Who wouldn’t be confused? !
"Hey, what on earth happened?"
The minister looked confused. He looked at the ten equally confused deputy ministers and said tremblingly, "Who?"
“···”
All ten deputy ministers remained silent.
Who can tell you the answer?!
Who the hell can tell you the answer?!
They are all well-educated people, but at this moment, they can hardly hold back from swearing, because the changes in the earth this time are so shocking.
Moreover, it all happened in an instant...
Helplessly, the minister could only give orders one after another with a sullen face.
"check!"
"Find a way to contact the Empress, Lin Fan, and the First Emperor!"
"If all else fails, send someone to the underworld to find the First Emperor. We must find out the truth behind the problem!"
"Also, in the Research Department, all projects are temporarily put on hold. All laboratories, researchers, and experts must work together to tackle a brand new project - Skynet!"
"We must spread the signal to every corner of the Earth in the shortest possible time, and draw a map of the Earth today in the shortest possible time!"
"There are also maps of the power distribution of various regions and many living beings..."
"Redefine the national borders. Emmm... All under heaven belongs to the king."
The Ministry of Residents’ Well-being and its many subordinate departments were suddenly extremely busy.
Busy!
Busy with all kinds of things!
There are so many things to deal with, and they are all urgent matters!
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On this side, Lin Fan's mind swept everywhere, and then his eyes focused slightly: "There are many interesting discoveries, but now..."
A thought occurred to him.
Buzz.
A huge space crack suddenly appeared in the space before his eyes, and it was extremely stable.
There is no immortal energy to maintain it, it is all spontaneous behavior of the Earth's natural laws.
Although they had seen this scene once before, the empress and others were still amazed.
But at this moment, Lin Fan thought of a lot.
"I see!!!"
"I see."
Lin Fan looked at himself with a dim gaze, and muttered to himself, "A long time ago, I wondered why the Heavenly Dao of the Earth and the Immortal Cultivation World could control so many merits?!"
"The simplest example is when my Saint Daughter and Ji Chutong brought back a foundation of Heavenly Dao, the merits rewarded by Heavenly Dao in the world of immortal cultivation were enough to condense nine golden rings of merit."
"But the Holy World of Wu Gu is far stronger than the world of immortal cultivation, but Lan Cai'er only has three!"
"In the Earth era, although I don't know what the laws of other planets are like, I'm sure they won't be very 'generous' either."
"This has always been a question before, and I couldn't figure out why."
"But now, we can be sure that the Earth was once the human world, or at least a part of it. This makes sense."
"The human world among the three worlds of heaven, earth and man! Although it looks like the earth, its essence is still the heavenly way of the human world. It is natural to trigger these merits..."
It's like two 'village chiefs' want to do something.
One of the village chiefs is a well-behaved person, but what about the other one? He is a high-ranking official, or even a top boss who has retired and thinks he has nothing to do, so he becomes a village chief for fun...
They have to do something, can the difficulty be the same
They are all village chiefs, can their powers be the same
"so···"
Lin Fan's eyes were dim: "The Earth is actually the human world. It is reasonable for the Heavenly Dao in the human world to attract a large amount of merit. There is no problem at all."
"But what about the Immortal Cultivation Realm?"
"How can such a huge amount of merit be attracted?"
"The true face of the earth is the human world, the true face of the immortal world..."
"What again?!"
There must be something wrong here!
But, what exactly is the problem
This is worth pondering. At least Lin Fan has no clue at the moment, but, anyway, it is worth exploring later.
He took a step forward and entered the space channel.
The Empress, Ji Chutong and the space zombies followed closely behind.
When I appeared again, there was an endless sea in front of me.
Beside me, there is a 'Tianzhu Mountain'!
The mountain is so high that I don’t know how many thousands of miles it is. I can’t see the end at a glance, as if it goes straight into the sky or even the depths of the universe!
There were not many signs of a major battle around.
Because they have all been soaked and submerged by sea water, nothing can be seen.
The half corpse had disappeared, at least it could not be seen with the naked eye, but in the distance there was a huge rock protruding out of the water.
There is a mysterious symbol on it.
"Is this the foundation of the Heavenly Dao?"
The empress looked at Lin Fan with a hint of curiosity and anticipation.
“That’s it!”
Lin Fan nodded, and after hearing this, the space zombie wanted to die even more.
"Comparing yourself to others will make you angry to death! No, not just humans, zombies will be angry to death too. What the hell is this?!"
"I racked my brains to come here for a foundation of the Heavenly Dao, and I thought I would definitely succeed, but in the end I lost myself and didn't even touch it!"
"But what is the result?"
"Now, the foundations of the Heavenly Dao appear one after another, and you are about to collect nineteen..."
"If I had known there were so many and so easy to find, I wouldn't have risked my life trying to find you, wuwuwu."
Space zombies want to cry.
It felt that it could not accept this blow, it was so deep and painful, even a zombie could not stand this kind of blow!
"Everything is fate, time and destiny."
Lin Fan opened his mouth, but then he was stunned.
This...
That's not what I would say.
"Have I been slightly influenced by the foundation of Heaven's Way? Perhaps I haven't even noticed it myself. This is a subtle change?"
"call."
He whispered in his heart: "Be alert, you must be alert!"
"You must drive away such thoughts and changes, maintain your own identity, and not get lost in the way of heaven or 'power'. Otherwise, it will be too late to say anything!"
The empress won't compete with him.
Ji Chutong didn't know either, but the space zombies wanted to, especially when the foundation of the Heavenly Dao was so clearly laid out before them.
Unfortunately, under the control of Ji Chutong's 'subconscious', it could only watch helplessly.
Afterwards, Lin Fan integrated the nineteenth foundation of the Heavenly Dao.
And communicate with the way of heaven.
Compared with the previous great changes, the foundation of the Heavenly Dao that communicates with the Heavenly Dao is no longer so shocking for today's Earth or the human world.
Although there were merits and auspicious signs, relatively speaking, these movements were not big.
At least, to people who had just experienced such a huge change, these movements were really small.
After absorbing the merits with Yuan Tu and Abi as before, Lin Fan whispered, "The current Bu Zhou Mountain has some of the original appearance of the Tian Zhu Mountain, right?"
“But there’s still a huge difference.”
"indeed."
The empress nodded and said, "Over at Huaguo Mountain..."
"Let's go and take a look!"
Lin Fan took another step, and the space channel appeared automatically. In the "human world", as long as he wanted, the "portal" would automatically appear in front of him.
Convenient and fast.
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Flower-Fruit Mountain and Water Curtain Cave.
Everything was similar to what was described in the legend.
only···
It's just similar!
There is a waterfall, but it is not big.
The Flower-Fruit Mountain is so huge, but there are no flowers or fruits. There is only yellow earth and the smoke of war.
In the small waterfall, water is rushing all the time.
However, the "stone bridge" was broken. If you look carefully, you can barely see the "Water Curtain Cave" behind the waterfall.
"This doesn't look like the Flower-Fruit Mountain."
The Empress whispered, "At least, it doesn't look like the legendary Flower-Fruit Mountain."
"yes."
Lin Fan sighed: "Huaguo Mountain should be full of birdsong and beautiful scenery, right?"
According to legend, the Water Curtain Cave in Huaguo Mountain is located in Aolai Kingdom in Dongsheng Continent and is the hometown of the Monkey King Sun Wukong.
This mountain is the ancestral vein of the ten continents and the origin of the three islands. It was established when the clear and turbid were separated and was formed after the separation of primordial chaos.
There is a cave in the Flower-Fruit Mountain, called Water Curtain Cave. Inside the cave are stone pots and stoves, stone bowls and basins, stone beds and benches. On a stone tablet in the middle is engraved "Flower-Fruit Mountain is a blessed land, Water Curtain Cave is a paradise".
The records and descriptions of the scenery are also extremely "gorgeous".
In short, judging from the scenery, it is not an exaggeration to call it a paradise on earth.
But from what we see now, where is the paradise on earth
The waterfall is almost dry!
The Water Curtain Cave, which was originally hidden under the waterfall, can now be seen with the naked eye.
The ground was covered with yellow earth. Where were the flowers, fruits, animals, and spirits that were supposed to be everywhere? They were nowhere to be seen.
There were even traces of great battles in many places, with all kinds of charred marks, broken bones, and remnants of soldiers swaying in the cold wind.
"It seems that during that great war, Huaguo Mountain was not immune to the consequences."
Lin Fan sighed again.
He likes Sun Wukong very much.
I like the arrogant Monkey King who made trouble in heaven alone, rather than the Fighting Buddha who put on a cassock and chanted the Buddha's name later...
In other words, I like the courage of the Monkey King to fight against all injustice.
What I see at this moment naturally makes me feel sad.
“It’s natural.”
The Empress smiled bitterly: "Who knows how shocking that war was? The three realms of heaven, earth and man have all 'disappeared' for who knows how many years since then. How could the Flower-Fruit Mountain and the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong, be immune to it?"
"Perhaps, even if they want peace, they can't do it?"
"Let's go in and take a look."
Lin Fan nodded helplessly and led the three people into the Water Curtain Cave.
Thick dust was everywhere.
You can vaguely see traces of monkeys that once lived there, broken ropes, dilapidated stone tools, and in the center, a broken stone 'throne'.
Everything seems to be telling of the former glory of this place.
But alas, now, after countless years, everything has disappeared.
There is no longer the glory of the past.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, the empress exclaimed softly, picked up a stick about a foot long from a cloud of dust, and brushed off the dust on it.
Buzz.
A flash of golden light appeared, but it disappeared in a flash.
This is a short metal stick with uneven ends and has long been broken.
After who knows how many years have passed, this short stick still shines with a little light, as if telling of its extraordinaryness.
only···
This is clearly a short stick made of fairy gold, and now it no longer has much divinity, it has almost been lost completely.
The empress turned the short stick over, and on the other side, there was a semi-ancient character carved on it.
Is for...
The character '意' and the upper part of '金'.
"Ruyi Jingu Bang..."
The empress spoke each word with a strange look on her face.
There are complexities, regrets, and melancholy...
The same is true for Lin Fan.
"The Dinghai Shenzhen, the Ruyi Jingu Bang..."
“It was even broken and incomplete.”
How many years have passed
Lin Fan was very sad.
He wanted to explore all of this, but it was too difficult.
Then, he tried to walk through the past time and space dimension, wanting to see everything that happened in the past.
But even now, he couldn't see that battle.
It was as if everything was obscured by an extremely terrifying and mysterious existence, or perhaps such an existence was not something that Lin Fan could spy on at the moment.
Even if there are endless years between us, it won’t work!
"saint···"
He whispered, convinced in his heart that it must be a saint! A saint participated in the battle to destroy Huaguo Mountain. Otherwise, if it was just a Daluo Jinxian, he would not be able to even look at it.
And there is a high probability that the saint is not only participating, but also the main force!
“What a pity.”
He shook his head, helpless.
It is impossible to know what happened in the past, nor how many years have passed.
It’s not that I haven’t thought about using technological means to detect objects such as the golden cudgel, and try to calculate how many years have passed.
but···
These things have "divinity" and cannot be accurately calculated using current scientific and technological means.
"Great Sage Equaling Heaven, are you... still alive?"
Lin Fan muttered to himself: "Or, the one who took action at the beginning, or the multiple saints, where are you now?"
"Dead?"
"Or, alive? Just hiding somewhere?"
"The Heavenly Dao Saint claims that if the Heavenly Dao does not collapse, it will never perish, and it will live and die with the Heaven and Earth."
"But, the Great Heavenly Dao has collapsed. Are you dead, or are you still there somewhere, but can't get out?"
After being deified, no saint can leave!
This is the rule set by heaven.
All the saints appointed by heaven need to obey...
But, the way of heaven has collapsed!
Um?!
Lin Fan's face suddenly changed, as if he had grasped something, but it was so vague that he couldn't be sure.
"well."
“We still know too little.”
He looked at the empress, only to find that she was absorbed in thinking about something.
"What did you think of?"
"I'm thinking about time."
The empress raised her head and looked at her: "According to the timeline of the novel Journey to the West, the journey to the west took place during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang. But I can be sure that at that time, there was absolutely no journey to the west to obtain Buddhist scriptures, and it was even more impossible for Sun Wukong to exist!"
“It’s natural.”
"Novels can be used as reference, but they cannot be trusted completely." Lin Fan pondered and said, "I think the Journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures has already happened."
“It’s just that it’s too long ago.”
"When later novelists wrote this story, they chose a period background they liked, right?"
"After all, novels are full of monsters, and eating a bite of Tang Monk's flesh can make you immortal."
"But where are the monsters in the Tang Dynasty records? There are only a few words and two or three big and small monsters."
"So, don't be obsessed with the relationship between Journey to the West and the Tang Dynasty, because there is really no relationship between the two!"
"The only thing that exists is perhaps the relationship between Journey to the West and the Tang Dynasty?"
“That’s right.”
The empress nodded slightly: "What should we do now?"
“···”
After a moment of silence, Lin Fan said, "I will continue my journey to find the foundation of the Heavenly Dao, and uncover the truth of that year step by step."
"Until... the end."
He wanted to say it until the mastermind was found out.
But telling these things to the empress would only get her into trouble.
"good."
The Empress nodded: "Then my incarnation will continue to stay in charge of the Earth... the human world, and explore as many places as possible to try to find traces and the truth of the past."
"I think that in such a vast human world, there must be some hidden things that cannot be completely erased."
"good!"
The two agreed and were about to part ways, but Lin Fan's expression changed slightly and he took out the jade talisman for transmitting sound.
"The First Emperor?"
The empress's face darkened.
"The war... has begun!"
Lin Fan directly turned on the 'hands-free' function, and everyone present could hear the words of the First Emperor.
"The ancestral land was shocked by the sudden change. The huge amount of golden clouds of merit could even be seen in the underworld. They can no longer wait."
"At this moment, more than ten Daluo Jinxians took the lead and forced their way in. They even broke some formations and barely seized some positions at the cost of the death of two Daluo Jinxians."
"Both sides are sending reinforcements. A major war has already broken out. The situation... is currently unknown."
"We need to be vigilant and careful at all times!"
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"call."
The empress said in a deep voice: "It has finally come to this."
"you···"
She looked at Lin Fan with some concern.
"Don't mind me."
Lin Fan grinned and chuckled: "The one who is destined to be robbed!"
"I know what's going on."
"Besides, it's not so easy for me to face the calamity!"
Lin Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, murderous intent filling his eyes.
Calamity
Killing?!
Now, I am only one step away from becoming a Golden Immortal. Perhaps if I can find the foundation of the Heavenly Dao, I can achieve Daluo!
Not only that...
The Yuantu and Abi swords have also been completely restored and further "strengthened".
As long as you don't commit suicide.
Want to kill yourself
It’s not that easy!
"However, Earth must also be prepared."
Lin Fan said quietly, "Through my investigation, I can confirm that the strength of the cultivators on Earth has increased dramatically!"
"After Earth returned to the human world, the various improvements were too amazing. Therefore, the cultivators on Earth are no longer too weak. At least, they have a certain combat power."
"So I think that during your time on Earth, you actively contacted the authorities and informed them of some things so that they could prepare to fight the fighters in advance."
Thinking of the information I learned at the border gate, I knew that the Yang Realm had always been at a disadvantage...
Lin Fan had to prepare in advance!
You don't need to worry too much about how you will fight.
But the earth must be protected!
However, this protection cannot rely solely on ourselves, but also depends on the creatures on the earth to save themselves.
Fortunately, the earth has changed a lot now, and has successfully restored some of the glory of the 'human world'. In the great changes just now, the strength of the earth's monks has also skyrocketed, as well as the previous five hundred years!
Nowadays, many immortals have appeared.
The first batch of students in Zizhu Academy were all celestial beings...
They are not too strong, but if they are well coordinated, they are not powerless. Moreover, their strength will continue to improve...