Chapter 501: The Path of Gods
Ha Si Ta always believed that it was perfectly fine for the person who granted him a fortuitous encounter to ask for repayment of the favor, as long as they stated it directly.
But it was absolutely unacceptable to use such contemptible methods, forcibly altering his personality and implanting unrelated emotions to exploit him for the purpose of revenge.
Thus, he allied with Ying Huo, staking his own life, and fought desperately to extinguish that wisp of Ramdo's will.
Such incidents of being manipulated, attempting a counterattack, and then being killed oneself were simply too numerous to count.
Among the pawns Ramdo had set, aside from a very few, like Ha Si Ta, who possessed extreme vigilance and successfully counterattacked with external aid, the vast majority had their minds subtly influenced, gradually becoming members of the One-Wheel Cult's remnants.
Of course, there were also those pitiable individuals who failed to counterattack, their personalities wiped clean like a blank slate, utterly transformed into puppets. They became the ideal material for Ramdo to create his divine guards.
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"It seems someone is spying on me?" Within the Void Worm, an unnamable shadow flickered in and out of existence.
The true body of Ha Si Ta, leader of the Flame Alliance, was hidden within this very shadow.
Yet, he also knew clearly that this was essentially the limit for the Divine Path based on faith. Unless he could forcibly revert human society to the Middle Ages, to an era where the Church reigned supreme above all else.
Only through the suffering of the current world, combined with the suppression of information, leaving people's hearts with no solace, could pure faith be born in large quantities.
This turbulent, information-saturated era was absolutely not a good time for the Divine Path of faith; devout believers in deities were pitifully few.
If he were the only Six-Tier transcendent in this world, spending one or two hundred years to use absolute power to enforce closed-off brainwashing and technological eradication across the globe might still offer a hope of achieving this goal after three generations of humanity.
He would systematically purge populations, physically eliminating those who absolutely could not be brainwashed.
For the new generation, he would instill pure faith starting from education, repeating this process for a hundred years, and by the third or fourth generation, it might be enough; the entire world would be his devout followers.
After that, as long as he remained alive, society could forever remain frozen in that single moment.
Regrettably, however, Earth was diverse; no transcendent, regardless of their chosen path, would ever tolerate such a thing from happening.
Therefore, he, who immensely desired to attempt a new path, could only choose to leave, conceal his identity and strength, and join this Xierdesi laboratory project, attempting to find a new world layer where he could realize his ambitions.
...
Among those participating in the Void Worm project, less than a quarter of the core personnel genuinely wished only to banish Bai Mo to another dimension, willing to sacrifice themselves for that cause.
The other peripheral participants, each and every one, harbored their own goals and ideas. These ideas were difficult for the human council, which occupied the high positions in the present world, to accept, so they chose to seek a new heaven and earth.
"Someone capable of spying on me without leaving a trace... could it be him? Or did my recent descent attract the attention of the local peak combatants?" After noticing the anomaly, Ha Si Ta quickly drew these connections.
"This world absolutely has seven-stage or even higher-stage lifeforms. It wouldn't matter if those idiots died by their hands, but if the Void Worm's true body gets involved, there will be trouble.
That man possesses the ability to traverse spatial layers. It's hard to say whether other seven-stage lifeforms can do the same. If the Void Worm's location were to be exposed at this moment..."
The more Ha Si Ta thought about it, the more frightened he became. He wished he could immediately find a way for his Divine Path to advance to the seventh stage, gaining the power to move freely within spatial layers.
Instead of being bound tightly to this ship as he was now; if the ship were to be destroyed by the storm, everyone would die together.
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"Did it notice?" Although Bai Mo couldn't pinpoint the Void Worm's exact location, he vaguely perceived that his gaze had been detected.
"A Six-Tier fellow, not staying among the high echelons of the council, but instead sneaking covertly into the Void Worm, all for a fleeting, illusory hope... Interesting."
On the premise that it wouldn't affect his own plans, he had no intention of targeting Ha Si Ta. Instead, he was quite interested, splitting off a wisp of thought to try and deduce the other party's path.
Bai Mo, whose emotions were growing increasingly apathetic, had remained indifferent even when Ramdo, dragging his broken divine body, departed Earth; he had even casually returned a third of the divine essence he had collected to him.
Now, towards Ha Si Ta, whom he had never even encountered, he harbored an even more nonchalant attitude.
"The truth of this world will likely be unveiled when the winds and clouds converge."
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"Sister Yuesheng, you're truly bold. None of us dared to develop agriculture and technology so brazenly in this world..." A few days later, Lu Yuesheng, who had joined the Flame Alliance and grown familiar with everyone, was teased about this matter again.
"There's really nothing to be afraid of," she replied, forcing a smile. "That person certainly wouldn't care about such trivial matters."
After integrating into the group, Lu Yuesheng found herself feeling like a husky that had sneaked into a pack of wolves.
Those capable of participating in the Ark Transmigration Project were at least Four-Tier transcendents before crossing over. Translated to this world's combat power, they were roughly considered among the weaker portion of Dragon-level individuals.
As for the leaders of the various small groups, almost all of them were Five-Tier transcendents. Their combat power before crossing over was equivalent to the strongest batch of Dragon-level individuals.
Even though they had abandoned their original physical bodies, and the power they could exert was further discounted after crossing over to adapt to the new world's power system, the gap in their fundamental tier still persisted.
Lu Yuesheng, who had been an ordinary person not long ago and had only barely risen to the second-tier level after gaining a stat-point system, naturally felt immense pressure when facing them.
"Judging by your tone, Sister Yuesheng, do you know him?" a young girl clustered around Lu Yuesheng asked.
"If only I could forge a connection with such a great figure," she said with a bitter laugh, fabricating another lie.
"I heard that his assistants back then acquired quite a few good things when they left..."
"Could it be that there's... *Wuwuwuwu*... Why are you covering my mouth!"
"Are you trying to get yourself killed? A person of that caliber possesses 'Word Spirit'! You know full well how many people died back then just for talking too much!" Seeing the conversation veering towards dangerous territory, Lin Yan Yang quickly clapped a hand over the speaker's mouth.
Back when the Land of White was first established, a large number of online trolls died of unexplained cardiac arrest simply for saying the wrong thing.
Violence could not persuade opponents, but it could silence them forever. Countless people, with their own blood, taught this truth to those who remained alive.
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