Chapter 1883 - 514: Can Afford to Wait, Two Choices (5k)_3

The Ancient Sea God began to go mad upon the River of Time; he could not resist that thing which was ravaging his consciousness—because it was originally himself.

Then, like a mad beast, he charged toward the end of the River of Time.

He tried once more to tamper with everything indiscriminately, churning up waves that towered to the heavens.

Another great shock erupted.

This time, the great shock lasted five cycles before it finally subsided.

When it had fully calmed, and the River of Time had recovered to a certain degree, it remained locked in that state of murky, befogged turbidity.

The remnant New Continent was still a land of death; within the waters of the deep sea, not a single living thing could be seen.

On the fragment of the Immovable Continent that remained, it was not far from becoming a desolate dead land; only some plants still existed here, and any living being larger than a fist had vanished without a trace.

After that second impact, the Ancient Sea God completely gave up.

By now, even going mad was useless, yet the fear in his heart still tormented him.

At this time, he began to split apart again, wanting to divide his power as his split-off figures peeled away.

He left countless silhouettes upon the River of Time.

At the beginning, he truly did feel much better.

For each and every silhouette was him, and as they split away, the fear in his heart split away with them, lessening somewhat.

But the good times did not last; the portions he had split off began to lose control, began to collapse, and then fused back into him once more.

Once they fused back, the fear within him was even stronger than before, torturing him until he could no longer remain calm enough to think about anything.

All of this was transmitted to Yu Ziqing by Shi.

On the other side, Yu Ziqing judged that the time was about right; he closed his eyes, bound them with black cloth, and began to call out to the Ancient Sea God.

He called once, and the Ancient Sea God completely ignored him.

He was in no rush, and continued calling, once a month.

Only after a full year did the Ancient Sea God respond to his summons.

At the instant the connection was forged, the Ancient Sea God wrapped all things here in death and hurled them into the link.

The bastard had already been driven to desperation, wishing he could make Yu Ziqing plunge headfirst into the River of Time, from then on unable to live or die, forever in torment.

But Yu Ziqing already had experience; this time, not only had he long since covered his eyes with specially-made black cloth, he did not even release his senses.

He did not even attempt to perceive the existence of the Ancient Sea God.

Unseeable, inaudible, unfelt.

Only when he confirmed the connection had been established did he begin speaking on his own.

"All living beings, all entities possessed of spiritual wisdom, will inevitably have the instinct to tend to the good and avoid the evil.

Fear, in truth, is precisely the thing that steers one away from calamity.

It is not necessarily a bad thing; those who know nothing of fear, nothing of reverence, are doomed not to live long.

If you place this upon a clan, then it will certainly be unable to pass down its bloodline.

And don't ask me what exactly is happening to you.

I can't hear what you're saying, and I can't feel it either.

I'm just here, purely, to tell you a few things.

Honestly, I think that dragging this out like this does no good for anyone.

I can afford to drag it out, all of us can; even if things go on like this forever, it's something we can still accept.

For those of us with high cultivation, if we die, then we die.

As long as the legacy is passed on, sooner or later the day of change will come.

But you—I don't think you can necessarily wait until that day.

Do you not already feel that you can no longer think, that your self-awareness has begun to twist and descend into chaos?

If this accumulation continues, sooner or later your self-awareness will completely collapse.

For beings like you.

Is there really any difference between a hundred years, ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years from now?

Things that can be foreseen, that are bound to happen.

Can you accept them?

So I'm actually being kind right now, giving you a once-and-for-all solution.

How to proceed is entirely up to you—do whatever you like.

Do as you damn well please."

Yu Ziqing spoke on his own, and at this moment the Ancient Sea God calmed slightly.

His malice was already impossible to conceal.

This time, he had initiated the connection purely because he had been tormented to the point of helplessness, his malice erupting, wanting to drag Yu Ziqing down to his death.

Blinding Yu Ziqing's eyes last time had clearly not been enough.

But as Yu Ziqing spoke, he cooled down, listening for the solution.

"Let me say this first—erasing the fear in your heart is fundamentally impossible.

Unless you first erase your own self-awareness.

That power can only be transferred.

By transferring it onto some other thing attached to you, then discarding that portion and shifting it away.

The method is very simple; that's all there is to it.

All Gods are already gone to the past; back then you were able to jump from the Ancient God camp to the camp of the Gods.

Now that the Gods are all gone, if you jump over to our side, it's not exactly impossible.

From now on we all live in peace—you tell me, isn't that wonderful.

Telling you the method now is sincerity.

Farewell. As for what you do, you can mull it over slowly.

Of course, it's best if you decide while you can still think calmly."

After Yu Ziqing finished speaking, he directly severed the connection and briskly took his leave.

He had come solely to deliver a unilateral notice; the Ancient Sea God could do as he damned pleased.

Now, time no longer stood on the Ancient Sea God's side, because now Yu Ziqing was the one who could afford to wait.

The Ancient Sea God roared in furious rage, furiously whipping up colossal waves.

Yet it was utterly useless.

He naturally understood the meaning of Yu Ziqing's words.

Yu Ziqing was forcing him to voluntarily relinquish the Kan sigil.

By actively relinquishing Kan, he could transfer his fear away and free himself.

The Ancient Sea God had managed to stall things until today, with none able to touch him, precisely because he bore the Kan sigil.

Moreover, no one had any way to strip the Kan sigil from him.

The only method was for the Ancient Sea God to give it up himself.

And this relinquishment could not be like Heavenly Monarch Luoge's, leaving an opening and a chance to borrow it again in the future.

He had to abandon it completely, in order to utterly sever the fear.

Now, only two paths lay before the Ancient Sea God.

Either continue to drag things out, until his self-awareness begins to twist and unravel into chaos, and one day he goes utterly insane, wholly becomes disorder, and when the limit is reached, is completely annihilated.

Or abandon the Kan sigil, allowing the evolution of the present world to resume.

But the latter would give his stalled progress toward death a chance to continue.

Once evolution is complete, if these people harden their hearts and destroy the present world, they can utterly extinguish the Ancient Sea God.

Two choices—pick one.