The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

Rolling his eyes, Shi Bai gave Yakumo Yukari a demonstration.

"So, do you understand now?"

"You mean... your strength has always been suppressed like this?"

Looking at the balloon in the bottle, Yukari Yakumo suddenly realized this possibility and couldn't help but gasp.

"Then what is your true strength..."

"Don't think too much about it. Anyway, you can't possibly reach that level right now. I'm just telling you my current situation in the simplest way. Why do you think those martial artists break through the void? Why do those cultivators undergo tribulations to ascend? It's because that world can no longer contain their existence, so they were kicked out of that world... Although you may not know what breaking through the void or undergoing tribulations to ascend means."

With a slight smirk, Shi Bai casually put the bottle away.

"This world simply cannot contain my existence, but the world itself does not have the ability to kick me out. If I do not choose to actively suppress and reduce my strength, do you believe that I will destroy this world unintentionally? Although that's a bit of an exaggeration... If I weren't afraid of harming this world, why would I need to rely on the power of the Eastern Emperor Bell to go to the Heavenly Realm? Nonsense..."

"...So just how strong are you really?"

After spending some time trying to process what Shi Bai had said, Yakumo Yukari looked up at the man in front of her with a rather complicated expression.

"Hmm... I guess more than 80% of them have a grudge against me and want to kill me?"

After thinking for a moment with his arms crossed, Shi Bai looked slightly regretful.

"Among the bounty posters circulating throughout the myriad realms and the endless void, I am the highest-level bounty, ranking fifth in danger, roughly at that level. To be honest, I really want to see who those guys ranked ahead of me are."

"........."

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Demon world.

Although this departure was only for a few months at most, when he returned here, the scene before him still left Shi Bai stunned.

Yukari Yakumo was completely stunned by what she saw.

"You audacious fiend! I'll expose your true form!! Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon? Prajna Buddhas? World Honored One Ksitigarbha? Prajna Paramita! Appear now!! How dare you blaspheme against my Buddha!! Kill!! Kill!! You dare to show off your petty skills before an expert! Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon? Great Luo Mantra? Prajna Buddhas? Prajna Paramita? Move mountains? Ascend? Hmph, you still stubbornly cling to such magic? I'll take you all, robes. You don't know the immensity of heaven and earth, still asking for blessings, you didn't even put me in the salt water. Flying dragon in the sky? Go!!"

As a Buddhist monk who was driving a black motorcycle and carrying a rocket launcher on his shoulder whizzed past him, Shi Bai suddenly wondered if he had come to the wrong place.

Especially the words that a certain Buddhist monk kept saying that seemed very familiar to him... What exactly happened here during the time he was away?

"No, everything is normal here."

Shen Qi shook her head decisively.

"Speaking of which, have you finished your business? If so, then please hurry up and take my sister away. During the days she's been here, my place has been practically in chaos!"

"She hasn't left yet?"

Shi Bai looked very surprised.

"Logically speaking, the seals on her should have been lifted on their own, so why would she choose to stay with you..."

"The seal was broken long ago!?"

Shen Qi was completely shocked.

"Then why did she say that..."

Before Shenqi could finish her sentence, sensing an inexplicable crisis, she reflexively reached out and grabbed an apple that was hurtling straight toward her head.

"Tsk..."

With a disgruntled pout, Tsukiyo followed him in from outside. Her words were full of displeasure.

"Where did you go without saying a word during this time?"

"More importantly, why haven't you left yet? Are you abandoning the Lunar Capital?"

Turning his head to look at Tsukiyo, Shi Bai looked rather strange, with a surprised expression as if to say, "Why haven't you left yet?"

"Did you get kidnapped and develop Stockholm syndrome?"

"Who said I don't want to leave?! I just came here specifically to tell you!! I will never forget the humiliation I suffered!!!"

After a moment of stunned silence, Yueye saw a sudden surge of anger rising from within her, and she spoke out viciously.

"One day, I will return with the army of the Moon Capital..."

"Oh, then remember to close the door when you go out."

Shi Bai yawned and waved his hand casually.

"Next time you come, remember to bring more of your Moon Capital's specialty, Moon Pigeons. They're a really high-quality ingredient, and I'm starting to miss them."

Tsukiyo: "..."

Turning her head to look at her younger sister who had turned sharply and stormed out of the door, then turning back to look at the person in front of her who was intently peeling an apple with a small knife that she didn't know where she was from, Shen Qi looked thoughtful.

Hmm, I'll have to call Yumeko over to fix the door later... After all, my little sister took the door... But is this what closing the door means?

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Chapter One: The World is Dangerous, A Dangerous World

Although he was only away for a few months because of Saigyouji Yuyuko's matter, a wide variety of things happened in the Demon World during those months.

The eminent monk, Saint Byakuren, fell in love with racing, and his fighting style began to change from ranged magic to melee physical attacks. He not only learned a lot of body-enhancing magic from Shinki, but also fell in love with the Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon.

The relationship between the sisters, Shinki and Tsukiyomi, is getting warmer and warmer. As the saying goes, "a beating is a sign of affection, scolding is a sign of love, and love to the extreme is kicking." They fight almost every day over all sorts of trivial matters.

Tatara Kogasa and Alice, who are the same age, get along very well and are almost inseparable every day. With Alice's help and advice, Tatara Kogasa's success rate in scaring people increases dramatically... although most of the time she just acts cute.

Sariel was still building her fallen temple, never forgetting her dream of one day attacking the heavens and demanding back her wages from God. Due to certain shared personality traits, she had formed a deep friendship with a certain lazy god of death who worked as a newspaper editor and had no rest time, constantly traveling back and forth between the demon realm and the underworld, to the point of harboring resentment.

As for the all-powerful maid Yumeko... due to the huge stockpile of weapons someone left behind in the Demon World, she said that pistols and grenade launchers are much more useful than throwing knives, and she has a strong tendency to develop into a human-shaped walking gunpowder magazine professional maid.

—These are the changes that occurred in the Demon Realm in the months following his departure.

After he returned, it seemed that she was really angered by his attitude, and that very day, Tsukiyo stormed out of the door and left the Demon Realm alone.

However, compared to what he would do after returning to the Moon Capital in the moonlit night, Shi Bai was more looking forward to the Moon Capital's specialty, the moon pigeon...

After Yakumo Yukari learned the "One Dream of Yellow Millet" technique from Matara Okina and returned, before leaving this world to travel to other worlds, Tokihachi made a special trip back to Hourai with Yakumo Yukari's help.

The current timeframe is approximately 1100 AD, which is about three to four hundred years away from the time he planned to sever the dragon vein and cut off the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Although Motara Okina's assurance that Hong Meiling would not be greatly affected was something Shi Bai was still slightly worried about.

It must be said that due to her innate talent and the fact that she is the incarnation of a dragon, Hong Meiling's progress in strength is incredibly rapid. In fact, hundreds of years ago, she had already reached the standard to ascend to the heavens and become an immortal.

However, due to her extremely special status, the Heavenly Realm has never responded to this matter, and Hong Meiling herself is completely unaware of it.

If this world is to become strong quickly, it is absolutely impossible for him to do it alone. The power of the world is the power of all living beings. Only when the power of all living beings becomes strong will the world itself become strong.

Therefore, Shi Bai has always been intentionally guiding the growth of the people in this world.

Shinki was arguably the one he valued most, which is why he shared those secrets with her beforehand. Tsukiyomi's talent was also exceptional; the Moon Capital's current immense power was inseparable from her decisiveness, which was why Tokihaku wanted to bring her under his wing and mentor her. As for Yakumo Yukari's potential, she was the one he most anticipated… She needed more growth; otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen to bring her along on this trip.

To be honest, watching these people grow up one by one fills Shi Bai with a great sense of accomplishment. Compared to the empty life of aimless wandering in countless worlds in the past, he prefers his current life. After all, a simple and peaceful life is the best.

Having something to care about means having a weakness. Shi Bai doesn't allow himself to have a weakness, but he doesn't allow himself to be without something to care about.

Because of this concern, he had to be even more careful.

This world is currently too fragile and too weak. If he were to accidentally bring about its destruction because of him, he might be able to save others, but he absolutely cannot save Xiaoye, who has already assimilated with this world and become the Dragon God, because the Dragon God represents the world itself.

In the past, he wanted to prevent that from happening, but because he sealed away too much of his power at that time, although he managed to save Xiaoye in the end, some things still happened irreversibly.

So after that, he had to rein in his previous carefree and playful attitude and start planning ways to make the world stronger.

Because he had a weakness, and no way out.

...Who told him to have so many enemies?

Whether a world is powerful or not depends mainly on three aspects.

The first aspect is the strength of the most important element, the "Origin of the World," because this determines the ultimate upper limit of the world's development and represents the world's capacity to accommodate others.

Take this world for example. In the beginning, the world's origin was very powerful, and the ancient mythological era was even more brilliant. The Eastern God Clan, who once stood at the pinnacle of the world, was the pinnacle of this world. This can be seen from the various talents they inherited.

Shi Bai once thought that the destruction of that era was due to the world itself, but after traveling through countless worlds, Shi Bai has been able to vaguely discern the true cause of that era's destruction.

—The world's development has reached the upper limit that the [Origin of the World] can tolerate, but the world itself has not given birth to a strong enough leader to continue to lead the world forward and protect it in subsequent crises.

That world at that time was like a piece of delicious, fat meat placed in front of a pack of hungry wolves. A world that did not have enough self-defense capabilities but whose origin was strong enough would attract the covetous eyes of all sorts of mysterious beings in the void.

The Eastern God Clan did indeed make a mistake back then.

Although they brought peace to the world, in that peaceful environment, it was impossible for any truly powerful beings capable of protecting the world to emerge. Meanwhile, the world's development had already reached the upper limit that the [Origin of the World] could allow... It was an absolute dead end.

When those mysterious beings from the void descend upon the world, the world will not simply be destroyed and rebuilt, but will be devoured as delicious food.

The Eastern God Clan realized this in the end, but it was too late. In that already deadlocked situation, the destruction of the world was inevitable; it was just two possible choices: one was self-destruction followed by rebirth, and the other was complete annihilation, or, if they were lucky, transformation into the [Fire Seed World].

Faced with these two choices, they actually only had one option.

This is the true reason why the ancient mythological era—that brilliant era—was destroyed.

It resolutely chose self-destruction, discarding most of the [World Origin] as bait in exchange for the world's own safety... This is a choice as drastic as cutting off one's own arm, and it is also the wisest choice that the world itself would absolutely make.

The amount of the "Origin of the World" determines the true upper limit of the world's development. If it were not for such a critical moment of life and death, the world would never make such a choice.

It's simply because at that point, the world itself had no way out.

The second aspect is the size of the world itself.

Like the ancient mythological era of this world, the shape of the world itself was similar to the primordial world, with a round sky and a square earth.

The primordial world has always been one of the most powerful worlds among all the heavens and myriad realms. If a saint or similar being were to be born in such a primordial world, they would already possess, at the very least, the ability to protect the world.

However, in the ancient mythological era, due to the peace brought by the Eastern God Clan, no saint-like being was born, so in the end, they had no choice but to choose self-destruction.

After the world was destroyed and rebuilt, it became like the planet Earth in the universe. Although it appears that the size of the world has increased, in reality, the size of the world itself has decreased by an unknown number of times, because only Earth can be called a world.

Unless this world gradually develops and expands to a point similar to Dragon Ball, in which case the entire universe can represent this world, the general term for a world can only refer to Earth.

However, situations like those in the Dragon Ball world are ultimately rare; most worlds follow a similar pattern to the present.

If this world could truly reach the scale of the Dragon Ball world or the Marvel universe, Shi Bai wouldn't need to start planning so early to gradually strengthen it. Such a world would already be qualified to challenge those beings in the void.

Even if there is an apocalypse, an evil god, or some other strange disaster, it is really nothing to the world.

However, Shi Bai has traveled through so many worlds, but he has encountered very few similar worlds like the Dragon Ball world or the Marvel world. He has encountered far more worlds similar to the prehistoric era.

If the world had not been forced to discard most of its "origin" in order to save itself when it chose self-destruction, it would not have evolved into what it is now, but would still be the primitive, flat, and round world it is today.

But there was no other way, because there were no other options.

The third aspect is the number of strong individuals in the world.

The third aspect is closely related to the first. If the [Origin of the World] is weak enough, then that world itself may not even be able to give birth to strong beings.

[Origin] The evolution of all things, whether from the mystical or scientific perspective, is essentially the same. When anything is developed to its extreme, it can be considered terrifying enough.

In fact, throughout the myriad worlds, among the two most widely circulated forces—science and mystery—there has been a continuous debate about which force is stronger.

Is science more powerful or magic?

Shi Bai believed that the mystical side was stronger than the scientific side, until he accidentally encountered a mad scientist in a certain world, which changed his mind.

He was a strange and alcoholic mad scientist, whose madness surpassed even that of others. Destroying a world or even a universe was commonplace in his eyes, and wiping out hundreds of millions of humans was of no concern to him. He could jump timelines, create new species, freely travel through parallel universes, rewrite or even create the history of the universe... He was almost omnipotent.

Because he never expected that an old man could possess such terrifying scientific power, he suffered a lot at the hands of the other party, leaving a very deep impression on him.

If a world has too few powerful beings to protect it, then the world's ultimate fate is sealed, and it will inevitably perish. This is the reason why the ancient mythological era was destroyed.

The strength of the [Origin of the World], the specific size of the world, the number of powerful beings in the world... these three factors together determine the strength of a world.

Of course, a powerful world has its advantages, and a weak world also has its advantages.

Ordinary low-level worlds are generally not of interest to any beings because their [world origin] is weak. After all, the resources gained from destroying such a world are more than the resources spent, so why bother?

Therefore, relatively speaking, this weak world is quite safe, but this safety does not mean absolute safety. For example, what if one day a being from the void accidentally passes by this world and then decides to make a move? After all, why not do something that's convenient?

You wouldn't travel hundreds of kilometers by car, plane, or ship to pick up a 100-yuan note on the ground, but if you find a 100-yuan note on the roadside while taking a walk, unless you're a super-rich person who doesn't care about money, you'll definitely pick it up.

Therefore, although this vulnerable world is said to be safe, it can only be relatively safe, because it has no means of responding to disasters.

A simple, low-level viral apocalypse could destroy the world; a painting casually tossed into the world by an evil god could completely corrupt and degrade it... The same principle applies everywhere.

The world is dangerous, a dangerous world.