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When Cheng Li heard this, he couldn't help asking, "Then what does this have to do with ascending to heaven?"

Ye Lin replied: "That legend mentions that this Heavenly Ark was broken into nine pieces, and each section was lost in every nine heavens.

"Moreover, although this Heavenly Ark was exploded, after all, it was a magic weapon created by the ancient powers of Tongtian, and even if it was exploded, each piece of remains still had a certain amount of power.

"Therefore, that legend says conclusively that as long as you can find the broken wreckage of this Heavenly Ark in every heavy heaven, you can drive the wreckage of this Heavenly Ark to complete your ascension to heaven and enter the higher nine heavens!"

"That's the only way I know to go to heaven. Ye Lin said.

"Really, great, I must find the wreckage of this Ark of Heaven. Cheng Li said excitedly.

"Senior Brother Cheng Li, it's not that I want to pour cold water on you, but this legend is a legend after all...... And more difficult things are yet to come. ”

Cheng Li also calmed down: "You mean, the attack on Blood Demon Island?"

"The attack on Blood Demon Island is one thing, and the other is our self-proclaimed ancestor training on Qingling Island. Ye Lin said.

"In other words, why do you Qingling Island have to be self-proclaimed? Isn't this seclusion and seclusion of the country a cocoon?" Cheng Li said.

"Because it's too dark outside. Ye Lin said, "Actually, I don't understand it very well, personally, I also want to go to the outside world to see, but the ancestral precept cannot be violated, this is one of the iron laws of Qingling Island." ”

"The Great Dark Ages thousands of years ago almost slaughtered the people on my Qingling Island, and there was not one in ten. At that time, in order to survive, the third generation of the ancestor sacrificed himself and launched a self-proclaimed array to completely isolate Qingling Island from the mist.

"But now that a thousand years have passed, no one knows what's going on outside. So in recent years, there have been voices on the island that they need to try to re-engage with the outside world. However, such voices are difficult to sustain, and they will be suppressed by deep-rooted conservative forces. Everyone fears that the thousand-year-old Holocaust will be repeated, and no one dares to take the risk. ”

In Ye Lin's somewhat painful voice, Cheng Li could understand the approach of the conservative forces on Qingling Island.

In fact, Cheng Li has always felt that this nine-day island world is very much like a science fiction novel he has read on Earth.

In that science fiction novel, a state of existence of the cosmic Chinese Ming was introduced, that is, the law of the dark forest.

It introduces that in the universe, all civilizations are like hunters in a dark forest, and everyone is lurking, ready to attack others. The first strike is strong, and the second strike suffers.

When Cheng Li himself finished reading this science fiction novel, he felt that the law of the dark forest only described a certain picture in the universe, not all of it.

Because, in order for the law of the dark forest to be true, there are at least 3 prerequisites.

1. Chain of suspicion.

2. Limited resources.

3. Relatively isolated environment.

For example, if there are two spaceships flying to an alien planet together, it takes 20 years to sail, and the materials on the original ship are enough to support the two ships to survive for 30 years, and enough to support the two spaceships to arrive on the alien planet and start a new life.

However, during the voyage, the two ships suffered an accident and lost a large amount of supplies. So that the remaining supplies of the two ships can only support the people on board for 10 years.

If no changes are made, then the people of both ships will die in 10 years.

The only solution is to kill the people on the other ship, snatch their supplies, and feed the people on one ship with the supplies of the two ships, so that the remaining survivors can reach their destination alive.

In such a situation, in order to compete for limited resources, the chain of suspicion will make the people on the two ships highly nervous. Eventually, one side will raise the butcher's knife against the other.

The first strike is strong, and the last strike suffers, which is the most vivid description of the law of the dark forest.

Everyone wants to survive, and everyone is afraid that the other will do it first.

And this nine-day world, due to the natural isolated island environment, has formed a natural dark forest.

"On our Qingling Island, there are many sages who have done some research on the mutual fighting of all the isolated islands in the Great Dark Age. ”

Ye Lin patiently explained.

"First of all, because Shenzhou is broken and a lot of resources are lost, every isolated island is not as rich as it was when Shenzhou was at the time. So the resources of each silo are limited. ”

"Secondly, since all the isolated islands had gone through 8,000 years of completely isolated development by the time the Misty Storm intermittent appeared, each isolated island had developed its own civilization and cultivation system, with different languages, cultures, races, and cultivation systems, and in this case, each isolated island would have doubts about each other. ”

"So our sages of Qingling Island came to an extremely dark conclusion, that is, in the case of limited resources and mutual suspicion, war is inevitable between completely independent islands. ”

"Therefore, we will have ancestral training on Qingling Island, and we must not have any contact and contact with the outside world, otherwise there will be a big disaster!"

Hearing this, Cheng Li couldn't help but admire these Qingling Island sages a little, but he raised his own questions.

"Senior Sister Xiao Lin, this dark picture depicted by your Qingling Island sages is indeed very likely to happen. However, even if you are self-proclaimed, the resources of the isolated island are limited, and sooner or later you will still exhaust all the resources on the island, so what will you do then?"

Ye Lin smiled bitterly: "Yes, all of us understand this truth, but in the end, we just want to survive for a while."

"If you are self-proclaimed and isolated from the world, you can survive for another thousand or two thousand years, but if you come into contact with the outside world immediately, you are likely to be slaughtered, if it were you, what would you choose?"

Cheng Li thought about it, this is indeed a very difficult choice.

Ye Lin saw that Cheng Li didn't answer immediately, and she didn't care, and laughed at herself a little: "Now is not the time to think about these questions that are long in the future. Now that the attack on Blood Demon Island is imminent, it is still unknown whether Qingling Island will survive this catastrophe, let alone one or two thousand years from now. ”

When Cheng Li heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "By the way, Senior Sister Xiaolin, there is something I've always been puzzled about. Since Qingling Island has been self-proclaimed for a thousand years, why can Blood Demon Island still attack Qingling Island?"

"Because in nine days, all the islands are in a fog storm and will drift around with the fog turbulence. It's not fixed like on land. Yelene explained.

"Although my Qingling Island has cut off all shipping routes to the outside world because of its self-proclaimedness, there is no way to prevent other isolated islands from naturally drifting to the vicinity of Qingling Island. ”

"So a hundred years ago, it was in this way that the Blood Demon Island drifted to the vicinity of Qingling Island in an accident, and had a traction force with Qingling Island, and finally fixed it temporarily, and a fixed route was generated between the two from time to time. ”

"This fixed route will appear once every ten years, and every time the Blood Demon Island will raise troops to attack.

"In the past wars, this fixed route was only accessible to the demon clans below the fourth grade, so we could defend Qingling Island. ”

"But I didn't expect that this time the route was actually upgraded, and even the five-rank demon monarch could pass, although only 1 five-grade demon monarch could pass, but our Qingling Island did not have the existence of the five-rank god.

"Therefore, this war, for my Qingling Island, is a great disaster. Only by surviving this catastrophe can we have the opportunity to discuss the issue of whether we are self-contained or not in the future. ”

Cheng Li nodded and said: "That's true, the most important thing in front of you is how to defend Qingling Island and repel the attack of the demon clan." Thinking too much about the future is also asking for trouble. ”

At this time, a bell rang from the island, which rang 8 times in a row.

After Ye Lin heard this voice, she stood up, patted her clothes, and said, "Okay, the time has come, I'll take you to the Yin Yang Society to report." ”

"Then there is Senior Sister Lao Xiaolin. ”