Only the intelligent beings could think about the meaning of existence, and it would only happen when their intelligence had reached a certain stage.
The ascendants in Chaotian, regardless of whether they were the immortals or the gods and buddhas, were all people with great wisdom. They had begun to think about this issue and found their own answers when they were still in that world and had just embarked on the Cultivation path not long ago.
In the long path to heaven, the answers might be revised as they became more knowledgeable, but the foundation wouldn't change much. They wouldn't think about the answers for a while until the last moment of their existence, so that they could obtain the true peace and joy.
The Joyous Monk had seen the sword wielded by Jing Jiu, the Wing of Death from the West, and the departure of General Li in the galaxy beyond the fog. He had already confirmed his thoughts and obtained the true peace. As a result, he changed his name from Great Sorrow to Joyous.
At the moment, on this planet called the Full-Moon, the starlight in the sky was blocked by the dark clouds. He had a clear feeling that something would happen soon, and he might even witness the last moment of his existence. Yet, he didn't have to think about it. All he had to do was to do it calmly and wait for the event to happen.
The Grand Nirvana drifted in the night sky, sending down the Buddha light all over the sky and forming a tall pagoda to suppress the crack in the space.
The shapeless and invisible dark energy gushed out from the crack in the space, bombarding the formation and his Zen heart incessantly.
It was the will of a universe vaster and more magnificent than the one he was in.
It was already remarkable that the Buddhist formation and the Zen heart could resist the attack for a few hours.
More and more dark energy swallowed up the Buddha light and shook the tall pagoda, spreading to the surface of the planet. Two hours ago, the crack in the space expanded abruptly, causing a strong earthquake and tearing the edge of the Buddhist formation apart, making the trend irreversible.
Happy Monk stood on the Grand Nirvana and looked around. He saw the farms in the distance, the fields and the barren hills further away. From time to time, tiny sparks burst out, looking like fireflies flashing and then dying.
It was the self-detonation of the infected cockroaches after they sent out a warning signal.
The humans in the Federation of the Milky Way had always used this method to observe and determine the boundary of the dark energy.
From his vantage point, the sparks on the ground looked like a huge circle with a diameter of dozens of kilometers.
In this big circle, the wild grass under the snow and the seemingly dead trees had been slowly infected by the dark energy. The color was turning gray, and the branches were swaying in the wind as if they were coming back to life.
It was unknown how many monsters were crawling beneath the ground. The panicked screams of living beings could be heard everywhere, as well as the sound of friction as they fled. The ground would occasionally crack open, and many voles and insects would rush out, fleeing in all directions.
A gray rabbit was infected by the spores. It didn't jump far from the ground before falling heavily onto the ground. After a while, it slowly stood up. There was no longer any fear or luster in its eyes, only a deathly aura. The gray fur on its body also fluttered with the wind. With a whoosh, it turned into a black bolt of lightning, emitting a cold and terrifying aura. It ran towards the distant city, its speed much faster than when it was alive.
Happy Monk was a bit tired, and his eyelids were heavy. He withdrew his gaze from the distance and looked at the crack in the space down below.
A Dai Xu was trying to climb out of the crack in the space, its thin arms like dead wood clinging to the edge. The skin of its body was like charcoal, and its whole body looked like a hairless monkey, giving off a gloomy and evil feeling.
The Buddhist light fell from the pagoda and shone on the body of the Dai Xu, giving off wisps of green smoke as if it were burning.
It was unclear whether the Dai Xu could feel pain or fear of disappearing. It opened its mouth, revealing its gray gums and sharp teeth, and howled soundlessly at Happy Monk in the night sky, its gray eyes devoid of any emotion.
With a buzzing sound, the Dai Xu jumped out of the crack and pounced at Happy Monk in the sky; but it was turned into nothingness by the Buddhist light before it could get close to Happy Monk.
Then, hundreds of Dai Xu rushed out of the crack in the space and jumped up. Against the suppression of the Buddhist light, they wanted to bite Happy Monk. Some of the Dai Xu who jumped the highest and were the fastest were even about to touch his torn monk's robe.
With the cover of these Dai Xu, more Half Tails rushed out of the crack in the space like lightning. It was unknown whether it was by instinct or by command, but they accurately found the gap in the Buddhist light formation, ran out of the factory ruins in an instant, and disappeared into the field under the night sky.
This had already happened twice. The Dai Xu that had been infected by humans had no intelligence, but they were obviously organized and planned. They actually found a chance for those Half Tails to escape by attacking Happy Monk wildly and sacrificing themselves.
When those Half Tails disappeared into the field, more Blood Thumbs floated out of the crack in the space. These monsters that had been transformed from microorganisms were difficult to see with the naked eye, but when there were too many of them and they gathered together, they seemed to become real black smoke.
Happy Monk sat down on the Grand Nirvana expressionlessly and closed his eyes. He rotated the prayer beads gently with his right hand and opened his thin lips slightly, uttering the mantra.
The Buddhist light grew brighter in an instant, and the high pagoda glowed like glass, illuminating the vast fields to the north of Foggy City and the telescope on the top of the mountain.
Along with the sizzling sound, the black smoke grew fainter at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was unclear how many Blood Thumbs had been purified.
Those Dai Xu leaping up in the sky let out soundless but dreadful screams, and then disintegrated into the black, charcoal-like meat cubes, and then turned into even smaller spores. Yet, the spores couldn't drift away and were crushed into tiny powder by the Buddhist light.
Both the purified black smoke and the tiny powder drifted up on their own and entered the Grand Nirvana.
There were many metal lattices on the surface of the Grand Nirvana, one of which had been filled up by the Sea of Dark Matter and turned black and gold. It was then that another lattice was slowly filled up, and the material seemed to be glass and graphite.
Regardless of whether it was the Dai Xu, the Half Tail or those Blood Thumbs, they had only the intent of killing and destruction, but their own existence was hard to be erased. The Happy Monk had consumed a great deal of energy to fight against the undersea creatures until now. The most troublesome part was the black smoke, the spores of the dead monsters and the shapeless dark energy seeping out from the space, which kept consuming the Buddhist light. The exceedingly vigorous Buddhist light was thinned layer by layer again.
The high pagoda condensed by the Buddhist light trembled again; it seemed that it would collapse at any moment.
If the pagoda were to collapse, those black and gray monsters would flood out of the cracks in the space like the tide and occupy this planet many times faster than they were doing now, turning all the lifeforms on the planet into their own. By then, the humans would have no choice but to abandon this planet.
Merciful Monk's ability to make decisions was extremely strong. He had changed his battle strategy before the tower collapsed.
The high pagoda disappeared from the ground in an instant and was absorbed into the Grand Nirvana.
The Grand Nirvana grew brighter after being replenished by the Buddhist light, looking like a full moon in the night sky.
The broken monk robe fluttered lightly, looking like an army flag that refused to admit defeat.
The Happy Monk landed in front of the crack in the space, and the Buddhist light was absorbed into his body, making his face emit a golden glow. The soft lines on his face had become much tougher, and the handsome youth seemed to have turned into a real golden Buddha.
He raised his right hand expressionlessly.
A huge golden Buddha could vaguely be seen in the night sky behind him.
The golden Buddha raised its right hand along with his movement and then dropped down.
It was the Big Handprint!
Boom!!! The ruins of the factory became shorter because of the tremendous impact.
The huge palm of the golden Buddha landed on the ground, covering the entire crack in the space.
The tiny turbulence seeped out from the edge of the palm, making an ear-piercing noise.
It was unclear how many monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter had been smashed into smithereens by this huge palm.
The unimaginable and tide-like impact made the palm of the golden Buddha tremble incessantly, as if it would be shaken off at any moment.
The Happy Monk closed his eyes.
His long eyelashes were quivering slightly amid the Buddhist light.
Neither the Grand Nirvana nor the Buddhist pagoda could resist the power of the Sea of Dark Matter.
Even though his golden body was extremely stable and powerful, how long could he resist it?
Time passed slowly.
The Happy Monk's face was as pale as a piece of paper when he was in the Sea of Dark Matter, and he looked just like that now.
Yet, some of his eyelashes dropped down.
It seemed that the golden hair on his body was not the real golden body.
Perhaps it was for this reason that the monks of the Guocheng Temple had to cut their hair.
The Happy Monk was not afraid of the impact of those monsters or the infection of the spores, but he was still eroded by the purest and shapeless dark energy.
His Zen heart was still as steady as a rock, but his golden body was slightly damaged.
The little finger on the edge of the huge palm of the golden Buddha began to show some damage, showing a sign of breaking down.
The little finger on the right hand of the Happy Monk turned slightly black.
The night grew darker, and so did the starlight. Correspondingly, the Buddhist light in the ruins of the factory grew dimmer.
After a long while, the intensity of the light and shadow changed again. It was because the morning light penetrated through the distant clouds and gradually illuminated everything in the mountains and fields.
The Happy Monk suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the crack in the space covered by the Giant Palm of the Golden Buddha, a hint of lethal intent showing in his eyes.
Chi! Chi!
Chi! Countless black tentacles with evil and dreadful energy crawled out from the narrow space between the palm of the Golden Buddha and the crack in the space.
The Happy Monk's right hand was still pointing at the empty space, but his left hand was grabbing at the air. Along with this simple movement, countless arms stretched out from behind him and grabbed at those tentacles. It looked clumsy, but it was unimaginably accurate and fast.
An awful cracking sound rang out in the ruins of the factory. Countless golden hands grabbed countless tentacles and tore them savagely. Pah! Pah! Pah! The tentacles didn't hold on for a long time and broke into a few pieces. Puffs of black smoke, full of spores, shot out from the broken openings.
The Happy Monk took a deep breath and inhaled all the black smoke into his stomach.
In the next moment, his body shook slightly, and his chest and abdomen suddenly bulged and then returned to normal.
A few golden flames came out from his nose and gradually extinguished, turning into wisps of green smoke.
The spores that were inhaled into his stomach must have been burned by the Buddha's fire.
The black tentacles were torn off by him like the feet of an octopus, but the mother nests were still there.
With a booming sound, the crack in the space expanded again. It was unclear how many mother nests had chosen to explode themselves at the same time, forming a tremendous force that shattered the Giant Palm of the Golden Buddha.
The Happy Monk was shaken off again, traveling along the deep pit before dusk to a place forty kilometers away.
But he was prepared this time. He flew backward by stepping on the Great Nirvana and turned back instantly. Without waiting for any movement on the other side of the crack in the space, he reached out his hand and grabbed a mother nest from inside. He turned his left hand over and wielded the Great Nirvana as a broadsword.
Cao Yuan was his descendant in the Guocheng Temple and was called the Broadsword King.
The broadsword method of this grandmaster of the Zen sects was not weaker than his.
The golden broadsword wind dispersed the morning sunlight. More than thirty thousand broadswords had been wielded in an instant, and the two mother nests were chopped into the tiniest pieces without any resistance.
More and more mother nests came out from the crack in the space, which had expanded to hundreds of meters.
The Happy Monk was still expressionless, but he raised his eyebrows and flew to the high sky by stepping on the Great Nirvana, traveling at a high speed.
The black mother nests had no time to do anything as soon as they arrived in this world, and they were instantly shattered.
The distant permanent star was already some distance away from the horizon, but it was blocked by the dark clouds, and the heaven and earth had become much colder.
The Happy Monk traveled among the mother nests on the Great Nirvana, bringing out countless bright lights.
He was still using the broadsword method, but he was practicing the sword riding method.
Many years ago, he had been to Aoyama at the beginning of his Cultivation, and the swordsmen of Aoyama gave him a beginner's sword instruction. The beginner's sword instruction was not very powerful, let alone profound, but it was enough for him to practice a very advanced sword riding method in the hands of an extraordinary person like him.
The mother nests and all kinds of monsters came out from the crack in the space, but they were chopped into pieces by him, turning into black smoke filling the sky.
Even the cold sunlight and the gray clouds were blocked by the black smoke, and nothing could be seen.
The lights brought out by the Great Nirvana suddenly converged into a light spot.
The Happy Monk looked at the deep end of the black smoke filling the sky and the crack in the space, his eyes slightly cold.
An extremely powerful energy appeared there.
It was as cold as the sky.
It was as solid as the black smoke.
It was as if death had become a concrete image, arriving on the surface of the Full Moon Planet.
The black smoke gradually dissipated, and the space was distorted. A huge mother nest appeared in the sky above the factory ruins.
This Dark One was still as ugly as ever, with countless tentacles still hidden under the leather-like body. It looked like the muddy ground where weeds were about to emerge. There was a faint wave in the muddy ground, which protruded slightly wherever it passed. It looked like facial features, but it also looked like a life that had been swallowed.
It was another head of a Giant on the sea.
Thinking of the book written by Jing Jiu, the Happy Monk thought that it was no wonder that the Giants in Chaotian had only one retarded descendant left; it was all karma.
He took out a golden rod made of black stone from the Great Nirvana, intending to kill this mother nest as soon as possible even if he had to use up half of his magic.
The Dark One was different from the regular mother nests; it could even affect the consciousness and environment of the whole planet. The most direct threat was that the underground base set up by the government of the Federation of the Milky Way on a regular residential planet like the Full Moon Planet had never considered fighting against a monster of this level. The alloy doors of the underground base, together with the gravitational field generator, could block the invasion of the regular mother nests and even the dark energy, but they couldn't block this kind of thing.
If this huge black mother nest was allowed to roam freely on the planet, it would take only half a day for all the lives on the planet to die.
But in the next moment, that cold and gloomy aura that was filled with death intent … suddenly became even stronger.
The energy was already unimaginably powerful; how could it become more powerful?
Such a phenomenon had never occurred in the few observation reports of humans.
It was already the mother nest of the highest state and couldn't evolve any further.
The Happy Monk didn't believe that the Dark One could evolve into a more powerful being; otherwise, there was no need to fight this war.
There was only one explanation: there was more than one Dark One that came to the Full Moon Planet.
As expected, another Dark One drifted out slowly from behind the Dark One that was transformed from the head of the Giant.
That Dark One didn't have the standard form of a mother nest. There were only a dozen feeble tentacles on the surface, but there were two wing-like protrusions on the lower side.
It was still extremely ugly.
The Happy Monk was certain that there was no such existence of such a high-level mother nest in all the observation reports, including the database of that young girl.
What kind of monster was this?
Thinking of these questions, he put away the golden rod and stepped on the Great Nirvana, arriving at a large mountain two hundred kilometers northwest of the factory ruins.
Even the most powerful human being couldn't defeat two mother nests of the highest state at the same time. Like what happened in the Sea of Dark Matter a few days ago, the only thing he could do was to flee. He had to flee further and further away, and perhaps he could only flee to the space later.
Standing on the edge of the cliff of the large mountain and looking at the factory ruins in the distance, he suddenly felt less eager to flee.
It was because another … Dark One came out of the crack in space.
Then another one came out.
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Some of the Dark One looked like fat birds without feet. Some of them looked like square stones covered in mud. Some of them looked like a head. And some of them looked like ordinary mother nests. The common feature was that they were roughly spherical, with a dark gray surface, some parts shriveled and some protruding, as if something was flowing inside, giving off a disgusting feeling.
Of course, the reason they made people feel disgusted was not only because of their ugliness, but also because of the death energy they carried.
Innumerable precursors, Half-tails, and other strange-looking monsters poured out of the crack in space, spreading out like a waterfall and rushing toward all parts of the planet.
The Happy Monk didn't try to do anything to stop it.
In order to resist the gloomy and cold energy of those Dark One, he had a hard time. His face was as pale as a new piece of paper, and the Buddha light emitted by the Great Nirvana was extremely dim.
Nine Dark One drifted out of the crack in space.
They had driven away the black smoke and the dark clouds in the sky. They came to a very high place in the atmosphere, looking down at the world like emperors.
The unimaginably gloomy and cold energy spread out from their ugly bodies, freezing the mechanical wells in the agricultural machinery factory on the ground and breaking a few stones.
The black smoke and dark clouds had all dispersed. Normally, the rising sun should be visible.
Unfortunately, it couldn't be seen.
The nine black suns in the sky had taken away all the light.
The Happy Monk stood by the edge of the cliff, his tattered monk robe fluttering gently, like the flag of a defeated general who was about to fall.
Looking at the nine huge mother nests high in the sky, he wondered what the hell was going on.
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