My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 885 - 735: Everything is Ready

Chapter 885: Chapter 735: Everything is Ready

’I understand, it’s just forming alliances in advance, that isn’t really a problem,’

Amidst his thoughts, Wang Zijia’s expression shifted, and he said, "Has something happened? Is it that some large world factions have been discovered and a large-scale campaign is about to begin?"

Li Benlin shook his head and replied, "That’s not it. But indeed, something has happened."

Wang Zijia paused in his tea-drinking, not immediately speaking but waiting for Li Benlin to continue.

Li Benlin sipped his tea twice and after pondering for a moment, finally said, "According to the news from below, the demon upheaval in various realms has become more severe recently, showing a trend of forming a demon disaster and a Demon Tide simultaneously, especially in some subordinate worlds where a number of Mysterious Domains have suddenly emerged..."

As Li Benlin described some situations, Wang Zijia became more puzzled; these circumstances seemed somewhat familiar to him?

He searched his memory.

That’s right, the last time he traveled through the Taiching Palace of the Fifth Era and returned to his own space-time, he seemed to have seen such information.

Wang Zijia subconsciously called up the previous information records.

[...]

[After turmoil for eight thousand years, Yun Lai ascended to become a Celestial Immortal on his own, the scent of decay intensified, lifespan not long. The End of Dharma surged more violently]

[Yet, for reasons unknown, the Demon Tide rose again, and simultaneously appeared in all worlds, giving rise to strange mutations. Sinful mutant demons started appearing frequently in beings’ eyes, omnipresent!]

[In a very short time, mutant creatures turned from rare precious species to ones that spread across all realms of Shen Hong. They had a strong effect on cultivators, and monks became extremely prone to demonic possession, with "demon" and "Detrimental Mutation" becoming synonymous!]

[Entry into demonic possession ensured mutation; to become possessed was to mutate!]

[After ten thousand years of turmoil, it was still the End of Dharma, but the Spirit Mechanism of heaven and earth bizarrely stopped further death, in a state of neither living nor dead, thus coming to a stop. The Cultivation World stagnated in the low-end era of the Lower Three Realms.]

[The End of Heaven and Earth’s Dharma, the collapse of the Heavenly Dao, mutations everywhere, calamitous for the World, all kinds of Inheritance and Dao Consistency were severed, ushering in the transitional era between the Fifth and Sixth Eras, a gap in Inheritance!]

[The World’s Spirit Mechanism had sustained countless eons of lingering on the edge of death, before finally reviving again. The Cultivation World once more welcomed a Shengshi, slowly unfolding the opening scenes of the Sixth Era.]

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[...]

Looking at this, isn’t that extremely similar to the current situation!

After hesitating for a long time, Wang Zijia said, "Does it feel familiar?"

Li Benlin, not the least bit surprised, replied, "Indeed, familiar. Since the very beginning of this Era with the rebirth of Spiritual Energy, a surge in the Demon Tide throughout all realms has already erupted seven times, with an average of once every hundred thousand years or so."

"Actually, when you think about it, this isn’t entirely a bad thing."

"Hmm?"

Wang Zijia, who had wanted to say something, looked at Li Benlin with confusion.

Li Benlin explained, "After each Demon Tide, the World’s Spirit Mechanism has further revived. Our Shen Hong has undergone seven waves of universal Demon Tides, which has allowed us to gradually recover from the End of Dharma to our current state."

"Although aside from the initial hundred thousand years, the subsequent tides haven’t resulted in earth-shattering fortunes, but merely made the Spiritual Energy a bit richer, which can’t be considered a full resurgence of Spiritual Energy, there are still quite a few benefits."

’So... the Demon Tide is a manifestation of the resurgence of Spiritual Energy?’

’The world changes, miraculous plants and Spiritual Beasts sense it early, which is fine, but why the turmoil of Demon Tides?’

’Something doesn’t seem quite right.’

"Has no one investigated the origin of these Sin Tides?" Wang Zijia asked.

"They have, but it turns out there’s no clear origin," Li Benlin shook his head and said. "However, there was once a Sanctified Cultivator who mentioned that the root of all this is the influence of Tribulation Qi."

"It is said that in our Era, Tribulation Qi will foster Pollution, giving rise to the Demon Tide."

"If it continues like this it may not be entirely a bad thing, because once the Tribulation Qi accumulates to a certain extent it exhausts early, unable to build up to the level of a Great Tribulation. Therefore, our Era might not see the occurrence of another Great Tribulation and change of Eras! As such, our Era could possibly become one without limits!"

Tribulation Qi, an ancient concept.

This thing has never been proven to exist, yet it still does.

It is said that with the existence of all things in the world, Tribulation Qi is born, and when it accumulates to a certain level, the heavenly order becomes chaotic, killing intent pervades the sky; all beings descend into chaos, fiery destruction engulfs everything, Wisdom is obscured, triggering wars, and ultimately a Great Tribulation erupts.

This results in the succession of Eras, explaining the erratic actions of Great Cultivators at the end of previous Eras in Shen Hong, and even Sanctified Cultivators could make senseless decisions.

Previously, Wang Zijia understood the concept of Tribulation Qi to be the entangled karma, resource conflicts, grievances, and destinies accumulated by cultivators to a certain extent, which would eventually explode into an ultimate battle.

Causing a world reshuffle, Qiankun recreates, heavens change, earth transforms.

This catalyzes the change of Eras, much like the transition of Mortal World Dynasties.

But according to Li Benlin’s words, if Tribulation Qi truly could transform into Pollution and trigger Sin Tides, then Tribulation Qi must be something else, more akin to a tangible substance like Killing Intent, rather than the conceptual entity Wang Zijia had previously understood.

...

On this subject, Wang Zijia and Li Benlin discussed many more points.

A good half-day later, without having settled on any concrete situation, Wang Zijia stood up to take his leave.

Li Benlin didn’t press further, clearly, as long as the Spirit Suppressing Realm nominally belonged to the Taiching fire lineage, that was enough for him.

After all, he wasn’t like Wang Zijia thought, seeking cannon fodder to pioneer a Foreign World.