"… The Dark Tower is a powerful artifact built with Fear Stones to suppress the Secondary Planes … In the God and Demon Realm, in the eyes of the gods, it is like a barb, a nail, or a lighthouse in the sea of the universe. It is inserted into the Secondary Planes' universes and continuously absorbs the dark energy of the Secondary Planes … That dark energy is like a tide, like a fog, like a storm. It surges in different levels of space, emitting from the consciousness of every living being, and then converges into the Dark Tower like a stream …"
"The living beings of the Secondary Planes don't know the order of their planes and worlds in the universe. They also don't understand the mysteries and meaning of life … They are like weeds in the wilderness, harvested by the raging fire. When the raging fire sweeps through the wilderness, the living beings squeeze out their life force and transform it into pain, slaughter, sorrow, fear, greed, disappointment, panic, and other energies. These are the fruits of the harvest, the feast of the demons …"
— — Forbidden Book
"… There are only two kinds of emotions at the origin of life, love or fear. Fear is the source of all negative energy. The source of the Demon God's power is fear. Fear brings about slaughter, pain, greed, and all kinds of evil …"
"The battle between gods and demons is everywhere. In the end, it is also the beginning of the war. It is in the consciousness and thoughts of all the living beings in the universe …"
— — Battle between gods and demons
"The Demon God has countless agents in the Secondary Planes. It is a conspiracy between humans and demons. The Demon God gives the agents all kinds of abilities, power, money, and eternal life … And the agents use their abilities and power to rule the world, creating fear, war, oppression, exploitation, and pain. They use the fear of mortals as a sacrifice …"
"… Those mortals don't know why the superiors are so keen on creating fear, war, pain, and disease. It doesn't completely come from the need to rule … Because it is a contract. A peaceful world is what the agents hate the most, because it represents their incompetence and dereliction of duty. No one is harvested … "
— — The Darkest Secret
"The God of Good Fortune roared, and the entire void began to shake and shatter. Billions of miles of the Milky Way were torn apart by the God of Good Fortune's anger. Boundless fire surged out from the God of Good Fortune's body … The God of Good Fortune's blood dripped down, and each drop of blood turned into a hundred dragons. Each dragon had the power to shatter stars …
"… The God that controlled the disease fell in the flames of the God of Good Fortune. His Divine Kingdom collapsed and turned into nothingness. This is the first God to fall …"
"… The Wind God's body was submerged in the God of Good Fortune's blood. His Divine Kingdom collapsed and turned into countless winds, blowing the stars.
The God of Good Fortune's body, the God of Good Fortune's Divine Kingdom.
The Demon God of God's chain of Order collapsed God … "
Another World is free … "
— — The Age.
Countless words and historical records appeared in front of Xia Pingan's eyes. Xia Pingan could only read them word by word as if he was reading a book …
…
In a secret room, Xia Pingan was sitting cross-legged on a praying mat, holding a sparkling jade slip in his hand. His mind was completely immersed in the words of the jade slip, and he didn't know how long had passed.
The Great Shang Dynasty had far too much information regarding the Dark Tower. It had been accumulated for who knew how many years. Tens of millions of words, pictures, and all sorts of information were contained in this jade slip.
The information in this jade slip wasn't pieced together at the last moment. Rather, it had been preserved in this way by the Great Shang Dynasty.
As for Xia Pingan, after immersing his mind into the jade slip, the words of the jade slip immediately caused Xia Pingan to become 'addicted'. The secrets of the Dark Tower were too astonishing, making one unable to stop.
At the end of the information, Xia Pingan saw the last line of words in the jade slip: This jade slip can only be consulted by Bishops and above.
This jade slip contained the records of the Dark War God Religion.
…
In the secret room, Xia Pingan finally opened his eyes.
He looked at the special red candles on the wall.
The candle was called Magic Whale Wax, and it was made using a special method. The raw material was the oil of the Magic Whale. A stick of Magic Whale Wax could be lit for a month. In the secret room, the Magic Whale Wax had the effect of dispelling mosquitoes, snakes, and rats, and calming the mind. It was the favorite of those in closed-door training.
Looking at the short piece of Magic Whale Wax, Xia Pingan slightly hissed and muttered to himself, "It's already been so many days!"
Xia Pingan spread out his legs and got down from the praying mat and stone bed. After stretching his limbs and body in the secret room, he walked out of the secret room and went outside.
It was late at night in the small courtyard. The stars and moonlight poured down, and only crickets were tirelessly chirping in the garden.
These days, only the Black Dragon was guarding outside. Seeing Xia Pingan come out of the secret room, the Black Dragon immediately wagged its tail and ran over.
Xia Pingan habitually took out the pocket watch on his body and glanced at it. Only then did he remember that he hadn't wound it up for so many days, and that the pocket watch had been unwound for who knows how many days.
Xia Pingan walked into the courtyard. With his hands behind his back, he looked up at the dazzling starlight in the sky with a deep gaze. His thoughts were fluctuating, and he found it difficult to calm down.
In the information and files of the Dark Tower, Xia Pingan discovered one thing. In order to destroy the Dark Tower, one had to become a God.
Only a God-level existence in this world had the ability to discover and destroy the Dark Tower.
Xia Pingan didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this discovery.
Xia Pingan dared to bet that those people who formulated the "Heaven Patching Plan" on Earth would never have imagined that the prerequisite for ending the space invasion and destroying the Dark Tower was actually to become a God in this world.
For a mortal to become a God, this path was extremely difficult and long.
Some of the information was about the description of becoming a God in this world. Because the description was somewhat scattered and incomplete, Xia Pingan could only vaguely glimpse the path to becoming a God. When a summoner's secret mandala gathered ten suns, the summoner's secret mandala might transform into a God's Kingdom.
Xia Pingan didn't know the specifics of the transformation. He only knew that this step in becoming a God was called "condensing a God's Kingdom."
Other than that, the most important thing about becoming a God was that all the Gods in this world who had become a God seemed to have their own domain of expertise. These domains were unique, and no two Gods had the same name.
The domain of expertise of the Gods was the same as the name of the Gods. When these two were combined, it was called the "Godhood" of the Gods.
The God's Kingdom and the Godhood seemed to be the two most crucial factors to becoming a God. Xia Pingan didn't know the specifics. The only thing he knew was that the ultimate goal of all the strong people in this world who were not Gods was to become a God.
"I'm really forcing myself to walk this path. If I can't reach the end, then don't blame me. I'll try my best, but who dares to say that they will definitely become a God?" Xia Pingan muttered to himself.
In the blink of an eye, the Black Dragon, who had run away after seeing Xia Pingan shake his head at his pocket watch, returned. Not only did the Black Dragon return, but it also ran in front of Xia Pingan with a newspaper in its mouth.
Because he had a fixed residence, Xia Pingan ordered a copy of the "Shangjing Daily." These days, a postman would deliver a copy of the "Shangjing Daily" to the delivery box of the house every day.
The delivery box was outside the door, and the box was inside the door. The Black Dragon had just brought the "Shangjing Daily" back.
The date on the "Shangjing Daily" was May 12.
In a prominent position on the front page of the newspaper, there was a piece of news that the Shang Kingdom would hold a grand naval review in Beihai Harbor three days later, on May 15. At that time, the Shang Kingdom's new battleship would be launched.
According to the principle of reporting news, these newspapers would not disclose the whereabouts of the important people of the Shang Kingdom in advance. However, this news still made Xia Pingan smell a different smell.
After receiving his information, the Shang Kingdom held a launching ceremony and review of the new battleship in Beihai Harbor as scheduled. It seemed that nothing had changed, but it was this lack of change that made Xia Pingan feel a little strange.
Three days later, Beihai Harbor would be unimaginably lively.
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