From the end of the world

Chapter 441 VS Taoyuan Village Lord Incarnation 2
The incarnation of the Taoyuan Village Lord did not answer my question directly, but his words seemed to reveal something that was reminiscent of Shan Liangyi's position.

But if he just wants to harvest my power seeds, it still cannot prove that the Taoyuan Township Master is Shan Liangyi. The former water master Xuanwu also wants to harvest my power seeds in order to increase his own power to compete with Shan Liangyi in the future.

In addition, I was somewhat concerned about the way the Taoyuan Village Lord's incarnation responded. He didn't give me the feeling of a living person... Of course, in his current giant hand form, he didn't look like a living person at all, but I was talking about his reaction. This impression of an invalid conversation made me feel like I was talking to a weird-looking wall.

He is like a mechanical sculpture that responds to changes in the outside world. Because he does not have real intelligence, his response is simply the result of the program that was pre-programmed. The reason why he answers irrelevant questions is that his program is not flexible enough to have a serious conversation with people.

Based on the level of Taoyuan Village Lord that I imagine he is at, it shouldn't be difficult for him to create an avatar with intelligent consciousness. The stiff posture that appears now may just be because this avatar was not made for conversation.

If that's the case, then this incarnation shouldn't even have the most basic conversational function. But this incarnation is essentially the condensation of Taoyuan Village Lord's magic power, in other words, the embodiment of Taoyuan Village Lord's spiritual thoughts. Therefore, unless it is specifically prohibited, it will respond to external sounds like an echoing valley.

Also, this is also just my feeling, the real body of Taoyuan Village Lord should also be watching this battle behind the scenes.

I could vaguely feel the gaze from somewhere, staring at me and the weapon in my hand. I caught a hint of fear from this vague intuition, and the Taoyuan Village Lord seemed to be wary of this strange weapon.

"Why did you build 'Xanadu'?" I tried to get information from the incarnation of the Taoyuan Village Lord. "Is it really like what your subordinates said, to create the ultimate existence, and let yourself be the brain of this existence?"

The Taoyuan Village Lord's incarnation continued to attack me, and at the same time, as if reacting to my words, he once again said something irrelevant: "Fengdu Luoshan... is extremely superficial."

"What?" I wondered.

"Transcendentalism, hegemony, and a variety of other isms...are still stuck in low-dimensional discussions, and Luoshan cannot establish an ideal order," he said.

"Your goal is not to become the ultimate being, but to create a new social order?"

Just like Gua Tianshi and Fa Zheng? I thought about it and asked, "By integrating everyone into the dream network?"

"The old order is the embodiment of justice." The incarnation of Taoyuan Village Lord still answered the question irrelevantly. "Only order can make people's hearts find harmony. Whenever harmony is broken, people will feel hatred and want to eliminate the factors that destroy harmony. Then harmony will be found and order will be formed again.

"Love is different from hate. Love can even be born from harmony. Once love arises, one will want to pursue. When various pursuits conflict, harmony will be destroyed. Since ancient times, whenever order has collapsed due to internal reasons, this internal reason must be love.

“Hate is therefore the force of good, and love is the force of evil.

"And in the future, the order of a new era will come..."

What was he saying all of a sudden? I couldn't quite keep up with the communication of this incarnation of the Taoyuan village master. And if we talk about the breakdown of social order, shouldn't it be because of economic problems or war problems? Or could he have thought of what I was thinking of and deconstructed and explained it with his own worldview?
I don't really want to discuss worldview issues with this phenomenal incarnation. Since there is no way to successfully obtain intelligence, let's push this battle into its final stage.

The incarnation of the Taoyuan Village Lord seemed to sense my will and concentrated his strength.

"——Without love or hate, the ultimate life with a peaceful heart will be born."

Still so incomprehensible, the incarnation seemed to be muttering in a dream, and a large amount of blue thunder gathered in the palm of this giant blue shining hand.

At the same time, I raised the Slag Straight Sword, and the flames sealed inside began to become active. The burnt red blocks that appeared on various parts of the sword gradually expanded and connected with each other, eventually occupying the entire sword body.

The slag sword seemed to have turned into an orange-red sword of light, reminiscent of the prominence of the sun, jumping out from the surface of the sword, high temperature permeated around my body, and a large area of ​​space was distorted. The mana fluctuations that far surpassed the "solar eclipse" spread wildly, and the endless falling building rubble within a radius of ten miles was all blown away and evaporated, and the destructive heat wave pushed forward to a farther place.

On the other side, the extremely dense blue lightning turned into a beam like a divine spear, aiming at me and bombarding me rapidly. I did not dodge this attack, nor did I think of using my own attack to offset it. Instead, I swung the slag straight sword directly at the Taoyuan Township Lord incarnation, launching a huge flaming sword energy.

Unlike the black flame of "Eclipse" that absorbs light, this flame releases a flame that burns everything like stellar matter, even burning through space itself, ignoring the distance in between and bypassing the thunder beam, reaching the target location in one breath.

This made it impossible for me to deal with the lightning beam in time, and I was hit by it on the spot, and my body and soul were completely defeated. Needless to say, this attack that did not target the true spirit could not pose any threat to my life.

Considering the possibility of fighting with Taoyuan Township Lord in the future, it might be better to save this trump card for next time. However, if it is not used this time, the battle time will be prolonged, and it may be seen through by the enemy like the battle with Mingzhu, which is worthless. It is better to use it as soon as possible when it is valuable. Taoyuan Township Lord's incarnation obviously did not expect that I would suddenly use this "burn jade and stone" tactic. Of course, if this is really a burn jade and stone, it must be very cost-effective to exchange my incarnation for my original body. At the moment, he seemed to have no time to deal with my flame sword energy, and was split in half on the spot. The two parts burst into flames from the cross section, wrapped in flames, and destroyed.

With just one strike, the incarnation of the Lord of Taoyuan Township was defeated.

The flaming sword energy that flew over head exploded in the distance, and the entire space of the "Paradise" isolation zone itself seemed to have suffered severe damage, shaking and crumbling like an independent real space on the verge of destruction.

This strange space is about to collapse.

However, I didn’t feel like I would be able to go any deeper into this “paradise”. Instead, it felt like I was being called back to the real world and could be logged out at any time.

I recovered my body and soul. At the same time, in the dark, the gaze that probably belonged to the real body of the Lord of Taoyuan Village fell on me, and it seemed to convey unexpected emotions.

"Although I don't know whether you are Shan Liangyi or not, since you really intend to 'harvest' me, then next time, bring your true form to me." I said in response to this gaze.

There was still no reaction in his eyes, he just looked at me silently.

The collapsing scene of the alien space disappeared from my sight like a candle flame blown out by the wind.
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When I regained my vision, the surroundings had returned to the scene of the unfinished high-rise buildings. I was still standing in front of the "preacher", and Zhu Shi and Xiao Qiao were standing next to me. It was as if I had just taken a nap standing there and had a dream related to the incarnation of the Taoyuan Township Lord.

"How long has it been?" I asked.

"What do you mean 'how long'..."

Zhu Shi was stunned for a moment, then said, "Wait, you really invaded the Paradise?"

"Did it just take a moment?" I could tell from Zhu Shi's reaction.

Putting aside other things, it seems true that the flow of time inside and outside the "paradise" is inconsistent, and even the quarantine zone is the same. After all, in the worldview of some demon hunters, especially in the worldview of illusion users, the flow of time itself is just an illusion. As long as you can inject several years of information into people in an instant, you can make people have the illusion that several years have actually passed in an instant.

"You really scared me! Why did you do such an impulsive thing? That's the lair of the Taoyuan village chief." Zhu Shi said.

"It's not completely in, or should I say it's only a little bit in..." I habitually tried to change the subject, "Anyway, we can talk about it later, let's first... um?"

At this time, I noticed another abnormality. Zhu Shi also noticed it at the same time. She frowned and looked at the "preacher" on the ground.

"Dead?" she said.

At this moment, the "Preacher" opened his eyes wide, but he was not breathing. I sensed it a little bit, and the heart seed in his body had disappeared, and the connection between him and the "Utopia" no longer existed.

I was originally thinking about using the Preacher to try to invade the "Utopia" later. Obviously, the owner of the Taoyuan Village was not naive enough to leave me such a backdoor. I had to give up this route for now.

Besides, killing the Taoyuan Township Lord's incarnation was not without gain. I could sense a piece of "slag" of irregular size appearing in my flame.

To me now, "slag" is no longer just a confusing trophy, but a very important strengthening material.

Just like the "Eclipse" is extremely powerful, but it takes time to charge, the Slag Straight Sword needs more charging time than the "Eclipse" to exert its power far superior to the "Eclipse". And if you want to use the Slag Straight Sword to burst out special moves one after another in battle, the charging time required will become even longer.

This time is unbearable in combat, but it is not worth mentioning in non-combat situations. The increase of "slag" means that the upper limit of the slag straight sword's charge becomes higher, and the burst time after entering combat can be further extended.

(End of this chapter)