Chapter 245: The Specific Situation of the Other World

Upon hearing this, the otherworldly being in the gentle-looking, elegantly robed man's form was also taken aback, then quickly recovered.

He sighed helplessly: "So Your Majesty knew all along… It seems no matter how carefully I hid, my existence was still too conspicuous in this world."

"Since Your Majesty wishes to know, then allow me to explain it to you in detail."

"Speaking of which, some of Your Majesty's guesses were not far off the mark."

After seriously answering a few questions from this incomparably powerful true dragon, the elegantly robed man also gracefully sat cross-legged on the spot and began to tell a long story of another world — a tale of an unfortunate scholar whose body was seized.

"…………That is roughly the whole story."

After one hour, having finished telling his entire story, the elegantly robed man paused, his expression somewhat mournful as he gazed at this mysterious true dragon, seemingly awaiting His decision.

"So that is how it was?"

After murmuring softly to himself, Baichuan also fell into deep thought.

Based on the story of the man before him, he had also, through indirect probing, gained further understanding of the situation in the world on the other side of the passage.

The situation in that world was somewhat different from what he had imagined.

In general terms, the situation in that world could be roughly described as the entire world being divided into two distinctly demarcated regions.

One was saturated with elements similar to the Eastern fantasy world of his previous life, with the entire region ruled by dynasties, its approximate power foundation being the civilization of the Divine Dao.

The high-and-mighty dynasty sovereigns held the power to confer mortal officials as Spirit, using the power of various Spirit to rule their domains, driving away and eliminating the monstrous beasts and ghosts that caused chaos everywhere.

The other direction contained the Western fantasy elements he had guessed, where various dragons, elves, orcs and other beings existed, among which Spirit sat on high devouring faith.

In other words, this was a complex world with two power systems.

And the World Passage between his world and theirs was located at the boundary between the two regions — a frigid land of ice and snow where human figures were rarely seen all day — the Ice Plains.

Of course, this was not the main point.

The main point was that this man's story not only revealed the situation of that world's other side, but also exposed a peculiar manner of existence for Spirit.

The story roughly told of how he, living in a small county in the Dongfang Quyu ruled by dynasties, because his cultivation talent was too excellent, inadvertently attracted the attention of an old monster from a previous dynasty who had accumulated power over many years, and thus had his body seized to serve as that being's substitute for walking in Ren Jian.

This brings us to the manner of existence of Spirit in the Dongfang Quyu.

The elegantly robed man was not very clear about the Western Region, as he had never come into contact with it.

As for the Eastern side, because dynasties inevitably decline and perish with the passage of Time.

Even a vast dynasty with Spirit could not avoid this.

This was because the power foundation of all dynasties was "Conferring Gods."

The Conferring Gods system was like a pyramid, with the dynasty's sovereign at its very top.

Using the dynasty sovereign as the conduit, absorbing the faith of all the people, this power was distributed to officials throughout the land through the medium of their official rank symbols.

This led to: when the people prosper, the dynasty flourishes; when the people decline, the dynasty perishes.

Therefore, whenever a dynasty perished, the entire Spirit system built up by that generation of dynasty would collapse along with it, because the Conferring Gods system depended entirely on the dynasty's sovereign.

And when a dynasty perished and a new one rose, this would cause the officials of the previous dynasty who held God Positions to fall into becoming wild gods, causing chaos in Ren Jian, or fleeing into Mingtu.

After all, a dynasty had so many officials, and its Conferring Gods power system was also meant to drive away the various monsters and ghosts of Ren Jian, as well as to explore Mingtu.

Therefore, no matter how much the new dynasty gathered its strength, it could never completely eliminate them.

And this man from back then was simply unlucky — his talent was too excellent, and he happened to encounter an undying old monster from a previous dynasty who had fled into Mingtu, who then targeted his physical body, wanting to use it to advance further.

In fact, this old monster succeeded.

Unfortunately, this old monster was too greedy, and was far too arrogant on the day he returned to Ren Jian, and was discovered by a powerful being from the current dynasty who happened to be passing by on an inspection of heaven and earth.

Naturally, this would attract the attention of official forces.

Thus, after a fierce battle, he was forced to flee the Dongfang Quyu and step into that frigid, uninhabited land of ice and snow.

And there he happened to encounter a group of Eastern and Western Spirit who were about to enter another world.

At that point, he who was only at the half-god realm was directly conscripted.

He directly followed them into the World Passage to explore the world, and then came the scene Baichuan had previously seen in the memories of the Progenitor Dragon.

At first, everything developed quite well, and the old monster also took this opportunity to absorb a large amount of ownerless faith, thereby advancing several steps further.

Unfortunately, he later had the misfortune of encountering the Progenitor Dragon sealing the World Passage at the cost of himself.

With the attack intensity at the World Passage, even at its weakest period it was not something a half-god level existence could withstand.

Thus, this old monster could only helplessly remain in this world.

And as the energy level within the world gradually rose, the strength of the World Passage seal began to rise correspondingly.

Over the long passage of Time, an astonishing event that could almost be called a miracle occurred.

Almost all the bodies forcibly seized by half-god level powerful beings began to see the awakening of the original owner's consciousness!

Yes, whether half-gods or Spirit, it was almost impossible for them to spend great cost condensing pure energy into mortal bodies to walk the world — that was simply too unprofitable.

Energy was not meant to be used in such a way, let alone the fact that not every Spirit understood the human body's structure extremely well.

So, what to do when bodies were scarce?

Naturally, they would seek out bodies they fancied in the mortal world. After all, with their power, seizing an ordinary person's body was but a trivial matter, and they had no need to pay any attention to the original owner's consciousness.

Even under the arrogance that half-gods and Spirit possessed, they couldn't even be bothered to pay attention to the original owner's consciousness — after all, no matter what, resistance was impossible.

Until the appearance of the World Passage.

After being cut off from the main consciousness of the half-god powerful beings from the other world, and with energy gradually growing scarce, the previously ignored weak consciousness of the original body finally turned the tables.

Thus, ultimately, the scene Baichuan now witnessed appeared.

The original owner of the body who had turned the tables regained control of the body, and even went so far as to destroy the consciousnesses of those half-gods.

And the half-gods who had regained their freedom, after understanding the situation in the following period, also developed goodwill toward this world that had saved them — though of course, part of the reason was also fear that returning to that world would result in their consciousness being wiped out in one breath by those half-gods.

After all, those were lofty half-god powerful beings; even though they had now regained their bodies, they did not believe the other party had not left some contingency within the body.

In other words, they could no longer return to that world, and under these circumstances, this current world was naturally treated by them as their own.

Over these years, these half-gods who had regained themselves either wanted nothing to do with anything and hid away to live their own quiet lives — like the one before them — or secretly provided various kinds of help to the beings of this world.

After all, once this world falls, they too will return to their former state of being controlled.

As the saying goes, they share this world's fortunes and misfortunes alike — flourishing together, suffering together!

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(End of chapter)