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Chapter 69 The Prodigy's Grand Strategy for Eternity

The extraordinary Slan, a supreme being of the thirteenth level of spiritual power, brought back the devastating news from outside the gate that this world was about to be destroyed by the Holy Ancestor.

Among the many psionic monsters in the Ring World, some disbelieved, some were skeptical, and some were terrified or indignant, vowing to fight against this world-ending calamity and to contend with the Holy Ancestor who shaped heaven and earth.

These psionic giants, still in turmoil over the devastating news of the world's end, failed to notice that Grand Master Slan, who was at the thirteenth level of psionic power, quietly withdrew from the Pantheon after delivering the message.

Just as they were about to leave, someone called out the true name of the Great Sultan.

He looked closely and realized it was his confidante whom he hadn't seen for many years. When they parted, she was only a level nine spiritual energy user, but now she had advanced to level twelve and become a spiritual energy giant.

"Why are you leaving?"

Looking at the peerless beauty who remained as stunning as ever after all these years, Grandmaster Slan calmly replied, "My invincible heart is shattered. What's the point of keeping me here any longer?"

"How big is the gap between you and the Holy Ancestor?" the beautiful woman asked.

Grand Venerable Slan remained silent, then replied with a hint of worry, "...I don't know. I only know that it's even greater than the gap between level thirteen and level seven. It's a terror that no individual can withstand; only the power of heaven and earth can match it."

Having obtained the answer from Slan, his confidante could not help but feel sad.

What kind of monster could rival heaven and earth?

If such a monster were to destroy this world, would any living beings in this world have a chance to survive?

"Are we really just waiting to die?" the beautiful woman asked sadly.

Upon hearing his confidante ask such a question, Grand Master Slan's originally calm expression gradually changed.

"No, we won't die! I firmly believe that the world is flawed, and there's always a glimmer of hope!"

"I will relinquish all my cultivation, rebuild an invincible heart, and travel the world to seek a glimmer of hope to fight against the cataclysmic terror!"

His words were full of resentment. A supreme expert of the thirteenth level of psionic power was actually afraid because of the great power displayed by his powerful enemy.

While feeling deeply ashamed, Slan was also resentful of the cowardice he had displayed.

He had already silently vowed to fight the Holy Ancestor who created the world, both to fight for a chance of survival for all living beings in the circular world, and also for his own shattered invincible heart.

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Time flies, and the spacetime in the test zone continues to shrink. Twenty thousand years have passed, and the thirty-seventh and thirty-sixth circular worlds have successively shattered due to the shrinking space.

Pulled by the red dwarf's gravity, the debris fell toward the star.

Every time the circular world collapses, it is a terrifying catastrophe.

After the ring world collapsed due to spatial compression, the planetary creatures outside the test area no longer used psionic energy to maintain the structural strength. As a result, the ring world collapsed very quickly, and the fragments were very small. From a macroscopic perspective, it looked like a sandcastle collapsing.

However, this "small" is relative to the scale of a star. From a biological perspective, each fragment of a star is much larger than the moon, and some even have a mass exceeding that of Saturn.

It's important to understand that an asteroid with a diameter of ten kilometers caused dinosaurs to fall from their dominant position in Earth's ecosystem. What if it were a celestial body with the same mass as Earth that collided with them?

What if countless such celestial bodies collided in succession?

Fortunately, the psionic beings in the Ring World all live on the inner ring facing the red dwarf star. Although there are some pretentious psionic beings living on the shaded side, they are only a minority.

Maintained by the psychic energy of planetary lifeforms, the ring worlds cannot disintegrate due to the impact of fragments. The beings in each ring world do not need to face the terrifying shockwaves directly, but only need to face violent earthquakes.

Even so, many creatures with weaker constitutions and those sleeping on the ground were directly killed by the shockwave, leaving corpses strewn across the fields for miles!

Each major collapse served as a resounding alarm, reminding the psionic giants at the foot of the gate of the absolute gap between them and the Holy Ancestor.

The Holy Ancestor created the circular world, but they couldn't even stop it from collapsing, or prevent the fragments from colliding with other circular worlds. They could only watch helplessly as everything happened.

After the two major collapses of the Ring World, more than half of the psionic monsters left the base one after another.

No one forced them to leave. Like Slan, who left the Pantheon back then, their courageous and enterprising spirit was completely crushed by a profound sense of powerlessness. Once they admitted defeat, no amount of secluded cultivation would make a difference.

The psionic powerhouses who remained at their posts harbored a completely opposite mindset. The profound sense of powerlessness did not defeat them; instead, it filled them with longing.

These powerful psionic beings believed that if the Holy Ancestor could reach such a terrifying level of psionic power, why couldn't they?

As time went by, the psionic giants who were cultivating in seclusion at their outposts were somewhat surprised to find that the number of psionic powerhouses at their outposts seemed to have increased considerably, with many new faces they did not recognize appearing.

Every hundred years thereafter, the number of powerful spiritual cultivators who came to cultivate in seclusion at the outposts set up near the gate would increase.

This is very unnatural.

Especially when some veteran psionicists discovered that these new faces all had similar cultivation methods, and could be easily identified as improvements on the same cultivation method.

After inquiring, the spiritual sovereigns at the outposts understood that during the time when Slan had been out of contact, he had established cultivation academies in various ring worlds and unconditionally taught him the cultivation method that could reach the thirteenth level of spiritual energy.

After traveling through various circular worlds, inspired by an old man, Grand Master Slan realized something.

One person's power is ultimately limited, but the power of a group is limitless. If everyone in the Ring World had level thirteen spiritual power, what would the Holy Ancestor who created the Ring World be? What would the collapse of the Ring World be?

None of these are problems anymore.

Therefore, Grand Master Slan began his path of enlightenment, aiming to educate all living beings in the Circular World so that everyone could reach the thirteenth level of spiritual energy in order to fight against the great terror of future cataclysm.

Many psionic giants were drawn to this new path found by Slan.

Admittedly, cultivating and improving one's spiritual energy level is still the right path, but it is undeniable that gathering the spiritual energy of a group is also a powerful shortcut.

Thus, the era of individual power ended, and the era of collective power began.

Every powerful psychic trains an army for themselves, and they are the commanders of this army. Whenever there is a need to compete in psychic power, they command their psychic armies to compete in psychic power.

Slan knew that someone had copied his ideas, but he was happy to see this happen. No matter how fiercely individuals in civilizations fight in the future, whether they are good or evil, they will all walk the path of this united power.

Ultimately, they grew and expanded, achieving complete unification of all powerful psionic beings in the Ring World.

Unity is not only a powerful path, but also the grand plan of Slan in this world.

All of this is so that all living beings can have a chance to survive in the face of that cruel and merciless catastrophe!

Seemingly inspired by Grand Master Slan, many spiritual sovereigns realized that simply cultivating in seclusion was not a shortcut to becoming stronger, and thus began to make their own plans...

(End of this chapter)