Chapter 375

The crucial information came so unexpectedly……

Putian Laozu never set an image for the sun god? The sun god isn't even a true god formed from incense?

Besides being dull‑witted, you couldn't help but feel a brainstorm!

You clearly remember the sun god manifesting as a golden crow, a golden flood dragon, and an eyeball—these three forms—and you indeed sensed the aura of incense divine power from it…… This…… this……

Although you didn't know whether this contained any information for clearing the level, you still hurriedly grabbed it!

"Please help me ask more about the sun god!"

The monkey scratched its head, then nodded obediently……

Thus, you used the monkey as a mouthpiece to inquire more worldly information from Putian Laozu's mouth, and you compiled these scattered bits of information you had never paid attention to before.

Finally, you built a new worldview……

The dream world is a virtual world created jointly by nine saints using their own dreams; you've known this for a long time, but you're not clear on exactly how it was made.

But now you know: all parameters and settings of the dream world are shaped by the saints according to their comprehension and understanding of the ancient wilderness, making it essentially a "pirated version" of the ancient wilderness.

Moreover, this pirated version is highly deficient, far inferior to the "Eternal Wilderness"; if the Eternal Wilderness is a near one‑to‑one copy of the ancient wilderness, then the dream world amounts to less than one‑hundred‑millionth of the ancient wilderness……

Could it be that the saints simply couldn't make it more complete?

Of course not; the saints could create an "Eternal Wilderness" nearly one‑to‑one with the ancient wilderness, so making the dream world better would certainly not be difficult—it's deliberately made this deficient mainly because the saints intended it so.

After all, the saints' purpose in creating the world was not to create a new "Eternal Wilderness"; their goal was to cultivate a protagonist anchor point, then have that protagonist "cultivate", specifically manifested as the protagonist ascending from the lowly dream world to the Eternal Wilderness, so the dream world must be as lowly and deficient as possible!

However, if the dream world were too deficient, it would fail to exist stably…… To make it exist, the saints therefore set up many nonsensical things, thereby forcing the dream world to stabilize.

For example, the sun, as understood by the saints, is the celestial body formed from Pangu's left eye in the ancient wilderness, whose essence is the "solar essence"!

But in this monkey‑version deficient world, the saints obviously couldn't produce any "solar essence"; they could only reduce it as much as possible to an ordinary big fireball.

But the saints also didn't know how to let an ordinary big fireball endure long and fulfill the sun's function, so they had to resort to divine authority, forcibly conjuring an unreasonable "sun god" to serve as the sun here……

Such nature gods are only two: the sun god and the moon god; they are bugs left by the saints when creating the world, unsolvable by wilderness knowledge, so in the end they could only be forcibly rationalized.

Each "nature god" is a "patch", using divine power to compensate for the setting's deficiencies……

But precisely because they are merely "patches", there's absolutely no need to give them consciousness or appearance; they're just a lump of divine power!

But the problem is, if all this is true, then what are the golden crow, golden flood dragon, and eyeball you saw on the sun?

This crucial problem left you pondering in vain……

Suddenly, you seemed to think of something and asked the monkey: "Ancestral Master, since you can create the world and the sun god, can you still modify the settings now?"

If Putian Laozu, this "programmer", could still intervene, wouldn't they be able to speak and have it become law……

However, the monkey shook its head.

"The Ancestral Master said, the original owner of the dream world was them, so they could decide the world's settings by their own will, such as creating the sun god and such."

"But after you, the benefactor, arrived, you squeezed out their authority……"

Squeezed out?

You frowned: "But I don't have this ability either, do I?"

This is the supreme authority of speaking and having it become law; if you had it, you'd be invincible from the start—why would you need a second life to turn things around?

But the monkey replied: "You certainly don't; after all, you are a will projection of someone from outside this realm, not belonging to this world, so naturally you lack this authority."

"So after you squeezed out the Ancestral Master, this authority fell into someone else's hands……"

You hurriedly asked: "Who?"

The monkey pointed far into the distance and spoke softly.

"All the beings under heaven……"

You were stunned at that moment……

"All people under heaven are originally manifestations of the Ancestral Master imitating Pangu's true spirit enlightening the wilderness beings; their essence is using the Ancestral Master's will to differentiate into beings."

"Therefore, beings are actually part of the Ancestral Master; when the Ancestral Master's true form loses this authority, they naturally inherit this world‑changing power and authority……"

"Or rather, they have always had this authority—for example, the incense produced by beings' worship…… The reason incense thought power can make cultivators into inconceivable true gods is essentially because beings possess the power to change heaven and earth!" The monkey's explanation made you experience another brainstorm: your long‑standing doubts were quietly answered in full detail.

You've always wondered: why is it enough for ordinary people to rely merely on a thought to let cultivators become gods? What gives ordinary people this power?

It turns out, it's because they are in fact the masters of the world……

But immediately, a new problem arose.

After the shock, you again asked, bewildered: "But… if they possess the power to change heaven and earth, why, aside from producing incense that lets people become gods, have we never seen them change anything else?"

The monkey replied: "Because the authority is too scattered; each person only grasps a tiny bit of it, so they certainly cannot speak and have it become law like the former Ancestral Master, and even if they unite, they cannot solve the problem of the authority being scattered."

"But even so, some of their consensus can still affect the world to a certain extent, such as the sun god."

The sun god was originally just a patch, but since it's a bug formed from divine power, it was inherently unstable, making it more susceptible to interference and influence from beings' will than other things.

When beings, according to myth, regarded it as a "three‑legged golden crow", it became a three‑legged golden crow; when they regarded it as a "grace‑bestowing golden flood dragon", it became a golden flood dragon; when they regarded it as the "left eye of an ancient god", it truly became a large eyeball!

"These three versions of the sun god myth have many followers among humans, so the authority interfered with the sun god in the form of incense thought power, and thus it truly possesses three different forms……"

Under the monkey's earnest explanation, the problem that had troubled you for a long time was readily solved!

"So that's how it is……"

Astonished, you repeatedly recited in your mind the hard‑won information, and although you still didn't know what use it had, you felt it was crucial……

Ding! A bewildered Lin Pasha gave up thinking, decided to toss this problem to you for handling, believing that as a high‑dimensional being you could effectively compile and analyze these bewildering bits of information and thus find a way to clear the level…… Choose: (?) Please answer freely!

Zhao Si: ……

No…… bro, you're thinking too highly of me?! The bewildered Zhao Si looked at the problem Lin Liu threw over, his small eyes filled with great confusion: "How the hell am I supposed to know how you should clear the level?!"

Zhao Si wanted to retort a few lines, but considering Lin Liu was also desperate and grasping at straws, they just tolerated it……

"Lin Liu's trip has realized that the authority to change heaven and earth actually lies in the hands of beings; as long as beings collectively cognize this sun‑god patch, they can produce interference to a certain extent, causing it to undergo corresponding changes."

"In other words, whatever beings think it is, that's what it becomes; apart from the sun god's function being unchangeable, its appearance can almost be freely altered……"

This information is not bad, but what significance does it have for clearing the level?

Zhao Si thought carefully, but couldn't think of a useful place...

"However, although I still can't derive a perfect clearance method from it,... but it seems we don't need to worry too much about this?"

Zhao Si raised an eyebrow: "After all, Lin Liu's direct goal in going to the sun isn't perfect clearance; his purpose is to help mortals find a stable natural energy source."

"Now that the sun is a natural god, why not just figure out how to turn it into an ordinary sun?"

Zhao Si instinctively thought of Lin Liu's "Primordial Possession": "As long as Lin Liu uses Primordial Divine Power to suppress the sun god, it will lose its divine power and become the natural energy source he needs..."

No! Wrong!

Zhao Si immediately realized the problem: "The sun god was originally the sages' makeshift product; the sages' conception of the sun was the primordial sun essence, and such a thing isn't fit to appear in a lowly world... So the sages, when creating the world, reluctantly settled for using a non-physical sun god as a stopgap."

"So, on this basis, if Lin Liu uses Primordial Possession on it, as a divine-power creation, wouldn't it surely be doomed?"

If the sun god dies, the dream realm will have no sun; by then, let alone serving as a natural energy source, the whole world would likely be destroyed for lack of sun...

"Wait!"

Zhao Si suddenly grasped the blind spot:

"The sages created the sun god essentially because they didn't know what an ordinary world's sun should be like... but I do!"

What is the real world's sun? Isn't it just a lump of hydrogen and helium! If Lin Liu's world's sun god became the real sun, wouldn't the natural energy he needs be available...

Zhao Si inexplicably grew excited, finally able to use his real-world knowledge to solve someone's problem!

"Tell him! The sun is the product of a mass of hydrogen and helium undergoing nuclear fusion! As long as he can make all beings believe this, under the power of permission, the sun god will truly become a real sun!"

"Then, by using Primordial Divine Power to suppress supernatural power on the sun, his wish will be fulfilled!"

【Ding! Facing Lin Liu's request, you choose: (The world belongs to the sages and also to all beings; in this ordinary world, we don't need immortals and saviors, all beings have the ability to create a better world themselves... As long as we unite everyone's belief, we dare to call for a new heaven and earth!)】

(Sorry, I can only be slow later, I'm stuck badly......) (End of chapter)