From the end of the world

Chapter 412: Entering the Void Realm
I came to the place where Shenzhao had just stood, and looked in the direction he had just looked. There were several huge blank tombstones, which gave off a hint that seemed to attract the viewer to walk into the tomb.

The owner's tombstone of Da Wuchang is full of inscriptions, recording Da Wuchang's experiences and great achievements during his lifetime, while the ownerless tombstone of Da Wuchang is bare.

Luoshan's death worship culture is reminiscent of ancient Egyptian civilization. In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh was also regarded as a god on earth, and his death was regarded as a passage to become a god of the afterlife. Just like the legends of floods and fire thieves that have appeared in different parts of the world, cultures in different regions sometimes also show this kind of convergence phenomenon.

However, myths are just myths after all. Not all great impermanence are Shan Liangyi. Generally speaking, once a great impermanence dies, it is truly dead.

The more advanced and sophisticated the machine, the more difficult it is to repair after it is damaged. Similarly, if the Great Perfection rank has an extremely slim chance of being resurrected by others after death, then it is simply impossible for the Great Impermanence to rely on external forces to resurrect after it truly faces death.

Therefore, this dark tower forest that is sacred and noble to the demon hunter community can only be said to be filled with ominous and damp atmosphere in the eyes of an unpredictable person like me, and Shenzhao probably has the same view on it.

However, on the eve of the next round of virtual realm meetings, Shen Zhao not only participated in the funeral ceremony that he would not normally attend, but also ran to this unlucky place to stare at the blank tombstone of the Great Impermanence. It seems that his state of mind can be glimpsed from this behavior.

Maybe he thought he was going to die.

No, it is more reasonable to assume that he is mentally prepared to die. In front of me and Yuchi, he showed confidence in his inference of the Lord of the Divine Seal and his chances of success in assassinating him, but since he grew up from a demon hunter to a great impermanence step by step, he would understand that there is no such thing as "absolute" in the weird world.

The Lord of the Divine Seal may not be a real mortal. Even if he is, I don't know how many changes he can present with the Divine Seal. All plans that seem to have a 100% chance of success must have unexpected failures. Maybe Shenzhao has already caught the doubts that even Yuchi and I have not caught, and has glimpsed his possible failure from it.

He is not a person who only walks on the broad road, he also walks on the precarious single-plank bridge, and walks with great strides. Only such a person can win a great victory faster than anyone else. Even if he may accidentally fall into the water, he will stick to his style until the last moment, willingly swallow the bitter fruit, and if there is a next time, he will do it again without hesitation.

However, I am only speculating on Shenzhao's personality according to my own thoughts. Maybe he is not the kind of person I think he is. Maybe he has other motives for participating in the funeral ceremony and entering the Great Impermanence Tomb today. If I want to, I can also peek into other people's hearts, but I can't really read Shenzhao's mind.

I once again focused on those huge blank tombstones. Maybe one day, my name will appear on them. If that happens, I hope my ending will be death. I can accept dying in adventures, but I can't accept loss.

After watching for a while, I turned around and walked out of the Great Impermanence Tomb area, left the cemetery, and returned to the Luoshan headquarters area.

I observed the demon hunters and agents coming and going in the headquarters. Now that I can directly observe fate, I can also observe the attraction between other people and strange things.

How can I describe the feeling of observing fate? I don't know if this metaphor can resonate with other people who are very impermanent. In my opinion, observing the fate of others is like watching a movie with a lot of routines. When you see a certain plot, although you haven't actually seen the subsequent development, the next scene has already appeared in your mind. Of course, this premonition is not 100% accurate, just like fate is not absolutely unchanging.

The demon hunters and detectives gave me the feeling that they were the characters who ran into a haunted house at the beginning of a horror movie without knowing whether they would live or die - I mean they had that kind of "attitude". Even if the characters who appeared at the beginning of a horror movie didn't do anything stupid, the audience knew that they would be unlucky anyway.

Under normal circumstances, the demon hunters at the mature level have the highest attraction to strange things, and this is the upper limit. The difference between the attraction of a great-completion-level impermanence like Yuchi and the mature level is very small, which shows that demon hunters at the great-completion level will probably live longer than those at the mature level.

Ma Zao gave me the strongest feeling, and she was not on the same level as the others. She was like the protagonist of a horror movie, not only was she easily in danger, but anyone who came into contact with her would also be involved in a life-and-death crisis.

But then again, if there is an unreasonable supporting character who is always by the side of this kind of protagonist, it will inevitably overshadow the protagonist. A clear-headed playwright will probably focus on eliminating this supporting character first, so that the script can return to normal track. The events attracted by the unlucky star physique always contact me first, maybe it is similar.

As for the Great Impermanence, from what I have observed, there is no attraction between the Great Impermanence and the strange things, but only an inexplicable repulsion. It is like a powerful character from a fantasy story appearing on the stage of a horror movie, which is out of place.

I don't know if I should continue to use the playwright metaphor here. If fate is a playwright, then characters like the Great Impermanence that destroy the worldview will definitely be strongly rejected. Even if they are accidentally written into the "script", we must try our best to make them leave, or at least hide them completely, and it is best not to appear in even a single shot.

Many people interpret the repulsive effect between the Great Impermanence and strange things as "extremes lead to opposites". Assuming that the stronger the person, the greater the attraction between the strange things, then the Great Impermanence is too strong, and it turns the gravity into repulsion. I used to believe this, but now I feel something is wrong.

This "repulsion" seems to have nothing to do with the "attraction between strange things". It is not the reverse form of the latter, but another separate, strange phenomenon that appeared on Da Wuchang out of nowhere. At least that's how I feel. I recently asked Gua Tianshi about the origin of this strange phenomenon, but even Gua Tianshi couldn't give a definite answer. The reason why Da Wuchang's loss cannot be stopped is probably because the details of this strange phenomenon have never been solved.

After returning to the mansion, I stayed with Mazao. Unfortunately, there are many rooms in the mansion, and Mazao and I sleep in different rooms. But usually we stay in the same room whenever we have the chance. We are not good at chatting, so we just do our own things together. Recently, Mazao is mainly studying the information looted from the Humanitarian Division headquarters, while I am studying ways to continue to become stronger.

Thinking about the matter of the lost Great Impermanence, I also had a question that concerned me and wanted to consult Ma Zao, so I asked: "Ma Zao, the great demons of the doomsday era should all be the current Great Impermanence... Is that right?"

"It should be." Ma Zao answered seriously, "To be precise, in the apocalypse, there is no such thing as 'great impermanence', but there is 'human god'."

"'Human God' is the ancient name for the Great Impermanence."

While answering, I remembered that there was a time when Xiaowan called Xuanming and Shenzhao "human gods".

"So...how do those great demons anchor themselves?" I asked.

Assuming that the demons are all depraved and impermanent beings who have lost their minds, they certainly have not been able to establish a connection or continue to anchor their consciousness. Logically, they should not be able to continue to carry out activities in a form that can be recognized by people.

In fact, they are all demons who bring disaster to the world in the doomsday era.

Is it because they have fallen into the freakishness that they no longer need to find a way to anchor themselves in the freakish world? I find this reasoning unconvincing. To put it bluntly, the Great Impermanence is more of a freak than a human being. I am a good example of this.

"I can't answer this question." Ma Zao shook his head. "In the apocalyptic era, there is no such thing as 'anchoring'. There is actually a way to completely stay away from strange things... This is the first time I have heard of this since I came to this era."

Not only is the way of addressing the Great Impermanence different, but there isn't even the concept of "anchoring". The doomsday era that Ma Zao lived in in the past was like a completely different worldview.

Thinking of this, I suddenly realized the deeper problem.

No, wait a minute, assuming that in the doomsday era, one can come into contact with strange things without anchoring, that means... those lost things that cannot be recognized, won't they be able to return in the doomsday era?

The doomsday era... is actually an era where you don’t have to worry about anchoring or getting lost?

This possibility caused ripples in my heart. The concept of the apocalypse seemed to bloom with new light in my heart.

Until I fell asleep, I was thinking about this matter in my mind.

And it was on this night, even though I was sleeping, I still had an incredible perception in the haze that seemed like imagination - in the darkness, gray mist emerged from the fragments of the divine seal within my consciousness, and in turn enveloped my consciousness.

When I opened my eyes, I had arrived in an extremely vast space, filled with gray fog in all directions.

I entered the virtual world again.

(End of this chapter)