Ruins of the past

Looking at the figures emerging behind Zhou Bai, Xuan Nu raised her eyebrows slightly.

In her induction, the human figures were condensed from a large amount of matter in the material world, and then were poured into some kind of information in the void, and finally became a life form similar to Zhou Bai.

Zhou Bai said lightly: "The material world is too fragile for me..."

He pointed to his temple and said slowly: "Whether it is the knowledge in my head overflowing a little, or my mind sweeping over those intelligent beings, or even wherever I look, it may lead to the madness and madness of the entire world. distortion……"

"So a long time ago, I transferred most of my consciousness to the void. As for the physical body left behind in the material world... it can only be regarded as a medium for me to interfere with reality..."

As Zhou Bai's words rang out between heaven and earth, more and more figures emerged between heaven and earth.

Groups of flesh and blood appeared out of thin air and continued to grow, transforming into Zhou Bai's appearance one after another.

At the same time, the information in the void was stuffed into these bodies, which was when Zhou Bai's will began to penetrate deeply into these bodies.

Xuannv can clearly feel that every Zhou Bai who appears in the world at this moment is a real Zhou Bai, and they all contain the same great power of the nine disasters of heaven and man.

Looking at the Zhou Bai people of different shapes falling like raindrops, Xuannv sneered and said, "What's the use of coming more?"

"Everything in this world will be transformed into ancient forms under my will, and will be transformed back into the way they were before the void civilization created the way of heaven."

"Void and matter are united again, can you reverse this?"

Zhou Bai didn't answer. He could only see more and more Zhou Bai appearing on the planet. They were like mountains and seas, starting to fill the entire world.

Some Zhou Bai continue to expand and become fatter, crawling on the ground like mountains.

Some Zhoubai are as small as dust, growing and multiplying on the surface of various creatures like bacteria that are constantly proliferating.

Others were as big as the palm of a hand, growing wildly on the plain like mushrooms, and soon covered a large area of ​​the ground.

At the same time, Zhou Bai's thoughts collided with Xuannv.

"Ending the combination of void and matter, and converting virtual matter into matter again, I really can't do this yet."

"But the study in the void just now taught me something."

"Virtual matter is also an aberration."

"If you have become an aberration, the material reorganization technology you have will be useless."

"And my physical body is a kind of abnormal tissue..."

Seeing Zhou Bai's hands and feet appearing on the mountain peaks, Zhou Bai's eyes appearing in the sea, and Zhou Bai's face appearing on countless aberrant bodies, Xuannv was also slightly shocked.

She frowned and said, "Are you planning to turn the entire world into your body tissue to get rid of my control?"

"snort……"

She shook her head: "If you do this, can you and Chu Qiguang correct the history of this world?"

"After this world has changed beyond recognition, the space-time structure of the second cycle will be destroyed as a result. Then you will lose. What if this planet is handed over to you?"

Countless Zhou Bais in the world laughed loudly: "If the whole world was made up of me, of course it would be easier for me to correct the history of the second cycle."

As he spoke, large flesh-and-blood trees grew out of the earth. As the flowers and fruits on the trees grew, human figures were born from them.

Looking at these humanoid figures of different shapes, men, women, old and young, Xuannv immediately sensed consciousness pouring into these humanoid figures in the void. It was astonishing that they were the consciousnesses of the cat demons who had just been rescued into the void by Zhou Bai.

Looking at this scene, Xuannv immediately understood the other party's plan.

This is when she turns everything in the world into virtual matter. The other party first extracts the consciousness of the cat demons, then reshapes their bodies with her own distorted flesh and blood, and then sends the extracted consciousness into the new body. .

The physical body composed of Zhou Bai's distorted flesh and blood is completely under Zhou Bai's control. With the distorted power of the Nine Disasters of Heaven and Man, it can protect the consciousness of those cat monsters from being polluted.

'It's like using your own flesh and blood to put a layer of armor on them...'

In this case, although the entire world was reshaped by Zhou Bai, since all things in the world and intelligent creatures are composed of Zhou Bai's flesh and blood, and are all under his control, then he can naturally make history go in the direction he wants. develop in the past.

But Xuannv, who noticed all this, did not panic, but laughed.

"Flesh and blood is the most unique existence in the world."

"The oldest, most mysterious, and first ray of wisdom in the universe that is beyond the control of great civilizations was born in flesh and blood."

Xuannv sighed: "In a history that is older than the universe itself, great civilizations used flesh and blood as a tool to interfere with the material world, which ultimately led to the birth of intelligent beings."

"Zhou Bai, do you think you are more omnipotent than the great civilization?"

"Even they can't stop the flesh and blood from finally losing control."

As Xuannv's mind relaxed as she spoke, large black holes opened up in the sky, and the knowledge in the void poured out like a river of heaven, filling every piece of Zhou Bai's flesh and blood.

"And the first thing I learned after being born from the void was to give flesh and blood madness."

Then he saw the mountains, rivers, plains and hills transformed by Zhou Bai's body...suddenly trembled violently, like pieces of crazy meat, twisting suddenly after erupting with terrifying screams. Deformed, growing a large number of deformed and terrifying human tissues.

There is a spine as high as a mountain, a plain like countless organs stitched together, or a jungle composed of rows of fingers...

Following Xuannv's thoughts, the whole world began to distort and deform like crazy.

Xuannv laughed loudly when she saw this scene. She told Zhou Bai happily: "Zhou Bai, you once said that you would create a world with only aberrations with me."

Her mind swept across the mountain peak, and countless white bones broke out of the ground. Smiling faces hung one after another on the bone forest, and the mountain burst into laughter, turning into a jungle of bones and flesh with no head visible.

"You see? This is the world I can create now."

"Join me and together we will revolutionize the world and bring eternal peace to all life..."

Along with Xuannv's words, the sound spread throughout the world. Wherever the sound wave passed, mountains undulated, seas and rivers surged, and everything seemed to come to life, giving out crazy shouts.

And while Xuannv was pulling the whole world into madness, Zhou Bai was constantly tearing apart the information contained in the other party in the void, learning countless twisted and weird knowledge originating from the void civilization.

Countless thoughts circulated in Zhou Bai's mind, helping him absorb the knowledge about void civilization:

"Giving flesh and blood to madness, this technology originated from the simulation experiments of void civilization, simulating the process of great civilizations creating aberrations."

"Aberrations are probably the first life forms in the universe, other than great civilizations."

"Relying on the environment of the era of mixed matter and void before the creation of Heavenly Dao and Void, the Void Civilization's research on aberrations is far more in-depth than in our time."

"In the era when void civilization was just born, aberrations that were always in madness and distortion were the mainstream life in the universe, and rational life was only an exception in nature."

"In the most primitive war of void civilization, turning intelligent individuals into crazy aberrations was the first war technology they learned."

"This technology has been developed until the heyday of void civilization, and is considered the most effective method for killing intelligent life."

"In other words, what these guys are best at is making people crazy..."

At the same time, Zhou Bai observed Xuannv in the material world, who was beginning to make the whole world crazy, and further confirmed the opponent's advantage in this regard.

Even though Zhou Bai already had incredible skills in controlling distorted flesh and blood, he still couldn't stop the madness that the opponent spread in his flesh and blood.

He even had to take the initiative to cut off the connection with those flesh and blood to prevent this madness from infecting his will.

"I can't go crazy. Once I go crazy, the world will really be over."

Zhou Bai sighed in his heart and once again pulled the consciousness of the cat monsters away from the material world and protected them in the void.

At the same time, a voice suddenly rose in Xuannv's heart on the other side, which was the thought from the Demon Saint.

"Xuannu, you took too long."

"Zhou Bai's research on the nine disasters of heaven and man is unparalleled in all the worlds. Even if I want to deal with him, it will not be easy." Xuannv coldly responded: "If you are too slow, how about you do it yourself? "

The Demon Saint snorted coldly, and Xuannv felt a shock in her sea of ​​consciousness: "Deal with him? Why do I feel like you are passing on the techniques of the Void Civilization to Zhou Bai bit by bit now?"

Xuannv frowned, enduring the pain from the depths of her soul, and said angrily: "In a battle involving the void, it is only natural for the opponent to read the relevant information during the collision."

"In the process of learning this knowledge, intelligent life will be affected unknowingly, which itself is also part of the battle."

"Do you want me to take some time now to teach you a lesson?"

Demon Saint responded calmly: "I hope you still remember the mission Master Ji left for you and don't do anything unnecessary."

At the same time, just after the consciousness of all the cat demons was drawn into the void again for protection, Zhou Bai made a new move.

Then he saw countless dark void cracks unfolding in the outer space, continuously converging and superimposing, and gradually turning into a human shape that was difficult to observe.

The thoughts belonging to Zhou Bai radiated out from it and soon enveloped the entire planet.

"Xuannu, I'm sorry that I deceived you in the past."

"I have no interest in a world full of aberrations."

"After breaking through the realm of Kaitian, I combined the many mysteries of the Nine Disasters of Heaven and Man to create this Black Heavenly Way..."

"The purpose is to ensure that there are no more aberrations in the world, so that all intelligent beings will no longer be distorted by the void and the way of heaven, and that the billions of beings in the heavens and worlds will be far away from that inexplicable madness."

As Zhou Bai's thoughts swept across, the world that had begun to deform and twist seemed to regain some calm, as if a pair of invisible big hands were caressing, smoothing out the originally manic mountains and twisting seas and rivers one by one. Go down.

Xuannv could feel that Zhou Bai's thoughts seemed to be transformed into heaven at this moment, projecting through the void to the material world.

If it is said that the original way of heaven projected through the void to the material world, it circulated the entire heavens and worlds.

So at this moment, on this small planet, Zhou Bai blocked the projection of Heaven's Dao, and covered the entire planet with his thoughts like a shadow under Heaven's Dao.

Feeling the determination in Zhou Bai's thoughts, a trace of deep disappointment flashed across Xuan Nu's face, and her long blood-red hair like a spiritual snake flew violently.

"Zhou Bai, even you yourself are an aberration, do you want to kill yourself too?"

The long red hair grew rapidly, blocking Zhou Bai's thoughts like a sky and the sun, and the crazy and twisted world that had gradually lost its luster became active again.

"Crazy and twisted are the truth of this universe."

"You who want to turn everything into a state of order and reason are going against heaven and distorting the reality of this universe."

boom! A huge black hole was born above the planet.

At this moment, the connection between heaven, void, and the material world was deeply reversed under Xuannv's control, and the whole world began to return to the way it was before the birth of heaven.

"Your Kaitian realm is, after all, just a Taoist art built in the environment of heaven. It is just painting on the canvas created by the void civilization."

"After the Heavenly Dao truly withdraws from this world, can you really open up another piece of sky?"

Under Xuannv's will, the way of heaven, which was originally running all the time and maintaining every corner of the heavens and worlds, actually experienced some unprecedented changes at this moment.

The radiation from heaven was completely withdrawn from this world.

Without the interference of heaven, the void and the material world, which were originally incompatible with each other, are tightly stuck together like two pieces of paper, penetrating and merging with each other, restoring the world to its original appearance.

All these changes happened too fast. The Black Heaven Dao constructed by Zhou Bai instantly collapsed under this drastic environmental change, and everything on the planet began to uncontrollably fall toward distortion and distortion.

If Xuan Nu created virtual matter before, she used technical means to reverse the process of separation of matter and void, which was considered mild and controllable.

So what Xuannv did at this moment was to directly take away the way of heaven, tear up the picture scroll laid by the void civilization, and also remove the soil where all the technology, Taoism, and knowledge of contemporary civilization can be displayed, and restore the entire environment to The environment before the existence of void civilization.

The entire planet seemed to have turned into a collection of countless flesh and blood organs. The monstrous sea of ​​blood erupted violently from the inside of the planet, and the twisting organs were squeezed out of the sea of ​​​​blood like mountains...

"Zhou Bai, have you seen it? This is the real world and what our universe really looks like."

"This is the way of heaven that you all want to surpass."

"However, the realm you call opening the sky is itself created under the environment of heaven."

"After Heavenly Dao truly implements my will and takes the initiative to withdraw, your so-called Kaitian realm will also collapse... It cannot support the universe in a truly non-Tiandao environment..."

As Xuannv opened her arms, the phantom of the opened Heavenly Gate slowly emerged behind her.

Countless pieces of flesh and blood transformed into Zhou Bai's appearance under the influence of the void, and crawled at her feet.

"The Dao of Heaven is the creation of void civilization. It is the crystallization of civilization created in a cosmic environment you have never experienced before."

Xuannv stroked Zhou Bai's head as if she was stroking her own pet, and said with a faint smile:

"To the true and complete way of heaven, you are like a fish that has never jumped out of the water in your life. You can never imagine the vastness of the starry sky."

"Zhou Bai, surrender. As long as you are willing to join me, I can share with you the knowledge of heaven that you don't know."

Facing Xuannv's invitation again, Zhou Bai just let out a long roar, and the humanoid body superimposed by the void pulse descended from the void again.

In an environment where the law of heaven was withdrawn, Zhou Bai, who once needed to be careful to prevent himself from interfering too much in the material world, seemed to have no worries at this moment.

The will that was originally curled up in the void stretched out in the material world at will.

The incredible power of the Nine Plagues appeared here and was released without any scruples.

The human form he displayed at this moment cannot be observed by any means, difficult to touch, or even difficult to imagine.

An unprecedented sense of joy welled up in his heart.

"Xuan Nu, I really want to thank you. If you hadn't temporarily blurred the boundary between the void and the material world, I might not have been able to stretch my thoughts in reality like I do now for a long, long time..."

At the same time, the consciousness of the cat demons was once again released by Zhou Bai.

But they did not become deformed with the drastic changes in the environment. Instead, with Zhou Bai's one-handed grab, they were pulled out of all the negative emotions in their consciousness.

"Since there is no way of heaven at this moment, it is up to me to prove the way of heaven, and let me truly push my own realm of opening heaven to perfection."

Zhou Bai laughed and pointed towards the sky. The laziness, madness, ignorance...all the characteristics of the cat demons gathered at his fingertips and turned into a chaotic thought.

"Transform the human heart into the heart of heaven."

Originally, Xuannv temporarily separated from the way of heaven, and in changing the world, returned everything in the world to the crazy state before the way of heaven. Even Zhou Bai could not stop her.

So he followed his plan, and instead of conducting any interception, he took advantage of this rare opportunity to observe the original cosmic environment without the interference of heaven.

At the same time, he took this opportunity to build his own little heavenly way, in order to push his own realm of opening the sky to a more complete state.

Even more than Zhou Bai, Xuannv could sense that there were two other unfathomable forces, taking advantage of the space-time chaos caused by the void falling into the material world, to observe this and this moment across distant time and space.

Under the small heavenly path constructed by Zhou Bai, the entire planet stabilized again, as if order had been reorganized and everything was restored to normal.

Perceiving all this, Xuannv quickly analyzed the situation in front of her.

"Zhou Bai used the mighty power of the Nine Disasters of Heaven and Man to peel off the most primitive distortions in the body of intelligent life, and used this distortion to temporarily condense to form a new little heaven."

"The so-called cohesion of people's hearts and public opinion is originally a blind, ignorant, and chaotic idea."

"The way of heaven built on this kind of chaos is indeed similar to the real way of heaven."

"It seems that Zhou Bai has indeed gained a lot from the observation just now. Only then can he combine his past accumulation and successfully create such a small heaven. By extracting the distortions contained in intelligent creatures, he can maintain the existence of the small heaven and the world. Stablize."

"But the human heart itself is too unstable."

"So the foundation of this little Heavenly Dao is too fragile."

Following Xuan Nu's cold snort, countless pieces of flesh and blood emerged out of thin air, transforming into Zhou Bai prostrate on the ground one after another, roaring and charging towards the descending cat demons.

As the battle broke out, the newly reborn cat demons immediately became excited.

And the Zhou Bais who carry the power of the Nine Disasters of Heaven and Man have all kinds of incredible magical powers. With just a move of their hands and feet, they can trigger the rage, greed, stupidity, and fear of intelligent beings...

Obviously, while Zhou Bai was observing Xuannv, Xuannv was also observing Zhou Bai, constantly improving her understanding of the nine disasters of heaven and man.

While the two sides were fighting each other, they were also rapidly learning and absorbing the knowledge revealed by the other side, and were also being influenced by the other side unknowingly.

At this moment, the stirring of people's hearts also made the small heaven created by Zhou Bai unstable, and the entire planet once again tended to become distorted and distorted.

"Did you see it? Zhou Bai, is this the intelligent creature you want to save?"

"A small fluctuation can make them lose their reason and go crazy. You actually try to use the human heart to build the way of heaven and replace the will of heaven with the public opinion. It is really wishful thinking..."

Just when Xuannv thought that the little Heavenly Dao constructed by Zhou Bai would collapse soon, she saw that the other party did not stop Xuannv's move, but instead began to speak to the cat monsters on the planet.

The gentle voice slowly blew into the ears of all the cat demons, like rays of warm sunshine illuminating their sea of ​​consciousness.

"I am Huang Tian."

"Those who believe in me will enter the world of the Emperor and Heaven after death and enjoy infinite life and infinite happiness."

In just two sentences, the cat demons who were Huangtian's followers gradually stabilized.

And as people's hearts stabilized, Xiaotian Dao also stabilized again.

Xuannv's eyes suddenly widened.

Obviously...the two sentences Zhou Bai just said are all lies. They are full of the foolish power of the nine disasters of heaven and man, and full of the bewitching power of lies.

But it was these two lies that stabilized the mood of the cat demons and brought Xiao Tiandao into a stable state.

But Zhou Bai's talking has not stopped yet.

"Those who believe in me have no worries and are infinitely comfortable."

Listening to Zhou Bai's lies, all the cat demons seemed to have turned into clay sculptures and wood carvings, and fell into a state of forgetfulness.

Even in the face of Xuannv's various offensives, they were not able to shake their minds significantly again.

"What's the pain in life? What's the sorrow in death? Everything in the world is just a dream."

As another lie from Zhou Bai spread, Zhou Bai's group, who had launched an offensive under Xuannv's control just now... actually exploded like bubbles and dissipated in the air like phantoms.

"Xuannu, who told you that I am going to use human hearts to build the way of heaven?"

Zhou Bai looked at the small heavenly path formed by countless twisted things at his fingertips, and sighed: "I just replaced the foundation of the world with lies."

Xuannv's heart was shocked, she looked at Zhou Bai steadily and said, "Have you constructed a way of heaven that can be deceived by you and controlled through lies?"

"But lies are lies after all, and no lie can deceive everyone forever."

Zhou Bai stretched out a finger and smiled: "It should be said that no 'one' lie can deceive everyone forever."

"So when a lie is exposed, just continue to deceive with the next lie."

"As for the lies that are exposed, the rewards have already been achieved when the first deception is completed, so it doesn't matter if the lies are often exposed in the future."

The next moment, as Zhou Bai took one step forward, he instantly appeared in front of Xuannv.

"In this world, all the madness and distortion will be pulled away by the way of heaven in my hands."

Zhou Bai's lies seemed to contain irreversible power at this moment, turning from falsehood to truth the moment they were spoken.

Whether it was the earth, the ocean, the mountains, or the rivers, they all calmed down under Zhou Bai's lies, and all the madness and distortion were extracted into the little heaven at his fingertips.

"Void and matter will be distinct again, and reality will return to the original material world again."

boom!

The entire world seemed to be split in two by an invisible force, and a thin layer of shadow was cut off from the material.

At this moment, the void and the material world were separated again.

And Zhou Bai's lies continued.

"In this world, even aberrations can return to normal, break away from distortion and madness, cut off the interference of great civilizations and void civilizations, and become their true selves."

At this moment, Zhou Bai's lies resounded throughout the world like golden words, and became some kind of truth the next moment.

The Xuan Nu in front of her trembled violently under Zhou Bai's lie.

The fiery red hair that originally danced like a spiritual snake flew into the air and turned into long black hair.

The body tissue that was dancing in the lower body like tentacles a moment ago turned into white and slender legs in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Bai stretched out his right hand towards the girl in front of him and said softly: "Come back, Xuannv."

Xuannv reached out and grabbed Zhou Bai's right hand, and said with a smile, "You did it."

Feeling the girl's cold body, Zhou Bai sighed: "If it weren't for the knowledge you provided from the Void Civilization, I wouldn't have been able to complete the Taoist techniques of Little Tiandao so quickly."

"Just in parallel time and space, I have failed millions of times..."

The girl leaned towards Zhou Bai stiffly, hugging him gently, as if listening to the wave after wave of void pulses coming from his body.

"Zhou Bai, we have succeeded. Stop your little way of heaven. After all, it is not the true way of heaven and cannot be sustainable."

"What we need to do now is to immediately reconstruct the world and shape history in line with the future direction, so that we can stop Ji Wufan's plan."

Zhou Bai nodded, and then he blew gently on his fingertips, and the chaos that represented Little Heavenly Dao gradually dissipated.

The law of heaven once again enveloped this world, and everything seemed to be back to the way it was before the war between Zhou Bai and Xuannv.

But just as the law of heaven enveloped her again, traces of cracks appeared on Xuannv's face.

Zhou Bai's eyes narrowed: "Xuannu, you..."

Xuannv chuckled when she heard this: "This time you were deceived by me."

At this moment, Zhou Bai was surprised to find that Xuannv's existence was disappearing rapidly. Even in the history of all heavens and worlds... all information related to Xuannv was being continuously erased, and her past was being erased. .

Zhou Bai wondered: "Is it the Void Civilization? Or is it Ji Wufan?"

Xuannv looked at Zhou Bai seriously and said lightly: "The experiment of great life has been going on. When the experiment fails, it will naturally be restarted in the past. At this moment, I will be erased from history by them. There will be a A new me, another experimental subject, was born, right? But that is no longer me."

"Unless we return to the era of void civilization, it is impossible to prevent them from changing history and restarting experiments."

Zhou Bai also looked at Xuannv, feeling her rapid disappearance, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Even he cannot stop the experiment of void civilization across hundreds of millions or billions of years.

Xuannv's body broke into pieces at an accelerated pace, and a large amount of knowledge flashed away in the broken body.

"Eat me."

"Absorb all this knowledge into your consciousness and integrate it into your body, so that I can stay with you forever."

Zhou Bai looked steadily at Xuannv's broken body: "I don't want you to disappear."

"I'm sorry, Zhou Bai. I can't change you, I can only change myself." Xuannv smiled softly: "This is the only way I can think of... to be with you forever."

Xuannv caressed Zhou Bai's face and said slowly: "I don't want you to die, and I don't want Ji Wufan to roll the universe back to a world without you."

"Eat me and let us be together forever. This is my last obsession."

"As long as this can be achieved, it doesn't matter even if all my past is erased."

A massive amount of knowledge and information spurted out from Xuannv's broken body, and then poured crazily into Zhou Bai's sea of ​​consciousness.

At this moment, Xuannv's various memories, emotions, knowledge... were like massive data, directly inserted into the depths of Zhou Bai's mind.

When all the dust settled, the broken Xuannv had disappeared, leaving only Zhou Bai standing there blankly.

"Xuan Nu, you are right."

He hugged himself, looked at his head, and smiled: "You live in my body, and we are indeed together forever."

…

Some time in the second cycle.

The Demon Saint, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes: "It's over."

"Your Majesty is beginning to awaken."

"When Zhou Bai was observing Xuannv, he was also influenced by Xuannv."

"They influenced and penetrated each other, and finally completed the last step. The prototype of great life arrived in the era 10,000 years ago, and was born in a history that did not exist."

He looked at the back of the person in front of him with some excitement: "Master Ji, we are only one step away from the final plan."

"Then let's get started." Ji Wufan turned around and smiled softly: "Let's make this universe more hopeful."

After I became pregnant, I felt it was easier to get stuck when writing novels, and the efficiency was much slower than I expected. Even if I outline the outline, some specific plots would always get stuck one at a time. Let’s update one chapter first. The next chapter should be the ending. I’ll try to update it tomorrow.