CHAPTER 49: CHAPTER 46: OUTLOOK FOR THE NEXT ERA

"Qi Eaters gain wisdom and longevity, while Age Eaters invite destruction and become demons."

Zhu Zhengwei closed his diary, clearly understanding the meaning behind Emperor Shiguang Zhizheng’s words.

It is one of the nine mundane categories described in the overall framework, belonging to the "demon" category.

They consume the "longevity" of others.

In other words, they consume others’ souls!

After all, the essence of Qi Eating is also about devouring soul energy, and eating others’ souls is naturally a form of energy, but this energy is too low-grade and impure, with significant side effects.

Thus, they become demons by inviting destruction.

The first-generation Emperor Shiguang Changheng, and even the later Shiguang Zhizheng, were strictly demons.

They cultivated quickly, had terrifying combat power, lived short lives, and their will was not steadfast, which could lead to soul confusion.

As Zhu Zhengwei was reading, the Immortal Herb beside him had already memorized the page of the cultivation book and was spying on the Long-lived Diary for quite some time.

"This?"

"This is simply!!?"

They glanced at each other, feeling utterly shocked!

The contents of this diary were too astonishing.

Each passage described the rolling tide of history, feeling like an epic historical weight on their hearts, as if seeing a painter drawing at the port, with countless corpses piled up behind in a desert war, witnessing numerous heroes shouting on a mountain, elderly people cherishing each other in the snow, and an Immortal bidding farewell to an aged emperor in the palace.

After reading, everyone was dumbfounded.

A long time passed.

Many couldn’t help but whisper silently: Amazing!

Slave Ah Da!

No one expected Shiguang Zhizheng’s origin to hold such an identity!

History repeating itself.

The origin of Chong Dao’s name came from this?

Incredible!

It’s so incredible!

Who isn’t a cultured youth who plays this wallpaper scenic game?

Their expressions were completely tense, reading this Long-lived Diary filled their hearts with myriad emotions.

The aging man under the tea shed, the final piece of the puzzle was completely filled in when he grew old, a vivid hero’s life emerged, that inspiring Human Emperor, with character real and great, walked to his already known fate that makes people sigh, choosing his death!

"Damn, previously when I accompanied you clowns to bid farewell to the Human Emperor, I was sentimental, but now I’m completely moved, tears flowing uncontrollably!~~(Crying.jpg)"

"Don’t mention you, even someone like me who often watches tear-jerker movies is crying wailing. I feel this isn’t just a hero’s story; he only appears as a segment in this Immortal’s diary. The hidden content in the diary makes it feel so heroic, yet so small and pathetic."

"I didn’t cry, just feeling emotional, life is really short for us. (Cold.jpg)"

"Human Emperor Chong Dao, overthrew the slave regime and unified the land! It’s like seeing the beginning of a mythological era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors!"

"I instantly feel that witnessing wallpapers in this magical and brilliant mythical world is a bliss!"

"This diary must be another hidden plot, a conversation between a deity and an Immortal! It seems like the elder who appeared everywhere in disguise before."

"I love this mythical epic storyline, love it."

"After the Human Emperor, there will be no other Human Emperor! But there will surely be new heroes to write even greater history because the entire era has just begun! The Human Emperor Chong Dao seems to just uncover the ’prologue’ of this world’s civilization, and even this ’prologue’ is so astonishing."

...

Amidst these Immortal Herbs, everyone discussed through the broadcast of one particular Immortal Herb, even Wang Jun and Li Xiang couldn’t remain calm, slowly calming down after a long while.

"What a pity, Zhu Zhengwei missed this scene again and didn’t come in." They sighed a breath of resignation.

In their eyes, they not only saw the plot twist but also the perfect integration of layout and setting.

After death, completing some lives through the diary was so natural and intricate.

They could imagine if they wrote this scene into a novel, the past of Emperor Shiguang Zhizheng would be fully restored, the character becoming vivid and lifelike, and the story of this Human Emperor would likely cause a huge sensation on the online forums and could even hit trending searches!

Zhu Zhengwei didn’t know these two were scheming against him again.

At this moment, the diary was naturally shown to these Immortal Herbs.

Because he was preparing the next phase of internal testing, allowing the Immortal Herbs to cultivate and increase efficiency.

"In this world, besides the ten categories of All Living Beings described in the overall framework, there is also the zero-category beings—Source category, you are an indispensable part of this world’s food chain."

"You’ve seen enough of the storyline, it’s time for you to interact with the characters from the Ancestral Witch era, it’s time for the lower-level miners to grow in this world!"

He closed the diary, putting it back into the secret compartment.

After all, ten-year Immortal Herbs, century-old Immortal Herbs, millennium Immortal Herbs, are also a form of interaction, the higher the level of cultivation, the more people come to fight over it.

"If they really work hard enough, and have the opportunity for Transformation in the future, I may not stop them. Instead, I’ll let them live a lifetime in this dream, like a Nanke dream, become Immortals, become Ancestral."

"Of course, these Immortal Herbs, being able to survive the siege of countless kingdoms and strong practitioners in a treasure hunt is but a faint hope."

His gaze was cold,

"This is due to their nature! After all, every generation of servers until now has been plundered, envied?"

He closed the window and casually picked an Immortal Herb growing on the windowsill, crushed it, and brewed it in a teacup.

Da da da.

Crushing and brewing tea.

After all, his task of observation was complete.

"Sigh?"

"Sigh, is this it?"

The perspective of this Immortal Herb quickly blurred, dissipating.

Finally, a total black screen.

Zhu Zhengwei was indifferent.

After they die, the Immortal Herb takes time to resurrect....

However, they haven’t realized this resurrection time exists yet.

Because when they die, the next time they fall asleep into the four-dimensional world, it’s already after a few years in there.

After all, you just woke up, full of energy, can you sleep again??

By the next day when they sleep again, the Immortal Herb in the four-dimensional world has been eaten and digested, leaving no trace, naturally allowing rebirth, and their previous role as an energy primer has allowed the one who ate them to start cultivating.

As for their inability to sense the time between game and reality?

It’s understandable.

One dream of yellow millet!

The events in dreams will have an extremely blurred sense of time upon waking, usually being a collection of overlapping fragmentary memories.

Even Zhu Zhengwei felt the same upon waking.

He woke up during the day, feeling like the previous long life experiences condensed into fragmented memory pieces, their time sense being even more blurred.

And the certain discord in the dream would be smoothed and repaired by their subconscious...

From this perspective, dreams are indeed mysterious and wondrous.

"It’s almost time to start, the fifth batch of servers is about to appear, and these two thousand servers will cause huge waves in the entire world!!"

Zhu Zhengwei thought for a moment, using GM permissions, step by step, levitating, the entire four-dimensional world seemingly transforming into a data space, the basic program of the whole world emerging in front of his eyes.

"Yet, this upsurge of Immortal Herbs will certainly provoke a disaster no less than the barbarian era of the Three Hundred Empresses, and it’s not the time for it to appear yet because the era is still developing, it’s a young sprout, let it nurture for a while longer to avoid premature destruction."

"And for such a massive number, we need to find a place to accommodate them, forming a forest."

Zhu Zhengwei planned to establish an Immortal Herb Forest.

Rich in spiritual Qi, nourishing a piece of unprecedented land, forming an ecosystem, a food chain.

And there, under the nourishment of such soul energy, would various new mutant animals and mutant plants emerge?

Previously, the giant octopus was born because of this.

"I want to popularize, to see the emergence of truly special soul species, even truly extraordinary creatures."

Zhu Zhengwei was quite expectant.

He felt the ecosystem of the four-dimensional world was just beginning.

This is a special world of spiritual sense nourished by energy.

Perhaps some unique creatures, not belonging to the three-dimensional world, but belonging to the four-dimensional world, will be completely nurtured here, forming a complete new world.

"Come on! New miners, excavate the dreamland map of the entire ecosystem for me."

Ding!

The next moment, everyone heard an announcement.

[Due to a player triggering a hidden map, witnessing the scene of gods, and learning cultivation methods, a new game level will be opened, and a new test game version "Leek Growth" of "Across the World" will be updated online.]