Chapter 620 The Gospel Hall's Scheme
Upon hearing this, Fa Zheng paused for a moment, then closed his eyes, seemingly extending his senses to verify whether the divination master's words were true.
Soon, however, he showed a frustrated expression. It seemed that this was his first time encountering the chaotic spacetime of the apocalypse, just like my first encounter with such an environment. Before fully understanding and adapting to this kind of environment, I was unable to extend my perception to a sufficiently distant place.
Fortunately, what Fazheng cannot do, I can do. With the blessing of the small bowl, in today's real world, when it comes to the ability to analyze and adapt to the chaotic spacetime of the apocalypse, I would say I am second to none. Even Huang Quan, who had been immersed in the "apocalyptic era" for over a hundred years in his previous life, would lag behind me in this state.
Centered on my current location, my perception rapidly expanded to a radius of over a thousand kilometers. Of course, with such a vast expansion of the perception area, precision inevitably decreased; even I couldn't process all the detailed microscopic changes occurring in this region in real time, but that's not a requirement now.
From a perspective akin to a satellite map, I observed that the chaotic, apocalyptic spacetime had spread to an area the size of a province. Not just our city, but all the cities within this province had entered the apocalyptic era. Time and space had become a chaotic, viscous mess, and the toxin-like forces causing the collapse of spacetime order continued to worsen the situation. The fate of the vast majority of humanity within this area was like that of a small boat adrift on a stormy sea.
However, compared to what we originally anticipated, this is already incredibly fortunate. In our original estimates, the apocalyptic world had already covered the entire country by now, and would cover all of Asia within minutes, and even the whole world soon after. But now, its scale has completely stalled at the level of a single province.
I informed Fazheng of this result.
"My Dharma of Heaven and Earth has the special property of calming other Dharma of Heaven and Earth," the Divination Master said. "And unlike you, who need to concentrate your minds to fight monsters of the level of the Three-Headed Impermanence, I can concentrate all my mental energy on unfolding my Dharma of Heaven and Earth."
"Therefore, although it is impossible to wipe out this apocalyptic phenomenon caused by the three-headed monster all at once, it can at least barely curb its growth momentum."
In the past, in the area around Moonshadow Mountain City, in order to prevent the Silver Moon's Heavenly Manifestation from harming ordinary people, the Divination Master had personally stepped forward and used his own Heavenly Manifestation to quell it.
The current fortune tellers do the same thing, but the difficulty is incomparable.
The divination master added, "In order to increase the efficiency here, I also asked Jian Feixian to use his sword energy, which can sever time and space, to further prevent the unfolding of the apocalyptic spacetime."
As far as I know, any Great Impermanence can accomplish something as disruptive as spacetime. However, each has their own expertise, and Jian Feixian is far more skilled at this than other Great Impermanence, both in scale and depth. Things severed by him are often difficult to heal, and he treats both living and non-living things equally.
In theory, he could even use his sword energy to cut off a vast expanse of space and time, far exceeding the size of a city, from the real world and transform it into an alternate dimension like an isolated island.
Previously, Fazheng and I were probably too focused on the battle, and the chaotic apocalyptic spacetime itself had the effect of hindering the transmission of magical energy fluctuations, so we did not notice that the Divination Master and Sword Immortal were busy thousands of miles away.
Fa Zheng's expression relaxed slightly, and then he bowed his head to Jian Feixian and said, "I apologize for my bad attitude before. I'm sorry."
"I don't care," Jian Feixian said casually.
"However, this incident was somewhat fortunate... no, perhaps not entirely fortunate; there may have been some kind of inevitable force at play."
The fortune teller glanced at me and said slowly, "It's good that you were at the scene of that three-headed monster invading the real world... I remember according to the information provided by Zhuang Cheng, it was called the Great Demon, right?"
"If we allow those three great demons to roam freely and simultaneously unleash this terrifying celestial phenomenon across the world, then we will be completely unable to prevent the apocalypse from coming."
Fa Zheng frowned and said, "I have a question about this... Why is it that even though we've killed those three great demons, their 'Heaven and Earth Manifestations' haven't ended yet? Master Divination, what are your thoughts on this?"
"I think it's because the source is still exerting its power." I already had a clear direction in my mind.
The Great Demons of Doomsday are essentially incarnations of the Naraku Gospel, and the reason their Dharma-manifestation is a doomsday timeline is because its origin is the Naraku Gospel. This is, in fact, the Dharma-manifestation of the Naraku Gospel.
At the same time, I've also come to understand something else to some extent.
If Naraku Fubuki can easily transform the afterlife into a "future era after the destruction of human civilization," turning it into a land uninhabitable for humans, then why not do the same thing on Earth in the real world? Since Naraku Fubuki is the natural will of the planet, it would be very simple for him to do the same thing.
Was the reason they didn't do that because it would also damage the planet's environment? But for the planet itself, it would only change the surface environment's settings; it shouldn't be anything fundamentally damaging. Moreover, since this is to eliminate humanity, the "root of all evil," there's even less reason not to do it.
The real reason is probably that the afterlife is a spiritual world, so it can be changed in an instant; while the real world is a material world, so it cannot change immediately.
The larger the creature, the slower its movements; nerve signals take longer to travel from the center to the extremities compared to smaller animals, and blood takes longer to flow from the heart throughout the body. The planetary will of nature probably faces similar obstacles. In terms of the speed at which it can reshape the Earth's surface, this colossal entity of planetary will of nature is likely far less capable than the Great Impermanence.
There is actually a way to accelerate this process: use a great demon similar to the Great Impermanence to bring it into the real world and unleash apocalyptic phenomena.
The true originator of this idea was probably not the planet's natural will itself. In my understanding, the planet's natural will is more of a spiritual entity that operates on instinct, so it's hard to imagine it coming up with such a clever plan. The one orchestrating all of this behind the scenes must have been Gospelin.
Their goal is undoubtedly to settle scores with human civilization by creating an apocalyptic scenario in the real world.
Upon closer examination, this method is indeed a win-win situation for them. The apocalypse can dismantle human civilization, and the resulting madness can erase human history from the minds of survivors in large numbers. At the same time, since they are not personally killing all of humanity, they do not have to directly confront Fazheng, who possesses the divine weapon of humanity and can unleash the power beyond the third gate when humanity is about to be extinct.
The Gospel House probably doesn't know that Luoshan has the technical data on "Dushuo Mountain." They probably think they can just sit back and watch from the sidelines.
Furthermore, although I'm not entirely certain, this prematurely arrived apocalyptic timeline is likely not a true apocalyptic process. This is because it's a "doomsday era" manifested by the planet's natural will itself. The planet's natural will obviously wouldn't deliberately push for an apocalyptic process to settle accounts with humanity, which could potentially destroy it—that would be putting the cart before the horse. Therefore, from the perspective of the Gospel Institute, this is a risk-free and highly profitable deal.
"This doomsday timeline is still trying to spread, but I've managed to contain it. However, this is only a temporary solution. If something goes wrong here, the doomsday timeline will spread again, and like a spring that's been held back to build up its tension, it will expand explosively to a scale far exceeding its previous size, covering the entire globe in no more than a minute," the fortune teller told us. "The Gospel Institute won't just stand by and watch me get in their way; we must defeat them before that happens."
"There's something I haven't figured out yet. Doesn't the Gospel Institute fear the Humanitarian Army for doing something like this?" I asked after thinking for a moment. "Even if Earth enters the apocalypse, as long as we are here, although we can't say we can preserve the entirety of human civilization, we can at least ensure the survival of a very small number of humans, and even preserve some of the records of human history. In this state, Fazheng's power can also be enhanced to an unimaginable level."
"The Gospel House cannot simply stand by and watch us maintain the old human history. To put it another way, since the Gospel House wants to restart human civilization on this desolate land, they cannot hide in the afterlife to escape justice forever. Sooner or later, they will march into the world of the living. Surely they have considered this possibility?"
Upon hearing this, Jian Feixian nodded in agreement, while the Divination Master showed a helpless expression.
After pondering for a while, Fa Zheng sighed deeply and said, "No, things are not that simple... If the number of all mankind has really decreased to that extent, I will no longer be able to unleash the full power of the Humanitarian Divine Weapon... At least, I will no longer be able to unleash that power against the Gospel House."
The divination master nodded and said, "If humanity were truly on the verge of extinction, it would certainly grant Fazheng unprecedented power, but it would also mean that the Gospel House would no longer be humanity's enemy."
(End of this chapter)
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