Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 702: Chapter 513: The Real Plot_2

"Oh?"

"That’s the source of trouble, an entity that hasn’t yet recognized its identity and mission. If you get close to it now, you’ll inevitably be implicated by its actions once it understands its mission."

"Senior seems to know it well?"

"Not really well, but from its actions, one can speculate a thing or two."

"Since senior says so, why harbor such malice towards Sos?"

"Oh?" Li Er was suddenly taken aback by the words, then looked at Chen Zhixing and laughed, "I just said you’re smart, and now you forgot you’re smart. Fine, since you want to know, I’ll explain."

"Junior is all ears."

"There’s no need to be all ears. It’s a simple truth: the Cosmic Realm exists not because Sos is a World-ender but stands reversed as Power King’s Fury; it’s only because it’s not time for the Cosmic Realm’s destruction yet."

Chen Zhixing: "???"

"What do you mean, senior?" Chen Zhixing, puzzled, could only look to Li Er, hoping to glean a thing or two from a rare senior who harbors goodwill towards him.

"Worlds have lifespans that are long-lasting, beyond cultivators’ comprehension. Even the strongest ones, even Immortals, wouldn’t dare claim they could witness the birth and death of a world."

"....." Very true, but a pointless statement.

"But have you heard anyone say a World Tree should have the same lifespan?" Li Er felt bemused saying this: "It’s just a tree, not truly a whole world. Its essence is finite. Can you honestly say that by looting so-called materials from outside, it can be prolonged?"

Chen Zhixing: "!!!"

Indeed, he hadn’t thought of this!

"The Cosmic Realm, ultimately, is just that World Tree. The additions outside are merely miscellaneous items hanging on the World Tree. No matter how many accumulated, what benefit does it bring to its origin? Once its massive roots completely wither, and it stops absorbing energy from the Star Sea, can you keep the world sustained just by dragging in tens of thousands of Spirit Stone Veins for all beings to endlessly consume?"

"..."

"It’s merely useless effort, offering some psychological comfort. When the World Tree’s roots in the Cosmic Realm completely die off, facing the world’s depletion, what do you guess your friend named Sos will do?"

"Senior...." Chen Zhixing felt somewhat struggling.

"What can be done, except open the source and cut down? If not, guess why his divine position is in charge of death."

Speaking to this point, Li Er felt there was no need to continue.

He thought Chen Zhixing was a smart person, a high-level kind of smart person who gets things at first glance.

Proving Li Er’s intuition correct: At that moment, Chen Zhixing indeed felt sweat pouring like rain.

If the world stops absorbing energy from the outside, would the Cosmic Realm still count as a cultivation world?

Yes or no?

The answer is apparent.

Yes.

Because there’s still a sufficient population here, with its own ecosystem cycle maintained, a world complete in its system, with countless believers trusting Sos.

These elements ensure that even if energy wanes in the future, the Cosmic Realm wouldn’t directly transform into a piece of asteroid drifting in the Star Sea.

But is that really the case?

When that day indeed arrives, what Sos can do boils down to opening the source and cutting down.

Opening the source is easy to understand: plunder from the outside, a suggestion Chen Zhixing gave Sos.

As for cutting down....

When income can’t match expenses, what remains is to cut some parts off, if not most parts!

Yet if most things consuming Spiritual Qi are ’cut down,’ would the Cosmic Realm still qualify as a world then?

What’s the fundamental difference between it and any piece of asteroid in the Endless Star Sea?

’So, it’s said that being defined as Terminal Death God for Sos is not about needing him to destroy entire Cosmic on the day he emerged. If done that way, by slaughtering numerous beings consuming Spiritual Qi, he’d lessen Cosmic Realm’s burden instead. It’s precisely because maintaining the operation of the Cosmic Realm so diligently is accelerating the depletion of the Cosmic Realm’s essence, hastening its destruction.....’

"Hence, this is the Terminal Death God, the culprit of world destruction, while what Sos is doing perfectly matches the role the world assigned him?"

Chen Zhixing felt this absurdly!

A born Death God, showered in contradictions, thinking he’s reversing natural laws to save the market – yet in essence, still fulfilling his mission.

During this process, he received the support of almost all creatures in the world.....

Chen Zhixing couldn’t fathom it.

Killing is simply about bringing a head to the ground; does it need such soft knives to strike the heart?

After a long silence, Chen Zhixing finally spoke:

"So, senior, according to your calculation, how long can the Cosmic Realm still be maintained?"

"It’s already dead."

"What?" Chen Zhixing’s eyes widened at such words, feeling disbelief.

"Why be so surprised? The World Tree is already dead. Otherwise, why do you think Sos was born? He’s the leftover unwilling consciousness condensed after the World Tree’s death. Otherwise, would you really expect some random felonious thing if a group of deities fell?" While speaking, Li Er also felt speechless: "You claim to be a Taoist Lord, but consider yourself: after you die, do you think anything will be born within you? All are directly recycled into the Heavenly Dao as part of the laws."

"Then why does the Cosmic Realm still absorb from the outside...." Chen Zhixing still couldn’t believe it.

"Catch a fish in the sea."

"?"

"Cut it open and skin it, then throw it into the oil pot; it’ll still flail. But would you think the fish is alive at that moment?"

".....Not dead but stiff?"

"Indeed, dead for more than twenty thousand years, yet for the World Tree, it’s been stiff for those two thousand years. As long as the roots aren’t fully destroyed and not frozen, it can mechanically draw energy from the Star Sea."

"How long can this process last?"

"Unknown, possibly three to five years, likely a hundred or few, perhaps still a prolonged ten-thousand-year period, or maybe it’ll wither away the next moment. It’s uncertain. But based on calculations by some old masters of the Sect, it’s expected to happen soon. That’s why there’s this Descent instance this time, and why Yimiao has embarked on this journey."

Huayu Immortal Venerable spoke very frankly, directly stating that this Descent of the Cosmic and Celestial Profound Realm was orchestrated by the Three Great Sacred Lands, aimed at capturing the most precious resources from the Cosmic Realm while its World Tree dies yet not day.

Among these, the divine formats hunted by Yimiao are naturally the centerpiece.

From this angle, Yimiao’s treatment of Ci Yun suddenly doesn’t appear excessive.

The Cosmic Realm is about to be destroyed. Following the world’s extinction and its law’s collapse, the divine formats made of condensed law vanish naturally along with them.

At that time, Ci Yun will wake up, stripped of the influence of being the Great Venerable of Fire in the Cosmic Realm, leaving only some law perception.

Moreover, it may even be a blessing for Ci Yun!

But this process is genuinely grueling.

Piecing it all together, Chen Zhixing felt his scalp tingle.

Indeed, these ancient beings, ruling for thousands of years, aren’t good people. When it comes to scheming, newbies like him can’t compete.

There’s no way around it; the disadvantage is too evident.

They’d start plotting before your birth, invested for millennia, and you, barely emerging without reaching the fragment of their age, how would you ever rival with them on their chessboard?

Indeed, if they didn’t bother to guide you, you might never realize throughout life you were actually a pawn on the chessboard.....

"So, according to senior’s view.... is there a rescue left for the Cosmic Realm?"

"No rescue, just hurry to handle aftermaths."