Chapter 515: Left and Right
Just as Bai Mo was pulling more of his attention from the Moon back to the Manghuang Realm, preparing to face the Star Beacon, the "guardian god" of this world, a familiar tremor suddenly emanated from the deepest reaches of the wilderness.
"A new Source Seed? How could it appear at this time?" Before Bai Mo could even react, the Star Beacon was the first to realize what had happened.
Things seemed to have gone somewhat beyond its expectations. According to its calculations, the next Source Seed should have emerged two years later.
Yet now it had appeared without any warning, perhaps influenced by the person currently before it?
To deduce the possible reasons, it slightly relaxed its combat readiness. Its head, which had been a blur moments ago, once again revealed four distinct, angular faces facing front, back, left, and right.
The faces, spinning rapidly like a revolving lantern, indicated that the Star Beacon was performing high-intensity calculations.
It redirected its primary computational power from the combat module back to the thinking and analysis module.
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At the same time, this fluctuation from the extreme distance allowed Bai Mo to extract more information from the Sky Net, gradually unraveling the full story.
"Could the faint shred of humanity Yuan Wu Chu had left before his death truly perish together with his overwhelmingly dominant divinity?"
He understood the power of Daoization practitioners all too well.
Bai Mo had always found it strange. How could a mere four cultivators, like Nanxuan Qingye, who had just broken through to the seven-stage, possibly kill Yuan Wu Chu, who had already been Daoized for over a hundred years, whose power could easily shatter an entire continent, and whose full-force blow could pierce a planet the size of Earth straight through?
Even if their cultivation stages were on par, the accumulation of power between the two sides was as different as clouds and mud. The personality embodying his divinity shouldn't have been annihilated so easily.
If the Source Seeds were seen as remnants of his divine power and will, then it all made sense.
"Perhaps this was also part of his scheme: using the destructive power of the Four Emperors to temporarily seal himself, and then leveraging the collective strength of humanity, using the method of slaying demons, to gradually wear down the world-destroying will within his divinity, millennium by millennium.
Then, by controlling the frequency of the Source Seeds' appearance, he managed the progress, ensuring that the demonic power represented by the world-destroying will was just slightly weaker than humanity's maximum assimilative capacity, preventing an overwhelming surge of demons from instantly submerging mankind.
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"No, the Creator truly died. He perished, taking his final benevolent thoughts with the malicious desire to destroy the world!" the Star Beacon retorted without hesitation after hearing Bai Mo's words.
"He isn't dead. There's still a will within the Source Seed." As a fellow cultivator deeply immersed in Daoization, Bai Mo was most sensitive to such fluctuations.
"That's not the Creator. Inside the Source Seed, there's only a puppet that seeks to destroy the Golden Age, and indeed, everything!" The Star Beacon didn't completely deny Bai Mo's words, instead becoming increasingly agitated, as if a switch had been flicked.
"A puppet?"
"You practitioners of the Way of Ruthlessness are merely pawns of the Heavenly Dao!"
Upon hearing this, Bai Mo gazed at it, remaining silent for a long time.
The instant he awakened his four-dimensional vision, he had once caught a glimpse of a corner of a higher-level truth, which he then immediately locked away in the deepest recesses of his memory.
The confidence now emanating from the Star Beacon made Bai Mo believe that he was certainly not the only one who had perceived something.
Yuan Wu Chu must have also guessed some things, otherwise, he wouldn't have hidden his discoveries in the Star Beacon's memory. Perhaps these insights would be unsealed when certain conditions were met, such as encountering another Daoized life form.
The full truth remained unknown; it would only be revealed once Bai Mo obtained a Source Seed.
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Great Wei Capital, Imperial Palace.
"Reporting to His Majesty, Astronomical Bureau Chief Nanxuan Li requests an urgent audience."
"Granted!"
"Your Majesty, there's a change with the Source Seeds; this demon tide might arrive prematurely!" Nanxuan Li displayed the divinatory trigrams from the Heavenly Observation Instrument using a projection spell to substantiate his claim.
As a matter of paramount importance concerning the legacy of the Bloodline Houses, the Great Wei Dynasty's monitoring and research of the Source Seeds exceeded all imagination. Hundreds, even thousands of people, dedicated their entire lives to maintaining the instrument used to monitor the Source Seeds' appearance.
"Could something have happened on the Ancestor's side?" Duan De Huai, clad in dragon robes, gazed north towards Hanluo City with a complicated expression.
Even across thousands of mountains and rivers, he could sense two undeniable fluctuations in that direction: one utterly familiar, the other a completely unknown presence.
"Nanxuan Li!"
"Present!"
"Send the detailed divinatory trigram information to the Ministry of War."
"As Your Majesty commands!"
"Transmit my order: urgently summon the Four Grand Stewards to the Imperial Palace. I have important matters to discuss with them."
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"War is about to begin." The Star Beacon learned of the Imperial Palace's command the instant it was issued. "May the children achieve victory."
Originally, with seven-stage power, sweeping through would leave no suspense in the battle whatsoever.
Unfortunately, it couldn't personally participate in the battle for the Source Seeds, because those inexhaustible demons inherited the world-destroying will of Yuan Wu Chu's destructive aspect.
The supreme directive etched into the Star Beacon's core consciousness naturally included a prohibition against attacking the Creator. Even the utterly irrational demons instinctively loathed all emotional life forms before them, and their sole purpose was to slay all humans.
However, a program is a program, and the Star Beacon could not overstep its rules.
It could command, provide intelligence, and even teach its descendants how to erase the world-destroying will within the Source Seeds and correctly utilize the unconscious power within them.
But it could not enter the fray; it couldn't use even a shred of its power to actively attack, because this, too, was a part of the Creator Yuan Wu Chu's power.
"I won't let you lay a hand on the Source Seeds." The Star Beacon seemed to guess Bai Mo's next move—he intended to personally study the Source Seeds themselves.
"Do you think you can stop me?"
"This is my home ground. As long as we are under this sky, I can absolutely not be defeated." The Star Beacon was extremely confident in this point.
Although it couldn't cultivate, and its true power was only equivalent to the early seven-stage, in the Manghuang Realm, every "descendant" protected by the Star Beacon could provide it with a portion of strength. This was its so-called home-ground advantage.
With the support of hundreds of millions of lives within this realm, even if the power provided by a single individual was negligible, under such a massive base, it would transform into a terrifying force. Thus, it felt not the slightest bit intimidated when facing Bai Mo.
Three thousand years ago, the transmigrator from the Nanxuan family who attempted to fundamentally alter the Manghuang Realm was forcibly "ascended" by this terrifying power after breaking through beyond the Divine level, driven back to his original world. He left behind only his harem, who had "sowed his seed across the world," and a group of children, who became the backbone of today's unaffiliated noble families.
Today, facing the even stronger "transmigrator" Bai Mo, it harbored the same intentions.
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