"Some Grand Unity beings are too weak, providing negligible data and procedures; others are so powerful that they set the framework of the Primordial World and the direction of this game!" Phoenix said. "But no matter what, every Grand Unity being occupies a certain proportion of the Primordial World and is closely connected to every living being."
Feng Xi listened, his eyes flickering as he pondered.
"Do you think you... are really you? Have you truly mastered yourself?" Phoenix paced around, his tiny body looking somewhat comical. "The food and water you take in, the tens of millions of types of vital energy you absorb... Your blood, flesh, and bones were all formed from the resources of the Primordial World. Yet are you certain there's nothing wrong with them?"
"The elements that make up your body—countless trillions of substances... Are you sure no Grand Unity being has participated or tampered with them?"
"Your five viscera and six bowels form their own cycles. Do they really obey your commands?"
"Take Ancestor Dragon, for example. He controls all the waters under Heaven and is one of the sources of the Water Dao... The water involved in your bodily circulation—when you get down to it, does it truly obey you, or does it obey him?"
"I've cultivated for many years. I'm certain I've already mastered everything within my body..." Feng Xi began hesitantly.
"That's what you think." Great Sage Fuxi smiled. "With that paltry cultivation and realm of yours, how dare you claim you've eliminated every hidden danger?"
"Only a Grand Unity being can resist another Grand Unity being... Do you think that saying became a consensus among the people because of how many skeptics failed after challenging it, paving the way with their own flesh and blood?"
Feng Xi shuddered.
After a long while, he said heavily, "Even if my body is imprisoned, my soul is still free..."
"Ha." Great Sage Fuxi laughed even more happily.
"The soul is free? How could that be?"
"A Grand Unity being's control over the world isn't limited to matter."
"It also includes information and cognition!"
"In fact, this sort of control and infection is even harder to guard against..."
"As long as you recognize something and form a definitive understanding of it... you've already fallen into a boundless abyss!"
"You understand the sun, so the Grand Unity being who controls the Great Sun Dao has already left a mark in your heart."
"You understand the nature of water. Even if your understanding isn't comprehensive... the divine being who controls the Great Dao of Water will still take root in your spirit."
"The contamination of a Grand Unity being doesn't occur only on the material level. Infection and overwriting on the levels of information and spirit, along with the spread of memes, will eventually become an inseparable part of you."
Information could become a virus, too.
"When you receive this information, you'll change along with it, producing terrifying distortions."
"Never look directly at a god... I'm not joking." Great Sage Fuxi said calmly, "Don't believe me? I can let you experience the consequences and understand the true face of this world."
This great and supreme divine being extended a finger and lightly tapped toward Feng Xi.
In an instant, Feng Xi's world completely changed.
He saw... countless indescribable things flash before his eyes.
He heard... countless unspeakable evils whispering in his ears.
Along with these images, Feng Xi's entire body began to distort—transforming into an evil creature!
"Rip!"
One crack after another appeared across his body.
His blood-red muscles and pale bones twisted... Blood-colored tumors rapidly grew, evolving into entirely new organs.
"Pfft!"
Near his head, several tumors split open, becoming brand-new heads.
Some displayed rage; some displayed despair; some displayed madness.
Scales sprouted across Feng Xi's body. Behind him, several tails extended—dragon tails, snake tails, leopard tails, tiger tails, and more.
At his waist, hundreds or thousands of sticky tentacles suddenly burst out and rapidly grew, covering dozens of miles of mountains and rivers as they lashed about madly, whipping mindlessly.
In the blink of an eye, Feng Xi's entire style had changed.
What could some Nine-Headed Birds or Nine-Tailed beasts possibly amount to compared with him?
He had gone straight from a normal style to becoming an Old Ruler—a bona fide number-one Great Evil God!
Infected by the Dao of Grand Unity beings—and by multiple ones at that—Feng Xi had directly fallen into demonic and evil ways, hurtling toward a state of utter madness!
Then, at a certain moment, Great Sage Fuxi glanced at him indifferently.
That glance seemed eternal.
All the abnormal conditions that had been flaunting their existence seemed to encounter their deadliest nemesis. One after another, they vanished without a sound, like snow exposed to blazing sunlight.
Only Feng Xi remained, dazed. He involuntarily felt over his body, a trace of lingering fear still showing on his face.
"How was it? How did it feel?" Great Sage Fuxi asked with interest. "Fun?"
"Was that the infection of Grand Unity information?" Feng Xi said with difficulty. "I feel like I've become so much stronger, entering the strength of the Supreme Unity realm in an instant. But I also nearly went insane, almost losing my reason completely..."
"You didn't nearly go insane..." Fuxi sneered. "Without me suppressing your will, you would already be insane."
"Gulp." Feng Xi swallowed. "Is this world really so dangerous?"
"So much terrifying information fills every corner of Heaven and Earth, spreading and infecting everything like mad... How are ordinary people supposed to live?"
"Dangerous?" Fuxi pondered briefly. "To say it isn't dangerous would be to lie through my teeth. But if you ask whether it's dangerous... haven't we made it through all these years?"
"Have you ever seen even a single example of someone losing control and going mad?"
Feng Xi was stunned and silently pondered.
"That... really hasn't happened. But why?" He was very curious about the reason behind it.
"Because, naturally, someone didn't allow it." Fuxi smiled as he explained. "There is a Grand Unity being who is the strongest and most invincible throughout the ages. His will, information, and infection permeate Endless Space-time, suppressing the information-based infections of all Grand Unity beings!"
"Using poison to fight poison, he poisoned to death all the maddening information passively radiated by the Grand Unity beings."
"The information he spread was stability and harmony... Thus, all living beings behaved normally. They wouldn't hear those bizarre whispers or see the most terrifying and shocking images."
"So, beings beneath Grand Unity could look directly at Grand Unity beings... and in certain aspects, stand on equal footing with them."
"And this Grand Unity being's name is surely not unfamiliar to you. You've heard it countless times."
At this point, what else could Feng Xi fail to understand?
"Pangu!"
He sighed softly and spoke that name.
"That's right, Pangu." Fuxi nodded. "He slew the Three Thousand Grand Unity beings and suppressed every Dao... After successfully creating Heaven and Earth, he smelted his own body into the world, giving form to all things and the Myriad Spirits."
"He shattered and degraded his own soul, turning it into the source of the True Spirits of all living beings... It was precisely this safeguard that suppressed the space-time of the ages and allowed the Primordial World's style to remain as normal as you see it, instead of becoming a bizarre world where beings went mad at the slightest provocation."
"Ancestor God Pangu truly was magnificent." Feng Xi sighed with emotion. "Such sacrifice created a beautiful Primordial World."
"Magnificent? Perhaps." Great Sage Fuxi smiled, a strange glint appearing in his eyes that Feng Xi failed to notice.
Feng Xi was still immersed in the magnificent epic Fuxi had recounted. Some doubts had been answered, while new questions arose. "The Three Thousand Grand Unity beings... The Chaos Demon Gods and the current Grand Unity Divine Beings—could there be some connection between them?"
"Grand Unity transcends space-time. What difficulty could there be in traveling backward through time to reach the Chaos Era?" Fuxi countered. "The so-called Chaos Demon Gods were actually Grand Unity Divine Beings as well... After all, proving Grand Unity is difficult!"
"Only after immeasurable amounts of time had accumulated could so many Grand Unity beings be born. In the end, they traveled backward through the ages, met in the chaos, and were cut down one after another by Pangu... Their Daos were suppressed by Pangu's Dao, and all the bizarre phenomena consequently vanished without a trace."
"Wouldn't they have avoided something that was tantamount to throwing their lives away?" Feng Xi muttered.
"Beneath Pangu's will, who could escape?" The corners of Fuxi's mouth lifted. "Once he decided to sacrifice all the Chaos Demon Gods to Heaven, it became an unalterable destiny—the greater trend!"
"The fact that he ultimately left each of their Innate Undying Spiritual Lights a path to survival and didn't format their consciousnesses was already something every Grand Unity being should be grateful for."
Pangu!
Strong!
Invincible!
The indisputable ultimate powerhouse, crushing everyone who dared to resist!
You don't submit?
Then die!
Feng Xi admired the domineering style of such a great powerhouse to the point of complete submission.
He looked forward to perhaps being lucky enough to have such a day in the future, when he could be just as awe-inspiring.
By then, he could also settle some old scores—such as being deceived, being deceived...
"All right, I've said enough..." Great Sage Fuxi waved his hand. "Considering how difficult your life has been, I'll overlook your profiteering and reselling in the Phoenix Perch Mountain Range."
"Take the things and get lost... Remember, this is the one and only exception."
The Human King Fuxi issued his order for the guest to leave.
But Feng Xi was quite reluctant.
How interesting was it to chat with Great Sage Fuxi?
In that short while, he had already learned so many secrets—all hidden knowledge that only beings in the Grand Unity realm were qualified to know!
The great powerhouse was kind, spoke pleasantly, and Feng Xi liked it here very much.
What should he do now?
Feng Xi's mind raced. After countless brain cells died, he finally thought of a method—though he had no idea whether it would work.
The beautiful relationship between his true self and his clone had fallen apart.
But he could still build a relationship through other means!
For example—an ancestor and his descendant?
Besides being one of the four emperors of the Demon Clan, Great Sage Fuxi was also the Human King of the Human Race!
Feng Xi's previous life had been a member of the Human Race, right?
And there was another crucial point.
Human King Fuxi bore the Feng Surname!
Feng Xi also bore the Feng Surname!
They shared a surname!
What was fate?
This was fate!
Perhaps Feng Xi could even establish some bloodline connection with Fuxi!
"Although your previous life bore the Feng Surname, strictly speaking, you may really have nothing to do with me." Fuxi said solemnly. "After all, the Human Race's Feng Surname—I'm not its origin."
"Huh?" Feng Xi looked utterly bewildered.
"The origin of the Feng Surname belongs to another Human King—Suiren!" Fuxi's expression grew extremely solemn. "Suiren is the Suiren you know—the Suiren Shi!"
"Suiren Emperor established the Feng Surname and the Hao Clan!"
P.S. Interested readers can search for "Suiren Shi" on Baidu and take a look at the ten inventions attributed to him. Afterward, you'll realize that if you applied them to the Primordial World, he would be the true hidden great powerhouse.
He summarized the Heavenly Dao, named the Earthly Dao, established the Human Dao, and handled all three Daos of Heaven, Earth, and humanity himself; he drew the River Diagram with his left hand and wrote the Luo Book with his right; and so on.
Readers who know what I did in my previous book will understand that what the protagonist did in that book was actually Suiren Shi's work.
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