Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 155 Huaxia Gods Guard Huaxia
“Should it be a sacrifice? Like Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan sacrificed themselves in exchange for the Hong Hai’er’s escape from the world of Journey to the West.” Liu Shuai’s reaction was always faster when facing matters about gods and spirits, so he soon realized it. “After the Creation of Gods, if one part of sealed evil gods were sacrificed, another part of the evil gods would surely appear in this world…”

“But you said ‒” Hao Ning heard this and frowned. “the sealed gods in the Creation of Gods can’t come to this world, right?”

“Uh…” Liu Shuai’s face was hit by Hao Ning’s words, so he was somehow embarrassed. After all, he had given an absolute assurance about all these statements. But on second thought, he said, “Those all were old principles. From Xiao Hong and Nezha’s point of view, over these years, there should be many new ways, such as sacrificing the incense of some characters in the book in exchange for other characters’ appearances in this word. It was unimaginable in the past, but it is happening now.”

Speaking of this, Liu Shuai looked at Xiao Hong and Nezha and sighed, “It seems that in the aspect of gods and spells, it has been far from what I have learned in the past.”

“Are you saying that gods and spells are also advancing?” Hao Ning thought it was funny. “Doesn’t the magic world lay more stress on the past than on the present? I’ve always heard the story like that someone unexpectedly got some secret spells from tens of thousands of years ago and became super powerful.”

“With the times’ progress and social development,” Xiao Hong laughed, “nobody can live off his past gain. Isn’t even Avalokitesvara studying finance now?”

“Well…” Hao Ning saw that Liu Shuai agreed with Xiao Hong, and then he nodded, “What you said also makes sense, but in the fantasy fictions, I usually read that how powerful the ancient times was. I have been somehow affected.”

“Haha ‒” Zhou Yuan couldn’t help laughing at that time. “You even believed in novelists. If the ancient times was so powerful, where do I, the Moment God, come from?” Speaking of this, he snapped his finger and his body was surrounded by holy light, looking brilliant and dazzling.

“…” Hao Ning ignored this self-affectionate Moment God and continued to ask Xiao Hong, “So those evil gods who were bewitched at that time really intended to sacrifice in order to come to the world through some secret methods?”

“It’s very possible, and the more terrible thing is that if the secret method is used properly and there are enough gods to sacrifice…” Xiao Hong added in a solemn voice as he looked at Nezha. “It’s not impossible for the Creation of Gods to appear in this world.”

“The Creation of Gods? What’s so strange about the Creation of Gods in the world of gods appearing in this world?” For a moment, Hao Ning didn’t think it out. “Didn’t we use the power of the Creation of Gods to bring Moment God to this world?”

“Not the same! You just borrowed the power. After all, it was limited. If the real Creation of Gods appears in this world, it means that those evil gods who used to be sealed by the Creation of Gods will have the shelter of the Creation of Gods in the real world!” Liu Shuai thought it over and said in a trembling voice, “Then these evil gods can’t be destroyed! That will be an army of immortal evil gods!”

“My God!” Hao Ning didn’t realize this until Liu Shuai said so. He slumped into the chair. No wonder Xiao Hong had been so serious that as if he had been facing a formidable enemy. “In other words, if at that time the sealing of evil gods had been accomplished, the next step would be sacrificing some of them in exchange for the Creation of Gods’ appearance in the real world, and then the other evil gods would also appear in the real world? It’s terrible. Won’t the whole real world be destroyed?”

You must be joking! Nezha could easily move the water of the whole East Sea in the world of Creation of Gods. If this came true in the real world, how could the earth withstand these evil gods’ tossing?

“Uncle Jiang and you shared the same idea,” Nezha went on, admiring that they reached the conclusion which was similar to the actual situation just within a few words. “So, he hastened to inform the saints, such as Lord of Heaven, by praying. But he found that he was blocked from the gods’ secret, and the saints seemed to have all disappeared. No matter how he prayed, he couldn’t find any of them.”

“Was there no signal?” Hao Ning’s first reaction was this, but he felt it was inappropriate to joke at this time, so he coughed and let Nezha continue.

“That was why Uncle Jiang bore the charm for all of us by his own efforts.” Nezha looked at Hao Ning, nodded and continued, “Soon, Uncle Jiang was also bewitched, and because he bore too much, he was more deeply bewitched than us. At that time, we still had slight wisdom in mind, but Uncle Jiang’s soul was all eroded by the charm.”

“Wasn’t that worse?” Hao Ning asked quickly, “Jiang Ziya was bewitched. Couldn’t he seal any god as he wants?”

“No, I finally understand,” Liu Shuai nodded, holding Nezha’s hands with admiration on his face. Xiao Hong also understood, and solemnly said, “Big Brother Ling Zhu Zi, Jiang Ziya is really the first person of Taigong in the ages. Hong Hai’er admires him!”

“What do you mean?” When Hao Ning saw Liu Shuai and Xiao Hong’s attitude, he asked, “Why do you admire a person who has been bewitched?”

“There are things which you don’t know.” Liu Shuai looked at Hao Ning. “Only mortal can seal the god and this person must have no selfish desire when he seals the god. If Jiang Ziya was bewitched and became evil, then his soul would inevitably become impure and malicious. At that time, he would not be qualified to seal the god, so the whole Sealing God Ceremony could not be completed. In that case, these evil gods would not be sealed.”

“Yes, Uncle Jiang was planning that.” Ne Zha nodded, with some sadness in his eyes. “Uncle Jiang was planning that even if he needed to sacrifice himself, or even all the gods in the war of Creation of Gods, he would not let these evil gods go to the real world!”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to predict him with malice,” said Hao Ning. “As you said that Jiang Ziya sacrificed himself, I can understand that this is a person’s justice, but why did he not hesitate to sacrifice the gods who had fought along with him in the war to protect the real world?”

“I got it, and no wonder you thought so,” Xiao Hong answered with a nod. “As a man in the real world, you intuitively think that your own world is the most important. For your world, you can sacrifice other worlds ‒ so you would think that the gods of the world in the books have the same idea, but in the worlds like the Creation of Gods and the Journey to the West, that’s not the same case.”

“Why? For them,” Hao Ning disagreed with Xiao Hong and asked him, “is the real world more important than the world they live in? That is also a world. Who would they think that their own world is not as important as the world of others?

“Not the real world is more important, but the Huaxia civilization in the real world is more important.” Xiao Hong thought for a moment and said what Zhang Quan once said, “All the worlds created by people’s beliefs in these books are the beliefs come from the Huaxia civilization after all. It originated from Huaxia’s source ‒ ‘Celestial voices, gentleman renewing strengths’. Therefore, for any world created by the beliefs of Huaxia, they naturally know where they originate from, so they would rather sacrifice their own world than let the Huaxia civilization be destroyed! That’s the bottom line!”

“Hao Ning,” Liu Shuai understood Xiao Hong’s words, “so as Xiao Hong just said, in the May 4th Seal God event, Huaxia gods costed their own Nirvana, in exchange for the continuation of Huaxia civilization. I didn’t understand it just now. Now I think I can figure it out. The Huaxia gods and Huaxia descendants, after all, are the inheritance of the Huaxia civilization. In the past period, the moral degeneration of society was getting worse. Huaxia civilization encountered unprecedented disasters. From normal people to the upper class, all people’s beliefs were greatly impacted. How many people tried to totally deny the Huaxia civilization and westernize it? How many people insisted on their own opinions and tried to shut up their country? It is slightly lighter to say that the Huaxia civilization was suffering from disasters. Not to mention the Huaxia civilization, even the whole continent would soon become a dish for outsiders. If this came true, we might also ruin our own civilization, like the Republic of Asan.”

“For a nation, people can die and even country names can be changed, but if the civilization has been broken, even if the people in this place are still the same,” Zhou Yuan understood, and suddenly felt his throat went dry. Somehow his eyes were moist, “but with the absence of civilization and ancestral temples, would it be different from destroying our own world?”

“I see,” Hao Ning looked at Nezha and nodded. “It turns out that I misunderstood Jiang Ziya. But why would Jiang Ziya ask me to take him out after I entered the world of Creation of Gods?”

“Hao Ning, I suddenly realized something strange.” Liu Shuai seemed to find the problem at that time. “Every time you borrowed the power from books or used “Stellar Transposition”, you never entered the world in books. Only when you were using the power of the Creation of Gods, you entered the world of that book?”

“Hm? Wasn’t it because that the Creation of Gods is very special, or Jiang Ziya pulled me in with his power?” Hao Ning didn’t notice this detail. He was stunned when he heard Liu Shuai’s words, “I thought it was a normal phenomenon. Neither of you was surprised at that time, so I didn’t feel strange.”

“Come on, bro. Is your rigorous logical reasoning only used in the real world?” Liu Shuai could not help but roast, “If you told us earlier, we would have discussed these things long ago. No matter how powerful the Creation of Gods was or how powerful Jiang Ziya was, it was also limited by the boundaries of the word of Creation of Gods. How could you be pulled in? According to what you said, if I wrote a book at random in which the character can destroy the whole universe with one blow, would he be able to come out and destroy S city by himself? It’s impossible. There must be something wrong.”

Saying this, Liu Shuai could not help standing up and walking back and forth in the conference room with his head bowed. He whispered to himself, “But what went wrong?”

“Liu Shuai is right. We don’t have the ability to pull you in ‒ and we don’t even know how you got into the world of the Creation of Gods. But after you came in, the whole thing got out of control,” Nezha continued, ignoring Liu Shuai’s self-talk. “Uncle Jiang’s plan was that after he was bewitched, the world of Creation of Gods would become a world of evil gods who could not be sealed, but the real world was safe. But after you come in, the bewitched Uncle Jiang found that you were his chance.”

“What chance?” Hao Ning said in confusion, “As you said, Jiang Ziya had been bewitched. So even if he came to the real world with me, he would not be able to seal any god.”

“He can’t, but you can!” Liu Shuai patted his thigh. “It’s too dangerous. It’s too dangerous! Hao Ning, what other secrets are you keeping from us?” Said Liu Shuai and came up to choke Hao Ning.