Chapter 1657: 8: The Emperor of Change’s Decision
Chapter 1657: Chapter 8: The Emperor of Change’s Decision
The powerful aura, swirling around the Platinum Armor, gradually inscribed Daoist patterns akin to a triple-layered lotus on the surface of the armor, adding strength and majesty it no longer needed.
What is known as Enlightenment, a matter of surprise to Fata Bi, was something the Platinum Armor had long been accustomed to. Essentially, it was nothing more than a phenomenological approximation beyond time and space, leaning towards an optimal interpretation.
The essence of Spiritual Fiend is a power beyond time and space, and Spirit Stones and Spirit Jade are the unbalanced, uneven condensations of this power across infinite parallel spaces. Similarly, human Enlightenment is such a condensation process, where human thought, in infinite space-time, approaches an optimal solution, naturally guiding the accumulation of Spiritual Fiend, bringing more secondary insights, and leading the individual towards a ’theoretically optimal’ scenario.
Indeed, this might also be considered the essence of cultivation: from a macro perspective, it is about using Spiritual Fiend to elevate one’s life status, akin to using steel to forge an artifact. However, from a more nuanced Great Dao perspective, it’s an effect of approximation beyond time and space.
But the Platinum Armor was already ’optimal,’ having created an insurmountable chasm between itself and other timelines. For someone who finds daily Enlightenment commonplace, now he could lift his left hand and casually observe the unusual patterns of high-density Spiritual Fiend spontaneously emerging in his palm, fractals appearing.
“Like crystallized snowflakes, Spiritual Power self-organizes and emerges, drawn to me.”
He mused, then the Platinum Armor looked again at Fata Bi, who was staring at him unwaveringly: “You see, you too are beginning to envy, to yearn for Enlightenment like mine because you desire this power—but the Heavenly Demon will not.”
“The Heavenly Demon is actually this force itself. Each Heavenly Demon, similar to the condensation of Spirit Stones, is a product of corrupt power, unbalanced and uneven across infinite space-time. The method Heavenly Demons use to erode other intelligent life forms is through reverse Enlightenment.”
“If evil demons like you were to actually use Spiritual Fiend for Enlightenment, though initially it would seem like the evil demons’ power is growing, it wouldn’t take many attempts before those of you evil demons achieving Enlightenment would break away from the vast group of evil demons, becoming independent Demon Men.”
The words of the Platinum Armor were frank and magnanimous, proper without any hint of deceit, yet what he said was so unbelievable that Fata Bi didn’t know how to respond—it even resented why the Platinum Armor didn’t just kill it completely instead of telling it such hopeful things, and as a demon incapable of change, what could it do?
Futility… futility…
Surging emotions, deep suffocation, helpless futility, spilled out from Fata Bi as it suddenly became clear.
Yes, yes, evil demons can gradually transform into humans, but this generation of evil demons, its generation of evil demons, absolutely cannot—even if it wanted to become normal life, it would be a life with a blood feud against humanity, not to mention its changes had not reached that boundary.
Its regrets, unwillingness, the hope and expectation quietly hidden in its heart, each one, contributed to the Demon Lord of the Great Wilderness Realm, the [Useless Demon]. That fearsome Demon Lord, overlooking all existence, designed them to be this way, just for this moment.
No matter whether these evil demons want to comply or betray, it is futile, all merely nutrients for His revival.
Therefore, at this moment, as if guided by some force, Fata Bi, with a sudden inspiration, lifted its head, and said to An Jing: “That’s not right.”
“What you said is not right.”
“Even if in the future, demons degenerate into Demon Men, that kind of world definitely isn’t the win-win you speak of; this doesn’t solve the problem of demons at all.”
“Demons still exist, exist among Demon Men and humans, like the rise and fall of ocean tides. This is nothing more than a ’fall,’ as new demons are again bred within human hearts and Demon Men, then a new Supreme Heavenly Demon will once again emerge from ’humans’!”
“And that will inevitably be a stronger, more tremendous, more incredible Demon Calamity!”
“You actually discovered it?” The Platinum Armor was somewhat surprised by Fata Bi’s keenness; it seemed this Demon Army commander was indeed smart enough to find the key, thus he nodded: “Yes, this can only mean defeating ’your branch of Heavenly Demons,’ but if other Supreme Heart Demons come, or if a new Supreme Heavenly Demon appears among us, the eternal war will start again.”
“So what if it’s not enough?”
Saying thus, the Platinum Armor raised his head, looking up to the sky above, that dark and lightless sky curtain, he didn’t know precisely whom he was looking at, it was just an instinct stirring: “You must know, not only demons have similar abilities.”
“In this world, there exists a Divine Skill called [Devouring Demon Lord], which can arbitrarily designate oneself as evil and consume it as nourishment. The derivation of this power is [Devouring Evil and Returning to Truth], this absolute right of definition, is also a weapon to devour demons, to defeat them.”
The Platinum Armor calmly stated: “In fact, perhaps that is the dark hand left behind by the Primordial Demon Abyss, the Abyss Without Bottom, which is the ’rise and fall’ causing a new Great Demon to coalesce in human hearts once again, the beginning of another Demon Calamity.”
“The existence with such Divine Skill, just as the name implies, will naturally degenerate into a true incarnation of the Demon Abyss, perhaps even the new Primordial Demon Abyss—but clearly, that Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord, the [Emperor of Change] did not become a demon. Instead, they found their own Path, becoming even more resolute, even stronger.”𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖