“All of them went mad?”

Lin Xun froze, an extremely bad premonition rising in his heart.

[Rona did not stop. Immersed in that profound memory, she continued telling you…]

[Those Prophets and Great Prophets who were gods and ruled the Schools had all gone mad! Without a single exception!]

[I came from that remote town of Sophia and had seen countless Scholars fall into madness, seen many Scholars lose their reason and turn into monsters… This was the horrifying madness brought by the erosion of disordered Knowledge!]

[The vast and complicated body of Knowledge contains much Disorder. When ordinary Scholars absorb Knowledge, they will inevitably absorb the Disorder within it as well, but Scholars of the Imperial Capital all have various secret methods to prevent Disorder from reaching the critical point.]

[For example, the Direct Vision School prevents large accumulations of Disorder and loss of reason by transplanting only one pair of special eyeballs.]

[The fundamental doctrine of the Multivision School is to transplant various eyeballs with different functions to rapidly increase strength. In this way, more Disorder accumulates than in the Direct Vision School.]

[But after reaching the level of Sage, a Scholar’s ability to distinguish and filter while analyzing Knowledge will greatly improve. As long as one is a bit careful and supplements it with the relevant secret method meditations, it should be absolutely impossible to be eroded by disordered Knowledge again.]

[And yet the Prophets of the School, even a Great Prophet who was the highest leader of the Central Association, that existence closest to the true Lord among countless Scholars, had all already been eroded by disordered Knowledge, becoming complete madmen, reduced to monsters that had lost all reason.]

[After learning this earth-shaking secret, I was horrified and fled the School at top speed…]

[I did not know when They had become like that, nor how long the Schools had hidden this secret. If I had not been the Scholar in the Schools most likely to advance to Prophet, I would never have had any chance to approach Them and discover this deeply terrifying secret.]

[Could it be that the fundamental doctrine of the Multivision School was wrong? That transplanting multiple kinds of eyes meant stepping onto a road of no return, and once one’s strength reached a certain realm, no matter how much Disorder one had accumulated, one would become a mad monster?]

[I came from a remote town and had seen far too many monsters of Disorder. Of course I knew how terrifying Disorder was. I did not want to be reduced to a monster, so I had not transplanted many kinds of eyes into myself, and I had always been extremely careful to avoid accumulating large amounts of Disorder.]

[But if the truth was really as I imagined, then if I continued absorbing Knowledge and continued raising my strength, I too would eventually become that kind of mad monster.]

[With that in mind, I began privately contacting the Direct Vision School. If it meant avoiding becoming a monster of Disorder, then joining the Direct Vision School would not be unacceptable.]

[But no matter how I pleaded, the Direct Vision School refused to let me truly meet those Prophets and Great Prophets. Even when I offered joining the Direct Vision School myself as a condition, it was still not allowed. The only things I could see were Their Illusions of Knowledge…]

[In despair, I came to the conclusion that not only the Multivision School, but even the Direct Vision School had long since fallen.]

[As long as a Scholar broke through the boundary between human and god, regardless of faction, they would become a monster of Disorder!]

[There had to be some unknown reason behind all this. At that point, I recalled the necessary condition for breaking through the boundary between human and god…]

[Only when one’s own Analysis Authority had been grasped to a certain degree, and one’s control over Authority surpassed the limit a demigod could reach, could one become a Prophet, could one become a god… Yet the moment one became a god, one would turn into a mad monster that had lost all reason.]

[I think I had already found the answer…]

[Analysis Authority comes from the Authority of the great existence. There is only one explanation for such a situation, and that is that the Authority of Omniscient True Knowledge had already been polluted, already been eroded by Disorder…]

[So when the Prophets raised their Analysis Authority into true Authority, they would inevitably be eroded along with it.]

[Such an answer made one feel even more helpless and despairing. It meant that the road ahead for Scholars had already been sealed shut. Great Sage was the upper limit of strength that all Scholars could attain.] 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

[Unless one disregarded everything and became a mad monster, no one could possibly become a god…]

[If advancing to godhood meant falling into madness and losing oneself, then what was the meaning of all Scholars spending their entire lives pursuing Knowledge?]

[That great existence who knew all things, that great existence worshipped by all Scholars, had already become the symbol of disordered Knowledge… then was the world I lived in still far from destruction?]

[At that moment, I shamefully discovered that my faith had briefly wavered.]

[I very much wanted to dream of that great existence again and ask Him, do Scholars still have a future? Does He still have a future? Does this world still have a future?]

[But I could not dream of Him again…]

[I did not dare analyze Knowledge anymore, nor did I dare continue raising my own Analysis Authority. To escape the meditation cultivation that had already been engraved into my bones, I began to throw myself wholeheartedly into work, picking up once more the social interactions I had abandoned long ago, trying to use busyness to forget the darkness that was about to descend…]

[It was also at that time that two prophecies once made by Great Prophets spread widely within the School. They were prophecies about the True God’s Envoy…]

[One prophecy said that you were the world-destroyer, while the other said that you were the Savior.]

[When I heard the prophecies about you, it was like a drowning person finally grabbing a straw, like finally seeing a ray of dawn in endless darkness.]

[But judging from the time those prophecies were born, the Great Prophets at that time may already have become slaves of Disorder.]

[Under such circumstances, I did not know how credible prophecies born from them still were, but as long as there was even the slightest hope, I had to grasp it tightly!]

[I was unwilling to see this world filled everywhere with Disorder and ultimately destroyed within Disorder… you were my only hope.]

[I made up my mind not to be afraid anymore. I would continue to improve my Analysis Authority. I would definitely advance to Great Prophet… and you would be my anchor of faith.]

[When breaking through the boundary between human and god, as long as I still remembered you, as long as I still held fast to this anchor, then even if I became a slave of Disorder, I believed that when the day came for your return, I would still be able to offer you some help…]

[…]

[At last, I touched the boundary between human and god, which had once been as solid as an iron wall, but now was as thin as paper and could be pierced with a light poke.]

[Just as I resolved to break through that boundary, I suddenly fell into unconscious sleep for no reason, and once again dreamed of that great existence…]

[The aged and benevolent voice told me that my perseverance and my devotion had moved the true Lord.]

[The True God’s Envoy would descend again just as the prophecy had said, and I too would once again fight side by side with the True God’s Envoy.]

[But when there is no road ahead, throwing oneself into a bottomless abyss is not a rational choice. Choosing another road and continuing forward is what the wise do.]

[Go. Leave the Knowledge School and pursue another path to godhood.]

[The true Lord knows all things. He understands the perseverance and devotion in my heart. He will not blame me…]

[In my daze, I once again saw that old man dressed in white robes, with hair white as snow. He stood inside the magnificent divine hall built from pure white Characters, and beside him crouched a gigantic beast made of Characters.]

[The existence called the Beast of Disordered Knowledge opened its great mouth and lunged at me…]

[I jolted awake and discovered that the large amount of Disorder accumulated in my soul had vanished completely.]