Whoosh.
Countless Godfiend phantoms suddenly appeared beside Blood Red Cliff. The area fell silent. The Godfiends present stared, searching for figures they were familiar with.
The incumbent Archean Mountain Lord continued, “There are 17,101 Godfiends here. All of them fought the demons to protect humanity. Out of them, 13,208 Godfiends were killed in action. Only 3,000 Godfiends managed to live to the end of their lifespans, but they also fought the demons their entire lives.
“All Godfiends that sacrificed for this war will live in our memories forever. Our Archean Mountain will forever remember them.”
Meng Chuan watched everything silently. On Blood Red Cliff, he saw many familiar figures—King True Martial, Senior Brother Xue Feng, and his wife, Liu Qiyue…
According to Archean Mountain’s past rules, once a Regis Godfiend entered a slumber, they were publicly pronounced dead. This allowed the Godfiends’ upper echelons to know that these ancient Godfiends haven’t actually died. However, Archean Mountain still followed the preexisting rules because every slumbering Godfiend wasn’t far from the end of their lifespans.
In the images, Meng Chuan, Yan Chitong, Yan Jin, and company couldn’t be seen. However, one could see Liu Qiyue.
Qiyue. Meng Chuan saw his wife— Liu Qiyuestill in her prime amidst the numerous Godfiend images. She was dressed in a cyan-red robe, making her look dazzling. She even had a divine bow and quiver on her back as she smiled brightly.
Meng Chuan knew that his wife had been smiling at him back then.
Qiyue, we won this war. Meng Chuan thought to himself, The oath we made back then has been fulfilled.
That night, the still young man and woman had made a life-long promise. Back then, even the two of them felt that their goal was a stretch. They were prepared to die in battle. But now, he continued advancing towards his goal, risking his life to advance, and he had succeeded.
Brother. Yan Jin stood among the Godfiends and stared at a young man amidst the Godfiend projections. It was Xue Feng. Brother, everything’s fine. Everything in the world is fine. Yan Jin stared at the figure, who had taken care of him since he was young.
He managed to walk out of his former state partly because of his wife and everything that Meng Chuan had said about King Calm Sea, but it was mainly because of his elder brother!
The World Gap.
King Calm Sea, whose entire body was like ice, sat there silently. Ever since he received news that they had won the war, he had been sitting here. Now, he didn’t look like a human at all. His body was like a sculpture made of deep cyan ice.
We won. King Calm Sea finally grinned. We finally won.
He slowly stood up. As a sinner, I’ll continue patrolling the World Gap. My 300-year sentence isn’t up. King Calm Sea walked through the lonely World Gap. Now that the World Gap was completely stable, all the treasures produced had long been taken away. He couldn’t observe a forming world while meditating, so even demons seldom came here.
King Calm Sea was the only living being in the World Gap.
Other than the Godfiends from the sect, many ordinary Godfiends-who could only be considered outer sect disciples—had fought the demons. Many died in battle. “Senior Brother Zhang, Senior Brother Wang, Senior Sister Li… Also, Junior Sister, I’m here to visit everyone.” A white-haired elder was sitting in a cemetery. He muttered, “In the past two months, my eyes have become worse. As a Godfiend who can’t even see clearly, I’m probably going to join you guys underground.
“However, I came with good news today. We won the war against the demons. We won. The world will be completely peaceful in the future. Junior Sister, I said that I’ll marry you after we swapped defenses. However, I didn’t manage to see you again. I owe this to you.
“I didn’t marry again. I’ve been fighting the demons my entire life. Now that the war has been won, I don’t need to fight anymore. I’m relieved,” muttered the white-haired elder as he drank his alcohol.
Unknowingly, he fell asleep leaning on the tombstone.
An eternal slumber.
Too many people in the world were thrilled about this day’s arrival. This was because many people had sacrificed too much for this war.
Chapter 537 - Tremble
Jiang State Capital.
Meng Chuan was alone in the city, watching the celebrating Jiang State Capital.
After coming victorious in the war, the world celebrated for a month. It wasn’t just Jiang State Capital celebrating. Every large city in the world and many villages were celebrating as well.
“Nice.”
“Beautiful.”
“Another one.”
People chuckled as they watched the acrobatic performances. To ordinary people, the feeling of victory wasn’t a strong one! This was because in the past few decades, even the demons had abandoned the unstable World Entrances. It had been a long time since ordinary people had encountered any demon threats. Instead, many of the celebrations in the world made them happier.
The white-haired Meng Chuan walked alone in the crowd. Mortals couldn’t see him, nor could they sense the human world’s strongest expert walking past him.
We’ve won the war. However, my mental state has been greatly affected by the Chaos Hole after all these years. It’s very difficult for me to feel happy. However, my current mental state is different from Nirvana of the past.
I… Meng Chuan was somewhat puzzled.
His Essence Soul avatar walked through the city until it went out of the city.
He looked at villages. They were also celebrating, but at the same time, villagers were doing some farm work.
He looked at the rivers and lakes. Fishermen were still fishing and celebrating January. It was impossible for ordinary people to enjoy themselves for a month. They still had to work and support their families.
He saw many merchant caravans still rushing towards the cities and transporting the large amounts of materials needed for the celebrations.
My current mental state isn’t Nirvana. It’s not happiness or excitement either. What is it? At his current realm, Meng Chuan couldn’t even tell.
He felt relaxed, slightly tipsy, but his Essence Soul was trembling. It resembled trembles of excitement. This feeling filled Meng Chuan’s heart. He couldn’t help but walk around the world as he carefully observed it.
Archean Mountain, in a large hall in a Grotto-Heaven.
Three Godfiend disciples were placing massive numbers of dossiers on shelves. At this point, Meng Chuan walked in. “Master.” The three Godfiend disciples bowed respectfully.
“Are all the dossiers here?” asked Meng Chuan.
“The dossiers from Two World Island and Black Sand Grotto-Heaven have been sent over,” said a Godfiend disciple respectfully. “Among them, there are more than 230,000 Godfiend dossiers. There are even more mortal dossiers. Since the war began, billions of mortals have participated in the war. Therefore, most of them are just dossiers with their names. Only those who contributed greatly would have a special dossier.”
“Meng Chuan nodded slightly. Okay, continue your work.”
This was the decision of the three sects under his leadership.
He gathered all the dossiers of the Godfiends and mortals that had participated in the war. Each of the three sects had copies of them. No matter what, they had to let future descendants know about their valiance and sacrifices.
Meng Chuan casually picked up a dossier.
“Master, there are Godfiend dossiers here. The shelves behind contain the mortal dossiers,” reminded the Godfiend disciple softly.
Meng Chuan nodded slightly and read.
This dossier was about a powerful Godfiend from 900 years ago. Marquis East MartyrZhang Xing. When the Demon Realm and the human world gradually neared one another, unstable World Entrances just started appearing in Archean Eon Realm. Back then, Marquis East MartyrZhang Xing-was only a Great Solar Godfiend. He saw a city that had been massacred. No one survived i
n that county city. The scene was like a living hell…
Ever since then, Marquis East Martyr, Zhang Xing, busily hunted down demons. However, the unstable World Entrances’ sudden appearances still caused massacres to happen in cities and villages constantly. It was a nightmare for the humans of that time.
After stable World Entrances appeared, Marquis East Martyr Zhang Xing began guarding a city pass.
Later, he became a Marquis Godfiend.
He fought demons his entire life. He saw more and more city passes appear, and more unstable World Entrances. As a Marquis Godfiend, he was very safe during the war’s early stages, but many mortals had died during that time.
Marquis East Martyr died in his hometown, but he had contributed greatly after spending his entire life fighting the demons.
After reading the dossier about Marquis East Martyr, Zhang Xing, Meng Chuan walked forward and picked up another dossier.
This was a dossier about an outer sect disciple.
Outer sect disciples like Fairy Meng had never cultivated on Archean Mountain for long.
This outer sect disciple was called An Tong. He was born 800 years ago. An Tong was at the Impervious realm and the Core Condensation stage when he was 19. He was considered one of the strongest mortals. Back then, military conscription hadn’t been implemented because the pressure on the humans guarding the city passes wasn’t too great. It was on a voluntary basis.
An Tong bade farewell to his parents when he was 19. He headed to a city pass in high spirits. He became a soldier and fought the demons.
After fighting the demons for six years, he made immense contributions several times. During this period of time, the city pass had been breached once. More than half of the city pass’s soldiers died. Only after the Godfiend reinforcement arrived did the remaining soldiers survive. An Tong had luckily survived. This was his greatest life-and-death experience before he became a Godfiend.
When he was 25, he had earned enough credits to challenge the Life-and-Death juncture and successfully become a Godfiend. He then stayed home for three years under the orders of his parents. He got married and had children.
Three years later, he returned to the military. At that time, it wasn’t compulsory for every outer sect Godfiend to participate in the war, but An Tong continued fighting.
This way… An Tong guarded a city pass for 65 years until the demons planned an all-out attack. In order to stop the demons, An Tong ultimately died at the city pass.
Antong, muttered Meng Chuan silently.
He was an outer sect disciple who ultimately became an Indestructible Godfiend. Outer sect disciples never cultivated on Archean Mountain for long, but in reality, they were many in number.
Humanity couldn’t give them enough resources. They even needed to exchange credits for the resources required to challenge the Life-and-Death juncture themselves! After that, they were left to fend for themselves. However, these outer sect disciples had contributed greatly in the war against the demons. Far more outer sect disciples had died than the Godfiends from the three sects. They were extremely important.
Earth Net required a large number of ordinary Godfiends.
Many city passes needed the help of ordinary Godfiends that weren’t from the three sects.
Meng Chuan read the dossiers one by one and continued walking towards the back.
He finally reached the end.
Meng Chuan picked up a dossier.
“Wang Fu, Wang Changyu, Wang Ergou, Wang Sanmao…”
Meng Chuan’s heart trembled as he read the dense list of names.
All of them were names. Names filled one page after another.
After flipping through the dossier, Meng Chuan spotted a few words.
“On 9th April during the 19th year of Tian An’s reign of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Quyang Pass was breached, all 19,302 mortal soldiers in the city were wiped out.”
Meng Chuan’s hand trembled slightly. He closed the dossier and picked up another dossier.
This one was filled with names as well…
One dossier after another.
One pile after another.
They numbered in the billions.
Almost all of them contained names only. Meng Chuan looked at the countless names and felt countless gazes on him. Countless people were looking at him. When Meng Chuan reached the end, there were no more names, but relics left behind on many battlefields.
“Dad, Mom, I’ve reached Qinyang Pass.
“Don’t worry. My saber art is very powerful. Those demons can’t threaten me at all. I promise you that I will definitely return…” This was a letter. Only half of the letter remained. It was probably a letter that a soldier had yet to send back.
Many items were placed on the shelves, and words were carved on the shelves. “Third year of Chunping’s reign of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Qinyang Pass was breached. Items left behind.” It was unknown who the owners of these many relics were, so they couldn’t be sent back. Earth Net collected them and stored them in Archean Mountain’s classified sections.
Meng Chuan silently stared at the countless relics. He turned his head to look at the countless dossiers. It was as though he had traveled through spacetime and saw billions of people. They smiled at Meng Chuan or nodded with a smile. All of them were smiling.
At that moment, Meng Chuan finally understood why he was trembling after winning the war.
He sat cross-legged.
It was as though billions of people were watching him. Meng Chuan waved his hand, and a long painting floated in front of him. He picked up a brush, one that had been dabbed in ink. He began to move the brush. At that moment, the intense feelings—which made his Essence Soul tremble—made him want to depict the truth. Even his mental state that was trying to return to Nirvana couldn’t suppress it.
Chapter 538 - Eighth-Level Essence Soul
The powerful feelings—which made his body tremble-broke through all suppressions and surged out.
Meng Chuan held the brush in his hand and began painting.
First, it was a dark and oppressive scene. A Godfiend stood high in the sky and looked down at a ruined city. The ruined city was painted with dark hues. Countless corpses littered the city. This was a city the size of a prefecture city. There were too many corpses, so Meng Chuan painted them simply. However, behind the simple brushstrokes were a deathly aura.
Meng Chuan had personally seen too many cities that had suffered massacres. When the demons wreaked havoc in the world, he had rescued many cities and had seen many humans in cities and forts being slaughtered.
He had seen it with his own eyes. Thus, this painting’s emotions were soul-stirring and went bone-deep.
The slaughtered cities, the slaughtered villages, the large number of ferocious demons that entered from the unstable World Entrances, and the fleeing ordinary people covered the entire canvas. This scene showed the beginning of the war between Archean Eon Realm and the Demon Realm.
Following that, humans began to build majestic city passes around the stable World Entrances. Godfiends and mortal soldiers guarded them.
People dismantled ordinary villages and began building forts that were covered in traps. Thousands of mortals gathered together.
The entire world had changed because of the demons.
Meng Chuan painted scenes of mortals joining the military.
A mortal teenager carried his luggage and bade farewell to his parents; a valiant woman bowed to an elderly man; a one-armed man hugged his wife, but he still left without any hesitation; a middle-aged man stroked his children’s heads and entrusted them to his wife…
Every one of them was inspired in one way or another. Meng Chuan had read many dossiers about mortal soldiers.
In the earliest days of the war, city pass soldiers were recruited publicly. It was all voluntary. They could apply to be a soldier after reaching the Marrow Cleansing realm. Many youths joined the army without any hesitation to fight the demons.
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p; As he painted the military recruitment scene, Meng Chuan recalled the countless names on the dossiers. Many people only had their names left to be remembered.
When Meng Chuan flipped through the dossiers, he completely understood why his Essence Soul kept trembling. His Essence Soul began to glow.
As he moved his brush, his Essence Soul constantly emitted light, constantly transforming
Half a day of painting later, Meng Chuan finished the scene of mortals joining the military.
Boom!
His Essence Soul—which had been transforming for more than half a day-had completely undergone a qualitative change.
Every Essence Soul thought emitted a rainbow glow, as though they were worldly treasures. The Essence Soul formed by countless Essence Soul thoughts was vast and mysterious. Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul was draped in a colorful robe. It emitted rainbow colors.
Eighth-level Essence Soul!
Many Imperial Lords spent their entire lives with seventh-level Essence Souls. Even those with extremely high Essence Soul cultivation talent would find it difficult to take that step and attain an eighth-level Essence Soul.
Ancestral Master Archean Eon’s Essence Soul cultivation talent wasn’t high. He was extremely talented at physical body cultivation, but his Essence Soul remained at the seventh level, even though he was a Seventh Tribulation Eminence.
Meng Chuan…
He had a heart that observed the world since he was young. He also had talent in painting. However, he had cultivated for more than 700 years. His mental state had turned still. After experiencing the entire war, he attained an eighth-level Essence Soul realm while painting. The higher one’s cultivation realm was, the harder it was for them to improve their mind and Essence Soul. This was because they had seen too many things. Even if the world collapsed, they could calmly face it. Thus, it became extremely difficult for them to improve their Essence Souls!
An Eighth-level Essence Soul! In the vast River of Spacetime, it meant one had reached the Essence Soul Tribulation realm!
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