"To explain the minor apocalypse," Bai Xinghe said, "Liu the Prier found countless ancient classics and notes and studied the process of the ancient Cultivators' apocalypses. He discovered that all the ancient Cultivators who suffered apocalypses shared the same feature."
Li Yao asked solemnly, "What feature?"
"They were all unparalleled experts!" Bai Xinghe explained.
Li Yao was rendered speechless. Apocalypses always struck experts. Generally speaking, only those above the Yuanying Stage who were trying to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage might experience apocalypses.
He had never heard of a Refinement Stage Cultivator being hit by an apocalypse when they were walking on the street. That was too unbelievable!
Why did the ancient people name the level above the Yuanying Stage as the 'Divinity Transformation Stage' when they summarized the levels of Training?
It was because the ancient people believed that the peak of the Yuanying Stage would be tested by apocalypses. After passing the test, they would be able to ascend to the heavens and become deities. That was why it was called the 'Divinity Transformation Stage'!
"In the late years of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago," Bai Xinghe said, "wars were raging in the three thousand Sectors. Heroes rose and attacked each other. It was the most chaotic Warring States Period!
"Liu the Prier deduced that the three thousand Sectors in that period were the entire universe. He considered every Sector to be an independent civilization.
"Liu the Prier discovered that when two Sectors were at war, the more advanced Sector might not always win.
"In many cases, a super expert was enough to change the outcome of a war!
"This super expert might have been a nobody, but he seemed to have been blessed by the luck of the entire Greater Thousand Worlds and rose miraculously!"
"Such people would be taught techniques by nameless experts on their way, and they would find ancient secret treasures when they fell off cliffs. When they bought a random spiritual beast, they would discover that it was a divine beast among divine beasts!
"It's as if it's the will of the heavens, and he's destined to emerge. They were destined to change the world forever!
"Therefore, Liu the Prier named such people as the 'Children of Destiny'!
"In his research notes, Liu the Prier gave three examples.
"Long Fantian. He was the second son of a small family in the Dark Fire Sector. His family declined, his father was crippled by his enemy, and his engagement was annulled. Extremely tragic! "
"But after that, in just a few short years, he miraculously rose to power and became the supreme expert of the Black Flame World. He shone brilliantly in the war between the Black Flame World and the Moon Severing World. With his own strength, he killed seven experts of the Moon Severing World and helped his Greater Thousand World defeat the Moon Severing World, whose overall strength was ten times stronger!"
"Ye Xinglong was originally part of the allied forces of the Wind Moon Sector. An insignificant pawn. At that time, the Wind Moon Sector was involved in the chaotic war between dozens of Greater Thousand Sectors, and it was the weakest sector. In the chaotic war, it could have been annihilated at any time! "
"However, this Ye Xinglong has a magical power that makes the beauties of many worlds worship him. While he sleeps with the beauties of many worlds, he also controls a lot of resources and Divine Abilities through them. In the end, he rose from a pawn to the commander of the allied forces of dozens of Greater Worlds! "
"Xiao Han was a servant of a small sect in the Blazing Fire Sector at first. It is said that his veins and nerves were all broken. He was a cripple who could not cultivate, but he had an extremely rare divine ability that allowed him to sense remnant souls. No matter where he went, he would be able to obtain countless remnant souls, and from these remnant souls, he would be able to unearth divine abilities and information about ancient treasures. Therefore, he rose to power in only a few decades and helped the Blazing Fire Sector defeat almost a hundred Sectors in a row. At the end of the first civil war of the Cultivators, the Blazing Fire Sector became the dominator of the world!
"The Black Flame World, the Wind Moon Sector, and the Blazing Fire Sector were all worlds that could not have been smaller before they appeared. They were essentially 'low-level civilizations'. But because of the miraculous rise of the 'children of destiny', they fought against worlds that were far stronger and more developed than themselves!
"Therefore, Liu the Prier deduced half of the rules.
"In the competition between the advanced civilizations and the low-level civilizations, generally speaking, the low-level civilizations are unable to resist. But there are certain variables, which are the children of destiny!
"If a child of destiny who boasts great luck emerges in the low-level civilizations, it is possible that they will pose a threat to the advanced civilizations and even defeat them completely!
"Therefore, even if an advanced civilization is faced with a low-level civilization that is no threat at all, because there is no telling whether or not a child of destiny will jump out of the low-level civilization one day, the advanced civilization will still have no choice but to … destroy them!
"Too few samples of the rule have been observed, and it is limited to the civilization of mankind. There is no telling whether or not it applies to the entire universe. Therefore, it can only be regarded as' half of the rule '."
Li Yao found it hard to believe. "Luck? I don't really believe in such things! "
"I don't believe in luck, either," Bai Xinghe said. "Let's call such a phenomenon 'probability'. It's like a lottery ticket whose odds of winning the lottery are one in ten million. As long as billions of tickets are sold, someone will win the lottery sooner or later. It is not because they are lucky but because of the probability."
Li Yao thought for a moment and found that he could not argue with that logic.
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao was greatly enlightened. "So, the minor apocalypses are the weapons to 'obliterate' the children of destiny?"
Bai Xinghe nodded and said, "Even if the 'child of destiny' rule does not exist, it is a fact that all the experts who have been obliterated by the minor apocalypses are the cream of the civilization of mankind and the most distinguished people standing at the peak of the world, right?
"So many unparalleled experts have failed to pass the test of the apocalypses. It is an inestimable loss for the civilization of mankind!
"If there were no apocalypses, they would have been able to continue their training and discover more techniques and secret arts. The civilization of mankind might have been a hundred times stronger than it is right now!
"From that point of view, the existence of the minor apocalypses has indeed slowed down the development of our civilization. That is absolutely true."
Li Yao shuddered. "Is it possible that, for tens of thousands of years, countless powerful civilizations have been observing us silently above the civilization of mankind and obliterating all the experts among us in order to block the possibility of our progress?"
Bai Xinghe shook his head and said, "According to the notes of the ancient Cultivators, the attack methods and the anomalies of every apocalypse are different. They do not seem to be the work of the same civilization.
"However, it does not make sense that hundreds of different civilizations have been monitoring the civilization of mankind. After all, the civilization of mankind was still in an ignorant state tens of thousands of years ago. There was no reason that so many powerful civilizations would have coveted us.
"Therefore, Liu the Prier's judgment is that the minor apocalypses are not attacking us on purpose. They were released by a certain civilization a long, long time ago, with certain attack conditions set. Then, they spread across the entire universe.
"Once a certain condition is met, the minor apocalypses will be activated and attack automatically.
"It means that the minor apocalypses attack in a random way. We just happened to run into them."
Li Yao was confused. "Why is that?"
"In the vast sea of stars," Bai Xinghe said, "even if there are civilizations that are similar to or much more advanced than human beings, they must be far away from us. Chances are that they are millions of lightyears away from us!"
Li Yao nodded. It was quite true.
When the civilization of mankind reached its peak, it had crossed the three thousand Sectors. Although it had conquered countless alien species, none of them had established a powerful civilization.
In the ancient classics, the alien species were referred to as mountain spirits, water spirits, spirits of nature, fox spirits, spider spirits, and so on. In fact, they were all natives of extraterrestrials.
There was not a single civilization in the three thousand Sectors that was as developed as mankind. Therefore, even if such a civilization did exist, it must be very far away from mankind.
"Let's say that two civilizations are millions of lightyears away from each other," Bai Xinghe said. "When the enemy perceives the civilization of mankind, it immediately launches a powerful apocalypse at the speed of light and lunges at the civilization of mankind aggressively!
"Even so, it will still take a million years for the apocalypse to reach the civilization of mankind, right?
"A million years!
"Think about it. It took us only a hundred thousand years to evolve from squeaky monkeys to the magnificent beings we are today!
"What can we become if we are given a million years? By then, will we still be scared of the so-called 'apocalypse'?
Chances are that he will analyze the trajectory of the attack of the heavenly tribulation and go to the enemy!
"For the civilization of mankind, is it murder or suicide?"
Li Yao nodded. It did make a lot of sense.
"Therefore," Bai Xinghe said, "the more reasonable approach is to release countless' minor apocalypses' in advance and set certain conditions for them to hibernate and wake up. They will drift in the boundless sea of stars slowly. Once they sense a certain condition, they will be activated immediately and launch an attack! In such a way, it will be faster, more reasonable, and more cost-effective!
"Why did the apocalypses only arrive when Yuanying was trying to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage in the age of ancient Cultivators?
"I speculate that it was because when a Cultivator was at the peak of Yuanying and unleashed all his spiritual energy to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage, there was a chance that a certain 'minor apocalypse' that happened to be drifting nearby sensed the immense waves and activated the minor apocalypse!
"In the world of ancient Cultivators, there was also a theory about 'Merit Value'. It was said that as long as the Cultivators did good deeds and accumulated enough merit, they would be able to avoid the apocalypse. It was even said that a certain hero of a righteous sect was safe and sound when he tried to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage without encountering any apocalypse.
"Hehe. It's very simple. The guy was lucky enough to not encounter any minor apocalypses near the Sector he was in when he was trying to break into the Divinity Transformation Stage!"
Li Yao clapped his hands and said, "That makes a lot of sense!
"A major apocalypse is a 'strategic weapon' of a civilization. It is very costly and difficult to launch. After all, it is powerful enough to destroy a planet or even a Sector. I don't think that even the alien species whose civilization is more advanced than that of mankind cannot launch such a weapon easily, can they?
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