Humans are devouring and selling off the heavens

Chapter 371 Transcendence is something only those who grow up eating manure can achieve.

Xu Qing knew that the Infinite Terror World was not only extremely barren, but also a world full of traps in its cultivation system.

Not to mention that, apart from cultivation, all other systems stop at the fourth level, even if you reach the saint level, there are still a lot of traps.

Take the simplest example: reaction speed.

One second equals one thousand milliseconds, one million microseconds, one billion nanoseconds—and after that, there are picoseconds, femtoseconds, microseconds, and other counting units, as well as the theoretical smallest unit of time, Planck's constant time.

The average person's reaction time is generally between 0.1 and 0.3 seconds.

As the physical abilities of extraordinary individuals improve, their reaction speed also increases. Generally speaking, warrior-type extraordinary individuals react faster than magic-type extraordinary individuals, while the reaction speed of a peak spirit-level expert is about one millisecond.

However, this reaction speed is not significantly improved for those at the Saintly level. The reaction speed of an ordinary Saintly is between 0.5 milliseconds and 0.1 milliseconds, which is not qualitatively different from that of a peak Spiritual level. It's just that Saints have the blessing of the Holy Path, so they can multi-thread and multi-open consciousness, and at the same time have an instinctive and extremely strong computing power.

From ordinary sainthood to high-level sainthood, then to innate sainthood, and even to the emperor level, the change in reaction speed is not significant, and there is no qualitative leap. The reason for this lies in the self-protection instinct of life and the suppression of it by the multiverse.

Because there is such a thing as negative accumulation.

The so-called accumulation of negativity is actually just thoughts. Every life is constantly generating thoughts, and the vast majority of these thoughts turn into distractions that settle in the sea of ​​the mind, and then turn into negativity. This negativity is actually the poison of all beings, and there is no cure!

If a life form's reaction speed truly reaches Planck's constant time, then for all other beings and observers, this life form would be completely distorted and deformed in less than an instant, even more terrifying than that, because for external beings, this life form would experience unimaginable negative accumulation in a single second, the amount of which might even be more terrifying than passing through an era.

Therefore, neither the instinct for life to continue itself nor the self-protection of the multiverse could allow the existence of life that can perceive time beyond its limits, not even for a saint.

But in this extremely barren world, this incurable poison of all beings is also the supreme resource that helps life ascend to a state of transcendence.

Because the negative aspects emanating from these thoughts are essentially the power of desire, which is the manifestation of the attachment of sentient beings to what they cannot obtain.

Even the most ordinary, intellectual being, if all the power of their will were to surge forth from the sea of ​​their soul, could create a terrifying monster possessing both transcendent attributes and royal-level power.

This is not the ultimate. The stronger the life force, the more vast and boundless the sea of ​​the mind becomes, and the more immeasurable the total amount of negativity and the power of aspiration it contains.

Even an ordinary person, if they can accumulate negative karma spanning an entire era, can achieve an inner universe and reach the ultimate realm.

But almost no sentient being in the world can withstand this overwhelming negative impact.

Moreover, this negativity and pollution are endless, constantly proliferating in every moment of life.

Even beings who have reached the ultimate realm cannot withstand this negative influence, which is the root cause of why even the ultimate realm cannot have an infinite lifespan.

Once the negativity fully surges, even the ultimate form will only be corrupted into a mindless monster.

It could even be said that in the world of infinite terror, all living beings are like garbage cans or cesspools, born only to produce excrement.

Those who can break through to the ultimate level and possess a transcendent state all possess a highly unified talent.

That is to accumulate negativity, to accumulate negativity indefinitely, and to feed on negativity.

It seems simple, but in reality, it simply means being able to produce excrement and, more importantly, being able to eat it.

After all, no matter what the protagonist is, the ultimate goal of their cultivation is to devour negativity in order to maintain the resources for cultivation.

From this perspective, the cultivation of Infinite Terror is too simple. Living for one era means eating the excrement of one era, and living for 1000 eras means eating the negative aspects of 1000 eras.

But don't let this seemingly low-level talent fool you; it's something many people would love but never have. After all, it's a transcendent quality!

In this infinitely terrifying world, there are countless paths, but only the ability to "create and eat excrement" is the only key to unlocking the door to transcendence. Even the strongest person may not be able to touch the threshold even if they spend their whole life trying.

This talent is not some unorthodox method, but an innate talent etched into the very essence of life, consisting of two sides; lacking either one leads to utter ruin.

First of all, the ability to produce excrement is not something that just any being can possess.

The so-called accumulation of negativity is not simply about letting the sea of ​​the mind breed distracting thoughts and settle negative emotions.

Ordinary life's distracting thoughts are like dust, unable to condense into substantial negativity, nor can they withstand so much negativity. They wouldn't even live past the 3600 million-year lifespan limit, unable to accumulate even the simplest negativity.

Even if one becomes a saint, entrusting oneself to the universe, and can cross the gate of life and death, living for more than 3600 million years, one can almost be said to have an endless lifespan.

Even for those at the Saint or Emperor level, though their Sea of ​​Mind is vast, they can easily be negatively eroded if they are not careful, turning themselves into corrupted monsters or even dying suddenly. How can they then accumulate and utilize any willpower?

Saints possess a lifespan of hundreds of kalpas, while high-level saints can even have a lifespan of tens of millions of kalpas. However, even if a high-level saint has lived for several thousand kalpas, after one-thousandth of their lifespan, they will still feel the obvious negative erosion of their true spirit aging and even decay.

The poison of negativity is truly terrifying.

Even the ultimate universe, even the inner universe, cannot withstand the negative pollution of an immeasurable eon.

Only those with innate talent possess a transcendent, absolute attribute in their sea of ​​mind. They can allow the thoughts of all beings and their own obsessions to settle into negativity, yet they can also lock it within their sea of ​​mind, preventing it from overflowing or backfiring, allowing this negativity to flourish like living water.

Accumulation, growing thicker and thicker, becoming more condensed and purer—that is true talent.

In this world, not only does the path to the top require becoming a garbage can or a cesspool, but ordinary people without talent don't even have a place to be a garbage can or a cesspool.

Like that snake, it can only eke out a living, gradually being eroded by negativity.

The sea of ​​the mind can accumulate a massive amount of negativity, yet it lacks the ability to eat excrement. In the end, it can only be overwhelmed by the "excrement" it created, dying a twisted and distorted death as its soul and spirit perish in the collapse of the sea of ​​the mind.

In this barren and terrifying world full of traps, there is no heaven-defying cultivation technique that can bypass the accumulation of negative effects, and no top-tier bloodline that can escape the poison of all living beings.

The so-called path to transcendence is nothing more than relying on this seemingly unworthy talent to create a continuous stream of poisonous willpower in the sea of ​​the mind, while gritting one's teeth and swallowing the most poisonous resources in the world, forcibly carving out a path to survival in the quagmire of negativity and under the suppression of the multiverse.

This talent, which may seem crude and unremarkable to outsiders, is the most precious thing in the world, something that countless powerful individuals yearn for but cannot obtain.

A transcendent posture of longing and yearning.

After all, in this world where all living beings are garbage cans and everyone is creating this negative poison, only by accumulating negativity and using it as sustenance can one avoid being drowned in this cesspool and climb to the top step by step by step, stepping on the overwhelming negativity.

In other systems, the idea that only those who can endure hardship can rise above others can be dismissed as false.

But in the infinitely terrifying multiverse, there is a transcendent person who says that only those who can endure hardship can rise above others; you really have to admire him.