Chapter 919
Chapter 919 - 905: The World and Her
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If I could become an existence like one of the Twelve-Pillar, I might have the power to protect the world where I was born with my own hands.
These were the words that Lu Ping’an had heard long ago, and at first, he thought they were merely adjectives...
"...I really didn’t expect it to be a straightforward declarative sentence, that it is quite literally ’with one hand’..."
When Lu Ping’an calmed down, aside from the cold sweat that dampened the back of his shirt and the accelerated blood flow from his earlier excitement, he was completely unharmed.
This, on the contrary, was very abnormal.
Observation is a form of contact, and observing a high-dimensional being equates to establishing a sort of direct connection with it.
And "contamination" could be transferred and erode something else, instinctively moving from areas of high "elevation" to low and from high "concentration" to low.
Linked casually to a Big Boss, one is likely to be killed by the "radiation" spilling from the opposite side before the communication is complete.
This isn’t even a deity’s malice, just as in the myths where Ikarus dies for having flown too close to the Sun.
Initially, just witnessing a clone of the Pavilion Master nearly finished Lu Ping’an, and his preservation of self was the result of the other party’s restraint.
And now, the "Firebird" he saw... the two are not even in the same league, beyond any comparison.
Not only did Lu Ping’an not perish, but he even vaguely felt in top form.
Clearly, this could only mean that the "Firebird did something" to prevent Lu Ping’an’s self-destruction.
[Firebird Clan (Unknown Level); Within the world under the wings of the Firebird, you will be regarded as one of its kin, treated no differently from other life forms....]
And the system’s prompt confirmed this reality.
Being part of the Family Clan might sound grand, but in reality, it’s just like "ordinary life forms under the shadow of the Big Tree", the key point is still "how strong the Big Tree is".
This ability seemed to grant Lu Ping’an the same rights as other life forms in the worlds under the Firebird’s command.
It was like she saw a foreigner being ostracized by her own species and casually granted a strong declaration of "no fighting, we are all babies, treat everyone equally"...
"...The strongest class of deity? Huh, calling her a deity probably amounts to an insult..."
Lu Ping’an spread his hands, feeling the changes around him.
Before, the subtle sensation of being out of place had vanished; even his breathing felt smooth and comfortable.
If before he was just a man draped in feathers, now he was probably more of the Feather Tribe than the actual Feather Tribe members.
"...It’s all been assimilated already?" The Dragon’s blood that was still flowing rapidly before had been completely digested.
At this time, Lu Ping’an had also thoroughly understood what was going on in this world... the entire scope of the infinite worlds under the Firebird’s command.
"Normal contamination is dangerous, of course, but the whole world lies beneath the wings of the Firebird, and any contamination that seeps through is her filtered ’pure water’, naturally appearing extremely inert... No, it might not just be about so-called contamination; it could be the very materials, spirit, and energy that construct the world after her filtration."
Although he still couldn’t understand how she did it, just like in the legends, she truly could protect the world with one hand, keeping it safe from "normal contamination".
It could be said, as long as she exists, other worlds’ facing "Doomsday" would always remain just legends.
"Is she filtering the world, or is she the world itself..."
Lu Ping’an didn’t arrogantly assume that he had seen everything or understood "the truth".
His experience delving into origins told him that what life forms "see" is merely what they can perceive within the limits of their cognition; even with the "Eye of Truth", he was still just touching part of the elephant... And that "bird’s" part was evident.
Yet even so, witnessing "reality" still brought him a significant implicit transformation...
A snap of the fingers, and this time, the fire burned steadily on his fingertip, like a stable candle flame, like a star in the void of the universe, more like a white bird in the boundless void...
"Lu Ping’an!"
The timely intervention of a Big Cat prevented Lu Ping’an from "witnessing the truth" once again.
He himself broke out in a cold sweat, for to certain existences, thoughts, chanting, and memories are all dangerous.
But the faint white flame on his fingertip proclaimed that this was not a dream.
[Phoenix Fire (False): An unknown type of flame...]
This was the result of "bloodline activation," the answer to envisioning the Firebird, a privilege of the Firebird Clan... Lu Ping’an shook his hand and dispelled it.
It was just a flame, but still deadly enough...
"...Let’s accumulate some strength first, hunt more dragons."
At that moment, Lu Ping’an cast his gaze towards the black wilds, which could be an endless treasure to the local life forms.
To the world, the "Firebird’s" protection and the favor of a winged guardian from the Twelve-Pillar wasn’t just about "keeping you safe."
As she corrected the fundamental "laws," she also naturally bestowed new evolutionary pathways to the life in this world.
"As long as you keep feeding and strive through specific training methods, you can get stronger..."
When Lu Ping’an heard that female Knight casually utter a lie, he never imagined that not only was it true, but it had also been passed down for countless years.
"Contamination" in this world was inert; ordinary life forms didn’t need to practice the "Four Techniques" to safely come in contact with it... In a sense, they had been purely "materialized."
And materials can enter the natural cycle of matter. Thus, they can be consumed, digested.
The Knights here only needed to eat demons, and through specific training methods "digest" them, in order to gain an increase in bloodline strength.
"This is even more outrageous than the Luka people..."
Such a powerful civilization as the Luka people could already select powerful supermen at a high rate, yet all the residents of this world might have the potential to become supermen.
Furthermore, the growth trajectory was extremely smooth, usually without the need to worry about going out of control, and the progress was stable and pleasing.
The female Knight did not tell Lu Ping’an everything; he guessed that the "specific training methods" she mentioned were the key to advancement, but such "super-blood" as the source could be obtained so easily.
[Physique gains a slight increase.]
The improvement was minuscule, even smaller than those precious permanent enhancements from "Chef demon cuisine," but the mere act of hunting for food was enough to make progress, which was utterly outrageous.
This was not one person’s privilege, nor the innate talent of a particular species, but a boon available to all beings under the Firebird’s command.
"This is the Twelve-Pillar..."
When a civilization possessed a Twelve-Pillar... no, when an entity of the Twelve-Pillar level embraced a civilization, the entire civilization would easily persist and evolve within the Multi-universe.
Each of the Twelve-Pillar is different, their worlds beneath their wings are different, but what’s similar, perhaps, is their rewriting of the World Origin and the "contamination source"...
"... In these worlds, they are the ’root.’"
Lu Ping’an pondered, perhaps he had found a shortcut to further advancement.
"Let’s start with adopting the local Knights’ cultivation methods..."
— End of Chapter 919 —