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Chapter 595: Chapter 587: The Hidden Terror
"A terrifying monster? Devouring the entire world!?"
Yinglong’s words caused Gu Jinlai’s pupils to suddenly shrink.
Not just him, Mu Changsheng also found it somewhat hard to believe.
This information, this Yinglong who self-titled as Ying Feng had never shared with them before.
"My kin, as well as others from my era who realized the existence of this terrifying life, have already left this world. As for me... I am simply too old to run anymore, and too lazy to continue running, so I decided to spend my remaining years in this world that nurtured me, to be buried along with it in the earth as it dies..."
"Realized the existence of this terrifying life?"
Gu Jinlai suddenly said, "The beings known as Innate Divine Beasts started leaving this world en masse a thousand years ago, disappearing altogether. There are various theories about the disappearance of the Innate Divine Beasts; some say the Divine Beasts fled to the deep forests out of fear of the creator’s power, while others claim that they were almost completely wiped out by the creator. However, none of these theories hold water."
His thoughts became clearer: "Firstly, if the Innate Divine Beasts fled to the deep forests out of fear of the creator’s power, why did they not reappear after the creator vanished? Moreover, the notion that the Innate Divine Beasts were nearly wiped out by the creator is also untenable..."
Gu Jinlai took a deep breath, "Among the Innate Divine Beasts, there were many powerful beings that even the creator could not contend with. If they had truly united, it should not have been the Divine Beasts that perished, but the creator..."
"There are that many theories?"
Yinglong seemed to be pondering something: "It’s just that... those creatures, though not as hidden as the terrifying entity at the world’s deepest reaches... they are unkillable. As long as that terrifying life exists, victory in battle is impossible, hence, they could only choose to leave."
Unkillable...
Gu Jinlai was summarizing the memories from the Aries Star Lord.
The creator, unless their Spirit Realm Body is destroyed, is indeed hard to kill.
But...
No matter how strong, no Innate Divine Beast could penetrate deep into the Spirit Realm to completely destroy a creator’s Spirit Realm Body.
Because...
The Spirit Realm is the creator’s home field.
At that moment, as if he had realized something, he suddenly said, "A thousand years ago, the Heavenly Master Civilization encountered a great disaster, and the creators’ action of splitting the Spirit Realm seemed to have triggered some kind of catastrophe within the Spirit Realm, leading to the fall of all creators wandering in the Spirit Realm and the three-step Heaven Monarchs, effectively ending the glory of the Heavenly Master Civilization. Is this related to that terrifying life deeply hidden in the world!?"
"It might be some of their actions that affected the spread of that great net... Or perhaps they too sensed something amiss, or maybe their actions enraged that terrifying life... Thus, it stirred up a storm in the Spirit Realm, wiping out all beings you call creators..."
This ancient Yinglong said this, his cloudy pupils actually filled with a hint of reverence: "Such a terrifying power... It was also because we sensed this fearsome power that we knew something horrifying was hidden deep within this world. It was also because we realized this power that we knew we couldn’t defeat it for hundreds, even thousands of years, so we had no choice but to leave this homeland that nurtured us..."
"Hundreds, even thousands of years unable to defeat it..."
Gu Jinlai looked at this Yinglong, seemingly realizing something, his pupils suddenly shrinking sharply.
After a while, he finally spoke with a somewhat hoarse voice: "According to ancient texts, there were beings similar to the Candle Dragon, Kunpeng Bird, Chaos, and Di Jiang a thousand years ago, such beings... Probably stronger than today’s Immortal Masters..."
"You don’t understand how immensely powerful that terrifying life is."
Yinglong felt somewhat emotional: "Your path’s ultimate direction—the creators, are merely tools it cultivated, used to eliminate peeping ones..."
"Tools!?"
A flash of lightning streaked through Gu Jinlai’s mind.
In an instant, all the mysteries about the creators seemed to be unraveled at this moment.
Why even the creators themselves didn’t know how they had broken through to become creators.
Why was the gap between the Heavenly Monarch and the creator so vast, almost like that between two species?
Why did the creator’s Spirit Realm Body seem to be bound by some force that, even when descending into the material world, would still be drawn back to the Spirit Realm...
Now, as Yinglong mentioned the terrible existence deep in the Spirit Realm, all doubts were at once resolved.
Even the reason why Master Wushi had left the caution in the Spirit Realm "do not spiritualize" seemed to have an explanation. 𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘱𝘶𝘣.𝘤𝘰𝑚
He "saw" that horrific monster and also "saw" the truth of the so-called creator’s path, which is why he had used his remaining strength to leave behind the warning "do not spiritualize."
It took Gu Jinlai quite a while to digest this news.
Considering the natural target of repression within the creator system...
"Are those peeping ones, referring to Demon Spirits?"
"Demon Spirits! Perhaps also cultivators and us, the Innate Sacred..."
Yinglong said.
Hearing what this Divine Beast said, Gu Jinlai had to admit that the creators were almost equivalent to the enemy of all life.
Or rather, it was as if they had touched another domain and from that higher level of domain enacted a dimensionality reduction strike on them, making even powerful figures like the Immortal Master only capable of resisting the invasion of Ruins Beasts and Spirit Realm Life, they also couldn’t kill any creator.
Considering the ultimate goal of that terrifying life, to devour all the spirituality of the world...
He looked again at this ancient Divine Beast, "The Demon Realm is desolate, like a dead world, could it be that it is the culprit behind the destruction of the Demon Realm! Is there a way to avoid this fate?"
"I am already too old and am about to die. I have forgotten many things"
Yinglong said, his divine light in his eyes gradually dimming, "That terrifying life is like a horror hidden in the deepest part of the ocean, its mere tip of the iceberg already enough to instill a genuine shiver in us beings known as Innate Sacred... Do not try to fight against It, provoke It, or anger It, the only way out for civilization is to flee far from It."
"It’s in the deepest part of the Spirit Realm?"
Gu Jinlai said, recalling in detail the memories of the Aries Star Lord, "But in the Spirit Realm, it seems that I hadn’t detected Its presence."
"A thousand years ago, before It stirred up the storm, we also couldn’t glimpse Its true face..."
Yinglong slightly raised its head, looking at the sky, "Just like mortals can’t see Demon Spirits, perhaps it’s because the gap in levels is too great, so great that even ’seeing’ where Its True Body is located is impossible?"
This ancient Divine Beast looked at Gu Jinlai, its eyes filled with heaviness and sighs, "Leave, take the fire seed of civilization, and without awakening that terrifying thing, bring along as many Spirits of Life as possible and leave this world that is doomed to die."
After speaking, it seemed to feel a deep weariness, looking as if it wouldn’t last several hundred more years, and closed its eyes.
Despite the storms and the slicing of flesh outside, it seemed nothing could make it budge even slightly.
"Without awakening that terrifying existence, try to bring as many Spirits of Life as possible..."
The Divine Beast spoke of the Spirit of Life, which is of the same nature as the Spirit Mechanism.
Gu Jinlai thought of the Immortal Country’s indiscriminate collection of Spirit Mechanisms for cultivating the Heavenly Dao and felt an inexplicable shudder: "If too many spirits are drawn... will that terrifying existence awaken!?"
Yinglong said no more. The spiritual fluctuations on its body had also dropped to the lowest, barely detectable by telepathy, leading people to mistake it for rocks or earthen mounds.
Especially since it seemed to have not moved for a long time, moss had grown all over it, providing a natural protective camouflage.
Gu Jinlai stood in place, not leaving for a long while.
He needed to organize the thoughts swirling through his mind.
The Longevity World, Demon Realm, Profound Immortal Realm, Spirit Realm.
The Human Clan, Demon Spirits, Ten Thousand Stars Sword Sect, and the monstrous horror hidden in the deepest part of the Spirit Realm.
No!
That monstrosity had to also include the creator.
Or rather, the Spirit Realm Body formed by the conglomerate of creators.
Those bodies of the Spirit Realm belonging to the creators were just tools formed through the hands of the creators by that monstrosity.
However, as the creators died, these "lost" Spirit Realm Bodies became the guards of that monster. The creatures of the Longevity World, wishing to expel or defeat the monster deep within the Spirit Realm, must break through the defense constituted by these Spirit Realm Bodies of the creators.
And this defense...
"If we regard the Spirit Realm Bodies of the creators as similar entities to Demon Spirits... The body length of a Spirit Venerable ranges from one hundred to three hundred meters, and that of a Demon Lord from three hundred meters to a kilometer..."
Gu Jinlai did not know if each creator’s Spirit Realm Body was as formidable as that of the Aries Star Lord.
Or even...
Stronger than the Aries Star Lord’s Spirit Realm Body.
But...
Merely measuring by kilometers, that was still equivalent to the very top Demon Lords.
And since the birth of the creator system, historically, how many creators have there been?
Definitely three digits!
So to say, just breaking through the outer defensive forces of that terrifying life, they were essentially facing and contending with hundreds of Demon Lords!?
This scenario reminded Gu Jinlai of the dungeons in the Blue Star game world.
"Now, whether it’s the Immortal Country or the Demon Realm, the most powerful existences are merely equivalent to the subordinates around that terrifying being? Or are they able to summon a large number of minions at any time?"
This wasn’t even the most despairing aspect.
The most despairing thing was, many people...
Were not even as powerful as the weakest minion.
Including Gu Jinlai himself now.
"Does the Ten Thousand Stars Sword Sect know? Does the Immortal Country know? Does the Demon Realm know?"
Gu Jinlai mumbled to himself.
But then again...
What use was it if the Immortal Country knew?
They had no capability to solve the problem.
What about the Demon Realm, Ten Thousand Stars Sword Sect knowing?
They just wanted to grab something from the Longevity World and leave.
When that terrifying life awakened and harvested this world, they would have evacuated with enough Spirit Mechanisms.
The life and death of the Longevity World did not concern them.
"Looking at it now, it turns out that the actions of the Holy Dynasty were actually the most correct."
Gu Jinlai was somewhat self-mocking.
Just then, he seemed to remember something.
But that glimmer of thought was blurry and elusive.
No matter.
Gu Jinlai quickly cast a cleansing light into his consciousness avatar.
In an instant, his thoughts were clear, and the fleeting vague memory became impeccably distinct.
This memory...
Came from the Immortal Sui Mu.
Or rather, it was an incidental "browsing" of a record by the Immortal Sui Mu.
"Ten thousand years ago, during the great changes of heaven and earth, an Evil God invaded, devouring heaven and earth, all things collapsed, the Profound Immortal Realm’s All Immortals rallied, defeated the Evil God, and restored all spirits to heaven and earth."
