Chapter 1355 Temptation
"What will happen to a world that is completely assimilated by it?"
Shu Han couldn't help but ask.
Lao Lutou said sadly: "All life will lose its shape, lose its thoughts, lose its future, and eventually return to a unified and indifferent consciousness. Such a world has no color, no hope, only endless loneliness and silence."
As soon as he raised his hand, the previously unfolded fantasy of the vast world began to twist and merge, and everything was swallowed up by darkness. Flowers, birds, animals, mountains, rivers, and all living creatures first lost their color, then lost their form, and finally merged into a formless Huge existence, eternal silence.
Shu Han swallowed. He had seen many fears along the way, but this time he experienced a tremor that transcended fear. What he faced was no longer death, but real nothingness.
"Senior, has your original world been lost?"
Lao Lutou nodded and sighed: "The only thing left in my original world is the Land of Immortal Fall. The Land of Immortal Fall is a huge tombstone, recording the world-destroying battle. The Land of Immortal Fall The ancient tombs on the ground are the names on the tombstones. They were all martyrs who died in that decisive battle. It is a pity that their sacrifices could not save the world..."
"The Land of Immortal Fall is the tombstone of that world, and it is also the lone boat of that world. It carried the last creatures of that world to the current spiritual world. Now I don't know how many years have passed, and the surviving creatures have long since I have already integrated into the spirit world environment, and only I still remember that period of history.”
Shu Han couldn't help but ask: "What about the fairy world? If a world is swallowed up and destroyed, will the fairy world be indifferent?"
Lao Lutou smiled and said: "Of course the immortal world cares, otherwise why would this cemetery be called the Land of Immortal Fallen?" Shu Han suddenly thought of the huge floating corpse, and immediately said: "In that war, immortals participated! ?”
Lao Lu nodded.
"Even with the participation of immortals, they actually lost."
Lao Lutou smiled and said: "Actually, don't overestimate the omnipotence of immortals. After the peak of human nature, you begin to realize the immortal way. The immortal way is the law of the world, and the immortals are just monks who understand some of the laws of the world. To us, they Although extremely powerful, after all, we are only human, so we have weaknesses and limitations..."
At this point, Lao Lutou's smile disappeared.
"Do you know why I hate those who break oaths so much?"
"Why?"
Lao Lutou looked up to the sky and sighed: "Because my original world was destroyed by one person's betrayal."
"Although the wandering void is powerful, it has no thoughts, methods and strategies. It is like a baby with unparalleled power. And you also know that the most indispensable thing for the creatures in our universe is scheming and strategy. Therefore, it can often At the very beginning, you can use tricks and strategies to block the invasion of nothingness."
"But after the void developed an eye, it was observing and learning. Soon it observed a fatal weakness of the creatures in our universe. This weakness is also the reason why we are different from it."
"What weakness?"
Lao Lutou said calmly: "Greed and selfishness."
"The creatures in our universe are all independent thinking individuals, and most of them compete throughout their lives. Compete with others for superiority, compete with heaven and earth for longevity, and compete with their own illusory life for meaning."
Shu Han echoed: "Yes, the world is like a torrent, and we are all rushing forward in this rapid torrent. Selfishness and greed are the nature of an individual life. No one can say that he does not have a little greed, and those so-called saints are just The things we pursue are different from those of ordinary people, so they appear to be selfless, but ultimately, they are still the same.”
Lao Lutou then said: "The nothingness is learning, and it cannot learn the wisdom intertwined by thousands of independent creatures, but it has learned to take advantage of our selfishness and greed."
Hearing this, Shu Han's eyelids couldn't help but twitch.
Yu Ming clan!
"Give the races in the spirit world power, let the creatures in the spirit world fight against the creatures in the spirit world, and finally enjoy the results?"
Lao Lutou nodded.
"How can there be such an ignorant race!"
Shu Han couldn't help but be filled with righteous indignation: "For the sake of short-term interests, they give up the future of their own race, and even the future of the entire spiritual world, to help the tiger! What is this! Do they have no brains?"
Lao Lutou smiled and said: "Power and strength are like an endless abyss. As long as you are blinded by temporary greed and fall into the abyss, there will be no chance to look back. Maybe in our discussion, what nothingness gives is just It's a short-term gain, but in reality, for a race with little strength and precariousness in the spiritual world, it is a huge temptation. This means that the entire race can be proud and prosperous for at least a million years. How can it be considered a small profit?"
Shu Han had to agree with Lao Lutou's words.
This reminded him of the Houqi clan, the race of Xuanmingxian.
The Houqi tribe lived in a humble life on the Holy Spirit Continent. They were jointly dominated by the three tribes of humans, monsters and demons, but they were brutally exterminated just for the sake of an illusory Xuantian seed. For such a small clan, the future is precarious, precarious, and there is no future at all. The gift of nothingness is simply a gift that they cannot refuse. They will never think about the future of the spiritual world millions of years later.
"In this way, the nothingness really takes advantage of the weaknesses of our creatures."
Shu Han couldn't help asking: "All living things are like this, especially the weaker they are, the less they care about gains and losses, and the future. Shouldn't this be the time for the immortals to play a role?! Don't they supervise and let the nothingness tempt them?!"
Old Lu sighed: "I told you before that immortals are not just cultivators with higher cultivation, they are also human beings. As human beings, they may be tempted."
Shu Han widened his eyes: "Immortals will also be tempted by nothingness? Why, haven't they already achieved enlightenment and become immortals, with a lifespan as long as the sky? Why are they still tempted by nothingness?"
Old Lu looked at Shu Han and asked back: "Summer insects can't talk about ice. Do you think that you can understand the thoughts of immortals after you have achieved enlightenment and become immortals? Do you really think that after you have a lifespan as long as the sky and achieved enlightenment and become immortals, the desires in people's hearts will disappear? As long as people are alive, the desires in their hearts will continue to churn. If one is satisfied, ten or a hundred will follow, and it will become more and more difficult to achieve, and it will never stop."
Shu Han was silent.
He thought about it carefully and it was true.
When he was still in the foundation-building stage, the only thought in his mind was to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage and marry Shangguan Ruolin openly. At that time, he felt that the Nascent Soul could live for ten thousand years, and he could marry his sweetheart. The biggest wish of his life had been fulfilled, and he had no regrets in this life.
But when he really cultivated to the Nascent Soul, a bigger wish and a more difficult vision came to the table. Desire is hard to satisfy, it's like a curse that can never be solved.