Chapter 651: Rules
Curled up in bed with the covers, having carelessly rolled around several times, Lun Heping, his eyes bewildered, suddenly conceived some rather extraordinary ideas.
He looked at himself, still wearing the skirt, then turned his head to glance at the long black wig placed by the bed. Silently, he pulled a roll of tissue from the drawer...
Although this was in his sister's house, and she was right there beside him, the young man's feeling of helplessness still yearned for some outlet to vent itself.
Unfortunately, he lacked both the courage and the strength to turn the tables on her.
......
"Bang!" This time, it was his door that was abruptly flung open.
These two siblings apparently had no habit of knocking properly; whatever idea struck them, they'd simply kick the door open.
"......"
"......"
Fortunately, Lun Qin had come in relatively early. The young man was merely preparing to let himself go, and no classic scene that would cause social death had yet occurred.
"Heping, look at this news."
His sister, standing outside the door, pretended not to notice what Lun Heping was about to do, and with a serious expression, tossed her phone to him.
"Why news out of the blue..."
With his moment of peace interrupted, he muttered a few complaints, then, pretending nothing was amiss, slightly tidied his clothes.
Lun Heping picked up the phone.
On the phone was a live news video.
Of course, before watching the video, he first glanced at the headline. It was indeed in the typical style of imperial media, as sensational as ever:
"Death Row Inmate Exclusive Interview – Lancelot's Blood Debt Paid in Blood!"
The background of the news was very simple: it was about a commoner named Lancelot who, after witnessing his father's murder in his youth, only after twenty years, personally slew his father's murderer.
Naturally, the outcome was without suspense. After killing his enemy, he was arrested by the Investigation Department, and the imperial court sentenced him to hanging for intentional homicide.
......
"Hatred, only blood can quell."
He vaguely watched the entire ten-minute news interview. In the end, he only remembered one sentence.
"Hatred, only blood can quell..."
"Hatred, only blood can quell..."
"Hatred, only blood can quell..."
Lun Heping even imitated the tone from the news, endlessly reciting this sentence over and over again, like a broken repeater.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
A hollow voice echoed in his ears, like the whisper of a devil, luring him towards a path of depravity.
As if violent revenge was the most exhilarating thing under heaven.
......
"Merlin, do you know that before the Infinite Origin Stone shattered, it was actually humanoid?"
"Your Majesty?"
"If we reassemble all the fragments, we could piece back together a person lying flat."
"......"
Prime Minister Merlin, as he was called, said nothing more. Ever since the new emperor ascended the throne seven years ago, after inspecting the source energy power plant in the capital, he would occasionally exhibit some abnormalities.
He had followed the current emperor since his days as crown prince, now for over twenty years. Merlin had witnessed all the changes in the emperor over these years.
He was becoming increasingly obsessed with the mystical.
"It is a life form."
"A high-level life form from outer space."
"It isn't actually completely dead."
The Emperor of the Seris Empire's face was flushed red as he excitedly recounted his discovery.
Perhaps because he was too excited, even his speech became fragmented, coming in fits and starts.
"Your Majesty, you are hearing things."
"No, I am not."
"As long as we can gather eighty percent of the world's Origin Stones, it can be reborn!" the Emperor said with certainty.
"Your Majesty, what benefit would its rebirth bring us? If it truly is a high-level life form, it would be impossible for us to control it after its revival. On the contrary, it would be far more likely to destroy everything!"
The Prime Minister, who was not swayed by emotion, was still striving to save the emperor from his delusions.
However, trying to reason with someone already completely deluded seemed to be of no use.
......
The Origin Stones provided electrical energy, converted from Source Energy, to the entire Water Blue Star, single-handedly supporting global consumption. Every minute, every second, the energy they output was an astronomical figure.
What if, just what if, it truly was part of a life form? Then the sheer size of this monster was simply not something humanity could scheme against.
To put it bluntly, it was a colossal being that could crush human civilization just by rolling over.
Merlin's logic was very clear.
"Immortality."
Faced with his subordinate's questioning, the majestic monarch uttered only these two words, yet they were two incredibly heavy words.
The emperor before him appeared to be in the prime of his life, but only he himself knew best that his body had already begun its decline.
He possessed everything this vast empire had to offer, thus, he absolutely, utterly refused to let go.
"......"
The topic of immortality was too ethereal, yet it was precisely the deepest dream of every monarch, a vision kings throughout millennia had never ceased to pursue. For a moment, Merlin didn't know how to respond.
......
This was a world not yet changed by Spirit Qi.
Bai Mo discovered this a few years after he awoke.
He had not reincarnated into anyone's body. Instead, he had actively dispersed his consciousness, letting it fall into the bodies of countless people.
Because he discovered in the moment before undergoing Reincarnation Tribulation that he had become too powerful.
Even if he placed heavy seals on his memories, a tiny amount of power would still leak out, then crushing the soul of any life form on Water Blue Star.
If he reincarnated this second, the next second he would awaken by crushing the vessel of reincarnation, making the Reincarnation Tribulation completely meaningless.
Thus, the billions of humans living on Water Blue Star collectively became the vessel for the Demon King.
......
After awakening, Bai Mo discovered through experimentation that as long as he didn't actively use supernatural powers, this world would remain in its ordinary state, without Spirit Qi, without superpowers, and without magic.
But once he chose to leave this world, at the very moment of his departure, Water Blue Star would very likely begin its Spirit Qi reawakening.
In these few years, hiding deep within human souls like a Celestial Demon, and through the macroscopic view composed of countless microscopic perspectives, he once again unearthed a corner of the truth about Spirit Qi.
Spirit Qi, it was a new set of world rules, constantly, through various means, invading worlds that originally had no Spirit Qi and changing everything.
For example, Spirit Qi reawakening.
Or, the onset of the apocalypse.
As for life forms that cultivated using Spirit Qi, they would ultimately, unconsciously, become catalysts for the spread of Spirit Qi.
While discovering new worlds, they would also bring the rules of Spirit Qi to these worlds.
By now, Bai Mo finally understood why he was treated as an enemy by the universe, enjoying the "special treatment" of being eliminated through Daoization.
In fact, those who cultivated using Spirit Qi were naturally already standing on the opposite side of the Spirit Qi-less universe.
Spirit Qi was constantly challenging the existing rules.
PS: Thanks to the editor for not forgetting about this "salted fish" like me and giving a recommendation. This week, I'll update daily..
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