.

This cannot be said to be 'innocent' or 'wrong', because if the power represented by the strong is regarded as a collective, and the strong are the leaders of the collective, then everything is easy to understand.

The existence of the strong contributes their power to the civilization, and every individual in the civilization will receive the benefits brought by the strong—whether it is the rare peace and tranquility in this multiverse, or the rapid advancement of technology, or the expanded horizons, or better living and cultivation methods, every individual of the civilization has received benefits.

But similarly, if one day, there are strong people from other worlds who challenge the strong on their side and want to plunder all living beings—then can it be said that the ordinary people who have received the benefits are innocent, should not be affected, are pure and flawless, and are absolutely not wrong?

This is a very complex issue. At the very least, in this multiverse full of transcendence, if ordinary people are willing to be ordinary people and enjoy the so-called 'peace' and 'peaceful life' and be 'ordinary people without great ambitions', then they will be affected and have no ability to resist and change.

Then the fate of such ordinary people can basically be defined as their own choice.

Because all peace, all tranquility, all the tranquility that can support the lives of ordinary people without great ambitions are not free.

They are all someone who is carrying a heavy burden, blocking all the darkness and ugliness in the multiverse, and seizing them from the hands of the enemy as spoils of war.

If you are dissatisfied, you can resist, you can improve, you can reform, you can overthrow everything. But you cannot regard it as a matter of course. There is no matter of course in this multiverse.

However, even so, everything that happened in the Hunkun Realm was too much.

"The Dao Harmonization gods of the Creation World fought back and forth, which certainly affected mortals, but they tried to restrain themselves as much as possible."

Facing the attacks of the Five Supreme Sages, Su Zhou opened his five fingers, and the five virtues divine light rotated and intertwined into a small universe, directly absorbing all the incoming great magical powers into it. The young man tamed these forces, turned them into the divine light of creation, and then threw them away at will, placing the cosmic seed that might give birth to infinite spacetime and life in the void of the multiverse.

He continued: "They fought to the point where the world was turned upside down. Except for the first time when they had no experience and caused countless deaths and injuries, there were basically no victims in the second time."

"In fact, I have been to so many worlds and seen so many strong people, and only the Lotte Cosmic World is too rotten, but that is really a minority. After all, how can there be ordinary rotten people becoming Dao Harmonization experts?"

"Tell me." Su Zhou said: "Tell me, why don't you let the Dao Harmonization experts eliminate those Wufang Tianmo?"

[You already know?]

Hearing Su Zhou's words, everyone already knew that this flood had learned about the situation inside Hunkun by his own methods.

The voice of Qian Yuan Dao Zun sounded, ancient and majestic: [Original Candlelight, you should also see that the divine power of the Wufang Tianmo is far from what ordinary Heavenly Demons can compare to, right?]

[That is the infinite demon, and also the absolute demon—the power of the Wufang Tianmo cannot be defined by any realm or strength in the world. Rather, it is the relative demon. Facing the Dharma Protector Buddhist Army, it is of its current strength.]

[But if the Wufang Tianmo is facing Dao Harmonization...]

Qian Yuan Dao Zun did not say it clearly.

But everyone could hear what he meant.

"The Wufang Tianmo will increase its power according to the corresponding strength?"

Su Zhou pondered.

This was not a strange thing. Rather, in the multiverse, there were countless enemies with this characteristic.

For example, the 'civilization limiter', which exists in many science fiction universes, will continuously send down enemies and disasters as the civilization level increases. It is the embodiment of the great limiter, and will use a steady stream of trials as a driving force to push civilizations to become stronger.

Civilizations that cannot keep up with the speed will be destroyed. On the contrary, those that give up and limit their civilizations to a relatively low level... have more room for manipulation and can better cope with the disasters降下 by the civilization limiter.

When a civilization is at the galaxy level, the disasters that are降下 are subspace Heavenly Demons, the spiritual disasters that destroy spacetime, and super-strengthened rectification protocols.

However, when a civilization is only at the planetary level, the disasters that are降下 may be solar helium flashes, super meteorite light particles that strike at the speed of sublight from a few light-years away, or star eaters, and ether dragons that go crazy.

And if a civilization is only at the continental level, or even just scattered countries on a continent, then the so-called limiter trials are just one or two demon kings, artificial intelligence rebellions, alien monster invasions, or other things that are easy to solve.

Even the increasingly difficult tasks in the Pioneer Space can be considered the same in a sense—if you want to become a better adventurer, explorer, and pioneer, then you must constantly keep up with the requirements of the Pioneer Space and complete one task after another that is like a刁难.

But in contrast, if you just want to be an ordinary Pioneer Space middleman or an ordinary adventurer, then the Pioneer Space is actually no different from a nursing home, except that you need to travel everywhere.

The Wufang Tianmo may be the largest and most malicious 'limiter' in the multiverse?

"But where did it come from?"

Su Zhou was quite puzzled by this.

All limiters are essentially artificially designed. Civilization limiters are 'early education programs' prepared by super-advanced civilizations to create their own kind, and Pioneer Spaces are training camps prepared to incubate pioneers.

But the Five Elements Heavenly Demons do not have even the slightest bit of normal flavor. Its existence itself seems to be to obliterate all things.

Why does the Wufang Tianmo automatically increase its power to correspond to the power of civilization?

Su Zhou felt that it was definitely not a limiter problem—it was definitely not some kind of artificially set trial.

[Unless you become Hunkun, Original Candlelight.]

In response, the Unenlightened still said the same thing: [If you do not become Hunkun, then just telling you the truth will lead to the most tragic end—that is a 'result' that is more terrifying than all sacrifices and all unjust deaths.]

[Its name is the ending, there is no room for any change, there is no future to speak of, the absolute ending.]

"What method are you planning to use to deal with it?"

Su Zhou asked.

[The transcendent does not exist,绝地天通, the end of the Dharma Era.]

The Unenlightened put his hands together: [All life fluctuations will cause the Wufang Tianmo to grow stronger, so we can only use the silence of life to deal with its spread.]

[In this way, when the civilization is weak enough, the Wufang Tianmo can even be eternally封地禁锢.]

Saying this, from the black mandala, came a solemn and sacred low chant: [I am the Unenlightened, the lord of the Hunkun Realm, the Fifth Final Era.]

[My vocation is to completely bring the Hunkun Realm into the Great End of Dharma Era.]

[In order to suppress the Wufang Tianmo and completely seal and鎮压 it.]

Su Zhou did not reply.

In the void of the multiverse, Su Zhou stared at the Five Supreme Sages.

He could see that the Five Supreme Sages' five eras were five intertwined seals that penetrated countless times, spacetimes, possibilities, and concepts—the specific details could not be seen clearly, after all, the other party was combined, and was also a flood.

And even such a seal, until now, does not dare to say that it can completely seal the Wufang Tianmo.

Inside the Hunkun Realm, Fifth Era, Asu Luodao island group.

Su Zhou lowered his head and looked at the deepest earth beneath the cloud realm.

If you are standing on the earth, then the sky is an endless abyss.

Then, if you are above the sky, is the earth not also an endless abyss?

Even with the eyes of the Candlelight and the perspective of the flood, you cannot see what the earth of Hunkun is.

Su Zhou knew that the Five Supreme Sages were not lying, that was indeed not the Spirit of the Azure Sky—the will of the Hunkun world could not be so strong. The Hunkun Realm, after all, was at most a Dao Harmonization expert who had mastered infinite elements. No matter how strong it was, it could never be a flood. If it really turned black, the Five Supreme Sages would definitely be able to handle it.

"Yuan Cangmeng."

Towards the Divine Wood Candlelight on the other side, the young man transmitted all the information he knew to him, and to all the Candlelights.

He said: "Do what you want to do. You are also a Celestial Venerable, not exceeding the current upper limit of this world... There is always a way to solve the problem without sacrificing."

"I will help you answer many questions... but I am afraid that I will not have the power to descend and bestow more favors for the time being."

[Yes, Ancestor.]

Yuan Cangmeng had already emerged from the previous daze and pain. At this time, he was racking his brains, brainstorming in the Candlelight chat group with many other compatriots who were also angry and were exchanging ideas on how to solve this problem, trying to cope with the Wufang Tianmo.

Hearing Su Zhou's voice, he responded without hesitation, but was still a little puzzled for a moment: [What's wrong, Ancestor, are the Five Supreme Sages so strong?]

"Of course not, they can't beat me."

In the void of the multiverse, Su Zhou raised his head and surveyed the entire sealed multiverse.

The original calm and peaceful void suddenly seemed like a sea tide in a storm. Endless glories, waves, gales, and lightning and thunder emerged, like a ceaseless flood, gathering from every corner of the multiverse.

"But." He said: "If you add five floods, it's different."

Five completely different but equally surging divine powers were surging.

And their goals were all the same existence.

"The Five Supreme Sages didn't lie to me on this point."

The young man's voice was calm, as if he had known all this for a long time.

"The other floods in this multiverse all support them."