Chapter 1025: The Giant Brave's Shock

As soon as these words fell, everyone seemed to witness a scene from ancient mythology.

In the vast heavens and myriad realms, magnificent golden Buddhist powerhouses shone brightly.

Seated in temples and ancient monasteries, they brought salvation to all beings, gathering hundreds of billions of disciples who chanted praises. With one hand, they held rosaries to manipulate the past and future, calculating the cosmic order, while with the other, they struck wooden fish with a wooden mallet, reciting scriptures and performing rituals.

This scene was incredibly dazzling, magnificent, and resplendent with golden light!

Just a few short paragraphs of description made everyone feel as if they had vaguely glimpsed the full scope of a terrifying and forbidden civilization.

Yuan Qinghua, too, was greatly shaken.

So this is the origin of the rosaries and wooden fish, these magical artifacts?

No wonder things are different today!

There were no signs of these Buddhist artifacts appearing or evolving because the three Pillar Gods had already achieved great unity and no longer needed such aids for their calculations...

In the distance, the natives from the elemental remnants couldn't help but exclaim upon hearing this,

"This is too cruel!"

"Using the brains of other beings, strung together like beads, worn around the neck, forming what they call rosaries, to chant scriptures and calculate the past and future?"

"And for those stubborn and unyielding fools, removing their brains, striking them repeatedly with a wooden stick, placing them before a prayer mat, and chanting scriptures daily to convert them?"

In their eyes, behind this glamorous, opulent, and sacred transcendent system lay what seemed like a horror story.

It was truly horrifying; this civilization could be called a forbidden, evil, large-scale cosmic anomaly.

Holiness and evil were just a thin line apart.

And it was even named...

Striking the wooden fish!

Striking the stubbornly foolish!

How ironic!

Using such a method of conversion, tormenting the minds of others with endless day and night chanting, it seemed no being could truly endure it; all would succumb to these means, be thoroughly converted, and convert to the Buddhist system.

Upon hearing this, Daojun's expression subtly changed.

Could it be that her father, Ares, suffered such a fate?

He was forcibly made to grow a demonic core, converted into the Buddhist system, yet remained unyielding.

As a result, he was treated as a wooden fish, subjected to constant chanting and striking day and night, until finally, his mind broke, and he fully entered Buddhism, becoming a protector of their lineage!

Only then did he marry her mother and father her, and then Ares, as the God of War, even fought against his own kin for their Buddhist faith?

She could understand such actions.

The Great Dao is ruthless; to pursue it means inevitably treading upon the bones of fellow travelers. That's why, back then, she paid no heed to the collapse of the Primeval God Heavenly Court or the succession of historical dynasties; after all, it was an era of great contention...

The history of civilizations is like this, and wars between civilizations are even more stark. While she could understand it, seeing such cruel methods applied to her own father still deeply moved her.

Understanding the method did not mean she could accept it!

Di Qi also listened, his brow slightly furrowed.

He also wondered if his own ancestors had met a similar fate...

"Not good!" Caroline's expression also subtly changed as she observed Di Qi's face. She secretly thought it was bad; it seemed he was kindly recounting history to her, but he actually had another agenda.

Such a being truly had impressive methods!

This was a stratagem to attack their minds!

Her entire mind became completely unsettled.

From the very beginning, she had been completely controlled by the other party's rhythm, led along...

"Let's stop the history here. Many things are merely for verification and explanation. If I were to truly tell the story, it might take hundreds of years, and even then, I might not finish," Yue Shenji said with a smile. "And you, too, wouldn't want to listen."

We would like to listen.

At this moment, the Mother River Civilization and the elemental remnants nearby, their eyes gleaming, still wished to learn more about ancient history, about such a mysterious and terrifying civilization...

However, Yue Shenji stopped speaking and looked at the contemporary successor of this new Buddhist lineage. "You have forged a different path with Buddhist relics, but do you consider the Buddha Disaster to be... a super-large-scale civilizational disaster in the cosmos?"

Caroline fell silent, then suddenly said, "Every civilization has its aggressions and wars... And this civilization assimilating other races isn't true slaughter... Personally, I believe it's an alternative form of peace... When a race unites all its people... forming a true grand unification, then the world will be peaceful."

"Peaceful?"

Yue Shenji stared at her, his gaze still calm. "Who knows? History is just history; it's merely about the victors and the vanquished... Ultimately, you have been defeated, merely clinging to existence, making your final struggle."

Caroline, however, was unyielding. She smiled and said, "What is this 'final struggle'? Why isn't it a rebirth from the afterglow, living out a new second life? If it truly were the final struggle, why would you need to come here if you weren't wary? Why did you summon Daojun and target Di Qi?"

"Even if it's the final struggle, it must be met with full effort. This is my respect for him, for his former civilization," Yue Shenji replied, still smiling. "It seems we have no need to say more. You are young and possess sufficient hope.

Perhaps new splendor will indeed emerge; after all, the era is progressing, and this world is always full of miracles...

The old ones have already followed their fixed patterns of thinking... but you, the younger generation, possess infinite possibilities, bringing us unexpected civilizational surprises... Civilization is led by individuals, and the spirit and essence of one person can influence their entire civilization and era."

"Thank you for the compliment," Caroline replied politely, neither humble nor arrogant.

"Then, the decision is yours to make." At this point, Yue Shenji looked at Di Qi for the first time, softly saying, "Many things don't need to be spoken to be understood..."

Before he finished speaking.

Caroline suddenly surged forward, unleashing terrifying power, as various lights erupted.

"Not good!"

"She's so audacious!"

Beside them, countless remnants and beings from the Mother River Civilization were instantly shocked and enraged.

She had been amiable moments before, and now she launched a lightning strike. To act against such a powerful being, with such an immense power gap, she wouldn't even know how she died. Was she insane?

However, in that moment of thunderous surprise, Caroline feinted.

To everyone's astonishment, she lunged at Di Qi. This long-prepared strike caught everyone off guard!

Attacking an ally so viciously and by surprise was something no one had anticipated...

But in an instant, Yuan Qinghua reacted, staring at the scene in utter shock:

Caroline was truly ruthless!

She knew she was completely on the defensive, caught in a scheme. The only way to break free was to kill Di Qi, as both of them were currently quantum clones.

Their main bodies were still within the Lava Domain and the Seven Realms.

Once Di Qi's quantum clone was destroyed, although Di Qi would lose some strength and damage a painstakingly cultivated quantum battle body, it would sever the communication here, preventing Yue Shenji from saying anything he intended!

Whatever it was, they could discuss it later!

This was an extremely clever calculation.

But the next second, Caroline's sudden strike was instantly frozen, unable to move.

"It's useless..." Yue Shenji made no movement, not even emitting any aura of law, yet he instantly froze her. He said calmly, "You cannot interfere. Everything depends on Di Qi... Here, your connection to your main body was severed long ago. You can't even send a message back..."

Caroline's face turned pale.

"Stop with your petty schemes and actions. I told you from the beginning that this matter doesn't concern you..." Yue Shenji smiled, then suddenly looked towards a shadow in the distance. "And that little one over there, don't eavesdrop on other people's family affairs."

The quantum players, secretly filming with their cameras, shivered. "As expected, he found us..."

"He really found me!"

However, Juxiao, hidden in the shadows and observing with a special secret treasure that manipulated shadows, felt his scalp tingle, realizing the other party was speaking of him.

With a bang, he decisively exploded his entire body and fled instantly.