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Chapter 274 The Legendary Moon Landing Life of the Alien [Lich]
As darkness fell, the simple cave was pitch black. With his 'dark vision', the tiger demon saw a thin layer of dust on the ground and many animal footprints.

This indicates that before its arrival, some 'wild beasts' or 'animal spirits' had lingered or visited this place. This means that even if there were any treasures inside the cave, they had all been taken.

After its expectations were greatly reduced, the tiger demon continued to observe the interior of the cave. Suddenly, next to the eight large characters carved vertically, "The White Bone Scholar passed away here," it discovered a stone carving with smaller characters. The carving was quite long, which made it happy. It thought it was a cultivation method left behind by the White Bone Scholar.

So he quickly approached to observe and record the details. But his enthusiasm was immediately dampened by a bucket of cold water.

It boasted that after reading just two lines, it was disappointed to discover that this was the deceased's autobiographical account left before his death, used to commemorate his legendary life. Surprisingly, it was written in classical Chinese, making it a bit difficult to read.

Please forgive Zhu Zi's knowledge of classical Chinese; after graduating from high school, he forgot most of it back to his Chinese teacher. Now, living a second life, he has forgotten even more.

Fortunately, the snake was able to read his past life memories and, combined with the error-correcting and deductive abilities of the [Immortal Scripture], successfully restored the entire contents of this stone inscription.

After reading the entire text, even the Tiger Demon had to admit that the life of the "White Bone Scholar" was truly legendary. It certainly deserves an article so that future generations of humanity can admire it.

...

The deceased called himself "White Bone Scholar," but he was not a true scholar at all. In life, he was, in fact, a dead man.

To be more precise, before it passed away, it was already a "lich" who had been dead for an unknown number of years.

Indeed, the [White Bone Scholar] was originally an ordinary [Lich] living on the prime material plane of the [Outer Crystal Wall Universe]. However, his world was suddenly invaded by the [Abyss Plane], triggering a cataclysmic disaster.

However, all of this has nothing to do with the lich that lives in seclusion deep in the mountains. Just wait another hundred years, and when the demons have plundered everything of value from the prime material plane and discovered that the cost of maintaining the Abyss Invasion Passage far outweighs the benefits they've reaped from the prime material plane, they will leave on their own.

Even if this material plane eventually collapses and is successfully dragged into the abyss by the demons, it can still escape to the underworld for refuge before the world is destroyed.

Conversely, the immeasurable carnage caused by the Abyss invasion is also a huge fortune for this [neutral evil] lich. Just by secretly collecting corpses, and then sneaking back into the battlefield to loot after the war, he can find all sorts of valuable human warriors and Abyss monsters.

Unfortunately, the happy times hadn't even begun yet; who knows what happened?
The brain-dead mages of the human faction obtained a crazy plan through unknown channels, which can be described as a "magical version of The Wandering Earth".

The members of the 'Anti-Abyss Alliance' pooled their resources and used a super magic circle, even more exaggerated than the 'Terrain Transformation Array' in the Fullmetal Alchemist world, to anchor a large portion of the 'Primary Material Plane Continental Plate'.

They attempted to ascend their entire nation using the "Ultimate Dimensional Teleportation Technique" to escape the abyss's annihilation. They then planned to migrate to the "Upper Realm," where magical elements were more concentrated, to usher in a new era of great colonization.

As a result, the catalyst for the "First Magical Revival," which left a deep impression on the [Duling Star] community and changed the world's landscape, broke out!

A magical plane block from outer space collided with the planet Duling and crashed into the sea between the eastern part of the continent of Gen and the western part of the new continent.

The 'Human Kingdom Faction,' which originally aimed for ascension across the entire world, also experienced a subtle deviation. Dimensional teleportation tore a piece of the wrong map from the [Primordial Material Plane], and only a portion of the human world was taken away.

In addition, there are the elves in the neighboring great forest, who are also actively resisting the [Abyss Invasion]; the dwarves who have built [Doomsday Fortresses] underground; the trolls who are happily eating ogres; and the goblins who are wallowing in the mud...

The reclusive lich, the demons happily slaughtering and destroying, and even a small piece of the [Abyss Invasion Passage + Bottomless Abyss Level + Abyss Will Projection] were all teleported to [Duling Star].

This 'plane-level blunder' and 'cosmic-level diplomatic intrusion' profoundly altered the course of history on [Dulling Planet] and the lives of all immigrants on [Primitive Material Plane].

...

The magical races and liches who were unexpectedly transported to a strange universe were initially amazed by the discovery of a strange and unknown "zero magic plane".

After the initial panic came a surge of joy, with the newcomers considering themselves superior to the local inhabitants. They believed that the noble magic brought to this barren and backward world would surely guide its course.

But soon, the wandering magical plane was hit by a series of disasters, including the loss of magical elements, the failure of the magic network, the continued invasion of the abyss, incompatibility with the environment, and conflicts with the underlying rules of the universe.

They weren't traversing any [Dead Magic Dimension], but rather a completely unfamiliar universe, directly detached from the [Crystal Wall System], a place where there was absolutely no soil for 'magic' to exist.

Soon, the human camp, comparable to Doraemon, came up with a new plan to seal off the entire [Magic Continent] to reduce the loss of magical elements and to construct an [Artificial Magic Network (the predecessor of the Mechanical Magic Network)].

The result was something even more terrifying than being transported to the 'Strange Universe.0 Demon World'. This planet, called [Du Ling], was not a 'Zero Magic Physical Universe' at all, but rather sealed away an endless 'Doomsday Pollution Source'.

The sudden fall of the magical plane and the dissipation of a large amount of magic did not trigger a 'magic revival wave' in [Du Ling]. Instead, it successfully recharged the sealed 'sources of pollution', awakening them one by one.

Ultimately, they usurped the throne, dismantling, reconstructing, digesting, and absorbing the magical gift package that [Crystal Wall Universe] had given to [Duling Star], and then resurrecting it in a completely new form of [local classical mythology].

What terrified and terrified the Lich most was the Abyss Will, which had traveled with the Magic Plane. This supreme source of chaotic evil, if it fell into any universe, would spread, parasitize, and multiply like a malignant cancer cell or the T-virus…

Even the smallest amount can pollute and distort a world, dragging it into an endless abyss.

As a result, before the [Will of the Abyss] could even erupt, it was eagerly devoured by those unspeakable [Sources of Pollution] on the mainland, and then transformed themselves into [Magic Universe. Orthodox (Pollution) Source] and went online one after another.

What about [Mechanical Magic Net, Filthy Bone Mother, Black Goat Mother, Kunlun Mother]... Even this [Lich] felt a chill down his spine just looking at it, and dared not study the increasingly weak 'necromantic spells' anymore.

Fearing that before the necromancy could successfully adapt to the local rules and be successfully restored, these 'spells' might be tainted by some unclean 'source of pollution' at their end, and then be devoured, distorted, and mutated...

Just like those elves who were reverse-polluted and transformed into the 'Penglai Immortal Clan' by the [Mother Tree of Life (Peach of Immortality/Kunlun Mother)].

After being passively transported to the planet [Duling Star], the [Lich] experienced a period of confusion, witnessing firsthand how the 'magical civilization' was gradually dismembered, deconstructed, and reassembled, and how one evil and terrifying [source of pollution] after another revived, causing the entire planet to become polluted and distorted.

Then, the second [Outer Universe. Industrial Universe] connected with [Duling Star], and the even more incredible [Second Extraordinary Industrial Revolution] broke out, causing the [Lich's] worldview to collapse once again.

This Zero-Magic Planet not only seals away a terrifying 'apocalyptic source of pollution', but then another world, completely different from the [Crystal Wall Universe], comes to deliver itself to the wreckage.

Even the [God of Faith + Divine Kingdom] that it once looked up to couldn't hold on and was dismantled and reassembled. It mixed with the new rations delivered by the [Industrial Universe] to form the [Industrial Divine Kingdom, Brand Divinity]...

After that, the Lich was practically numb. Its 'death power', which sustained its existence, dwindled, leaving it only able to huddle within its magic tower (a closed ecosystem) and barely cling to life. ...

Fortunately, there is always a way out. During the first magical resurgence, the Lich actively made friends with other magical beings, joined several colonial expansion organizations, apocalypse self-rescue organizations, and pollution system interest groups, and worked hard to learn the native culture of the Lich and integrate into this inherently evil planet.

Initially, it believed that it had broken away from its home in the Crystal Wall System, and that the Spirits did not have a Netherworld. It thought that these undead creatures would eventually die from lack of power due to the lack of 'death power' to sustain them.

The only way to survive is to abandon the doomed Necromancer's Magic, learn from the elves corrupted by the Kunlun Mother, and join the new corrupted system to become an Immortal, or some other kind of Holy Light Angel...

The Lich, at the dawn of the Second Age, had several options. Ultimately, it was drawn to an organization that pursued knowledge and truth: the School of Truth.

This school of thought takes 'spirit, soul, truth, and knowledge' as its extraordinary foundation, encompassing everything, capable of accommodating and deeply studying all 'extraordinary powers,' and producing changes at the level of 'soul and consciousness.'

Using the local 'transcendent theory' of [Du Ling] to define it, it is the 'Yang God Cultivation System' that leads to [the Moon. Consciousness Sea].

Furthermore, the [Truth Cult] can perfectly integrate into all [Contaminated Systems]. Simply by experiencing a 'Truth Distortion' at the level of soul consciousness, one can join the [Truth] camp and ascend in consciousness.

Naturally, the [Truth Cult] also has its own unique side effects, such as extreme distortion of 'spiritual consciousness', burning of rationality, distortion of values, and loss of control and madness, etc.

But all these problems are actually a kind of 'positive energy replenishment' for the [Lich], who is inherently absolutely rational and cold-blooded, and even loses emotion over the years.

Thus, through recommendations from other Lich friends, it realized that the Truth System perfectly complemented itself, and the pursuit of truth also aligned perfectly with the Lich's lifelong pursuit.

Therefore, it abandoned the [School of Wisdom (Mechanical Magic Network)], which it had wavered in and once considered joining, and chose the [School of Truth], which was more free and had infinite possibilities.

In its introductory stage, it was forced to study the Four Books and Five Classics, as well as many other classical works, in order to understand its own mind and nature and shape its values, thus earning the title of "White Bone Scholar".

After establishing the classic "seed" of "Emptiness of Truth," it successfully graduated from the academy. From then on, all "Scholars of Truth" were able to enter the Dao through the interaction of heaven and earth, all things, and a kind of "polluting force," combining with "Truth" to give birth to "branch schools" belonging to "Truth."

After opening the Void of Truth, the White Bone Scholar began to turn back and combine the Necromancy he had learned throughout his life with Truth. During this time, he unexpectedly came into contact with the Underworld and was shocked to discover that the Star of Spirits also possessed a source of power similar to the Underworld.

The truth of the world is unfolding further towards it.

Through a series of studies, it gained a profound understanding of the Underworld and the Sea of ​​the Moon. It discovered that the manifestation of the Soul in the Tablet Spirit is a unique state of Mist.

After death, the soul transforms into a mist invisible to the naked eye, which further divides into two parts: a pure, clear mist that belongs to spirituality and wisdom, which eventually evaporates and sublimates under the guidance of the moonlight (moonlight pollution) at night, drifting towards the concept of the 'upper layer, outer layer', and finally merging into the 'Sea of ​​the Moon'.

Therefore, many schools of thought in the Divine Realm that explore the mysteries of the soul and immortality refer to the [Sea of ​​the Moon] as: the collective consciousness of all living beings.

After death, the turbid, impure, ego-like, and negative resentment parts of the soul will transform into "turbid mist," which will spontaneously gather into a turbid yellow liquid and flow towards the concepts of "lower layer, inner layer, and innermost layer," eventually transforming into "the Yellow Springs."

Therefore, the inner world where the Yellow Springs converge is regarded as the underworld or the netherworld.

The White Bone Scholar, a 'Scholar of Truth' who is a class change from the 'Lich', also has a strong interest in the 'Sea of ​​the Moon' and the 'Underworld'.

Their ultimate roots, the "School of Truth," point to the "Moon," but the "Lich" also yearn to communicate with the "Underworld" to draw upon the death power of their homeland.

It studies both of these aspects simultaneously without conflict. This is because after death, the soul will eventually decompose into two parts, 'pure' and 'impure', flowing in two directions, 'up' and 'down'.

During its research, it was also discovered that in areas where the moon does not shine at night, 'spiritual evaporation' is obstructed.

Thus, the "Truth Sect. White Bone Scholar," who was being denounced and killed, eventually traveled to the "Misty Mountains" to study the fields of "spiritual pollution, soul, and death."

In the Misty Mountains, death lacks the spiritual evaporation guided by moonlight, and the spiritual aspect of the departed souls cannot enter the Sea of ​​the Moon; they are spontaneously intercepted by the Misty Mountains.

As the number of dead souls accumulates, it will further erupt into a more severe form of "mental pollution." This is why people in the Misty Mountains can always hear various threatening and active knowledge.

Using this precious land, the White Bone Scholar further intercepted the Turbid Mist from converging into the 'Water of the Underworld' and flowing into the netherworld. Instead, he intercepted a small amount and injected it into this 'Cold Pool' to create the 'Pool of Death Power Magic', a pool of negative energy.

Ultimately, it suffered severe damage in a battle during its exploration of the Underworld, and its mantle was passed down to the Unconscious Bank, awaiting a destined inheritor.

He then hastily passed away in this simple cave dwelling, which contained little wealth, leaving behind this legendary article.

...

After reading the long ancient text, Tiger Demon concluded that the cave was merely a safe house for the "White Bone Scholar," a place to stay in the real world, and a site for researching "souls, death, the underworld, and the sea of ​​the moon."

However, this cave dwelling, including the cold pool outside, is not of high value in itself; it is merely a tool and medium used to verify 'truth and theory'.

The other party's true "wealth" has long been transferred to the "Moon's Unconscious Bank." Anyone who later has the ability to "land on the moon" can inherit this "spiritual wealth" through the account and gain access to its "endless accumulation of knowledge" throughout its long life.

From another perspective, an alien lich that has broken through to the [Seed] level early on naturally cannot stay in the human world for long. It will inevitably [ascend its soul to the upper realm (the moon)], and frequently retreat into the [Underworld] to become a ghost, thus diminishing the value of its human dwelling place.

Before his death, the other party chose to pass away peacefully in the mortal world, leaving behind a complete set of inheritances (address).

Tiger Demon: "Does this mean that the human world is safer, and that any 'human' who accidentally wanders into this place is weak enough that, after being attracted by this [Mantle of Honor], they cultivate diligently and successfully land on the moon, and there's a high probability that the [Mantle of Honor] in the [Unconscious Bank] will reverse-overwrite their body, allowing them to possess another?"

Snake: "It's hard not to agree! If this article were engraved on the [Underworld] or the [Moon], it would definitely be deciphered by a powerful figure of the same level or even stronger, and its account would be emptied! Therefore, it can only be engraved on the desolate [Misty Mountains] of the human world, waiting for a destined person."

Tiger Demon continued, "Those who can withstand the heavy 'fog erosion (mental pollution)' to reach this place are most likely members of the [Truth Cult]. The surrounding environment has already filtered out most of the unqualified ones."

(End of this chapter)