Otherworldly Desert Dust-Chapter 412 367: Day Traveling God Plan
"Find a concealed spot to hide the Floating Boat; we'll meet up at this Evil Spirit Town," Levi said.
Fully equipped, a team with portable weapons in hand stepped directly into the Falling Flower Swamp.
After passing through the Dead Wood Forest, there was a relatively solid piece of soil ahead, on which stood a town of considerable size. This town seemed to have survived from the last century, its overall style skewed toward brick and soil architecture, yet there were also artistic temples and Stone Halls, all similarly shrouded in the misty swamp.
"In our world, there are many such Lost Towns, surviving not only in our historic texts but also mirroring mirages in certain unique landscapes. To this day, we still don't know by what means they exist, much like ghost ships that come without a shadow and leave without a trace across the ocean. These Lost Towns often attract a large number of wanderers and Lost Ones. They seem like normal people, doing everyday things like gathering food, seeking fire sources, looking for shelters, but most have lost their minds, and their souls," Levi began to explain.
He knew that Wu Hen wasn't very familiar with their world and deliberately shared these unusual encounters with him.
Right then, there was a group of rag-tag wanderers ahead, their clothes tattered and skin festering. Although there were a few leading the group in a particular direction, they still scurried about aimlessly like headless flies.
"Perhaps they have just lost their homelands, with nowhere to go in this Otherworldly Desert Dust," Wu Hen said.
Having seen many bizarre phenomena in Otherworldly realms, Wu Hen became more convinced of the importance of the Nuwa God End.
Should his homeland also be destroyed, he and the people of his home would wander a land without belonging, like the soulless, their bodies swaying like walking corpses, one step away from being utterly lost.
"Most will gravitate toward ownerless Lost Towns, adapting to the Law of the land, barely surviving there. Yet those Lost Towns often have Evil Spirits active within, and once they gradually fall under the control of Evil Spirits, or if the entire town experiences a large-scale emergence of Evil Spirits at some phase, then the town would completely descend into an Evil Town or Evil City," Levi said.
Hearing this, Wu Hen realized that his first awakening had actually occurred in one of these Lost Towns, coming to within a homeless man, where he had been warming himself by a fire in a dilapidated house surrounded by Lost Ones. The beautiful yet treacherous Symbiotic Evil Woman was a High-level Evil Spirit!
High-level Evil Spirits possessed a formidable ability to disguise, moving among crowds as if normal.
Low-level Evil Spirits were more like monsters, beasts, with a shred of intelligence, but their minds were primarily filled with primal desires, feeding their hunger as their only drive.
"Are we sure we want to go in?" Wu Hen asked, looking at the old-era town lying within the swamp ahead.
When he first stepped into the Otherworldly Desert Dust, he was the weakest form of Desert Dust Life, his brain working furiously to utilize every available resource to contend with the terrifyingly powerful Evil Spirits.
Even now, Wu Hen remembered the Symbiotic Evil Ghost with its horribly keen hearing, where even an overly fast heartbeat would lead to decapitation by this adversary. In the small town, he was like a mortal who had unwittingly wandered into a world of ghosts, treading on thin ice, needing sufficient courage to grasp a chance of survival.
However, with the realm he had evolved to now, he no longer needed to abide by the town's Spiritual Techniques governing Evil Spirits; he could unleash his Holy Cultivation strength to confront the strange Evil Powers head-on.
"Do you plan to forcibly destroy this Evil Spirit Town?" Levi asked.
"Is that not appropriate?" Wu Hen inquired.
"Of course it's not. This swamp is vast, and even Steel Eagle City would have to go into full alert mode to avoid being dragged down by the lurking Desert Dust Giant Crocodile below. Besides, we haven't figured out where the Dark Energy Spring Eye is located or in what form it exists. A direct confrontation with the entire Evil Spirit Town at best earns you a meaningless victory, and you might end up destroying the Yuan You inside, gaining nothing," Levi elaborated.
"But I've worked so hard to cultivate to my current realm just so I wouldn't have to follow these bizarre and tormenting Laws," Wu Hen said.
"Climbing to a higher realm just grants you a higher margin for error. When you make a wrong decision in a moment of clouded judgment, you can rely on force to make amends. Trust me, if you release energy that's too powerful and clash directly with this Evil Spirit Town, there will undoubtedly be more ferocious Predators lurking in the swamp. Even if you're strong enough to kill the creatures beneath the swamp, how can you guarantee that deeper down on this land, there aren't creatures drawn by the smell of the battle and bloodshed, who will discover the Dark Energy Spring Eye? An accidental leak could attract the nearby Living City of the swamp..." Levi advised.
"Hehe, I get it, no need to be so nervous," Wu Hen laughed, dismissing the concerns with a smile.
Indeed, just as Levi had said.
Evolving to a higher realm didn't mean you were invincible in the universe.
Wu Hen still clearly remembered that phrase his little aunt had said, the true powerhouses of Otherworldly Dust were all hidden behind the scenes. The natural world's praying mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the yellow bird behind, was a good interpretation of the cruel laws of the biological food chain, but in Otherworldly Dust, behind the yellow bird was a venomous snake, and when the venomous snake hunted, there were fierce monkeys, and above the monkeys were hawks, but even beyond the hawks were countless eyes...
"Check your equipment and enter Lost Town," Levi said to the team members behind him.
The team members were all Prison Guards, and they naturally possessed certain combat abilities and experience. Without the need for Levi to say more, they had already automatically formed into groups of three and began advancing into Lost Town.
"I have a friend who I met in an Evil City," Wu Hen asked Levi, "I guess she must be one of your Da Xuan people. If I want to find her, what should I do?"
"What features does she have?" Levi asked.
"She's very beautiful, mature, and was my enlightening teacher when I became the great male protagonist of Desert Dust," Wu Hen said. "Her name is Su Li, but I don't know if it's her real name."
Levi's mouth twitched in annoyance, "Describe her abilities, not her appearance!"
"It seems she relies on technological equipment, much like you guys, but she thinks clearly, knows the weaknesses of Evil Spirits, and also how to escape from the Evil Lands..." Wu Hen said.
"That tells me nothing. If she is aware of higher-level Laws, it indicates she might have been a Commander of a defeated town or even a leader of Da Xuan. You said she suddenly disappeared, like a petal completely leaving the otherworldly plane. This characteristic is somewhat valuable," Levi explained as he observed the town.
The town was severely weathered and eroded; many of the buildings were like half-cakes rotten with mold, and many areas of the streets were filled with mud, as if the whole town was slowly sinking into a swamp.
Inside there were many wanderers and Lost Ones, searching for something—perhaps clean food, lost weapons, or Yuan You that could restore their sanity. At the same time, they took care to avoid the ever-present threat of Evil Spirits...
"As far as I know, among the Human Clan, there is the Nuwa Lineage. They exist in the form of souls within the Divine Tree and enter into the bodies of the Lost Ones as Awakeners when exploring Otherworldly Dust. They guide the souls of the Lost Ones into the cycle of new life and collect Yuan You as their main goal. If your friend disappeared suddenly, try asking about the Nuwa Divine Tree lineage. She could be from there," Levi suggested.
"I've visited there; she's not from there, and various signs indicate she should be one of your Da Xuan people," Wu Hen said.
"Such sudden log-offs are rare in our Da Xuan technology," Levi said.
"But don't you also have virtual engines? You can keep the soul in a safe place and remotely control a host for exploration, significantly reducing the risk, right?" Wu Hen asked.
"What you're talking about is digital life, a way to achieve eternal life. Scholars of our Da Xuan certainly have pursued this direction as well, but full realization of this technology has a prerequisite. The prerequisite is that Da Xuan must unify the entire universe so that the external devices are eternally unbreakable, and only then can peace be assured internally. Otherwise, no matter how prosperous and advanced the world of digital life is, if the main device is destroyed, all digital life would be deleted as easily as data," Levi explained.
"Our Da Xuan has always been at war and hasn't reached the realm where we can deter all Desert Dust Life. Naturally, this technology has also always been buried, in an awkward state where it's neither delicious enough to relish nor worthless enough to discard."
Wu Hen chewed on the air, feeling like this guy was hinting at something.
Frankly, virtual immortality was theoretically achievable. Even if Otherworldly Dust hadn't come, by the time he was still a student, development had already been moving in this direction, especially with the birth of intelligent AI, which accelerated the progress toward virtual immortality.
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In times of peace, this technology would have the support of countless people, especially those with tremendous power, who, upon realizing the human body had limits, would opt for brain interfacing and turn into digital lives. Despite many not accepting the notion of becoming Virtual Persons or digital people, without the discovery of extraterrestrial civilizations, no ways to extend life, and no breaking through the genetic shackles of aging, the only path to preserve soul consciousness was the virtual world. Unable to accept or not, as the non-accepting aged and died, those remaining accepted this mode of existence.
But the prerequisite for this technology of immortality was the absence of war.
A war made all those living virtually realize what mattered most was being alive, the freedom of living, more important than longevity or immortality.
The technology of Da Xuan could presumably reach a state where virtual and real were indistinguishable. But, as they said, they were in a constant state of war within the Cang Chu Divine Realm, and the virtual technology became superfluous, unable to provide essential aid.
"However, when I was studying at the Huilin Constellation, I heard of the Day Traveling God project, which does match what you describe. Perhaps your beautiful, mature friend is a Day Traveling God," Levi mentioned.
Wu Hen immediately pricked up his ears.
