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Until the last second of being completely frozen, he failed to regain his sanity, and even tears of sadness and pain remained in his eyes.

Looking at this powerful life that once made him dare not confront it head-on, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but frowned and muttered to himself: "What's going on? Brainwashing? Memory or genetic modification? Or some other means? It can actually make an ambitious guy give up his life."

The voice just fell!

A black shadow suddenly appeared out of thin air, teasing with a half-smile: "Why, do you think it's strange?"

"Are you spying on me?"

Seeing clearly the skeleton-like face hidden under the hood, Zhang Cheng immediately became vigilant.

Because the person who came was none other than Byron who I met on the edge of the spiritual world not long ago.

It was no different from the last time we met, the other party still maintained the image of the "Grim Reaper" in Western mythology on Earth.

Perhaps the only difference is that he doesn't have a sickle for harvesting souls in his hand.

"Surveillance? No, no, no, don't get me wrong, I won't do such a dirty thing. I just happened to overhear a devout believer calling his name before he died." As he spoke, Byron raised his hand lightly Gently wiped away the tears for the motionless Morlock.

"What did you do to him? He didn't behave like a normal intelligent life before he died." Zhang Cheng raised his eyebrows and questioned.

Byron shrugged his shoulders with a smile: "It's nothing. You have also been a creator, and you should know that when a creator creates life, there are often some commonalities. For example, the external image must first conform to your own aesthetics, and even It is completely similar to itself. Secondly, in order to prevent the creation from betraying itself one day, the Creator will implant some defects, weaknesses, and things that can be controlled anytime and anywhere in the creation. Finally, and most importantly, the creation There must be absolute reverence and obedience to the Creator."

"So that's how it is..." Zhang Cheng had a sudden realization expression on his face. "You forced too many things into them when they were just born and they were still at a very weak stage. For example, your own greatness, your own intelligence, and your own invincibility. Therefore, these guys would rather die than choose betray you."

"Hahahaha! You are always so smart! That's right! I ignited the flames of civilization in this world, and naturally I am their savior and the only god they believe in. As for those who have great power but still act according to their primitive instincts Overlords, at best, are just some stronger beasts. Do you know? All life in this world actually comes from a mysterious field called the birthplace, but I captured a part of it and transformed it into what I like. You can understand that all the intelligent life in this world comes from that place."

Byron, who never knew what modesty meant, straightforwardly stated his trump card.

This also means that as many cities as there are in the spiritual world, he has as many cannon fodders that he can mobilize at any time, and he is still a diehard who will unswervingly execute as long as he gives an order.

As a person who has a deep understanding of gods and belief systems, Zhang Cheng knows better than anyone else how terrifying power will erupt when a group of people are branded in their bones.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh slightly: "Hey, well, you are indeed crazy. Tell me, where is the place of birth?"

"Why, are you interested there?" Byron's eyes flickered with amusement.

"How can you not be interested. As you said, in a sense, we are all creators. Although I haven't really created a race, I still do things like creating life. I really want to Know, in the spiritual world, how life, or soul, is born, and how they develop subjective consciousness."

Zhang Cheng didn't try to hide anything, he just stated his goal openly.

birthplace...

As early as the first time he met the furbolg, he had heard of this term.

I just don't know why, but the furbolg's memory doesn't contain the exact location and detailed information about the place of birth.

Now, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is in front of him, and he will naturally not give up easily.

"Ah! A very reasonable request. But the question is, what can you exchange for it? There is no free lunch in this world, and everything has to be paid for." Byron raised his hand as he spoke. Moloch, who became a living statue, was directly crushed and thrown into the material universe from the connection point.

Because the other side had already presented a terrifying and chaotic picture under the erosion of the dark blue liquid, but he was not even interested in taking a look, let alone trying to go through the connection point and return to the material universe.

"What do you think I can exchange?" Zhang Cheng asked with a sneer.

"Of course it's about those deep blue waters. From the few words I heard just now, I can already confirm that you have definitely discovered some mystery, right?" Byron skipped the part of probing each other, and simply and rudely proposed the terms of exchange.

Zhang Cheng obviously hesitated, but finally nodded: "I can give you the latest information I have summarized, but you must promise that you will never tell a third party."

"Don't tell a third party? Who do you think I will share this important secret with?"

"Sorry, I just want to get an insurance. You should know that I have two guys who are both collaborators, competitors and sworn enemies before, and they are not very easy to deal with. I don't want to think that adding games to myself Difficulty."

"Yes! I agree! But among those two people, one of them should be another yourself, right? I can even feel the close and contradictory connection between the two of you. It's incredible! How did you endure it? Live up to now, have not tried to assimilate the other half? If the two become one, no matter who occupies the dominant position, it will become a perfect life beyond the limit."

"This is a private matter between the two of us, and I will leave you alone. Now, let's begin the transaction. Know that my time is precious."

"No problem, I'm ready."

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Chapter 240 The Birthplace

The place of birth, which can also be called the "place of incubation", is the root of the birth of life in the entire spiritual world.

According to the description given by Byron, this world is a huge ring formed around the material universe, then the place of birth is located at the four equally divided nodes of the entire ring.

That's right!

It's not unique, but scattered in four different places.

However, one of them had been captured by Byron a long, long time ago and underwent a series of transformations.

Right now, it is completely different from the other three birthplaces that are still in the original ecological environment.

Looking at the huge pond with no end in sight ahead, and the things in the pond that are constantly being decomposed and aggregated, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but sighed slightly, and asked Byron who was standing beside him: "You cut off its connection with this world, are you sorry?" ?"

"Oh? You can feel it?" There was a hint of surprise in the latter's tone.

You must know that in order to ensure that this place of birth would not completely collapse, he used some shady means.

Especially by deceiving the entire spiritual world into thinking that this place of birth is still functioning normally, and normally outsiders cannot detect the subtle changes in the deepest part of the pool.

"Of course!" Zhang Cheng nodded without thinking. "You replaced the will of the world with your own will, but you were very careful not to destroy the fragile balance and cycle. If I guessed correctly, the life you created can't actually be regarded as the original life of the spiritual world, let alone Fully accepted and recognized by this world. The reason why they are not regarded as invaders is entirely from this huge pond itself."

"You guessed it right! At least you guessed most of it. I believe you have also seen that the life of the spiritual world comes from the aggregation of spiritual power. When a large amount of spiritual power dissipated in the environment is absorbed, it will come from the A huge pool reappears. They carry the remaining consciousness of the previous owner, where they constantly collide, meet, and fuse, and finally produce brand new lives. When these ignorant new lives come out of the pool, they will go through several rounds of life. Cruel fighting and elimination. In the end, the victors are eligible to enter the wider world outside." Byron explained, pointing to a large area of ​​new life that was killing and devouring each other like lunatics in the open space ahead.

Just like what he said, these newborn lives are obviously highly unstable, and they don't see too many characteristics of intelligence.

But as the killing and devouring continue to increase, the madness in some of their eyes will gradually fade away, replaced by fear and hesitation.

Soon, these lives that have acquired initial wisdom will quickly leave the purgatory-like battlefield and flee in all directions.

Because they have no memory, they are just like newborn babies. They need to observe and learn for a period of time before they can truly know themselves and the world.

However, most of them will die in the newborn stage, and only a few are eligible to survive, and become stronger and stronger with their wisdom.

"Interesting! Do you want to set off a species competition and let your creation completely replace the original life in the spiritual world?" Zhang Cheng tentatively pursed his lips with a half-smile.

According to his understanding of the environment and life, in a relatively closed world, a newly emerging species will inevitably have fierce competition with the original species, and even threaten the survival of the latter.

Although this kind of competition may last for a very, very long time, and even form a virtuous circle of common progress and common development for a period of time, the final result will inevitably be that one of them will eliminate the other.

It can be predicted that as the number of intelligent life continues to increase, sooner or later they will break the overlord's monopoly on absolute power, and even capture the other three birthplaces, overwhelmingly replacing those primitive life like beasts .

"Hahahaha! You really amaze me more and more! You know? After all these years, you are the first guy who can have a dialogue with me and understand my thoughts and ideas. That's right! I want to change the spiritual world, Make your own mark here." Byron grinned wildly.

In the laughter, he could vaguely feel the anger accumulated in his heart.