Chapter 33: Information and the World

"What a bother."

Seeing the High Priest urging him to kill Sang like a demon, Li Xianzhi felt very irritated. He had been listening intently, and this old thing had actually stopped talking.

In the dim temple, Li Xianzhi licked the corner of his mouth and grinned at the High Priest.

"You are not Fire!"

The High Priest looked at Fire, who had instantly changed his appearance, and immediately became nervous. This was the temple, and a mysterious person who even the gods had not sensed, appearing in the guise of Fire—this made the High Priest feel extremely horrified.

"You guessed right, there's a prize."

Li Xianzhi no longer cared whether the fragments of time would shatter; he just wanted to clarify the doubts in his heart as quickly as possible. Given the current strength of Li Xianzhi's body and the upper limit of the power he could exert, reshaping another fragment of time might take some time.

Time, though! He was not short of that.

"Children should be obedient and not show off those little tricks of yours." Li Xianzhi looked with a smile at the High Priest, who was preparing to launch an attack on him.

The cultivation path of this world was different from the Great Chu; it followed the path of divine arts. Practitioners inscribed totems on their bodies and communicated with the gods in the netherworld through the totems to obtain power.

The High Priest before him was a Ninth-Tier divine arts master, roughly at the level of a Half-step Supreme powerhouse in the Great Chu world. However, in Li Xianzhi's eyes, these were all children's tricks.

Li Xianzhi's current power was truly at the strength of a God King; if he went all out, there was no upper limit.

Li Xianzhi broke through the High Priest's divine art barrier, and a fair hand, like a demon's claw, reached out silently to the High Priest's neck. The High Priest, who was a head shorter than Li Xianzhi, was lifted by Li Xianzhi like a little chicken.

"You are an Outer God, you are an Outer God, you must be an Outer God." The High Priest struggled incessantly, looking at Li Xianzhi with horror.

"Keep talking, talk until I am satisfied."

Li Xianzhi did not care how the High Priest guessed his identity; what he cared about was unknown information. Information was more important than anything else.

"You want to overturn the world; you will never succeed."

"What a bother."

Li Xianzhi looked at the High Priest, who had fallen into complete terror, and frowned. It was not that he did not want to search the High Priest's memory directly, but once he did so, the fragment of time would immediately shatter.

But it seemed he had no choice now.

Li Xianzhi poured his divine soul power into the High Priest's divine soul, and a vast amount of information immediately surged toward Li Xianzhi.

Crack.

The fragment of time shattered.

The entire world, with the death of the High Priest, completely collapsed. Li Xianzhi felt no regret. Instead, he was somewhat happy. Because he had obtained very important information.

It turned out that the entire world was divided into two parts.

One was the material world, and the other was the spirit world. And the two most important things in both worlds were humans and gods.

Humans governed the material world, while gods governed the spirit world.

The most important role of humans for the entire world was to continuously generate information. Humans used thought power and creativity to generate information in the present, giving definition to a blurry future—that is, humans created the information of the future.

And the most important role of gods for the world was to continuously transform information. Gods received the information created by humans in the spirit world and gradually became powerful, and then their own divine godheads would continuously transport this transformed information toward the laws of heaven and earth.

Roughly speaking, humans imagined stones, and gods created stones. Humans said, "God, let there be light in the world, light that is bright and warm," and so God created light in the human world.

Of course, this was all Li Xianzhi's speculation.

In the High Priest's memory, humans governed the world and provided faith power to the gods, while the gods protected the human world.

Moreover, every god had their own specific godhead, and these godheads defined everything in the human world. People revered the godheads of the gods as the laws of the world, following the laws and gradually moving forward.

Once someone overstepped these laws, the god's godhead would be shaken, and the god would be furious! The spirit world governed by the god would abandon the human world, and the entire human world would fall into disaster.

Compared to the information in the High Priest's memory, Li Xianzhi believed more in his own deductions. The spirit world, that is, the Underworld, the Netherworld—anyway, it was more or less the same place—these gods governed it and received human thoughts, which was by no means a simple exchange.

If it were just that, the gods would not put in so much effort to completely imprison the civilizational direction of the entire human world.

According to the analysis of Li Xianzhi's memories over countless epochs, he discovered that apart from Earth, it seemed that all worlds had only one way of civilization, and there was absolutely no such thing as revolution. Human thought seemed to always run on a predetermined track; humans might have new ideas, but they would never exceed a certain range. The boundary of this range was the red line set by the gods for the human world.

However, in the billions of worlds, there always seemed to be a force that seemed to be competing with the gods for the right to rule the Underworld.

For example, the Demon Lord was the best example.

The birth of the Demon Lord, in Li Xianzhi's view, was a new product generated after Sang's new ideas were transformed in the Underworld. The Demon Lord should be the Outer God in the High Priest's mouth.

"Tsk tsk, I've actually become the villain. The villain who hinders the progress of civilization."

Li Xianzhi roughly knew why the Ren Zu Ci wanted to drag him to anchor one world after another; it was probably to have him stop those newly born Outer Gods from competing for the rule of the Underworld.

"Is there anything wrong with world changes?"

Li Xianzhi spread his hands and looked at the crescent moon in the sky.

And just after Li Xianzhi said this, the entire Ren Zu Ci became restless. In Li Xianzhi's divine soul sea, the Ren Zu Ci churned like clouds and seas, seemingly cursing Li Xianzhi.

"If you're not convinced, kill me now and replace me with someone else."

"Heh."

Standing in front of the Ren Zu Ci, Li Xianzhi had never felt so relaxed. Looking at the restless Ren Zu Ci, Li Xianzhi could not be happier.

You've made me a tablet spirit for so long, and now you have this coming. Li Xianzhi knew that the Ren Zu Ci had a conscious existence, but it was just a piece of information, similar to some kind of program.

"Ancestor of Humanity, do you really think that world reform is a good thing? New gods replace old gods, round after round, and it is the endless living beings who suffer in the end."

It seemed to be sighing, and it seemed to be trying to persuade Li Xianzhi.

"I know what you mean. I have my own way of dealing with things. Whatever choice I make, it is up to me. I am not Huo Sang Daoren."

"Hmph. Be quiet."

Li Xianzhi waved his hand, firmly suppressing the Ren Zu Ci in the center of his divine soul sea.

Li Xianzhi could now roughly guess what kind of existence Huo Sang Daoren was. He was probably a spokesperson for the human world pushed out by the gods of the tribal era, but this spokesperson seemed to be disobedient and made a choice that was beyond the expectations of all the gods, but Huo Sang Daoren failed.

Li Xianzhi was also guessing based on the scattered memories of Huo Sang Daoren; what the true situation was would have to wait until the next time he refined a fragment of time.

The history of the entire Tianhuo Domain seemed to have a break; everything from the tribal period and the period when Huo Sang Daoren attained the Dao seemed to have no records. Only the Imperial Dynasty era had continued uninterrupted.

The entire Imperial Dynasty era had lasted for hundreds of thousands of years. ===== CHAPTER 34 =====