Otherworldly Desert Dust-Chapter 461 - 416 Divine Power of Houtu
Before, they just thought Wu Hen had gone mad.
Turned out he had completely lost his mind.
Now, Disaster was merely using various Divine Skills to train Wu Hen. If Wu Hen could survive these Divine Skills and Techniques, then he would be considered victorious.
How could he even harbor the luxury of thinking about attacking Disaster?
Did he find his death not swift enough?
"Come on, how do you find this three-in-a-row I drew?" Bai Ze, to distract Wu Hen from the pain of reshaping his flesh, drew a checkerboard on the ground and began with a circle to represent a piece.
Wu Hen decisively drew a big cross on top of the three beads!
"My thinking has been too one-dimensional, just like this chessboard. If I follow your tic-tac-toe strategy, blocking one end and then the other, you can keep making moves. As long as you don't make a mistake, you'll eventually form two three-in-a-row patterns, and whichever end I play, I can't win—I would be trapped in your game," Wu Hen had a new realization.
"So you plan to strike first, to connect four before I do, forcing me to block you, turning defense into offense, turning defeat into victory?" Bai Ze said.
Wu Hen stuck out a freshly reformed finger and shook it.
"I will just flip the chessboard and then give the person playing chess with me a good thrashing, making the chess player submit to me. Isn't that a way of breaking through upwards?" Wu Hen said.
"???"
Bai Ze's head was shrouded in fog, which took the shape of his thoughts.
Being a Divine Beast, it was very simple for it to show its head full of exclamation points and question marks in a two-dimensional way.
"Have you ever considered that the moment you try to flip the board, you'll be immediately grabbed by the throat and pinned to the ground by your opponent, then you won't even have the chance to play chess with them anymore, losing the little bit of interest value you had left?" Bai Ze said earnestly.
"We need to make rational use of the rules. Disaster doesn't intend to kill me; that's the perfect flaw," Wu Hen stated.
"Right, right, right, you're so clever to think of this. But if you ask for death, they'll probably oblige," Bai Ze said.
"I'm still alive, aren't I? When alive, one must be bold, use the strategies of breaking the game and breaking dimensions to defeat the invincible enemy. Just like when we were trapped in Red Port, farmed by high-dimensional insects, even high-dimensional life and high-dimensional Gods must abide by the truths of the Law. You know about the dark forest theory, don't you? The Three-Body People, as strong as they are, fear a higher-level civilization that could destroy them, so revealing one's cosmic coordinates is a taboo for both low-dimensional and high-dimensional civilizations, and a Law they must all follow…"
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"Similarly, in Otherworldly Dust, the food chain is infinite, which means no matter how powerful a being that has appeared in Otherworldly Dust, it also has Laws it must follow and dread."
"Disaster confined itself here because it does not wish to end up a perished high-dimensional God. It doesn't like slaughter, but yearns to create worlds for Cangling like the eight Divine Officers. Based on this Law, it won't kill me. While training me, it is also giving itself a chance to appreciate the true essence of life from the low dimensions... In short, it can't kill me. If it kills me, its spiritual path will shatter, and its struggling existence here will lose all meaning."
Wu Hen laid out a pile of theories, on one hand, to broaden his own thinking, and on the other hand, to consider from the perspective of high-dimensional life.
Disaster was too powerful, so powerful that the simplest Divine Skill could torment him for a century.
Therefore, continuously making mistakes and learning from them was like someone moving through a thorny jungle, marking his way through the vast expanse to determine direction, carefully avoiding poisonous thorns, and stopping to disinfect whenever pricked.
If he genuinely had the perseverance to endure for ten thousand years, then indeed, after ten thousand years he might have a chance to leave the thorny jungle. This clumsy method might work, but it would consume a huge amount of time.
Time is not without meaning; it is a measure in itself. One cannot be trapped within this scale.
"I am in a thriving jungle, meaning to move forward, continuously marking, and eventually getting out, but this method is not the best."
"I find the tallest tree within my field of vision, then spend some time thinking about how to climb to the top of the tree…"
"Then from the highest point, determine my major direction before combining it with the clumsy method to move forward."
Wu Hen was still pondering there.
Bai Ze, on the side, felt that what Wu Hen was saying made sense.
Wu Hen's current situation was like being in a giant thorny forest, with Disaster's vast Divine Skills representing the jungle Wu Hen needed to step through step by step. If he decrypted layer by layer, judging by Disaster's high-dimensional thinking, it would take at least ten thousand years.
"Climb to the top of the tree, overlook the surrounding forest, observe the layers of the thorny maze; once you determine the distribution pattern of the jungle, then move forward with conviction. This would allow for a quicker escape from the predicament," Bai Ze summarized, feeling that Wu Hen had indeed grown.
"No, no, no…" Suddenly, Wu Hen had another burst of inspiration. He slumped there, gazing up at the sky, his cheeks aglow with confidence and enlightenment, "I shouldn't climb to the top of the tree to observe the jungle, I should climb to the top to observe the stars."
"Observe the stars?"
"Once I understand the rules of the stars, no matter if I am caught in a thorny forest, boundless desert, lost lands, or myriad mountain passes, I can find a clear direction to proceed, using the least amount of time to escape the current predicament," Wu Hen gazed at the sky of the Mountain and River Realm, which also reflected the stars.
This statement suddenly enlightened Bai Ze as well!
Disaster's Divine Skills were boundless; trying to unravel them would be an endless endeavor.
In this period, Wu Hen had clearly fallen into a predicament, contemplating how to survive against his opponent's Divine Skills. To conquer the Disaster of Death, he had to stand at a higher perspective than the Disaster itself to contend with it.
The evolution of Perception in Otherworldly Dust was far more challenging than the evolution of the Body Soul, also because higher-dimensional Perception would overlook everything: the instinct of life to pursue benefits and avoid harm, the food chain's interdependencies, the cyclical Laws of heaven and earth...
Out of the blue, Bai Ze realized that Wu Hen's evolution wasn't just limited to his soul. His Perception Realm was growing in a terrifying manner. He began to transcend his current situation, viewing his plight from a higher angle and seeking a way to break through dimensions!
"After all that's been said, have you thought of a way to defeat the Disaster?" Bai Ze asked in a whisper.
"I have."
"Then... then we don't have to stay here for ten thousand years, playing Go for the next ten thousand years, which is indeed a bit tedious," Bai Ze said.
Wu Hen laughed. If Bai Ze were human, she would definitely be the kind who's exceptionally beautiful with a mature charm, yet her playful and naive side couldn't help but show.
"Don't worry, it won't take ten thousand years," Wu Hen said.
...
Once again, his physical body was reformed. This was the strength of the Black Divine Death Sword, its undying nature.
Wu Hen once again held his sword, his gaze fixed on the Disaster, who currently took the form of the Moon Palace Wind Lady, her silhouette like that of Chang'e, the moon goddess, managing the frosty winds, ethereal within the surging disaster winds.
"Again!"
Wu Hen's momentum was like a rainbow, once more contending against the Disaster.
The Moon Palace Wind Lady swung her Immortal Sleeve, summoning the Fei Wind once more, and the immense wind trajectories became personified in Wu Hen's Perception as Wind Soldiers and Generals standing proudly above Yunluan like Daluo Lie Xian, looking down condescendingly upon Wu Hen atop the mountain peak.
The mountains had regrown anew. The Disaster possessed a power similar to Nuwa God End's capacity for creation. Even if this Mountain and River Realm turned to dust, it would soon be redrawn.
Wu Hen did not alter his approach.
He still used his sword to draw canyons, creating layers upon layers as a form of protection.
He was waiting for the Moon Palace Wind Lady to align the Wind God Formation, as that moment would bring Wu Hen closest to the Wind Lady!
As expected!
Wu Hen saw the Moon Palace Wind Lady press down all the Fei Wind while casting her Divine Skills. Her entire posture also had to lower!
"Buzzzzzzz!"
Suddenly, Wu Hen turned into a black streak shooting across the heavens, the vast Barbaric Mountain behind him shattered into pieces from the force he had just unleashed.
Below him were waves of destruction, layer by layer pulverizing the Barbaric Mountain.
Above him, Wind Soldiers and Generals densely populated the Nine-layered Cloud Mountain. Wu Hen charged directly towards the Moon Palace Wind Lady before the congregating Fei Winds could gather!
The Moon Palace Wind Lady fluttered her sleeves, manipulating the Fei Winds to surround and cut off Wu Hen's path. Countless Wind Soldiers and Generals formed multiple Heavenly Formations beneath her, creating a Wind Disaster Heavenly Formation Group!
This Wind Disaster Heavenly Formation Group was even more terrifying. Fei Winds collided with each other, swirling into massive cyclonic ripples. These ripples then combined to form the Wind Disaster Heavenly Roar, creating a Constant Star Storm that continuously collapsed the sky of the Mountain and River Realm.
The collapsing forces also annihilated countless Wind Soldiers and Generals.
Of course, if Wu Hen went further up, his soul would disperse, making it unlikely for his body to reconstruct.
The Disaster realized that such power would utterly wipe out Wu Hen's life; hence it had to quickly transform, appearing in the guise of the Houtu Divine Phoenix and summoning Wasteland Stars to fill the collapse caused by the wind disaster!
For the first time, the Disaster showed signs of panic. It had never feared Wu Hen's power, but it also feared its own. It was a Divine Officer out of control, who, unable to master its own might, had sealed itself here. As Houtu Divine Phoenix, it suppressed the Moon Palace Wind Lady's force, attempting to restore everything to its original state.
However, the Disaster soon realized Wu Hen hadn't fallen into the collapsing area of the wind disaster.
His every assault came to an abrupt halt just as he was about to reach the Moon Palace Wind Lady, then he quietly watched the Wind Soldiers and Generals collide with each other, causing spatial collapse.
The Disaster, anxious and transformed into the Houtu Divine Phoenix, feared perishing by its unrestrained Divine Power. Wu Hen took it all in.
He admitted that he had exploited the Disaster's weaknesses and at the same time felt a touch of emotion from it. It seemed to possess the same compassionate heart towards all living beings as the other Divine Officers.
"I've broken through your million Wind Soldiers and Generals," Wu Hen said, not with a look of pride, but spoke calmly to the Disaster.
"Very well," the Disaster swept aside the hint of disarray in its mind, conveying these thoughts again,
"Then brace yourself for Houtu's Divine Power!"
