This thing is not the Ninth Apostle’s clan or some strange God; it seems more like a...

World Consciousness!

Yes, World Consciousness, but not the true World Consciousness. It gives off a feeling much like Xue Dili, as if it’s a mechanical entity possessing the authority and abilities of World Consciousness?

Forgive Xue Dili for using this adjective to describe it. He has engaged deeply with various World Consciousnesses more than once. So-called World Consciousness is the embodiment of a planet’s authority as a unified entity.

If a world lacks creatures capable of thought, then the embodiment of planetary authority lacks the ability to think. In this case, they are not "World Consciousness," merely a Dead Star.

But this world has living creatures; World Consciousness, therefore, only possesses authority without consciousness.

Indeed, this world’s consciousness had long been killed, perhaps when the Ninth Apostle ascended, or maybe after his ascension, the world’s consciousness was entirely replaced and killed by him.

To replace the World Consciousness and gain more power, the Apostle thought of a method akin to that of Creator Zeus, which involved a comprehensive overhaul of the world’s biological entities.

The Ninth Apostle succeeded. The overhauled creatures were directly connected with him, preventing the birth of a new World Consciousness.

But the cost was that, upon the Ninth Apostle’s death, these creatures were completely stripped of their reproductive rights, effectively leading to extinction.

If nothing unexpected occurs, in just a few decades, the world will only have old people left. Hundreds of years later, there will hardly be any living beings; even those who survive will be like undead monsters desperately prolonging their lifespan.

Reproductive rights are one of the most crucial authorities of a world. If entirely stripped away, the world plunges into a countdown to death.

Hundreds of years are but a fleeting moment for a world, merely its final struggle.

So Reproductive Zeus arrived!

In this world devoid of reproductive rights, representing extreme desire, and the embodiment of reproduction, the man most representative of fertility throughout human history descended upon this world.

Just like water flows downhill, through the connection provided by Xue Ding, these reproduction-emblematic entities from Earth could arrive smoothly.

It’s much like a natural self-rescue by the dead World Consciousness, finding an external Evil God.

God of Courage and Strength—Zeus, God of Life and Evolution—Typhon, God of Strategy and Courage—Poseidon, God of Love and Joy—Aphrodite...

Although they are all Evil Gods, alien entities, they can spawn a new race on this world, unaffected by the Ninth Apostle’s stripping of reproductive rights.

As the new race accumulates to a certain quantity, perhaps this dead World Consciousness will gradually rejuvenate, giving birth to a completely new consciousness.

Alternatively, it might be entirely seized by the external creatures, much like the former Ninth Apostle.

But it cannot get any worse.

Of course, the world’s consciousness has long lost this consciousness, and there is no death; it only instinctively bestows blessings to the victor of the Great Expedition, like a rigidly programmed mechanic.