Ch 277: Chu Mo: Fortunately, I got to this point entirely on my own!

If that’s the case, it makes sense… everything makes sense!

Chu Mo had always been puzzled by one thing: why could someone directly obtain the power of a Sage-level existence just by awakening a Heroic Spirit?

Achieving the level of a Sage in that ancient era was unimaginably difficult!

Moreover, the birth of each Sage required an extremely long period… and it wasn’t something that could be achieved simply through time! It required opportunities! Waiting! Specific individuals… and countless explicit or implicit thresholds and prerequisites that were unimaginably complex.

Comparing this to the Main World… it’s completely absurd!

Furthermore, the birth of Heroic Spirits was also inexplicable! It didn’t happen immediately after the Great Cataclysm two thousand years ago, but was delayed until six hundred years ago… Although textbooks say that it was developed jointly by many geniuses! But…

A group of ordinary geniuses, during humanity’s most desperate period, when humans were at the bottom of the food chain… inexplicably developed a transcendent power unique to humans!

The most outrageous thing is… this transcendent power system could even give rise to beings with the power of Sages?

In a sense, the power of Heroic Spirits is roughly equivalent to unearned gains! Awakening a powerful Heroic Spirit… is essentially no different from ascending to heaven in one step!

This is beyond outrageous!

It’s like a folk scientist inventing a time machine with a stroke of genius before Chu Mo’s transmigration! Or someone inventing a perpetual motion machine by stepping on their left foot with their right foot.

But if the Heroic Spirit system has been a conspiracy from beginning to end… everything becomes reasonable.

Why can one possess power simply by awakening? Because that power has already appeared before… Awakening is just retrieving it! Those who ascend to heaven in one step are just vessels… The ultimate awakening is when the original owner of the power seizes the body, or rather, returns…

“Wait a moment!” Chu Mo pondered for a moment, “So, in the void now… our enemies are Sage after Sage?”

“…That.” Lord Lao hesitated.

“What’s wrong?” Chu Mo was a little puzzled.

“You overestimate us!” The Primordial Celestial Lord smiled wryly and asked, “Would you hate the ants under your feet?”

Chu Mo suddenly fell silent. He realized that, yes, for Sages, Heroic Spirit Awakeners were just tools for them to recover their power and return.

Who would hate tools? Especially if all the power of the Heroic Spirit system originated from the Sages, or even the Heavens, then considering that the Main World’s own cultivation system is very backward…

In their eyes, perhaps humanity would completely collapse as soon as they withdrew the power of the Heroic Spirits, right? As for whether they can withdraw it… they could create the Heroic Spirit system, so it would be strange if they couldn’t withdraw it!

“So… even you.” Master of Heaven’s gaze was deep, his expression downcast…

They were already like this, so the Heavenly Dao… the situation would only be worse! This was also why their emotions had been low since they were pulled out of the River of Time… Despair! Too desperate! There was no possibility of turning the tables…

“The stronger you become, the closer you will be to that step!” The Primordial Celestial Lord took over, he sighed, “So… everything we do! Doesn’t have much meaning… Perhaps for the sake of humanity, we should try our best to become stronger, and then act as stepping stones for those existences to return… in exchange for their goodwill towards humanity…”

“I understand!” Chu Mo interrupted the Primordial Celestial Lord, his gaze becoming deeper. The problems that others had didn’t exist for him, after all, he was too special… He didn’t rely on any historical figures, but purely on himself!

His eyes lowered slightly, Chu Mo suddenly thought of something, “Wait, Nüwa…”

If Chu Mo remembered correctly, only one Nüwa Heroic Spirit Awakener had ever appeared, and then she transformed into an artificial intelligence.

“…Indeed, Nüwa didn’t appear in the Primordial Void.” Lord Lao’s expression was strange, and then he complained, “If I had known this would happen… we would have turned ourselves into something similar to artificial intelligence!”

Of course, that was just a complaint… The Artificial Intelligence Nüwa could only be said to have been created based on the original Nüwa Awakener, after all, she wasn’t the real Nüwa—that one had already died.

“Are the Heavens Heroic Spirit Awakeners?” Chu Mo asked again.

“I don’t know.” The Primordial Celestial Lord was very frank, “We actually suspect that the Great Cataclysm two thousand years ago was the work of the Heavens… The Heavens have always been very interested in the Main World! However, the Heavens only began to fully return six hundred years ago.”

Chu Mo’s expression didn’t change, and one thought after another flashed through his mind.

Yes, from beginning to end, he had never seen a Sage interfere with the Main World… Just like what the Sage Awakeners said, the Sages didn’t care about the Main World at all!

The Heavens… Indeed, the one standing behind the Great Black Emperor must be Black Sky! If Black Sky was paying attention, then the rest of the Heavens were likely doing the same…

So…

“I see!” Chu Mo’s gaze flickered uncertainly. Not only now, but also in the past that he had transmigrated back to, the Heavens were also very interested in the Main World.

Basically, as soon as he transcended the world, the Heavens would rush over immediately!

Considering how fanatical they were about Chu Mo becoming the Heavenly Dao…

Did they want to become the Heavenly Dao? Countless thoughts swirled in Chu Mo’s mind. So, the number one enemy now… was actually the Heavens! As for the Sages, they could be considered enemies, or not… because in the Main World, or rather, before Chu Mo showed hostility towards them, they would relatively ignore the Main World.

“There’s one more thing!” Chu Mo let out a long breath, rubbed his brow, “Will ordinary Heroic Spirits have problems? More precisely… what level of Heroic Spirit is likely to have problems?”

The Sages exchanged glances, some hesitant, some thoughtful.

“…I don’t know! Because currently, only the Sages have returned in the void.”

“It should be said… that those who simply inherit the power of Heroic Spirits may have risks? But if they break through the Heroic Spirit’s limit after fully awakening the Heroic Spirit… then the risk should be greatly reduced… After all, they are already stronger than that person in history?”

What they said was more inclined to speculation, they couldn’t be sure.

“…What about the Jade Emperor!” Chu Mo suddenly asked, he suddenly remembered that this one’s Heroic Spirit Awakener didn’t seem to have appeared?

“I don’t know!”

“He hasn’t appeared in the Primordial Void.”

“I haven’t seen him before either!”

This time, the Three Pure Ones Awakeners were very certain.

So, was it because the Jade Emperor died in history? Chu Mo raised his head, recalling everything, his thoughts in turmoil. But this… didn’t seem to explain why he hadn’t appeared… after all, historical figures like Liu Bang and the First Dragon had also died in history…

Unless… the group of people or Sages who created the Heroic Spirit system didn’t want the Jade Emperor to return? Did they have a grudge? Or… did they simply not want another existence of their level in the void, competing with them for some kind of benefit?

“I understand!” Chu Mo regained his composure and said, “Let’s go back to Kyoto World first.”

As soon as the words fell, a divine light flashed.

Chu Mo and the four Sage Awakeners’ figures instantly disappeared.

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Kyoto World.

In front of the Epang Palace.

One after another, figures emitting divine light suddenly descended.

King Wen of Zhou, the Four Kings of Great Qin, Emperor Guangwu of Han, the Yongle Emperor…

They weren’t their true bodies, but they weren’t far off either. They were Heroic Spirit bodies with the same power as the original!

The descent of the Heroic Spirit bodies meant that the forces guarding the major defense lines were directly reduced by half… but the current situation was too special after all! They could only gamble on this.

“When will that one arrive?” Emperor Guangwu of Han said softly.

“Teacher!” King Huiwen of Qin clenched his fists, then released them. He was the disciple of the Primordial Celestial Lord Awakener. He was one of the earliest Heroic Spirit Awakeners!

Zhu Yuanzhang also bit his lower lip. He was the disciple of the Master of Heaven, or rather… he was able to reach this step because the Master of Heaven’s cultivation had been indispensable to him.

Without the Master of Heaven, he would never have been able to become the Lord of the Divine Court—

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang’s awakened Heroic Spirit’s strength was too weak. Although his talent was outstanding, reaching Earth Gold, it was unimaginably difficult to fully realize these talents…

The void suddenly twisted.

Several figures emerged one by one. It was Chu Mo and the many Sages!

The First Dragon’s fists suddenly clenched. She first glanced at the Sages, and after a brief silence, her gaze fell on Chu Mo. After hesitating for a moment, she gritted her teeth and said, “May I ask… do you want to become the Lord of the Divine Court?”

The First Dragon had always felt that she wasn’t worthy of the position. Especially after vaguely seeing the previous First Dragon Awakener… and she believed that the Divine Court, or even this country, would definitely be better in Chu Mo’s hands…

“…Don’t!” Chu Mo’s eyes twitched wildly, and he waved his hand in refusal. What the hell? He knew exactly how busy things were in the Divine Court. The First Dragon used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones… and still worked non-stop all year round! She couldn’t even leave Kyoto World!

Wasn’t this the same as that Emperor in the hammer that someone didn’t want to name in his previous life?

Did he have nothing better to do than to sit on a golden toilet?!

No, in terms of power… the power of the Heavenly Dao was much greater than that of the Lord of the Divine Court, and it was even more leisurely.

“…But.” The First Dragon still didn’t give up.

“If you’re trying to persuade someone… persuade your father, your grandfather, your great-grandfather!” Chu Mo rolled his eyes.

“…I understand.” The First Dragon smiled wryly. The next moment, she suddenly realized something, and her expression froze.

At the same time, the scene fell into dead silence, and the atmosphere gradually became strange.

Chu Mo looked at the dazed expressions of the people in front of him, and raised his eyebrows in confusion. Before he could figure out what was going on, the scene exploded.

“Wh, what?!”

“Are… are you serious?”

“According to you, these summoned existences… can stay in this world for a long time?”

“Doesn’t that mean that those comrades we lost in the past… I’m sorry! I’m being too much, I’m not qualified to ask you to summon my comrades.”

“This, this power is too buggy, right? You can summon several existences of the same level… Even if you’re just a summoner, you’re invincible at the same level… No, the ones you summon are already invincible at the same level!”

Chu Mo looked at the faces of the people in front of him, which were flushed with excitement: “…”

These people left him speechless!

It sounded awesome and buggy, but the problem was… all the energy consumed by these guys in battle was drawn from him! And he was indeed more capable of fighting than these guys…

The reason for summoning the Sage Awakeners, besides the fact that summoning avatars required him to use his brain to control them, which he found troublesome… was also to learn many things about the void that he didn’t know.

Not because the existences he summoned could defeat him!

But after opening his mouth several times, Chu Mo finally said nothing. On the one hand, he found it troublesome, and on the other hand, he suspected that the Heavens might be watching, or using some kind of authority to know what he was talking about with these people. If the Heavens really thought that his strength was weaker than the Sages combined… that would also be a good thing!

“That… may I ask what we should do next?” King Wen of Zhou respectfully asked Chu Mo.

Chu Mo’s eyebrows twitched. He could clearly see that surprise and playfulness appeared on the faces of existences like Zhu Yuanzhang and the First Dragon.

The moment he was puzzled, the authority of the Heavenly Dao told him the answer. King Wen of Zhou was a very proud person, with a deadpan face towards everyone, looking down on everyone, even despising the First Dragon!

Only Divine Heroic Spirits could enter his eyes, and it was precisely because of him… that many Divine Heroic Spirits had stirred up their special theories, which ultimately exploded. They were still being suppressed under Kyoto!

But his attitude towards Chu Mo at this moment… Of course, Chu Mo himself could understand it very well. In terms of Divine Heroic Spirits, the Heavenly Dao was the most top-level Divine Heroic Spirit! Or rather, it had already surpassed the scope of Gods, and should really be called a Heavenly Heroic Spirit?

“Do whatever you should do!” Chu Mo said coldly. Then his figure disappeared…

After exchanging glances, the First Dragon, Zhu Yuanzhang, and others turned their gazes to the Sages.

“Our current strength…” The Primordial Celestial Lord moved his body and let out a long breath, “Never mind, Old Sima!”

King Huiwen of Qin’s body suddenly tensed, “I’m here!”

“Lead the way… I want to see if the northern disaster of this era is still at the same garbage level as before?” The Primordial Celestial Lord’s words were arrogant, and he disappeared instantly with King Huiwen of Qin.

Before leaving the Main World, he was the guardian of the northern front… More precisely, the northern defense line was created by him.

“Then I will too!”

“Well… let’s take a look at the old place! I really didn’t expect… that there would be a day to return again! Although, I am not a living existence either… Alas!”

The remaining Sage Heroic Spirits also made their decisions.