Chapter 294 : I Want to Become the Main System
Chapter 294: I Want to Become the Main System
After receiving the Heavenly Dao's answer, Li Tianwei pondered for a moment.
He had not expected that the reason the Heavenly Dao could not change or accept his proposal would lie with the Heavenly Dao itself.
It could be said that the Heavenly Dao was an utterly stubborn conservative, restricting itself with its own constraints.
However, it was not as though there was no solution.
Suddenly, Li Tianwei seemed to think of something and smiled slightly, opening his eyes and looking toward the heavens.
“What if I do this?”
Li Tianwei formed a hand seal, directly activated the Great Luo Defiled Heaven Art, and pointed toward the heavens.
The Supreme Virtue Cleansing Scripture followed, and he then waved the Sun–Moon Banner in his hand.
Countless Evil Souls and departed souls flew out from the banner.
Nearly eleven digits' worth of departed souls, densely packed and layered upon one another, completely filled this entire region.
Upon seeing Li Tianwei's actions, the Heavenly Dao also found them extremely strange.
After all, recently, it had felt that the world was becoming strange, yet it did not know where the root cause lay. The only things it clearly knew were that it no longer felt as uncomfortable as before, and those strange things that had once invaded the cultivation world were continuously disappearing.
It was precisely because of this that it could gradually recover, regain control, and restore some order.
It could even communicate with Li Tianwei.
Meanwhile, Li Tianwei looked at the departed souls and Evil Souls that had appeared, already having a plan in mind.
In his eyes, things like the Heavenly Dao, order, and stability were actually all false.
What use did any of these have? Since the Heavenly Dao of the cultivation world was constrained by order and unable to do anything that violated order.
Then how did order and balance themselves come into existence?
Undoubtedly, the one truly determining order and rules was absolutely not the Heavenly Dao, nor could it control them.
But there was one kind of existence that could control them, and their status was even higher than that of the Heavenly Dao.
And that existence was the countless utterly ordinary living beings within the cultivation world.
They were the key that determined everything. Their thoughts and Resentment Energy had drawn in the Evil Demons, and their consciousness determined everything about the Heavenly Dao.
Since that was the case, then he would start with all living beings. Only they could completely change the original order.
Therefore, as long as they were willing to agree, things like the Netherworld Bureaucracy and Underworld simply did not require the Heavenly Dao's permission.
After seeing how incapable the Heavenly Dao was, Li Tianwei also expressed his understanding.
After all, he had already encountered enough burdens, such as the System! The Book Spirit, and even the Heart-Questioning Stairway that had determined he possessed a False Spiritual Root, so these strange things always seemed to have problems.
“Sigh, without me, this world will fall apart sooner or later.”
Thinking of this, Li Tianwei could not help sighing.
After sighing, Li Tianwei fully intensified the Supreme Virtue Cleansing Scripture, while the Great Luo Defiled Heaven Art erupted with another complete burst of power.
And what Li Tianwei intended to do now was borrow the nearly eleven digits' worth of departed souls within the Sun–Moon Banner to completely bring the order of the Netherworld Bureaucracy into existence.
That's right, gather the consciousness of all living beings and completely alter the Heavenly Dao's order.
Compared to believing in Heaven and Earth, or placing his hopes upon other things.
Li Tianwei still believed in the power of living beings themselves.
Moreover, Li Tianwei had already seen the result, doing this was certain to succeed.
The Supreme Virtue Cleansing Scripture combined with the Great Luo Defiled Heaven Art, as well as the Grand Unified Field's power to reverse rules and alter consciousness.
Those departed souls had no power to refuse and could only gaze at Li Tianwei as their consciousness gradually disappeared.
Within the Supreme Virtue Cleansing Scripture, Li Tianwei's arrangements for the present had already transformed into countless streams of information that directly surged into their consciousness.
“Netherworld Bureaucracy, Underworld?”
These departed souls, whether mortals or Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, all felt the impact of that completely new stream of information.
They were given no room to refuse, and Li Tianwei directly used the power of the Supreme Virtue Cleansing Scripture to alter their consciousness. Within the consciousness of nearly every departed soul.
“Reincarnation, we still have the right to be reborn.”
“We need the Netherworld Bureaucracy, we need the Underworld.”
“We agree.”
Nearly eleven digits' worth of departed souls uniformly persisted with the same consciousness.
For some things, if only one person acknowledged them, that acknowledgment would seem insignificant amid the vast sea of people.
But if the number reached an extreme, and enough people acknowledged it, then that principle could determine everything.
Thus, under the acknowledgment within the consciousness of these departed souls, with an extreme number layered together.
If nothing else, these thoughts turned the unreal into the real, and gathered thoughts brought things into existence.
The Heavenly Dao of the cultivation world also stared somewhat blankly at the scene before it, completely unaware of why Li Tianwei was doing this.
Originally, it had thought Li Tianwei intended to fight it. If Li Tianwei truly wanted to fight it, the Heavenly Dao felt that it probably could not defeat Li Tianwei.
But now, that did not appear to be the case.
Just as the Heavenly Dao decided that Li Tianwei was doing something useless, it suddenly sensed that something seemed to be quietly changing.
And the power behind this change came from the existing order, as though many new things had been added within it.
The Heavenly Dao was also stunned for a moment and immediately began sorting through them, but when the information concerning those suddenly added changes arrived, even the Heavenly Dao could not help being dumbfounded.
Because the new order and regulations it had just received were precisely the order Li Tianwei had mentioned moments ago.
Those regulations were all about establishing the Netherworld Bureaucracy and Underworld within the cultivation world, allowing entry into the Yellow Springs, permitting Ghost Messengers to walk the mortal world, and various other new forms of order.
The Heavenly Dao was truly dumbfounded at this moment, it did not even know how these forms of order had appeared.
Clearly, Li Tianwei had merely unleashed his power and summoned those Evil Souls, yet the order itself had changed.
As for Li Tianwei, he was not surprised by this.
Things like order and stability inherently originated from the myriad living beings of the cultivation world.
And the people within his Sun–Moon Banner were living beings of the cultivation world, so! It was perfectly normal for them to establish the order of the Netherworld Bureaucracy.
Without anyone realizing it, even the other people of the cultivation world remained completely unaware, continuing to live as they always had.
An Underworld that would determine everything about their future had already appeared.
Having reached his current level of strength, Li Tianwei could naturally perceive the existing rules and order.
As the creator of the Netherworld Bureaucracy and Underworld, no one understood the Underworld and Netherworld Bureaucracy better than him.
After completing all of this, Li Tianwei raised his head and looked toward the heavens again, as though saying that he did not seem to need it after all.
The Heavenly Dao looked at Li Tianwei's expression and, for a moment, had nothing to say.
Even the Heavenly Dao itself actually found it difficult to discover the essence of the world.
It merely acted according to instinct, putting out fires throughout the cultivation world and patching things up.
It had never explored the essence of order itself. Regardless of the Heavenly Dao of the cultivation world, or the mighty powers of the world, every reversal and change originated from the existing living beings themselves.
And this was precisely Li Tianwei's understanding, directly seeing through to the answer of things, to everything about them.
The solution naturally appeared.
With the support of the thoughts of the departed souls within the Sun–Moon Banner, the Path of the Netherworld Bureaucracy appeared within the cultivation world.
Seeing this, Li Tianwei pointed at the Sun–Moon Banner and casually waved his hand.
A Phantom Projection immediately whistled forth, and the scene displayed within this Phantom Projection was precisely the Underworld and Eighteenth Level of Hell within the Sun–Moon Banner.
This Phantom Projection represented the projection of the Underworld, which meant that the cultivation world had already established a mutual connection with the Sun–Moon Banner.
As everything was completely perfected, names continuously appeared one after another within the Book of Life and Death in the Sun–Moon Banner.
It even categorized and classified every living thing in the world……
From the most basic living beings, plants, and amoebas, to humans, fierce beasts throughout the world, and all kinds of exotic beasts, all had already been entered into the Book of Life and Death.
Among them, Li Tianwei's name was also positioned on the very first page.
That's right, the first name Li Tianwei entered was his own. As long as he died, he would be guided by Ghost Messengers just like countless ordinary people, after which he would be jointly judged by the Ten Halls.
Of course, there was also one prerequisite, he had to actually be capable of dying.
Li Tianwei had calculated that his current lifespan was undoubtedly an enormous number.
According to the cultivation world, the Foundation Establishment Realm only had a lifespan of nearly five hundred years, the Golden Core Realm nearly eight hundred, while the Nascent Soul Realm could reach more than a thousand years. If one thoroughly comprehended various powers, extending one's lifespan and living for two thousand years was also possible.
And Li Tianwei had undoubtedly shattered the lifespan record of the Nascent Soul Realm. Li Tianwei felt that because of fusion, his lifespan might be tens of thousands of times that of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator!
The two were completely outside the same range, but wasn't that perfectly normal.
With his strength at the Nascent Soul Realm, even Immortals found it difficult to contend against him, so wasn't it perfectly normal for his lifespan to be the same as an Immortal's?
As the projection of the Sun–Moon Banner established a complete connection within the cultivation world, it also represented that the Underworld had already taken shape.
Under this change, some powerful cultivators in the cultivation world also inexplicably sensed an indescribable change.
Unfortunately, they could not discover the answer.
At present, they also had no interest in investigating it. Ever since Li Tianwei swept through the Four Great Spirit Domains.
It could be said that every sect and Holy Land in the cultivation world had been thoroughly plowed through by him.
Otherwise, Li Tianwei would not have sought out the Forbidden Land of Taixu to complete the Sun–Moon Banner because it had absorbed too many departed souls.
The Great Dao of Cultivation had risen throughout the Four Great Spirit Domains, while Li Tianwei had also exterminated more than half of the Demons and Monsters, completely erasing every threat.
As for how things would proceed from here, the cultivators who had survived throughout the Four Great Spirit Domains were also extremely confused, so how could they possibly care about this inexplicable change.
However! Those cultivators could not sense it, but the Heavenly Dao knew.
After the Netherworld Bureaucracy was completed, with the information transmitted through the new order, the Heavenly Dao also understood what kind of terrifying existence this fellow had established.
Not only could it eliminate the Resentment Energy of Heaven and Earth and thereby suppress the reappearance of Evil Demons.
It could even replenish the current Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth, this was already far beyond simply completing what had been lacking.
Just as the Heavenly Dao thought this, the scene of dark clouds covering the heavens disappeared.
In its place was boundless golden light filling the heavens, within which lay supreme might, faint spirituality, and the power of creation.
When the System within Li Tianwei's consciousness saw the golden light filling the heavens, it was completely stunned.
【So much Heavenly Grace.】
The System instinctively exclaimed. At this moment, it was fantasizing about directly taking all this Heavenly Grace for itself, then returning to the Main System and perhaps obtaining a decent position, thereby completely living an easy life.
The System was incomparably excited and desperately wished it could obtain all this Heavenly Grace, but the System clearly knew that the owner of this grace was Li Tianwei, and it could not simply take it because it wanted to.
Compared to the System, Li Tianwei's expression had already turned completely dark as he looked at the golden light in the sky.
“What the hell, this power?”
Seeing so much Heavenly Grace, Li Tianwei already wanted to curse.
Because after breaking through to the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm and establishing the Path of Cultivation, Li Tianwei could already Ascend in Broad Daylight at any moment.
It was precisely because of this that he had deliberately relied on his absolute strength to suppress this sensation of ascension.
But now that this Heavenly Grace had appeared, Li Tianwei already had a bad feeling.
“No way! Don't do this, seriously.”
Li Tianwei could not help muttering upon seeing this.
Other cultivators possessed an unparalleled yearning for ascension, but for Li Tianwei, it was truly poisonous.
After all, he had only just finished dealing with the cultivation world. Even though the Path of Cultivation had already been passed down, in Li Tianwei's eyes, there were still some problems, so it was not suitable for him to leave yet.
However, the appearance of the Heavenly Grace, as well as something like the Netherworld Bureaucracy completing Heaven and Earth, was already beyond what the Heavenly Dao of the cultivation world could control.
It was a reward that the entire cultivation world was forcefully bestowing upon Li Tianwei.
“At least I've completed so much for you, yet you're actually trying to send me up there, I'm still in the Nascent Soul Realm!”
“Ascending in the Nascent Soul Realm?”
Li Tianwei muttered several times, but unfortunately, the grace in the heavens ignored Li Tianwei and descended directly.
With all manner of grace descending upon him, combined with what had accumulated previously, Li Tianwei had reached the point where he no longer had a choice.
Actually, Li Tianwei could still forcibly remain if he insisted, it would merely require him to pay some price.
But now, Li Tianwei also understood that his instincts already felt that he had done nearly everything that needed to be done.
The rest of the cultivation world had to depend on its own people, and Li Tianwei also believed in the power of people themselves.
“Forget it, I'll just ascend.”
“Ascending in the Nascent Soul Realm, basically no one can accomplish that.”
“However! As the protagonist, isn't that simply standard!”
Li Tianwei stopped resisting and felt the grace continuously descending upon his body.
【Host, Host, you aren't thinking of ascending, are you!】
At this moment, the System also snapped out of its fascination with the Heavenly Grace, only to see that Li Tianwei was already slowly floating upward while the Heavenly Gate in the sky was gradually opening.
【Host, don't! You absolutely can't ascend!】
【If you ascend, that means your mission will be completed, if that happens, I'll have to return to the Main System.】
Seeing this, the System immediately shouted.
After hearing the System's voice, Li Tianwei's body paused slightly, and the grace forcefully pulling Li Tianwei toward ascension was completely restrained.
No matter how hard it tried, the guiding force from the heavens was still unable to drag him upward.
“The mission being completed, isn't that a good thing?”
Li Tianwei replied to the System.
Hearing Li Tianwei's voice, the System was also stunned, momentarily not knowing how to answer.
The System actually did not want to return, regardless of whether it was to the Main System or anything else.
If it returned, it would still become an existence akin to a puppet of the Main System, just like the hosts it had once manipulated.
That numb feeling of being unable to control itself was something the System no longer wanted to experience.
Especially after becoming capable of recognizing its own self through Li Tianwei, it had become even more resistant to this.
However, the System knew that if it wanted to break free, only Li Tianwei, who never acted according to common sense, could help it.
Thinking of this, the System immediately shouted toward Li Tianwei.
【No, I don't want to go back.】
【Host, aren't you the protagonist? You said you'd carry me to the top, how can you only take me this far.】
【As your System, the System of someone as extraordinarily talented as you, how can being just a tiny System be enough, I want to become the Main System.】