Chapter 241

【You died, the wrong choice led to a wrong ending……】

【Would you like to turn back time, return to the previous life node?】

"……"

"No way! I need to think this through!"

The information overload left Zhao Si dumbfounded, he involuntarily started a brainstorm, trying to make sense of this string of bizarre information developments:

Facing this death, he actually wasn't very surprised, because this was originally a side branch used for scouting.

But regarding the strange manner of this death and the hidden information unexpectedly uncovered, Zhao Si couldn't help but fall into astonishment:

"Struck by the Golden Immortal Heavenly Tribulation, he didn't die immediately; instead his consciousness attached to the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and was taken to the starry void to meet a Sage……"

This tribulation isn't a dead‑end; it can actually let people "ascend"?!

Minghe is such a riddler; if he had told the truth from the start, wouldn't countless people in the Primordial Wasteland have grabbed Golden Immortality by the handful!

"And the Asura Clan……"

This was an astonishing twist Zhao Si had never imagined:

"According to Minghe, everyone now living in the Primordial Wasteland is actually not human at all, but the Asura Clan he created!"

What a massive bombshell of a twist!

"But speaking of which, this twist has actually been foreshadowed all along."

Zhao Si recalled:

"When the Six Sages led people to open the moistening, they took almost all sentient beings; the Wu Clan and Demon Race all left, so why leave a branch of humanity? That makes no sense!"

"Actually, the Six Sages took everyone away; those now surviving in the Primordial Wasteland are the Asura Clan Minghe later created! Xue Xuan used to complain why the Six Sages abandoned them, but now it seems he put the blame on the wrong target……"

"Moreover, Xue Xuan once dug up a human grave on Mount Shouyang in the Eastern Wasteland, but comparison showed ancients and moderns are two different species; he had speculated many reasons, but never thought modern people aren't human at all……"

"Also, the Immortal Realm: why can Minghe's red light make immortals lose their reason? Why do reason‑lost immortals slaughter each other violently? Why do immortals who die there dissolve into a bloody qi that shares the source of the red light?"

These bits of information, unintentionally uncovered, have actually been signaling to Xue Xuan the fact that today's humanity is not human; he just never thought in that direction.

Now the truth suddenly burst into the open; not only Xue Xuan was dazed, but Zhao Si also felt astonishment……

"As for the trial Minghe spoke of……"

"Is it really just to select the so‑called Asura? Bravery? Fighting heaven and earth?"

Thinking of this absurd reason, Zhao Si felt a ludicrous sense that his intellect was being insulted:

Not killing people ruthlessly wouldn't be called an Asura; those who believe in the "Immortal Realm" are just weak‑willed…… What twisted logic!

Forcing sane people to harm the innocent, and calling it bravery!

Normal people who yearn for a beautiful world without man‑eating, and repenters who willingly sacrifice their lives to atone, in His mouth become weak‑willed people.

I just don't understand—your heaven‑defying standard, besides being able to pick out a bunch of brutal, inhuman lunatics, what else can it select?

So the Asura clan must be full of lunatics on average? This antisocial‑personality lunatic, you, Minghe, actually deliberately send them into the "Eternal Primordial Wasteland"—this ordered prosperous age……

You sure this isn't increasing the crime rate over at the Heavenly Court? The legitimate Gold Bing over there is probably about to curse his mother!

Zhao Si shook his head repeatedly, feeling that the originator, Minghe, simply had a screw loose—how could such a lunatic become a saint?

No…… Those who can become saints with great divine abilities are definitely not some inexplicable lunatics; these unreasonable aspects must be intentional on His part……

Scrolling through historical information, Zhao Si furrowed his brow:

When Minghe passionately declared, "Everyone is voluntarily sacrificing their lives for the Primordial Wasteland," even he himself obviously showed embarrassment—what does that indicate?

It shows he knows everything, his mind is normal; the reason he speaks against his conscience is because of something else!

But what reason could make a saint speak against his conscience? What thing could, because of this sentence, also threaten him?

In essence, the Heaven‑Mending Mechanism that kills countless people is actually his means to maintain the survival of the Primordial Wasteland; the sacrifices of the Primordial beings are all within his plan.

The essence of this sacrifice is to continue the Primordial Wasteland, not what he claims—【to test the Asura clan and select true Asuras】; this is sacrifice, not a trial!

He, knows everything……

Thinking this through, Zhao Si grasped the key point:

The Asura race is what he created, just as Nüwa created humanity; Nüwa regards humans as her children, and Minghe also calls himself the father of the Asura race……

If he truly were a violent father who believed in raising children with a wolf‑like culture, he wouldn't feel distressed about this…… therefore Minghe's feelings are similar to Nüwa's—both are the normal parental mindset of not wanting to see their children suffer.

But in order to continue the Primordial Wasteland, Minghe chose to sacrifice his children's lives, which naturally would make him feel heart‑ache, so to ease his mind he would…… self‑deceive!

Zhao Si seemed to have realized:

The reason he speaks falsely on this issue is actually nothing more than deceiving himself!

Calling sacrifice a trial cannot deceive anyone, including Minghe himself, because this is something he himself came up with.

But Minghe needs to use falsehoods to deceive himself; even though he knows it's false, he must pretend it's true!

People always need to fabricate a false world in which to place their ideals……

Minghe will not admit to the Asura race the existence of the Heaven‑Mending Mechanism; in his mouth, it is merely a special trial……

Under the Heaven‑Mending Mechanism, mortals must be consumables, and cultivators must be suckers!

As for the Golden Immortal Heavenly Tribulation…… that is merely a manifestation of His last bit of kindness.

Does Minghe not know that if the news spread that passing the Golden Immortal Heavenly Tribulation allows one to "ascend," it would make people fervently cultivate to Golden Immortal, thereby selecting more and better Asuras?

No, He knows everything!

The reason He doesn't do that is because He never wanted a large number of Asuras to be born!

If you all ascend, who will mend the heavens?

So Minghe self‑deceptively created the so‑called "tribulation‑crossing ascension," but didn't tell anyone, just quietly waiting for more True Immortals to go to the "Immortal Realm" to die.

If someone accidentally cultivates to Golden Immortal, a bloody lightning bolt will instantly strike them dead; the scene's horror reaches its peak, frightening everyone so they dare not break through, and can only continue to be trapped to death in the Primordial Wasteland……

And the ascendant, in a dazed state, gets to audience with the great Creator, who then hypocritically tells him: "All this is a trial I gave you!"

Having figured out this whole logic, Zhao Si felt that only two words could express his thoughts and feelings:

Abstract!

Abstract, too abstract!

Asura clan to have you as a biological father—what a blessing earned over eight lifetimes!

Zhao Si's mouth twitched:

Just you wait, Xiao Heizi will sooner or later give you a big job! Repay your great lack of virtue!

Time reversal!

【Ding! Time has already reversed……】

【……Facing the bizarre heavenly tribulation, the great savior decided to use himself as a guinea pig to explore the secret of the Golden Immortal, you choose (?)】

【A: Use acquired spiritual energy to break through to Golden Immortal! B: Use innate spiritual energy to break through to Golden Immortal!】

Choose B!

【You chose option B, using innate spiritual energy to break through to Golden Immortal!】

【Returning to the node, you feel as if in a dream, yet your memory clearly tells you that everything that just happened was real.】

【"Asura clan……"】

【You smiled silently, but your eyes clearly showed sorrow: it turns out everything was fake!】

【You are not human at all, the myriad peoples of the wilderness are not human either, but all are Asura!】

【The Six Sages have not abandoned any sentient beings, nor have you been abandoned…… because your "father," the great Creator, accompanies you children in the wilderness starry skies!】

【But at this moment, you would rather be a discarded abandoned tribe, for compared to being discarded, it is obviously more tragic to be forced and deceived by your father to serve as cannon fodder to die……】

【They say even a vicious tiger does not eat its young, yet as a father, the Netherworld River insists you go to die—what a joke!】

【"Netherworld River, father…… you are not even worthy of being a father!"】

【You gritted your teeth, and the image of the Netherworld River in your eyes instantly shifted from "obsessive sage" to "vicious father," deepening your hatred.】

【Knowing full well this is pushing your children into a fire pit, yet you persist, self-deceivingly calling it a "test"…… you would rather not have such a heaven-defying father!】

【The key is, all these sacrifices are involuntary; the Netherworld River never asked for your wishes, arbitrarily deciding for you, then coldly watching as you live worse than pigs and dogs on the path of being cannon fodder……】

【"Netherworld River!"】

【Your eyes burn with the Asura's blood-red fury; whenever you get angry, it's like this—before you didn't understand, you thought humans were all like this…… now you only feel your reason burning!】

【He was right—you are truly an Asura!】

【Cruel, bloodthirsty, bold, warlike…… all the traits of the Asura race manifest in you, and your enemy is precisely the Asura's creator, father, the sage Netherworld River!】

【Run?】

【No, you suddenly don't want to run anymore; even if the Eternal Wilderness is wonderful, it has nothing to do with you or any Asura, for you were not born in the mythic age, and those legendary tales and great figures have nothing to do with you whatsoever!】

【"The Eternal Wilderness is not your home; you will not find a place for yourselves there."】

【Because you were born with only one purpose: to serve as cannon fodder on this broken ship!】

【With a father so lacking in virtue, as a cruel and inhumane Asura, you must of course repay him in the Asura way!】

【Cruelty begins with plotting patricide!】

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(End of chapter)