Ch 201: The Cannon Fodder Won’t Play Along Anymore [QT]

The day the God of Desire broke free from the Endless Sea, it faced the three gods whose expressions were cold.

At that moment, it did not know what it would encounter, and still laughed wildly: “I said long ago, you cannot trap me. In this world, nothing can completely destroy me.”

Mu Xing smiled faintly: “Is that so?”

He did not wish to say more to this thing born from all the world’s desire and evil, only looked at the God of Light and the Beast God, and said softly: “Do it.”

A wave of unease surged in the heart of the God of Desire, and it warned cautiously: “What are you trying to do? I tell you, I cannot be killed! Back then, Galia paid the price of annihilation of body and soul, and only managed to destroy me for a thousand years!”

At these words, the God of Light’s jade-like face turned completely cold: “So that was why Brother Galia fell!”

He looked at the black shadow of evil with hatred, and cast away his last shred of hesitation.

Suddenly, from the center of the God of Light’s brow, a point of golden light surged out.

The golden light left the god’s body, and quickly formed into a fingernail-sized golden gem, incomparably beautiful, yet within that beauty was a power that could shake the heart.

The instant the gem left, divine power around the God of Light rippled visibly.

The God of Desire cried out in shock: “The source of divine power! What are you trying to do?”

Mu Xing and the Beast God likewise took the source of divine power from their bodies.

The God of Light said coldly: “Back then, Brother Galia alone destroyed you for a thousand years. Now, the three of us can do the same.”

The God of Desire realized what they intended, panicked yet still arrogant: “Why go to such costs for this useless effort? Even if you kill me for a time, so what? Desire cannot die, I will always revive one day!”

Yet despite its words, it did not want to endure that agony of complete death a second time.

The black shadow’s eyes flashed, cunning: “As supreme gods of law, we have no conflict of interest. We could coexist in peace…”

But none of them wasted words on it.

The origin powers of the three gods fused, forming a divine-slaying sword, sweeping away every trace of the power of Desire from this world.

They did not depart.

The three supreme gods stood above the Endless Sea where no mortal could reach, gazing faintly at the human world.

On this land lived the humans they had created with their own hands, whom they had once loved.

But now, for their own sake and for humanity, they had to sever their link with the mortal world.

*

In the 23,400th year of the Star Era, heavenly fire descended upon the Molan Continent. Overnight, every temple ignited with unquenchable flames. The fire burned for seven days and nights. The once-brilliant temples became ruins, and not a single statue of a god remained across the continent.

All believers were terrified.

They knelt and prayed, only to find that their mouths could no longer speak the names of any god.

Not only that, every book recording the gods, every hymn of praise, had their writing fade away. In the end, those precious texts became nothing but blank pages.

The peoples of the three great empires panicked, weeping day and night, questioning in their hearts why their gods had abandoned them.

But there was no answer. Temples could no longer be built, and no prayer ever received a reply again.

Without divine protection, Molan Continent no longer enjoyed gentle weather and bountiful harvests. Summers became unbearably hot, winters bitterly cold with no fruits to reap. The lazy who neglected their fields now faced the threat of starvation.

In the first years, the races were unaccustomed, and chaos broke out.

But later, they found that without divine blessing, life was indeed harder than before, yet with diligence they could still survive.

Time passed.

Twenty years later, those who had witnessed miracles of the gods grew old.

The new generation of humans had never seen a miracle, nor heard stories of the gods. They did not even know that the races had been created by gods, nor that their forebears had once witnessed divine wonders.

The elders could only look at their descendants with tears in their eyes, silently resenting the gods for abandoning humanity, yet unable to speak of it to anyone.

*

Mu Xing sat in the divine realm, gazing down at the world.

To destroy Desire, they had used their origin powers, severely injuring their essence, and cut off the mortal world from the divine realm, no longer receiving faith’s strength.

These years, Mu Xing had gradually felt his divine power waning.

Not only he, but the God of Light and the Beast God as well.

Still, the countless years of divine power accumulated by the gods of law would not vanish immediately, even without faith.

Relations between the Beast God and the God of Light had also improved, no longer tense as before.

Another hundred years passed.

Faith disappeared entirely from the mortal world.

All traces of the gods’ existence were erased. The new generations of humanity, bereft of divine protection, when faced with difficulties, began to search for their own answers and solutions.

Even though life was harsher without gods, in that century the progress of technologies benefiting the people far surpassed that of the several centuries before.

One day, the three gods gathered in Mu Xing’s divine realm, chatting about a new farming tool invented by the people of the Nato Empire.

This tool increased farming efficiency severalfold, allowing one person to tend much more land.

In the past, under the Earth God’s protection, the Nato Empire always enjoyed favorable weather and abundant harvests without effort, so they had never bothered to develop such things.

They lost protection, they lost the unreasonable harvests, so they began to use their minds, began to work diligently, finding ways to make their lives a little better.

The God of Light rested his chin in his hand and said softly, “I once thought that only with our existence could humans live free of worry for food and clothing. But now it seems that even without our protection, the races can live just fine.”

In fact, faintly, it was even more prosperous and lively than in the age of the gods.

“Could it be that we delayed the development of the races?”

Mu Xing shook his head with a smile. “If you speak of comfort, then naturally under our protection humans lived better lives. But you have underestimated the race you created, and underestimated the tenacity of life. For the sake of survival, any race will burst forth with astonishing potential.”

The Beast God half-closed his eyes and sighed comfortably. “Not long ago I took human form and wandered through the Vista Empire. The orc race is doing fine without me. In these hundred years, without those priests nagging in my ear, and without hearing the prayers of countless believers, it’s been very comfortable.”

The God of Light agreed. “Indeed. Though divine power fades and in the end we only fall into slumber. I was born of light itself. Even if I lose all divine power, I will only turn into countless rays of light and return to heaven and earth. We gods of law are not like that Desire thing, relying on human desire to revive. We are eternally undying.”

They were far more at ease with the disappearance of faith than Mu Xing had feared.

In the blink of an eye, a thousand years passed.

As Mu Xing had expected, the mortal world developed rapidly, and no trace of gods was ever seen again.

Now with advanced technology, they occasionally discovered some ancient relics that seemed related to faith.

From these, ancient texts were developed, and many scholars and experts studied them, affirming that perhaps the ancestors of old once had devout beliefs.

But no one took it seriously, clearly not believing it as truth.

And Mu Xing’s guess was completely correct: once humans no longer believed in or acknowledged the existence of gods, then no matter how much desire there was in the world, there could never again be a so-called God of Desire.

The God of Light, lazy as he was, had already put himself into slumber before his divine power dissipated. The Beast God in recent years enjoyed the novelties of the human world and often took on different forms to wander there for fun.

Mu Xing also occasionally went to the mortal world to play for a while.

As for the flower and grass spirits in his divine domain, after asking their opinions, Mu Xing sealed their memories amid their tears and reluctance, and placed them on the far shore of the endless western sea.

There lay another land where no intelligent beings lived, with vast forests, very suitable for the spirits’ survival.

Once he had arranged everything and left no worries behind, Mu Xing peacefully sealed his divine domain and fell into slumber.

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