"How worthy is he?"
These four words, like Nine Heavens thunder, exploded on the ruins.
The incarnation of Zhang Cheng's kind thoughts was shocked by the confidence and dominance erupting from Lin Feng, causing him to retreat repeatedly.
He looked at Lin Feng blankly.
He couldn't understand.
Why?
Why, after learning such a desperate truth, not only did this person not collapse, but he became more willing to fight?
"You..."
Zhang Cheng's voice was a little dry, "You don't understand what Upper World means."
"What does it mean? Isn't it just a BOSS with a higher level and a thicker health bar?"
Lin Feng shrugged indifferently.
In his eyes, it doesn't matter whether you are a Upper World mighty person or a Lower World warrior, just cut him off and that's it.
If you can't kill him with one sword, just use two swords.
Twenty thousand times the critical hit is not enough.
Then save up to two hundred thousand times, two million times!
Zhang Cheng looked at the "are you kidding me" expression on Lin Feng's face and sighed deeply.
"Your confidence comes from your ignorance of the outside world."
Zhang Cheng's kind thoughts seemed to have made up his mind, and he wanted to tell Lin Feng everything.
"Do you think that by ascending to Upper World, you will be carefree and immortal?"
"Do you think Upper World is the destination that all practitioners dream of?"
Lin Feng raised his eyebrows. "Isn't it? According to the traditional story, shouldn't it be that after ascending, the sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky is high enough for birds to fly?"
"Script?"
Zhang Cheng was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "That's all a lie."
"It was fabricated by Upper World's superior beings and fed to Lower World's livestock."
"Livestock?"
Lin Feng's eyes turned cold.
"Yes, livestock."
Zhang Cheng's tone became cold and cruel, and he began to reveal a truth that was bigger and darker than seizing the body.
"Where do you think the universe came from?"
"They are just pastures for those powerful people like Upper World to keep living beings in captivity!"
"Each Lower World world is an independent breeding farm. The existence of Upper World will regularly sow the seeds of cultivation, that is, the inheritance of various techniques."
"They are waiting, waiting for the creatures in these worlds to become fat through practice."
Lin Feng's heart sank a little bit.
"The so-called ascension..."
Zhang Cheng's voice was trembling, which came from the fear deep in his soul.
"The so-called ascension is not about becoming an immortal at all!"
"That's Harvest!"
"It's the owner of the ranch, here comes Harvest's grown animals!"
Zhang Cheng pointed to the crack in the sky that has not yet been closed. "Do you know what the ascended will face when they arrive at Upper World?"
"The best outcome is to become a cow or horse."
"They will be branded by the major immortal sects and become the lowest slaves. They will be sent to dig in the most dangerous fairy mines until they die of exhaustion."
"They will be treated as cannon fodder and driven to fight with Heavenly Demon and hostile forces, consuming the last bit of value."
"They are just cattle and horses in the literal sense, not even human beings."
Lin Feng was silent.
This truth was even more fucked up than he imagined.
"This is still the best outcome."
Zhang Cheng's expression became more and more desperate, "What if you are unlucky and get intercepted by Heavenly Demon in the ascension passage?"
"Heavenly Demon?"
Lin Feng I thought of the magic hand that covered the sky and the sun just now.
"Yes, Upper World is not monolithic. The immortal way and the demonic way are in constant battle."
"For those Heavenly Demon, Lower World ascended strong men are the freshest and most delicious 'food'!"
"They will devour the souls, flesh and blood of the ascended ones bit by bit like delicacies, and use them to strengthen their own demonic power."
"Ascension is a gamble."
"Bet on whether you will be captured and used as cattle and horses, or whether you will be captured and used as snacks."
"But no matter which one, there is no dignity, no future, and no freedom."
"Jumped from one cage into another, bigger and more cruel fire pit."
Zhang Cheng laughed miserably, "I started from a humble beginning. I was not willing to be a cow and a horse all my life, so I stood up and resisted. The result was successful, but he still overestimated himself, and in the end... he became what you know now."
"He escaped and hid in this former ranch."
Lin Feng finally understood everything.
No wonder!
No wonder the martial arts in this world stops at the Martial Apex Realm.
It's not that it can't be higher, it's that the ranchers don't allow it.
They set a ceiling. Once this ceiling is reached, they must ascend and be Harvest.
The body of Zhang Cheng, the cow and horse that escaped from the slaughterhouse, blocked Heavenly Gate and cut off Harvest's passage.
On the one hand, he was trying to avoid his enemies, but on the other hand, he was trying to cut off people.
He wanted to turn this pasture into his own private property.
He wants to take Lin Feng or others, the strongest animals in the pasture, as his own!
"So, it took me a long time..."
Lin Feng slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, his eyes were terrifyingly cold.
"All of us, from birth to death, are just leeks raised by others?"
"You can cut it whenever you want, right?"
Zhang Cheng nodded sadly. "In their eyes, Lower World creatures are no different from the pigs and sheep in the pen."
Lin Feng held Killing Blade tightly.
He thought of those colleagues in Demon Suppression Division who had followed each other one after another.
I think of the ordinary people in this world who are working hard to live and survive.
Their lives, their struggles, their sacrifices...
In the end, it was just a joke?
Is it just the process of cattle and horses gaining weight?
"This Heavenly Gate..."
Lin Feng raised his head and looked at the sky.
"Rather than saying it is a door to ascension, it is better to say it is the railings of a pigsty."
The incarnation of Zhang Cheng's kind thoughts looked at Lin Feng with the last glimmer of hope.
"Now, do you still think that your strength is enough?"
"Do you still think that my body... is not worthy of being taken away from you?"
"What you are facing is not one person, but the entire Upper World, this set of cruel pasture laws that have lasted for hundreds of millions of years!"
Lin Feng has no answer.
He just slowly, slowly raised the knife in his hand.
The tip of the knife points diagonally towards the sky.
"Pig pen?"
"Laws?"
Lin Feng smiled, extremely wild and cold.
"Laozi, is here to defy heaven!"
Lin Feng's arrogance completely stunned Zhang Cheng's embodiment of kindness.
Against the will of heaven?
How dare he think?!
That is the law of the heavens laid down by Upper World immortals and demons jointly set up. It is an iron law that cannot be shaken by hundreds of millions of years of life!
"You..."
"Don't rush to refute me yet."
Lin Feng interrupted him, "I only want to ask you a question."
"Why are you telling me this?"
Lin Feng's gaze was as sharp as a knife, as if it wanted to pierce the soul of Zhang Cheng's incarnation.
"According to what you said, you are just a ray of kindness from the main body. What you should do is help him stabilize me and paralyze me, instead of giving me spoilers here."
"Unless..."
Lin Feng narrowed his eyes, "You betrayed your identity."
Zhang Cheng's incarnation showed extreme pain and struggle on that elegant face.
His body even began to flicker, as if it would disappear at any moment.
"That's right."
After a long time, he spit out these two words.
"I betrayed him."
"I am originally him, and he is originally me. But... I am just a ray of kindness after all."
"I have been cut out of my body for so long that... I almost forgot about him."
Zhang Cheng's eyes swept across the ruins and the dead Demon Suppression Division colleagues.
"I've been through a lot here."
"I saw the struggle of the creatures in this world."
"Perhaps I am no longer the almighty Upper World, I am just...Zhang Cheng."
"I don't want to see this world ruined like this."
His confession made Lin Feng's last doubt disappear.
This incarnation of good intentions truly wants to save the world.
"So, you told me this because you want me to stop him?" Lin Feng asked.
"Stop him? No..."
Zhang Cheng shook his head, the look of despair on his face became even stronger.
"I tell you this because I want you to... escape."
"Escape?"
"Yes, run! Run as far as you can, run as far as you can!"
Zhang Cheng's emotions suddenly became excited.
"Because, it's too late!"