Facing the Apocalypse with My Other Selves
Chapter 629 - 351: The Primordial Apocalypse Resolved
The subsequent issues seemed like a typical case of a technological civilization turning into an extraordinary civilization.
For civilizations that haven't entered into a collective consciousness, or whose collective consciousness isn't high, the temptation to pursue extraordinary power is far greater than the temptation to pursue scientific technology.
The latter can benefit everyone, but the former benefits only oneself.
As more and more people focused on extraordinary cultivation, the powers of strong extraordinaries grew, presenting new challenges to the social order as a whole.
Extraordinaries essentially don't engage in production.
If their needs were limited to basic necessities, then given the level of civilization's development, supplying the entire society wouldn't be an issue.
However, extraordinaries not only don't engage in production, but also have significant consumption themselves.
Cultivation, especially in this era, requires consuming massive resources.
With the continuous stagnation of productivity development and the rapid increase in demand for productivity, soon, the entire civilization fell into a situation where supply couldn't meet demand.
The issues of interest distribution and contradictions in interest competition arose.
It was at this moment that humanity seemed to finally realizeโextraordinary power is essentially a military force!
Strong extraordinaries strive to become even stronger, not just to enjoy life, as enjoying life doesn't require such powerful strength.
In essence, this is military might.
The intensification of contradictions, and even the outbreak of wars, further propelled the development of extraordinary power.
Everything that followed was just like what Shen Yu had seen before.
The entire civilization was almost completely destroyed.
Until this man in front of them, bearing celestial destiny, conquered the extraordinary!
"The moment I gained control of this power, the first thing I did was to annihilate all the extraordinaries within the civilization." The voice of the elder in front finally showed a trace of fluctuation, yet carrying a certain unspeakable mockery, "After that, the entire civilization was left with only me alone."
This was indeed a very ironic matter.
For him to achieve this extent, it was obviously not something that could be done alone.
Like him, surely there were many others who disliked the extraordinary and wanted to end extraordinary power, yet they more or less had acquired some extraordinary power themselves.
The only one who truly completely resisted and even entirely rejected it was him alone.
However, everyone knew the problem wasn't with others; it was with him.
Being a researcher, it's impossible for him not to understand the benefits and drawbacks from different perspectives.
To absolutely repulse extraordinary power wasn't based on the rationality a researcher should possess, but entirely based on hatred, based on emotion.
This person had actually gone mad.
Just like those in the past, completely entrapped by calamity.
Seemingly possessing divine power and strength, in reality, already completely lost even the most basic judgment ability.
So, Shen Yu originally had many things he wanted to say, but upon truly seeing this world, and seeing this man in front of him who had long gone insane, suddenly felt that none of it held any significance.
"It's all over." Shen Yu said blandly, hesitating for a moment before adding one last compassionate sentence, "We will take your and your civilization's history as a lesson, and not let extraordinary power become an obstacle in civilization development, nor the root that exacerbates civilization's contradictions."
This last sentence seemed to have no effect.
Shen Yu didn't need it to have any effect.
Just in the next moment, the human who almost destroyed the entire Primordial World suddenly halted their thoughts forever.
Soon after, Shen Yu raised his hand, and a large number of personnel flooded in.
For such a world, it's not just about eliminating and defeating; there's also a long time needed for dismantling and mastering.
Especially the building in front.
Though seemingly a piece of scientific equipment, in reality, it was where another Primordial Infinite Daluo Golden Immortal Dao Fruit existed! ๐๐๐๐๐จ๐ฒ๐๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐.๐๐ผ๐บ
Anyone who obtains and controls it could, to some extent, stand alongside Daoist Ancestor Hongjun.
However, at this moment, this machine only helped the Celestial Dao Tree to directly acquire half of the authority of this Multi-Dimensional Parallel Universe.
Shen Yu was also able to truly appear before Daoist Ancestor Hongjun.
Unfortunately, it was also at this time that Shen Yu clearly recognized that Daoist Ancestor Hongjun had already been almost completely assimilated by the Heavenly Dao.
He had become an embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, a form of regulation.
Even if he had been tirelessly protecting all life, all civilizations from being completely destroyed by this disaster, this was merely a rule that was set before he entirely lost his emotions.
At this moment, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the "human" side of Ancestor Hongjun had basically died.
"His merits could even stand alongside Pangu," Shen Yu stated in such a sentence, solidifying Ancestor Hongjun's status.
Pangu the Great God created the entire Multi-Dimensional Parallel Universe World, even forgoing his innate creator god status and power for it, choosing self-sacrifice in exchange for the entire Multi-Dimensional Parallel Universe's transformation.
And Ancestor Hongjun, also in a self-sacrificing manner, saved the civilization and order of the entire Multi-Parallel Universe.