Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 402 The Final Tribulation of Qionghua Continent
Just as Zhou Qing was about to press on and successfully open up all his dantian, he saw a figure leap down from below onto the flying stone.

He was the Greatly Wise Arhat.

Zhou Qing asked, "Could the Arhats have come for the final kalpa?"

The Arhat Da Cong clasped his hands and said, "Indeed, the final tribulation will probably be within ten years."

Zhou Qing was startled and said, "According to our calculations, it should still be over a hundred years away."

All the final tribulations refer to the time when the Demon Abyss devours Qionghua Continent and reaches the land.

Zhou Qingling appointed the Great Cong Luohan to be in charge of this matter, to monitor the trend of Qionghua Continent being eroded, and to estimate at any time when the final calamity might arrive.

The last time Zhou Qing discussed this matter with the Great Cong Arhat was ten years ago. At that time, the Great Cong Arhat estimated that the final calamity would arrive a hundred years later.

Unexpectedly, just ten years later, the Great Arhat gave such a pessimistic estimate.

Da Cong Luohan said with a wry smile, "We overestimated the vitality of Qionghua Continent."

"As the erosion by the Demon Abyss intensifies, the vitality of Qionghua Continent will only become more depleted, and the speed of the erosion will accelerate. We cannot estimate the future based on the previous trend."

"Ten years is still an optimistic estimate; perhaps Qionghuazhou won't even last ten years."

Zhou Qing's heart sank.

He hadn't expected the situation to be so serious, and he hadn't yet found a solution.

Although he could contact other continents, he couldn't ensure that the people of Qionghua Continent could safely travel through the Demon Abyss to other continents. He didn't even know the exact locations of the other continents.

He also considered other methods.

For example, transferring the people of Qionghua Continent to the Dao Heart World.

Fifty years is enough to change too many things, including people's thoughts.

The divine dynasty has ruled for fifty years, and even the most stubborn cultivation sects have begun to acknowledge Zhou Qing's divine status, not to mention mortals.

The expansion of his followers has made his spiritual world more expansive and complete.

The Dao Heart World now spans tens of thousands of miles, and its spiritual energy concentration is even higher than that of most places in Qionghua Continent.

If all the people of Qionghuazhou were moved there, there would be more than enough land.

However, the world of the Dao Heart cannot spontaneously generate vitality. Not only can it not generate vitality, it will thirstily deprive vitality.

Zhou Qing tried to put all the creatures of Qionghua Continent into it, including animals, plants, monsters, spirits, and even criminal humans.

For these beings, the Dao Heart World is like a highly concentrated acid to iron; it will melt them away in no time.

The only thing that could resist the dissolution of the Dao Heart World was the skull of that True Immortal.

Having exhausted all methods, Zhou Qing was somewhat helpless.

He said, "Let's go to the end and take a look."

The two then set off and flew towards the ends of the earth.

Back then, it took Zhou Qing several months to ride the golden light to the ends of the earth.

Now, he and the Great Arhat traveled together and arrived in just a few days.

Because the Abyss of Demons has already invaded to the point that it is only ten thousand miles away from the land.

The Great Qian Dynasty was completely swallowed up by the Demon Abyss several years ago.

At that time, Wang Xiaohu sent a distress call, and Zhou Qing dispatched more than half of the Foundation Establishment cultivators in Qionghua Continent to transfer the people of Daqian to the mainland. Now Daqian has been established under the rule of Qingyun Sect and is located on the coast.

Zhou Qing surveyed the edge of the world and discovered that Qionghua Continent was sinking into the Abyss of Demons at an alarming rate.

The statement about the Great Arhat is not an exaggeration, and may even be somewhat conservative.

The Arhat Da Cong lowered his eyes and chanted Buddhist mantras repeatedly.

Zhou Qing said, "Arhat, please go back. I'll just wander around here by myself."

Upon receiving the order, the Great Arhat returned to the Taoist palace on his own.

Zhou Qing landed on the shore and looked at the distant sea.

The sea level remains "solid," just as it has been for countless ages. Who could imagine that behind the sea level lies a bottomless abyss, and the entire world is sinking deeper and deeper?

Zhou Qing's mood immediately turned heavy.

A whooshing sound startled him awake.

An elderly man with white hair and beard descended from the sky.

"It really is a god descending!"

The old man stepped forward and bowed respectfully.

Zhou Qing laughed and scolded, "Wang Xiaohu, you're doing this to me too!"

The person who arrived was Wang Xiaohu.

He is now nearly a hundred years old, and his cultivation has stagnated at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment. His body is inevitably aging.

He has now become the guardian deity of the Great Qian Dynasty.

Hearing his senior brother's seemingly reproachful but actually affectionate words, Wang Xiaohu said wistfully, "Does senior brother think I'm just going through the motions?"

"No, are there people in this world who believe more sincerely that our senior brother is a god than those of us from the Qingyun Sect? Let alone us junior brothers and sisters who have watched our senior brother rise to power and eventually reach the zenith?"

“I am not performing a perfunctory ceremony, but the distinction between humans and gods cannot be overstepped.”

Zhou Qing frowned slightly, shook his head, and said, "This world is dying, and I can't do anything about it. Is this what you call being a god?"

Wang Xiaohu laughed nonchalantly, "It's only temporary. In the past, everyone thought that Senior Brother couldn't overcome so many dangers, but didn't you still win them beautifully?"

"Senior brother was born to do the impossible, to create something from nothing. That's what makes him a god."

This time it's different...

Zhou Qing shook his head helplessly.

He chatted casually with Wang Xiaohu about recent events and learned that Wang was struggling to make a living for the people of Daqian.

"Life is very difficult now."

Wang Xiaohu said with distress, "The land is perfectly fine, but for some reason, nothing just grows on it."

"The climate is getting stranger and stranger. Sometimes, even in the dead of winter, ordinary people are afraid of freezing their penises if they go out to urinate in the middle of the night. But the next day, the air suddenly becomes hot as fire, forcing people to go shirtless."

“Sometimes, even in the hottest days of summer, when people are working in the fields, it suddenly starts snowing. If people are late getting home, they might freeze to death outside.”

"Fortunately, my senior brother had the elders of the state religion announce in advance that a calamity was coming, so people did not panic. Instead, they worshipped my senior brother more sincerely and prayed for his salvation."

Zhou Qing nodded thoughtfully, and without saying goodbye to Wang Xiaohu, turned around and walked straight into the sea.

Not long after, Zhou Qing found the old turtle that had moved to live near the sea.

"Old turtle, do you have a way to stop the abyss from devouring us?"

Zhou Qing asked.

The old turtle laughed and said, "You've asked me several times already, are you still not giving up?"

"The Abyss is a matter outside the world, while I am a being of the world's kind."

"Now that the forces outside the world are devouring the entire world, what can an old, insignificant being who depends on the world for existence do?"

"You don't need to ask anyone else about this; you only need to ask yourself."

"Ask yourself?"

"Correct!"

The old turtle said, "Your Excellency is a deity, and deities hold the answers to everything."

Zhou Qing frowned and said, "But am I not a god?"

The old turtle laughed and said, "You can't think about becoming a god and then saving everything. You have to save everything first, and then become a god."

(End of this chapter)