Starting with Growing Mushrooms-Chapter 447 - 350: Holding the Past in the Left Hand, the Future in the Right
The fully automated N+1 world is now complete!
Next, Liu Jun will assess the situation and adjust the direction of the world’s framework accordingly.
Once he finishes these tasks, Liu Jun looks towards that solitary Scholar Planet amidst the vast Starsea.
"It’s been a long time since I visited."
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Jun silently vanished from where he stood,
"I might as well lay some groundwork for the world’s lore over there."
"Otherwise, when they step out of the Immortal Path planet and into the galactic map, gazing at my N+1 parallel Starsea world, it might feel too abrupt."
Liu Jun deeply understands that a competent Mushroom Garden master cannot carelessly throw in arbitrary settings.
Because those mushrooms are not easy to fool!
Each one is sharp, extremely cunning, incredibly intelligent, and you think you can treat such powerful beings like fools?
Unless I, God, bestow upon them a Dumbing Aura of diminished wisdom.
Otherwise, he has to leave behind all sorts of setups, hints, proceeding step by step.
When they take that step out of the Starsea, they will be astounded to recall the various clues from before, feeling a sense of sudden enlightenment.
This slowly unfurling mythical worldview is what qualifies as competent.
"As a Mushroom Garden master, it’s truly exhausting. Not only do I have to brew Mushroom Soup, but I also have to care for the emotions of the small mushrooms I raise, lest they discover I’m the mastermind behind the scenes."
...
The Immortal Path World.
The Longevity Tree.
A grand and majestic ancient Longevity Tree stands amidst the vast ocean.
The great flood unleashed by God has still not ceased, with the lands still submerged.
The reason this flood of converging energies hasn’t ceased is that chaos is wandering everywhere within it, like the center of a storm, stirring the energy tides everywhere.
In the palace atop the Longevity Tree. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
The Longevity Divine Spirit slowly opens his eyes, silently watching this scene, "It’s been a long time since I returned here."
Now that I take a look, a planet indeed feels a bit small.
This place can’t keep up with the times.
Thankfully, I’ve crafted the large map of the Starsea outside.
Just waiting for the adventurers here to explore it, to discover the mythical worldview I’ve set.
"God, have you awoken?"
The Angel Emperor Insect Thirteen appears before him, a hint of excitement flickering in his eyes.
After all, the Longevity Divine Spirit periodically falls asleep, and he didn’t dare to wake the other.
Now, the reason for his extreme anxiety is because the chaos disaster is spreading once again.
The world is on the brink of destruction.
The current powers are all at a loss.
Some even entertain the thought of fleeing into the Starsea!
But unfortunately, an unknown and mysterious protective barrier in the sky confines them here.
The surge of troubling news leaves them restless.
Even as the apocalypse approaches, it drives people in various regions to madness, causing looting and chaos, leading to increasingly unruly public order.
Even the high and mighty rulers, Xu Changsheng, Black Heaven, Insect Thirteen, these individuals all find it increasingly challenging, with the era spiraling out of control.
The Longevity Divine Spirit glances at Insect Thirteen, and his vast consciousness instantly envelops the entire planet, observing the situation everywhere, "Since chaos is about to bring destruction... then gather the leadership together."
"Yes!"
Insect Thirteen quickly heads out to transmit messages to the leaders of various forces.
In his view, the Longevity Divine Spirit is about to personally handle the chaos issue.
Ten minutes later.
In the Longevity Tree palace, all the powerful beings have gathered together.
The Longevity Divine Spirit sits on a verdant throne fashioned from the tree, quietly observing the people below.
His gaze suddenly lands on Xu Changsheng, who hesitates to speak, "Pure Yang True Immortal, is there something you wish to say?"
Pure Yang True Immortal pauses for a moment, unable to hold back any longer and speaks up, "Yes, I have many questions."
He has far too many questions.
Over the years, Liu Jun has not paid attention to him, but as an information hub, Xu Changsheng is tasked by Liu Jun as the sole communication liaison between the two realms, facilitating information exchange.
In other words,
Xu Changsheng occasionally poses as Nachi to secretly gather information on the other side.
However, the mythical era over there has become increasingly frightening, with the emergence of Transmigrators, parallel worlds, and the appearance of other gods...
This has caused Xu Changsheng to cower in fear, keeping a low profile, continuing as an incognito power while stealthily learning their techniques.
Due to this,
they have improved on the sixth-tier shortcomings, leading to a sixth-tier boom era.
This group of top divine spirits, including Xu Changsheng, have already achieved sixth-tier perfection.
But they have not kept pace with the seventh-tier era.
For this requires the Divine Trial, an elevation of dimension for the world.
Their un-elevated ordinary world cannot accommodate the existence of seventh-tier beings.
Xu Changsheng said, "Over the years, we have entered the sixth-tier era, but with the chaos outbreak worsening, not even the other world can withstand chaos, so how can we resist?"
"As sixth-tier beings, we already have the perfect ability to step into the starry sky, but we cannot venture out now."
Clearly, Xu Changsheng does not intend to address the chaos now, because even the neighboring realm cannot solve it.
But the inability to escape is the most outrageous part.
The Longevity Divine Spirit, looking at Xu Changsheng who hesitates to speak, chuckles lightly, "That barrier is indeed one I have cast."
This is a lie.
The essence of that barrier is the wall of the Mushroom Soup pot.
You are merely a planet within the Mushroom Soup, the exterior being a faux starry sky, so how could you be allowed out?
However, I’ve just completed a new starry sky map.
Now, perhaps, I can let you venture into the starry sky.
"No need to worry."
The Longevity Divine Spirit said, "The chaos disaster was long foretold, and it will not bring destruction to you."
"As for not opening up the outer world of the starry sky, it’s because the outside world... hasn’t reached the time node for development yet!"
"This place is a secluded planet where God and I reside, and the time for us to emerge hasn’t arrived yet!"
Xu Changsheng seemed thoughtful.
Since God and the Longevity God are not in a hurry and continue to reside here, it means there’s no need to worry about that chaos eruption.
Xu Changsheng breathed a sigh of relief and couldn’t help but ask, "Longevity God, I’ve asked many times before, what exactly is going on with our future?"
"Previously, I had various speculations about our future epoch; it could be a future on the timeline, or it could be a parallel space-time..."
"Now, through Nachi, looking over there at the structure of the parallel world, I think I’ve roughly guessed the principle of our world."
The Longevity God showed a trace of interest, "Oh? Then tell me, where are we?"
"I am in the future."
Xu Changsheng frankly said, "But it is a parallel world at some distant time node of thirty thousand."
His guess was indeed reasonable.
After all, Liu Jun, upon seeing the parallel world, also first thought of filling in the setting of his own ’Future Immortal Path World.’
The Longevity God smiled, "That’s right."
"Dare I ask, which Divine Era are we in? Or is it some special Divine Era?" Xu Changsheng’s question made all the surrounding gods tense.
This had long been a persistent question for them.
Now, is the mystery finally to be unveiled?
The Longevity God was not a riddler; he directly laughed and said, "Just as you thought, we are indeed in a world of some distant future Divine Era. Can you guess which Divine Era we’re in?"
Xu Changsheng pondered slightly.
Indeed, the Longevity God and God must have used some special means, not opening the Divine Era worlds one by one in order but rather jumping to some distant Divine Era?
Then which Divine Era are we facing?
Peeking next door, Siris had already rushed to the twenty-something Divine Eras.
And the Longevity God and God wouldn’t randomly jump to a Divine Era.
They must have jumped to an era close to the birth of that ’Celestial Divine King,’ preparing to ambush the Celestial Divine King who would create the Twilight of the Gods and kill them?
"The era when the Celestial Divine King is born is the era you jumped to!"
Xu Changsheng analyzed, "And according to the rules of the Sixth Tier, the minimum breakthrough limit is around ninety Divine Eras; we take the Sixth Tier as a reference for the Seventh Tier, so they jumped to around ninety Divine Eras!"
"The position we are in is right here."
"At the true end of our Divine Era, awaiting Siris, who is coming towards us from the twenty-something Divine Eras!"
Xu Changsheng’s thinking and logic were also quite meticulous.
Liu Jun’s initial guess of ninety Divine Eras was indeed due to the Sixth Tier appearing at the minimum technical threshold of ninety Divine Eras.
One could only say that the opinions of experts are unified; they all choose to use the Sixth Tier as a reference.
"You’ve guessed halfway correctly."
The Longevity God suddenly smiled and said, "The Divine Era we are in has no fixed number!"
"No fixed number?" Xu Changsheng, being very smart, couldn’t help but say in an instant, "Are we in a special Divine Era that is constantly moving?"
"Yes."
The Longevity God hid nothing and spoke the truth slowly, "God and I, long ago, sensed the impending Twilight of the Gods, so we chose to secretly join forces."
"God stole parallel divine power, cooperating with my concealment, and various divine powers including rejuvenation, using parallel power to open a special N+1 Divine Era!"
"And N is the ongoing Divine Era!"
"In our Divine Era, we are always one step ahead of the current Divine Era!"
Xu Changsheng’s heart was shocked.
Such a tactic exists?
God used parallel power to secretly open a new, alternative special parallel world?
But thinking carefully about the principles, it’s theoretically completely feasible.
The so-called N+1 Divine Era means God opened a hidden Divine Era world, and then, using various technologies, synchronizes it with the current Nth Divine Era.
Theoretically, the collaboration between the Longevity God and God can certainly achieve this!
"I see."
Xu Changsheng suddenly realized, looking at the world beyond heaven, "So, the outside world is still constantly changing with the updates of the N+1 Divine Era!"
"Yes, so you shouldn’t enter."
The Longevity God chuckled, "Haven’t you noticed? We are creating an entirely new rule, attempting to nurture Divine Objects with this land."
"Nurture what?" Xu Changsheng couldn’t help but ask.
"We are going to fully conceptualize the so-called N+1 world into a conceptual world."
"This world... is called the Epoch Endpoint!"
"This world is forever the pivotal world of all things, the twilight of the Divine Era; whatever type of Divine Era emerges, this is always the endpoint of the current Divine Era."
Amidst everyone’s stunned silence, a spring suddenly appeared in the Longevity God’s hand.
"The starting point of the spring is the initial first world."
"The endpoint of the spring is the world beneath our feet."
The Longevity God pulled the spring in his hand, "The beginning first world and the endpoint N+1 world are fixed, and the endless coils of spring in between are each a Divine Era."
The gods, always so steadfast, found their minds blank at hearing the truth of the current world.
The layout of these two Divine Spirits was terrifying to such an extent that they calculated the birth of the Twilight of the Gods and even began plotting against the ’Celestial Divine King’ who has yet to emerge.
Did they actually manufacture an endpoint world in this way?
The beginning and the end are set numbers... while the endless spring coils in between are endless Divine Eras.
No matter if it’s the 100th Divine Era or the 1000th Divine Era, the world we reside in always stands at the endpoint of the Divine Era!
And why are we the N+1 Divine Era?
Because we are ahead of the N Divine Era; here we have Divine Objects that others do not!
So it turns out...
The emergence of the Divine Trial here had been calculated long ago?
They were massively shocked as they looked at the spring in the Longevity God’s hands, as if seeing an endlessly spiraling timeline,
Xu Changsheng, as if wanting to eternally record this scene in his heart,
"The Longevity God’s left hand holds the beginning of the past, the right hand grasps the endpoint of the future."
"And the constantly spiraling Divine Eras in the middle are precisely the process Siris is repeatedly stepping forward through!"
Standing at the beginning, arranging at the endpoint, it turns out that ever since the world was birthed, the Longevity God had been laying this out. This is such profound and terrifying mythic might.
