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Li Re stared at the strange sun, and shook his head as he met the gazes of the three people, saying, "Didn't I already say that?"

"This is the end of this ceremony!"

"The Judge did not lie, nor did he say anything wrong. He could not explain things like this clearly."

"But the reason is that we subconsciously ignored the essence of this mission..."

"These seven days and seven rituals link the past on the timeline, but time is the process of things changing!"

"'Change'...Change!?" Victor couldn't help but mutter to himself, and the expression on the werewolf's face became uglier and uglier.

The priest looked at the strange sun in the sky from afar and could not help but stare blankly.

Jing Xueying's pretty face was also stained by the halo of the strange sun, and she was also somewhat surprised by the change in the blink of an eye.

It was calm just a second ago.

This second seems to be like a world-shaking...

"In fact, we should have figured it out long ago." Li Re looked around at the three players and said so. He seemed to be doing a post-event deduction, but in fact, he was just sorting out his thoughts. He didn't care whether others were listening or paying attention to these things. He just said in a calm and gentle tone:

"It's a seven-day ceremony. Even if we count the 'Judge' who appears at the end, there will only be demons and gods blocking the way during the first five days... According to common sense, a level of hurdle should only last five days."

"The so-called birth ceremony only lasts until the 'first birthday' at most——"

"Based on this, the next two days should be extra."

"If it ends only at the 'first birthday ceremony', then the passage to the past built by the five-day ceremony is connected to the time point where Pluto himself is."

"But if we add two days of ceremony, this passage will go deeper into the past..."

"We have reached the Ghost Emperor period when the divine 'Pluto' has not yet been born!"

"The Pluto's divinity was born from the Ghost Emperor's body. They are two sides of the same coin. The essence of their power is creation. However, it now seems that their power has not always been creation. The power of creation is most likely a change brought about by the Pluto, the divine side of the Ghost Emperor, who was born from his body."

Power is the force of a concept.

But concepts are not static.

Positive and negative can be reversed, destruction and creation, and can even alternate like the sun and the moon!

Li Re figured all this out, and he also understood that the Ghost Emperor's appearance at this moment, just as the judge said... was to destroy the world!

"But the seven-day ceremony is a mission issued by 'Paradise'..." Victor understood, but still didn't understand. He didn't understand the purpose of Yu Paradise doing this - he looked at Li Re and just as he said this, he paused, his eyes suddenly widened as if he had realized something.

"It seems you've thought of it yourself."

Li Re spread his hands: "The paradise has never issued any tasks related to the ceremony."

"The mission of Paradise only requires us to protect Hades' reincarnation for seven days and prevent him from being disturbed by ghosts and gods during this period, but it never explicitly requires us to hold a seven-day ceremony."

In other words.

What they did was not considered a mission issued by the park.

All we can say is that Paradise hinted that they should do this - but it didn't say it explicitly.

Li Re was quite distressed, but the reason for his distress was different from that of Victor and other players. He just felt that his thinking was still somewhat limited, not wild enough, and his imagination was not rich enough.

After hearing Li Re's words, the werewolf Victor was stunned again and again.

The priest also withdrew his gaze from the strange sun in the sky, with an extremely complicated expression.

He said:

"So that strange sun is also a passage to the past..."

"To be more precise, that strange sun was the only channel to communicate with the gods Tu Yu Lei and Hades Ghost Emperor in the past before the ceremony was completed." Li Re glanced at him: "After all, before the ceremony began, there was no Eye of Hades - if there was no strange sun, the ceremony could not be carried out at all, and if there was no Him, our daytime would not be so safe, and the previous 'Judge' would not have said that His appearance in the daytime was 'taking risks'."

"Now, it is only natural that the Ghost Emperor returns through the Strange Day."

These were what he thought of just now.

More and more details emerged in Li Re's mind.

More and more lines are gradually connecting the information before and after.

"Is that so..." The priest's expression changed slightly, and he wanted to say something.

The werewolf next to him suddenly punched the ground—and said in a low voice amid the flying dust: "I still can't understand."

"Why would Paradise make such a hint? Such a misleading move?" The werewolf lowered his head, his eyes widened with bloodshot and glared.

Li Re glanced at the werewolf and sighed: "I had the same idea as you before."

"Let's not talk about the rest. At least when the Paradise issues quests, it is very targeted. It will only issue lawful quests to lawful players, and will not force them to go against their conscience and do evil."

"But now I understand."

After taking a more in-depth look at the Judge's memories that spanned tens of thousands of years.

Also after watching the last three ceremonies.

Li Re understood.

"This world is beyond salvation."

The strange sun rose higher and higher in the sky, the flowing sunlight became brighter and more blazing, and the wind that blew in seemed no longer icy, but brought with it a terrifying breath of heat.

Standing in the wind, Li Re raised his head and said so.

He said, “Three thousand years ago, Hades fell. The reason for his fall was actually very simple.”

“He was killed by man!”

"Although the Judge's memory does not contain any memory of this part, there is only the destruction of the original mountains and rivers that were the basis for the existence of ghosts and gods by humans who spread all over the earth when human civilization in this world reached its peak. However, combining the memories of 'Impermanence', 'Ghost Going' and 'Wandering God', it is easy to know this."

"From the memories I have obtained from them, before the fall of Hades, the ghosts and gods had actually already launched a certain range of 'suppression' against human civilization!"

"Under the protection of Hades, humans' reckless development destroyed the heaven and earth. Hades, who represented darkness and nature, had to order the ghosts and gods to restrain their development... However, such restraint caused resentment among humans, so they killed 'Hades' through some unknown means."

"That unknown method is actually this seven-day ceremony. Three thousand years ago, humans made 7749 Hades puppets to cast the curse... So after each ceremony, Hades' reincarnation will die. Each ceremony seems to be celebrating birth, but for ghosts and gods, birth is death!"

"Don't forget, 'ghosts' are dead!" Li Re's words were as powerful as the wind! This was why he became more and more confused as he witnessed the final ceremony that night. When he saw the final reincarnation of Hades who had grown up and looked almost like an ordinary person, he couldn't help but think that Hades' coming to the world and the return of ghosts and gods should never be in the form of living people!

Life and death are an opposition and a conflict!

With the 49 layers of Hades' 'life' restraining Hades' 'death', it's no wonder that Hades fell!

After hearing these words, the priest's expression became more complicated.

Victor, who was pounding the ground with his hands, also paused.

Li Re ignored them and continued:

"This seven-day ceremony is a replica of the curse that humans used to kill Hades, and it is also intended to stimulate the sleeping Ghost Emperor to return."

"After the curse that year, the Hades fell, the Ghost Emperor sank, and the world went out of control."

“But in fact, it’s not the ghosts and gods who are truly out of control. After all, even though Hades has fallen, his divinity still exists. Even though the evil ghosts’ true natures are inevitably exposed, they are not completely out of control. They still have a rational side and can even act collectively to prevent Hades from returning.”

"What's truly out of control are the humans in this world."

"Humanity's loss of control led to the fall of Hades, and also to the destruction of the world and the lack of darkness. Therefore, destroying in the name of 'salvation' may be Paradise's choice."

"After all, ghosts don't die, but the 'divinity' that was born from the ghost's body will disappear. That's not even death, but a more thorough fall. So the only one who can return from the past is the Ghost Emperor who returned to his original state due to the death of Hades, not Hades himself. Reversing time and changing existence is never a power that should be possessed by this level."

"The ruin of this world is absolutely unchangeable."

"The only way to restore it is through destruction and rebirth."

"It is said that there is no construction without destruction, and only after destruction can construction be established!"

"Such behavior does not violate the consistent principles of the park system."

Although the park's mechanism has many loopholes that may be intentional, it is never pedantic!

Li Re has a deep understanding of this.

The priest fell into complete silence.

Jing Xueying let out a sigh of relief.

The werewolf Victor's brain was buzzing and he stood there in a daze. The anger and irritation were gone, and instead, he felt a momentary indigestion.

It's hard to digest information like this.

It's hard to digest such a change.

It's hard to digest and even harder to believe.

But I have to believe it.

after all...

[Side quest: Deciphering the mystery of Pluto's fall (Part 2), completed]

The information from paradise shows that this is the undoubted truth.

The old people in the villages were still kneeling on the ground - they were chanting the so-called new world mentioned in the words of Hades' coming to the world. At this time, the players realized that the new world brought by Hades was really a brand new world!

Li Re grinned as he looked at the strange sun from afar.

He thought that this mission was really interesting - the players he thought were on the side of order actually brought destruction in the end, and the ghosts and gods he thought were on the side of evil had actually been protecting the world all along.

The so-called "destruction is rebirth".

Such a reversal.

So interesting!

And at the same time.

The strange sun finally rose to the highest and farthest point in the sky.

——As if an evil ghost opened its eyes, a blood-red light instantly enveloped the entire world!

Chapter 352: World-destroying crisis, light shining in the darkness

Blood flowed like a stream, and in an instant the whole world was enveloped in scarlet. The eerie sun that climbed to the center of the sky was lush and green. This scene was more like the scene when the "Judge" used the vast mountains and rivers as his court.

It's just that the previous 'Judge' essentially just pulled everything that existed within the vast mountains and rivers into his own spiritual realm, rather than really covering the vast territory of the real world with his own power.

And now.

As the strange sun rose higher, it truly enveloped everything in its glory - including the space itself!

He also not only stretches for thousands of miles, but the entire world!

“He is about to begin destroying the world.”

Although they were surprised, horrified, and unbelievable, the same thing still applies - every player who could reach the silver level had a mind far superior to that of a superman. They would not easily lose their own judgment, and even if they were shocked by the truth for a moment, they would still be able to quickly come back to their senses and calm down!

So the next second.

The 'priest' Taibu couldn't help but speak like this. The tall and thin man in a grey robe looked so solemn that he even looked pale.

'Mirror Demon' Jing Xueying's expression remained the same, but the hand holding the purple flower umbrella had quietly clenched!

The 'werewolf' Victor also raised his head and howled after waking up! The wolf's fangs were ferociously exposed, and his eyes were tightly locked. It seemed that he felt a huge crisis was coming, and his hair on his body was bursting!

Yes, a huge crisis is coming... Li Re looked around at the old men kneeling on the ground in the villages, and then looked at the whole world immersed in red light - he thought that perhaps this was the biggest crisis in this copy mission... But thinking rationally, such a crisis actually stems from their own "efforts".

Since the final result is "Pluto's destruction of the world".

Then it is impossible for Hades, who returned from the past as the 'Ghost Emperor', to specifically avoid destroying someone in the world.

In other words.

At this moment, the players who are still in the world are also within the range of its "destruction"!

However, if Li Re and others had completed the seven-day ritual step by step instead of rushing to fight, then when Hades began to destroy the world, they would have already completed their seven-day mission of protecting Hades' reincarnation from the invasion of ghosts and gods, and they could have chosen to return to reality directly when the power of destruction affected them...

However, there are no ifs in this world.

They chose to fight fast with fast.

Now there are still four days left before the seven-day deadline!

"The crisis of world destruction... I wonder if I can withstand it?"

Li Re took a deep breath and tried hard to suppress his emotion - but he couldn't help but let a smile of anticipation spread across the corners of his mouth!

He could feel that the mysterious sun in the sky was slowly pressing down.

He could feel that the existence that descended from the strange sun was approaching the earth, the mountains, and the rivers step by step.