When 'God' Decides To Start Over-Chapter 970 - 374: Fireworks World (Part 3)
One by one, the green ancient walls rose, filled with white bones. Whether it was ordinary demon spirits, Light Base, Spirit Casting, or even the Divine Position Level Bone Dragons, all were firmly built into the wall by those cyan bricks.
In a moment, the once dilapidated Ancient City was suddenly covered by a flowing immortal light, transforming into the Cyan Brick Immortal City, but the countless white bones within the walls made the observers shiver.
When that piece of cyan brick returned to Modao Cang’s sleeve, the Cyan Brick Immortal City also disappeared. The sound of crashing echoed incessantly, the ancient city already razed to the ground, leaving behind a landscape covered with bone fragments, demon cores, and various talent gemstones, skill rings, and more...
Li Xiu was somewhat astonished; one blow to annihilate the city, crushing countless demon spirits, even the Divine Position Level Bone Dragons died silently without any opportunity for the Light of Truth to illuminate. The terrifying strength of Modao Cang was indeed frightening.
"Old Deaf Man, you truly are dead... Li Boyang, Li Boyang... You are truly ruthless... When people leave, the tea cools... Is there no sentiment left at all?" Modao Cang seemed completely uninterested in the demon cores and various items scattered on the ground, only bowing his head and murmuring to himself.
Li Xiu could roughly guess what was happening. It was probable that the former eight great families all had Divine Position Level beings, but for reasons unknown, these divine figures left Longevity City, remaining in the Demon Spirit Realm.
As the years passed, some families’ Divine Position Level elders perished in the Land of Trial, and their families were subsequently expelled from the ranks of greatness within Longevity City.
Of course, all these are just conclusions Li Xiu derived from Modao Cang’s few words. If his guesses were correct, then the Divine Position Level elders of the Sun, Han, Li, and Mo families should still be alive.
"Could it be that the Li Family has already declined to such a degree, yet hasn’t been expelled from the ranks of greatness; whereas the Wan Chao Family’s strength has far surpassed that of today’s Li Family, yet still cannot enter the ranks of greatness. Now I understand the root cause." Li Xiu felt that his conjecture was likely correct.
"Do you want to know why I cannot return to Longevity City?" After a long time, Modao Cang said somewhat despondently, gazing at the Ancient City that had been razed to the ground.
Li Xiu didn’t speak, just nodded. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
"Then you must first hear a story," Modao Cang slowly narrated, "It was a chaotic era, where founders of various thoughts and schools emerged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, a time of unmatched prosperity, hard to see in the span of ages."
"Among them, the eight most excellent founders of schools mysteriously disappeared from the world. People thought they had already died, but unknown to them, in fact, they hadn’t died. They were visited by the same powerful visitor at different points in time and were taken away to an unimaginable world..."
"Were they forcibly taken?" asked Li Xiu.
"You could say so, or not," Modao Cang said with a sigh, "Those eight school founders were exceptionally talented, once-in-a-millennium prodigies. However, after being visited by that person, they were all ensnared by the visitor’s incredible knowledge and thinking, and then the person revealed to them the existence of that world and the secret of immortality, stirring their curiosity and longing, wishing to know if such a world truly existed."
"Those eight founders of schools, should be the founders of the eight great families, right?" Li Xiu sighed.
Modao Cang nodded slightly, "Those eight gradually experienced that incredible world and obtained the secret of immortality, then became deeply entangled, unable to extricate themselves and had no desire to return to mundane life, bringing their friends and family over, continuously following that person’s teachings until one day, that person gathered the eight and disclosed a secret that they found hard to accept."
"What secret?" Li Xiu couldn’t help his heart from speeding up.
"Every bit of energy they plundered from this world was pushing it toward destruction," Modao Cang said slowly.
"What do you mean?" Li Xiu seemed to understand, yet didn’t.
"They didn’t understand at the time either. The visitor mentioned a term, ’fireworks world,’" Modao Cang said, "He likened the world to a firework being set off, unlike the previous understanding of endless cycles of regeneration, according to his theory, this world’s energy was akin to fireworks, not infinite. Once the firework burnt out, this seemingly radiant fireworks world would cease to exist as well. And the energy we seized from this world was like fuel within the fireworks; the more we seize, the stronger we become, the faster the world’s destruction."
"Such a metaphor is quite unorthodox, hard to believe," Li Xiu frowned.
"Not only you disbelieve, they too didn’t believe initially, until the visitor showed them something," Modao Cang’s eyes unexpectedly revealed a trace of fear.
"What was it?" Li Xiu was intensely curious.
"Firework ashes," Modao Cang said word by word.
"Firework ashes?" Li Xiu contemplated what those four words might signify, yet found it hard to imagine.
Modao Cang didn’t explain, just continued, "They saw it, and feared it; hence, they made an agreement with that person that in this limited fireworks world, only those who have the potential to leap beyond this fireworks world have the right to these finite resources."
Li Xiu now finally understood why the Divine Position Level Trial Takers of Longevity City were so few, it turned out to be under intentional control.
"If this truly is a fireworks world, how could anyone possibly leap beyond this world?" Li Xiu frowned.
"He gave us an answer: direction," Modao Cang slowly stated.
