Chapter 674 Falling short?
Li Yuan's voice resounded through the sky.
He looked at the people on the earth with a solemn expression.
"My people, the dragon has burned everything in its body to protect you, even its soul has turned to ashes!"
The people who were shrouded in the shadow of the big bell suddenly felt sad and couldn't hide their tears.
Looking at the weeping people, Li Yuan took a step in the air, and the golden ocean formed by the merits and incense set off huge waves.
"I can't save it, but... you can!"
Li Yuan appealed to millions of human beings, asking for a little power to help Xiaoqing transform into a dragon and achieve nirvana, returning from death and extinction!
The celestial demon cut off a wisp of earth's breath that carried Xiaoqing's trace from the void and handed it to Li Yuan.
Li Yuan threw this breath into the vast golden ocean, calling out Xiaoqing's name, letting this breath be nurtured in the incense of infinite merits and virtues, and finding more traces between heaven and earth.
Li Xiaoan landed among the people, and together with everyone, according to Li Yuan's instructions, they temporarily built a huge platform and carved a statue of Xiaoqing's true self for the subsequent ceremony.
Countless people gathered under the high platform, listened to Li Yuan's call, silently chanted the name of Xiaoqing, silently chanted the name of Zhenlong!
A huge amount of prayer power rises up, that is the power of humanity, the power of all living beings.
Li Yuan used his merits to turn into a boundless ocean and used the will of all living beings as the pen to confer gods. He carved Xiaoqing's name in the void and re-imprinted its traces in the heaven and earth.
Li Yuan is capable of reversing the cause and effect of life and death, but he is now trying to confer a new god, and establish a new god in the name of humanity!
In the dark, there was a terrifying force that was draining Li Yuan's energy. His shoulders seemed to be carrying the entire sky and were extremely heavy.
But Li Yuan did not give up. He simply gathered the power of the people's minds, took out all the remaining gold paper in his body, and forcibly carved a mark on it!
Rumble——!
The long-silent Heavenly Dao began to respond, dark clouds gathered, and lightning brewed.
Li Yuan wants to deify people, and this is not the first time!
This touched upon the taboos of Heaven. Even in this age when the origin of Heaven's way had disappeared, an endless calamity of thunder descended from the sky, trying to strike him to death!
The sky was dark, lightning was surging, and the huge scene looked like the end of the world.
But that vast ocean of golden merit and incense carried all the lightning. No matter how strong the power of heaven was, the thunder could never really strike Li Yuan!
He stood in the sky, calling Xiaoqing's real name, relying on the breath of the earth, as if crossing time and space, going back to recall Xiaoqing's traces.
The power of heaven was strong and the thunder was numerous, but it could not shake Li Yuan at all.
In the golden ocean of merit, behind Li Yuan, the figure of an old Qilin gradually appeared. It moved its four legs, looked up at the sky, and let out a silent long roar.
Along with the old Qilin's long roar, Qilins one after another appeared, manifesting as phantoms behind Li Yuan, and fighting against the infinite power of heaven together with Li Yuan!
The moment the Qilin's phantom appeared, the invisible luck on Li Yuan's body began to fluctuate, as if it had turned into substance, as thick as mist, like fairy clouds floating on the golden sea.
All of a sudden, fairy flowers emerged from the earth, golden springs fell from the sky, ancient fairy bells responded from the sky, and a dazzling golden bridge connected heaven and earth!
Boundless creation arises, and great blessings create the golden sky.
Li Yuan wanted to confer a new god with humanity, to help Xiaoqing return from Nirvana, and transform into a dragon to ascend to heaven. However, his own boundless blessings and merits alone were enough to shake the silent Heavenly Dao!
"The true dragon was once a belief in people's hearts. It was a divine and holy creature that all living things yearned for."
"It has been gone for a long time, it's time to come back!"
Li Yuan's eyes shone with brilliant golden light, and his golden pupils were like two fairy lamps, more dazzling than the golden ocean of merit, as if they could see through the heaven and the earth.
He shouted loudly, gathering the will of all living beings. For a moment, he almost overturned the thunderclouds in the sky and dispersed the thunder!
Several pieces of gold paper merged together to form a huge piece of golden fairy paper, on which Li Yuan, holding the pen of all wishes, engraved several large golden characters.
The spirit god reappears and the true dragon ascends!
Endless clouds, dust and strong winds rolled up between heaven and earth, thunder flashed in all directions, blood rain fell from the outside of the sky, and for a while, strange phenomena occurred one after another, as if it was the wrath of heaven!
The infinite power was constantly erasing those big words. Li Yuan was also under tremendous pressure. His bones were making a grinding sound, as if they were being pinched by an invisible giant hand.
He gathered the power of all living beings again, intending to take up the pen to fight against the heavens, but suddenly he found that the large pen in his hand, condensed by the power of will, dimmed, and under the illusory entity, a vague black gas appeared!
Li Yuan seemed to have thought of something. His brows trembled slightly and he looked at the people on the earth in disbelief.
Among the wishes of those sentient beings, there are false prayers and even malicious curses!
Among the millions of people Xiaoqing saved, only about 70% of the people sincerely prayed for Xiaoqing's resurrection. The rest of the people followed the crowd's behavior and did not show any unusual behavior.
But in reality, the heart is not sincere and one is just pretending to pray sincerely.
A large number of evil thoughts emanated from their hearts. While pretending to pray, they cursed this chaotic world, cursed the immortals, gods, demons and monsters in the sky, and cursed the silver-white dragon for not being strong enough to protect everyone!
Some even believe that it is because of the silver-white dragon's blind protection that the popularity has increased, which has attracted a large number of demons and evil creatures to spy on it!
They believed that the troubled times were caused by the gods, but the catastrophe was a catastrophe for innocent creatures like them!
Even the hundreds of thousands of lives swallowed up by the flood were blamed on Xiaoqing by some people.
"If it really has a righteous purpose, why doesn't it burn itself to death from the beginning and let the big bell protect us!"
"If it hadn't accepted refugees without any bottom line, we wouldn't have been targeted by so many demons! It's obviously so weak, it should just protect the locals in our water town, why should those outsiders care about their lives!"
'If it really wants to protect us, it should share its power with us so that we can protect ourselves!'
'Gods, demons, and monsters, all deserve to die. They should all disappear! They destroyed everything... destroyed everything!'
Some people curse viciously in their hearts and hate everything, including the people who want to protect them!
They ignorantly and greedily believed that if they possessed that kind of power, they would not be affected by this chaotic world and end up with their families broken up and their loved ones destroyed!
People's minds are full of distracting thoughts and are troubled. Even when they pray, they cannot be united.
But the evil desires of human nature can often subvert everything.
However, Li Yuan never imagined that this act of deifying by borrowing the power of humanity was actually intended to gather the power of all living beings to break the rules and create miracles.
Who would have known that the current failure was all due to the wishes of these sentient beings.
If it weren't for the gathering of the wishes of all living beings and the transformation of their merits into an ocean to temporarily replace the sky, Li Yuan would not even be able to notice these things.
The gods can hear the thoughts in people’s hearts, but there are so many people living in the world, how can they possibly listen to them all!
Thunder roared in the sky with astonishing power, and an unknown force was constantly erasing the golden words carved by Li Yuan.
But the big brush in his hand dimmed, emitting wisps of black air, tarnishing the pure prayer.
Li Yuan sighed silently and looked at the people on the earth with complicated feelings. In order to prevent this matter from failing, the immortal source in his body has been gradually burning.
It is undoubtedly chilling to see that the people whom we and our relatives and friends are risking our lives to protect are secretly cursing and making vicious noises.
Li Yuan couldn't help but ask himself in his heart, is it really worth it to risk everything to protect such a creature?
But this is only a minority. Most people are still kind. They pray devoutly for Xiaoqing to return without any evil thoughts or greed.
So, should he scold those ungrateful people?
It's of no use at all. If a few words could fully express the complex human heart, there would be no more troubles in the world long ago.
Why is the human race so weak? Even if a powerful person emerges to protect the inheritance, it is still difficult for us to truly rise.
This is one of the reasons.
When humans are forced into a desperate situation, they may continue to intrigue against each other; but under the pressure of death, they are more likely to temporarily put aside all grudges, unite as one, and burst out with powerful strength.
But once they are in a relatively safe environment, out of the desperate situation where they could die at any time, people's hearts will collapse and scatter in an instant like a building built of sand, and all kinds of distracting thoughts will arise.
You don't need too many such people, just one or two out of ten are enough to bring down the entire situation.