Chapter 914: Chapter 914: Third Fruit
In the scene, human cities rise from the ground, followed by civil war.
"Although these humans have gained intelligence, they have also begun to reveal their greedy, bloodthirsty, and selfish side. They kill each other for resources, even more cruelly than the alien beasts."
"At that time, as the god who created this world, I gradually began to loathe human beings."
"I think they are a cancer in this world, and I want to wipe them out of the world completely."
"But Duan disagreed."
Chun sighed.
"It was around that time that my conflict with Duan gradually became apparent."
"He believes that human flaws are an inevitable part of evolution, while I think they don't deserve to live in this world."
"At that time, he was still very weak. He used too much of his original power to create attributes and professions, and he was far from being my match."
"However, I didn't kill him, after all, he was my only companion. I simply suppressed him under the sacred tree."
"Then..."
In the scene, lightning strikes the First World.
"After I wiped out all of humanity and completely destroyed the First World."
“By reusing the origin, a second world was created.”
A hint of confusion appeared in Chun's voice.
"What surprised me at that time was that even though I hadn't created the human species, it still inexplicably came into being. And its development was very rapid. It even developed its own civilization."
"I know, Duan must have done something."
"Although I suppressed him under the Origin Tree, he was, after all, the second fruit conceived by the tree. He used the roots of the tree to infiltrate the underlying logic of the Second World and silently rekindled the spark of humanity."
"That is, from that time onwards."
Chun paused for a moment.
"I had the idea of getting rid of Duan."
"And Duan also had the idea of completely replacing me."
Zhou Huai stopped tapping on the handrail.
"Two tigers cannot share one mountain," Zhou Huai thought to himself. "Besides, you two are fundamentally incompatible."
Chun did not refute: "That's right, because we already realized it at that time."
"We are two absolute extremes."
"I want to create a world without humans, only pure nature and strange beasts. In my world, everything follows instinct, there is no greed, no endless taking and destruction."
"But he only wanted to create a world with only humans. He believed that human wisdom and evolution were the ultimate answer to the universe, even if such evolution was accompanied by destruction and infighting."
"There is no way to reconcile them."
The images flow.
The Second World, the Third World, the Fourth World... the birth and death of eras flashed before Zhou Huai's eyes.
"Thus began a multi-century-long struggle between Duan and me."
“Every time I launch a Heavenly Cleansing, intending to wipe out humanity completely, he will secretly intervene to preserve the human race and even continuously improve his so-called 'attribute' and 'profession' system.”
Zhou Huai raised a question:
"As the first fruit and the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao System, you should theoretically have overwhelming power over him. Why couldn't you kill him?"
The image freezes on the phantom of the Tree of Origin.
"My strength is indeed far superior to Duan's."
"However, let's not forget that we were also born from the Tree of Origin."
“I am the first fruit, and he is the second fruit. This means that he can also command the power of the Origin Tree.”
“Every time I push him to the brink, he uses the fundamental laws of the sacred tree to forcibly tear space apart or change dimensional coordinates.”
"That's why he was able to escape from me time and time again."
Zhou Huai suddenly realized.
No wonder Mr. Duan was able to master so many mutually exclusive high-dimensional laws and survive countless eras under the nose of the Heavenly Dao System.
He himself is an existence that originates from the same source as the Heavenly Dao.
The two were like administrators with the highest privileges on the same computer; neither could completely delete the other.
"This stalemate lasted for a long time."
"The situation reversed with the onset of the Fifth World."
"Over the long years, Duan's understanding of the Origin Tree has deepened. He has mastered more and more of the Tree's power."
"What's even more frightening is that he perfected the final closed loop of the professional system."
"He can even turn the professionals he creates into a part of his own power!"
A huge wave of emotions surged in Zhou Huai's mind.
Reverse conversion!
He finally understood.
The way professionals level up by fighting monsters, gain experience points, skills, and equipment in the modern world is not a gift from Heaven, but a grand scheme laid out by Mr. Duan that spans eras.
He treated all of humanity as a battery.
Humanity's desperate efforts to upgrade and break through are actually helping Mr. Duan purify the essence of the laws.
When a human reaches the maximum level, or is targeted, they will be devoured and become nourishment for him to complete his godhood.
This is true of every powerful figure in the old world.
Chun Ku continued.
"On the contrary, my power °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° has gradually weakened due to the repeated cleansing and restarting of the Heavenly Dao."
"At that time, I realized that if I didn't resolve the issue soon..."
"One day in the future, I may be completely replaced by Duan."
“Once he absorbs enough of the professional's essence, his authority will surpass mine, and at that time, I will be completely wiped out of this universe by him.”
The scene shifts. In the vast ocean, sea monsters roar. This is the Seventh World.
"So in the Seventh World, I launched a fierce sweep that spared no expense."
“I even went so far as to shake the very foundation of the universe and unleash a world-destroying punishment, vowing to utterly destroy him and the humans of that world.”
"That time, Duan almost died at my hands."
Chun exudes resentment.
"Unfortunately, in the end, we were still one step behind. He escaped."
"Not only that..."
"At the end of the Seventh World, because I overdraw my source, I completely lost control of the Origin Tree."
"The Sacred Tree has been controlled by Duan."
Zhou Huai was secretly alarmed. How could an administrator who had lost control of the server possibly play?
Starting from the Seventh World, this tree changed hands.
"By the time of the Eighth World, the situation had completely spiraled out of control."
Chun continued her story.
"Mr. Duan used the power of the Origin Tree to make the human race stronger than ever before. In that era, SSS-level powerhouses emerged one after another, and they swept away all alien beasts."
“If it weren’t for the internal strife within the human race, Mr. Duan would probably have already completely replaced me in the Eighth World.”
"And now we've reached the Ninth World."
"I have completely lost the ability to eliminate Mr. Duan."
"Duan, wait until he has absorbed the power of all the strong humans in the past generations."
"It's only a matter of time before they replace me."
Zhou Huai asked calmly, "So you came to me at this time?"
"That's right, because it's precisely at this time."
"The Tree of Origin has given birth to its third fruit."
Zhou Huai Center had anticipated this.
"So I'm the third fruit?"