The Last Sentinel

"Offense is the best defense."

"If we always remain on the defensive, one day the myriad worlds will destroy our carbon-based universe."

"On the contrary, if we take the initiative, the situation will change, and the universe will not be the way it is now."

"The establishment of the High Martial Arts Academy signifies that the four major powers have shifted their resources back to the Supreme Arena, completely abandoning the desolate outer interstellar battlefront. The next interstellar war will directly ignite our Milky Way galaxy, and none of the twenty-eight constellations will be spared."

"Before the next decisive battle, we must first break free of our shackles, leave the desolate universe, and ignite the flames of war across all the heavens and myriad realms."

"War always needs coordinates."

"Whether it's the big shots in the chat group or the neighbors back home, everyone needs a pawn to anchor their coordinates in the myriad worlds."

"The previous generation of sentinels were the coordinates for anchoring home."

"And my task is to anchor the coordinates of the attack."

Ye Feng spoke calmly and clearly, seemingly unconcerned about what was about to happen, as if it were something that would happen to someone else.

Zhao Donglai looked at Ye Feng and asked, "Has the entire universe already set up a surveillance network to deal with you?"

"Definitely," Ye Feng said. "But I believe that the myriad worlds are not monolithic. There are traitors among them, just like the transmigrators who have turned evil in our chat group. There is no absolute loyalty in this world."

Changcheng Shouwang looked at Ye Feng and said, "What do you need from me? Please speak freely."

Ye Feng looked at the Great Wall Watch, his expression turning serious. "I spoke with Mr. Donglou, and he said there were many sentinels before me. Lin Qilin wasn't the first sentinel. Is that true?"

The Great Wall Watcher said, "As a camel, I can tell you definitively that it is true."

Ye Feng asked, "How exactly did the profession of Sentinel come about? What does it signify? How many generations of Sentinels have there been? Why did Mr. Donglou say that Lin Qilin and I betrayed the profession of Sentinel, that we are heretics among Sentinels?"

Under Ye Feng's barrage of questions, the Great Wall Watcher said, "How many generations of Sentinels are there? Even if you resurrected Lin Qilin, he probably wouldn't be able to answer that question clearly. As for betrayal, with your values, Ye Feng, would you care about betrayal? Loyalty is always defined by winning, and betrayal by losing!"

Ye Feng said, "Sir, you truly live up to your title as Speaker. You've given two vague answers to two of the three questions. Surely you know the answer to the last one: how did the sentries appear?"

"I've heard some of that," said the Great Wall Watcher. "A long time ago, when Lin Qilin first became a Sentinel, he was incredibly talkative, a real chatterbox. He told me about the origins of the Sentinels back then."

"This goes back to the time of the first explosion of life. At that time, Earth was still in the beautiful blue-green algae era. There were no bacteria or the concept of animals."

"At that time, the heavens collapsed, and an unimaginable divine war broke out. The war reached its climax, and the death toll in all the heavens and myriad realms skyrocketed exponentially!"

"Then the most unlucky god appeared, and that god was Death."

"A massive number of souls converge toward the source of death, and what is the essence of death? It is the increase of entropy, the transition from order to disorder."

"At that time, during the first great explosion of life, the first catastrophe was in the chaotic void stage, and the second catastrophe was still in the process of gestation and had not yet appeared. No one knew the concept of entropy increase."

"As the Grim Reaper, it can clearly feel itself being impacted by too many disordered souls. Every day in the Sea of ​​Death, it hears the low murmurs of various dead souls. If this continues, it will eventually suffer a mental breakdown, or even go completely insane."

"Its efficiency in defying death to survive has reached its limit, and the chaotic souls of the dead are still surging. This will create a storm of death rules, at which point there will be no need for the war of gods anymore; everyone will just kick the bucket!"

"So Death chose to sever its tail to survive. It fused the most chaotic and violent souls among them into a piece of its own divine essence, and then cut off this crazy and powerful divine fragment in exchange for its own rationality and immortality."

"So here's a new problem: how do we deal with the fragment of the First Chaotic Source? If we keep it with Death, the Source's attraction will cause him to re-merge with the fragment, leading to its renewed madness. So the only solution is to throw this fragment away."

"So where is the safest place to throw it?"

"After observing the death patterns of the war among the gods in all the realms, Death astutely discovered a peripheral universe. This universe is quite interesting; it is not a stable universe, but one that is constantly expanding and extending. The entire universe is extending outwards at a frantic pace, and along with this expansion, celestial bodies within it are hurtling outwards at speeds of tens of kilometers per second!"

Zhao Donglai couldn't help but exclaim, "Teacher! Isn't this our universe? The solar system, carrying Blue Star, is hurtling outwards at a speed of 220 kilometers per second!"

The Great Wall Watcher said, "Don't interrupt!"

"Death threw this pure fragment of chaos into this ever-expanding universe."

"From Death's perspective, it threw this fragment into a galaxy at the very edge of the expanding universe. As the universe continues to expand, the planets move further and further away from it, and the fragment will also move further and further away."

"But Death also knows that keeping a distance is good, but if the fragments are really lost, it means that the energy of the universe is out of balance."

"What's more terrifying than entropy increase is entropy imbalance, so he needs a coordinate to constantly anchor this fragment of divinity, thereby maintaining the entropy conservation of all the heavens and myriad worlds."

"And so, the sentry appeared."

"The original purpose of the Sentinels was to be placed into this universe by all the heavens and myriad worlds as eyes to observe the disordered energy godhood fragments of this universe; they are an external overseer."

Hearing this, Ye Feng felt relieved.

So that's how it is. It turns out that my line of work was originally to be a spy for all the heavens and myriad worlds. But things have changed with Lin Qilin's generation. Internal spies have become external spies!

Then Lin Qilin and I really are traitors among the Sentinels!

However, Ye Feng thought for a moment, could this legend be a story made up by the various worlds to brainwash the Sentinels?

After all, the winner takes all; as long as you win, great scholars will surely debate the classics for you.

Lin Qilin lost, therefore Lin Qilin is a traitor.

If I win, I can make up a story that's even more captivating than this legend.

Changcheng Shouwang slowly sipped his tea, saying, "I've already told you, some things are just for fun. Even if you take them to heart, you won't believe them. The myriad realms of today are not the same as the time of the great life explosion back then. We don't even know if the God of Death still exists. Maybe some kind of underworld god controls death now. They slander us as the embodiment of chaos, but we can also say that they are the embodiment of chaos. There's no point in discussing right and wrong. Who is stronger and who is weaker is the truth."