in the edge

Chapter 600 Under the Same Sky
False Taoism cannot give birth to real power.

It was with Wu Zhao's reminder that Du Chengfeng realized why the powerful men could not completely kill each other when attacking each other - indeed, this could be said to be because the powerful men had a firm will to transcend life and death, but Du Chengfeng now realized that the power they used also had problems.

If a firm will itself is strength, then when two sides fight, what they should be competing for is firmness itself.

But what are these powerful people doing now?

Are the things they do, the inspiration they seek, and the path they take really related to that determination?
Obviously, no.

Du Chengfeng himself is a powerful being, so he has some experience with this. After mastering this so-called mental strength and reaching this so-called great power, what lies before him is endless emptiness and confusion - this may indeed be a kind of power, and it can even be said to be a very useful power.

But this power, when used, is always a little subtle and strange.

This kind of power is too convenient, even a little too convenient. It is more omnipotent than the magical internal forces in martial arts novels. He can almost do anything he wants with his mental strength.

But the more he can do everything, the more he can't do anything.

When everything becomes extremely easy, there is nothing left for him to do. As long as he uses his omnipotent mental strength and firmly establishes his will, there is nothing he cannot do. Perhaps Wu Zhao is unable to find a suitable adjective due to his limited knowledge, but Du Chengfeng can accurately find a way to describe it.

It's like opening a modifier while playing a game.

As long as you listen to the ding-dong sounds of the modifier, everything will change under your firm will - indeed, from a combat perspective, this is not a bad thing. It can greatly reduce the time of combat, reduce trouble in all aspects, and allow people to complete everything they want to accomplish in a shorter time.

But then what?

And then, it seemed like nothing happened.

When everything can be accomplished easily, when everything can be swept away quickly, when everything is over, all that remains is eternal nothingness.

"Why do I always feel like something is wrong?"

Du Chengfeng vaguely caught a glimpse of inspiration, but he was unable to break down this inspiration in detail for a while.

However, if we follow this line of thought, it does explain what the so-called "intention to die" is all about - what kills these powerful beings is not so much the thought of death, but rather this strong sense of nothingness. When they realize that life itself is no longer meaningful, death naturally becomes their only destination.

Therefore, even if it is just to survive, these powerful beings must constantly search for the meaning of life and the joy of survival itself. This is not so much a fight against death as it is a fight against nothingness itself.

But this search is not a regular one. For these powerful beings who are already omnipotent, their way of searching for the meaning of life is bound to be strange, unconventional, even outrageous, and unconventional.

And all these actions are just to satisfy their own desires, just to allow them to continue living.

From this perspective...

"Why do I feel that if I continue to describe them this way, these powerful beings will be more like extraterritorial demons than I am?"

Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng couldn't help but slap his head.

Yes, it seems to be true. These so-called powerful people, these powerful people who keep saying that they are extraterritorial demons, no matter their behavior, their fighting ideas, or this loose structural model - especially this loose structural model, which is also one of the doubts raised by Wu Zhao before.

If these former heroes also practiced seniority and set up a heavenly organization after going to heaven, or if they fought and killed each other after going to heaven, then at least it was within the scope of Du Chengfeng and Wu Zhao's understanding. But now, this loose, contradictory yet relatively peaceful situation seems problematic no matter how you look at it.

But if so, what about changing the perspective?
What if we change our perspective and regard these so-called powerful people as demons from outside the domain?

The demons from outside the domain live in another world, and the caves owned by these powerful beings can be considered another world. The demons from outside the domain will bring disaster to the common people, and these powerful beings can be regarded as a disaster if they come down to the earth.

There will be fights among the extraterritorial demons, but this group generally maintains relative stability. The powerful ones also have conflicts directly, but they will not fight to the death.

And the most obvious thing is that the extraterritorial demons are extremely difficult to kill, and the same goes for these powerful beings.

"No wonder they use the term 'outer-territory demon'..."

Du Chengfeng couldn't help but sigh.

As the saying goes, the more one says something, the more one is probably thinking about it in his heart. Now these powerful people regard him as the demon from outside the domain. Perhaps it is because these powerful people have subconsciously realized that they are not much different from the demon from outside the domain they are talking about.

In fact, they are already trying to do something similar.

The demons from outside the realm will conquer another world, and these so-called powerful ones are obviously also preparing, preparing to attack another world, preparing to kill towards a wider world.

Yes, kill.

Not running towards, not flying towards, but killing towards.

This is why, the more Du Chengfeng thought about it, the more he felt that this idea seemed to be true.

After all, these so-called powerful people have never learned anything else while growing up. When they were still mortals, the evil system of killing people had already left a solid imprint in the hearts of these powerful people. The idea of ​​killing people and plundering everything has long been deeply rooted in these powerful people.

Although ascending to heaven requires the so-called cleansing of the three turbidities and the so-called firmness of will, in Du Chengfeng's opinion, this can only be regarded as eliminating the influence of evil spirits and preventing himself from becoming a martial madman who kills everyone he sees.

But that's the problem. Even if he is not a martial madman, he can still kill people and steal treasures, and he can still plunder everything with force.

But this killing will become more rational, calmer, more skillful and more manipulative.

This is never a wash away, it should be a kind of advancement after removing the negativity.

"It's like... military training?"

Du Chengfeng vaguely thought of a possibility that he himself was not quite sure of.

Although this idea is a bit too absurd, it does make sense when you think about it carefully - first select a few seeds with strong martial arts through endless killing, then collect these seeds and let them learn how to fight rationally... But in the process, you have to keep starving them, make them empty, let them immerse in nothingness, and let death constantly chase after them.

Under this pressure, they may not necessarily become stronger, but they will definitely become crazier. Even if they still retain the most basic rationality on the surface, the paranoia that supports them in the void has already made them completely unrelated to the heroes of the past. As long as they can survive, they can do anything. This is the foundation of these powerful people.

They hold power, they have powerful means, and most importantly, they have no bottom line when doing things.

They look weak now, but that's only because they are still in their own world. They were born in this world and have some attachment to it. If all of this is really destroyed, they will completely lose their place to stay.

But if such a group of so-called powerful people were sent out to fight away from home...

"hiss……"

Du Chengfeng was a little afraid to think about how tragic and chaotic the scene would be.

This is no longer something that can be described with just a few words: lives lost. The existence of these powerful beings is a disaster itself.

"Your idea..."

Wu Zhao also frowned.

“It’s not impossible, but I always feel like there are still some areas that are missing.”

Speaking of this, Wu Zhao also added a few words.

"According to what you said, these so-called great powers were all the best in the previous eras. They relied on their own strength to ascend to the sky, opened up their own caves in the sky, and from then on they ignored worldly affairs and focused on cultivation... You may think that these things are fine, but I..."

The other half of the face of the Centipede Star Lord, which was controlled by Wu Zhao, frowned.

"Why is it that I have never heard of any of the dynasties you mentioned, such as Dajing and this and that?"

"……Um?"

When Du Chengfeng heard Wu Zhao say this, he was stunned.

This kind of statement...how could Wu Zhao not know?
But upon closer thought, there are indeed some doubts here. For example, the so-called previous dynasties mentioned by those powerful people are just one-sided statements of these powerful people. Du Chengfeng has not found any relevant cultural relics, nor has he found any evidence to prove the existence of these dynasties. However, since the age is really too long ago, Du Chengfeng, an outsider, does not know much about local history, so he believed it all.

But once you think about Wu Zhao's situation...it all seems so abnormal.

If everything was as those powerful people said, there were various previous dynasties and generations of civilizations, then how come the Yin people of Wu Zhao's generation were directly driven back to the era of wearing animal skins?

You have to know that no matter how massive the war is, some remnants of civilization will be left behind, some basic lifestyles, and some texts or tools that represent the heritage of civilization. These will be passed on as the seeds of the next civilization.

But there was an obvious breakpoint among the Yin people. Although they did possess considerable power, their level of civilization was still in a barbaric period. If we only say that this was caused by war, it would definitely not make sense.

Just like the doubts Wu Zhao raised now, Wu Zhao himself, as a Yin person, also felt that the existence of so many civilizations before was a little too incredible.

"So those dynasties, those civilizations, those so-called heroes you mentioned..."

Thinking of this, Wu Zhao couldn't help but make a guess.

“Are they really locals?”

"This……"

Du Chengfeng was speechless.

Originally, when faced with this kind of question, he didn't even need to think about it, but now, after hearing what Wu Zhao said, he was a little hesitant to confirm it.

But if these so-called heroes are not locals, then where did they come from?
They are familiar with this land, they have an understanding of the world, they even have the same understanding of evil spirits, mental strength, willpower, and even all kinds of power... Where do all these understandings of theirs come from?
Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng also turned his attention to the powerful men who came to seek refuge.

He was lucky that he didn't kill these powerful men directly just now. Now he had the opportunity to ask them for advice.

However, these powerful men did not dare to talk to him. Perhaps it was because the Centipede Star Lord was too famous, and the different expressions on his left and right faces were too scary. These powerful men did not dare to speak at first.

However, after Du Chengfeng tried various ways of persuasion, facing the sword of regret drawn by Du Chengfeng, these powerful people finally chose to reveal their privacy in order to satisfy the strange curiosity shown by the Centipede Star Lord in front of them.

"When I was young, it was still the Great Jin Dynasty. At that time..."

Among the several powerful people, one of them spoke first and roughly recounted his story. Then, one after another, the powerful people continued to tell their stories. They all came from different dynasties and different periods, so naturally, the stories they experienced were also different.

But Du Chengfeng didn't care about this, instead he asked another question.

"What about the rest of you? Do you know Dajin? What about Dajing?"

"This……"

The other powerful men were silent for a moment, then frowned.

"It should be from a previous dynasty, right? Anyway, no one has recorded the history in this regard, so naturally no one would know that such a dynasty existed... But now we know it, don't we? We have understood it..."

"You guys, wait a minute."

Listening to the words of these powerful people, Du Chengfeng keenly grasped the key.

"That is to say, you have never heard of this so-called Dajin, or Dajing?"

Speaking of this, Du Chengfeng couldn't help but slap his head.

Even Wu Zhao thought of something.

(End of this chapter)