Chapter 425: Chapter 308: Earth-Shattering Secrets, Epoch Destiny

"If you want to rely on yourself, you can choose the sects in the Central and Eastern Regions that have ancient inheritances." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

"However, the competition in these major sects with ancient inheritances is very fierce. Every year, thousands of top elites from different races join. Although with your potential entering is simple and you can basically pass the selection, initially, you will only be a nominal disciple, and the quota for official disciples is limited and highly competitive."

"Above the official disciples are the Core Disciples, and the Direct Disciples of the Immortals in the sect. The competition for these is even fiercer."

Lo Nanfeng took another sip of wine and said with a bitter smile:

"Your Uncle, I was once a disciple of Qingxu Temple. After a hundred years and ten trials for Core Disciple, I failed every time and eventually gave up in disappointment."

Su Yu raised his cup to clink with Lo Nanfeng’s and asked:

"Uncle was a disciple of Qingxu Temple. I heard that Qingxu Temple is the Taoist tradition of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Ancient Explanatory Sect, Qingxu Moral Heavenly Venerable. Is that true?"

"It’s true; our sect still has connections with the direct lineage of Qingxu Moral Heavenly Venerable. Every hundred years, there is a true transmission to Dongsheng Shenzhou."

Lo Nanfeng glanced at him and asked with a smile:

"What, are you interested?"

Su Yu smiled generously and said:

"If it’s suitable, I have that thought."

Qingxu Temple was among his options, and entering with the support of the Three Ancestral Guardians was his top choice.

He wouldn’t foolishly insist on self-reliance. That would be unnecessarily harsh.

Lo Nanfeng nodded and said:

"Choosing Qingxu Temple is fine. It just so happens that the sect will widely open its gates in half a year. I’ll take you there then."

"Thank you, Uncle Nanfeng."

"No need for courtesy."

The matter settled, the topic shifted, and they began discussing other matters. Su Yu and Qingchan seized the opportunity to inquire more about the Cyan Immortal Domain, including a question Su Yu was most interested in:

"Uncle Nanfeng, having been here for over a hundred years, do you know much about the Four Continents?"

"I only have some understanding of Dongsheng Shenzhou; I don’t know much about the other three continents."

"Then do you know if there’s a human nation called Great Tang in Dongsheng Shenzhou, or have you heard of places like Aolai Kingdom and Huaguo Mountain?"

"Huaguo Mountain? You’ve also heard of the story of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the Fighting Buddha?"

"Uh..."

"Alright, now I know the timeline is after Journey to the West."

Su Yu said with a smile:

"I heard about it in the past."

Lo Nanfeng, not noticing his expression, continued:

"I’ve heard of Aolai Kingdom too, a small country in the East Sea of Dongsheng Shenzhou. As for Great Tang, it was once a very powerful dynasty but is now fragmented, with many races vying for dominance, aiming to reunite the dynasty and seize the divine destiny."

Su Yu asked instinctively:

"Seize what divine destiny?"

"Of course, the divine destiny to be the protagonist of the world."

"In the last epoch, the protagonist of the divine destiny was the Human Race. After Journey to the West, Buddhism flourished. Millions of years have passed since then, and the divine destiny of the Human Race has ended. Now it is a new epoch, and all races are competing for the epochal divine destiny. All Player Civilizations are selected by the Heavenly Dao and have the qualification to vie for the protagonist of the divine destiny."

"Our Earth, as a branch of human civilization, was chosen by the Heavenly Dao to represent the Human Race of All Realms in this struggle."

Su Yu listened with his mouth slightly open, wanting to say something but not knowing how to start.

Instead, Lo Nanfeng laughed heartily and said:

"Are you shocked and wondering how I know all this?"

"In the heartland of humanity, most players wouldn’t know this, but leaving the novice village to reach All Immortal Realms or the Four Continents is equivalent to officially stepping onto the stage of vying for the divine destiny. You and I, as the Human Race elite representing the Human Race in the divine destiny struggle, would naturally know what’s going on."

"These destiny races come from different times and spaces. Some are naturally evolved races; others are new races created by powerful beings like Daluo Golden Immortals who imitated the Nuwa Saint in creating humans, including some ancient existences who survived from the Primordial Era."

"They create new races to join the epochal divine destiny struggle. If their created race can win the epochal divine destiny and become the protagonist of the current epoch, as the creator, they can gain immense fortune and merit, and thus prove the Dao in one fell swoop, becoming the seventh Saint since the beginning of Heaven and Earth."

Su Yu continued to stare dumbfounded, this revelation leaving him too shocked to speak.

"So that’s how it is."

"Humanity’s divine destiny has actually ended."

Lo Nanfeng also said heavily:

"That’s why we need to strive hard in cultivation to contribute to the survival of our race."

"Then, what counts as victory? How can humanity again become the protagonist of the epochal divine destiny? By eliminating all civilizations?"

"It’s not that extreme; it’s enough to accumulate sufficient destiny points. The civilization that first accumulates 100 destiny points will be recognized by the Heavenly Dao and become the protagonist of the new epochal divine destiny."

"Hmm, extinguishing other destiny-bearing civilizations is indeed the most common way to earn destiny points."

"How many destiny points does our Human Race have now?"

Lo Nanfeng chuckled wryly and said:

"How would I know? Only the very top echelon who control the direction of civilization know."

"Oh....."

Su Yu realized his question was rather foolish, thought for a while, and then asked:

"Only by destroying other civilizations can you earn destiny points? Are there other ways to get them?"

Lo Nanfeng pondered for a moment and said slowly:

"There is indeed another possibility. They say that if someone is accepted as an official disciple under any of the Saints, and thereby blessed with the fortune of the Saints, then their own race can gain a certain amount of destiny points. How much depends on the level of attention from the Saint."

"Hmm..."

"Then it’s not possible, Saints have long ceased to appear, who can still enter a Saint’s tutelage now."