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Yawei said: "I am the only God."
“…I know!”
"There is only one God. Except for me, everyone else in this box is a false God."
As soon as he finished speaking, an aura of power appeared in front of Su Qing, as if the long river of history was flowing in front of him, and the essence of a god was revealed in front of Su Qing.
Records from the creation period of the box garden appeared in front of Su Qing one by one.
In the era when there was no shadow of the Little Garden City, a god was born from the awe and faith of some humans towards the world.
By chance, the god came into contact with the small garden, and came into contact with those gods whose essence was the same as his own... but were now completely different.
From the prayers of men the gods gained their selves.
Some gods have great aspirations, longing for world peace and salvation of all living beings. Some gods act recklessly, burning, killing and looting, and their people will be punished and killed if they cannot offer sacrifices.
Under different philosophies, the gods gradually divided into factions and formed many groups of gods.
But there was only one god who was different.
It is neither good nor evil. After seeing the gods and Buddhas in the box showing a beauty that shines brighter than humans and a darkness that is deeper than humans, the god came up with an idea.
…Except for me, all others are false gods.
The so-called gods are beings born from human wishes, so they only need to respond to human wishes.
If a self is born above this, it is no longer a god, but just a flawed human being who has awakened himself from faith and gained power greater than that of humans.
As if he had no self, the deity who claimed to be the only God created angels who were just puppets based on himself, and formed the Christian gods group based on the angels.
When humans call for peace, it brings salvation to the earth; when humans call for war, it brings disaster to the earth.
It saves believers several times and destroys believers several times, bestows the kingdom of God on its own people and brings disaster to the whole world. It mechanically judges everything and fulfills the wishes of believers, no matter whether they are good or evil, right or wrong, no matter what kind of results the wishes will bring.
As the box garden gradually grows, the final trials of humanity continue to appear and are constantly overcome by the gods. It seems that human history has ushered in an unprecedented bright future.
In response to the distortion of human history that "with the help of the gods, all trials have been overcome, and humans are just birds in a cage", the benchmark of the Little Garden gods has fallen into the devil who sealed off the western area of the Little Garden.
After that, the Demon King, whose flaws were seen through, had his existence erased from history and was banished from the Little Garden.
But even so, the only God who defines the relationship between God and humans simply as believers and responders has never changed his mind.
The only difference is that this time, it's not him who responds to humanity's expectations.
Yawei repeated to Su Qing: "Believe me, I am not your enemy."
The goddess' tone remained calm: "The current wish of human history is to reclaim the merits that were distributed to the gods. Until this wish is fulfilled, I will be your assistant."
This was one of the ideas Su Qing gained from the information she provided.
Chapter 37: Breaking the Rules
Su Qing was a little surprised.
All along, he had actually been mentally prepared to reveal his identity in the final trial of humanity.
Even if he was exposed, he was not without a way out. Compared with other humans in the final trials, the nature of his spiritual nature did not limit the way he acted.
As Azidahaka of absolute evil, he would not be able to bear the spirit of absolute evil if he did not bring the test of evil to all things in the universe.
It is even more impossible for a closed-world dystopia to abandon the West End as its base.
But Su Qing does not have such limitations. His spirituality is completely different from that of the box garden and is unknown. If his identity is exposed, if Su Qing is not strong enough, he can just hide.
Absolute evil tests everything in the universe. The final trials of other humans also have their own particularities, symbolizing the possibility of some kind of destruction. They must meet certain codes of conduct, but Su Qing does not.
The unknown is the unknown. As long as Su Qing is unknown, it doesn’t matter whether he challenges the gods and Buddhas or finds an outer sect to live there until the end of time.
Due to the particularity of the final trial of mankind, the higher Su Qing's strength is, the greater the possibility of being exposed. If his strength has not reached three digits, the gods and Buddhas may have strange means to catch his trace, but Su Qing is not without a chance of surviving.
The real question is how Su Qing becomes stronger.
——No matter which world you are in, if you want to become stronger to three digits, there will always be some dangers. In the box garden, this danger is known. Su Qing has the immortality that will not kill him at the hands of gods and Buddhas.
Going to other worlds, the worlds that can support Su Qing to become stronger to three digits, the power level must be not low. If Su Qing dies in those different worlds, he is really dead.
After his identity was discovered in the box garden, Su Qing could only hide carefully in the box garden, and then risk unknown dangers to go to other worlds to seek ways to become stronger - compared to getting stronger by doing things in the box garden, the unknown is more dangerous.
This is Su Qing's current attitude. He risks being exposed in the box garden to stir up trouble and grow as much as possible.
But if his identity is really exposed, he is not without a way out.
Su Qing thought that his identity might be exposed after his plan went wrong, or that those wise and demonic gods might have discovered his problem from the details... But the first one to discover that his identity was unusual was the Demon King, which made Su Qing laugh and cry.
On the surface, the purple-haired woman is related to the Demon King Alliance and came to attack No Name.
But once the dystopian devil jumped out, it was obvious that all the previous things were just a cover, and the devil was completely coming for him.
How did they find him? Could it be that the demon kings have some sympathy with each other?
Even if there is, it shouldn't be the Dystopian Demon King who resonates with him. There is no "dystopia" in the box garden.
Su Qing didn't understand the situation for a while, but that didn't matter. What really mattered was whether the demon king in front of him could be trusted.
Is the information the devil passed to him credible?
Su Qing thought to himself that this should be somewhat credible.
——The information contains an answer to why the dystopian devil will fail.
The rumor circulating in the box garden is that Canary cracked the trial of the Anti-Utopian Demon King, but ultimately did not have time to overcome it all, so he could only use the Sun's sovereignty to create the Black Death and eliminate the existence of the Anti-Utopian Demon King.
There is actually a doubtful point here.
——Why haven’t other gods and Buddhas proposed eliminating the dystopian devil from the definition of time.
The Black Death might be a way to eliminate the Demon King while causing the least disruption to human history, but when the Little Garden is on the verge of destruction, the gods should try to eliminate the Demon King even if it will further shake human history.
If shaking human history for five hundred years is not enough, then one thousand years will do. If one thousand years is not enough, then two thousand years will do. The dystopian demon king was not powerful enough to defeat so many gods at the beginning. The further back in human history we go, the weaker the demon king naturally becomes.
But the gods can't do it.
The steps to shake the already concluded human history are very complicated. It is far from being enough to just take the sovereignty of a few suns. It also requires the unanimous approval of a large number of gods. However, many gods had already defected to the dystopian demon king at that time.
To use the sovereignty of the sun to shake human history, the gods and Buddhas need to "vote", but the Demon King himself is also one of the voters. The Demon King holds a huge share of the authority of the box garden. The gods cannot weaken the dystopian Demon King by changing the past.
But Canary analyzed the essence of the Demon King, a 'machine' that responded to human wishes as a god - and then, during a long battle, he changed some people from within the West District.
For example, Kasukabe Yo's mother was originally a person from the Western District with no self, but she eventually fell in love with Kasukabe Takaaki and gained a certain self.
When the people in the West District believed that "humans were kept in captivity by gods and Buddhas", the One and Only God responded to this wish and established the closed world of the West District.
When the humans in the West began to question this, the One and Only God responded to this question - when Canary used the sovereignty of the sun to change human history, the Demon King, who controlled a large number of gods, did not resist this change in history.
Thus, the Demon King was eliminated from the small garden.
Simply relying on the sovereignty of the sun to change history is not enough to defeat the devil. Only by analyzing the most detailed attitude of the only God towards human wishes can the devil act according to his own ideas at the lowest cost, and then shake the indestructible closed world.
The dystopian demon king is defined as 'disappeared' in human history. The reason for his 'disappearance' is so detailed that Su Qing has no way to verify its authenticity through human history information. However, logically, it does make sense.
Assuming that the Demon King of the dystopia is a scheming old bastard who can come up with a logically flawless argument, Su Qing is not surprised at all. The Demon King should be at this level.
But if he chose to believe what the Demon King said now - then the Demon King was indeed not his enemy.
It is impossible for the only God who responds to the wishes of mankind to be an enemy of Su Qing, who shoulders the mission of human history.
Once Su Qing's identity is exposed and most humans want to attack him, the One and Only God will become Su Qing's enemy.
When it comes to the way the only God acts, Su Qing thought of an existence - Alaya.
The Alaya of the Type-Moon World, as the universal consciousness of mankind, is said to only act according to certain rules.
The essence of the One God is completely different from that of Alaya. Alaya is pan-consciousness, but the One God... in Su Qing's opinion, it should be the exact opposite, the absolute self.
Gods are born from human beliefs. Good gods are kinder than humans, and evil gods are more evil than humans. This is the self of God awakened from human beliefs.
As a god who responds to human wishes, this idea may be the self of the One God awakened from human faith.
Rather than saying that the only God has no self and mechanically fulfills human wishes, Su Qing feels that as a God, responding to human wishes is his own will.
It is the undisputed world's number one religion in the 21st century, but it has many branches in its long history. Even in the Bible, the only God in the Old Testament and the New Testament seems to be completely different gods.
The spirit of God has never changed, but as different human beings’ definitions of God have changed, God’s external manifestations have also changed.
The essence of the One God and the Pan-will are probably completely different, but their ways of doing things are similar.
However, even in huge religions, it does not cover all of humanity. Alaya covers all of humanity, but the only God responds to most likely only his believers, or those lives including demons that are shrouded in his worldview. He may also pay some attention to people with external worldviews who indirectly interfere, but the intensity of his attention should be weakened... Su Qing has too little contact with the specific details and cannot figure it out for the time being.
A game organizer of Canary's level would have to go deep into the West District countless times and get in touch with the essence of the closed world before he could finally determine what code of conduct the Demon King would use to respond to human wishes.
To survive in the small garden, such details are very important... But Su Qing thought for a moment and felt that he could believe the Demon King's words for the time being.
If the devil tells the truth, then it is real help.
If the devil tells a lie, it means he has ill intentions towards him, and there are only a few possibilities for his ill intentions.
The devil may decide to kill him out of kindness or ambition - then the best option is to secretly contact the other gods, inform them of his news, and have Renjie ambush him.
The Demon King was trying to spy on his peculiarities or simply spy on his body, hoping to use his spiritual energy to carry the Demon King back to the box garden - now he hasn't taken any action, but he has made up this excuse. At least in the short term, the Demon King will be his helper.
For a short time, the Demon King will be reliable.
Don't believe everything the other person says, don't do everything the other person asks you to do, don't perform unknown spiritual operations according to the other person's requirements, don't eat anything the other person gives you...what dangers could there be?
If he was still ambushed despite being on guard, Su Qing felt that even if the Demon King didn't get close to him, he would probably find a way to ambushed him.
Shaking his head slightly, Su Qing asked, "How do you know how to see through my spirit?"
The purple-haired woman said, "I have my own channels."
"Can't you tell me?" Su Qing continued to ask: "Then with your channels, how many people know that I am the final trial of mankind?"
Yawei was silent for a moment, then pointed at herself and said, "I guarantee with the authority of the 'Closed World' that the fact that you hold the ultimate spiritual power of mankind will not be leaked from me."
"...Then I feel relieved." Su Qing smiled: "The guarantee of a closed world sounds too reliable."
When it comes to hiding information, no one in the entire box garden may be better than the closed world.
In the eyes of the gods and Buddhas in the box, he closed the Western District for thousands of years without being discovered, and single-handedly fulfilled the definition of the only God.