The three of them broke through the space barrier and stepped into a space gap in the gray fog. When Lin Yan really stepped into the space gap, she found that the space gap was not a vast gray fog, but there were dots of light in the gray fog. Those light dots were big and small, like the stars in the sky. In addition to these light dots, there would be strong winds blowing from time to time in the gray fog, constantly weakening the barrier in front of the three people.
"Every spot of light here is a fragment of the sky's space." The high priest explained to the two while using his staff to prop up a barrier to resist the strong wind.
Lin Xi's eyes widened in surprise. These tens of thousands of light spots were actually fragments of Tianyu. She was not surprised by the hugeness of Tianyu, but by the fact that Tianyu collapsed so completely.
"After being shattered so thoroughly, can it really be reunited?" Chen Chu asked the question in Lin Xi's heart.
"If it was shattered by external force, of course it's not allowed," said the high priest.
External force? Chen Chu raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Didn't you notice that the arrangement of these light spots is actually in a regular pattern?" the high priest reminded.
After hearing this, the two carefully looked at the light spots in the gray fog and found that the distances between these light spots seemed to be the same. Although they didn't know the purpose of this arrangement, they could see that it was deliberately arranged. If it was a natural collapse, the space debris would not be so evenly distributed.
"Is it for resuscitation?" Chen Chu guessed.
"That's right." The high priest led the two of them through the gap in space while explaining, "The collapse of the world actually consumed the energy of this world. Xingyue calculated that Tianyu had a chance to revive, so she wanted to preserve Tianyu's energy, so she took the initiative to decompose the world."
"Actively decompose the world?" Lin Yan was shocked. "This can also be done."
The high priest said with a little contempt: "You humans on Earth are too weak and cannot touch the original power of the world at all."
Lin Yan was not angry, but hummed: "The earth is indeed weak, but you still need to rely on the earth to save you."
The high priest paused for a full second without saying anything, and then continued the previous topic as if nothing had happened, except that he changed the person he was talking to. He looked at Chen Chu and said, "You are also a venerable now, you should be able to sense the power of the world."
Chen Chu replied: "I didn't feel it very clearly when I was on Earth, but I did feel it a little bit when I arrived in Tianyu."
The high priest said: "That's because there are too few humans like you on Earth. When humans are strong enough, they can control the world in turn."
The high priest was very tactful and changed his words. It was not because he was afraid that Lin Xi would scold him, but because he was still relying on her for help and it was not appropriate to argue with her.
Lin Xi also heard it, so this time she just glanced at him and said nothing.
Chen Chu couldn't help but ask: "All creatures in this world are nurtured by the world, but why can human power restrict the world?"
High Priest: "It is not the world that is constrained, but the order of the world, that is, the world consciousness."
Chen Chu frowned, still not quite understanding. Lin Yan had heard the system mention this matter, but she didn't know the specific reason.
High Priest: "An empty and desolate world will not have world consciousness. Only when life is born in this world will the world have consciousness. Fundamentally speaking, world consciousness, like humans, is born from the world. Therefore, the power held by humans is the same as the power held by world consciousness, and their origins are both the power of the world. So when one side becomes stronger, the other side will naturally become weaker."
After hearing what the high priest said, both of them understood.
Lin Wei asked curiously: "Why do you want to weaken the world consciousness? For immortality?"
The high priest was silent for a long time before answering Lin Yan's question: "I don't know what others think. I practice cultivation just because I don't want to be bound by constraints."
Chen Chu suddenly thought of what the Blue Flame leader had said, and said, "When you can see the shackles, you can't help but break free."
High Priest: "Yes, who is willing to be bound willingly?"
What you want to break must be what you can see. It's like you live in a cage that is wrapped layer by layer. At first, you know nothing and think that your world is only as big as this cage. But by chance, you break the innermost cage, and the world becomes bigger, but you can also see the second cage outside the cage. You will wonder if this cage can also be broken, so you try your best to break the second cage, and then you can see the third cage. Then you will start to think about how many layers of cages are binding you, what the outside world will look like after all of them are opened, and who is locking himself in a cage
The cage is the rules, and it is the world consciousness that holds them captive.
"But there is no order without rules." Lin Yan suddenly said, "If a world is not bound by laws and rules, then this world will be in chaos."
The two were stunned when they heard this. They were the ones who could see these rules and broke them, so they were also the ones who didn't want to be bound. But Lin Yan's words hit them hard. There is no absolute freedom in the world. Throughout history, even in the era when there was no writing, the system must have existed. A world without a system will not last long.
"It's hard to believe that we only figured out such an obvious truth when the sky collapsed." The high priest laughed at himself, "Xingyue once said that humans should not fight against the world consciousness, because the meaning of the world consciousness's existence is to protect the world. As long as the world exists, humans will exist. But we didn't believe it at the time. We just thought that astrologers were the spokespersons of the world consciousness, and their words were not trustworthy."
Chen Chu concluded: "So, the destruction of Tianyu was caused by you yourselves."
The high priest glanced at Chen Chu and did not refute. He just said: "You are also from Tianyu."
Chen Chu took a look and was too lazy to argue.
After listening to the high priest's words, Lin Xi was pleasantly surprised and said, "So, we Earthlings are still smart."
The high priest looked at her and said, "You earthlings just can't touch the rules. If you could, I don't believe you would still be so smart."
"That's not what I'm talking about." Lin Yan looked at Chen Chu and said, "Yan Mingxuan said before that the world of immortal cultivation really exists."
Chen Chu remembered this incident, but still didn't understand what Lin Yan wanted to say.
"The world of cultivating immortals is actually very similar to the sky before its collapse. Becoming an immortal can lead to immortality, and human power has also affected the world's consciousness, but the earth has not collapsed." Lin Yan said excitedly.
"That only proves that the world consciousness was stronger at that time." said the high priest.
"No, it's because of the rules." Lin Yan shook her head. "The immortal world on Earth is different from your Tianyu. According to legend, if a mortal cultivates immortality and achieves enlightenment, he will eventually ascend to heaven. The so-called ascension means leaving the mortal world and going to the immortal world. I suspect that this immortal world is no longer on Earth."
Chen Chu continued, "If you are not on Earth, you will not affect the world consciousness. Therefore, on Earth, the world consciousness is always stronger than humans."
Lin Xi had a bolder guess: "You said, could this ascension be deliberately created by the world consciousness? Elder Tiandao noticed that human consciousness was becoming more and more powerful, and was afraid that he could not defeat them, so he simply opened a back door, sent all the powerful guys out, and left the weak ones behind to slowly suppress them. In the end, he completely wiped out the era of immortal cultivation and created the current Earth?"
Chen Chu looked at her and for a moment thought that Lin Yan's imagination was really wild, but for some reason he couldn't find any reason to refute it.
The high priest was shocked when he heard this: "The world consciousness of the earth is so insidious."
Lin Yan was unhappy: "Tianyu's world consciousness is upright, but he was almost killed by you guys?"
The high priest shut up again. He couldn't refute this.
Lin Xi: "What do you mean by breaking free from the shackles and wanting to live forever? What kind of life are you? Aren't there only twenty-eight constellations in the entire universe? There are only twenty-eight immortals among billions of people, but you want billions of people to die with you. Don't you feel guilty?"
The high priest took a long time to reply: "But we are the ones who will save the world."
Lin Xi: "Without you, Tianyu wouldn't have collapsed. Why should I thank you?"
Chen Chu just felt that Lin Yan's logic was extremely powerful, and couldn't help but give her a thumbs up.
Lin Xi raised her head proudly.
The high priest was completely silent, and he did not speak again during the rest of the journey until the three of them arrived in front of a point of light. Then he said, "We're here."
"Is this the Miao village?" Chen Chu asked.
The high priest corrected: "This is the Valley of No Trace."
Chen Chu didn't dwell on the difference in address, he just pointed to a crack and said, "That's the crack you entered last time."
The high priest nodded: "Yes, Miao Geyun knew that I would come again, so he did not use the boundary Gu to repair the space barrier."
As he spoke, the high priest raised his hand and pointed at the space crack. With a flash of light, a passage wide enough for one person to pass through appeared. At the other end of the passage, there was a scene of spring flowers in full bloom.
Chen Chu was not polite, he took Lin Xi's hand, stepped out of the barrier, and stepped into the space channel. The other side of the channel was the mountain where they met the high priest last time. The only difference from the last time was that the Miao village this time was very strange. The scene was exactly the same, but it was strangely silent, and there was not even any wind.
"Look." Lin Xi suddenly pointed at a flower at her feet and motioned Chen Chu to come and look.
Chen Chu looked down and found a drop of dew dripping from the petals of the beautiful little yellow flower. However, the dew had clearly fallen off the petals, but it remained still in mid-air.
"Time and space have stopped." The high priest also walked out of the barrier at this time. Seeing this, he explained, "Tianyu's energy is running low. Every time Wuhen Valley is opened, it needs to accumulate energy again."
Chen Chu thought of the starry sky just now: "From other static space fragments?"
The high priest nodded: "Yes."
Chen Chu understood. No wonder. The connection between the subspace and the earth is active. Even if many superpowers on the earth will fall in the subspace, to be honest, the energy carried by these fallen superpowers is far from enough to open the space gate. So the space gate is maintained by those still light spots in the space gap. And the area connected to the earth is the area they deliberately selected to help save the world.
"Let's go and find Miao Geyun." The high priest strode forward.
"Didn't Miao Geyun stop moving?" Lin Wei asked.
"She is the Venerable." The high priest's word "Venerable" explained everything.
No wonder the Venerable can resist the will of heaven. In a space where the entire time and space are still, the Venerable can still move freely. It can only be said that the Venerable’s strength has long transcended this world.
The three of them walked very quickly and arrived at the Miao village in just a few minutes.
Because the entire space and time were in a state of stillness, Lin Xi did not encounter any spirit. The entire village was empty, and only the sculpture in the center of the village remained intact.
The high priest walked over without saying hello and smashed the Gu King statue with one palm. Under the statue, in the exquisite stone coffin, Miao Geyun's beautiful face had long eyelashes trembling slightly, and her eyes slowly opened.
"How long have I slept?" Miao Geyun sat up from the sarcophagus and asked the high priest.
"Less than half a year." The flow of time in the sky and on earth is different, and the high priest said his own estimated time. After all, most of the space in the sky is static, and he cannot calculate the time accurately.
"So short?" Miao Geyun was a little surprised. According to her estimation, even if the high priest successfully found and persuaded Chen Chu, he would not come to her so soon.
As he spoke, Miao Geyun looked at Chen Chu, and suddenly his eyes moved slightly, and his gaze fell on Chen Chu's chest.
Chen Chu's heart tightened and he subconsciously turned sideways to block Lin Xi's sight.
Lin Yan was suddenly blocked and was stunned. She didn't understand what Chen Chu was going to do. Was he afraid that Miao Geyun would hurt her again? But Miao Geyun was clearly looking at him.
Miao Geyun seemed to understand something immediately after seeing this. His eyes naturally moved upwards and looked into Chen Chu's eyes: "How many props have you collected?"
"The only things missing are 'plague' and 'war'." Chen Chu said.
Four items have been collected? Miao Geyun was even more shocked this time. It was only half a year, and the salvation of the world was about to be completed
"Is the Earth willing to help Tianyu recover?" Miao Geyun hesitated.
"We have to help them even if they don't want to." The high priest spoke.
"Why?" Miao Geyun was puzzled.
"Sense the movement trajectory of Wuhen Valley." The high priest reminded.
Miao Geyun had been sleeping for years, and the Miao village was still at this time, so her perception was not as sharp as the high priest's. But if she tried to perceive it, she could still perceive it. So when she closed her eyes slightly and perceived it for a moment, she immediately understood what the high priest meant: "Wuhen Valley is crashing into the earth, how could it be?"
"I don't know either, but it happened." said the high priest.
Miao Geyun did not delve into it and nodded, "Yes, these are not important. You are here to get the Plague, right?"
Chen Chu nodded: "Yes."
Miao Geyun glanced at Chen Chu, then moved his gaze to Lin Yan who was standing next to him. Chen Chu's heart skipped a beat, and when he was about to block her again, Miao Geyun spoke up: "You are blocking me, don't you want me to take back the plague from her body?"
Chen Chu then remembered that Lin Yan still had some of the plague on her body, and he immediately said, "Please take it back."
Miao Geyun glanced at him and said, "You didn't even say thank you. How rude of you?"
Miao Geyun and the Lord of Wind are good friends, so when he looks at Chen Chu he always feels like he is looking at a junior, and he can't help but say a few words to him.
Chen Chu did not appreciate it and said coldly: "It was originally left by the senior."
Miao Geyun was stunned. Was he blaming himself? He was right. Miao Geyun smiled faintly, raised his hand and grabbed Lin Yan. Lin Yan felt a chill on her wrist, and Miao Geyun took back all the plague on her left hand and melted it into her body. The plague was taken back, but Miao Geyun did not put down his raised arm. Something was seen crawling down the white arm, and finally reached the wrist, biting through the skin and coming out.
It was a bug that was completely green, about the size of an adult's fingernail, and looked very much like a beetle on Earth.
"This is the Gu King, and it is also the 'plague'." Miao Geyun's white hand dragged the emerald green Gu King and handed it to Chen Chu.
"Alive?" Lin Xi exclaimed.
"It's alive." Miao Geyun nodded.
"I hope it won't run away when it's activated." Lin Xi was worried that she wouldn't be able to catch the Gu King. After all, this thing seemed to have wings.
Miao Geyun smiled, raised her hand and grabbed the air. A green bamboo flute flew out from the bamboo house and landed in her hand: "This is the Gu flute. Blowing it once can summon the Gu King back. Blowing it twice can seal the 'plague'."
Chen Chu heard this and reached out to take the two things. The Gu King was placed in the metal box where he had put the key before, and he was quite obedient and didn't move around.
"Okay, you guys go now. It's time for me to sleep forever." Miao Geyun said.
The three of them said nothing, because they knew that this long sleep was a real long sleep. They were not familiar with Miao Geyun, but maybe they could send him off.
Seeing that they were not leaving, Miao Geyun smiled and reminded them: "You are not leaving? When I disappear, I will turn into thousands of poisonous insects, which is still a bit dangerous."
Hearing this, the high priest couldn't stand it anymore and turned to walk away. Since he left, Chen Chu and Lin Yan naturally wouldn't stay and left with him. However, when they walked out of the village, a large number of poisonous insects suddenly emerged from the center of the village, covering the sky and the sun and flying out. However, the moment they flew out of the village, they turned into green spots of light and returned to the world.
"No wonder the women in Wuhen Valley need to snatch men home before they can get married. It's really disgusting." Although they were words of disgust, the two of them heard disappointment in the high priest's tone.
"Let's go. I'll take you back." The high priest didn't hesitate for too long and said, "We have to return to the previous space. If we are any later, it will become still over there."
"No need to go through so much trouble." Lin Yan said, "We can just leave from here."
"Can you get out?" The high priest was stunned, and then seemed to think of something, his eyes fell on Lin Yan's head, "Your hair. I didn't look closely last time, but this time I feel that the spatial force on your hair is somewhat familiar."
Are you familiar with it? All the props in the system belong to you, Tianyu.
"Go, we will meet again soon." The next time they meet will be to go to "war".
Lin Xi held Chen Chu's hand, consumed eight thousand energy stones, and returned to Earth through the space gap.
Lin Xi looked at the remaining two thousand energy stones and wondered silently, the reason why Sadako's long hair was only given to Chen Chu at a discount was it because of Chen Chu's face, or because Chen Chu was from Tianyu
(End of this chapter)