#594 - Revisiting the Great Disaster

Professor Kongzi put away the paper crane, nodded slightly to Zhang Zhi, and said, "I asked you to come here because I have something to discuss with you."

"Some time ago, you gave me a lot of the information you collected about the Great Calamity."

"Your information is very useful."

"I gave that information to Zhuangzi and other professors."

"After reviewing the information, we discussed it and found that there are indeed many things about this Great Calamity that we cannot determine."

"After discussing your information, we decided to exchange for the Book of Curses in the Trade God Temple, as well as all the information possessed by the race that holds the Book of Curses, related to breaking through the Lord God Realm and the barriers of the Main World's level."

Speaking of this, Professor Kongzi paused, turned to look at Zhang Zhi, and said, "The information exchanged from the alien race this time contains a lot of very important information that we didn't expect before."

"Through that information, we can confirm that the Great Calamity of breaking through the Lord God Realm or the barriers of the Main World's level is countless times more dangerous than we previously imagined."

"Based on the information you collected before, combined with the information we exchanged from the Trade God Temple."

"Your previous speculations about this Great Calamity are indeed correct!"

"If we cannot find the correct method to break through the Lord God Realm and the barriers of the Main World's level, this Great Calamity will indeed exist as described in the information you collected before."

"Until the race that breaks through the barriers is completely annihilated by the Great Calamity, or they find the correct way to successfully break through the Lord God Realm or the barriers of the Main World's level."

At this point, Professor Kongzi saw Zhang Zhi's puzzled face and said to him kindly, "It seems you have many questions in your mind?"

"In fact, we also had many questions when we saw the information. Tell me, what are your questions?"

The other professors turned to look at Zhang Zhi when they heard Professor Kongzi say this.

Zhang Zhi felt a lot of pressure when he saw the professors looking at him. After taking a light breath, he said, "Since you asked me to speak frankly about my doubts, then I will respectfully comply."

"I don't know what information you and the professors obtained from the God Temple."

"However, how does the information from that alien race determine that if the correct method to break through the Lord God Realm or the Main World's level is not found, there is no way to successfully break through the Lord God Realm or the Main World's level?"

"Have they seen races that have broken through to the level above the Lord God Realm? Did they get information from them?"

"Or is it just their speculation?"

"If it's just speculation, how do they determine that there is a correct way to break through the Lord God Realm and the barriers of the Main World's level?"

Professor Kongzi nodded slightly after hearing Zhang Zhi's question: "That's a good question."

"We had the same doubts as you at the beginning."

"But after carefully studying the traded information, we also agree with the information from the alien race that traded with us."

"Do you remember how long the interval between the Great Calamities was for that race in the information you collected?"

Zhang Zhi knew the information about the Great Calamity like the back of his hand, and without hesitation, he said after hearing the question: "Ninety-nine years!"

"The information you have is ninety-nine years."

"The information provided by the alien race that traded with us, including the Book of Curses, contains a total of seven races similar to the one in your information."

Zhang Zhi's eyes narrowed slightly after hearing Professor Kongzi's words.

He thought to himself that the Trade God Temple, which can communicate with other races in this multiverse, is indeed good. It has collected seven races that have begun to break through the barriers of the Lord God Realm.

On the Human Race's side, if it weren't for the Trial Tower in my small world that can connect to countless world regions, it would be extremely difficult to obtain information about the Great Calamity, let alone the records related to the Great Calamity from races that have survived several waves of the Great Calamity.

At this time, Professor Kongzi on the side continued, "The interval between the two Great Calamities for the seven alien races in the information is the shortest at thirty-six years, and the longest at four hundred and five years."

"The most waves they persisted through was eleven, and the shortest was two."

Zhang Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, thinking that the interval between the Great Calamities for different races is actually different?

What determines the interval of the Great Calamity?

Is it based on the strength of different races? The stronger the race, the stronger the Great Calamity they encounter?

Is it based on the destiny of the race? Does the amount of destiny determine the length of the interval?

Is it based on the usual behavior of the race? Does order or chaos determine the length of time?

Or is it based on the karma of the race?

Or is it determined by other factors?

While Zhang Zhi was thinking, Professor Kongzi continued, "The length of the interval between the two Great Calamities seems to have no pattern at all."

"For example, the race with the longest interval of four hundred and five years."

"Logically, after encountering the Great Calamity, ordinary races should have a long period of recuperation and experience in dealing with the Great Calamity, so dealing with the subsequent Great Calamity should be easy."

"But in reality, this race only persisted through five waves of the Great Calamity before being exterminated."

"Also, the race with an interval of only thirty-six years between the Great Calamity persisted through four waves before being exterminated."

"The race that only persisted through two waves had an interval of seventy-two years between the Great Calamity."

"And the race that survived eleven waves of the Great Calamity had an interval of sixty-three years between the Great Calamity."

"We have studied this for a long time, trying to find some patterns in the interval of the Great Calamity from the time interval and the waves they persisted through for these seven races."

"But unfortunately, except for the race that left the Book of Curses, the other six races are like the one in the information you provided, with very little information."

"We don't know the strength of those races, we don't know the cultivation paths of those races, and we don't know the usual behavior of these races."

"Therefore, we have no way to deduce why the time interval of the Great Calamity is different for different races."

"We can't determine whether the difficulty of the Great Calamity is the same for different races."

"And we can't determine why no race can survive the Great Calamity!"

Zhang Zhi was very puzzled when he heard this, thinking that if that's the case, how did you determine that you need to find an accurate way to survive the Great Calamity?

Professor Kongzi seemed to guess the doubts in Zhang Zhi's heart and slowly said, "So, we were a little strange at first about the conclusion drawn by the alien race that traded us the information based on these materials."

"From those materials, we can only know the time interval of the Great Calamity faced by the six races and the waves they persisted through. There is no other information. How can they draw this conclusion?"

Zhang Zhi nodded slightly in his heart when he heard this, thinking that indeed, there is too little effective information. How did the alien race that traded with the Human Race draw this conclusion?

Could it be to mislead the Human Race?

After all, even if the conclusion given based on the known information is wrong, the Trade God Temple will not consider the other party to be fraudulent.

At this time, Professor Kongzi continued slowly, "The reason given by the alien race that traded is actually very simple."

"They believe that within the multiverse, most races have a great randomness in breaking through this Lord God Realm or the Main World barrier."

"In other words, many races don't know under what circumstances they can break through the Lord God Realm or the Main World barrier. Therefore, they will suddenly realize when a certain existence inexplicably begins to break through: Oh, so this is the barrier to break through the Lord God Realm or the Main World level."

"Therefore, no matter what race they are, no matter what cultivation path they take."

"The strength of most races will not be very different when breaking through the Lord God Realm barrier."

"Since the strength is not very different, then why is the time interval and the waves they persist through so different?"

"The race that traded with us believes that there must be something that can determine the time interval and the power of the Great Calamity."

"They don't know what this thing is."

"But they believe that if a certain race can reduce the impact of this thing on the race, then the time interval of the Great Calamity will be longer."

"The longest known interval of the race is four hundred and five years. If other races can reduce it to one-tenth of this race, wouldn't the interval reach four thousand years?"

"If the influence of this factor can be reduced to the lowest, then maybe the second wave of the Great Calamity will never appear!"

"Isn't the fact that the Great Calamity will never appear the sign of breaking through to the Lord God Realm?"

"Therefore, that race believes that as long as they find the correct method, find the factor that can affect the power and interval of the Great Calamity, then they can break through the barrier of the Lord God Realm and become a true Lord God Realm or an existence above the Main World."

"It's just that they have no way to find out what this correct method is. Or what is the factor that determines the power and interval of the Great Calamity."

"They think it might be racial luck."

"It may be racial merit."

"It may be karma."

"It may also be related to the cultivation path."

"Even, there is a view among them that the so-called Great Calamity only happens once. Only by using the correct response method in the first Great Calamity can one break through the barrier and become an existence above the Lord God Realm or the Main World."

"If one cannot use the correct way to deal with the Great Calamity for the first time, then it is basically impossible to survive the Great Calamity. They will only be destroyed in the subsequent Great Calamities."

"And this is why they are so eager to trade the Book of Curses in their hands."

"Because they are worried that if the correct method is to accumulate enough luck to deal with the Great Calamity, that's why they spent so much to trade this information to us."

"Oh, yes, this Book of Curses has been through more than thirty races, and the other six pieces of information about breaking through the Lord God Realm were gradually added to the transaction content during this period."

"After we studied it, we found that this statement of the race that traded with us actually makes some sense."

"So, this Great Calamity is much more difficult than we initially imagined."

"It may even only have one chance. If we don't find the correct way to deal with the Great Calamity, then we will basically not be able to become a race above the Lord God Realm."

Speaking of this, Professor Kongzi paused, then said, "However, we also found a very interesting situation."

"That is, among the alien races that traded with us, there is only one type of Great Calamity, that is, the attack-type Great Calamity that is initially mental pollution."

"The destiny-type Great Calamity that we humans and the so-called Demon Lord encountered did not appear in the trading information."

"There is no information about the Great Calamity of any other races either."

Zhang Zhi was stunned after hearing Professor Kongzi's words, thinking that it shouldn't be. Judging from the situations encountered by the Human Race and the Demon Lord, this destiny-type Great Calamity should not be less than the mental pollution-type?

How could there only be information about this mental pollution-type Great Calamity?

Also, the Book of Calamities should record the specific situation of the Great Calamity, right? Why hasn't Professor Kongzi told me about it?

Professor Kongzi knew that Zhang Zhi must be a little surprised at this time, so he continued, "Very surprised, right?"

"We were also very surprised at the beginning, and even suspected that the alien race that traded with us had done something."

"We even suspected that our understanding of the Great Calamity was wrong, and that the destiny-type Great Calamity we experienced was not actually the Great Calamity?"

"But we quickly overturned this idea, because Professor Zhuangzi's experience and his premonition cannot be faked."

"So we finally speculated that the number of times this destiny-type Great Calamity appears in this multiverse is far lower than our previous speculation."

"Because, if this type of Great Calamity is very common, if other alien races regard those races destroyed in the destiny-type Great Calamity as ordinary conflicts between races, then they must have known some similar situations before."

"But during the transaction process, the Trade God Temple believed that they had indeed traded all the information they knew about the Great Calamity to us."

"So, this shows that they really don't know about the destiny-type Great Calamity!"

"There is a problem with this destiny-type Great Calamity!"