Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 921 - 258: Unsolvable Combo, On-the-Spot Ascension (Part 2)

But this does not mean the Divine Artifact Clan is heartless.

They too feel anger, greed, fear, but these emotions are never tied to a moral framework.

When the Overlord Sword harms its host, it feels no guilt, just as humans do not repent when stepping on ants; from a higher dimension, there is no difference between the two.

The only guide in the world's operation is the word "benefit."

War, plunder, conspiracy, hatred—are all conflicts dressed up as benefits, peel away their layers, they are all actions conforming to the world's rules.

Competing with beasts for hunting grounds, or plants for sunlight is no different.

The only difference lies within the race; there might exist pure emotions fighting for honor or belief.

But when the vision is expanded to the entire race, it still guides by benefit.

The self-proclaimed civilization only beautifies massacre into conquest and enlightenment.

But powerful forces simply do not need these things.

Just like the Black Tide, skipping all embellishment, directly practicing life's most basic rule: existence is plunder, might is truth.

Being able to survive is the truth.

For it is the survival itself that is the original inscription of civilization history.

The Guidance's words deeply moved Jiang Cheng, yet this concept seemed too cruel.

During the exchange, Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng, under the Overlord Sword's lead, enjoyed the scenery of mountains and rivers.

As the dusk settled in, the Overlord Sword flew over a mirrored lake.

At sunset, the lake swallowed the entire fiery cloud, the sword's shadow startled a flock of white birds, their wingtips stirring ripples that shattered the evening glow into thousands of golden flecks.

Coupled with the distant, lingering sound of a bell, this was so enchanting, Jiang Cheng couldn't resist taking a screenshot as a memento.

At this moment, the Overlord Sword suddenly swooped down, its blade cutting through the misty sea ahead.

Below was a vast chasm, its rock walls etched with countless sword marks, the ground filled with broken, shattered weapons.

From a high-altitude view, the clan land of the Divine Artifact Clan looked like a broken sword spanning the earth.

Metallic gleams flickered on the cliffs on both sides, the surface dotted with honeycomb-shaped holes, each hole holding a weapon, pulsating faintly in the twilight, like worker bees dormant in a hive.

Finally, the Overlord Sword brought them to land on a metal platform.

In front lay a twisted vortex leading to an independent space, a broken sword eight meters long was suspended in mid-air, its blade pierced through by nine bloody chains.

Beside the sword stood a bronze stone pillar.

After Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng landed, the Overlord Sword's voice came:

"Wait for me here."

Having said that, the Overlord Sword hovered before the broken sword, its consciousness tendrils stretching towards the broken sword.

With brief contact, the Overlord Sword vanished into the vortex.

After the Overlord Sword left, Jiang Cheng decisively called out the map, marking it blue.

The map mark is like a bookmark history in a browser, searchable through the sidebar, click to directly jump to the coordinate location.

Now the clan land of the Divine Artifact Clan was clear, the first step towards successfully seizing the "Divine Artifact Rule" had been taken.

"Can this sword be sacrificed?"

Xia Sheng's voice came, Jiang Cheng followed, looking up at the broken sword floating above the independent space vortex.

As the Decomposition initiated, related information flooded his mind:

[Heavenly Sword (dead)]:

Target introduction:

Once the leader of the Divine Artifact Clan's Heavenly Sword Faction, fed on positive energy, the founded Heavenly Sword Lineage adheres to "Heart Tempering," uses the host's belief as the fire, forging Vast Sword Soul, only seeking hosts with a pure heart, drawing Heaven and Earth Righteous Energy into the sword, absorbing courage, benevolence, steadfastness, and other positive emotions as nourishment.

After descending into the Monster World, internal strife broke out between the Heavenly Sword Lineage and the Evil Sword Lineage due to differing development philosophies.

The Heavenly Sword Lineage firmly believed in the persistence of righteousness, only a sincere heart could forge the strongest Divine Body.

The Evil Sword Lineage scoffed at this, considering extreme negative emotions like hatred, suffering, anger, easier to obtain, choosing this path led to faster growth in strength.

The two factions argued for millennia, ultimately splitting completely after descending to the Monster World, war broke out over the ownership of the Divine Artifact Rule.

In the end, the Heavenly Sword Lineage was defeated, their corpses hung outside the clan land.

…

Seeing the Decomposition information, Jiang Cheng's gaze towards the Heavenly Sword changed.

He did not expect the Divine Artifact Clan to have members of the Righteous Path, but unfortunately, evil overwhelmed righteousness, finally the Evil Sword Lineage won.

Jiang Cheng's sight now focused on the bronze stone pillar beside the Heavenly Sword, where a passage was inscribed:

[The way of the Heavenly Sword, strict in choosing hosts, a hundred hard to find one sincere child.]

[The way of the Evil Sword, rejects none, all beings have evil thoughts.]

[The defeat of the Heavenly Sword is not due to insufficient strength, but unrecognized destiny, Monster World weak preying on the strong, the bright road ultimately is falsehood.]

[Not that the Righteous Path is defeated by the Evil Path, but this world is inherently so.]

Seeing these words, Jiang Cheng sighed in his heart.

Evil not suppressing righteousness, how difficult it is to speak of.

As an old player, he knew clearly that the inscriptions on the Heavenly Sword were not wrong.

The background of Monster World is a world of great contention, countless races competing for the peak.

The heavens and earth are filled with slaughter, devouring, Evolution, it could be said every inch of land is buried with the remains of defeated ones, even every second sees civilizations once peaking in the Small World headed toward Destruction.

Here there is no mercy, only those who ascend over bones might likely carve their race's name at the peak of the Monster World.

In such troubled times, despair breeds far faster than hope.

This was evidently also the reason for Heavenly Sword Lineage's defeat.

The order of the Small World can be shaped by the Divine Artifact Clan itself, the Heavenly Sword Lineage and Evil Sword Lineage can each occupy half the world, shaping the ecological image they desire in their territories.