Absolute Destiny Game-Chapter 1191 - 36: Choice of Fate (2)

Xiao Jie listened intently, unconsciously tapping his fingers lightly on the table. The story’s background sounds...like it has a bit of a dark epic feel, and even carries a rich tragic color.

The so-called Small Thousand World refers to the Jiuzhou World, or could it be that even Earth is one of these so-called Small Thousand Worlds?

The players from other small worlds who enter the Great Thousand Worlds should not be Earthlings. Could it be that there are other worlds similar to Earth?

Various informations interwove in his mind as Xiao Jie pondered, brewed, and hesitated...

Since it has already gone through the ’Era of Calamity’, becoming what the Heavenly Venerate described as a ’Doomsday Wasteland Primordial Version’, Xiao Jie thought that this Great Thousand World must already be riddled with problems, crises lurking everywhere, and is probably a ’quagmire’ where there’s no return. Just thinking about it is quite frustrating.

Even if there is powerful strength to be gained there, now that he is on Earth, he is already the only True Immortal, nearly invincible in the world. He was initially worried that the pioneer Heavenly Venerate could pose a threat, but now he finds out that since he’s gone to the Great Thousand World and never returned...in this world, wouldn’t he truly be the supreme being?

If that’s the case, what need does he have to pursue those elusive and dangerously risky ’greater powers’?

He might as well stay in this world as a carefree and untouchable local emperor, enjoying supreme authority and the immortal blessings of eternal life, wouldn’t that be nice?

Moreover, Xiao Jie thought to himself, although Heavenly Venerate said the ordinary monsters of the Great Thousand Worlds pose no fatal threats, who knows if he didn’t once again deliberately downplay the overall threat level? Based on his accumulated track record of offenses, Xiao Jie felt the real danger level of the Great Thousand World could only be higher, rather than lower than he described.

"So, my brother? Any thoughts after hearing this?" asked the Heavenly Venerate expectantly.

Xiao Jie shrugged noncommittally, not directly answering, but instead continued to ask for details, trying to piece together a more complete picture: "So the ’Immortal Puppet’, you haven’t explained it in detail, what’s it all about?"

"Oh, Immortal Puppet." Heavenly Venerate explained, "They are the original Immortal inhabitants from the Ancient ’Primordial Era’ and even the ’Perfect Era’. After the ’Era of Calamity’ descended, they could not resist the erosion power of the Six Demon Venerables and were transformed into mindless, Demon-controlled puppets, known as ’Immortal Puppets’.

"They appear no different from normal Immortals, and can even use the Immortal Laws and Divine Skills they had in life, maintaining their combat instincts, making them very troublesome. But in essence, they have become pawns dispersed all over the world by the Six Demon Venerables, capturing the still free Immortals and absorbing their Immortal Spirit Qi, or carrying out various destructive tasks."

"Moreover, they are extremely adept at disguise and stealth. Even strong Immortals, if not vigilant enough, often find themselves defenseless against being approached and tricked. We speculate that the eventual defeat of the Immortals by the Demon Venerables in the ancient times was likely due to the existence of ’Immortal Puppets’, causing a massive trust crisis among the Immortals. No one knew if their companion by their side had already been converted into an Immortal Puppet, which led to the surviving Immortals fighting alone, unable to unite together and ultimately were defeated by the Demon Venerables and their puppet army."

"Of course, many powerful original Immortals have successfully hidden, avoiding the erosion of the Demon Venerables and the search of the Immortal Puppets. While exploring hidden maps, we players occasionally meet them, similar to the worldly experts hidden in deep mountains and forests in the Nine States World, possibly issuing some quests."

"But," the Heavenly Venerate’s tone shifted to become more relaxed, "the disguises of Immortal Puppets are ineffective against us players."

"Because of the red names?" Xiao Jie immediately grasped the key point.

"Exactly!" The Heavenly Venerate snapped his fingers, "The names of Immortal Puppets are distinctly red in the players’ field of vision! Whether they look like sage-like immortals or kindly beings, as long as their name is red, there’s no need to hesitate, they’re definitely monsters, killing them is definitely right! Plus, defeating Immortal Puppets can sometimes drop fragments of ’Original Treasures’ or related materials, they are a very sought-after ’resource’ when encountered in the wild."

Xiao Jie asked again: "Does the game’s main storyline explicitly guide players on how to ’save the world’?"

"The official background tells us to search for the ’Lost Saints’. The Heavenly Venerate pursed his lips. "However, within our player circles, there is a widely accepted conjecture, although not confirmed by official sources, but logically makes a lot of sense,—that the six Demon Venerables ravaging the world are likely those six out of seven Saints transformed!

The lost Saint should naturally be the seventh Saint."

This kind of speculation did not surprise Xiao Jie much. The Demon Venerables were so immensely powerful that they couldn’t have appeared out of nowhere. Similarly, Saints were incomprehensibly powerful and couldn’t have disappeared without a trace. The most reasonable explanation, then, is that the Saints had problems and six of them became Demon Venerables.

"Then the question arises," Xiao Jie continued following the logic, "Why did the Saints...transform into Demon Venerables? What caused this terrible transformation?"

The Heavenly Venerate spread his hands: "This is the core mystery the game leaves for players, and it’s also our players’ ’main task’ to explore and solve the ultimate goal!"