Starting with Growing Mushrooms-Chapter 333 - 257: Communication
Liu Jun savored the drink in the tavern, observing everything in this world.
"May I sit here?" A tall and robust man approached and sat down.
God glanced at the man.
He used a subtle concealment technique, a mysterious man who could sense him...
"A stranger from the distant stars?" God suddenly spoke.
Lately, a certain Goddess of Destiny was fishing, often attracting unknown enemies upon hearing.
"Just a small traveler." The man appeared ordinary and said, "You can call me Bal."
Liu Jun took out tarot cards and began to predict the man’s fate.
Bal.
An unremarkable life, born three hundred and seventy years ago in a remote town of the Moonhill Empire, with a mundane upbringing, adventuring...
Even as the town’s strongest, upon reaching the big city, or even the cosmic world, he was merely an ordinary strong person.
"Stranger, your experiences are fabricated, you replaced a native?" God suddenly became interested.
The man was very strong.
Liu Jun instantly recalled the future predicted by the Goddess of Destiny.
There would be a survivor from the ruins of an ancient civilization, the sole Eighth Divine Era to arrive here.
Now, have I met him?
Is this a coincidence?
Liu Jun suddenly became slightly interested.
He was neither fearful nor timid because with the safety net of transforming into concealment mode, he couldn’t think of anyone who could defeat his ultimate transformation.
Invincible invisibility mode.
If unable to match, he’d take the Mushroom Soup, escape under concealment, which was quite normal!
"I alone can destroy this world!"
Bal pointed to the distant Ananke Continent and spoke: "Even though I don’t know who you are, you must be one of the gods, aren’t you afraid of me?"
"Then why don’t you destroy this world?" God replied, "You come to me saying these things, implying you are not going to wage war."
The current strongest is the Fourth Divine Era, while he is the Eighth Divine Era.
Even though it gets harder to cultivate as it goes on, with each realm’s power increment diminishing,
The difference of forty realms theoretically suffices, enabling him to single-handedly shatter the whole world.
"I have no need to destroy this place."
Bal spoke, "I am different from other civilizations; they want to conquer here, but as a loner, what use is conquering this place?"
He had long since infiltrated here.
At that time, he felt that destiny wasn’t unbeatable!
Because, having infiltrated here, he immediately learned how to erode Divine Power intrusion methods.
Add myriad divine powers to the body? 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
One can easily override all magic!
If unguarded, he indeed might fall to destiny’s surprise kill.
But now, destiny is ineffective against him.
So what’s the point of destroying this world?
He chose to stay hidden, actively accepting destiny, becoming its slave, replacing one of the natives to feel the world’s order.
Although he accepted destiny, he wrapped it with his Telekinesis, able to exclude it at any time, absolutely unaffected by destiny.
He wants to try becoming a native here.
After living here for some time, he felt unprecedented ease and beauty.
No one picks up items left on the road.
Doors are left open at night.
A perfect world without villains, grudges, or oppression.
"The most amusing thing is that this world has no locks."
Bal spoke, "Vaults, banks, mansion gates, poor homes, and wealthy houses, all have no locks."
God said, "This world has no locks because the lock of destiny already exists in everyone’s heart, protecting everyone’s rights."
"Indeed!"
Bal showed a fervent and excited expression and said:
"This world is so magnificent! No one becomes a villain anymore because everyone sees their future and strives toward their perfect future!"
He spoke endlessly.
Here, having seen the future, almost no one is born to do evil.
If someone is born a bad seed, neighbors and friends can see his upcoming misdeeds and nip them in the bud.
Villains no longer have the opportunity to commit wrongful acts.
Everyone strives toward their theoretically most perfect happiness.
God said, "Ananke Continent, the world’s crime rate is not 0.1% but an absolute 0%!"
Even Liu Jun had to admit it.
In the era ruled by the Demon King, and even during the subsequent Magic Alchemy Era, everything was filthy, wicked, and corrupt.
But after destiny ascended.
The moment the symphony of destiny echoed, the gospel of the new century descended upon the world.
The fate of the beings twisted, everything was reshaped, countless crimes and evils evaporated overnight.
Everyone’s face was filled with a blissful smile proclaimed by destiny, striving because they saw their beautiful future.
The Goddess of Destiny seemed to say to the whole world: Opportunities? Happiness? Wealth? Strength? I placed them at the end of destiny’s world line, go chase the treasures I left in destiny!
"It seems you are also subdued by destiny." God sighed.
"What? I am not controlled by destiny!" Bal said: "Even though this world has various formidable strengths now, I can still crush this world with one slap!"
"No, you are not controlled by destiny, but you accepted this destiny."
God said, "Your arrival too is calculated by the Goddess of Destiny; she calculated that without tricks and schemes, just rightfully presenting this happy world before you, you would choose to embrace her!"
Bal was surprised.
Having infiltrated, after living here for some time, he began to acknowledge the greatness of destiny...
Is this itself also part of the Goddess of Destiny’s future plan?
She employs different means to deal with different people.
God chuckled and said, "Perhaps, your encounter with me today was also something that the Goddess of Destiny had long predicted."
"So that’s how it is."
Bal felt the depth of destiny.
"Well, do you wish to break free from this beautiful new destiny the Goddess of Destiny has crafted for you?" God said.
"No, if this is destiny’s arrangement, I choose to accept it." Bal was foolish, why would he resist a good destiny?
He came from a civilization of the Eighth Divine Era that was destroyed.
Only he knew the cruel and terrifying dark history of those eighty generations.
The Sixth Tier civilization he dreamed of, the true perfect homeland was right before him, he dreamed of living here.
No scheming, no patricide or filicide, no blood feuds among kin.
If there’s a haven in the cosmos’ Sixth Tier civilization, it must be here.
"So, what do you need from me?" God said.
"I want to see if I can earn a Divine Position." Bal said boldly, "With my combat prowess, there should be no problem."
God was speechless, "You should seek the arrangements of destiny."
While the two talked.
In the distance.
"Never mind other things, let’s play a card game!"
In the bar, as two cloaked figures said this, they suddenly became spirited.
They lifted their cloaks, revealing their true faces; they were a man and a woman.
One was a Flower People girl, with flowers growing all over her head, exuding floral fragrance.
The other was from the recently tricked new race of the Ananke Continent, the Seven Eyes tribe.
On the forehead, eyes, throat, palms, and soles, each had a beautiful jewel, which were actually their pupil-less eyes.
Others nearby joined the fun.
"Fight! Come on, fight!"
"Fight, I want to see rivers of blood, haha!" someone shouted, as if delighting in the chaos.
The two strong ones also became solemn.
The elegant Seven Eyes youth said, "Do you want an intellectual duel or a physical duel?"
In this era, a physical duel naturally involves summoning pieces from tarot cards for battle.
An intellectual duel is to divine destiny.
Using the future seen, they engage in a decisive battle.
"Intellectual duel!"
"Alright!"
They began divining the future, continually throwing out cards.
In front of others, they kept playing cards, divining each other’s future.
They began their battle in the bar.
Then they fought fiercely, both heavily wounded, becoming arch enemies nursing their wounds.
Afterwards, for years, countless years, they used various means to poison, ambush, and attack each other.
They continually divined the future.
Thirty years.
A hundred years.
Eventually, their battle came to a resolution.
"I won!" The Seven Eyes man took a Divine Era card from the opponent, advancing a level.
While the defeated woman turned pale, fell back a level, and showed a gambling manga-style expression:
"Just you wait, I’ll have someone take you on!"
After a while.
A loud bang sounded outside the door.
An arrogant madwoman walked in, sporting that manga-style expression.
"Come on, how do you want to play?"
The hottest game right now is the Dou Dizhu passed down by God’s descent to the Human World.
Two people, besieging one, in the calculation of future destiny, two people join forces against one.
Of course, as the landlord, they can use a few more destiny cards for balance!
There’s also four-person mahjong, each fighting for themselves.
In short, in this era, everyone is a super card player, cheating, scheming becoming the norm, an era of gambling gods and cheaters emerging.
Soon, the Seven Eyes man chose Dou Dizhu, and was besieged by two women, suffering a direct and crushing defeat.
"You, you are in cahoots!"
The Seven Eyes man finally realized, "Your card skills, clearly so powerful, calculation ability, trap capability... so strong, you deliberately lost to me before."
"Hahaha, young man, it’s already too late!" The two women showed an arrogant manga-like mischievous smile, "Boy, if you lose, admit defeat obediently!"
...
So amusing.
Watching this scene while drinking with Bal, Liu Jun found it exciting!
God looked at Bal beside him: "Do you want to gamble with them?"
Bal shook his head, "I don’t know these things, I’ll lose everything, they are too good at deceiving."
"How to put it in this world? Everyone is good, but all are kind-hearted deceivers!"
Liu Jun suddenly felt this man was a bit naive, but he didn’t care, it’s no longer his era, why should he bother so much?
This person, surely the Goddess of Destiny had long arranged for him.
Is this Goddess of Destiny actually planning for me to be part of her workforce?
Helping him receive outsiders?
"Forget it." Liu Jun didn’t care either, he didn’t resist God’s arrangement of destiny, because there was no need.
Besides, he could learn some things from him.
"Can you tell me about your civilization?" Liu Jun was quite curious about these matters.
"We were destroyed by a terrifying creature."
This man, who claimed to be able to destroy the Ananke Continent, suddenly showed a hint of fear.
