Chapter 1204: Belonging to Our Civilization, Offering the Game to the Entire Chaotic Land

Author: Three Hundred Jin's Smile

The enlightened ones' attendants present were completely unnerved!

They had been preparing diligently, even establishing more than a dozen layers of mental defenses. As great enlightened beings, they had to guard against an unspeakable evil god's infection, and the last resort they had prepared was the ravings of the evil god's sage, to prevent their spiritual energy from being contaminated and assimilated into those pale, rigid creatures...

The result was... this? They were utterly bewildered!

Next to them, an enlightened attendant couldn't help but turn to the Sage: "Your Holiness, this is...."

Even this well-traveled Sage fell silent. Standing on the street, he slowly exhaled and said coldly, "These evil god civilizations love to put on airs, appear sinister and eerie, and deliberately try to undermine the morale of opposing civilizations. However, this particular act... is something I've never seen before."

The surrounding Sages quickly chimed in awkwardly:"So that's it!""This evil god civilization is quite extraordinary!""Their wickedness is truly unusual!""The Burning Legion's expedition, just the name sounds incredibly evil!"

They tried to cover up the awkward atmosphere from their earlier vigilant stance. The Sage remained silent. He was deep in thought. "Game? Hotly underway?" What meaning did this statement from the other side contain?

As an ancient Sage, he had witnessed countless evil cosmic civilizations and heard of all sorts of bizarre transcendent worlds. Some civilizations of evil gods, demons, and the like, infecting living beings and transforming various races, were indeed evil disaster legions... But before his eyes, was this selling games? Wasn't that just a form of entertainment for powerful, technologically advanced cosmic civilizations?

The Sage mused, "Within the cosmos, there are evil civilizations that transform into natural disasters through invasion and infection, harming countless star systems! Once they break through to tenth-tier civilizations, they naturally run rampant in this land beyond chaotic heavens, infecting other civilizations... However, with the stabilization of the Dao fields, they have become scarce..." This place, beyond chaotic heavens, was where Sages resided and where tenth-tier civilizations gathered. Conflict among tenth-tier civilizations was normal, though it was usually rare.

"Your Highness." Next to him, an enlightened being said, "This evil civilization seems incredibly bizarre! Assimilating them into these stiff, pale-skinned beings significantly reduces their combat power, yet grants them many strange abilities: they fear neither death nor pain, can undergo quantum splitting, and even seem to possess various quantum properties. Is this a quantum biovirus?"

The Sage nodded, looking into the city, his voice vast and sacred, "We discovered this too late. Some method has shielded causal calculations, making it impossible to determine what happened during that 'time.' Here, I fear all the deities have already been infected; only the ninth-tier enlightened ones and the Sages remain uninfected!"

"Do you mean this virus only affects deities at most?" a trusted enlightened one asked.

The Sage before them neither confirmed nor denied, his voice authoritative, "Infection has its limits! So-called viral infection is merely the twisting and assimilation of a creature's bloodline into their own race... Enlightened beings with perfected Dao foundations are difficult to infect; they are akin to flawless bodies. How could the enemy succeed against them? Let alone against Sages..."

Indeed. Any evil virus has its infection limits. And so it was. Even the Three Pillar Gods could only infect incomplete ninth-tier beings who lacked perfected Dao foundations. If there were ninth-tier beings with four perfected bloodline Dao foundations, their bloodlines would have no flaws, making it impossible to twist one of them into a Pillar God's demonic core bloodline... Their understanding of this matter was absolutely correct.

But was that truly the case? Because what appeared to be an infection before their eyes was merely an illusion! This was not an infectious virus at all!

"Go find the other Sages and investigate how many of their outer Dao fields have been 'infected,'" this Sage said.

On the other side, the scene resembled an internet café.

"We've been discovered!""Sages! We can actually provoke Sages and get away unscathed!""That's so cool!""From now on, who do we have to fear?""We are players, and the universe is our game world. Even the great Sages are just NPCs we can't defeat yet!""Even if they kill us, we can revive!"

Computers stood in rows, and many beings sat in black leather chairs, staring intently at the screens with intense fervor. It looked like an internet café, but the beings using the computers were all bizarre. There were all sorts of strange creatures, and each one of them was a supreme and mighty deity, an invincible overlord of a planet! They were incredibly excited playing on the computers.

Before, arduous cultivation was stifling; they had to revere higher-ranking enlightened beings and Sages, being respectful and cautious. But now? Life and death are trifles; if you're not satisfied, act! Even Sages, we dare to provoke!

For these deities from the outer layers, they were originally the lowest-tier subordinate civilizations, unable to enter the Dao fields. They felt no dependence on their suzerain states—the tenth-tier civilizations—and had never even entered the Dao fields where their own civilizations were located. How could they willingly be subservient? Now, they felt a sense of invigorating liberation.

"Boss, an hour more!" People constantly approached the front desk.

At the internet café's counter, Zhang Tong continuously collected money, shaking her head: "The number of people has increased too much. There aren't enough computers for everyone, so we can only operate as an internet café, making them rush to take turns online, with several people sharing one machine..."

Zhang Tong chuckled and said, "Do you know why they are so passionate and fanatical? Why they've started cultivating more diligently? Or how, once they get a computer, their cultivation progresses significantly, with many directly achieving successive breakthroughs?"

"Because they're not afraid to die?" a player asked.

"That's one main reason. Playing games is passionate, while cultivation is tedious...."

Zhang Tong smiled, "It's a difference in mindset. When you play a game, you naturally 'grind' with all your might, and no matter how long you 'grind,' you feel happy. Both involve diligent, tedious effort, so why the difference?"

The player fell into thought.

Zhang Tong laughed, "Because gaming is entertainment, incredibly joyful entertainment! It's a form of enjoyment where you can seek revenge freely, fear no death, have no worries, and fully indulge in the pleasure of getting stronger... But what about cultivation? You must walk on thin ice, be cautious and timid, survive by carefully progressing through realms. If they were aggressive, exploring and acquiring resources would mean death."

The player immediately understood. One was enjoyment, the other was torment.

Zhang Tong smiled slightly. "This land is lifeless and stagnant because they are too cautious! Too cautious to a fault! Why? Because this is reality! Just like on Earth, aren't you cautious? In society, in school, you have to bow and scrape to your superiors, teachers, and leaders, acting like a subservient child, because you dare not be reckless! Because in reality, you have to consider many things; you only have one life. You're afraid of being expelled even for skipping class, leaving a bad record, let alone risking your life?

"But being meek and subservient in reality, yet striking hard online, follows the same logic... That's why this land is desolate, barren, lifeless, and filled with decay! But now, we're letting them 'let loose'! Letting them go wild! Everywhere, there's free vengeance, if you don't like it, fight! Crazy exploration!"

"As for why they break through quickly? It's not just that they've unleashed themselves to hunt, fearless of death, acquiring vast resources. It's also that, having previously acted subservient, they now seek vengeance freely, their minds are broadened, and their Dao heart has suddenly become clear. They feel invincible, no longer afraid, and naturally, breaking through realms is faster!"

She grew more excited as she spoke, throwing her arms open and exclaiming, "This is the Earth civilization of our era! After the legacy of the ancient Buddhist and Daoist civilizations, this is the transcendent civilization personally forged by us, the players! Our civilization fills the entire world with passion, surging forward with reckless abandon! Soaring to great heights! The transcendent civilization we've established offers vitality to this decaying land, and to the entire chaotic land... it offers games!"

This was the players' ideal! It was also their vision for their own civilization! They had said before that the Small TV would be the greatest cornerstone for the civilization forged by them, the players... Previously, they had been accumulating, and now they were finally beginning to develop. Before their eyes was their players' contemporary Earth 'Gaming Transcendent Civilization.'

The establishment of a civilization must primarily align with the spirit of its era's populace. And this wild, passionate civilization perfectly matched their civilization's spirit! After all, the Buddhist and Daoist transcendent systems were ultimately civilizations of ancient times. They needed to have something of their own, something belonging to their own era... a Golden Spirit!

"This is our Golden Spirit, understand?" Zhang Tong said with a solemn expression.

The player next to her didn't quite understand. The description of their civilization's 'Golden Spirit' was too vague. Was it 'flirty'? Or 'wild'? Or 'shameless'? Nevertheless, the contemporary Earth's transcendent civilization had finally been established.

"Oh, right, why are only deities being 'infected' now, and not the ninth-tier enlightened ones?" At this, the player next to her asked, "Indeed, ninth-tier enlightened ones cannot be truly transformed by evil viruses, but our method isn't actual infection; it's enticement... making them inseparable from computers. This is their greatest opportunity... So why aren't we keen on enticing ninth-tier beings?"

This was also tempting for ninth-tier beings. After all, what was the greatest fear of ninth-tier enlightened ones? Sages! And this opportunity before them gave them a chance to escape their greatest fear. For ninth-tier beings, being free from Sages would broaden their minds and be even more beneficial.

"Because currently, there are no ninth-tier computers." Zhang Tong shook her head, "My splintered offspring cannot surpass my own original body's realm. The highest-tier computers currently are eighth-tier. You see, I am an eighth-tier being, so my splintered offspring are only seventh-tier computers... But with the accumulation of 'Primordial Essence,' and following a technological upgrade path, they can quickly become eighth-tier deity computers, capable of augmenting eighth-tier deities... So, eighth-tier computers are currently available, but what if these eighth-tier computers were to augment ninth-tier deities? Their quantum avatars would only be at the eighth-tier level, rendering them useless to them!"

This was obvious. The realm of the Small TV being determines the realm of the strong individual it can assist... It cannot transcend a realm to help them create quantum combat bodies. Since they cannot enable ninth-tier beings to generate quantum combat bodies of an equivalent level, the benefit to them is not significant enough, so this aspect is not currently being considered.

Zhang Tong continued, "Presumably, with our development to this extent, Zhang Youling must be completely tempted, realizing our power. If I, an eighth-tier deity, am already this formidable... What if I were a ninth-tier deity? Then my offspring could break through to the ninth-tier, and I could also begin producing deity offspring, eighth-tier offspring, who, with the frantic accumulation and assistance of a group of ninth-tier beings, could break through to the ninth-tier, becoming their exclusive computers, assisting these ninth-tier deities in generating quantum combat bodies... And if I were a Sage? I would produce tenth-tier offspring... They wouldn't even need to attain Dao; a tenth-tier being lacking a complete Great Dao bloodline would still be a tenth-tier computer, helping Sages generate Sage-level quantum combat bodies!"

How terrifying were the implications contained within this? Her auxiliary bloodline's function was even more terrifying than that of the Gaia Green Vine!

What was the situation like beyond chaotic heavens? Tenth-tier civilizations were solidified! Sages could not travel far! Because they lacked the protection of Dao fields. If they ventured far from their Dao fields and encountered enemies infinitely more terrifying than themselves, they would be unable to escape. Therefore, Sages feared death and dared not leave their Dao fields too far.

But now? What if Sages could also generate quantum combat bodies? They could sit in their Dao fields, look at a computer screen, and travel afar, traverse any land, and tour the world!

At this, the player couldn't help but feel the terror of it, stammering, "They would be like emerging from their 'snail shells' and transforming into eagles, flying freely! Seeing the true, vast expanse beyond chaotic heavens, and witnessing what the outside world is like?"

"Sages may seem to be at the end of the Great Dao, but how deeply do they yearn for the outside world? As soon as they ascended, they rooted themselves in this place, isolated in a corner, not even knowing the situation of the more distant chaotic heavens!"

"They, too, are like frogs in a well, longing to see the prosperity of the outside world!"

His eyes gradually brightened, growing more and more excited, "At the same time, the weakness of the quantum combat body is the main body! But their main bodies can remain completely hidden within their Dao fields, incredibly safe, practically a super secure fortress. The Dao field is their perfect respawn point!"

Perfect! Simply too perfect! This bloodline held an immense allure for these Sages.

"This is the grand trend of us players!" "We've been accumulating for so long; it's not impossible for the civilization of our era to surpass the ancient Buddhist and Daoist transcendent systems!"

The more the player thought about it, the more excited he became, stammering, "Or rather, the quantum bloodline of the Cosmic Garden lineage is the true divine skill of this land... and we've cloned their bloodline, copied their bloodline, for the powerhouses of this land to use..."

"Ahem, ahem, how can scholars' matters be called copying?" Zhang Tong scoffed, her face slightly flushed, and grumbled with dissatisfaction, "We merely cloned their bloodline and contributed it for use on this land, benefiting these tenth-tier civilizations! This is a great deed!"