239: Chapter 234 The Truth!

As these words fell, the world seemed to fall into a sudden silence. Even the churning black mist surrounding them appeared to solidify completely at this moment.

Although Chen Zhiwen had already formed some shocking speculations in his heart the moment he saw the old man emerge from that world-core-like crystal, when he heard the old man admit it with his own ears, he was still struck blank by this cruel and shocking truth. He stood frozen in place, unable to recover for a long time.

"Creator..." The meaning represented by this word was too heavy, and too... terrifying!

This vast and boundless Huangzhou World, the surging rivers, the towering and continuous mountain ranges, the billions of living beings struggling to survive, the magnificent history of Cultivation, the ten-thousand-year struggle between the Human Race and the Yao Race... Everything, was it all actually created single-handedly by this old man who looked like he was about to die?!

This truth was even more despairing than the arrival of the apocalypse!

Watching Chen Zhiwen's shocked and dazed appearance, Xuanji Daoren seemed quite satisfied. A trace of imperceptible nostalgia flashed in his turbid eyes, and he continued in a tone so flat it was almost indifferent: "Since you are not from this world, you should understand that in this boundless Void Realm, there exist countless different world planes, as numerous as the sands of the Ganges."

"And I, come from a Major Thousand Worlds called the 'Lingyue Continent'."

"The world I am from is vast and boundless, with ten thousand races standing tall, and its immortal Cultivation civilization is brilliant to the extreme. Moving mountains and filling seas, plucking stars and grasping the moon, are merely the means of ordinary Cultivators. Those true immortal Cultivation mighty figures can even open up worlds with a single thought, freeze time and space with a single finger, and possess boundless power. There, Opportunity and danger coexist; that is a truly competitive era."

Xuanji Daoren narrated slowly, as if painting a magnificent epic picture for Chen Zhiwen, yet one that had nothing to do with him.

"In the Lingyue Continent, I was a Grand Elder of a second-grade Sect, and my cultivation... had already reached the Peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm."

Hearing the three words "Spirit Transformation Realm", Chen Zhiwen's heart contracted violently again. Although he did not know exactly what kind of great power this Realm represented, just from Xuanji Daoren's light and breezy description, he could feel that it was a terrifying level far above the "Taboo" of the Huangzhou World, one that was impossible to imagine! No wonder he could create a world!

"As for why I created this Huangzhou World..." Xuanji Daoren's tone shifted, and an indescribably complex look appeared in his eyes, "That must start with a massive Opportunity I obtained tens of thousands of years ago."

"At that time, I was just an obscure little Cultivator in the Lingyue Continent who had just stepped onto the Dao of Cultivation, struggling at the bottom, fighting for my life for a single Low-Grade Spirit Stone, unable to guarantee my survival from one day to the next."

"By a stroke of coincidence, I accidentally broke into a Secret Realm left behind by an ancient Loose Immortal, and within it, I obtained a Legacy Cultivation Technique from that Loose Immortal."

"That Cultivation Technique had no name, but its method of Cultivation was exceptionally domineering and... evil!"

When Xuanji Daoren said this, a look of irrepressible fanaticism and excitement appeared on his face, which looked like dead skin, forming a sharp contrast with his decrepit image.

"That Cultivation Technique allows the Cultivator to use their own blood essence and Divine Soul as a guide to open up five independent 'Small Grotto-Heavens' within their own 'Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung, and Kidney' five Divine Storehouse palace points! That is to say... five real Small Worlds!"

"Whenever the living beings within these five Small Worlds, through Cultivation, grow their life Origin and cultivation to a critical point where they can be harvested, the person practicing this Cultivation Technique can activate the method to refine the entire Small World along with all the living beings within it!"

"Effortlessly harvesting the lifelong cultivation and life Origin of those practitioners, turning them into the purest nourishment to feed back into oneself and enhance one's own strength!"

"It was precisely by relying on this Heaven-Defying Cultivation Technique that I went from being a nobody to advancing triumphantly, eventually reaching the Peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm and becoming a titan of a region! Moreover, I obtained a Lifespan far longer than other Cultivators of the same level!"

After listening to Xuanji Daoren's words, Chen Zhiwen only felt a bone-chilling coldness spreading wildly from the depths of his heart, instantly sweeping through every cell in his body!

All the shock in his heart now turned into boundless horror and monstrous anger!

The world is the cauldron, and all living beings are the medicine!

So, this so-called Huangzhou World was not a real, independent world at all! It was just a Grotto-Heaven world opened up by this terrifying Cultivator named Xuanji Daoren within his own body, used to farm "Spirit Medicine" and provide nutrients! A... human farm!

All living beings on the Huangzhou World, whether it was the Human Race struggling to survive or the Yao Race roaring in the forests, from the moment they were born, their fate was already sealed. Their lives, their efforts, their struggles, their love and hate... everything was just making wedding dresses for someone else! The only meaning of their existence was to be walking "Great Medicine," working hard to grow, waiting until they were "mature" to be cruelly harvested and refined by their "Creator" along with this world!

How pathetic! How cruel! How despairing!

Chen Zhiwen instantly understood everything.

Why did the Cultivation system of the Huangzhou World have obvious shackles, where the Taboo Realm was the Peak that human power could reach! Because this was the rule set by the "Creator of the world"! He needed the "Spirit Medicine" to grow, but he absolutely would not allow the "Spirit Medicine" to possess power that could threaten him!

Why, since ancient times, had all the stunningly talented powerhouses who broke through to the Taboo Realm eventually come here, only to all perish! Because they had touched the "ceiling" of this world and were about to possess the ability to glimpse the truth outside the world, so they were "harvested"! Or rather, they were "cleaned up"!

This sea of bones was ironclad proof! And himself... if his Soul Origin did not belong to another world, he was afraid that by now, he would have already become one of these bones!

Forcing himself to calm the monstrous anger and killing intent that was about to erupt from his heart, Chen Zhiwen stared fixedly at Xuanji Daoren before him, his sharp eyes burning with cold flames. His voice became incredibly low due to extreme suppression, as if squeezed out from between his teeth.

"If that is the case, then why... is the current situation happening in the Huangzhou World?"

The "situation" Chen Zhiwen referred to was precisely that Void Realm rift across the sky outside the black mist, which looked like a wound on the world and signaled that the entire Huangzhou World was about to be destroyed!