Chapter 1281 - The Myth of Immortality
Chapter 1281: The Myth of Immortality
Immortality was the everlasting topic that all intellectual beings sought, even though the results of gaining immortality weren’t as beautiful as one might imagine.
Hong Dali didn’t have many thoughts about immortality, he was just curious how this person in front of him gained it.
“Immortality?” The Goddess of Wisdom smiled and didn’t conceal anything. She slowly said, “Us, the Gods, in order to achieve power, spent hundreds of millions of years to perfect our body, and finally found the perfect method to achieve immortality.
“Everything in the universe is made of matter. As long as it’s made of matter, it will age. The aging I’m talking about isn’t the aging of normal humans, but the aging of the elements. For example, this.”
The Goddess of Wisdom raised a hand and a piece of stone quickly appeared in her palm. A very normal stone.
She said, “This is a stone, it will age too. For example, if time passed hundreds of millions of years on it…” As she spoke up to this point, Hong Dali watched the stone change from the sleek and smooth appearance to slowly ashing and finally turning into a pool of powder. The Goddess of Wisdom softly blew on it and the powder disappeared completely.
Hong Dali felt creeps all over his body. This person could actually control the flow of time!?
The God of Wisdom wasn’t concerned with this at all. For her, this was just a very normal thing. Therefore, she just continued to explain the mystery of immortality to Hong Dali, “The truly hard thing to solve in attaining immortality is in the aging of the elements. At the start, the immortality of the Gods was just changing the aging cells in our body. However, this kind of immortality is just the most elementary form, just dragging out the time to die. When most of the cells in the body are changed, all aspects of the body’s performance will inevitably drop. Therefore, I spent over a million years to obtain control over how energy flows. Then, I used energy to continuously change out the aging elements in my body. This is true immortality. In other words, as long as the elements can forever maintain their best condition, the body will never age.”
Use the energy in the universe to change out the aging elements!
Hearing up to this point, Hong Dali took in a deep breath.
He couldn’t help but admit that what the Goddess of Wisdom said really widened his perception of the world. In mankind’s research of immortality, they had always believed that aging happened because of the aging of the cells. Therefore, the immortality that mankind researched was in how to exchange the aging tissues and organs for younger and newer ones, and therefore prolong their life.
Hearing the Goddess of Wisdom’s words, Hong Dali knew that her immortality was several grades higher than that of what mankind was researching. Using the energy in the universe to naturally exchange the aging elements in the body. Elements! The human body was made up of all kinds of elements, each element being 1/10,000 of a millimeter or so. But this Goddess of Wisdom could actually change them as she wished.
This meant that it was impossible to kill her. She could change the damaged tissues at any moment and return to her best condition. Even if her hand or her leg was cut off, she could replace them in the blink of an eye.
Hong Dali felt a strong sense of powerlessness. This was an unbeatable enemy. Her power was extremely strong and her energy was infinite. She didn’t have any weaknesses at all.
“Alright, it looks like I really have no way of escaping today.” Hong Dali despondently said, “You can control the flow of time and exchange the elements in your body. In other words, as long as there is a single element in your body that isn’t destroyed, you can be reborn anew, right?”
“That’s right.” The Goddess of Wisdom nodded and said, “I’m telling you this so you won’t offer any useless resistance. If you cooperate with me properly, you may still be able to survive.”
“Honestly speaking, I’m quite tempted by your suggestion.” Hong Dali shrugged and said, “I can’t defeat you, I can’t escape, what other options do I have other than cooperating with you?”
Speaking up to this point, he sucked in a deep breath and lastly said, “Then, can you give me some time? I want to be alone for a while…”
“Can.” The Goddess of Wisdom nodded and said, “You can be alone for as long as you want to. I have lived for eternity, I don’t lack this little time.”
“Puff…” Hong Dali breathed out and then sat on the ground with his legs crossed.
Was it finally time for the final judgment? Great Prodigal System, hehe, this System didn’t mean much to him, actually. Even without this System, he could live very well in the world. Maybe he couldn’t say this, what if he wasn’t reborn into this world if he didn’t have the System?
That didn’t matter anymore now. Since he had already died once, he wasn’t afraid to die another time.
“Hehe, is it time to finally say goodbye?” Hong Dali smiled bitterly and shook his head. He didn’t feel any pity for himself, just that it was hard for him to part with his family and friends.
“Zhang Yi, Sister Nianwei, Chuyin, Zhang Yi, Qianxue…” Hong Dali started to think back carefully on the happy days after he came to this world. “Maybe it’s time for us to say goodbye, maybe we will be apart forever now. Dad, Mum, I really regarded you two as my parents, without any pretense in it. Li Yang, Xiaoyi, and the other lackeys, you guys are all my best friends. Sigh, without me, you guys must take care of yourselves. Also, remember to take care of my parents. Brother Levis, Blood Demon, Christina, the three of you are very powerful, protect my parents properly… And Old Wang, Little Bai Hechou, you guys are great too, just that we can’t play together anymore…
“Demon King, if people from other dimensions come again, try to negotiate with them more and minimize fighting if possible. With Brother Tang Zhen keeping watch, I think they will give you this respect. Sigh, just that Azeroth will probably not be of much use if I’m not around anymore. I planned to let people from other dimensions see in Azeroth that we can all coexist peacefully together. The universe is so vast, why can’t we accommodate tens of billions of extra people here?
“Xiaoyu, Grandma Wu, there shouldn’t be any problem in the orphanage, right? I left quite a lot of money with Old Han, I reckon it’s enough…”
Hong Dali thought for a long while, images of the things that happened ever since he came to this world flashed past in his mind. Lastly, he discovered that if he wasn’t around, everything could still maintain as it was. That was if this Goddess of Wisdom really could let them off.
“Alright, I have thought it over.” Hong Dali looked at the Goddess of Wisdom and said, “I don’t have any other request. With your ability, it shouldn’t be a problem to let my family and friends go, right? If there isn’t any problem, I can cooperate with you all I can. How is it?”
She turned around and looked at Hong Dali with her flawless face. Sadly, it was hard to tell from her expression what she was thinking. In the end, she only nodded and said, “Okay, I promise you. We, the God race, don’t like to kill too. If everything goes smoothly, I can send them to a quiet place to live.”
“Thank you.” Hong Dali took in a deep breath, then suddenly remembered that there was still a skill that he could use. He instructed the System for the final time. “System, use the Great Destiny Skill!”
Very quickly, the System’s voice sounded: “Great Destiny Skill used, good luck.”
And at this moment, the Goddess of Wisdom lightly lifted her hand…