I Cultivate Immortality With Scientific Thinking

Ice cold.

gray.

Dead silence.

When Lin Chen came to his senses again, what appeared in front of him was this scene.

The gray sky shrouded the entire field of vision, the floating black snow never stopped, the vast land was covered by black glaciers, from the near to the distant horizon, there was nothing, it seemed that he was the only one left in the vast sky and earth. one person.

Gray, dead, desolate... It seems that all the words are not enough to describe the dead world in front of me.

Even the most optimistic person will feel a sense of helplessness, despair, and a long-lost fear when they see this scene.

Because here they seem to be able to see...death.

Lin Chen looked up and saw the black snow floating all over the sky, radiating spiritual energy that made everything strange and distorted, polluting and corroding the land all the time.

Even as time passed, he found that his body began to become colder and colder. An indescribable coldness surged up from the black ice field under his feet. He even vaguely sensed the decay, distortion, and... Even with a kind of decay and strange power.

It even enveloped him, enveloping his whole body, constantly eroding his body and soul, causing an unknown change to occur within Lin Chen.

Lin Chen felt as if his whole body was frozen at this moment, unable to move, and his consciousness was eroded by a coldness, as if he was going to sleep forever.

Just contact, the aura of this place, even in a dream, is enough to cause many monks to be distorted by radiation and turn into unknown monsters!

"roll."

Facing the distortion of radiation, Lin Chen's eyes turned cold, and a translucent and colorful stream of light appeared around him. The cold aura dissipated instantly, and the ubiquitous radiation pollution was blocked by him.

"Is this what you call the final dream?"

Lin Chen looked at Mengxian, who was standing not far from him, but his figure was much more illusory than before, like a ghost about to disappear.

"What are the causes and consequences of all this?"

"Fellow Taoist, come with me..."

Mengxian did not answer, but walked straight forward.

Lin Chen frowned slightly when he saw this, but he still followed.

In an instant, the scene around them began to change rapidly, giving people the feeling of sitting on a flying boat. The scene outside the boat quickly retreated, and they themselves also spanned an unknown distance of thousands of miles.

First they came to the ice fields with endless black snow, then to the coast filled with gray fog, and then to the cold and dead continent where monsters were raging. Finally, they arrived at a mountain.

This mountain is full of vitality and full of fairy spirit. There are longevity deer and fairy foxes walking on the mountain, spiritual birds and black cranes spreading their wings, Yao Cao and strange flowers that never fade, and evergreen pines and cypresses. There are even rivers cascading down, scattering water vapor like clouds and mist. Under the sunlight, the cloud steps of the Hongqiao rise up, making it sound like a fairyland.

But in this world that is completely polluted and about to decay and die, how can such a mountain exist?

In Lin Chen's eyes, this so-called vitality is just a cover on the surface. In the scene reflected in his eyes, the forests all over the mountains and fields are corpses made of white bones hanging upside down, and the rare and exotic species on them are jumping eyeballs. The heart, the earth is a mountain of rotten flesh flowing with pus, and traceless murmurs are the only echoes here.

Lin Chen followed Mengxian directly into the mountain, walked through the steps made of tender and smooth skin, crossed the jungle made of bones and corpses, plundered the pools connected by countless human brains, and finally We came to a place that is like the core of the heart.

And inside, he saw a purple chrysalis, in which a figure fell into eternal sleep.

"So this is the consequence..."

Seeing this scene, Lin Chen completely understood.

It turns out that all the members of the Nanhua Dream Sect, including this Heavenly Lord and Dream Immortal, all perished in this dream of the future.

No, it's not so much that he died, but that he was completely infected by the devil. In the future, he will transform into extremely terrifying monsters.

At least in front of his eyes, this dream chrysalis that swallowed up the Nanhua Dream Sect's Heavenly Lord and Dream Immortal might become a nightmare comparable to the Heavenly Demon in the future. In this world that is about to decay and fall, it is enough to set off a wave of incomparable terror.

A fairy sect that had been passed down for millions of years just fell in front of his eyes, and was contaminated into monsters without exception. This situation made Lin Chen silent for a moment, and then looked at Mengxian:

"I already know the consequences, but what about the causes?"

"As for the antecedents, I want to tell all the antecedents of the memory scene to my Taoist friend, but this involves an extremely terrifying existence. Even if it is just a memory scene in a dream, it will arouse the other person's vigilance and be detrimental to the Taoist friend. So forgive me, I can only express it verbally..." Meng Xian said.

An extremely terrifying existence?

Lin Chen frowned and asked:

"You mean Taixuan Taoist?"

"...That's right." Upon hearing this name, Mengxian paused for a moment.

Lin Chen noticed this keenly, but did not say anything more, but asked directly:

"What happened to the Nanhua Dream Sect's fall?"

When Mengxian heard this, his eyes drooped, but without any hesitation, he said:

"Fellow Taoist who has reached this level, he should also know that thousands of years ago, Taiyin Tianzun became a demon, right?"

"That's natural." How could Lin Chen not know, after all, this matter is closely related to him, "The Tianzun level becoming a demon is something that has never happened in the Immortal Alliance for millions of years. When the Nanhua Dream Sect falls, it will be Related to it?”

When you reach the level of Tianzun, who is not the top of this world, but also the person in power among the nine immortal sects. Logically speaking, it is impossible to be possessed by the devil, whether in terms of resources or reputation.

Not to mention that being possessed by a demon is not something that happens casually. It can involve a change in the fundamental path of a top monk, as well as his philosophy and personality.

To put it simply, it is equivalent to a person with extremely strong beliefs who suddenly changes his temperament and turns into a duplicitous and capricious villain.

The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will.

A mortal with a firm mind can survive nine deaths without regrets.

Not to mention those Heavenly Lords who have gone through countless years and stood out from hundreds of millions of creatures.

For them, the Tao they pursue is more important than the so-called faith, life, and even everything else.

Therefore, for other people in the Immortal Alliance, Tianzun can collude with the devil, seek skin from tigers, betray the right path, and be righteous or evil, but the only thing that is impossible is to abandon the path he insists on and completely fall into the devil.

"That's right." Nanhua Mengxian confirmed Lin Chen's guess, "The incident of Taiyin being possessed has a great influence on our colleagues, and it has also had an extremely bad impact on the Immortal Alliance. Therefore, we, Nanhua Mengxian and Tianji We have joined forces to find out the cause of this matter.”

"Tianjizi is responsible for using the method of Tianji to trace the traces of Taiyin, and teamed up with the Hunyuan Five Elements Sect in the south of Middle-earth to be responsible for the tracing, while we, the Nanhua Dream Sect, and the survivors of the Dead River Sect are looking back to the past through dreams." Mengxian continued Said, "We use dreams as a medium to reflect the past that belongs to reality. Then in the images of the past, we see the Taiyin Heavenly Lord and the Heavenly Demon meeting in the river of death."

"Oh, what did they talk about?"

The meeting between the good and the evil deities might be shocking to other Immortal Alliance monks, but for Lin Chen, it was nothing more than that. Instead, he was more interested. These two were supposed to be life-and-death enemies of each other. Why did they meet each other thousands of years ago?

You must know that at that time, Taoist Taixuan, Fairy Yueling, and Canghai Tianzun had just ascended to the position of Tianzun in that era, and the masters of the Taiyixian Sword Sect of the previous generation, Jian Lao, Yimu Tianzun, and Mengxian, were still alive, plus the dead Taiyin Tianzun of He Sect.

It can be said that seven of the nine immortal sects have Tianzun in the world. Discounting the monks below the top level, if we look at the number of Tianzun alone, it is the most powerful period in the entire Immortal Alliance in millions of years, and the demons in the four directions are only Now these four are in charge.

Under the absolute suppression of quantity and quality, demons from all directions are at risk of overthrowing at any time. At what time period, why did Taiyin Tianzun, the leader of the Dead River Sect, one of the nine immortal sects, meet with the demons?

No matter from the perspective of interests or roads, this should not conform to conventional logic.

So figuring out the conversation between them is extremely important for this matter.

But Mengxian shook his head:

"The Dead River itself is a treasure left by the ancient monks, and the demon is a dream master at the same level as me. Even if we pay a considerable price to look back at the time in the dream, we still cannot hear their conversation. ”

"The only news we can get is that since that meeting, Taiyin began to sink into the dead river frequently, as if looking for something."

"This situation has lasted for thousands of years. He once even sank in the Dead River for nearly a hundred years before returning. And it was also after that time that at the grand ceremony of the Dead River Sect, he took action and massacred the dead. Almost all the monks in the He Sect eventually fell into the devil's path."

"In other words, what did he see in the river of death that made him completely obsessed?"

A trace of confusion flashed across Lin Chen's face.

The Dead River teaches people to use the Dead River to achieve enlightenment, but the most accomplished person among them, Taiyin Tianzun, collapsed and became possessed after going deep into the Dead River...

"Yes, so in order to find out the real reason, we, the Nanhua Dream Sect, and the Dead River Sect have joined forces, with the support of the Immortal Alliance, to explore the dead river, the most precious treasure left over from ancient times."

"Exploring the Dead River? In these millions of years, the Dead River Sect should have explored this many times, and if I remember correctly, if the Dead River sinks, even Tianzun will probably sink completely. How did you conduct the investigation? "?" Lin Chen asked.

"Yes, the Dead River can sink all living beings in the world, but if the Dead River cultists who have been baptized by the Dead River priests are qualified to float in this river, as a price, their souls and spirits will lose the ability to reincarnate. Qualification, even after death, the soul must return to the river of death, and it cannot escape forever."

"The Dead River itself is the most precious treasure of the Dead River Sect and its greatest secret. As one of the nine immortal sects, even we cannot easily get involved in the Dead River."

"But because the impact of Taiyin's demonization was too great, the Death River Sect suffered heavy losses, and under the joint pressure of several Tianzun Taoists like me in the alliance, the people of the Death River Sect finally cooperated with us. Gathering the power of the entire Immortal Alliance, we started the exploration of the Dead River..."

Lin Chen didn't speak after hearing this.

But beneath his calm appearance, there was a sudden turmoil in his heart.

The demonization of Taiyin Tianzun, the fall of Taoist Yimu, the loss of contact with the Nanhua Dream Sect, and the upcoming eternal evil disaster... Lin Chen really didn't expect that all of this is related to the death river in the East China Sea. Teaching is closely related.

Judging from the news obtained after the moon landing, this dead river was created by Schrödinger, one of the human stars in his previous civilization, and several other big guys.

It is closely related to Schrödinger's cat theory, involving the superposition of life and death. But what is the purpose of creating this thing, and what is contained in it that can make a deity become a demon?

Lin Chen's eyes gradually became serious and he said in a deep voice:

"What happened after that?"

Mengxian's face became solemn at this moment, and after being silent for a long time, he slowly said:

"With the support of the entire Immortal Alliance, our exploration of the Dead River has made unprecedented progress. In order to ensure the implementation of the plan and explore the mystery of Taiyin's enchantment, the Immortal Alliance has spent hundreds of years working on the Dead River. The teachings forcibly gathered a god and placed the Zhoutian starship left over from ancient times on top of Shenxiaogang Dharma, which was built by one world, to cooperate with this operation. "

"It wasn't until a hundred years after Taiyin became possessed that we officially launched the Dead River Submersion Plan. With a Dead River god, he carried the Zhoutian starship built from one world and completely sank into the Dead River. , to pursue the Taiyin, the possessed demons and the remains of the ancient monks..."

"Then what did you see under the Dead River?" Lin Chen couldn't help but see it.

"I didn't see anything." Mengxian shook his head, "Since the Zhoutian starship died in the river, all connections with it have been severed."

"Whether it's our Nanhua Dream Sect's method of entering dreams, Tianhe Sect's void crossing technique, Taiyi Xuanmen's time and space communication, or Tianji Sect's insight through walls... none of them have the slightest effect. We don't know this at all. What is the condition of the Zhoutian starship that sank into the dead river? "

"Then, what happened next?" Lin Chen asked.

"Then? Then I waited for the bodies or incarnations of several fellow Taoists on the Dead River for ten years, but there was no sign of the Zhoutian starship or the return of the dead river god."

"Logically speaking, this is very unreasonable, because according to the original agreement, sinking into the Dead River this time was just a test. The Zhoutian starship and the dead river god should have surfaced immediately, and they should not have completely Lost touch."

"Not to mention that the soul lamp of the dead river god suddenly dimmed one day ten years later, and finally went out completely."

"The alliance quickly realized that something was wrong. I and several fellow Taoists joined forces several times and used various means to explore. There are countless capable people and strangers in the alliance who are trying every means to obtain the Zhoutian starship. connect."

"After all, this plan has consumed the Immortal Alliance's efforts for hundreds of years. It is not only related to Tianzun's becoming a demon, but also closely related to the secrets of ancient times. No one will give up easily."

"But a transformed god paired with the Zhoutian starship is enough to fight against Lianxu. In the entire alliance, except for Tianzun's action, this is already the strongest combat power, and Tianzun cannot risk sinking into the river of death. So the matter has reached a deadlock.”

"We have no way to break through the power of the Dead River and contact the gods who have sunk into it. We also considered letting other members of the Dead River Sect sink again, but after weighing it up, we found that it was useless, and finally gave up the idea."

"After nearly thirty years of waiting, the human and material resources consumed by all parties affected the Immortal Alliance's plan to unify the world at that time. The state of the soul lamp also confirmed the death of this transformed god, so we finally terminated He decided to pursue this plan and instead focused on chasing the demon Taiyin, hoping to get the secret from him. "

"At this point, this plan has been completely terminated, the memories of all personnel have been erased, and everything has returned to normal, becoming a recorded part of the history of the Immortal Alliance."

"Everyone thought that this matter was over, including me, but no one thought that decades later, something surprising to me and several fellow Taoists... would happen."

"Accident? You mean that the Zhoutian starship that sank in the dead river has returned? But even so, it won't surprise the heavenly masters, right? After all, the soul lamp sometimes loses contact and goes out because of the separation between the two realms. , this matter has not come as a surprise to you, let alone, why do I feel that when you mention this matter... there is an unspeakable taboo?" Lin Chen's expression changed. He was in Mengxian's eyes. There was a trace of unnaturalness caught on his face.

For these old monsters who have lived for at least tens of thousands of years, being able to express their emotions on their faces already means that they have irrepressible emotions in their hearts.

This emotion may be taboo, or it may be... fear.

"Indeed, if only the Zhoutian starship had returned and the Dead River God had unexpectedly survived, I and several fellow Taoists would not be like this. The reason for this is because..."

Mengxian's face was serious and he was silent for a long time. He seemed to be lost in memories, but in that memory, something happened that made him, the Heavenly Lord, extremely jealous, so much so that when he thought about it now, he felt like facing the unknown. A trace of... fear.

"The one we sank was an Avatar, but the one who came back... was more than one." (End of Chapter)