Absolute Destiny Game-Chapter 1190 - 36: The Choice of Fate
"The game ’Old Soil’ has been in public testing for nearly four years, but the ultimate expansion ’Great Thousand Worlds’ has actually been open for less than two years. Due to the extremely high entry threshold—you must achieve ’Ascension’, either as an Immortal or a Divine—the number of players has always been very scarce. It is estimated to be a scale of only a few thousand people, and this is even when adding up all three thousand newbie villages.
For this vast world, exploration and content excavation are still at a very early stage. Many high-level instances and areas are beyond anyone’s capability to tackle or dare to tackle."
"However," he added, "those who can enter the Great Thousand Worlds are without exception top experts in their respective small worlds, the best of the best. Naturally, we have immense enthusiasm for mining information about the game, and through forums, small group exchanges, and other methods, we have summarized some consensus information regarding the world background."
"From a macro perspective, the world background of the Great Thousand Worlds is somewhat similar to those primordial-themed novels in our world, where heaven and earth first open and all gods manifest, yet there are many distinct differences. Based on the fragmented information currently dug up, its history can be roughly divided into several eras... The Heavenly Venerate began to narrate, his tone imbued with a timeless sense of myth-telling.
’The Creation Era’—"It is said that the Great Thousand Worlds did not come into being naturally but was created by a supreme existence known as [Primordial Creator: Taiyi]. This ’Taiyi’ is similar to Pangu in Eastern mythology, born from Chaos, shaped like an egg. He cleaved Chaos with supreme will; the clear yang air ascended to become the heavens, while the muddy yin air descended to become the earth.
He stood between heaven and earth, growing ten thousand feet high each day, supporting the heavens and earth to prevent them from merging. After 18,000 epochs, the framework of heaven and earth was finally set. And ’Taiyi,’ therefore exhausted his strength, and his enormous body collapsed thunderously. His left eye transformed into the eternally burning ’Bright Sun’, and his right eye into the cold, clear ’Mysterious Moon’; his four limbs and five bodies became the Four Extremes and the Five Mountains, his flowing blood turned into rivers, lakes, and seas, tendons and veins formed mountains and terrains, muscles became fertile lands stretching for miles; His breath turned into winds and clouds, his voice into thunderbolts, sweat became sweet rain and dew; and finally, his hair and fur scattered between heaven and earth, turned into brilliant stars... Ultimately, his vast and boundless divine soul and thought fully fused into this newborn heaven and earth, becoming the source nurturing all things."
’The Primordial Era’— "After the Great Thousand Worlds stabilized, over the countless ages of evolution, various forms of life began to appear between heaven and earth. Among them, some with extraordinary talent instinctively began absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth for cultivation, gradually mastering various immortal divine powers. It is said that the ’spiritual energy’ pervading the world, to a large extent, was transformed from the soul and thought of that [Primordial Creator: Taiyi] after his death."
’The Perfect Era’— "Over time, more and more powerful beings emerged among the cultivators, and eventually, seven existences were born whose strength was almost omnipotent and surpassed all life—Saints.
The Saints, who were united with the Way, held partial rights over heaven and earth. Their words could alter the law, and a single thought could change mountains and rivers; they could endure numerous tribulations without being worn down, touching upon cause and effect without being tainted. They transcended time and space, traversed between past and future, and could comprehend everything in the world with a single thought. In a flick of fingers, they could open up a cave world; with a wave of the hand, they could cause cosmic tides to rise.
They are the lawmakers and the keepers of order, with vast capabilities beyond the understanding of ordinary immortals and gods. Under the joint protection and governance of these seven Saints, the Great Thousand Worlds maintained a long epoch of peace, prosperity, and perfect order, which could be called a golden era."
’The Era of Calamity’—The Heavenly Venerate’s tone became sombre, "However, unknown from what point or for what specific reason, the seven supreme Saints collectively vanished! It was as if overnight, they evaporated from this world with no trace remaining. Simultaneously, six beings representing chaos, destruction, and distortion inexplicably appeared—the Demon Lords.
These six Demon Lords, each possessing terrifying power comparable to or even surpassing the former Saints, brought not order and creation but endless calamity.
Their power polluted the land, and wherever they went, vitality ceased, laws collapsed, life withered away, and even time and space themselves would twist into horrific shapes. They are the embodiment of destruction, the nightmare of all life."
"The Six Demon Lords used their respective powers to erode, transform, and conquer the entire world. Without the balance of the Saints, the world gradually descended into decline. All Gods fell, the Group of Immortals retreated into seclusion, the earth cracked into countless abysses, and the sky collapsed to reveal chaotic voids... The entire Great Thousand Worlds was plunged into a wasteland of doom—
You can imagine what it would look like to combine a primordial mythological background with a post-nuclear wasteland. All things in the world were either completely obliterated under the power of the Demon Lords or twisted into terrifying monsters that only knew destruction. The current Great Thousand Worlds is a primordial version of a post-apocalyptic wasteland."
"And now, this era is called—The Era of Hope." The Heavenly Venerate took a deep breath and said, "As for us ’ascended’ players, according to the game’s background introduction, we are the descendants of immigrants sent to various ’Small Thousand Worlds’ by the Saints in the late stage of the ’Primordial Era’, known as [returnees]. Now, responding to the ancient contract and the call in our bloodline, we return from the myriad small worlds, bearing the mission to save this home world on the brink of destruction..."
