840 The Way of Reincarnation (1/2)
”Reincarnation! This is reincarnation!”
The Big Azure World was evolving. As the Fate Creator of the Big Azure World, Zhou Bao felt the world was changing according to the Way of Heaven. Well, what on earth was reincarnation?
What was reincarnation?
Whether there was really a thing such as reincarnation in this world had always been a suspending question for Zhou Bao. He had imagined the concept. He had also doubted it. But today, this concept became unprecedentedly clear to him.
When the Emperor of the Netherworld handed him the Reincarnation Scroll, Zhou Bao had not understood this mysterious scroll at all. However, after watching the evolution of the Big Azure World, Zhou Bao finally had the chance to see what it was.
”It turns out that reincarnation is such a simple concept. It's the same as I imagined. But it's more perfect, more comprehensive!” Zhou Bao exclaimed, as he gained more insight into reincarnation.
With this experience, he attained a thorough understanding of reincarnation. In fact, reincarnation simply meant keeping balance.
When a creature died, it did not actually disappear. Instead, its flesh was turned to ashes to nurture other creatures. To some extent, it was reborn in other forms. Its spirit would wander about in the world and transform into the purest energy, being distributed everywhere and becoming nutrients for other creatures. This sounded like the conservation of energy, a widely known law in his previous life. This was reincarnation.
However, there was a problem with this kind of reincarnation.
This problem had occurred in almost every macro world's evolution. It was the declining power of living creatures.
In the age of the Primordial Origin and primitive times, living creatures were strong and tough. Many were capable of brewing storms and catching the moon at birth. But as time passed, the number of living creatures in the world grew larger and larger, and their power became feebler and feebler. If you explored the cause, you would find that this was because the power of the most ancient and tough living creatures was widely dispersed when the creatures died. Their spirit dissolved as well. In this way, after thousands of years' evolution, the world turned out to be the way it was now. Although more and more living creatures were born into the world, they could no longer possess the amazing power their ancestors in the Primordial Origin and primitive times had.
The flesh was no longer complete. It was the same with the spirit, the inheritance of power, and the bloodline. When everything was incomplete, the Void Universe was bound to head for one era—the Dharma Ending Age!
Since remote times, many powerful and insightful men had foreseen this. They had put great effort into avoiding such a destiny. The most sensational one was the Necromancer's Tribulation in antiquity times. Frankly speaking, the necromancers had been trying to recover the glory of primitive times, to reproduce the power of the deities, demons, and beasts that had lived in primitive times. But unfortunately, they screwed up. Not only did they fail to achieve their grand course, they also accelerated the advent of the Dharma Ending Age, nearly destroying the world in the process.
Apart from the necromancers in antiquity times, according to history, there were loads of men who had exerted their effort and found perfect solutions. One of these men was the Taoist Reincarnation, an ancient Celestial Immortal who had invented the Way of Reincarnation.
The Netherworld Heaven and the You Ming Heaven were both his masterpieces.
These two micro worlds could reserve all the spirits of living creatures, as many as possible. When they reincarnated, they would be combined into the newly bred lives and spirits. In this way, at least the power of spirit would not subside significantly as time went by.
However, even though he was an ancient Celestial Immortal with nearly endless power and longevity, his ambition of building up a reincarnation system in the whole Void Universe had been but a mere wild dream.
The most he could do was build up a reincarnation system in a macro world. And that was all.
But such a system had not given the Taoist Reincarnation a single bit of a sense of achievement. And this reincarnation system in an independent macro world could not fix the root of the problem. Therefore, he had passed the Way of Reincarnation to his two disciples—the Emperor of the Netherworld and Emperor Youming.
”The Netherworld Heaven can use some improvement. Even though it has absorbed the power of the Bloody River World and produced the Reincarnation Roulette, it is unable to form a complete Reincarnation System. I still need the power of the You Ming World and the other volume of the Reincarnation Scroll to perfect this system!”
Zhou Bao made this decision in his mind.
He was not the Taoist Reincarnation, he was merely a Divine Immortal. He did not have the mightiness of the Taoist Reincarnation or his ambition. He only wanted to do this for the sake of his Big Azure World. If the Big Azure World could have a Reincarnation System, it would be elevated to a rank second only to the five main worlds. Upgrading the Big Azure World would also promote the rank of his Black Pearl as well as boost its power.
Actually, this was an unexpected benefit for Zhou Bao, who at first merely intended to absorb some essential Dharmas and notch up the power of his Black Pearl.
”This time, it can be said that I've truly offended the Celestial Mystery Emperor!”
In the vortex created from the blast of the two macro worlds, Zhou Bao could still hear the ferocious howls and enraged divine thoughts of the Celestial Mystery Emperor very clearly. He involuntarily withdrew his head and cackled, ”Celestial Mystery Emperor, do you really believe you can calculate the Divine Design?” ”The emperor must have been out of his mind to name himself in such an arrogant way. He will certainly pay for it!” Zhou Bao muttered in a sarcastic tone. Then, he directed the Big Azure World to absorb the power of the essential Dharmas from the two macro worlds. It was rapidly absorbing the power in a more and more unbridled fashion, when an accident happened.
”Divine Design Palace? You still expect to have a share of my benefits?” When he caught the sight of something red rushing in, Zhou Bao knew it was the Divine Design Palace and gave a sneer. He suddenly urged the Black Pearl to head for the Divine Design Palace and crash into it.
”Brat, how dare you!”
A growl suddenly sounded. The Celestial Mystery Emperor had finally made his strike. He'd gone for Zhou Bao's Supreme Fairy Weapon straightaway.
Apricot yellow radiance poured in and instantly suppressed the explosion of the two macro worlds. In the radiance, Zhou Bao could vaguely see a flag. It sent out 10,000 golden lotuses, which hoisted the Black Pearl.