Chapter 333: Havoc in Heaven, the End of an Era

[The returning monkey, with the power and weapons it obtained from Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, marches forward fearlessly: It wants to fight for you! ]

[You want to die, but it wants you to live! ]

[It doesn’t understand your so-called truth, nor does it want to listen. It only understands one thing: Master cannot die! ]

【…】

[“But no matter what, I’m going to die…”]

[You stared blankly at the empty door, and finally shook your head and sighed. ]

[As the protagonist, your perfect victory is based on constant death. Whether you die because of disappointment with the current situation or because of hope for the future, you will die anyway.]

[The monkey wishfully believes that it can use force to force the gods to restore you to your position, but in fact, your abdication was caused by you yourself, because with the current completeness of information, it would be meaningless for you to continue staying here.]

[Rather than being trapped here, it is better to reincarnate earlier. You already understood this truth when you destroyed the Heavenly Palace. The reason you are still alive now is entirely because you want to find out more information, otherwise you would have committed suicide long ago.]

[Therefore, today's "restoration coup" launched by the monkey alone was impossible to succeed from the beginning! ]

[It's not that you don't believe in the strength of the "Wind Spirit Moon Shadow" that he just opened... Indeed, Bodhi Patriarch, the most mysterious old man who sells cheats in the world, must be very powerful. With the cheats he sells, even if Monkey King says that he can now fight nearly 3,000 True Gods alone, you will believe it! ]

[Suppose it wins, overthrows the powerful Ding Banner Lord, and beats the gods to their knees and surrender, thus re-establishing you, and even making them willing to serve you as cattle and horses for free.]

【Then what? 】

[They are willing to be slaves, can you really let them do that?! ]

[If you just want them to be slaves, you would have succeeded a long time ago. You wouldn't even need to go through so much trouble. Wouldn't it be enough to just give each person a Blood God Son? ]

[The reason you didn't do this is because you wanted a world where no one suffered. The psychological trauma left by the massacre was too great, so great that you can't forget it even now.]

[City massacres, wars, natural disasters, corruption, heavy taxes... You have experienced each of these, so you want to eliminate them all and create a peaceful and prosperous world without the above things! ]

[To achieve this, it is obviously not enough to just kill a small Western King who massacred the city and caused chaos. You need to change the dynasty and replace the half-buried Dashun with a new dynasty full of vitality and prosperity. ]

[This is your initial grand dream. From the time this dream took shape, you gradually developed the mentality and ideals that a "founding emperor" should have. Your idol and role model is Li Ziliang, the founding emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty, who created a unique 120-year prosperity.]

[But after reading the history books, you frowned and found that simply changing the dynasty is completely useless to solve the above problems...]

【Everything has a beginning, but few can have an end! 】

[Take Dashun as an example. No dynasty was not prosperous at the beginning. They all had a glorious period of prosperity. But as time went by, the glory of the prosperous period would sooner or later fade and enter a lifeless old age, and then another dynasty would change...]

[Dashun, the dynasty before Dashun, the dynasty before Dashun... all were like this, without exception, like a clockwork machine, always repeating this cycle over and over again.]

【If future generations mourn for them but do not learn from them, future generations will also mourn for future generations! 】

【So from this moment on, your ideal leaped from Li Ziliang to a higher level: you want to break this endless cycle! 】

[You must lead everyone to create an eternal peaceful and prosperous world where there will never be massacres, wars, natural disasters, and other tragedies.]

[With the wisdom and ability of mortals, you think that the possibility is not great, so you set your sights on divine power: the omnipotent divine power can definitely do everything you want! ]

[So you preached to all corners of the country, gathered incense, and even used the Blood God Son, whom you didn't want to use... Then you expanded your strength, killed the King of the West, conquered the Five Kings' Righteous Army, and entered the Shunmo stage.]

[You established religion, preached, built the Eight Banners, fought against the righteous army, and killed wild gods, until you led the Northeast Army into the pass to destroy the feudal lords in the world, and even seized power in the Shun Dynasty and established the Northeast Shogunate. Your victories were like crushing dry weeds and rotten wood, leaving behind a series of legendary stories that are worthy of being recorded in the annals of history! ]

[Today, you have destroyed the corrupt Heavenly Court and founded a new dynasty, creating a prosperous era that surpasses all previous eras. You are worshipped by billions of people. There has never been anyone like you before, and there will never be anyone like you again.]

[But the closer you get to your dream of prosperity, the more you find yourself getting further and further away from your dream.]

[Under the power of God, mortals have indeed escaped from the sufferings of the past, but the suffering has not disappeared, it has only been transferred to other groups...]

[You can’t get rid of your suffering, and you can’t get rid of it. You have tried every possible method, but your disappointment is getting heavier! ]

[In such a difficult situation, you can't help but start to reflect on yourself: Did I make the wrong strategy? ]

[Now that I think about it, you shouldn't have placed your hopes on divine power. Divine power is a power that does not belong to mortals, and it should be kept separate from mortals.]

[If mortals want a peaceful and prosperous world, they cannot count on any savior, nor can they rely on gods or emperors. To create a prosperous world for mortals, they can only rely on themselves! ]

[But that's what I said, but it's not that simple in practice, because if it's just for mortals, there have been so many dynasties in history, hundreds or even thousands, but they have never created peace, right? ]

[Even now that we have divine power to help with scientific and technological research and development, mortals have not gained the ability to independently support the prosperity of the world in terms of productivity. Although we know that we cannot rely too much on divine power, we cannot do without divine power in every aspect of life! ]

[What does this mean? 】

[This means that in this dream world, the power of mortals has an upper limit. If you want to exceed the upper limit, you have to use divine power, whether you like it or not.]

[“Dreams are not reality. Only mortals in reality have no upper limit. Dreams are inherently incomplete, so mortals have an upper limit, and the world itself also has an upper limit…”]

[You silently repeat this conclusion that has been proven by experiments, but you are helpless.]

[The problem comes back to that point: dreams are always fake. If you want to achieve your ideal, you must be in a real world. A real world with no upper limit is necessary! ]

[And such a world does exist, and that is eternal chaos, but you cannot escape from it...]

[Whether you want to lead everyone to achieve a truly prosperous age without oppression with extraordinary power, or want to achieve a truly prosperous age with the power of pure mortals, you cannot achieve it in this false dream, because a truly prosperous age will not appear in a false world...]

[After repeating this over and over again, you gradually hear the screams and fighting outside. ] [The voices are loud and the emotions are mixed, filled with anger, panic, and other emotions. ]

[If it goes as expected, the monkey has already fought with the gods! ]

[Now that the Heavenly Court has perished, the new dynasty’s shogunate is equivalent to the new Heavenly Court and Heavenly Palace, so a classic drama of havoc in the Heavenly Palace is being staged here...]

【…】

[The war lasted for several days, and its might shook the world! ]

[And when everything was settled, the outside world finally fell into peace again...]

[“Master!”]

[A golden figure, looking disheveled but full of vigor, happily walked in like a god of war who had fought countless battles in mythology! ]

[As soon as the monkey with the iron rod entered the room, he said proudly: "I have helped you to suppress the rebellion! Quickly take back the power and rule the world!"]

[Seeing it return victorious, although you had expected it, you were still surprised: What kind of cheat is this Bodhi Patriarch selling? Can he really beat three thousand true gods to their knees with just one monkey and one stick?! ]

[“Wukong…”]

[You were about to ask it worriedly if it was injured, but the monkey waved its hand and said, "Come in!"]

[So a crowd of people crowded in, filling up the shogunate…]

[Before you could open your mouth to respond, the gods had already knelt down tremblingly, and kowtowed to you repeatedly. The leading ones even shouted tremblingly: "General, please take back the power! Rule the world again!"]

[“We are all willing to serve mortals forever, without asking for any reward, but only wishing for peace in the world!”]

[“Yes, yes! General, please do not bear a grudge. It was Ding who intimidated us. Otherwise, how could we betray our master and seek glory…”]

[“The general’s kindness is not over yet!”]

【"loyalty!"】

【“…”】

[These old subordinates adapted to the roles very quickly. The slogans that had been abandoned for many years were shouted again all of a sudden. Loyalty and gratitude were heard everywhere. As long as you waved your hand and responded, the "General Lin era" that had passed away could return again, allowing you to live a second life! ]

[As for the era when Ding Qizhu and his people were in power...what era! That was called the Dark Turmoil!]

[Now the Great Emperor has lived a second life and put an end to the dark turmoil! ]

[However, you were not moved by this scene of great loyalty, and only asked them one question: "Where is Banner Master Ding? Where are the other five Banner Masters?"]

[Under the threat of the monkey's iron rod, the gods quickly responded: "Ding Ni has been knocked unconscious by the monkey flag master, and he and the other five rebels have been imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison. We are just waiting for the general's order to send them to the God-Slaying Platform one by one! Send them to heaven one by one!"]

[Listen, you take a deep breath and say seriously: "Let them out, and then..."]

[“Let Ding Qizhu officially succeed as the Shogun and rule over the world!”]

【what? 】

[The gods who were preparing to violently welcome the restoration of the former lord were stunned. They were dumbfounded and had no idea what was going on...]

[The monkey exploded! ]

[“Master! You…”]

[Before it gets angry, you have already arranged your abdication and turn to it and sigh.]

[“Wukong, take me to see Patriarch Bodhi.”]

[Your voice cannot be rejected! ]

[The monkey was stunned for a moment, and finally had to lower his head in despair.]

[“Yes, Master…”]

[A self-initiated riot in the Heavenly Palace and a farce of restoration suddenly began and ended...]

[Even after the two figures of the man and the monkey disappeared into the shogunate, the gods still had not fully recovered from the incident.]

[The gods stayed there for a long time before they finally found themselves again from this dreamlike feeling, but even after finding themselves again, they did not take any action.]

【Everyone was looking at the old, shabby, empty futon. An inexplicable feeling of sadness and emptiness coming from deep within their hearts gradually spread throughout this shogunate that had existed for hundreds of years.】

[The original welcoming ceremony suddenly turned into a memorial service in a certain sense. 】

【Everyone knows only one thing. 】

[The general has left us forever...]

[In June of the 197th year of the new calendar, General Lin’s era came to an end.]

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(End of this chapter)