stonecrandall Chapter 338 Causal Strike, Analyzing Hidden Dangers
Chapter 338 Causal Strike, Analyzing Hidden Dangers
Chapter 338 Causal Strike, Analyzing Hidden Dangers
The three Celestial Venerables projected their images, along with Gouchen Celestial Venerable, and explained to Ye Yang the methods they planned to use to deal with the mastermind behind the scenes.
"Information gathered through the investigation indicates that the crisis was instigated by the nineteenth newly appointed protector of the Void Cult." However, it seems they recently had a falling out with the Void Cult's headquarters, causing considerable chaos within their stronghold.
The Supreme Celestial Venerable said, "However, by leveraging the deeply hidden organization of followers within the Void Sect in the early stages, these Nineteen Protectors" rapidly completed the rapid spread of the mycelium. By the time Ye Yang discovered and reported it, it had already become a significant force, leading to the current situation."
The Nineteen Protectors? Newly appointed?
Ye Yang became more and more confused as he listened. Before the Era of All Heavens, the Immortal Alliance had not produced any famous geniuses for hundreds of thousands of years. It was only in the short span of a thousand years since the start of the Era of All Heavens that a large number of geniuses have risen to prominence.
But the most outstanding one is Luo Xingjun. It is said that his Great Dao has already reached the half-step Profound True Realm, and he may step into the True Lord Realm at any time!
What makes the Void Cult so special? Suddenly, a newcomer appears, pulls out the heaven-defying Void Fungus, and catches the Immortal Alliance off guard, plunging the entire galaxy into a state of emergency.
Seemingly noticing Ye Yang's confusion, the Supreme Emperor added, "Although he is said to be newly promoted, the Void Sect's protector sequence can be inherited—moreover, this guy is not some newly promoted True Monarch, but rather seems like an old fellow who has been reincarnated and is cultivating again."
Haotian Venerable shook his head: "The difference is too great. He is not like any of the characters in my memory."
The other three nodded slightly.
The Savior of Suffering continued, "Previously, I used the technique of tracing the origin of cause and effect, attempting to kill this person using the captured void mycelium as a catalyst and cause and effect as a bridge. The attempt failed; the catalyst vanished, the bridge broke, and the cause and effect spiraled out of control, unable to harm his very essence."
"Currently, the only ways to quickly kill these nineteen guardians are through divine soul, the Great Dao, and karma."
"Neither the divine soul nor the Great Dao is of much use. That guy is now in the form of a fungus, and he's very good at severing his tail to survive. But the severed 'tail' is insignificant compared to the size of the fungus itself."
"Only cause and effect—as long as a solid cause and effect is established, it can withstand the bandwidth of our attack."
And this ensures that the person won't easily sever their tail to survive!
"Either we kill him, or he has to give up his full-scale infection of the galaxy."
Ye Yang nodded: "Therefore, I, who also possess a fungal body, can serve as the connecting bridge in this cause and effect."
"If that person can spread fungi throughout the galaxy, so can you. On this level, you are equals."
The Savior of Suffering revealed a kind smile, as warm as spring sunshine: "Therefore, Minghong, when you have grown strong enough to briefly withstand the enemy's counterattack, this plan can begin."
"Let your hyphae infect the entire galaxy, occupy ecological niches, and resist the invasion of void fungi!"
"And if those nineteen protectors dare to fight you, we will use your help to launch a causal attack. Even if we can't kill him in one blow, we will definitely severely damage him! Then he will no longer have the chance to spy on our Milky Way Galaxy!"
Ye Yang took a deep breath.
The true leaders of this Immortal Alliance actually supported him in planting seeds in the Milky Way and spreading them among the stars.
Void fungi can cause a fungal crisis, control countless cultivators, kill a large number of True Immortals, and even threaten the Plan of the Age of All Heavens!
So what about Ye Yang?
If he were to dye the entire galaxy his own color, and then turn against us, the consequences would be a thousand times, ten thousand times more terrible than the current fungal crisis!
"They really think highly of me—these Celestial Venerables are magnanimous, or rather, they prioritize the greater good."
Ye Yang sighed inwardly.
He had read history books, especially the dark years of the pioneering era, after the collapse of the Earth's government and before the establishment of the Immortal Alliance order.
To refine and control a true immortal of a star is truly to be the emperor of one's own star system!
Because they can destroy the surface of all planets in their star system with a single thought, and have all the power over everything in the star system, including the power of life and death.
Humans below the level of immortals are considered less than livestock by immortals after they have ascended to immortality.
In fact, it's not even as good as tools or weeds.
At least livestock and tools have some value, while weeds are dispensable.
Other human cultivators—once they reach the seventh level of cultivation and achieve the Great Dao, they may pose a threat to immortals.
After all, the stars are so vast that it would take an ordinary True Immortal tens of thousands of years to completely refine them from the outside in.
At most, only the outer layer is refined.
Some human geniuses, if they achieve the Great Dao, will immediately possess incomparably powerful strength, and may even be able to forcibly ascend to other planets that are initially controlled by True Immortals, and forcibly refine and seize power!
Human cultivators are insignificant in terms of productivity compared to True Immortals, and have no value whatsoever. On the contrary, they pose a threat—at that time, many more extreme True Immortals would carry out extermination measures within their own territories!
There were also some true immortals who, in order to study the laws and comprehend the Great Dao, left behind some human seeds.
But this is mostly not a good thing; they are just lab rats being raised in captivity.
Even in some more orderly or benevolent realms of true immortals, the level of human civilization and the structure of governance have regressed to feudal or even slave-based eras.
The chaos of the pioneering era only came to an end with the rise of the Immortal Alliance and the establishment of a new order.
These four Celestial Venerables who established the Immortal Alliance were unlike most other people of that era.
They built their power for the true ideals and ambitions in their hearts. They would never compromise with others, and if they said they would settle accounts, they would leave no one behind!
What's needed is a high degree of purity and cohesion of power.
As a result, a large number of cultivators under their protection became immortals. After the ascension channels were opened, countless geniuses emerged. On average, a true master of the Great Dao, who is a candidate for true immortal, could emerge every few years.
On the other hand, those old forces lost a true immortal, and as a result, they couldn't find a new one to fill the void for a thousand years.
The result is obvious.
Back then, they were willing to fight against the combined attacks of more than ten powerful cultivators of the same realm in order to open up a path for ordinary cultivators to ascend.
During their period of dormancy, they withstood immense pressure and concentrated the entire galaxy's resources to construct numerous massive projects, including the Star Array and the Galactic Center White Hole, propelling the Milky Way out of the cosmic void and towards its new home billions of light-years away.
Then, for the sake of the future of the entire civilization, even though they could have kept the [Gateway to the Heavens] a secret forever, they still managed to discover the method of projection and made it available to all humanity in the galaxy, thus ushering in the Age of the Heavens.
Ye Yang might be the biggest beneficiary of the era of the heavens—he is also currently the No.1 known candidate to rule the heavens.
Now, they have placed another trust and responsibility on Ye Yang's shoulders.
Although Ye Yang knew that such beings could easily find almost all of his words and deeds since birth, they must have calculated a large number of possibilities through cause and effect or other deductive methods.
This decision was made only at the very end.
But this trust is genuine.
It's not just about trusting Ye Yang's character, but also about trusting his abilities.
Ye Yang said earnestly, "Rest assured, Your Excellencies, I will do my utmost! And I swear on the Great Dao that I will never betray humanity!"
Ye Yang's first clone was taken to a secret little world in the Eastern Paradise.
The Savior of Suffering is quite skilled in the art of cause and effect. He will use the overall cause and effect of the Eastern Paradise to suppress Ye Yang's cause and effect, preventing any attack on the cause and effect level.
At the same time, if there is an invasion or attack on the Great Dao or the soul, he can at least ensure that Ye Yang's clone does not die and that his consciousness is not distorted.
Because of the characteristics of "Trinity", as long as Ye Yang has one clone that doesn't die, another clone can be conceived again, but it will consume a lot of resources.
However, Ye Yang's cultivation level was only at the sixth level at this time, so he didn't actually consume too many resources.
"Be careful. If you sense something is wrong, immediately learn from the Void Fungus's methods and cut off your tail to survive." The Savior of Suffering, who was guarding Ye Yang and emitting endless blue light downwards to suppress tens of thousands of infected True Immortals, said this to Ye Yang.
"Um."
Ye Yang nodded and began to let the mycelium spread, seeping into the bodies of these True Immortals to destroy the Void Fungus.
Each immortal body is a battlefield with a different environment. Ye Yang's mycelium and the mycelium of the void fungus are constantly fighting, adapting to each other, and countering each other's methods in tens of thousands of different battlefields.
Overall, however, Ye Yang had the advantage.
The life gene level raised by devouring the world is truly remarkable. Even though it couldn't be fully transplanted into the main world, it easily suppressed the void fungi!
Genetic variation rate, reverse transcription rate, gene pool matching efficiency, cell viability, division rate, etc.
Ye Yang's mycelium was completely superior!
Void fungi cannot even reverse transcribe the genes of leaf yang, because their life simply cannot support it.
Just as the Golden Horned Beast could not nurture the "Special Life World Tree" into a clone.
About seven years later, in the Eastern Paradise, Ye Yang finally ended this battle.
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling somewhat exhausted.
Of the True Immortals who were infected and sent here, more than 20% lost their immortal bodies during treatment, but nearly 80% of the remaining ones succeeded!
Ye Yang also accumulated a wealth of experience in this large-scale treatment.
Rest for three days, recharge your energy, and then—
Ye Yang unlocked the spacetime lattice that sealed Qian Tong, and then his mycelium instantly penetrated Qian Tong's body from the inside out!
Fearing that if they were a step too slow, the "Nineteen Protectors" would sense their special mycelium and do something bad.
Fortunately, after a long period of struggle, Ye Yang's methods for specifically eliminating the Void Fungus were already extremely advanced.
Qian Tong, who has been in a state of time-space stagnation, has all the Void Fungus cells in her body that are outdated compared to the current version.
Before these Void Fungus Cells could even be updated, they were all wiped out by Ye Yang in one fell swoop!
"What happened?"
Qian Tong stared blankly at her son, and then at the man next to him—uh? A familiar old man? Wait, why does this person look so much like the Savior of Suffering in the portrait?
"Haha, it's alright now." Ye Yang was quite happy and continued to quickly heal the cultivators with extremely powerful Dao veins that had been sealed away.
This was the first time for everyone to enter the core secret realm of the Eastern Paradise, and they even faced the legendary Savior of Suffering.
They secretly felt incredibly proud of themselves, knowing they could brag about it for a lifetime, but outwardly they were all extremely reserved.
After instructing his disciples to arrange for everyone to rest, the Savior from Suffering said, "The real test is about to begin."
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Ye Yang nodded, his expression also becoming serious.
In this secret little world, time flows at a rate ten thousand times faster than the standard time of the Milky Way; seven years here is equivalent to several hours in the outside world.
"The first batch of strains will take some time before they can be deployed to the battlefield. I'll take this opportunity to digest the gains from fighting the Void Fungus."
Ye Yang muttered to himself, then closed his eyes and sank into his sea of consciousness.
Actually, what he meant by "digestion and gains" wasn't about the past seven years.
Over the past seven years, Ye Yang has accumulated more experience in using the various innate abilities of the primordial strains, and he has now mastered these abilities to a high degree.
As for the details of those mutations and evolutions—they were all recorded at the genetic level, and Ye Yang didn't need to digest them at all.
Of course, Ye Yang's current abilities are not enough to digest it. He has not yet begun to follow the path of divine power to advance to true god and study the most fundamental mysteries of life.
What Ye Yang needs to digest now is actually analyzing the gene bomb that was revealed earlier.
There was a lot of information inside that had not been decoded, and Ye Yang forcibly stopped the release of the gene bomb halfway through.
But it was only the beginning, and Ye Yang could sense some phantoms of memories.
This made Ye Yang think of something like "inherited memories".
Recorded in genes, when expressed, they become memories—isn't that the inheritance of memories?
"The zombies controlled by the last nineteen guardian mycelia said I wasn't," and "I wasn't."
What exactly does he want from me?
Ye Yang had always had doubts about this.
This question can only be answered by analyzing that special gene.
Moreover, this also eliminates a potential threat. It's always better to thoroughly investigate the hidden methods and find countermeasures now than to encounter them unexpectedly in battle later.
However, it cannot be allowed to be fully expressed directly; a strict triggering mechanism must be set up to make it implicit—"strictly triggered"—immediately becoming invisible and ceasing expression after a specific segment has been expressed.
"To be on the safe side, let's add an extra layer of protection. If the 'latent' mechanism fails, the apoptosis mechanism will be activated."
Ye Yang silently completed the setup, adding these two security locks to both his soul and mycelial genes.
Then he ordered that one ten-thousandth fragment of that special gene begin to be expressed.
A piece of information, or rather a memory, gradually appeared in Ye Yang's mind and was also received by his soul.
"I—uh!! Ah—!"
In just a few moments, Ye Yang began to suffer, as his true intent began to circulate on its own, refining himself.
However, it came quickly and went quickly.
Ye Yang's decision to only express one ten-thousandth of a fragment was indeed a wise move.
If he hadn't been cautious, possessed a strong will to resist, and hadn't had a very strong sense of self in cultivating the Great Dao, then he wouldn't have been able to achieve this.
Even the information expressed by this one in ten thousand genes is enough to have serious consequences for him.
"Is that so?!"
Ye Yang opened his eyes, utterly shocked.
Although he himself couldn't explain it clearly, that "transferred memory" just now did reveal the tip of the iceberg of something very terrifying.
"It actually exists—a means to invade a person's mind and consciousness, distorting and influencing their personality, simply by using information that can transform into any medium, without relying on the power of the soul or laws!"
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