Sacrifices
Three years later, the Snake People continued to expand, sweeping across the entire world. Based on the power of distortion, Snake People scientists invented various instruments, the most important of which was to search for those with authority over other Twisted Root, namely, the Correctors.
To this day, the last Correctors has been captured by the Snake People. Apart from a few Daoist priests who hide among the Snake People using magic, this world can now be completely occupied by the Snake People.
On the shore where they first landed, countless Snake People gathered a vast amount of materials and built the grandest and most luxurious altar. The altar was filled with a dense, twisted poison. Over the years, the Snake People had combined the power of twisting with poison to develop Twisted Poison.
King Moss III sat on his throne, listening to his people report on the sacrificial ceremony. For some reason, he had been feeling uneasy lately. However, when he prayed to the great god, the Father of Serpents revealed the plot of the Burrowing Demon Worm, saying that it was not his business and that someone else had already dealt with it.
Still feeling that something was amiss, Moss III stroked his tail, calming his unease. Now that they had conquered this world, all they needed to do was gather their strength to launch a counterattack against the main world and reclaim their home.
Dressed in his specially made royal attire, holding a staff, and with a decorative ring on his tail, Moss III attended the upcoming sacrificial ceremony in full regalia. Along the way, Snake People smeared their venom on Moss III as a symbol of offering their blessings.
Had Moss III not cast a spell on himself beforehand to resist the poison, he probably wouldn't have made it this far. Some enthusiastic Snake People brought their prey—a still-living human Daoist priest—to offer him as one of the sacrifices for this ritual, but were refused.
This disappointed the Snake People. In previous sacrifices, Snake People who could provide extra offerings would receive honor, but this sacrifice seemed different.
In fact, Moss III also found it strange. In the past, the sacrifices were only humans or other creatures, but recently, all the captured Correctors were offered as sacrifices to the great Father of Serpents.
However, this time, the Father of Serpents specifically noted that no additional offerings were needed; the ritual should proceed as normal. Suppressing his doubts, Moss III planned to have a deep conversation with the Father of the Serpents after the ceremony to resolve his inner turmoil.
Meanwhile, in a certain underground space, a blue flame appeared out of thin air, and a large amount of time power condensed, eventually forming Lu Li's body. With the help of the perfect cultivator's system, Lu Li also completed his own spacetime power system.
Human Lu Li is dead, and so is Zombie King Lu Li. But a new time controller has been born. Lu Li has formed a ring of life and death, and a ring of his past, present and future. Like cultivators, he has formed a Golden Core. However, cultivators form an energy Golden Core, while Lu Li has formed a time Golden Core.
Once a cultivator forms their Golden Core, they sever their connection with the world, becoming another miniature universe and a great thief of other worlds. Lu Li, however, completes the cycle of his own time, becoming a cyclical river of time, independent of the present, and becoming a special kind of spacetime creature, similar to the Hound of Tindalos, but superior to the Hound.
Lu Li arrived in this underground world from outside of time and space. His purpose was naturally to deal with the Shude Meier that was diligently gnawing at the foundation of the world. Their next plan had to be based on the existence of this world.
That day, Lu Li learned what Doros wanted to do from 007. In fact, as long as you find the source of all the problems and combine it with Doros's abilities, it is not difficult to understand Doros's purpose.
Why is everyone vying so hard for the position of the Twisted Lord? Isn't it all to use the Twisted Lord to turn this world into a fortress, so they can enter the main world and gain the upper hand?
As for why they entered the main world, Lu Li only had a vague understanding. But what these indescribable things wanted was to enter the main world. Doros had already stepped into it, but he was stopped by the Countermeasure Bureau and then kicked out by Nyar.
The Lord of Twistedness was merely His backup plan. After Lu Li created cultivators, or more precisely, after Lu Li, the Time Controller, emerged, the peculiar high-dimensional being Doros had a bold idea.
"The future is a time that is not yet determined, the present is a time that is being determined, and the past is a time that is already determined." That's what 007 said back then. However, generally speaking, when it comes to time, it's in the order of past, present, and future. That line does indeed put the future first, meaning it should be understood in reverse.
What is certain is the past, what is being determined is the present, and what is yet to be determined is the future!
The past of most of the universe is determined. Generally speaking, the past is determined and cannot be changed, but there are exceptions. For example, in the case of the massacre in the mountain village, because the past time changed, that past was only re-determined when Lu Li and the others were in the real illusion. That past can be called the future.
Doros's crazy idea was similar to that incident. Because of the Twisted Storm, the spacetime of this world was inherently unstable. As long as all life forms that had confirmed the existence of the Twisted Storm in the past, including the Twisted Root, were eliminated, Doros would have the opportunity to change the Twisted Storm from a certainty to a somewhat uncertain one.
In addition, given the conditions in the main world, Lu Li and Doros had a way to create some uncertain factors during that Twisted Storm, such as adding a few unnoticed creatures.
However, before that, there are still a lot of creatures that need to be eliminated, such as Shud Meier, who knows everything from back then. Once a creature has confirmed the past, it is basically impossible to change it, so Shud Meier must die.
As for Gheros, the other person who had confirmed the Twisted Storm, he was left to Doros to handle. However, it was unlikely that they would fight to the death. It was more likely that Doros would offer some benefits to make Gheros forget that part of the information.
As for Iger, who conspired with Lu Li and the others to tamper with the past, he went to clean up another group of creatures who knew about the Twisted Storm. The Snake People's rituals continued as usual, and Snake People all over the world were twisting and dancing joyfully.
Standing atop the grandest and most luxurious altar, Moss III turned around and discovered that the entire sea had changed from pale blue to dark brown. No, it was a gigantic scale, with a serpent's head that blotted out the sky flying from the sea surface. Seawater cascaded down from the gaps in its scales, forming a waterfall. Iger, the Father of Serpents, stared at his kin with his cold and merciless eyes that shone like the sun.
You creatures who know too much, you are the sacrifices for this ritual!