All-Heavens Game, the Strongest Player

Chapter 175 The Truth About Godhood

"Why?" Chu Xiu asked, puzzled.

It's indeed strange that Nuwa would give up her divine position, immortality, and supreme power. It's equally strange that the half-gods, who ambitiously wanted to reenact God's creation of man, would give up on survival upon arriving here.

Yes, even the demigod is dead.

Both of them relinquished their divine status and power, choosing to perish.

What we see now is merely a projection left behind by their use of spacetime power; it is the real them, the real past, yet it has already foreshadowed the future.

Strictly speaking, the two divine positions that are still functioning for the time being are no longer their original selves.

"This can't be explained in a few words. Let me show you, and you'll understand!" Nuwa said, waving her hand to compress the ancient ten thousand years into a single breath and show it to Chu Xiu.

If it were anyone else, they really wouldn't be able to see anything; even the most brilliant mind wouldn't be able to.

But he could see it clearly.

In the beginning, the earth was devoid of people, only various ferocious beasts. Among these beasts, the most powerful was Nuwa, who possessed the divine status of creation from birth, and whose power reached its zenith.

It is even stronger than the four auspicious beasts combined.

In the beginning, she was ignorant and lived simply to survive.

Until one day, another powerful being came from the ancient times, a "half-god" who wanted to create a perfect race. As soon as he arrived, he was captured by Nuwa, but he persuaded Nuwa to join him in the research and study of perfect humans.

Not long after, the first humans were born.

They possessed all the virtues of humanity, yet they were unable to survive in the ancient times, leaving behind only the legend of the "Ancient Gods" before disappearing.

Afterwards, Nuwa used five-colored stones to create truly perfect human beings.

It was only after that that the half-god realized that the flaws in human nature are the key to human survival, that perfection itself is a flaw, and that having flaws is the true meaning of perfection.

The most virtuous person is merely a moving stone.

Only those with selfish motives are truly human!
So he let go of his obsession and had an epiphany, becoming a true god.

It was at this moment that he realized something was wrong: although he and Nuwa possessed eternal life and supreme power, something was gradually drifting away from them, and that was called "humanity".

And then some things were added in.

It is both divine and demonic!
Both he and Nuwa were gradually becoming "evil"—not in a moral sense, but in a way that caused them to lose themselves and start doing things they would never have done before.

For example, one time, a demigod slaughtered an entire tribe in order to conduct research.

Nuwa watched the whole thing and didn't sense anything amiss.

It wasn't until the demigod used the power of time to find his former self and the original Nuwa that he finally realized: the divine position would erode a person's humanity and endow them with divinity, and divinity is not only good, but also evil!
God is not the darling of heaven and earth.

On the contrary, they are merely tools for Heaven to filter negative emotions, Heaven's white gloves! After understanding the truth, Nuwa and the half-god both chose to relinquish their divine positions and retain their true selves. But soon, they discovered that immortality is also a poison; time will erode those who live long lives, forcing them to bear the evil of their divine nature!
In short, the rules of the world of Fengyun are very special.

The good thoughts of an immortal will not increase, but the evil thoughts will accumulate. No matter how kind and upright a person is at the beginning, he will eventually become a madman corrupted by evil thoughts!
with no exceptions.

Therefore, after understanding the truth, Shakyamuni gave up the divine position that was within his grasp, shed the tears of the Buddha, and entered Nirvana, thus voluntarily giving up immortality!
Similarly, there was the Yellow Emperor, who once suppressed the land of China!
He could live forever if he wished.

But if the price of immortality is becoming a demon, and the price of becoming a god is also becoming a demon, then what's the point? So, in the end, they chose to give up!
Even later, the deaths of Indra due to starvation and the killing of the Great Demon God by Lian Chengzhi were related to this.

Human goodness cannot suppress the evil that has accumulated over time, but it can choose to end it!

This is the truth of everything.

"Doesn't it seem absurd? Don't you think that such a situation doesn't exist in your outer world?" Nuwa said to Chu Xiu, "But what if your will can last for a thousand years, ten thousand years, a hundred million years, or even endless years? Do you really have such a strong mind that you can withstand an endless lifespan? Can the people around you do the same? When they can't bear it anymore and leave you one by one, can you still find the meaning of immortality?"

These words seem to be spoken not only by the goddess Nuwa.

They didn't ask Chu Xiu to answer right now.

Her figure gradually disappeared, transforming into a divine position, which, along with the position of the half-god, was injected into Chu Xiu's body, allowing Chu Xiu to directly complete the "human heart to heaven's heart" and obtain the entire Fengyun World.

As for the position of the Great Sun God, it no longer belongs here, but to the world of mummies.

The struggle for the Way of Heaven continues!

"I don't need to wait for your question, I can answer it right now!" Chu Xiu said to the void, "When I was a child, I wanted to grow up. When I was bored, I would find things to do. I would taste delicious food, enjoy love, collect 'paper dolls', and occasionally interact with them."

"I haven't lived enough, so I don't want to die."

"I want to experience the once-in-a-millennium 'time surge,' break free from constraints, make Earth a 'perpetual server,' and then go see more things!"

"I don't know the end, but I enjoy every moment of the present!"

Chu Xiu finally said, "You asked me if I have a strong enough heart to endure immortality, but I want to tell you that you never need to have one. A person doesn't need meaning to live; as long as you exist, meaning will come to you on its own!"

After saying that, he got up and left the Nine Realms.

At this time, the Great Sun Tathagata, who inherited the legacy of Treon, was locked in a fierce battle with Qin Shi Huang. The latter was somewhat weaker in terms of resources, but after obtaining the corpse of the divine dragon, he also took the dragon vein from Lingyun Cave.

Add Qilin blood.

Having gathered the power of the four auspicious beasts into one, it has become a fulcrum for the advancement of the Fengyun World!
The other fulcrum, to Chu Xiu's surprise, was actually the Great Demon God. He was once a god but gave up his divine position. His cultivation level rose rapidly and he reached that special level.

Even without a divine position, they are comparable to gods!

“The third fulcrum already exists. As long as we take away the Heavenly Dao mark from the ‘Great Sun Tathagata’ and strip him of his divine position, we can allow his cultivation to advance further and make him the fulcrum!” Chu Xiu looked at the Great Sun Tathagata from afar and pondered, “But, I have already promised the Great Demon God to destroy him. How can I keep that fulcrum without breaking my promise?”

(End of this chapter)