Chapter 439: The Mystery of Civilization

"Don't you think I am a Forbidden Existence from before the Immortal God Era?" Li Heng asked, looking at the little golden dragon with a half-smile upon hearing this.

The little golden dragon only felt a wave of awkwardness.

It seemed his previous conversation with Fu Yi had been overheard by the Venerable One?

He hurriedly began to explain.

"Venerable One, it is actually like this. The Forbidden Existence from before the Immortal God Era—these concepts are conjectures that have been prevalent for a long time. Even though they were speculated upon quite plausibly back then, there was ultimately no evidence to prove them, so they could not be taken as a true consideration."

"Then which side do you lean toward?"

Li Heng asked with a smile.

"I lean toward the belief that they truly exist."

The little golden dragon said with a solemn expression.

"But you also said there is no evidence."

Li Heng said leisurely.

"Venerable One, this is actually the crux of the problem. Although I feel that the time before the Immortal God Era truly existed, and my intuition tells me it should be so—after all, this is caused by the characteristics of the Great Void—I have always been troubled by the lack of evidence, until this matter now."

"The fact that a mastermind would appear in the future, conducting experiments on the Ascension Road right under the noses of us Immortal Gods, is enough to declare that beyond what we Immortal Gods perceive, there is an even more vast Unknown. Since such a thing exists, the possibility of the time before the Immortal God Era has become even greater."

The little golden dragon explained unhurriedly.

At this moment, Wujian suddenly spoke up.

"But everything you say is just a possibility. Even if the possibility is great, without evidence to prove it, it is meaningless. Perhaps the only thing that can corroborate your conjecture is the inexplicably appearing Calamity."

"It is just that these Calamities are not the civilizations or forces that you Immortal Gods have been searching for, which transcend you and exist outside of you."

Ignoring the conversation between the person and the Strange.

Li Heng slowly fell into deep thought.

The Great Void is infinite and boundless; there should exist forces or civilizations capable of being independent of the Immortal Gods, or perhaps it is even certain that such forces or civilizations must exist.

Starting from this idea as a base point.

Then why haven't the Immortal Gods encountered such forces or civilizations? Could it be that the area the Immortal Gods have explored in the vast Great Void is still minuscule, unable to reach other civilizations or forces?

The Immortal Gods consider their influence to radiate throughout the Great Void.

But in reality, are they just huddled in a corner?

Li Heng felt that this situation could theoretically occur, but intuitively he felt it should not be this way; this mindset was just like the little golden dragon believing in the existence of the time before the Immortal God Era.

After all, the Heavenly Court Immortal Gods are not all useless.

Furthermore, he had previously learned from Xuanyang that a portion of the Heavenly Court Immortal Gods were unwilling to accept their defeat and had already ventured deep into the Unknown to search for things, hoping to salvage the situation.

From this, one can also see that the Heavenly Court Immortal Gods have an understanding of the model of the Great Void; Xuanyang, this Immortal God, even used a river as a metaphor, dividing it into three sections: upper, middle, and lower.

All of this represents that these Heavenly Court Immortal Gods were not frogs in a well, arrogant and conceited, but were truly able to shout the slogan "Immortal Gods are the center of the ten thousand Worlds" in that era.

Although they were quickly sanctioned by the Calamity...

This line of thought led nowhere, so Li Heng switched to another train of thought: assume these civilizations and forces still exist, but it is not that the Immortal Gods cannot find them, but rather that they have hidden themselves?

However, this idea involves another problem.

Why would these forces or civilizations hide?

If it were just individual forces or civilizations hiding, that might be plausible, but now it is all civilizations and forces that have hidden, leaving those Heavenly Court Immortal Gods unable to find a single one.

This does not quite conform to common sense.

Li Heng believed that on the infinitely vast scale of the Great Void, many civilizations or forces would absolutely be born; it is impossible for every force and civilization to be a "Voldemort" that likes to hide.

There must be forces and civilizations that want to flourish forever.

Since that is the case, there must be an external cause, and it is precisely this external cause that forced all forces and all civilizations to hide and vanish, without revealing a single bit of information.

There are many possibilities for this external cause.

For example, the Great Void is a dark forest, or perhaps the various civilizations and forces of the past fought each other and are now crippled. Or, to be more extreme, those civilizations and forces perished long ago.

There are all kinds of external causes, too numerous to mention.

But Li Heng did not want to think about these external causes, because whether from intuition, logic, or the evidence on the surface, this external cause points to the Calamity!

The Calamity made all civilizations and forces hide; those that didn't are likely just like those unlucky Heavenly Court Immortal Gods, either fleeing in defeat or completely finished.

Then the question arises.

Since the Calamity is so terrifying that no single civilization or force can resist it, and even all civilizations and forces combined cannot resist it.

Then where could they run to in order to avoid the Calamity?

One must know that even if the various Calamities had not erupted, the True Realm now has no living people in the true sense.

Regarding this point, Li Heng began to analyze through various event information, capturing clues, and gradually formed a clear conjecture; this conjecture might also be related to the whereabouts of those fleeing Immortal Gods.

It seems he will have to ask that fellow Xuanyang after he returns.

He clearly knows a lot.

Much, much more than this second-generation little golden dragon knows.

Li Heng pondered in his heart.

"Venerable One, have you thought of something?"

The little golden dragon asked.

Li Heng nodded upon hearing this.

"I do indeed have a conjecture, but there is no evidence. I must go to the Central Great World to verify it, and by the way, ask someone after the fact; he should know part of the truth of the matter."

"That Xuanyang?"

The little golden dragon asked curiously.

Li Heng nodded, not hiding it.

"It seems you have already guessed some of the results. Then now it is my turn to make a request, right?" Wujian asked slowly.

"What do you want?"

Li Heng asked.

He had not forgotten that the reason Wujian revealed information about its origin was, in reality, to have him accomplish one thing. After all, the two were neither related nor friends; this could only be considered a transaction.

"Rest assured, this transaction will not put you in a difficult position, because my request and your goal are consistent."

"Consistent goals?" The little golden dragon was surprised.

Li Heng raised an eyebrow, vaguely guessing it.

"That's right, it seems you have already thought of it; I want you to take me to the Central Great World," Wujian said slowly.

"But aren't you supposed to suppress the Wujian Road?"

The little golden dragon said in surprise.

Wujian spoke slowly.

"Naturally, it is not my true body going personally, only a part of me." As soon as the voice fell, Wujian's face rippled slightly, and a person drifted out from within.

Upon seeing that person, the little golden dragon shuddered!

"Shaoyang Jun!"

What he saw was precisely that supreme prodigy, Shaoyang Jun.

Li Heng's expression was calm; he was not surprised.

"Shaoyang Jun greets you both once again."

Shaoyang Jun's expression was complex as he bowed to the two of them.

Wujian's face recovered, and it spoke.

"You should also know that my formation is a mixture of the obsessions of prodigies who died on the Emperor Road and the power of the Calamity; what truly occupies the dominant position is the obsession of the deceased prodigies."

"Those prodigies died on the Emperor Road in the past; even if they walked to the end of the Emperor Road, they could not cross the Final Heavenly Moat, falling before the finish line, unable to reach the Heavenly Court of the Central Great World."

"Therefore, these obsessions are unwilling."

"These obsessions are also me, so I am also unwilling."

"Among these many obsessions, Shaoyang Jun's obsession is the most intense, because he was the closest to the finish line among the many obsessions of deceased prodigies; his unwillingness could not be eliminated even after I re-enacted the Script many times. Since that is the case, let him go, let me go."

Shaoyang Jun's expression was complex; he looked at the two and nodded.

"A great dream of several thousand autumns; now that the dream has awakened, I entrust it to you both."