Chapter 712

Speculation on eras and epochs.

Alad was stunned. He opened his eyes, looked up at Cheng Shi, and was puzzled by this question.

"Although I don't know when His name began to spread, I know that in the nearby towns, there is always a scholar talking eloquently, spreading His name.

Xilolin sent people to inquire about him, and even let me contact that scholar, of course, when I hadn't joined the Hand of Agency yet.

But he is very cunning and never reveals his tracks.

At that time, I didn't know what use these people had. It was she who told me that if underground scholars don't worship 【Truth】, they are very likely enemies of 【Truth】. Anyone who can overthrow evil gods should be an aid to the Extreme Desire Brotherhood, so she has always been very interested in the believers of 【Idiotic】.

But later I heard that these believers of 【Idiotic】 are highly likely to be people from the Tower of Reason. I can't see through their intentions, so I have always felt that these people are not credible."

Cheng Shi was also stunned. He felt that the person talking eloquently that the other party mentioned was like Alan Doyle, but this wasn't the key problem. The most key thing was that Xilolin didn't know 【Idiotic】. She even thought 【Idiotic】 was a wild god. Since she didn't know, how could she possibly let Alad contact those believers of 【Idiotic】?

He frowned, dragged Alad, and pulled him into Xilolin's room. In Xilolin's extremely hateful eyes, Cheng Shi asked again:

"Do you really not know 【Idiotic】?"

"I swear, I have never heard His name. Before those two scholars came to the door, I didn't even know that the words 'idiotic' and 'foolish' could represent a Him. Even wild gods wouldn't be called by such names. No wonder He is called 【Idiotic】!"

"......" Big sister, this is the second time. This is the second time you have blasphemed Him. Good luck.

Cheng Shi twitched the corner of his mouth. For the sake of caution, he frowned again and said: "Tell a lie. Pay attention, Xilolin, you only have one chance."

Xilolin was a smart person. She guessed something, so she immediately replied with a solemn face: "Before meeting these two scholars, I had already heard of the name 【Idiotic】."

A lie! It was indeed a lie.

Now Cheng Shi was really confused. He couldn't help but think of the guess about the era that popped up in his mind when he saw the compressed 【Silence】 divinity in the Abyss Colored Crystal.

In Aflos's description of eras, the arrival of each era has one more epoch than the previous one. The 【Sinking】 era has one more Sinking Epoch than the 【Life】 era, and the 【Chaos】 era has one more Chaos Epoch than the 【Civilization】 era. From descent to curtain call, the span of eras is getting longer and longer.

It wasn't until the opening of the 【Existence】 era that this situation changed.

First, put aside the problem of the change in epoch length and only look at the previous eras and epochs, and then associate it with the order of the descent of 【All Gods】, it is not difficult to find a problem, which is also a problem Cheng Shi has been pondering, that is:

After They have descended but the epoch has not yet reached the time They belong to, what are They doing?

Take the simplest example. When the 【Sinking】 era came to an end, the three gods of 【Sinking】 had already been named true gods by 【Origin】, no longer affected by the era, and independent of the river of eras.

Then when the next era opened, in the first epoch of the 【Civilization】 era, the Life Epoch, why were there no traces of the three of Them?

Cheng Shi couldn't be sure about this problem. After all, the trials bestowed by 【Faith Game】 are chaotic, and players don't know the concept of eras. No one knows which era's epoch the epoch in the trial background belongs to. However, judging from the trials experienced so far, there are indeed few followers of 【Sinking】 in the Life Epoch, and at most they are just budding believers of 【Filth-Depravity】.

So those 【Sinking】 three gods who have already been named, since they possess the authority to overlook the era, why don't they appear at the beginning of the epoch?

Also, like this trial, it takes place in the middle of the Civilization Epoch, but there are 4 epochs including the 【Civilization】 epoch in the eras after the 【Civilization】 era, so how to determine which era this belongs to, and what are the differences between these identical epochs in different eras?

Cheng Shi had been unable to figure out this problem until he confirmed the matter of the Fear Sect and the Proximity Sect from the Fun God, and learned that it was 【Nothingness】 that gave people a 【Faith Game】. From then on, substituting the perspective of the Proximity Sect to think, he finally guessed some clues.

He felt that the reason why the gods abide by their own "timeline" and never appear too early or are absent from history is probably because they don't want to affect the trend of the era. Don't forget, the curtain call of the era is related to 【Origin】, and no one knows the reason why 【Origin】 named Them. Who can guarantee that He didn't finalize the status of each true god because of the development process of the era?

After all, the naming of 【Fate Path】 has already indicated many things, and the Fun God also said personally that the development of the path of fate is the progress of life and civilization.

So if you are a true god born in a certain period of history, in front of a supreme god who takes and gives, would you, no, dare you smear the path you have walked?

No! Dare not!

No god would!

Except for 【Deception】!

He is not only smearing, but even dares to shit on the head of 【Existence】!

But He is the Fear Sect, are other gods?

No, most of them are the Proximity Sect, at most they are neutral. Neutrality is based on not looking for trouble, so how could they "disobey" a 【*He】?

So from that time on, Cheng Shi realized that when there are gods who have been named and the epoch they dominate has not yet arrived, these gods have not yet descended, but are quietly hiding outside the curtain of the world, quietly waiting for the day they go on stage.

But at this moment, the appearance of 【Silence】 divinity in the Abyss Colored Crystal made Cheng Shi realize that they seem to be far more active than he imagined when they are waiting in the wings. Even if they don't tamper with the mainstream of the era, they are probably not immutable in the details.

If belief is really useful, who wouldn't want their belief to spread in advance, and who wouldn't want more and broader believers?

Gods, by nature, have desires!

That is to say, thinking up to here, Cheng Shi confirmed that the current Civilization Epoch is probably the 【Existence】 era or the 【Nothingness】 era, because only in these two eras has 【Silence】 long been named and is waiting in the wings under the world stage.

And this can explain why in the middle of the Civilization Epoch, in the history before He descended, His divinity had already been compressed into ore.

As for how to distinguish the identical epochs in these two eras, Cheng Shi still has no clue at present.

Back to Xilolin, Cheng Shi has thought a lot about Xilolin not knowing 【Idiotic】, but has never grasped the point. Until he heard the name 【Idiotic】 again just now, he suddenly connected everything, and a bold idea rose in his mind.

He felt that his inference was wrong again.

Xilolin might not be from the future, but from... the past?

Could she be Xilolin in the middle of the Civilization Epoch in an era before the 【Existence】 era when 【Idiotic】 had not yet descended?

In other words, could what she crossed be not just the front and back of the epoch, but also the front and back of the era?

She is indeed the future in the epoch, but she is clearly the past in the era!