From the end of the world

Chapter 587 Exit Appears
Many people are prone to illusions, and regard protecting the ecological environment as protecting the earth itself, and even keep saying "protect the earth". However, the ecosystem and the earth are completely different concepts in terms of scale.

For the huge celestial body of the Earth, the largest organisms are only microorganisms clinging to its body surface, and the ecosystem attached to it is like a fungus blanket. From the origin of life to today, the ecosystem has only been active on the surface of the Earth. Even if there are organisms living underground, they are only located in very shallow parts of the underground. Not to mention approaching the mantle layer, the utilization rate of the crust layer is pitifully low.

Just as the collective unconscious of mankind, as the narrow Naraku will, cannot be compared with the broad Naraku will representing all life, the broad Naraku will cannot be compared with the natural will of the planet, let alone be confused with it.

They are totally not on the same order of magnitude.

After hearing what I said, Xiaowan seemed a little hesitant, but soon she became firm and said seriously: "I can be sure that the Gospel of Naraku is the natural will of the planet. As for why Huang Quan called it the broad will of Naraku, I am not very clear.

"It's possible that Huang Quan also got the truth about Naraku Gospel wrong, or it's possible that the two are indeed the same entity, but we lack relevant knowledge and information and cannot connect them for the time being."

"Knowledge……"

I remembered the sealed information I had accessed in the Luoshan Database in the past, in which the following content was mentioned in a taboo and obscure tone: Before the establishment of the afterlife, the soul had another place to go... Could this be related to the commonality between the Gospel of Naraku and the natural will of the planet?

"Number seven, what do you think?" I looked at the other person.

"I'm very sorry, I'm not particularly clear about this either." Number Seven shook his head.

"Can I understand that even the Lord of the Divine Seal cannot grasp the details of the Gospel of Naraku?" I asked.

Number 7 was silent at first, then he said: "...You should also understand that the current Lord of the Seal of God is not a complete body. He can only know most of the things happening in this world, and some things are beyond his understanding. For example, things related to the end of the world, and for example..."

Although she didn't say anything more, I can probably guess what happened next. The Lord of the Divine Seal can't detect or is difficult to detect things related to the afterlife. After all, the Lord of the Divine Seal doesn't even seem to know the true origin of the small bowl.

So, why is his grasp of the afterlife so vague? Is it because his omniscience is also a power based on the principle of divination, so it is difficult to use it in the afterlife? However, I don’t really want to associate the omniscience of the God Seal with divination, as that doesn’t fit my mysterious impression of the power of the God Seal. As for other clues...

Maybe it's because there are very few fragments of the divine seal in the afterlife? I suddenly realized this direction.

The Lord of the Divine Seal once said that the maximum number of Divine Seal fragments is between twenty-one and thirty-five. Considering that each Void Realm Apostle is bound to at least one, combined with the number of Void Realm Apostles in the real world and the number of Divine Seal fragments that can be counted so far… just adding up the Divine Seal fragments I have obtained and the ones Shen Zhao had before his death, there are eleven. How many have the other Void Realm Apostles and Luo Shan Da Wu Chang collected?
The total number of fragments of the Divine Seal left for the afterlife must be very small. If the power of the Lord of the Divine Seal is closely related to the fragmented Divine Seal, then it is understandable that he cannot have much perception of the afterlife where the number of Divine Seal fragments is scarce.

I then brought the topic back to the original track.

"I believe your conclusion, Xiaowan. Naraku Gospel is the natural will of the planet. But if that's the case, why is the symbol of Naraku Gospel the moon?" I once again had this question, "Since it is the natural will of the planet, shouldn't its symbol be the earth itself?"

Xiaowan replied: "——Maybe it's because the moon is the incarnation of the earth."

"You mean... because the moon is a satellite of the earth, it can be regarded as 'the earth's subordinate'?" Number Seven asked tentatively.

Xiao Wan shook her head and said, "That's not what I meant. In the field of astronomy, in order to explain the formation of the moon, there is a 'giant impact' hypothesis that is widely considered to be highly likely.

"This theory holds that 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called 'Theia', about the size of Mars, collided with the proto-Earth. Eventually, the alien planet was absorbed by the Earth, and a large number of stellar fragments produced in the collision were thrown into the orbit of the proto-Earth's satellite, and gradually formed the moon we know today.

"In other words, a large part of the moon itself comes from the original earth. According to scientific tests on lunar soil, the isotopes of the moon and the earth today are highly similar. Judging from the cause of its formation, it can be directly regarded as a celestial body that originated from the earth. That's why I call it an incarnation.

"As the 'tentacle' of the Earth's natural will reaching deep into the afterlife, the image of the moon is most appropriate."

I don’t know if it’s because he has recovered all his past memories, especially all the knowledge from Zhu Jiu and Zhu Shi’s childhood, but I feel that Xiaowan is not only very smart, but also suddenly has become extremely knowledgeable.

The evidence that the Gospel of Naraku is the natural will of the planet seems to be increasing.

On the way, out of curiosity, I asked No. 7 about her subjective speculation on the Gospel of Naraku. She couldn't explain the Gospel of Naraku itself, but she knew more about the demons who were the incarnations of the Gospel of Naraku. I also benefited a lot from her. After about 20 minutes, we finally arrived at our destination.

This looked like a town, but it was in an extremely messy state. It was as if a hundred giants were carrying shovels as big as tall buildings and turning the rivers and seas upside down. The surrounding buildings were all in a state of collapse, and the soil was in a state of being disturbed to such a horrible degree that it would take more than digging three feet into the ground to describe it.

Many buildings had their underground structures uprooted, reminiscent of carrots that were pulled out in a rough manner and thrown all over the ground. This was also the case with the "15th Floor Basement" we found.

Xiaowan took me to a house-sized concrete wreck with exposed steel structure on the outside, and pointed at it and said, "The basement should be inside here."

I summoned the Slag Straight Sword. As the sword flashed, a square the size of a door was cut out of the concrete wall. Then I pushed it gently, and the square of concrete fell to the ground, and the scene inside was clearly presented in my vision.

The space is two-thirds the size of a classroom, with gray concrete walls and floors, gray shelves filled with items like a closed convenience store, and a white candle quietly burning on the middle floor...

This is the basement on the fifteenth floor that I once entered.

In the past, I could only enter this place in a strange way; but now, I actually walked to the outside of this space and forcibly "broke the door", as if I could just walk in normally. Such a huge contrast made me feel magical.

Xiaowan’s reasoning was correct. The basement on the fifteenth floor, which should have existed in nothingness, was also connected to the afterlife!

Originally, with No. 7 by my side, I probably wouldn't have been able to complete the encounter with this place. I guess Xiaowan made some adjustments in secret, allowing No. 7 to also become a person allowed to approach this place.

I was the first to cross the "doorway" and walked into the interior of this "basement", followed by Xiaowan. Number 7 also followed and looked around.

I picked up the white candle on the ground and looked at the flickering flame.

Who could have expected from the beginning that after I escaped from the basement on the 15th floor, I painstakingly studied how to open the entrance again through the ritual array, but failed again and again, and that this ordinary white candle that I had forgotten in the basement would become an indispensable key prop for me to return to this place?
I took out a piece of "slag" and placed it where the white candle was originally located. Although the volume of this "slag" is only a drop in the ocean compared to the slag straight sword, it contains a lot of compressed fire mana.

The "slag" itself will not disappear due to separation from me, and it has a binding force on flames. And with so many flames in it, if you want to naturally evaporate it, I am afraid it will take another four hundred centuries to see the end. Therefore, this "slag" can replace the white candle and serve as a signal marker left in the basement on the fifteenth floor.

"So... what are we going to do next?" Number 7 asked curiously, "How are you going to get back to the world of the living through here?"

Xiao Wan looked at me. I closed my eyes and recalled how to draw the ritual array in the basement on the fifteenth floor. Although my memory was good enough that I didn't need to work so hard to remember it, I didn't want to deal with things related to this place in a careless manner.

Then I opened my eyes, raised my hand, and pointed to the ceiling of the basement. As if traveling back in time, my flames carefully traced the missing spell symbols on the ceiling from Agent Kong's ritual array.

Even I can't help but feel nervous at this moment. Whether the entrance and exit will appear next depends on the ambiguous power of "fate". Is the fate between Mazao and me really enough to allow me to break through the boundary between life and death and return to her side?
After doing all this, I looked ahead anxiously, waiting for the exit to appear.

However, no exit has materialized.

Did I draw the spell symbol wrong? Or is it that the affinity between Mazao and I is not strong enough to make the exit appear?

A feeling of disappointment arose in my heart, and suddenly, I remembered something and then deliberately took a few steps back.

A gray concrete staircase appeared abruptly where I was originally standing.

Number 7 looked surprised and looked carefully at the gray staircase, then raised his head and looked to the end of the staircase.

There, there is a light brown wooden cover, embedded in the ceiling.

(End of this chapter)