Grass Sprouted
Bai Qiuran withdrew his hand, his palm clutching a large handful of Souls.
He had used his Divine Ability of "Universe in the Palm" to snatch back the Souls of all living beings in the entire palace from the hands of that Consciousness Demon; they were now firmly in his grasp.
"I never imagined these guys were this terrifying."
Tang Ruowei looked at the empty palace in that Material World and clicked her tongue in amazement.
"It was born from the Desire of these creatures, and the first thing it did after its birth was to turn against its creator and devour their Souls?"
"Senior Uncle, this is why the Demon of Consciousness Demon is called a demon."
The Red Dust Immortal Elder replied, "These monsters, born from the Consciousness Domain, can only grow stronger by devouring the souls of others."
Bai Qiuran looked into the Consciousness Domain. He was certain that his previous palm strike had crushed the Consciousness Demon into dust, but the Consciousness Demon was not dead.
Because humans are still alive, and the beings of the Material World are still alive, as long as they still have the Desire for Pleasure, this Consciousness Demon will forever revive within the Consciousness Domain.
Of course, in this isolated world, Bai Qiuran could easily destroy the entire world, including the Consciousness Domain. But on the other side of the Consciousness Barrier, in that boundless Void, no one knows just how vast the Consciousness Domain of these Consciousness Demons is, or how many worlds it connects to.
Destroying the world is ultimately an unacceptable approach.
"However, if this continues, the Material World will likely descend into chaos."
Bai Qiuran looked into the Consciousness Domain.
"Half of the civil and military officials, the entire royal family, and the entire palace were wiped out; no one was left alive. What follows is certain to be chaos."
"Based on the way Consciousness Demon are born, it seems that a second high-level Consciousness Demon is about to be born within the Consciousness Domain."
Li Jinyao also looked towards the Consciousness Domain, her eyes sparkling.
"Will the next one be war, Hatred, death, or famine?"
"Anything is possible; let's continue to observe."
Bai Qiuran said, "I'm also very curious. Two tigers cannot share one mountain. If two high-level Consciousness Demon are born in succession within the Consciousness Domain of a world, what kind of chain reaction will occur between them? Wait for me a moment, you guys continue to observe."
Leaving Li Jinyao and Tang Ruowei with the Red Dust Immortal Elder, Bai Qiuran first grabbed a handful of Souls and summoned several Underworld Emissary, instructing them to send these Souls back to the Ghost Realm.
Even though the Reincarnation system of the Underworld Ghost Realm is not yet connected to this world, these Souls still have to Judgment. As long as the Underworld Emissaries register them in the Book of Life and Death, all the crimes these Souls committed in their previous lives will be exposed in detail.
Based on the temperaments of the court officials and the emperor, Bai Qiuran felt that some of them should be fortunate enough to meet the four Immortal Realm emperors.
Those innocent children who were captured will be reincarnated into other worlds under the rule of the Immortal Realm, which is better than sending them back to the world that is about to enter a chaotic era.
After giving these instructions, Bai Qiuran went home again to inform Jiang Lan and Su Xiangxue that she might not be home for the next few days.
On one hand, after the birth of the Consciousness Demon, Bai Qiuran, who possesses Time-Type Divine Ability, can obtain a lot of useful information by accelerating the time of this world. On the other hand, like Bai Li, Bai Qiuran occasionally wants to find a reason to take a short break.
After bidding a reluctant farewell to Jiang Lan and Su Xiangxue, Bai Qiuran wiped away her sweat and returned to the bamboo hut of the Red Dust Immortal Elder.
After this back and forth, time in that world had already reached the morning of the next day. Those ministers who had not colluded with the emperor arrived at the palace for the morning court session, only to discover something strange.
The entire palace was deathly silent, with corpses scattered everywhere.
The ministers immediately fell into chaos. Fortunately, there seemed to be a few more composed senior officials present. They were usually ostracized by their colleagues and suppressed by the emperor, but at this moment they became the backbone of the ministers.
They quelled the chaos among the officials, stopped the fleeing people, and ordered their servants to summon the commanders of the Imperial Guard from the military camp outside the city to take control of the situation.
Before long, the commander of the Imperial Guard arrived at the palace with over a thousand elite troops. Then, under their protection, the officials ventured deep into the palace to explore the entire palace, hoping to find out if there were any survivors.
But the result was inevitably disappointing. Throughout the entire palace, even the horses in the stables had their essence extracted by that Consciousness Demon, leaving not a single living creature.
When these ministers saw the dead, naked officials and the emperor lying scattered in the Detached Palace, they all clearly understood one thing.
This country is about to change.
Bai Qiuran sped up the time again.
Although the senior officials managed to suppress the news in time, secrets don't stay hidden forever, and the sudden deaths of everyone in the palace were impossible to conceal even if one wanted to.
Upon learning of the emperor's death, the restless warlords rose up in rebellion, plunging the entire country into turmoil and chaos.
After this large country fell into chaos, it completely lost control over the surrounding smaller countries, which then descended into chaos as well.
Some, like the great powers, have seen their people, already dissatisfied with their rulers, rise up in rebellion. Others have amassed their forces and stationed troops on the Borderlands of the great powers, hoping to seize this opportunity to take a large bite out of them.
In such a chaotic world, death, slaughter, and war are inevitable. As the struggle continues and large-scale deaths occur, human resentment and Hatred explode, transforming into streams of bloody energy that flow into the Consciousness Domain.
Finally, under the influence of these factors, the Consciousness Domain underwent another dramatic change. This time, on the other side of the Consciousness Domain, opposite the pink giant egg, a blood-red, plant-like thing began to appear.
During this time, the creature that Bai Qiuran officially named the Pleasure Consciousness Demon, which he had crushed with a single palm strike, began to slowly revive deep within the Consciousness Domain, absorbing the Desire of the human Consciousness.
However, because it is a chaotic world, people are too busy trying to survive to have any time to enjoy themselves. Therefore, the Consciousness Demon absorbed very little Desire and recovered very slowly, which gave the blood-red plant a chance to grow.
By absorbing the anger, fire, and Hatred of the Warriors fighting in the chaos of war, as well as the resentment of the refugees who died in the chaos, the blood-red plant grew rapidly, soon becoming a huge clump of blood-red grass. And at the top of this weed-like plant, a blood-red flower bud appeared.
This plant grows in an extremely strange way. Its leaves appear soft and fragile, but upon closer inspection, one can discover that they are actually sharp blades. Even the flower bud is the same; it looks bright red, but its dark red color is the color of congealed human blood.
In the chaos of the world, this blood-red plant grew rapidly, and just like when the Pleasure Consciousness Demon was born, it attracted and transformed lower-level Consciousness Demon, thus gaining Three Venerables secondary Consciousness Demon protectors.
Just when the world reached its most chaotic point, the Consciousness Demon nurtured within this crimson plant was finally born.