Chapter 321 God is dead, the devil is destroyed

Faced with Lin Liu's confusion, Monkey and Emperor Tian were unable to comfort him even if they wanted to.

After all, all those who can be saved have been saved. If the dreamer is really alive in the world, then there are only four people still alive in the world:
Lin Liu himself, the Emperor of Heaven, the monkey, and Li Ziliang who is still in the Heavenly Prison.

Among them, Lin Liu and the monkey could not be awakened by the "alarm clock", and had no way of verifying whether they were the owners of the dream.

But the Emperor of Heaven had been verified last time, and it was obviously not the case.

Could that be Li Ziliang?
[You thought of the Great Shun Emperor who had been imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison by you. Although you didn't quite believe it, it was better to go all the way to the end since things had come to this point!]

[So you ordered the monkey to go and save Li Ziliang who was far away in the Southern Continent.]

[“Yes! Master!”]

[The monkey obeyed the order with mixed feelings...]

[Not long after, the monkey returned to the God's Tomb on a golden light, with a sad look on his face.]

[“Master, Li Ziliang has committed suicide in prison…”]

【Suicide.】

[You lowered your hopeful eyes...]

[Another person died in vain. Now, there are only three people left in the world. ]

[“Is that you?”]

[You muttered to yourself. When you were completely hopeless, you looked up at the cliff not far away.]

[You are very familiar with this cliff, because you came here in your previous life to look for immortals! ]

[The address of your "God's Tomb" is not randomly chosen. This is where the "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain" is located. In other words, the void opposite the cliff is the "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain". ]

[You chose this place to build the tomb of the gods, hoping to attract the attention of "Patriarch Bodhi"... But now it seems that "Patriarch Bodhi" doesn't care about the affairs of the world.]

[The cliff is still a cliff, and "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain" has no intention of opening to the outside world...]

[As the most mysterious existence in this world, Bodhi Patriarch is of course very suspicious, even more suspicious than the monkey, and he must know a lot of secrets. In theory, all your questions can be answered from him! ]

[But the problem is, you can't do anything to him...]

[For many years, you have tried your luck here, but the result is always the same: you can't see it, and you can't get in. ]

[It was like this when you were a mortal, and it was like this when you were a true god. It was like this for you, and it was like this for others. Even the Emperor of Heaven was confused and shook his head when he first heard you say there was a "Bodhi Patriarch" here...]

[Never heard of it, never seen it, and never been inside.]

[From true gods to mortals, no matter their cultivation or status, except for monkeys, no one has the chance to visit this so-called "Spiritual Platform Square Inch Mountain"! ]

[Even the monkey in this life has no deep affinity with it...]

[“Master, are you doubting that Bodhi Patriarch?”]

[Seeing you staring blankly at the cliff, the monkey naturally understands your thoughts, but it can only shake its head: "It's useless, I've already tried..."]

[It sighed helplessly: "Although I can still see Fangcun Mountain, this time, Patriarch Bodhi did not allow me to enter, nor did he answer my other questions."]

【"……Why?"】

【You murmured. 】

[“He said…”]

[The monkey hesitated for a moment, and finally answered: "He said I had lost my true self!"]

[“Bodhi Patriarch said that the heart is the square inch of the spiritual platform, and the three stars of the slanting moon are also the heart. I have lost my original heart, so naturally I can’t enter the place where my heart is…”]

【Original heart?】

[You are stunned: What is the monkey's true intention? ]

[After a while, you figured out the answer: immortality, and immortality for all the monkeys on the Flower-Fruit Mountain! ]

【And now? 】

[You look at the disciple who has been mingling with power and desire for many years. Although he has not been overly stained by the filth of the world and has the meaning of "coming out of the mud without being stained", he is obviously very different from the wild monkey who rowed a boat with his heart set on Taoism.]

[As for his original wish to lead his monkeys and grandchildren to immortality... that had long been covered by the "leave the dream, return to reality" you instilled in him.]

[It no longer wants to live a carefree life with its monkeys, but wants to go to the real "eternal wilderness". ]

[Its original intention has long been changed by you! ]

[After realizing this truth, you feel even more guilty about your already confused heart...]

[You begin to reflect on your life, whether it is a life of nothing? Because you have been busy all the time until now, it seems that you are very busy, but in fact, it is all in vain. ]

[You haven't completed the game's mission to clear the level, nor have you completed the mission to bring long-term happiness to the people. You haven't completed the mission to find a way for the monkeys to make the ordinary monkeys and their descendants immortal.]

[There is no hope of passing the level, the human world is destroyed, and the monkey cannot see Bodhi Patriarch...]

[After being completely disappointed, you finally start to tell your last words. ]

[“After I die, the world will cease to exist.”]

[You said bitterly: "I failed, and this world has no future..."]

[After hearing your words of suicide, the monkey's eyes widened: "Master! You..."] [The Emperor of Heaven was about to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, because you really deserve to die. Now that things have come to this, using your death to put an end to this ruined world is also a good idea...]

[Faced with their different reactions, you said nothing, just closed your eyes, and your energy gradually weakened.]

[“Next time, don’t bother with it anymore.”]

[The Emperor of Heaven finally spoke, and he said in a deep voice: "Let this branch be destroyed. When you reopen it, remember to be nice to the people of the world and continue the prosperous era. If you can't find a way to pass it, you can look for it slowly. Don't be impatient."]

[“Because everyone in the world is different from you, they only have one life... remember to cherish it.”]

[Your body trembled for the last time, as if you heard it, but also as if you didn’t hear it…]

【…】

[In the 267th year of the New Heaven, the Holy Lord of the New Heaven, Lin Liu, destroyed the world, sweeping away all mortals and true gods, leaving the world empty and silent! ]

[Under the control of self-blame and despair, the Holy Lord gave up his life, and the New Heavenly Palace was completely destroyed. From the time when the Eight Banners entered the pass and unified the four continents, to the time when he killed everyone in heaven and earth and finally committed suicide, the country lasted a total of 267 years, and it perished in one generation...]

[After your death, your grieving disciples buried you in the "God's Tomb", and then worked together with the Emperor of Heaven to bury the bodies of the more than 800 New Heavenly Court gods you brought with you, as well as the body of Li Ziliang who committed suicide in the Heavenly Prison, in the "God's Tomb".]

[After doing all this, the Emperor of Heaven, who had lost his will to live, took the initiative to let the monkey use the "alarm clock" to save his soul, and his body was buried in the cemetery by the monkey...]

[Looking at the densely packed tombs of the gods and the dead silence of the world, the monkey was in a daze for a long time.]

[It is the only intelligent creature left in the world. 】

[A different kind of loneliness arises spontaneously, causing the monkey, who is used to mingling in the world, to shudder...]

[No birds fly away from the thousands of mountains, and no people are seen on the thousands of paths. ]

[“Then why am I still alive?”]

[The monkey laughed at himself and slowly dug a grave for himself, next to his master Lin Liu.]

[It lay on its back in the pit, and its divine power stirred the soil to cover itself.]

[After a while, the vitality under the soil also dissipated...]

【There is no living person between heaven and earth.】

[This goes on day after day.]

[Until seven days later, the soil of a tomb suddenly turned over, and a pale... a hand covered with golden hair slowly stretched out from it...]

[The monkey crawled out of the grave in a daze, looked at the still silent cemetery, then looked at his own hands, and a big doubt arose in his heart. ]

[God is dead, the devil is destroyed, why am I still alive? ]

[It quickly thought of its own uniqueness, and an inexplicable call came from its heart... Call? ]

[It subconsciously turned its head and looked towards the "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain" that only existed in its eyes! ]

[The mountain is still the same mountain, but the difference is that a vague white figure is standing in front of the mountain, as if waiting for it. ]

[Although he didn't know what happened, driven by instinct, the monkey still stood up shakily and walked towards the white figure step by step...]

[On a certain day of a certain month in a certain year of Dashun, on a small island somewhere in Dongsheng Shenzhou, a piece of Nine-aperture Immortal Stone suddenly burst open, and a stone egg emerged from it. The stone egg changed with the wind and turned into a golden monkey! ]

[Standing at the birth point again, the confused monkey seemed to have forgotten something, yet also seemed to remember something...]

【"Master..."】

[It frowned and muttered something. Although it couldn't remember anything specific, it always remembered these two words.]

[Then, it subconsciously looked towards the direction of Southern Continent with its golden eyes: it was an inexplicably familiar fishing village, but there was no face in the village that made it feel familiar...]

[Disappointed, it looked towards the direction of Xiniu Hezhou: there was a verdant mountain with towering ancient trees and auspicious clouds. There was a cave on the mountain, and there seemed to be a person in the cave...]

[Soon after, it boarded a bamboo raft, took some fruit, and headed in that direction alone, just as fate had predicted!]

[And Taibai Xingjun, who was far away in the heaven, also opened his eyes in his deep sleep. There was confusion in his eyes, but Zuo Si couldn't figure it out... In the end, he had to continue to look for colleagues for a banquet and not return until he was drunk! The daily life of a true god is always so plain and boring...]

【…】

[You died. The wrong choice led to the wrong ending... You used the real existence in the dark as an "alarm clock" to wake up everyone in the world. No matter mortals or true gods, they were all "saved" by you. You successfully "saved" all living beings...]

[However, your "saving all living beings" was not completely successful in the end. In the absence of information, you did not find the "Lord of Dreams" you were looking for, so you could only fail at the last moment. ]

[Finally, self-blame and despair filled your heart and pushed you towards your expected death... But in fact, you don't need to have these negative emotions, because your salvation is actually effective, but you just can't see it...]

【Then, there are monkeys. 】

[You still don't know enough about it. Judging from its last experience, it seems that it didn't really die. This is inexplicably similar to your reopening...]

[If you want to solve the mystery of it, you still have to continue to dig deeper. Your current understanding of it is just the tip of the iceberg. ]

[You want to save all living things, and you want to uncover the monkey's secrets. You want to pass the level, and you must have both! 】

[In the end, I just hope you can go further after reopening so that you can dig out more information...]

[Can we go back in time and return to the previous node in our life? ]

……

(End of this chapter)