Chapter 352

After the humanoid creature made of white light spoke these words, the next moment, everything around it changed.

The shards, which were breaking up like glass, suddenly came to a halt in the blink of an eye.

Even the shards that were merging also came to a standstill at this moment.

This feeling made Zhou An feel a little creepy.

In a situation like the one just now, the fusion of fragments could no longer be stopped.

Those strange worlds were about to combine into an immensely large world, and no one could say what horrors would appear after they were formed.

But in the blink of an eye, these horrifying fused worlds suddenly came to a halt.

Zhou An narrowed his eyes and looked up and down at the white-light humanoid creature, and said, 鈥淵ou just said that you are this world?鈥�

Zhou An was sure that he had heard it correctly.

The white-light humanoid nodded and said, 鈥淚 am indeed the entire world. The entire world mentioned here refers to this.鈥�

After saying this, the white-light humanoid faced the chaotic void and waved its hand lightly.

As this hand was waved, the next moment, in front of Zhou An’s eyes, a huge scroll painting appeared.

There were mountains and water, flowers and grass, all kinds of birds and beasts standing in it, countless creatures running and multiplying in the vast land.

Zhou An discovered that if this world was scaled according to a certain proportion, it would be countless times larger than the world of the Great Chu Kingdom where he was.

Countless times larger meant that at first glance, it gave the feeling of being infinitely large.

鈥淲hat is this situation?鈥� Zhou An narrowed his eyes: 鈥業s this the you from before?鈥�

Even when the humanoid creature made of pure white light said that it was a world, Zhou An still found it acceptable, but after seeing countless worlds, he felt that this was too bizarre.

The humanoid creature made of white light nodded, and then continued, 鈥滱t that time, I was the world, and at that time, I had no consciousness. The world was still me, I was just making it work.鈥�

鈥淏ut then something happened.鈥�

The huge scroll in the sky immediately changed after the white-light humanoid finished speaking.

A huge human face appeared in the boundless sky, and after it appeared, it looked down at the myriad beings below in a condescending manner.

The beings below seemed to be oblivious, each minding their own business.

鈥滻 awakened to consciousness. I knew that I was me, and that the world was also me.鈥�

The white-light humanoid pointed to the giant scroll in the sky: 鈥淎t that time, I suddenly felt curious about everything.鈥�

鈥淚 was born as a tiny egg. When I broke out of the shell, my spiritual intelligence was just that of a newborn baby, so no disasters happened.鈥�

In the sky, the giant human face yawned, and then disasters of various kinds occurred in some places.

Drought, torrential rain, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes…

Many places experienced their own disasters, and those tiny creatures seemed to think that these disasters were supposed to exist.

Some felt that these were changes over time and were normal, while others regarded them as miracles and worshipped day and night until the disasters disappeared.

Still others took advantage of the existing conditions and resisted the disasters together, struggling to find their own way out of the disasters.

Zhou An saw this scene and rubbed his chin.

In fact, in the previous life, this kind of situation was called a natural disaster.

There are many explanations, and it can be said that this is a very common thing.

But if you know that these things only come from a yawn and a rollover of a pure white light humanoid creature, then this is too outrageous.

鈥淲hat happened next?鈥� Zhou An asked, 鈥淚s the world you just showed me the same world that was once a whole?鈥�

Zhou An is not stupid. After just watching for a while, he already had a lot of ideas.

For example, if the countless worlds that exist were once a whole, then is it because of some reason that they split up and became what they are today?

If you think about it this way, Zhou An felt that it could be explained.

Sure enough, after he finished speaking, the white light humanoid nodded, indicating that Zhou An was right.

“Then I grew up slowly, and the infant’s spiritual intelligence slowly turned into a teenager, just like a person. I experienced birth and growth.鈥�

鈥淎fter reaching adolescence, I learned to control and minimize disasters.”

Having said this, the giant scroll in the sky once again changed.

Those terrifying natural disasters gradually disappeared.

Although they did not completely disappear, they had decreased a lot. However, many creatures felt that they had survived a natural disaster, and some creatures believed that it was the result of their tenacious resistance.

After experiencing that terrifying disaster, the creatures began to grow in population at an extremely fast rate.

The humanoid creature made of white light continued, 鈥淪ince then, I have been observing them from a bird’s-eye view, watching them grow from weak to strong, and watch them evolve their own abilities.鈥�

“I became more and more interested. I would have been bored, but I found that being able to observe the rise and fall of things, and to see the birth and death of everything, seems like an extremely interesting thing.鈥�

鈥淪o I have been watching for countless years.”

The scroll in the sky began to speed up.

The sun and the moon rotated, and the stars shifted. Time was accelerated countless times at this moment.

Some creatures were completely wiped out during this long period of time and became part of history.

However, some took a step forward and developed their own things.

Technology, martial arts, metaphysical abilities, and half-technological and half-metaphysical abilities, as well as many other strange things, all mixed together.

Soon after, countless beings in this world finally broke through the barrier of distance, and various systems began to collide and change constantly on this land.

When they came together, an anomaly occurred.

As everyone knows, when the number of people reaches a certain number, chaos will breed.

It was at this moment that the war broke out completely.

A horrifying battle broke out in most places throughout the world.

From Zhou An’s perspective, he saw these wars spreading unceasingly, with a sea of corpses and bloodshed, and ruins everywhere.

At this moment, war seemed to have become the main theme.

The humanoid creature made of pure white light pointed at the scroll in the sky and said, 鈥淟ook, isn’t it interesting? Fighting, competing, killing, looting, all kinds of human nature are constantly entangled in the world.鈥�

“They will even fight each other until they are bloody for a resource.鈥�

鈥淏ut what they don’t know is that these battles of theirs are just a layer of ash swept off the world.鈥�

鈥滻’m like a bystander, silently observing it all, watching them constantly kill and plunder.鈥�

鈥滻 see the changes in human nature and the occurrence of various events, and I find that the world is becoming more and more interesting.”

Zhou An stroked his chin and said, 鈥漇o the whole world has completely changed because of their battles, and that’s why it’s so strange.鈥�

The fighting in this scroll in front of him is truly thrilling, reflecting the countless living creatures and the vast world without end.

The more there are, the more magnificent it is.

Who knew that after Zhou An asked this question, he got a negative answer.

“I just said that their fighting is, at most, just a trivial matter for this world.鈥�

鈥淲hen all worlds are not divided, the strength of the soil in the world, even a mountain or a stone, is beyond your imagination.鈥�

鈥漇o even if they fight each other and destroy all living things and perish together, for the world, it is just like shoveling off a slightly deeper layer of soil.鈥�

Zhou An rubbed his chin and asked, 鈥淭hen what is the reason for the world to fall apart?鈥�

The white-light humanoid creature sighed upon hearing this, and its tone was full of fatigue: 鈥淚 will grow old.鈥�

Just one sentence, and after it was finished, the scroll in the sky changed again.

Some of the leaves began to turn yellow.

As spring turned to autumn, the leaves withered and fell to the ground with the wind.

The white-light humanoid continued, 鈥淧eople grow old, and so do I. Before I was born, I was unconscious; after I was born, I was an infant; then I experienced youth, adulthood, and finally came to an end.鈥�

鈥淎nd in midlife, just like people, the sickness among the five stages of life, birth, aging, sickness, and death, came.鈥�

鈥淎nd so, there appeared the strange.鈥�

After this sentence was spoken, a strange scene appeared in the scroll in front of Zhou An’s eyes.

One after another, strange things suddenly appeared like springing up after rain.

Once the strange creatures appeared, they immediately began an endless battle with the living creatures.

It was precisely because of this that the terrifying war suddenly stopped.

The endless living creatures felt as if they had encountered their natural enemy, so they turned all their attention towards the strange creatures.

The first battle with the strange creatures suddenly broke out at this time.

This battle became increasingly fierce, and was even more terrifying than the internal war.

Countless strange things and countless creatures of all kinds collided and diminished with each other.

The white-light humanoid creature continued, 鈥淢y illness became more and more serious, and they were the ones who cured me, but I discovered that in the end, my struggle against the illness was constantly losing.鈥�

鈥淚t’s like a very simple analogy. When there is a problem with my body, it will lead to more and more problems.鈥�

鈥淭hen I began to grow old.鈥�

After the words 鈥済row old鈥� were spoken, the next moment, an even more strange scene unfolded.

Those terrifying and strange things suddenly became incredibly powerful, and the living beings began to gradually lose, as if they would completely dissipate the next moment.

Zhou An saw this scene and was completely silent.

He looked at the white light humanoid in front of him and felt a flow of anger in the white light humanoid.

鈥淪o your life is about to come to an end?鈥� Zhou An asked.

The white-light humanoid shook its head: 鈥淟isten to me first. I have never communicated with anyone before. You are the first. Let me tell you slowly.鈥�

鈥淟ater, I discovered something. After so many years, even as a bystander, I gradually developed some feelings for them.鈥�

鈥淚 felt that I could not let this situation continue. If I let the disease take over my body, what would become of me?鈥�

“A dead body, or a body without consciousness, a colossal force that destroys the world?鈥�

鈥淚 cannot allow my world to change, so I have made a decision.”

At this moment, the huge picture in the sky violently shook, and then, one after the other, cracks appeared in the huge picture.

After the cracks appeared, they gradually spread, separating this vast and boundless world into one tiny world after another.

These tiny worlds were on the verge of shattering, but they were actually floating in the void.

Each world is connected by a thread, and this thread has become the bond that connects all the worlds.

When it was divided, the pure white humanoid creature favored the various creatures, so countless strange things began to die in large numbers during the division process.

Death began to spread gradually, and one after another strange thing disappeared into nothingness in the midst of the destruction.

And it was precisely because of this that these humans were able to survive and reproduce.

鈥淚 have gained a little more time to survive.”

The white-light humanoid creature folded its arms behind its back: 鈥楤ecause of the shattered world, I have once again been able to recuperate, but I know very well that this is only a temporary solution, because this disease, like a wave, is still constantly eroding me.鈥�

The number of anomalies increased once again. Even after being split into countless fragments, the number of anomalies continued to grow.

Some worlds were destroyed, while some gradually persisted, but only by delaying the inevitable.

Then, many worlds began to be destroyed repeatedly.

And in the midst of the destruction, the holdouts, the plunderers, and the symbiotes were born.

There were countless creatures that had successfully blocked an attack by the strange once, and they thrived in their tenacity, growing stronger and stronger.

鈥淵ou are curious about your golden finger,鈥�

the white-light humanoid creature said slowly. 鈥淚 gave it to you. I entangled countless remnants of world power and gave you the golden finger.鈥�

鈥淏ut as I said, my illness is stronger than I am, and it also took away some of it, so there was a battle between you and nothing.鈥�

鈥滷ortunately, you won, and you also solved your lifelong enemy, so you also have a face-to-face situation with me.”

Zhou An nodded.

In fact, having heard this, the origin of all events has been heard clearly.

But what Zhou An wants now is not to hear this, but to solve it.

Thinking about this, Zhou An asked:

鈥淪o how do we solve this situation?鈥�

Now that everything is clear, the source of the weirdness comes from the world’s birth, aging, sickness, and death, and the main problem is the sickness.

And now, the sickness is incurable.

Unless the sickness is eliminated.

But this is not curing someone, this is curing the whole world, and it is almost impossible to cure.

“Curing a sickness is not easy,鈥�

The humanoid creature of white light sighed, then pointed at itself and said, 鈥淎s I told you earlier, there are four stages in life: birth, aging, illness, and death.鈥�

鈥淚 have experienced birth, aging, and illness, and now, I am about to enter death.鈥�

Having said this, the humanoid creature composed of pure white light no longer concealed itself.

A terrifying sense of decay exploded from it, and even though Zhou An was standing nearby, he felt dizzy.

This decay was so terrifying that it made people feel cold all over.

This is a sign that a person is about to die of old age, and a portrayal of the end of a person’s life.

Zhou An fell into a long silence upon seeing this scene.

After a long time, he looked up.

鈥淚f you die, what will become of this world?鈥� Zhou An asked.

The white-light humanoid sighed and said, 鈥淭here are two possibilities. First, the world will completely collapse with my death, and every fragment will turn into endless darkness and nothingness. There will be no living creatures, no more birdsong, no more beautiful mountains and rivers.鈥�

鈥淢aybe after an endless number of years, suddenly someone, or something like me, will wake up again.鈥�

“The world will restart and become the beginning of everything, but it will eventually experience birth, aging, sickness, and death.鈥�

Zhou An said, 鈥淚n other words, everything is a cycle, and no one can escape it. So what is the second scenario?鈥�

The white-light humanoid creature spread its hands, and a strange aura appeared in the palm of its hand. 鈥淭he second scenario is that after I die, the world will still be in operation, and humans and strange things will still exist. However, as time goes on, endless sickness and pain will envelop my dead body, and I will recover from death.鈥�

“But by then, I will no longer be me, but a corpse that has become strange.鈥�

鈥淧erhaps when I open my eyes, my gaze will turn countless living people into nothingness.鈥�

鈥漈he whole world becomes a strange paradise, in a daze, and in the endless nothingness it becomes eternal.”

This is the second possibility, that is, the white light crowd of creatures become strange, and even the world becomes strange, then there is no one who has the possibility of survival.

Zhou An heard this, and in fact, he already knew the cause and the whole process.

What he wants now is a final solution.

Thinking about this, Zhou An took two steps forward, his gaze becoming firm.

鈥淲e’ve talked about so much, can you give me a solution?鈥�

鈥淪ince you can talk to me about this, there must be one.鈥�

Everyone here has talked about so many things, and it is impossible not to come up with a result.

Otherwise, there would be no need for this white humanoid creature to appear.

It would be just as good for everyone to fall into boundless terror together, so Zhou An concluded that there must be a solution.

Upon hearing this, the white light humanoid was, for the first time, caught in a silence.

This silence, in this chaotic space, made people feel an inexplicable sense of desolation.

Behind Zhou An, the countless worlds that had shattered were still constantly reorganizing, which was shocking to watch.

After about an incense stick’s worth of time, the white light humanoid looked up.

鈥淥riginally, a long time ago, it would have been enough to cure my illness, but no one could heal me. Now that I’ve reached this point, even the best doctor in the world cannot cure me.鈥�

鈥滻’m dying, and no one can extend my life. This is a foregone conclusion, and also my destiny.鈥�

鈥漈herefore, my death is an outcome that cannot be changed, but you are different.鈥�

鈥漎ou may be able to change everything after I die.”

Change everything?

Zhou An touched his chin and asked, 鈥滺ow can you change everything?鈥�

The white-light humanoid pointed at the huge scroll in the sky and said, 鈥淵ou have all the power of the remnant world I gave you, and after killing the Empress Wu, you have even made it complete. Zhou An, do you think that if you were to take over this entire world, and you are a healthy person, would you be able to restore everything to normal?鈥�

Zhou An raised an eyebrow and said, 鈥淪o what’s the price?鈥�

He didn’t believe that there was no price for this, otherwise there would have been no need to say so much at the beginning.

“There is definitely a price,鈥�

The white light humanoid creature paced slowly, 鈥淵ou will also experience everything I have experienced. You will become an egg that has not yet broken. You will be born, you will grow, you will slowly grow up, and you will enter the stages of birth, aging, sickness, and death. But the only difference is that you have your own consciousness.鈥�

鈥淧erhaps when you are about to grow old and die, you will also use my method to solve it.鈥�

After the words fell, the answer had been revealed.

Zhou An understood that the so-called solution of the white light humanoid creature was nothing more than repeating everything over and over again.

Let him take over, let him experience birth, aging, sickness, and death, and then when he is about to die, let him ultimately cause suffering to all living things, and then find someone similar to him to take over the new world.

The person taking over will also fall into endless death.

It may sound like there is no price to pay, but in Zhou An’s opinion, the price is surprisingly high.

From an egg to birth, the span of time is extremely long.

Perhaps by the time he wakes up, his loved ones and those elders will have long since turned to ashes.

Zhou An turned his head and looked at the boundless and shattered world behind him, pondering various countermeasures.

The white-light humanoid creature did not speak.

He knew that the cost was extraordinarily high, so he was waiting for Zhou An’s decision.

After perhaps nearly an hour of incense time, Zhou An suddenly turned his head, and a strange light appeared in his eyes.

When this light appeared, the white-light humanoid creature’s heart gave a little thump.

He could feel the meaning in the eyes.

In the past, he had also observed Zhou An’s expressions, after all, he was the whole world.

So he knew that this guy, Zhou An, should have some thoughts.

The white-light humanoid creature even said with uncertainty, 鈥淐ould it be that… you are going to pull another stunt?鈥�

Zhou An stroked his chin and said, 鈥淚 have always wondered, what if, you are lying to me?鈥�

The white-light humanoid creature was slightly stunned, and then his tone became extremely calm, 鈥淗ow did you find out?鈥�