"Who possesses such immense capability, to extract an entire world from the Great Desolate Heaven and Earth and cast it into the Desolate Ruins in the blink of an eye?"
Destroying a world was not difficult.
Even reducing a world to ashes was not difficult.
Before absolute, overwhelming power, the so-called masses of living beings were nothing but grass and ants, and a so-called world was merely a spatial realm. Between Heaven and Earth, the Dao Overlords, the Dao Patriarchs, including those great emperors and thrones who bore the Mandate of Heaven from the Great Dao, all possessed the ability to annihilate a world. Gu Qingfeng naturally did as well.
But to speak of extracting a world from the Great Desolate Heaven and Earth and casting it into the Endless Sea of the Desolate Ruins beyond the heavens, and doing so in an instant...
Even though Gu Qingfeng had never attempted such a feat, he knew he lacked the capability.
Worlds were nurtured by Heaven and Earth over countless eons. Each world was like a child of Heaven and Earth, possessing not only a different world origin but also different world laws.
Most importantly, every world existed within the Laws of Heaven and Earth. Since ancient times, if a world lost its origin, it would gradually become desolate, then its laws would crumble until it perished, thus detaching from the Laws of Heaven and Earth and falling into the Endless Sea of the Desolate Ruins beyond the heavens.
In other words, to instantly extract a world from the Great Desolate Heaven and Earth, one first had to face the Laws of Heaven and Earth. If one could not dominate the Laws of Heaven and Earth, it was fundamentally impossible to extract a world from the Laws of the Great Desolate Heaven and Earth.
Only an overlord who dominated the Laws of Heaven and Earth could accomplish this.
Although the Immortal Dao of the current era claimed to be the overlord of Heaven and Earth, it was merely a claim.
Only by dominating the origin of Heaven and Earth could one truly be the overlord dominating Heaven and Earth.
Unfortunately, the Immortal Dao did not dominate the origin of Heaven and Earth.
The true dominator of the origin of Heaven and Earth, the wielder of the Laws of Heaven and Earth, was still the Heavenly Dao.
Thinking of this, Gu Qingfeng asked, "Was it the Heavenly Dao that acted?"
"Only the Heavenly Dao could cast a world from the Great Desolate Heaven and Earth into the Desolate Ruins in an instant."
Da Xing the Mad Monk said, "Since the end of the Desolate Ancient Era and the opening of the Grand Primordial Era, the Heavenly Dao has kept a low profile, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Otherwise, how do you think all those people with Original Sin after the Desolate Ancient Era died?"
Gu Qingfeng nodded. He had heard from Mo Wentian that most people with Original Sin after the Desolate Ancient Era had been quietly erased by experts of the Heavenly Dao. Those who couldn't be erased were cast into the Guixu by Genggu Wuming, and another part, unable to remain in the Great Desolate, could only flee to the Endless Sea of the Desolate Ruins beyond the heavens.
Da Xing the Mad Monk gazed at the Original Sin Retribution Bodies that occasionally appeared in the void, having lost their selves. "Some of these Original Sin Retribution Bodies might have been influenced by the Dao-less Mountain, ultimately losing their selves and becoming Original Sin puppets. Others schemed for the True Lord of Original Sin, or desired the powerful strength of Original Sin, seizing others' Original Sin to merge into themselves, only to be unable to control it and ultimately lose their selves."
He paused, then continued, "And some might all be innate people with Original Sin, born from the nurturing of Original Sin True Blood, having no choice from birth but to sink deeper and deeper on the path of Original Sin, finally losing their selves."
"Original Sin True Blood can also nurture people with Original Sin?"
Hearing Gu Qingfeng say this, Da Xing the Mad Monk widened his eyes, staring at Gu Qingfeng with an incredulous look. "No way?"
"What 'no way'?"
"I say, kid Gu, are you playing dumb with this old monk, or deliberately scaring this old monk for fun?"
"Scare you my ass! I genuinely didn't know Original Sin True Blood could nurture people with Original Sin."
"Bullshit! You yourself were damn well nurtured from a drop of Original Sin True Blood, and you're telling me now you didn't know?"
Hearing this, Gu Qingfeng's expression froze for a moment, then he shook his head with a helpless bitter smile. "If you hadn't mentioned it, I'd have forgotten all about that."
Indeed.
Gu Qingfeng was neither playing dumb nor deliberately teasing Da Xing the Mad Monk. He had genuinely forgotten that he himself was nurtured from a drop of Original Sin True Blood.
"Damn it!" Da Xing the Mad Monk took off the monk's cap on his head and wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Look how you scared this old monk."
"I just forgot about that matter. What's it got to do with you? Why should you be afraid?"
"Nonsense! Not long ago, you stirred up a Demonic Thought Beyond the Great Dao. If you didn't even know you were nurtured from a drop of Original Sin True Blood, then your self-consciousness might very well have already been devoured by that Demonic Thought Beyond the Great Dao. You think this old monk wouldn't be afraid?"
"I'm just a bit forgetful, that's all."
Gu Qingfeng had always been a rather forgetful person, especially as his state of mind changed; his forgetfulness grew greater. Many people he once knew, many events he experienced, he had forgotten.
As for the matter of him being nurtured from a drop of Original Sin True Blood back then, he still had some impression.
It was said that drop of Original Sin True Blood had nurtured many, many people with Original Sin in the mortal realm, but most were killed—not erased by the Heavenly Dao, nor by Genggu Wuming, but by Canyang Wuyou.
It was only after entering the Desolate Ancient Black Hole that Gu Qingfeng learned Canyang Wuyou was Mantufan, and Mantufan was Feng Zhuyue; the three were connected through past and present lives.
Exactly why that drop of Original Sin True Blood would nurture people with Original Sin in the mortal realm remained unknown.
He used to think it was Canyang Wuyou using the Original Sin True Blood to nurture people with Original Sin. Unfortunately, Canyang Wuyou said it wasn't her, and Gu Qingfeng also believed it probably wasn't Canyang Wuyou.
"I remember hearing someone say that most of the people with Original Sin nurtured by that drop of Original Sin True Blood died, with only me and Bai Chou surviving."
Da Xing the Mad Monk curled his lip. "You think there's only that one drop of Original Sin True Blood you merged with in all of Heaven and Earth?"
"How many are there?"
"How many, this old monk doesn't know. But there are definitely more than just the one you merged with. At the very least, this old monk knows of five other drops of Original Sin True Blood, and they've also nurtured people with Original Sin in other worlds."
"Were all these Original Sin True Bloods found when the Dao-less Era opened in the Desolate Ancient times?"
"Of course."
Da Xing the Mad Monk said, "Only... exactly how many existences managed to seize Original Sin True Blood from the Dao-less Era back then... this... this old monk doesn't know."
He rubbed his chin. "This old monk reckons there should be quite a few. You have three Original Sin Sons who merged with Original Sin True Blood residing within you, you yourself merged with one drop, and this old monk knows of five... that's already nine drops."
"Do those five drops of Original Sin True Blood all have owners now?"
"Probably all do."
"'Probably'? Didn't you say you knew?"
"This old monk only said he knows of five other drops of Original Sin True Blood. As for who ultimately merged with these five drops, this old monk isn't very clear. But I did hear... Miao Rulai also merged with a drop of Original Sin True Blood."
"Is that so?"
Gu Qingfeng pondered for a moment. "If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have remembered. Now that you mention it, there's something I've never been able to figure out."
"What is it?"
"According to what you said, all Original Sin True Blood was seized by others from the Dao-less Era back then, right?"
"Indeed. What about it?"
"That is to say, some people merged with Original Sin True Blood and became Original Sin Sons, like the three within me. Then... those who didn't merge the Original Sin True Blood into themselves, did they all use this stuff to nurture people with Original Sin?"
"As far as this old monk knows, that's the case."
"What was their purpose in nurturing people with Original Sin?"
"It wasn't this old monk who used that stuff to nurture people with Original Sin, how would I know? Only..." Da Xing the Mad Monk scratched his bald head. "This old monk reckons they were probably all setting up schemes."
"Schemes? What kind of schemes? For what purpose?"
"Definitely scheming for the True Lord of Original Sin. As for what kind of schemes, the intricacies are something this old monk can't clearly explain. Perhaps they arranged various karmic ties, then had themselves reincarnate and be reborn, only to be nurtured out by the Original Sin True Blood. That way, they became innate people with Original Sin, seizing the initiative in Original Sin. Coupled with the arrangement of various karmic ties, they might just become the True Lord of Original Sin recorded in the Book of Fate."
Gu Qingfeng said bluntly, "If they already seized the Original Sin True Blood, why bother reincarnating and relying on the Original Sin True Blood for nurturing? Just damn well merge the Original Sin True Blood into themselves. Why go through all this trouble?"
Da Xing the Mad Monk pointed at Gu Qingfeng with extreme exasperation. "You, kid... sometimes you can be really stupid. You think Original Sin True Blood is that easy to merge with? Do you know the consequences of forcibly merging?"
"It's like if you obtained a priceless piece of uncut jade, would you directly refine it? Never mind whether you can refine it; even if you succeed, it's a waste of a treasure, unable to bring out the jade's best effects. But if you first refine the uncut jade into a miraculous elixir and consume it, the effects would absolutely be far greater than directly refining the jade."
Hearing Da Xing the Mad Monk say this, Gu Qingfeng more or less understood.
"Especially since this stuff is Original Sin True Blood. If one wants to scheme for the True Lord of Original Sin, they need to arrange various karmic ties to build momentum for themselves. The greater the momentum built, the more obvious the signs. The more obvious the signs, the greater the hope of ascending to become the True Lord of Original Sin."
"If one forcibly merges Original Sin True Blood into themselves, there are only two outcomes: either the merger fails, or it succeeds. If it fails, your little life is gone. Even if it succeeds, it's a waste of a treasure. Even if, after merging, you gain the qualification and the strength to contend for the True Lord of Original Sin, without fate momentum and fortune momentum, it will all come to nothing in the end."
"Moreover," Da Xing the Mad Monk looked Gu Qingfeng up and down. "Those three Original Sin Sons within you might very well have been ones who forcibly merged Original Sin True Blood into themselves back then, failed the merger, and thus lost their little lives."
"Anyway, based on what this old monk knows, none of the Original Sin Sons who seized Original Sin True Blood from the Dao-less Era back then and merged it into themselves survived. At the very least, this old monk, having lived this long, has never seen a single one."