Chapter 560 545: The Grand Finale (Part 4)
The divine catastrophe descended with countless Void Divine Thunders, each capable of obliterating a deity, determined to shatter the Ten Thousand Tribulations Evil God into nothing.
Faced with the wrath of the Divine Beast World, the Ten Thousand Tribulations Evil God was still too feeble.
Then, three beams of light pierced through the tribulation clouds, and three immensely majestic figures descended, instantly silencing all creation.
Li Cunxu was exceedingly solemn. Among the Four Gods, the Crimson Blood God, Crowned Mechanical God, and Demon Prison Deceit God all descended.
Thump~ thump~ thump~
From within the tribulation clouds, four figures walked out slowly, their statures far more magnificent and terrifying than the Four Gods.
They were the rulers of an era: Golden Divine King, Silver Divine King, Bronze Divine King, Titan Divine King.
They restrained their divine king auras, otherwise, the mere presence would crumble the entire Divine Guard Continent.
The four divine kings joined forces to create a middle-world, trapping the four Evil Gods within to prevent the aftermath of battle from destroying the continent.
Li Cunxu was also within the range, being pulled in, fortunately, under the protection of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Evil God controlled by Li Shiji, otherwise, the shockwaves could have killed Li Cunxu ten million times.
The four Evil Gods engaged in a projection battle with the four divine kings of the past.
Their battle was of such a level that Li Cunxu couldn't comprehend it. Although he couldn't understand the battle, he understood the situation.
The Four Gods were at a disadvantage.
Suddenly, a hand emerged from the void, seizing Li Cunxu by the collar and pulling him away.
By the time Li Cunxu came to his senses again, he found himself in the Sea of Chaos.
The person who pulled him was surprisingly the old chairman.
"Chairman, the Four Gods and the world have already started fighting; it feels like a grand finale is coming."
Li Cunxu said anxiously.
Regarding this intense divine war, Li Cunxu was utterly bewildered, not knowing how to resolve it.
The Four Gods were Evil Gods; he didn't want them to win, but neither did he want the world to win. After all, no good world devours gods. Gods are like stewards, and the world is the master of the house. Which master eats the steward?
The old chairman spoke softly, "I know, it was I who initiated this divine war."
"You initiated it?"
Li Cunxu asked in surprise.
The old chairman said, "I controlled three of the Four Gods, conspiring with your grandfather to jointly start this divine war."
"You controlled three of the Four Gods?"
The news was too shocking; Li Cunxu's mind couldn't process it.
Suddenly, Li Cunxu noticed a strange 'person' character on the old chairman's forehead.
The same 'person' character was also on the foreheads of the Crimson Blood God, Crowned Mechanical God, and Deceitful Prison Demon God.
"Did you really control the Four Gods?"
"Yes, during your ten-year practice in chaos, I secretly infiltrated their divine domains and corrupted them."
"Corrupted?"
Li Cunxu noticed a discrepancy in the wording but thought someone of the old chairman's calibre shouldn't make such minor mistakes!
"Yes, corrupted."
The old chairman spoke softly, "Cunxu, let me tell you a small secret about Evil Gods. Evil Gods are deranged deities because they have more obsessive obsessions. This obsession makes them extremely difficult to kill, and this obsession can also corrupt other deities, causing them to fall into the path of Evil Gods and become vassals of Evil Gods. Similarly, a more powerful Evil God can corrupt a weaker Evil God, causing the weaker Evil God to become a vassal of the stronger Evil God."
Li Cunxu's emotions were immensely complex, the meaning of these words was self-evident, coupled with the word 'corrupted'.
The old chairman was practically telling Li Cunxu overtly that he had become an Evil God, and a more terrifying one than the Crimson Blood God.
"Is there no option but to become an Evil God?"
After much hesitation, Li Cunxu still asked the question he wanted to ask the most.
The old chairman let out a long sigh.
"The fact you previously knew about the Divine Beast World eating Evil Gods is not the deepest truth hidden within the Divine Beast World. The hidden truth is ten thousand times more terrifying than consuming Evil Gods."
Li Cunxu stared intently at the old chairman, from whose profound eyes he saw an indescribable despair, which seemed to be the very cause that drove the old chairman insane and turned him into an Evil God.
"What is the hidden truth?"
Li Cunxu wanted to understand what kind of despair drove the old chairman, the most dazzling being of an era, insane.
"How do history textbooks divide history into several eras?" the old chairman asked softly.
Li Cunxu replied honestly, "Divided into three eras: Dragon Race Era, Age of Giants, Human Race Era."
"Then, what about the era before the Dragon Race Era? Is there any record? Any remnants?"
"No… there aren't."
The old chairman said slowly, "Then let me tell you, the Divine Beast World is actually a far older world than you imagine. Do you believe it?"
Li Cunxu shook his head, "I don't really believe it. Anything that exists should leave traces; so far, we've found no evidence of a world older than the present."
The old chairman waved his hand, and a grand three-dimensional projection appeared behind him, playing at a rapid speed like a fast-forward movie.
Within a few short minutes, Li Cunxu saw many different civilizations: an underground civilization ruled by ant-men, a celestial civilization dominated by feathered ones, an oceanic civilization led by fish-men, even a civilization living within lava, metal civilization, mechanical civilization, elemental civilization…
The old chairman said, "These are all eras that have appeared in the Divine Beast World, each era spawning many civilizations."
Li Cunxu was somewhat incredulous, "Then where are the traces of civilizations?"
"They are all buried in the deeper world. The Divine Beast World actually has two layers: one is the surface world, which is the world where our Human Race lives, and the other is the deep world, also called the 'inner world.' It's concealed within the River of Time to prevent the dreadful scenes of the inner world from scaring away the Evil Gods outside the world."
The old chairman continued, "Like the Dragon Race Era, Age of Giants, Human Race Era, such splendid eras have already emerged thousands of times in the course of the Divine Beast World's existence."
The old chairman paused, giving Li Cunxu time to digest this shocking news.
Once Li Cunxu had mostly absorbed the information, the old chairman continued, "The Dragon Race Era gave rise to three divine kings, while an incomplete Age of Giants gave rise to one divine king. In that case, what about the divine kings from over a thousand eras past? Where did they all go? Surely you've come up with the answer!"
The question of where the divine kings from thousands of eras have gone is a deeply disturbing one.
The Divine Beast World eats gods, Evil Gods, and divine kings. If each era has birthed a divine king, then the Divine Beast World has consumed over a thousand divine kings.
The old chairman said, "I visited the earliest worlds in All Heavens and Myriads of Realms. Guess what name they gave the Divine Beast World in their records?"
"What is it?"
"Graveyard of Evil Gods, Evil God Trap.
The creation of the Divine Beast World was initiated by a group of the most powerful divine kings in All Heavens and Myriads of Realms to forge a weapon to curb the number of Evil Gods in all realms.
The Divine Beast World indeed performed as they hoped, by luring the Evil Gods into the world and then consuming them to annihilate them.
Significantly reducing the number of Evil Gods."
So that's what the truth is!
Li Cunxu looked toward the old chairman; the hidden truth of the Divine Beast World was indeed perilous, but there seemed no need for despair, which would lead to becoming an Evil God.
