Chapter 303
Everyone who has practiced can sense the changes in the spiritual energy around them. The moment the barrier is broken, they can sense it more strongly than ordinary people. In a remote mountain, Jiang Jiang raised her head. There was a strange device in front of her. Jiang Jiang placed her hands on the device, injected spiritual power into it, and activated her [Talent] without reservation.
Her former talent was named "The Torch is Passed Down", but after being changed by the mirror, it became "The Flame is Continuing".
The infusion of spiritual power and the activation of her [Talent] made the gray device in her hand glow, and the stone-like object gradually took on the luster of jade. The device began to change from the place where it touched her palm, spreading downwards. When it was close to the ground, countless lines extended in all directions.
When the comic was known to the outside world, many readers were questioning - the world was about to face a crisis, why did the top beings of the plant and demon tribes pay such a heavy price, while the human race was just doing its best?
Some say that it is because the lifespan of the plant and demon races is much longer than that of humans, and humans have only been practicing for a few dozen years, so how can they be as powerful as them? Some say that it is because humans occupy most of the resources of the surface world, and the top people are sent out to various parts of the country to provide disaster relief, so naturally there is no way to concentrate on presenting them in such a concentrated manner in comics. Some say... there are all kinds of guesses, but the official has not given a definite answer.
Tian Yan did not draw the human race's preparations in the comics because once the human race's thousand-year-long preparations were exposed and destroyed, they would be irreparable.
Human life is short; a hundred years is but a blink of an eye. They do not have the bronze skin, iron bones, sharp teeth and fangs of the demons, nor the long life span of the plants and trees, but humans are the most creative race.
They were able to use a hundred years to fly into the sky and go deep into the underground, and make up for their deficiencies with creativity and wisdom. So the preparations they started hundreds of years ago have only officially appeared before the public today.
The device extends countless "lines" in all directions. These lines are the embodiment of spiritual power. When they flow, they awaken the sleeping mountains and rivers.
Everything in the world has a soul.
Every inch of mountain and river, every inch of building is slowly awakening in the spiritual power. The human race experiences the cycle of life and death on it, with generations dying out and being reborn one after another. The years have tightly bound the consciousness of the mountains and rivers to the rise and fall of the human race, making them inseparable. Thus, the flowing spiritual power begins to connect every corner of the world.
If you look down from above the clouds, you can see the moon pouring out the Milky Way, and the water of the Milky Way flows on the ground, outlining a vast and huge symbol.
The moment the spiritual power of the inner world poured into the outer world, the levels of the monster spots registered by the Alien Bureau suddenly began to make a qualitative leap. The F and E-level monsters that were densely packed like stars all over the world quickly upgraded, the fixed monsters expanded their range, and the wandering monsters grew fangs... Many areas began to take on a dangerous color.
The sirens sounded across the night sky. The new year started with danger.
Some people did not sleep all night, chatting with friends about recent changes, and their smiles froze on their faces at the sound of the alarm; some people rolled out of bed without even having time to change their shoes, and rushed straight to the nearest survival point that they had memorized countless times in the guidebook; some people boldly stayed to witness how terrible the so-called danger was; others woke up their relatives in time, but when they were about to leave, the elderly insisted on packing up their belongings... When danger was at hand, everyone reacted.
The lines made up of spiritual power witnessed all kinds of life along the way. They climbed over towering mountains, walked through low basins, crossed surging rivers, swam across the vast ocean, passed through dense forests, and entered the prosperous cities where humans live... Millions of lines moved forward in parallel, intertwined with each other, and spread across the entire earth.
There is a node in every place, and there are people from the Foreign Affairs Bureau on each node. After the plan is launched, they must ensure that the nodes they are responsible for can operate normally and become part of the huge magic array.
Countless white dots of light that are invisible to ordinary people emerge from the person's body. Some are as small as rice grains, and some are as big as fireflies. These white dots of light float into the inky night sky and form artificial stars.
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The alarm has been specially designed so that the moment it sounds, it penetrates all soundproofing.
Yu Tu turned over that page of the calendar. The recliner covered with a furry cushion was swaying slightly behind him. It looked safe and comfortable. He did not look back but pushed open the door of the teahouse.
There are no pedestrians on the commercial street outside the door, but at the street corner one can see people hurrying around, some driving, some riding electric donkeys, some walking...but there is still order in the chaos.
Silvery-white lines extended through the crowd towards Yu Tu and flowed past him. It was an unprecedentedly large formation that the human race had spent hundreds of years constructing.
Yu Tu saw tiny dots of light rising slowly into the sky from the streets and alleys, like sky lanterns used for praying.
At this moment, energy surged at an unprecedented rate.
Yu Tu clearly realized that he was about to set off.
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“Did you see it?” On the edge of the endless and peaceful sea, Kuang Mian looked up at the brilliant stars. The eternal star map was blocked by the stars made up of the human race’s destiny. It was so beautiful that it made people dizzy. “This is the embodiment of the human race’s destiny.”
Standing next to him was Gu Hongying. He had lost a lot of weight during this period. Under the sunlight, his edges and corners became more distinct. The dazzling reflection in his eyes was a miniature of the stars in the sky.
"I understand." Gu Hongying did not ask questions like he did in the past. He was absolutely curious about everything. He just looked at the starry sky calmly, watching the stars getting closer and closer to him.
He gave up becoming Bai Ze and became a completely human being, and the bearer of the destiny of the human race.
Like the transformation of Cinderella in the fairy tale, the human aura swirled around him, penetrated through the skin and into the bones, tempered the meridians and wrapped around the consciousness. This was the final painful growth.
There was nothing wrong with the process of Gu Hongying absorbing the luck of the human race, but Kuang Mian's brows wrinkled—the endless sea was still calm.
Jiang Jiang activated the formation to gather the luck of the human race and suppress the strange point that suddenly rose when the spiritual power of the two worlds was overflowing. This step was completed safely. Next, he guided Gu Hongying to carry the luck of the human race, which was also no problem. Finally, he let Gu Hongying resonate with the Gate of Life and Death in the Endless Sea and open the gap between life and death.
Only silence.
The endless sea was dark blue, almost black. There were no white fish sinking and no white birds flying upwards. Everything was plunged into a strange silence.
What went wrong?!
Without the obstruction of the stars formed by the human race's luck, Kuang Mian saw the star map again. Before he could take a closer look, a distorted figure gradually appeared at the edge of the Endless Sea. Kuang Mian initially thought it was the Marquis of Never-Night, but he soon discovered that it was not him.
It's Canglong.
When Canglong appeared in the surface world, he used the appearance of Lord Bu Ye, and no one knew what he looked like. But now, Kuang Mian knows.
He had a high nose bridge, picturesque eyebrows, and was tall and slender. In a blink of an eye, his temperament was very similar to that of the predecessor of Buyehou, but his appearance and eyes were quite different.
His Majesty Kuang consciously hid Gu Hongying behind him, and his guard was raised to the maximum level: "Canglong?!"
Spiritual energy poured out, the formation was activated, and everyone in the inner world was where they were supposed to be, with no extra people. Kuang Mian joked that he was just a clerk who read star maps, and his actual fighting ability was not low, but it was still not enough compared to Canglong. If Canglong went crazy, Kuang Mian would not be able to control the situation.
Under Kuang Mian's vigilant gaze, Cang Long did not move forward. He just stood there and slowly straightened his sleeves: "Have you forgotten the demon race's consciousness?"
After Gu Hongying gave up on becoming Bai Ze and the senior Hou Buye replaced the Emperor's House with himself, Kuang Mian knew that the demon clan's consciousness must belong to Canglong, and the other demon clans were not of high enough rank. If the time of the shattering could be delayed for a few hundred years, Xiao Hui might also be qualified, but there are no ifs in this world.
Originally, it was Gu Hongying who should have carried the destiny of the human race and resounded at the Gate of Life and Death in order to gain the upper hand, but now, the Gate of Life and Death did not respond at all, as if it did not exist.
Canglong smiled. He seemed to be just stating something: "Do you think I have done nothing in the past thousand years since I woke up?"
The same color of light as the endless sea lit up under his feet, spreading to the calm sea and the quiet beach. The star map in the sky seemed to be spinning, and the cracks between the lights brought out a different view from here—
Heaven and earth transform at this time.
It was under such circumstances that Yu Tu built a special small cross-domain teleportation array and came here.
The space between heaven and earth was filled with dark blue cracks, and the scenery between the cracks seemed somewhat familiar. He suddenly felt a little dizzy, but for a moment he could not tell whether the dizziness came from the vest or from his true self.
The endless mirror-like sea rolled up waves, and Yu Tu suddenly lost weight and fell heavily downwards.
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“Drip—drip—drip—”
In the silence, sounds gradually appeared in his ears. Yu Tu slowly opened his eyes, and the outlines of things slowly appeared in the dark vision. He saw the white ceiling, the slightly glaring lights, and... unfamiliar medical equipment in the residual light.
Yu Tu subconsciously wanted to move his body, but severe pain suddenly swept through his body. His eyelashes drooped and he saw that he had a breathing device on his face and various test lines on his body. He seemed to be in the hospital, or more precisely, in the ICU.
His waking up was captured by the equipment, and medical staff began to come in soon. His memory seemed to slowly return at this moment. Yu Tu pieced together the reason why he went to the hospital from the medical staff's conversations and fragmented memories.
On the day of celebrating his 18th birthday, he had a paranoid attack and jumped from the top floor. The ambulance arrived in time and saved his life, but he stayed in the ICU for six days and just woke up today.
The confused memories and the pain in his body reminded him that he once again took the virtual world as reality.