"You're here?" That man's smile was still exceptionally benevolent, as though he had long expected her to appear here.
Zhu Yao took a deep breath. "Black Tortoise."
His smile grew even more benevolent, as he reached out his hand and waved at her. Zhu Yao simply felt an invisible energy dragging her forward, and landing on top of that gigantic tortoise's head. "You should call me father."
"…" The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. She felt that she could pick up cheap parents everywhere recently. "If you're my father, then who's my mother?"
His expression stiffened, and he helplessly shook his head, looking as though he could not do anything about her. "You … Haah, my race has always been born from the heavens and the earth, how can there be a mother?"
Then what face do you have to make me call you father!? It's not like you're Li Gang.
"I have a question!" Zhu Yao returned to her original form, and released her own godly energy, turning into a phoenix that was flashing with lightning sparks. Raising one of her claws, she asked. "Why do I look like this?" Wasn't the Black Tortoise a combination of a turtle and a snake? For example, he was one. His feet were in the shape of a turtle, while his human form was formed from his snake form.
The Black Tortoise smiled, and simply reached out a finger, tapping on her head. Her mighty and domineering phoenix form earlier, with a plop, she turned into a green-furred tortoise.
"The phoenix is your illusory form, and this is your true form."
"…" Zhu Yao extended her head out of the tortoise shell to take a look, and for a moment, she felt like crying. Such a stupid form, she might as well be a bird!
"It isn't easy for my race to be born, and we're naturally skilled in transformations. Only when we truly mature will we be able to transform into our true forms." The Black Tortoise softly explained.
As expected, a moment later, she once again returned to her phoenix form, and Zhu Yao immediately returned to her human form.
"The first person you saw when you were born must be a phoenix, which is why you transformed into a phoenix form."
Zhu Yao recalled the day she hatched from her shell. The first person she saw was indeed Little Six of the phoenix race. And the lightning phoenix form, was probably because it transformed into the form of her sword intent. Fortunately, it wasn't some strange thing like a caterpillar.
"Second question." Zhu Yao reached out two fingers. "That sentence in the Heavenly Revelation: Nirvana and rebirth, banishment and beginning, banishment and beginning. What does that mean? "
Black Tortoise's expression darkened. After a while, he sighed deeply. "It's a long story. Do you know that there are other places in this world that we don't know about other than the world we live in?"
"I know!" Zhu Yao nodded. She came from the Divine Realm after all. "Three thousand worlds, after all."
The Black Tortoise was taken aback and had a look of surprise on his face. After a while, he understood and continued, "However, these three thousand worlds were originally one."
"Huh?" She really didn't know.
With a wave of Black Tortoise's hand, the surrounding white fog slowly took on different colors, and vivid images appeared. It was as if someone had suddenly played a special 3D movie in front of her. In the endless world, all kinds of races that she had never seen before flashed by one by one.
He started explaining them one by one.
Zhu Yao listened for exactly half an hour before she was able to clearly understand the cause and effect. Very simply, this was a tragedy caused by a catfight. Originally, in that world, the Ancient Gods were the leading organization. After many years of peaceful rule, suddenly one day, a group of rebels appeared — the Devil Race. Their abilities were on par with the God Race, and they often carried out terrorist attacks.
The Ancient Gods tried to suppress them, but they were like cockroaches that couldn't be killed. Not only did they become more and more arrogant, their numbers also increased. The Ancient Gods sensed danger, and thus, an all-out war between the Gods and Devils began.
However, at this time, the Devil Race had already matured. Although the Ancient Gods obtained the final victory, they paid a terrible price. More than half of the Gods fell, while the Devil Race was merely sealed, existing like a ticking time bomb.
Due to the overly powerful strength of the Gods and Devils, they caused an indelible impact on the world. The Heavenly Dao was enraged, and the world began to collapse. The Gods had nowhere to go.
At the crucial moment, the Black Tortoise was born, and he even possessed a Divine Spark. Although his godly power was not as strong as the Ancient Gods, he possessed the shocking ability to transform, and was able to transform into mountains and rivers.
The Gods saw hope, and thus, they decided to gather half of the godly power of the surviving Ancient Gods. Using the power of the Black Tortoise's main body, they created a world to contain the Gods that were punished by the Heavenly Dao. However, the Black Tortoise's primordial spirit fell into an eternal slumber.
In order to ask for the Heavenly Dao's forgiveness, the Gods even trapped the Devil Race, the source of all evil, within.
Thus, this world was also called the Land of Exile by the Gods.
Ever since then, the Gods had been guarding this seal, but even so, it did not stop the Gods from falling, until only the last one was left.
A few million years later, when the Ancient Gods were no longer able to stop the Devil Race, a turning point appeared. The God Race began to appear. Dragons, Phoenixes, and Qilins, these three races awakened their Divine Sparks one after another. As though they were born specifically to suppress the Devil Race, their bloodlines had a suppressive effect towards the Devil Race, and they were born with great enmity towards the Devil Race.
And the world that collapsed back then also turned into three thousand small worlds, each of them independent.
Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction. Until …
The Black Tortoise woke up.
"Isn't it better that you're awake?" Actually, if Zhu Yao had to say, the most unfortunate one was the Black Tortoise, right? Why didn't he do anything the moment he was born? All because the Gods transformed into this world, and then fell into a deep slumber, not having the time to experience anything. Now that he had finally woken up, why did he still have such a sad look?
The Black Tortoise shook his head. "The godly power of the Gods allowed me to create a world, and also allowed me to fall into an eternal slumber. My main body has already fused with this world, and this world is me. Initially, I would never wake up. Now that I'm awake, it can only prove … "
He reached out his hand to stroke the top of her head, and lightly said. "Child, I'm about to die. This world has already reached its end. "
"…" Zhu Yao's heart ached, and she fiercely widened her eyes. This was the first time she felt that the word 'bug' on the tortoise's head was so piercing to her eyes. She finally knew what was going on with the bug this time. Yet, she would rather not know in the first place. This was clearly a dead end.
In the past, she had always been clearing bugs. Now that she had returned, was she going to activate rescue mode?
"It begins with the profound beginning, and it will end with the profound end. This world began with me, so naturally, it will end with me as well. "
"Is there no other way to stop it?" Zhu Yao really did not expect that she would witness the true end of the world so quickly. Though in the past, when she fixed those bugs, she would see the scene of the end of the world in her precognitive dreams as well, none of them were as immersive as this one.
"There is." The Black Tortoise lowered his head, and looked straight at her.
Zhu Yao was startled. "Me?"
"You're a Black Tortoise as well. Your appearance is an opportunity bestowed upon this world by the heavens. But … "
"She can't!" A slightly cold male voice suddenly interrupted his words. A white figure flashed in front of her, and Yue Gu suddenly appeared next to her. His face still carried a faint expression, but unexpectedly, a hint of coldness floated out. He did look a little like her master. "You have seen it for yourself earlier. Her godly power is basically insufficient to support this world. Even if she inherits yours, it won't be enough."
The Black Tortoise's expression grew even heavier. What Yue Gu said was indeed the truth, but …
"At the very least, it can support her for a period of time."
"This way, it won't help the world either."
"But other than her, there's no other way."
"This is her own decision. You should respect her."
"She's also …"
"Black Tortoise." Yue Gu solemnly said. "This world will be destroyed in the end."
"…" The Black Tortoise lowered his head, as though all of his strength had been sucked out. "But, I can't just watch as …"
"Umm …" Looking at the two people who had already sunk into an extreme dilemma, Zhu Yao weakly raised her claws, successfully attracting their attention.
"Third question." Zhu Yao coughed, and raised three fingers. "Umm, since both of you know that this world is already hopeless, then why don't you consider moving?"
Black Tortoise: "…" There's actually such a method?
Yue Gu: "…" Why didn't I think of that?
The two of them had dumbfounded expressions, as though they couldn't believe it. It was as if he couldn't believe that a dead-end problem had been solved with a single sentence.
"It still won't do!" The Black Tortoise suddenly frowned again. "According to what I know, a million years ago, the world was split into three thousand worlds, yet, not a single one of them was stable, and there was the danger of collapse at any moment."
"You've already said that a million years have passed. Who knows, the other worlds might have already stabilized?" Those worlds were all more stable than this place, alright?
"Be that as it may." The Black Tortoise was still a little worried. "But currently, Yue Gu is the only Ancient God left. With his strength alone, he's basically unable to open the World Crossing Heavenly Door."
"What if I'm included?" Zhu Yao once again raised her claws.
"You're saying …" The Black Tortoise widened his eyes.
Zhu Yao nodded. "Even if I inherit your godly power, it won't be enough to support this world. Then, what if I use it to open the World Crossing Heavenly Door?"
"…"
"This method is feasible." Yue Gu raised his head and looked at Zhu Yao, his eyes sank. "However, forcefully opening the Heavenly Door is going against the Heavenly Dao. When that time comes, you will definitely suffer the backlash of the godly power, you … "
"Let's open it first!" Zhu Yao waved her hands unconcernedly. She was already used to dying and dying. She might even be able to return to meet her master!
— — — —
Under Zhu Yao's persuasion, Yue Gu and the Black Tortoise had already approved of her relocation plan. Actually, Zhu Yao was still very confident in this operation. Since there was a bug in this world, that meant there was a chance to fix it. She did not dare to guarantee a hundred percent success rate, but at the very least, there was hope for survival.
However, the opening location of the Heavenly Door was a little troublesome. This entire world was formed by the Black Tortoise, and every single part of it was a part of its body. However, the opening location had to be at the Black Tortoise's Dantian. The Dantian was where godly power was stored, and Zhu Yao could only inherit the Black Tortoise's pure godly power there, and open the Heavenly Door.
However, only after asking did she find out that the location was actually near the Nether Abyss. Her Dantian was located in such a dangerous place.
Zhu Yao had no choice but to head towards the Nether Abyss together with Yue Gu. Recalling that Shao Bai was still there, Zhu Yao faintly had a feeling that things would not go smoothly.
"No need to worry." Yue Gu stroked her head. "Your master will naturally not allow the Devil to approach."
Zhu Yao raised her head and looked at his serious expression. She could not help but ask. "Teacher, you already knew that I'm the Black Tortoise, so why didn't you tell me?"
Yue Gu's hand paused for a moment, and a moment later, he solemnly said. "Your master thought … you should have the chance to choose." No matter if she was the next cornerstone of heaven and earth, he hoped that she could choose for herself.
"Then what if I really have the ability to support heaven and earth, and am unwilling to fall into a deep slumber?"
"I respect your choice." He said without any hesitation.
"Why?"
"Because …" Yue Gu slightly lowered his head, and forcefully stroked her head. "You're my only disciple."
"…"
A long while later …
"Yue Gu, you're really starting to resemble my master a little."
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