Chapter 438 Great Struggle
In the East Desert, in front of the Line Gorge, there was no life except for a large number of corpses and smoke left behind to testify to the brutality of the battle that had just taken place.

The Phoenix Ancestor's will of descent looked at the peacock, and the holy power washed the wound on the peacock's back, and drove away the pain of the sun and moon burning. The peacock was healed, but there was still fear in its eyes. After all, no matter how much he thought about it, he could not guess that Yan Ren's 'reincarnation' had holy power. If Yan Ren had such ability, why would he have fled to the East Wilderness?

"How could He have holy power?"

"His holy power is not here now, but in the future."

Feng Zu gave an answer that Peacock could not understand yet. Peacock wanted to ask more, but the emergence of the holy power had already caused the other seven powerful beings in this world who had touched the holy power to come.

Within ten breaths, a series of extremely magnificent wills descended, causing the sky and earth to change color and dividing the entire Eastern Wilderness into twelve independent worlds.

One of them contained boundless earth vein power, was shrouded in mysterious yellow light, and half of the body was female, while the other half was a doe. A goddess spoke up, "Ancestor Feng, what happened here just now? Why do I feel so dangerous?"

The God of Speech is none other than Mother Earth. She has always been kind to people among all the gods. She also helped Feng Zu plant the Fusang tree, so she has a close relationship with Feng Zu.

Phoenix Ancestor pondered in silence. No one knew how the reincarnated body of Yan Ren had anchored the future for eternity. Even if all the gods combined their powers, they could not change it.

But the information the other party gave was too crucial, and He didn't want to share it so easily at this time.

He analyzed the future situation left by Zhou Tieyi. The gods will continue to fight, and the human race will prosper in the battle. The prosperity of the human race should be the key to the battle between the gods.

He looked around at the twelve gods and said in his heart, this is a bit too much.

It seems that some of the twelve of them will also die. Only those gods who rely on humans can survive this battle, but they will eventually be killed by humans.

After thinking this through, Phoenix Ancestor spoke, "Back then, my subordinate god Yan Renshi stole my power and was killed in the East Desert. Who would have thought that he would not die, but had already condensed the rudiments of holy power? I came here at the call of Peacock and wanted to kill him, but he escaped."

Feng Zu had told all the truth. Everyone present had already touched the power of the saint. It was undoubtedly a pipe dream to want to hide his strength from the other twelve people present. It would be better to stick to the facts and just hide the key information.

While Feng Zu was speaking, the other Shinto venerables present had already used various methods to deduce everything that had happened in the past. And because there was no way for Zhou Tieyi to hide his past traces after he left, all the causes and effects were clear. The only question was that Zhou Tieyi and tens of thousands of human beings disappeared.

Of course, according to what Feng Zu said, since the reincarnation of Yan Ren has already condensed the holy power, it would be easy for him to hide his body and cover the traces of tens of thousands of people.

"This kind of acquired life form can actually condense the rudiments of holy power?"

A divine light said in surprise, but according to the information he deduced, the result was indeed so.

"Feng Zu, you are still so careless!"

Canglong sneered in his tone, he and Fengzu had always had a bad relationship, it was a good thing for him that Fengzu suffered a defeat, but the appearance of this human race did surprise him. Perhaps after returning, he should find some humans to observe and cultivate, to see what was so special about this acquired race that could surpass the other hundreds of races, including their families, and be the first to touch the embryonic form of holy power.

The same idea also arose in the minds of other gods. As soon as these gods thought of it together, the remaining tribes in the entire Eastern Wilderness were suddenly gathered together by divine lights. Seven of them took the initiative and the remaining five did not have time to make a move.

The reason why the gods in the five divine lights did not take action is that compared to wanting to cultivate the human race, they would rather completely kill this race in their own territory to avoid harm. They are not fools. Since Mother Earth can feel the unprecedented danger, they can naturally feel it too. At the same time, they also understand that this danger mostly comes from the human race.

Considering that the Yan people were able to steal power from Phoenix Ancestor and even condense the rudiments of holy power, they dared not keep the human race around them, for fear of following in Phoenix Ancestor's footsteps, not only suffering heavy losses but also being laughed at by others.

Feng Zu watched this scene coldly.

In the long river of history, this time when Zhou Tieyi returned to the Great Xia era from the barbaric era, he was not in a daze like before, and it felt like only a moment had passed.

Under the guidance of the sacred power of Tian Fu of the Mohist School, he truly became a witness to history, and witnessed the changes in the entire history from the information he learned.

At the same time, Zhou Tieyi had a deeper understanding of his current state.

"When I first descended, I indeed descended from one universe to another."

"During this process, I have inadvertently transformed into some kind of semi-high-dimensional life, transcending the four-dimensional space-time, so I have landed at two points in time in this universe at the same time, existing in a state similar to quantum superposition, existing in the past and present at the same time."

"And now, my 'quantum' is collapsing, falling completely from the higher dimension into the four-dimensional universe, determining the time point of my own existence. At the same time, in this process of determination, I also 'determine' the entire course of history!"

"This may all come from the observer effect."

"As an observer and witness, I was not sure that the Savage World was the past of the Great Xia World. Therefore, in a chaotic state, I could easily travel between the two eras. This is because all the choices I made were chaotic and unknown. Everything I did was history itself, not changing history. But I was sure that the Savage World was the past, so as a four-dimensional life, I could only exist at one point in time."

"At the same time, this can also explain why my spiritual perception warned me not to explore everything in the wild world. Because after the exploration is confirmed, I will not be able to go back to the wild era, which will do more harm than good to me."

"Of course, it's not bad now. At least I have completed the entire historical process and determined the prosperity of the human race in this world."

Just as Zhou Tieyi was thinking this, he felt something in his heart. He looked at Wu Mu, who was gathering the world in his palm, and said to Wu Mu, "Wu Mu."

Wu Mu's mind woke up from the chaos, "My Lord?" Zhou Tieyi said briefly, "Your future path is not with me."

Hearing Zhou Tieyi's words, Wu Mu looked horrified, because even if he had done something wrong, Zhou Tieyi had never said so, and these words actually seemed like a sign that he wanted to drive him away.

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "Don't panic, your path will open a new chapter for the human race, so it is not with me."

"I just want to serve you respectfully."

Zhou Tieyi shook his head. "Becoming a god is not the end of the human race. The human race should have a broader future. How can you put the entire race in danger just for your own selfish desires?"

Wu Mu fell into deep thought. In the state of the long river of time, he almost possessed the power of the third level to deduce the future. When Zhou Tieyi said this, those certain historical scenes came like a tide.

Zhou Tieyi also felt that the time had come, so he slightly tilted his palm and threw Wu Mu out of his palm, throwing it to a certain point in the past, and finally left a sentence, "Tao is the transcendent, and Buddha is the self-aware."

Watching Wu Mu's disappearing figure, Zhou Tieyi no longer felt the rejection of the Da Xia world towards him. In a trance, he traveled through thousands of years and witnessed one historical node after another that he knew.

There was a great war in the ancient times, and finally nine gods ascended to the throne and made a covenant in the Heavenly Palace.

In the first year of ancient times, a school was built from the sky, and the human race obtained inheritance beyond the Shinto.

First, the Taoist master ascended the throne, then the Buddha, and then the Confucian sage ascended the throne.

The Three Saints and Five Emperors slew the nine ancient gods in the eight lands, completely ending the era of gods.

In the first year of Yourenhe, the Holy Emperor was born, swept across the world and unified the country.

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When Zhou Tieyi opened his eyes again, he had returned to the Taihang Divine Court in Shantong Mansion. His divine body also fell into his own body. The two were completely unified, and some wonderful changes occurred.

Zhou Tieyi stood up and looked into the distance first.

At this point, he was absolutely certain that the academy that fell from the sky was built by Wu Mu.

"It's no wonder that Wu Mu has been asking me all kinds of questions day and night, asking me to keep looking up the basic cultivation methods and classics of various schools and pass them on to him. I just don't know if he will be lucky enough to become one of the three great masters of Taoism, Buddha, and Confucianism."

The last two words Zhou Tieyi said to Wu Mu were just some advice. Compared to a dead Confucian sage, Zhou Tieyi hoped that Wu Mu could become a Taoist or a Buddha. Of course, it was also possible that Wu Mu would die in the process of building a school and spreading knowledge. It all depended on his own luck.

With a little melancholy, Zhou Tieyi put Wu Mu's matter aside. A moment of separation could be forever, and this change in time made him feel complicated.

Zhou Tieyi continued to summarize his gains this time. This feeling of witnessing history from a state closest to the essence of the universe even exceeded the value of a peerless divine weapon!
"The observer effect can be applied not only to oneself, but also to all living beings. That's why Shintoism flourished first, and why the human race flourished next. That's why after reaching the third level of the Hundred Schools of Dao, one needs to 'ask for help'!"

"Because the wider the Taoism spreads, it means more 'people' agree with the same thing and observe the same thing from the same perspective, so things can be changed!"

"The simplest manifestation is the authority of the gods. Take the authority of [trading] that I have accumulated later as an example. [Trading] did not exist before the existence of the universe, especially the currency trading system that I rely on for the human race. It existed after I allowed a large number of humans to trade and determined this rule. But after this rule was determined, the [trading] rule became one of the origins of the universe. It was determined from a chaotic state. As it exists today, so does the past and the future. Therefore, the flow of gods and rules can ignore the boundaries of the past and the future and pass on to each other."

"The rules of divine authority themselves exist in a chaotic state. When a certain point is observed and determined, then the past, present, and future all exist. The same is true for knowledge."

"I taught Wu Mu and many other people about the future of mankind. It's not that the laws of farming and growth only existed in the era of Da Xia. Rather, this law has always existed, but it has not been discovered and is in a chaotic state. Therefore, when I told them this knowledge, this knowledge was able to manifest at a point in time in the past, so there is no time paradox."

"This also shows that the observer effect in this universe is much stronger than the universe in my previous life. Therefore, the essence of the universe is closer to the duality of matter and spirit. Matter is indeed the essence, but spirit can directly affect matter from the quantum microscopic state, which was impossible in my previous life. But at the same time, spirit does not appear out of thin air and must rely on matter."

"Compared to other ordinary races, humans are more spiritual, so they are more suitable for the evolution of the times. This is similar to the mastery of tools by primates in previous lives. Apart from humans, top races should have stronger spirituality. This is the foundation of this universe. Therefore, as long as the Zerg lack spirituality, their potential for development will always be limited under the basic laws of this universe."

"At the same time, the saint already has a certain super-dimensional nature..."

Zhou Tieyi recalled that Feng Zu's holy power was able to trace back a hundred years of time, and that Tian Fu's holy power was able to guide him from the present point in time. This also showed that the saint was powerful enough to effectively destroy this planet!
He stretched out his hand and took out a volume of "Tonggu Jilue" from the white jade chessboard. He read it page by page. Considering that the entire Great Xiatian was now completely surrounded by the place where the eight ancient gods fell, forming a closed space, he instantly understood Shinto's calculations.

I did use the observer effect to determine the rise of the human race and the decline of Shintoism, but for gods, death is far from the end!

Under the premise that they cannot change the future, they can reach a future point in time through death!
However, in this process, they restricted the development of Shintoism and the development of the human race at the same time!
Human beings can indeed prosper, but they are only allowed to prosper in one place. Even the vast and untamed world outside cannot be left for human beings to develop. In this way, after the eight ancient gods are resurrected, they can use the resources of the outside world to compete with humans for the dominance of this world again!

Therefore, when the three saints and five emperors of the human race fought against the eight ancient gods, they eventually fell or disappeared together. It was the common will of both sides.

The human race cannot completely defeat the Protoss at that point in time, and the Protoss also need to hold on until the future time point determined by Zhou Tieyi.

Therefore, it is beneficial for both sides to perish together, so as to avoid the final battle, which will cause the complete destruction of this planet and the extinction of spirituality here. By then, both sides will be seriously injured and there will be no anchor for believers. Even saints will disappear over a long period of time. That is the true and purest fall.

"This is the real great battle!"

(End of this chapter)