Chapter 125: The Mad Truth of Yuanmu!

The Mad Truth of Yuanmu!

"But the first experiment still failed.

Gods are gods after all; even the false deities pieced together from Their 【Divinity】, the great power of Their mutual opposition is not something mortals can bear.

So Zayn Gil failed without surprise.

But he still did not give up!

He came up with another wildly imaginative plan—one absurd, terrifying, and striking straight at the essence of faith—and it finally let him glimpse the dawn of a way to contain divinity!

And the content of this plan was:

Transfer the most intense direct confrontation between 【Birth】 and 【Corruption】 outward—transfer it onto the faith-conflict among mortals!

As everyone knows, 【Gods】 shelter Their believers.

A true 【God】 possesses boundless great power and naturally will not be dragged down by the force of sheltering, but false gods are different!

They are false after all; when their own divine greatness is entangled by faith, the confrontation between the two opposing 【Divinities】 will weaken.

At this point, the humans' contest of faith becomes a buffer for the 'false gods'' opposition!

With a buffer, there is an opening to exploit!

Thus, at the outbreak of the civil war within the Tower of Substance, Zayn Gil found a small town near the 【Abyssal Volcano】 on the edge of the battlefield, one whose scale was perfectly suited for the experiment.

And using the 【Rite of Truth】, he shifted this small town into the void!

What, surprised? The Yuanmu Town you've been seeing was already in the void to begin with.

It does not belong to any reality.

The 【Rite of Truth】 possesses the divine greatness of creating truth, and truth is always right.

So they survived in the void.

Then this mad scholar cast his first step of the plan upon this small town in the void:

Open up faith!

And so, a giant sun rose at the edge of the sky!

The 【Eternal Sun】......

Descended!"

"!!!"

Cheng Shi shuddered violently; he suddenly understood everything, linking all the clues together.

What sun-and-moon faith, what curse descending, what wandering bard, what 'Divine Envoy'—all of it was fake!

This was an experiment from the start, and everything they had witnessed was nothing more than some insignificant experimental steps within this vast experimental ground!

"Your expression is quite exaggerated, Cheng Cheng Xiaoshi.

That's right, just as you thought: every inconsistency you sensed wasn't because you couldn't find the clues, but because the clues lay beyond the world you inhabit!

The great hand of the experiment arranges everything, while you can only passively accept.

They pen up the residents, capture the travelers.

They let the residents believe in the 【Eternal Sun】, reproduce endlessly without cease, softening the edge of 【Birth】;

And they let the travelers indulge in pleasure, while the 'Divine Envoy' spreads terror, aligning with the will of 【Corruption】, dividing Its power.

Thus, Zayn Gil need not even pay attention to Their confrontation anymore—he only needs to keep the faith on both ends of the scale from being too imbalanced, neither letting the faith in 【Birth】 be too much, nor letting the faith in 【Corruption】 be too little......

No, no, no—he's simply a genius!

He doesn't even need to watch the balance!!

He only needs to toss the two false gods out, and out of the instinct to survive, these townsfolk penned up in the void will balance everything on their own.

Too many people, they kill; too few, they breed.

And this great scholar reaps the rewards without lifting a finger!

This poor 'Divine Envoy,' who strove his whole life, can at most be counted as a variable within this grand experiment.

Hmm, he's a bit more advanced than an ordinary variable—a variable that controls variables.

And then......

Once Their arena of contest shifted from direct confrontation to a contest of faith, these clever scholars quietly hid in the shadows, secretly seizing the overflowing......

Authority!"

Mad!

Zayn Gil has gone mad!

This is simply a terrifying experiment—no, perhaps it cannot even be called an experiment.

This is a heaven-shocking swindle; this mad scholar even wants to deceive 【Birth】 and 【Corruption】 both!

And what's more, he has already partly succeeded!

And hearing this, Cheng Shi finally figured out why the High Priest pardoned all the travelers on the second day and reset the rights he had granted them.

That was probably because Hu Xuan had borne too many children the night before.

And these children were all conceived through the granting rite; they should all have been counted as unborn believers of the 【Eternal Sun】.

So the scale of faith tipped.

The 'Divine Envoy' couldn't find Hu Xuan, so he could only slaughter wantonly through the night.

And when she gave birth to herself—and only to one self—all those children who believed in the 【Eternal Sun】 died.

So the slaughter of the night before once again tipped the scale......

Da Cheng Shi was right.

Zayn Gil needs to do nothing, because someone has done it all for him.

And that person is still just a variable within the experiment......

Is he?

A question rose in Cheng Shi's mind.

This mysterious guide, this tormented "Divine Emissary," this High Priest who controlled everything in the small town—was he originally a person of this small town, or... a "controllable variable" sent in by the Department of Creation Alchemy?

The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became.

Cheng Shi dared not think further. Following this line of reasoning, would there come a day when Zayn Gill's experiment succeeded?

Big Cheng Shi saw through Cheng Shi's thoughts. He smiled and shook his head.

"Succeeded? No, no, no—he failed again..."

"Huh?"

Cheng Shi was dumbfounded. He looked at Big Cheng Shi, then turned back to look at the enormous corpse hanging upside down, and blinked in a daze.

"You mean..."

"This corpse is the best proof. No one has ever conducted such a mad experiment, which also means that no matter how wonderful the idea, before it is realized, it can only remain an idea!

Zayn Gill, the scholars of the Department of Creation Alchemy, even the members of the Erudite Presidium probably never imagined that the false god they had glued together with 【Divinity】, under the faith of just a few tens of thousands of people......

Gave birth to a......

Consciousness!"

"!!??"

Cheng Shi stared wide-eyed in horror, saying in disbelief:

"You mean... you mean......

【Eternal Day】......

Came to life?"

"Correct. It came to life.

But not now.

Because on the 【Pillar of Birth】, this piece of history was recorded:

Its 【Divinity】 coalesced, sprouting a consciousness. When that consciousness grew strong enough to awaken itself, a new Emissary was born!

And the name of this Emissary was......

【Eternal Day】.

But not long after Its birth, It was annihilated.

As for the reason, no one knows."

"......"

Cheng Shi's brain had almost no capacity left for thinking. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, took a few deep breaths, then said with an ugly expression:

"But I, and my teammates, have never heard of such an...... Emissary."

"Of course. From Its birth to Its destruction was perhaps only an instant. If I hadn't been fortunate enough to have seen the 【Pillar of Birth】, I wouldn't have known either."

Cheng Shi's expression shifted slightly. For the first time, he posed Big Cheng Shi a question probing an unknown secret.

"【Pillar】...... what is it?"

"A...... 'fossil' of life that you would never want to look at a second time.

All lives that worship It, that believe in It, when their kind completely perishes, will grow a marker on the 【Pillar】.

You can understand It as a museum, except the exhibits are strung together by piling and proliferating flesh and blood."

"......"