in the edge

Chapter 545 Ancient Memories
Some rules are set on the surface, while some rules are unwritten.

As the Lord of Fire spoke, Du Chengfeng realized that there was an unwritten rule among these powerful people.

"If you can avoid using supernatural powers, try not to use them. If you must use them, it's best not to be seen."

Originally, Du Chengfeng thought that the biggest purpose of this statement was to increase his strength. After all, once the powerful people used the power they specialized in, basically all problems could be solved. As the saying goes, force can defeat skill, and nothing can stop this unparalleled power - but doing so will also make things end too quickly, and the experience will be reduced a lot.

After all, when the powerful sneak into the mortal world, the most important thing is to experience the process. As for whether the problem can be solved... can this be called a problem?
Of course, there are some exceptional cases where these powerful people cannot solve the problem even if they use extraordinary means, such as running into another powerful person and the two sides fighting directly - but this is another different kind of practice. In the case of restraining each other's means, only using ordinary strength to determine the winner is more like a special entertainment for the powerful people.

But no matter what the situation is, there is an unspoken premise.

That is to try your best not to let others see those extraordinary abilities.

"why?"

It was because he understood what the Lord of Fire said that Du Chengfeng became even more confused.

"Why can't I use the skills I worked so hard to acquire? This doesn't make sense, does it?"

"You... well, then I'll put it another way."

The Lord of Fire thought about it, and then asked Du Chengfeng in turn.

“Have you ever seen a celestial being like me before?”

"..."

Du Chengfeng was just about to say that this was nonsense, how could he have known this old man before, but he immediately realized that what the Fire Star Lord wanted to say was something else.

What the Lord of Fire wanted to ask was not whether he had seen him, but whether he had seen other powerful beings in heaven.

Of course he had never seen that. Although he had seen many things that claimed to be immortals, it was obvious that there was still a considerable gap between these things and the mighty ones in the sky - in fact, these so-called immortals on the earth had never actually seen these mighty ones in the sky.

If they really saw it, they would know how crude and ridiculous their so-called abilities were in the face of true immortality.

Just like the gray-black fire phoenix, if it had known from the beginning that it could achieve immortality with just a firm will, there would have been no need to dig out some secret method of weapon dissolution from the pile of old papers, or even attach itself to some weapon - from this perspective, Wu Zhao actually suffered from his lack of education, and his self-righteous way of achieving immortality was actually a detour.

As for Huangtian...if this kid's family could realize that they had spent their entire lives digging deeper and deeper into a cave-like place, they probably wouldn't be so obsessed.

"It seems that you understand what I mean."

It was at this time that the Lord of Fire spoke again.

"So, following this line of thought, if you had seen a celestial being like me before, would you want to become like me?"

"..."

Du Chengfeng nodded slowly.

If we follow this line of thought, if the descendants of the Chu people have really seen the power of the powerful, then they will not take any detours. With a ready-made template in front of them, the descendants of the Chu people can embark on the right path from the beginning - as for Wu Zhao of the Yin people, I am afraid he will only go one step further. After all, this guy can be said to have almost walked on the right path.

The saying "a slight error can lead to a great mistake" is exactly what this means.

When there are no pioneers ahead of them, when they can only rely on their own limited knowledge, trial and error, and keep bumping into things blindly, even if they occasionally get some seemingly feasible results, it may not really be the best path.

Huangtian demonstrated this most clearly. This family was almost the same as the powerful people Du Chengfeng knew. Their advanced thinking could even be said to have surpassed other versions. However, their inherent thinking path ultimately confined them and forced them into a dead end.

And the Southern Chen Taizu, who lived a lonely life because he was invincible, this is even more...

If they were shown what true power looks like, even if they were only allowed to witness the power that transcends ordinary imagination, would they take a different path?

Yes, they will. After all, to be able to reach that point, they are no longer ordinary people. All they need is just a little necessary inspiration and the most important guidance.

As long as they see the powerful, they can become powerful very quickly.

You only need to look at Du Chengfeng himself to understand this. Becoming a powerful person is really not as difficult as imagined.

"That's why there is this unwritten rule."

Seeing Du Chengfeng nodded, Fire Deity continued speaking.

"Because there is no need for so many great powers."

"unnecessary?"

Du Chengfeng chewed over the words of Fire Star Lord, trying to understand what the old man wanted to express.

What do you mean there is no need for so many great powers? Can't this kind of thing be achieved by cultivating it? Why is there such a sentence...

"It's actually quite late for me to go to heaven."

Seeing that Du Chengfeng was still a little confused, the Fire Deity also sighed.

"I went to heaven relatively late, so I didn't experience that incident. I also heard about it from others. But if I talk about this kind of thing, you will understand it."

Having said that, the Fire Star Lord pointed to the remains of the Black Tiger Star Lord on the ground.

"Being able to ascend to the sky means that most of the time, you won't die. You should know this, right?"

"That's true."

Looking at the still shaking body on the ground, Du Chengfeng nodded slowly.

Just like the Black Tiger Star Lord on the ground, even if he was cut into pieces, his body still retained its vitality - after all, in this idealistic world where ghosts are seen, as long as you have a firm mind and are indomitable, then as long as you don't want to die, you probably won't die.

After all, Du Chengfeng himself had experienced this kind of thing. When he fought with the Death Star before, not to mention being cut into pieces, he had been beaten into iron sand. However, he was still alive and well, and even tore the Death Star's body into pieces.

Even death itself is nothing more than an eternal sleep. Since it is an eternal sleep, there is naturally the possibility of being awakened at any time. From this perspective, there is no real death at all, which means that it is really difficult for a powerful person who can fly to the sky to die. So this is where the trouble lies.

Just thinking about it made Du Chengfeng's scalp tingle, because he had already realized what the Lord of Fire was going to say - powerful people with tyrannical power are basically immortal, and at any time there will be new strong people who will become powerful, fly to the sky and become one of the many powerful people.

A group with tyrannical power will not decrease in number, but will increase in number… From this perspective, it may not be clear, but if we compare the powerful to a tiger, everything will be simple and clear.

Think about it, there is a group of tigers living in a forest, and the number of these tigers will not decrease, and will even increase. But no matter how many tigers there are, the forest is always only so big.

What kind of disaster would this be?
Du Chengfeng was a little afraid to think about it.

"It seems like you already understand a little bit."

Just by looking at Du Chengfeng's expression, Fire Deity Star Lord already knew that Du Chengfeng had thought of something.

"Yes, it's just as you thought. As more and more powerful people emerge, chaos will follow... I went to heaven relatively late, so I didn't experience that war. Can you imagine? The scene of two galaxies colliding?"

"..."

Du Chengfeng was speechless for a long time.

He already understood what the Lord of Fire wanted to express. After all, he had just thought of it - as the number of powerful beings increased, these powerful beings inevitably split into two factions. One faction probably felt that there was nothing wrong with maintaining the status quo, as it had always been this way. But the other faction obviously wanted to limit the number of powerful beings and wanted to have fewer of them.

Then, just as the Lord of Fire said, as time went on, the differences between the two factions became completely irreconcilable, and a bloody fight ensued.

The powerful ones opened up caves in the sky, which were like bright stars, so the collision of the two galaxies meant that the two factions had already started a real fight. As the war continued, they put everything they had into it, regardless of the consequences, just to kill their opponents and those stumbling blocks that dared to stand in their way.

So, judging from the results, the faction that wanted to limit the number of powerful people won.

Come to think of it, after all, this faction is not content with the status quo, so they will naturally be excluded by the old faction that does not want to change the status quo. But precisely because of this exclusion, they will become more united - unity is strength, and strength can kill people, so their victory seems justified.

"But... there's no way to completely limit the generation of great power, right?"

Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng raised his head and looked at the Fire Star Lord.

Yes, this road is not completely blocked, otherwise the coyote would not have taken him to the sky - what's more, the coyote himself has the fisherman as a guide. From this point of view, these powerful beings in the sky do not actually have too many restrictions on the emergence of new powerful beings.

After all, there is no way to completely block this kind of thing.

As long as the path exists, there will be people who can walk on it, unless these powerful people can directly deny themselves and deny the path they have always taken. Otherwise, given how big the world is, there will always be people who will walk on this path and there will always be people who will find the direction to heaven.

"That's what happened."

Sure enough, just as Du Chengfeng thought, the Lord of Fire nodded.

"Before I ascended to heaven, those ancient great powers also thought of using the method of blocking, but this method ultimately failed... Just like controlling floods, it is always better to drain than to block, so everyone chose another method."

Yes, those ancient powers were not stupid either. They all realized that a rigid blockade would likely lead to even more unpredictable chaos, so just as the Lord of Fire said, they chose a relatively gentle approach.

That is, the current method.

"If you want to limit the emergence of powerful beings, it is useless to just kill the newly born powerful beings. What we really need to do is to seal off the information about the powerful beings."

The Fire Star Lord spoke slowly.

"As long as not many people know about it, the number of powerful people will naturally decrease. As for those who rely on their own abilities to get to the edge of the mundane world, they are only a minority after all. It may take only a hundred years to produce one. With such a small number, even if they are taken to heaven, there will be no trouble...but."

At this point, the Fire Star Lord once again pointed at the corpses on the ground that were still squirming, as if they were trying to piece themselves back together.

"But if he did this and so many mortals saw what the power of the Great One really looks like... you can understand how harmful this is."

"Ah this."

Du Chengfeng touched his chin.

It seems to be true. After all, the power of these powerful beings is countless versions beyond the mortal world. You have to know that the world right now is still mainly filled with evil spirits, and there are actually not many people who can touch the power of the mind, not to mention the more complicated power of incense and vows. There are really not many people who can do it.

As for the powerful, no matter it is the evil spirit or the power of incense and vows, they can only be regarded as mundane. The abilities they can truly exert are far beyond the reach of these powers classified as the "three turbidities".

However, if this ability is seen by ordinary people...

"That's what a man should do!"

Du Chengfeng couldn't help but think of this.

"There may even be someone who can replace him!"

Who doesn't want to become stronger? Who doesn't want to possess extraordinary powers? It's just that they couldn't see it before, so they could only choose the visible and tangible paths in front of them - but these paths have hidden dangers after all, no matter whether it is evil spirit, mental strength, or incense and vows, there are hidden dangers after all. If they only focus on these, they will never be able to come up with any explanation.

But if we show them the real way...

Those who can become masters are not fools. What they lack may not be strength itself, but they actually lack the persistence in pursuing strength.

Just like the opponents that Du Chengfeng had just recalled, these masters never lacked strength. What they lacked was an opportunity, an opportunity to go one step further.

"So we can't give them the chance, we can't let them see it."

Having said this, the Fire Star Lord extended his hand towards Du Chengfeng.

"Come and do me a favor and seal up this Black Tiger Star Lord."

"He has violated a taboo, so he should rest in peace."

(End of this chapter)