God of Pets

Chapter 977 The City in the Story

Chen Guan didn't speak, but just looked at the Emperor Ancestor in the black lotus.

All of this is just the Devouring Spirit God's side of the story, so how can we prove that what he said is true?
Chen Guan dared not fully believe information that he had not personally verified.

Moreover, there is a very serious problem here. According to the Devouring God, each time the Sky Spirit descends, it is to reclaim energy to support the Sky Realm.

Does recycling energy require cleansing humanity and the earth's mystical spirits? Why destroy the original civilization before starting anew?

In comparison, Chen Guan felt that the experimental explanations known to ordinary Sky Spirits sounded more reasonable.

The Soul Devouring God seemed to have the ability to see through people's hearts, and calmly said: "The reason why we have to clean up most of the humans and earth spirits every time we recycle energy is because due to the long existence of the Yellow Spring River and the Nether Sea, most of the humans and earth spirits have mutated. After this mutation reaches a certain level, they will eventually become the source of the decaying power, like walking corpses. They not only have no thoughts of their own, but they will also spread decaying pollution everywhere. If left unchecked, the entire Earth Secret Realm will be polluted."

"Whenever humans and the earth's mystical spirits are corrupted and mutated to a certain extent, they need to be cleansed, leaving only a small number of humans with special mutations and resistance to decay to continue to reproduce and give rise to new humans..."

Chen Guan looked at the Devouring Spirit God. Since the God had already said so much, Chen Guan knew that he had no choice but to speak up.

Even if Chen Guan doesn't say anything, the Devouring Spirit God probably won't let him leave easily.

"According to you, humans can filter out pollution, so where does the filtered-out depletion energy go? If it accumulates inside human bodies, then what happens to these humans when their bodies reach their limits?" Chen Guan asked the Devouring God.

"This is the real problem to be solved. After generations of mutations, the human body has developed a strong immune system to the effects of fatigue, but it is still not completely immune."

The Devouring God looked at the Emperor Ancestor in the black lotus and said, "Even with his strongest immunity, after nearly a thousand years of accumulation, his body has too much depleted energy, and he still cannot avoid being contaminated. They don't have much time left to hold on."

"They are here to filter out the depleting energy. Once they are gone, the depleting energy will erupt even more violently, and it will become completely uncontrollable. The two worlds will affect each other, and eventually they will all be polluted, leaving no place to live."

"There is only one way to fundamentally solve this problem," the Soul Devourer said with unwavering determination.

"Destroy Sky City?" Chen Guan thought of that as well.

"That's right. Only by destroying Sky City and preventing the energy of the living world from flowing into the dead world can the depletion area of ​​the living world stop increasing, and the dead world no longer need to worry about depletion and pollution. However, there is a drawback: without the energy input from the living world, the dead world itself has no energy. As the energy within the dead world is gradually depleted, the secret spirits will gradually perish, and humanity will gradually lose the foundation for cultivation and the possibility of becoming cultivators."

After a pause, the Soul Devourer God said, "Although humanity has suffered great losses in this state, compared to both worlds being completely destroyed, at least humanity can continue to live, which is more important than anything else." "For so many generations, you haven't destroyed Sky City. Is there a problem?" Chen Guan felt that this was indeed the only way out. Although the possibility of cultivation was gone, living was more important than anything else.

"The difficulty lies in the fact that this Sky City possesses its own will. It may appear to be just a city, but in reality, it should be called a god. It can be said to be the supreme being in this world. Even my power cannot truly harm it, let alone destroy it."

The Soul Devourer stared intently at the Sky City below the Sky Garden: "Don't even mention me alone; even if all the Sky Spirits were gathered together, their foundations wouldn't be shaken."

"Throughout the endless years, I have been trying every possible way to destroy it. Now is the most likely time. If I miss this opportunity, I'm afraid there will never be another chance."

"Above Sky City, I built a Sky Garden, where people of all generations gather. Besides filtering and purifying energy, it also serves an important purpose: to control the energy flow of Sky City."

"Now that the Sky Gardens have become part of Sky City, if the energy flow through here is blocked, Sky City will lose its energy supply. That will be the weakest point for it and the most likely time to destroy it."

“Even so, I cannot destroy it in a short time with my own strength alone. Moreover, the time that your human ancestors could block the flow of energy was also very limited. After all, this is the power of a world, which is beyond human capabilities. They paid the price of their own lives to buy us time. We must destroy Sky City as soon as possible, so I need help.”

As the Soul Devourer finished speaking, his gaze fell on Chen Guan.

"Me? Even you can't do it, so what help can I possibly offer with my limited abilities?" Chen Guan declined.

“It’s not just you, I need more human help.” The Soul Devourer pointed to the Sky City below and said, “The Sky City itself is almost eternal and indestructible. Even if it is destroyed into particles or even nothingness, it can still recover. Or rather, destruction in the ordinary sense only destroys the present form, but it still exists in more dimensions of space and is not truly destroyed.”

"It's hard to explain. You can think of it as a multidimensional or higher-dimensional existence that exists in different times and spaces at the same time. You can think of these times and spaces as parallel times and spaces, or time and space branches, or past and future. In short, if you want to destroy it, you have to completely erase it. Destroying the Sky City in front of you is meaningless."

"If you really want to explain it, you can think of it as a city that exists within a story. When you see this story, the city exists within that story. Even if you burn the book that records this story, there is more than one book that records this story. Burning only one book is useless."

"What's terrifying is that even if you burn all the books that record this story, the city in the story will still exist in the minds of those who have read it. Through word of mouth, as long as there are still people who know about it, it can continue to exist."

"Even if everyone who knows this story is dead, and no one among the living knows this story or the city in it, as long as those who know this story are still remembered, then the city is not destroyed, and it can still rise from the ashes of the past."

"To destroy it, the only way is through absolute erasure. Whether it is the present, the past, the future, or multidimensional space and human memory, it must be completely erased in order to truly destroy it."

(End of this chapter)