Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 368 What is a God?
Zhou Qing recovered his cultivation in the capital before fleeing westward.

He rode on the golden light and flew for half a day before encountering a three-headed old turtle.

He didn't stop, but continued speeding forward to see what was forcing the old turtle to migrate to land.

After driving at high speed with frequent stops and starts for half a month, Zhou Qing finally understood the problem.

The Demon Abyss's erosion of Qionghua Continent is becoming increasingly severe.

Only ten years had passed since his last visit, and the borders of Qionghua Prefecture had shrunk by tens of thousands of miles.

Zhou Qing also noticed that the speed of the Demon Abyss's erosion was accelerating.

This is not hard to understand; the vitality of Qionghua Continent is slowly weakening, making it even more powerless to resist the Demon Abyss.

Zhou Qing felt somewhat heavy-hearted.

The situation was even more severe than he had previously estimated. He had thought that it would take at least several hundred years for the Demon Abyss to approach the border of the Western Continent.

It seems that it won't take hundreds of years, just over a hundred years will suffice.

If he cannot find a way to escape to another continent or help Qionghua Continent resist the invasion of the Demon Abyss before then, he will sink into the Demon Abyss along with the entire Qionghua Continent.

call!
Zhou Qing sighed deeply and walked back with a heavy heart.

Half a month later, he encountered the old turtle again.

Sensing his presence, the old turtle stretched its head out of the sea, instantly resembling three giant pillars supporting the sky.

Zhou Qing was unsure which head to speak to and was hesitating when a thought suddenly arose in his mind.

"It is a sin to fail to greet the great deity who has come from afar."

The words appeared out of thin air in his mind, without the aid of sound, yet he naturally imagined the image of a slow and kind old man.

Is this how the old turtle communicates?
Zhou Qing asked, "Why do you call me a god?"

The old turtle said, "The foundation of a god has been laid, so he is already a god."

Zhou Qing frowned slightly and said, "There is no record of any deities in the ancient texts. How can this be?"

The old turtle laughed and said, "That's not surprising. Recording gods, talking about gods, and thinking about gods are all very dangerous things. So our ancestors simply didn't record them. And since later generations have not reached the level of our ancestors, they simply cannot even perceive the existence of gods."

Zhou Qing said, "But you're talking about it now."

The old turtle said, "I am talking about the gods of the cultivation world, not sinister foreign gods, so there is no problem."

Zhou Qing asked, "What are gods?"

The old turtle said, "Those who have no one to rely on are gods."

Zhou Qing pondered for a moment, finding the words somewhat puzzling, and said, "Please explain further, sir."

The old turtle laughed and said, "Gods are the most enigmatic beings throughout history. My knowledge of gods is also limited. If you want to know, I am willing to reveal everything I know, but you need to agree to one condition."

"What conditions?"

The old turtle said, "If I am not mistaken, your divine kingdom is not yet complete. When it is about to be complete, it will need a great sacrifice to bring it to fruition."

"I hope that when the time comes, you will choose me as the sacrifice."

Zhou Qing was stunned.

This is the first time I've encountered such a request—asking someone to treat you as a sacrifice.

Zhou Qing smiled and asked, "What's the reason for this?"

The old turtle sighed, "Life in this world is destined to end. Even the true immortals of humanity have an end to their lifespan and will be killed by powerful enemies. To achieve immortality, one must become a god."

"But how easy is it to become a god? If one cannot become a god, the only hope is to sacrifice oneself to the god's kingdom. In this way, one can live as long as the god's kingdom and thus achieve immortality."

Zhou Qing couldn't determine whether what the old turtle said was true, so he couldn't agree immediately. He said, "I will try to verify what you said. If what you said is true, I can grant your wish."

The old turtle laughed and said, "That's enough."

Zhou Qing said, "You just said that those who are helpless and alone are gods. What do you mean by that?"

The old turtle said, "Being independent and self-sufficient is the way of a god."

"All living beings have something to rely on, so they are not gods."

"Human cultivation methods are based on refining Qi, so they need to rely on Qi. The whole world is the source of Qi. Human cultivators who rely on Qi are appendages of the world and cannot be independent and self-sufficient."

Even if one cultivates to become a true immortal, one still cannot exist outside of the world.

"During the chaos of the Demon's Demise, countless True Immortals were thrown out of the cultivation world and trapped in the Demon Abyss. Far from their own foundation, they slowly withered away. This is the result of not being able to be independent and self-reliant."

"A god is an independent and self-sufficient being. He does not need to rely on the world; on the contrary, he himself is the world's support."

"His immense power and vitality are enough to make an entire world prosperous."

Zhou Qing lowered his head and began to think.

According to the old turtle, he is far from being a so-called deity.

He still needs to rely on spiritual energy. Without spiritual energy, he can no longer use the magnetic field, and he cannot make his Dao Heart World prosperous. He cannot even give birth to the simplest life in his Dao Heart World.

Zhou Qing asked, "How can one become an independent and self-reliant deity?"

The old turtle smiled bitterly and said, "If I had known, why wouldn't I have become a god myself, instead of placing my hopes on you?"

"No one can guide you on how to become a god. There are no gods left in this world. You already have the foundation to become a god, which means you have been on the right path in the past. You just need to continue on your own path."

Zhou Qing's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "You mean this world once had gods?"

"It's natural."

The old turtle said, "If there were no gods, then the existence of any world would prove the existence of gods."

"The Abyss is a power that hates life. In the Abyss that hates life, a world rich in life is a miracle. Only gods can give birth to such a miracle."

"The self-sufficiency of the gods sustains the world's abundance."

"Although I have never seen a god, I felt the spirit of this world when I was young, and my knowledge about gods comes from it."

Zhou Qing asked, "And what is the spirit of the world?"

The old turtle laughed and said, "This is what I asked you for."

"The perfection of the divine kingdom requires a sacrifice. The physical body of the sacrificed being disintegrates, and its spirit becomes the spirit of the new world, helping the god to manage His world."

“I once had a connection with the spirits of this world, but that was a long time ago. Since the Demon Descends Rebellion, I have never been able to sense it again.”

The old turtle's "voice" gradually weakened, as if it were immersed in reminiscing about the spirit of the world.

Zhou Qing, however, was trying to process what the old turtle had said.

The information provided by the old turtle was so extensive that it almost completely changed Zhou Qing's understanding of the cultivation world.

(End of this chapter)