851 Rather Than Merely Surviving, It’s Better To Die in Battle (2)
On the coast of the Endless Sea, countless migrating humans brought their families to the ferries that the various grotto-heavens had prepared.
Anyone who saw this scene would never forget it!
When Zhou Shu saw this scene, he recalled some of the disaster movies he had seen in his previous life.
This scene was extremely similar to the scenes of the end of the world.
This was indeed the end of the world.
The human race had been forced to retreat to the grotto-heavens. No matter how one looked at it, this was an out-and-out humiliation.
Zhou Shu stood in a camp and sighed as he looked at the humans migrating like ants.
“How do you feel looking at this?” A voice sounded. Zhou Shu didn’t need to turn his head to know that it was Ji Lutian.
“How is Emperor Yuan Feng?” Zhou Shu asked without turning around.
“The pill you brought back is just right. After he recuperates for some time, he will return to normal,” Ji Lutian said. “I didn’t expect that you could really find Wang Xuanyi.”
“I was just lucky.” Zhou Shu looked at the people and fell silent again.
“Heaven and earth are unkind. They treat all creation as sacrificial straw dogs,” Ji Lutian said slowly. “What you see is just history repeating itself.
“This has happened many times before. I’ve seen it often enough to get used to it.”
“You’ve seen it often enough?” Zhou Shu turned to look at Ji Lutian. “Mr. Ji, may I ask if you’re a disciple of the Red Water Heaven of Dan Mountain?”
Zhou Shu remembered that Ji Lutian had given him the library of the Red Water Heaven of Dan Mountain.
“No.” Ji Lutian shook his head straightforwardly. “I did obtain some things from the Red Water Heaven of Dan Mountain, but I’m not a successor of the Red Water Heaven of Dan Mountain. I’ve never learned anything from the Red Water Heaven of Dan Mountain either.”
“Do you want to ask who I am?” A bitter smile appeared on Ji Lutian’s face. “If I told you that I don’t know who I am, would you believe me?”
“Mm?” Zhou Shu looked at Ji Lutian in confusion.
Ji Lutian spread his hands and made a helpless gesture. “It’s the truth. I lost some memories, but there are some things that I remember very well. As a result, I know what I should do and what I have to do, but I don’t know where I come from or who I am.”
Zhou Shu was puzzled. “Zheng Chengan, Zhang Jiping, and the others don’t know either?”
If Zheng Chengan, Zhang Jiping, and the others didn’t know Ji Lutian’s identity, why were they so respectful to him?
“They were only so tall when I met them.” Ji Lutian smiled and moved his hand to his knee. “Do you think they know my identity?
“In the past, I stayed in the various grotto-heavens, so I spent some time with them. That’s why they give me some face.”
Hearing this, Zhou Shu was even more shocked.
Zhang Jiping, Zheng Chengan, and the others were not young. They were Grotto-Heaven realm experts. Grotto-Heaven realm experts had cultivations in the thousands of years.
Even if they weren’t a thousand years old, they were at least hundreds of years old.
In that case, wouldn’t Ji Lutian be more than a thousand years old?
He really couldn’t tell.
But then again, Wang Xuanyi might be even older than him, and he only looked like a middle-aged man.
When people’s cultivation reached a certain level, their age could no longer be seen from their appearance.
“It doesn’t matter who I am,” Ji Lutian continued. “I can be called Ji Lutian or Zhang Lutian. It’s just a name. There’s no doubt that I’m human.”
“I believe you.” Zhou Shu nodded.
Although his ideals were different from Ji Lutian’s, there was no doubt that Ji Lutian’s actions were also to resolve the crisis of the human race.
“Mr. Ji, you said that the scene in front of us is a repeat of history. Could the human race have also retreated to the grotto-heavens in the past?” Zhou Shu asked.
“In the past, the human race had thirty-six grotto-heavens. Now, there are only sixteen left. The other grotto-heavens were all breached by demonic beasts.” Ji Lutian sighed. “The misfortune of demonic beasts will erupt once every thousand to few thousand years. Almost every time, the human race suffers a disastrous defeat.
“If not for the human race still having experts at the peak of the Grotto-Heaven realm who can use grotto-heavens to protect the human race, there would probably be no humans left in this world.”
Ji Lutian’s description made an image appear in Zhou Shu’s mind.
In the war between the human race and the demonic beasts, the human race had suffered a crushing defeat and retreated to the grotto-heavens.
Then demonic beasts breached the grotto-heavens. The grotto-heavens shattered, and humans died tragically.
Some grotto-heavens might have been lucky or strong enough to barely withstand the impact of the demonic beasts.
And for some reason, after the beast tide retreated, the human race returned to land to reproduce.
After a thousand years, the demonic beasts attacked again.
As history went on, the grotto-heavens became fewer and fewer, and the hope of the human race became smaller and smaller…
“Do you know why the Martial Dao is lacking outside the grotto-heavens?” Ji Lutian looked at Zhou Shu.
“If a Grotto-Heaven Realm expert appears in the outside world, it will alarm Heaven,” Zhou Shu said. Back then, when Tang Qianluo framed him, he had said that the Demon Realm had attacked the human world in advance because he had helped Hu Li break through.
“That’s right.” Ji Lutian nodded. “Be it humans or demonic beasts, as long as they break through to the Grotto-Heaven realm, they will trigger a heavenly tribulation. From then on, the world will sense it and wake Heaven from its deep slumber.
“The awakening of Heaven will definitely be accompanied by a heavenly crack, which is the arrival of the beast tide.
“But the resources in the grotto-heavens are limited, and we need humans to reproduce outside. Without a choice, we can only make the Martial Dao incomplete. When the heavenly crack appears, the grotto-heavens will open their doors and complete the Martial Dao.”
Ji Lutian didn’t hide anything and explained everything to Zhou Shu.
Zhou Shu nodded. “In that case, the early arrival of the heavenly crack might really be because of me?”
He didn’t feel guilty. Even if he had to do it again, he would still do what he had to do.
He didn’t think that the grotto-heavens’ actions were right.
What they did was just to survive on their last breath.
This disaster had been happening again and again. Finally, when the grotto-heavens were completely shattered, how could the human race resist?
Short-term was better than long-term pain. If humans couldn’t live openly, they might as well die spectacularly.
What was the point of living so ignobly?
“This beast tide is even fiercer than before,” Ji Lutian continued. “I wonder how many grotto-heavens will be able to hold on this time.”
He let out a long sigh.
Ji Lutian looked at Zhou Shu. “About what I said last time—”
“Mr. Ji, do you really think that without Grotto-Heaven realm experts in the world, Heaven won’t eliminate the human race?” Zhou Shu asked seriously, looking straight at Ji Lutian.
“Yes,” Ji Lutian said solemnly. “I’ve done many deductions. Other than this, we have no chance of winning.”
“Is that so?” Zhou Shu said calmly. “I feel that instead of fighting for survival, it’s better to fight heroically.
“So what if it’s Heaven? If Heaven dares to bully me, I’ll poke a hole in Heaven!” Zhou Shu looked up at the sky, his eyes full of fighting spirit.
“The younger generation will surpass us.” Ji Lutian shook his head. “I hope you will continue to think this way.
“But now, don’t forget that you promised me that you would help me.”
“Wait. Before I help you, I have another question.” Zhou Shu interrupted Ji Lutian. “You said that Wang Xuanyi and the others have another battlefield. What’s with that battlefield? Does that battlefield have anything to do with the war here?”
