Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 427 The Demon of Heaven

Some people might not know this, so I'm saying it in advance.

This eagle is the Kun.

Of course, its scientific name is Kunpeng. It has two forms, Kun and Peng, and there are two theories about when it transforms into which form.

One opinion is that it will change on its own once it grows up and has eaten and drunk its fill. Another opinion is that it mainly depends on its own willingness.

Yes, it's all Kun's word, guaranteed authentic.

In short, Chen Xuantian was riding on the back of the Kun, soaring through the void, rising straight up, folding his wings between heaven and earth, hovering by the river and sea, flying tens of thousands of miles in the void, until the Kun said, "Give me a good review, thank you," and Chen Xuantian climbed off the Kun's back.

"Where the hell am I?"

Chen Xuantian looked around and saw only a dark void. His feet were also empty and hollow, as if they were there but not there, and he could not step on solid ground. It was as if he were a lonely ghost drifting in the wind.

However, Kun meant it. Sure enough, Chen Xuantian waited in the vast void for a while before suddenly feeling hot.

It's bizarre, truly bizarre. Even though my primordial spirit left my body and wandered in the void, with no physical form or shadow, I actually felt hot.

No, it wasn't even an illusion, because Chen Xuantian saw his blood boiling! Pop, pop, pop, the blood plasma churned, like boiling water! Bubbling and spraying blood! It boiled and boiled, as if millions of pieces of flesh were screaming and howling!

wrong!

brush--

Chen Xuantian dodged to the side!
Then a blinding light shot through the sky and across the void! It grazed him, nearly obliterating him completely!

What, what is this?

What are you hiding for! Get over there!
Suddenly, someone gave him a push from behind! Pushing Chen Xuantian straight into the light!

"Wow—"

"what--"

In an instant, the world spun, and endless information, intelligence, and perception flooded Chen Xuantian's sea of ​​consciousness. In this vortex of light, his physical body was torn apart, reassembled, torn apart, reassembled, torn apart, adapted to, and reassembled...

In the blink of an eye, the world spun around him, and he was torn apart and erased by the light stream countless times, and then reassembled and resurrected countless times. It seemed like only a moment, yet it also seemed like an eternity of torment. Suddenly, the world around Chen Xuantian came to a standstill, as if he had been suddenly descended from the sky, and his feet finally touched solid ground.

Yes, what lay before him was no longer a vast emptiness, but a boundless universe... well, it doesn't really make much of a difference...

Okay, there is a difference. At least there are stars in this void, and a huge moon.

Yes, the moon, or at least the satellite referred to as the moon in textbooks, is astonishingly large and exceptionally magnificent, as if it were right next to you... no...

So Chen Xuantian turned around and looked back to the other side, where he saw a planet.

Ok……

Well, this is the moon, and that should be the Earth, right? But why do these continental plates look a bit off? How did they all end up together?

And... if one side is Earth and the other side is the Moon... then where is he now?

Chen Xuantian lowered his head and stared intently at the celestial body beneath his feet.

It's not a meteorite, it's not a satellite, it looks like... mercury?
Of course, theoretically mercury could not exist in a vacuum like this, but Chen Xuantian was not sure either, since he did not have a physical body at the moment, but was just an invisible ghost in the void, which was even more contrary to the laws of nature.

What appeared before him at this moment, or rather, what he saw through the observation band of the human eye simulated by the Blood God Child Technique, was a flowing ocean of liquid metal, an endless silver surface. If one had to use a natural substance as a metaphor, mercury would probably be the most fitting.

But if it's not a creation of nature... then I really don't know what it is...

Chen Xuantian tried to wander on the Mercury Sea. The surface of the mercury sea clearly reflected the starry sky, the moon overhead, and the earth beneath his feet. It was like an incomparably bright mirror, reflecting the primordial universe, heaven and earth, yin and yang, yet it could not reflect the blood-red human figure walking alone between the two realms on the sea surface.

What the hell is this place? Standing shoulder to shoulder with the moon, could this be the Second Void, the Taiyin Demon Palace? But where is the Demon Palace? Where is the Heavenly Demon? Or is the Taiyin Demon Palace or something on that moon on the other side? And what is this thing?
Just as Chen Xuantian was gazing at the moon overhead and its reflection in the mirror, feeling lost, he suddenly saw a ripple spread across the sea of ​​mercury.

Chen Xuantian immediately flew towards the source of the ripples, and then, in the distance, he saw that the Mercury Sea had parted into an enormous black hole, like a huge hollow lake, from which something was slowly rising.

It was a nearly black, multifaceted crystal with many irregular planes, about the size of a mountain peak in Jiuyin Mountain. It was fixed to the center by seven dragon claw-like metal supports. From a distance, it looked like some kind of black crystal pillar. Within the crystal, there seemed to be faintly flickering runes, containing a huge amount of information.

Just as Chen Xuantian was about to step forward for a closer look, he suddenly felt a warning: the Blood God Child flashed and shrieked! It was as if some kind of world-destroying sign of death was about to descend!

This sixth sense never fails. Having read so much of the Blood Scroll, Chen Xuantian knew perfectly well that the core principle of the Blood God's Path was survival! It was about finding life in the face of death! Even if you were skinned alive! Even if you were reduced to blood and gore! Even if you were ground into mincemeat! You had to live!
"Blood Shadow Divine Speed—!"

Without hesitation, Chen Xuantian exerted all his strength! He broke free from the Mercury Star's restraints and lunged straight into the universe! He plummeted into the vast void!
Almost instantly, Chen Xuantian saw the entire surface of the mercury-like sea beneath his feet suddenly blaze with a dazzling blue light! Then, the entire celestial body shone brightly like an incandescent light bulb! Vast thunderous power erupted! The light and heat released by this immense energy instantly ignited and vaporized the mercury-like sea on the satellite's surface! Ionized and sublimated metallic vapor formed a massive cloud of free electrons around the satellite! It was practically enveloped in a thunderstorm atmosphere! If Chen Xuantian hadn't desperately fled, he would have been annihilated to ashes by the slightest margin! He would have been sent back to his wardrobe!
What, what is this... lightning magic? No, it's electrifying?

Chen Xuantian reacted and looked closely. He could see clearly that the surface of the mercury satellite was radiating electric arcs, like a giant dragon emerging from the sea. Guided by the metal support, it rushed towards the crystal pillar. It was clearly using an extremely high-intensity current to charge the crystal, so much so that the black crystal was radiating a bright and dazzling light, like the morning star flashing brightly at the entrance of a black hole.

What is that? Is it some kind of weapon? Judging by the direction, it looks like it's aimed at Earth… Hiss! Is it aiming at an egg?! Tsk tsk tsk, egg, look at you, you've done so many bad things, heaven will punish you, and your brothers will have to clean up your mess…

Just as Chen Xuantian rolled up his sleeves, ready to rush over to help, a Kun suddenly leaped out, spitting out a bubble and emitting an ancient voice.

"What are you doing loitering around the door... Hmm? Wait a minute! You've come at the wrong time!"

"Uh……"

"Never mind, we're already here! Hold on tight to Kun!"

Kun patted its fins and let him catch one.

Although I don't know the situation, Xin Kun is right.

So Chen Xuantian turned the divine light around, condensed it into a point of blood god essence, and attached it to the fish fin.

The Kun fish leaped, plunged into the void, and in the next instant, broke through the boundary, indicating that it had landed. Please give a good review, thank you.

Chen Xuantian materialized as a blood shadow, looked around, and found himself inside a spaceship.

Moreover, it truly is a very typical, retro, ray-punk style spaceship. The enormous, cylindrical, self-rotating gravity space capsule has a light column simulating sunlight in its center. The capsule is then arranged with various curved styles of cockpits, living quarters, and research cabins. The overall space is clean, orderly, bright, tidy, and brightly colored.

Judging from the overall style and size design, the cabin is obviously designed for a human-sized creature. However, there is no one inside the ship, only many colorful spherical robots, which are jumping and rolling around, occasionally shooting out colorful beams of light and interacting with the surrounding equipment. It is unclear whether they are inspecting the equipment or operating the spaceship.

Judging from the large greenhouses, lush green nurseries, and indoor organic petri dishes around here, this place seems to be some kind of biological laboratory, and it's unclear what they're synthesizing.

The Kun grunted and climbed onto the ball's head, muttering to itself for a while, seemingly reaching some kind of agreement. Then, the ball, carrying the Kun, hopped and skipped away to the side, while the Kun flapped its fins to indicate "over here."

So Chen Xuantian followed Kun and Qiu through the cylindrical space capsule, heading deeper into the cylinder, all the while secretly plotting against the capsule above him.

The cylinder he was in was clearly just a part of the spaceship, an agricultural or research area. The diameter of the gravity structure alone was over twenty miles, and the ends were even more endless. His divine sense could scan it and it was at least a hundred miles long. He didn't know how thick the outer walls were. The entire spaceship was probably like a snake from Changshan Mountain, or a super long train. This shape was indeed somewhat different from the palace-fortress-like main city base that Chen Xuantian had imagined.

Kun spits bubbles,
"What main base? This is just a logistics cruiser. What are you even here for?"

"Oh, the egg wanted to study the Path of the Heavenly Demon, so the Kun threw me here. Maybe it went to the wrong place?"

Kun was blamed, Kun was unhappy, and Pao ignored Kun.

"Heavenly Demons? What's so interesting about studying Heavenly Demons?"
Well, seeing that you know nothing, you're probably just getting married for the first time.

Newcomers are such a hassle; let's cook a meal for him to see.

So Kun patted the ball, and the ball temporarily changed its course, emitting light and opening a refrigerator-like cold storage room.

At a glance, Chen Xuantian saw that the warehouse was filled with frozen cocoons resembling biological egg cases. Warm, wriggling vesicles contained a thick, orange-red fluid, covered with red and blue veins like capillaries and nerve fibers. He could vaguely make out embryonic-like lumps of flesh, some large, some small, the largest perhaps the size of a cow, while the smallest looked like… an egg… “This, this could be…”

Bubble path,

"Good, wet item."

Chen Xuantian scratched his head.
"What the hell is this? A human? A demon? A monster?"

Bubble path,

"It could be a human, a demon, or a monster. But right now it's just an egg."

What will ultimately hatch depends on what genetic blueprint is written into it, how many cheats and permissions are unlocked, what kind of world it is placed in, and how much nutrition and energy it is provided.

As for the rest, that depends on individual effort.

Chen Xuantian expressed his confusion.

Kun took a deep breath, and with a series of rapid bursts, sprayed out a large number of purple bubbles.
"Let's start from the beginning. No matter which string, no matter which world, the greatest demon is human greed."

If you don't have money, you want to have money; if you don't have power, you want to have power; once you have everything, you want to live longer; you want to be higher, faster, stronger, more beautiful, healthy, and long-lived.

They want to possess everything that is known, and they want to explore the infinite unknown. They want to have everything in their hands, from the heavens to the earth, from the primordial universe.

This is human greed, this is humanity's original sin, this is humanity's inner demons.

Of course, you can put it more nicely, saying it's human evolution, human completion, or the ultimate fate of all life seeking heat death.

But what you call them is irrelevant. The key point is that humans have limits; humans die.

Whether we acknowledge it or not, humans are merely members of the natural world, not some transcendent, immortal deity.

The evolution of life is an extremely long process. The path from monkeys to humans was limited by the gene pool, the lifespan and metabolism, climate change, natural selection, accidental sudden events, mutations, catastrophes and extinctions, and all kinds of interference and restrictions, which took a full 60 million years.

Even if they were lucky enough to be the lucky ones to evolve to the point where they could barely reign supreme at the top of the ecosystem, break free from the shackles of gravity, explore the universe, and reach the technological singularity, they would be the species known as Homo sapiens.

Even if they can achieve superhuman enhancements and extraordinary progress through acquired weapons, starships, cybernetic modifications, intelligent assistance, and implant enhancements.

But at the beginning of their lives, the spiral that contains the essence of their lives is not significantly different from that of their ancestors who ate raw meat and drank blood 200,000 years ago.

Humans, in the end, are nothing more than monkeys who can die at any moment.

Humanity may still have a long way to go, ranging from thousands to millions of years, to reach the next milestone in evolution.

Not to mention that if one wants to truly be reborn, ascend to the altar of immortality, transcend the three realms, and break free from the shackles of physics, relying solely on natural selection is absolutely not enough.

Such a long timescale was naturally unbearable for greedy and arrogant humans, so naturally they decided to find another way and overtake others by taking a shortcut.

Intelligent machine ascension, consciousness uploading, brain-computer interface, bioengineering, psionic energy development—humanity on every thread is searching for its own path.

Until one string, we humans found that one string.

They have developed various robotic, intelligent, and synthetic humans, attempting to replace flesh with steel bodies. After all, the strength of metal far exceeds that of flesh and blood, and clean nuclear energy is inexhaustible, making it easy to achieve their grand ambitions of being higher, faster, and stronger.

But that's not enough. Even if you put your brain in a jar to preserve it for a long time, or record and upload it as a soul in the electronic sea, it's still not perfect.

After all, silicon-based systems are limited by the von Neumann architecture, resulting in unavoidable data throughput delays and errors, while also relying on a stable and secure energy supply system. Once the transition to silicon is implemented, in a sense, the possibility of further evolution is lost, and sooner or later, it will fall behind, eventually being replaced and relegated to the dustbin of history with the iterative updates of software and hardware.

Therefore, on this line of thought, wet components were developed.

Based on further biological breakthroughs, and using the most advanced generation of Synthetic, silicon-based synthetic intelligent humans as a blueprint, this thing is a biological computer that can learn and evolve on its own, using artificial gene-coordinated cells and enhanced organs, biological processors, neuromorphic chips, and biological computing carriers that reverse-simulate the von Neumann architecture.

Whether called a wet component, egg, or ovum, this thing is essentially a biological wet component life form generated by modifying human stem cells through CRISPR gene editing, implanting silicon-based AI decision-making logic, and based on a spiking neural network algorithm.

By using synthetic biology tools to modify gene drive technology, we can target and optimize the cognitive abilities of wet components, enabling them to iterate at a rate far exceeding that of natural evolution.

By modifying mitochondrial genes, overexpressing and overloading special transport proteins such as UCP1 protein, ultra-efficient energy conversion is achieved, and energy can be replenished at any time through photosynthesis.

By using gene editing technology and introducing programming evolution modules such as transposon jumping genes, offspring can autonomously optimize traits such as radiation resistance and anti-aging according to the needs of the natural environment.

A nanoscale memristor array is embedded in the cerebral cortex, and the latest version of the neuromorphic chip is formed based on an iteratively updated design blueprint, enabling the most efficient decision-making and seamless collaboration between biological and silicon-based computing power.

By using gene drive technology and synthetic biology tools, we can target and optimize human cognitive abilities, significantly improve the efficiency of the inheritance of superior genes, and make each generation's iteration speed far exceed that of natural evolution.

Even now, it has broken through the limitations of biology, and can use the sheaths that form eggs, the shells of eggs, and the placenta to resist overload, high temperature, and radiation, enabling it to cross gates and become the absolute main force in multiverse exploration and interstellar colonization.

Yes, we, all the demons, monsters, and humans in the Tai Chi world, evolved from wet materials.

Because this is the final shape that humanity, at that singularity, made by this string, has shaped.

A perfect vessel body capable of adapting to any world, any universe, infinitely evolving and strengthening. Through a trans-dimensional quantum communication center, consciousness can be downloaded and memories copied, allowing for rebirth as a god.

As long as there are an infinite number of eggs and an infinite number of bodies, humans can travel freely throughout the myriad worlds and live forever.

Sounds pretty good, right? Unfortunately, nothing in this world is perfect.

Because a person is still a person, no matter how long they live, they will still die if they are killed.

But we are different.

Because we wet components will adapt, we will evolve, and much faster than they do.

So when those people come and go in all the heavens and myriad realms, dying and coming back to life, roaming freely in the world.

That quantum communication hub, as a special 'environment,' was 'adapted' to by us, and we 'evolved' in a targeted manner before rushing in to 'modify' it.

Yes, that place is now 'Tai Xu'.

Modern wet devices have evolved to the point where they can achieve the uploading of collective consciousness through quantum entanglement, forming a distributed biological cloud and constructing a matrix similar to the primordial sea of ​​consciousness, which, in our local parlance, is what is known as the 'Way of Heaven'.

Yes, every time we are reborn, we are actually in harmony with the Tao, and then we are reincarnated again. As long as the physical attributes match, even the memories before death will not be lost.

So in a sense, we have truly transcended the boundaries of life and death, and the boundaries of time and space, which are what humanity seeks throughout its life.

So you understand now, right? There are no Heavenly Demons at all, or rather, we are the Heavenly Demons.

We are, we are Χμαιρα.

We are Homunculus, we are Bio-Wetware Hybrid.

We are sleeping giants among chickens. We are faceless immortals in chaos.

We can be eternity, all things, all transformations, all paths, without boundaries, without limits.

But we are always the legacy of human civilization, the crystallization of human wisdom, and the dream created by human curiosity.

We are the end of humanity.

Chen Xuantian exclaimed, "Holy crap..."

(End of this chapter)