Chapter 113

Well, even Hongjun ended up getting himself killed!

Zhao Si was left speechless; he had wanted to keep complaining about the game settings a bit more, but considering this guy has always been not quite normal, the settings are all kinds of logical closed loops, mainly playing the "I've sucked garlic!" line.

What can I say in this situation?

whatcanisay?

However, this time it seems we also uncovered quite a bit of unknown information...

Adjusting his mindset, Zhao Si looked at this series of information paragraphs and couldn't help but analyze them carefully:

First, although the Three Ancestors at this stage haven't yet reached Quasi-Saint level and are still at the Great Luo Golden Immortal level like Hongjun, they are actually stronger than Hongjun!

If we make an analogy, the Three Ancestors are roughly equivalent to Houyi, a Great Witch who has accumulated power over many years, while Hongjun is like Xuandu, a novice Great Luo Immortal, so Zu Feng could at least take on three of him.

Also,

Could it be that they can't even handle the Three Ancestors?

Save the Three Old Ancestors?

This time, Hongjun was burned to death by Zu Feng; his loss was not unjust……

Moreover, Zhao Si really wants to know: if Hongjun had won the whole scenario according to history, would this round of his simulation be judged as a success?

Or rather, what exactly does this strange simulation want him to achieve as an ending?

What's going on? Why do I suddenly feel a bit uneasy?

【Time has already reversed……】

【... Faced with the rather tempting invitation from Daoist Hongjun to join his side, you choose: (?)】

Unless Hongjun bursts out, overtakes on a curve at the Quasi-Saint stage, reaches the peak of Quasi-Saint early, or even proves the Dao to become a Saint, otherwise he will surely lose!

Then the question arises: how did Hongjun in the original history line win the whole thing?!

But soon, that wonderful phantom existing between 'being' and 'non-being' completely returned to 'non-being', and could no longer be observed.

Hongjun murmured, his thoughts seemingly returning to the ancient ages.

What a huge joke, because in the Wilderness, quantity basically cannot make up for the gap in quality!

Zhao Si grasped the blind spot:

No matter how Zhao Si thought, he couldn't figure out the solution, but in the original plot Hongjun indeed won, the Three Ancestors died, and he soundly defeated the Demon Ancestor Rahu, proving the Dao to become the first saint in Wilderness history!

How did he do it?

Did he cheat?

And the Demon Ancestor Rahu… right, where did Rahu go?

"What about the Demon Ancestor? If Hongjun, who will in the future kill his Daoist ancestor in the final battle, had already sent him off early, wouldn't he be on a killing spree?"

There, it seems there is a phantom of the Wilderness world, and within that world-phantom are three familiar yet unfamiliar phantom beings.

"Unless…… they are just going to die!"

Although it sounds a bit far-fetched, given the incomplete information, Zhao Si can only guess wildly like a blind man……

【A: Agree, I've long been annoyed by those three old fogeys! B: Reject, the noble bird knows its limits!】

Of course, it's also not 'being'.

He wondered:

……

And now, at the Great Luo Golden Immortal stage, the Three Ancestors can already thrash Hongjun; the further along, the less possible it is to win, with Great Luo falling behind, and even at Quasi-Saint they'd still be behind—one step ahead, every step ahead.

A pale-faced, empty-eyed old Daoist in purple robes sat rigidly on a mat; since he had shattered the Demon Ancestor's Slay Immortal Formation years ago and announced his sainthood, he has never risen.

Thus he stepped out of the unchanging Zixiao Palace, gazed toward the void of Chaos, and then furrowed his brows:

Chaos is 'non-being'; something like him, which is 'being', naturally cannot be observed.

What use is an army?

"So, the reason they continually use slaves to die must be because there's profit to be made……"

But the other side is not 'non-being'.

【You dare not openly defy Zu Feng's orders, so you can only ease the psychological shadow brought by killing in this way.】

No way—once Rahu sets up his Slay Immortal Formation, the Tribal War is basically doomed; even Rahu's strength could shatter the Three Ancestors, and if Hongjun hadn't teamed up with two allies to fight, sacrificing two unlucky teammates, they still couldn't beat him!

Just now the Three Ancestors had all become saints, yet no one counted it as a win for him.

And such a wonderful state was naturally observed by Hongjun:

The other side seemed to be observing him as well……

But is this useful?

Once Jin Bing used One Qi Transforms into Three Purities plus the Calm Sea Pearl, and on the Great Luo battlefield wiped out fifty of Di Jiang's subdued Great Witches, didn't that immediately lock in victory for the whole field?

Whether preaching the Dao and taking disciples, or sharing treasures to unite with the Dao, it has always been thus, and perhaps it will always be thus in the future.

Afterwards he finally sighed, and returned to the Purple Cloud Palace:

The marvelous transformation between 'being' and 'non-being' is still far beyond his reach; naturally, no matter how he thinks, he cannot understand it.

Originally, the Supreme Heavenly Court's Emperor Jiang commanded 800,000 troops, and fought the Eastern Wasteland battle against the equal Heavenly Court; Jin Bing conscripted everyone he could press into service, and only then managed to muster 600,000.

Actually, a little thought shows that a slave army could never defeat a Great Luo Golden Immortal, and moreover the great war of the three tribes has always been merely slaves slaughtering each other.

【Having once failed and learned your lesson, this time, after painful reflection, you decided not to heed the damnable suggestion of that old fogey Hongjun, and so you firmly refused to join.】

As for what benefits those are, that will have to be slowly figured out…

Do you think you can bury a Taiyi and a Great Luo to death using slaves below the Xuanxian level?

"Choose B!"

Zhao Si narrowed their eyes, carefully examining the description in the historical information:

【Faced with your refusal, Hongjun, though regretful, still said nothing, because he had never expected you to accept his unrealistic fantasy; after a polite farewell, he turned and left the Phoenix clan's great camp……】

And you continue to while away your days among the phoenix clan; whenever battle comes, you deliberately hold back, trying to kill as few dragon and qilin slaves as possible, on the condition of not causing too many of your own phoenix-clan slaves to die in pits.

Since agreeing to join would cause Hongjun's defeat, better to refuse joining, and see how the Hongjun of original history, without the influence of protagonist Jiao Ming, managed to win this fundamentally unwinnable adverse situation.

【You decide to wait quietly……】

Then the next moment, He sprang up from the futon with a whoosh!

His previously empty eyes instantly flickered with a long-lost humanity.

"Yes!"

Have the three ancestral phoenixes ever been on a battlefield?

No, they've just been spouting off, shouting every day about smashing the enemy's face, wanting to slaughter all the enemy's cattle, horses, long worms, and miscellaneous feathered birds.

【At the same time, you also wonder what choice Hongjun will make, and without the stimulus of your joining, will he still walk the path of resisting the three-clan great war?】

The Three Ancestors would only do such brainless behavior unless……

"Why don't the Three Ancestors just personally strike down the protagonist and Hongjun from the start, instead of continually letting the slave army fight a battle where quality completely overwhelms quantity?"

That seems to be a wondrous existence between "having" and "nothing":

More importantly, the reason the Heavenly Court war must use armies is essentially because the Heavenly Dao karma exists, causing high-level combat power to dare not unleash peerless force.

After all, that little flood dragon governs the world with skill, and under his constant patching, the primordial wilderness has already achieved the most bizarre and impossible eternal prosperous age, so nothing major will ever happen to make him rise up and resolve it……

"Yes…… them?"

Not only did Rahu lose his role, but even Qiankun and Yin-Yang, the two old ancestors who were supposed to jointly shatter the Zhu Xian formation with Hongjun, lost their roles as well.

But the ones who truly determine the war's outcome have always been themselves, yet they themselves do not personally go out to slaughter……

Rahu from the original plot is gone!

After thinking it over, Zhao Si could only attribute these doubts to the butterfly effect:

"It should be because Hongjun died early, which also changed some factor, causing the Demon Ancestor and company's development speed to not keep up with the Three Ancestors, resulting in the Three Ancestors all becoming saints, making it utterly impossible for them to defeat the three saints, and thus they lost their roles……"

Di Jiang declared proudly: 800,000 versus 600,000, the advantage is mine!

Indeed, the 800,000 Wu-Yao alliance of the Supreme Heavenly Court has indeed been constantly pressing down on the Egalitarian Heavenly Court in battle.

Moreover, what's the use of the little brother winning?

Since the Three Ancestors becoming saints is not the ending the game wants, could it be that Hongjun becomes a saint instead?

But isn't that already part of the original plot……

It originally should have existed, but seems to have been denied existence by something, so it is forced to remain in this miraculous state for a short time.

【Whether time flows backward, returning to a previous life choice?】

Eternal primordial wilderness, in the Purple Cloud Palace.

But in these ancient times, the Heavenly Dao hasn't even formed yet; the ancestral dragons can randomly draw laws to forge innate spirit treasures—where does the Heavenly Dao karma come from to restrict them from unleashing peerless force?

The more he thought, the more confused Zhao Si became, so he just kept reading.

【You chose option B, refuse, Bird Gui has self-awareness!】

Only letting the insignificant little brother rush forward, while this nuclear warhead of ours holes up at home—doesn't that make no sense?

"If true creation from nothing cannot be achieved, it's all just emptiness……"

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(End of chapter)