I am immortal with scientific thinking

"Why fight over a snail's horn? I will live my life in the light of a stone."

Inside the mountain city of Penglai Island.

In a cave.

The pure white cumulus bricks were still soft and comfortable to the feet, and the sky-blue glazed tiles above were clear and dust-free. Lin Chen just sat by the window, looking at the extremely prosperous city streets below the mountain.

Beside him, the aroma of tea rose up, bringing a hint of fragrance.

Lin Chen casually raised the cup of spiritual tea, took a sip, and looked at the bustling and prosperous scene outside the cave and under the sacred mountain with a dim look in his eyes.

In this boundless East China Sea, no one would have imagined that this tiny Penglai Island almost gathered the fighting power of the four poles of the world and Middle-earth.

Demons from all four corners of the world, the support of the Nascent Soul of the Central Earth Immortal Alliance, the huge clan power in the East China Sea, and those old monsters hiding in the dark...

Penglai is extremely lively nowadays.

"The situation of all parties is now clear." Lin Chen bent his index finger and tapped the table lightly, thinking, "Now the entire Penglai Island is roughly divided into four forces."

"One is the Immortal Alliance, which consists of Old Monster Tianhe, Venerable Tiangong, and Nascent Soul Transformation Gods such as Xingyu and Guyue who are in their prime."

"They can mobilize the floating island of Shenxiao Gangfadao, the great formation of the end of law on Penglai Island, the magic weapon spirits in the treasure house of the East Sea Immortal Alliance, and a large number of flying boat fleets. Even when the hidden hand is not activated, they can directly use the twelve golden men to suppress the whole scene. They are now the most powerful existence on the entire Penglai Island."

"The second is those old monsters from the major sects and families who should have died but have used various forbidden secret methods to prolong their lives, using the forms of zombies, ghosts, and possessing other bodies to steal lives, absorb life, and exchange souls to deceive the will of heaven and linger on."

“Although these old monsters are just withered bones in the tomb, they have controlled a large amount of resources and manpower in the Immortal Alliance by means of blood, righteousness, and affection. They have also colluded with the evil god Simui outside the domain. They are also a force that cannot be underestimated…”

"The third is the power of the demons and monsters in this world, and the fourth is the twelve Si Sui from outside the domain..."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen couldn't help but frown.

Although he was confident that he could kill any of the old monsters and Si Sui in a one-on-one situation, the prerequisite was that it was a one-on-one environment.

Otherwise, if seven or eight Jindan cultivators attacked him together, and then used the Great War of the End of the Law to take advantage of the time, place and people, and also activated the foundation accumulated by the East Sea Immortal Alliance for millions of years...even Lin Chen might not be able to withstand it.

"So the best way is to attack them when they are both injured. However, the fighting methods between cultivators change rapidly. There is more than one force on the field now. Besides, my presence will definitely be guarded by other old monsters at the God Transformation stage. If I don't show up, no one knows whether they have any backup plans for me..."

The most critical premise for a lose-lose situation is that your existence is unknown to both parties, so they can truly let go of all concerns and fight hard regardless of the consequences.

But the battle before him had already attracted the attention of the old monsters from all sides. In this battle on Penglai Island, unless he was sure to move forward, he was afraid that no one would easily reveal his last trump card.

Not to mention that both sides would suffer losses. In most cases of war, the winner takes all. Not to mention that even if both sides suffered losses, Lin Chen couldn't say for sure whether he could seize this fleeting opportunity.

Is it time to take action when both the good and evil forces are suffering losses?
But at that time, the old monster Kurumu and others were watching covetously from behind. If he took action then, wouldn't he be making things difficult for others?

Then should we wait until the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation is activated and the old monster Kurumu and others try to usurp the power of Simuang?
However, Lin Chen couldn't say for sure what consequences would result from the joining forces of the Twelve Gods, which symbolized the old world and heaven, because he had never seen it before.

If the other party showed his power, not only swallowed up the old monster Kumu and others in one fell swoop, but also sacrificed the entire Penglai Island with blood to restore the power and glory of the past, then if he took action at that time, he would be walking into a trap...

Not to mention that apart from the Immortal Alliance, the demons and monsters also have their own secret plots.

Once the war breaks out, several parties will fight each other. Who will win or lose, who can grasp the time, and who will be the fisherman... There are too many variables involved.

“So, a loss to both sides is not the best option. After all, if I am not careful and the winner takes all, the twelve golden men, the twelve Si Sui, more than ten incarnations, nearly a hundred Nascent Souls, more than ten thousand golden elixirs, millions of lives on Penglai Island, plus the core node of the Sleeping Dragon Spiritual Vein under the island... I am afraid that even I will have to temporarily avoid the edge of what is finally born!”

"So we must not let things develop on their own, but must control it in our own hands. Otherwise, it would be a gamble, betting that the other party would both suffer losses instead of the winner taking all. However, the chance of this is too slim and uncertain. We can only believe in fate!"

Lin Chen stood up, put his hands behind his back, and paced back and forth in the cave with a changing expression.

After a while, Lin Chen murmured:
"For me, rather than letting fate make them both lose, it would be better for me to take action myself and catch them all in one fell swoop, cutting off all variables..."

"But how can we destroy the righteous and evil sects, the Si Sui from outside the domain, and the twelve golden men in one fell swoop, and snatch food from the hands of Cang Hai Tianzun?..."

For a moment, the room fell into silence.

An unknown amount of time had passed, but at this moment Lin Chen's expression changed slightly, as if he had figured something out, and an illusory bronze mirror suddenly appeared in his hand.

At this moment, he looked gloomy as he looked towards the mirror.

In the mirror, there appeared a stream of spiritual energy that flowed endlessly like a river in the sky, with no beginning or end.

This is... the reflection of the bronze mirror that he had sunk into the Wolong Spiritual Vein under Penglai Island in the past.

Through the shadow of the mirror, he could clearly see that in this pure white spiritual energy tide, an eternal darkness rose up at some point and permeated the spiritual energy tide. Once you looked at it, you could feel the atmosphere filled with resentment and anger.

This is the demonic energy born from the extreme resentment, unwilling obsession and curse of all living beings that wants to destroy everything, mixed with the dead energy, yin energy and evil energy of heaven and earth... It is the opposite of the degeneration of all living beings in the world and a symbol of the decline and fall of the world!
Lin Chen used the bronze mirror as a medium to blend this evil energy of bad luck with the ancient taboos and ominous things in the ghost ship. Finally, in that boundary that seemed real and fake, it created a boundless and extremely deep darkness.

This darkness seems to symbolize the opposite of everything in the world, the end and destruction of all things, the degeneration and death of living beings...

The evil spirits that were corroding the Wolong Spiritual Veins like a thorn in the flesh were silently gathering towards the mirror, manifesting a long river that was falling mightily towards the unknown deeper layer in the mirror. This long river was bottomless, gloomy and extremely dark everywhere.

The nine underworld auras of gloom, darkness, death, despair, resentment, filth, poison, demonic and evil blew from afar, black fog billowed, and eerie sounds like ghosts crying and wolves howling came from it.

This scene was like a bottomless abyss, with everything hanging down and revealing the long Nine Nether River. In the shadowy Nine Nether River, the dark color was boiling like boiling water. Countless dark bubbles emerged from the boiling Nine Nether, and the surface kept twisting, and finally turned into heads.

Those heads howled wildly, some were angry, some were confused, some were violent, some were desperate, some were crazy, some were terrified, some were depressed, some were in agony, some were cruel, some were grief-stricken, some were filled with deep hatred...

Birth, old age, sickness, death, reunion with enemies and those we hate, separation from loved ones, and failure to obtain what we desire, all transform into the five elements that burn fiercely, causing those who hear them to feel their hearts burn...

And at a glance, there are so many heads and faces like this, so densely packed and so countless that it seems there is no end in sight. It is terrifying, as if this long river is made up of these countless faces!
This is... the scene of the Nine Netherworlds.

Lin Chen stretched out his other hand, and a colorful dream butterfly appeared in his palm.

In the dream of life, an extremely huge ball of light emerged, revealing an endless gray snowfield above it. The dark sky covered the entire field of vision, the drifting black snow never stopped, and the vast land was covered by black glaciers...

This is... a dream of the end of the world contaminated by spiritual radiation.

"The Twelve Si Sui, the Twelve Golden Men, the Immortal Alliance, the two paths of demons... Each of these is very troublesome to deal with individually, and the old monsters in each of the forces they represent are all very shrewd and will never fight to the death unless they are in desperate situations. The party with the advantage will also suppress the opponent with the momentum and will not allow the other party to have a chance to turn the tables..."

"So instead of betting on them both losing, it's better to take control of the initiative..."

Lin Chen's expression became inexplicable at this moment, with an inexplicable coldness.

The scene of the underworld in the palm of his left hand and the dream of the end of the world in the palm of his right hand were combined together at this moment, turning into an extremely deep darkness.

The next moment, a ray of faint light seemed to appear in the deep darkness.

This faint light seems to be a color deeper than darkness. It cannot be seen clearly in the darkness, but it still gives people a concept of light.

Then, this ray of faint light slowly expanded on the mirror surface. The deep darkness around it seemed to be endowed with the concept of flow at this moment, creating a feeling of seeing the surging waves.

This feeling became stronger and stronger, and in the end, the entire lens began to ripple like water, emitting a heart-pounding aura.

This aura became stronger and stronger, more and more extreme, and more and more oppressive, until finally, something seemed to suddenly explode in the darkness, and the scenery in the mirror suddenly changed, revealing countless colors.

These colors are dark and heavy, filled with an air of weirdness and decay, with a sense of decay and death, which is quite ominous. And within these colors, there appears a world that seems to have a multi-layered structure, which is very special and different from the ordinary world.

Above this world are the wonders of heaven and earth, such as the Soul-Returning Tree, which gather the vitality of the dream of the end of the Nine Netherworlds, where yin ends and yang begins, and death and rebirth begin. It is the place where life is created and the positive origin of all things.

And below that world is the gathering place of the Nine Netherworld Demonic Energy and the Final Spiritual Tribulation. It is shrouded in pervasive darkness, as if an abyss swallows up everything.

Logically speaking, the yin and yang energies accommodate and transform each other, giving birth to the five elements. The five elements give birth to all things, and finally evolve into a complete world that is extremely stable. Billions of lives are born and civilization is passed on.

But now, in this virtual world created by Lin Chen, yin and yang are like two extremes, conflicting and devouring each other. The foundation of the world is unstable, and billions of living beings cannot survive at all.

According to the existence standards of most worlds in the chaotic star sea, this world should have failed. Its foundation is unstable and it will automatically fall into destruction as soon as it is born.

However, Lin Chen himself had no intention of allowing this world to survive and grow independently.

He just stretched out his hand and pointed, and the endless light at the top of the world and the endless abyss at the bottom, at this moment, the yin and yang collided and entangled together tightly.

I don't know how long it took, the abyss below kept swallowing up the light above, and the spiritual light at the top of the world kept projecting brilliance, thus forming a fragile balance. In the two worlds of yin and yang, where light and darkness meet, a piece of light and shadow was formed that seemed real and not illusory, and seemed illusory and not illusory.

At this moment, a resentful soul with a crazy look on its face was led here by the bronze mirror in the Wolong spiritual vein.

The moment it entered this strange world, it began to fall continuously, falling into the abyss of endless darkness.

The little light it brought with it as it passed through the bright world illuminated the countless, densely packed, countless faces filled with resentment and madness hidden in the darkness.

One head after another almost filled the darkness. Without exception, they stared at the light and shadow space and the bright world above. The greed in their eyes that was deep in their bones was so terrifying that it made people shudder.

This balance is fragile. Under the erosion of the endless darkness in the abyss, the boundary between light and shadow began to climb upwards little by little, and the light above began to be eroded little by little.

But for Lin Chen, this was exactly what he wanted.

All he needed to do was to use this world to completely achieve the status of Heavenly Venerate before this light was completely swallowed up by darkness.

And when this world is completely engulfed by darkness, it will be a hundred years later. That is when the great catastrophe begins. If you are still unable to achieve the status of a Heavenly Venerable and pursue the true path to harmony with the Tao, then it will not matter if you perish with this world.

He never wanted to linger on. Since he was given a second chance to live, he must reach the top of the highest peak in the world. Even if he had to fall into the underworld and go through countless hardships, he would not hesitate!

"Then we just have to wait for the real war to begin... huh?"

Suddenly, Lin Chen seemed to sense something. He reached out and dispersed the illusory world in front of him, and took out a token from the storage ring.

"The demons actually came to me to seek cooperation. Could it be that they have already thought of a price to offer?" (End of this chapter)