Chapter 1854: 505: The Seed Sprouts, A Fortuitous Mishap (5k)

As time passed, Shi felt as if his consciousness was being drawn by something. He suppressed that feeling, fearing that the Ancient Sea God would discover him. His purpose in coming here was to restrain the Ancient Sea God.

Since he came here, he had long ceased to care about what his personal outcome would be.

He simply wanted to find a once-and-for-all solution to completely resolve the issue of the gods and the Ancient God.

Now, the gods had already become an unchangeable part of history; only this last Ancient God remained.

As long as the game-ending move by the Ancient Sea God was played happily, the Ancient God would also completely become history.

When Shi began his introspection and had obviously set foot on the right path, a certain power intertwined with emotions, which had always been in the River of Time, seemed to be drawn out continuously.

Among them were some attracted by the seed in the heart of the Ancient Sea God, silently nourishing the already rooted seed.

These powers, when not drawn by anyone, could only rely on the Ancient Sea God himself to water that seed.

But at this moment, it was clearly different; when Shi pondered, he inevitably stirred up something else.

Just a tiny ripple was enough to draw out a trickle to serve as the nutrient solution for watering.

In just a few short months, the Ancient Sea God noticed that something seemed off.

The unease deep in his heart was like a bone-attached sore, impossible to shake off.

He did not understand where this unease originated, but most intuitively, the slightly increased success rate of modification had recently begun to decline again.

And it was dropping very quickly.

When he attempted modifications, more often than not, doubt began to creep in, and a thought inadvertently emerged in his mind: is there a better way to do this?

The world was changing too fast; perhaps the experiences he summarized before were no longer sufficient?

The unease deep in his heart, nurtured by himself and external factors, grew rapidly and had begun to significantly influence his thoughts.

This power wouldn't directly change his thoughts, and the Ancient Sea God wouldn't understand that the same person, when faced with the same matter, has their emotions and will as the most critical factors in making judgments and reacting.

He began to make changes, no longer proceeding entirely according to his past experiences, making slight alterations instead.

Yet he didn't know that his past experiences were in reality built upon Shi's approach of holding him back.

Now that Shi had no time to hold him back, it should have been simpler.

In reality, this was a change.

For the Ancient Sea God, especially a significant change.

Coupled with the infusion of emotions affecting him now, he found adapting to this change even harder.

He wanted to try to find new methods, but such solutions weren't something that could be found casually, nor could he easily discover a stable new method that could be used for a long time.

All methods require time for validation.

And the actions taken by the Ancient Sea God require more time for validation.

He started to fall into a loop of death.

With inner instability, filled with unease, still fearing that unease, continuously nurturing the sprouting seed.

And then, with constant attempts, the success rate of modification plummeted; the more he tried, the more it fell.

The more it fell, the more severe the inner unease became.

In this vicious cycle.

When he vaguely realized he couldn't continue like this, he needed to calm down.

In fact, it was already too late; he was entirely unable to suppress the unease and that faint fear in his heart.

He couldn't bear that he could develop an emotion of fear, similar to that of ordinary living beings.

Moreover, it was a fear without a target, leaving him at a loss.

Watching himself fall, all he could do was encourage himself with adrenaline, rationally judge, while emotional thoughts sprouted and held him back.

Causing him to end up in such a dilemma.

Thus, when attempting to make slight changes to his previous modification experiences, the extent became uncontrollably absurd.

His modifications started racing towards insane non-discrimination.

Gradually, his actions deviated from the mainline of laying the groundwork for the next era.

He began attacking every wave, trying to modify the key nodes of every big and small encounter.

The wantonness of the Ancient Sea God caused the success rate of modification to plummet, and sometimes in his frenetic modifications, it would even affect events that had already successfully been modified, causing their tracks to change again.

Especially Daqian, which was most severely affected.

The key target of the Ancient Sea God was present-day Daqian, just as it used to key on Dadui in Ancient Times.

Even though this time, the Ancient Sea God was slightly losing his mind, causing damage far less than in Ancient Times.

But the overall situation of Daqian was already unfavorable, and at this moment, it was like having the gas pedal pressed while going downhill.

Daqian was speeding towards collapse.

As for when it would reach the end, no one knew.

Perhaps it would still take a long time, but once accelerated to a certain degree, truly encountering an obstacle, it might be impossible to brake.

...

Yu Ziqing had already traversed every mountain and river of Dazhen, absorbing the Kun Character power contained within Dazhen's domain.

The speed was slightly slower compared to Jinlan Mountain and the Wilderness, but not by much.

When he entered Dali's territory, he felt that the absorbing speed dropped by another magnitude.