Chapter 982: The Lament of the Enlightened, the True Cosmic Pattern, and the Great Thief of the Dao

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Author: Three Hundred Jin's Smile

At this moment, on this ordinary and common life-bearing planet, it was in the era of cold weapons, yet gunpowder and firearms were just beginning to emerge. The empire was very prosperous, even showing signs of entering the mechanized industrial age.

In the deep mountains, a deep blue, ethereal being, with a calm expression, murmured, "I wonder if this civilization will grow into an evil, degenerate one in the future. An assessment has already been conducted. If there are any signs, it should be directly stifled... The world should undergo a grand galactic cleansing; it is already full of corruption!"

"You are always so sentimental and overly tyrannical. Every life is one of billions of miracles in the universe. We should not control their life and death; we should have reverence for life."

Beside him, a similarly-shaped being spoke, though its color was closer to light blue. "If we guide them towards the transcendent path and away from technology, that will be enough."

Nearby, a smaller, younger deity couldn't help but ask, "A degenerate civilization? Is that a technological civilization?"

"Yes, child, you must remember one thing: in this dark forest of the universe, never expose your coordinates. Almost all enlightened civilizations that utilize the technological path are degenerate enlightened civilizations; you must stay away from them," the older deep blue being said.

"Then aren't we exposing our coordinates?" the youth asked.

That figure replied, "We need to assess the civilizations we pass by, and we've left too many traces; we'll be exposed sooner or later... Besides, we've already been exposed; we are currently being hunted by a large number of degenerate civilizations."

"No wonder you want to guide them towards the transcendent path," the youth said thoughtfully, looking at the planet. "If they go down the transcendent path, they won't degenerate."

Next to him, the deep blue being scoffed, "Hehehe, that's the foolish opinion of the foolish conservatives. They believe that every civilization encountered must be risk-assessed as a 'cleaner civilization' to prevent the emergence of new degenerates... But how utterly foolish they are! Does not pursuing technology prevent degeneration?"

A cold laugh came from nearby. The deep blue being continued, "Then how did those previous transcendent civilizations, those mighty cosmic enlightened ones, degenerate? After reaching the ninth stage, they could no longer advance. They were bound to make a shameful choice: to abandon the transcendent path and turn to technology, using technological methods to seek an opportunity to break through to the tenth stage. That's how they degenerated!"

Degenerate enlightened civilizations turning to evil was indeed similar to what Xu Zhi had thought. But in reality, it wasn't as simple as he had imagined, as he had too little data. Degenerate enlightened civilizations actually have one most significant characteristic: they turn to the technological path. All degenerate civilizations are technological. The technological path is the hallmark of degenerate civilizations.

This is the true meaning of degeneration: moving from the transcendent path to the technological path.

That voice continued to sneer, "On the technological path, breakthroughs have always relied on external means... From the first to the eighth stages, there are 'God Factories' that seize the lives of countless weak beings, condensing a tiny bit of 'essence' to allow higher-level beings to break through. For one person to become a god, the destroyed lives beneath them could number up to six billion, from which this essence is extracted... How disgusting, how nauseating! And when they break through to the tenth stage, they also rely on external means, still seizing the lives of others."

"What they seize to break through to the tenth stage is the life of another future tenth-stage being, in other words, our lives as supreme gods..."

The voice became completely calm. "Yes, those weaker ninth-stage beings, unable to integrate a fifth gene, have reached their limit. However, they turn to the technological path, using evil methods... to seize the evolving 'Dao' of other nascent tenth-stage beings..." A complete fifth gene naturally cannot be squeezed into a gene slot because four genes already fill all available spaces. They can no longer walk the path of the transcendent world!

But there is another way: to break through to the tenth stage using technological methods. However, the technological approach has always relied on external objects. They kill an entity that is on the path to becoming a nascent tenth-stage being, seizing the "Dao Seed" that the other party has half-nurtured—a half-formed gene that has not yet fully materialized. This can then be transplanted into their own bodies through some technological biological means. Then, they themselves become nascent tenth-stage beings, able to use the other's refined fifth-gene seedling to embark on the path to the tenth stage, ultimately condensing a complete fifth gene, forcing open the fifth gene slot, and attaining ultimate enlightenment!

"How incredibly cruel and evil is that?" the youth asked, his expression complex.

"That is a degenerate enlightened civilization."

The deep blue being smiled. "The tenth stage, the culmination of the Great Dao, should be the ultimate 'Dao-end' pursued throughout one's lifelong cultivation. But those weaker, degenerate enlightened beings plunder truly great existences, borrowing others' Dao... integrating it into their bodies to nurture their breakthrough. But is a borrowed Dao, a borrowed ultimate Great Dao, still one's own ultimate Great Dao?"

"They have long abandoned their own paths, degenerated, become evil, resorted to unscrupulous means, and forgotten their original intention when embarking on the path of cultivation."

"They... are thieves of the Great Dao."

The two deep blue beings suddenly fell silent. The ninth stage is the true sprint, with the end of the Great Dao within reach; all ninth-stage beings go mad for it. Most ninth-stage enlightened beings degenerate into evil, like a terrifying natural disaster, searching everywhere for and hunting enlightened beings with four perfected genes. Some extreme ninth-stage enlightened beings even cultivate and seek out new ninth-stage prodigies, allowing them to form a perfect Dao foundation and condense a fifth "Dao Seed," then killing them to seize it.

The deep blue being said to the light blue being, "You should know our predicament. It is precisely because of your benevolence that too many potentially evil enlightened civilizations were allowed to grow, and they are even now pursuing our tracks... We have been relentlessly hunted by countless degenerate enlightened civilizations, even almost destroyed several times."

"When they fought to the death, didn't they also perish?"

The other being replied calmly, "Over these years, our Deep Blue Domain, for 570,000 years, has journeyed as nomads, absorbing thousands of powerful transcendent civilizations: arcane, elemental, holy spirit, abyssal, scholarly, botanical, and various other divine systems with unique characteristics and potential... Our strength is now far greater than it once was."

"Although we have wandered for hundreds of thousands of years, we have passed by the skeletal ruins of countless nascent tenth-stage civilizations, and the outcome was always the same: they all failed, besieged and slaughtered by the entire bloody and brutal cosmic Dao thieves, plundered to death like a pack of rabid blood wolves."

"Yes, we have seen too many predecessors fall, but we are different from them. Although we have been constantly on the move and persistently hunted... our Abyssal Blue God Race, since its rise 570,000 years ago, has developed to this day. We have passed by the ruins of 176 entities who had embarked on the nascent tenth-stage path, and none of them were as powerful as us. We are the strongest; we are the most likely to break through to the tenth stage because we control time. We are an immortal race... We possess endless lifespans, and for 570,000 years, as an immortal species, as nomads, we have continuously absorbed various civilizations and geniuses to join our Abyssal Blue God Race, granting them immortality as well... Our accumulation over 570,000 years means that, without death, there are now more than three nascent tenth-stage beings among us. We are an unprecedented super-civilization, potentially capable of overcoming the universe's curse and evading the pursuit of degenerate enlightened civilizations!"

"Who knows?" the deep blue being next to him said with a calm expression. "Yes, we are already strong enough. As a nomadic people, wandering for 570,000 years, we have never seen a nascent tenth-stage being more powerful or extraordinary than us... However, even with our strength, it's difficult to withstand the encirclement of countless degenerate civilizations. I fear the next siege is almost upon us, isn't it?"

"I don't know. No one knows what those hidden individuals are truly thinking, but what's certain is that we are too powerful. Having three Dao Seeds here will attract sufficiently terrifying degenerate evildoers."

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