Chapter 425: Don't You Think It's Too Coincidental?

"Why is it suddenly glowing!"

After leaving, Shen Yu did not return to Da'an City, but instead found an uninhabited place to begin carefully observing this Bead.

Originally, no matter how he observed it, he seemed unable to probe its mysteries; it was as if a layer of powerful force was always blocking his perception.

Yet, just as he was probing without result, this Jade Bead suddenly began to glow, accompanied by a powerful force rippling out once more.

He had not injected any power into it; how could it start glowing and heating up on its own?

Fortunately, he had used the Mountain and River Map to conceal it, so the light within did not leak out. It was just that the force bursting forth was somewhat different from what he had expected; its power was bright and vast, without the slightest malice.

He had originally thought this Jade Bead could truly bewitch the mind and drive people to madness. After all, wasn't Su Ye's master the one who became insane because of this bead, and in the end, even killed his own disciple?

Now it seemed that, in all likelihood, Su Ye's master could not withstand the power within, and consequently suffered a mental breakdown.

Blaming the Jade Bead when one is not capable enough—it was clearly that you were useless; if you couldn't withstand it but insisted on forcing it, who could you blame?

The power of the Jade Bead continued to ripple. In a trance, Shen Yu saw countless people slaughtering each other; it seemed as if blood was flowing everywhere. Within a thousand miles, no living person remained, only countless bones.

This was a World filled with blood and sorrow everywhere, as if it had no emotions, no vitality, and no future.

Everyone only knew how to slaughter each other, just like wild beasts in the jungle, acting according to the instinct for killing.

This was like a desperate World, so desperate that ordinary people could not possibly survive here, so desperate that one might experience slaughter and death at any time and place.

It is unknown how much time passed, but above the bones of countless people, one person emerged, tearing apart the bodies of who knows how many people with a pair of flawless, white hands.

Across the entire land, no one could survive at his hands; everyone felt only fear when they saw him.

Yet this person had not a shred of excitement; all he had was a faint sorrow, as if his face forever bore an indelible sadness.

He wanted to save those who were severely wounded by the slaughter, but when he bandaged their wounds, he would often be met with betrayal.

These people did not accept his kindness; instead, they took advantage of when he was helping them to plunge sharp blades into his body. The crazy eyes of those people held not a hint of gratitude, only endless killing intent and defensiveness.

Even though the person before them wanted to save them, they still wanted to kill him; this was driven by the deepest instincts within their hearts.

Yet he did not mind this in the slightest, still diligently bandaging them and helping them heal their wounds.

Day after day, year after year, he repeated this process of trying his best to help people only to be betrayed by them, never receiving a single word of thanks.

Everyone either wanted to kill him or was afraid of him.

The people of the entire World had gone mad; fathers were not fathers, sons were not sons, yet only he remained clear-headed, clearly knowing what was right and what was wrong.

Sometimes he was also confused, not knowing whether it was that everyone else was drunk and only he was sober, or that everyone else was sober and only he was drunk.

He wanted to find someone as clear-headed as himself, but after walking the earth for so many years, he had never seen one.

Yes, living in such a filthy World, one was either assimilated or killed. Only by being strong enough to make people fear, strong enough to live according to one's own will, could one survive.

Suddenly one day, he felt that this World should not be like this, even though the environment he had lived in since childhood was exactly so.

Yet in his heart, there was always a voice telling him that this World should not be like this, and that it needed someone to save it.

Finally, one day, while walking, he seemed to have another breakthrough. He was not excited, nor was he agitated; such situations were almost routine for him.

Even if he did not cultivate, perhaps in just a few years, he would become even stronger. Originally he was already strong enough that no one could rival him, and now he was even higher, to a level that ordinary people could hardly look up to.

Gu Fei

So much so that until now, let alone anyone keeping up with his pace, even those who could take a single move or half-style from him were few and far between.

The stronger his power, the more lonely and solitary he felt; looking around, it seemed there was no one he could chat with.

At the same time, he seemed to feel something different in the heavens and earth, which made him vaguely repulsed.

These things drifting between heaven and earth were being greedily absorbed by others; every time someone came into contact with these things, their faces radiated an expression of excitement.

These invisible and intangible things were hidden within the endless Spirit Qi, and as this heaven and earth Spirit Qi merged into people's bodies, it caused their power to constantly surge wildly.

If one were to say that when the Spirit Qi of heaven and earth pours into the human body, the body's power is like a glowing, hot candle flame, then these things are like lamp oil.

Sprinkling lamp oil onto a candle flame naturally allows one to burn like a raging fire, causing one's power to instantly explode. Such growth naturally makes countless people flock to pursue it.

Even if they know that under the stimulation of such power, they will only accelerate their own burning, they are still unable to stop.

Once they come into contact with it, it is difficult to quit. It makes them continue to indulge, makes them unable to be clear-headed, and makes them fall into endless slaughter.

If they want to live, they must constantly improve their realm; once the realm is improved, their vitality naturally increases greatly.

But at the same time, as the realm improves, the Spirit Qi absorbed also increases, and the things contained within the Spirit Qi naturally increase as well. The raging fire burns ever brighter.

It is just like adding firewood to save a fire; the flames grow higher, and one can only add more firewood to save the fire. The cycle repeats, endless, until finally, one is completely burned to ashes by the flames.

At this moment, he seemed to vaguely understand something and looked up at the sky.

Above the void, it was as if a pair of eyes were watching this land; those eyes were cold and arrogant, as if feeding on the people of the entire world, feeding on the flames on everyone's bodies.

He lowered his head and continued walking forward, not taking the initiative to provoke them. At this time, he was indeed very strong compared to others, but it was not enough, far from enough.

At his realm, he could clearly feel that huge gap. If he wanted to change it, he had to make himself stronger, strong enough to have sufficient confidence, strong enough to face all of this head-on.

He walked for who knows how long, and finally, he seemed to have an epiphany, walked into a cave, and sat down casually, as if pondering something.

To prevent anyone from disturbing him, he casually lifted a great mountain, compressed and condensed it continuously, and finally condensed it into a giant rock to block the cave entrance.

It is unknown how much time passed, but he finally seemed to have realized everything, and his whole body stood up abruptly.

Subsequently, his body gradually became more and more illusory, his whole body seemingly radiating light, constantly merging into the surrounding stone walls.

In the end, his previous body completely shattered, as if it had turned into light and dissipated, attaching itself to the stone walls, leaving only vast Mental Power surging in place.

And then, endless power combined with the Mental Power on the spot, as if a new body had been condensed entirely from the natural things of the world.

From then on, he walked out of the cave and walked toward the sky.

That figure seemed to be reflected in Shen Yu's eyes, appearing exceptionally majestic. Even though there was not the slightest sound, it was as if every step he took shook like thunder.

After he stepped into the void, there was no fierce fighting above the void, nor was there the slightest slaughter.

He simply decomposed his new body, covered the sky, and blocked everything. It was just like a barrier, covering the eyes in the void.

The last bit of residual power condensed into a Jade Bead and fell into the cave.

Since then, the fields have turned into seas, endless time has passed, and who knows how long it has been, until one day, a person dressed as a hunter accidentally broke into this cave entrance and picked up this bead.

By the time this person came out from here, this person had already transformed from an unknown hunter into an expert who dominated a region.

He also remodeled this place and founded a sect here, which from then on flourished and prospered, continuing unbroken through the generations.