Chapter 144 Underground Cave

Looking at the pond in front of me, the surface of the pond is calm and the water is clear, even clearer than before the end of the world. It is like a sapphire lying in the ruins, out of tune with the surrounding scenery.

But the middle of the pool is bottomless.

After thinking for a while, I decided to be cautious and look for clues at the edge of the pool first.

The terrain of Xinyan City has changed, so maybe the place I want to find is not in the pond.

After giving Xiaobai a warning, I started to act separately from him.

Animals have a keen sense of smell. Xiaobai is now in wolf form and can dig things out of the ruins much faster than I can.

Soon, we had searched back and forth several times, but we found no clues at all.

I turned my head to look at the lake and thought it would be too rash to just jump in.

But right now I really have nowhere to find diving equipment. Before, I could look for it in some shops, but after the earthquake, those buildings have collapsed, and it will take a lot of time to find equipment.

After hesitating for a moment, I threw the notebook to Xiaobai and said to him, "Wait for me on the shore."

Then, in Xiaobai's frightened eyes, he took a deep breath and jumped directly into the lake.

I have divine power and have experienced two divine descents. My body is indeed much stronger than before. Now I have no choice but to give it a try.

My swimming and diving skills are not very good. The moment I jumped in, I couldn't control my body from floating up.

After adjusting a few times, I finally got the hang of it and dived deeper into the pool.

Fortunately... at least the lake is still calm...

However, the good times didn’t last long. I was still feeling thankful for the calmness of the lake bottom one second, but the next second I felt a strange current.

Damn, we encountered an undercurrent!

Without any hesitation, I swam towards the surface.

Finding something is secondary. The underwater area is much more dangerous than I thought. It’s more important to go back first!

However, I had already dived to a certain depth and it was impossible to return to the surface immediately.

The water current at the bottom of the water was getting stronger and stronger, as if some force was pulling me to the deepest part. In the end, it turned into a huge whirlpool, engulfing me. No matter how hard I tried to swim upwards, I couldn't swim back to the surface.

In the chaos, I glanced into the depths of the bottomless pool and suddenly an idea came to my mind.

Since we have to go down there anyway, we might as well just follow the water flow in.

Thinking of this, I immediately gave up struggling and let the whirlpool drag me to the bottom of the pool.

After a dizzying moment, I felt as if I had fallen from a great height. Even though there was water around me, it still hurt my back.

Fortunately, my body is much stronger now than before, and there is water as a buffer, otherwise this one blow alone would be enough to hurt me.

I got up from the ground. Since there was no light source, it was pitch black around me and I couldn't see anything. Judging from my feeling alone, I must have been washed into an underground cave.

The water reached my knees. I didn't know if it was water from the cave or an underground river.

I snapped my fingers, and a faint light lit up in my hand, illuminating the darkness around me, and I could see the surrounding scene clearly.

It is indeed a cave, but it is not a particularly spacious cave. Instead, it is quite long, like a passage.

With the help of the illusory light, I walked a short distance along the passage, and the road in front of me suddenly became narrow. Fortunately, I was not fat, so I didn't get stuck.

But I'm not stupid enough to just rush over. If there's any crisis later, rushing over rashly would be tantamount to committing suicide.

I looked around, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the crack.

The stone produced some echoes when it was thrown over. Judging from the sound, it should not be a high place or a cliff, and there is indeed a relatively large space behind it, but it is not certain whether there are any living creatures.

I used my visual perception to sense it, but didn't find any abnormal fluctuations.

I felt relieved and carefully crawled in through the gap.

There was indeed a rather large space behind, and the light in my hand could no longer illuminate the surroundings.

But this is not a big problem. I increased the halo on my hand a little bit, and the light illuminated the entire cave.

The next second, I was stunned by the scene before me.

The stone walls in the entire cave are densely packed with reliefs, and the style of the stone carvings is very simple and ancient. The overall stone carvings are done with the technique of relief carving, but there are also intaglio lines in the relief carvings, which does not look like they were carved in modern times at all.

There are also many characters engraved under these reliefs. What’s interesting is that these characters are not from any dynasty, but the language of ancient gods.

I looked around and, combining these reliefs, roughly understood the meaning of the reliefs.

The content of the first section of the relief is easy to understand and can be divided into three parts. At the top are painted many things like stars and the universe.

The content in the middle is the scene of human daily activities.

There are many strange creatures and various ghosts and monsters painted below.

There is an explanatory text engraved at the very bottom, which roughly means that in the past the world was divided into three parts, the stars represented the upper world, the middle was the human world, and the bottom was hell.

The second part of the relief shows that all the evil spirits underneath crawled out from the ground and attacked humans. Some people died, some were injured, and some who were bitten even turned into monsters.

The third part was even more serious. The earth shook, floods, and various natural and man-made disasters almost destroyed the entire world, and even the stars in the upper realm began to fall.

The entire relief presents a feeling of being both seductive and chaotic and crazy.

Just looking at it makes me feel inexplicably uneasy.

I looked away briefly to avoid being affected by the content of the relief.

The contents of those reliefs are exactly the same as what is happening outside now. A catastrophe has struck and all living things have died in large numbers.

Isn’t this the record of the end of the world?

So, all this happened a long time ago?

If Zhoutian is reincarnation, then it makes sense.

However, if such an event had happened a long time ago, it stands to reason that no relief would have been left behind. If all living things were extinct, there would have been a gap in civilization.

Unless, someone lived from the last catastrophe to this one and recorded it all.

But... can those who have survived from the last disaster to the present still be considered human?

After slightly alleviating the discomfort, I turned my attention back to the reliefs.

The subsequent scenes were almost all chaotic, with people struggling under the disaster, but a few people survived the disaster.

Then, they changed into different forms, some of which remained solid, while others turned into strange shapes and ascended to the upper realm.

The largest and most detailed of them all is a humanoid entity with six arms.

It goes without saying that this is the "Lord of Revelation" Gali.

The others were carved very crudely.

Is this the process of the birth of Gali and other gods?

According to this meaning, these gods were once human beings?

Combined with the content of the ancient language at the bottom, the general meaning is that a catastrophe will come at the end of each reincarnation, and in this process, most of the monsters in the upper world, the human world, and the bottom will die in the end.

This is exactly what my parents told me, but I never expected what happened next.

In this catastrophe, there will be a group of people or monsters who can survive to the end. After the catastrophe is over, these survivors will come to the upper realm, replace the stars that fell at the beginning, and become new gods.

I have never seen this in any literature, and even my parents seem to be unaware of it.

At the end of the inscription, there are two lines of words also written in the ancient language of the gods:

"Everything was born out of madness, and because of madness, it leads to the beginning of the next era..."

At this moment, I just felt stiff all over, as if I had uncovered some incredible truth, and this truth was far simpler and more brutal than I had imagined.

The points that I couldn't understand at first suddenly became clear at this moment.

Why are those evil gods interested in me and want to capture me as a vessel for their descent... I think I know the reason now.

What if I am the new god most likely to be born in this reincarnation?

This sounds outrageous, but it seems to be the only explanation.

If it is really possible for me to grow into a new god, then everything can be explained. These evil gods transformed me into a "vessel", then took over my body, and then used my body to become new gods again. In this way, they can survive this catastrophe.

As long as they find the person who is most likely to become the new god in advance every time the catastrophe of reincarnation comes, transform him into a "vessel" suitable for them, and then take over his body, they can escape the crushing of reincarnation and achieve true immortality!

I stared at these reliefs for a long time without reacting.

Although I've heard a lot of shocking news these days, each one more shocking than the last, what I saw with my own eyes was far more shocking than hearing it from others.

For a moment, I even hoped that the content on the relief was fake, and that An Xiaowei had deliberately made it up to fool me.

But I know that's impossible.

I stood there in a daze for a while, and finally I came to my senses and began to organize my thoughts.

If the contents of these reliefs are true, then what I will face next will be far more terrifying than the evil god.

Not only is there the covetousness of the evil god, but there is also the test of "Zhou Tian".

Furthermore, even if I was lucky enough to survive this catastrophe, what about the others? Those friends who had taken care of me countless times, those believers who believed in me unconditionally...

Thinking of this, I suddenly lowered my head and smiled at myself.

"I'm really not fit to be a god. I'm not willing to accept this kind of ending."

After adjusting my breathing, I wandered around the cave hall again searching.

Now that we're here, we might as well see if there are any other clues.

But after searching for a long time, I didn't see anything special.

Perhaps there really is nothing left to discover.

As I thought about this, I started to think of ways to leave. It was quite risky to return the same way, and I was washed here by the current. There was a relatively high place in the middle, and I couldn't fly. Although I could rely solely on jumping ability to get up, the cave was very slippery, and it would not be so easy for me to jump back.

After thinking for a while, maybe I could borrow a mirror?

The surface of the water... maybe it can also be considered a mirror...

Thinking of this, I took out a small makeup mirror from my body.

"Luckily I didn't lose it."

I breathed a sigh of relief.

I picked this up from a shop selling small accessories after I obtained the authority related to Unreal. I didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.

With the help of the faint light in my hand, I activated my ability and prepared to jump into the mirror.

However, at this moment something unexpected happened. The entire cave suddenly shook violently, and the reliefs began to collapse, revealing something behind the stone wall.

I frowned slightly. Sure enough, there was not only relief here. It seemed that the things behind the stone wall were even more amazing.

I simply decided not to leave and hid in the mirror to see what was happening outside.

After a burst of cracks, the stone wall completely collapsed, and there was nothing behind it.

Instead, the rubble that collapsed into the water was now sparkling with starlight.

These starlights came out from the rubble, gathered in the water, and finally stopped in front of a small makeup mirror at the bottom of the water.

Then they entered the mirror.

It's over! Run away!

The next second I jumped out of the lake through the mirror jump.

But it was still a step too late. The moment I jumped, I clearly felt something entering my body.

When Xiaobai saw me, he first ran towards me with joy, and then sniffed around nervously.

"puff--"

A mouthful of blood spurted out of my mouth.

Blood splattered all over Xiaobai, and I knelt down on the spot, feeling a little exhausted.

This feeling... is very similar to when God descends...

A large amount of power that did not belong to me was running around in my body, impacting me to the point of almost exploding, but the good thing was that there was no feeling of confusion, only pure pain.

My arms began to grow continuously, and each arm had several cracks, and countless pairs of eyes emerged from the cracks.

My forehead is still swollen, and I know that I am being alienated.

But this time it was much better than before. There were no inexplicable mumblings to disturb my consciousness. Although it hurt, I was able to stay calm.

Xiaobai was a little scared and took two steps back at first. Then, I saw him change into human form and approach me cautiously.

What on earth was this guy trying to do? I subconsciously grabbed the Miao Dao and held it across my body.

Seeing me so defensive, he seemed a little hurt. He didn't know what to do for a moment and could only stand there anxiously, looking pitiful.

"I'm sorry... Master! How can I help you?"

Xiaobai's brows were furrowed, and his expression was probably not much better than mine at the moment.

"I'm fine...stay away from me!"

This is the last bit of strength I have left to speak.

After saying that, I closed my eyes and began to meditate on the cloud and thunder patterns.