Chapter 68 Lurking

"You know, Gaia, all things need nutrients to grow."

"The world draws strength from its own cycle and void, and the gods draw strength from their corresponding symbols through the priesthood. The transformation of one quality into another, equivalent exchange, is the unchanging law of the world."

"So?" Listening to Erebus's words, Gaia frowned and said, "Of course I know this."

"Even the plants I created need to draw nutrients from the earth. You don't need to teach me this. What does what you are talking about have to do with life and soul?"

Smiling slightly, Erebus still seemed unhurried. Perhaps due to the influence of the priesthood, the Dark Lord likes this feeling of secrets being revealed little by little.

"Really? Then tell me, my sister, plants draw nutrients from the earth, but where do the lives created by the gods get the power to maintain their existence?"

"Didn't you see?" Gaia thought this was another meaningless question: "They eat plants or each other. They drink water to promote the balance of elements in their bodies. Is there anything wrong with that?"

"Of course not." Erebus said briefly: "If [life] cannot be divided, then I think this is normal. But since the body and soul can exist independently, why can one life eat other lives? What about the body and its soul that does not eat the souls of other living beings?

"If the soul does not have the process of 'eating', where does it get nutrients from?"

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Gaia was silent, she already vaguely understood what the other party wanted to say.

"The nourishment for the growth of the body is water and plants, but the nourishment for the growth of the soul is the body itself."

"It doesn't need anything else," Erebus's eyes were a little deep: "Under the warmth of the body, it directly borrows the intersection of the two in the [life] field and directly obtains power from the former."

"And as time goes by, the body will develop, mature, and age, and so will the soul, but the latter cycle is longer than the former."

"So in the end, they will come back together and become part of that world, and you know what that means?"

"It means that every soul is a seed, and the material world is the soil where it germinates. When a life body comes to an end, the fruit called 'soul' matures."

Mother Earth said slowly, she was also a little shocked.

Chaos draws power from chaos, transforms it into ownerless power, and then continuously improves the world. The spiritual world uses the present world as chaos, absorbs power from it, and constantly improves itself.

Faintly, Gaia seemed to see the day at the end of time when the spiritual world and the real world would keep pace with each other.

From the perspective of Chaos itself, it is difficult to say whether this is good or bad, because the power of spirituality itself is also strengthening the effect of circulation within the world. But this is certainly not good news for this world that prefers materiality and order.

Just as the world is getting stronger, the power of Mother Earth is getting weaker and weaker. Gaia understands this very well.

"No," suddenly, Mother Earth reacted: "With these beings and their weak nature, even if the number expands tens of millions or even more, even if they are spread all over the earth, this is not a big deal for Chaos. It’s nothing.”

"Stop being alarmist, Erebus, what exactly do you want me to do?"

He raised his eyebrows and looked at his sister's reaction. The Lord of Darkness was still a little disappointed.

When he first discovered this, he was really shocked, but later he realized that absorbing power in this way was like scooping water from the sea with a basin, and it was an ocean where big rivers were constantly flowing.

Unless the number of intelligent life forms is in the hundreds of millions, and unless their life level can be raised by more than one level, it may sound good, but it is actually meaningless.

The power derived from the self-operation of this world in one day is more than what the souls of today's mortal objects can transform in a hundred years.

"It's very simple."

"Next time," he said, "when this batch of life dies and the next time life is created, I want you to add this to the mix."

Stretching out his hand, a mass of amorphous black energy swayed in Erebus's palm. At first, Earth Mother did not recognize it, but soon she realized its essence.

That is [Darkness]. In terms of quantity, it is very weak, so weak that even the power of the regional gods is stronger than it. But it is also pure, because it comes directly from the essence of the original God.

"Dark Erebus, I don't care if I'm a knife for you once, but I hope you can think of a more reasonable way."

"I can do it by combining it with the original liquid in the [Life Aquarius]. But if life comes into direct contact with the source power, madness is their only end. Do you think he can't see such an obvious change?"

A little disappointed, Gaia didn't expect that her brother would come up with such a method.

"So I ask you to dilute it as much as possible," Erebus said calmly: "Just like a drop of divine power sinking into the ocean, as long as the amount is small enough, there will be no problem."

"Of course, due to its nature, the thinking of living beings may be distorted, but their sanity will not be completely destroyed."

"Just find a reason. For example, you created humans with only 'positive' emotions before, and now you have to go the other way and create humans with more negative emotions. Do you need me to teach you about this?"

"I understand, but can you help me deal with him?"

Mother Earth nodded hesitantly, but she was a little confused.

She could see that the other party was using this method to infiltrate his power into the spirit world, but what threat could this pose to Ryan?

This little bit of power would not be taken seriously by any god above the medium level, let alone Ryan who was in the spirit world.

In the outside world, the power of God would limit his power. But in the spirit world, the interface itself is his power.

"Don't you understand, my dear sister, God is immortal. So if you want to deal with him, you must first understand him and how to target his world."

Erebus was speechless. Although he didn't understand the meaning of simply venting his anger, he was still patient in order to get Gaia's help.

After all, he really knew nothing in the field of life.

"When my source power entered the spirit world, I didn't expect it to come back, but it was just a tiny bit anyway, and the soul of a mortal can only carry so much."

"Lian harvested power through the soul, so he must return the soul to its source, which must be done through the source of the spirit world. This is my goal."

"I want a part of me to touch the root of the spirit world," Erebus looked directly at his sister: "Then I will know how the spirit world was opened up."

"No one will tell the truth to an uninvited guest, Gaia, so I never believed Ryan's explanation to me. I don't want him to tell me anything, I just want to see it with my own eyes."

"Of course, at that point, Ryan will definitely notice my actions. He will intercept the source power, but I will get the hope of getting rid of Chaos, and you can also know his weaknesses."