"To be honest, I’m not entirely clear on that myself, as I am currently a wanted fugitive." The Book Saint shook his head.
"However, I do have a theory, I suspect the Heavenly Court is pooling its efforts to ascend into a specific, higher existence."
"To achieve this, they are willing to damage the very foundation of the world, preparing for one massive Great Harvest!"
In the past, although the Heavenly Court continuously harvested Source, they exercised restraint, after all, this was the world they managed.
If it were destroyed, they wouldn’t escape the consequences either, but this time, many signs indicated the Heavenly Court was planning something monumental.
"A Great Harvest? Does that mean a vast number of people will die?" Adam frowned.
"Correct, I received intelligence that when this Heaven and Earth Upheaval concludes, this entire world will be sacrificed and refined, serving as nourishment for the Heavenly Court to take that final step!"
"How many people live here in total?" Adam’s frown deepened.
"Based on incomplete statistics, there are tens of millions of villages alone!" The Book Saint shook his head, this world was simply too vast for a full census.
"So you’re saying, in the end, every single person here will die?" Adam gently spun his teacup, he didn’t consider himself a saint, and his hands were far from clean of blood, but hearing this still made his heart feel inexplicably heavy, he felt a sudden pang of longing for his motherland from his previous life, it was so peaceful and reassuring.
"Yes, and that is precisely why I founded the Heaven-Slaying Society, since the Heavenly Court intends to commit such heinous acts, they will inevitably face the backlash of the karma they’ve sown!" The Book Saint’s voice was laced with righteous anger.
"Senior Book Saint, how exactly did you end up in this world?" Looking at the Book Saint’s youthful face, Adam recalled what had happened back in the tomb.
"In the later eras, anyone who achieved the Saint realm could take up a position in the Heavenly Court, in order to read their vast collection of books, I chose to take an idle, administrative role there."
"Everything was fine at first, but as time passed, I slowly began to notice things were off!"
"A faint scent of blood often drifted through the Heavenly Court, and the auras surrounding many gods would occasionally become incredibly bizarre!"
"For instance, sometimes thick, viscous liquid would seep out of their skin for no apparent reason, other times, while we were having a perfectly normal conversation, a tentacle would suddenly flop out of their mouth, or, despite not being Erlang Shen, a third eye would abruptly grow on their face!"
"They would usually brush it off, claiming something went wrong with their cultivation!"
"But I am extremely well read, and I had never come across any cultivation technique that produced such horrific deviations!"
"Furthermore, I would occasionally hear incomprehensible ravings whispering in my ears, giving me splitting headaches!"
"As time went on, I started hearing them in my dreams as well, I even began having nightmares where I turned into a giant octopus at the bottom of the deep sea!"
"From that moment on, I knew with absolute certainty that something was dreadfully wrong with the Heavenly Court!"
"And just as I was preparing to leave, they stopped me, they refused to let me go!"
"Naturally, I couldn’t fight them, even as a Saint, I could still be killed!"
"But I knew that if I stayed any longer, I would inevitably suffer the same fate as them!"
"Therefore, I set in motion a plan to fake my own death!"
"A fake death plan?" Adam looked at the Book Saint, not expecting that under such circumstances, he could still escape the Heavenly Court’s control.
"That’s right, because I worked in the Sacred Book Pavilion, commanding all the collected books in the world, I could indirectly influence the mortal realm!"
"I slowly inserted my own identity into some of the miscellaneous tales and travelogues of humanity!"
"I allowed rumors of my invasion by evil thoughts to begin spreading in the mortal realm."
"In the Heavenly Court at that time, they paid great attention to evil thoughts, no matter who it was, as long as they showed the slightest sign, they would receive special care!"
"At the time, I didn’t know why they placed such heavy importance on evil thoughts!"
"Later, I learned that after their mutation, their bodies and souls became extremely unstable, these evil thoughts, born from the heart, would greatly affect them!"
"These evil thoughts would cause their bodies to mutate in uncontrollable directions!"
"Although I didn’t know it at the time, being able to use this was enough!"
When the Book Saint said this, Adam’s heart skipped a beat, he thought of a certain existence he had encountered just recently.
The descent of the Evil God’s son, the Black Infant, right on the ferry.
Evil thoughts have existed since ancient times, they are the inner demons and knots in everyone’s heart, however, there had never been any relevant records regarding an Evil God.
No matter how terrifying evil thoughts might be, they would at most give birth to an evil alter ego, or cause qi deviation, becoming an existence like an Evil God had simply never happened before, moreover, it wasn’t even certain if evil thoughts were directly related to the Evil God.
However, the Book Saint’s words made him faintly realize something.
The lack of records might be because the Heavenly Court had suppressed them, before their mutation, perhaps evil thoughts wouldn’t have developed much, but when these gods at the apex of the world developed irrepressible evil thoughts, perhaps those evil thoughts underwent a different kind of evolution.
Adam wasn’t in a hurry to bring up the Evil God, he continued to listen to the Book Saint’s account first.
"As expected, I was soon escorted to the lower realm to be guarded, but they didn’t seem to have given up on me, they still valued me highly!"
"They constantly sent people to guard me!"
"I had no choice but to truly let the evil thoughts erode me."
"Of course, I was prepared, I am a Saint, after all!"
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