Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 453 A Century Has Passed By in a Hurry

"Have you ever experienced a situation like Alice's?" Tang San asked.

"Um...no, after all, Mengmeng and I are still young, only a thousand years old." Nian Nian shook her head. "The average lifespan of the Elf race is very long, around ten thousand years. As for those who reach the God level, because of their understanding of nature and life, they can live forever in this environment full of life force."

"Among the elves, aside from those cunning individuals, only Queen Alice has reached the level of a god."

"It is said that tens of millions of years ago, there were many god-level elves, but because they lived too long, their minds collapsed, and they chose to merge themselves into the Eternal Realm and offer themselves to the great creator god... Now, some elves, after reaching the demigod level, have been suppressing their breakthroughs because they are afraid that even if they become immortal, they will die from mental collapse. Elves can sense that kind of pain through the traces of their remaining aura. Elves who have sensed that aura can break through their realm relatively quickly, but none of them want to break through to the god level. The feeling of losing oneself is truly terrifying."

Tang San's heart sank as he suddenly realized that this Eternal Domain truly nurtured all living beings, providing them with a place to live. They provided faith power to the three weapon spirits and one weapon soul, and even if they eventually became gods, their souls would gradually collapse over time, eventually leading to their death.

But how did King Easton, the Holy Dragon, the Eternal Angel, and the Eternal Lord endure their respective tribulations of time?

Is it because of a time ratio of "one day to one year", or is it because of being asleep most of the time and unaware of the outside world, or is it because of faith?

Faith can also be seen as a manifestation of a certain spiritual will.

The physical body decays and energy diminishes, but faith can be passed down from generation to generation as life continues. As long as the lineage of life continues, faith will not perish. There will always be devout believers who will follow one after another, willingly contributing their unnoticed power of faith to the gods they worship and respect.

No wonder God needs faith!

Tang San gradually realized the truth...

And each time Alice is reborn, her memories are erased. Could this be considered a kind of reincarnation?

Perhaps in the eyes of the elves, Queen Alice is still the same queen, only her memories have changed.

The composition of the soul: the outer shell of the soul + the immortal true spirit.

The Alice before me may still be the same immortal spirit as the original one, but the soul shell composed of memories has definitely changed because of each different rebirth.

It's the same person, but it's not the same person.

It must be said that this might be a different kind of immortality.

Faith can make God eternal.

However, Tang San discovered another method from Queen Alice: to experience hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions, or even unimaginable lifetimes of reincarnation, making each of his lifetimes independent, and then, at the final moment, returning to his true self.

"Your idea is a bit dangerous." Electrox felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing Tang San's words. He was a soul, after all. "If you really experience so many reincarnations, when you awaken, you'll have to process an almost endless amount of memory information. Won't you go insane?"

"It's just a conjecture, but I feel that this is the key to imprinting all our information onto the Undying True Spirit." Deep down, Tang San had a premonition—

"What's your name?" Alice pulled Tang San out of his thoughts. She sat casually on the steps, her gentle, jade-like eyes fixed on him. Her hands supported her slightly chubby cheeks. She had no airs of a queen, just like a friendly and lively little girl.

"Your Majesty, my name is Tang San," Tang San introduced himself with a smile.

"Don't call me Your Majesty, it sounds awful, I'm sick of it." Alice was a little annoyed. Although the memories on her soul had been erased, her body's instincts remained. "Just call me Alice. By the way, what brings you here?"

"To complete the Creator God's mission and enable the beings of the Eternal Realm to live for themselves." Tang San's gaze deepened, as if the Creator God, seated high on his throne, was spreading his wisdom to the world.

"That sounds amazing, but what exactly is it?" Alice took a deep breath and asked curiously.

"In short, it's about loving life, finding what you love, rather than dedicating everything to a divine faith. Just do what you care about." Tang San smiled and extended his hand to Alice. "Would you like to see a different future?"

Without hesitation, Ellie placed her delicate white hand in Tang San's palm and said, "That sounds interesting. Well then, I'll go with you to see the different future you're talking about. Hopefully, it'll be more interesting."

"As you wish, esteemed Alice." Tang San felt that his ability to deceive people had improved again, but the reason why he was able to succeed so easily was directly related to the "simplicity" of the Elf race.

So, over the next few days, the entire central city of the Elf Kingdom knew that a human had come from the Eternal Realm to spread the wisdom of the Creator God.

What Tang San did was quite simple: in each region he arrived at, he would randomly find a spot, release the Blue Silver Emperor, and use its rich life force to attract a large number of elves to come and begin spreading his "great teachings".

While it may sound like grand principles, Tang San doesn't actually preach abstract concepts. Instead, he teaches the elves, based on their natural abilities, how to use their skills in various creative ways within the forest environment in a mutually beneficial way.

Based on Tang San's understanding over the past few days, the relationship between the elves and the forest generally follows this rule: trees provide elves with shelter, food, and life force, while elves are responsible for spreading plant seeds and using the power of nature to better promote plant growth.

This is a slow way to increase the forest's extent.

The more frequently the elves used the power of nature, the more luxuriantly the plants grew, regardless of whether the elves actively stimulated the plants using the power of nature.

Clearly, whenever the elves use the power of nature, for whatever purpose—whether it's planting, weaving, or fighting—the plants will grow more luxuriantly.

The energy cycle within the larger environment has always existed.

Tang San's teachings aimed to help the elves, who already had their material needs met, to love what they liked, whether it was being skilled in woodworking, enjoying painting, or loving to fight.

They all offered suggestions based on their established habits, and broadened their research and learning approaches and directions.

After all, you have to eat one bite at a time, instead of directly plugging in a foreign template. You have to adapt to local conditions and change as needed. That's the essence of learning.

Tang San also became known as a great sage among the elves.

In the blink of an eye, a hundred years have passed in the Eternal Realm. The Elf race, including the Moonlit Elves, Tang San and his followers, visited one by one, opened their altars to preach, and spread their ideas.

Over the past century, Tang San's appearance has remained unchanged, his understanding of time has deepened, and his soul power has not changed much, still at level eighty.

Will the Douluo rules also apply within the Eternal Realm?

Obvious.

This was a special "care" given to Tang San by the Lord of Eternity, but Tang San knew that his soul power had been improving over the past hundred years. Once he obtained the eighth soul ring, his soul power would reach level ninety!

If he were to obtain a ninth soul ring, his soul power would reach level 95 or higher!

If it were someone else, they might be able to reach level 100 directly!

However, Tang San's soul power was of extremely high quality, and with the cultivation of the Creation and Annihilation Scripture, which had been reorganized over the past hundred years, it was already equivalent to the divine power of a first-level god.

However, Tang San was certain that even with his soul power at level 80 and without using the Fusion Ring, he was still comparable to a first-level god.

(End of this chapter)