Chapter 134: The Ever-Changing World of Human Affairs
The power of heaven and earth, this is a very special energy. Every planet will have such energy, it is a must-have for the stability of a planet. This energy cannot be absorbed by practitioners, only used! However, there are exceptions to everything. If a living being can form a small world within its body, it can easily communicate with heaven and earth and pull this energy into its body to enjoy endless benefits! Every planet will produce a certain amount of heavenly power to maintain its balance. Once excessive heavenly power is produced, it will automatically form heavenly treasures and transform into another form of energy. Even if the heavenly power is produced in excess, it will be released in a violent form to achieve balance, resulting in natural disasters that cannot be resisted by human force!
Li Yuanba's unrestricted extraction of the power of heaven and earth, covering almost all of the three continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa, left no room for the demon gods to absorb even a hint of the power of heaven and earth. They could only mobilize all their internal energy and the energy within the war evolution device in an instant to counter this terrifyingly extreme death attack. The consequences were severe: all the demon gods disappeared, far surpassing the previous explosion of energy that shook the heavens!
However, this time was different from the last. Li Yuanba condensed the power of heaven and earth into his hammer form, and the explosive energy did not contain a single thread of heavenly power, but rather the magical gods' own energy. This resulted in the magical gods concentrating their attacks on the empty space three feet above their heads, with the violent energy sweeping across the four directions in a flat plane. An army of 12 million and tens of millions of kilometers of land that had sunk by ten zhang suddenly disappeared, becoming a shocking black volcanic region.
The dual hammers shattered the energy shield released by the combined efforts of tens of thousands of demons, and with a force of ten thousand kilograms, they brutally broke through the earth's defenses. They directly entered the ground and smashed into the earth's crust! The balance of the heaven and earth was disrupted, and the earth shook with anger as the artificially condensed energy was forcibly gathered. A violent change in the heavens and the earth tore the entire African continent into several pieces, and a thick magma carrying the powerful energy of the heavens and the earth spewed out from the center of the earth.
All kinds of natural disasters are sweeping the entire world, everywhere is the heaven and earth's punishment for those who destroy life! The whole world is changing its original appearance in the intense movement of heaven and earth. If people from later generations see this world, they will absolutely not think that they have traveled to Earth! The three major continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa are being torn apart, constantly splitting and merging, living beings wailing. Death has arrived!
The survivors thought they were on a giant ship sailing through the storm, constantly being tossed about, and nearly scared to death! Even the mighty beasts that could shake the heavens couldn't bear it, fleeing the earth and carefully avoiding attacks from above! Even the giant sea monsters fled in droves, as the sky and earth seemed to be boiling over like dumplings falling from the sky, with all manner of creatures struggling to find a patch of clean land. But it was all in vain!
The land is like a floating duckweed, constantly being compressed and collapsed, and the military power and technology that make people proud are of no use at all!
Disaster struck, and under Li Yuanba's iron-fisted leadership, the Tang Dynasty deployed massive warships that soared through the skies, carrying equipment and helpless civilians to form a steel continent at an altitude of 10,000 meters! At this time, the surviving demons took on the role of life-saving angels, sitting on the war evolution engine, searching for living humans in the turbulent land, delivering steel shelters!
At this time, the unique radiant attribute of humanity burst forth. The giant beasts that were heavily injured and barely made it to the shelter were also accepted by humans, who even took care of their young. In a temporary absence of life-threatening danger, these attributes were fully utilized! The birth of these warships is quite interesting; they were born for the high-ranking officials to enjoy and show off their power while traveling. After Li Yuanba left the Tang Dynasty ten years ago, in order to save effort and flaunt themselves, they began capturing giant beasts on a large scale, producing these warships that almost exhausted all stored resources. The massive warships are powered by energy crystals combined with human technology, forming an airborne platform. One energy crystal can provide a year's worth of flight power for the warship, which is extremely extravagant!
This human habit led this group of people to secretly build tens of millions of warships in various places, one bigger than the other! Until all the stored resources of the Tang Dynasty were exhausted, causing the technological progress of the Tang Dynasty to stagnate! Without Li Yuanba, once a war broke out, it would be unbearable for the impoverished treasury of the Tang Dynasty. For pleasure, selling national technology for a large amount of resources became one of their favorite things to do, and they also had many benefits! However, as for this warship technology, they have achieved an unimaginable level of secrecy. The reason why those countries are only slightly inferior to the Tang Dynasty in terms of technology is precisely because of these warships!
A year of upheaval has basically settled the overall situation. Apart from Datang, all other countries are basically in a state of disarray, and their technology is lagging far behind! They don't have this kind of warship to avoid natural disasters, resulting in casualties that are almost ten times worse than ours. The few scientific personnel they had cultivated were almost completely wiped out, and a large amount of scientific data was lost in the disaster, including equipment and buildings. The current situation is not much different from primitive society!
Destruction and rebirth, the present Earth is completely different! The familiar terrain has disappeared without a trace, and the continents that were collapsing and integrating have been redistributed. The seven continents have become six, and miraculously, the islands scattered across the ocean have formed connecting channels between several continents, allowing people to walk between several continents if they wish. However, there are also many extremely dangerous areas, where the sea currents reach terrifying speeds, even large ships will capsize and sink instantly!
This time's heaven and earth upheaval can be said to be the birth of a new world. Those alien beasts that had not yet awakened their divine consciousness underwent an earth-shaking transformation in this impact! That is, they gained thinking, no longer just surviving for simple predation! Like a medium, the longer they interacted with humans, the more they could understand human language to a large extent, and had their own interests-based thinking!
The current continental area is very suitable for the surviving creatures of today, and it has almost shrunk by half compared to the previous land area. The reason is simple: the sea level is high! The changes in nature have caused severe damage to the North and South Poles, but with the repair of nature. As time passes, once the sea level drops, the exposed area will expand, until it recovers to its original land area, and may even increase.
The distribution of these six continents is very interesting. If the earth is spread out into a plane, the original position of the present continent is exactly in the middle position, becoming the real central continent of the globe. Divided by east and west, the newly formed continent is still located in the Eastern Hemisphere!
Scattered disasters still appear from time to time, but the energy of all the warships of the Tang Dynasty has been almost exhausted. After the fleet of warships fell from the sky and was attacked by various energies, they had lost their value for use, and the extent of their damage could not be described as being riddled with holes! People concentrated these warships in the central plain area of the New Continent, burying them underground, only exposing the deck area, forming a huge city - City of Light of Life! Starting from this city, they began to build a gathering place suitable for human survival. Those who survived on the ground also began to gather towards the center, and through a census, it was found that only one-third of the original population of the Tang Dynasty remained - 300 million!
At this time, other continents also had human settlements, all of which were groups of lucky humans. The people on those continents could be said to have taken a difficult step, avoiding the invasion of natural disasters and coping with the attacks of those alien beasts!
The Great Tang was very prosperous, and under the circumstances of mutual assistance, a brand new way of survival was established with those alien beasts that had helped them. That is, by laboring to ask people for rewards - delicious food and living space!
And yet, in the face of peaceful coexistence between both parties, it was actually written into law! At this point, reconstruction is very rapid. The establishment of a city does not have many procedures in this high-martial world. Anything that requires human effort to complete is simply not considered an issue! Take, for example, the need to lay the foundation for this house - often, people just casually slap it together, and the foundation turns out to be incredibly solid, beyond the imagination of modern people...
People with low strength only need to pay for a meal worth ten people, shout out a giant beast, and step on it with one foot to get a solid foundation.
For example, when it comes to massive projects that require a lot of manpower, such as moving mountains and filling rivers, even the mighty beasts would be willing to put in some effort in exchange for a delicious meal. This saves a tremendous amount of resources, making it an exemplary model of efficiency!
Li Yuanba is now as if in a dream, he did not think that this move would actually create a whole new world!
Unlike the fiery passion of humanity, Li Yuanba's strike was a doomsday for Li Shimin and his people! In the dying alliance, where people were dying every day, they struggled to survive in the beast-infested African continent. They had to constantly hide from the powerful beasts that roamed the land. Before Li Yuanba's strike, there were only about 100 people left out of the original thousands. It was then that a demon god, tired of living, ran into the belly of a powerful beast and self-destructed, ending his miserable life. This was also the only chance for Li Shimin and his people to obtain energy crystals. However, just as they were about to cultivate a large amount of energy, Li Yuanba's devastating strike occurred! The remaining few hundred demons were left on the brink of death from the energy impact, and when they finally recovered, they encountered another disaster - the wrath of nature, in which only Wang Yanru survived.
"I'll have my revenge! Once I get another energy crystal, the whole world will mourn for us! Hahahahaha...!" Xiang Guan Yanru had been driven completely mad by a series of blows! Carefully opening a freezer box, he saw the intact medicine test tube inside, and Xiang Guan Yanru quickly vanished into the sky!
The virus in the test tube will multiply rapidly once it leaves the low-temperature environment, and if it cannot find a host, it will die within a month. After entering the host, it loses its ability to spread through the air and dies with the death of the host! This virus is strictly speaking an amplification virus, which can infinitely stimulate the potential of living cells, and under the support of massive energy in an instant, break through the limitations of life of the host, even reaching the legendary eternal life! However, the energy required for this is too enormous, and the energy needed to achieve eternal life is equivalent to the energy produced by a sun explosion in that instant!
If that's the case, perhaps this world would be thoroughly destroyed. However, the virus cultivated under this omnipotent energy crystal has its power weakened to the limit. This virus has a high degree of craving for energy overall, but its survival time in the host is very short, and it can only survive for two days! These two days are neither long nor short! Instantly absorbing the body's energy to stimulate all cells in the body, this kind of pain is enough to make the host instantly faint. Once the body's energy is drained, within an hour, the virus will absorb the host's spiritual power. If you are awake during the absorption of spiritual power and persist with the cultivation mantra for two days, congratulations, your physical quality and potential will reach an unimaginable level! On the other hand, the host will be sucked into a unconscious monster that is extremely craving for energy by the virus. Without consciousness, how can it obtain energy? That's an instinct - eat! This creature cannot obtain enough energy in ten years, and it will appear to have a backlash, instantly turning to ashes!
This unconscious host has a strong attacking power. Once it is manually damaged in any part, it will be infected instantly, and the required energy will be twice that of the original host! Due to the forced activation of potential, the physical strength of this host is several times that of the original host, and it's also a piece of cake for hosts who are one realm higher than itself.
This results in a strong restrictive effect on the overall quality of a living being after infection, including physical quality, spiritual quality and other external factors, among which luck is a major condition. Even if it's an innate living being, it may maintain its own consciousness and not become an unconscious host, or even a demon master may become an unconscious host. This results in the danger of this virus having uncertain factors, making it a fair gamble!
Shangguan Yanru wanted to obtain an energy crystal, it was in order to create a storm that could ensure the virus spawned by this medicine would spread to every corner of the world within a short period of time! The price she had to pay was that during her self-explosion, she also detonated the Transcendent Energy Crystal inside the virus test tube. The massive energy was enough to guarantee that the virus's power would disperse to every corner of the world before it could even level up. If there were two energy crystals, not only would the virus fail to level up, but it would also be stimulated by the massive energy and burn itself out completely...
