Arad's unruly savior

Chapter 3934 It really is a female!

The crisis of destruction was imminent within a century. The sky would be torn apart, the earth would collapse, and everything would be swallowed by nothingness. The powerful figures of that time joined forces to make this prediction, seeing a glimpse of the future. In an instant, people were filled with panic, and order was thrown into chaos.

With a gentle tap of her finger, Benali caused a few cherry blossom petals to flutter in the breeze, lifting a scroll that had been placed on a shelf. The binding ropes opened on their own, and the scroll, hanging in the air, slowly unfurled downwards, revealing the content depicted on it to everyone.

The painting itself is a landscape painting, depicting rolling hills, lush trees, and rushing rivers, exuding a majestic and imposing atmosphere. The realism is palpable, as if the viewers could truly smell the wildness and dampness of the landscape. It is a lifelike masterpiece.

"Snapped!"

Benali snapped her fingers, making a crisp sound. Her fingers were slender and long, white as snow, and tender as cream, very beautiful.

This seemed to be a signal, and soon everyone saw the content of the painting suddenly come to life, with new content filling in. The mountains were filled with densely packed figures, seemingly gazing at the sky, and houses gradually rose from the ground near the river, with smoke rising from their chimneys...

Maruko stroked her chin, carefully examining the unfolding scroll, and said:
"Does the painting depict how your ancestors dealt with the catastrophe of the continent's collapse?"

“Yes.” Benali nodded, then carefully explained the content of the painting.

After the disaster, the ancestors determined that life on the Endless Demon Continent would last for a maximum of a hundred years, and that was in the best-case scenario. So the powerful who felt the crisis united together, putting aside any past grudges, to find a way to prolong life on the continent and made continuous attempts.

One solution after another was proposed, tried, and then rejected... In the end, the powerful came to an extremely pessimistic conclusion: with their current strength, they were simply not capable of achieving the ideal of perfection and could not save the world from its demise.

So, led by the strongest Onmyoji of the time, they worked together to create a special scroll. The scenery in the scroll was real, capturing a corner of the real world, and filled with the power of the strong. It became a key item that could traverse the void and transformed into an ark to preserve the flame.

Click~
Beyana, munching on potato chips, nodded and guessed:

"So some of you moved away, and some of you stayed."

Considering that they might not be able to get snacks while traveling to Wuling, they made a large-scale purchase before leaving the Arad continent.

"Mmm," Benali responded, gently rubbing Mahu's head with her fingers, and continued speaking.

At that time, the powerful beings used their power to frankly tell everyone that the world was on the verge of destruction and was about to be buried. The mountains would collapse and the rivers would dry up. The only way out was to enter the world of the painting and find a new world of life.

The painting captures a fragment of reality, a complete biosphere where life can thrive for a long time.

This is the best opportunity yet. As the order of spacetime becomes increasingly chaotic and the laws affect the void outside, the scroll will no longer be able to traverse the chaotic flow of spacetime and will be imprisoned here.

However, this approach also carries risks. If a new world cannot be found within a certain timeframe, the corner of the real world captured in the painting will eventually be exhausted, and the biosphere will suddenly break at some point, becoming a tomb drifting in the void.

Going or staying, both carry risks.

"Some people choose to leave and find a new world, while others are reluctant to leave their homeland and decide to stay and continue searching for a way to save themselves."

Those who remained have now largely missed the opportunity to leave again, and the star map was also drawn during that era.

The opened scroll was rolled up, closed again, tied with a red and white ribbon, and placed in a corner of the bookshelf.

This is the current state of the Endless Demon Chronicles: a world with no way out, on the verge of extinction.

Benali's voice was much lower as she said, "Almost a hundred years have passed. Those who stayed behind don't know what happened to those who left back then, or whether they found a new world."

Perhaps they have discovered a new world and started a new life, or perhaps they have turned into a silent tomb in the void.

Besides, a very small number of powerful individuals cherished their reputation and chose to embark on their own journey to explore the world, refusing to join the world depicted in the painting. Such behavior was somewhat selfish, but in that era of widespread anxiety, no one could really criticize it.

Bianca pressed on, "And then what happened? A hundred years have passed, and your world seems to be doing quite well."

She tore open a bag of chickpeas and poured half of them into Paika's food bowl. Mahu seemed quite interested and came over to sniff them, but Paika pushed it aside with her paw, as it was guarding its food.

Moreover, the macaque's long white ears make it look too much like a rabbit when it's lying down. It's a raptor's nature, and Paika always wants to catch it.

"Here, this half is for you." Bianca handed the remaining half bag to Mahu.

“The turning point came during the last period of turmoil on the continent,” Benali continued.

After the world of the painting left, the Endless Demon Record remained stable for quite some time. Although there were still some strange phenomena, they were all small-scale and did not cause any harm. This reassured many people, who believed that staying was the wise thing to do.

Conspiracy theories even emerged, suggesting that the powerful figures who created the world in the painting actually needed human flesh and souls as materials, and that the painting's true identity was actually the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls.

Many years later, another massive anomaly erupted, causing the heavens and earth to collapse, the sun and moon to reverse their course, water veins to dry up, and a catastrophe of extinction to occur... All the powerful beings devoted themselves to repairing the world, and almost all of Benali's ancestors perished in that disaster, exhausting their magic power.

From then on, she was the only remaining Cherry Blossom Sorcerer in the Endless Demon Chronicles.

"After the second disaster, a powerful figure studied ancient history and accidentally discovered that in those desolate places, such as snow-capped mountains and deserts, the probability of encountering strange phenomena was significantly lower than in normal environments. This is very abnormal, and there must be some problem."

"Then someone proposed an absurd, almost ridiculous theory..."

Benali paused for a moment, and the audience became focused, their eyes all on the spot. What followed was the key to understanding why this dimension had exceeded its expected timeframe and could continue to exist.

"That is, the world, like humanity, has a normal cycle of birth, death, and decay. Everything has a beginning and an end, and the sun will eventually go out. But if we disrupt the order of the cycle of birth and death and create a break, we might be able to prevent the dimension from dying out."

This hypothesis was met with skepticism from some powerful individuals, but some decided to put it into practice.

Seeing their somewhat confused expressions, Benali flicked the red umbrella beside her and said:

"Meow, go to the bedroom and get my map."

As soon as she finished speaking, a chubby cat's paw suddenly sprouted from the top of the umbrella that Benali had been holding. It hopped and skipped to another room and took out a map of the Endless Demon Compendium.

Benali pointed north and introduced:
"This place wasn't originally barren; it had pleasing mountains, rivers, and farmland. Black Rock Fighter Ugner used his terrifying power to expand this barren, arid land until a third of the world was devoid of life." She then pointed to the lower left corner and said:

"The Ancient Shadow of Eros, some suspect he is an ancient corpse that has regained sentience. He can release extremely cold air, turning a third of the continent into a frozen wasteland."

Then something very strange happened: the frequency of the strange phenomena and disasters in the Endless Demon Register suddenly decreased, and even when they did occur, they were mostly within Benali's territory.

The territories influenced by Ugner and Ersri's magic have hardly experienced any strange phenomena or disasters, and the entire Endless Demon Scroll has become much calmer.

In the shadows, Xiaoyu stroked Su Nan Ling's soft hair and said:
"The deserts and icy lands are barren, severing the concept of the life cycle, and their total area exceeds half that of normal land. It seems that this is why the Endless Demon Chronicles world has continued."

Like a roaring river, always at risk of bursting its banks, yet nourishing the land on both sides, now someone has simply erased this river. There is no longer any risk of it bursting, but the river no longer sustains the residents on both banks.

Xiaoyu rubbed her troubled temples and said with a puzzled look, "I feel like something's not quite right. Is it really possible to sever the entire cycle of life and death in the world through deserts and ice?"

"Theoretically speaking, shouldn't doing this accelerate the death of the Endless Demon Scroll?"

She had heard Benali's words twice and was still pondering the questions raised.

She had observed the Endless Demon Codex, and indeed, just as Benali had said, the frozen land and desertification created by the two powerful beings affected the life and death cycle of the Endless Demon Codex, unexpectedly prolonging the life of the entire world, which was very illogical.

The first priestess shared the same idea: by severing the life force of two-thirds of the world, she could prolong the existence of the entire continent. This was highly problematic and absolutely did not conform to the logic of life and death.

Normally, Ugner and Ersri's actions would only hasten the demise of the Endless Demon Spectrum.

"Perhaps it's because the Endless Demon Scroll is isolated from the normal spacetime order, belonging to another dimension, and cannot be understood with normal thinking." A magnificent and majestic voice rang out, seemingly coming from beyond the starry sky, resonating in their hearts.

Immediately, a blue-green light appeared, accompanied by endless lightning, and a figure emerged from the light.

She was a woman of elegant and noble bearing, with flowing blue hair, eyes like shining stars, and luscious red lips. Her face was beautiful and aloof. She wore a sacred crown and a magnificent blue palace dress that accentuated her graceful figure. The long skirt trailed behind her, embroidered with scenes of dragons soaring and clouds bringing rain. She seemed alive as she walked gracefully, each step exuding an extraordinary regal air.

"Lord Divine Dragon." The three priestesses all bowed.

Xiaoyu's power is on par with that of the dragon, but since she used to cultivate under the dragon's tutelage, she still maintains a respectful attitude.

Throughout the entire land of Xuzu, people knew about the Four Heavenly Spirits and parts of the true forms of the Divine Dragon and the True Dragon, regarding them as objects of faith and auspiciousness. However, only a handful of people knew about their human forms after they transformed.

Ye Lin had long suspected that the number of people in each generation of the priestess lineage was small, and before Su Nan Ling was chosen, Xiao Yu was simply the only child of her generation.

Then, the priestesses of each generation were personally chosen by the dragon, and without exception, all of them were women. He believed that the dragon was either a scumbag dragon who liked pretty girls, or that the dragon was female and that His secret arts, His power, and His will were more suitable to be inherited and realized by women.

Just like the fighting techniques created by the legendary god of war, Sal, it wasn't that she was unwilling to teach male fighters, but rather that her fighting style was invented based on the physical characteristics of women. If men practiced it, it would be incongruous and ineffective.

He believed his guess had a fifty percent chance of being correct—that the dragon was female—and then he received a few light punches from Xiaoyu.

"This is another dimension, and another dimension often represents a closed concept," Shenlong said, revealing her understanding based on her observations.

She also believed that the current state of the Endless Demon Record was abnormal, with life, death, and decay being the embodiment of the great power originating from the beginning, possessing "power".

Ugner and Ersri, one using magic to create a barren desert where nothing grows, the other freezing everything in their path, their destructive actions only hastening the demise of the Endless Demon Chronicles world.

It shouldn't happen as Benali said, because the cycle of life and death has been disrupted, thus halting the march towards death; the power here is insufficient to shake the rules of authority.

If we compare the Endless Demon Codex to a human body, and two-thirds of it is destroyed, will the remaining one-third remain healthy?

"Then, Lord Divine Dragon, what do you think the situation is?" the first priestess asked softly, as this was also the part that she and Xiaoyu found troublesome.

Their original plan was to cooperate with Benali and two other powerful individuals, along with the demons and gods who had been tricked into coming. With enough manpower, they would jointly construct a super barrier similar to the "Great Magic Array" of the Arad Continent, perhaps even stronger and more complicated.

A super barrier is used to stabilize the endless demon world, and magic penetrates deep into the void, reinforcing the sky and the earth, and restoring the order of spacetime.

Shenlong gave an example:

"Did you know that if a person has a disability, such as blindness, then their hearing will be exceptionally good?"

"So..." Xiaoyu slowly opened her eyes wide, glanced at the Endless Demon Register, a certain guess was surging wildly into her mind, and said in surprise:

"The life force of the Endless Demon Codex is constant. Ugna and Ersri destroyed two-thirds of the land, which caused the life force to gather in the territory where Benali is located."

"After all, in every sense, the territory where the two of them were located had been cut off from life. Apart from a very few strong people, there was no life at all, not even a blade of grass could survive."

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it has been destroyed.

A barren desert where not a blade of grass grows, an ice field where the world is frozen solid—extreme environments are commonplace in the universe, but life-bearing planets are a tiny minority.

Shenlong nodded slightly. In summary, the Endless Demon Scroll is a relatively closed world in terms of time and space. The concept of life is finite and constant. Therefore, after the first group of people intercepted the heavens and earth and left with the scroll, the pressure on life was reduced, and a balance was maintained for a period of time.

Then, Ugner and Ersri's actions caused the life force to tilt towards Benali's territory, restoring a balance for a period of time.

"Such stability is fragile and temporary. Once the tilting power is exhausted, the Endless Demon Scroll will collapse and be destroyed again," the divine dragon said solemnly.

　The round one is called Mahu, and Benali's umbrella is called Wumiao. They're alive! But because Benali is killed so quickly when farming dungeons, many people didn't even notice...

　　Furthermore, the setting of the Endless Demon Chronicles is just so strange. This world is about to perish, but desertification and freezing have affected the order of the cycle of life and death, so it can't perish for the time being. It has a weird feeling of "I commit suicide first, so you can't kill me"...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)