Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 228

Chapter 228: Outline of Civilization Here

The two questioned everyone they met in the big world, and their results were largely the same: they all believed they had no regrets entering the virtual world.

“The euthanasia plan… has been in place since Feitian Company was founded. Its founder, Xiang Gu, established the company specifically to implement it!”

“I just don’t know what Xiang Gu’s purpose was. It’s a pity Xiang Gu lived over a thousand years ago and is long dead.” Bai Hongtu lamented. If he could find Xiang Gu, he’d really like to ask the bastard what exactly led him to drag an entire civilization into the grave.

“There’s definitely something wrong with Xiang Gu; maybe he’s not dead,” Bai Hongtu was certain; this was his intuition.

Returning to the real world, they used their spiritual sense to scan the five major galaxies, but all they found was Xiang Gu’s tomb.

Unwilling to accept this, Bai Hongtu used the spell “Returning Wind and Fire” to restore Xiang Gu’s remains to their original state, making them look exactly like his portrait.

He’d heard that technological civilizations like to use DNA to determine a person’s authenticity, so he ran a DNA test and compared it to a DNA database. The results revealed that this person was Xiang Gu.

“Could my intuition be wrong?” Bai Hongtu wondered, doubting his instincts.

“No, the return of wind and fire and DNA testing alone don’t prove anything.” Jiang Li frowned. “Don’t forget the first step of the euthanasia plan, which mentioned ‘utilizing divine revelation to develop technology.’ If divine revelation is an artifact, then we haven’t seen anything that transcends our time. So, divine revelation must have been spoken by a powerful being to Xiang Gu.”

“This world only has the Goule civilization. Where did the gods come from? The Dao Ancestor had already passed away by then. This powerful being could only be from another world.”

“Either an immortal from the celestial realm happened to pass by, took a liking to Xiang Gu, and taught him technological knowledge, or a celestial-level demon from outside the realm arrived and had him destroy the Goule civilization.”

“I’m more inclined to believe it was the demon from outside the realm,” Jiang Li analyzed. “Although the Goule people volunteered to die, overall, the Goule civilization has indeed disappeared, which aligns with the demon from outside the realm’s purpose.”

With Du Ming present, some things couldn’t be said directly.

If Du Ming were told that the holographic simulator was the work of the extraterritorial demons, he might even thank them.

“And the nutrient solution? It promises 200 years of extended life at the cost of infertility and the separation of body and consciousness. It’s practically a deliberate attempt to prevent Gou Le from having offspring.”

Jiang Li and Bai Hongtu had originally thought that if this nutrient solution were truly heaven-defying, capable of surpassing the natural lifespan of mortals, they might as well bring it back to Jiuzhou and give it to mortals and low-level cultivators.

Now, after learning the price of using it from Du Ming and carefully studying the solution, they were eager to destroy it all.

The cost of the nutrient solution was too high.

For civilization, the nutrient solution was also a danger.

Long-term immersion in the nutrient solution would gradually separate the body and consciousness, while even a short soak would only render one infertile.

Furthermore, the earlier the immersion, the better the effect, with a maximum lifespan of 230 years.

If the price of 200 years were infertility, who knew how many people would choose to soak in the nutrient solution?

They couldn’t guarantee that people would wait until they had children before soaking in the nutrient solution.

Perhaps someone, hoping to live thirty extra years, had already immersed themselves in nutrient solution.

“How twisted must one’s spirit be to come up with such a scheme!” Bai Hongtu cursed. He could never imagine the existence of such harmful things as the holographic simulator and the nutrient solution.

“The Extraterritorial Demon is too savvy about human nature, grasping the crucial contradiction between the individual and the collective,” Jiang Li explained to Bai Hongtu, drawing on his past life’s knowledge.

“How could someone trained by the Extraterritorial Demon be saved for over a hundred years?” Jiang Li sneered.

Historical records indicate that Xiang Gu only lived to be 130 years old, and the nutrient solution was invented after Xiang Gu’s death, specifically during the reign of Feitian Group’s tenth president.

“From the founding of Feitian Group to the moment it allowed all of civilization to enter the virtual world, it took four hundred years and ten presidents. Without personally carrying out an extermination plan, Xiang Gu was so confident that all subsequent presidents shared his vision?”

“I suspect Xiang Gu faked his own death to escape, and that subsequent presidents were all his puppets. Otherwise, for a civilization unable to break through its lifespan, someone over four hundred years old would be too conspicuous.”

“Then how do you explain this face? And what about DNA testing? Isn’t that supposed to be effective?” Bai Hongtu pointed at Xiang Gu, who had been restored to his original appearance. He looked like an ordinary old man, and no one believed he was the culprit behind the destruction of civilization.

“Cloning technology.”

Bai Hongtu suddenly realized, remembering that this technology existed in the technological world.

He wondered if he should devote himself to Ming Zhong’s studies and familiarize himself with technology. Otherwise, if they knew the same thing, Jiang Li would be able to react so quickly, which would be embarrassing.

Although he had embarrassed himself in front of Jiang Li many times, he tried to avoid it as much as possible.

“If Xiang Gu is still alive, doesn’t that mean he’s fourteen or five hundred years old? Is he in the Fusion Stage?”

“How difficult is that? The Extraterritorial Demon can use elixirs to send the Twelve Heavenly Kings to the Spirit Transformation Stage, so why can’t Xiang Gu be sent to the Fusion Stage? If I had immortal power, combined with the Nine-Transformation Immortal Pill, I could make someone immortal.”

“Then where is he now?” Bai Hongtu hadn’t found any trace of a Fusion Stage cultivator in the five galaxies.

“Who knows? The universe is so vast. He might be wandering somewhere, or perhaps he completed his mission for the Extraterritorial Demon and was taken away by the Extraterritorial Demon.”

It’s a shame the system isn’t a human trafficker, and stores don’t sell people. Otherwise, Jiang Li would have wanted to buy Xiang Gu and bring him to him.

The server containing the entire Goule people was like a mountain, towering into the clouds, gleaming with countless points of light. It was powered by stars, with nuclear energy as a backup to ensure data wouldn’t be lost in the event of a power outage.

The current Goule civilization was this server.

The two had found the Goule civilization through this server before them.

It was a pity they arrived a thousand years too late.

“What should we do with this? Just leave it like this?” Bai Hongtu felt that this was a bit inappropriate, but if he took it back, it would be even more problematic.

Although virtual personalities are not considered people, and this server is just a dead object carrying data, but hundreds of billions of virtual personalities are all in the server, Bai Hongtu emotionally cannot treat these virtual personalities as dead objects.

He wanted to do something, but he didn’t know what to do.

“We don’t need to worry about the energy problem. The energy from the stars is enough to support the operation of the server for hundreds of thousands of years. You set up the formation to prevent it from being destroyed by meteorites.”

“As for the black holes, let’s see if there are any black holes within a thousand light years that threaten this place. We must also eliminate them. I’m responsible for this and will check on them every thousand years.”

Jiang Li divided the work and Bai Hongtu agreed.

Black holes are considered to be very powerful astronomical phenomena. The cultivators in the fusion stage are not afraid of black holes because they have the characteristics of the three-in-one. If they only use their physical bodies

, they cannot withstand the black holes. Only when you reach the level of immortals can you withstand the black holes with your physical body.

Bai Hongtu does have the means to eliminate black holes, but it is time-consuming and laborious, so it is better to leave it to Jiang Li.

After doing all this, Jiang Li erected a stone tablet.

The two did not admit that Goule Civilization was dead, nor did they admit that they erected a tombstone. They only said that it was a commemorative stone tablet.

Therefore, they wrote “Gou Le Civilization is here” on the stone tablet.

The two bowed deeply and left Goule Civilization.

(End of this chapter)