Chapter 274: Alien 【lich】’s Legendary Moon-landing Life
The sky grew increasingly dim, and the crude cave dwelling was pitch black inside. The Tiger Demon relied on Dark Vision to see a thin layer of dust on the ground, along with numerous footprints left by beasts.
This indicated that before its arrival, wild beasts or animal undead had occasionally wandered and visited this place. This meant that even if there were any treasures inside the cave dwelling, they had all been taken away.
After its expectations dropped significantly, the Tiger Demon continued observing the interior of the cave dwelling. Suddenly, beside the line of vertically carved characters [White Bone Scholar sat in meditation here], it discovered a stone carving with much smaller font and a very long text, which filled it with joy, thinking it was a cultivation technique left by the White Bone Scholar.
It hurriedly approached, carefully examined and recorded it. But just as it mustered its spirits, it was doused with a basin of cold water.
After reading just two lines, it disappointingly discovered that this was a self-biography left by the deceased before sitting in meditation, used to commemorate its legendary life, and it was even in classical Chinese format, which it found hard to digest.
Please forgive Candle’s knowledge of classical Chinese; after high school graduation, most of it was returned to the language teacher. Now living its second life, it had forgotten even more.
Fortunately, Snake Snake could read its past life memories and, combining the correction and derivation abilities of the Immortal Scripture, successfully restored the entire content of this stone carving.
After reading it through, the Tiger Demon had to admit that the White Bone Scholar’s life was truly legendary. It was indeed worth writing an article for future humans to admire.
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The deceased called itself the White Bone Scholar, but it was not actually a true scholar. In its lifetime, it was actually already a dead person.
More accurately, before it sat in meditation, it was already a Lich who had been dead for an unknown number of years.
Indeed, the White Bone Scholar was originally an ordinary Lich living on the Prime Material Plane of the outer Crystal Wall Universe. But the world it lived in suddenly suffered an invasion from the Abyss Plane, triggering an apocalyptic disaster.
However, all this had nothing to do with it, a Lich secluded in the deep mountain. It just needed to endure for another century; once the demons plundered all valuable things from the Prime Material Plane and found that the price of maintaining the Abyssal Invasion Channel far exceeded the profits harvested from the Prime Material Plane, they would leave on their own.
Even if this Material Plane ultimately collapsed and was successfully dragged into the Abyss by the demons, it could flee to the Underworld for refuge before the world was destroyed.
On the contrary, the countless killings caused by the abyssal invasion represented a huge wealth for it, a neutral evil Lich. Just by secretly collecting corpses and sneaking into the battlefield to loot after the war, it could pick up various precious human powerhouses + abyssal demonic creatures.
Unfortunately, the happy times had not yet begun—who knows what happened?
The brain-dead mages of the human faction obtained, from an unknown channel, a mad plan comparable to the magic version of The Wandering Earth.
Members of the Anti-Abyss Alliance pooled resources and used a super magic array even more exaggerated than the National Transmutation Circle in the Fullmetal Alchemist world to anchor a large chunk of Prime Material Plane continental plate.
They attempted to use the ultimate Plane Teleportation to ascend the entire nation, escaping the apocalyptic disaster of the abyssal invasion, and immigrate to the upper realm with higher magic element concentration, opening a brand new era of grand colonization.
The result was an event that left the Du Ling Star folks with a profound impression—the fuse that ignited the First Magic Resurgence and changed the world pattern exploded!
A Magic Plane Fragment from an external universe crashed into Du Ling Star, plummeting into the sea between the eastern Geng Continent and the western New Continent.
The human nation faction, which originally attempted to ascend the entire world, also experienced a subtle deviation. The Plane Teleportation tore off the wrong piece of territory from the Prime Material Plane; only part of the human world was taken away.
In addition, the Elf Race actively resisting the Abyssal Invasion in the adjacent great forest, the Dwarf Race that built a Doomsday Fortress underground, the Troll happily eating Ogres, Goblins rolling in the mud…
Secluded Liches, demons happily killing and destroying; and even a small chunk of Abyssal Invasion Channel + Abyss Plane layer + Abyss Will projection, were all teleported to Du Ling Star together.
This plane-level blunder event + universe-level diplomatic invasion event profoundly changed the historical process of Du Ling Star and the lives of all immigrants from the Prime Material Plane.
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The magical races and Liches who unexpectedly traversed to the strange universe initially marveled at discovering an unfamiliar and unknown zero-magic plane.
After panic came delight; they considered themselves superior to the natives here. By bringing noble magic to this barren and backward world, they would surely guide the world’s process.
But soon, the wandering magic plane suffered Magic Element Loss, the Magic Net failed, the Abyssal Invasion did not stop, along with a series of disasters like water-soil incompatibility and universe-level underlying rules conflict.
The place they traversed to was not any dead magic plane, but a thoroughly strange universe, completely detached from the Crystal Wall system; this side fundamentally lacked soil for magic to exist.
Soon, the human faction, comparable to Doraemon, came up with a new plan to seal the entire Magic Continent to reduce magic element loss and construct an artificial Magic Net (predecessor of the Mechanics Magic Net).
What erupted was something even more terrifying than traversing to a strange universe zero-magic world. This planet named Du Ling was not some zero-magic physical universe at all; instead, it sealed endless doomsday-level pollution roots.
The sudden fall of the magic plane and the massive dissipation of magic power did not trigger a magic resurgence wave on Du Ling; instead, it successfully charged up the sealed pollution roots like crazy, awakening them one by one.
Ultimately, they usurped the magic gift package from the Crystal Wall Universe to Du Ling Star, disassembled, restructured, digested, and absorbed it, and resurrected in a brand new native classical mythology posture.
What horrified the Lich the most was the Abyss Will that came along with the Magic Plane Fragment. This top-tier chaotic evil pollution source, upon falling into any universe, should spread, parasitize, and reproduce like malignant cancer cells or the T-Virus…
Even a tiny bit could pollute and twist a world, dragging it into the endless Abyss.
But the Abyss Will had not yet erupted before it was eagerly divided and devoured by the local unspeakable pollution roots, transforming into various online presences wearing the vests of Magic Universe orthodox (polluted) roots.
Things like Mechanics Magic Net, Filthy Bone Holy Mother, Mother of the Black Goat, Kunlun Mother… Even this Lich felt a chill down its spine and no longer dared to study the increasingly weak undead spells.
Fearing that before the necromantic spells could adapt to the local rules and be successfully restored, at the end of these spells, it would touch some unclean pollution roots, and then be devoured, twisted, alienated…
Just like the Elves who were reverse-polluted, devoured, and transformed into Pomelo Immortals by the Life Mother Tree (Peach of Immortality / Kunlun Mother).
After being passively teleported to Du Ling Star, the Lich truly went through a period of confusion, personally witnessing the magic civilization being dismantled, deconstructed, and reorganized bit by bit, with one evil and terrifying pollution root after another reviving, and the entire planet beginning to be polluted and twisted.
Then, a second external universe Industrial Universe connected to Du Ling Star, and an even more outrageous Second Superhuman Industrial Revolution erupted, shattering the Lich’s three views once again.
This zero-magic planet not only sealed terrifying doomsday-level pollution roots, but then another world completely different from the Crystal Wall Universe came to send its head.
Even the faith gods + divine kingdoms it once looked up to could not hold on, being dismantled and restructured. Mixed with the new food sent by the Industrial Universe, they became Industrial God Kingdom, Brand Godhead…
Afterward, the Lich could only say it was numb. Even the Power of Death sustaining its existence grew scarcer, forcing it to hunker down in the Magic Tower (sealed ecological box) to barely survive.
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Fortunately, heaven never seals off all paths. During the First Magic Resurgence period, the Lich actively befriended other magical beings, joined several colonial pioneering organizations, doomsday self-rescue organizations, pollution system interest research groups, and worked hard to learn Du Ling’s native culture, integrating into this innately evil planet.
Initially, it thought that having left its Crystal Wall system hometown, and Du Ling lacking an Underworld, these undead creatures would eventually die from power outage due to lack of Power of Death sustenance.
The only path to survival was to abandon the doomed-to-be-eliminated necromantic magic, learn from the Elf Race infected and twisted by Kunlun Mother, join a new pollution system to become an Immortal, or some Holy Light Angel or whatever…
By the dawn of the Second Epoch, the Lich already had multiple options. Ultimately, it was attracted to an organization pursuing knowledge and truth: the Truth School.
This school took spirit soul and truth knowledge as its superhuman foundation, encompassing everything, compatible with and accommodating all superhuman power, conducting profound research on them, and producing mutations at the soul consciousness level.
In Du Ling’s local superhuman theory terms, it was the Yang God cultivation immortal system leading to the Moon Sea of Consciousness.
Moreover, the Truth School could perfectly compatibly integrate all pollution systems. One only needed to produce a truth mutation at the soul consciousness level to join the Truth camp and ascend consciousness.
Naturally, the Truth School also had Du Ling characteristic side effects, such as super twisting of mental consciousness, burning of rationality, three views mutation, madness and loss of control… etc.
But all these problems were, for the innately absolutely rational and cold, even progressively losing emotions over time, Lich, instead a kind of positive energy supplement.
Thus, upon recommendation from other Lich friends, it realized that the Truth System perfectly complemented itself, and the pursuit of truth ideology also aligned very well with the Lich’s lifelong pursuit.
So it abandoned the once wavering Wisdom School (Mechanics Magic Net) it had considered joining, and chose the freer Truth School with infinite possibilities.
In the entry stage, it was forced to study the local Four Books and Five Classics and numerous classical works to clarify the mind and see true nature, shape three views, thus earning the title White Bone Scholar.
After opening the classic seed Truth Void, it smoothly graduated from the academy. At this point, all Truth Scholars could use heaven and earth myriad things, fuse with a kind of pollution power to enter the dao, combine with Truth to give birth to a branch school belonging to Truth.
After the White Bone Scholar opened the Truth Void, it turned back to combine its lifelong learned undead spells with Truth. During this period, it accidentally contacted the Yellow Springs and realized that Du Ling Star also had a power source similar to the Underworld.
The truth of the world unfolded further before it.
Through a series of research, it gained extremely profound understanding of the Yellow Springs and Moon Sea. It discovered that souls on Du Ling manifested in a unique fog state.
After death, souls metamorphose into fog invisible to mortal eyes, further differentiating into two parts: the pure, clear, spiritual, wise clear fog, which under the guidance of Moonlight Essence (Moonlight Essence pollution) at night, evaporates and sublimates, drifting toward the concept of upper/outer layer, ultimately merging into the Moon Sea.
Therefore, many Du Ling schools exploring souls and immortality secrets also call the Moon Sea: the collective consciousness of all beings.
While the turbid, impurities, id, negative resentment parts of souls after death turn into turbid fog, spontaneously gathering into turbid yellow liquid, flowing toward the concept of lower/inner/inside layer, ultimately forming the Yellow Springs.
Therefore, the inner layer world where the Yellow Springs converges is regarded as: Underworld, Yin World.
As a Truth Scholar converted from a Lich, the White Bone Scholar developed a strong interest in both the Moon Sea and Yellow Springs.
Their Truth School’s ultimate root pointed to the Moon, but the Lich also yearned to communicate with the Yellow Springs to draw native Power of Death.
Researching both simultaneously did not conflict. Because after death, souls ultimately decompose into clear and turbid parts, converging toward upper and lower directions.
During its research, it also discovered that areas unreachable by moonlight at night would have blocked spiritual evaporation.
Thus, the much-hunted Truth School White Bone Scholar wandered to the Misty Mountains to study fields like spiritual pollution, souls, death.
In the Misty Mountains, death lacked Moonlight Essence-guided spiritual evaporation; the spiritual side of undead souls could not enter the Moon Sea and would be spontaneously intercepted by the Misty Mountains.
As undead souls accumulated, it would further erupt into more severe mental pollution. This is why people in the Misty Mountains always hear various threatening active knowledge.
Using this treasure land, the White Bone Scholar further intercepted turbid fog, preventing it from converging into Yellow Springs water flowing to the Yin World, instead injecting a little into this Cold Pond to brew a negative energy Power of Death magic pool.
Ultimately, in a spell battle exploring the Yin World Yellow Springs, it suffered heavy injuries, passing on its mantle to the Unconscious Bank, awaiting an inheritor for the inheritance.
Thus it hastily sat in meditation in this crude cave dwelling with little wealth, leaving this legendary article.
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After the Tiger Demon finished reading this long classical Chinese text, it summarized that the mountain cave was just the White Bone Scholar’s safe house, a foothold in the real world, a place for researching souls, death, Yellow Springs, Moon Sea.
But this cave dwelling, including the external Cold Pond, had little intrinsic value; it was just an item and medium for verifying truth theories.
The other’s true wealth had long been transferred to the Moon Unconscious Bank. As long as a successor had the ability to land on the moon, they could follow the account to inherit this spiritual wealth, gaining the endless knowledge accumulation of its long life.
From another angle, an alien Lich that broke through the seed early naturally could not stay long in the human world. It must have soul ascended to the upper realm (Moon), frequently escaping into the Yin World Yellow Springs to be a ghost; the human world cave dwelling’s value diminished increasingly.
Ultimately, before death, the other chose to sit in meditation in the human world and leave the full inheritance (address).
Tiger Demon: “Does this mean the human world has higher security, and any human luckily stumbling here is weak enough? After being attracted by this mantle, they toil in cultivation, successfully land on the moon, and will likely be reverse-overwritten by the mantle in the Unconscious Bank, completing possession?”
Snake Snake: “Hard not to agree! If this article were carved in the Yin World or on the Moon, it would be reverse-deciphered by same-level big shots or stronger, looting its account! So it could only be carved in the bird-shit-free human world Misty Mountains, waiting for the fated one.”
Tiger Demon followed: “Those who can reach this place enduring layers of mist erosion (mental pollution) are probably members of the Truth School. The surrounding environment has already screened out most unqualified ones.”
