Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

In Li Yao’s vision, the hot blood turned into stinky pus. The noble warriors turned into brutal butchers. The warriors who had fought for survival and glory sank into the abyss of desire one by one. In the countless slaughters and destruction, the last bit of brightness in their hearts was wiped out, too.

The sea of stars was too vast and too dark. The journey of the Primeval Lord of Heaven was too far away. Everybody lost their way and forgot where they originated from. They did not know where their destination was, either.

They had been drowned in the blood of the innocent and corrupted by too much radiation. They had been deformed beyond recognition and completely forgotten the reason for the war. Driven by the instinct of killing that had been decided billions of years ago, they were slaves of genes and burnt, killed, conquered, and destroyed!

The process lasted a long, long time. The Primeval Civilization expanded and expanded into countless ‘subunits’ in the universe that were similar to the Pangu Universe.

According to the features and rules of the subunits, they were greatly influenced by the local natives, too. The Primeval Lord of Heaven was in various forms, too.

Some of the sub-universe’s spiritual energy was mainly in the form of ‘ripples’. Some of the sub-universe’s spiritual energy was in the form of ‘particles’. The most efficient way to utilize spiritual energy in different forms determined the evolution of the Primeval Lord of Heaven.

The spiritual energy of certain sub-universes was relatively pure and violent. It was hardly utilized by the war machines. On the contrary, it could be absorbed and released directly by the human body. A training system named ‘battle aura’ was born in the sub-universes, with a series of dazzling combat skills and the likes.

As for the sub-universe, as Li Yao knew, the barriers between the three-dimensional space and the four-dimensional space were not very solid. They could absorb the power of the four-dimensional space easily, and a training system named ‘magic’ was born. Cultivators of spiritual energy fought with the help of the supreme power of the four-dimensional storms.

Of course, there were also the Ancients who insisted on ‘technology’ and claimed to be the rightful rulers of the civilization.

In some of the more remote sub-universes, the Primeval Lord of Heaven was best at taming alien species in space and turning apocalyptic beasts into their mounts. They could even find a way to meld with the apocalyptic beasts and turn them into powerful biochemical warriors such as the ‘Beast God Soldiers’ and the ‘Dragon God Generals’.

In the remote, remote universes, the ‘Obliteration Order’ was not implemented effectively. People castrated the alien species and the low-level civilizations according to a different method according to the voice but kept them alive.

The Primeval Lord of Heaven’s conquest of the Universe Ocean was not something that could be accomplished overnight. The millions of years of conquest and the vast distance were enough for the civilization of the Primeval Lord of Heaven to be divided into hundreds of different political entities whose strength systems and even appearances were completely different. However, everyone acknowledged that they were the Primeval Lord of Heaven and that they had come from an ancient blue planet a long time ago—Earth.

After a long period of division and alienation, it was impossible for the Primeval Race in the various sub-universes to be united forever. There were minor conflicts among them, too. However, when they were faced with the alien species and the Primeval Civilization, their attitude was the same, which was ‘conquer and destroy’.

“Wait—”

Li Yao had always felt that something was stuck in his throat. At this moment, he finally threw out the doubt in the bottom of his heart. “There’s one thing that I can’t figure out. According to the characteristics of the sub-universe, the Primeval Civilization will develop different evolution directions, social forms, and strength systems. The appearance of the ‘Cultivator Universe’, the ‘Magical Universe’, the ‘Battle Aura Universe’, the ‘Mechanical Universe’, the ‘Technology Universe’, and so on are all natural and easy to understand.

“I assume that my ancestors, namely you, came from a certain ‘Cultivation Universe’?

“My question is, why is it that most of the residents of the ‘Cultivation Universe’ have black hair and black eyes, while the ‘Magical Universe’ has blonde hair and blue eyes? It doesn’t make any sense!

“After hundreds of thousands of years to millions of years of conquest, the bloodlines of the ancient Earth have been diluted to almost zero. The concepts such as nationalities should not still exist, should they? Everyone has abandoned the concepts of ancient nationalities and bloodlines. They live together and give birth to a new species of human beings. The ‘Cultivation Universe’ also has a lot of residents with blonde hair and blue eyes. The ‘Magical Universe’ also has a lot of residents with black hair and black eyes. It is only reasonable.

Faced with Li Yao’s questioning, his voice remained silent.

Maybe, it had been challenged by hundreds of generations of testers, including Lu Qingchen and the mental devil, but it had never encountered such a problem before.

“Or is it...”

Li Yao’s soul, because of the burning of shame and anger, became hotter and sharper. “You have never forgotten the hatred on the ancient Earth. Or rather, in the wandering sea of stars, in the era when we were on the same boat and struggling for survival, you once forgot the ancient hatred. But as your strength continued to grow, you raised your butcher’s knife against all the carbon-based intelligent life in the universe. In the process of conquering and destroying, you destroyed your own ability to ‘trust’. You destroyed your ‘belief in kindness’ and your ‘pursuit of justice’. The more you conquered, the greedier you became. The more you were destroyed, the more terrified you became. At first, you feared the counterattack of the low-level civilizations and the alien races in space. Then, you feared your own kind—no, for the black-haired, black-eyed, and primitive people, are the golden-haired, blue-eyed, primitive people really your own kind? On the ancient Earth, in order to fight for the space to live, didn’t everyone fight to the death and almost destroy each other’s common homes? Now, although your home has expanded by billions of times, your ambitions have also expanded by billions of times. Who knows if the ‘World War IV’ will play out in an even crueler way in the endless sea of stars?

“The hearts of those who are not of our species must be different. That’s a good saying. But who are my species and who are the ‘outsiders’? When all the alien species and the low-level civilizations fall and become the ghosts that haunt the saber of the Primeval Lord of Heaven, the greatest threat will be each other, won’t it?

“It’s hilarious. I should’ve thought of such a simple logic a long time ago. You are trying to justify the expedition and the slaughter of the Primeval Lord of Heaven by asking the Homo sapiens to march out of Africa and expand to the entire Earth. But don’t forget that, even though human beings exterminated mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, and almost all the large animals, they did not usher in an eternal peace. On the contrary, an even more terrifying enemy appeared below the corpses of mammoths and saber-toothed tigers, which was mankind itself!

“The only thing that can destroy mankind is oneself. The saying is valid in the endless universe, isn’t it?

“The black-haired, black-eyed Primeval Lord of Heaven is deeply wary of the golden-haired, blue-eyed Primeval Lord of Heaven. The golden-haired, blue-eyed Primeval Lord of Heaven is also looking at the black-haired, black-eyed Primeval Lord of Heaven with the sharpest eyes. Even if one party has never thought of bringing up the past of the Earth Era, how can you be sure that the other party will not bring up the past and reignite the flames of war? At the end of the day, the old grudges of the Earth Era, including the differences in appearance, are just excuses. You have long lost your way in the bloody journey. You have become slaves of your killing instincts and become pitiful creatures bound by the chains of suspicion!

“In the end, is it really just a ‘tiny friction’ between two different universes? Or is it a ‘Primeval Civil War’ that is ten times more intense than a war of conquest?

“Do you remember what you said in the beginning? Most of the prosperous civilizations did not perish because of foreign invasions, but because of internal strife when they reached the limits of expansion. The civilizations that lived in the Pangu Universe for hundreds of generations were the same. Was the Primeval Civilization not the same?

“Therefore, I made a bold assumption that, after conquering most of the alien species and the low-level civilizations, the Primeval Civilization split into hundreds of different forces and waged a brutal civil war. It is appropriate to call it the ‘Fourth World War’.

“This war has completely destroyed the trust between the two of you. The suspicion and wariness between the two of you have been raised to the extreme, to the point that even the slightest difference between the two of you is unbearable. During this period, countless checks and purges must have taken place. All the fellows who are not of my race have been purged. The entire ‘Cultivator Universe’ only has black hair and black eyes, while the ‘Magical Universe’ only has blonde hair and blue eyes... Tell me, is that right? Tell me!”

There was a long silence.

“That’s not important.”

It said, its voice was extremely hoarse. It was apparently an answer that had never been heard in billions of years.

“No. This is very important.

Li Yao smiled miserably. “If that’s the case, the greatest enemy of the Primeval Clan is the Primeval Clan, and the greatest enemy of mankind is mankind. Then, what is the significance of the so-called ‘Great Obliteration Order’?

“On the other hand, I believe that such a brutal, super-civil war does exist. The civil war has cut off the bonds between every sub-universe. The close comrades-in-arms who used to be as close as brothers turned into strangers or even enemies again. After a long time of fermenting, the so-called ‘Primeval Civilization’ only existed in name. It evolved into countless alien and vigilant independent civilizations. Maybe they still remember the blue planet and the story of Earth, but it is already an ancient legend and an imaginary myth.

“In the end, when the ‘flood’ really rose up and lunged at you murderously, the so-called ‘Primeval Civilization’ could no longer be united against the enemy and could only be swallowed by the tides one after another. I’m even certain that, when a certain ‘magical universe’ was swallowed by the tides, the ‘Cultivators’ in the ‘Cultivators’ universe who had fought against it were still laughing and clapping their hands!

“The starting point of all this is the ‘Great Extinction Order’. It can even be traced back to the time when you abandoned 95% of your compatriots on Earth. From that moment on, you have thrown away what you are most proud and protective of as human beings. You have thrown away the soul of the civilization on Earth and turned into space cockroaches in human skin!