<h4>Volume 6 Chapter 20: Three-pronged consciousness</h4>


    With support from a certain someone, this disaster ultimately could not be averted.


    The Nanwu Shaman had thoroughly changed her species from a short-lived race to a long-lived one.


    Previously, she was an old woman over 100 years old, but among long-lived races, 100 years old was nothing but adolescence.


    During her conversion into a new species, the Nanwu Shaman had killed and devoured her own Totem, thus escaping from the world’s influence.


    She continued to use her tribe to create constant destruction, bringing disaster to the world and using this disaster aura as a trigger to open a gap in the world’s defenses.


    The world’s power could no longer reach her location as easily as before, which made it impossible to create heaven’s tribtion to kill her off. Having no other choice, the world spirit could only use a portion of the world’s operational resources to create a force that counteracted the Nanwu tribe.


    Every world naturally had numerous small branching Principles, but the core Principle of the Ancestral Wild was offering and sacrifice, which the world used to digest the raw Source Energy that it absorbed from space. For this reason, while it had Principles rting to disaster, it wasn’t very profound.


    This led to the Deste Sacrifice world’s spirit being unable to punish the Nanwu tribe who used disaster aura despitemanding the world’s disaster authority.


    However, as the Deste Sacrifice world’s spirit focused itself on calcting the bigger picture as a whole, it felt puzzled. Since the enemy was an Evil God whomanded disasters, it was natural for the other party to have an understanding of disasters surpassing that of the world spirit, but this ce was still the Deste Sacrifice world.


    All matters within the Deste Sacrifice world must follow its basic rules, so how could the other party’s Principles of disaster adapt to the world so rapidly that they managed to make a Shaman, an individual with tight rtions to the world, lose control within the short span of a month?


    This wasn’t something that could be achieved by an Evil God who had not manifested their Pathway, so the only exnation would be that the Evil God had arge amount of the Deste Sacrifice world’s data that allowed him to adapt his Principles and Ideals to the world.


    Then, how did that Evil God get this data?


    ‘A living being of this world must have leaked it…’


    Or ‘That Evil God has a unique means to extract the world’s information…’


    Or ‘The world’s operation originally had a loophole rting to the domain of Disaster…’


    Without any data to draw from, the world spirit was stuck on this question. A systematic world spirit would definitely not use subjective emotions and feelings to judge something. All of its conclusions must be drawn from existing data, so it was unable to produce an answer.


    At the same time, some irregrities began to ur within the world spirit as a portion of its consciousness was starting to change under the subconscious influence of the collective Destes of the world.


    Everything within a world, except the living beings’ [Origins], was unified, which made it possible for every individual soul to influence the world. For this reason, even if every individual living being had their own personality and consciousness, they also had a collective consciousness called ya.


    Previously, the Destes were only a species of living beings that had the absolute advantage over others, so their collective consciousness didn’t have a lot of influence on the world spirit as a whole.


    But ever since Negary’s information stimted the world’s cycle of reincarnation and gained the possibility of recing the world spirit, he caused the world spirit to gradually recognize its sense of ‘self’. A particr portion of the world spirit had been much more severely influencedpared to the rest and gradually gained its own sense of ‘self’ as well.


    Due to the domino effect caused by Negary’s appearance and the Lord of Disaster’s disturbance, when this portion of the world spirit got stuck on a logic trap, it gradually fused with the collective subconsciousness of the Destes and became fully personified as the Destes’ ya.


    And so, the Deste Sacrifice world’s spirit was divided into three parts.


    The first part was the Destes’ ya - the Deste spirit which was mostly dedicated to controlling the Destes’ collective subconsciousness. It held the majority of the world’s authority, but these authorities were no longer absolute. Additionally, it held control over the [Protagonist].


    The second part was the foundational world spirit that maintained the world’s operation. After the Destes’ collective subconsciousness had been separated, it once again no longer had a sense of self and veeredpletely to the side of chaos.


    It was the basic consciousness created from the world’s systematic operation, which held the foundational authority over all of the world’s systems, which it could use to take over the Destes’ collective subconsciousness’ authorities.


    And the final part was naturally Negary, who could be considered to be the Celestial’s ya at the moment. Hemanded very few authorities, but the Celestials’petitive strength far surpassed those of the Destes; and ever since the Deste spirit became independent, Negary had begun to deprive its authorities.


    Some of the foundational authorities rting to the Principles and Ideals that Negaryprehended had begun to be taken away, so it wouldn’t take very long for him to take that entire portion of authority for himself.


    At the moment, the Deste spirit had the advantage, but from the foreseeable future, Negary would only gain a greater and greater advantage, leading to the only pivot point left for the Deste spirit to be the [Protagonist].


    「 It was definitely Negary who leaked information to that Evil God, and only he has reasons to do so 」


    After separating from the world’s operating system, the Deste spirit was easily able to draw this conclusion using the wisdom of countless Deste generations. Regretfully, he had no proof of this, as Negary had not shown any signs ofmunicating with the outside world, nor as any of his subordinates brought any of the world’s core data outside.


    〖 Tch, so it finally became personified 〗Negary observed the world spirit’s changes.


    If the other party hadn’t be personified, it would have been much harder for Negary to take over the Deste Sacrifice world in this manner. Frankly speaking, all of his efforts so far had been to force the world spirit to be personified.


    〖 Of course, it will also be a lot more challenging from this point on 〗


    After the Deste spirit manifested, he would be able to utilize his authority much more freely and flexibly.


    For example, the natural energy of the world within the Celestials’ territory was gradually flowing towards the Destes’ territory, including the life forces within. In the past, when the world spirit still operated with the entire world’s benefit as a whole, it would never do such a thing.


    The Celestials’ territory was gradually bing harsher, with the most obvious signs being the horrible wind and rain, after all, the majority of the world’s authority was currently in the Deste spirit’s hands.


    Of course, there was also a price for doing this, which was a worse impression from the foundational world spirit’s perspective. If this continued, the Deste spirit’s grasp of this authority would gradually wane as it was transferred to the foundational world spirit.


    Of course, the Deste spirit also recognized this, but he had no choice but to do this as he could not suppress the Celestial’s growth. By sacrificing his future benefits to boost their current strength, the Destes would be able to destroy the Celestials in their uing final battle. At that point, he could use the [Protagonist] to digest everything within the Celestial’s civilization and use it to help the Destes evolve.


    This was the most urate decision as calcted by the Deste spirit through numerous data.


    As for the various details on how to use the [Protagonist], that would depend on his own capabilities. At least for now, the [Protagonist] Meng Luo was still a Deste tightly under the Deste spirit’s grasp.


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    〖 Make an announcement, initiate the n to strengthen the nation through science and technology, focus your attention on developing core technologies, just grasping the basic Principles and Ideals are enough. So what if the authorities are in the Destes’ hands? Even authorities must follow basic rules! 〗Negary’s consciousness surged and cause the entire organization of Celestials to also swiftly leapt into action.


    The Celestial’s rate of execution of Negary’s orders was frighteningly high due to them following the same core beliefs. On the contrary, under the Deste spirit’s control, the alliance of the tribes did not proceed smoothly at all.


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