CHAPTER 550: CHAPTER 326: IT WAS A CROW

"Wailing, lamenting, red light, and chaos across the land."

A piece of beef, three peanuts.

The youth neatly arranged these together on the tray, surprisingly managing to balance the overlapping peanuts without them toppling. This unintended display of skill left Liu Tangxi somewhat astonished.

It was evident that after several life-and-death struggles, Jiang Feng not only improved his realm but also enhanced his control over his body and sense of balance. However, she did not speak and simply allowed Jiang Feng ample time without interruption.

With eyes fixed on the items on the tray, the youth’s expression plunged into contemplation, his mind racing.

At first glance, these items combined seem to have no commonality, but the youth merely lifted his chopsticks to tap the bottom-most peanut.

The three peanuts immediately toppled.

"Could it be like this?"

A thought flashed in his mind, the only plausible explanation he could think of was that some external factor triggered the outburst of the "gluttonous entity," a legend frequent in many stories where someone committed some outrageous act and incurred divine displeasure.

Divine Punishment descends from the heavens, and to appease the anger of the gods, people give it their all, resorting to sacrificial rituals to plead for the disaster’s end. Not only in the current era, such episodes also frequently appeared in the times he once lived.

Whether in domestic myth systems or foreign ones like Norse or Greek mythology, similar mythical products exist, in plain terms, someone did something outrageous that incited the beasts’ anger. This hypothesis seemed reasonably sound, but the senior sister clearly had denied it.

"The thing underground doesn’t possess power. Judging by the tone, the senior sister might have personally investigated it, in other words, that thing isn’t some creature born out of modern technology? Or perhaps, it doesn’t possess any active aggression?"

"But according to the senior sister’s conclusion, that thing doesn’t personally come out to eat people; the so-called sacrifices are merely Cultivation World’s wishful thinking, they’re simply trying to use this method to appease the divine wrath."

"So why would its howl trigger chaos in Cultivation World, plunging the current world into disarray? If it doesn’t exhibit power, how can it make everyone willing to slaughter each other, even at such a painful cost, just to pick someone from among the Immortal Monarchs?"

"No, no! This hypothesis has issues!"

The youth suddenly realized his blind spot.

Previously, he always thought the war in Cultivation World erupted due to "its" exertion, "its" possessing some mysterious power, but he quickly denied that, now returning to the original thought process, it’s evident the underground thing must have power.

It’s just that this power is probably not something recognized in modern times. The understanding of power nowadays is rather shallow; spiritual energy is power, and fists are power, but...

Does wisdom count as a form of power?

Can a central processor that extrapolates and calculates the entire world be considered a form of power?

Could creating certain quasi-vacuum regions immune to spiritual energy count as a form of power?

Upon this realization, Jiang Feng felt enlightened and began pounding his head, his frustrated demeanor seeming almost eager to slap himself several times.

Having lived in this world for twenty years, though the influence wasn’t significant, he started to slowly adapt to the thinking methods of this era, with an evidently sluggish shift in mindset; he shouldn’t be solving problems from the Cultivation World’s perspective.

He should directly stand from the divine perspective, the perspective of "Upper Immortals" spoken of by them, to view this matter.

This scene frightened Liu Tangxi quite a bit, as the entire house was completely covered by her sharp Sword Qi; unless someone at the Immortal Monarch level stepped in, no one could hear their conversation.

At first glance, she thought her junior brother had been driven mad by the massive influx of information, raising her palm hesitantly. In such cases of madness, only a decisive slap could ensure he spat blood nonstop, with the spiritual energy within his body dispersing on-site to save him.

But once she acted, the train of thought her junior brother painstakingly found could be interrupted. Nonetheless, Liu Xianzi didn’t continue to hesitate because, in her eyes, Jiang Feng’s life was unquestionably more important; she certainly couldn’t allow her junior brother to become a fool.

Just as she was about to take action, Jiang Feng suddenly smacked his forehead.

"I’m really a freaking idiot!"

Oh no, gone crazy.

"Been mixing in this ghostly place every day, yet unable to reflect on things; now even my brain isn’t working."

"Eating people is merely a concept, sacrifices are also concepts; as long as it doesn’t speak or act proactively, then those chosen as sacrifices stem purely from internal conflicts within Cultivation World."

"Senior sister, the so-called sacrifices in themselves are a deception, no, more accurately, those idiots’ perceived truth, in reality, there is no such thing as sacrifices!"

"You mentioned the underground entity roars, wails, laments, and flashes red light, thus making them anxious to solve the problem; making them anxious, surely because the so-called gluttonous entity possesses some form of power."

"It isn’t necessarily force; the forms of power vary widely. Is the computational ability of Tianwang-level considered power? That thing can calculate and even predict the movements of all humans on earth."

"Does environmental monitoring and purification count as power? Are pheromones power? Is the detection of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions considered power? All of these do!"

"The underground emits howls and red light; I reckon that thing detected some anomalous data and issued a warning, but they can’t understand that language, so they could only try to quiet it. That Crossing Immortal Monarch should be among them."