High Above

"Reincarnation of Fire?"

Ian senses all the information flowing in King Jhin's ether. If it were an ordinary sublimator, it would be impossible to read comprehensible regular information from the opponent's ether.

But he is a prophet and the founder of the arcane path. With the blessing of the Heart of Terra, his calculation power has reached an incredible state. He can directly see through the flow of ether and directly 'see' its super time and space. essential point.

What's more, the Lord of Ember himself is also burning his own heart and soul, so Ian can directly read the strongest desire in his heart from his fists, from his light, from his flames and ashes.

In addition to fighting himself, King Jhin's real plan in the past was the 'Reincarnation of Fire'.

Moreover, this reincarnation...

Still involved with him? !

The cyan light flashed, and the precognitive vision followed time and space, seeing everything.

[So, you were persecuted by the empire and had to flee to Feiyandi? Boy, I have indeed heard the name of Cehalolvo, and I know that you are a very powerful psyker, so I am willing to meet you, but don’t think of me as an easy-to-fool old man like your hometown in the countryside]

[Well, your talent is really good, and you are also very smart... The empire is probably not stupid enough to treat a genius like you as a spy. It's a pity that I don't have a daughter of the right age, otherwise it wouldn't be a loss to accept you...]

[Hiss... This boy's talent is peerless, and his learning ability is even more terrifying. This boy is not part of my Feiyan Earth Pond and must not be kept! 】

【What? 'My grace has been lost for half my life, and I only regret that I have not met my master. If the king doesn’t give up, would you like to worship me as your adoptive father’? This...how does this happen! Dear son, get up soon! 】

That's a tributary...a tributary that originates from Harrison Port and then flows to the Firelands.

[Are you actually a prophet? ! You actually told me you were a prophet after you became the crown prince? ! I have told you a hundred times that we in Feiyan Land will send out talents in any way. As long as you are willing to accept my bloodline and consider me as your adoptive father, you will be a member of Absalom, and you are still hiding this secret from me. ? ! 】

【What do I mean? I mean, if I'd known you were a prophet, why would you bother competing with my idiot children and grandchildren? You'd already be the fucking crown prince, okay? 】

【call. calm. Ian Absalom, tell me, what else are you hiding? 】

[Fuck me, you fucked the apprentice of the First Knight? ! 】

If it weren't for the precognitive vision, Ian would never have imagined that King Jhin would be such a grumpy and straightforward old man in his daily life - whether from the perspective of an Imperial person or a Flying Flame Earth person. There is no way to know.

This is the only way to know the true appearance behind the gloomy and majestic appearance of the King of Ember and become the object of his admiration... Just like Ember looks gray and cold on the outside, but without touching it, who can know what's inside it? Burning?

"What exactly is the Reincarnation of Fire?"

During the fierce battle, Ian inquired about the 'Jin King of Reality'. He punched out, and the layers of magnetic force accelerated, just like blasting out a super electromagnetic gun, and his will followed this violent magnetic torrent. Surging out.

[A way to continue humanity after the destruction of the world]

In response to Ian's punch, King Jhin retracted his hands and tilted his head upward, causing the powerful and heavy punch to pass over his head. At the same time, a ball of flames like a swirling noose mixed with Ian's fist and climbed up, like a gangrene attached to the bone, trying to penetrate deep into Ian's defense and bypass the strongest layers of the Immovable Fortress Steel Herald. shield.

In fact, the two could no longer speak at all, nor could they hear each other's voices. The communication between the two relied on fist-to-fist, force-to-force attacks, and the 'etheric resonance' that broke out at that moment.

Even at the fifth energy level, it is impossible to use etheric resonance to converse in battle. The conversation just now is already the limit.

But Ian is different - he has precognitive vision. The increasingly powerful precognitive vision can already rely on this 'cause and effect' to directly glimpse the 'possible future' in parallel time and space!

In parallel time and space, as his junior, Ian can even directly listen to the other party telling him the truth about the 'Reincarnation of Fire'.

This is something that no matter how powerful Offaien is, he can't do it!

[Don’t believe that the world will be destroyed? Oh, optimistic boy, your idea is shared by most people in this world, but I tell you truthfully, everything in this world, no matter you and me, even the heaven, earth, planets, sun and stars, will eventually turn into ash】

[Anyone at the fifth energy level actually knows that the end is approaching. The catastrophe of falling from the sky may not come again, but in the depths of this earth, there is still a dark sea that can destroy everything]

[And in the sky, didn’t the old man from the Hall of All Souls recently predict the disaster of light? No one is surprised, because we have vague predictions in our hearts that destruction will come again]

[Even if the disasters of heaven and earth have not destroyed us, is it possible that we ourselves cannot destroy it? The glowing bird in the east is getting more and more anxious, and so are we. Passed down from generation to generation, struggling from generation to generation, the inexplicable sense of urgency urges us to move forward]

[We also want to change the world, but there are other fifth energy levels blocking the way. This anxiety will eventually lead us to the final battle. At the end, that will be the real man-made disaster that can completely destroy us humans]

【Um? Are you saying I have no desire to win? Huh...you see so accurately, you are worthy of being a prophet]

[Everything will eventually be reduced to ashes. I don’t want to waste my life on foolish wars. That guy Axel is not worthy of letting me fight wholeheartedly. In this world, except for Huaiguang, there may be nothing worth it. , but Huaiguang will only wait until everything is over and start from scratch. I don’t like that kind of ending]

[So, I, the Spiritual Mechanism Order, and some people from Su Ming created a brand new technology]

[It’s called ‘Reincarnation of Fire’]

[A technology... that turns everyone into demons after the world is destroyed and will exist forever in the virtual realm]

"demon?"

Ian shook his arm, and the magnetic and gravitational fields around him began to rotate wildly, making time and space seem to boil. The tangible energy visible to the naked eye boiled and burned around him, then sublimated and condensed, turning into phantoms like stars.

And the traces of flaming ether that King Jhin invaded his body before were forced out, and even turned into a phantom of flaming stars, rotating around Ian.

This technique is exactly the defense matrix technique used by Ian's missionary, Ace Niemathas, and as the creator, Ian is obviously proficient in this technique, with more than hundreds of thousands of completely different magnetic fields. The inside and outside of the body were rotating rapidly, constantly superimposing and rising, and even set off a huge typhoon in the virtual realm.

This typhoon is the 'absolute area' that Ian can control. No matter how strange and powerful the enemy is, it is impossible to bypass it. If you want to get close, you will inevitably conflict with this magnetic hurricane.

So in the next moment, you can see that there are millions of completely different attack methods on the top, bottom, left, right and front of the magnetic field typhoon - swords, guns, swords and cannons, thrusting with fists and feet, cutting and shattering, suppressing and burning... By burning yourself His spiritual soul continued to overflow his ether and mix into the virtual realm. At this moment, King Jhin's will and attacks began to be imprinted on the virtual realm.

A kind of alternative, almost Druid's 'union between man and nature'!

[You actually saw that the reincarnation of fire is related to the devil! 】

The King of Jhin was blazing with fire. He was in the best shape in his history at this moment. No battle in this world could be called 'changing the world', so he had no interest in any battle.

But Ian was different. This man laughed loudly. Since the appearance of the Arcane Path, he has been trying to deduce the changes that the Arcane Path may bring to the world... Haha, there is no way to deduce it! This path that changes the survival mode of all mankind from the ground up is completely different from those paths that only allow the strong to go further.

Compared with this change, perhaps, the future of mankind will have a different ending... Perhaps mankind will not become ashes that will eventually dissipate, perhaps he will not have to grow old in this boring world.

[If you want to know, I will let you see more clearly! 】

Facing the magnetic field matrix that has no gaps or loopholes, blocking all attacks from the front, rear, left, right, and even inside and outside time and space, King Jhin spreads his arms. Immediately, his heart and soul are ignited, burning, and even embodying the essence of 'circulation'. The spiritual energy cycle began to turn into a hazy whirlpool, pressing towards Ian.

And he himself was burning brightly and passionately, turning his body into a whirlpool and pressing towards Ian.

In this way, one positive and one negative, one bright and one dark, two diametrically opposite whirlpools of flames began to strangle the 'suppressed' Ian, using the purest power and the largest size to forcefully kill him. Ian spends time and refines!

But this is also King Jhin’s answer!

‘Circulation’… ‘Reincarnation’…

"I see!"

At this moment, Ian also sensed everything in this most direct etheric intersection: "It turns out... the entire virtual world and the material world are a 'circulation'... they are all 'tide sounds'!"

With precognitive vision, Ian saw the operating essence of the entire virtual realm!

That is, a superstructure originating from outside time and space, outside the universe... That is the 'Great Ether Circulation'!

The entire virtual realm of Terra is essentially a branch of the Great Ether Circulation, a 'spiritual world' intertwined with the material world!

The universe itself originally contained only matter. But as the Star God created the ether and the great ether circulation, the universe was filled with endless ether, linking the past and the future, guiding material changes, allowing people's will to control the burning of flames, the fall of thunder, and the birth of Transcendence and sublimation allow the most ordinary and weakest life to walk forward along the path of spiritual energy and etheric time and space, and become a new 'Star God'.

Among them, the guidance of intelligent life is the top priority. The large ether circulation will react to all areas in infinite parallel space and time that may breed life, and then branch off into a branch.

This tributary is pure ether. As it falls from outside time and space, pure true ether decays and turns into sefirot and psychic energy. The source of energy helps local life strengthen its essence so that it can survive, while spiritual energy adds a layer of 'virtual structure' to the structure of the material world, allowing the will of life to gradually accumulate and enrich. When an intelligent civilization develops to the extreme When it is prosperous, feedback from the virtual realm will also come.

At that time, all life on this planet will have a 'soul determination' and naturally produce a 'soul'!

Yes! This is the step that the Terran civilization almost failed to achieve before! It is also the step taken by other alien civilizations!

A spontaneous ‘national soul’ that does not require an artificial soul! The whole nation is ‘soul awakening’!

The fact that the Terran people can accept artificial souls actually proves that they are not far away from spontaneous souls, and the next step is universal spiritual power after universal souls. These are the real effects of the virtual realm, assisting a ‘ladder’ to the progress of civilization!

This is also the same as what Ian learned from previous exchanges with the goblins: The virtual world is essentially a bubble, floating on the endless virtual sea. The civilization of intelligent life is the breath that blows up this bubble, and the virtual sea that carries the bubble The essence of...

It’s the Great Ether Gyre!

And just like its true source, the virtual environment itself is also a 'circulation', but this circulation is the siltation of the soul and spiritual matter that draws all the intelligent life in the local area. As long as intelligent life does not die, then the virtual environment will not be able to give birth to wisdom. destroyed.

Even conversely, even if all intelligent life is wiped out, as long as the virtual realm is still large enough, it can still flow for a long time before gradually stopping.

This is somewhat similar to another similar circulation that Ian has seen before, the port of the Great Ether Circulation... that is the 'Ghost Crystal Perpetual Motion Machine·Endless Tide'.

Perhaps, the technology of perpetual motion and the technology of psychic circulation are from the same source... When a civilization has thoroughly studied the nature of the virtual world and the material world, and mastered some large ether circulation technologies along the flow of ether, this civilization You can develop your own 'perpetual motion machine'.

Although it relies on the power of the Star God, the birth of all intelligent life in this universe relies on the Star God, so it doesn't matter if you rely more on Big Daddy.

Of course, most civilizations may not reach this point. They will decline, destroy themselves, and completely lose the vitality of their virtual realm.

But this is not the end.

In this process, there will even be a new civilization that relies on the virtual realm. Whether it is fairies, ghosts, or elemental life, it is possible to be born, allowing the virtual realm to continue to operate.

Of course, there is another possibility.

【Abyss Demon】

In parallel time and space, the older King Jhin described his plan to his successor: [This is a virtual creature that has existed for a longer time than we know. It contains all the suffering and memories of a civilization, and is a new species born from the corpse of a civilization]

[Even if civilization is destroyed, demons will still exist. The virtual realm will even be twisted into an abyss by them, and it will still exist for hundreds of thousands or millions of years]

[Devils will create huge distortions in the material world, that is, various subspace mazes. If the number of demons is large enough and the quality is high enough, they can even break through the cycle between the virtual world and the material world and directly descend into the material world in an 'entity'. Live and exist like a normal creature...even allowing the virtual realm to gain more 'power' and create greater distortions]

【do you understand? Ian? 】

[If everything is destroyed and turned into ashes, then we can transform ourselves into 'artificial demons'... When the number of artificial demons exceeds the threshold of 279 million, the virtual realm will be greatly distorted and descend. In the material world, demons can live like humans in the past and develop civilization]

"but."

At this moment, Ian heard his own voice in parallel time and space. It was just like him now, full of curiosity and doubt: "Such distortion will eventually have its limit. The distortion of the virtual realm will rebound, and the 'artificial' will be transformed in an instant." The civilization created by the devil is destroyed, or recycled into the virtual realm - by then, everything will be destroyed, and the virtual realm will become chaotic due to the distorted rebound."

【Yes】

King Jhin smiled and replied: [So then, just ignite the chaos]

[Keep the core soul data of all people and demons in the abyss, in the 'Apocalypse Server' built by the Psychic Order, and then I will ignite the entire virtual realm and turn it into pure spiritual flames, All chaos turns into blank】

[Then, the abyss will give birth to a new ‘Devil’s Soul’, creating a brand new world, once again distorting the virtual realm and reality, and allowing demons to be born again]

[The goblin can’t do it. When the movement of the virtual realm stops, the goblin will die. Elemental life cannot do this. When the void turns into chaos, they will perish. Ghosts can't even do that. When the distortion of the virtual realm is recycled, everything about them will be crushed]

[Only demons, only demons that have long been dead, shattered, and just a ball of ashes, can be reborn after death and re-consolidate in the brokenness]

This is circulation, reincarnation and circulation.

If the world is destroyed, then everyone will become demons. The extremely powerful distortion of the virtual world will create a nearly permanent distortion of the abyss in the material world, and artificial demons with human thoughts can continue to live in this twisted virtual abyss.

Even if the entire world has become a wasteland, and even the planet is broken, in the twisted abyss, in the distorted virtual realm, the world is still the original appearance of birds singing and flowers fragrant.

However, the humans living in this world, those with ‘Devil Souls’, have their limits.

human nature.

The humanity in Demon Souls will continue to pass away. In the final analysis, they are not real material beings. The human will in the Demon's core will continue to be consumed, eventually leading to the complete demonization of the body and turning into an immortal ghost.

When the entire civilization loses its humanity and cannot maintain the distortion of the virtual world, the entire world will gradually move toward destruction.

The distorted virtual realm will shrink, and the world of singing birds and fragrant flowers will gradually return to the ugly, shattered, and even broken appearance of the real world.

Like a flame extinguished, the illuminating light dissipated, and the essence of darkness returned to reality.

But this is not the end.

[The devil devours the whole world and turns everything into nothingness, but I will rekindle the flame and reshape everything]

[Then ‘Humanity’ will be downloaded again from the Apocalypse server]

King Jhin of parallel time and space said calmly: [Then the world was created again]

This is an endless reincarnation, a lifeless reincarnation.

Whether it was Ian in parallel time and space or Ian now, he felt a chill at this moment.

Because he saw the biggest flaw in this plan.

"Human memories in the Apocalypse server will not change, right?"

"They had already stagnated when they died. What they download again is just a copy - and these copies will also be destroyed along with the twisted virtual world. The human memories in the Apocalypse server will not change. They were just kept there!”

【certainly. If it changes, it will be destroyed. If it changes, the variable cannot be guaranteed. But don’t worry, even if the ‘start’ is the same, the ‘process’ is always different, and the world will change again and again after reincarnation]

"Also, Dad."

【Um? What's wrong? 】

"From the beginning to the end, could it be...that you were the only one burning?"

【Ahh...this】

【Um. indeed】

[Perhaps one day, I will burn out, but at that time, there may be a soul awakened in the Apocalypse server, who can inherit my responsibility and continue this flame]

[Anyway, I must have died happily by then]

[But don’t worry, kid, I will burn. I will burn longer than anyone else, beyond anyone’s imagination. Even the entire civilization, I can bear it.]

[Because I really don’t want to]

[Unwilling to...turn into ashes]

So, time speeds up.

Reincarnation... has begun.

Reality.

"Twenty million years?!"

Raising his head, Ian looked at the confused Jhin King in front of him with a horrifying and incredible look. For some reason, Ian suddenly popped up a number: "You can actually burn for 200 million years?! You care about this?" Call the short life to burn brilliantly?"

"Are you crazy? How did you do it?!"