Chapter 1373: Human Power Is Limited, Sacrifice the Chariot to Save the King (4,000 Words Combined)
The Guardian Stone Spirit is nominally the guardian of the upper world, but in fact it only guards itself, that is, it protects itself.
That being said, with the existence of the Guardian Stone Spirit, no demon from outside the domain can really shake the upper world, and the creatures of the Hejue Domain have obtained a relatively stable habitat.
Merit is merit, fault is fault, even if it is unintentional, it is still merit and cannot be erased.
For a long time, the Guardian Stone Spirit has been a transcendent existence, unmatched. There are countless living beings, but in his eyes, they are just mayflies that live and die in the morning and evening, and do not need to be noticed.
He was born before the Hejue Domain. The reason why the Hejue Domain was born was because the Guardian Stone Spirit suppressed the spiritual power of the four directions and stabilized the earth, fire, water and wind. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the creator god of the Hejue Domain.
With such a background, if you were the Guardian Stone Spirit, you would also regard the world as your own private property and take it at will. Indeed, for a long time, the Guardian Stone Spirit was an unshakable figure in the Hejue Domain.
It is unknown when the first person to challenge the Guardian Stone Spirit appeared.
Even the Guardian Stone Spirit himself may not be able to explain why. The Holy Spirit Sect, which is known to have existed for the longest time, has not existed for a thousand calamities. What about the things before the thousand calamities?
However, the power to challenge the Guardian Stone Spirit is growing little by little. The big tree that used to shield the saplings from the wind and rain also blocked the space for the saplings to grow upward.
It is not difficult to imagine that after the threat was first perceived, the Guardian Stone Spirit must have killed without mercy, relying on his own powerful strength to monopolize his control over the Hejue Domain.
However, as more and more creatures grew up in this domain, there were more and more top cultivators. After some cultivators who achieved enlightenment outside the sky grew up, they even had a tendency to be on par with him.
Gradually, the Guardian Stone Spirit realized that blindly killing could not solve the problem and would delay his own cultivation, so he turned to supporting the weak, suppressing the strong, and provoking the struggle among various forces in the Hejue Domain. Although the means have changed, the purpose is still the same, which is to maintain his own rule.
In the first part, he personally went to the scene and wiped out all the threats, which was simple and convenient. In the second part, he hid behind and supported the agent, causing disasters in the Hejue domain again and again.
It is difficult to say which method is better. As the strength of the Guardian Stone Spirit is relatively weakened, the original upright means have changed to the current feminine, revealing a bit of helplessness.
Why sign any agreement or contract if you can directly seize it as a colony? If it is not that the cannon diplomacy does not work, do you really think that the robbers will talk to you nicely?
As time goes by, the Guardian Stone Spirit clearly feels that he can no longer suppress the growth of trillions of creatures in the Hejue domain.
There are talented people in every generation, and each of them leads the trend for hundreds of years. No one can laugh at the world forever, and there will be a day when the curtain falls, this is the destiny.
Especially with the impact of the four dragon kings before the hundred disasters, the Guardian Stone Spirit is more and more eager to achieve the incredible realm of the next level and maintain his transcendent and supreme status.
For this, he gambled everything. No one knew the process, and no one knew when the arrangement started, but it was definitely earlier than a hundred disasters ago.
But the result was obvious. The guardian stone spirit failed. It is often said that success or failure does not judge a hero, because failure can give people more experience and inspiration.
But the world's sentient beings look more at your success or failure. Even when an ordinary child returns home, his parents ask about his scores. Low scores mean that he is playful and not diligent.
Only success or failure is the most objective and cannot be faked. It is very difficult to cover up. If a person succeeds, everything he says is good, and even a fart is fragrant; if he fails, all previous efforts will be erased and ignored, just because you failed.
Because the guardian stone spirit failed to break through against the sky, it was like the originally omnipotent god, but suddenly one day his golden body was broken, and the believers saw his weakness.
It turns out that the guardian stone spirit will also fail! It turns out that the strength of the guardian stone spirit is just like this!
This is the result of the guardian stone spirit's failure to break through. Powerful people like Liu Mangzi began to burn with raging fire in their hearts, ready to replace it.
Qin lost its deer, and the world chased it together.
The emperor of humanity wants to maintain his authority, so he needs to rely on mystery and cover his power with a mysterious cloak. Once the mystery is lost, everyone in the world knows that the emperor is the same as me. Doesn't everyone want to be a king and a prince?
Relying on his own mystery, the guardian stone spirit can suppress the prying hearts of most people. Perhaps it is not impossible to delay for thousands of years. Insisting on breaking through is the way to disaster.
However, these are the views of later generations, which are hindsight and cannot be used as a reference.
From the perspective of the guardian stone spirit itself, now seeking a breakthrough, the timing is ready, and there is still a one in ten thousand chance. If time passes, his weakness will eventually be exposed, and it will be difficult to resist at that time.
Unfortunately, he still failed. The way to become a saint is still too difficult.
If you want to be a Daluo immortal, you need to have the luck of a realm to support you. If you want to be a saint, even if you are a quasi-saint, you are not a Hunyuan Wuji Jinxian, but you are also a top-level existence, which requires the entire heaven's luck to move and balance, and the spiritual tide to stir.
Unless the great calamity of the heavens begins and the calamity energy of all realms is stirred, wanting to achieve enlightenment would be like trying to cross the vast ocean with a piece of wood. It is not impossible, but the possibility is negligible.
Does the Guardian Stone Spirit not have the qualifications? No! He was defeated by fate. The great calamity of the heavens has not yet begun. How can he change his course against the will of heaven with his own strength? Even a saint would not go against the will of heaven.
When human power is limited, heroes are not free when luck is gone.
Feelings are feelings, sighs are sighs, but the Guardian Stone Spirit still has strong strength. No matter what, even if he fails to cross the calamity, he still survives countless calamities. He is an old monster that has survived since the Middle Ages. Even if he is placed in the heavens, he is still in the upper class.
Such an existence, even if it shows a decline, it is still extremely difficult to really kill it.
When other immortals, such as the Daluo Immortals of the Buddha and Demon families, fought to protect the Guardian Stone Spirit, the Guardian Stone Spirit hid in the small world and only cared about his own affairs. Even when Dan Shanzi encountered the danger of falling, it was the same.
No matter which force, the superiors who do this are extremely unpopular. I shed my head and blood for you, but you don’t care about me.
It is reasonable that the various forces attached to the Guardian Stone Spirit were defeated one after another. The Guardian Stone Spirit used them as a tool to delay time from the beginning. How could they really protect the Guardian Stone Spirit?
If the Guardian Stone Spirit wins this battle, the civilization of the entire star field may need to decline to a lower level. In order to erase this matter, the Guardian Stone Spirit needs to kill all those who know about it, otherwise no one will be willing to work for him in the future.
Is sacrificing the dependents because the reshaping of the origin is imminent, which is a last resort, or because of the cold nature and the ruthlessness of heaven? In short, this is a black spot, a black spot that is difficult to explain.
The Holy Spirit Sect and the Great Extreme Dynasty are divided into two groups. After all, it is not easy for the two sides to cooperate with each other, and it is not beautiful to be together.
The Holy Spirit Sect commands the most powerful extraordinary force in this realm, while the Great Extreme Dynasty complies with the wishes of the lower-level people. Their cooperation is extremely rare.
If it were not for the top-level planning and the ultimate enemy, the Guardian Stone Spirit, such cooperation would be simply impossible.
The destiny of the unified world, the upper and lower levels are united, and everyone is united, launching the final attack on the small world where the guardian stone spirit lives.
The veins leading to the small world have been cut off one after another. To some extent, this small world is also a cancer of the Hejue domain. It enters but does not leave, and divides the essence of the world to support only the guardian stone spirit.
But then again, any superior or superior force does this. The gathering of resources means the gathering of power.
Sometimes it brings more positive feedback, such as gathering the power of everyone to build large-scale water conservancy projects, and sometimes it is negative feedback, making the place weak and the border defense unprepared.
Obviously, the guardian stone spirit now brings more negative feedback.
The impact on the small world causes the earth's crust to separate, and landslides and cracks are common. The spiritual power is disordered, and the sky changes frequently. Everything shows how important this event is and how drastic its impact is.
The eyes of all forces in the entire domain are gathered here, naturally including Wu Yi.
Due to the expansion of the Humane Dynasty, Wu Yi was able to gather his broken soul, but some of his soul was still in the small world. If he could regain his soul, Wu Yi would save a lot of time for cultivation, otherwise he didn't know how long it would take.
Therefore, Wu Yi and most people had different ideas. On the one hand, he hoped that the Guardian Stone Spirit would fail, so that his soul could flow out, but on the other hand, he didn't want the Guardian Stone Spirit to be defeated and the small world to be destroyed, so that his soul would disappear completely.
If the Guardian Stone Spirit could exert its last light and heat, bring down the Holy Spirit Sect, and kill a few Daluo Immortals, it would be perfect.
Only after the power vacuum appeared, there was room for newcomers like Wu Yi to take the position.
For three years and nine months, the Guardian Stone Spirit was trapped in the small world, neither escaping nor attacking, allowing the Holy Spirit Sect and the Humane Dynasty to dig the foundation of this small world.
If the digging continued, no matter how deep the foundation of this small world was, it would be difficult to maintain.
Rumble, rumble—, after a violent explosion, the small world that had existed for endless years and could even be said to have coexisted with the Hejue Domain, was shattered at this moment.
As mentioned before, the spiritual power of the small world is extremely profound, several levels higher than the outside world. Otherwise, it would not be enough to allow the guardian stone spirit to practice.
Now that the small world has collapsed, it can be seen as a huge pressure cooker explosion. Even if the Holy Spirit Sect has made preparations early, this small world exploded, and the entire upper world has almost become a ruin, just like a meteorite falling from the sky.
The number of souls who died directly because of this, and the number of souls who died indirectly because of the smoke and dust, the sky and the earth were dark, is incalculable. The population of the upper world was reduced by more than half in an instant, and the population is still decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Even the surrounding lower worlds have been affected to varying degrees.
In this level of war, ordinary people are the most affected.
However, the collapse of the small world is not entirely a bad thing. The spiritual power of the small world is several times that of the upper world. Once it dissipates, the creatures that can survive will receive great blessings. As the saying goes, winter is here, can spring be far behind?
But many people do not have the opportunity to see spring. After all, only a few people can be made marquises and prime ministers in troubled times. Before choosing chaos, it is best to weigh your own background.
Relying on the suppression of the luck of the dynasty and the blessing of the luck golden dragon, the soldiers of the Great Ji Dynasty who went on this expedition were not greatly affected. They just felt that the sky was dark and the earth was dark in an instant, but the number of the most extensive people in the dynasty decreased greatly, and the foundation of the dynasty was shaken. The originally rising Great Ji Dynasty began to go downhill after this great change.
Many of the inventions that were previously promoted by Wu Yi were lost, the fields were barren, and many orders had disappeared. Even if a handful of seeds were sprinkled, it would be enough for the remaining people to eat next year, and the motivation for technological improvement was no longer strong.
As for those sects, the situation was actually similar. Perhaps the core disciples and elders did not lose much, but the casualties of the counties and countries under their rule were countless, not to mention that the veins in various places were cut off and the spiritual objects were destroyed. Even if the spiritual energy in the world became abundant, it was extremely violent and difficult to absorb. It took tens of millions of years before it could be cultivated.
The move of the Guardian Stone Spirit seemed to be a mutual destruction, but it turned the situation around. Wu Yi thought that it had given up resistance by not resisting before, but he didn't expect this result.
Originally, Wu Yi no longer had high hopes for the Guardian Stone Spirit. Now, Wu Yi had to rethink his position.
After the small world was broken, the Guardian Stone Spirit was like Pangu, who was born in the chaos. It was originally a mountain stone, but now it broke into pieces and followed the mainstream of heaven and earth. It turned into a human form with complete facial features, strong limbs, golden skin, glittering, and dazzling.
The Guardian Stone Spirit was born extremely tall and could stand upright without the Dharma of heaven and earth. With one step down, the entire upper world would shake and earthquakes would occur everywhere. One foot was as big as a small country. Even a cultivator would die in front of the Guardian Stone Spirit.
Under the ravages of the Guardian Stone Spirit, the world, which had already suffered heavy damage, had countless cracks, the boundary wall collapsed, and the spiritual energy poured out crazily, pouring out of the domain, attracting countless demons to spy on it, but they were afraid to move because of the existence of the Guardian Stone Spirit.
When the Guardian Stone Spirit abandoned the small world, it was as if a heavy burden had been unloaded. In the past, because the small world extracted spiritual energy from the upper world, it needed to maintain the prosperity of the upper world, just like a shearer needs to feed the sheep fat so that they can grow wool.
Now that the small world has collapsed, it means that there is no need to maintain the upper world. The strength of the Guardian Stone Spirit has been exerted to the greatest extent. With the upper world as the main battlefield, who will suffer the most damage? Do we need to say who will be the first to fail as time goes by?
Even if the Hejue domain is turned into a ruin, the Guardian Stone Spirit will not care. Is the Holy Spirit Sect willing to fight? If they are willing to fight, how many people are willing to follow?
However, there is no need to think about this problem anymore, because the ancestor of the Holy Spirit Sect, Liu Mangzi, has already started a war with the Guardian Stone Spirit.
As the two protagonists of this catastrophe, no one can shake their will. They all regard all living beings as ants, so how can we expect them to show mercy.