The sky was already bright. At the border between the wilderness and the forest, the three-meter-tall man was sitting on a tall tree, chewing on compressed energy food. His clothes were stained with blood, and his face was pale. It was obvious that he had gone through a fierce battle, but he looked very excited. He rubbed his axes and whispered, "Fighting and killing are indeed the best way to improve my cultivation!
After eating, he was about to rest for a while. Suddenly, his expression changed, and he jumped on the tree like an ape. Soon, he caught a glimpse of the open space in front of him. A group of people were besieging a monster. The monster looked like an ugly monkey, but its body was extremely agile. It was still able to move freely under the siege of the crowd.
A person was hiding far away, holding a large gravity gun. He fired from time to time. As the name suggested, the gravity gun could create a strong gravitational vortex. Even metal could be squeezed and deformed in an instant. However, at this time, his gravity gun obviously could not do anything to the monkey. It could only drag its body slightly.
The others stood at the four corners, surrounding Devil Monkey tightly. Among them, a young man wielding an arc-shaped laser saber was the most eye-catching. His saber technique was strange and ruthless. Every time he swung his saber, it would be from a strange angle. The sharp saber qi left deep trenches in the ground.
The ugly Devil Monkey was even stranger. Its body was like a wisp of smoke, changing unpredictably. It was difficult to lock onto it. From time to time, black smoke would come out from its mouth and attack the crowd. The humans seemed to be extremely afraid of the black smoke. When they saw the black smoke coming, they quickly dodged, afraid of touching it.
The battle was very tense. Suddenly, the young man with the long knife changed his expression. He looked at the tall man and said, "Captain Zhang, since you are here, please help us. We will definitely repay you in the future!"
"Since Prince Xuanyuan has asked, how can I not obey? Watch me hack this Devil Monkey!"
The big man laughed and revealed himself. The Xuanyuan family was the descendant of the ancient human saints. Their status was extremely respected. The children of the Xuanyuan family were indeed extraordinary. No matter what industry they were in, they could reach the top. They also created many academic theories that transcended time. Now, the entire Milky Way was ruled by the Xuanyuan family, known as the Milky Way Empire.
The upper house of the Milky Way Empire was a firm supporter of the Xuanyuan family, and the upper house was controlled by the Nine Extremes Sect … The big man thought about it and took out a pair of axes from his back. When he was about to jump down, his expression suddenly changed, and he looked toward the edge of the forest..
He could vaguely hear the sound of dogs barking!
The sound was getting closer and closer, and the people in the open space under the tree also heard it. They quickly pulled back their defensive line. Prince Xuanyuan suddenly thought of something, and his expression changed drastically. "It's a pack of demonic dogs. Everyone, be careful!"
The ugly monkey seemed to have realized something as well. It kept howling as if it was summoning the group of demonic dogs!
Luo Kai's speed wasn't fast, but his reaction was quick. Every time, he relied on his powerful reaction speed to dodge the Demon Dog's attack. Later, as he became more and more familiar with the Seven Star Steps recorded in the Nine Refinements Scripture, his entire body became like an arc of a meteor, gradually pulling away from the pack of Demon Dogs.
The Demon Dog's hatred for him was very deep, and it continued to chase after him. Gradually, it ran into the forest. There were many obstacles in the forest, and the Demon Dog was a natural hunter, so it gradually closed the distance between them!
As Luo Kai ran, he saw a group of people fighting with monsters in front of him and said, "There's a group of monsters, run!"
As he ran, he didn't slow down at all. He knew that the large group of Demon Dogs behind him had thick skin and were incomparably fierce. There were also a large number of Demon Bats in the sky. Once they fought, there would definitely be casualties.
If one were to ask what kind of monster was the strongest in this area, it would definitely be the Demon Dog. Other monsters were solitary, but the Demon Dog lived in groups. Not only was its individual strength not weak, but it was also good at hunting in groups. It was just that the Demon Dog's territory was in the wilderness, and they wouldn't easily come to the forest.
When the group saw the Demon Dog and the Demon Bat in the sky chasing after them, they all cursed and said in unison, "Run!" As they said that, they all activated the flight function of their battle suits. They floated in the air and quickly ran in another direction.
The Demon Dog ignored the others and focused on chasing after Luo Kai.
The ugly monkey rolled its eyes and chased after the Demon Dog group.
Captain Zhang pondered for a while on the tree, and also chased after the Demon Dog group like an ape!
After running for a while, they felt that the Demon Dog group didn't chase after them, so they all stopped. Xuanyuan Ye thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "There's something wrong with that new apprentice. Let's be careful and go back to check!"
The others' faces turned pale. A man in a yellow battle suit said worriedly, "If we are surrounded by the Demon Dog group, it will be troublesome. The Demon Dog group is the lowest level monster, but their fighting power is very strong. The energy stored in the battle suit is limited. It's not worth it to consume it."
Xuanyuan Ye shook his head and said, "Didn't you notice that the energy of the Primordial Battle Suit on that kid's body has been used up? Without the battle suit to protect his body, he is actually not afraid of the demon aura."
After thinking for a moment, he sighed and said, "Forget it, we all have demon aura. After we go out, we will probably have a chance to enter the Primordial Saint Pavilion. It's not good to take risks. Let's find a place to rest!"
At this moment, the Demon Dog group had already caught up with Luo Kai. More than a dozen Demon Dogs formed a fan-shaped encirclement and gradually narrowed the range.
He looked at the distance to the tree next to him and felt that jumping over would not be a problem. Just as he was about to jump over when the Demon Dog group got closer, he suddenly felt a sense of danger. He felt that there was a trace of strangeness in the branches. Without thinking, he slashed with his sword. The blood-red sword energy appeared again, and a short monkey-like monster screamed and fell down.
It was the ugly monkey from before. At this moment, one of its arms had been cut off. It looked at Luo Kai in the tree with hatred, and its mouth was constantly shouting at the Demon Dogs around it, as if it was complaining about something.
Luo Kai looked coldly at the monsters below. He had killed a lot of Demon Dogs along the way, and the energy of the battle suit had been used up. He simply took off the battle suit and used the Nine Forging Scripture's Body Refining Technique to deal with the Demon Beasts with his relatively weak body.
He had always followed the principle that fighting was the fastest shortcut to cultivation. Sure enough, in a short time, he had learned a kind of rapid movement footwork from the Nine Forging Scripture, and was able to deal with the Demon Dogs with ease.
In his heart, he somewhat understood the significance of the existence of the Demon Sealing Star Jade, and also vaguely guessed the significance of this memory to the Nightmare Demon God. Simply put, this memory was the fetter of the Nightmare Demon God, and only by removing this fetter could it break through.
When a civilization was strong to a certain extent, it was almost invincible in the world. Then, the civilization would inevitably stagnate, because without crisis, there would be no motivation to move forward.
Everyone needed competition and enemies, and a civilization as a whole needed competition and enemies even more. If there were no external enemies, then they would have to be created by themselves.
In this era of highly developed mathematical civilization, humans relied heavily on technological weapons, but material things would soon be developed to the end. If they wanted to go further, they would need to cross over to a higher dimension, and dimensions could not be crossed by relying on technology alone. What they needed was the mind.
The way of mathematics could only explain the behavior of material things, from as big as the universe's celestial bodies to as small as the movement of electrons. All of these data were data of their behavior.
For example, we often talked about gravity, friction, electromagnetic force, height, size, and so on. However, we had never explained what material things were, or how they were created.
This involved the "consciousness" of the microscopic quantum. Or on a scientific level, the microscopic quantum did not belong to material things, but was a kind of consciousness that existed in every object in the universe.
Mathematical science could only explain the external appearance of material things, but it could not represent material things themselves. The essence of material things was truly embodied by consciousness. The complexity of each material was different, which meant that their consciousness was different.
For example, the consciousness of inanimate objects was lower than that of organic matter, the consciousness of organic matter was lower than that of single-celled organisms, the consciousness of plants was lower than that of animals, the consciousness of animals was lower than that of humans, and the consciousness of humans was lower than that of the universe. As the complexity of material things gradually decreased, the consciousness would suddenly disappear at a certain point, returning to nothing.
From a macroscopic point of view, when the universe itself had reached a certain level of complexity, it would have subjective consciousness. Although the Nine Extremes Sect highly respected the way of mathematics, they did not reject the field of the mind. They only believed that humans should not try to control the natural universe, but should follow the will of the heavens in order to develop. On a certain level, the way of the mind was an ultimate way to replace the will of the universe with the mind.
A stable and enjoyable environment could not stimulate the growth of the mind. Only pain and suffering were the only ways to grow the mind, and also the only stairs for individuals to cross over to the next dimension. However, every living thing had its own fetters deep in their hearts. What were the fetters in their hearts?