Chapter 20: The Millennial Sacrifice
Millennium.
A thousand years of time is enough for a dynasty to prosper and fall, and it has been changed back and forth three times, and a thousand years of time is enough for a family to spread out and multiply and create a nation.
A thousand years can make the wilderness a civilization, a tribe can become a country, and a witch sacrifice can be elevated to a religion.
But for the changes of the earth and the evolution of life, only a thousand years are almost negligible, and the basic unit of their calculation is 100,000 years upwards, so in such a little time, there is no way to even make them change at all.
In theory, this is true, but in practice, there are always surprises.
Somewhere in the universe, in a galaxy with four cantilevers, a tiny galaxy is spinning, and on its fourth planet, one of the most incredible scenes in the history of 500 million years of evolution is taking place.
A race is evolving rapidly across a long period of time under the influence of the gods.
Oran Sacred Mountain.
Located in the center of the Empire of the Nation of the Great Asia, its summit is the largest cluster of temples in the world, the pinnacle of the civilization of the Nation, condensing the crystallization of all the arts and cultures formed over the millennium, and the supreme ruler of the Empire, the Emperor of the Emperor and the Emperor of the Great Priesthood (High Priest) in one, has lived here for generations.
Thousands of years ago, the cultivators were still beasts, with hideous faces, almost like demons, because the body structure was too complex, so they could not make good use of tools, and the development of civilization was slow.
But 800 years ago, Taizu Heavenly Emperor Yaluo held up the holy relic Eternal Dark Qingjing and ascended the throne, taking the name of the country as his surname, and proclaimed himself the God Emperor, and the gods of the Great Dark Sky gave blessings and performed miracles for the first and only time. The seeds of power were given to all cultivators.
Since then, all those who are cultivators can naturally cultivate, although they still need to look at their own talents to advance, but after all, they can be regarded as cultivators of all people, completely distinguishing themselves from other races on this planet.
As long as it takes decades of practice. Under the influence of an inexplicable force, the cultivators will be able to transcend hundreds of millions of years, transform into a perfect body, and evolve into a higher existence.
The name of this practice is called the ladder.
The ladder is divided into four ranks, which are equivalent to the status hierarchy of the people, which is a caste-like system, from the bottom to the top. They are the original thing, ****, life, and truth.
The primordial body, the body of all things.
The first-order cultivators of this object have very little change in form, and they are still like beasts, and they are not good at technology. They can only do the lowest level of manual labor, such as plowing the fields. Mining, clearing, logging, etc...... But in the process of labor, they will also hone their bodies and spirits little by little, and move towards the next level, and they are the most numerous. Sixty percent of the group.
Clear-mindedness, wisdom and self-enlightenment.
When the cultivator of this thing advances, it will form a cocoon and chrysalis, recast part of the body, and become a **** cultivator, at this time. The two forelimbs that resemble triangular clamps will be transformed into more agile exoskeleton arms, the tail and lower limbs will be reduced, the wings will become lighter, and most importantly, the brain will become larger, and the mind and spirit will be more agile and strong.
Although the sheer power has diminished, there is no doubt that the flexibility has increased dramatically, and although the power of the clamps is very powerful, they can be used to tear carapace and flesh and open mountains and stones, but the arms with fingers can use all kinds of tools more easily to create and invent.
Cultivators of this level are generally engaged in craftsmen or art trades that require skills, and their more developed brains make their psionic abilities more powerful than their first-order counterparts, so they can also act as a source of soldiers and grassroots commanders, and this rank accounts for nearly forty percent of the group.
The upper body is the power of destiny.
The Upper Order, as the name suggests, is the first order of the real transformation into a saucer, and since then, the original form has been completely changed, and the spirit has been liberated from the body of the beast, and the cultivators of this rank look completely different from other stout and huge kinds, at a glance they are almost two species, their bodies are slender, with flexible limbs and tails, and their wings are more powerful, and they can easily fly without spiritual power.
Although it seems to have lost its powerful physical strength, it is mutated from bones, and the hard exoskeleton armor driven by psionic energy covers the whole body of the Shangming cultivator, and the liquid spiritual blood flows in it, and the hydraulic power provided by this thing is far beyond the simple protein muscles, not only that, but there will also be a spiritual gem condensed in the center of their chest, which will serve as the energy center of the whole body, absorbing the endless power of heaven and earth.
The nobles of the Upper Destiny are the natural leaders, the elites at the top, with the ability to change the terrain, and in the entire empire, there are less than twenty nobles of the Upper Destiny, they have a long lifespan, and behind each of them there is a huge family power, and all the middle and high-level positions in the empire are occupied by them and their families.
This level is already the limit of ordinary cultivators, and when they have cultivated to this level, they can tame the giant beasts in the sky and the sea, and they can defeat the monsters in the earth and mountains, even if they move the peaks, it is not impossible for them to cut off the river, but there are some things that cannot be achieved by hard cultivation.
The form of the true self, breaking the sky.
The ninth generation of the God Emperor, the Arrow Heavenly Emperor, sat on the throne, looking down on all beings, four generals ordered him to expand the territory, and ten nobles sacrificed wine to govern tens of millions of people for him, for no other reason, because the God Emperor clan was born with the true extreme rank, and there was no doubt about the strongest creatures on the earth.
Living in the Holy Land, always illuminated by the eternal blue crystal of the holy relic, the bloodline of the God Emperor clan is constantly being optimized, and since birth, they have the strongest spiritual energy, the strongest body, the strongest armor and the strongest wisdom. When they become adults, they can fly with their wings with substantial spiritual energy, and their perfect bodies can freely change their body forms, and as long as the core of their chests is not broken, then their bodies are indestructible, with the help of spiritual energy, they can break through the sky and enter the abyss, and they can even transform into psionic giants tens of meters high - there is no creature on the planet that can match the true cultivation race, and they can defeat and kill hundreds of meters of mountain beasts by themselves, which is the strongest deterrent force in the empire.
Before every god emperor ascends the throne, he needs to go through various royal trials and break through the four levels of will, knowledge, life, and faith. Stand out from your siblings (usually by killing the light and drawing on the power of the bloodline), and then in the presence of your parents and all the nobles, make nine vows in front of the Temple of the Source of All Things and the Great Dark Heaven, so that you can lift the sacred stone Eternal Dim Blue and ascend the throne and be crowned. Become a new generation of God-Emperor.
When the new emperor ascends the throne, the old generation of god-emperors will enter the depths of the most mysterious temple on the top of Oran Mountain, meditate and meditate, communicate with the gods, and explore the way to the next level.
Now, the 800th year of the Rigui Calendar, which is also the first millennium of the cultivation civilization, under the command of the nobles of the Supreme Order and the True Extreme God Emperor, with countless pioneering teams as the core. The Cultivator Empire continued to expand outward, expelling ferocious beasts, cutting down ogre plants, filling in swamps, hollowing out hills, cultivating fields, and raising livestock, making the habitable environment expand again and again. It now occupies one-fifth of the mainland.
However, such a reckless and rough development also attracted a natural backlash. Driven by hunger and hatred, countless beasts who have lost their homes often raid the borders of the Empire, slaughter weak villages, and even form hordes of beasts that storm cities, and then—not reclaim their homeland. It is to become a glorious decoration for the monks.
The fate of the weak is to die in obscurity, while the fate of the strong is to climb to greater heights in battle—to fight, to pioneer, to colonize, at the end of the first millennium. It is a century full of wildness and violence, blood and wisdom, and the earth, the clear sky, all the people and beasts living in this era, the way of survival is very simple.
That is, to kill and to be killed.
The Cultivators will not stop. Under the leadership of the God Emperor, as long as they proclaim the Holy Name of the Source of All Creatures and the Great Dark Heaven, then this race will not be afraid of any danger and battle, even in the face of an overwhelming army of alien beasts.
Especially at this time.
The millennium festival is approaching.
All the cultivators, down to the people of their own things, up to the True Extreme God Emperor, all the cultivators will sacrifice their most satisfactory prey and blood to the gods on that day.
The spirits of millions of people are moving for a goal, and even the gods will look sideways at the wave of such wills, and in the light of faith that burns like a blazing fire, the invisible spiritual chains that connect the great beings beyond the universe begin to tremble, turning the sleeping will over.
The god who dwelt in the depths of the void slowly opened his eyes.
So enshrined in the Holy See, the jewels in the central nave bloomed.
"Bang dang. ”
Looking at this vision in shock, the five guards and one nobleman in charge of guarding the holy relics had blank brains, and the weapons and scepters in their hands fell to the ground without realizing it.
But they are, after all, the elite of the elite, and after a brief moment of surprise, they quickly calm down.
"Zhen, you go to see the Emperor of the Gods and inform me of the strange state of the Holy Stone, Columium, you and I will go to the depths of the Temple and invite the Emperor of Heaven to come out...... The three of you stay here, keep your eyes open, and don't miss a trace of abnormality!"
As the leader of the guards, the nobleman had a premonition of the importance of the matter, and immediately gave a clear order, and set off without hesitation, telling everyone who should know the news.
After a while, with the sound of powerful footsteps, one by one the teams advanced towards the central temple, among which the leaders were the great mentor of the Great Engineering Academy, the general of the royal guard, the chief priest of the True God Temple, and the speaker of the noble council, but among them, the highest status and the fastest pace were naturally the emperor of the entire empire, the highest master, the ninth god emperor, and the Arrow Heavenly Emperor.
As a god emperor, he can not care about other things, but when it comes to the army and faith, Arrow will not relax his spirit, not to mention that this is about the symbol of civilization, the source of the power of the god emperor!
But when he entered the central hall, the emperor realized that the matter was far more serious than he had imagined.
The dark blue of the night enveloped the vast hall, dyeing everything in the color of psionic energy, and the eternal blue crystal floated in the air, sending a dazzling but shocking light into the eyes of all.
The glow flickered, emitting waves of fluctuations, and time and space trembled because of it, and all things were afraid to make a sound, so there was silence.
Only Arrow did not have the slightest fear, as a god emperor, he knew far more than others, so when this emperor saw this scene, he immediately stretched out his hands, excitedly held the dark cyan gem, and then raised it above his head, and praised loudly-
"Great Dark Sky, are you still watching your people?!"
A man who had real power would not believe in illusory gods, and Arrow was no different, but he knew it. This is different, the source of all things and the great dark sky are completely different from those illusory false gods, one **** hangs high in the air, spreading countless spiritual power, and the other is really sending down miracles and holy relics, and giving the ladder of cultivation to all cultivators.
But it's one thing to know. Reverence is another thing, thousand, the empire rules tens of millions of people with faith and strength, so that all the cultivators are united under one banner, but time passes, miracles no longer appear, faith is no longer strong, and now the huge empire seems to be indestructible, but in fact there is a turbulent undercurrent. There is a possibility of division at any time - dissatisfied with the hereditary lineage of the god emperor, dissatisfied with all kinds of privileges, dissatisfied with the monopoly of the aristocracy on the ladder of advancement, there are countless people who have this idea, so he wants to use the millennium sacrifice to restore the vanishing faith and popular hearts, and re-strengthen the foundation of the Daya Dynasty.
However, even Arrow never expected that it would be when he was most anxious. The eyes of the gods returned to the world, and once again to His people.
So he held the sacred stone in his hand. In this shrine, prayers began.
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Takakawa's will became clear.
"It's no wonder that Mother Earth sleeps once, it will be calculated for tens of thousands of years, and the essence of the creator I have captured is only a small part, but it contains billions of trillions of soul fragments and endless information, and healing injuries is only a small part. Analyzing this information is the main thing, and just a little bit of sorting it out, more than 800 years have passed. ”
Observing the passage of time when matter decayed into knowledge, Gao Chuan, who was in the cave world, couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and began to cultivate since he began. Until he seized the fragments of the Earth Mother World from the hands of the demon creator and fled, it was less than a hundred years, but now a deep sleep is nearly a thousand years, which is eight times the time of his conscious activity.
Just when Gao Chuan sighed, he sensed that there were countless subtle spiritual links in his body, and under curiosity, he crossed time and space, looking at the origin of those links, the planet where the reality coordinates were located.
Then, the cultivator found himself a god.
"It's me who believes......"
Looking at this civilization that was gradually becoming prosperous with strange eyes, Gao Chuan sensed that there were nearly ten million intelligent beings among them who had faith links connected to his will, but what surprised the cultivator was not this, but some other things.
Such as their culture and social structure.
Ignoring the familiar and strange vocabulary of the monks, the spectacular and peculiar architectural temples in the various cities, and the higher the ranks, the closer they are to the shape of the human body, very similar to the social structure and cultural system of ancient China......
It does not seem to be a naturally developed aesthetic, and it is more and more in line with his preferred physical appearance...... This race is being remodeled from its bloodline roots.
This should be caused by some thoughts that inadvertently flowed out during his sleep.
Indeed, the cultivators of the tribal era had just broken away from the ranks of the beasts, and like a blank sheet of paper, next to a large ink tank that was a huge source of information, even if the ink inside was not poured out, the splash of a little black water was enough to dye them color.
The power of divine will, that's it, just thoughts, can cause changes to the real world, not to mention that he Gao Chuan devoured a part of the earth mother, went against the current in the billions of trillions of creature information, and seized the broken authority, and its life essence is no longer a simple individual life, but a surreal energy field similar to an information cluster - this is not comparable to ordinary divine will.
Under this kind of great power, the leaders of this race, the Divine Emperor Clan, with the coordinate spar that is closely related to Gao Chuan, their body bloodline has been slowly transformed by the information of the higher existence, and now they are close to his direct dependents, and they have a natural power far beyond that of ordinary cultivators, enough to run rampant on the planet.
“...... I see, I said how to cross the 18 billion light-years material vacuum caused by the dark wound was so easily cured, it turned out to be because of this. ”
Gao Chuan's gaze was able to penetrate the spiritual and physical worlds, and under his gaze, the cultivators found that the remnants of the wisdom and spirituality of the dead cultivators would merge into the spiritual energy rivers of heaven and earth, and then in the cycle again and again, they would be absorbed by him, integrated into the cave sky, and become a part of the small world.
Just like Mother Earth, Takakawa is accumulating his own strength through this race, and is moving step by step towards the level of the true transcendent, the creator.
He smelled power from this race.
There is no doubt that just like the dragon and the demon clan are in the earth mother, they will be the cornerstone of Gao Chuan, and the more prosperous the cultivator is, the stronger Gao Chuan will become.
"The body's repair is almost complete, but it still takes some energy to get back to perfection...... The millennium festival is just in time. ”
After thinking for a moment, Gao Chuan did not hesitate, he rolled the small world in the void, approached the real world, and absorbed the huge energy from the stars.
Therefore, the shadow appeared, the torrent was cut off, and the darkness that covered all things in the sky and the sun descended on this world again under the exclamation of many cultivators.
And in the central temple, the people who were praying with the God Emperor suddenly heard a loud voice sounding in the deepest part of their hearts.
"Ascend to the heavens and look at the stars. ”
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PS: Being able to communicate directly with the gods and directly offer sacrifices to the gods is a sacrifice. The Divine Emperor clan will occasionally divide the two powers of the Emperor and the Great Upper Thing to the two clansmen, for example, the third generation of the Divine Emperor is a pair of twins, the fifth generation is a brother and sister, and the seventh generation is a husband and wife.
The fourth order of the cultivators
The first order, the ontological monster
The second order, anthropomorphic monsters
The third stage, Kamen Rider.
In the fourth stage, the Cosmic Knight, he can also transform and become bigger.