Chapter 1017
Hongjun and Fuxi's Message
Future generations must remember this: no matter when or where, no matter what crisis we face, we must never abandon our human identity…
"...That's all I have to say. Fuxi, the sage of the yellow-skinned East, left these words on the day the main god completed the work..."
Only after confirming that no new writing appeared did everyone realize that the event was over.
However, because there was so much information, they were all stunned and stood there for a while before they came to their senses.
It was at this moment that Chu Xuan suddenly looked up and asked.
Is this map complete?
Jonathan immediately nodded:
"Yes, no, it should be."
"Actually, I don't know either, because that's how I got it. The only thing I added was the topographic map below."
"Just because I have a map, we split the score 30/70, it really is 30/70."
"This Yan Xishan is simply a bandit. He bullies the weak and looks down on me, a foreigner."
Saito nodded casually and asked:
"So it's three times you and seven times him?"
To everyone's surprise, Jonathan simply shook his head.
"Of course, he provided 30% and I provided 70%. I provided the funding, maps, and technology, while Yan Xishan was responsible for providing the personnel and protecting my safety."
"I originally wanted a 91-point score, but this guy refused to do it no matter what."
"I only agreed to this outrageous profit sharing because I felt sorry for him."
Upon hearing this, Saito and the others all turned to look at Jonathan, who had a bewildered expression.
He added, "It's truly outrageous; the fact that you're still alive is simply absurd."
Li Xiao rubbed her slightly aching temples.
"Where is the Buddha statue? What happened?"
Jonathan replied, "The Buddha statue was found at the entrance to that floating island in the third year of excavating this ancient tomb."
"As a result, this bastard smashed the Buddha statue as soon as he dug it out."
"He said it would break at the slightest touch, but that's obviously a lie. They must have broken it."
"So, where do you know the parts of the Buddha statue?"
"And aren't you supposed to split it 30/70?"
"Even if the Buddha statue is broken, shouldn't you still get 70% of it?"
Jonathan replied, "Among Buddha statues, the head is the most important and precious part."
"So I only took the Buddha head; the other parts were sold off by Yan Xishan."
"My second purpose in entering the Qin Kingdom this time was not only to rescue Evelyn and the others, but also to bring out the hidden Buddha head."
"For safety reasons, I hid the Buddha head near the ancient tomb, a location that only I know about."
After answering, Jonathan, perhaps speaking off the cuff, blurted out a lot more information.
Chen Zilong, standing next to him, had his hands clenched so tightly they were cracking.
The Zhongzhou team now wants to beat him to death, because one of the slightly strange side quests is to find all the Buddha statues.
If this person had said these things earlier, they would most likely have only needed to enter the ancient tomb.
Instead of looking for Buddha statues that you have no idea what they look like.
Zhang Jie looked at the silent Chu Xuan and asked:
"What's wrong, Chu Xuan? Do you think the map isn't complete? Are there messages in the remaining parts?"
"Stop thinking about it, it's obviously over."
Zhang Jie pointed to the last words left by Fuxi and said.
Chu Xuan looked at the map in his hand, paused for a moment, and then spoke:
"Do you still remember the Japanese team we first met?"
"If I'm not mistaken, they should have found similar ruins as well."
"And they completed the task."
"After all, even I can't modify the time-related items produced by the main god right now."
"And there's the terrifying number of all sorts of gadgets that Kanna Hashimoto has."
"I think they must have found the remains of a yellow-skinned saint, or a saint from another category."
Li Xiao nodded in agreement.
Chu Xuan continued.
"But the problem is, since they found this ruin, why did the psychic in their group abandon his human body?"
"Now it seems that no matter what skin color the relics they obtained were, there should be a consensus that the main theme repeatedly emphasized on them is that we cannot betray our human identity."
"Although I don't know what the saints and cultivators faced back then, I think it must have been some kind of inhuman enemy."
"These enemies forced the three saints and cultivators to join forces to fight them, and even created this God Space to prevent the extinction of mankind."
"Therefore, the basic consensus will not change."
"But the Japanese team seemed completely unaware of this information."
"Of course, the most important question is, why were they all suddenly wiped out and killed when they should have obtained the ruins and become extremely powerful?"
Li Xiao nodded, understanding: "You mean to say that these ruins have actually been tampered with, just as Fuxi said?"
"Without this warning, the information the Japanese team received actually led them down the path to destruction."
"So these ruins, which appear to be treasures, are actually a cake smeared with poison?"
"Specifically, they lure out those reincarnation teams that have already been strengthened to a certain level and then wipe them out?"
Chu Xuan looked at Li Xiao with a strange expression, but Li Xiao didn't say anything and just nodded.
Li Xiao had no idea that he had said anything wrong, so he continued to frown and think.
Zhu Wen then asked, "Was something tampered with?"
"Doesn't it say here that it's only a possibility?"
Chu Xuan revealed a cold smile:
"No, definitely."
Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, Chu Xuan continued.
"Don't you guys feel that Hongjun and Fuxi's messages are somewhat contradictory?"
"They're talking about the differences between the three types of saints, and the conflicts between saints and cultivators. But they keep emphasizing that they have a common enemy."
"A repeated warning cannot be directed at other factions that are also human."
"Such contradictions, along with the important information that was not revealed, seem to be explaining things, but in fact they have only brought us more questions."
"And I guess Fuxi probably wanted to tell us something through this contradiction."
"Some things that cannot be recorded."
"If I'm not mistaken, there must be another part to the message that Hongjun left above, but it's been hidden."
Chen Zilong leaned closer and asked curiously, "What could it be that they're talking about?"
Chu Xuan looked at him calmly and replied indifferently, "You overestimate me. I do not possess such precognitive abilities."
"Moreover, it was a sage who tampered with it."
Seeing Chu Xuan's expression, Chen Zilong felt awkward for a moment.
Li Xiao then said, "Ahem, Chu Xuan, please continue. I think you should have deduced some other things from this information, right?"
Chu Xuan didn't stand on ceremony.
"As I just said, we entered the bug of the God Space the moment we saw this map."
Cheng Xiao muttered under his breath, "Isn't it a cheat code?" Chu Xuan continued:
"The most obvious bug is what Li Xiao just said: so far we haven't heard the main god's notification of point deduction."
"So it can also be called a system vulnerability. I think this should be some kind of method left behind by those who created the God Space back then."
"Based on the information here, we already know that this God Space is a place of inheritance jointly built by the three saints and cultivators."
Secondly, the power between sages and cultivators should be balanced.
"Even if there is a difference in strength, it shouldn't be obvious."
"On an individual level, these saints who have unlocked the fifth stage of the gene lock may be even better."
But it's only a step up.
Therefore, the Main God Space, which they built together, possesses both the characteristics of a saint's control over energy and the characteristics of rune technology in cultivation.
Of course, these aren't the most important things.
"One of the most important pieces of information is the distinction between the three systems of sages mentioned here."
"The division of power based on skin color is simple and clear, and there is no doubt which side our Zhongzhou team belongs to."
"But here's a new problem: do you think the conflict is greater between sages and cultivators, or between the sages of the three systems?"
"Or is the greater conflict between humanity and that unknown non-human being?"
Saito spoke up: "Isn't it obvious?"
"The greatest conflict is between humans and the unknown non-humans, so great that it could lead to an alliance between saints and cultivators."
"Then……"
"And then... uh!!"
Saito suddenly realized that he didn't know how to compare the remaining two contradictions.
One is the difference in power systems, and the other is the difference in race and skin color.
It seems difficult to distinguish between them.
Everyone looked at Chu Xuan again.
This person spoke up.
"The biggest conflict is over skin color."
"Based on the messages left by Hongjun and Fuxi, it can be determined that the first distinction was based on skin color, and then on the distinction between sages and cultivators."
"They transformed the differences in their power systems into contradictions within their respective systems."
"The ruins of the seaside town show that, in the very beginning, the saint's power system was facing a generational gap."
"In order to produce new saints, they created countless other power systems, trying to find a more stable path to sainthood."
"Among them, the cultivation system stood out and became even more powerful. After a long period of accumulation, it even broke through the genetic lock setting and walked out another path to heaven. The most powerful beings among them can even be compared with saints."
"These two."
One is a newly emerging cultivation system that allows one to gradually cultivate from a weak human to someone comparable to a saint.
"One type is the gene lock that is in a period of transition, but this system has the power to create other systems, and even created the power of cultivation. Which one do you think an ordinary, normal person would choose?"
Chu Xuan shook his head as he looked at Zhu Wen and the others.
"Yes, they don't know either. Even saints and immortals don't know."
"So, with a common enemy, they created the God Space, a training space that integrates two power systems."
"Haven't you noticed that the reincarnation teams in each of the main god spaces are all a mixture of two systems?"
"Some specialize in one thing, while others are proficient in two."
"For example, Zheng Zha is clearly more talented in the field of gene locking."
"From the first stage of gene lock to the current fourth stage, if we only look at the time unit, Zheng Zha only took less than three years to go from an ordinary person to having a fourth-stage gene lock with S-level bloodline, while in the cultivation system, three years is only the beginning."
"As for Xiao Honglu in our team and Luo Yinglong in the Celestial God Team, they are more suited to the cultivation system."
Everyone recalled, then nodded.
Li Xiao pressed further, "And then?"
Chu Xuan looked at the God Watch on his wrist.
"So, in your opinion, among the many teams in the Main God Space right now, are there more people on the Gene Lock path or the Cultivation path?"
Li Xiao answered very simply: "Gene lock all the way."
Chu Xuan nodded.
"Yes, through team battles, it's clear that more players are going for the genetic lock path."
"But do you feel normal about this?"
"Without the Main God Space, if you were given the choice between these two cultivation systems, which would you choose?"
"The gene lock system is indeed powerful, but that refers to saints who have unlocked the fifth level of genes."
"If you let an ordinary person make the choice..."
"Without a doubt, it is a more stable cultivation system."
"But now the opposite is true."
"In the real world, when the development of something does not match the actual situation, it means..."
"It was a rigged operation, like a lottery box in a shopping mall, so someone must have tampered with it."
Zhu Wen said excitedly.
Just as Chu Xuan was about to continue speaking...
Zhang Jie, who was standing next to him, finally couldn't stand it anymore.
This person looked at Chu Xuan, Zhu Wen, Li Xiao, and even Zhao Yingkong, who were pondering the hidden information, with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.
"Stop, stop, everyone, can we please stop talking for now?"
"I've already said enough, now I just want to know how difficult this task is?"
"In my experience, the difficulty of a task is proportional to the reward, but Chu Xuan, you just said that we've entered a bug."
"So if I understand correctly, the difficulty of this side quest is only B-level, but the final reward is that everyone gets a B-level side quest."
"Besides this, after defeating some god, you'll also get a bunch of cultivation manuals, magical treasures, and elixirs, right?"
"Can we shift the topic to this task, okay?"
"After all, my head is really spinning from listening."
While Zhang Jie was speaking, he also gained the support of others who were equally slow-witted.
Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and put the map away.
"Just like you said, that's the essence of this bug, but even with only a B-rank side quest, this bug isn't so easy to exploit."
“As I just said, the ruins and space have been tampered with, so if I’m not mistaken, this mission is the same.”
"If it was the saints who did the tampering."
All they need to do is increase the power of this first god, or shorten the mission time.
If we fail to complete the task, we will be eliminated due to negative scores.
Li Xiao, who was pointing at his forehead with his finger, was taken aback:
"Time? Why is there a problem with time?"
"Leaving aside the strength of the first god for now, isn't there plenty of time?"
"After all, the key figure Jonathan is right here, and there's no need to search for the tomb using a map."
"It's impossible for a god to fight us for seven days, right?" (End of Chapter)