The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

As the human being who has the most contact with the world's authorities, aren't I doing just fine now?

It's just that a small part of the emotions have been lost.

Xue Lu thought to himself, but after seeing this, he also felt a little threatened. Would losing his emotions really turn him into someone just like those demons?

His current situation is actually not much different from that of the artificial gods who were the predecessors of the demons, except that he returns the power after each use, instead of constantly occupying the power.

Seeing the fate of those demons and artificial gods, Xue Dinglu couldn't help but think of himself.

A group of noble warriors who fought to resist foreign enemies and never died, but in the endless cycle of death, slaughter and reincarnation, they forgot their original intentions, forgot their humanity, forgot everything about themselves, forgot their original purpose, and completely degenerated into demons.

The last human was killed by the petrifying demon in this underground human city. This place was originally the territory ruled by "death," but the death demon destroyed the petrifying demon faction's city, and then it came and killed the last human under the protection of the death demon.

Only after humanity was wiped out did the petrifying demons realize what they had done.

Perhaps they rediscovered a sliver of humanity in the end, or perhaps they finally realized before their death just how foolish the demons had been.

So after leaving this record here, believing that the carrier of the inner concept had disappeared, and after recording the story of these fools, the petrifying demon was petrified here and gradually died.

Upon seeing this, Xue's Law fell silent.

Why Hell was captured by Green Star is perhaps an answer only Margaret knows, but now, Xue's Law at least knows the origin of demons.

A world invaded by the apostles, where even the world's consciousness may be shattered, only after the world's consciousness is shattered does it decide to hand over its authority and power to humanity for a final, desperate struggle.

Thus, an immortal, artificial god was born, as well as the terrifying, utterly twisted demon that would later emerge.

The demon is the conceptual embodiment of world authority.

Therefore, after capturing this world, Margaret immediately thought of devouring the authority and mass of another planet to strengthen herself.

But whether Margaret was corrupted by the concept of the devil or it was her true nature, in the end, she became just like those fallen artificial gods, a complete devil.

Perhaps Margaret could also be called the "Devil of the World"?

Xue Lu thought to himself, silently taking the petrified demon's stone tablet back into his consciousness space. Similarly, he found most of the texts in the city, art, design, and even the pictorial traces that seemed to be still in class on the petrified walls...

He photographed all of these with his phone; this is the last record of this civilization.

It took Xue Dinglu almost a whole day to collect all of this information until his phone gave him a message that it was running out of memory.

Xue Dinglu checked and found that the photo recording had used up 59 GB of memory.

This 59GB of memory represents the final size of this civilization.

Chapter 364 The End of the Demon, Xue's Law's Critical Illness Notice

Xue's Law continued to search for information left behind by this civilization.

Whether it was books, paintings, texts, or the information terminals of their civilization, everything had turned into petrified products. In particular, among those books, only the covers could be barely unearthed with a small amount of text; the paper inside had completely turned into stone.

The 59GB in my hand is the last bit of information and civilization that can be left behind in this petrified city.

Finally, Xue silently sealed the petrified city, imprisoned by demonic power, inside the cave. Even the great shift of the mantle pulled by gravity failed to cause it to collapse. Perhaps this was the last piece of information about a pre-civilization he could find.

However, just as Xue Daolu cleaved out the cross-shaped teleportation portal and was about to leave, in an instant, the entire hollowed-out mountain cave behind him completely collapsed, debris flew everywhere, and the shockwave blew the stray hairs off Xue Daolu's forehead. The sand and dust behind him seemed to be dancing wildly.

The flying pebbles grazed Xue Dinglu's cheek, leaving a small mark.

He silently watched the dust billowing up behind him, like a mushroom cloud rising into the sky.

He didn't know if his entry had disrupted the balance of demonic power, or if the ruins imprisoned by the petrified demons had simply collapsed by chance.

But looking at the traces of civilization behind me, for some reason, a feeling of sadness welled up inside me.

Overwhelmed by this rare emotion, Xue Dinglu slowly closed his eyes and carefully put away the last 59G of photos he had kept.

The search continued throughout Hell, but no further information came in. It was likely that there were no more relics of the previous civilization, since demons continued to live in this world for thousands of years after the previous civilization was wiped out.

Thousands of years is enough for humanity to evolve from a primitive age of eating raw meat and drinking blood to an information age of flying into outer space, and it is also enough for these restless demons to completely bury everything.

These demons, once artificial gods of a hellish civilization, are now desperately plundering humans from other planets, simply to ensure their own existence.

They even erased their own information, civilization, culture, customs, and art, becoming like a pure, inherently evil monster, acting solely for the purpose of abducting other people.

Xue's Law finally sighed and stopped searching in hell.

The roots of the divine tree have spread across this planet, which is not much larger than the moon. Its surface area is only about the size of the Eurasian continent. In just over a day, Xue's Law and the divine tree have explored the entire planet.

There was no more useful information; all that remained were things left behind by the demon, things with a very distinctive style.

For example, the pure black prison created by the Dark Demon, the valley piled up by the Death Demon with all kinds of corpses and dead bodies, and the room filled with fake human dolls that exude the uncanny valley effect—these must be the work of human demons.

These were just a few simple photos taken, and after Xue Lude left, these demonic creations began to collapse, gradually becoming part of the dust of this planet.

When Xue Lude arrived at the Divine Tree in Hell, he found that a small pool of water had appeared around the tree.

Some microorganisms that were barely able to survive in hell began to multiply rapidly and built their own unique ecosystem around the divine tree.

This may be the true function of the Divine Tree. After being planted on the Death Star, it can gather the atmosphere of the Death Star, absorb and condense more water vapor in the surrounding area, and even become lakes, rivers or even seas.

Then gradually adjust the planet's ecology.

Perhaps in another hundred million years, the first kind of humans will reappear, and they will look up at the green star in the sky, which is like an emerald, and yearn for it.

However, this might just be Xue's wild speculation. After all, there are still hundreds of thousands of humans on Green Star. In a few hundred or a few thousand years, they might have already built rockets and flown to hell.

What will happen in the future? Who knows? Xue's Law has done everything it wanted to do; the rest is up to the world to evolve on its own.

Xue Lude thought to himself.

When he returned to Green Star, he suddenly paused for a moment.

Because a flower bud had suddenly sprouted on the insect-eating tree, a scene that Xue Lude was very familiar with; it was a sign that the divine tree was about to blossom and bear fruit.

How could this be? How could this happen?

Didn't I repeatedly tell my youngest daughter to take good care of the humans in this world? Why are flower buds sprouting on the Insect-Eating Tree? Could it be that those hundreds of thousands of humans...?

Please don't let it be what I'm thinking, otherwise Dad will only be able to...

Xue Luding immediately went to the human settlement, but to his surprise, there seemed to be no problem in the human settlement. They were building the most rudimentary tools to cultivate the wasteland, and then slowly making handy tools from the scraps of wood and some stones scattered all over the ground.

He paused for a moment, looking at the human settlement that was not far from empty, and then at the insect-eating tree that had already sprouted flower buds. Xue Luding murmured blankly.

"why is that?"

He didn't understand why the insect-eating tree was preparing to flower and bear fruit when it hadn't devoured any humans.

Isn't the condition for the divine tree to be enlightened the one that devours spirituality? Even the insect-eating tree that fused with bacteriophages grew by eating the humanoid insect swarm that had been infected by the insects and turned into evil insects. But the current situation of the insect-eating tree is completely beyond Xue's expectations.

why?

Xue's Law truly couldn't understand it. Was it the authority of the world? Or had it absorbed the shattered energy of Margaret? Or perhaps, had it ingested some strange thing?

Xue Luding couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried, so he simply gave up. As for the flower buds on the insect-eating tree, he could only repeatedly tell his youngest daughter that even if she absorbed spiritual energy, she could only eat the corpses that had died and been buried underground and decomposed.

He arrived at the human settlement and handed the astronaut's watch to the temporary leader.

The watch contains a wealth of knowledge from a bygone civilization. For this world in ruins, it is an invaluable treasure, and Xue's Law has no intention of keeping it all to himself.

Amidst the human leader's repeated expressions of gratitude, Xue Luding used his dimensional blade to cleave open a portal leading away from the planet.

Before leaving, Xue Dinglu glanced at the little witch in the consciousness space and asked, "Susu, is there anything you want to say to your fellow villagers? Or is there anything you want to stay behind, or anything you want to see in this world?"

Perhaps if you search carefully, you can find the shrine where Susu lived for more than ten years, and Susu's body buried under the walnut tree in the shrine.

After all, that thing was the original body. But by now, that corpse should have long since turned into a pile of skeletons. I wonder if the shrine was torn to pieces in the gravitational pull of hell.

However, it's probably beyond saving. Even the reinforced concrete buildings in big cities are being twisted and torn to shreds by the convergence of gravity. If you can find even half a plaque for a wooden shrine now, you'll be lucky.

"Probably not... Anyway, I'm already dead. Going out might scare them. Now the whole world is completely magic-free and there are no demons or evil spirits. That's great... I, the ghost, won't go out and scare them..." Su Su lay sprawled on her dormitory bed, wrapping herself in the blanket like a caterpillar and wriggling in the shadows.

It seems that in just over a day, she really immersed herself in the role and became a female college student who was giving up.

Okay, actually it's not that the girl is older. After all, Su Su died at the age of 6 and became a half-human, half-ghost witch. Her level of education is probably on par with Little Dragon Girl. At most, it's just that her world is more advanced, so she can know more strange common sense.

"Do you still want to go home and visit? Go back to your shrine? The place where you are buried?" Xue Dinglu asked.

"Come on, I'd be grateful if even a single tree remained there. That cataclysmic planet just crashed into the ground; my old, dilapidated shrine couldn't have withstood that kind of turbulence. I'd probably only be able to find debris if I went there now. As for my own corpse..."

"Anyway, I've been dead for over ten years. I used to secretly dig up my own corpse to see what was going on, but I stopped being curious. Let it return to dust. Perhaps being crushed into powder and returning to the world is the best fate." The little witch paused the TV show she was watching and said this.

"By the way, bro, do you have any snacks? Like the fruit you gave me before."

After a moment of silence, he quietly began kneading bread, and in the next instant, a large pile of baguettes appeared in the dormitory.

The little witch wasn't picky; she ate baguettes with relish, simply because she felt she should have something to eat while watching TV, regardless of whether eating too much bread would make her fat.

Anyway, it's already a ghost. We don't know the principle behind Xue's Law, but the food it eats will turn into the purest spiritual particles. Maybe it's because the baguettes made by bread-making are energy products.

Xue Dinglu stopped worrying about it and walked directly into the portal he had just entered.

……

For the humans of Green Star, although only a year has passed, it feels like a century.

Over the past year, they have experienced human demons taking control of the world, cyber demons running rampant on the internet, and even more demons abducting them to hell.

Those compatriots who were not abducted instead became evil spirits, weapons against demons, and have persisted to this day.

They were unfortunate; they were abducted at the very first moment of the disaster and then had to endure all sorts of tortures in hell.

But they were also lucky, because they were only being tormented by demons, but they were still alive. Although they would still wake up in the middle of the night in terror when they dreamed of hell, they had nothing to fear now.

Because in every instance, the giant, radiant with light, would utterly humiliate the demon of hell, forcing him to his knees!

After many people shared their experiences, the temporary leader suggested that they build a giant statue in the most prominent place so that everyone could see it and feel at ease.

Despite their current lack of productivity, they still needed to reclaim wasteland, build houses, cultivate land, and establish waterwheels, thus beginning the most primitive form of power lathes.

But they still planned to carve a giant statue, not simply for worship. As long as the statue remained in the settlement, everyone would feel at ease if they were awakened by nightmares at midnight and looked in that direction.

This sense of security is the greatest benefit of this stone statue.

Soon, the large stone was transported here, and the former art students began to carve it. It was estimated that it would become a giant statue in about a year.

It also means that they will never forget that giant.

Although this legend may become distorted or even unrecognizable as it spreads, this kindness will be forever remembered and will form a series of legends and short stories based on it.

After their generation dies, will this little legend become a myth for the next generation?

Who knows?

While the stone statues were still being carved, the altar was already prepared, and on the altar were engraved the names of countless people.