Chapter 481 An Abrupt Prediction of World's End (8300 words, New Volume Seeking Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets!)

In a world with extraordinary power, all conflicts, in the final analysis, arise from the differences and oppression between the 'extraordinary class' and the 'mortal class'.

Ancient beast god clusters, ancient Nidao (imitating the Way) groups, ancient cultivator groups, cultivation dynasties, cultivation sects... Even though the names of the supreme violent groups that occupy the ruling position change one after another, what remains unchanged are the classes called 'ordinary beasts' and 'ordinary people,' which have not changed in hundreds of thousands of years.

Of course, this is not to say that the extraordinary represent solidification—in fact, the extraordinary have played many very innovative roles.

——First, the existence of the extraordinary shattered the slave system.

Because it is extremely difficult for new extraordinary individuals to emerge from slaves, and even if they do, it is very difficult to maintain the same heart and virtue as the slave owners, resisting the attacks of other extraordinary individuals together. This system is based on the power of individual power, and it is absolutely impossible to resist multiple extraordinary individuals who cooperate and respect each other.

Its representative significance is the destruction of the ancient beast god clusters and their slave beast groups, and the discarding of the classification of beast god species, spirit beast species, and sacrificial species into the trash.

——Secondly, the existence of the extraordinary shattered the feudal monarchy and aristocracy.

The sacred royal bloodline, the powerful noble blood, an extraordinary group, connected by bloodlines called families, and the most powerful family is the royal family. It sounds very stable, and even if the emperor changes, it does not affect the stability of the system.

However, in order to ensure the power advantage of the family, each family will hide its core achievements and progress, maintaining its advantage and suppression over other families. They cannot share the progress between inheritances, and the relationship between monarchs and ministers is always a matter of intrigue and mutual compromise.

How can such a relationship compare to a master-disciple sect where the inheritance is passed down in a continuous line, teaching each other generation after generation, and publicly sharing achievements?

——Finally, the existence of the extraordinary completely destroyed the concept of 'the weak are prey to the strong, survival of the fittest'.

The most important thing is the ideological will and the continuation of the inheritance. To this end, the extraordinary abandoned all primitive morality—the weak are prey to the strong, survival of the fittest. This concept was completely shattered, because not helping the weak and not cultivating one's own Dao-transmitters will only turn oneself into a ship without an anchor.

Extraordinary power has caused a concentration of thought. It makes weak individuals and civilizations submit to strong individuals and civilizations and merge into them. It gradually created huge clusters of extraordinary individuals. Sects that fought each other internally began to merge with other sects whose theories were not mutually exclusive in order to refute the opposing parties with conflicting theories. The convergence of thought ultimately resulted in the creation of one of the largest clusters of extraordinary individuals, the 'Central Divine Court'.

This, in turn, caused the highly evolved extraordinary inheritance, allowing many originally ignorant and primitive power systems to collide with each other and then merge, becoming stronger forces.

Refining Qi, Houtian (acquired), Xiantian (innate), Renxian (human immortal), Dixian (earth immortal), Tianxian (heavenly immortal), Tianzun (heavenly sovereign)...

Opening Spirit, Awakening, Extraordinary, Ruler, Overlord, Immortal, Creator...

The system of cultivation evolves step by step, and the upper limit of cultivation increases step by step. From the Renxian stage onwards, every change in the cultivation system and the opening of a new realm causes a huge civil war, a huge redistribution of resources, and an advancement of the entire system.

It causes powerful ideas to transform the weak, civilized collectives to transform the uncivilized, and scattered resources and cultivation experiences to be concentrated. The power of the extraordinary, the immortals and gods, seems to cover all the worlds they can touch in an instant, as if they are the kings of all universes.

But such progress has an end.

When the 'mortal class' becomes the 'long-lived class' and the 'long-lived class' becomes the 'eternal class'.

When the mortals of the past become Tianxian who live as long as heaven and earth, or even Tianzun whose existence persists even after heaven and earth perish.

All progress comes to an end.

In the absence of external forces or threats, immortals are incapable of progress.

The advancement of extraordinary power brings about a great abundance of productivity, making internal competition unnecessary. The internal logic of immortals who will not die is completely different from that of normal humans. They may pursue the Great Dao, may enjoy themselves eternally, may sleep in their dreams, create a world, may wander the stars, or may simply disappear.

Because of immortality, everything urgent, everything that requires time to drive progress, everything that requires worry, becomes the leisure of 'it can wait'.

No need for optimal solutions, no need for efficiency, no need for urgency and anxiety, no need for conflict and contradiction.

Immortality is the strongest resource.

Because they are powerful to an unbelievable extent, Tianzun do not even need to exploit the next class to collect resources. On the contrary, they can even bestow more endless resources to the other classes according to their wishes.

When people do not need to exploit others, the conflicts and oppression between groups of people will also disappear.

It seems... everything seems to be going well? Because the extraordinary need ordinary people to spread their inheritance, using them as their anchors and their back-up resurrection possibilities, coupled with the meaninglessness of exploitation, so ordinary people may live quite well in such a society?

Anyway, they don't care.

Unless...

A new immortal class is born from the lower classes.

But, those who are born with various reasons that make it extremely difficult to achieve eternity, or even to start cultivating, are they to be abandoned?

The immortals and gods do not care.

The meaninglessness of exploitation allows the immortals and gods to tolerantly let everything go, which also means that they will not spend their energy to promote the progress of mortals.

Immortals only need to wait, paying their most inconsequential time, and they can see someone, a successful person, emerge from the world and join their ranks.

As for... the failures along the way?

Um... why think about failures?

Why think about the fate of the weak?

Why think about the future of those who do not have good talent and cannot achieve anything?

Are they not just farmland for cultivating successful people? A base number for screening geniuses, as long as they can survive, that's enough.

We immortals and gods have specially adjusted the weather, controlled the planetary environment, maintained the operation of the Great Sun, and stabilized the satellite orbits for you mortals - we don't even need you to be grateful, so don't be too verbose!

Humanity is a race that will not think about rebellion as long as there is an upward channel. As long as there is still a possibility for mortals to obtain longevity, and for those who have achieved longevity to obtain eternity, they will only look forward to the superiority and scenery of the higher level, ignoring the class they are in and the class they used to be in.

What's more, here, each level of class is vastly different, and the gap between them is even larger than the gap between species.

——It seems that the innovation of extraordinary power has changed everything.

But in reality, nothing has changed.

In a world with extraordinary power, all conflicts, in the final analysis, arise from the differences and oppression between the 'extraordinary class' and the 'mortal class'.

The civilization clusters of immortals and gods may have reached a point close to romance in their civilization form, but in the end, they cannot lead everyone forward, and can only select the most outstanding talents to become members of them.

The civilization of the immortals and gods does not oppress mortal civilizations, and even loves them in return, but it draws the best from them. They certainly do not harvest the farmland, which can be said to be kind and benevolent to other cruel farm owners, but they are still farm owners, and they still harvest the most important creations from the farmland, which is 'powerful extraordinary individuals'. As for the other unpromising crops, let them rot in the ground and become fertilizer for other crops.

Progress is not a simple repetition of the past.

Perhaps in the distant future, the immortal and divine civilizations that have gone to the distant reaches of space and time have changed, but for the people on Earth, what they took over in the past is still this eternally repeating and cyclical civilization, the remnants left behind.

Therefore, there are always wise men who worry and are unwilling to take the same step as the immortals and gods of the past.

[Wu Chongwen! Why did you give up this path?! Uniting yourself with the World Wide Web, you can seize the thoughts of hundreds of millions of living beings with a single thought, and a single mind can be almost equivalent to the collective unconscious of mankind... Why did you give up this path that could almost reach the sky in one step, and forcibly engage in some kind of 'Electronic Underworld?!']

[If you want to be the new King of Hell, the new Yama of the Underworld, the new controller of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, that's fine, but you're actually planning to engage in some kind of utopianism in the Electronic Underworld?]

[You're crazy!]

In the dark depths beneath the Tiandu (Heavenly Capital), amid the endless waterfall of electronic information, there is such an angry voice questioning.

A friend, even a lover, who once walked a long road together, ultimately broke with the hesitant man in the face of the path to becoming a god.

Amid the flow of electronic information, a waterfall of light flickers, and a vague human figure is located within it, holding an underworld in its hands, its eyes made up of color blocks and characters, staring at the souls within.

[Cang Lunzhe? What madness are you up to? You are Bai Ze, the blood of the most ancient auspicious beast, a direct descendant of all the demon gods of the immortal and divine era, the most quintessential cultivation of all Nidao! Why don't you follow the path of Bai Ze, and insist on cultivating as a human?]

[You have abandoned all the Nidao bloodlines of the past five hundred thousand years, and abandoned our hope for the revival of Nidao! Look, because you abandoned your responsibilities, how many Nidao families have cut off their inheritance without your teaching?]

[You are our traitor!]

In the dark laboratory, the liquid in countless cultivation tanks churns with bubbles, and figures drift uncertainly in the tanks, just like the disappointing and angry farewell echoing in their ears.

Many students and admirers who once gathered around the man eventually moved away from this path because they felt fear, a fear of betraying their class and bloodline.

Under the quiet gaze of countless clones, the middle-aged man with white hair silently gazes at himself in the cultivation tank, the four silver pupils gazing at each other, reflecting each other, layer upon layer, endlessly.

Why?

Perhaps the specific details are not the same, but similar inquiries, similar memories, appear in the ears of scientists, researchers, cultivators, and extraordinary individuals in every country around the world who are responsible for relevant policies and technologies.

Why?

Why is it still like this even after the spiritual energy has recovered?

Why is the Earth still a collection of countries, a collection of huge official groups, instead of the sects that have revived from ancient times, the immortals and gods that have reappeared, a flower called the 'Central Divine Court' that has bloomed once again, but now, enduring and suppressing, clearly knowing how the road ahead should go, but insisting on taking a big detour, and then choosing a dark and lonely path that no one has walked before, groping forward with the 'human civilization'?

"Li Chengdao, Liu Li, we've been old friends for decades, so let's not talk nonsense—I always have doubts. Tell me, have we betrayed our class?"

Dao Sheng (Saint of the Way) and his two friends stood on the top of a high mountain, controlling the lightning. The contemporary Heavenly Master floating in the air looked down at everything in the world. He gazed at the maglev high-speed railway shuttling through the mountains below, gazed at the maglev train he had designed with his own hands, and the mountain tunnel he had opened with his own hands, and then let out a sigh that was both perplexed and gratified: "Otherwise, why would we do such a thing? All of this has no benefit to cultivating the Dao and becoming an immortal. No matter how happy the lives of the people are, it cannot help me ascend to immortality."

"Zhang Qingyun, have you cultivated your Dao to the point of having problems? If you want to surpass immortals and gods, you can only take a different path from them. We have been striving to this day to become the 'founders of a great civilization that surpasses immortals and gods'. What is there to care about in becoming an immortal?"

The elderly Li Sheng (Saint of Reason) chuckled. He half-opened his eyes and looked at the city in the distance, which was overflowing with spiritual light. The old man said in a low voice, "But what you said is indeed correct. Clearly, we cultivators with natural inheritance should try our best to maintain our advantages and not let those who come later catch up... Alas, how could we do such a stupid thing, expecting everyone to achieve success in cultivating the Dao?"

"Don't drag me into this, you two!"

Liu Li, whose whole body was muscles, and who could not be recognized as an old man if one did not look at his face, waved his hand and said rather sullenly, "Our lineage has been opening martial arts halls and teaching martial arts since ancient times. If many people didn't die from cultivating, I would never have thought of keeping it a secret!"

The three old friends, who only gathered once in a long while, looked down at the heavens and the earth, and the city clusters between them, as well as the thousands upon thousands of humans within them.

In the world of Earth under the sunlight, everything is peaceful and prosperous. Under the background of the recovery of spiritual energy, everyone happily cultivates under the guidance of the state. Whether it is to realize dreams or show self-worth, there is always a channel to play, which makes people hopeful.

In the world of Earth in the dark night, ambitious people continue to emerge. After the Demonic Advent Society is wiped out, there are still warlords in Africa, and it will take nearly ten years to completely pacify and restore the chaos in Central Asia.

Throughout the world, there are still many extraordinary disease patients who have lost their humanity due to their unbalanced mentality after possessing extraordinary power, and are wantonly killing. They stay among ordinary people, just like foxes staying in chicken coops. Killing has no sense of guilt and is extremely pleasurable.

And the bureaucrats and invisible nobles who originally held power, and those who held capital, are scheming for insatiable desires, wanting to monopolize this power beyond the mortal world, while many ordinary people are struggling to make a living, struggling and struggling, so how can they compare to those carefree wealthy children who cultivate?

But how can these wealthy children compare to those who are screened out at a young age and receive cultivation education, the true Dao-cultivation seeds?

A natural class is being born.

Born from the darkness of human nature, it has never been illuminated by any light. Even the ancient immortals and gods, apart from a few promising seed worlds, would they manage all regions?

The indifference of the immortals and gods will cause the pure to rise and the turbid to fall.

Evil cannot be killed and cannot be eradicated.

Looking at the entire world, in the face of the infinite universe, in this Earth, a place as small as dust, humans contradict each other, fight each other, and guard against each other.

The Three Realms are not safe, like a burning house. Full of suffering, it is extremely terrifying.

Therefore, there are always people who worry, who are troubled, and who want to try to find a way out.

A path where everyone can have a future.

"All the ethics of modern human society are based on the fact that people will eventually die. And all the ethics of immortal and divine societies are based on the fact that immortals and gods can live forever, while mortals still need to struggle. As long as I build another society that allows mortals to live forever and can rely on human society to exist, and end the cycle of life and death, then perhaps, even the most dull soul can still awaken the extraordinary under this alternative longevity, and then open up a new order and path."

In the waterfall of information, Yan Sheng (Saint of Invention) took back the Electronic Underworld, he turned his head and stepped towards the infinite network space.

"In the end, the difference between immortals and gods and ordinary people at the beginning is nothing more than the difference in physical talent. In terms of will, it depends on acquired education and opportunities. We can't change this, this thing is like morality, you can't learn it without teaching."

"However, we can modify the innate conditions. As long as everyone's talent is extremely excellent, and they are strong enough to set foot in the realm of 'Longevity', then we can evolve from a race where the vast majority are 'mortal class' to a race where the vast majority are 'long-lived class'. Although I don't know the consequences and the future, we have to try it."

Starting the experiment again, Sheng Sheng's (Saint of Life's) eyes are so indifferent that they are almost without emotion, he analyzes himself, using himself as a stepping stone, stepping into an unfamiliar place that no one has walked before.

"No matter what, the most important thing for human beings is not the inheritance of physical blood, but the inheritance of wisdom. Humans are civilized and intelligent creatures that surpass animals, use memes to spread thoughts, and evolve. As long as we gradually publicize the cultivation methods, so that everyone can practice, everyone can hear the truth, as long as we don't have factions like the old gods, but everyone unites and shares cultivation experience with each other, forming a cultivator alliance that is roughly consistent in thought, then our future will be limitless."

Not only in Zheng Country (Central/Righteous Country, often used for China), but all over the world, in any country, there are always wise men who are thinking about the future of civilization and feasible paths.

——During the time when spiritual energy was cut off, mankind once again went through slavery, feudal monarchy, and capitalism.

Human concepts, opinions, and ideas. Human morality, ethics, and common sense will change with people's living conditions, social relations, social morality, or, in other words, with the progress of technology.

The progress of women's status has also changed precisely because of changes in the structure of social productivity.

However, can the difference between men and women be greater than that between the extraordinary and the mortal?

How can the existence of extraordinary power not change human morality and ethics?

Can the fully innovative technology and system of modern Earth human civilization, like the past rise of women's rights due to industrialization, give hope to ordinary people with ordinary cultivation talents and improve their rights?

The Thirty-Six Saints, after multiple meetings and discussions, and discussing related issues with many international forces in the United International, finally reached a certain consensus by sharing the information of the immortal, divine, and god civilizations with all mankind.

——The struggle between long-lived classes involves the inheritance of Dao lineages spread among mortals, whether it is faith, sects, or empires.

——The struggle between eternal classes involves civilizations, societies, and entire huge immortal and divine systems, just like super-large eternal clusters such as the Central Divine Court and the Gods Group.

They take care of mortals in many ways, but only regard them as tools, as anchors and seeds to prevent their own fall, and not as truly equal existences. They originated from this, but they do not regard humans as their roots, but as farmland.

Therefore, if you want to maintain a collective, a collective that can surpass the ancient immortal and divine clusters, in this era of spiritual energy recovery, you must do what the immortals and gods of the past could not do.

Humanity should adhere to the following ten 'Human Destiny Community Rules' to explore the road ahead.

[1: Public allocation of natural resources. Resources that originally belonged exclusively to certain immortals and gods, such as pan tao (peaches of immortality), golden apples, and other fruit god trees, spiritual veins, and blessed lands such as cave heavens, can be enjoyed by all.]

[2: Folk extraordinary individuals should make a large number of contributions to society and give back to it during the process of advancing from ordinary people to the long-lived class. Citizen points and various targeted tasks are preliminary inducements to avoid unilateral plundering and cultivation phenomena.]

[3: Completely universalize inheritance. Uploading personal special advancement techniques can get a lot of rewards, so that all families and small collectives cannot carry out unilateral technology accumulation, producing steps that can threaten and oppress other individuals and collectives. As far as possible, make the progress of one person the progress of an entire society.]

[4: Resolutely combat extraordinary diseases. All mankind should do everything possible to jointly combat all those who believe that they can be superior to others after obtaining the extraordinary.]

[5: Unite with each other with a common program and thinking. Humans must unite together, otherwise the struggle of internal thinking forms will waste a lot of resources.]

[6: Carry out productivity development on a national and worldwide scale according to the optimal plan. Whether it is building factories, developing wasteland and new worlds, or improving soil, planting spiritual crops, or even gradually replacing all ordinary creatures through scientific methods, completely creating a world of all spirits, including creatures, and completely upgrading the world.]

[7: Establish a large-scale, grouped cluster of extraordinary individuals to carry out collaborative extraordinary resource production, maximize productivity, and this is true in all aspects, especially spiritual food production.]

[8: Progress in different fields needs to be complementary. There must be no situation where the technological progress of magic weapons and instruments leads to the lack of management of farmland and ordinary people cannot benefit.]

[9: Carry out completely free public education for all human infants. Popularize basic spiritual knowledge from childhood, so that children gradually adapt to the existence of extraordinary power in the process of growing up.]

[10: Completely eliminate all congenital inequalities of human beings. Whether it is biological modification, implantation of electronic chips, cybernetic modification, or any other method, only by eliminating human congenital inequalities can human acquired competition be fair.]

This is the final result of the discussion - if it can completely adhere to these ten rules and move forward, even if Earth civilization has not yet surpassed immortal and divine civilization, it can definitely proudly declare that they are walking on the right path, a path that is completely different from immortal and divine civilization, but is equally, or even more, great.

But, why?

Why do this? There are too many clauses in these rules that violate the instinct of human genes.

The selfish nature of human beings, in addition to relying on the lofty morality and ideals of a part of people to suppress it, can never rely on human beings as a whole to contend with it. Perhaps in the future, gene surgery will correct this selfishness, but it is not possible now.

Human beings need a reason to fight for, to let them know that what they are doing is absolutely necessary.

So... what is the reason?

Could it be... the pursuit of the Great Dao and the truth?

It is too ethereal, it is almost like saying the word 'love' to human beings, it is too broad. Most people who cannot understand these words will only feel embarrassed after hearing them, rather than empathizing with them and expecting those good things.

Human beings are not immortals and gods, and they cannot be united by such things.

Human beings need a reason, a reason that is simple and easy to understand, that everyone can experience, that everyone can understand, that everyone can believe in, a reason that can unite people and promote this system.

It's just that this reason has not been found.

But.

Everything changes from today.

Earth, May 14, 2018.

All the holy seats of Zheng Country received an extremely abnormal notice.

Su Zhou, who had mysteriously disappeared again, returned to Earth again. His strength had become stronger again, completely surpassing the combined strength of the entire world - even if all the inheritors of the world took the divine weapons and immortal martial arts, divine instruments and holy instruments left by the ancient immortals, gods, and attacked him, it would be difficult to kill him.

But, fortunately, Su Zhou is still as peaceful and polite as ever. Although he is full of doubts on the Internet and in various programs, he is always aggressive, out of tune, and even often starts scolding wars, causing all kinds of wonderful consequences... but all this, for a current Earth Overlord-level Dixian, isn't it simple and cute?

Everyone knows very well that he has a secret... otherwise? Do you really believe that a person can cultivate from scratch to Overlord in four years? Even Shakyamuni (Buddha) with one finger pointing to the sky and one finger pointing to the earth was not so fast. This is not the level of a genius, but a pure monster.

And this time, everyone unexpectedly learned such a message.

[Su Zhou said that he wants to show his cards to us - to explain the source of his strength and to tell us the truth about the entire world, the universe, and even the multiverse.]

[He said that it is best for everyone to listen. He does not lie, and he is too lazy to lie. Having reached this point, he is no longer afraid of any rumors or suspicions in the world, so he does not care about making secrets public.]

Yan Sheng's calm voice is as always, but those who are truly familiar with him find that Yan Sheng's tone at this time obviously carries a trace of shock and then forcibly calmed aftertaste.

What kind of information would shock Yan Sheng, who is as rational as a robot, more like an AI than an AI?

And what secrets does Su Zhou, who is already an Overlord-level, the strongest person on Earth, the biggest unstable factor in the world, and the modern civilization time bomb, want to reveal?

Doubts arise from the heart. Soon, many holy seats picked up their login mirrors to enter the illusionary conference space.

In a daze, time changes, and the world changes its appearance

In the center of this huge conference room, which divides the seats according to the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) orientation, a black-haired youth stood on the stage, smiling and watching every guest.

And after almost everyone arrived, the young man, who had a perfect appearance and looked more like an immortal or god than an immortal or god, coughed, and then began to declare directly, without any preamble.

[I must confess to everyone that I have hidden the secret of my strength's progress.]

[I, Su Zhou, am the agent of an 'ancient venerable' with the titles of 'Chaos', 'Lord of the River of Time' and 'Source of Dragon and Serpent'. Thanks to the favor of this ancient venerable, my strength has grown rapidly.]

[Even, I have also obtained the power to travel through different worlds and seek different inheritances to sublimate myself - whether it is my Lei (Thunder) technique, Lan (Mist) shield, or my Shui (Water) technique, Mo (Demon) fire, or even the form of my true body, they are all inheritances obtained from other worlds. In short, that's the matter.]

Boom——Having just said two or three sentences, there was a burst of exclamations and sighs under the stage, making it difficult for everyone to remain calm.

Even the holy seats, no, it is better to say that because they are the holy seats who know the existence of the 'ancient venerable', they will be shocked and amazed by these ancient secrets that are just obscure existences even among immortals and gods.

Su Zhou came here this time, of course, not to shock everyone - so he waited patiently for a while, and then seized the opportunity to open his mouth to appease: [Now is not the time to be surprised by this kind of trivial matter - all of you senior holy seats, this is just the secret of my rapid increase in strength, but to put it bluntly, it is limited to this. After all, I don't plan to rebuild the Central Divine Court and become the Heavenly Emperor. This is just to tell you a part of the truth to increase the credibility of what I am going to say next.]

"What kind of thing requires you to say such shocking news to increase credibility?"

The speaker was Jiang Sheng (Saint of Craft), one of the youngest holy seats. He had worked with Su Zhou in the Kunlun Secret Realm, and his private exchanges and impressions were also good. In addition, he was the youngest and could not hold back his breath, so he subconsciously opened his mouth at this time: "Su Zhou, at least I am willing to believe you - but is there a need to be so cautious? Just your words alone can make us go back and hold more than a dozen meetings."

[Of course there is.]

In response, Su Zhou looked serious.

He looked at all the holy seats in front of him with his blue-purple dragon eyes. Their expressions were either calm, confused, doubtful, or frowning, probably guessing something.

Finally, the youth lowered his voice and said solemnly: [For example, the truth about the future of this world.]

[The fact that the universe we are in will be completely destroyed in just over twenty years.]

After the words fell, everything was silent.

The entire illusion conference hall was so quiet that a needle could be heard dropping.

——Human beings need a reason, a reason that is simple and easy to understand, that everyone can experience, that everyone can understand, that everyone can believe in, a reason that can unite people.

And now, the reason has been found.

The prelude to the new era was opened in such a straightforward way.

In a way... that was unexpected.

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