Chapter 276 Where Are All the Living Beings? (Five in One)
"Reality?"
Xiao Zhenwu was still in shock and confusion facing this completely unfamiliar world, but Gu Fangchen's words pulled his thoughts back a little.
"This is... the new world?"
Although Xiao Zhenwu had already caught a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of another world through Gu Fangchen's previous proactive display, it was just some insignificant daily things.
Whether it is cola, barbecue, or freezer, judging from the appearance alone, none of them touches upon the underlying logic of another world.
As for the things that Gu Fangchen brought from another world, [making something fake become real], outsiders would not be able to understand the principles and structures behind them unless they were in it themselves.
Xiao Zhenwu could see that the freezer was powered by electricity.
But this was nothing special to him.
Like monks, they can summon wind and rain, have palm thunder, and can condense water into ice.
Therefore, in Xiao Zhenwu's mind, the other world was always just a world that was not much different from Dawei or Honglu.
But because of his habitual thinking, he forgot that it was a world without spiritual power.
“Beep—”
And just at this moment.
A burst of rapid and sharp horn sounds, enough to pierce the eardrums, accompanied by the roar of a huge engine, exploded from the corner of the street!
Xiao Zhenwu turned his head subconsciously.
A semi-trailer truck, like a steel beast, seemed to have malfunctioned. Under the horrified gaze of the driver, it ignored traffic regulations, kicked up a cloud of dust, and headed towards him...
——He hit me hard!
Xiao Zhenwu had actually seen this thing.
Previously, when Gu Fangchen killed Li Kan, he used a semi-trailer in a malicious way to briefly open up a corner of that world, turning the dignified "Military Genius" into a speed bump.
At that time, Xiao Zhenwu's evaluation of this was that Gu Fangchen's ability was getting stronger and stronger.
Quite an understatement.
It was simply because he thought he had a sure win, and looking down at the tiny illusion from a high vantage point, he naturally felt that this method was extremely crude and clumsy.
In his eyes, this semi-trailer truck is just a "magic weapon" that can defeat the opponent with force.
But when he lost control of his strength and actually stood in front of the truck, experiencing Li Kan's perspective, he understood why Li Kan was so terrified at that time.
It does not have the slightest fluctuation of spiritual power, nor is it blessed by any "Tao". All it carries is a pure and brutal "momentum".
Just move forward simply and relentlessly, crushing all obstacles in front of you into dust.
To the [Ancient Human Emperor], this should have been a joke.
In his world, let alone a piece of ordinary iron, even a star crashing into the earth from the sky would correct its trajectory or turn into the most docile wisp of dust in the universe with just a thought from him.
He is the [Constant], he is the rule, and everything should run in an orderly manner under his will.
Any uncontrolled "accident" will be eliminated in the order he constructed.
However, at this moment, his will, which was powerful enough to command the heaven and earth and make his words lawful, fell on deaf ears.
His usual way of keeping in balance seemed to have no basis to stand on here.
He was like a top administrator stripped of all permissions, facing a brand new operating system with completely unfamiliar underlying code.
Every command he issued turned into invalid garbled code, and he could only slam the keyboard in frustration.
Time is infinitely stretched at this moment.
Xiao Zhenwu could clearly see the mottled rust on the truck's hood, the driver's face twisted with fear, hear the ripples in the air from the shrill horn, and smell the mixed smell of burnt dust kicked up by the tires rubbing against the ground...
He was shocked and angry, because he found that even though he knew that this must be a tactic of Gu Fangchen against him, at this moment, his instinct began to drive him to retreat and avoid it!
When the so-called "Dao heart" of the monks constructed by "Dao" and spiritual power collapses, they are nothing more than clay Buddhas and cannot even protect themselves.
This instinct was so "real" that it shocked his soul, which was used to being high and mighty and fighting with laws and concepts.
No, absolutely not!
How could I retreat? How could I avoid this piece of ordinary iron!
Xiao Zhenwu subconsciously clenched his teeth, his facial muscles almost twisted.
He tried to mobilize the power of heaven and earth, but found that this world did not respond.
He tried to distort the space, but found that the space here was as solid as a piece of iron, and his invisible will could not even leave a scratch on it.
The front of the car was roaring, and the wind it brought was already blowing on his face.
Xiao Zhenwu finally broke through the defense.
He put aside his dignity, raised his hands, and shouted:
"stop!!!"
Xiao Zhenwu tried to stop time, but the semi-trailer was still approaching at an unstoppable speed.
Time seems to have supreme authority here that cannot be interfered with by any individual will.
Not long ago, he could just say "stop" and keep Gu Fangchen in front of him.
If Ning Caiyong had not saved him with the help of "Heaven", perhaps the outcome would have been very different.
However, at this moment, his cry of "Stop" sounded like that of a fool who was frightened to the point of having a brain seizure, attracting the terrified and dull gazes of passers-by around him.
Xiao Zhenwu, or the [Ancient Human Emperor], or the [Master of Hengchang Dao], for the first time experienced the feelings of those mortal ants when facing natural disasters - small, powerless, and... absurd.
Li Kan’s fear…his fear was not about this piece of ordinary iron itself.
But at this moment, he discovered that even a piece of ordinary iron could kill him!
For monks like them who have long been accustomed to life and death, losing power, something that is originally impossible, is the greatest fear in their hearts.
Because their foundation, their "Tao", from the very beginning, is to have strength first, and then "martial courage" and "Tao heart".
But if the power is withdrawn, then everything will be a castle in the air and will collapse at the slightest touch.
"boom--!"
The semi-trailer, whistling with dust and rough wind, passed by Xiao Zhenwu, whose face was distorted.
It wasn't that he regained his strength, but at that critical moment, Xiao Zhenwu was finally overcome by instinct.
He took a sudden step back, stumbled, and nearly fell to the sidewalk, slamming into the wall. His palms and the back of his head felt a burning, mortal pain.
The semi-trailer truck roared past where he had been standing, bringing with it a gust of wind.
Finally, with a sharp brake sound, it stopped at a nearby intersection.
The driver stuck his head out in shock, cursed a few words in a dialect, and then roared away again.
However, a passerby nearby took out his cell phone and called the police. A few people came over and took a look, but when they found that Xiao Zhenwu was fine, they walked away.
The crowd around was only briefly agitated before returning to their numb and hurried flow.
No one feared him.
No one looked at him.
No one...cares about him.
Xiao Zhenwu slowly and stiffly stood up, patted the dust off the simple robe that was out of place here, then raised his hand and touched the blood oozing from the back of his head.
He lowered his hand with a slight tremor, and looked down at his palm which was scraped and bleeding.
For the first time, a deep shock, a mixture of humiliation and confusion, emerged in those eyes that had been indifferent for a million years.
pain.
It was physical pain, a low, primitive, yet incredibly clear feeling.
In his own world, his body has long been a combination of Tao and laws, immune to water and fire, and indestructible to all disasters.
But in this world, he is as fragile as a piece of paper!
He... was actually injured.
It was scratched by an ordinary wall.
Even - to avoid a piece of ordinary iron that could be torn apart by a single thought in the past!
These thoughts, like the most vicious curse, exploded repeatedly in his sea of consciousness, over and over again, crushing his cognition to pieces.
He hasn't felt this way for a very long time...
Xiao Zhenwu raised his head, looked around, expressionless, and walked slowly forward.
What a bizarre and "disordered" world this is.
Everything around me became extremely clear, and also extremely... dazzling.
He no longer tried to understand the world with his soul because he found it was useless.
Xiao Zhenwu was forced to use the senses that belonged to the original human being "Xiao Zhenwu" and had been forgotten for millions of years to receive information again.
There is a continuous, irregular noise in the ears.
The roar of cars, the noise of the crowd, the music from the shops... these sounds mixed together to form a chaotic sound wave that hit his eardrums.
There was a foul smell in my nose.
Dust, exhaust gas, the greasiness of food, the sourness of sweat... these smells are the most primitive and unpretentious smells of life.
There are bizarre colors in the eyes.
The flashing neon lights, the huge billboards, the colorful clothes on the people, those were definitely not products of nature... He felt dizzy.
Is this... what Gu Fangchen meant by "truth"?
A world without the guidance of the laws of heaven and earth, where countless mundane wills are allowed to collide and rub against each other, thus creating another possible world?
He imagined what the world would be like without aura.
In his imagination, it should be a stagnant, silent world, like a pool of dead water.
All things follow the most ancient laws, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, everything is slow and orderly.
But the scene before him completely overturned his cognition.
This world, far from being silent, is extremely noisy. Far from being dead, it is filled with a certain... morbid, deformed "vitality".
What’s even more terrifying is that even if it has lost its spiritual power and its “Tao”, it still has its own set of self-consistent logic.
A set of logic... that is completely unrelated to the "Heng Chang" principle he constructed.
This is what scares him the most!
His existence, his ways, and everything about him are unnecessary to this world.
As soon as this realization came into his mind, Xiao Zhenwu fell into complete confusion.
He froze in place, motionless.
Under the scorching sun, the pain from the wound on the back of his head became more and more acute, and his brain felt dizzy and began to shake.
Xiao Zhenwu's mortal senses were being infinitely magnified. He began to feel hungry, tired, and... powerless.
Xiao Zhenwu paused, and when he raised his head again, his eyes were cold and his face expressionless.
"Gu Fangchen! You want to cut off the source of the problem, fight tooth for tooth, destroy my 'Immortal Dao Heart', and make me lose myself and sink into this world?"
Xiao Zhenwu laughed nervously.
He looked around but couldn't find Gu Fangchen. There were only endless tall buildings surrounding him, like the high walls of a maze.
"Ridiculous! Ridiculous!"
The "order" here is not the absolute order with strict hierarchy that he understands, which originates from the laws of heaven and earth.
"Tao" is not controlled by an individual, nor does it obey anyone's command.
Therefore, there is no spiritual power here, no monks, only mortals who seem infinitely insignificant to him.
However, the mortals here can actually make use of "Tao"!
This is a kind of... "Tao" that he had never imagined.
A "Tao" that belongs to mortals, created by mortals and maintained by mortals.
"ridiculous……"
Xiao Zhenwu muttered to himself.
"You don't think that the 'Immortal Dao Heart' of the True Immortal Realm is limited to this level, do you?"
"Or do you think the 'Tao' represented by the word 'Heng Chang' is simply the presence or absence of spiritual energy..."
"Spiritual energy and the 'Tao' mastered by practitioners are certainly the foundation of the 'Heng Chang' Dao, but they are only a part of it."
He raised his head suddenly, squinted his eyes, and stopped looking at the chaotic scenes that disturbed his mind.
His gaze penetrated the gaps between the tall buildings, penetrated the smoke and dust of the city, and looked towards the eternal and unchanging sky.
Although these two worlds seem completely different, are they really completely different?
The foundation of the birth of the world is the same, so what does it matter if the branches that grow from it are different?
A world born from "truth" and "falsehood" must have something in common.
He needed to find an anchor.
An anchor that would keep him from sinking in this vast ocean of "reality".
Standing between two worlds, it is the anchor point of "balance".
Gu Fangchen cut off the firewood from under the cauldron, wanting to directly extract the foundation of "Heng Chang", disrupt his mind, and make him lost in this new world.
I have to say, it is indeed quite cruel.
And...it almost worked.
"But your biggest mistake was not being able to kill me directly!"
Xiao Zhenwu raised his head and looked through the sky.
Then, he saw it—the sun.
The burning, huge star still hangs high in the sky.
Its light shines equally on every inch of land, whether it is the fairyland or the iron jungle.
It rises in the east and sets in the west, still defining the "day" and "night" of this world.
Its existence itself is a kind of [constancy]!
Xiao Zhenwu felt a trace of the power of "Heng Chang" returning to his body.
This heavy and powerless body, like a drowning person, was suddenly lifted up and floated upwards...
His consciousness began to rise, and he seemed to see the other side of the planet, the cold bright moon, and the stars in the sky.
Together with the sun, they constitute the alternation of "yin" and "yang".
Sun and moon.
Light and darkness.
Day and night.
These most ancient and original unity of opposites still exist in this world!
They did not change because of the presence or absence of spiritual energy, nor were they shaken by the differences in civilization forms.
boom!
In Xiao Zhenwu's mind, it seemed as if billions of thunders exploded at the same time.
At this most critical moment, his Daoist heart, which was about to collapse, found that life-saving straw, that indestructible cornerstone!
"I found it... Gu Fangchen. I won this battle... Haha... Hahahahaha..."
He stood on the street, laughing softly as if no one was around. His laughter carried a kind of ecstasy of surviving a disaster and a clarity of enlightenment.
Xiao Zhenwu's expression once again became indifferent and determined.
His wavering heart of Taoism seemed to have found its first solid foundation and began to stabilize again.
He took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and said to the busy street in front of him:
"The Tao has both clarity and turbidity, both movement and stillness. The sky is clear and the earth is turbid; the sky moves and the earth is still. From the beginning to the end, all things are born. The clear is the source of the turbid, and the moving is the foundation of the still..."
This... is the embodiment of [Heng Chang].
The principle of "Heng Chang" is not an exclusive rule of another world.
Perhaps the circulation of spiritual energy, the cycle of cause and effect, and the birth and death of the two worlds are the "special rules" of the furnace.
So when he came to this world without spiritual energy and with completely different laws, most of his "Tao" became ineffective.
But that part of the "balance" is nothing more than the "manifestation" and "application" in a specific world.
From the perspective of a practitioner, it is essentially a "technique" rather than the "Tao" itself.
The true core of the "Hengchang" doctrine is not a set of specific rules, but a more fundamental and universal axiom.
That is - opposition and unity.
It is the interdependence and balance between Yin and Yang.
This world seems chaotic and full of changes, but at its core, it is still covered by an invisible net.
This network is woven by countless basic laws of "unity of opposites".
Everything is in balance.
It's just a different form of balance.
The essence is the same!
This is the "unchanging" [constant].
“Hahaha…hahahahaha…”
Xiao Zhenwu stood on the noisy street, laughing in a low voice as if no one was around.
Passersby around cast strange looks at him, as if he were a madman, and quickly moved away. In the distance, the sound of police car sirens could be heard.
His laughter was filled with relief at surviving the disaster and the confidence of regaining strength.
He was no longer confused or wavering.
After experiencing the brink of collapse, his heart of Taoism not only did not break, but instead broke and then stood up again, becoming stronger and more harmonious than ever before.
What made Xiao Zhenwu happy was not the truths he had understood long ago, but the fact that he had avoided Gu Fangchen's most unexpected and dangerous trap!
If he had lost his composure in panic and been obsessed with the lost spiritual power and cultivation, his heart of Taoism would have been shattered, and he would have failed to grasp this anchor point. He would have really been tricked by Gu Fangchen!
But unfortunately, he realized it!
"What a pity, Gu Fangchen...you are really only one step away."
Xiao Zhenwu sneered and slowly closed his eyes. His soul, which had become light again, sank into this world, looking for the intricate common connections that belonged to the way of "Heng Chang".
He no longer tried to use his past "skills" to forcibly interfere with the world, but began to "resonate" his existence with the "constant" way at the bottom of the world!
He sensed the alternation of day and night, the rotation of the four seasons, the gravitational balance that kept this planet stable in the universe, the inevitable cycle of every life from birth to death, the flow of wealth and the shifting of power in society...
A new, more powerful and more original force began to re-condense deep in his soul.
This power no longer depends on external spiritual energy and is no longer limited to the laws of a particular world.
It originates from "reason", the most fundamental principle of "opposition and unity" in the universe.
As long as the concepts of "yin" and "yang", "positive" and "negative" exist in this world, his power will never be exhausted.
He is still the master of the way of Hengchang.
However, this time, what he seized was the true "Way of Heaven" that spanned countless world dimensions.
When Xiao Zhenwu opened his eyes again, his heart of Taoism was reshaped, and the whole world in his eyes had become completely different.
The noisy noise is no longer a disturbance, but a countless interweaving of "movement" and "stillness".
The countless high-rise buildings under construction are no longer just empty shells, but monuments to the struggle between "existence" and "destruction".
The crowded crowds are no longer numb ants, but carriers of the living Tao of "life" and "death", "gain" and "loss".
Xiao Zhenwu still doesn't like this strange world without spiritual energy, but he has already understood this world.
His gaze passed through the hustle and bustle of traffic and countless hurried figures, and once again fell on Gu Fangchen across the street.
Everything that happened just now seemed to be just a flash and extinction of the spark of spiritual consciousness.
Such a dangerous struggle of Dao was nothing more than a clash of thoughts that happened in an instant... and in reality, Xiao Zhenwu and Gu Fangchen were still standing face to face, as if nothing had happened.
The people who passed by the two people had no idea that in that instant, the future of the world was gently thrown to the ground.
At this moment, the nostalgia for returning to his hometown on Gu Fangchen's face has faded, replaced by a solemnity.
He obviously also noticed the changes in Xiao Zhenwu.
Xiao Zhenwu, who had just been in a miserable state like a stray dog, was still wearing the inappropriate robe, but the aura he exuded had already become one with the whole world.
Gu Fangchen sighed inwardly.
It turns out that it's not that easy to kill Xiao Zhenwu by trickery...
"I have to admit, you gave me a huge surprise."
Xiao Zhenwu spoke. His voice was not loud, but it clearly penetrated the crowd and went directly into Gu Fangchen's ears.
His tone returned to that condescending indifference.
"This world is indeed much more interesting than I imagined... including the game Mirror in the Dust."
Xiao Zhenwu's eyes were calm:
"I just realized that in your eyes, the existence of me and the entire world is just a game you can play at will."
"But... I think this is also a manifestation of the origin of the Tao."
Gu Fangchen raised his brows slightly, said nothing, and just looked at him quietly, as if waiting for his next words.
"You dragged me into this place, hoping to use a higher-dimensional 'reality' to crush my Dao heart and prove that my 'constancy' is 'false'."
The corners of Xiao Zhenwu's mouth curled up into a cold, all-knowing arc:
"But you seem to have miscalculated one thing—the foundation of any 'real' world must be 'constant'."
"A universe without order is just a chaotic void, and this world is no exception."
"These two worlds are nothing more than different branches, but 'truth' and 'falsehood' are the essence. Isn't 'constancy' also the essence?"
He took a step forward. With this step, he seemed to be walking on the concrete ground, but in fact, it was as if he was stepping on the boundary between two overlapping worlds.
His figure swayed slightly between reality and illusion.
The scene around him became very unstable, changing back and forth between the modern times and the Wei Dynasty.
"Now, I have found the anchor of Hengchang in this world and connected the two worlds. This should be what you want, right?"
"The cause and effect of the two worlds are in your hands, but the anchor connecting the two worlds is in my hands."
"Now, none of us can do anything to anyone else."
He slowly raised his hand, and the surrounding light seemed to converge towards his palm.
"But, Gu Fangchen, this game of chess must have a winner and a loser."
"what you up to?"
Gu Fangchen finally spoke, his voice was very calm and there was no surprise.
"I want to show you how naive your self-righteous 'saving the world' really is."
Xiao Zhenwu's voice became deep and he looked at Gu Fangchen with a hint of pity and mockery:
"Do you think that if you destroy the old order and build a new world, everyone will be grateful to you? Do you think that the 'choice' you offer is what they truly want?"
"No one will agree with your destruction of order and deprivation of power!"
"Let's make a bet, Gu Fangchen."
The moment the words fell, Xiao Zhenwu clenched his fists, grasped the anchor point of "Heng Chang", and fiercely inserted it into the void in front of him!
"Since we can't decide the winner, let the sentient beings in this world decide whether to stay or go."
Buzz——!!!!
The whole world shook violently.
Not only in this modern city, but also in another dimension, the furnace that was briefly stagnant also let out a mournful cry.
A huge rift spanning the two worlds was forcibly torn open by Xiao Zhenwu with his supreme power!
A "channel" connecting the two worlds suddenly unfolded!
At this end of the passage is a modern city with bustling traffic and tall buildings.
At the other end of the passage is the Immortal Gate Dynasty where the sky and the earth have changed color.
At this moment, two completely different worlds were forcibly spliced together.
As day and night continue to change, the neon lights of the modern city illuminate the ruins of Huangtian City.
Then, an unimaginably huge balance made of "Tao" slowly rose from the crack and hovered above the two worlds.
On one side of the scale stands Gu Fangchen, representing this new "real world" without supernatural powers.
On the other side of the scale, the figure of Xiao Zhenwu emerged, representing the old "cultivation world" where power is supreme.
“The right to choose should be given to all living beings.”
Xiao Zhenwu's voice, like a divine decree, echoed in the minds of all the creatures in Honglu:
"Now, I present two worlds before you. Whichever world you wish to live in, place your will on this scale."
"Would you rather choose to be a mortal, stripped of power, like everyone else, living a mediocre life like an ant in a so-called 'equal' world?"
"Or do you choose to stay in this original cultivation world where you can pursue the great way and control your own destiny?"
His words were full of temptation, and he didn't even bother to act.
In order to make this choice more "real", Xiao Zhenwu smiled, stood with his hands behind his back, and said lightly:
"Of course, just saying that, how can you tell which is better?"
"Why not go and experience it yourself—"
He lightly tapped his side of the scale.
In an instant, in that mysterious and mysterious world, all the surviving practitioners, no matter whether they were the lofty second-grade Great Sage or the newly initiated ninth-grade cultivators, were horrified to discover that the spiritual energy, Taoism, magical powers... all the extraordinary powers in their bodies were rapidly dissipating in an irresistible manner!
Their power did not disappear, but was temporarily "deprived" by Xiao Zhenwu and thrown into the scale as weights.
In the ruins of Huangtian City, a sect leader who had just been using his magical powers to try to heal his disciples suddenly felt limp and fell from mid-air, his head bleeding.
He looked at his hands in horror. They were empty and could no longer gather any magical power.
The radiance on the face of a peerless fairy with an ageless appearance quickly faded, and in just a few breaths, she revealed the age and wrinkles that matched her true age.
She screamed like crazy, unable to accept that she had become an ordinary old woman.
…
Countless similar scenes are being played out all over the world.
Then, they were thrown into another world, experienced the cycle of life and death, and lived an ordinary life as a mortal.
Countless powerful men who once controlled the wind and rain and moved mountains and filled the sea were brought down to earth at this moment.
They felt unprecedented weakness and panic.
For the first time, they discovered that without strength, they were no different from the mortals they usually treated as worthless, and they could not even defeat a strong and powerful ordinary warrior.
This huge drop from the clouds to the quagmire is enough to drive any practitioner who is used to being high and mighty completely crazy.
And Xiao Zhenwu's voice rang out again when they were most desperate and angry:
"See? This is the world Gu Fangchen wants to give you! A world without power, dignity, or hope, where everyone is the same! Do you... still want it?"
These words were like the fuse that lit the powder keg.
"No! I don't want it!"
"Give me back my power! I've cultivated for thousands of years to gain this level of power! Why should it be taken away from me?"
"In a world like this, what's the point of living? I'd rather die!"
"Kill Gu Fangchen! He's the one who wants to destroy everything we have!"
Anger, resentment, unwillingness, fear... countless negative yet extremely powerful wills erupted from the hearts of those practitioners who were deprived of their power.
These wills turned into dazzling golden torrents filled with desire and obsession, rushing madly towards the huge scales in the sky!
Crash! Crash!
The golden wishes of all living beings, like a flood that broke through a dam, poured into the scale representing Xiao Zhenwu.
The huge scale, after groaning under the heavy weight, began to tilt rapidly towards Xiao Zhenwu's side at a speed visible to the naked eye!
The end representing Gu Fangchen's "real world" was raised high, appearing so thin and weak.
Finally, a calm yet complacent smile appeared on Xiao Zhenwu's face.
He looked at Gu Fangchen opposite him, his eyes full of condescending judgment.
"Look, this is the answer, Gu Fangchen. This is the 'human heart'. You will never understand that for those who have possessed power, losing power is more terrifying than death. Your world, to them, is the most vicious curse."
"You wanted to use the world to deny me, and now, all the beings in this world have used their will to deny you."
"I won this bet."
He opened his arms calmly, as if to embrace his victory: "The future of the world, where it will go, is naturally chosen by people, and now they have made their choice."
The tilt of the balance has reached its extreme.
The end belonging to Xiao Zhenwu fell heavily, making a loud noise that seemed to announce the final verdict.
However, facing this "judgment" that had become a foregone conclusion, there was no trace of failure or frustration on Gu Fangchen's face.
He just looked quietly at the tilted scale and the high-spirited Xiao Zhenwu opposite him, with an indescribable expression of pity and ridicule on his face.
"Yeah?"
He said calmly:
"Why don't you... take another look?"
Xiao Zhenwu's smile suddenly froze.
An ominous premonition rose from the bottom of his heart without any warning.
Subconsciously, he turned his gaze to the scale again.
At this moment, something strange happened!
From the other end of the torn world channel, from every corner of that dilapidated world dominated by practitioners, bits and pieces of faint yet extremely pure light suddenly rose up.
These lights come from the common people who are in danger of losing their lives due to the oppression of practitioners.
They come from mortal families who were forced into slavery by the sects and have been unable to rise up for generations.
It comes from farmers who work hard for a year but have to give 90% of their harvest to the "immortal master" in exchange for empty protection.
From those parents whose daughters were abducted by monks, but who had no way to file a lawsuit and could only shed tears every night.
From those peddlers who were run over in the street and left with nothing but a thin coffin simply because they blocked the way of a great man's mount...
They are the silent majority in that world.
They are the real "living beings" at the bottom of the pyramid, ignored, disregarded, and treated as resources and background boards.
How could it be that only practitioners are thrown into another world for reincarnation?
They looked up and saw the whole new world.
In that world, there is no immortal master who can control the wind and treat mortals as ants.
In that world, there is something called "law" that restrains everyone and prevents them from killing innocent people.
In that world, an ordinary farmer can also, through hard work, send his children to a spacious and bright "school" to learn knowledge and change his destiny.
In that world, life seems to be endowed with unprecedented "dignity".
They don’t understand the truth or the rules. They only know that in that world, they may be able to live more like a “human being.”
Thus, a most simple and sincere "yearning" rose from the bottom of their hearts.
This little bit of yearning gathered into a silver-white light.
Countless points of light converged into trickles of water.
Billions of tiny streams finally converged into one... a silver-white ocean that was a thousand times more vast than the previous golden torrent, sweeping across the sky and earth!
The light of fireflies, when gathered together, dares to compete with the sun and the moon for brilliance.
Boom boom boom——!!!!!!
This silver ocean of wish power, formed by the hopes of the lowest mortals, slammed heavily onto the huge scale with an unstoppable and overwhelming momentum!
After hitting the scales, the silver ocean turned into a brilliant galaxy that spanned the sky and earth, and all poured into the high-raised scale pan representing Gu Fangchen!
Click—click—!
The scales that symbolized the fate of the two worlds made a teeth-grinding, unbearable sound of breaking.
In Xiao Zhenwu's pupils that suddenly shrank and were filled with disbelief, the scale that represented him, which had originally sunk to the bottom, was slowly but firmly lifted up again by an unimaginable, gentle yet unmatched force!
Then, the end representing Gu Fangchen, carrying the hopes of hundreds of millions of ordinary creatures, fell with a thunderous force!
Boom——!!!!
The balance tilted towards Gu Fangcheng at an even more exaggerated and thorough angle than before!
The anchor point of the "Heng Chang" doctrine that served as the pillar collapsed inch by inch in the face of this vast and boundless force!
The pride and confidence on Xiao Zhenwu's face all froze with his smile, turning into pure shock and astonishment from the depths of his soul.
He lost.
He actually lost!
Lost... miserably.
“Sentient beings…there are never only practitioners.”
Gu Fangchen's voice sounded calmly, as if he was deciding the final outcome of the gamble.
It was like putting the lid on Xiao Zhenwu's coffin...
He smiled slightly and looked at Xiao Zhenwu:
"Do you know how many of your practitioners there are? From ancient times to the present, are there perhaps ten million people with exceptional talent who have embarked on the path of cultivation?"
"But now, look at it again..."
His gaze passed Xiao Zhenwu and looked at the silver ocean that was erupting with the greatest power in the most humble manner.
“…Here, there are tens of billions of sentient beings.”
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ps: The dust has settled, the next chapter will be the finale
Of course, reality is not as beautiful as described, but the "modern society" here is Gu Fangchen's utopia, which allows us to have a beautiful dream. Good night~
(End of this chapter)
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